And everybody is too scared to pick up a rifle and start shooting politicians because they know what will happen after that. --All semblance of order instantly lost, and what remains of society catching fire. Nobody wants that. You're right, I don't want that. But I'm willing to pick up my rifle and defend my country if enough other people will join in that I won't be simply disappeared. Being killed in a firefight is one thing, but wasting myself for nothing is unacceptable.
You forget that the Decider and his cronies only tolerate yes-men and personal loyalty über alles. It's unlikely that there's anyone left who hasn't drank the Kool-Aid.
Fuck yes, maybe give it to Congress and require a 2/3 majority in both houses to get it, countersigned by the president.
It's not like we can hold impeachment over a president's head any more; after this administration, no president could believe anything he'd do short of a coup (and then too late) or extramarital sex would get him impeached.
If he did stage a coup to stay in power, I'm completely certain there will be many in his 30% base who will happily go along with it, and then engage in mental gymnastics to explain how doing that was "patriotic" and "good for America".
I work IT at a state university, and we do have a policy on this. If a drive is in a decommissioned computer but is still big enough to be useful, we run a shred program over it, 3-7 random passes. If it's too small, it goes into the tape vault and then to be physically shredded.
The policy is mainly to prevent personally-identifiable information (like SSNs, tax info, medical records) from escaping, but we do it on every HD just in case someone didn't realize what they had on their drive.
We aren't the White House though, and we don't delete email to cover our butts.
What they should do is start bringing charges against the immediately responsible IT drones, then cut deals with them in exchange for turning state's evidence against those who gave them orders, and so on. It'll take a while but eventually someone important will go down.
Of course, depending on how long it takes and who's President at the time, pardons all around before it gets to a powerful political flunky.
That's not an email practice; back when I was in high school in the mid-'90s I typed up orders for my Air Force JROTC unit, and there was always a copy of the order printed and placed in the file (plus one for the Colonel, another for the Sergeant, and one to be posted where cadets could read it). In those days we hadn't quite heard of email yet.
Basically you had a bunch of Clueless AOLers who hadn't mentally made the leap to computers.
And many of them work at their marketing department. Until I called and demanded they stop, I got credit card offers from them every other day, and on at least one occasion every day....
Holy shit, that's where AOL's marketing department ended up.
You, sir, are ignorant. In a corporate-type environment, it's probable that his laptop is set up on Active Directory, he's got an AD account, and so on. That kind of thing needs an IT tech to set back up after he's blasted away his Windows partition, and even if the tech is cool with the idea of him doing this, he probably won't appreciate the user creating work for him and basically attempting to bypass security & other settings.
You could also look at innotek's VirtualBox. It's pretty fast if you've got an Intel or AMD CPU with the virtualization instructions, and there's a GPL version that lacks a few features like letting the VM see USB drives.
Another free option is Qemu Manager, which is a free Windows frontend to the free QEMU. Not as fast as VirtualBox on a virtualization-enabled PC, but not bad if you enable the KQEMU dynamic recompiler. There's also MS's Virtual PC, but IME QEMU and VirtualBox work a little better with Linux. And lastly, of course, there's VMWare Server, although IME it's a little harder to set up.
You mean you don't automatically assume "sensationalism" or "submitter/editor got it wrong" when you see a Slashdot article? Especially one dealing with science.
I guess I'm one of the few that really really likes the office 2007 interface and really wish OO would adopt something similar. AOL, but the Ribbon is patented. Microsoft is willing to license it to third parties, but the programs using Ribbon can't be office suites.
That seems fair to me, since they/did/ come up with the idea themselves. I hope OOo does start using it once the patent runs out.
WRT Office: if you've got Office '08 for Mac, you're not directly vulnerable to VBA macro viruses, because '08 no longer supports Visual Basic for Applications. You would still be a carrier. I suppose you could get an AppleScript macro virus, though.
That's a//e. The difference is that the//c isn't expandable, aside from some hacks for extra memory or a faster processor. They're making that work by using a custom expansion card (Uthernet) in one of the//e's slots.
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You forget that the Decider and his cronies only tolerate yes-men and personal loyalty über alles. It's unlikely that there's anyone left who hasn't drank the Kool-Aid.
I haven't been screaming for Bush to be impeached since 2000, dittohead. I disliked him from the start, but I was willing to give him a chance.
By this point the only people who *are* Bush supporters are your blind partisans. Including yourself, evidently.
Fuck yes, maybe give it to Congress and require a 2/3 majority in both houses to get it, countersigned by the president.
It's not like we can hold impeachment over a president's head any more; after this administration, no president could believe anything he'd do short of a coup (and then too late) or extramarital sex would get him impeached.
If he did stage a coup to stay in power, I'm completely certain there will be many in his 30% base who will happily go along with it, and then engage in mental gymnastics to explain how doing that was "patriotic" and "good for America".
I work IT at a state university, and we do have a policy on this. If a drive is in a decommissioned computer but is still big enough to be useful, we run a shred program over it, 3-7 random passes. If it's too small, it goes into the tape vault and then to be physically shredded.
The policy is mainly to prevent personally-identifiable information (like SSNs, tax info, medical records) from escaping, but we do it on every HD just in case someone didn't realize what they had on their drive.
We aren't the White House though, and we don't delete email to cover our butts.
What they should do is start bringing charges against the immediately responsible IT drones, then cut deals with them in exchange for turning state's evidence against those who gave them orders, and so on. It'll take a while but eventually someone important will go down.
Of course, depending on how long it takes and who's President at the time, pardons all around before it gets to a powerful political flunky.
That's not an email practice; back when I was in high school in the mid-'90s I typed up orders for my Air Force JROTC unit, and there was always a copy of the order printed and placed in the file (plus one for the Colonel, another for the Sergeant, and one to be posted where cadets could read it). In those days we hadn't quite heard of email yet.
Basically you had a bunch of Clueless AOLers who hadn't mentally made the leap to computers.
And many of them work at their marketing department. Until I called and demanded they stop, I got credit card offers from them every other day, and on at least one occasion every day. ...
Holy shit, that's where AOL's marketing department ended up.
Biggus Dickus is one of the highest-wanking men in all of Wome.
You, sir, are ignorant. In a corporate-type environment, it's probable that his laptop is set up on Active Directory, he's got an AD account, and so on. That kind of thing needs an IT tech to set back up after he's blasted away his Windows partition, and even if the tech is cool with the idea of him doing this, he probably won't appreciate the user creating work for him and basically attempting to bypass security & other settings.
You could also look at innotek's VirtualBox. It's pretty fast if you've got an Intel or AMD CPU with the virtualization instructions, and there's a GPL version that lacks a few features like letting the VM see USB drives.
Another free option is Qemu Manager, which is a free Windows frontend to the free QEMU. Not as fast as VirtualBox on a virtualization-enabled PC, but not bad if you enable the KQEMU dynamic recompiler. There's also MS's Virtual PC, but IME QEMU and VirtualBox work a little better with Linux. And lastly, of course, there's VMWare Server, although IME it's a little harder to set up.
rofl. Too true.
You mean you don't automatically assume "sensationalism" or "submitter/editor got it wrong" when you see a Slashdot article? Especially one dealing with science.
You're newer here than I am.
It's a good thing we're not going to have a discussion about car analogies, then.
That seems fair to me, since they
That's what I first thought of for visualizing .NET.
The goggles, etc.
What's your wife's number? ;-)
That's not the real Bruce Perens. Note username and high uid.
WRT Office: if you've got Office '08 for Mac, you're not directly vulnerable to VBA macro viruses, because '08 no longer supports Visual Basic for Applications. You would still be a carrier. I suppose you could get an AppleScript macro virus, though.
That's a //e. The difference is that the //c isn't expandable, aside from some hacks for extra memory or a faster processor. They're making that work by using a custom expansion card (Uthernet) in one of the //e's slots.
If only I could get my Apple //c on the Internet.
AOL. I especially liked "sciencetific".