You see, the URL ending in.nz denotes New Zealand. Ashcroft has no jurisdiction there. Of course, if I were this fellow I wouldn't plan on any vacations to the states for a while, but frankly if I lived in a fair country such as New Zealand I'd be loath to waste my hard earned (and undervalued) dollars coming to this place. Seems to me that those in the know are considering escape.
They may well hate Aussies, but I'd be quite surprised if they put Kiwis that high on the list. You see, NZ didn't take part in the little coalition, was more closely aligned with Germany, France, and the rest of Europe, and in fact their PM took a lot of crap for publicly stating she didn't think the war would've happened with a Gore administration. For the most part the Kiwis are keeping a low profile and minding their own business on the international stage. We Uhmehrikuhns could do well to learn from thier example, rather than showering praise on the military conquests of a draft dodging deserter.
At the rate things are going now, it WILL be a couple of days... Although, at this point I've got all the major packages, so I'm only waiting on src and ports now. At least I do have enough for an install now. I am somewhat interested in some of the new pf goodies, and too lazy to do a full cvs download...
I was quietly downloading the packages, and then you had to send the/. hoards after it. Now their bandwidth is shot to hell. I mean, I'm all for sharing, but I wanna get my copy before I start sharing...;-)
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IANAMHP (MHP==Model Heli Pilot). But I am a student helicopter pilot, with 13 hours in the Schweizer CB300. And it's a real bitch to control for the first 3-5 hours, without the CFI I'd have had at the very least some rough landings, and might've damaged an airframe or 2. One gains a lot of respect for Sikorsky and co when realizing he had no CFI to help him out, and flew experimental craft to boot. Impressive. Anyway, I'll betcha these things are even easier to get out of control than the trainers I fly; you can't feel the balance and have to rely entirely on visual cues to get it right. I'd guess somebody starting in this little game would be pretty likely to trash at least one of 'em before getting the skills down.
I fed it "p@$$|/\|or|)", which is of course leet speak for "password", and it came back with a strength rating of 10. Admittedly, it did take me several trys to get one that worked, substituting @ for a, and replacing w with all the lines, but it still gave me a high rating for a fairly obvious leet speak variant.
Of course, I guess it's better than nothing, and would weed out a lot of clueless passwords.
Who thinks this is an utter waste of a FPP? I mean, why the hell would anybody even submit this to/.? And if they did, why the hell would it be posted fer crissake?
Wow. Some spam filters may have a false positive. How groundbreaking. News for nerds. Stuff that matters.
Minor nitpick-24 is way down in walnut creek. You want 4. 242 is close as well but the part separating the storage area from the bay is 4. See, I'm intimately familiar with it, as I drive all of the above on my commute from Antioch to San Carlos (ouch).
My parents were divorced when I was 5. I remember the whole family being at the house, and Dad getting in the car and driving away, and I knew he wasn't coming home. That's the most striking memory of early age. There is one other, one of those pressurized rockets. You fill the thing with H20 and then pump in air, when it's released the pressure blows the air out the back and launches the thing. I remember that as well, but the Dad driving away thing is lot clearer, and they're both from around the same time period.
Can't do it. The agreement we signed when we got the O2k site license explicitly says they can audit us at will... Whether that's legal or not, well, I dunno, but what comes to mind is Palpatine in Ep 1-"I will make it legal"...
Agreed-except we don't have any maintenance stuff. We stuck with 2k and office 2k for that reason. Hopefully we'll be satisfied with OSS stuff before we start getting boxes that 2k won't run on; if not we will have lost big on that gamble. But it's worth a shot.
Last year MS sent me some happy-ass brouchure asking for info about what platforms we use so they could "better serve us". I replied that we use linux everywhere except the desktop and we're trying hard there too. Basically, told 'em to piss off and die, but politely. The very next day the sales rep called up and said they wanted to enforce the clause in our Office 2k site license that says they can audit us whenever they damn well please. Coincidence? Maybe. But I don't buy it. We're pretty good about keeping licenses up to date and all so it wasn't like the audit caught us with our pants down or anything, but it was a massive waste of time and effort. Lesson learned: when dealing with MS politely decline offers but don't mention why; do whatever is needed to avoid turning one's self into a target for the software cops. 'Tis far better to stay under their radar.
FUD. Plain and simple. This argument made sense under OS 9; under X it's for the most part a moot point. If the wireless driver dies (and I've used it for over a year with a Lucent card on a Wallstreet G3 with zero trouble-and that with bizzare base stations like OpenBSD as well as the Lucent AP1000), so what? It's not like OS 9 where everything dies. The network access dies. Wahh. Welcome to the wonderful world of BSD underneath. Sure, under OS 9 you'd probably be doing the cmd-cntrl-power stunt. That was then, this is now...
I'm not convinced these agents were stupid at all.
On the other hand, your beef is with the Justice department, not the FBI. It is not at all clear that in Dmitry's case, the police had any choice but to make the arrest.
Uhm, ok, it could be a enforcement of stupid laws in order to highlight their shoddy quality. But Occam's razor says incompetence is more likely. As for Dmitry, the chain of events was: 1: Adobe presents a gift wrapped package to the San Jose FBI, 2: FBI takes it and runs with it, 3: DOJ continues to follow suit. So, yes, the DOJ pressed charges, but the FBI essentially endorsed it, and thus backs my assertation that they're idiots (esp. the San Jose office).
most Federal agencies are having no problems whatsoever finding qualified applicants.
Then why are they so stupid that they'll charge Dmitry instead of Elcomsoft, or not even grok Sassamans mixmaster relay? Sounds like a bunch of morons to me. Morons who are buff and have college degrees. In the San Jose office no less; the one place where you'd think the FBI would put their best geeks.
Situation: Mom needed computer w/net access. Mac would have been nice as that's what she's always used and knows. But the only Macs I had were 68040 based machines. Problem: Mom uses AOL (arrgh), and AOL's webmail client (which she likes, don't ask me why) uses funky java stuff which the old Mac OS browsers can't handle. Solution: Mom got an old Toshiba PII/166 laptop running Mandrake. I set it up to boot directly into the GUI (Gnome), dial PacBell, launch Netscape, and open the AOL webmail page. On the lower tool bar is a plunger icon-pressing it shuts down the machine. That's all the thing does, and she just barely manages to use it. Most recent problem: Netscape froze up, for whatever reason. Her solution: unplug computer, close lid. 2 days later she calls, "it's stuck, and every time I turn it back on it's still on the same page! What do I do?" What happened-everytime she closed the lid it happily went into sleep mode, and conserved battery power... Concepts such as cntrl-alt-backspace or cntrl-alt-delete are WAY too dificult for her, let alone opening a terminal window, finding the Netscape process, and a nice kill -9.
Bah. Like it's hard to fake. There are several options on this page, but it seems like the easiest would be the User Group Media category. Anybody with a copy of Quark or InDesign and the name of a local usergroup could fake a newsletter within an hour or so. A resourceful person could pull it off easily enough. It wouldn't be all that much harder or more expensive to fake letterheads and business cards for some bogus local newspaper or something. I'm not saying I think the ban is a good idea, far from it. I think it's bloody stupid. Just like the Lisa. But also like the Lisa, it's fairly easy to work around or ignore. Yeah, if you're Ryan Meador you want to go to MWNY with MOSR on your badge. So what. It's not like they can't go at all or anything, hardly the end of the world.
Yes, Jobs is a control freak, and this is a classic example of Jobsian stupidity. But, now that we all know the rules of the game, anybody who cares can simply register under a different name. If they cross-check addresses, a friends address or a cheap PO Box will get around it. Dumb, yeah. But it's not like Steve isn't above shooting himself in the foot on occasion. He rather seems to enjoy it based on past history.
Since we seem to have a flurry of conflicting opinions regarding whether Falun Gong's activities are terrorism...
USA PATRIOT defines domestic terrorism as activities that attempt "to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion".
Dictionary.com defines "coerce" thus:
coerce (k-ûrs)
tr.v. coerced, coercing, coerces
1. To force to act or think in a certain way by use of pressure, threats, or intimidation; compel.
By that definition, Falun Gong are terrorists. So are all of us that marched on federal buildings attempting to use "pressure" to "compel" the DOJ to free Dmitry. Which serves as a good example of one of the many things that are wrong with USA PATRIOT.
Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the terrorist party?
I rather expect "CmdrTaco (editor)" is not the same as "CmdrTaco". I also rather doubt that Tacos user # is 564483. But most glaringly, that post was reasonably well written, with no painful grammatical errors, which almost certainly eliminates Taco from the field of persons who could conceivably have written it...
That's the terminology used in the users manual for my Hughes dish, but whatever the correct terminology is, a protractor will give you something reasonably close. Just line it up reasonably flat, use a pencil or something as a straight edge to sight along, and you should be able to get a ballpark figure on whatever might be in the way. That was the method I used on mine and it all worked out ok...
Ok, now, a compass I can do, but where the heck to you get an azimuth measurer?
You mean elevation? The azimuth reading should be around the compass itself. Just align the needle with N (0 degrees) and read around the compass to find your azimuth. Elevation you can rough in with a simple protractor from your local school supply store, to try and get a feel for signal blockage. When you actually install the dish the approximate elevation marks are stamped on the mounting bracket (or at least they were on my Hughes system and I would expect yours would have it too). Installing it really isn't all that difficult; if you can follow directions and pay attention to detail you'll be ok.
Just run the irdaping command provided by your favorite Linux distro while there's a Win2K system in range. Whatever it sends so horribly confuses the irda.sys program in Win2K that it crashes the whole system.
Anybody want to write/port/whatever a quick Palm app? Would make a nice portable win2k killer... >;-)
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You see, the URL ending in .nz denotes New Zealand. Ashcroft has no jurisdiction there. Of course, if I were this fellow I wouldn't plan on any vacations to the states for a while, but frankly if I lived in a fair country such as New Zealand I'd be loath to waste my hard earned (and undervalued) dollars coming to this place. Seems to me that those in the know are considering escape.
They may well hate Aussies, but I'd be quite surprised if they put Kiwis that high on the list. You see, NZ didn't take part in the little coalition, was more closely aligned with Germany, France, and the rest of Europe, and in fact their PM took a lot of crap for publicly stating she didn't think the war would've happened with a Gore administration. For the most part the Kiwis are keeping a low profile and minding their own business on the international stage. We Uhmehrikuhns could do well to learn from thier example, rather than showering praise on the military conquests of a draft dodging deserter.
At the rate things are going now, it WILL be a couple of days... Although, at this point I've got all the major packages, so I'm only waiting on src and ports now. At least I do have enough for an install now. I am somewhat interested in some of the new pf goodies, and too lazy to do a full cvs download...
I was quietly downloading the packages, and then you had to send the /. hoards after it. Now their bandwidth is shot to hell. I mean, I'm all for sharing, but I wanna get my copy before I start sharing... ;-)
IANAMHP (MHP==Model Heli Pilot). But I am a student helicopter pilot, with 13 hours in the Schweizer CB300. And it's a real bitch to control for the first 3-5 hours, without the CFI I'd have had at the very least some rough landings, and might've damaged an airframe or 2. One gains a lot of respect for Sikorsky and co when realizing he had no CFI to help him out, and flew experimental craft to boot. Impressive. Anyway, I'll betcha these things are even easier to get out of control than the trainers I fly; you can't feel the balance and have to rely entirely on visual cues to get it right. I'd guess somebody starting in this little game would be pretty likely to trash at least one of 'em before getting the skills down.
I fed it "p@$$|/\|or|)", which is of course leet speak for "password", and it came back with a strength rating of 10. Admittedly, it did take me several trys to get one that worked, substituting @ for a, and replacing w with all the lines, but it still gave me a high rating for a fairly obvious leet speak variant.
Of course, I guess it's better than nothing, and would weed out a lot of clueless passwords.
Who thinks this is an utter waste of a FPP? I mean, why the hell would anybody even submit this to /.? And if they did, why the hell would it be posted fer crissake?
Wow. Some spam filters may have a false positive. How groundbreaking. News for nerds. Stuff that matters.
Minor nitpick-24 is way down in walnut creek. You want 4. 242 is close as well but the part separating the storage area from the bay is 4. See, I'm intimately familiar with it, as I drive all of the above on my commute from Antioch to San Carlos (ouch).
There's a rather amusing writeup by some folks that took photos of it for the confluence project at this locale...
My parents were divorced when I was 5. I remember the whole family being at the house, and Dad getting in the car and driving away, and I knew he wasn't coming home. That's the most striking memory of early age. There is one other, one of those pressurized rockets. You fill the thing with H20 and then pump in air, when it's released the pressure blows the air out the back and launches the thing. I remember that as well, but the Dad driving away thing is lot clearer, and they're both from around the same time period.
Can't do it. The agreement we signed when we got the O2k site license explicitly says they can audit us at will... Whether that's legal or not, well, I dunno, but what comes to mind is Palpatine in Ep 1-"I will make it legal"...
Agreed-except we don't have any maintenance stuff. We stuck with 2k and office 2k for that reason. Hopefully we'll be satisfied with OSS stuff before we start getting boxes that 2k won't run on; if not we will have lost big on that gamble. But it's worth a shot.
Last year MS sent me some happy-ass brouchure asking for info about what platforms we use so they could "better serve us". I replied that we use linux everywhere except the desktop and we're trying hard there too. Basically, told 'em to piss off and die, but politely. The very next day the sales rep called up and said they wanted to enforce the clause in our Office 2k site license that says they can audit us whenever they damn well please. Coincidence? Maybe. But I don't buy it. We're pretty good about keeping licenses up to date and all so it wasn't like the audit caught us with our pants down or anything, but it was a massive waste of time and effort. Lesson learned: when dealing with MS politely decline offers but don't mention why; do whatever is needed to avoid turning one's self into a target for the software cops. 'Tis far better to stay under their radar.
FUD. Plain and simple. This argument made sense under OS 9; under X it's for the most part a moot point. If the wireless driver dies (and I've used it for over a year with a Lucent card on a Wallstreet G3 with zero trouble-and that with bizzare base stations like OpenBSD as well as the Lucent AP1000), so what? It's not like OS 9 where everything dies. The network access dies. Wahh. Welcome to the wonderful world of BSD underneath. Sure, under OS 9 you'd probably be doing the cmd-cntrl-power stunt. That was then, this is now...
San Jose Federal Building
'Cause she's in San Diego and I'm in San Francisco, and I wasn't smart enough to think of that before I fedexed the box to her... ;-)
Situation: Mom needed computer w/net access. Mac would have been nice as that's what she's always used and knows. But the only Macs I had were 68040 based machines. Problem: Mom uses AOL (arrgh), and AOL's webmail client (which she likes, don't ask me why) uses funky java stuff which the old Mac OS browsers can't handle. Solution: Mom got an old Toshiba PII/166 laptop running Mandrake. I set it up to boot directly into the GUI (Gnome), dial PacBell, launch Netscape, and open the AOL webmail page. On the lower tool bar is a plunger icon-pressing it shuts down the machine. That's all the thing does, and she just barely manages to use it. Most recent problem: Netscape froze up, for whatever reason. Her solution: unplug computer, close lid. 2 days later she calls, "it's stuck, and every time I turn it back on it's still on the same page! What do I do?" What happened-everytime she closed the lid it happily went into sleep mode, and conserved battery power... Concepts such as cntrl-alt-backspace or cntrl-alt-delete are WAY too dificult for her, let alone opening a terminal window, finding the Netscape process, and a nice kill -9.
Bah. Like it's hard to fake. There are several options on this page, but it seems like the easiest would be the User Group Media category. Anybody with a copy of Quark or InDesign and the name of a local usergroup could fake a newsletter within an hour or so. A resourceful person could pull it off easily enough. It wouldn't be all that much harder or more expensive to fake letterheads and business cards for some bogus local newspaper or something. I'm not saying I think the ban is a good idea, far from it. I think it's bloody stupid. Just like the Lisa. But also like the Lisa, it's fairly easy to work around or ignore. Yeah, if you're Ryan Meador you want to go to MWNY with MOSR on your badge. So what. It's not like they can't go at all or anything, hardly the end of the world.
Yes, Jobs is a control freak, and this is a classic example of Jobsian stupidity. But, now that we all know the rules of the game, anybody who cares can simply register under a different name. If they cross-check addresses, a friends address or a cheap PO Box will get around it. Dumb, yeah. But it's not like Steve isn't above shooting himself in the foot on occasion. He rather seems to enjoy it based on past history.
USA PATRIOT defines domestic terrorism as activities that attempt "to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion".
Dictionary.com defines "coerce" thus: By that definition, Falun Gong are terrorists. So are all of us that marched on federal buildings attempting to use "pressure" to "compel" the DOJ to free Dmitry. Which serves as a good example of one of the many things that are wrong with USA PATRIOT.
Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the terrorist party?
I rather expect "CmdrTaco (editor)" is not the same as "CmdrTaco". I also rather doubt that Tacos user # is 564483. But most glaringly, that post was reasonably well written, with no painful grammatical errors, which almost certainly eliminates Taco from the field of persons who could conceivably have written it...