If you hired somebody to remodel your house, check his references, chose him as the best candidate based on his experience and quality of work, and came home one day and saw him watching TV and some body else actually doing the work, would you say, my I applaud your idea, great job? Probably not.
Oddly enough, this is pretty much exactly what a general contractor does. Although they tend to do other things rather than watching TV.
I agree. My first thought on reading the headline and summary was that Cisco claimed it was fixed, so DefenseCode released it into the wild.
Specifically, the site argues that the scriptures say that foreign substances should not be injected into the body and also that that the human body is perfect and shouldn't be altered in any way. (A few other things are thrown in for good measure, but this is the crux of it.)
Personally, I think their interpretation has so many holes it would be laughable if the idea wasn't so dangerous and widely accepted. It also falls under the "If your religion requires human sacrifice, is murder protected by the Constitution?" heading.
This is a solved problem. Specifically, the problem of choosing which companies can legitimately provide proof of identity.
Allow the use of OpenID, but only by identity providers that put up a bond or have insurance. For example, states that require auto-insurance typically allow self-insurance by putting up a sufficiently large bond. Allow cases of compromised ID to make a claim against the bond/insurance if there is negligence by the identity provider. You can also look at how the the public notary system works.
Finally, there are already laws in place against using a false ID, ID theft, and against lying on government forms. Those can easily be extended to cover the use of OpenID on
If only they had tried rocket jumping, all of this could have been avoided.
Much of it comes from the frustration of purchasing an app only to find out within the first few seconds of using it that it was a waste of money. (I was thinking specifically about business and productivity apps, but it applies to games and entertainment as well.)
To expand on that a bit, take a look at http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/07/14/0058200/ask-slashdot-building-a-personal-foss-cloud
There has always been this much Dotcom-dislike on
With that said, we still want him to win, because there are so many things wrong with the whole affair, such as shutting down a multi-million dollar business without a trial.
The frightening aspect of this is that population may expand its genetic diversity to fill the 'fit enough" gene pool. Then it will overflow the "fit enough" gene pool by creating mutations that can't survive even with health care, bringing survival back down, albeit with increased genetic variety such that many can't survive without constant medical treatment.
That is to say, we will evolve to require medical treatment.
He's lucky he is getting a case at all. Traitors should be subject to summary execution during wartime.
"Congress shall have power to
- http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A1Sec8.html
I don't recall seeing any Congressional declaration of war.
I prefer a razor knife instead of a utility knife, but YMMV.
Also, a tone generator can be quite handy. If you're only responsible for the 50 servers in the server room, it's probably overkill, but it can sort out a complex cabling situation in seconds. Fluke has one that can be used on live ethernet. (Although it would take a big chunk out of your budget.)
http://www.flukenetworks.com/datacom-cabling/copper-testing/IntelliTone-Pro-Toner-and-Probe
I've heard that one of the more difficult aspects of working in a level 4 lab is learning not to catch things that are falling, such as scalpels, and that when the scientists go home after work, they don't catch tableware and glasses and such, leading to much domestic strife.
(I don't know how true it is, but it seems to make sense.)
Have a listen to the Rasputin cover by Boiled in Lead. It's
At the risk of getting off-topic, what laptops do you like?
There is a VOIP aspect to it. It isn't intended to be a telephone service, but can be used as one (which I think is against the tos). It is intended that you can call a Google voice number and hit someone's IM app.
Byte your tongue.
