Well, as it has been explained, if you act in the name of Anonymous, then you are Anonymous.
(I have to confess, I jumped in on their Juston Bieber world tour prank.)
I love anything that Limor Fried does. This may sound creepy, but she is like the perfect woman. I mean Christ, she names her cat MOSFET! How could you not admire that?
Well, I guess some people find it cool. On the other hand, I'm not an EE or circuit-bending guy and had to look it up. So I wasn't terribly impressed by that. The rest of her entrepreneurship, on the other hand, is plenty to admire of anyone. As for the "perfect woman"... to each his own. I googled some photos, and she's not the first person I'd notice from the other side of the room.
Is it me, or does it seem the the total entertainment industry losses to everything excepting their own lack of creativity and originality always seem to add up to more money than currently exists in the world at that time?
Well, as a fellow Illini (not so far from Springfield), I heard a semi-funny story about an apartment I used to live in. The upstairs neighbor came home from work and went to take a shower. She wasn't able to get any water, so she called the maintenance guys. They arrived to find the ground floor apartments (unoccupied) had been broken into and a large amount of the copper piping had been stolen.
Ahhhh, the infamous and distressingly prevalant Lesser Terran Binder Monkey in it's native habitat. The only creature I know that I wish you could get an environmental impact study done against, rather than for.
Well, in my previous reply, describing the issues with Comcast's self-install captive portal, I was pretty quickly able to talk the tech around the necessity of their software install. I wonder if it was because I actually used the term "captive portal"?
And I can SO guarantee I am so much more secure than one of the everyday boxes they deal with.
Huhn. Twice (long story) in the last year I have done Comcast self-installs without the least bit of problem. Except the second time, Comcast was having local issues causing modem desync issue...Oh, I'm sorry...Issues with my Buffalo/Tomato router that has worked perfectly for years. Yes, every time I would get thrown back to their self-install captive portal, they would tell me it was because of my router. Of course now I have a Scientific Atlanta modem that dogs out about every week, requiring a power cycle. Of course, both my router and I know how to release/renew DHCP leases, so I don't have to reboot the router like they say I HAVE to...
Well, I am pretty sure that if you see someone taken aside at a security checkpoint, asked for ID, personally frisked and carry on searched that one could easily assume that the recipient of all this attention must, at the very least, be a questionable character without much stretching of logic.
Thus the stares.
The biggest issue I have is that I was singled out for such attention (and the attendant PITA factor) for what apparently was nothing but a false positive. Said attention was nothing but a waste of time, energy, and dignity. All sound and fury, signifying nothing.
And I have a hard time believing that, with all the documented total awareness projects the government and DHS have been involved in, that in some travel-related database that the name Samizdata doesn't have a little flag next to it saying something like "previously tripped explosive detector.
Yeah, well, that's great. What it doesn't supply is the priceless experience of running across large concourses, due to the extra delay, and having people stare angrily/accusingly/suspiciously at you the whole time, as well as on the plane.
Oh wait. It DOES supply that.
So, that's good. Security is designed to make innocent people uncomfortable and inconvenienced then, right, after they did nothing wrong, right? (BTW, I am not a chemist nor did I work in any field involving any of the chemicals they were scanning for. And, I apparently didn't make it clear enough the first time - the second check was 100% negative.)
Afraid to say, not so much. This coming from the guy who had to be pulled aside, questioned and physically searched because his CPAP machine allegedly registered positive for explosive residues...
Once.
Not on further tests.
So, I get humiliated and searched by a giant mustachoed security guy named Clarance for NOTHING because the sniffer detected nothing that could destroy a plane. And after all my identification was checked and rechecked, I am quite sure I show up in a database somewhere as a potential person of interest at some time.
Never had to take my Archos media player or laptop out of their cases and demonstrate their functionality though.
The stupid Zedo popups I can't block at a browser level are what's keeping me in FF. And, with the architecture issues in Chrome hindering things like AdBlock (http://tinyurl.com/GoogleChromeBugs), we won't see the same level of plugins.
I don't see how they could NOT consider GFWL DRM when I had to jump through the hoops and make an account AND paste my "CD" key (first time I've EVER needed a key with a game i bought off Steam) just so i could play the MP!
They also suck from a different angle. A few years back, I bought a SonicWall from a business that was closing down. After six months of fighting with SonicWall's support about the ownership of said gear, I gave up. Not exactly sure where the box ended up.
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Well, as it has been explained, if you act in the name of Anonymous, then you are Anonymous. (I have to confess, I jumped in on their Juston Bieber world tour prank.)
Yeah, with a craptacular 100Mb per file size limit, which means I can't use it to offsite my Gmail backup, even seriously compressed.
Oh good then. I'm not the only one then, even if I could do 9600.
I love anything that Limor Fried does. This may sound creepy, but she is like the perfect woman. I mean Christ, she names her cat MOSFET! How could you not admire that?
Well, I guess some people find it cool. On the other hand, I'm not an EE or circuit-bending guy and had to look it up. So I wasn't terribly impressed by that. The rest of her entrepreneurship, on the other hand, is plenty to admire of anyone. As for the "perfect woman"... to each his own. I googled some photos, and she's not the first person I'd notice from the other side of the room.
I'd hack it...
Is it me, or does it seem the the total entertainment industry losses to everything excepting their own lack of creativity and originality always seem to add up to more money than currently exists in the world at that time?
Well, as a fellow Illini (not so far from Springfield), I heard a semi-funny story about an apartment I used to live in. The upstairs neighbor came home from work and went to take a shower. She wasn't able to get any water, so she called the maintenance guys. They arrived to find the ground floor apartments (unoccupied) had been broken into and a large amount of the copper piping had been stolen.
Ahhhh, the infamous and distressingly prevalant Lesser Terran Binder Monkey in it's native habitat. The only creature I know that I wish you could get an environmental impact study done against, rather than for.
Well, in my previous reply, describing the issues with Comcast's self-install captive portal, I was pretty quickly able to talk the tech around the necessity of their software install. I wonder if it was because I actually used the term "captive portal"? And I can SO guarantee I am so much more secure than one of the everyday boxes they deal with.
Huhn. Twice (long story) in the last year I have done Comcast self-installs without the least bit of problem. Except the second time, Comcast was having local issues causing modem desync issue...Oh, I'm sorry...Issues with my Buffalo/Tomato router that has worked perfectly for years. Yes, every time I would get thrown back to their self-install captive portal, they would tell me it was because of my router. Of course now I have a Scientific Atlanta modem that dogs out about every week, requiring a power cycle. Of course, both my router and I know how to release/renew DHCP leases, so I don't have to reboot the router like they say I HAVE to...
No, I at least was prepared enough to Fedex my trusty Swisschamp XL ahead to pick up when I got to my destination.
Anyway, truly paranoid? Really?
I suppose I have hallucinated the stories about things like government funded mass data mining (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office) then? And we have seen the government's respect for things like wiretaps (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrantless_wiretaps).
So, I am groundlessly paranoid?
Well, I am pretty sure that if you see someone taken aside at a security checkpoint, asked for ID, personally frisked and carry on searched that one could easily assume that the recipient of all this attention must, at the very least, be a questionable character without much stretching of logic.
Thus the stares.
The biggest issue I have is that I was singled out for such attention (and the attendant PITA factor) for what apparently was nothing but a false positive. Said attention was nothing but a waste of time, energy, and dignity. All sound and fury, signifying nothing.
And I have a hard time believing that, with all the documented total awareness projects the government and DHS have been involved in, that in some travel-related database that the name Samizdata doesn't have a little flag next to it saying something like "previously tripped explosive detector.
Yeah, well, that's great. What it doesn't supply is the priceless experience of running across large concourses, due to the extra delay, and having people stare angrily/accusingly/suspiciously at you the whole time, as well as on the plane.
Oh wait. It DOES supply that.
So, that's good. Security is designed to make innocent people uncomfortable and inconvenienced then, right, after they did nothing wrong, right? (BTW, I am not a chemist nor did I work in any field involving any of the chemicals they were scanning for. And, I apparently didn't make it clear enough the first time - the second check was 100% negative.)
Oh wait. It DOES do that.
Classic security thinking. The key to being secure is being hard to hurt/infiltrate/hack than the next guy...
Afraid to say, not so much. This coming from the guy who had to be pulled aside, questioned and physically searched because his CPAP machine allegedly registered positive for explosive residues... Once. Not on further tests. So, I get humiliated and searched by a giant mustachoed security guy named Clarance for NOTHING because the sniffer detected nothing that could destroy a plane. And after all my identification was checked and rechecked, I am quite sure I show up in a database somewhere as a potential person of interest at some time. Never had to take my Archos media player or laptop out of their cases and demonstrate their functionality though.
You might want to read this story - http://www.spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants.html. About just what you said.
Or at alternating times.
The stupid Zedo popups I can't block at a browser level are what's keeping me in FF. And, with the architecture issues in Chrome hindering things like AdBlock (http://tinyurl.com/GoogleChromeBugs), we won't see the same level of plugins.
I don't see how they could NOT consider GFWL DRM when I had to jump through the hoops and make an account AND paste my "CD" key (first time I've EVER needed a key with a game i bought off Steam) just so i could play the MP!
Try Borderlands DLC.
Not only that, but you are stuck using Windows.
Especially if we can bust out a little Jurassic Park and offer meats from extinct species. Mmmm. Dodo. The other other other white meat...
Or, for that matter, the cloned Wendy meat in the *ware novels by Rudy Rucker.
Or have crappy genetics leading to joint problems, leading to knee surgery due to an injury while running while slim and in shape?
They also suck from a different angle. A few years back, I bought a SonicWall from a business that was closing down. After six months of fighting with SonicWall's support about the ownership of said gear, I gave up. Not exactly sure where the box ended up.
Cutting edge stuff here. Still in dev hell. There's some jerk in a wheel chair holding up the committee.