The wife and I rented a full size Cadillac DTS for a road trip, DC to Montreal once. I think it was about $225, and it was the nicest part of the trip, riding in style and comfort the whole way!
That is what this long time slashdoter is doing. I am the Republican nominee for congress in the Second Congressional District of Maryland. www.richardmatthews.org
The only passwords I know are my windows local user, my trucrypt partitions and my Keepass DB password. Am I paranoid if I keep my keepassDB in side a truecrypt partition?
I am in the Republican Party, after a few years of being in the Libertarian... and I am running for Congress as the Republican nominee in the Second Congressional District of Maryland.
You don't get it... I am the Republican nominee for Congress in the second congressional district of Maryland. Look me up, www.richardmatthews.org. I do not represent any of the stereotypes you just stated.
I am for getting rid of the size and scope of our federal bureaucracy. I am for the rights of the individual being protected. I am for strict constitutional government. I want us out of Iraq ASAP. I want to repeal the Patriot Act. I think government has no business in marriage.
I am a regular guy, a Slashdot user of many years. I am a System Administrator by trade. I am embraced by the Republican Party in my District.
Republican is just a label. The Party platform is changeable by the members of the party at any time. I aim to do that in my own little neck of the woods.
He want to get the Federal Government out of education because the Constitution does not allow it. States and local governments would be free to continue supporting public education.
The Federal Department of Education did not exist before the Carter Administration. Do you mean to tell me that public schools and science programs were worse off then as a whole?
In order to change the way things are going, running for office can certainly help. You'll be bringing awareness to fresh concerns and issues just by voicing your platform, even if you have worse odds than a snowball in hell.
I am doing just that. My name is Richard Matthews and I am a Network and Security Engineer by trade and I am running for Congress Maryland's Second Congressional District.
I am a Republican standing for small government, civil liberties and following the US Constitution. My Democratic opponent Dutch Ruppersberger has voted for the reauthorization of the Patriot Act and many Iraq War spending bills. I will be monitoring closely his vote for this act and will comment accordingly at my website. http://www.richardmatthews.org/
Shameless Plug for you DoD folks. Full disclosure, this is my employer and I directly work on setting up new installs of this compliant mobile email alternative.
You should look into Apriva and our Sensa windows mobile mailer and PIM software. We are just starting to get traction with our product as it took some time to get all of the needed approvals. Our infrastructure is not very different from the other guys, with a "Sensa server" sitting next to your Exchange server, forwarding to a NOC (US Based) then out to your device.
I cannot tell you that our network will never ever have problems, but I am more just informing that there are alternatives.
rmatthews at apriva dot com if you would like to contact me.
To quote our site.
Sensa® is an advanced, secure mobile email system. The system is designed to support S/MIME v3, secure email with robust interoperability with Microsoft Outlook® desktops, the ubiquitous RIM Blackberry® devices and emerging best-of-breed tri/quad-band Windows Mobile PDA's.
Sensa® supports multi-vendor handheld wireless devices and multi-vendor wireless networks with common server components to provide unique budgetary flexibility.
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Eric Haskett was merely taking a nap in a car when he roused suspicion in a rural Frederick County neighborhood. A neighbor traced Haskett's license plate to an address once used by a registered sex offender.
Then his girlfriend's parents told him to scram; law enforcement officials, including three FBI agents, began investigating; and Haskett began fearing that the suspicions could cost him his job at a gag shop that sells such kid-friendly items as whoopie cushions.
"It blew me away that a federal agent was sticking a badge in my face. Three agents, dog -- like I'm the ringleader!" said Haskett, 28, of Mount Airy.
After allaying the concerns of several law enforcement officials over the past few weeks, Haskett also asked them what he could do to clear his name.
"They said the best bet is to leave the area," Haskett said.
What bothers me the most if you RTFA you find that no one is apologetic about the harassment he has received. Law enforcement, the girl friend's family and the neighbors all have the attitude of "well he should have been acting so damn weird, serves him right".
One of the coolest things I have done yet with my T-Mobile Pocket PC device with GPRS is listen to streaming talk radio stations while driving. At a max of 40k there really is not the bandwidth for quality music, but for talk nerds like myself it is awesome. Right now their all you can eat plan for wireless data is $19.95 and I am buying that for other uses anyway. Playing with buffers and what not yields a very reliable very high quality signal even with the frequent tower hopping that happens when driving. It is good for even the local stations which tend to be on the AM dial. A 20k steam sounds so much better then the wines and pops of AM radio, especially after dark when most stations have to turn their wattage down. The only issue I have is when I am traveling at a high rate of speed on the Interstate. Apparently the tower hopping at 70 - 80 MPH is a little too much to keep a steady enough connection. Averaging 40 - 50 MPH works very well, however. Who ever it is that takes smooth tower jumps and adds wifi speeds to it, they will be a very rich person.
Actually the first thing that is heightened for me when drinking any amount is my inhibitions against drunk driving. I am in the condition to decide, as I obviously have done. I have drank many times while out and never have driven home over the legal limit. This I am sure of. In fact if I have the option I often let anyone in my party drive that did not drink even if I only had one 12oz beer during a two hour span including a meal (I am not a thin guy). By most any standard I have seen I would not be over the limit in that situation. I do not normally drink heavy and am very aware of it when I do. Please do not generalize the behavior or perception of everyone by the bad behavior of some. Secondly I did in that situation, what I hope everyone would do. I do not want society to punish someone trying to fix something before it would become a bad situation. My thoughts come from a libertarian perspective that if I have done nothing to infringe on anyone else's rights then I have done nothing wrong. Sitting in my car phoning friends for a ride home hurt no one, drunk or not.
No it is very stupid. If I actually demonstrate intent to drive get me for that. However, I for one have once sat in my car quite drunk (keys out of the ignition except briefly to roll the electric windows down) with zero intent to drive. I called around to several people for a ride home while in said car. I was perfectly content, if need be to sleep in my car until the next morning if no ride was available. I did end up getting a ride from my roommate about an hour and a half later and he subsequently fined me for my stupidity by making me buy him a very late dinner. Face it, people sometimes drink more then they where planning. I did in the instance above and think I handled the situation in a perfectly responsible manner. Please do not give me crap about the many others who may have not. I acknowledge that many others many not have handled the situation as well, but that is not my problem. Had I been picked up for my "actions" that night I would have fought it with every fiber of my being, and dollar I could provide to the legal profession.
Coming from an admitted horrible speller there is an easy way to remember the spelling for desert (dry, normally hot place) and dessert (sweets often after a meal. Dessert has two "s" because you want more of it.
So wait, you want to use a network of thousands of wireless links to keep "the man" out of your business? In the mean time I am going to join the army so that they can not draft me.
Royal with Cheese. I know I have eaten one. Kept the receipt as one of my favorite souvenirs from when I was in Paris. All because of a movie too. hehehe
All I want to know is what is wrong with paper? What about the tried and true system of having slips of paper where people place a mark next to the candidate of their choice and then fold that paper in half and put it in a box. As long as you have a publicly accessible count at each polling place this system would be preferable. I think the error rate would be something like one vote in ten thousand if representatives of all interested parties where counting.
Mechanical and computerized voting systems however add so much confusion to non-technical voting population that often their votes are not recorded correctly. Yes this seems quite ridiculous to us Slashdoters, but many people (and the often senior citizen election judges) become like a dear in head lights when you tell them to press any sort of button. They are afraid of these things, you and I think this is ridiculous, but they are and that is a fact we need to live with. I hold the sanctity of accurate elections expressing the will of the people over technological efficiency any day.
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The wife and I rented a full size Cadillac DTS for a road trip, DC to Montreal once. I think it was about $225, and it was the nicest part of the trip, riding in style and comfort the whole way!
so then I guess he is not sitting next to you, is he?
4. If incumbent is unchallenged... Challenge him.
That is what this long time slashdoter is doing. I am the Republican nominee for congress in the Second Congressional District of Maryland. www.richardmatthews.org
Agreed!
The only passwords I know are my windows local user, my trucrypt partitions and my Keepass DB password. Am I paranoid if I keep my keepassDB in side a truecrypt partition?
I am in the Republican Party, after a few years of being in the Libertarian... and I am running for Congress as the Republican nominee in the Second Congressional District of Maryland.
www.richardmatthews.org
You don't get it... I am the Republican nominee for Congress in the second congressional district of Maryland. Look me up, www.richardmatthews.org. I do not represent any of the stereotypes you just stated.
I am for getting rid of the size and scope of our federal bureaucracy.
I am for the rights of the individual being protected.
I am for strict constitutional government.
I want us out of Iraq ASAP.
I want to repeal the Patriot Act.
I think government has no business in marriage.
I am a regular guy, a Slashdot user of many years. I am a System Administrator by trade. I am embraced by the Republican Party in my District.
Republican is just a label. The Party platform is changeable by the members of the party at any time. I aim to do that in my own little neck of the woods.
You understand wrong.
He want to get the Federal Government out of education because the Constitution does not allow it. States and local governments would be free to continue supporting public education.
The Federal Department of Education did not exist before the Carter Administration. Do you mean to tell me that public schools and science programs were worse off then as a whole?
In order to change the way things are going, running for office can certainly help. You'll be bringing awareness to fresh concerns and issues just by voicing your platform, even if you have worse odds than a snowball in hell.
I am doing just that. My name is Richard Matthews and I am a Network and Security Engineer by trade and I am running for Congress Maryland's Second Congressional District.
I am a Republican standing for small government, civil liberties and following the US Constitution. My Democratic opponent Dutch Ruppersberger has voted for the reauthorization of the Patriot Act and many Iraq War spending bills. I will be monitoring closely his vote for this act and will comment accordingly at my website.
http://www.richardmatthews.org/
Last month I posted about a bad ass compilation I found on YouTube
Computadora Feliz / Happy Computer (C64 Sid Mashup Remix)
Ahh C=64 and leggings never had it so good.
87.2% of all statistics are made up
1. Attend an Evangelical Protestant Church, preferably with a band
Check, except, shit I married a catholic
2. Be white, of Germanic or Anglo-Saxon decent
Check
3. Buy and Drive only Ford products
Check
4. Peeling and Faded "Support our troops" bumper sticker
Check, wait I covered that up with my Ron Paul 2008 bumper sticker.
5. Never drive more than 10 miles from where you live
Shit
6. Only eat good Christian foods that are mentioned in the Bible. Wine, OK, as long as it's in a box.
Check, I eat bacon all the time!
7. Only purchase goods at Walmart.
Shit, I go to that French store, Taget
8. Do not patronize convenience/gas station stores with brown people working in them
Check, I buy my gas at Costco and there is no attendant!
9. ???
I think I will go cash. Wait, that is going down by the minute. Maybe Euros! I am a good American, honest.
Shameless Plug for you DoD folks. Full disclosure, this is my employer and I directly work on setting up new installs of this compliant mobile email alternative.
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You should look into Apriva and our Sensa windows mobile mailer and PIM software. We are just starting to get traction with our product as it took some time to get all of the needed approvals. Our infrastructure is not very different from the other guys, with a "Sensa server" sitting next to your Exchange server, forwarding to a NOC (US Based) then out to your device.
I cannot tell you that our network will never ever have problems, but I am more just informing that there are alternatives.
rmatthews at apriva dot com if you would like to contact me.
To quote our site.
Sensa® is an advanced, secure mobile email system. The system is designed to support S/MIME v3, secure email with robust interoperability with Microsoft Outlook® desktops, the ubiquitous RIM Blackberry® devices and emerging best-of-breed tri/quad-band Windows Mobile PDA's.
Sensa® supports multi-vendor handheld wireless devices and multi-vendor wireless networks with common server components to provide unique budgetary flexibility.
The Sensa® secure mobile email system was designed from its initial conception to comply with DoD Directives and NSA Type 4 (SBU and FOUO) Protection Profiles. Additionally, full DoD PKI enablement was a key design objective.
http://iss.apriva.com/solutions/securemessaging.c
Your senario is not far fetched. Reading the paper today and happend upon this intersting story.
c le/2006/05/12/AR2006051202025_pf.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti
It all seemed darkly funny at first.
Eric Haskett was merely taking a nap in a car when he roused suspicion in a rural Frederick County neighborhood. A neighbor traced Haskett's license plate to an address once used by a registered sex offender.
Then his girlfriend's parents told him to scram; law enforcement officials, including three FBI agents, began investigating; and Haskett began fearing that the suspicions could cost him his job at a gag shop that sells such kid-friendly items as whoopie cushions.
"It blew me away that a federal agent was sticking a badge in my face. Three agents, dog -- like I'm the ringleader!" said Haskett, 28, of Mount Airy.
After allaying the concerns of several law enforcement officials over the past few weeks, Haskett also asked them what he could do to clear his name.
"They said the best bet is to leave the area," Haskett said.
What bothers me the most if you RTFA you find that no one is apologetic about the harassment he has received. Law enforcement, the girl friend's family and the neighbors all have the attitude of "well he should have been acting so damn weird, serves him right".
Peak Oil discussion at Damnthatscool.com
One of the coolest things I have done yet with my T-Mobile Pocket PC device with GPRS is listen to streaming talk radio stations while driving. At a max of 40k there really is not the bandwidth for quality music, but for talk nerds like myself it is awesome. Right now their all you can eat plan for wireless data is $19.95 and I am buying that for other uses anyway. Playing with buffers and what not yields a very reliable very high quality signal even with the frequent tower hopping that happens when driving. It is good for even the local stations which tend to be on the AM dial. A 20k steam sounds so much better then the wines and pops of AM radio, especially after dark when most stations have to turn their wattage down.
The only issue I have is when I am traveling at a high rate of speed on the Interstate. Apparently the tower hopping at 70 - 80 MPH is a little too much to keep a steady enough connection. Averaging 40 - 50 MPH works very well, however.
Who ever it is that takes smooth tower jumps and adds wifi speeds to it, they will be a very rich person.
Actually the first thing that is heightened for me when drinking any amount is my inhibitions against drunk driving. I am in the condition to decide, as I obviously have done. I have drank many times while out and never have driven home over the legal limit. This I am sure of. In fact if I have the option I often let anyone in my party drive that did not drink even if I only had one 12oz beer during a two hour span including a meal (I am not a thin guy). By most any standard I have seen I would not be over the limit in that situation. I do not normally drink heavy and am very aware of it when I do. Please do not generalize the behavior or perception of everyone by the bad behavior of some.
Secondly I did in that situation, what I hope everyone would do. I do not want society to punish someone trying to fix something before it would become a bad situation. My thoughts come from a libertarian perspective that if I have done nothing to infringe on anyone else's rights then I have done nothing wrong. Sitting in my car phoning friends for a ride home hurt no one, drunk or not.
No it is very stupid. If I actually demonstrate intent to drive get me for that. However, I for one have once sat in my car quite drunk (keys out of the ignition except briefly to roll the electric windows down) with zero intent to drive. I called around to several people for a ride home while in said car. I was perfectly content, if need be to sleep in my car until the next morning if no ride was available. I did end up getting a ride from my roommate about an hour and a half later and he subsequently fined me for my stupidity by making me buy him a very late dinner.
Face it, people sometimes drink more then they where planning. I did in the instance above and think I handled the situation in a perfectly responsible manner. Please do not give me crap about the many others who may have not. I acknowledge that many others many not have handled the situation as well, but that is not my problem. Had I been picked up for my "actions" that night I would have fought it with every fiber of my being, and dollar I could provide to the legal profession.
Coming from an admitted horrible speller there is an easy way to remember the spelling for desert (dry, normally hot place) and dessert (sweets often after a meal.
Dessert has two "s" because you want more of it.
however not speaker as that would be a republican, Dennis Hastert
Let me guess, you are french?
The first one is always free and the fourth one actualy works
So wait, you want to use a network of thousands of wireless links to keep "the man" out of your business?
In the mean time I am going to join the army so that they can not draft me.
ummm... yeah Thanks for your "facts"
Royal with Cheese. I know I have eaten one. Kept the receipt as one of my favorite souvenirs from when I was in Paris. All because of a movie too. hehehe
All I want to know is what is wrong with paper? What about the tried and true system of having slips of paper where people place a mark next to the candidate of their choice and then fold that paper in half and put it in a box. As long as you have a publicly accessible count at each polling place this system would be preferable. I think the error rate would be something like one vote in ten thousand if representatives of all interested parties where counting.
Mechanical and computerized voting systems however add so much confusion to non-technical voting population that often their votes are not recorded correctly. Yes this seems quite ridiculous to us Slashdoters, but many people (and the often senior citizen election judges) become like a dear in head lights when you tell them to press any sort of button. They are afraid of these things, you and I think this is ridiculous, but they are and that is a fact we need to live with.
I hold the sanctity of accurate elections expressing the will of the people over technological efficiency any day.
Show me to the paper!