Comment Re:You would have to be differently abled (Score 2, Funny) 188
Mornington Crescent
Mornington Crescent
Child porn has been censored in the US for decades. Has it led to political censorship yet? Nope. Again, you're insane. Paranoid, specifically.
Ok, how about this one?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Davis
Davis was named the head of the Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade Division of the Congressional Research Service in December 2008; and was fired from this job in late November or early December 2009.[20] This occurred because of an op-ed Davis wrote in the Wall Street Journal.[21] Davis criticized a preliminary report from the inter-agency review team President Obama authorized for proposing looser judicial standards when the suspects faced more serious charges.
Davis wrote: "The administration must choose. Either federal courts or military commissions, but not both, for the detainees that deserve to be prosecuted and punished for their past conduct."
More details here http://www.salon.com/2011/11/28/inside_the_attack_on_the_first_amendment/
I have a handful of USB keys that I am prepared to plug into someone else's machine, but they are all formatted with two partitions, a linux boot partition and an EXT2 data partition. Last time I checked, Windows couldn't see the second partition of a USB key and by design couldn't read an EXT2 partition, so if the machine accidently boots from Windows my data partition should safe from Windows malware and I have automated the re-formatting of the linux partition which is necessarily formatted as FAT
Needless to say that I only plug my keys into a strange machine that has been switched off and ensure that the machine boots from my key.
I spent several days of trial and error tuning my USB key formatting routines to work out what slightly non-standard format was necessary to boot a particular vendor's notebook and I dread finding a different vendor who will require me to do the same research in future.
On a much more pragmatic level USB keys are great if you can fit ALL your data on them. Once your data is spread among many keys, some of which are physically identical you really miss the large flat surface of a DVD onto which you can write a summary of its contents.
The Unknown
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.
—Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing
I never thought I would have anything in common with Stephen Elop but I have to agree that one of my most formative experiences was learning the EDT editor on a VAX. I already knew the PET, the Apple ][ , the BBC Micro, the HP-85 but that editor just made developing a pleasure. On that machine I graduated from the various flavours of Basic and assembly to Pascal (because the manuals for DEC Pascal were lying around) and then someone showed me a copy of K&R and that changed my life.
In a way the things that got me into my chosen career weren't just the technology but the books. First "Illustrating Basic" by Douglas Alcock, Then the 6502 programming manual by Rodney Zaks, and later as already mentioned - K&R.
While I'm reminiscing, around the time I was besotted with the EDT editor on VAX I once noticed a Porsche driving through Manchester with the registration number A780VAX and I talked about it to anyone who would listen for weeks afterwards
Facebook sends CD's what?
Facebook sends CD's jewel case?
Facebook sends CD's cover art?
Facebook sends CDs to those who request their data?
Danged apostrophe's!
Something like this perhaps?
http://groklaw.net/pdf/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03020.pdf
From: Bill Gates
Sent: Sunday, January 24, 1999 8:41 AM
To: Jeff Westorinon; Ben Fathi
Cc: Carl Stork; Nathan Myhrvold; Eric Rudder
Subject: ACPI extensions
One thing I find myself wondering about is whether we shouldn't try and make the "ACPI" extensions somehow Windows specific.
It seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the work and the result is that Linux works great without having to do the work.
Maybe there is no way to avoid this problem but it does bother me.
Maybe we could define the APIs so that they work well with NT and not the others even if they are open.
Or maybe we could patent something related to this.
you are some of the most narrow minded, ignorant Hippocrates I have ever seen.
I don't think that means what you think it means
Hippocrates of Cos or Hippokrates of Kos (Greek: ; Hippokráts; ca. 460 BC – ca. 370 BC) was an ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles (Classical Athens), and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. He is referred to as the father of Western medicine[2][3][4] in recognition of his lasting contributions to the field as the founder of the Hippocratic School of medicine. This intellectual school revolutionized medicine in ancient Greece, establishing it as a discipline distinct from other fields that it had traditionally been associated with (notably theurgy and philosophy), thus establishing medicine as a profession.[5][6]
(https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Hippocrates)
So I logged into Hotmail and yes, there was the apology buried in all the spam
I was amused to see that 10 days earlier Register Marketing had sent me a mail entitled...
ON-DEMAND : The security mistakes users make
Social networks, local admins, unlatched software, missing USBs: the
causes of security problems in your business are often not just the big
stuff that tries to get inside the firewall, it's the little problems
that are already on the inside. Could your traditional security
architecture be solving the wrong problems? Would a new approach plug
the gaps more efficiently, and how much do we need to trust and train
our users?
That's what our latest Regcast considers.
(My emphasis). Sounds like one not miss.
A very, very old joke:
A man walks up to a woman and asks her if she would sleep with him for 25 million dollars.
She hesitates, looks him up and down and then says that yes, she probably would.
"So would you sleep with me for 25 dollars?"
"Certainly not - what sort of girl do you think I am?"
"We've already established that - now we're just haggling over terms"
A martian walks up to the president of the United States:
"Would you kill your own citizens without due process, create laws but keep secret your interpretation of them if..."
It's a bit like some cars had a race and one of them won.
... Why does he do his utmost to help Android by making their phones $5 - $15 more expensive?
Although the average slashdot reader probably has difficulty imagining anyone dumb enough to want to use this service, I guess every click from those who do must be like pure gold to the advertisers.
I just KNOW I'm going to regret having Googled this topic...
Where there's a will, there's a relative.