Seriously though, I installed WinXP Pro on my GF's machine less than two weeks ago, after a few days of her kids using the machine Ad Aware and Spybot S & D found all kinds of shit that they downloaded onto it without thinking.
Especially "gentlemens clubs", a special room where there are pay phones and sound machines. Tell the wife you're calling from the ER waiting room, Traffic Jam, Ball Game, whatever while you're putting money and your face in between luscious giant breasts.
To be fair to the Jewish population of Israel, there are quite a number of world interests that would like nothing more than to see the anihilation of the Jewish people.
To be honest, there are even more that would like nothing more than to see the end of the state of Israel.
Israel is a secular state. Judaism isn't codified into their law.
Since 1948 there has been conflict beetween Zionists and anti-Zionists, for over 1000 years before that there was relative peace between Arab muslims and Jews. In fact Arab muslims were often welcomed conquerors because they permitted the Jewish people to worship in peace.
Strange, isn't it?
Frankly, I think 90% of our politicians could be charged with treason for putting their special interests ahead of the interest of the country.
An apathetic electorate is what put them in a position where they have to.
No, the Universe doesn't revolve around Washington D.C., regardless of the distended view our out-of-touch legislators have deluded themselves into thinking
Not the Universe, but the planet.
Doubt it, just think about the situation in the Middle East, Saddam Hussein violated 1 UN resolution, that got him deposed because that's what Washington DC wanted. Israel is in violation of 69 UN Security Council resolutions, the only bombs going off there are homemade by Palestinians because the US would kick ass if the UN even thought about using force against Israel.
The US wants DMCA like laws around the globe, countries that were holding out are dropping like flies as world governments cave in to the demands of Washington.
Less than half of all registered voters in the US actually go to the poll, not even all eligible people are registered. Washington DC is enslaved to the people who donate the much needed money to their campaigns, because they have to fight all the harder to get the votes of the few citizens who vote.
I think crack dealers should use this strategy... "If you buy from someone other than me, I'll turn you into the cops for buying drugs".
Street level dealers don't do this sort of thing but the "big boys" do. Where do you think that those "anonymous tips" that the DEA and Customs act upon come from?
That's, I guess, my objection to "Grand Theft Auto." I really don't like the amoralistic games where you're out there doing bad stuff just for fun. It's kind of like video vandalism, you know? Maybe you could argue that it's better to have the guy break windows on the video screen than down the street [laughs]. I really don't know. To me, it is a little troubling -- maybe I'm just kind of old-fashioned -- to have the player take on an amoral role in a game. I feel strongly that the player should have a cause and be acting for the just.
This is from the creator of Narc, a game in which police officers BLOW APART SUSPECTS BODIES. I guess that's ok in his book because not only is it fun to kill drug dealers, but it's for the greater good. It isn't amoral to murder bad people.
Bottom line is, the CIA has always had the edge in technology, but the KGB still had an advantage in human intelligence. They had far better human recruitment than the CIA ever did. (And for those who really follow this stuff, you probably already know that human intelligence is one thing that is very sorely lacking in our war on terror today.)
The US's greatest strength is also its greatest weakness as it relates to the human side of intelligence. It's our diverse society.
We don't have Arab Americans knocking down the CIA's door to go to work for them. And white people just don't blend in everywhere. During the Cold War black intelligence agents sometimes felt that their career growth was stunted because the best assignments were in the USSR and black people just didn't fit in there.
We need to go to war against Canada or England so we can make better use of our human capital.
Information Unlimited sells Tesla coils. I can speak first hand of how effective they are at frying electronics. I built their BTC3K Tesla Coil when I was in 10th grade, it is fantastic. On days with low humidity purple sparks 10-12 inches in length are not out of the question. I figure that 250,000 volts is more than enough to fry RFID chips.
That little strip inside of the bills appears to be aluminized mylar. We all know what happens when you put aluminum foil into a microwave oven.
I made that mistake once, about 20 years ago. My mother gave me a Wendy's Kid's Meal, I didn't eat it right away. Later, I wanted to warm it up so I put into the microwave. I didn't open the box, and I forgot that they wrapped the burgers in a foil type wrapper. It was like fireworks. Bright flashed of blue-white light were coming out of the Kid's Meal box.
I nearly soiled myself out of fear. In those days they led you to believe that if you put metal in a microwave it would be like the Ghostbusters crossing the streams of their proton packs.
I would posit that most of the illegally shared music on P2P networks are not being shared by the person who originally ripped/encoded it.
The files are being shared by the original ripper/encoder plus 20 people who downloaded it from him, plus 10 people for each of them who downloaded the file from them and 4 people for each of them and so on and so on... DRM crippled files wouldn't even make it that far. People would notice before it got to that point.
Besides there are more than enough tools available to create non-crippled content. Who in his/her right mind is going to use software that isn't any easier to use and has more restrictions. What I'm talking about here is their perception of ease of use, not reality.
MP3 is so deeply entrenched in its current form, the public isn't going to switch. There are untold Terrabytes or even Petabytes of MP3s in the world that have no DRM. It's pure idiocy to think that people will just switch from the free and open (in their minds, if not truly in reality) format that MP3 currently is to another one.
It's a waste of money to develop an add on and try to force it on the market. That won't happen.
Then again, "Trusted Computing" might be enough to force people.
We all know that hydrogen is the most common element in the known universe, why is it such a big deal that some of that greatly abundant hydrogen exists in H2O on Mars?
With the countless gallons on earth, it shouldn't be a big deal that just a fraction of that much water ended up on Mars.
Once XP Reloaded comes out, I can't wait to query for "XP Reloaded Reloaded" and see if the number of results returned decreases at all, or if the MS tards just add more bugs with every "bug fix". Hahahaha!
Statistically, I think women with smaller breasts would be better at 'athletic' games because there is less to get in the way. I bet her score sucked...
You would lose that bet. She even scored higher than the small breasted woman who was there. She consistantly scored higher than the males, but maybe because they were distracted while they played.
I'm not trying to be abrasive, but I will be direct. CS isn't what most people think it is.
CS isn't about just using computers. It's about understanding the principles upon which they operate. Stacks, Queues, Linked Lists, Matrices, Vectors, Arrays, Binary Trees, Hashes, myriad other data structures, bubble sorts, inheritance, polymorphism, structs, classes, virtual functions, and many, many other concepts that would give the "average" computer user a spliting headache. When you boil it down, CS is about the low level manipulation of data.
I can't imagine any effective BS degree program that involved computers that shouldn't include at least some programming. If you extrude the line of reasoning to other fields, the best car salesmen are the ones who know what is going on under the hood. I wouldn't buy a car from someone who couldn't explain to me why ABS brakes, or tuned port injection are beneficial to me. How can you expect to get into the computer field if you don't understand what's going on inside of the little box with all of the lights on it?
In all seriousness, maybe computers isn't the field for you.
No, a Certified Beer Master, there's a world of difference. I know the differences between the various types of malt and hops. I know why they Beechwood age Budweiser. I know what causes a beer to taste "Skunky". I know how to accellerate (God knows why) and how to decellerate the process.
I even have a certificate to prove that I'm a certified Beer Master. You wouldn't believe how much work goes into making such a thoroughly below average beer.
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Seriously though, I installed WinXP Pro on my GF's machine less than two weeks ago, after a few days of her kids using the machine Ad Aware and Spybot S & D found all kinds of shit that they downloaded onto it without thinking.
That's why no one but me uses my machine.
LK
Bragging or complaining?
Yes.
What's the matter? You've got two hands, don't you?
Yeah, and I need 'em both.
LK
Especially "gentlemens clubs", a special room where there are pay phones and sound machines. Tell the wife you're calling from the ER waiting room, Traffic Jam, Ball Game, whatever while you're putting money and your face in between luscious giant breasts.
LK
I think that they'll need to start selling a stand or tripod or something, a "handheld" player would be useless for porn without one.
To be fair to the Jewish population of Israel, there are quite a number of world interests that would like nothing more than to see the anihilation of the Jewish people.
To be honest, there are even more that would like nothing more than to see the end of the state of Israel.
Israel is a secular state. Judaism isn't codified into their law.
Since 1948 there has been conflict beetween Zionists and anti-Zionists, for over 1000 years before that there was relative peace between Arab muslims and Jews. In fact Arab muslims were often welcomed conquerors because they permitted the Jewish people to worship in peace.
Strange, isn't it?
Frankly, I think 90% of our politicians could be charged with treason for putting their special interests ahead of the interest of the country.
An apathetic electorate is what put them in a position where they have to.
LK
No, the Universe doesn't revolve around Washington D.C., regardless of the distended view our out-of-touch legislators have deluded themselves into thinking
Not the Universe, but the planet.
Doubt it, just think about the situation in the Middle East, Saddam Hussein violated 1 UN resolution, that got him deposed because that's what Washington DC wanted. Israel is in violation of 69 UN Security Council resolutions, the only bombs going off there are homemade by Palestinians because the US would kick ass if the UN even thought about using force against Israel.
The US wants DMCA like laws around the globe, countries that were holding out are dropping like flies as world governments cave in to the demands of Washington.
Less than half of all registered voters in the US actually go to the poll, not even all eligible people are registered. Washington DC is enslaved to the people who donate the much needed money to their campaigns, because they have to fight all the harder to get the votes of the few citizens who vote.
LK
Given the chance I'd become a porn star without a second thought.
I think crack dealers should use this strategy... "If you buy from someone other than me, I'll turn you into the cops for buying drugs".
Street level dealers don't do this sort of thing but the "big boys" do. Where do you think that those "anonymous tips" that the DEA and Customs act upon come from?
LK
From the article
That's, I guess, my objection to "Grand Theft Auto." I really don't like the amoralistic games where you're out there doing bad stuff just for fun. It's kind of like video vandalism, you know? Maybe you could argue that it's better to have the guy break windows on the video screen than down the street [laughs]. I really don't know. To me, it is a little troubling -- maybe I'm just kind of old-fashioned -- to have the player take on an amoral role in a game. I feel strongly that the player should have a cause and be acting for the just.
This is from the creator of Narc, a game in which police officers BLOW APART SUSPECTS BODIES. I guess that's ok in his book because not only is it fun to kill drug dealers, but it's for the greater good. It isn't amoral to murder bad people.
LK
Maybe there is a reason Arab americans aren't knocking on the door to join US intelligence services.
I suspect that a big part of that is because of the US's middle east policy.
LK
Only 2% of Canada's population and 4% of Britain's population are black, compared to 13% of the U.S. population.
I still believe that black and brown people are more likely in those countries than in the former USSR.
LK
Bottom line is, the CIA has always had the edge in technology, but the KGB still had an advantage in human intelligence. They had far better human recruitment than the CIA ever did. (And for those who really follow this stuff, you probably already know that human intelligence is one thing that is very sorely lacking in our war on terror today.)
The US's greatest strength is also its greatest weakness as it relates to the human side of intelligence. It's our diverse society.
We don't have Arab Americans knocking down the CIA's door to go to work for them. And white people just don't blend in everywhere. During the Cold War black intelligence agents sometimes felt that their career growth was stunted because the best assignments were in the USSR and black people just didn't fit in there.
We need to go to war against Canada or England so we can make better use of our human capital.
LK
Information Unlimited sells Tesla coils. I can speak first hand of how effective they are at frying electronics. I built their BTC3K Tesla Coil when I was in 10th grade, it is fantastic. On days with low humidity purple sparks 10-12 inches in length are not out of the question. I figure that 250,000 volts is more than enough to fry RFID chips.
LK
That little strip inside of the bills appears to be aluminized mylar. We all know what happens when you put aluminum foil into a microwave oven.
I made that mistake once, about 20 years ago. My mother gave me a Wendy's Kid's Meal, I didn't eat it right away. Later, I wanted to warm it up so I put into the microwave. I didn't open the box, and I forgot that they wrapped the burgers in a foil type wrapper. It was like fireworks. Bright flashed of blue-white light were coming out of the Kid's Meal box.
I nearly soiled myself out of fear. In those days they led you to believe that if you put metal in a microwave it would be like the Ghostbusters crossing the streams of their proton packs.
LK
I would posit that most of the illegally shared music on P2P networks are not being shared by the person who originally ripped/encoded it.
The files are being shared by the original ripper/encoder plus 20 people who downloaded it from him, plus 10 people for each of them who downloaded the file from them and 4 people for each of them and so on and so on... DRM crippled files wouldn't even make it that far. People would notice before it got to that point.
Besides there are more than enough tools available to create non-crippled content. Who in his/her right mind is going to use software that isn't any easier to use and has more restrictions. What I'm talking about here is their perception of ease of use, not reality.
LK
MP3 is so deeply entrenched in its current form, the public isn't going to switch. There are untold Terrabytes or even Petabytes of MP3s in the world that have no DRM. It's pure idiocy to think that people will just switch from the free and open (in their minds, if not truly in reality) format that MP3 currently is to another one.
It's a waste of money to develop an add on and try to force it on the market. That won't happen.
Then again, "Trusted Computing" might be enough to force people.
LK
We all know that hydrogen is the most common element in the known universe, why is it such a big deal that some of that greatly abundant hydrogen exists in H2O on Mars?
With the countless gallons on earth, it shouldn't be a big deal that just a fraction of that much water ended up on Mars.
LK
How in the fuck can he get modded Informative?
Once XP Reloaded comes out, I can't wait to query for "XP Reloaded Reloaded" and see if the number of results returned decreases at all, or if the MS tards just add more bugs with every "bug fix". Hahahaha!
No, it'll be XP Revolutions.
Statistically, I think women with smaller breasts would be better at 'athletic' games because there is less to get in the way. I bet her score sucked...
You would lose that bet. She even scored higher than the small breasted woman who was there. She consistantly scored higher than the males, but maybe because they were distracted while they played.
LK
I'm not sure that was really that funny.
/. have a bizarre sense of humor.
It wasn't.
Moderators on
Tell me about it, old timer.
LK
I'm not trying to be abrasive, but I will be direct. CS isn't what most people think it is.
CS isn't about just using computers. It's about understanding the principles upon which they operate. Stacks, Queues, Linked Lists, Matrices, Vectors, Arrays, Binary Trees, Hashes, myriad other data structures, bubble sorts, inheritance, polymorphism, structs, classes, virtual functions, and many, many other concepts that would give the "average" computer user a spliting headache. When you boil it down, CS is about the low level manipulation of data.
I can't imagine any effective BS degree program that involved computers that shouldn't include at least some programming. If you extrude the line of reasoning to other fields, the best car salesmen are the ones who know what is going on under the hood. I wouldn't buy a car from someone who couldn't explain to me why ABS brakes, or tuned port injection are beneficial to me. How can you expect to get into the computer field if you don't understand what's going on inside of the little box with all of the lights on it?
In all seriousness, maybe computers isn't the field for you.
LK
Certified Brew master eh?
No, a Certified Beer Master, there's a world of difference. I know the differences between the various types of malt and hops. I know why they Beechwood age Budweiser. I know what causes a beer to taste "Skunky". I know how to accellerate (God knows why) and how to decellerate the process.
LK
I even have a certificate to prove that I'm a certified Beer Master. You wouldn't believe how much work goes into making such a thoroughly below average beer.
LK