Save the musical gear, most of this stuff lives in my workshop:
An Apple II (gonna play Oregon Trail, gotta do it right!)
I've got a serial mouse that I bust out occasionally, though not often...
mid-1990's laptop, kept alive for the serial port and working 3.5" floppy drive.
I've also got a couple decade-and-a-half-old P2 and P3 machines running firewalls, NMS, DHCP, etc.
Several old flatbed scanners I haven't taken apart (yet)
STACKS of non-working floppy drives, CD-ROM drives, other old electromechanicals (good for parts),
Yes, I even have a functioning 21" CRT from about 1992, I think.
Of course, as a musician, I tend to keep a lot of vintage audio gear around, but since I do most of my actual recording on my '08 Macbook4.1, I think it's fair to add that stuff to the list:
A 1960's vintage DAK Mark III CB with my radio stuff, that's pretty vintage...
1990's turntable, 1970's Marshall Valvestate 8080, 1930's microphone (2 of them, actually, 1 of which is mic-ing a 1920's piano)...
My personal favorite: A 1973 TEAC 3300 reel-to-reel tape recorder, complete with about 20 tapes of some crazy firebrand preacher's radio show from 30 years ago (my buddies in metal bands are constantly asking for clips they can incorporate into their own tracks).
You shouldn't be - after all, this is the same political organization that had a report banned from the LoC, because the facts contained within did not mesh with their party philosophy.
They don't make money from violating mine. Then again, I'm not on facebook because I don't want them to violate my privacy. Damndest thing.
Other people can post pictures of you and "tag" you in them, regardless of whether or not you're actually a member of Facebook.
The only way to know for certain that Facebook isn't violating your privacy would be to have access to every single media item on their servers, and manually go through them all to make sure no one else has posted your private information there.
Fly? Hell, I just want to hit the damn food court without being molested!
Note that my post said nothing about flying.
You can pave a runway in your own backyard, build a plane in your garage, and fly the shit out of it if you want. All within fairly reasonable limitations.
So, in order to travel freely, every American would have to build their own infrastructure?
I don't think "freely" means what you think it means.
Do we not depend entirely on the government for these things? Are we not prohibited from building these things on our own land?
No, we're not. You're welcome to build all the highways and bridges you want on your own property (OK, no illusions here - the property you rent from Uncle Sam), granted you can pay for it.
why don't geeks spend hours and hours tinkering with cars?
As a "geek" who has built no less than 4 hot rods from the ground up, and is currently in the process of rebuilding the 350 in his pickup, I would tend to disagree with that statement.
Most people don't really care about being free. They'd rather be safe and feel secure even if it's only an illusion.
Isn't the freedom to chose safety itself an exercise of choice?
Not when there's no choice involved.
For example, I never agreed to sacrifice my right to travel freely in exchange for airport feel-ups and highway checkpoints (actions which, coincidentally, do not actually make anyone safer).
Or the delicious chocolatey taste of Charleston Chew!
Sometimes I like to speculate that some of history's greatest mysteries are actually centuries-old inside jokes. Like, Socrates is in the afterlife, laughing his ass off as he explains to Atilla the Hun that the Antikythera Mechanism is actually just a really sophisticated, mechanical fart app.
They are now starting the astronaut selection program for a trip in 10 years, but there is no indication whatever that they are concerned about the much more fundamental task of designing a transport ship?!?! Really, really suspicious. What are the prospects supposed to train on/for ?
"People in thirty seven countries have purchased our merchandise, demonstrating their support for Mars One"
OK, I understand. Presumably the foundation managers are well paid. That is no problem even for a non-profit.
After you die, there should be a mechanism in the spacecraft to expose you directly and slowly to the vacuum of space. You should be frozen and preserved as best as you can be. Then the ship should gently deposit you on the surface of Mars as intact as you could possibly be. Why?
What if there is an event on Earth like the flame deluge from A Canticle for Leibowitz? A nuclear event where 99% of the world is destroyed and thousands of years later we rediscover science?
Just imagine how surprised they will be to find a human skull on Mars.
OOH, and make sure they position the first body in the "Han Solo frozen in carbonite" pose prior to freezing!
Or, indeed, because you have no expectation of privacy.
Even in your living room.
"You bought a TV with a camera and mic in it, right? So you want to be monitored! What's that? You say you didn't have a choice because today all TV's have camera's and mic's in them? Well, now you're just being a whiner."
Sadly, this is actually how many of my conversations regarding ubiquitous surveillance go.
Fine print would not protect them from stuff like child porn.
Little Jane the baby watching Sesame Street without a shirt on, being recorded by a camera. It's already been argued for pirated/cracks for games that a copy has been made in the system RAM, therefore Verizon just created CP.
Related question - if you rent a laptop from someplace like Aaron's, is the rental place held liable for stuff that gets put on the laptop while it's in your possession?
I ask, because chances are Verizon 'rents' these boxes to their customers, which probably means the onus is on the renter, not Verizon. I wouldn't put it past the greedy fucks to charge the parents in your anecdote with producing and possessing CP.
Simple. Verizon (or whoever licenses their technology) will have made more than enough "campaign contributions" to keep the regulators from bothering them. You didn't really think your privacy mattered when stood up against corporate interests, did you? Wake up.
I don't know which makes me more sad: that this post has been modded Insightful, or the fact it's an appropriate mod...
Normally I sneer and ignore tweakers, but you deserve some recognition.
First of all, just to slay the unmentioned elephant in the room, the shit you see on "faces of meth" is the exception to the exception of meth users.
Bull. Fucking. Shit.
Let me clue you into something, Chief - I grew up in southern Missouri, surrounded by meth users, meth cooks, meth whores (like your mother), et. al. I've seen several of my loved ones ruin their lives with that filthy Nazi shit, and buried more than one friend who was certain they had their meth addiction "under control." Hell, I even dabbled in the shit myself during a mis-spent youth.
In other words, I know exactly what I'm talking about, and don't need to take shit off some loser fucking dope-fiend who thinks that just because he has access to a fucking thesaurus, that he's somehow a goddamn philosophical genius.
FYI, I'd never even heard of "faces of meth" until you mentioned it, so much for the crux of your argument.
Your collection of anecdotes do not constitute data
Neither is yours, you condescending piece of shit, and guess what? I have a hell of a lot more credibility than any thieving fucking tweaker ever will.
You idiot, that statement doesn't even make sense. Read some history, dufus. There wasn't enough methamphetamine on the face of the earth to win the war for Germany so they would have lost either way and it had nothing to do with how much dope they were on. Furthermore, get your facts straight as meth was used by both the Axis and the Allied [wordpress.com] forces. How clueless can you be that you can't even get your own bullshit right?
Leave it to a fucking doper to not only miss the point entirely, but also go off on a paragraph-long, nonsense rant. Thanks, asshole, you just helped prove my point; proud of yourself?
A filthy dopehead from which you just got manifestly served.
Yea, you just keep telling yourself that while you smoke your fucking Nazi-dope.
Do you think your mom will cry at your funeral? I'm guessing yes, until someone offers her some meth in exchange for a half-and-half; working girls are always on the clock, you know.
That would be easy actually. As there is this thing called fine print, and service with them requires signing an agreement. Since most people don't read theirs, it would be easy to sneak it in.
'fine print' is not a legally valid excuse for criminal behavior.
Source: was sued by a former employer for breach of a contract that a judge determined illegal (due to clauses that flouted the law) and dismissed.
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Save the musical gear, most of this stuff lives in my workshop:
An Apple II (gonna play Oregon Trail, gotta do it right!)
I've got a serial mouse that I bust out occasionally, though not often...
mid-1990's laptop, kept alive for the serial port and working 3.5" floppy drive.
I've also got a couple decade-and-a-half-old P2 and P3 machines running firewalls, NMS, DHCP, etc.
Several old flatbed scanners I haven't taken apart (yet)
STACKS of non-working floppy drives, CD-ROM drives, other old electromechanicals (good for parts),
Yes, I even have a functioning 21" CRT from about 1992, I think.
Of course, as a musician, I tend to keep a lot of vintage audio gear around, but since I do most of my actual recording on my '08 Macbook4.1, I think it's fair to add that stuff to the list:
A 1960's vintage DAK Mark III CB with my radio stuff, that's pretty vintage...
1990's turntable, 1970's Marshall Valvestate 8080, 1930's microphone (2 of them, actually, 1 of which is mic-ing a 1920's piano)...
My personal favorite: A 1973 TEAC 3300 reel-to-reel tape recorder, complete with about 20 tapes of some crazy firebrand preacher's radio show from 30 years ago (my buddies in metal bands are constantly asking for clips they can incorporate into their own tracks).
Ah, nostalgia...
Well my 26 year old IBM Model M keyboards I use everyday beg to differ.
Plus it can quickly be converted into a rather effective cudgel, all the better for bludgeoning AC's with no appreciation of history.
You younger Slashdotters may not believe this, but at one time we had conservatives (and Republicans) with principles.
There are still; we're just not Republicans (or, more accurately, Republicans are no longer conservative).
You shouldn't be - after all, this is the same political organization that had a report banned from the LoC, because the facts contained within did not mesh with their party philosophy.
They don't make money from violating mine. Then again, I'm not on facebook because I don't want them to violate my privacy. Damndest thing.
Other people can post pictures of you and "tag" you in them, regardless of whether or not you're actually a member of Facebook.
The only way to know for certain that Facebook isn't violating your privacy would be to have access to every single media item on their servers, and manually go through them all to make sure no one else has posted your private information there.
Or, you know, someone could pass a law...
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2012/12/05/christmas-gift-for-someone-you-hate-windows-8/
This is the way all communications and entertainment will be, either contacts or ocular implants or glasses for the get of my lawn crowd.
Think of it TV, Skype, gaming, internet browsing all the time.
Couple that with kinect type usability, voice recog and your there.
In other words, no more pesky interpersonal interaction!
FYI, there's already a movie about that, and you've seen it.
This is mis-leading. I have been running chrome on my iphone for months.
Are you sure it's really Chrome, or just Safari in a suit made from Chrome's skin, ala Buffalo Bill?
Note that my post said nothing about flying.
You can pave a runway in your own backyard, build a plane in your garage, and fly the shit out of it if you want. All within fairly reasonable limitations.
So, in order to travel freely, every American would have to build their own infrastructure?
I don't think "freely" means what you think it means.
You might want to ask the Kurds, how that non-terrorism worked for them.
Good call.
Sub "terrorism" in previous comment for "Al Queda," that should fix it.
They voted against it for the same reason Iraq had no terrorism prior to 2003 - iron-fisted tinpot authoritarians abhor competition.
Isn't it obvious?
Privacy is a myth, it always has been a myth, and you are wrong.
Sayeth the completely anonymous internet user.
That's funny stuff right there.
Do we not depend entirely on the government for these things? Are we not prohibited from building these things on our own land?
No, we're not. You're welcome to build all the highways and bridges you want on your own property (OK, no illusions here - the property you rent from Uncle Sam), granted you can pay for it.
why don't geeks spend hours and hours tinkering with cars?
As a "geek" who has built no less than 4 hot rods from the ground up, and is currently in the process of rebuilding the 350 in his pickup, I would tend to disagree with that statement.
Most people don't really care about being free. They'd rather be safe and feel secure even if it's only an illusion.
Isn't the freedom to chose safety itself an exercise of choice?
Not when there's no choice involved.
For example, I never agreed to sacrifice my right to travel freely in exchange for airport feel-ups and highway checkpoints (actions which, coincidentally, do not actually make anyone safer).
Or the delicious chocolatey taste of Charleston Chew!
Sometimes I like to speculate that some of history's greatest mysteries are actually centuries-old inside jokes. Like, Socrates is in the afterlife, laughing his ass off as he explains to Atilla the Hun that the Antikythera Mechanism is actually just a really sophisticated, mechanical fart app.
They are now starting the astronaut selection program for a trip in 10 years, but there is no indication whatever that they are concerned about the much more fundamental task of designing a transport ship?!?! Really, really suspicious. What are the prospects supposed to train on/for ?
"People in thirty seven countries have purchased our merchandise, demonstrating their support for Mars One"
OK, I understand. Presumably the foundation managers are well paid. That is no problem even for a non-profit.
Best "against" comment, by a long shot.
Most rational, too.
There's a big difference between crawling out of the ocean... you can always go back.
Yea, you do that, Chief.
Good luck on the whole "breathing" thing.
After you die, there should be a mechanism in the spacecraft to expose you directly and slowly to the vacuum of space. You should be frozen and preserved as best as you can be. Then the ship should gently deposit you on the surface of Mars as intact as you could possibly be. Why?
What if there is an event on Earth like the flame deluge from A Canticle for Leibowitz? A nuclear event where 99% of the world is destroyed and thousands of years later we rediscover science?
Just imagine how surprised they will be to find a human skull on Mars.
OOH, and make sure they position the first body in the "Han Solo frozen in carbonite" pose prior to freezing!
Nothing like a thousand year old inside joke!
Even if Verizon just rented them, I highly doubt they will give users administrator access to them to wipe.
Perhaps not... then again, that seems just the kind of situation that weasel worded contracts were invented for.
Or, indeed, because you have no expectation of privacy.
Even in your living room.
"You bought a TV with a camera and mic in it, right? So you want to be monitored! What's that? You say you didn't have a choice because today all TV's have camera's and mic's in them? Well, now you're just being a whiner."
Sadly, this is actually how many of my conversations regarding ubiquitous surveillance go.
Fine print would not protect them from stuff like child porn.
Little Jane the baby watching Sesame Street without a shirt on, being recorded by a camera. It's already been argued for pirated/cracks for games that a copy has been made in the system RAM, therefore Verizon just created CP.
Related question - if you rent a laptop from someplace like Aaron's, is the rental place held liable for stuff that gets put on the laptop while it's in your possession?
I ask, because chances are Verizon 'rents' these boxes to their customers, which probably means the onus is on the renter, not Verizon. I wouldn't put it past the greedy fucks to charge the parents in your anecdote with producing and possessing CP.
Simple. Verizon (or whoever licenses their technology) will have made more than enough "campaign contributions" to keep the regulators from bothering them. You didn't really think your privacy mattered when stood up against corporate interests, did you? Wake up.
I don't know which makes me more sad: that this post has been modded Insightful, or the fact it's an appropriate mod...
:(
Probably the latter
First of all, just to slay the unmentioned elephant in the room, the shit you see on "faces of meth" is the exception to the exception of meth users.
Bull. Fucking. Shit.
Let me clue you into something, Chief - I grew up in southern Missouri, surrounded by meth users, meth cooks, meth whores (like your mother), et. al. I've seen several of my loved ones ruin their lives with that filthy Nazi shit, and buried more than one friend who was certain they had their meth addiction "under control." Hell, I even dabbled in the shit myself during a mis-spent youth.
In other words, I know exactly what I'm talking about, and don't need to take shit off some loser fucking dope-fiend who thinks that just because he has access to a fucking thesaurus, that he's somehow a goddamn philosophical genius.
FYI, I'd never even heard of "faces of meth" until you mentioned it, so much for the crux of your argument.
Your collection of anecdotes do not constitute data
Neither is yours, you condescending piece of shit, and guess what? I have a hell of a lot more credibility than any thieving fucking tweaker ever will.
You idiot, that statement doesn't even make sense. Read some history, dufus. There wasn't enough methamphetamine on the face of the earth to win the war for Germany so they would have lost either way and it had nothing to do with how much dope they were on. Furthermore, get your facts straight as meth was used by both the Axis and the Allied [wordpress.com] forces. How clueless can you be that you can't even get your own bullshit right?
Leave it to a fucking doper to not only miss the point entirely, but also go off on a paragraph-long, nonsense rant. Thanks, asshole, you just helped prove my point; proud of yourself?
A filthy dopehead from which you just got manifestly served.
Yea, you just keep telling yourself that while you smoke your fucking Nazi-dope.
Do you think your mom will cry at your funeral? I'm guessing yes, until someone offers her some meth in exchange for a half-and-half; working girls are always on the clock, you know.
That would be easy actually. As there is this thing called fine print, and service with them requires signing an agreement. Since most people don't read theirs, it would be easy to sneak it in.
'fine print' is not a legally valid excuse for criminal behavior.
Source: was sued by a former employer for breach of a contract that a judge determined illegal (due to clauses that flouted the law) and dismissed.