What are the warnings on herbs and vitamins? None! If you take too much the most you'll get is a tummyache. Evolution did not happen overnight. Man (and animals) evolved with the environment which included herbs.
If you believe that, you are likely to have a short and miserable life. If you get a chance, ask your friendly neighborhood pharmacist about all the ways you can damage your body or kill yourself with 100% organic, all-natural herbs and vitamins. Pharmacists know more about drugs, and their effects, than physicians. They certainly know more than the "experts" at your local vitamin or health food store.
Microsoft is in control. All they have to do is to discontinue XP OEM licensing, or substantially raise the price. You'll get Vista with your new PC and you'll like it. If you don't like it, See Figure One.
Did you know that your neighbor has a set of deadly sharp steel knives in their kitchen? At any moment, they may crack, hack you and your family into small pieces, and feed them to the cat! They could be outside your front door right now!
Mr. Crookes has been seen in public, blatantly engaging in social intercourse with heterosexuals and bibliophiles. Canada's children must be protected from these extremists!
Who is responsible for every state bordering Russia, never wanting to be under the thumb of Moscow, and occupied by the Red Army, again? If I lived in Eastern Europe, I'd want to be part of NATO. Who knows when some future Russian leader will decide to revive the Russian Empire?
It's a legal principle that a manufacturer can't put restrictions on the purchasers of their products. If I buy a widget, I'm free to resell it, at any price that I wish, to anyone that wants to buy it.
You can buy a SD digital TV for much less than any HDTV. I've seen one model being sold at a local big box store for $125. A converter box will probably be even cheaper. I'm a cheap bastard, and I'm not going to buy an HDTV until they get a lot cheaper.
In the past, things were made to last, and they were made by people who cared about their construction.
Eight tracks. The official tape format of the IMF.
People have always been greedy. I laugh when so-called audiophiles swoon about the virtues of vinyl. Record pressing plants were notorious for doing anything to save a nickel, like using stampers well past the point that they had worn out, and adding crushed rock, or something that sounded like it, to the vinyl when oil prices shot up. Their quality control was horrible. A large percentage of the product was defective, and they didn't care.
The NSA cares about both questions. They have a large group of people dedicated to keeping government communications secure, and another large group of people dedicated to hacking everyone else's communications systems.
The NSA, and other intelligence agencies, have been exploiting stuff like this for more than fifty years. Technology changes, but the fundamental principle, interception of EM radiation stays the same. You can even spy on certain models of electric typewriters. If you ever get the chance to look at TEMPEST certified hardware, you will see the lengths that the engineers have to go to, to shield and filter an electronics device. Besides the box itself, all cables have to be well shielded and filtered, or they just function as antennas for your sensitive data.
The signals are very weak. The military has GPS equipment that is designed to work in hostile environments, but it is much more expensive and requires the distribution and use of crypto keys to enable the advanced features of GPS. Civilian GPS equipment, like most of the equipment in a civil aircraft, is not designed to operate in a hostile environment.
No. There's lots of wiring that isn't shielded. Even with shielded wiring, the shielding often degrades and fails with age. Plus, there are plenty of antennas that can't be shielded if you still expect them to function as antennas.
You don't have to fall back to off-line batch processing. Another approach is to install an intermediate system that only allows the passage of messages in very limited and strictly defined formats. Anything else gets logged, discarded and triggers an alarm.
The FCC is mandating digital TV, not High Definition TV. I saw a cheap SDTV (14" CRT, digital, 480i) at a local big box store for $125. That meets the FCC's mandate and will allow you to watch all over-the-air programming, it just down-converts HD to SD.
The "violent criminal"? You mean the "accused rapist".
A high percentage of rape accusations are unfounded, made by women who want revenge and/or have psychological problems. An accusation of rape can be devastating, even if it's pure bullshit. For all we know, the "violent criminal" may have flipped out after being falsely accused of rape and put under house arrest.
The problem is that none of the stuff that they push is portable to other systems. They are trying to lock out everyone else. What if I want to use an Oracle database and my clients use a variety of web browsers? Recently, they were promoting their replacement for Flash, which (big surprise) doesn't run on non-Microsoft systems. They've already terminated their support for Windows Media on Mac OS X. It's their way or the highway.
I'm on some Microsoft developer mailing lists, and I'm struck by the way that they spend so much time and effort on pushing proprietary solutions for every problem. There is never any recognition of a world outside Microsoft. I suspect that it is easy for young and naïve developers to buy into the idea that all problems can be solved with a Microsoft solution.
The radio isn't a problem. Modern spread spectrum technology makes it possible to design radios that are very difficult to detect, intercept, or jam. If you look at it on a spectrum analyzer, all you will see is a small increase in the background noise level, and that's if you are close to the transmitter. Conventional electronic warfare equipment will never detect it or be able to DF it.
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If you believe that, you are likely to have a short and miserable life. If you get a chance, ask your friendly neighborhood pharmacist about all the ways you can damage your body or kill yourself with 100% organic, all-natural herbs and vitamins. Pharmacists know more about drugs, and their effects, than physicians. They certainly know more than the "experts" at your local vitamin or health food store.
Twinkies can survive thermonuclear war. Bet you can't say that about any of your so-called gourmet pastries from Europe.
I think I originally saw it on rec.humor back in the early days of usenet, when I was running b-news under V7 UNIX on a PDP-11.
Microsoft is in control. All they have to do is to discontinue XP OEM licensing, or substantially raise the price. You'll get Vista with your new PC and you'll like it. If you don't like it, See Figure One.
Did you know that your neighbor has a set of deadly sharp steel knives in their kitchen? At any moment, they may crack, hack you and your family into small pieces, and feed them to the cat! They could be outside your front door right now!
Mr. Crookes has been seen in public, blatantly engaging in social intercourse with heterosexuals and bibliophiles. Canada's children must be protected from these extremists!
Is there a public figure rule in Canadian law?
Who is responsible for every state bordering Russia, never wanting to be under the thumb of Moscow, and occupied by the Red Army, again? If I lived in Eastern Europe, I'd want to be part of NATO. Who knows when some future Russian leader will decide to revive the Russian Empire?
It's a legal principle that a manufacturer can't put restrictions on the purchasers of their products. If I buy a widget, I'm free to resell it, at any price that I wish, to anyone that wants to buy it.
You can buy a SD digital TV for much less than any HDTV. I've seen one model being sold at a local big box store for $125. A converter box will probably be even cheaper. I'm a cheap bastard, and I'm not going to buy an HDTV until they get a lot cheaper.
Eight tracks. The official tape format of the IMF.
People have always been greedy. I laugh when so-called audiophiles swoon about the virtues of vinyl. Record pressing plants were notorious for doing anything to save a nickel, like using stampers well past the point that they had worn out, and adding crushed rock, or something that sounded like it, to the vinyl when oil prices shot up. Their quality control was horrible. A large percentage of the product was defective, and they didn't care.
The NSA cares about both questions. They have a large group of people dedicated to keeping government communications secure, and another large group of people dedicated to hacking everyone else's communications systems.
The NSA, and other intelligence agencies, have been exploiting stuff like this for more than fifty years. Technology changes, but the fundamental principle, interception of EM radiation stays the same. You can even spy on certain models of electric typewriters. If you ever get the chance to look at TEMPEST certified hardware, you will see the lengths that the engineers have to go to, to shield and filter an electronics device. Besides the box itself, all cables have to be well shielded and filtered, or they just function as antennas for your sensitive data.
The signals are very weak. The military has GPS equipment that is designed to work in hostile environments, but it is much more expensive and requires the distribution and use of crypto keys to enable the advanced features of GPS. Civilian GPS equipment, like most of the equipment in a civil aircraft, is not designed to operate in a hostile environment.
No. There's lots of wiring that isn't shielded. Even with shielded wiring, the shielding often degrades and fails with age. Plus, there are plenty of antennas that can't be shielded if you still expect them to function as antennas.
I was thinking of a lead pipe.
Read the fine article. The kickbacks were not going to government employees.
The corruption in question isn't in the government, it's in the vendors that sell products and services to the government.
You don't have to fall back to off-line batch processing. Another approach is to install an intermediate system that only allows the passage of messages in very limited and strictly defined formats. Anything else gets logged, discarded and triggers an alarm.
The FCC is mandating digital TV, not High Definition TV. I saw a cheap SDTV (14" CRT, digital, 480i) at a local big box store for $125. That meets the FCC's mandate and will allow you to watch all over-the-air programming, it just down-converts HD to SD.
Let the RIAA hijack our common culture? Fuck that. I'd rather throw all the record company executives, and their lawyers, into the nearest volcano.
A high percentage of rape accusations are unfounded, made by women who want revenge and/or have psychological problems. An accusation of rape can be devastating, even if it's pure bullshit. For all we know, the "violent criminal" may have flipped out after being falsely accused of rape and put under house arrest.
The problem is that none of the stuff that they push is portable to other systems. They are trying to lock out everyone else. What if I want to use an Oracle database and my clients use a variety of web browsers? Recently, they were promoting their replacement for Flash, which (big surprise) doesn't run on non-Microsoft systems. They've already terminated their support for Windows Media on Mac OS X. It's their way or the highway.
I'm on some Microsoft developer mailing lists, and I'm struck by the way that they spend so much time and effort on pushing proprietary solutions for every problem. There is never any recognition of a world outside Microsoft. I suspect that it is easy for young and naïve developers to buy into the idea that all problems can be solved with a Microsoft solution.
The radio isn't a problem. Modern spread spectrum technology makes it possible to design radios that are very difficult to detect, intercept, or jam. If you look at it on a spectrum analyzer, all you will see is a small increase in the background noise level, and that's if you are close to the transmitter. Conventional electronic warfare equipment will never detect it or be able to DF it.