I've always wondered why they didn't just slip some mylar film into those mailers. Mylar was designed in wartime as radar chaff, but is more likely seen today as the bag around your snack or a helium balloon.
If you look carefully, metallized mylar is not opaque (mylar itself is quite transparent), just like any sufficiently metal film.
Some 20 years ago, around Montréal, a lottery-scamming ring was uncovered, who operated with "pouch-type" lottery tickets (a ticket enclosed in an transparency-obfuscating enveloppe). They had a network of operatives who worked at convenience store, and swapped unknown tickets with "known ungood" tickets.
They were able to see through the enveloppe obfuscation using a slide projector as a bright light (and undoubtely a fair number of aspirins).
Pig Hogger, you dumbass, given your strong opinions about lawyers being worthless, I take it that when your neighbor builds his fence five feet past the property line you'll be representing yourself? How about when a large company steals your intellectual property and sells it, making a large amount of money? Will you say 'fuck lawyers' and try to talk the money out of them?
What a fucking shithead yankee; a real, typical 100% pure stupid yankee who can't fathom that there are other cultures on earth than the constipated-about-property anglo-saxon culture, other different culture that do not put all emphasis on property, and that people from those cultures do not give a flying fuck about property and, in consequence, have no property and are not regarded as misfits because of that.
I also remember hearing on TWiT that some guy has blocked all HTML e-mail outside of his whitelist to avoid spam, and it works. Seems a little too harsh though.
Harsh? You want harsh??? You should see my access list, boy!!! (I block e-mail coming from all those addresses with custom error-messages)...
By the same logic the Chinese Government is trying to overthrow western democracy using methods indistinguishable from incoherent spam emails about cheap viagra.
By being one billion strong, the chinese obviously have no need for Viagra!
But if we keep letting these Bush people run the show, we'll start looking a lot like England did through the 20th Century, as their former hick colony obliterated them on the world stage.
But you are already declining... What do you think the stupid creationists are making, but significantly weakening the US science, which is the basis for technological domination? Likewise, all those students becoming lawyers because "that's where the money is"... Lawyers do not create any wealth at all, they do not manufacture goods, they do not create original intellectual content, they are mere parasites to an economy.
There is a difference between the citizens of a country knowing every detail of the government's actions and a country that is actively against many of those actions knowing. The problem is that most of the people I hear from seem to think that if everyone just would calm down, smoke some weed together and such that we would all be friends. No more adversaries... Right.
Perhaps if you started to smoke some weed, people would stop seeing you as an aggressor and a plunderer, too. You oughta get out of your SUV and walk more.
This puts a strain on the agencies to ensure that solid intel can not be assembled from less potent information, and yet many citizens complain about the slow pace in which free information flows out of the government. Look at what they are up against, today. (I know I'm going to get hammered on that statement) I think we're seeing that delicate balance between freedom of information and security will be tipping in the near future as a direct result of these attacks.
"These attacks" are the perfect excuse for those bureaucrats to close the spigot of public information. The last thing any bureaucrat wants is the public (and expecially those pesky journalists) sticking their unwashed nose in their business.
The solution for "less attacks" is simply to make sure that no one hates your guts enough to want to blow them up, a lesson most average-brained people learn quite early in kidergarten...
In "The Right Stuff," Wolfe mentioned that the NASA X-15 pilots didn't qualify for astronaut wings.
When asked about it, Chuck Yeager said that he didn't believe in test pilots having "the right stuff"... (Maybe he has the proper thing)...
Also see this book for a great discussion of what makes a pilot. We're the Astronauts pilots even though a monkey made thier flights first? Not to say that doesn't make them brave, but there was certainly a lack of control.
Maybe i am new here, but what other kind of year is there other than sort years
Man years? Light years?
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It amazes me how ms won at all back in those days. It was sooo bad it was not even funny and it perplexes me how the IT departments standardized on this garbage.
Because "IBM" was written on the itty bitty machine boxen, and viable alternatives such as XENIX were an order of magnitude more expensive than DOS...
Of course they're villains if they (gasp!) pay their people more than the "norm"! Just like Henry Ford was a villain when he doubled salaries! And just like those industrialists who pushed against children labour so they would not have to compete against the children cheap labour!
It's the guys with the dough that call the shots, and when you directly threaten the dough inflow or increase the dough outflow, you're a villain!
The Bush neoconservatives believe that their destiny is to mold the world as they see fit, and they don't care what they have to do or say to fulfill that goal. If that means lying about WMD, killing civilians, or sacrificing military personnel, then so be it. It is all
for the greater good.
Er, it's not THE "greater good", but THEIR greater good.
It really just depends on the scale. If it was a billion dollar bankruptcy, a $50,000 check to someone is a rounding error as someone above said. But if it was a $100,000 small business bankruptcy, then that is very different.
It was a "20 widebody jet (all old clunkers: DC-10, L-1011 and the like) charter airline". So for that $50,000 is small change. Besides, 3 years later, the airline owner got nailed very hard for bankrupcy fraud...
One will only shudder at the incompetence displayed at running their fleet management on a single computer without backup...
Not to sound like a miserable bastard, but exactly which of these are supposed to be funny? This article is really lame, uninformative and about as funny as colon cancer.
That's not the idea. The idea is to have slashdotter contribute their own stories which are bound to be orders of magnitude better than the lame stuff in the original article...
$Airline is on the brink of bankrupcy, and owes a friend close to $50,000. My friend is just about to write-it off.
One day, frantic call from my friend: "can you come with me to $AIRPORT, $AIRLINE's mac is down (I was the Mac expert then). Seems that $AIRLINE is running it's whole fleet management software on ONE computer.
We get there, and the VICE-PRESIDENT OF FINANCE is waiting for us at the receptionist desk. He hands my friend a $50,000 cheque!!! We go look at the macintosh, and I cannot do anything, the hard-disk is totally molten...
We get out of the airport and rush to the bank to have the cheque certified.
I think people would be pretty alarmed if as soon as they started talking about pizza on the telephone, an advertisement for a local pizza place appeared on the LCD screen of their phone base without their asking.
On wonders what will appear with terrorists planning their next bombing... Echelon?
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They were able to see through the enveloppe obfuscation using a slide projector as a bright light (and undoubtely a fair number of aspirins).
Brits also used to hang kids for stealing bread...
The solution for "less attacks" is simply to make sure that no one hates your guts enough to want to blow them up, a lesson most average-brained people learn quite early in kidergarten...
Do you feel disadvantaged in comparison to people whose last name is "Smith" or "Jones"???
It's the guys with the dough that call the shots, and when you directly threaten the dough inflow or increase the dough outflow, you're a villain!
Good!
Priests and whatnot, on the other hand, has a 100,000 year headstart over science when it comes to manipulate minds and suck-up to the people.
So it's no wonder that undisciplined simple minds will flock to religion en masse, as believing bullshit is far easier than UNDERSTANDING science.
No, sorry, that was 11-12 years ago...
One will only shudder at the incompetence displayed at running their fleet management on a single computer without backup...
One day, frantic call from my friend: "can you come with me to $AIRPORT, $AIRLINE's mac is down (I was the Mac expert then). Seems that $AIRLINE is running it's whole fleet management software on ONE computer.
We get there, and the VICE-PRESIDENT OF FINANCE is waiting for us at the receptionist desk. He hands my friend a $50,000 cheque!!! We go look at the macintosh, and I cannot do anything, the hard-disk is totally molten...
We get out of the airport and rush to the bank to have the cheque certified.
The next day, $AIRLINE filed for bankrupcy...