Comment Re:Some other examples (Score 1) 197
I looked inside the case of my NAS recently, and didn't see any passwords. Does that mean I am safe?
You obviously aren't looking hard enough.
I looked inside the case of my NAS recently, and didn't see any passwords. Does that mean I am safe?
You obviously aren't looking hard enough.
The point is, "broadband" is a moving target and that target SHOULD be moving upwards.
bzzt, wrong. 'Broadband' is a technical term that does not change in meaning. "[Broadband is] a term used to describe a network that can transmit a wide range of signals, including audio and video. Broadband networks are especially useful in the Networked World, as they can carry many signals at once, resulting in faster data transmission"
Think of it this way - if the gov't had a definition for BigHardDisk that was based on the largest available drive in 1999; a not-so-tech-savvy consumer buys one now, then tries to copy all the erm, 1080p tasteful videos that his buddies have.
No. A better analogy would be if the government had a term of 'BigPipe'. That is a relative term that is subject to interperitation.
Total governmental Transparency you want? Please post a link to your tax records.
And why would you think that personal privacy has any comparison at all to governmental transparency? Don't compare the two. One is necessary to a healthy democracy, and the other is personal protection of sensitive information.
"A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives."
-- James Madison "
Actually, I think it will be HIS day in court.
Actually, it will be THEIR day in court. (they both go to court, dude)
What does everyone suggest that they would do? Of course they will have to get the one that causes trouble for so many other customers. anyDNS was also being tolerable about it - they told wikileaks they will cease the service for them after 24 hours. During that time all it would had taken from Wikileaks was to change their nameserver records somewhere else. No domain has been taken down.
It's highly recommended to run nameservers on entirely different subnets for reliability against network outages. I'd extend that and say that you may want to consider using entirely different DNS companies.
So in your case, if your DNS provider was being DDOSed, your other nameserver could pick up the slack. In Wikileaks' case, I don't know why they aren't running their own nameservers to begin with.
Good old Slashdotters. They consider airport body scans to be an intolerable abridgment of privacy, yet they see no problem whatsoever with publishing private diplomatic communications because "information wants to be free".
Personal Privacy != Government Secrecy
A lot of these "I want to live forever" statements lack wisdom which usually comes with aging, at some point.
Please explain to me what exactly aging can teach you. I'd say wisdom comes with experience, not aging. Aging in fact destroys what gives you wisdom(your brain).
Amazon has centers around the U.S. because they need to be able to ship something to you quickly no matter where in the U.S. you are.
Traditional stores can easily have product in just one warehouse, possibly even overseas, because deliveries to stores is more regular and far simpler.
Not really. Every major retail chain has regional distribution centers about the size of Amazon's and about just as many(if not more). Just a couple of examples of their competitors:
Why go through every possible event no matter how improbable? Are we going to reduce this conversation to conspiracy theories? If we are, I'd like to throw Antarctic penguins into the ball game. Think about it, no one would suspect them. What exactly do they do every winter when they huddle en mass in the middle of an iceberg for 2 months? Perhaps shielding a laptop and satellite link under the guise of a ridiculous mating ritual?
Highly improbable. Dude, they don't even have thumbs! How are they supposed to carry all that equipment?
How else do you get cat urine without litter or newspaper in it?
A harness, a bowl, and some time?
OK, Christine's a doof, but that's worse than Frank? Or worse than any of the other sex/bribery scandals R or Ds have been in?
Yes, for fuck's sake, yes! Who honestly gives a shit about sex scandals? I'd rather a totally gay man-whore in office any day than someone too stupid to understand a piece of legislation.
What I think is missed in both the smug, "Daily Show"-type dismissal of the Tea Party & third party movement this cycle and the attacks from both parties is that *despite* the negative publicity and outright hostility shown to these candidates (and their own foot-in-mouth syndrome), people are so annoyed at the traditional parties they are willing to vote for them anyway.
And the 'Tea Party' is not a political party. All of this group's successful candidates are Republicans. O'Donnell is a Republican, don't forget that. She is part of this system you are griping about here. I agree with the intent of your post, but everything you're using to back up your point is unrelated.
Certainly by not linking to a politically biased blog with known credibility issues.
Could you cite this? FactCheck.org is pretty well respected in its field.
As Heinlein pointed out (correctly IMHO), voting without responsibility for the results is sheer madness. If you're not intelligent enough to understand why you're voting, what and who you're voting for, and accept and shoulder the consequences of your decisions, you shouldn't be allowed to vote. It's like driving: bad decisions can lead to bad consequences for a LOT of people. But in voting the consequences are delayed long enough that people don't make the logical connection.
And who gets to decide these qualifications?
Having some ignorant folk vote is much better and conducive to democracy than taking the people's power away from a group using some arbitrary qualifications. If you're not aware how history has totally proven you wrong, please read up on the old literacy tests.
"The most important thing in a man is not what he knows, but what he is." -- Narciso Yepes
