It's bad enough to keep track of all the CDs I need to use, what if I had to sort a whole bunch of hardware dongles. Oh, your computer no longer has a parralell port, well We'll happily sell you the USB dongles with the new version.
A lot of Mac users went through that with ADB dongles. It's one of the reasons why I'm no longer a Mac user.
It's one thing to exclude the contents of a conversation from evidence at a trial, it's another to make it illegal to monitor the radio waves that exist in public places or even that pass into your own home.
"ownership" has nothing to do with it; its whether the communication is conducted via a method the user has a "reasonable expectation of privacy" using.
And they have no expectation of privacy. They're broadcasting RF into public areas. If you use a cordless phone and someone listens to your conversation using a scanner, it's your fault for broadcasting your conversation over public airways.
I admit that it is a bit more complicated than that. Technically it is a violation of federal law, however, time and time again courts have found that people who did just that hadn't broken the law. The courts have stopped short of striking down the law.
If you're intentionally operating a radio device looking for signals you know are not meant for you, that's called eavesdropping.
The federal statute at issue prohibited the nonconsensual interception of wire, oral, and electronic communication and the intentional disclosure or use of the contents of such communication with knowledge that the information was obtained through illegal interception./UL
Nonconsensual is the key here. If someone is broadcasting a signal to you. If they accept signals from you and relay them to third parties, you can infer their consent.
It's like putting a spotlight in your back yard and then suing all of your neighbors for stealing your light when they sit on their back porches and read by the light that you've shined onto their property.
Maybe I am in the minority but I see stealing bandwidth, the same way as stealing movies off line, it seams like you hurt no one, but you are still stealing, no amount of justifying is going to change that
Some people intentionally set up APs and leave them open because they want to. SOME of the open APs out there were intended to be used. If you don't want anyone to use your connection, don't leave it open. You're broadcasting signals into public areas. If you don't secure your network, you have no grounds to complain if someone uses the signals that you broadcast into public areas.
I use WEP and MAC filtering on my network. It took 2 minutes to set up. There is no reason why other people can't.
Copyrighted material is never intended to be downloaded from the internet without the permission of the copyright owner.
BTW, how many fucking times do we have to say it? Copyright infringement is not "stealing", it's illegal, it's wrong, but it's not "stealing".
Indeed! Now all they have to worry about is... Gohnorrea Herpes Chlamydia Syphillis Ge nital Warts HPV Hepatitus Trichomoniasis and more! Lucky bitches...
In order....
Curable. Nasty stuff, but not fatal. Curable. Curable. Nasty stuff, once again not fatal. Nasty stuff, not fatal unless it causes cancer. Possibly fatal. Nasty stuff, but curable.
HIV is the queen mother of STDs, once that is out of the way, there will be a lot more au naturale love happening in the world.
And maybe, if you force enough people to serve against their will, the general public will get interested enough to do something about a war which they don't support.
Are you going to volunteer yourself for a ride in one of the flag draped metal coffins to drive that point home? I will not.
I'll fight for my country. I'll put my life on the line for my countrymen, but I won't go to war for Israel. That's what our presence in the Middle East is all about.
Please don't try to convince the rest of the world that this is black "culture".
I couldn't agree more. People do a disservice to their children when they mix up scrabble tiles to choose their names.
I've never met a doctor named De'Shaun. I've never met a lawyer named TyKeshia. Right or wrong, people assume things about you when the read or hear your name.
Let's say that someone in the admissions department at a college has one spot left and he has to choose between Robert Todd Wilson and L?hmarvin Diontê Wilson; everything else being equal, we all know who's getting the spot.
I have been developing a list of "Ghetto Names" and the following is the current incarnation. Take a look.
The following list is made up of the criteria for determining if one has what shall be
henceforth known as a "Ghetto Name". A Ghetto Name implies a lack of education or sophistication on the part of the one who gave the name. By no means is having a Ghetto Name indicative of anything negative about the individual unfortunate enough to bear it.
The list applies only to those of us who are native born black Americans. I will leave the list of Red Neck names or Trailer Park names to Jeff Foxxworthy or someone else. This list is mine.
#1. If your name is misspelled, it is a Ghetto Name. #2. If your first name includes an apostrophe, it is a Ghetto Name. #3. If your first name includes the sounds "eeta", "ona", "eekwa", "onda" or "eesha", it is a Ghetto Name. #4. If your first name is an adjective or an adverb, it is a Ghetto Name. #5. If your first name is the last name of a former president of the US, it is a Ghetto Name. #6. If your first name consists of a regular name preceeded by "Ne", "La","Le", "Ra", "De" or "Je", it is a Ghetto Name. #7. If your first name begins with the sound "My"/"Mi", "Ty", or "Shy"/"Shi", it is a Ghetto Name. #8. If your first name consists of a monosyllabic word repeated two or more times, it is a Ghetto Name. #9. If your first name is the same as a City, State, Country or Emotion, it is a Ghetto Name. #10. If you have never known of another human being who bears your name, it is a Ghetto Name.
States are one of the few organizations easily swayed by people voting with their feet -- if they lose the federal funds, they either need to cut services or raise taxes - both of which result in people leaving the state for metaphorically greener pastures.
The federal government is also subject to the same pressures. When it becomes too expensive to have a corporate HQ in the US, they have and will relocate to another country that is more friendly.
Is it too expensive to make VCRs here? Yes. They get made in asia.
Look at the 'federal drinking age - every state towed the line - there was too much money at risk.
That's a great example. There is statistical proof that moving the legal drinking age to 21 has cost more lives than it saved, but states want that federal money so they keep in line. 18, 19, and 20 years olds don't vote enough to force House and Senate members to address their concerns.
A good number of hte states are already running incrasingly massive deficits -- do you honestly think they can afford to, either short or long term, to give up 'free money' that they paid in the first place?
State governments don't pay money to the federal government. State's can't claim the taxes that are paid to the federal government by its citizens.
Alcohol lowers inhibitions, fortunately when you're too drunk, not all of the equipment will work properly. The addition of ginseng means that no matter how drunk you get, you'll be able to perform with whatever skank you take home from the bar.
Why there is such an overabundance of matter. All of the matter in the universe is surplus, all of it particles that have not been annihilate by antimatter particles.
Why is there so much of a surplus? Is there an anti-universe just waiting to annihilate the one we live in?
This is sort of like the abortion thing: just as nothing will ever change Roe vs. Wade, nothing will ever change your right to own hunting rifles and shotguns, and nothing will ever seriously restrict your ability to own a handgun. They'll mess with waiting periods, ID requirements, and maybe even registration.
Waiting periods are gone. The FBI Instant Backgroud check is currently in place so the only real wait is up to each state, the way it should be.
Likewise, ownership of full-auto assault rifles and machine guns is going to be alternatively banned, restricted, and liberalized every four or eight years.
You apparently are misinformed. Full Auto rifles have been tightly controlled continuously for the past 70 years. The Clinton Gun Ban of 1994 had nothing to do with "full-auto assault rifles". It was about banning guns that looked scary.
I prefer mandrake on the PC, but for the PPC patform Yellow Dog now suports (sort of) 64bit architecture. (Ooh Ahh).
I agree that Mandrake is a bit better on x86 that on PPC. I'm running two PPC machines with Mandrake 9.1 and one x86 with Mandrake 9.0 and the x86 version works a bit smoother. There are complications with glibc and some depends but I don't plan on using any other flavor of linux on those PPC machines.
Laws like No Chiled left Behind (Which Mr Bush created and Mr Kerry voted for) and provisions in the patriot act unconstitutionally infringe on the states.
No Child Left Behind means that you don't get certain funds from the federal government, if you don't follow the attached rules. It has nothing to do with interfering with the soverignty of the states.
If you don't like it, don't follow it. You just won't get money from the federal government.
He said he hadn't had "sexual relations" and according to the legal definition (intercourse) provided by the judge, he hadn't. Misleading, yes. Perjury? No.
No, the definition that he was given included Oral Sex too. He tried to torture that definition to mean that Monica had sexual relations with him, but that he did not have sexual relations with her.
Bush is the only viable candidate who has a chance of winning. When I say that "I have no choice", I mean that my decision has been made. One candidate that I can vote for is going up against one candidate that I can not vote for, there are several candidates who have no chance of winning that I won't waste my vote on.
What do you do when candidate A is pro-abortion, anti-gun-control, and candidate B is anti-abortion, pro-gun-control? Which one wins? Do you go from a two issue voter to a single issue voter?
I'd grudgingly support A.
Also, will anti-abortion and anti-gun-control always win over pro-abortion and pro-gun-control for any two candidates?
For me, yes.
What if the anti-candidate is certifiably insane
Then I can't trust his claims to be on my side of those issues.
or intends to enslave candadians in SPAM authoring factories
I've never liked them anyway.
or implment forced euthanasia at 30 ala logan's run?
If I'm armed, they'll be less likely to try to euthanize me.
Or what if the anti-candidate wants to end drug prohibition?
I'm in favor of that too.
Or what if the pro-candidate intends to balance the federal budget without raising taxes or cutting programs you care about? Do you then become a 3-issue voter?
Too bad he's wrong on my two issues. I can't vote for him.
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It's bad enough to keep track of all the CDs I need to use, what if I had to sort a whole bunch of hardware dongles. Oh, your computer no longer has a parralell port, well We'll happily sell you the USB dongles with the new version.
A lot of Mac users went through that with ADB dongles. It's one of the reasons why I'm no longer a Mac user.
LK
There are thousands of years of prior art for the taste of saliva and the smell of all bodily functions.
LK
It's one thing to exclude the contents of a conversation from evidence at a trial, it's another to make it illegal to monitor the radio waves that exist in public places or even that pass into your own home.
LK
I've been reading Hawking, and I know of the overabundance exists. What I'm wonder is why it exists.
LK
The problem is that the only people working on this are locked up in laboratories are face little prospect of exploiting their discovery.
The people who cure AIDS are going to be RICH. That will get them laid more than any good looking poor people.
LK
Sounds like the current administration.
If you feel that way, consider talking to your boss about getting someone else to be in charge of the network.
LK
Is English your first language, Sancho?
LK
"ownership" has nothing to do with it; its whether the communication is conducted via a method the user has a "reasonable expectation of privacy" using.
And they have no expectation of privacy. They're broadcasting RF into public areas. If you use a cordless phone and someone listens to your conversation using a scanner, it's your fault for broadcasting your conversation over public airways.
I admit that it is a bit more complicated than that. Technically it is a violation of federal law, however, time and time again courts have found that people who did just that hadn't broken the law. The courts have stopped short of striking down the law.
If you're intentionally operating a radio device looking for signals you know are not meant for you, that's called eavesdropping.
No. You're wrong.
Here's the important part
Nonconsensual is the key here. If someone is broadcasting a signal to you. If they accept signals from you and relay them to third parties, you can infer their consent.
It's like putting a spotlight in your back yard and then suing all of your neighbors for stealing your light when they sit on their back porches and read by the light that you've shined onto their property.
LK
Maybe I am in the minority but I see stealing bandwidth, the same way as stealing movies off line, it seams like you hurt no one, but you are still stealing, no amount of justifying is going to change that
Some people intentionally set up APs and leave them open because they want to. SOME of the open APs out there were intended to be used. If you don't want anyone to use your connection, don't leave it open. You're broadcasting signals into public areas. If you don't secure your network, you have no grounds to complain if someone uses the signals that you broadcast into public areas.
I use WEP and MAC filtering on my network. It took 2 minutes to set up. There is no reason why other people can't.
Copyrighted material is never intended to be downloaded from the internet without the permission of the copyright owner.
BTW, how many fucking times do we have to say it? Copyright infringement is not "stealing", it's illegal, it's wrong, but it's not "stealing".
LK
Indeed! Now all they have to worry about is...e nital Warts
Gohnorrea
Herpes
Chlamydia
Syphillis
G
HPV
Hepatitus
Trichomoniasis
and more! Lucky bitches...
In order....
Curable.
Nasty stuff, but not fatal.
Curable.
Curable.
Nasty stuff, once again not fatal.
Nasty stuff, not fatal unless it causes cancer.
Possibly fatal.
Nasty stuff, but curable.
HIV is the queen mother of STDs, once that is out of the way, there will be a lot more au naturale love happening in the world.
LK
And maybe, if you force enough people to serve against their will, the general public will get interested enough to do something about a war which they don't support.
Are you going to volunteer yourself for a ride in one of the flag draped metal coffins to drive that point home? I will not.
I'll fight for my country. I'll put my life on the line for my countrymen, but I won't go to war for Israel. That's what our presence in the Middle East is all about.
LK
"Get out and vote, or I'll kick your pansy ass!"
LK
So my 50+ year old Japanese teacher, who's first name is Michiko, obviously has a ghetto name. Yup.
If it's pronounced "My"+"Cheeko", then yes.
I'd suspect that it's pronounced "mitch"+"iko".
LK
Please don't try to convince the rest of the world that this is black "culture".
I couldn't agree more. People do a disservice to their children when they mix up scrabble tiles to choose their names.
I've never met a doctor named De'Shaun. I've never met a lawyer named TyKeshia. Right or wrong, people assume things about you when the read or hear your name.
Let's say that someone in the admissions department at a college has one spot left and he has to choose between Robert Todd Wilson and L?hmarvin Diontê Wilson; everything else being equal, we all know who's getting the spot.
Why, oh why do my people do that?
LK
henceforth known as a "Ghetto Name". A Ghetto Name implies a lack of education or sophistication
on the part of the one who gave the name. By no means is having a Ghetto Name indicative of anything
negative about the individual unfortunate enough to bear it.
The list applies only to those of us who are native born black Americans. I will leave the list of Red Neck names or
Trailer Park names to Jeff Foxxworthy or someone else. This list is mine.
#1. If your name is misspelled, it is a Ghetto Name.
#2. If your first name includes an apostrophe, it is a Ghetto Name.
#3. If your first name includes the sounds "eeta", "ona", "eekwa", "onda" or "eesha", it is a Ghetto Name.
#4. If your first name is an adjective or an adverb, it is a Ghetto Name.
#5. If your first name is the last name of a former president of the US, it is a Ghetto Name.
#6. If your first name consists of a regular name preceeded by "Ne", "La"
#7. If your first name begins with the sound "My"/"Mi", "Ty", or "Shy"/"Shi", it is a Ghetto Name.
#8. If your first name consists of a monosyllabic word repeated two or more times, it is a Ghetto Name.
#9. If your first name is the same as a City, State, Country or Emotion, it is a Ghetto Name.
#10. If you have never known of another human being who bears your name, it is a Ghetto Name.
LK
States are one of the few organizations easily swayed by people voting with their feet -- if they lose the federal funds, they either need to cut services or raise taxes - both of which result in people leaving the state for metaphorically greener pastures.
The federal government is also subject to the same pressures. When it becomes too expensive to have a corporate HQ in the US, they have and will relocate to another country that is more friendly.
Is it too expensive to make VCRs here? Yes. They get made in asia.
Look at the 'federal drinking age - every state towed the line - there was too much money at risk.
That's a great example. There is statistical proof that moving the legal drinking age to 21 has cost more lives than it saved, but states want that federal money so they keep in line. 18, 19, and 20 years olds don't vote enough to force House and Senate members to address their concerns.
A good number of hte states are already running incrasingly massive deficits -- do you honestly think they can afford to, either short or long term, to give up 'free money' that they paid in the first place?
State governments don't pay money to the federal government. State's can't claim the taxes that are paid to the federal government by its citizens.
LK
Alcohol lowers inhibitions, fortunately when you're too drunk, not all of the equipment will work properly. The addition of ginseng means that no matter how drunk you get, you'll be able to perform with whatever skank you take home from the bar.
LK
Why there is such an overabundance of matter. All of the matter in the universe is surplus, all of it particles that have not been annihilate by antimatter particles.
Why is there so much of a surplus? Is there an anti-universe just waiting to annihilate the one we live in?
LK
It's kind of a back door way for the federal government to control state governments - the taxes aren't optional, afterall.
States are able to dictate their own tax rates. If they need more money, they have the option of raising taxes. But, no one ever really wants that.
The grandparent poster's question is valid, your defense of Bush notwithstanding.
States have the choice to not take the money and not deal with the attached strings.
LK
This is sort of like the abortion thing: just as nothing will ever change Roe vs. Wade, nothing will ever change your right to own hunting rifles and shotguns, and nothing will ever seriously restrict your ability to own a handgun. They'll mess with waiting periods, ID requirements, and maybe even registration.
Waiting periods are gone. The FBI Instant Backgroud check is currently in place so the only real wait is up to each state, the way it should be.
Likewise, ownership of full-auto assault rifles and machine guns is going to be alternatively banned, restricted, and liberalized every four or eight years.
You apparently are misinformed. Full Auto rifles have been tightly controlled continuously for the past 70 years. The Clinton Gun Ban of 1994 had nothing to do with "full-auto assault rifles". It was about banning guns that looked scary.
LK
I prefer mandrake on the PC, but for the PPC patform Yellow Dog now suports (sort of) 64bit architecture. (Ooh Ahh).
I agree that Mandrake is a bit better on x86 that on PPC. I'm running two PPC machines with Mandrake 9.1 and one x86 with Mandrake 9.0 and the x86 version works a bit smoother. There are complications with glibc and some depends but I don't plan on using any other flavor of linux on those PPC machines.
LK
Laws like No Chiled left Behind (Which Mr Bush created and Mr Kerry voted for) and provisions in the patriot act unconstitutionally infringe on the states.
No Child Left Behind means that you don't get certain funds from the federal government, if you don't follow the attached rules. It has nothing to do with interfering with the soverignty of the states.
If you don't like it, don't follow it. You just won't get money from the federal government.
LK
He said he hadn't had "sexual relations" and according to the legal definition (intercourse) provided by the judge, he hadn't. Misleading, yes. Perjury? No.
No, the definition that he was given included Oral Sex too. He tried to torture that definition to mean that Monica had sexual relations with him, but that he did not have sexual relations with her.
He committed perjury.
LK
Bush is the only viable candidate who has a chance of winning. When I say that "I have no choice", I mean that my decision has been made. One candidate that I can vote for is going up against one candidate that I can not vote for, there are several candidates who have no chance of winning that I won't waste my vote on.
LK
What do you do when candidate A is pro-abortion, anti-gun-control, and candidate B is anti-abortion, pro-gun-control? Which one wins? Do you go from a two issue voter to a single issue voter?
I'd grudgingly support A.
Also, will anti-abortion and anti-gun-control always win over pro-abortion and pro-gun-control for any two candidates?
For me, yes.
What if the anti-candidate is certifiably insane
Then I can't trust his claims to be on my side of those issues.
or intends to enslave candadians in SPAM authoring factories
I've never liked them anyway.
or implment forced euthanasia at 30 ala logan's run?
If I'm armed, they'll be less likely to try to euthanize me.
Or what if the anti-candidate wants to end drug prohibition?
I'm in favor of that too.
Or what if the pro-candidate intends to balance the federal budget without raising taxes or cutting programs you care about? Do you then become a 3-issue voter?
Too bad he's wrong on my two issues. I can't vote for him.
LK