Actually my Civic gets about the same gas miliage as an Insight.
And I can climb hills with it. And attach spoilers, stickers, and large mufflers to make it go superfast, just like the cars in "The Fast and the Furious":)
Generally they are completely volunteer. I joined my SAR team last summer with no experience and have since been trained in First Aid, CPR, Navigation, Technical Rescue (ropes, high angle, etc), search tactics, and tons of other stuff. SAR teams are generally self educating, but there are state level and national certifications you can get. I am a PSARC certified FTM (equivalent to NASAR SARTEC II) in PA and will shortly find out if I passed the FTL exam (Field Team Leader - similar to NASAR SARTEC III)
Go find a local one and contact them, they are likely looking for volunteers.
I have a personal policy that if I see anything manmade in the woods other than a basic signpost, it comes down.
I hope you are not stupid enough to pull down flagging tape. SAR teams use that constantly during searches to mark areas that have been searched, need searched, etc.
"Fucking animals" is about all I can say about that. I guess I hope the rest of the world doesn't judge the US by how our military is acting. But then, that is how we have historically judged them.
As am I, but there is torture, and then there is TORTURE, if you take my meaning. What the soldiers did is inexcusable and they better damn well be punished heavily (along with whoever up the chain of command allowed this to happen), but it was still nothing compared to Saddam's reign of terror.
Until we find out that soldiers have been filling mass graves and mutiliating genitalia, I'm not sure it is fair to claim that Iraq is no better off. That does is disservice to those who REALLY suffered.
Someone commented about recording artists... They are under the same guise. Concerts and tours (in general) are not large money making operations, they are advertising. That advertising results in album sales, which are the real revenue stream.
Nope, the artists generally make their money with merchanise and concert sales. The record producer makes the vast majority of the money from the album sales.
"I" understand fair use, the grandparent poster didn't.
The DMCA is where it breaks down, but if the DMCA didn't exist, companies would still be able to create systems that attempted to restrict fair use. Those systems just would not be protected by law.
But non of these are turned on by default, which means that out of the box Apple has had exactly 0 remote exploit problems. The only time you have to worry is if you manually turn on one of the services such as apache or ssl, which joe average user is not going to do.
Contrast to windows, which DOES run services out of the box, some of which you CANNOT TURN OFF. The sheer stupidity of that never ceases to amaze me.
It's very unlikely that someone will find a way to beat public key and AES encryption.
Every single encryption technology since the beginning of time has seemed that way until some new way of attacking it was discovered and breaking it became easy. Do you honestly believe that for the first time in history, we have two algorithms (RSA and AES) that will not be beaten?
And besides, DRM as implimented today is a fundamentally flawed concept. It is basically PKI in reverse. It all rests on the ability of a system to assign a private key to a user, and have that user access that private key via trusted applications to decrypt data BUT prevent that user from ever getting at that private key in any other way. Look at playfair, all it does it yank your private key out of itunes or the ipod. No breaking of the encryption method is needed to break DRM, just a way to get the key that by defination has to exist on your machine anyway.
Seriously, Java desktop is absolutely nothing more than GNOME with a new theme. Hell, Bluecurve actually made a half assed effort to not seem like nothing more than a GNOME theme, Java Desktop doesn't even do that.
It's not revolutionary, it isn't going to change anything, and frankly it is much poorer attempt than I would have expected from Sun.
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So your day-to-day system is a server, yeah?
No, it's a Linux box. (and an OS X box, depending on where I am)
I guess that makes sense, given that your server isn't actually serving anything.
Um, exactly which server are you referring to?
After all, a server needs clients, and what would those be? Oh yeah.. desktops.
Yup, but fortunatly I am not in the business of supporting desktops. That would be our helpdesk's job. And frankly all they have to do is keep people from downloading viruses over and over again.
Toy machines, right?
Compared to IBM's Regatta (SP Cluster), Z800 mainframes, and Sunfire 280r's yes. Sorry, they are a dime a dozen and when they break, usually only one person cares. Plus they are brain dead easy to replace.
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The Real World uses Windows.
Yeah, for desktops. Thanks but no thanks, I don't need to spend any more time on toy computers.
Trust penn state to copy an existing idea and flaunt it as something that they've developed. Bah, that place is full of pretentious dorks who can never think up a thing on their own and yearn to be different just "because its cool". Morons.
Wow, somebody didn't take the rejection letter very well, did they?
Selling music over the internet is not the flawed model (people have been asking to be able to purchase single tracks at reduced prices for years, it is no surprise it is a success).
DRM, technically is a flawed concept though. It is basically PKI turned upside down. In PKI, you generate a private key and give out your public key so that people who want to send encrypted things to you can by encrypting them with your public key. This stuff can only be decrypted with your private key. You are the sole holder of your private key and should guard it effectively.
DRM is basically the same thing, but instead of you being the only with with access to your private key, they system tried to PREVENT you from getting at it. So with ITMS (and WMA9), MY computer is storing a private key and attempting to keep it secure from ME. This is basically impossible and will ALWAYS be broken over time since it can only be done in software.
And NOW we see why palladium exists... It is a way in HARDWARE (supposedly tamper proof) to let a system store a private key that is inaccessible to the owner of the key.
Um, sorry I don't think so. Microsoft could never run the massive datacenters that IBM hardware and software does. Sure, dinky little desktops would be screwed but in the grand scheme of things, who cares? I don't know of too many large (talking fortune 100 here) companies that rely on Microsoft for mission critical business functions, nearly ALL rely on heavily on IBM in some way. And Microsoft would be a hell of a lot easier to replace.
Taking away IBM mainframes ALONE would have a much more massive effect than taking away Microsoft.
Hmmm, good point. Moreover, does this sacrifice common carrier status? Even though the college is not doing the monitoring, they are allowing someone else to do it on their behalf.
Well, no the college's are. And it's their network and if they want to worry about wastfull bandwidth intensive apps tying up their network that is their business right?
With every MPAA story like this, you get all kinds of sheep coming out of the woodwork stating things like, "Good, downloading movies is illegal and this is just!" without realizing a lot of your rights are going down the toilet simply because some cry baby organization/company is claiming "copyright infringment" even though it's been going on for YEARS, long before the internet ever made it popular.
What rights are you refering to? Granted the RIAA is a total sleazebag group that should be first up against the wall when the revolution comes, but in this specific case where is the rights violation?
Very very few albums are crafted that way these days. Anymore it's just one or two well crafted songs and the rest of the filler that needed to be recorded to justify an album. Which in truely talentless cases like Linkin Park, they don't even come close to filling the while album (CD).
Unless you are listening to non-mainstream music, in which case, rock on:)
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Actually my Civic gets about the same gas miliage as an Insight.
:)
And I can climb hills with it. And attach spoilers, stickers, and large mufflers to make it go superfast, just like the cars in "The Fast and the Furious"
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Generally they are completely volunteer. I joined my SAR team last summer with no experience and have since been trained in First Aid, CPR, Navigation, Technical Rescue (ropes, high angle, etc), search tactics, and tons of other stuff. SAR teams are generally self educating, but there are state level and national certifications you can get. I am a PSARC certified FTM (equivalent to NASAR SARTEC II) in PA and will shortly find out if I passed the FTL exam (Field Team Leader - similar to NASAR SARTEC III)
Go find a local one and contact them, they are likely looking for volunteers.
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I have a personal policy that if I see anything manmade in the woods other than a basic signpost, it comes down.
I hope you are not stupid enough to pull down flagging tape. SAR teams use that constantly during searches to mark areas that have been searched, need searched, etc.
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No.
I hadn't
"Fucking animals" is about all I can say about that. I guess I hope the rest of the world doesn't judge the US by how our military is acting. But then, that is how we have historically judged them.
Those fucking animals
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As am I, but there is torture, and then there is TORTURE, if you take my meaning. What the soldiers did is inexcusable and they better damn well be punished heavily (along with whoever up the chain of command allowed this to happen), but it was still nothing compared to Saddam's reign of terror.
Until we find out that soldiers have been filling mass graves and mutiliating genitalia, I'm not sure it is fair to claim that Iraq is no better off. That does is disservice to those who REALLY suffered.
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Um, did you forget how "well off" they were under Saddam already?
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Someone commented about recording artists... They are under the same guise. Concerts and tours (in general) are not large money making operations, they are advertising. That advertising results in album sales, which are the real revenue stream.
Nope, the artists generally make their money with merchanise and concert sales. The record producer makes the vast majority of the money from the album sales.
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"I" understand fair use, the grandparent poster didn't.
The DMCA is where it breaks down, but if the DMCA didn't exist, companies would still be able to create systems that attempted to restrict fair use. Those systems just would not be protected by law.
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Please tell me what fair use right iTMS violates. You can burn a song you download as many times you like.
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But non of these are turned on by default, which means that out of the box Apple has had exactly 0 remote exploit problems. The only time you have to worry is if you manually turn on one of the services such as apache or ssl, which joe average user is not going to do.
Contrast to windows, which DOES run services out of the box, some of which you CANNOT TURN OFF. The sheer stupidity of that never ceases to amaze me.
Finkployd
It's very unlikely that someone will find a way to beat public key and AES encryption.
Every single encryption technology since the beginning of time has seemed that way until some new way of attacking it was discovered and breaking it became easy. Do you honestly believe that for the first time in history, we have two algorithms (RSA and AES) that will not be beaten?
And besides, DRM as implimented today is a fundamentally flawed concept. It is basically PKI in reverse. It all rests on the ability of a system to assign a private key to a user, and have that user access that private key via trusted applications to decrypt data BUT prevent that user from ever getting at that private key in any other way. Look at playfair, all it does it yank your private key out of itunes or the ipod. No breaking of the encryption method is needed to break DRM, just a way to get the key that by defination has to exist on your machine anyway.
Finkployd
Seriously, Java desktop is absolutely nothing more than GNOME with a new theme. Hell, Bluecurve actually made a half assed effort to not seem like nothing more than a GNOME theme, Java Desktop doesn't even do that.
It's not revolutionary, it isn't going to change anything, and frankly it is much poorer attempt than I would have expected from Sun.
Finkployd
So your day-to-day system is a server, yeah?
No, it's a Linux box. (and an OS X box, depending on where I am)
I guess that makes sense, given that your server isn't actually serving anything.
Um, exactly which server are you referring to?
After all, a server needs clients, and what would those be? Oh yeah.. desktops.
Yup, but fortunatly I am not in the business of supporting desktops. That would be our helpdesk's job. And frankly all they have to do is keep people from downloading viruses over and over again.
Toy machines, right?
Compared to IBM's Regatta (SP Cluster), Z800 mainframes, and Sunfire 280r's yes. Sorry, they are a dime a dozen and when they break, usually only one person cares. Plus they are brain dead easy to replace.
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The Real World uses Windows.
Yeah, for desktops. Thanks but no thanks, I don't need to spend any more time on toy computers.
Trust penn state to copy an existing idea and flaunt it as something that they've developed.
Bah, that place is full of pretentious dorks who can never think up a thing on their own and yearn to be different just "because its cool".
Morons.
Wow, somebody didn't take the rejection letter very well, did they?
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Selling music over the internet is not the flawed model (people have been asking to be able to purchase single tracks at reduced prices for years, it is no surprise it is a success).
DRM, technically is a flawed concept though. It is basically PKI turned upside down. In PKI, you generate a private key and give out your public key so that people who want to send encrypted things to you can by encrypting them with your public key. This stuff can only be decrypted with your private key. You are the sole holder of your private key and should guard it effectively.
DRM is basically the same thing, but instead of you being the only with with access to your private key, they system tried to PREVENT you from getting at it. So with ITMS (and WMA9), MY computer is storing a private key and attempting to keep it secure from ME. This is basically impossible and will ALWAYS be broken over time since it can only be done in software.
And NOW we see why palladium exists... It is a way in HARDWARE (supposedly tamper proof) to let a system store a private key that is inaccessible to the owner of the key.
Finkployd
Um, sorry I don't think so. Microsoft could never run the massive datacenters that IBM hardware and software does. Sure, dinky little desktops would be screwed but in the grand scheme of things, who cares? I don't know of too many large (talking fortune 100 here) companies that rely on Microsoft for mission critical business functions, nearly ALL rely on heavily on IBM in some way. And Microsoft would be a hell of a lot easier to replace.
Taking away IBM mainframes ALONE would have a much more massive effect than taking away Microsoft.
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FYI: Watching "a beautiful mind" does not make you a John Nash biographer. He never saw dead people, some things were just made up for the movie.
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Hmmm, good point. Moreover, does this sacrifice common carrier status? Even though the college is not doing the monitoring, they are allowing someone else to do it on their behalf.
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Well, no the college's are. And it's their network and if they want to worry about wastfull bandwidth intensive apps tying up their network that is their business right?
Just playing devil's advocate
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Now THAT was funny :)
Although how much can you really fault me for confusing RIAA and MPAA?
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With every MPAA story like this, you get all kinds of sheep coming out of the woodwork stating things like, "Good, downloading movies is illegal and this is just!" without realizing a lot of your rights are going down the toilet simply because some cry baby organization/company is claiming "copyright infringment" even though it's been going on for YEARS, long before the internet ever made it popular.
What rights are you refering to? Granted the RIAA is a total sleazebag group that should be first up against the wall when the revolution comes, but in this specific case where is the rights violation?
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Very very few albums are crafted that way these days. Anymore it's just one or two well crafted songs and the rest of the filler that needed to be recorded to justify an album. Which in truely talentless cases like Linkin Park, they don't even come close to filling the while album (CD).
:)
Unless you are listening to non-mainstream music, in which case, rock on
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Even before winamp started kicking llama's asses, there was a primitive device called the radio that had a shuffle feature that you couldn't turn off.
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I think the point is he has not been sued yet, only threatened. There is no basis for a case.
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