I normally would agree and 99.9999% of people who deal with drugs (either consumers or sellers) are not nearly that stupid,
But there is that very small percentage that would be that stupid, watch a few episodes of Cops.... I mean I find myself yelling at the TV "ARE YOU THAT STUPID????" lol
I have seen several times where they have pulled people over for traffic stops and busted them for having a joint stuck behind there ear... or a bag of weed sitting on the console in plain sight.
I watched one episode where the guy actually called the police to complain that the guy ripped him off.. on a deal no less!!! lol he got arrested pretty much on the spot.
You also would think there would be far more ZPM's then the few they have.... I mean the ZPM's where the energy source of the ancients so where is the ZPM factory? You also would think something the size of city might have a few spares laying around.
I can see a planet only having one ZPM factory on it its not like you would need more then a few of them a year for the entire planet, but a multi galaxy spanning empire?
It also seems like they could detect the gravity pull of the ship, while small it seems like there would be some? Of course they did have artificial gravity so maybe they solved that little problem by canceling out there own gravity well? would make for some insane maneuvering with no mass to deal with. Unless gravity has nothing to do with mass then I am completely wrong but I am no physics major so I won't feel too bad about it:)
And to me it seems like the cloaked ships would need to be extra careful as to me it seems like getting hit with an energy weapon while cloaked would cause more damage VS not being cloaked.
Not only that but its not just a soldier that could be cloaked its far more likely that this type of tech would be first seen on something like a plane or ship.
Something like the Philadelphia experiment.
As for detecting something that is cloaked, I would look at the tech they use to detect subs as a guide. Magnetic anomaly detectors.
I'll bet that you are actually being bothered by something else - perhaps near-inaudible high frequency buzzing from some electronic component.
This could be true I just recently had to replace my cable modem. It was losing sync constantly and when I disconnected it to trade it back in to the cable company, this noise stopped. I plugged it back in and sure enough there was a high pitched whine I had not noticed until I had my head next to it and unplugged it. I can imagine that if I did not usually have a fan blowing in the room it would have given me a migraine from hell. (I like the white noise of a fan running so maybe it kept me from hearing the whine)
Not saying this guys WiFi is doing the same thing but it seems plausible at least.
Totally agree with this, I buy a Lexmark or what ever I can get thats the cheapest for printing and when the ink runs out I find some one who wants a year old printer for free (people buy a new ink cartridge and get a practically new printer for what ever it costs to buy some ink)
I get a new printer and usually some paper and other goodies out of the deal.
I just cant stand paying the same amount of money for ink as a new machine when I know the ink will dry up or "expire" in the same amount of time anyway.
If I printed more I would be all for buying ink since I could probably get more out of my money that way.
I do feel bad about the E waste but thats a problem that needs to be tackled at the manufacturers of Ink and Printers, I cannot honestly believe the price they charge for ink... It should be cheaper to fill the damned things then it is to buy a new one.
Years ago I used to do networking installs for the local cable company (IE I come to your house install your cable modem and set up the wireless router.... fun stuff I tell you uugghhh lol)
In all the installs I did, I did set up one Mac system, almost 100% ran XP (other then a few oddball Win9x installs....)
Myself if you came to my house you would see Slitaz running on my notebook Windows 7 running on 3 machines and a box running FreeNAS.
2/3 other boxes that I have not decided what exactly to do with them (they are pretty ancient machines 1Ghz P3's)
It is a shame that the old tricks do not work now since they switched to umm wait it still might work for you....
If your new notebook has a SLIC 2.0 BIOS you could just download the ISO file and burn it then install that with out having to buy it 2 times.
If you have time you could return the purchased copy or install with the purchased DVD and save your key for a different computer:)
I think if you buy a DVD retail copy it comes with a key for installing it, but when it comes on something like a Dell or Compaq they use a key stored in the BIOS so when you install windows it never asks for the key.
Anyway enjoy Windows 7 contrary to what some people will tell you its not a bad OS and is quite a good tool.
I also liked the one about the dog being electrocuted by the phone line shorting out and grounding into the dogs chain (The phone would not ring but the lady knew she had a call cause the dog would go berserk)
Tech support stories are some of my favorites some one should write a book and collect up all the most interesting ones.
Another good one I was told, people would complain that every time the toilet would flush the PC would crash. As it turned out they had well water and the pump would kick on to fill the gallons the toilet used and cause the PC to crash. Hmmm of course thinking about it now it seems like a shower or any other water use would cause the same problem. (I wish I had asked the person that at the time)
"People DO interact with the internet indiscriminately. Most can't tell a good site from a bad site, don't know the difference between a "funnycats.avi" and "funnycats.avi.exe", blah blah blah blah blah. Chances are if you are reading this you have fixed someone's computer because of this haphazard e-disregard, so I don't need to tell you that most people just don't get safe browsing practices."
For me my favorite was a person who used Kazaa to download DBZ movies..... Now why on earth would some one click a 2KB file that was supposed to be Majinbuu.avi.exe. or what ever. Even after I explained that movies are in sizes ranging from at least 20MB's but no those small files must have been movies they had DSL and expected downloads to go fast.... rotflmao
I feel dirty for even knowing what DBZ is (I am old enough that at the same age it was Battle of the Planets for me.) but I had a crash course in anime due to those cleaning sessions.
I think people sitting in there own home do feel more secure then they should on the net. You have perhaps hit the nail on the head as to why users are seen as stupid and do the things they do. Even at work most people feel at least some what safe.
Of course having a user ask you 10,000 questions about almost anything that happens on a machine is the other end of the spectrum (my wife asks me about everything she does not recognize but I would rather have that then some one who asks nothing and clicks yes to everything sometimes its annoying but I have to balance out that VS having my personal machine be chewed up by some crapware.)
I remember tricking people into running whack a mole to infect them with sub 7 back in the day lol
good times, good times...
If you can convince a user to run some code it really does not matter what OS your on. At that point the security game is over.
Me if I wanted to target Linux I would make something that would be a double click install for Ubuntu (To me at least it looks like more computer non literate people pick Ubuntu then other distro's) Call it something like Kitten Screen saver, something fuzzy and cute could not possibly be bad lol make up some BS as to why its trying to connect to the internet just in case they are running a firewall hmmm updates for even more fuzzy kittens !!!
1. Make fuzzy kittens malware 2. Trick user into installing malware 3. Set up ad server 4. Profit!!!
I agree and would like to add that most of the malware on a Windows system is also from people clicking run or allow.
Most people know to run a virus scanner when using windows (although some confuse fire wall with virus scanner....) but the virus scanner can do nothing when the person clicks ignore...
There have been remote installs on windows in the past and virus's that could hide inside other executables but those where rather rare and if you stuck to trusted sites that was hardly an issue. I think my personal favorite was Winnuke but thats so old.
If your running Windows Vista or 7 with a decent firewall and virus scanner with Firefox or Opera your fairly secure baring letting some one use your machine for P2P or browsing some porn sites (some are safe but I have seen some works of art and I am not talking about the jpegs lol)
Basically the most important security measure you can have is physical security and proper knowledge, forewarned is forearmed.
P.S. For the advanced windows user there are literally a dozen more things you can do to lock a system down and make it more secure but changing your browser and running a decent firewall with antivirus should be enough to keep out 99% of the bad guys.
I had a friend who would eat bacon and ham who was Jewish.
I guess its just on how strict they follow the rules, my mom was a Jehovah's witness and we celebrated Christmas and all the other holidays. Myself I have my own belief and follow a mix of all the religions, I guess you could call it the blind men religion. Seems to me like the blind men feeling an elephant.
my guess is that the factories at Intel or AMD are pretty clean (you could probably safely eat off the floor but in doing so you would horribly contaminate the factory) of course if this meat costs the same amount per ounce as a computer chip then I am pretty sure there will be no sale lol
Not saying your not right about creating meat in a factory is just dirty work. Just saying that keeping it clean is not science fiction and may be possible.
Maybe you could combine a meat factory and a power plant... put those muscles to work turning generators and when they are "ripe" eat em and put some fresh "meat" on the wheel.
I am half joking here but it would be interesting. I guess this would be a different take on using methane as power.
I wonder what the waste product of this process is? Would it end up being as enviro friendly as raising real cattle? (IE tons of methane and forests turned into pasture.)
This story is kind of gross but I guess if I can get a good tasting tender steak out of the deal I could bring myself to deal with it lol
Who knows maybe this meat will end up being even better tasting then the real thing and since its factory controlled I imagine mad cows would be less of a risk (not much risk now but its still not zero)
Joke mode: I had assumed the lunch lady at my school as a child had this tech already... hehehehe
Well at least you admitted to disagreeing with my post with out reading it... At that point its hard to take any research you did on your own seriously. Just being honest here I am very inclined to ignore the rest of your post after that.
But I did struggle on and read the rest:)
sorry you got in an accident and I am guessing again that the vehicle was not properly maintained or that the driver was in some way impaired? So factory work would not be your bag at any rate also in collage so again no factory work for you. I can start to see why you think this is great stuff now. I am also guessing you got a nice settlement out it (and if not then sorry about that) so struggling to pay a mortgage is probably not high on your list of things to do.
All I am saying is that there is currently slavery in China that is swept under the rug and some of those great prices you pay at the store for "Made in China" have a hidden cost... You say the US should compete, and your right but out sourcing is not really competition. If China wants to compete they need there own brands and I have no doubt they would be huge market force if and when they decide to do so.
"Because some US employers are bad they all are. Look at all those illegal aliens being employed."
Comparing accidents, negligence and paid illegal labor to illegal slavery and being beaten to death? I unfortunately would have to chose to live with the former rather then the later, neither one is good and represent huge problems but I honestly do not see them as being equals, you may but if you do perhaps you measure with a different stick then most people.
I am honestly guessing you did not read any of the links I provided in my post...
"Jonathan Watts in Beijing, The Guardian, UK, Saturday June 16, 2007 -
Beijing (The Guardian)- More than 450 slave workers – many of them maimed, burned and mentally scarred – have been rescued from Chinese brick factories in an investigation into illegal labour camps, it emerged yesterday.
The victims, including children as young as 14, were reportedly abducted or tricked into labouring at the kilns, where they toiled for 16 to 20 hours a day for no pay and barely enough food to live.
According to the state media, they were beaten by guards and kept from escaping by dogs. At least 13 died from overwork and abuse, including a labourer who was allegedly battered to death with a shovel."
I wonder if these bricks where used to build any other buildings like other factories...
But hey your right I did not see one mention of a shotgun armed guard or chains!
Some people like to think that sending jobs to China is a great thing (in a very narrow view it is) the marketing departments have done a great job. "globalization" its a great buzzword like synergy... lol Share the wealth? who is saying this? People who have wealth hmm probably the people who own a factory about to be shut down in favor of one opening in China lol.
Competition is great but outsourcing is not competition thats just a competition of who can get to the bottom of the cheap labor barrel first.
Besides its hard to compete with slave labor.... I bet those collage students from the Tienanmen square thing make a nice iPod or Nike shoe, or is it the 12 year old kids who make the shoe's and collage student prisoners who make the iPod's I get confused sometimes... I sometimes wonder how people can sleep at night doing the things they do to each other then I remember that most of these people would sell there own mother into slavery for an extra stock option.
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I was praying I wasn't the only one who noticed that and got a cheap chuckle out of it.... lol
Hahahaha and so true!!! That made my morning :)
Thank you :)
I would like to see that as an experiment... a cluster of human minds.
Would the sum be greater then the parts? or would you create a bunch of veggies?
I mean would 5 people with an average IQ of 120 equal a singular intelligence of say 600?
If so then the possibilities are exciting...
What has this to do with zombies?
Well with an IQ of 600 I am sure almost everyone else would appear to be as stupid as a zombie.
I normally would agree and 99.9999% of people who deal with drugs (either consumers or sellers) are not nearly that stupid,
But there is that very small percentage that would be that stupid, watch a few episodes of Cops.... I mean I find myself yelling at the TV "ARE YOU THAT STUPID????" lol
I have seen several times where they have pulled people over for traffic stops and busted them for having a joint stuck behind there ear... or a bag of weed sitting on the console in plain sight.
I watched one episode where the guy actually called the police to complain that the guy ripped him off.. on a deal no less!!! lol he got arrested pretty much on the spot.
At any rate it does provide some funny TV though.
They are just looking for a way to detect the cloaked ships in orbit around earth.... Observers!
Probably just want to keep an eye on us trouble makers, if they are there.
I now return you to your normal tin foil hat programming!
You also would think there would be far more ZPM's then the few they have.... I mean the ZPM's where the energy source of the ancients so where is the ZPM factory? You also would think something the size of city might have a few spares laying around.
I can see a planet only having one ZPM factory on it its not like you would need more then a few of them a year for the entire planet, but a multi galaxy spanning empire?
It also seems like they could detect the gravity pull of the ship, while small it seems like there would be some? Of course they did have artificial gravity so maybe they solved that little problem by canceling out there own gravity well? would make for some insane maneuvering with no mass to deal with. Unless gravity has nothing to do with mass then I am completely wrong but I am no physics major so I won't feel too bad about it :)
And to me it seems like the cloaked ships would need to be extra careful as to me it seems like getting hit with an energy weapon while cloaked would cause more damage VS not being cloaked.
Just be cloaked and out of phase at the same time the stone simply passes through. :P lol
I laugh now but who knows maybe in 2 or 3 hundred years we could have such tech, if we don't manage to self destruct in the mean time :)
Agreed.
Not only that but its not just a soldier that could be cloaked its far more likely that this type of tech would be first seen on something like a plane or ship.
Something like the Philadelphia experiment.
As for detecting something that is cloaked, I would look at the tech they use to detect subs as a guide. Magnetic anomaly detectors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_anomaly_detector
I'll bet that you are actually being bothered by something else - perhaps near-inaudible high frequency buzzing from some electronic component.
This could be true I just recently had to replace my cable modem. It was losing sync constantly and when I disconnected it to trade it back in to the cable company, this noise stopped. I plugged it back in and sure enough there was a high pitched whine I had not noticed until I had my head next to it and unplugged it. I can imagine that if I did not usually have a fan blowing in the room it would have given me a migraine from hell. (I like the white noise of a fan running so maybe it kept me from hearing the whine)
Not saying this guys WiFi is doing the same thing but it seems plausible at least.
Totally agree with this, I buy a Lexmark or what ever I can get thats the cheapest for printing and when the ink runs out I find some one who wants a year old printer for free (people buy a new ink cartridge and get a practically new printer for what ever it costs to buy some ink)
I get a new printer and usually some paper and other goodies out of the deal.
I just cant stand paying the same amount of money for ink as a new machine when I know the ink will dry up or "expire" in the same amount of time anyway.
If I printed more I would be all for buying ink since I could probably get more out of my money that way.
I do feel bad about the E waste but thats a problem that needs to be tackled at the manufacturers of Ink and Printers, I cannot honestly believe the price they charge for ink... It should be cheaper to fill the damned things then it is to buy a new one.
Years ago I used to do networking installs for the local cable company (IE I come to your house install your cable modem and set up the wireless router.... fun stuff I tell you uugghhh lol)
In all the installs I did, I did set up one Mac system, almost 100% ran XP (other then a few oddball Win9x installs....)
Myself if you came to my house you would see Slitaz running on my notebook Windows 7 running on 3 machines and a box running FreeNAS.
2/3 other boxes that I have not decided what exactly to do with them (they are pretty ancient machines 1Ghz P3's)
It is a shame that the old tricks do not work now since they switched to umm wait it still might work for you....
If your new notebook has a SLIC 2.0 BIOS you could just download the ISO file and burn it then install that with out having to buy it 2 times.
If you have time you could return the purchased copy or install with the purchased DVD and save your key for a different computer :)
I think if you buy a DVD retail copy it comes with a key for installing it, but when it comes on something like a Dell or Compaq they use a key stored in the BIOS so when you install windows it never asks for the key.
Anyway enjoy Windows 7 contrary to what some people will tell you its not a bad OS and is quite a good tool.
Hahahah one of my personal favorites.
I also liked the one about the dog being electrocuted by the phone line shorting out and grounding into the dogs chain (The phone would not ring but the lady knew she had a call cause the dog would go berserk)
Tech support stories are some of my favorites some one should write a book and collect up all the most interesting ones.
Another good one I was told, people would complain that every time the toilet would flush the PC would crash. As it turned out they had well water and the pump would kick on to fill the gallons the toilet used and cause the PC to crash. Hmmm of course thinking about it now it seems like a shower or any other water use would cause the same problem. (I wish I had asked the person that at the time)
"People DO interact with the internet indiscriminately. Most can't tell a good site from a bad site, don't know the difference between a "funnycats.avi" and "funnycats.avi.exe", blah blah blah blah blah. Chances are if you are reading this you have fixed someone's computer because of this haphazard e-disregard, so I don't need to tell you that most people just don't get safe browsing practices."
For me my favorite was a person who used Kazaa to download DBZ movies..... Now why on earth would some one click a 2KB file that was supposed to be Majinbuu.avi.exe. or what ever. Even after I explained that movies are in sizes ranging from at least 20MB's but no those small files must have been movies they had DSL and expected downloads to go fast.... rotflmao
I feel dirty for even knowing what DBZ is (I am old enough that at the same age it was Battle of the Planets for me.) but I had a crash course in anime due to those cleaning sessions.
I think people sitting in there own home do feel more secure then they should on the net. You have perhaps hit the nail on the head as to why users are seen as stupid and do the things they do. Even at work most people feel at least some what safe.
Of course having a user ask you 10,000 questions about almost anything that happens on a machine is the other end of the spectrum (my wife asks me about everything she does not recognize but I would rather have that then some one who asks nothing and clicks yes to everything sometimes its annoying but I have to balance out that VS having my personal machine be chewed up by some crapware.)
I remember tricking people into running whack a mole to infect them with sub 7 back in the day lol
good times, good times...
If you can convince a user to run some code it really does not matter what OS your on. At that point the security game is over.
Me if I wanted to target Linux I would make something that would be a double click install for Ubuntu (To me at least it looks like more computer non literate people pick Ubuntu then other distro's) Call it something like Kitten Screen saver, something fuzzy and cute could not possibly be bad lol make up some BS as to why its trying to connect to the internet just in case they are running a firewall hmmm updates for even more fuzzy kittens !!!
1. Make fuzzy kittens malware
2. Trick user into installing malware
3. Set up ad server
4. Profit!!!
Hmmm I am missing a step ??? lol
Your words have the ring of truth!
I agree and would like to add that most of the malware on a Windows system is also from people clicking run or allow.
Most people know to run a virus scanner when using windows (although some confuse fire wall with virus scanner....) but the virus scanner can do nothing when the person clicks ignore...
There have been remote installs on windows in the past and virus's that could hide inside other executables but those where rather rare and if you stuck to trusted sites that was hardly an issue. I think my personal favorite was Winnuke but thats so old.
If your running Windows Vista or 7 with a decent firewall and virus scanner with Firefox or Opera your fairly secure baring letting some one use your machine for P2P or browsing some porn sites (some are safe but I have seen some works of art and I am not talking about the jpegs lol)
Basically the most important security measure you can have is physical security and proper knowledge, forewarned is forearmed.
P.S. For the advanced windows user there are literally a dozen more things you can do to lock a system down and make it more secure but changing your browser and running a decent firewall with antivirus should be enough to keep out 99% of the bad guys.
I had a friend who would eat bacon and ham who was Jewish.
I guess its just on how strict they follow the rules, my mom was a Jehovah's witness and we celebrated Christmas and all the other holidays. Myself I have my own belief and follow a mix of all the religions, I guess you could call it the blind men religion. Seems to me like the blind men feeling an elephant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
So this would probably be just fine to them :)
Now if they did make human flavor I am betting a lot of people will complain lol (might sell well around Halloween!!!)
my guess is that the factories at Intel or AMD are pretty clean (you could probably safely eat off the floor but in doing so you would horribly contaminate the factory) of course if this meat costs the same amount per ounce as a computer chip then I am pretty sure there will be no sale lol
Not saying your not right about creating meat in a factory is just dirty work.
Just saying that keeping it clean is not science fiction and may be possible.
Maybe you could combine a meat factory and a power plant... put those muscles to work turning generators and when they are "ripe" eat em and put some fresh "meat" on the wheel.
I am half joking here but it would be interesting. I guess this would be a different take on using methane as power.
I wonder what the waste product of this process is? Would it end up being as enviro friendly as raising real cattle? (IE tons of methane and forests turned into pasture.)
This story is kind of gross but I guess if I can get a good tasting tender steak out of the deal I could bring myself to deal with it lol
Who knows maybe this meat will end up being even better tasting then the real thing and since its factory controlled I imagine mad cows would be less of a risk (not much risk now but its still not zero)
Joke mode: I had assumed the lunch lady at my school as a child had this tech already... hehehehe
Well at least you admitted to disagreeing with my post with out reading it... At that point its hard to take any research you did on your own seriously. Just being honest here I am very inclined to ignore the rest of your post after that.
But I did struggle on and read the rest :)
sorry you got in an accident and I am guessing again that the vehicle was not properly maintained or that the driver was in some way impaired? So factory work would not be your bag at any rate also in collage so again no factory work for you. I can start to see why you think this is great stuff now. I am also guessing you got a nice settlement out it (and if not then sorry about that) so struggling to pay a mortgage is probably not high on your list of things to do.
All I am saying is that there is currently slavery in China that is swept under the rug and some of those great prices you pay at the store for "Made in China" have a hidden cost... You say the US should compete, and your right but out sourcing is not really competition. If China wants to compete they need there own brands and I have no doubt they would be huge market force if and when they decide to do so.
"Because some US employers are bad they all are. Look at all those illegal aliens being employed."
Comparing accidents, negligence and paid illegal labor to illegal slavery and being beaten to death? I unfortunately would have to chose to live with the former rather then the later, neither one is good and represent huge problems but I honestly do not see them as being equals, you may but if you do perhaps you measure with a different stick then most people.
I am honestly guessing you did not read any of the links I provided in my post...
"Jonathan Watts in Beijing, The Guardian, UK, Saturday June 16, 2007 -
Beijing (The Guardian)- More than 450 slave workers – many of them maimed, burned and mentally scarred – have been rescued from Chinese brick factories in an investigation into illegal labour camps, it emerged yesterday.
The victims, including children as young as 14, were reportedly abducted or tricked into labouring at the kilns, where they toiled for 16 to 20 hours a day for no pay and barely enough food to live.
According to the state media, they were beaten by guards and kept from escaping by dogs. At least 13 died from overwork and abuse, including a labourer who was allegedly battered to death with a shovel."
I wonder if these bricks where used to build any other buildings like other factories...
But hey your right I did not see one mention of a shotgun armed guard or chains!
I agree
Some people like to think that sending jobs to China is a great thing (in a very narrow view it is) the marketing departments have done a great job. "globalization" its a great buzzword like synergy... lol Share the wealth? who is saying this? People who have wealth hmm probably the people who own a factory about to be shut down in favor of one opening in China lol.
Competition is great but outsourcing is not competition thats just a competition of who can get to the bottom of the cheap labor barrel first.
Besides its hard to compete with slave labor.... I bet those collage students from the Tienanmen square thing make a nice iPod or Nike shoe, or is it the 12 year old kids who make the shoe's and collage student prisoners who make the iPod's I get confused sometimes... I sometimes wonder how people can sleep at night doing the things they do to each other then I remember that most of these people would sell there own mother into slavery for an extra stock option.
I guess they make bricks too...
http://chinaview.wordpress.com/2007/06/17/modern-slavery-in-china-status-of-chinese-worker/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article1938288.ece
Of course China says they have had no slavery since 1959 !!!
http://news.scotsman.com/world/We-freed-slaves--just.5821498.jp
I guess "competition in the workplace" is marketing for "We need free labor our profit margins could be much higher if it was free to make this stuff"
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