You are, of course, 1000% correct. I play on the intartubes, fool around with the darknet, bitblinder, and other high tech stuff. My kids, less so - but they have stacks and stacks of CD's and DVD's that they share with their buddies at school and elsewhere. Sneakernet is much more efficient than all my high tech bullshit. I simply don't have the bandwidth to transfer all the data that the boys can carry in the bottom of a backpack on their way to a buddy's house.
As MLTS has already stated, the *IAA's may be winning a few battles, but they haven't won the war. They'll have to do a lot better to prevent people like me from downloading anything and everything they want to download.
Heh - GP asked the question that was on my mind, and you gave the obvious answer. Now - it's time we came up with a "Secure USB scanner". Yes, yes, yes, of course it's a gimmick. And, of course, it's gonna be a ripoff. All we have to do is, get a USB cord, terminate it inside a stupid little box with a light that flashes as data transfers, then plug our USB into the box. It will make dummies feel good that they have "securely" scanned their USB before plugging it into a computer.
I smell money - dishonest huckster money, to be sure, but money all the same!!
Hell, I thought it was a dog! Wiener dog, wienerschnitzel, dachshound - a dog is a dog is a dog, right? And, a dog by any other name would still sniff assholes.
Uhhhh - touches a stud? In a wood frame building? That isn't going to give you a fire. Wooden 2x4 won't carry a current, and it's not grounded anyway. Ever seen widowmaker wiring, from like 80 years ago? A lot of wires end up touching something in the attic. No big deal, unless you run a ground wire up there.
Ever since KHTML was branched into WebKit, I've been mildly excited by the possibilities. There are only so many underlying engines on the market. IE, Opera, Webkit, and Firefox each uses a different engine. IMHO, Wekit is the way forward. IE's engine is closed source, and no one can do anything with it - ditto for Opera's. That leaves Webkit versus Gheko. Gheko has been a good, reliable engine, which has been bent and stretched, folded, and mutilated time and again to perform as various coders and/or coding teams have seen fit. But, I think it is nearing the end of it's life.
From the wikipedia:
WebKit-based browsers
* Arora
* Web Browser for Android (mobile device platform)
* BOLT browser
* Google Chrome
* Epiphany (web browser)
* iCab (version 4 uses WebKit; earlier versions used its own rendering engine)
* Iris Browser
* Konqueror (version 4 can use WebKit as an alternative to its native KHTML[18])
* Midori
* OmniWeb
* OWB
* Safari
* Shiira
* Sputnik for MorphOS (based on S60 WebCore)
* SRWare Iron
* Stainless
* TeaShark
* Uzbl
* Web Browser for S60, used in all Nokia Symbian smartphones.
* WebOS, used in the Palm Pre mobile
* WebPositive, browser in Haiku
Grab a couple of them, and test drive them. That should satisfy the Google bashers who might want to experiment with Webkit.
I wouldn't put down a rabid dog out of hatred. I would feel a little fear, maybe, but I would be putting the dog down as a necessity. No hatred involved. I'm a veteran - I was shot at a couple times, and I shot back. No hatred involved there either. It was just something that happened, something that had to be done. The mad dogs that walk on two legs simply need to be put down.
Mmmmmm. I had actually read about that Orange revolution, it was brought up about the time that Iran's Green thing was going. I read a couple claims that it was staged by the CIA, and I read a couple articles that refuted that. I'm not sure what to believe, but it's something the CIA is capable of!
I don't know. I vacillate a little bit - but not nearly as much as the justice system vacillates.
The liberals get the upper hand for awhile, and they pardon or commute sentences, set precedent, and pass laws to allow truly bestial people to go free.
Then, the conservatives gain power, and they do things like "three strikes and you're out" meaning some dweeb caught shoplifting three times can get life in prison.
We strike a middle ground momentarily, then the power balance shifts, and we start off on the roller coaster again.
Bottom line, to me, is some animals don't deserve to breathe. We need a justice system capable of putting mad dogs down. The guy who can rape and kill a child is just about as mad a dog as there can be. He should NEVER get a second chance, period. Put a needle in him, strap him to Old Sparky, stand him against a wall and shoot him, I don't care. Just see that he stops polluting the atmosphere with his breath.
Failing the death penalty, it should be recognized that some people should never, ever breathe free air and enjoy the sunshine again. And, I think that is what the Supreme Court did here. They recognized that the justice system fails far to often, and that some low life animals really do need to be detained, whatever it takes.
Ehhh. It would be so much simpler if the liberals would stop trying to abolish the death penalty, and actually worked to make it more "fair" in those instances where it doesn't work properly.
Let's require a higher burden of proof in a capital punishment case, and let's verify with positive DNA evidence. Let's cross our t's and dot our i's and send the mad dogs to hell. There shouldn't be a recidivism rate for these kinds of crimes.
Look at the high profile child abduction, child rape, and child murder cases in recent years. ALMOST ALL of the perpetrators had been convicted of similar crimes in the past, and freed. Garrido was on the sex offender's list, after being freed by the state. He shouldn't have been freed until he had served 50 years real time for his crime!
God, I hate the unjustness of our justice system. People actually DIE because judges, juries, and parole boards don't do their jobs. And, that doesn't begin to address criminals who are freed for crazy reason by idiot governors!!
I could rant for hours. Phht. Won't change a thing, and there will be plenty of people to tell me I'm just another conservative hillbilly republitard or some such nonsense.
People need to get out more, and meet some of the victims, meet some of the criminals, and find out what those crime statistics REALLY mean.
I don't care what they found or didn't found - I'm still not buying a god damned radiating device to hold up beside my head. I only have about two or three million grey cells left, and if there's a very very very very VERY small chance that the radiation might kill a couple hundred of them, IT ISN'T WORTH IT!!!
Lemme guess. You're still in school - or at least you're very recently graduated. I'm not apathetic, myself, but at age 54, I'm getting there. No matter how bad the news, how dire the warnings, or how hopeless the situation, EVERYONE AROUND ME is an apathetic jackass. Phht. There is no "mobilization". We'll just continue to swirl around and around, until we finally get sucked down the toilet, and find ourselves in the septic tank.
"Previously known as Anglo-Iranian Oil Company," of Operation Ajax fame. The wikipedia has a decent article on Operation Ajax - maybe some people would like to look at it. The United States literally overthrew a legitimate government, for the sake of BP's profits. Not something that the UK or the US government readily admits to.
Aftermarket bolton parts can and do void warranties. Take the stock head off your engine, and put a high performance head on, then go back to the distributor to tell him about engine problems. Or, have a shift kit put into your transmission.
Yep, Dell has that right. And, if you read my post in it's entirety, I would reserve the right to jailbreak my Dell, and to do as I wished with it. Of course, once jailbroken, I would have no right to expect Dell to support their box, now would I? I'm perfectly willing to see Dell sell boxes as you describe. If they were set up with security in mind first and foremost, it would be a real improvement over what Joe Sixpack is buying from WalMart, Compaq, and other dealers today.
It might be fair to point out that I don't own anyone's box. I build my own, starting with an Opteron processor, and usually an Asus board. Every machine is custom built to my own specs, and my software is chosen by me, personally. None of the vendors decides to install crapware on my machines. The wife bought a nice new Compaq years ago, one of the first machines to run a gigahertz chip. There was so much spyware and trashware on that thing, I had to pirate a copy of Windows for a fresh install. Phhht. Apple's approach is preferable to this kind of trash.
Best thing for all concerned is, if you don't respect other's property, don't go to Texas. You'll get into serious trouble real quick. On the other hand, if you DO respect other's property, you should get along just fine. It isn't like people are being blown away without good reason, by law abiding citizens. Criminals, on the other hand, whether they be citizens or illegal aliens, have no problem blowing people away without good reason - and the gun laws that Texas DID have were relaxed to deal with that little problem.
I skimmed through that, looking for lines that said I must lock my weapons up. Yes, there is a requirement to prevent children from accessing "readily dischargeable" weapons - but there are a whole meadow full of loopholes written into it. Basically, if you have no children living in your house, and don't invite them in, there's no reason to lock a weapon. Even if you DO have children, you can store the weapon and ammo in separate areas of the house, and comply with the law.
I live 20 miles from the Texas state line, and no one I know actually locks up weapons, unless they are collectors with high value antiques or specialty weapons.
I'm not an Apple lover, or an Apple hater. I am a Microsoft basher, though.
But, my question is - what does Apple sell, and what does Microsoft sell, exactly?
Apple seems to sell several hardware products, along with the software necessary to operate them.
Microsoft offers nothing but software, really. Their few hardware offerings are only small parts of their overall sales, right?
To me, there is one heckuva difference. Up to a point, at least, Apple should have the right to say what is going to run on the hardware that they support with guarantees that the hardware is going to work. Only up to a point - jailbroken Apple devices were jailbroken for a reason. And, those jailbroken devices are no longer under warranty, of course.
I hate it when people compare Apple with Microsoft, trying to draw a conclusion that monopoly laws should apply to Apple for the same reasons that Microsoft was/is/will be in trouble with various courts around the world.
Maybe, just maybe, Apple is guilty of some obscure unfair competition laws, but they are NOT a monopoly, unless and until they capture significantly more than 50% of the market for telephones, or computers, or some other device. Then, we can start quibbling over finer points of law than "They have a huge market share in some specific brand/type/style of device".
But, it's broadly worded enough, that MacGyver or any special forces who can make a weapon out of pocket lint are going to be shafted no matter what.;^)
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You are, of course, 1000% correct. I play on the intartubes, fool around with the darknet, bitblinder, and other high tech stuff. My kids, less so - but they have stacks and stacks of CD's and DVD's that they share with their buddies at school and elsewhere. Sneakernet is much more efficient than all my high tech bullshit. I simply don't have the bandwidth to transfer all the data that the boys can carry in the bottom of a backpack on their way to a buddy's house.
Support BitBlinder. They have made torrenting more anonymous, maybe they'll figure out a way to do distributed tracking next. bitblinder.com
As MLTS has already stated, the *IAA's may be winning a few battles, but they haven't won the war. They'll have to do a lot better to prevent people like me from downloading anything and everything they want to download.
Heh - GP asked the question that was on my mind, and you gave the obvious answer. Now - it's time we came up with a "Secure USB scanner". Yes, yes, yes, of course it's a gimmick. And, of course, it's gonna be a ripoff. All we have to do is, get a USB cord, terminate it inside a stupid little box with a light that flashes as data transfers, then plug our USB into the box. It will make dummies feel good that they have "securely" scanned their USB before plugging it into a computer.
I smell money - dishonest huckster money, to be sure, but money all the same!!
The man says "insight". Try this for insight:
"31 minutes of Ballmer is a lot of Ballmer"
Can you imagine having to BE BALLMER for all of your life? Geeez Louise!
Hell, I thought it was a dog! Wiener dog, wienerschnitzel, dachshound - a dog is a dog is a dog, right? And, a dog by any other name would still sniff assholes.
Uhhhh - touches a stud? In a wood frame building? That isn't going to give you a fire. Wooden 2x4 won't carry a current, and it's not grounded anyway. Ever seen widowmaker wiring, from like 80 years ago? A lot of wires end up touching something in the attic. No big deal, unless you run a ground wire up there.
Ever since KHTML was branched into WebKit, I've been mildly excited by the possibilities. There are only so many underlying engines on the market. IE, Opera, Webkit, and Firefox each uses a different engine. IMHO, Wekit is the way forward. IE's engine is closed source, and no one can do anything with it - ditto for Opera's. That leaves Webkit versus Gheko. Gheko has been a good, reliable engine, which has been bent and stretched, folded, and mutilated time and again to perform as various coders and/or coding teams have seen fit. But, I think it is nearing the end of it's life.
From the wikipedia:
WebKit-based browsers
* Arora
* Web Browser for Android (mobile device platform)
* BOLT browser
* Google Chrome
* Epiphany (web browser)
* iCab (version 4 uses WebKit; earlier versions used its own rendering engine)
* Iris Browser
* Konqueror (version 4 can use WebKit as an alternative to its native KHTML[18])
* Midori
* OmniWeb
* OWB
* Safari
* Shiira
* Sputnik for MorphOS (based on S60 WebCore)
* SRWare Iron
* Stainless
* TeaShark
* Uzbl
* Web Browser for S60, used in all Nokia Symbian smartphones.
* WebOS, used in the Palm Pre mobile
* WebPositive, browser in Haiku
Grab a couple of them, and test drive them. That should satisfy the Google bashers who might want to experiment with Webkit.
Ira Hayes?
I wouldn't put down a rabid dog out of hatred. I would feel a little fear, maybe, but I would be putting the dog down as a necessity. No hatred involved. I'm a veteran - I was shot at a couple times, and I shot back. No hatred involved there either. It was just something that happened, something that had to be done. The mad dogs that walk on two legs simply need to be put down.
Mmmmmm. I had actually read about that Orange revolution, it was brought up about the time that Iran's Green thing was going. I read a couple claims that it was staged by the CIA, and I read a couple articles that refuted that. I'm not sure what to believe, but it's something the CIA is capable of!
I don't know. I vacillate a little bit - but not nearly as much as the justice system vacillates.
The liberals get the upper hand for awhile, and they pardon or commute sentences, set precedent, and pass laws to allow truly bestial people to go free.
Then, the conservatives gain power, and they do things like "three strikes and you're out" meaning some dweeb caught shoplifting three times can get life in prison.
We strike a middle ground momentarily, then the power balance shifts, and we start off on the roller coaster again.
Bottom line, to me, is some animals don't deserve to breathe. We need a justice system capable of putting mad dogs down. The guy who can rape and kill a child is just about as mad a dog as there can be. He should NEVER get a second chance, period. Put a needle in him, strap him to Old Sparky, stand him against a wall and shoot him, I don't care. Just see that he stops polluting the atmosphere with his breath.
Failing the death penalty, it should be recognized that some people should never, ever breathe free air and enjoy the sunshine again. And, I think that is what the Supreme Court did here. They recognized that the justice system fails far to often, and that some low life animals really do need to be detained, whatever it takes.
Ehhh. It would be so much simpler if the liberals would stop trying to abolish the death penalty, and actually worked to make it more "fair" in those instances where it doesn't work properly.
Let's require a higher burden of proof in a capital punishment case, and let's verify with positive DNA evidence. Let's cross our t's and dot our i's and send the mad dogs to hell. There shouldn't be a recidivism rate for these kinds of crimes.
Look at the high profile child abduction, child rape, and child murder cases in recent years. ALMOST ALL of the perpetrators had been convicted of similar crimes in the past, and freed. Garrido was on the sex offender's list, after being freed by the state. He shouldn't have been freed until he had served 50 years real time for his crime!
God, I hate the unjustness of our justice system. People actually DIE because judges, juries, and parole boards don't do their jobs. And, that doesn't begin to address criminals who are freed for crazy reason by idiot governors!!
I could rant for hours. Phht. Won't change a thing, and there will be plenty of people to tell me I'm just another conservative hillbilly republitard or some such nonsense.
People need to get out more, and meet some of the victims, meet some of the criminals, and find out what those crime statistics REALLY mean.
Occupational Exposure of Police Officers to Microwave Radiation
From Traffic Radar Devices
http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/radiofrequencyradiation/fnradpub.html
I don't care what they found or didn't found - I'm still not buying a god damned radiating device to hold up beside my head. I only have about two or three million grey cells left, and if there's a very very very very VERY small chance that the radiation might kill a couple hundred of them, IT ISN'T WORTH IT!!!
Lemme guess. You're still in school - or at least you're very recently graduated. I'm not apathetic, myself, but at age 54, I'm getting there. No matter how bad the news, how dire the warnings, or how hopeless the situation, EVERYONE AROUND ME is an apathetic jackass. Phht. There is no "mobilization". We'll just continue to swirl around and around, until we finally get sucked down the toilet, and find ourselves in the septic tank.
Even then - MOST PEOPLE JUST WON'T FUCKING CARE!
Swederland? Alright, +1 funny.
"Previously known as Anglo-Iranian Oil Company," of Operation Ajax fame. The wikipedia has a decent article on Operation Ajax - maybe some people would like to look at it. The United States literally overthrew a legitimate government, for the sake of BP's profits. Not something that the UK or the US government readily admits to.
Simple. Software isn't a physical product, and NOBODY guarantees software. Read carefully all the disclaimers that acompany any software.
Aftermarket bolton parts can and do void warranties. Take the stock head off your engine, and put a high performance head on, then go back to the distributor to tell him about engine problems. Or, have a shift kit put into your transmission.
Yep, Dell has that right. And, if you read my post in it's entirety, I would reserve the right to jailbreak my Dell, and to do as I wished with it. Of course, once jailbroken, I would have no right to expect Dell to support their box, now would I? I'm perfectly willing to see Dell sell boxes as you describe. If they were set up with security in mind first and foremost, it would be a real improvement over what Joe Sixpack is buying from WalMart, Compaq, and other dealers today.
It might be fair to point out that I don't own anyone's box. I build my own, starting with an Opteron processor, and usually an Asus board. Every machine is custom built to my own specs, and my software is chosen by me, personally. None of the vendors decides to install crapware on my machines. The wife bought a nice new Compaq years ago, one of the first machines to run a gigahertz chip. There was so much spyware and trashware on that thing, I had to pirate a copy of Windows for a fresh install. Phhht. Apple's approach is preferable to this kind of trash.
Best thing for all concerned is, if you don't respect other's property, don't go to Texas. You'll get into serious trouble real quick. On the other hand, if you DO respect other's property, you should get along just fine. It isn't like people are being blown away without good reason, by law abiding citizens. Criminals, on the other hand, whether they be citizens or illegal aliens, have no problem blowing people away without good reason - and the gun laws that Texas DID have were relaxed to deal with that little problem.
You know for a fact that Texas requires you to lock your weapons? Citations? http://ss.utpb.edu/media/files/university-police/TEXAS-WEAPON-LAWS.pdf
I skimmed through that, looking for lines that said I must lock my weapons up. Yes, there is a requirement to prevent children from accessing "readily dischargeable" weapons - but there are a whole meadow full of loopholes written into it. Basically, if you have no children living in your house, and don't invite them in, there's no reason to lock a weapon. Even if you DO have children, you can store the weapon and ammo in separate areas of the house, and comply with the law.
I live 20 miles from the Texas state line, and no one I know actually locks up weapons, unless they are collectors with high value antiques or specialty weapons.
I'm not an Apple lover, or an Apple hater. I am a Microsoft basher, though.
But, my question is - what does Apple sell, and what does Microsoft sell, exactly?
Apple seems to sell several hardware products, along with the software necessary to operate them.
Microsoft offers nothing but software, really. Their few hardware offerings are only small parts of their overall sales, right?
To me, there is one heckuva difference. Up to a point, at least, Apple should have the right to say what is going to run on the hardware that they support with guarantees that the hardware is going to work. Only up to a point - jailbroken Apple devices were jailbroken for a reason. And, those jailbroken devices are no longer under warranty, of course.
I hate it when people compare Apple with Microsoft, trying to draw a conclusion that monopoly laws should apply to Apple for the same reasons that Microsoft was/is/will be in trouble with various courts around the world.
Maybe, just maybe, Apple is guilty of some obscure unfair competition laws, but they are NOT a monopoly, unless and until they capture significantly more than 50% of the market for telephones, or computers, or some other device. Then, we can start quibbling over finer points of law than "They have a huge market share in some specific brand/type/style of device".
Uh-huh - sure it was fun.
In the F'ing aFterlife, the F'ing EFF will be F'ing you AND your F'ing Firstborn child, you F'ing heretic!
Interesting.
But, it's broadly worded enough, that MacGyver or any special forces who can make a weapon out of pocket lint are going to be shafted no matter what. ;^)