Easy for Speakeasy to say - they didn't spend a dime to build infrastructure. When a storm hits and there are guys out there in trucks fixing the lines, well it sure as hell doesn't say "Speakeasy" on the side of that truck.
Someone has to pay for the fancy fiber optic line coming into my house. ISP's sell access - and if you provide access to others against their TOS then you are stealing.
Why would you care why they want to do that? In fact, there are lot's of reasons for doing so, most of which pertain to promoting interoperability between non organic systems. A technology called Cursor on Target performs precisely what you mentioned - replaces working binary messaging with XML encoded messages text and binary - that anyone can decode. Hops info out of the so called stovepipe allowing wildy different systems to communicate.
Inefficient. Somewhat unwieldly. Not intuitive. I wont even mention CoT TCP squirts (jesus wept). Why would you want to do that? Because it works, is simple, and is easy to implement.
We aren't telling Iran that they can't build reactors. It is the weapons that will come from the gas centrifuges colocated with the reactors that are at issue.
Most of the R&D under DARPA's watch is farmed out to the big 5 American defense contractors: NG, Raytheon, LockMart, BAE, Boeing, as well as think tanks like Mitre, Rand, Battelle.
Maybe at one time DARPA was something more, but thinking back to ARPANet... that was all contractors and contracted academia as well. BBN, MIT Lincoln, Mitre all immediately pop in mind.
(And yes, I am aware BAE Systems is a subsidiary of BAE plc. With the SSA and totally separate financials, it is in all but name an American company... and soon will be totall US in fact as well. Meerkat Salute!
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I had a Jeep Cherokee living in Baltimore city and it turned out to be great - handled the shitty pothole ridden streets with ease, had just enough room to take bulky stuff to the dump (the City didn't provide that service in reality regardles of what their web site states), was able to go over curbs when parked in, very tight turning radius, and was able to operate on the unplowed small side streets like mine that the plows would sometimes use to deposit the snow from the main thorough fairs (during the infrequent times that it snows in Baltimore).
Now a Hummer would be a liability, but a small 4x4 like a Jeep was very useful in that environment.
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Dont forget the Honda CRX HF - 52 mpg (IIRC).
I love how this is America's fault somehow
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I mean, it is true - we are the root of all evil after all. Even if some other nation is the culpruit, the US is to blame.
IIRC, the Social Security Administration itself lambasts this practice on the grounds of 1) the SSN was never meant to be a defacto ID number, 2) they explicitly promised it would not be used as such, and 3) it is completely insecure.
>> Why are we constantly relying on Earth standards to predict what life on an other planet requires?
Thinking about this question for all of one half of a second, I can only come up with the answer that Earth based life is the only type of life we have ever encountered.
Maybe, just maybe, this is why we use that metric.
Do we (meaning those who truely contemplate such things) know that this is a narrow window in which to frame our query? Yes. Contrary to your beliefs, this has occurred to people other than yourself.
After giving three weeks notice, I was once stripped not only of root, but of any login at all, AND they took the workstation off my desk.
Three weeks of flirting with the (admittedly few) hotties in the office, long lunches, taste tests of the various corporate coffee machines, and bothering people trying to be productive.
Such is life.
I would engage in shenanigans BEFORE giving notice if I were so inclined. But whatever.
I have similar hardware and media in a box... but my old prgrams were long since burned to CD ROM (all whooping 31MB worth), and I have never needed the stuff again.
My real challenge was fining a SCSI IOMega Zip drive for data on 100MB zip drives that I dumped a bunch of stuff onto for "safe long term storage." (I don't own a computer with a parallel port which would have made it easier to find a drive).
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The people in question ARE the predators.
Easy for Speakeasy to say - they didn't spend a dime to build infrastructure. When a storm hits and there are guys out there in trucks fixing the lines, well it sure as hell doesn't say "Speakeasy" on the side of that truck.
Someone has to pay for the fancy fiber optic line coming into my house. ISP's sell access - and if you provide access to others against their TOS then you are stealing.
They only own your access, not the whole net - and if you voilate their TOS in that regard, then you are stealing.
Why would you care why they want to do that? In fact, there are lot's of reasons for doing so, most of which pertain to promoting interoperability between non organic systems. A technology called Cursor on Target performs precisely what you mentioned - replaces working binary messaging with XML encoded messages text and binary - that anyone can decode. Hops info out of the so called stovepipe allowing wildy different systems to communicate.
Inefficient. Somewhat unwieldly. Not intuitive. I wont even mention CoT TCP squirts (jesus wept). Why would you want to do that? Because it works, is simple, and is easy to implement.
That won't help me: all my calls consist of heavy breathing.
In that case they are not stealing, but you are - from your ISP.
We aren't telling Iran that they can't build reactors. It is the weapons that will come from the gas centrifuges colocated with the reactors that are at issue.
No our fault your gas is taxed out the wazoo.
However, ours should be too.
Most of the R&D under DARPA's watch is farmed out to the big 5 American defense contractors: NG, Raytheon, LockMart, BAE, Boeing, as well as think tanks like Mitre, Rand, Battelle.
Maybe at one time DARPA was something more, but thinking back to ARPANet... that was all contractors and contracted academia as well. BBN, MIT Lincoln, Mitre all immediately pop in mind.
(And yes, I am aware BAE Systems is a subsidiary of BAE plc. With the SSA and totally separate financials, it is in all but name an American company... and soon will be totall US in fact as well. Meerkat Salute!
...but plenty that I want to keep hidden.
Expose it all and I will be fine - free as a bird, no lawsuits, no divorce.
That is not to say that life wouldn't become quite inconvenient.
"Scrambles" is better.
or other such media.
They teach this in PTS school.
Carry on (and mirror please).
I had a Jeep Cherokee living in Baltimore city and it turned out to be great - handled the shitty pothole ridden streets with ease, had just enough room to take bulky stuff to the dump (the City didn't provide that service in reality regardles of what their web site states), was able to go over curbs when parked in, very tight turning radius, and was able to operate on the unplowed small side streets like mine that the plows would sometimes use to deposit the snow from the main thorough fairs (during the infrequent times that it snows in Baltimore).
Now a Hummer would be a liability, but a small 4x4 like a Jeep was very useful in that environment.
Dont forget the Honda CRX HF - 52 mpg (IIRC).
I mean, it is true - we are the root of all evil after all. Even if some other nation is the culpruit, the US is to blame.
...poised for a comeback!
IIRC, the Social Security Administration itself lambasts this practice on the grounds of 1) the SSN was never meant to be a defacto ID number, 2) they explicitly promised it would not be used as such, and 3) it is completely insecure.
Oh well, too late now.
>> Why are we constantly relying on Earth standards to predict what life on an other planet requires?
Thinking about this question for all of one half of a second, I can only come up with the answer that Earth based life is the only type of life we have ever encountered.
Maybe, just maybe, this is why we use that metric.
Do we (meaning those who truely contemplate such things) know that this is a narrow window in which to frame our query? Yes. Contrary to your beliefs, this has occurred to people other than yourself.
Carry on.
Your mom doesn't seem to mind.
it is the platform (i.e. JRE). Slow. As molassas. But then again, so is managed C++ on the CLR.
So it goes, the circular argument....
After giving three weeks notice, I was once stripped not only of root, but of any login at all, AND they took the workstation off my desk.
Three weeks of flirting with the (admittedly few) hotties in the office, long lunches, taste tests of the various corporate coffee machines, and bothering people trying to be productive.
Such is life.
I would engage in shenanigans BEFORE giving notice if I were so inclined. But whatever.
Is it really that difficult?
I have similar hardware and media in a box... but my old prgrams were long since burned to CD ROM (all whooping 31MB worth), and I have never needed the stuff again.
My real challenge was fining a SCSI IOMega Zip drive for data on 100MB zip drives that I dumped a bunch of stuff onto for "safe long term storage." (I don't own a computer with a parallel port which would have made it easier to find a drive).
Again, EBay to the rescue!
...anti-American rhetoric.
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