About 50% of my business is dealing with the far-end of end users; the ones who have never even heard the term "boot sector", and who if you happen to use that word, begin getting glazed over eyes and looking up at passing birds, or with a smirk on their face, ask if that is where the Klingons come from... They've never seen the "inside of their CPU", yet are exactly the people who would be protected most by such a switch. I think it is an excellent idea, and would bet that it is likely both cheap and easy to implement.
Ah! "What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too..." That attitude seems pretty common of late. That Jobs had it to such a degree is surprising because he has so often been promoted as being a long-time Buddhist. So why would he not simply be happy with the success he already had, and let karma take care of the rest? Becoming 'livid' and authoring 'expletive-laced' emails are not examples of someone walking the Middle Way. Going "thermonuclear" *certainly* isn't either, lol. I hope that he worked this conflict out and achieved some semblance of nirvana prior to his death.
I think the "Check Coverage in Your Area" thing you tried on the above linked page uses *street addresses* for the input field, _not_ IP's or MAC's. It is simply to show areas they have scanned so far. I imagine that for you to get the info they have collected, there is some sort of fee structure.
Street View vans/Google are the smaller part of it, I believe; I haven't heard of them 'sharing' the info the vans acquired...(but then, ???)
Check out Skyhook Wireless, I think it would be a more likely source for the info:
"To pinpoint location, Skyhook's Core Engine uses a massive reference network comprised of the known locations of over 250 million Wi-Fi access points and cellular towers. To develop this database, Skyhook has deployed drivers to survey every single street, highway, and alley in tens of thousands of cities and towns worldwide, scanning for Wi-Fi access points and cell towers plotting their precise geographic locations. Skyhook's extensive coverage area includes most major metro areas in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia."
And people wonder why we are currently protesting in the streets over corporate greed and its manipulation of our nation's ideals, while steadfastly refusing to admit to ourselves that our man Obama is nothing more than a puppet perpetuating the very things we think are wrong in the system, or that his administration is just as bad as the one which went before. So we have a plan to Change things by holding signs which speak out against the actions of Obama's principal campaign donors, and getting the MM to show us at 5 and 11, in the Hope that maybe just maybe he will finally do those things he promised us he would do, but until now has just lied about. Think it will work?
create room for one that might actually look out for us.
Here's an idea:
Why not choose to look out for *yourself*, instead of sloughing off that responsibility onto others - whether it be individuals, or the government?
Sure, it ain't easy, but give it a shot, and you'll find that you have some self-respect afterwards, and gained some self-worth in the process. Creating a nanny state is *not* the answer.
Not to mention the possibility of it getting sucked into a jet engine intake, or being involved in some other sort of mid-air collision with an engine-propelled, person-carrying aircraft.
Knock a Cessna out of the sky with your trashbag-levitated picture taker, and I'd wager that lawyers are gonna have you working to pay off that injury/wrongful death suit for the rest of your natural life, regardless of what the FAA regs say about your type of "aircraft" being legal (or not)...
I would hope that people doing this sort of thing take into consideration the airspaces it will be traveling through.
I'm not so sure that everyone who isn't "on the AGW/ACC bandwagon" are _denying_ the science of climate study. Rather, I think they are questioning the knee-jerk solutions to a "problem" not yet fully defined, the sometimes overreaching conclusions made from a dataset still in development, and also motives of those politicians and scientists who stand to profit from said 'solutions', yet who preach loudest about applying their pet 'solutions' *right now*.
"The climate" is not, nor has it ever been, a static system. We have only begun to study it in earnest. Let's let the science and data develop, before we go salting the oceans with rust to cause plankton blooms, and other such possibly world-changing 'solutions'. Let's employ rationality and healthy skepticism to further our understanding, before we go trying to "fix" what may well prove to be natural forces in action.
Having experienced "justice" of a rather harsh sort (IMO, & possibly yours, too:) ) given that what you did was relatively inconsequential despite the claims otherwise, do you now do any work towards helping keep the sort of experience you had from happening again to other hackers (note: *not* 'crackers')?
Seconded, for the quality of the gear. I don't need the camera capability, so I use the Explore pack, bought from Sierra Trading Post for about 1/2 retail. Extremely pleased with the fit and function, after having tried probably 15+ other packs in the past ten years.
The 'drunk guy' had 2 knives; he used one of them to cut up one of the policemen, and threw one (perhaps the same knife, I don't know) and the bottle at the policemen. This is fairly easily seen in the video, and is a clear example of malicious intent and use of (a) weapon/s. He was not some innocent victim, as you choose to portray him. Remember: it always helps to get your facts straight *first* when you attempt to join in a discussion of events like this, if for no other reason than to avoid embarrassing yourself.
Note also the use of the word "threw" as opposed to "throwed".
Again, the incident you reference (note the year on your last link, 2009) is *not* the incident referred to in this story. Neither is this the same law officer. Your prejudice is showing, and telling.
I do agree that what happened to Oscar Grant is worse than bad, and totally unjustified. But this incident, the one being talked about in this Slashdot discussion, is far, far different, as are the actions of the person you denigrate as a "Pig". Not all officers are the same as the one who killed Oscar Grant, and I would think that you would be intelligent enough to differentiate between the/a statistically rare miscreant who happens to wear a badge, and the much, much larger percentage of officers who do a very tough job both well and fairly...
Like Jeremiah Cornelius, you must not have bothered to actually read the story either, certainly not the part where it explained that his partner had already been cut up by the knife-wielding man. This person was violent, and using his weapons to hurt and possibly kill people.
You'd better be a damned good shot with that pistol. Most people aren't. Not enough to intentionally hit the smaller parts of an advancing target in a threatening situation, when adrenaline is pouring through your bloodstream and you have absolutely no control over the situation or the actions of the person who's coming at you with a weapon fast, and noise and stress and recoil are playing hell with your careful, gun-range shooting practice skills and he's almost on you...
Your plan sounds all good and idealistic and I'd also like to think that it can happen that way, but remember Moltke: "No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy." Try to kill me, and I'll try to kill you right back.
Come at me threateningly with a couple of knives and a broken glass bottle, throwing one of the knives at me when I am telling you to stand down, and I'll shoot yer ass, too, center mass or wherever I can, to protect myself. No accident at all, with intention; the intent to stop you from hurting me. If it kills your dumb ass, that is just too effing bad for you, and not my fault. Justifiable kill, IMO. There is no need to disparage the officer by calling him a "Pig".
My sister is the Principal for a small private school, ~80 students or so. With the exception of a few (2 or 3) students who have Macbooks, the staff and students all run Linux for their primary OS. This came about after one of their Windows boxes got rooted and became a spam relay, resulting in Time-Warner shutting down their net access with no warning in the middle of a school day - and net access is something which is absolutely a requirement for schools to have these days.
My sister called me, I found the rooted boxes, wiped/fresh installed them, and got TW to restore their access. Then I cleaned the rest of the Windows boxes on site, and set them all up as dual-boot machines. I used to have to go to her school 3-4 times a year to clean up some Win system that had become unusable, but not in the last 2 years since they've gone all-Linux. Showed my sister how to install with a LiveCD, and when a student gets a new computer, she installs Linux alongside whatever Windows is on the laptop, and the student understands that they are forbidden to use the Win partition while on the school network.
The *only* reason Windows remains on any systems at the campus is that there is one testing site which uses Active-X; it is accessed once a year on testing day, under supervision in their 'CS lab'.
Number of rooted boxes since Windows was replaced: 0
Number of times TW has shut down the schools net access since Linux became the primary OS: 0
Number of times I have had to travel an hour to clean viruses. trojans, worms, etc from the Linux machines: 0
He paid $50K to help elect the guy we have (an amount that is not peanuts by any stretch), and now has taken a job within the administration while in the full knowledge that the guy he supported, and the one who's been in office, have apparently 2 widely, wildly different agendas (...from "Hope and Change" while running, to "Same Old, Same Old" once in office...). And he's from Microsoft, with 15 years of Ballmer-brainwashing stored up in his noggin.
I'm not scared of what's going to come from this, but I'm sure not expecting to see much that will make me happy or keep the freedom I have now from becoming further restricted...
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About 50% of my business is dealing with the far-end of end users; the ones who have never even heard the term "boot sector", and who if you happen to use that word, begin getting glazed over eyes and looking up at passing birds, or with a smirk on their face, ask if that is where the Klingons come from... They've never seen the "inside of their CPU", yet are exactly the people who would be protected most by such a switch. I think it is an excellent idea, and would bet that it is likely both cheap and easy to implement.
Ah! "What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too..." That attitude seems pretty common of late. That Jobs had it to such a degree is surprising because he has so often been promoted as being a long-time Buddhist. So why would he not simply be happy with the success he already had, and let karma take care of the rest? Becoming 'livid' and authoring 'expletive-laced' emails are not examples of someone walking the Middle Way. Going "thermonuclear" *certainly* isn't either, lol.
I hope that he worked this conflict out and achieved some semblance of nirvana prior to his death.
They explicitly state that they have scanned parts of Europe. See the above answer re: the address input field.
I think the "Check Coverage in Your Area" thing you tried on the above linked page uses *street addresses* for the input field, _not_ IP's or MAC's. It is simply to show areas they have scanned so far. I imagine that for you to get the info they have collected, there is some sort of fee structure.
Check out Skyhook Wireless, I think it would be a more likely source for the info:
"To pinpoint location, Skyhook's Core Engine uses a massive reference network comprised of the known locations of over 250 million Wi-Fi access points and cellular towers. To develop this database, Skyhook has deployed drivers to survey every single street, highway, and alley in tens of thousands of cities and towns worldwide, scanning for Wi-Fi access points and cell towers plotting their precise geographic locations. Skyhook's extensive coverage area includes most major metro areas in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia."
And you are happy settling for that. Right?
I'm not.
He never said that. Right?
And people wonder why we are currently protesting in the streets over corporate greed and its manipulation of our nation's ideals, while steadfastly refusing to admit to ourselves that our man Obama is nothing more than a puppet perpetuating the very things we think are wrong in the system, or that his administration is just as bad as the one which went before. So we have a plan to Change things by holding signs which speak out against the actions of Obama's principal campaign donors, and getting the MM to show us at 5 and 11, in the Hope that maybe just maybe he will finally do those things he promised us he would do, but until now has just lied about. Think it will work?
There, FTFY.
create room for one that might actually look out for us.
Here's an idea:
Why not choose to look out for *yourself*, instead of sloughing off that responsibility onto others - whether it be individuals, or the government?
Sure, it ain't easy, but give it a shot, and you'll find that you have some self-respect afterwards, and gained some self-worth in the process. Creating a nanny state is *not* the answer.
Not to mention the possibility of it getting sucked into a jet engine intake, or being involved in some other sort of mid-air collision with an engine-propelled, person-carrying aircraft.
Knock a Cessna out of the sky with your trashbag-levitated picture taker, and I'd wager that lawyers are gonna have you working to pay off that injury/wrongful death suit for the rest of your natural life, regardless of what the FAA regs say about your type of "aircraft" being legal (or not)...
I would hope that people doing this sort of thing take into consideration the airspaces it will be traveling through.
I think it would be more like:
In Soviet Russia EULA, you own operating system.
;)
I'm not so sure that everyone who isn't "on the AGW/ACC bandwagon" are _denying_ the science of climate study. Rather, I think they are questioning the knee-jerk solutions to a "problem" not yet fully defined, the sometimes overreaching conclusions made from a dataset still in development, and also motives of those politicians and scientists who stand to profit from said 'solutions', yet who preach loudest about applying their pet 'solutions' *right now*.
"The climate" is not, nor has it ever been, a static system. We have only begun to study it in earnest. Let's let the science and data develop, before we go salting the oceans with rust to cause plankton blooms, and other such possibly world-changing 'solutions'. Let's employ rationality and healthy skepticism to further our understanding, before we go trying to "fix" what may well prove to be natural forces in action.
So, parsing your statements:
Climate Scientists (& subset: those who follow (worship?) them/their findings/beliefs) = The Elite
because
All Others = "barbarian hordes"
Hmm. Way to create a new religion there, L. Ron! Or - was your post just a bunch of hyperbole? Yet it has been modded "+4 Insightful" - WTG, mods!
For some reason, reading your comment reminded me of the following quote:
"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it." - H.L. Mencken
Well, MS UK could hire Douglas Reynholm to replace Negus...
Having experienced "justice" of a rather harsh sort (IMO, & possibly yours, too :) ) given that what you did was relatively inconsequential despite the claims otherwise, do you now do any work towards helping keep the sort of experience you had from happening again to other hackers (note: *not* 'crackers')?
Looking forward to reading your book.
Seconded, for the quality of the gear. I don't need the camera capability, so I use the Explore pack, bought from Sierra Trading Post for about 1/2 retail. Extremely pleased with the fit and function, after having tried probably 15+ other packs in the past ten years.
The 'drunk guy' had 2 knives; he used one of them to cut up one of the policemen, and threw one (perhaps the same knife, I don't know) and the bottle at the policemen. This is fairly easily seen in the video, and is a clear example of malicious intent and use of (a) weapon/s. He was not some innocent victim, as you choose to portray him. Remember: it always helps to get your facts straight *first* when you attempt to join in a discussion of events like this, if for no other reason than to avoid embarrassing yourself.
Note also the use of the word "threw" as opposed to "throwed".
Again, the incident you reference (note the year on your last link, 2009) is *not* the incident referred to in this story. Neither is this the same law officer. Your prejudice is showing, and telling.
I do agree that what happened to Oscar Grant is worse than bad, and totally unjustified. But this incident, the one being talked about in this Slashdot discussion, is far, far different, as are the actions of the person you denigrate as a "Pig". Not all officers are the same as the one who killed Oscar Grant, and I would think that you would be intelligent enough to differentiate between the/a statistically rare miscreant who happens to wear a badge, and the much, much larger percentage of officers who do a very tough job both well and fairly...
Like Jeremiah Cornelius, you must not have bothered to actually read the story either, certainly not the part where it explained that his partner had already been cut up by the knife-wielding man. This person was violent, and using his weapons to hurt and possibly kill people.
I invite you to read the story about this incident, and discover how incredibly wrong you are.
I would shoot you in the leg.
You'd better be a damned good shot with that pistol. Most people aren't. Not enough to intentionally hit the smaller parts of an advancing target in a threatening situation, when adrenaline is pouring through your bloodstream and you have absolutely no control over the situation or the actions of the person who's coming at you with a weapon fast, and noise and stress and recoil are playing hell with your careful, gun-range shooting practice skills and he's almost on you...
Your plan sounds all good and idealistic and I'd also like to think that it can happen that way, but remember Moltke: "No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy." Try to kill me, and I'll try to kill you right back.
Come at me threateningly with a couple of knives and a broken glass bottle, throwing one of the knives at me when I am telling you to stand down, and I'll shoot yer ass, too, center mass or wherever I can, to protect myself. No accident at all, with intention; the intent to stop you from hurting me. If it kills your dumb ass, that is just too effing bad for you, and not my fault. Justifiable kill, IMO. There is no need to disparage the officer by calling him a "Pig".
My sister is the Principal for a small private school, ~80 students or so. With the exception of a few (2 or 3) students who have Macbooks, the staff and students all run Linux for their primary OS. This came about after one of their Windows boxes got rooted and became a spam relay, resulting in Time-Warner shutting down their net access with no warning in the middle of a school day - and net access is something which is absolutely a requirement for schools to have these days.
My sister called me, I found the rooted boxes, wiped/fresh installed them, and got TW to restore their access. Then I cleaned the rest of the Windows boxes on site, and set them all up as dual-boot machines. I used to have to go to her school 3-4 times a year to clean up some Win system that had become unusable, but not in the last 2 years since they've gone all-Linux. Showed my sister how to install with a LiveCD, and when a student gets a new computer, she installs Linux alongside whatever Windows is on the laptop, and the student understands that they are forbidden to use the Win partition while on the school network.
The *only* reason Windows remains on any systems at the campus is that there is one testing site which uses Active-X; it is accessed once a year on testing day, under supervision in their 'CS lab'.
Number of rooted boxes since Windows was replaced: 0
Number of times TW has shut down the schools net access since Linux became the primary OS: 0
Number of times I have had to travel an hour to clean viruses. trojans, worms, etc from the Linux machines: 0
He paid $50K to help elect the guy we have (an amount that is not peanuts by any stretch), and now has taken a job within the administration while in the full knowledge that the guy he supported, and the one who's been in office, have apparently 2 widely, wildly different agendas (...from "Hope and Change" while running, to "Same Old, Same Old" once in office...). And he's from Microsoft, with 15 years of Ballmer-brainwashing stored up in his noggin.
I'm not scared of what's going to come from this, but I'm sure not expecting to see much that will make me happy or keep the freedom I have now from becoming further restricted...