You're obviously not familiar with the Byzantine, arcane procurement process used by the federal gummermint! Every laptop has to go through a battery of stringent tests, they include (but are not limited to) the tests a follows...
The wino pillow test The cowpiss test The lost at baggage claim test The Maria the chambermaid washed it test The left in plain sight on the back seat test The fat manager sat on it test
China feels India snapping at it's heels in the world market for cheap mass produced goods and low cost technology. When will we see the "made in India" sticker on the back of crap from Wal-mart? China says "over our dead bodies". Hee, hee, hee! maybe they'll cancel each other out and Americans can get their jobs back.
Please, this is pretty idealistic isn't it? You know the whole "follow your bliss" thing, first make sure you can earn a living at it!
Also, it really matters how old you are, no "you're as old as you feel" stuff or the absurd "40 is the new 30". It's not how YOU feel or how agile your mind is it's weather or not anyone will hire you!
Don't listen to the 20 something HR drones that tell you that "we don't discriminate based on age" or the kids that tell you that there are "older people" working at their companies (there are, but they are the owners/board members or top management). These people are lying, naive or stupid, the fact is, it's tough to start over "over 40", it's impossible "over 50" unless you are top management or a PhD/professor/doctor or are in some rare profession where you have no competition at all.
And before some snotty kid flames me I'll tell you that I've been through this nightmare not once, but twice in my life!
I'm so fucking glad I'm retired now and I don't have to deal with this shitty economy anymore.
Is getting more like an episode of the X-files everyday! All this Machiavellian/Orwellian shit is making it harder to buy tinfoil lined hats, a worldwide shortage of paranoid accoutrement is making me tend to only creep around by night and hide in doorways.
Do lunch! I'll have my people call your people! Tennis anyone? Please wait while I hang my sweater over my shoulders and sip a "double latte, half caff, golden calf, (insert French word(s) here) with non-dairy whipped topping".
I wonder if instead of utilizing "inaudible" background hiss to carry (compressed, encrypted) data you selectively modify certain human vocalization(s), by using the actual sound of the conversant voices selectivly you not only (hide, encrypt, compress) but you can also change which speech characteristics you utilize for the purpose.
Yes! Every time I see video of some poor bastard being murdered in some gruesome, horrifying way because they were ignorant enough to travel to an Islamic country I certainly will think of the lynchings of innocent African-Americans in the past century, but that doesn't happen here anymore, but the utter disregard for human life and the rights and feelings of others is demonstrated by the "Koran toters" is evident.
Every time somebody (anybody) says anything about Islam you automatically get swirling mobs of nightshirt wearing, gun waving inbreds, chanting anti western slogans and beheading (slowly sawing off their heads with a dull butcher knife) some hapless foreigner that got caught in the wrong place by a gang of Koran toting thugs. Which really gives non Muslim people like myself a really warm and fuzzy feeling about Islam in general and a burning to tour Islamic countries!
I used to support mainframes and minis for IBM as a field engineer and I can say (IMHO) that except for software upgrades and hardware issues they were absolutely rock solid and reliable, much more so than even the best designed and configured PC server.
Like the Inflation rate (cooked to exclude the most inflationary items). Like the unemployment rate (cooked by cherry picking only those sectors that support the desired outcome).
I can speak for myself, I looked for work for five years (unsuccessfully) before giving up and retiring completely, and it seems to me that the IT industry is more than 70% foreign contract workers despite the TRUE 18% US jobless rate!
Just think of the incredible added value M$ will be including with Windows! A GNU (Unix) work alike, now we won't have to get Linux and FreeBSD anymore! Now we can pay through the nose for it, oh wow, I'm hyperventilating, in fact my breath is coming in short pants!
Steganography, hide the encrypted data in MP3s and large jpegs on cameras and MP3 players and also post the jpegs on social networking sites or picture sharing sites. Make torrents out of the MP3s and make a phone call to the receiver, alerting them to the download "gee whiz, what a great Indi-band song is in this torrent.
As usual the Gummermint is just making the life of the average more difficult and aggravating without having any impact on the bad guys.
A Republican will be elected is if nobody else runs, GWB has been such a total mistake that people will need time to forget or find a Democrat that is as much of a failure to swing public opinion the other way!
Just a thought: Powdered magnesium & aluminum 60/40 in a plastic capsule with the same dimensions as the SSD unit in question, perhaps 2mm thick with a small plastic tube connected to a solenoid valve and a tiny O2 bottle. When activated by a panic switch the 6000 degree F temp should vaporise the chip (vary the thickness to increase the burn time).
The healthcare industry is already letting poor people die (USA). The unemployment/inflation statistics that the government gives out are already cooked to the point of being a complete work of fiction.
They can bust into your house and seize your equipment but you can make it impossible to do anything with it.
Keep your mouth shut (you don't live in a free country). Encrypt your filesystem and use secondary encryption on the sensitive folders. Do not use any encryption products from major American companies.
The music industry is chasing away customers as fast as it can.
The so called "body mass index" is the real bullshit, you're obese if you don't match the ridiculous values on the "BMI". I'm getting fed up trying to explain to MDs that 6'4" tall and 37" wide at the shoulders with a 30" inseam and a 40" waist and 54" chest is not obese at 310lbs! And that by bringing in one of their colleagues who is close to my hight and letting me stand behind them just to illustrate the stupidity of their position.
I remember newsreels in the 40's and 50's (in movie theaters) of a flying car that stores it's wing on top of the roof (no blind spots). It seems to me that you don't need an MIT design team to come up with such a mediocre, unoriginal and impractical idea.
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You're obviously not familiar with the Byzantine, arcane procurement process used by the federal gummermint! Every laptop has to go through a battery of stringent tests, they include (but are not limited to) the tests a follows...
The wino pillow test
The cowpiss test
The lost at baggage claim test
The Maria the chambermaid washed it test
The left in plain sight on the back seat test
The fat manager sat on it test
China feels India snapping at it's heels in the world market for cheap mass produced goods and low cost technology. When will we see the "made in India" sticker on the back of crap from Wal-mart?
China says "over our dead bodies". Hee, hee, hee! maybe they'll cancel each other out and Americans can get their jobs back.
Free, European full disk encryption!
http://www.ce-infosys.com/english/downloads/free_compusec/index.html
Please, this is pretty idealistic isn't it? You know the whole "follow your bliss" thing, first make sure you can earn a living at it!
Also, it really matters how old you are, no "you're as old as you feel" stuff or the absurd "40 is the new 30". It's not how YOU feel or how agile your mind is it's weather or not anyone will hire you!
Don't listen to the 20 something HR drones that tell you that "we don't discriminate based on age" or the kids that tell you that there are "older people" working at their companies (there are, but they are the owners/board members or top management). These people are lying, naive or stupid, the fact is, it's tough to start over "over 40", it's impossible "over 50" unless you are top management or a PhD/professor/doctor or are in some rare profession where you have no competition at all.
And before some snotty kid flames me I'll tell you that I've been through this nightmare not once, but twice in my life!
I'm so fucking glad I'm retired now and I don't have to deal with this shitty economy anymore.
Is getting more like an episode of the X-files everyday! All this Machiavellian/Orwellian shit is making it harder to buy tinfoil lined hats, a worldwide shortage of paranoid accoutrement is making me tend to only creep around by night and hide in doorways.
GPL Man!
2.5 million? Bah, a mere bagatelle!
Do lunch!
I'll have my people call your people!
Tennis anyone?
Please wait while I hang my sweater over my shoulders and sip a "double latte, half caff, golden calf, (insert French word(s) here) with non-dairy whipped topping".
Only a schoolkid or an idiot would think that the law or the constitution has ever influenced the behavior of the US gummermint!
I wonder if instead of utilizing "inaudible" background hiss to carry (compressed, encrypted) data you selectively modify certain human vocalization(s), by using the actual sound of the conversant voices selectivly you not only (hide, encrypt, compress) but you can also change which speech characteristics you utilize for the purpose.
Yes!
Every time I see video of some poor bastard being murdered in some gruesome, horrifying way because they were ignorant enough to travel to an Islamic country I certainly will think of the lynchings of innocent African-Americans in the past century, but that doesn't happen here anymore, but the utter disregard for human life and the rights and feelings of others is demonstrated by the "Koran toters" is evident.
Every time somebody (anybody) says anything about Islam you automatically get swirling mobs of nightshirt wearing, gun waving inbreds, chanting anti western slogans and beheading (slowly sawing off their heads with a dull butcher knife) some hapless foreigner that got caught in the wrong place by a gang of Koran toting thugs.
Which really gives non Muslim people like myself a really warm and fuzzy feeling about Islam in general and a burning to tour Islamic countries!
I used to support mainframes and minis for IBM as a field engineer and I can say (IMHO) that except for software upgrades and hardware issues they were absolutely rock solid and reliable, much more so than even the best designed and configured PC server.
Like the Inflation rate (cooked to exclude the most inflationary items).
Like the unemployment rate (cooked by cherry picking only those sectors that support the desired outcome).
I can speak for myself, I looked for work for five years (unsuccessfully) before giving up and retiring completely, and it seems to me that the IT industry is more than 70% foreign contract workers despite the TRUE 18% US jobless rate!
Just think of the incredible added value M$ will be including with Windows! A GNU (Unix) work alike, now we won't have to get Linux and FreeBSD anymore! Now we can pay through the nose for it, oh wow, I'm hyperventilating, in fact my breath is coming in short pants!
Steganography, hide the encrypted data in MP3s and large jpegs on cameras and MP3 players and also post the jpegs on social networking sites or picture sharing sites. Make torrents out of the MP3s and make a phone call to the receiver, alerting them to the download "gee whiz, what a great Indi-band song is in this torrent.
As usual the Gummermint is just making the life of the average more difficult and aggravating without having any impact on the bad guys.
A Republican will be elected is if nobody else runs, GWB has been such a total mistake that people will need time to forget or find a Democrat that is as much of a failure to swing public opinion the other way!
Just a thought:
Powdered magnesium & aluminum 60/40 in a plastic capsule with the same dimensions as the SSD unit in question, perhaps 2mm thick with a small plastic tube connected to a solenoid valve and a tiny O2 bottle. When activated by a panic switch the 6000 degree F temp should vaporise the chip (vary the thickness to increase the burn time).
Lets put all the fundie Muslims and Christians in a big pit and let them blow each other up!
The healthcare industry is already letting poor people die (USA).
The unemployment/inflation statistics that the government gives out are already cooked to the point of being a complete work of fiction.
They can bust into your house and seize your equipment but you can make it impossible to do anything with it.
Keep your mouth shut (you don't live in a free country).
Encrypt your filesystem and use secondary encryption on the sensitive folders.
Do not use any encryption products from major American companies.
The music industry is chasing away customers as fast as it can.
Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14am. Eastern time, August 29th!
Ruuun!
Anyone would need this kind of speed at home?
.50 GBPS, online gaming?, viewing porn?
Reading Slashdot at
Ahhhh, faster botnets!
The so called "body mass index" is the real bullshit, you're obese if you don't match the ridiculous values on the "BMI". I'm getting fed up trying to explain to MDs that 6'4" tall and 37" wide at the shoulders with a 30" inseam and a 40" waist and 54" chest is not obese at 310lbs! And that by bringing in one of their colleagues who is close to my hight and letting me stand behind them just to illustrate the stupidity of their position.
I remember newsreels in the 40's and 50's (in movie theaters) of a flying car that stores it's wing on top of the roof (no blind spots). It seems to me that you don't need an MIT design team to come up with such a mediocre, unoriginal and impractical idea.
This is just not as interesting as it should have been!
Beautiful women killing monsters, it just doesn't get any better.