The court filing was probably done down in Southern California and Craigs List is based out of San Francisco with like what, 30 employees at most? Not like they make much money as it is... Probably would have been cost prohibitive for them to send someone down to L.A.
They can call cell all they want, you pay for the call, not them. Its not illegal at all. In fact its recommended you register your cell number on the DNL too. Many people are doing away with their home lines and only using cells.
There are to many loop-holes in the DNL now. - You have to Opt out and you have to remember to check your own status and reregister every couple of years - Government organizations, polsters, government campaigns, and charities can still call you - Any company you do business with and give your number to, as well as any of their partner companys they trade information with are exempted from the DNL for a period of two years from your last business with them and may call. - The website actually states when you post a complaint that they dont actually review them unless they receive X number of complaints from the same number within a 30 day span. - To get around the DNL many companys are using out of country call centers and/or using Caller ID masking services such as that offered by a Florida company (notice strange characters or impossible numbers calling you?)
The actual action rate is very low. Where I live near San Francisco I get calls from A-1 carpet cleaners 3 to 4 times a year. They will call 3 times a day for a period of up to 5 days straight. Its always a recorded message about carpet services and if you call it back usually its just an empty line. Websites like, whocalled.us, have numerous complaints about them. Pages in fact and many have said they have reported them to the DNL. I know I have several times, and here it is 3 or 4 years now and I am still getting these calls.
And yet the government hasnt done anything. A-1, like other companies, are skirting the DNL by gambling on the complaint within 30 day quota to avoid getting busted.
As it is I have a Windows Mobile "not-so" Smartphone from my work. Just like a PC I have to power it off or pull the battery and reboot it periodically or it acts up and crashes...
If this ever gets made I can just see the news storys and lawsuits... Family sues Microsoft after daughters murder... Daughters Guardian Angel bluesceened while on a date with a serial murderer... Details at 11...
And if its polling information on everyone you are around, just exactly what information is it sending about you back to Microsoft?
I was thinking the same Damn thing and checking the forum first to see if anyone else said it...
So now instead of evey 10 days looking to verify you, its going to check anytime you need some new tidbit of data... Which could be multiple times a day...
Actually there were numerous specials talking about how they did all the stuff in the show. Each of the "projects" were created and tried out first by Engineering College students from one of the Southern California Colleges (dont remember which one). It of it was real science... Though they always left out one or two steps in the show so you couldnt exactly duplicate it. Like the time he made a bomb by filing down the magnesium frame of a racing bike...
Likewise they will do the same thing again or use hollywood science... I'd prefer based of reality with a step or two omitted instead of mixing a soda with toothpaste to make a door lock eating agent. lol
I remember the old AN/YUK-83's and AN/YUK-85's. Big green ugly tempest shielded pc boxes. In the mid-90's they decided to replace all the old 8086 and 286 machines with 386 and a few 486 based systems for tactical units. Instead of just going out and buying new modern 486 and Pentium computers at around $2000 a piece, the US government paid a company, now defunct, C3 to make custom upgrade motherboards that could fix in the old Tempest cases... Cost per unit? Over $10,000. And they ran considerably slower than their civillian counter parts. But that was back in the day when a Server had a massive 300mb of drive space.
In 96 or 97 the military gave up on tempest once they realized they could intercept and decrypt information from computer monitors from a few yards away, just sit outside the perimeter and collect the EM data. They also developed technology that they could lay OVER an ethernet or coax cable and intercept all the information on it without having to splice into it, data and voice. So even with adequate shielding on the PC its self, we found that TEMPEST was easy to circumvent and thus no cost-effective.
I got to see a demo of the monitor EM intercept, you actually saw pretty much what they saw on theirs... Pretty cool.
Thank you, I could have sworn I heard this same exact approach discussed and tested back around 2000... Is this another one of those ideas that was to difficult at the time and shelved only to be dusted back off and tried again with new technology?
I mean haven't we already sent probes and satelites to the moon already, why havent they discovered this? So we send a probe to the moon to test this and if it pans out we buy all the astronaugts tinfoil underwear...
Since the mid-90's there have been tons of BBC and Discovery Science and History channel specials on the Titanic and they ALL said the same thing, the shipyard used substandard metals in the rivett's to cut back on the cost of building the ship. And these same history shows all said the same thing, to much slag found in the rivets causing them to be extremely week and would pop with minimal, for its size, force.
As a matter of fact Troll, yes I do use Quickbooks for my own small business and my friends brewery uses the Quickbooks POS for their cash register and are more than happy with it... I wouldn't recommend something I don't use myself.
For a couple of hundred bucks he can get a Quickbooks terminal running on embeded Xp. Then all he has to do is export the quickbooks data or just access the pc for the info. The terminals are fully functional PC's, Registers, and loaded with Quickbooks.
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Comcast has been doing this for months and few people noticed... I started noticing problems getting to certain websites... Either they were really slow or not working at all. Checking online forums I'd see no one else reporting the same problems I was seeing... Then it dawned on me to switch DNS servers to something other than the ones Comcast provides. Soon as I switched to Opendns server suddenly a whole slew of websites that I couldn't reach before or that were slow were available and working. And some even loading pages faster...
Comcast keeps diddling with their service, poisoning their own DNS servers, interfering with BitTorrent, and not more actively blocking websites.
This begs the next question, was Comcast taken over by the Chinese government and we never heard about it?
"That's how you know Apple has turned the corner. When suddenly random people can become cool for owning a Mac"
Actually its coming full circle. Back in the 80's I had one of the original IBM PC's and IBMC PCjr's. My mother worked for IBM at Santa Terresa labs... Back then everyone had Apple ][e's and made fun of you having a PC. Most of the bbs's and early only games (Realms) were run on the Apple IIe's and the original Ultima was only released on the Apple, Ultima II was the first release on PC (later they released the whole series compilation with the first Ultima, but it wasnt originally released for PC). Then around 89 or 90 there began a switch and by I'd say 92 or 93 Apple was in the slump and all the cool kids had PC's... Apple has a long 15 to 20 year climb (man I am getting old) back to the top, but nearly every college and highschool student I talk to now all want Mac's.
As an IT consultant I get a lot of old machines from my clients some only a year or 2 old but were replaced for one reason or another. I got a lot of 1 year old machines last year because they couldnt run Vista, which the client ripped out and reloaded XP on anyways. I could barely give those new computers away. My friends my age took them, but none of their kids wanted a PC, they all wanted a Mac like their friends. Its now "Hip" to own a Mac again and the PC is the dinosaur...
How the hell is Feinstein still in office? The city of San Francisco hates her.... She bankrupted the city when she was mayor and slap a lot of civil liberties in the face...
Since her and Boxer have been in office they have not once voted in line with the way I view things. Even when there was a vote for increasing Veterans benefits and fixing the Veterans Administration whose budget was majorly slashed by Clinton, the two of them proudly emailed their constituants about how they side stepped that but were pushing for tighter gun control...
Sadly, a law abidding citizen has to pay around $1000 after fees to legally own a pistol, yet a criminal will get that same gun on the street for $100. The gun laws are only making law abidding citizens criminals... And the worse part is while Feinstein is trying to strip gun ownership from the masses, she herself carrys one. In fact she has a "conceal carry permit" which is hard as hell to get in California... Impossible in the city of San Francisco...
http://www.alphadogweb.com/firearms/Diane_Feinstein.htm
There are signs denoting areas of importance and sensative areas that are more readily apparent from ground view than from Ariel. Some security systems are difficult to detect or identify from a top down view, but a side view makes it easier to identify, so does that sign saying high voltage when at street level.
Military bases general facilities are usually very well laid out, planned, and identified. Main roads go from Base housing to the Post Exchange. Most barracks are arrayed off the main roads. But in the example you listed, the dependent wife is pretty much assured to find the place she is looking for easily. It becomes quickly apparent when you start driving in the wrong direction. In fact on most bases, the places where someone could get lost are normally off limits to civilians anyways.
While the threat of infiltrators into the military has always been there, in todays world of fanatics its still more likely a fanatic group would try to access the base via normal means and plot their attack... Giving them ground view access will lessen the number of reconaissance trips they have to make, lessing the chance of detection... But it also opens up views to areas that may be blacked out from overhead viewing.
Not only does the government force these services to censor many of their images, many buildings and facilities are designed to be non-descript from an arial view... But ground view these structures identification signs could be viewable...
We've seen from many of the bombing attacks that the terrorists do plan their attacks as thoroughly as we do our strikes. But are also lazy enough to take the easiest mark. No sense in giving them an additional source of intel...
Back in the 90's, early, a group of fanatics attempted to detonate a bomb at an air show featuring the Blue Angels. One of their bombs detonated in their car before they reached the base luckily sparing the civilians who would have been watching the show. In their car they found a map of the base created by the military to show people how to get to the viewing area and the bleachers. On the bleacher drawings they circled the spots, we suspect, they were going to place pipe bombs... A flier given out to civillians to help them get to the air show and enjoy it easier was subverted for an attack against U.S. military and civillians... If a flier could do that, think what street level views of the base could do...
Being a retired Marine it was a gaff to post the street view of the military bases... In fact I am surprised but pleased about how google handled the issue and agreed they shouldnt have mapped out the base they did. I was expecting them to either fight the decission or just remove it and not mention it. Kind of a stand up possition to say, yeah, we shouldnt have done that in hindsight...
Of course Google doesnt want to upset the military. While NASA operates Moffett, its still owned by the Navy. My roommate works there... Google wrestled a hell of a deal in getting to keep their personal jet on the grounds instead of at San Jose International Airport like everyone else. Upset the Military and they might see themselves looking for a new home for their corporate jet.
Thats the FCC will do, Jack... The majority of their hearings either come up unresolved or contrary to the public good. Business intrests win out more often then Joe citizen under the current administration... Though unlikely to change much even after administrations change... Once the damage is done it takes years, sometimes decades before things are set back right.
Actually many F-15s have been permanently grounded... Variants A, B, C, and D all have manufacturing defects that led to the Missouri incident where the cockpit seperated from the airframe. Upon inspection it was found that everyone of these models showed stress and metal fatigue caused by milling down a support rib to thinly. They are not repairable and many will be destroyed in place where they are.
'E' models are only allowed to fly in emergency situations right now and pulled from all primary missions. The air force is using this as an excuse to bet more F-35's and f-22's approved and on rush order. Currently 1100 of the 1500 F-15's are permanently grounded... http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2008/02/defense_fighterdebate_080213/
Actually they brought the SR-71 out of retirement... Back in 1995... http://www.fighter-planes.com/info/sr71.htm "The SR-71 entered service in 1968 and was retired in 1990, but in 1994 the US Congress directed that the SR-71 should be re-instated to operational readiness and deployed to meet the need for a broad area coverage reconnaissance platform. The aircraft were brought out of retirement and two aircraft were mission ready by the third quarter of 1995. "
NASA also owns and operates two SR-71's still to this day for scientific testing.
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The court filing was probably done down in Southern California and Craigs List is based out of San Francisco with like what, 30 employees at most? Not like they make much money as it is... Probably would have been cost prohibitive for them to send someone down to L.A.
They can call cell all they want, you pay for the call, not them. Its not illegal at all. In fact its recommended you register your cell number on the DNL too. Many people are doing away with their home lines and only using cells.
There are to many loop-holes in the DNL now.
- You have to Opt out and you have to remember to check your own status and reregister every couple of years
- Government organizations, polsters, government campaigns, and charities can still call you
- Any company you do business with and give your number to, as well as any of their partner companys they trade information with are exempted from the DNL for a period of two years from your last business with them and may call.
- The website actually states when you post a complaint that they dont actually review them unless they receive X number of complaints from the same number within a 30 day span.
- To get around the DNL many companys are using out of country call centers and/or using Caller ID masking services such as that offered by a Florida company (notice strange characters or impossible numbers calling you?)
The actual action rate is very low. Where I live near San Francisco I get calls from A-1 carpet cleaners 3 to 4 times a year. They will call 3 times a day for a period of up to 5 days straight. Its always a recorded message about carpet services and if you call it back usually its just an empty line. Websites like, whocalled.us, have numerous complaints about them. Pages in fact and many have said they have reported them to the DNL. I know I have several times, and here it is 3 or 4 years now and I am still getting these calls.
And yet the government hasnt done anything. A-1, like other companies, are skirting the DNL by gambling on the complaint within 30 day quota to avoid getting busted.
As it is I have a Windows Mobile "not-so" Smartphone from my work. Just like a PC I have to power it off or pull the battery and reboot it periodically or it acts up and crashes...
If this ever gets made I can just see the news storys and lawsuits... Family sues Microsoft after daughters murder... Daughters Guardian Angel bluesceened while on a date with a serial murderer... Details at 11...
And if its polling information on everyone you are around, just exactly what information is it sending about you back to Microsoft?
I was thinking the same Damn thing and checking the forum first to see if anyone else said it...
So now instead of evey 10 days looking to verify you, its going to check anytime you need some new tidbit of data... Which could be multiple times a day...
Actually there were numerous specials talking about how they did all the stuff in the show. Each of the "projects" were created and tried out first by Engineering College students from one of the Southern California Colleges (dont remember which one). It of it was real science... Though they always left out one or two steps in the show so you couldnt exactly duplicate it. Like the time he made a bomb by filing down the magnesium frame of a racing bike...
Likewise they will do the same thing again or use hollywood science... I'd prefer based of reality with a step or two omitted instead of mixing a soda with toothpaste to make a door lock eating agent. lol
I remember the old AN/YUK-83's and AN/YUK-85's. Big green ugly tempest shielded pc boxes. In the mid-90's they decided to replace all the old 8086 and 286 machines with 386 and a few 486 based systems for tactical units. Instead of just going out and buying new modern 486 and Pentium computers at around $2000 a piece, the US government paid a company, now defunct, C3 to make custom upgrade motherboards that could fix in the old Tempest cases... Cost per unit? Over $10,000. And they ran considerably slower than their civillian counter parts. But that was back in the day when a Server had a massive 300mb of drive space.
In 96 or 97 the military gave up on tempest once they realized they could intercept and decrypt information from computer monitors from a few yards away, just sit outside the perimeter and collect the EM data. They also developed technology that they could lay OVER an ethernet or coax cable and intercept all the information on it without having to splice into it, data and voice. So even with adequate shielding on the PC its self, we found that TEMPEST was easy to circumvent and thus no cost-effective.
I got to see a demo of the monitor EM intercept, you actually saw pretty much what they saw on theirs... Pretty cool.
Thank you, I could have sworn I heard this same exact approach discussed and tested back around 2000... Is this another one of those ideas that was to difficult at the time and shelved only to be dusted back off and tried again with new technology?
I mean haven't we already sent probes and satelites to the moon already, why havent they discovered this? So we send a probe to the moon to test this and if it pans out we buy all the astronaugts tinfoil underwear...
Since the mid-90's there have been tons of BBC and Discovery Science and History channel specials on the Titanic and they ALL said the same thing, the shipyard used substandard metals in the rivett's to cut back on the cost of building the ship. And these same history shows all said the same thing, to much slag found in the rivets causing them to be extremely week and would pop with minimal, for its size, force.
As a matter of fact Troll, yes I do use Quickbooks for my own small business and my friends brewery uses the Quickbooks POS for their cash register and are more than happy with it... I wouldn't recommend something I don't use myself.
For a couple of hundred bucks he can get a Quickbooks terminal running on embeded Xp. Then all he has to do is export the quickbooks data or just access the pc for the info. The terminals are fully functional PC's, Registers, and loaded with Quickbooks.
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Just have the whole country switch to using OpenDNS servers, of course then they might start doing China like firewalling to block it...
Comcast has been doing this for months and few people noticed... I started noticing problems getting to certain websites... Either they were really slow or not working at all. Checking online forums I'd see no one else reporting the same problems I was seeing... Then it dawned on me to switch DNS servers to something other than the ones Comcast provides. Soon as I switched to Opendns server suddenly a whole slew of websites that I couldn't reach before or that were slow were available and working. And some even loading pages faster...
Comcast keeps diddling with their service, poisoning their own DNS servers, interfering with BitTorrent, and not more actively blocking websites.
This begs the next question, was Comcast taken over by the Chinese government and we never heard about it?
And marks the end of Microsofts dominance on the desktop...
Do simple google search and you will find tons of source material... No need for me to do your homework for you
Under under copyright laws Reverse Engineering a product to improve it or restore functionality has been ruled legal in the US Court system.
Even under California Copyright Law...
"That's how you know Apple has turned the corner. When suddenly random people can become cool for owning a Mac" Actually its coming full circle. Back in the 80's I had one of the original IBM PC's and IBMC PCjr's. My mother worked for IBM at Santa Terresa labs... Back then everyone had Apple ][e's and made fun of you having a PC. Most of the bbs's and early only games (Realms) were run on the Apple IIe's and the original Ultima was only released on the Apple, Ultima II was the first release on PC (later they released the whole series compilation with the first Ultima, but it wasnt originally released for PC). Then around 89 or 90 there began a switch and by I'd say 92 or 93 Apple was in the slump and all the cool kids had PC's... Apple has a long 15 to 20 year climb (man I am getting old) back to the top, but nearly every college and highschool student I talk to now all want Mac's. As an IT consultant I get a lot of old machines from my clients some only a year or 2 old but were replaced for one reason or another. I got a lot of 1 year old machines last year because they couldnt run Vista, which the client ripped out and reloaded XP on anyways. I could barely give those new computers away. My friends my age took them, but none of their kids wanted a PC, they all wanted a Mac like their friends. Its now "Hip" to own a Mac again and the PC is the dinosaur...
How the hell is Feinstein still in office? The city of San Francisco hates her.... She bankrupted the city when she was mayor and slap a lot of civil liberties in the face... Since her and Boxer have been in office they have not once voted in line with the way I view things. Even when there was a vote for increasing Veterans benefits and fixing the Veterans Administration whose budget was majorly slashed by Clinton, the two of them proudly emailed their constituants about how they side stepped that but were pushing for tighter gun control... Sadly, a law abidding citizen has to pay around $1000 after fees to legally own a pistol, yet a criminal will get that same gun on the street for $100. The gun laws are only making law abidding citizens criminals... And the worse part is while Feinstein is trying to strip gun ownership from the masses, she herself carrys one. In fact she has a "conceal carry permit" which is hard as hell to get in California... Impossible in the city of San Francisco... http://www.alphadogweb.com/firearms/Diane_Feinstein.htm
to get out of Jury duty... Sorry, cant enter the federal court house, dont have a RealID...
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There are signs denoting areas of importance and sensative areas that are more readily apparent from ground view than from Ariel. Some security systems are difficult to detect or identify from a top down view, but a side view makes it easier to identify, so does that sign saying high voltage when at street level.
Military bases general facilities are usually very well laid out, planned, and identified. Main roads go from Base housing to the Post Exchange. Most barracks are arrayed off the main roads. But in the example you listed, the dependent wife is pretty much assured to find the place she is looking for easily. It becomes quickly apparent when you start driving in the wrong direction. In fact on most bases, the places where someone could get lost are normally off limits to civilians anyways.
While the threat of infiltrators into the military has always been there, in todays world of fanatics its still more likely a fanatic group would try to access the base via normal means and plot their attack... Giving them ground view access will lessen the number of reconaissance trips they have to make, lessing the chance of detection... But it also opens up views to areas that may be blacked out from overhead viewing.
Not only does the government force these services to censor many of their images, many buildings and facilities are designed to be non-descript from an arial view... But ground view these structures identification signs could be viewable...
We've seen from many of the bombing attacks that the terrorists do plan their attacks as thoroughly as we do our strikes. But are also lazy enough to take the easiest mark. No sense in giving them an additional source of intel...
Back in the 90's, early, a group of fanatics attempted to detonate a bomb at an air show featuring the Blue Angels. One of their bombs detonated in their car before they reached the base luckily sparing the civilians who would have been watching the show. In their car they found a map of the base created by the military to show people how to get to the viewing area and the bleachers. On the bleacher drawings they circled the spots, we suspect, they were going to place pipe bombs... A flier given out to civillians to help them get to the air show and enjoy it easier was subverted for an attack against U.S. military and civillians... If a flier could do that, think what street level views of the base could do...
Being a retired Marine it was a gaff to post the street view of the military bases... In fact I am surprised but pleased about how google handled the issue and agreed they shouldnt have mapped out the base they did. I was expecting them to either fight the decission or just remove it and not mention it. Kind of a stand up possition to say, yeah, we shouldnt have done that in hindsight...
Of course Google doesnt want to upset the military. While NASA operates Moffett, its still owned by the Navy. My roommate works there... Google wrestled a hell of a deal in getting to keep their personal jet on the grounds instead of at San Jose International Airport like everyone else. Upset the Military and they might see themselves looking for a new home for their corporate jet.
Actually Vista retail phones home every 6 months to reactive itself. The OEM vendor copies don't do that though, they are one time activation...
Thats the FCC will do, Jack ... The majority of their hearings either come up unresolved or contrary to the public good. Business intrests win out more often then Joe citizen under the current administration... Though unlikely to change much even after administrations change... Once the damage is done it takes years, sometimes decades before things are set back right.
Actually many F-15s have been permanently grounded...
Variants A, B, C, and D all have manufacturing defects that led to the Missouri incident where the cockpit seperated from the airframe. Upon inspection it was found that everyone of these models showed stress and metal fatigue caused by milling down a support rib to thinly. They are not repairable and many will be destroyed in place where they are.
'E' models are only allowed to fly in emergency situations right now and pulled from all primary missions. The air force is using this as an excuse to bet more F-35's and f-22's approved and on rush order. Currently 1100 of the 1500 F-15's are permanently grounded...
http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2008/02/defense_fighterdebate_080213/
Actually they brought the SR-71 out of retirement... Back in 1995...
http://www.fighter-planes.com/info/sr71.htm
"The SR-71 entered service in 1968 and was retired in 1990, but in 1994 the US Congress directed that the SR-71 should be re-instated to operational readiness and deployed to meet the need for a broad area coverage reconnaissance platform. The aircraft were brought out of retirement and two aircraft were mission ready by the third quarter of 1995. "
NASA also owns and operates two SR-71's still to this day for scientific testing.