Uhhhh - yeah, I think they have bigger fish to fry in congress. But, this really is a congressional issue. Privacy has been encroached on for a couple of decades now. Especially with the un-Patriot act, and all the storms in teacups with the "terrorists". Yes, it's time for congress to address the issue of privacy for private citizens. Facebook, Amazon, nor any other corporation should be collecting information on citizens of the United States. (note the use of the word "citizen", rather than "consumer")
Actually - the perp who possessed the CP was a convict, whose release involved supervision, and certain terms. And, the diocese knew this. So - possession of CP was automagically a violation of those terms.
Only in your imagination did I state that "I don't like him, so he deserved to die." Only in your imagination. Alawi was actively working to kill Americans. He didn't care if they were young or old, male or female, black or white, Republican or Democrat, he didn't care if those Americans ever carried weapons, or if they were so innocent that they wouldn't know how to defend themselves. Which part of "actively plotting to attack the USA" do you not understand?
Trial. Those of you who are so intent on seeing due process served on people like Alawi should volunteer to go get those people, and bring them to court. I double dog dare you.
Again, I say, " al Alawi was no countryman of mine. The sumbitch deserved much worse than he got. "
Perhaps you missed the fact that Alawi was actively at war with the United States? You missed the fact that the Underwear Bomber, among others, had contact with Alawi? Had things gone slightly differently, Alawi would have aided and abetted the destruction of an airliner over Detroit, resulting in the deaths of all the crew and passengers, along with unguessable casualties on the ground. The potential death count *could have exceeded the death count at the WTC.
Let me guess - some guy is taking pot shots at you and your family. You are armed, and capable of taking the man out. Instead of doing so, you're going to wait on the cops to arrive, so that they shooter gets his "due process"?
Sorry, the scenario just doesn't work. Any man who is competent to use a weapon doesn't experience these mindless quandaries. Instead, he acts as required, to protect himself and his family.
*while unlikely that the death toll would have exceeded that of the WTC, the potential was there. Huge explosions within densely populated areas are unpredictable, after all.
Perhaps you could spell out those differences between the D's and the R's. Let me pick an issue at random - ACTA. That bag of shit was originally put forward under an R. Despite tons of emails protesting ACTA, a D pushed it forward. Lesson to be learned? Corporate shills own the government, and party doesn't matter.
Care to pick another issue? Rendition? The "War on Drugs"? The "War on Terror"? The issues that divide the parties are minor bullshit, when you think about it. Both parties continue to pursue the same goals, while each blames the other party for having created the goals and issues.
HINT: al Alawi was no countryman of mine. The sumbitch deserved much worse than he got. Due process? The process of launching that missile was long overdue!
Actually, no. That is not "pretty much the definition of strategic".
I don't like Microsoft, but they play an awesome strategic game. They invest in stuff, they buy stuff, the develop stuff - oftentimes, stuff that really has no future. But, do they ever get rid of any of that stuff? Not only "No", but "HELL NO!" Microsoft may put things on a shelf, and halt development, if it loses to much money - but they aren't about to get rid of anything. They can afford warehouses, terabyte on terabyte of hard drive space, offices, you name it. Microsoft's implementation of this thing, or that, may be worthless - in fact, it may even lose money. But, keeping it around, and maintaining ownership has a hell of a lot of value if/when some other innovation shows how they might use this older technology.
Not to mention, the patent portfolios!
What Intel engaged in, by comparison, was merely some tactical maneuvering. A good strategist has no problem beating hell out of an equally good tactician.
It will probably be Mexicans or Muslims, unless the Chinese do it first. Euros and Americans are just sitting idly by, while their lands are invaded by the hordes from the south. We simply don't have the balls to defend our homelands, or to explore space. No guts, no glory. I have to give grudging respect to those little wetbacks. They have the balls to come into a strange land, where people speak a strange language, just hoping that they can find work. Yep. They have balls. If we had half their balls, we'd throw them out. But, I've already said it. No balls, no glory.
You're pretty clueless. Who owns the Fed? I guess you didn't know that it's privately owned. Who are the owners? BofA, among others. Banks. Privately owned banks. If you happen to own a bank, and your bank is pretty big, you're given the opportunity to acquire stock in the Fed.
Now, let's think a moment. Who owns all those big banks? Stockholders, of course, but who are they? You don't suspect that the owners are the very same people who are running things on Wall Street? Or, maybe their brothers, sisters, cousins? Remember, 90% of the wealth is held by 1% of the people - and that includes the banks! DUHHH! EPIPHANY!! The Fed is run just like Wall Street wants it run! DUHHH!
No, buddy, the Fed is most certainly NOT going to compete in any way, shape, or form, with Wall Street. So, no screams from the direction that you are listening in.
Actually, it's the Office of Management and Budget for us Americans. You guys probably have the same thing, but you call it something else. Unless, of course, you don't have the same thing at all, in which case you don't call it anything at all.
If I rambled on long enough, do you you think we could figure out who's on third?
Well, see - you do things quite differently than I do - but you're smart enough to realize that you can't commit important stuff to an unsecured device. And, I've seen that idea before. Several people have suggested having a LiveCD from which to boot, when doing online finances. You don't say what you are booting to, but the concept is close.;^)
Funny. I've never heard of the USAF being referred to as "the Thinkers". Sorry, but I have little use for the Air Force. Anything they can do, the Army and the Navy can do. The Air Force can make no such counterclaim. I have higher regard for the Royal Air Force. Those boys get down and dirty with their sister services. The Royal Air Force even has it's own infantry, capable of securing and defending a base in a forward operating area. http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafregiment/ The USAF relies on the departments of the Army and the Navy to do that for them. Phhht. Thinkers. Even if that were true, while they are busy thinking, Army, Navy, and Marine pilots are out there waging war.
Get back to me when the Air Force actually deploys a fleet of attack craft, capable of getting down in the mud, the blood, and the gore, where they can actually support the troops who will win (or lose) the war.
Uhhhh - Chromium does indeed warn me before downloading files. Words to the effect, "PDF files may contain malicious contenc, do you really want to download this file?" I'm not real sure, maybe Chromium assumes that I'll be opening the PDF document with an Adobe product, so they warn me of the potential vector. Whatever - on Linux, Chromium is set up pretty securely. I can't address the security of Chrome on Windows. I haven't even started up a Windows VM in the past few weeks.
"The amount of time I've seen NoScript users deal with reconfiguring NoScript just so they can have a reasonably decent browsing experience far exceeds the amount of time they would have to spend dealing with malware."
That is complete and utter nonsense. It only takes ONE malware to totally bork your system. SpyAxe, which went by several different names through several different incarnations was pure hell to remove. Then, there was a specially hideous toolbar that installed itself as a driveby thing. Rootkits and keyloggers in general, no matter how sophisticated, justify the extra time required to set up a secure browser. The alternative is to nuke from orbit, and reinstall your OS again.
Everyone has their own opinion - but the people with worthless opinions are those who are compromised, their identities stolen, their credit cards and/or debit cards compromised, and their bank accounts cleaned out.
On Adobe software, we can agree. I haven't looked in weeks, but the last time I looked, Adobe was the number one vector for malware. As I recall, the first time I read that, authors were expressing amazement that Adobe had replaced Microsoft at the head of the list. There's little need to search for citations - real geeks know that already, and the posers will deny it in order to advance their own agendas.
I guess that means that my browser is more secure than they expected, and they don't want to admit it? Or, they can't exploit a vulnerability that they expected to find in my browser? WTF?
Chromium, with Ghostery, AdBlock Plus, Flashblock, and NoScript. Go figure . . .
Let's see what it looks like in Firefox:
"How well is your browser protecting you?
We do not have any data for your browser, so we can’t give your browser a score. See how other browsers scored > "
The site like my Firefox setup better than it liked my Chromium setup - I can at least advance through the menus. But, they can't rank my browser. Phht. Same old tired FUD, if you ask me. What a waste of bandwidth!
Yes, it's the litmus test. Lick the paper strip, if it turns blue, you can post. If it turns red, you can't post. There's a well known correlation between your body's acidity and your intelligence, not to mention your relevancy./sarcasm
I'm not real sure that you - or anyone else who has posted already - got the entire message.
Every Friday, after noon prayers, there are young people staging a riot or protest. And, every week, after noon prayers, there is a hoard of photographers onhand to "get the shot". We saw (well, some of us saw) the interaction in the video, between the photographers and the rioters. What may be less clear is - if the photographers didn't show up, maybe the young people would find something better to do.
Picture the conversation: Ishmael: Want to go build a roadblock on Dead End street after prayers? Mohammed: Why? If I'm going to throw rocks, I'd rather do it in the shade, down at the creek! Ishmael: But, throwing rocks in the water isn't any form of protest! Mohammed: Protest? What protest? There is no protest, unless it gets into the news! Ishmael: That's the point, Brother, to get into the news! Mohammed: Alright, great. But, there haven't been any photographers on Dead End street for about six months. The only people there are IDF, and I'm not throwing rocks at them. They shoot first, and ask question later, if at all! Ishmael: Are you a coward? Don't you want to be a martyr for Allah? Mohammed: Sure, I'm willing to be a martyr, but an unseen martyr isn't much of a martyr, now is he? Ishmael: Well, you have a point. Want to try getting some beer to bring to the creek?
Apples and pineapples, pal. Phreaking made use of hardware and equipment that had to be maintained, by people drawing wages, often times on call 24/7. One may or may not make an argument that Ma Bell and AT&T overcharged, or that they had a monopoly, or whatever. The entertainment "industries" tend to gain money with sharing. They certainly do not lose the money that they claim. In fact, the entertainment "industries" operate unethically, as well as unlawfully in a number of ways. Starting with the huge bribes they pay to lawmakers, in order to have the law altered more to their liking. There are similarities between phreaking and file sharing, just as apples are generally round, and pineapples are generally round. The similarities pretty much end there.
I never did understand, and still don't understand, why anyone needs to talk for 30 to 60 minutes. I called home from the Virgin Islands, from Spain, from Bahrain, from England. All of my phone calls were ten minutes or less. "Hi, Mom! How are things? Oh, Uncle Bill is sick? That sucks. Well, we came through the Suez, and cruised around in little circles for a couple weeks. Now we're in Bahrain. Yeah, it's hot here. Did you get the pictures I mailed? Good. Well, tell everyone I love them - I'm headed out to find some cold beer, if they even understand what cold is around here! 'Bye now, Love you!"
What is there to say, that takes half an hour, anyway?
The more proper question is, "Why do people think this shit is unacceptable?" Hey, it's my phone. If I choose to look at gun porn, I'll do so. If I choose to look at motorhead porn, I'll do that too. Geek porn? Got it covered. Phatbroad porn? Well - I'll take a pass on that, but it seems some guys like phat chicks. Just leave them alone, alright?
As Zach the Lizard says. In my state, each county sets it's own sales tax rate. And, the cities can add another percentage or two. There might be a 20 cent difference in the total amount due on a ten dollar purchase, in two different locations. The state limits how high the sales taxes can go, but the counties actually set those tax rates.
Naturally, I can't speak for anyone else. But, when I'm shopping IRL and online, the sales tax (or lack thereof) doesn't even enter into the equation. Consider electronics and computer parts and peripherals. I simply cannot get the stuff I want/need locally. If I want the cheap crap that WalMart stocks, I can get that, of course. Very limited selection, at the very bottom of the quality spectrum. That carries over into very many other needs and wants. I simply can't get things, locally. So - I search for what I need online, locate several sources, and shop for price between those sources.
Sales tax? I just don't see it as a deciding factor. In fact, there have been a few cases where an online source collected sales tax from me, and I paid it, because even with the sales tax, they were priced lower than the nearest competitors.
That said - I really don't like the idea of paying taxes that I might avoid paying.
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Uhhhh - yeah, I think they have bigger fish to fry in congress. But, this really is a congressional issue. Privacy has been encroached on for a couple of decades now. Especially with the un-Patriot act, and all the storms in teacups with the "terrorists". Yes, it's time for congress to address the issue of privacy for private citizens. Facebook, Amazon, nor any other corporation should be collecting information on citizens of the United States. (note the use of the word "citizen", rather than "consumer")
Actually - the perp who possessed the CP was a convict, whose release involved supervision, and certain terms. And, the diocese knew this. So - possession of CP was automagically a violation of those terms.
Only in your imagination did I state that "I don't like him, so he deserved to die." Only in your imagination. Alawi was actively working to kill Americans. He didn't care if they were young or old, male or female, black or white, Republican or Democrat, he didn't care if those Americans ever carried weapons, or if they were so innocent that they wouldn't know how to defend themselves. Which part of "actively plotting to attack the USA" do you not understand?
Trial. Those of you who are so intent on seeing due process served on people like Alawi should volunteer to go get those people, and bring them to court. I double dog dare you.
Again, I say, " al Alawi was no countryman of mine. The sumbitch deserved much worse than he got. "
Perhaps you missed the fact that Alawi was actively at war with the United States? You missed the fact that the Underwear Bomber, among others, had contact with Alawi? Had things gone slightly differently, Alawi would have aided and abetted the destruction of an airliner over Detroit, resulting in the deaths of all the crew and passengers, along with unguessable casualties on the ground. The potential death count *could have exceeded the death count at the WTC.
Let me guess - some guy is taking pot shots at you and your family. You are armed, and capable of taking the man out. Instead of doing so, you're going to wait on the cops to arrive, so that they shooter gets his "due process"?
Sorry, the scenario just doesn't work. Any man who is competent to use a weapon doesn't experience these mindless quandaries. Instead, he acts as required, to protect himself and his family.
*while unlikely that the death toll would have exceeded that of the WTC, the potential was there. Huge explosions within densely populated areas are unpredictable, after all.
Perhaps you could spell out those differences between the D's and the R's. Let me pick an issue at random - ACTA. That bag of shit was originally put forward under an R. Despite tons of emails protesting ACTA, a D pushed it forward. Lesson to be learned? Corporate shills own the government, and party doesn't matter.
Care to pick another issue? Rendition? The "War on Drugs"? The "War on Terror"? The issues that divide the parties are minor bullshit, when you think about it. Both parties continue to pursue the same goals, while each blames the other party for having created the goals and issues.
"murdering their own citizens without process"
HINT: al Alawi was no countryman of mine. The sumbitch deserved much worse than he got. Due process? The process of launching that missile was long overdue!
Actually, no. That is not "pretty much the definition of strategic".
I don't like Microsoft, but they play an awesome strategic game. They invest in stuff, they buy stuff, the develop stuff - oftentimes, stuff that really has no future. But, do they ever get rid of any of that stuff? Not only "No", but "HELL NO!" Microsoft may put things on a shelf, and halt development, if it loses to much money - but they aren't about to get rid of anything. They can afford warehouses, terabyte on terabyte of hard drive space, offices, you name it. Microsoft's implementation of this thing, or that, may be worthless - in fact, it may even lose money. But, keeping it around, and maintaining ownership has a hell of a lot of value if/when some other innovation shows how they might use this older technology.
Not to mention, the patent portfolios!
What Intel engaged in, by comparison, was merely some tactical maneuvering. A good strategist has no problem beating hell out of an equally good tactician.
It will probably be Mexicans or Muslims, unless the Chinese do it first. Euros and Americans are just sitting idly by, while their lands are invaded by the hordes from the south. We simply don't have the balls to defend our homelands, or to explore space. No guts, no glory. I have to give grudging respect to those little wetbacks. They have the balls to come into a strange land, where people speak a strange language, just hoping that they can find work. Yep. They have balls. If we had half their balls, we'd throw them out. But, I've already said it. No balls, no glory.
You're pretty clueless. Who owns the Fed? I guess you didn't know that it's privately owned. Who are the owners? BofA, among others. Banks. Privately owned banks. If you happen to own a bank, and your bank is pretty big, you're given the opportunity to acquire stock in the Fed.
Now, let's think a moment. Who owns all those big banks? Stockholders, of course, but who are they? You don't suspect that the owners are the very same people who are running things on Wall Street? Or, maybe their brothers, sisters, cousins? Remember, 90% of the wealth is held by 1% of the people - and that includes the banks! DUHHH! EPIPHANY!! The Fed is run just like Wall Street wants it run! DUHHH!
No, buddy, the Fed is most certainly NOT going to compete in any way, shape, or form, with Wall Street. So, no screams from the direction that you are listening in.
Well - you've got to admit. Aside from dirt and water, there isn't much on Earth, either.
Actually, it's the Office of Management and Budget for us Americans. You guys probably have the same thing, but you call it something else. Unless, of course, you don't have the same thing at all, in which case you don't call it anything at all.
If I rambled on long enough, do you you think we could figure out who's on third?
Well, see - you do things quite differently than I do - but you're smart enough to realize that you can't commit important stuff to an unsecured device. And, I've seen that idea before. Several people have suggested having a LiveCD from which to boot, when doing online finances. You don't say what you are booting to, but the concept is close. ;^)
Funny. I've never heard of the USAF being referred to as "the Thinkers". Sorry, but I have little use for the Air Force. Anything they can do, the Army and the Navy can do. The Air Force can make no such counterclaim. I have higher regard for the Royal Air Force. Those boys get down and dirty with their sister services. The Royal Air Force even has it's own infantry, capable of securing and defending a base in a forward operating area. http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafregiment/ The USAF relies on the departments of the Army and the Navy to do that for them. Phhht. Thinkers. Even if that were true, while they are busy thinking, Army, Navy, and Marine pilots are out there waging war.
Get back to me when the Air Force actually deploys a fleet of attack craft, capable of getting down in the mud, the blood, and the gore, where they can actually support the troops who will win (or lose) the war.
Uhhhh - Chromium does indeed warn me before downloading files. Words to the effect, "PDF files may contain malicious contenc, do you really want to download this file?" I'm not real sure, maybe Chromium assumes that I'll be opening the PDF document with an Adobe product, so they warn me of the potential vector. Whatever - on Linux, Chromium is set up pretty securely. I can't address the security of Chrome on Windows. I haven't even started up a Windows VM in the past few weeks.
"The amount of time I've seen NoScript users deal with reconfiguring NoScript just so they can have a reasonably decent browsing experience far exceeds the amount of time they would have to spend dealing with malware."
That is complete and utter nonsense. It only takes ONE malware to totally bork your system. SpyAxe, which went by several different names through several different incarnations was pure hell to remove. Then, there was a specially hideous toolbar that installed itself as a driveby thing. Rootkits and keyloggers in general, no matter how sophisticated, justify the extra time required to set up a secure browser. The alternative is to nuke from orbit, and reinstall your OS again.
Everyone has their own opinion - but the people with worthless opinions are those who are compromised, their identities stolen, their credit cards and/or debit cards compromised, and their bank accounts cleaned out.
On Adobe software, we can agree. I haven't looked in weeks, but the last time I looked, Adobe was the number one vector for malware. As I recall, the first time I read that, authors were expressing amazement that Adobe had replaced Microsoft at the head of the list. There's little need to search for citations - real geeks know that already, and the posers will deny it in order to advance their own agendas.
"WE CAN'T GIVE YOU A SCORE FOR YOUR BROWSER."
"WHAT DOES THIS SCORE MEAN?"
I guess that means that my browser is more secure than they expected, and they don't want to admit it? Or, they can't exploit a vulnerability that they expected to find in my browser? WTF?
Chromium, with Ghostery, AdBlock Plus, Flashblock, and NoScript. Go figure . . .
Let's see what it looks like in Firefox:
"How well is your browser protecting you?
We do not have any data for your browser, so we can’t give your browser a score.
See how other browsers scored > "
The site like my Firefox setup better than it liked my Chromium setup - I can at least advance through the menus. But, they can't rank my browser. Phht. Same old tired FUD, if you ask me. What a waste of bandwidth!
Actually, you resemble that . . .
Yes, it's the litmus test. Lick the paper strip, if it turns blue, you can post. If it turns red, you can't post. There's a well known correlation between your body's acidity and your intelligence, not to mention your relevancy. /sarcasm
Sorry, couldn't resist. Litmus test, LMAO!!
I'm not real sure that you - or anyone else who has posted already - got the entire message.
Every Friday, after noon prayers, there are young people staging a riot or protest. And, every week, after noon prayers, there is a hoard of photographers onhand to "get the shot". We saw (well, some of us saw) the interaction in the video, between the photographers and the rioters. What may be less clear is - if the photographers didn't show up, maybe the young people would find something better to do.
Picture the conversation:
Ishmael: Want to go build a roadblock on Dead End street after prayers?
Mohammed: Why? If I'm going to throw rocks, I'd rather do it in the shade, down at the creek!
Ishmael: But, throwing rocks in the water isn't any form of protest!
Mohammed: Protest? What protest? There is no protest, unless it gets into the news!
Ishmael: That's the point, Brother, to get into the news!
Mohammed: Alright, great. But, there haven't been any photographers on Dead End street for about six months. The only people there are IDF, and I'm not throwing rocks at them. They shoot first, and ask question later, if at all!
Ishmael: Are you a coward? Don't you want to be a martyr for Allah?
Mohammed: Sure, I'm willing to be a martyr, but an unseen martyr isn't much of a martyr, now is he?
Ishmael: Well, you have a point. Want to try getting some beer to bring to the creek?
Apples and pineapples, pal. Phreaking made use of hardware and equipment that had to be maintained, by people drawing wages, often times on call 24/7. One may or may not make an argument that Ma Bell and AT&T overcharged, or that they had a monopoly, or whatever. The entertainment "industries" tend to gain money with sharing. They certainly do not lose the money that they claim. In fact, the entertainment "industries" operate unethically, as well as unlawfully in a number of ways. Starting with the huge bribes they pay to lawmakers, in order to have the law altered more to their liking. There are similarities between phreaking and file sharing, just as apples are generally round, and pineapples are generally round. The similarities pretty much end there.
I never did understand, and still don't understand, why anyone needs to talk for 30 to 60 minutes. I called home from the Virgin Islands, from Spain, from Bahrain, from England. All of my phone calls were ten minutes or less. "Hi, Mom! How are things? Oh, Uncle Bill is sick? That sucks. Well, we came through the Suez, and cruised around in little circles for a couple weeks. Now we're in Bahrain. Yeah, it's hot here. Did you get the pictures I mailed? Good. Well, tell everyone I love them - I'm headed out to find some cold beer, if they even understand what cold is around here! 'Bye now, Love you!"
What is there to say, that takes half an hour, anyway?
The more proper question is, "Why do people think this shit is unacceptable?" Hey, it's my phone. If I choose to look at gun porn, I'll do so. If I choose to look at motorhead porn, I'll do that too. Geek porn? Got it covered. Phatbroad porn? Well - I'll take a pass on that, but it seems some guys like phat chicks. Just leave them alone, alright?
As Zach the Lizard says. In my state, each county sets it's own sales tax rate. And, the cities can add another percentage or two. There might be a 20 cent difference in the total amount due on a ten dollar purchase, in two different locations. The state limits how high the sales taxes can go, but the counties actually set those tax rates.
Naturally, I can't speak for anyone else. But, when I'm shopping IRL and online, the sales tax (or lack thereof) doesn't even enter into the equation. Consider electronics and computer parts and peripherals. I simply cannot get the stuff I want/need locally. If I want the cheap crap that WalMart stocks, I can get that, of course. Very limited selection, at the very bottom of the quality spectrum. That carries over into very many other needs and wants. I simply can't get things, locally. So - I search for what I need online, locate several sources, and shop for price between those sources.
Sales tax? I just don't see it as a deciding factor. In fact, there have been a few cases where an online source collected sales tax from me, and I paid it, because even with the sales tax, they were priced lower than the nearest competitors.
That said - I really don't like the idea of paying taxes that I might avoid paying.