I have joined IRC channels and said as much as "Hey all. What's up?" and been kicked. My clients always auto reconnect, then I get kickbanned for a channel greeting that didn't fit some asshole OP's definition of what is appropriate for his channel.
If I had the time and the bandwidth I'd love to take down a few of there servers in order to steal OPS.
I'm not defending the script kiddie who is doing this, but find out his motive if you want to avoid it in the future.
Though I'm not defending drunk drivers, I don't see how they can prove intent to cause harm.
If driving with a bac of.25 is so bad (and it is) they should just increase the DUI penalty in your state. I think that the additional charge is just a way to punish those without political connections.
Convice the car makers to make your little cars safer. I'm not giving up my SUV. When I'm ready for a new vehicle, it'll be a new SUV.
I live in Pittsburgh, I drove a two wheel drive sports car and in the snow it's impossible to drive effectively.
You "ban the SUVs" people would probably prohibit big penises if you could. It's not fair that someone else has something bigger and less fuel efficient than you.
Many hardware companies discourage upgrading of their machines. I don't know if this is still the case, but Compaq, Packard Bell and a few others did't mark the jumpers on their socket 7 boards so that if you wanted to put in a faster CPU you had to play Jumper Keno until you were running at the right speed.
To my knowledge (I could be wrong about this)no CPU upgrade maker has been able to make a work around since Apple moved the boot rom from the logic board to the CPU card in the G4.
It's too bad that this kind of theft will probably scare people away from online purchases even when it's a database that's cracked rather than their transactions.
Be it a hole in SSL or a lazy/stupid box admin that opens up the door for crackers and script kiddies to get access to your info, the fact remains that you have an annoyance on your hands. Canceling card, getting new card, notifying ISPs and other of the change in information.
I'd rather spend the time to drive to the mall, I can look at women in tight pants at the mall. Hell, maybe even score a phone number.
Civil forfeiture is nothing new. It really came into it's own under the Reagan administration with the War on Drugs in the 80's. In the 90's under the Clinton administration the new ground was broken in the War on Guns.
Why is it that my fellow geeks only care about this type of thing when it's knocking at their own front door? This type of thing threatens all of our freedom. Whether or not you're a terrorist, mafioso, child pornographer, or any of the other assorted nasties that are thrown up to gain public acceptance this will not stop at just the "Bad Guys".
I don't use crypto very much. A little SSH for secure terminal sessions and SSL because I want to learn about it, I even have a PGP public key somewhere around here for emergencies, but I think that we should be able to use crypto with no fear of persecution for it. If I want to send my girlfriend a sweet sappy love letter, I don't think that it's unreasonable to not want an FBI, NSA or even ISP snoop reading over it to see if it's an acceptable communication.
For the "If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear." crowd, how long before it's YOU on the list of people engaged in unpopular activities? When will your model rocket hobby get you looked at because you *could* secretly be making missiles to carry Ricin or Anthrax? When will your reading habits come into question? Were you reading that book about Wicca because you're interested in pagan religions, or because you're planning a child sacrifice?(I know wiccans don't do that sort of thing, but the general public can be whipped up into a frenzy about anything. http://wm3.org)
When will your chemistry hobby make you a potential mad bomber? Will playing a *little too much* minesweeper make you a fanatic about ordnance disposal?
Sound far fetched? 100 years ago who would have believed that the Russians and Chinese would have killed upwards of 40 million of their own people?
20 years ago who would have believed that a sitting president would have been caught, impeached and tried for perjury? 10 years ago who would have believed that the most famous ex-football player ever would have been on trial for double murder?
Take a stand. Take it now. Or don't bitch when they come after you.
It shouldn't be made into a game mod precisely because it isn't an outlet for teenage violence -- it's a source of teenage violence.
So I guess Hitler must have played Der Juden Pong when he was a kid, is that it?
Videogames incite children to violence, period.
Period? You're the supreme authority and final word on the topic? There has been no proof of that assertion. It would be akin to saying that having condoms available makes kids want to have sex. Or my personal favorite, that peaceful protesters incite more radical elements to commit violence.
I should know, because whenever I used to play videogames, I myself would start to get violent, and so did all of my friends.
I don't think that slamming the controller whenever you'd lose counts.
If someone makes a Q3 mod, the author isn't talking about id's IP being infringed. It's more like this, if I make a BC3000AD based Half-Life mod, are Derek Smart's coprights violated? Can he sue or C&D me for it?
If id didn't want people to code mods, it would be easy for them to stop it. They write the fscking game engines.
The eco-whackos who don't want new power plants are at fault. As people aquire and deploy more technological devices their electrical power requirements go up. The technophobes who fight tooth and nail against any type of new power plant are the ones at fault when they output of the powerplants doesn't meet the demand of the customers.
I'm no big Intel fan. However it's not fair to threaten them with blackouts if they don't lower their power consumption. Intel is a big employer. If you hurt Intel you hurt the families of it's employees and indirectly many of the tech companies that have publicly traded stock.
I hate how people confuse UFOs with alien spacecraft. A UFO may be an alien spacecraft, but an alien spacecraft can never be a UFO. If you know it's an alien spacecraft, it's no longer unidentified.
It's not confusion at all. Saying that if we know that it's an alien spacecraft it's no longer unidentified, is akin to saying that if we know that it's a UFO then it's not Unidentified, because we have identified it as a UFO. It's circular logic at best. I say that unknown spacecraft would fall under the category UFO because, how do we define "which" aliens made it. An airplane of unknown origin on your radar screen would be an "Unidentified airplane" right? You know it's an airplane, but not who's airplane ?, so it's unidentified.
I remember in the neighborhood of 15 or so years ago there were some people claiming ot be UFO abductees and Robert Lazarr(SP?) who claimed that the ETs had told them/reverse engineered a UFO and their propulsion system was magnetic in nature.
My first problem with this is if every action has an equal and opposite reaction then how does the movement of the superconducting magnets cause any real change? Sure, their inertia will have an effect, but as soon as they move back into their original position their inertia will cause the opposite reaction.
Imagine standing on a kickboard in the middle of a swimming pool trying to propell yourself with the action caused by swinging a bowling ball. I don't see how you'd get anywhere with THIS particular scheme.
I've worked for Apple, Compaq, and IBM authorized warranty repair centers over the years. I have to say that Compaq is the worst. It has even gotten to the point when someone will call and say "I have a Compaq that needs warranty service." and we'd respond "Broken Presario huh?". We were right about 90% of the time.
Apple has recently been running a close second. The new iMacs, the summer 2000 and the earlier iMac DVs were plagued by power problems. The early iMac DV has a design flaw which causes the power button to become stuck so that it can't reliably be powered up when it's pushed. The summer 2000 models have been blowing power/analog boards like nobody's business. I have personally done more power/analog board replacements than I care to remember. Lastly the PMG4s have a problem with the front panel board. This can appear to be a power supple problem, you put in a new power supply and guess what? Problem still exists. A $0.50 board is defective in lots of these machines.
Apple & Compaq have to know that there is a problem with these machines, but still they do nothing about it. Instead of going through the expense of a recall, they just fix them as the blow out. I think that's shitty. Some people depend on these things to make a living and when your machine is down for a week because of a flaw that they know about, Apple & Compaq abdicate any responsibility for the lost income.
I think that's dirty, they shouldn't treat customers like that.
Also, military men are trained to be highly agressive. Fool.
Military men are trained to follow orders. Millitary men are trained to do what is in the best interest of their country, too. So since they are trained to keep the nations best interests in mind, should their votes get double counted?
This means that wife-intimidation may have tipped the scales in favour of Bush : that is a sad but true fact.
Since you want to start throwing around maybes and mights, a larger portion of the military men are married to foreign nationals than the US electorate as a whole. Those foreign nationals can't vote. So their "violent natures" as wife intimidators can be counteracted by the fact that more of their wive's can't vote because their not officially US Citizens.
LK
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The problem with this approach is that a smart spambot coder can simply have the bot ignore your site and move on to an easier target. It's like hanging up on a telemarketer. Sure, they're not bothering you anymore, but they move on to someone else.
If you can make the telemarketer think that you MIGHT actually buy something, he'll waste his time trying to sell it to you. If the spambot thinks it's getting valid addresses, it'll keep on harvesting them. The longer you can keep feeding it garbage, the less time it will spend gathering useful information.
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because this administration had no problem with easing export restrictions on "super" computers just a few years ago.
Big ass Crays, VMS, RS 6000s, hey no problemo! But don't export too many deskpros!
LK
I have joined IRC channels and said as much as "Hey all. What's up?" and been kicked. My clients always auto reconnect, then I get kickbanned for a channel greeting that didn't fit some asshole OP's definition of what is appropriate for his channel.
If I had the time and the bandwidth I'd love to take down a few of there servers in order to steal OPS.
I'm not defending the script kiddie who is doing this, but find out his motive if you want to avoid it in the future.
LK
Though I'm not defending drunk drivers, I don't see how they can prove intent to cause harm.
.25 is so bad (and it is) they should just increase the DUI penalty in your state. I think that the additional charge is just a way to punish those without political connections.
If driving with a bac of
Convice the car makers to make your little cars safer. I'm not giving up my SUV. When I'm ready for a new vehicle, it'll be a new SUV.
I live in Pittsburgh, I drove a two wheel drive sports car and in the snow it's impossible to drive effectively.
You "ban the SUVs" people would probably prohibit big penises if you could. It's not fair that someone else has something bigger and less fuel efficient than you.
LK
If one had purchased a 400Mhz G4 at it's launch and now wants something faster, a 500Mhz G4 would be just that.
LK
Many hardware companies discourage upgrading of their machines. I don't know if this is still the case, but Compaq, Packard Bell and a few others did't mark the jumpers on their socket 7 boards so that if you wanted to put in a faster CPU you had to play Jumper Keno until you were running at the right speed.
To my knowledge (I could be wrong about this)no CPU upgrade maker has been able to make a work around since Apple moved the boot rom from the logic board to the CPU card in the G4.
LK
You've always been the pedantic fuck who nobody else wanted to sit by, haven't you?
Just the women, that's why you haven't seen many posts by me recently.
LK
So, your email server being down in secondary. This just makes you a dumb ass.
LK
Dateline San Francisco CA:
An unnamed high school teacher was hospitalized with lacerations and contusions about the face, neck, legs and buttocks.
Apparently two of the school's top linebackers misunderstood when the teacher said "I'd like to see a couple of fags TRY to screw me!"
It's too bad that this kind of theft will probably scare people away from online purchases even when it's a database that's cracked rather than their transactions.
Be it a hole in SSL or a lazy/stupid box admin that opens up the door for crackers and script kiddies to get access to your info, the fact remains that you have an annoyance on your hands. Canceling card, getting new card, notifying ISPs and other of the change in information.
I'd rather spend the time to drive to the mall, I can look at women in tight pants at the mall. Hell, maybe even score a phone number.
LK
Civil forfeiture is nothing new. It really came into it's own under the Reagan administration with the War on Drugs in the 80's. In the 90's under the Clinton administration the new ground was broken in the War on Guns.
Why is it that my fellow geeks only care about this type of thing when it's knocking at their own front door? This type of thing threatens all of our freedom. Whether or not you're a terrorist, mafioso, child pornographer, or any of the other assorted nasties that are thrown up to gain public acceptance this will not stop at just the "Bad Guys".
I don't use crypto very much. A little SSH for secure terminal sessions and SSL because I want to learn about it, I even have a PGP public key somewhere around here for emergencies, but I think that we should be able to use crypto with no fear of persecution for it. If I want to send my girlfriend a sweet sappy love letter, I don't think that it's unreasonable to not want an FBI, NSA or even ISP snoop reading over it to see if it's an acceptable communication.
For the "If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear." crowd, how long before it's YOU on the list of people engaged in unpopular activities? When will your model rocket hobby get you looked at because you *could* secretly be making missiles to carry Ricin or Anthrax? When will your reading habits come into question? Were you reading that book about Wicca because you're interested in pagan religions, or because you're planning a child sacrifice?(I know wiccans don't do that sort of thing, but the general public can be whipped up into a frenzy about anything. http://wm3.org)
When will your chemistry hobby make you a potential mad bomber? Will playing a *little too much* minesweeper make you a fanatic about ordnance disposal?
Sound far fetched? 100 years ago who would have believed that the Russians and Chinese would have killed upwards of 40 million of their own people?
20 years ago who would have believed that a sitting president would have been caught, impeached and tried for perjury? 10 years ago who would have believed that the most famous ex-football player ever would have been on trial for double murder?
Take a stand. Take it now. Or don't bitch when they come after you.
LK
Thanks for the info.
I remember seeing a scientist who found that earthworms lived about 50% longer when he cut their caloric intake by 1/3.
LK
Yes. Coolio wasn't even the first rapper to sample it.
LK
The only exception was "Amish Paradise", and Al at least claims he was informed by his people that permission had been given.
The funny thing about that is that Coolio used a sample that was used in a track made 2 or 3 years earlier by a rapper called DMG.
LK
It shouldn't be made into a game mod precisely because it isn't an outlet for teenage violence -- it's a source of teenage violence.
So I guess Hitler must have played Der Juden Pong when he was a kid, is that it?
Videogames incite children to violence, period.
Period? You're the supreme authority and final word on the topic? There has been no proof of that assertion. It would be akin to saying that having condoms available makes kids want to have sex. Or my personal favorite, that peaceful protesters incite more radical elements to commit violence.
I should know, because whenever I used to play videogames, I myself would start to get violent, and so did all of my friends.
I don't think that slamming the controller whenever you'd lose counts.
LK
If someone makes a Q3 mod, the author isn't talking about id's IP being infringed. It's more like this, if I make a BC3000AD based Half-Life mod, are Derek Smart's coprights violated? Can he sue or C&D me for it?
If id didn't want people to code mods, it would be easy for them to stop it. They write the fscking game engines.
LK
The eco-whackos who don't want new power plants are at fault. As people aquire and deploy more technological devices their electrical power requirements go up. The technophobes who fight tooth and nail against any type of new power plant are the ones at fault when they output of the powerplants doesn't meet the demand of the customers.
I'm no big Intel fan. However it's not fair to threaten them with blackouts if they don't lower their power consumption. Intel is a big employer. If you hurt Intel you hurt the families of it's employees and indirectly many of the tech companies that have publicly traded stock.
LK
I hate how people confuse UFOs with alien spacecraft. A UFO may be an alien spacecraft, but an alien spacecraft can never be a UFO. If you know it's an alien spacecraft, it's no longer unidentified.
It's not confusion at all. Saying that if we know that it's an alien spacecraft it's no longer unidentified, is akin to saying that if we know that it's a UFO then it's not Unidentified, because we have identified it as a UFO. It's circular logic at best. I say that unknown spacecraft would fall under the category UFO because, how do we define "which" aliens made it. An airplane of unknown origin on your radar screen would be an "Unidentified airplane" right? You know it's an airplane, but not who's airplane ?, so it's unidentified.
LK
I remember in the neighborhood of 15 or so years ago there were some people claiming ot be UFO abductees and Robert Lazarr(SP?) who claimed that the ETs had told them/reverse engineered a UFO and their propulsion system was magnetic in nature.
My first problem with this is if every action has an equal and opposite reaction then how does the movement of the superconducting magnets cause any real change? Sure, their inertia will have an effect, but as soon as they move back into their original position their inertia will cause the opposite reaction.
Imagine standing on a kickboard in the middle of a swimming pool trying to propell yourself with the action caused by swinging a bowling ball. I don't see how you'd get anywhere with THIS particular scheme.
LK
Gee, you Apple zealots are funny. Apple puts out a defective product and you get hostile towards the ones who point it out.
Gee, Service Source lists a new part number for the front panel board.
Maybe that's because Apple knows that the original boards were garbage. No, it's just for some "added feature" right?
Could it be, you're one of the shitty AASPs that needs to be purged from the system?
If by shitty you mean "Annoyed by the fact that Apple is selling known defective products to my customers." I guess that the answer would be yes.
Yes, Apple solved the issue. No wonder they want to open their OWN stores..
Yes, if they open their own stores they can force the employees to sing the praises of Apple no matter how badly their screwing their loyal customers.
Apple and Sega have a long history of stranding their customers with useless products. Neither company will get another cent from me again.
I notice that you didn't touch the issue of the power buttons in the iMac DV or the Power Supply/Analog boards in the summer 2000 iMacs.
LK
I've worked for Apple, Compaq, and IBM authorized warranty repair centers over the years. I have to say that Compaq is the worst. It has even gotten to the point when someone will call and say "I have a Compaq that needs warranty service." and we'd respond "Broken Presario huh?". We were right about 90% of the time.
Apple has recently been running a close second. The new iMacs, the summer 2000 and the earlier iMac DVs were plagued by power problems. The early iMac DV has a design flaw which causes the power button to become stuck so that it can't reliably be powered up when it's pushed. The summer 2000 models have been blowing power/analog boards like nobody's business. I have personally done more power/analog board replacements than I care to remember. Lastly the PMG4s have a problem with the front panel board. This can appear to be a power supple problem, you put in a new power supply and guess what? Problem still exists. A $0.50 board is defective in lots of these machines.
Apple & Compaq have to know that there is a problem with these machines, but still they do nothing about it. Instead of going through the expense of a recall, they just fix them as the blow out. I think that's shitty. Some people depend on these things to make a living and when your machine is down for a week because of a flaw that they know about, Apple & Compaq abdicate any responsibility for the lost income.
I think that's dirty, they shouldn't treat customers like that.
LK
Also, military men are trained to be highly agressive. Fool.
Military men are trained to follow orders. Millitary men are trained to do what is in the best interest of their country, too. So since they are trained to keep the nations best interests in mind, should their votes get double counted?
LK
This means that wife-intimidation may have tipped the scales in favour of Bush : that is a sad but true fact.
Since you want to start throwing around maybes and mights, a larger portion of the military men are married to foreign nationals than the US electorate as a whole. Those foreign nationals can't vote. So their "violent natures" as wife intimidators can be counteracted by the fact that more of their wive's can't vote because their not officially US Citizens.
LK
The problem with this approach is that a smart spambot coder can simply have the bot ignore your site and move on to an easier target. It's like hanging up on a telemarketer. Sure, they're not bothering you anymore, but they move on to someone else.
If you can make the telemarketer think that you MIGHT actually buy something, he'll waste his time trying to sell it to you. If the spambot thinks it's getting valid addresses, it'll keep on harvesting them. The longer you can keep feeding it garbage, the less time it will spend gathering useful information.
LK