Yup, "Academics" AKA "Pseudo Intellectuals" AKA "People who sit around and brag about their educations", don't know the difference between "Hackers", "Crackers" and Script Kiddy's".
I remember when I stood in absolute darkness, chest deep in muddy leech & snake infested water trying to remain silent and control my breathing, holding my weapon above my head, my arms screaming for relief while a platoon of NVA quietly crept by (you know they were as freaked out as me). When the last of them was out of earshot, I collapsed and almost drowned.
No "Sixth Sense" warned them that an armed 6'4" American was standing as little as five feet away.
Cheap, disposable dust masks and Groucho Marks eyeglass-nose-mustaches, will when used in combination defeat any facial recognition and lip-reading technology for about $10.00!
Encrypt everything, trust nothing, paranoia is good, trust is bad, tell nobody where you live, bank overseas in anonymous accounts, communicate through overseas secure tunnels (including voip), don't hold down a job because THEY might know where you are, always check for an escape route, have your bags packed and have your passport ready!
If you really think that anyone who holds elective office in the US of A really gives a shit about the kinds of things that slashdotters obsess about you're either naive or just plain stupid.
Our elected (fill in the blanks) are opportunistic, self serving, parasitical, phony baloney bastards who, with rare exceptions, do nothing of value at all!
The people who implement the chaos and utter confusion generated by our elected, know how futile Byzantine and arcane the bureaucracy has become, Google: "GFAR" "GSAR" "GSAM" "FAR".
Too say that the Government is slow, inefficient, and fraught with corruption and conspiracy would be an understatement!
The LIES and happytalk that spew from the idiots in the newsmedia that unquestioningly repeat anything that the Gummermint and their hired guns throw out in an attempt to make this catastrophe of an economy seem like a wonderland of opportunity makes me wanna puke!
Oh look! we made 300,000 jobs in the last quarter!! Isn't it just tooo ducky! Oh wait, we lost 190,000 jobs during the same quarter, they must have been bab jobs and the 110,000 jobs that we did make are 70% service jobs, and the total does not even keep up with population growth anyway.
I guess tha "journalists" don't have to understand concepts like "cooking the books" and "manipulating statistics" do they.
More H1B's, less jobs for Americans, I say we ALL go on welfare and stop buying anything except food and alcohol.
Nixon had a conscience, Boner does not! Nixon felt shame, Boner does not! Nixon could admit he was wrong, Boner has and will not! Nixon ended a war, Boner may not be done starting wars! Nixon opened American dialogs with other nations, Boner has an "Axis of evil"
Theres no comparison, GWB, "Boner" is the worst president ever.
If you are familiar with how the US Gummermint awards contracts, then you will laugh high-sterically at the idea of a government contractor "expert" being employed at anything more sophisticated than finding the missing emails on granny's computer. I tell you from first hand experience it's a myth that the X-Files helped to create and even then Scully & Mulder had to go to the "lone gunmen" for help!
You've obviosly not read my post carefully, I was referring to housing that cost's more than five years wages (like the SF Bay Area) a small house in a bad neighborhood costs over $700,000 in SF and a person who would feel at home in that neiborhood probably makes less (a lot less) than $50,000 a year (they couldn't qualify for the loan).
Also you're response would suggest that you are probably a fairly young person, as a person whose lost everything (twice) due to the violently unstable US economy, I will stand by my comment that "Cash in hand is always your friend".
Keep your passport ready, your bags packed and your evacuation route clear, I smell another world war coming!
In the US of A "Middle Class" means that you work at one job instead of the two that the "Working poor" have. As a "Middle Class" person you may or may not have medical insurance, if you do it either means that you are either very lucky to have an employer who provides it at a very reduced group rate or you are a single professional who can afford your own. At the very highest end of the "Middle class" are professionals who while working sixty to eighty hours a week at (one) job do pay their own family medical insurance (it may be noted that most of these people have two working adults per household). And then there is the mystery of housing, the "Working Poor" who have two minimum wage (or low paying) jobs per person usually are forced into "creative" housing situations and usually spend at least several weeks of "homelessness" at least once in their lifetimes. The US of A's "Middle Class" have been brainwashed that if you don't buy a house that you're a fool and headed to financial ruin! while the people of the San Francisco Bay Area are being forclosed on in ever increasing numbers losing whatever they had "invested" in their homes.
IMHO, always, only my opinion, Anybody that tells you that buying a house that costs more than you make in five or more years is lying or an idiot, it just doesn't add up.
First thing I do after I build a new box and Install Slackware is install VMware and XP and 2000. From within the XP guest I install Virtual PC with OS/2. I'm usually done (sort of) in one or two weeks (I'm unemployed so no hurry).
Yeah, 5 years and thousands of resumes later, I gave up, screw it! I really feel for the younger American workers, I'm not optimistic at all! Whats holding the economy together? It's based on shuffling paper, MBA chuzpa and equitys fraud.
Everybody ran WindowsNT, and the migration to Windows2K was underway, some of the Engineers ran IRIX and even fewer ran Linux, at my desktop I ran Linux (on a Dell desktop) with VMware installed and Windows2K workstation in a virtual machine. I scrounged up an O2 re-installed the appropriate IRIX image for it and just about NEVER used it, it was slow as molasses, a pain in the neck to find tools for, had a truly suckey window manager, etc.
Linux is way better for just about everything and for the rare time that I needed Windows I would start the virtual machine.
That they "laid off" (fired) the old admin, so that they could hire "someone with a more recent skillset" (younger, lower paid). And the new guy actually has a "degree" from a "technical school" so he must be more aware of security issues, right?
Oops, the new admin has personal issues that are preventing him from fully concentrating on his job (ADHD), let's call in the "old guy" as a contractor for a while so he can fix this mess.
Having been an on-call FE (Field Engineer) for over 20 years, servicing clients with a 24 hour response clause in their service contracts, I know what it's like to spend 36 hours on end to end service calls and only stopping for "power naps" at highway "rest areas".
The thing is I was on double time for weeks on end, and despite the strain on my system it was worth while, now they would want me to put in the same hours for no extra money? Would I be "exempt?" I thought that anybody working in california that made over a certain houry wage was "exempt", is this true?, Iv'e been out of work for years.
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Yup, "Academics" AKA "Pseudo Intellectuals" AKA "People who sit around and brag about their educations", don't know the difference between "Hackers", "Crackers" and Script Kiddy's".
I remember when I stood in absolute darkness, chest deep in muddy leech & snake infested water trying to remain silent and control my breathing, holding my weapon above my head, my arms screaming for relief while a platoon of NVA quietly crept by (you know they were as freaked out as me). When the last of them was out of earshot, I collapsed and almost drowned.
No "Sixth Sense" warned them that an armed 6'4" American was standing as little as five feet away.
Cheap, disposable dust masks and Groucho Marks eyeglass-nose-mustaches, will when used in combination defeat any facial recognition and lip-reading technology for about $10.00!
Encrypt everything, trust nothing, paranoia is good, trust is bad, tell nobody where you live, bank overseas in anonymous accounts, communicate through overseas secure tunnels (including voip), don't hold down a job because THEY might know where you are, always check for an escape route, have your bags packed and have your passport ready!
I'm about due for my afternoon pills...
If you really think that anyone who holds elective office in the US of A really gives a shit about the kinds of things that slashdotters obsess about you're either naive or just plain stupid.
Our elected (fill in the blanks) are opportunistic, self serving, parasitical, phony baloney bastards who, with rare exceptions, do nothing of value at all!
The people who implement the chaos and utter confusion generated by our elected, know how futile Byzantine and arcane the bureaucracy has become, Google: "GFAR" "GSAR" "GSAM" "FAR".
Too say that the Government is slow, inefficient, and fraught with corruption and conspiracy would be an understatement!
I can tell you that Compusec's free security software does the job very well, you cannot use it with an MBR boot manager like GRUB or Lilo as it's loader resides in the MBR. http://www.ce-infosys.com/english/downloads/free_c ompusec/index.html
As to virtualization, I use VMware to run Windows under Linux.
The LIES and happytalk that spew from the idiots in the newsmedia that unquestioningly repeat anything that the Gummermint and their hired guns throw out in an attempt to make this catastrophe of an economy seem like a wonderland of opportunity makes me wanna puke!
Oh look! we made 300,000 jobs in the last quarter!! Isn't it just tooo ducky!
Oh wait, we lost 190,000 jobs during the same quarter, they must have been bab jobs and the 110,000 jobs that we did make are 70% service jobs, and the total does not even keep up with population growth anyway.
I guess tha "journalists" don't have to understand concepts like "cooking the books" and "manipulating statistics" do they.
More H1B's, less jobs for Americans, I say we ALL go on welfare and stop buying anything except food and alcohol.
No, No!
Nixon had a conscience, Boner does not!
Nixon felt shame, Boner does not!
Nixon could admit he was wrong, Boner has and will not!
Nixon ended a war, Boner may not be done starting wars!
Nixon opened American dialogs with other nations, Boner has an "Axis of evil"
Theres no comparison, GWB, "Boner" is the worst president ever.
Is drive Cho nuts, thats another matter entirely
I feel really sorry for the familys, Cho's included.
Yup, and use a backup with a tubular keyway to prevent picking and bumping.
If it could be incorporated into a matrix of buckytubes, it could be a great laminating material for armor.
I just blacklist anything from..
Postmaster
MAILER-DEAMON
MAILER-DEMON
Etc.
Iv'e got a HUGE blacklist and an even bigger spambust.dat, spambust2.dat and so on.
And in Windows I use Spampal for the final filtering.
Seems to work!
If you are familiar with how the US Gummermint awards contracts, then you will laugh high-sterically at the idea of a government contractor "expert" being employed at anything more sophisticated than finding the missing emails on granny's computer. I tell you from first hand experience it's a myth that the X-Files helped to create and even then Scully & Mulder had to go to the "lone gunmen" for help!
Cause big Bill gives the best wet kisses!
"when we were all kids just typing in our games, one line of BASIC at a time."
;-)...
Sorry, but not all of us were kids when the first video games came out
You've obviosly not read my post carefully, I was referring to housing that cost's more than five years wages (like the SF Bay Area) a small house in a bad neighborhood costs over $700,000 in SF and a person who would feel at home in that neiborhood probably makes less (a lot less) than $50,000 a year (they couldn't qualify for the loan).
Also you're response would suggest that you are probably a fairly young person, as a person whose lost everything (twice) due to the violently unstable US economy, I will stand by my comment that "Cash in hand is always your friend".
Keep your passport ready, your bags packed and your evacuation route clear, I smell another world war coming!
In the US of A "Middle Class" means that you work at one job instead of the two that the "Working poor" have. As a "Middle Class" person you may or may not have medical insurance, if you do it either means that you are either very lucky to have an employer who provides it at a very reduced group rate or you are a single professional who can afford your own. At the very highest end of the "Middle class" are professionals who while working sixty to eighty hours a week at (one) job do pay their own family medical insurance (it may be noted that most of these people have two working adults per household). And then there is the mystery of housing, the "Working Poor" who have two minimum wage (or low paying) jobs per person usually are forced into "creative" housing situations and usually spend at least several weeks of "homelessness" at least once in their lifetimes. The US of A's "Middle Class" have been brainwashed that if you don't buy a house that you're a fool and headed to financial ruin! while the people of the San Francisco Bay Area are being forclosed on in ever increasing numbers losing whatever they had "invested" in their homes.
IMHO, always, only my opinion, Anybody that tells you that buying a house that costs more than you make in five or more years is lying or an idiot, it just doesn't add up.
Cash in hand is always your friend!
First thing I do after I build a new box and Install Slackware is install VMware and XP and 2000.
From within the XP guest I install Virtual PC with OS/2. I'm usually done (sort of) in one or two weeks (I'm unemployed so no hurry).
Yeah, 5 years and thousands of resumes later, I gave up, screw it! I really feel for the younger American workers, I'm not optimistic at all! Whats holding the economy together? It's based on shuffling paper, MBA chuzpa and equitys fraud.
Ah gotta go bak to mah trailer now ur mah still's gonna blow up!
NetMax firewall suite on an old whitebox, a highschool kid can setup and administer it.
No I have no interest in or friends at this company, but I have deployed it several times.
Everybody ran WindowsNT, and the migration to Windows2K was underway, some of the Engineers ran IRIX and even fewer ran Linux, at my desktop I ran Linux (on a Dell desktop) with VMware installed and Windows2K workstation in a virtual machine. I scrounged up an O2 re-installed the appropriate IRIX image for it and just about NEVER used it, it was slow as molasses, a pain in the neck to find tools for, had a truly suckey window manager, etc.
Linux is way better for just about everything and for the rare time that I needed Windows I would start the virtual machine.
That they "laid off" (fired) the old admin, so that they could hire "someone with a more recent skillset" (younger, lower paid). And the new guy actually has a "degree" from a "technical school" so he must be more aware of security issues, right?
Oops, the new admin has personal issues that are preventing him from fully concentrating on his job (ADHD), let's call in the "old guy" as a contractor for a while so he can fix this mess.
You said "what is above", and I'm asking what do you mean by that?
Having been an on-call FE (Field Engineer) for over 20 years, servicing clients with a 24 hour response clause in their service contracts, I know what it's like to spend 36 hours on end to end service calls and only stopping for "power naps" at highway "rest areas".
The thing is I was on double time for weeks on end, and despite the strain on my system it was worth while, now they would want me to put in the same hours for no extra money? Would I be "exempt?"
I thought that anybody working in california that made over a certain houry wage was "exempt", is this true?, Iv'e been out of work for years.