and hidden, a cheap prepaid cellphone with GPS tracking turned on should do the trick. P.I.s use them to track surveillance subjects all the time. Just be sure to turn the ringer off.
I agree, to a point. But it is less simple than you've made it. As an AV industry employee, I get to see firsthand how infections spread. It's actually pretty amazing how much of it is spread by software or operating system vulnerabilities and software companies are slow to address even known vulnerabilities. That being said, it is also true that most people on the information superhighway are simply driving at 700 kmh while texting, eating a donut, and watching a porn video. Click OK or Next now and think about it later.
..is how horrified I was when the Bush administration convinced Congress that Iraq was somehow a threat to us.
.. is how ignoble politicians, in collusion with large corporations, proceeded to bankrupt our country declaring "unwinnable" wars so the rich could take the natural resources of middle-eastern countries for themselves.
.. is how ignoble politicians, in collusion with large corporations, have eroded our freedoms and privacy in the name of security.
.. is how ignoble politicians, in collusion with large corporations, patted themselves on the back and declared "Mission Accomplished!" while tens of thousands of Iraqi
citizens were still doomed to die in a war they did not start.
.. is how ignoble politicians, in collusion with large corporations, proceeded to bankrupt our country creating large, over-funded, gestapo-ish security agencies that spied on everyday Americans.
.. is how ignoble politicians, so short sighted and full of themselves have still failed to bring our troops home from these illegal wars.
..is how horrified I am today when I think about what my country has become.
GO TO A DOCTOR. "pins and needles" = not good. Get informed. There are heavy metals in more of the electronics than most people think. The pins and needles was most likely fiberglass. There may be things like mercury and cadmium (amongst other impurities) in Mobos.
for DOS Box. I got lucky and found an old classic Pentium laptop with a fair amount of RAM.
I use it to play almost all of my old favorites, and with a few small old skool software purchases (register your copy of Moslo),
I could run even old EGA era games (classic Mechwarrior!). Add a couple emulators and all the old cartridges I had laying around to copy to disk,
I had a virtual arcade machine. So I got an old serial joystick and managed to resurrect the driver disk. The best part is the fact that it has a
single USB port to use an old 802.11b wireless adapter. I can still use it to check my email since it's just powerful enough to run a minimal
retro Linux distro dual booted with DOS. Don't throw out your hardware if you can re-purpose it! And if you can't find a purpose for it, give it to the poor
or better yet; take it apart and see what it looks like on the inside.
Mattresses, of some type or another, are in use by most cultures worldwide and only get lumpy if you're trying to stash VHS under them. I'm guessing OBL
had enough duckets for DVD.
I know this thread is dead meat by now.. but just a suggestion.
Maybe it's time to donate cash or skills to one of these projects.
Heck, I'm up for a challenge and technically literate, if not elite.
The biggest challenge is getting past the "brand". If M$ changes the
name, it'll be easy to create and fund an alternative that could give
them a run for their money.. I had a paid subscription to Skype
for years. The Linux client, although pretty hackish, worked
and was my primary means of long distance voice coms. I'd be
willing to pay someone other than
M$ for that again.
Paywalls decrease the number of individual views for advertisers. Whether this will work or not remains to be seen. Perhaps they should have adopted an "App" model. I think it may have cost significantly less to let coders build some NYT clients/readers for various platforms.
As to the internet devaluing content, that is the last dying grasp at a straw for industries that have failed to evolve with the rest of us. These are the same industries who alienate their customers by suing them for making backup copies of their DVDs or modding hardware they purchased and own. The same industries that send DMCA take downs to families and churches for showing certain football games to more than 2-3 people at once. The same industries that are putting rootkits on customer's PCs, and including DRM schemes which greatly hinder enjoyment, community involvement and community innovation. The same industries who are knowingly using those DRM tools to spy on customer's activities online. The same industries who are trying to make secret copyright agreements that will certainly strip us as consumers and people of more rights and wealth. Wake up, corporate butt monkeys! If your content is losing value, it's because of the way you're treating your customers and conducting business.Or maybe, just maybe, you are not providing that much of value anymore.
I wouldn't call it any thing like a wall. More like some traffic cones you can either go around or just drive over. (thanks NoScript.)
Speaking of protests,
When I take money out, my wallet gets a little smaller. When I put some back in, it gets a little bigger.
What's so smart about that? Wouldn't mind the vibrator function, though. Could be useful for those days
when my wife is being a pain in the ass.
I was tired of poor service, craploads of commercials, half of my "250 top channels" being nothing but paid programming, and egregious rate hikes. Told Direct TV what they could do with their contract. I would rather pay to NOT have them.
No! I WILL NOT pay hulu a dime until they ditch the commercials. If I pay a premium for a service, I expect to get PREMIUM SERVICE.
The funny thing about this... older versions of Windows are being exploited less and far fewer malwarez are currently being written that even support them. So, if I have a windows 2K box that I only play game "X" on, then I would not qualify for a "health certificate". Patch that, Charney!
Secondly, what about non-M$ OSes?
I hope no one at M$ is making the determination as to how secure my nix distro is. They can't secure their own OS, much less mine.
Lastly, WHO is going to be in charge of this? The government? ISPs? M$? The FCC? Not one of those sounds even a little qualified to do the job.
I did not really think of it that way, but you make an excellent point.
However! If the prosecution DOES win, this could set a precedent for
even further sqaushing of anti-government/anti-police vocalization. A few
states here in the US have even gone as far as to make it illegal to video
on-duty police officers (even in public places where no expectation of privacy is considered).
How could this happen in Canada? I've always thought very highly of our
neighbors to the North.
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I'll pay cash money for that.
Reverse Robocall them if you can afford it.
you mean VULTURE capitalist, right?
and hidden, a cheap prepaid cellphone with GPS tracking turned on should do the trick. P.I.s use them to track surveillance subjects all the time. Just be sure to turn the ringer off.
I agree, to a point. But it is less simple than you've made it. As an AV industry employee, I get to see firsthand how infections spread. It's actually pretty amazing how much of it is spread by software or operating system vulnerabilities and software companies are slow to address even known vulnerabilities. That being said, it is also true that most people on the information superhighway are simply driving at 700 kmh while texting, eating a donut, and watching a porn video. Click OK or Next now and think about it later.
.. is how horrified I was that day
..is how horrified I was when the Bush administration convinced Congress that Iraq was somehow a threat to us.
.. is how ignoble politicians, in collusion with large corporations, proceeded to bankrupt our country declaring "unwinnable" wars so the rich could take the natural resources of middle-eastern countries for themselves.
.. is how ignoble politicians, in collusion with large corporations, have eroded our freedoms and privacy in the name of security.
.. is how ignoble politicians, in collusion with large corporations, patted themselves on the back and declared "Mission Accomplished!" while tens of thousands of Iraqi
citizens were still doomed to die in a war they did not start.
.. is how ignoble politicians, so short sighted and full of themselves have still failed to bring our troops home from these illegal wars.
..is how horrified I am today when I think about what my country has become.
.. is how ignoble politicians, in collusion with large corporations, proceeded to bankrupt our country creating large, over-funded, gestapo-ish security agencies that spied on everyday Americans.
GO TO A DOCTOR. "pins and needles" = not good. Get informed.
There are heavy metals in more of the electronics than most people think. The pins and needles was most likely fiberglass. There may be things like mercury and cadmium (amongst other impurities) in Mobos.
'You can't just come into a court with a fly-by-night, nothing company and say "I've lost $130 million."'"
Why not? Big Content is doing it on a daily basis.
still carries the 300-75 TV Transformers to build my own HDTV Antenna. http://lifehacker.com/5138746/build-your-own-dtv-antenna
Didn't have the 10uF Caps i needed to build this darn serial cable though. Bummer.
I even trashed on old Packard Bell
It wasn't you. It was already that way.
for DOS Box. I got lucky and found an old classic Pentium laptop with a fair amount of RAM. I use it to play almost all of my old favorites, and with a few small old skool software purchases (register your copy of Moslo), I could run even old EGA era games (classic Mechwarrior!). Add a couple emulators and all the old cartridges I had laying around to copy to disk, I had a virtual arcade machine. So I got an old serial joystick and managed to resurrect the driver disk. The best part is the fact that it has a single USB port to use an old 802.11b wireless adapter. I can still use it to check my email since it's just powerful enough to run a minimal retro Linux distro dual booted with DOS. Don't throw out your hardware if you can re-purpose it! And if you can't find a purpose for it, give it to the poor or better yet; take it apart and see what it looks like on the inside.
Please remember to unplug it first, though.
Mattresses, of some type or another, are in use by most cultures worldwide and only get lumpy if you're trying to stash VHS under them. I'm guessing OBL had enough duckets for DVD.
I know this thread is dead meat by now.. but just a suggestion.
Maybe it's time to donate cash or skills to one of these projects.
Heck, I'm up for a challenge and technically literate, if not elite.
The biggest challenge is getting past the "brand". If M$ changes the
name, it'll be easy to create and fund an alternative that could give
them a run for their money.. I had a paid subscription to Skype
for years. The Linux client, although pretty hackish, worked
and was my primary means of long distance voice coms. I'd be
willing to pay someone other than M$ for that again.
nice :)
Paywalls decrease the number of individual views for advertisers. Whether this will work or not remains to be seen.
Perhaps they should have adopted an "App" model. I think it may have cost significantly less to let coders build some NYT clients/readers for various platforms.
As to the internet devaluing content, that is the last dying grasp at a straw for industries that have failed to evolve with the rest of us. These are the same industries who alienate their customers by suing them for making backup copies of their DVDs or modding hardware they purchased and own. The same industries that send DMCA take downs to families and churches for showing certain football games to more than 2-3 people at once. The same industries that are putting rootkits on customer's PCs, and including DRM schemes which greatly hinder enjoyment, community involvement and community innovation. The same industries who are knowingly using those DRM tools to spy on customer's activities online. The same industries who are trying to make secret copyright agreements that will certainly strip us as consumers and people of more rights and wealth. Wake up, corporate butt monkeys! If your content is losing value, it's because of the way you're treating your customers and conducting business.Or maybe, just maybe, you are not providing that much of value anymore.
Rant over.
I wouldn't call it any thing like a wall. More like some traffic cones you can either go around or just drive over. (thanks NoScript.)
Speaking of protests,
Truthy Dat!
Actually, this 20 second sound bite captures the essence of the problem. Why would I need more?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTSCRoYyM-Y
Steve Jobs died in
1984
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_was_the_Mac_Computer_invented
.... and then again in 2008
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/06/steve-jobs-dead-how-the-m_n_155639.html http://www.spooftimes.com/NewsDetail.aspx?articleId=7836cb01-1471-4590-aab4-7c562261bc2e&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
and then again yesterday.
When I take money out, my wallet gets a little smaller. When I put some back in, it gets a little bigger. What's so smart about that? Wouldn't mind the vibrator function, though. Could be useful for those days when my wife is being a pain in the ass.
Did I mention that I am a person, not a commodity?
I was tired of poor service, craploads of commercials, half of my "250 top channels" being nothing but paid programming, and egregious rate hikes. Told Direct TV what they could do with their contract. I would rather pay to NOT have them.
No! I WILL NOT pay hulu a dime until they ditch the commercials. If I pay a premium for a service, I expect to get PREMIUM SERVICE.
The funny thing about this... older versions of Windows are being exploited less and far fewer malwarez are currently being written that even support them. So, if I have a windows 2K box that I only play game "X" on, then I would not qualify for a "health certificate". Patch that, Charney!
Secondly, what about non-M$ OSes?
I hope no one at M$ is making the determination as to how secure my nix distro is. They can't secure their own OS, much less mine.
Lastly, WHO is going to be in charge of this? The government? ISPs? M$? The FCC? Not one of those sounds even a little qualified to do the job.
Wow! a ./er who actually did some research on his own before spouting off. Mod this UP!
I did not really think of it that way, but you make an excellent point.
However! If the prosecution DOES win, this could set a precedent for even further sqaushing of anti-government/anti-police vocalization. A few states here in the US have even gone as far as to make it illegal to video on-duty police officers (even in public places where no expectation of privacy is considered).
How could this happen in Canada? I've always thought very highly of our neighbors to the North.