In 2000 (I think) SBC was trying to get people on their ADSL service, they were cold calling customers with fast talking script-reading salespeople. I asked the salesperson a simple question (I already has SDSL through Northpoint) "do you block any incoming ports" (I ran web FTP & SMTP). The person transferred me to someone in "Technical Support" the person there did not know what a "port" was and asked what version of Windows was I using, I informed him that if he had never heard of a "port" that he was not qualified to be in "Technical support" and I also informed him that I was not using Windows, that I was using Linux, to this he replied "whats that?".
After several hand-offs from one id10T to another I was finally transferred to a sysadmin in the datacenter who informed me that they did not do any port blocking.
Yes, it usually involves an anonymous call to CPS accusing you of child abuse or possession of Child Pornography, after they tare your house apart and you lose your job you have a "nervous breakdown" and are confined to a mental hospital for the rest of your very much shortened life (you are found hanging by a makeshift rope).
Crooked, lying, billionaires, bringing in foreigners who work cheap and keep their heads down and put up with endless shit!
Less jobs for Americans, and by the way, did you know that all the self serving economic statistics the the gummermint keeps puking out have been "cooked" by a master chef to the point of being outright lies in many cases, especially the employment/inflation stats.
They made fun of me in college when I suggested that the Kennedy assassination was part of a larger plot.
It ain't paranoia if they REALLY ARE out to get you!
Block everything until you know what it is. Certain ports are never legitimate. Use tcpdump or ethereal to do random checks of traffic. Do not trust any commercial software!
I also was almost taken in by this BS/MS ploy, always remember that nomatter what anybody says MS products are ALWAYS lousy, crippled, expensive garbage;-)...
I've been bitchin' and yellin' about this for years now, usually some asshole tells me something to the effect that I'm delusional, (NOT) I think this bears me out!
The punks in pin-stripes and their parasite friends in Washington should be flogged and burned at the stake for what they've done to the American worker!
Nothing will change, the "news media" will continue to spout propaganda without any fact checking. The idiotic electorate will continue to vote for lying, crooked, self-serving, useless bastards because they seem to be incapable of learning from their past mistakes (Bush).
So, I spend thousands of dollars on a low power FM rig, so people in my county (unless it's hilly) can hear me bitch and moan about what a shitpile (fill in the blank) is, or I can start an Internet Radio station for nothing (just the junk laying around) and open source/free software and my high speed internet access.
Then anybody in the whole world can hear me bitch and moan about what a shitpile (fill in the blank) is!
A college professor (the local tech contact for a local Green Party chapter)told me that one of our more active members was "running low on computer memory and didn't have any more space for precinct maps" and that he was going to "fix" it.
I wonder what subject he teaches?
PS I volunteered but I'm too mouthy and loud for them!
The Gummermint has been spitting on the constitution for some time and not in the interest of fighting terror, they (the Gummermint) will terrorize it's citizens with ever more draconian laws and harsh penalties for everything. Any time some parasite (politician) wants to make points with his constituency he will "get tough on crime" or invoke the "War on terror" which usually means passing more unnecessary, useless, redundant laws. If the states don't succeed in killing this latest attempt to abrogate the individual liberties that we (Americans) have been used to it will be a precursor to the Orwellian "Ambulatory permit" without which you will be arrested and imprisoned to better increase the bottom line of the privatized prison system already in existence.
The US Gummermint has turned paranoia into reality!
Having been a field engineer for IBM for over 20 years, I can say unequivocally that there is lots of stuff about hardware that is (secret) and that the company's employees would be fired and sued for revealing.
The Gummermint (US) and all their ass-ociates (RIAA/MPAA) are some of the most ignorant bastards that you can find! Wasting their time and space (and creating customer hostility) on the court docket with this kind of foolishness.
You can get almost anything you want (musicwise) on the Usenet (NNTP) there are hundreds, if not thousands of music/video/film related newsgroups. The Gummermint and the (RIAA/MPAA))does not acknowledge the existence of the Usenet, is this because they can't do anything about it?
Get a copy of Pan, save Gnutella and Bittorrent to search for your favorite porn video.
Example alt.binaries.sounds. alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.
Give me a shot at circumsizing you, since you are obviously a goyim let me make it easy, just put your tiny little pecker in my poultry shears and "presto" you'll never have to use a condom again, you mindless shaygitz putz!
I never boot up a new PC without a Linux installation CD in the CDROM/DVD drive after having first checked the BIOS to make sure that it's set as the first boot device!
So, because I did it this way, I never get to see Gateway's boot screen EULA, therefore I am never bound by it? Or does blowing away the contents of their HDD also violate some obscure law?
But it has been my experience that selling management types on anything where the word "cheap" is used or anything that is built in house is nearly impossible.
Bullshit! You hire a foreigner who'll work cheaper and put up with more shit than an American will. And by the way, it's all LIES that there's a shortage of American tech workers, a LIE that's being spread by the same companies that are trying to get the H1B quotas increased.
And all this mindless BS is being echoed by the corporate news media.
How long do you think it's been since the US Gummermint gave a shit about little things like the constitution, the bill of rights, basic human decency, Etc?
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In 2000 (I think) SBC was trying to get people on their ADSL service, they were cold calling customers with fast talking script-reading salespeople. I asked the salesperson a simple question (I already has SDSL through Northpoint) "do you block any incoming ports" (I ran web FTP & SMTP). The person transferred me to someone in "Technical Support" the person there did not know what a "port" was and asked what version of Windows was I using, I informed him that if he had never heard of a "port" that he was not qualified to be in "Technical support" and I also informed him that I was not using Windows, that I was using Linux, to this he replied "whats that?".
After several hand-offs from one id10T to another I was finally transferred to a sysadmin in the datacenter who informed me that they did not do any port blocking.
Time to answer simple a question 1 hour.
You can minimize your exposure by using products that come from other than US/UK sources.
Maybe the GOP won't be able to steal another election?
Oh wait!
Aren't the GOP just the "Dark Side" of the Democrats?
Demublicans?
Republicrats?
Only one party in reality?
No viable third/fourth party/parties equal something very much like the Communist "one party" system, or just a dictatorship.
Broad-brimmed hat (large sun hat), large square sunglasses (fitovers), inexpensive filter mask (people are already wearing them), baggy clothing.
Unrecognizable!
Now, wrap your wallet in tinfoil, walk close to buildings, don't travel except by rental car or public urban mass transit.
Only pay cash for everything....
Polly wanna Prozac?
Yes, it usually involves an anonymous call to CPS accusing you of child abuse or possession of Child Pornography, after they tare your house apart and you lose your job you have a "nervous breakdown" and are confined to a mental hospital for the rest of your very much shortened life (you are found hanging by a makeshift rope).
How sad about (*****), who would have suspected?
Hello, boys and girls, it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, say hi to Mr. Gonzalez! Can you say "Police State"? I know you can.
Absofuckinlutly!
Crooked, lying, billionaires, bringing in foreigners who work cheap and keep their heads down and put up with endless shit!
Less jobs for Americans, and by the way, did you know that all the self serving economic statistics the the gummermint keeps puking out have been "cooked" by a master chef to the point of being outright lies in many cases, especially the employment/inflation stats.
They made fun of me in college when I suggested that the Kennedy assassination was part of a larger plot.
It ain't paranoia if they REALLY ARE out to get you!
Block everything until you know what it is.
Certain ports are never legitimate.
Use tcpdump or ethereal to do random checks of traffic.
Do not trust any commercial software!
I also was almost taken in by this BS/MS ploy, always remember that nomatter what anybody says MS products are ALWAYS lousy, crippled, expensive garbage ;-)...
I've been bitchin' and yellin' about this for years now, usually some asshole tells me something to the effect that I'm delusional, (NOT) I think this bears me out!
The punks in pin-stripes and their parasite friends in Washington should be flogged and burned at the stake for what they've done to the American worker!
Nothing will change, the "news media" will continue to spout propaganda without any fact checking. The idiotic electorate will continue to vote for lying, crooked, self-serving, useless bastards because they seem to be incapable of learning from their past mistakes (Bush).
So, I spend thousands of dollars on a low power FM rig, so people in my county (unless it's hilly) can hear me bitch and moan about what a shitpile (fill in the blank) is, or I can start an Internet Radio station for nothing (just the junk laying around) and open source/free software and my high speed internet access.
Then anybody in the whole world can hear me bitch and moan about what a shitpile (fill in the blank) is!
Such a deal!
1. Architecting
2. Infrastructure
3. Efforting
5. Dialogging
6. Windows-centric
7. Network-centric
8. Userland
10. Interface with
#1 Really sets my teeth on edge!
A college professor (the local tech contact for a local Green Party chapter)told me that one of our more active members was "running low on computer memory and didn't have any more space for precinct maps" and that he was going to "fix" it.
I wonder what subject he teaches?
PS I volunteered but I'm too mouthy and loud for them!
It's piracy anytime you keep a very rich person or corporation from making money!
The Gummermint has been spitting on the constitution for some time and not in the interest of fighting terror, they (the Gummermint) will terrorize it's citizens with ever more draconian laws and harsh penalties for everything. Any time some parasite (politician) wants to make points with his constituency he will "get tough on crime" or invoke the "War on terror" which usually means passing more unnecessary, useless, redundant laws. If the states don't succeed in killing this latest attempt to abrogate the individual liberties that we (Americans) have been used to it will be a precursor to the Orwellian "Ambulatory permit" without which you will be arrested and imprisoned to better increase the bottom line of the privatized prison system already in existence.
The US Gummermint has turned paranoia into reality!
Having been a field engineer for IBM for over 20 years, I can say unequivocally that there is lots of stuff about hardware that is (secret) and that the company's employees would be fired and sued for revealing.
The Gummermint (US) and all their ass-ociates (RIAA/MPAA) are some of the most ignorant bastards that you can find! Wasting their time and space (and creating customer hostility) on the court docket with this kind of foolishness.
You can get almost anything you want (musicwise) on the Usenet (NNTP) there are hundreds, if not thousands of music/video/film related newsgroups. The Gummermint and the (RIAA/MPAA))does not acknowledge the existence of the Usenet, is this because they can't do anything about it?
Get a copy of Pan, save Gnutella and Bittorrent to search for your favorite porn video.
Example
alt.binaries.sounds.
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.
Give me a shot at circumsizing you, since you are obviously a goyim let me make it easy, just put your tiny little pecker in my poultry shears and "presto" you'll never have to use a condom again, you mindless shaygitz putz!
You can get a Shyster to say anything as long as you pay him/her, why do you think the were called "mouthpieces".
I never boot up a new PC without a Linux installation CD in the CDROM/DVD drive after having first checked the BIOS to make sure that it's set as the first boot device!
So, because I did it this way, I never get to see Gateway's boot screen EULA, therefore I am never bound by it? Or does blowing away the contents of their HDD also violate some obscure law?
But it has been my experience that selling management types on anything where the word "cheap" is used or anything that is built in house is nearly impossible.
I'm really sorry to hear that the Polish gummermint is as idiotic (maybe not quite) as the one here in the US of A!
;-)...
I'm also sorry to hear that the Movie industry is being destroyed by Polish kids translating their deathless works of timeless art
Bullshit! You hire a foreigner who'll work cheaper and put up with more shit than an American will.
And by the way, it's all LIES that there's a shortage of American tech workers, a LIE that's being spread by the same companies that are trying to get the H1B quotas increased.
And all this mindless BS is being echoed by the corporate news media.
How long do you think it's been since the US Gummermint gave a shit about little things like the constitution, the bill of rights, basic human decency, Etc?
Complaints per analysis-calendar cycle/number of call center tickets per 100 users/customers supported.