Past residences, previous names, bank accounts, employers, spouses, bills, loans, all there for the asking. I was half expecting to see my speeding tickets, parking fines, and overdue library books.
The GAO (General Accounting Office) is charged by the Constitution to ensure that money is spent as directed by congress, and that the money is spent in an effective manner.
"Black Projects" do not exist. The budget may be classified, but if Congress does not cut a check, the item does not exist on the budget.
From the CIA Website (http://www.odci.gov/cia/public_affairs/faq.html#3 ):
How many people work for the Central Intelligence Agency and what is its budget?
Neither the number of employees nor the size of the Agency's budget can, at present, be publicly disclosed. A common misconception is that the Agency has an unlimited budget, which is far from true. While classified, the budget and size of the CIA are known in detail and scrutinized by the Office of Management and Budget and by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Defense Subcommittees of the Appropriations Committees in both houses of Congress. The resources allocated to the CIA are subject to the same rigorous examination and approval process that applies to all other government organizations.
In 1997, the aggregate figure for all U.S. government intelligence and intelligence-related activities--of which the CIA is but one part--was made public for the first time. The aggregate intelligence budget was $26.6 billion in fiscal year 1997 and $26.7 billion for fiscal year 1998. The intelligence budget for fiscal year 1999 has not been publicly released.
Yahweh (the hebrew word for God) cannot be prounounced in Hebrew. Kind of dovetails with the "No graven images" concept in a peculiar sort of way.
I always get a kick out of the Toaist notion that to understand the universe, ou have to stop using words to describe it.
To me, I couldn't give a rats ass how the universe actually started. Nor do I particularly care how it's going to end. These events do not in any way affect what I am doing right here, and right now.
Or I thing Loa Tsu said it best:
Therefore when Tao is lost, there is goodness. When goodness is lost, there is kindness. When kindness is lost, there is justice. When justice is lost, there ritual. Now ritual is the husk of faith and loyalty, the beginning of confusion. Knowledge of the future is only a flowery trapping of Tao. It is the beginning of folly.
...to see that the government is dishing out some money for the advancement of programs which were at one time considered to be fantasy or science fiction. Personally, I hope to see more funding in these areas.
Fantastic works of utter fiction seem to be part and parcel with this current regime.
Reminds me of an old joke, if you ask 40 C programmers to write the same program you will get 40 copies of the same code. If you ask 40 C++ programmers to write the same program and you get 40 different architectures, inheritance schemes...
Getting back to my point. During the USL vs. BSD trial, it was actually proven the Unix stole a lot of code from BSD. SCO would have to prove the code it is claiming infringement on was not in fact part of BSD first.
Absolute worst case, you end up writing a check to SCO.
Oooooo, Scary.
That is the absolute worst case scenario imaginable to the users of Linux. How is that ANY different than another operating environment? If you are all that concerned you COULD migrate to BSD pretty easily. That's already in the clear with regards to licensing following the 1994 suit which USL lost^H^H^H^H settled.
Frankly, anyone who is looking at the SCO lawsuit as grounds for re/de-thinking a Linux implementation probably wasn't all the serious about it to begin with.
Most folks switching to Linux come in 3 forms:
A - The folks who switch based on the technical merits of the system
B - The folks who switch based on the financial/IP merits of the system
C - The folks who follow A and B like lemmings.
Anyone in the A category wouldn't change if you put a gun to their head. They are knee deep in Linux, and at this point would happily pay money to keep it going.
The B category are here because they have been burned by licensing issues in the past, got tired of paying for crappy service, or just plain can't afford anything else. They understand the GPL, a little bit of history, and they are going to let the SCO suit blow over like the ripe fart in a windstorm it is.
The C category is utterly without clue. They will do whatever the popular thing is, and don't mind paying top dollar for it. There is no logic to their choices, they are guided by the Market. In previous times we would call these people "fools." There is no sense chasing after this crowd, as soon as they see the next shiny thing they will chase after that instead.
The internet IS redundent - on the world-wide level. We could wipe whole cities off the map and the internet would still function. Of course, most folks around the affected area would still be SOL (on several levels, actually.)
In the NE corridor you have to worry about trains. Economies of cheapness^H^H^H^H^H^H^ efficiency, most of our fiber runs side by side with rail lines. One firy train wreck in Baltimore knocked out a good chunk of UUnet between DC and New York.
I love being on AT&T's backbone on days like that.
The whole ruling takes SCO's case, stuffs it into a pine box, nails the lid shut, and pushed it off a tall bridge.
The reason they were able to buy up all those Intellectual Properties from USL was because USL knew they were worthless. It's like having Mediteranian avenue without Baltic.
Up until now the Pirates of Caldara have been picking on large corrupt organizations. They bought DR-DOS and sued Microsoft. This is a bit different. They are trying to basically retry a court case thay was already lost. BADLY.
Whoever is their legal adviser sure better have a good malpractice insurance premium. Shareholders are going to be livid.
You can't be told what the infringing code is, you have to see it for yourself.
This is your last chance.
You tale the Blue pill, and you decline the NDA. You come to your senses and walk away.
You take the Red pill and you stay in wonderland, and SCO will show you just how deep the Rabbit hole goes. Oh, and you can't tell anyone what you saw.
Addiction does not exist. Chemical withdrawal is no more painful than bad flu.
Ask an EMT what it's like to administer NARCAN to a overdose herion junkie and tell me that again with a straight face. It's really neat stuff, it blocks all the receptor sites in the brain that opiates normally doc with, taking a junkie from so doped they can't breath to instant withdrawl symptoms in seconds.
They are not happy campers.
It is standard practice to strap a patient about to undergo a NARCAN injection to a table with VERY THICK leather belts. People have been known to break bones, dislocate limbs, and worse in the convulsions they undergo. And god help whoever is in the room if the straps are too loose.
Is the word "addiction" misused, you bet. But believe me, there are those who's brain chemistry has been so altered by drugs that they cannot function without it.
I agree. WEP is good, if you have a situation where it's easy to set up, anyway. Copying those keys from one computer to another is quite a pain, and it's just plain impossible if you do a lot of roaming.
I agree.
I have yet to actually get WEP to work for anything beyond a brand X access point talking to a Brand X card. There are actually 2 or 3 different notations vendor's use for WEP keys. I'm just to lazy to learn one more level of obfuscation that is cracked with a tool downloadable from sourceforge!
Besides, in my place we have live jacks all over. I just assume that wireless is as vulnerable as a hardline. Anything one honestly cares about should by SSL encrypted. Besides, SSH also takes care of spoofing and man-in-the-middle attacks.
Just because your access point is secure doesn't mean badness doesn't await you past the next router.
MAC address filtering is a mixed bag. Yes, it's trivial to alter your own MAC address to impersonate another machine, but the usefulness depends on your environment. A big site probably won't bother with filtering. Too many addresses to track. A small site running MAC filtering may well have a clueful network admin who'll notice homeboy.haxornet.lan's MAC on the air when he -knows- he left that box at the office.
Mixed bag? I think not. It's like a web cookie, easily spoofed, but just as easily verfied. I don't try to believe that a given MAC address is authentic, but I do assume it's unique for that session, and/or matched the MAC number that requested an address from the DHCP server.
How do I know? Let's just say you write a program that has someone sign into a website before getting out on the internet. Let us also say said authorization expires in intervals of several hours. Granted, someone can spoof a MAC address all they want. All it means is they either can't talk on the network because they cloned another running computer's MAC address and confuse the switch, or they simply provide YET ANOTHER unique MAC address which has to be verified all over again.
Sure it's a pain to have to keep signing in. But it also makes a handy place to (pinky to cheek) bill from.
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Learn you symbolism. The "All Seeing Eye" sits above all sides of the issues. This is a concept of neutrality and objectivity, not control.
Past residences, previous names, bank accounts, employers, spouses, bills, loans, all there for the asking. I was half expecting to see my speeding tickets, parking fines, and overdue library books.
"Black Projects" do not exist. The budget may be classified, but if Congress does not cut a check, the item does not exist on the budget.
From the CIA Website (http://www.odci.gov/cia/public_affairs/faq.html#3 ):
So try:
I hope no one was "charged" for the support call.
I always get a kick out of the Toaist notion that to understand the universe, ou have to stop using words to describe it.
To me, I couldn't give a rats ass how the universe actually started. Nor do I particularly care how it's going to end. These events do not in any way affect what I am doing right here, and right now.
Or I thing Loa Tsu said it best:
Fantastic works of utter fiction seem to be part and parcel with this current regime.
Getting back to my point. During the USL vs. BSD trial, it was actually proven the Unix stole a lot of code from BSD. SCO would have to prove the code it is claiming infringement on was not in fact part of BSD first.
Oooooo, Scary.
That is the absolute worst case scenario imaginable to the users of Linux. How is that ANY different than another operating environment? If you are all that concerned you COULD migrate to BSD pretty easily. That's already in the clear with regards to licensing following the 1994 suit which USL lost^H^H^H^H settled.
Most folks switching to Linux come in 3 forms:
- A - The folks who switch based on the technical merits of the system
- B - The folks who switch based on the financial/IP merits of the system
- C - The folks who follow A and B like lemmings.
Anyone in the A category wouldn't change if you put a gun to their head. They are knee deep in Linux, and at this point would happily pay money to keep it going.The B category are here because they have been burned by licensing issues in the past, got tired of paying for crappy service, or just plain can't afford anything else. They understand the GPL, a little bit of history, and they are going to let the SCO suit blow over like the ripe fart in a windstorm it is.
The C category is utterly without clue. They will do whatever the popular thing is, and don't mind paying top dollar for it. There is no logic to their choices, they are guided by the Market. In previous times we would call these people "fools." There is no sense chasing after this crowd, as soon as they see the next shiny thing they will chase after that instead.
The internet IS redundent - on the world-wide level. We could wipe whole cities off the map and the internet would still function. Of course, most folks around the affected area would still be SOL (on several levels, actually.)
Hollywood (for all its quirks) seems to stumble on bits and pieces too.
In the NE corridor you have to worry about trains. Economies of cheapness^H^H^H^H^H^H^ efficiency, most of our fiber runs side by side with rail lines. One firy train wreck in Baltimore knocked out a good chunk of UUnet between DC and New York.
I love being on AT&T's backbone on days like that.
The reason they were able to buy up all those Intellectual Properties from USL was because USL knew they were worthless. It's like having Mediteranian avenue without Baltic.
Up until now the Pirates of Caldara have been picking on large corrupt organizations. They bought DR-DOS and sued Microsoft. This is a bit different. They are trying to basically retry a court case thay was already lost. BADLY.
Whoever is their legal adviser sure better have a good malpractice insurance premium. Shareholders are going to be livid.
Does that mean Congress is the opposite of Progress?
(Rimshot)
Where does a train stop? The train station.
Where does a bus stop? The bus terminal.
Does this mean the work stops at people's workstations and computer terminals?
Lets see, Linux lawsuits... Zero (1 outlandish one pending.) Windows lawsuits...
Never mind, I have have enough images permanently burned into my retna from Usenet...
This is your last chance.
You tale the Blue pill, and you decline the NDA. You come to your senses and walk away.
You take the Red pill and you stay in wonderland, and SCO will show you just how deep the Rabbit hole goes. Oh, and you can't tell anyone what you saw.
Ask an EMT what it's like to administer NARCAN to a overdose herion junkie and tell me that again with a straight face. It's really neat stuff, it blocks all the receptor sites in the brain that opiates normally doc with, taking a junkie from so doped they can't breath to instant withdrawl symptoms in seconds.
They are not happy campers.
It is standard practice to strap a patient about to undergo a NARCAN injection to a table with VERY THICK leather belts. People have been known to break bones, dislocate limbs, and worse in the convulsions they undergo. And god help whoever is in the room if the straps are too loose.
Is the word "addiction" misused, you bet. But believe me, there are those who's brain chemistry has been so altered by drugs that they cannot function without it.
Most military vehicles are bereft of locks and ignition keys. In battle you don't have AAA to call...
I agree.
I have yet to actually get WEP to work for anything beyond a brand X access point talking to a Brand X card. There are actually 2 or 3 different notations vendor's use for WEP keys. I'm just to lazy to learn one more level of obfuscation that is cracked with a tool downloadable from sourceforge!
Besides, in my place we have live jacks all over. I just assume that wireless is as vulnerable as a hardline. Anything one honestly cares about should by SSL encrypted. Besides, SSH also takes care of spoofing and man-in-the-middle attacks.
Just because your access point is secure doesn't mean badness doesn't await you past the next router.
Mixed bag? I think not. It's like a web cookie, easily spoofed, but just as easily verfied. I don't try to believe that a given MAC address is authentic, but I do assume it's unique for that session, and/or matched the MAC number that requested an address from the DHCP server.
How do I know? Let's just say you write a program that has someone sign into a website before getting out on the internet. Let us also say said authorization expires in intervals of several hours. Granted, someone can spoof a MAC address all they want. All it means is they either can't talk on the network because they cloned another running computer's MAC address and confuse the switch, or they simply provide YET ANOTHER unique MAC address which has to be verified all over again.
Sure it's a pain to have to keep signing in. But it also makes a handy place to (pinky to cheek) bill from.
Unfortunately observations have been stymied by people tearing their eyes out after gazing on the giant invertabrate's visage.
Dear god, that must have been one hell of a Petunia!
Consider: Large. Smelly. Spineless. Gray.
Except that one defining feature of Slashtrolls is that THEY NEVER SEEM TO DIE!