Libertarians also hold the completely rational belief that people incapable or unwilling to work hard enough--and here only the Libertarian is allowed to define how hard--should die when they meet hardship.
A regulation can easily be made revenue-neutral by imposing fines on those who violate the regulation. Those who hold the black-and-white view that all regulations result in higher taxes, and are for that reason a priori 'bad', are too simple-minded to consider debating.
There are people I would kill if I knew I wouldn't face punishment for it. Most of them are public figures whose crimes will never be legally punished.
I genuinely think this mindset is fairly common, and looking at the looting that breaks out every time cops go on strike is only one example of why.
"Oh, well, uhh...I lurked. Yeah, that's it. I lurked for years. Man, I was reading when Taco posted with his uid 1 account. I'm original geek, man!"
The fact that you can listen to any popular (by which I mean RIAA-backed) song for free on the radio did nothing to push the apparent value down, now did it? Why pay for it if it's already streamed into my bedroom for free 24/7?
Acai berry is provably a less potent antioxidant than cheaper and more prevalent foods. Not to mention that antioxidants have no proven benefits. None. Your anecdote notwithstanding, antioxidants are bogus. On the other hand, vitamin D is really fucking important, so taking 0.25mg a day is probably a good idea. There's not much of a link between it and the immune system, but you'll be safe from rickets.
How about the following to protect from illness: Wash your hands. Don't touch your face. Get enough rest. Drink lots of fluids. Eat healthy. Exercise a little. Most sick people haven't been doing those, and I can trace every illness I've ever gotten to skipping more than one.
Expensive supplements are a waste of money. Stupid Americans want a miracle pill that doesn't exist...take care of yourself, you pussies!
It wasn't a stupid mistake. It was a blatantly malicious hijacking of an uninvolved piece of software, and it should have resulted in his being blacklisted across the entire Mozilla site. Instead, he apologized for infecting thousands of computers, and he's re-welcomed with open arms and zero punishment. What prevents him from doing it again, but being even more sneaky about it? Nothing at all.
Even if his contrition is genuine, which I don't doubt, his actions required severe punishment. I'll live with having to manually turn on and off javascript when necessary.
Citation: http://hackademix.net/2009/05/04/dear-adblock-plus-and-noscript-users-dear-mozilla-community/
And there was as much bitch-slapping as ever occurs when any OSS developer does something blindingly stupid. The Internet's huddled masses screamed incoherently at them for a few days, and they realized that they weren't going to get away with it. Many, myself included, vowed to never again let Giorgio Maone's code run on any machine under our control.
The first entry is not entirely true. Non-root processes are restricted from using low port numbers(1024, iirc). Also, if there's a correctly configured firewall on the machine, a non-root process is incapable of going around it.
Not that it would actually prevent any malware I know of from wreaking havoc, high port numbers are perfectly fine for sending email and talking to bot herders.
Who was claiming Vista superior to XP? I bet you'll find "they" had a vested interest in selling the latest and greatest. Microsoft wouldn't have needed to publish the 'Mojave' ads if there wasn't a widespread belief that Vista sucked. And as for Windows ME, I've been using windows since 3.1 was new and exciting, so I know better. Don't try to push some revisionist belief that anybody but Microsoft and their fanboys liked windows ME.
The earth has a giant magnetic field. Induce a powerful opposing magnetic field in your satellite/space tether system that "pushes" against the earth's field. There's no reaction mass, but your satellite can then control its position in orbit. Most satellites don't use the space tether system, although I don't know whether that's because it's inherently impractical or merely too new/expensive/fancy.
The iPhone bit was a hook to draw eyeballs. The smartphones are no more or less susceptible than any other machine running SSH, all of whom should have a more sensible password policy.
It's difficult to say whether or not a given system is infected, even if you inspect a complete packet log. Your checksum plan is one of the few ways to guarantee a lack of infection. Actually even that isn't always a guarantee, depending on where the hack is hiding. It could be in the MBR or even burned into the BIOS.
Luckily, in most cases the hackers aren't clever enough to hide their steps that well. There'll be oddly-named files in
HAM requires two people with equipment that can be hidden inside of a large suitcase. The Internet, I'm reasonably assured, takes rather more space to store. Even in the doomsday scenario where the tubes are completely closed, and all HAM licenses are revoked, there will still be amateurs using the airwaves. Good luck communicating over IP when the backbones have been cut.
Something to think about:
Registry cleaners have a huge incentive to be ridiculously oversensitive. They have almost exactly zero incentive to be competent and intelligent about what gets labeled as 'registry cruft'. Who's gonna pay for or download a reg cleaner that says 'nah, this is mostly clean, just a bit of stuff from an old trialware software to remove'?
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein
