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Just drink it and feel the awesome baby power. Eat the baby too for an even better effect. The chinks do it and there's over a billion of them, so it must be good for something...

OK I read all 3 links... can't tell whether these are specificly counterfeited weapons parts or whether these are standard parts (e.g. sound card) that may be used in a military application. There's a bit of a difference. Specific parts made specifically for a military use is a different problem than military purchases of standard grade electronics. Did the GAO simply type "sound card wanted" into Alibaba.com? Difficult to tell from the GAO report whether this is hype, but the two stories ABOUT the GAO report definitely have a hype-ish tint.

There is a big cultural difference in how "patent violation" is perceived in China. The concept of "shanzai", which is taking something someone else made and copying it or adding a touch of flair (improvement) to it is a kind of "underdog" applause-line. Shanzai Isn't Necessarily Directed at US. Like a guitar riff, Chinese tend to laugh and smile when someone tries to one-up a bigger company, and make something as good or better than the original. Like the IPhone V. http://retroworks.blogspot.com/2011/10/shanzai-vs-patents-future-stock.html

This doesn't mean we shouldn't be concerned, it's just that you find this everywhere in China, directed at everybody and at no one in particular. The page from GAO just doesn't give enough information whether we should rally or whether it's a false flag put up by USA military contractors who are known to sell $375 toilet seats for submarines.

Or what if you let the employees work on any machine they want as long as the workflow is the same? I was impressed by the effort taken to allow users to bring iPads to work and use them if thats what they want. The trick is you dont let them choose their workflow or applications, you deliver those.

Every time I read Dave Richards blog I am at first astounded at how much they get done with so little money, and then ashamed that I call myself an IT professional. http://davelargo.blogspot.com/

What people in business, and government are beginning to realize is that software is not a scarce commodity.You cant use it up, but you can add to it.Once they realize that their business is not IT, its, well, doing business, contributing code doesn't make their competition any better, but just improves everyone equally.Additionally, with open software, all the dialogs and desktop items can be customized to suit your particular workflow. Linux + Open Applications + open standards are an awesome combination.

The first "real-world" tricorder was developed by a Canadian company called the Vital Technologies Corporation in 1996. The scanner was called the TR-107 Mark 1; Vital Technologies sold 10,000 of them before going out of business in 1997. The TR-107 could scan EM radiation, temperature, and barometric pressure.

http://treknostalgia.blogspot.com/2009/04/trek-tech-tricorder-mark-1.html

More detailed description plus larger pictures of the device, even the back of the box.

Sure looks like one expensive but awesome toy!

I write both Go and C++ at google. Sadly, Rob Pike's joke has a definite core of truth: writing C++ code at google is extremely time-consuming and difficult to get right because it has to be multi-threaded and asynchronous.

Long compile times is more of a build system problem than a compiler problem, IME. Of course, lots of people have broken build systems, and compile the same things over and over again ...

Well, our in-house developed build system is the best I've ever seen, and probably the best in the industry. Read more about it here. Even with all the niftyness of a thoroughly correct build system and a data-center sized ccache, it still sucks.

Go is definitely awesome, and I recommend everyone to set aside the gripes with the syntax and learn it. I guarantee you that you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Not exactly what you are talking about, but I saw a talk on Predicting the Present with Google Trends. Basically, they correlate search term frequencies with past economic data and are able to generate pretty good estimates of current economic data (like the unemployment rate). This is useful because the official figures tell you the unemployment rate 2 weeks or 4 weeks ago, not right now.

Actually, what he said was this:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AlzuObR0RSE/T2TsbJ8sB0I/AAAAAAAAA0A/0Hd90l-3JMo/s1600/MUAMBA2.jpg

I've already petitioned my congresscritters and the Whitehouse as well as filing a complaint with TSA itself (no link for that). In addition, I have decided to boycott air travel until this nonsense stops, and I've started the blog that all these links point to so I can share information about what is going on at the airports. I'm not yet ready to take up arms and start an insurrection, but if you've got some constructive ideas that fall between what I've done so far (petitions, blogging, voting and hitting the airlines in the pocketbook) and armed rebellion, I'm all ears. If, on the other hand, all you want to do is mouth off to people you disagree with, then kindly STFU, please.

I've already petitioned my congresscritters and the Whitehouse as well as filing a complaint with TSA itself (no link for that). In addition, I have decided to boycott air travel until this nonsense stops, and I've started the blog that all these links point to so I can share information about what is going on at the airports. I'm not yet ready to take up arms and start an insurrection, but if you've got some constructive ideas that fall between what I've done so far (petitions, blogging, voting and hitting the airlines in the pocketbook) and armed rebellion, I'm all ears. If, on the other hand, all you want to do is mouth off to people you disagree with, then kindly STFU, please.

I've already petitioned my congresscritters and the Whitehouse as well as filing a complaint with TSA itself (no link for that). In addition, I have decided to boycott air travel until this nonsense stops, and I've started the blog that all these links point to so I can share information about what is going on at the airports. I'm not yet ready to take up arms and start an insurrection, but if you've got some constructive ideas that fall between what I've done so far (petitions, blogging, voting and hitting the airlines in the pocketbook) and armed rebellion, I'm all ears. If, on the other hand, all you want to do is mouth off to people you disagree with, then kindly STFU, please.

I've already petitioned my congresscritters and the Whitehouse as well as filing a complaint with TSA itself (no link for that). In addition, I have decided to boycott air travel until this nonsense stops, and I've started the blog that all these links point to so I can share information about what is going on at the airports. I'm not yet ready to take up arms and start an insurrection, but if you've got some constructive ideas that fall between what I've done so far (petitions, blogging, voting and hitting the airlines in the pocketbook) and armed rebellion, I'm all ears. If, on the other hand, all you want to do is mouth off to people you disagree with, then kindly STFU, please.

I've already petitioned my congresscritters and the Whitehouse as well as filing a complaint with TSA itself (no link for that). In addition, I have decided to boycott air travel until this nonsense stops, and I've started the blog that all these links point to so I can share information about what is going on at the airports. I'm not yet ready to take up arms and start an insurrection, but if you've got some constructive ideas that fall between what I've done so far (petitions, blogging, voting and hitting the airlines in the pocketbook) and armed rebellion, I'm all ears. If, on the other hand, all you want to do is mouth off to people you disagree with, then kindly STFU, please.

I've already petitioned my congresscritters and the Whitehouse as well as filing a complaint with TSA itself (no link for that). In addition, I have decided to boycott air travel until this nonsense stops, and I've started the blog that all these links point to so I can share information about what is going on at the airports. I'm not yet ready to take up arms and start an insurrection, but if you've got some constructive ideas that fall between what I've done so far (petitions, blogging, voting and hitting the airlines in the pocketbook) and armed rebellion, I'm all ears.

If, on the other hand, all you want to do is mouth off to people you disagree with, then kindly STFU, please.

I've already petitioned my congresscritters and the Whitehouse as well as filing a complaint with TSA itself (no link for that). In addition, I have decided to boycott air travel until this nonsense stops, and I've started the blog that all these links point to so I can share information about what is going on at the airports. I'm not yet ready to take up arms and start an insurrection, but if you've got some constructive ideas that fall between what I've done so far (petitions, blogging, voting and hitting the airlines in the pocketbook) and armed rebellion, I'm all ears.

If, on the other hand, all you want to do is mouth off to people you disagree with, then kindly STFU, please.

I've already petitioned my congresscritters and the Whitehouse as well as filing a complaint with TSA itself (no link for that). In addition, I have decided to boycott air travel until this nonsense stops, and I've started the blog that all these links point to so I can share information about what is going on at the airports. I'm not yet ready to take up arms and start an insurrection, but if you've got some constructive ideas that fall between what I've done so far (petitions, blogging, voting and hitting the airlines in the pocketbook) and armed rebellion, I'm all ears.

If, on the other hand, all you want to do is mouth off to people you disagree with, then kindly STFU, please.

I've already petitioned my congresscritters and the Whitehouse as well as filing a complaint with TSA itself (no link for that). In addition, I have decided to boycott air travel until this nonsense stops, and I've started the blog that all these links point to so I can share information about what is going on at the airports. I'm not yet ready to take up arms and start an insurrection, but if you've got some constructive ideas that fall between what I've done so far (petitions, blogging, voting and hitting the airlines in the pocketbook) and armed rebellion, I'm all ears.

If, on the other hand, all you want to do is mouth off to people you disagree with, then kindly STFU, please.

I've already petitioned my congresscritters and the Whitehouse as well as filing a complaint with TSA itself (no link for that). In addition, I have decided to boycott air travel until this nonsense stops, and I've started the blog that all these links point to so I can share information about what is going on at the airports. I'm not yet ready to take up arms and start an insurrection, but if you've got some constructive ideas that fall between what I've done so far (petitions, blogging, voting and hitting the airlines in the pocketbook) and armed rebellion, I'm all ears.

If, on the other hand, all you want to do is mouth off to people you disagree with, then kindly STFU, please.

Yes, they are. Here are the citations for those so inclined:

NYPD wanting to run scanners on the streets of New York
TSA searching cars pulling up to the loading/unloading ramp at an airport
VIPR search in a train station
Another VIPR search at a train station
Stopping commercial vehicles on a highway in Arizona
Searches at a bus station

I'm sure there are more, but that should be enough to prove that no, the powers-that-be aren't limiting violations of the 4th Amendment to the airports.

Poor picture.

Try this one: http://tectrack.blogspot.com/2011/11/forget-micro-sim-nano-sim-will-be.html
or this one http://www.ixwebhosting.mobi/giesecke-devrient-launch-worlds-first-nano-sim-card-micro-sim-card-than-the-small-13/

Look at this picture: http://tectrack.blogspot.com/2011/11/forget-micro-sim-nano-sim-will-be.html
Nano sim is thinner and 12mm X 9mm.

Now tell me with a straight face that adding the difference between a Micro sim and a Nano Sim will make any significant difference in battery size.

Fly enough (even better if you have sim time) and you get to know the feelings and sounds of things. I don't panic when flaps go down, because I know what the hydraulic pumps are doing :)

Though the first time I saw a thrust reverser deploy I almost shit myself!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817707228

HDDs are kinda cheap. Keep one drive running and from time to time, run off a copy of the storage drive and slap a label with a date on a backup target drive. Do a daily task that checks the health of the HDD... automate it and send anything other than "green/healthy/pass" to yourself in email so you know when it's time to duplicate your main drive to retirement.

I love those HDD duplicators. They don't care about your OS and make perfect copies. They beep at you when they find bad sectors and stuff like that too.

I guess it doesn't really answer the original question, but using a HDD instead of an optical disk for backup just makes a lot of sense to me. Capacity isn't going to be a problem and neither is compatibility. Just keep stacking and rotating your backup hard drives. Use something like:

This -- http://danbeahm.blogspot.com/2010/02/bare-hard-drive-storage.html

or This -- http://techcrunch.com/2008/09/04/cardboard-hard-drive-storage-box/

Okay, have you ever even listened to that skit, or even read up on Carlin's take on parenting? Fuck my going on and explaining it to you, here's a video on his annoyance with over-parenting, and then this excerpt from his book 'Brain Droppings' wherein he explicitly states how drenching oneself in the crap is dangerous. Since I figure you'll keep your snarky attitude and say "why should I bother with what you have to say, you toad?", here, direct quote:

So personally I never take any precautions against germs. I don't shy away from people who sneeze and cough. I don't wipe off the telephone, I don't cover the toilet seat, and if I drop food on the floor I pick it up and eat it!Even if I'm at side walk cafe! IN CALCUTTA! THE POOR SECTION! ON NEW YEARS MORNING DURING A SOCCER RIOT! And you know something? In spite of all the so called "risky behavior ".... I never get infections. I don't get em. I don't get colds, I don't get flu, I don't get headaches, I don't get upset stomach, And you know why? Cause I got a good strong immune system! And it gets a lot of practice!

Watch/read for yourself then come back to me, saying I shouldn't use a quote when I'm echoing exactly what the guy's saying. How about you at the very least give the source material of a sig a listen-to BEFORE you comment, claiming someone isn't following its message?

Christ. I've already explained to someone in this thread that yes, I should understand there are exceptions that I should keep in the back of my mind when I see someone using the stuff. Only they did it in a diplomatic manner, instead of with snarky-attitude.

http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download - some schools in South Carolina and elsewhere might be badly in need of that too...

At least unlike British politicians the authories of Brazil do not seem to have proposed that kids be implanted with radio IDs (just yet).

I filmed the ATV 3 as it passed over Leiden, the Netherlands, in twilight this morning.

The video can be seen here:
http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2012/03/footage-of-atv-3-passing-in-morning.html

The spacecraft is quite bright, easily visible naked eye in a bright blue twilight sky.

Great, now you've saved a unique cookie you will give back to google on future visits, congratulations! You've just effectively logged in, via another method.

I am not quite sure why you'd spew nonsense like that.

January 7th? I see recent news on the state-level birth control silliness in November. I don't have the history on the issue, but it certainly didn't start in January.

"tl;dr"

Your loss. The Skills of Xanadu is an amazing story, especially for having been written in the 1950s. It inspired Ted Nelson to invent hypertext, which we are essentially using to communicate right now.

As for forests, the Native Americans were surrounded by them, and probably did not plant most of them. So, you can have "permaculture" without too much work. See also:
http://www.primitivism.com/original-affluent.htm

If robots are more expensive than Chinese labor, why do we see things like this article?
http://www.plasticsnews.com/china/english/headlines2.html?id=1278958338
"In the wake of labor unrest, Chinese factories are adding automation to control rising labor costs. It was bound to happen."

What would it take to convince you that robots can be used for mining, manufacturing, and for services if we truly wanted to do that at this point?
http://roboticnation.blogspot.com/
http://p2pfoundation.net/backups/p2p_research-archives/2009-November/005926.html
http://econfuture.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/structural-unemployment-the-economists-just-dont-get-it/
http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

People for decades wanted to make agricultural robotics but were stymied by the economics of our society and its acceptance of cheap (slave wages) illegal labor. Give it a decade to adjust and we'll see robots in the Georgia and Alabama fields.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_robot
http://roboticnation.blogspot.com/2009/04/autonomous-grape-vine-pruner.html

Then you will see how software can be eaten. :-)

What are "raw materials" but stuff collected from the surroundings? Robots can build new factories too (as if we did not have more than enough already). Don't confuse the fact that for historical reasons some few humans claim entitlement to "rent" on accessing resources they control socially with the issue that robots can increasingly supply substantially all the labor needed to use resources to make stuff. See Marshall Brain's Manna for one idea on how that might work economically:
http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna5.htm

And to see how robotic mining is emerging:
"Rio on edge of new world of robotic mining"
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/f6cc3482-6756-11df-a932-00144feab49a.html

That all said, it can be fun to do things and make stuff, especially when we are deciding for ourselves what to do or make. Look at how much people like Minecraft. So, it's not clear we need the robots in a big way. The alternative is to rethink the work so it is fun. How many trillions of one meter cubes have been mined over the last two years in Minecraft? People even pay for the privilege of doing so.

"tl;dr"

Your loss. The Skills of Xanadu is an amazing story, especially for having been written in the 1950s. It inspired Ted Nelson to invent hypertext, which we are essentially using to communicate right now.

As for forests, the Native Americans were surrounded by them, and probably did not plant most of them. So, you can have "permaculture" without too much work. See also:
http://www.primitivism.com/original-affluent.htm

If robots are more expensive than Chinese labor, why do we see things like this article?
http://www.plasticsnews.com/china/english/headlines2.html?id=1278958338
"In the wake of labor unrest, Chinese factories are adding automation to control rising labor costs. It was bound to happen."

What would it take to convince you that robots can be used for mining, manufacturing, and for services if we truly wanted to do that at this point?
http://roboticnation.blogspot.com/
http://p2pfoundation.net/backups/p2p_research-archives/2009-November/005926.html
http://econfuture.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/structural-unemployment-the-economists-just-dont-get-it/
http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

People for decades wanted to make agricultural robotics but were stymied by the economics of our society and its acceptance of cheap (slave wages) illegal labor. Give it a decade to adjust and we'll see robots in the Georgia and Alabama fields.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_robot
http://roboticnation.blogspot.com/2009/04/autonomous-grape-vine-pruner.html

Then you will see how software can be eaten. :-)

What are "raw materials" but stuff collected from the surroundings? Robots can build new factories too (as if we did not have more than enough already). Don't confuse the fact that for historical reasons some few humans claim entitlement to "rent" on accessing resources they control socially with the issue that robots can increasingly supply substantially all the labor needed to use resources to make stuff. See Marshall Brain's Manna for one idea on how that might work economically:
http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna5.htm

And to see how robotic mining is emerging:
"Rio on edge of new world of robotic mining"
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/f6cc3482-6756-11df-a932-00144feab49a.html

That all said, it can be fun to do things and make stuff, especially when we are deciding for ourselves what to do or make. Look at how much people like Minecraft. So, it's not clear we need the robots in a big way. The alternative is to rethink the work so it is fun. How many trillions of one meter cubes have been mined over the last two years in Minecraft? People even pay for the privilege of doing so.

Link to the giant nuclear boobies.

Heck, maybe you could rent it out for The Abyss II.

first of all, you couldn't get silver in a para-triathlon if they let you compete. just admit that to yourself. i'm in pretty good shape and i know i couldn't. second, this isn't a separate race. this is the ironman triathlon, and those in the para- category are expected to finish in the same cutoff times as able bodied competitors. that means this guy who got silver in the para- category beat the times of several able bodied competitors who didn't even rank high enough to mention. that would probably include both of us.

this other guy became a professional skateboarder despite having dwarfism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Acu%C3%B1a

this high school student born without arms was a formidable wrestling opponent: http://www.news-record.com/content/2011/12/22/article/photo_gallery_high_school_wrestler_with_no_arms_the_one_to_beat

these amputee archers are competing with non-amputees: http://blog.amsvans.com/53432-archers-with-disabilities-compete-against-able-bodied-athletes/

this other amputee (all limbs) wrestler fought for his right to compete in MMA against able bodied competitors: http://fatshapetofitshape.blogspot.com/2009/04/congenital-amputee-kyle-maynards-long.html

and this person fought for his right to compete in the Olympics (not Special Olympics or Paralympics) with prosthetic legs: http://thinklink.in/blade-runner-sprinter-with-no-legs-wins-right-to-compete-in-olympics/

fuck your genetics, and your excuses.

your assumptions aren't helping you much either: the winner of the 1986 NBA Slam Dunk Contest was Spud Webb, 5'7" tall. http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-shortest-nba-players.php

lawyered

"Science" teaches that the Earth is round. Why not teach the controversy?

Lol 2006 called. Nowadays Youtube content is only there because the content owners let it be. It's flagged automatically on upload with the contentid system in place. Content owners have a choice to (1) have it taken down or (2) monetize it so it shows ads and they take the profits. For all their loud public complaints, guess which option content owners choose most often?

The system isn't even new; it's been around since 2007, around the time of the settling of the Viacom-YouTube lawsuit, and in fact was one of the primary things put in place to find a middle ground.

http://www.youtube.com/t/contentid
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/latest-content-id-tool-for-youtube.html

As for Picasa and Google+, the former is mostly original content and the latter is mostly fair use (like any other [micro]blogging service). I don't know where you get the idea that they are massive infringement engines. Unless you work in the content industry, in which case you probably consider apache or http itself to be a tools of demons.

Fact: People who say "Fact" without a citation are basically dumbasses.
Citation- http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fGlRS0W7KWE/TtqB-4V0ufI/AAAAAAAAcx0/4IjuHRIZp3g/s1600/dumbass.jpg

The problem is that American socioeconomic arrangement discourages altruism and rewards greed - or at least the balance between the two is tilted towards greed more than in most other developed countries.

With

Q. Are Americans more or less charitable than citizens of other countries?

A. No developed country approaches American giving. For example, in 1995 (the most recent year for which data are available), Americans gave, per capita, three and a half times as much to causes and charities as the French, seven times as much as the Germans, and 14 times as much as the Italians. Similarly, in 1998, Americans were 15 percent more likely to volunteer their time than the Dutch, 21 percent more likely than the Swiss, and 32 percent more likely than the Germans. These differences are not attributable to demographic characteristics such as education, income, age, sex, or marital status. On the contrary, if we look at two people who are identical in all these ways except that one is European and the other American, the probability is still far lower that the European will volunteer than the American.

(From here)

You might also be interested in several of the statistics from this site, too. Notably, in 2006, US charitable giving as a percentage of GDP was larger by more than a factor of two than the second most charitable nation (the UK).

âoebut do you know how to check and is there any point checking when we already know NSA/KGB, etc etc have the globe encircled with satellites?â

try lining your windows with tinfoil and check it after a few months. Youâ(TM)ll discover straight LINES and DOTS (tiny peep holes). This is with the tinfoil on the inside of the windowsâ(TM) surface, in-house/apartment. What causes this?

I believe most, if not all consumer computers and devices are, if not monitored, swept and mirrored by big bro using satellite technology.

One anonymous poster to pastebin, claiming to be representitive of Mossad, fired a shot across the bow of Anonymous and other hackers by saying, paraphrased, âoeAll of your hard drives are mirrored in (locations A,B,C as I forget which countries were mentioned) certain places on Earth anyway.

I find this to be true, Iâ(TM)ve used Microsoftâ(TM)s SysInternals programs to monitor processes and discovered my drives being swept, a chat program running I never installed and could find no trace of, files where they had the most interest were mp3 and graphics files, but they scraped the whole drive, and an iso creator/mirroring utility was running.

You only make it easier for them if you willingly install video streaming programs (VLC) with command line counterparts, music programs with command line counterparts, Office programs, which I noticed PDF files were being made in the background, and all of this activity was happening when I was monitoring a computer isolated from any wired/wireless/LAN network(s).

Google: Subversion Hack archive for a glimpse into this mysterious activity

Itâ(TM)s all about the waves.

*****

âoeWell, if this is true or not, I cannot tell, because I use GNU/Linux,â

The same is true for *nix, you just have to have the right monitoring tools and know what to look for inside binaries which are easily messed with by injecting malware into them and tools used by âoeTHEMâ to obscure the code injected into the ELF binaries so as to avoid being picked up as malware.

One simple command you can use to check for modifications to your files:

sudo find /usr/bin -mtime -60

That will search /usr/bin for files modified within 60 minutes, adjust the command as needed for other directories and time frames.

ALWAYS generate sha256sums or better (NOT MD5 or SHA1) of your initial install and the LiveCD and store them on a READ ONLY media like a once writable CDROM. The free utility known as âoemd5deepâ offers more than md5 checksum generation and unlike the simple tools like sha256sum, sha1sum, etc., md5deepâ(TM)s options offer RECURSIVE and directory stripping options, perfect for backup on CDROMs.

Hereâ(TM)s one example out of many mysterious *nix trojans floating about:

- Linux/Bckdr-RKC
â"- http://caffeinesecurity.blogspot.com/2012/02/linuxbckdr-rkc-still-undetected.html

âoeFor those who arenâ(TM)t familiar with this trojan, an anonymous internet user has taken the time to put together a Pastebin post highlighting my research on this trojanâ: http://pastebin.com/DwtX9dMd

More questions without answers:

- Malware for Windows, *nux (and MacOSX?) which HIDES in FIRMWARE on routers, PCI and AGP cards and devices (including CD burners), system BIOS, MBRs, ethernet (nic) cards most if not all surviving hard drive wipes/formats and preloaded again and updated âoethrough-the-airâ mysteriously or when youâ(TM)ve plugged into the net.

- Ethernet cards using packet radio modules/protocols

- Linux distributions including LiveCDs including more modules than they need to run, especially for LiveCD purposes, including build essentials, dpkg-dev, ISDN drivers/modules (sometimes in multiple places, as binary f

Mike Daisey comments on "This American Life" controversy.

In other news, Political Cartoons should not also be taken as literal fact.

Especially if they have talking ducks in them.

What comes from toilets is 'black water', but 'grey water'. Grey comes from showers, washing machines, etc. It's specifically that which has been used, but has a low risk of pathogens in it.

From the article, it sounds like they're using a blend of the two ... but they never linked to the March 15th Jim Brown blog post. From reading his blog, he states, "We worked with the WSA to build a side-stream plant about five miles west of our data center that diverts up to 30 percent of the water that would have gone back into the river", while the article linked to states "about 30 percent of the water is diverted from the WSA system".

The article makes it sound like they're getting the water *before* it would have been cleaned by the water treatment plant ... from the blog post, I'd say it's after it's been treated, and getting it before it would have been sent back to the river. So it's treated wastewater, which would've already gone through some sort of system to remove pathogens.

http://www.thelaunchbox.blogspot.com/2012/03/contract-one-nearly-done.html

Picture of TBM

Keep in mind these pictures are taken from several feet below the active traffic on Second Avenue.

http://www.thelaunchbox.blogspot.com/2012/03/contract-one-nearly-done.html

Picture of TBM

Keep in mind these pictures are taken from several feet below the active traffic on Second Avenue.

âoebut do you know how to check and is there any point checking when we already know NSA/KGB, etc etc have the globe encircled with satellites?â

try lining your windows with tinfoil and check it after a few months. Youâ(TM)ll discover straight LINES and DOTS (tiny peep holes). This is with the tinfoil on the inside of the windowsâ(TM) surface, in-house/apartment. What causes this?

I believe most, if not all consumer computers and devices are, if not monitored, swept and mirrored by big bro using satellite technology.

One anonymous poster to pastebin, claiming to be representitive of Mossad, fired a shot across the bow of Anonymous and other hackers by saying, paraphrased, âoeAll of your hard drives are mirrored in (locations A,B,C as I forget which countries were mentioned) certain places on Earth anyway.

I find this to be true, Iâ(TM)ve used Microsoftâ(TM)s SysInternals programs to monitor processes and discovered my drives being swept, a chat program running I never installed and could find no trace of, files where they had the most interest were mp3 and graphics files, but they scraped the whole drive, and an iso creator/mirroring utility was running.

You only make it easier for them if you willingly install video streaming programs (VLC) with command line counterparts, music programs with command line counterparts, Office programs, which I noticed PDF files were being made in the background, and all of this activity was happening when I was monitoring a computer isolated from any wired/wireless/LAN network(s).

Google: Subversion Hack archive for a glimpse into this mysterious activity

Itâ(TM)s all about the waves.
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âoeWell, if this is true or not, I cannot tell, because I use GNU/Linux,â

The same is true for *nix, you just have to have the right monitoring tools and know what to look for inside binaries which are easily messed with by injecting malware into them and tools used by âoeTHEMâ to obscure the code injected into the ELF binaries so as to avoid being picked up as malware.

One simple command you can use to check for modifications to your files:

sudo find /usr/bin -mtime -60

That will search /usr/bin for files modified within 60 minutes, adjust the command as needed for other directories and time frames.

ALWAYS generate sha256sums or better (NOT MD5 or SHA1) of your initial install and the LiveCD and store them on a READ ONLY media like a once writable CDROM. The free utility known as âoemd5deepâ offers more than md5 checksum generation and unlike the simple tools like sha256sum, sha1sum, etc., md5deepâ(TM)s options offer RECURSIVE and directory stripping options, perfect for backup on CDROMs.

Hereâ(TM)s one example out of many mysterious *nix trojans floating about:

- Linux/Bckdr-RKC
â"- http://caffeinesecurity.blogspot.com/2012/02/linuxbckdr-rkc-still-undetected.html

âoeFor those who arenâ(TM)t familiar with this trojan, an anonymous internet user has taken the time to put together a Pastebin post highlighting my research on this trojanâ: http://pastebin.com/DwtX9dMd

More questions without answers:

- Malware for Windows, *nux (and MacOSX?) which HIDES in FIRMWARE on routers, PCI and AGP cards and devices (including CD burners), system BIOS, MBRs, ethernet (nic) cards most if not all surviving hard drive wipes/formats and preloaded again and updated âoethrough-the-airâ mysteriously or when youâ(TM)ve plugged into the net.

- Ethernet cards using packet radio modules/protocols

- Linux distributions including LiveCDs including more modules than they need to run, especially for LiveCD purposes, including build essentials, dpkg-dev, ISDN drivers/modules (sometimes in multiple places, as binary files and

Glad to see somebody else appreciates this film for the sparkling gem of madness that it is!

I've only found one review that does Zardoz justice.

I was suspicious of Daisey's story when I heard it on This American Life (which is not NPR, but American Public Media, btw), as I'd seen earlier coverage on Financial Times with video http://retroworks.blogspot.com/2012/03/odm-opportunity-is-in-wind_04.html The video looks pretty fair, and it was nothing like the textile factories and other really tough places to work in China. The work is boring, but people do it to save money to buy a house and then go home after a couple of years.

The problem is the GIL.

You might this approach interesting, then:

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/06/global-interpreter-lock-or-how-to-kill.html (part 1)

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2012/01/transactional-memory-ii.html (part 2)

The problem is the GIL.

You might this approach interesting, then:

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/06/global-interpreter-lock-or-how-to-kill.html (part 1)

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2012/01/transactional-memory-ii.html (part 2)

Problem: Per-Capita Income hasn't kept up with inflation for over 15 years.

adjusted per capita income has actually dropped since 1973.. And that's before you factor in the 2x increase in productivity in those 39 years ...

All I want is the start button. This is how I feel about Windows 8 so far: http://creativefisher.blogspot.com/2012/03/where-is-my-start-button.html

You'll find more women at a priests' rectory than at this event

Yeah, for instance the organizers and the Slashdot submitter are all men.

This report was brought to you by Verizon.

I wanted to mod you up, but you didn't have a link for those that missed the whole funny affair.... http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/

Agree that they are doing things that are worrisome indicators. I have written about one experience here. In essence, they used my account information (like an alternative email address for forwarding of alerts) in bizarre ways.

http://diagonalslash.blogspot.com/2010/05/google-is-messing-with-my-profile-data.html