that's actually not that far from the truth, and certainly smart. Take a famous example: Kevin Mitnick. They had to pass laws that didn't previously exist to take him down. Now he's an information security consultant and global lecturer on how to secure your computer system and those who operate it. The security services in the US regularly perform stings to capture professional-level hackers and offer them a deal: become a nark or spend time in a small windowless room with a large black guy named Mo. Oh, and those who become narks are very well paid and enjoy other benefits, like staying out of jail. These are the individuals who are currently engaged in the undeclared cyberwar the US is inflicting on the rest of the world.
...data security is such an issue (or at least it should be) that breaches should be notified, not least to incentivise companies to make sure that data is secure. This is me, a privacy advocate saying; this is better late than never. Yes, they should have done it a decade ago, but this game of one-upmanship the so-called privacy advocates at large are playing saying "Fuck you, we're not listening to you any more because you should have done this long ago!" only serves to damage the campaign.
The point of religion is that the Few (ie, the Vatican) control the many through fear. Sin and you'll go to hell. The only person that can forgive you is a guy in a hat who claims to be Gods mouthpiece. The bigger the hat, the more important he is. God must be wearing one big fucking sombrero up there.
What do you see when you look in a church? You see a few rows of chairs, all facing a raised platform. That puts one man above all others in the entire room. He is the most important being in there. Why? Because according to that self same individual's claim, his is the only voice in that room that speaks the Word of God. Everybody else listens and obeys.
Isn't it strange how he also drives the nicest car in town? Isn't it also strange how his is the neatest, flattest lawn in town? Isn't it disturbing how everybody trusts him to the point where they allow him unrestricted access to their children? Wait, what? Isn't the Catholic Church constantly working to bury child abuse claims?
Don't for one minute think I'm singling out the Catholic Church. They're all guilty of it.
ok, answered this one myself, and FYI: apparently the limit in Word 2003 is 32767 pages or 32MB-1 byte of text, whichever gets hit first. This has something to do with Words document table it uses for pagination and indexing/spellchecking, etc.
Which makes sense: I've hit much, much lower limits when doing mail merges for large values of "To:"; apparently Word treats each and every copy of the document you're merging, to each and every recipient, as a bunch of separate pages in the same document. So if you're sending 4096 pages to 8 people you're going to hit the page limit and Word 2003 will crap out on you.
Again, this time applied to MS Word: what's the tipping point? I've had the FractINT 20.0 manual open in Word 95 (runs to I think three hundred pages?), although that has no fancy formatting or illustrations, and all I was doing was fixing justification and pagination prior to printing. Handled that well enough.
heh... reminded me of the scene in Family Guy... "Not so fast! There is a shield the exact size and shape of a bullet somewhere about my person -"::BANG!:: "- Well played, worthy adversary. Well played..."
Define "larger documents"? For example, I've created 500+ page legal documents in OpenOffice Writer with no issues - including lots of graphics. So what's the tipping point?
That is the holy grail of electronic detectors. Right now the only thing that detect semtex in situ is the highly trained and sensitive nose of a springer spaniel. Bare semtex can be detected electronically by "sniffing" the RDX component, but most semtex that passes through civilian airports is encased hence undetectable. Lately the commercial production of semtex has included an internationally agreed volatile marking agent which makes it easier for dogs to detect even if the container is apparently hermetically sealed.
the Earth/Moon system shares a common barycentre which lies somewhat off the centre of Earth's core - in effect, both bodies orbit a point in space rather than the Moon orbiting Earth.
All bodies in all solar systems orbit a common centre of gravity - which is not necessarily even within the central star. As planetary systems go, those in binary systems orbit the barycentre of the stellar system, unless they orbit too close to either of the stars in which case it becomes a Lorentzian body, which then orbits both stars in a semi-chaotic orbit describing a figure-8 of varying distance from both stars, with both stars becoming orbital axes.
SOCPA 2005 section 71 gives Police Authorities and Police Forces ("Services") immunity from prosecution if they turn evidence in any other proceeding; since this is a blanket immunity, then it's practically impossible to prosecute the Police by any other than charges at Common Law (ie, rape, robbery or murder).
HOWEVER:
This case describes the first case decided on SOCPA sections 71 through 75; basically it allowed an individual to plead down, on appeal, by turning evidence in an ongoing case. His sentence went from 17 years for (among other things) drug possession to 3.
To date, no police officer in the UK has ever been prosecuted for the wrongful death of another. All they have to do is turn evidence in a lesser crime like cannabis possession, and they're off!
I seem to remember manufacturers of optical mice making such bold claims as being able to track on glass. This is just an optical mouse without the plastic case.
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that's actually not that far from the truth, and certainly smart. Take a famous example: Kevin Mitnick. They had to pass laws that didn't previously exist to take him down. Now he's an information security consultant and global lecturer on how to secure your computer system and those who operate it. The security services in the US regularly perform stings to capture professional-level hackers and offer them a deal: become a nark or spend time in a small windowless room with a large black guy named Mo. Oh, and those who become narks are very well paid and enjoy other benefits, like staying out of jail. These are the individuals who are currently engaged in the undeclared cyberwar the US is inflicting on the rest of the world.
...data security is such an issue (or at least it should be) that breaches should be notified, not least to incentivise companies to make sure that data is secure. This is me, a privacy advocate saying; this is better late than never. Yes, they should have done it a decade ago, but this game of one-upmanship the so-called privacy advocates at large are playing saying "Fuck you, we're not listening to you any more because you should have done this long ago!" only serves to damage the campaign.
yeah I know lol
I almost went right off topic there. Yeah. So this one guy tells you what's what and you accept him at his word. In everything. Unquestioningly.
Try telling me that isn't keeping people in ignorance?
um... all of them?
The point of religion is that the Few (ie, the Vatican) control the many through fear. Sin and you'll go to hell. The only person that can forgive you is a guy in a hat who claims to be Gods mouthpiece. The bigger the hat, the more important he is. God must be wearing one big fucking sombrero up there.
What do you see when you look in a church? You see a few rows of chairs, all facing a raised platform. That puts one man above all others in the entire room. He is the most important being in there. Why? Because according to that self same individual's claim, his is the only voice in that room that speaks the Word of God. Everybody else listens and obeys.
Isn't it strange how he also drives the nicest car in town?
Isn't it also strange how his is the neatest, flattest lawn in town?
Isn't it disturbing how everybody trusts him to the point where they allow him unrestricted access to their children? Wait, what? Isn't the Catholic Church constantly working to bury child abuse claims?
Don't for one minute think I'm singling out the Catholic Church. They're all guilty of it.
...the iPhone looks like it was put together by a 5 year old.
Owned.
ok, answered this one myself, and FYI: apparently the limit in Word 2003 is 32767 pages or 32MB-1 byte of text, whichever gets hit first. This has something to do with Words document table it uses for pagination and indexing/spellchecking, etc.
Which makes sense: I've hit much, much lower limits when doing mail merges for large values of "To:"; apparently Word treats each and every copy of the document you're merging, to each and every recipient, as a bunch of separate pages in the same document. So if you're sending 4096 pages to 8 people you're going to hit the page limit and Word 2003 will crap out on you.
Again, this time applied to MS Word: what's the tipping point? I've had the FractINT 20.0 manual open in Word 95 (runs to I think three hundred pages?), although that has no fancy formatting or illustrations, and all I was doing was fixing justification and pagination prior to printing. Handled that well enough.
heh... reminded me of the scene in Family Guy... ::BANG!:: "- Well played, worthy adversary. Well played..."
"Not so fast! There is a shield the exact size and shape of a bullet somewhere about my person -"
This xenomorph fight is starting to tire me out.
I get that a lot.
Define "larger documents"? For example, I've created 500+ page legal documents in OpenOffice Writer with no issues - including lots of graphics. So what's the tipping point?
...to not drink the local tap.
FUCK OFF CLIPPY!
You'll never get it in your carhole.
That is the holy grail of electronic detectors. Right now the only thing that detect semtex in situ is the highly trained and sensitive nose of a springer spaniel. Bare semtex can be detected electronically by "sniffing" the RDX component, but most semtex that passes through civilian airports is encased hence undetectable. Lately the commercial production of semtex has included an internationally agreed volatile marking agent which makes it easier for dogs to detect even if the container is apparently hermetically sealed.
I'm sure Elisha Gray will be happy to hear that.
the Earth/Moon system shares a common barycentre which lies somewhat off the centre of Earth's core - in effect, both bodies orbit a point in space rather than the Moon orbiting Earth.
strictly speaking, it is. Fixed penalty revenues go to the Treasury.
All bodies in all solar systems orbit a common centre of gravity - which is not necessarily even within the central star. As planetary systems go, those in binary systems orbit the barycentre of the stellar system, unless they orbit too close to either of the stars in which case it becomes a Lorentzian body, which then orbits both stars in a semi-chaotic orbit describing a figure-8 of varying distance from both stars, with both stars becoming orbital axes.
how about the Official Secrets Act 1911? We are talking about *official Government documents*, after all.
SOCPA 2005 section 71 gives Police Authorities and Police Forces ("Services") immunity from prosecution if they turn evidence in any other proceeding; since this is a blanket immunity, then it's practically impossible to prosecute the Police by any other than charges at Common Law (ie, rape, robbery or murder).
HOWEVER:
This case describes the first case decided on SOCPA sections 71 through 75; basically it allowed an individual to plead down, on appeal, by turning evidence in an ongoing case. His sentence went from 17 years for (among other things) drug possession to 3.
To date, no police officer in the UK has ever been prosecuted for the wrongful death of another. All they have to do is turn evidence in a lesser crime like cannabis possession, and they're off!
...guaranteed general population jail time for ANY police officer found to be responsible for ANY data leak?
It would surely be incentive to properly secure data and make sure it fucking stays that way!
I seem to remember manufacturers of optical mice making such bold claims as being able to track on glass. This is just an optical mouse without the plastic case.
thanky!