Right now, the organization "assisting" with the takedowns (LegitScript) is a "private" company run by the former Deputy Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under W.
But yeah, this is clear evidence that Obama is the worst president and that Bush era political appointee motherfuckers were like awesome for the country and stuff.
Sure, at which point they destroy your film, your camera and they perjure themselves on police reports and on the witness stand. Law enforcement draws from the shallow end of the gene pool in the USA.
Sale of *any amount* under 50 kilos gets you a mandatory 5 years. Plus fines.
Distribution of any amount over 5 grams to a minor (under 21 years of age, not 18), OR within 1,000 feet of a school, housing project, youth center, video arcade, public pool, or playground automatically doubles the sentence and whatever fines.
Selling a few joints to a 19 year old? 10 years. Average sentence for rape in the usa? 6 years.
Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
And... other sentencing enhancements can easily add a decade onto that.
But it's more fun to get all angsty and put other people down! We feel better about ourselves! We have a purpose! But if we think things through logically, it's like our lives are meaningless:'(
If people want to use the Internet to download massive amounts of p2p content, do they really expect they should pay the same as Grandma who checks her email once a day? Bandwidth is a finite resource, even if we don't believe it.
Yeah, totally. And because of this move, Bell will be cutting the price of grandma's connection by 90%!
Oh wait, it won't, because this really isn't "usage based billing", but both a money grab and an effort to cripple competition even further. They're charging a dollar a gig, which is quite literally thousands of times the actual cost.
And they're allowed to cripple the speed of wholesale lines while they offer higher speeds to their direct customers. Never mind that they have all this leverage (in terms of infrastructure and last mile copper) because they were a monopoly until '97.
And sadly, there are more than enough people like you out there to let the telecoms get away with pretty much anything.
No, the "Canada is less dense and they have to provide to these small villages" argument does not fly because our broadband coverage of rural areas is laughably pathetic and a significant portion of small communities can't get any decent internet access.
And it's just going to get worse, so thanks for being part of that.
Being asked to pay $150 a month for truly unlimited internet access isn't that bad of a deal.
The term "entitlement generation" has reached my ears from time to time, and discussions like this one serve to highlight the truth of the matter. Where the hell do you people think all of this capability comes from? Do you think that the cable company just plugs in a router, and all of a sudden "the Internet" just works? I wonder how many network engineers Time Warner employees. I wonder how much those guys make a year. How about field techs? Customer service operators? Sales reps? How much do they have to pay in property taxes and electricity to keep their CO's running?
The term "stupid apologist motherfucker" has reached my ears from time to time and comments like yours really demonstrate that yes, a great many people are actually retarded.
Aside from the fact that $200 billion dollars of public money was spent nearly 20 years ago to upgrade infrastructure (and we got virtually fuckal in terms of improvement), telecomm companies in other countries seem to do well for less. The end user ends up paying much less and they get better service.
And do you know why? It's because stupid cunts such as yourself are willing to bend over and take it, all the while justifying their fucking by comparing the monthly cost to a few hours work. It's because fuckwits such as yourself are sit on the boards that "oversee" the telecomm companies and let them get away with pretty much everything.
Capital punishment might not be be a great deterrent for crackheads who rob liquor stores, but I can assure you that if rich white men started dying for perverting the US legal system, there would be changes.
Doesn't matter though, it will never happen. It's not like this is the first case of corruption and judicial malpractice that we've seen. Judges and prosecutors are effectively immune from any sort of ramifications for their actions because the culture of corruption is so deeply entrenched.
This guy just got greedy and failed money laundering 101. Still deserves to dangle from a lamppost.
Rogers (in Canada) charges you airtime minutes when a message is left and again when you listen to it (regardless of whether you call from a landline or from the cell)
If a call hits the voicemail system (i.e. no left message, you still get docked 1 airtime minute) Minor, but it's pretty fucking annoying.
Always, and you can use real locks. The action (part with the serial number) from a firearm also works, but you might have trouble with law enforcement in some of the states that have weird gun laws.
The problem is that fedex package sorting is... somewhat rough. I applied for a job there many years ago and they did a tour of the sorting center - in under 15 minutes, I heard glass breaking 2-3 times, including a CRT popping. All this stuff was just thrown back onto the conveyor belt / back onto the truck. The contents were clearly broken, but the process was to just deliver and let insurance deal with it later.
And while, sure, it might be covered by insurance, you'll still be waiting 2 weeks for a check, even assuming they cover everything and don't fight you on it. Meanwhile, you arrive at your shoot with only your dick in your hand. Don't get me started on "delivery exceptions" and trying to take possession of a package which might be on a truck, might be in the depot, etc.
Sure, if you want to pay IT support and computer programmers only base salary, that is fine. Just don't expect them to show up in the middle of the night or on Saturday when your severs crash. We will get to that bright and early at 9am next business day just like any other person who works 9-5. If you don't like it, well, that is too bad.
That's the thing about IT though. There are more than enough people out there who are willing to come in 2am Saturday.
I'm not sure what sets IT apart. Maybe because it's a sense of ownership or pride in "their" servers, maybe because they like being the hero, whatever.
Yes, they might bitch and moan, but odds are, they'll be there. Smart managers know this and they'll take advantage of it.
In my last job, a bunch of people quit in a short time period (fire, pay issues, work environment went to shit.) Someone asked one guy "hey, so now that w, x, y and z are gone, I guess you'll be putting in overtime to help out?" The guy looked up, nonchalantly said "nope" and walked away. We all laughed and joked about that for a while.
It took some time, but I finally realized that we though the joke was funny because we had all been willing to put in the extra overtime - we had all been so conditioned that answering "nope" wasn't even part of the decision making process.
2. The system administrators, WHO WANT TO KEEP THEIR JOB, are going to go into a tirade of how he subverted their systems and purposely used "nefarious methods" to break system security, etc, etc. Basically, it's politics here - they don't want to look bad and/or lose their job so they will do everything in their power to make him look like a bad guy (which, to some extent, he is).
To clarify, in a publicly funded school, it's not just keeping their job, but keeping it for 25 years so they get that nice retirement.
People should have relatively little faith in most sysadmins who work at schools. At one school, a group of us were trying to set up a wireless AP, but got it killed because of IT. I'm not even talking about being on the "network", but getting a DSL line in, paying for it with student government funds, a banner page clearly identifying the AP as nothing to do with the school, etc. IT wouldn't allow it.
When they deployed wireless 2 years later, they spent a ton of money on cisco gear, hired some guy for several weeks to install 3 APs in the library. (all broadcasting on the same channel) No WEP, no WPA, no security whatsoever, and best of all, they deployed it on the administrative network, which students weren't supposed to have access to because stuff like FERPA protected data was flowing on it. While this may sound dumb, I think their crowning achievement was using ATM throughout the computer labs at the cost of $350 a PC in 2002 (1,200 PCs in the deployment IIRC). They wanted to do streaming video and audio and some salesman got them to blow over a million bucks on ATM cards and switches. Best part - the labs were "quiet zones" - because of this, nobody could actually use streaming video or audio, until the next upgrade cycle, when they bought computers with sound cards. At the same time, they ripped out the ATM because they realized it was fucking stupid idea in the first place and deployed Ethernet again.
More stupidity, the school's electronic grading program that some profs used had an "anonymous" mode - where you could print up a list of grades for posting in the class. In the name column, the students SSN was used. "IT approved solution"
But that's what you get when you have political appointees running IT. It's not their money, they are essentially unaccountable for their actions and the only thing they are good at is getting swindled by salespeople and politics. And they will use every dirty, low trick in the book to make sure they keep working there so they get their pension.
When I discovered they were running their wifi on the admin network (different IP subnet from the student network), I sure as hell didn't tell the administration. If they get hacked, they get hacked. I have virtually no stake in the matter, so it's fine with me.
At another school (also public), we had latency of about 800ms AND UP at least 4-5 times during every single day on the residential network. Lived there for a year, it never got fixed despite everyone complaining.
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Yes, but people with hardons for authoritarian pet projects always allocate funds "properly"
True, but let's be honest, not a lot of people at the top of their class aspire to work as a sysadmin in a high school.
Right now, the organization "assisting" with the takedowns (LegitScript) is a "private" company run by the former Deputy Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under W.
http://pharmacycheckerblog.com/legitscript-not-so-legit#more-233
But yeah, this is clear evidence that Obama is the worst president and that Bush era political appointee motherfuckers were like awesome for the country and stuff.
Also known as a coffin.
Don't forget, the $10 bargain bin game is less buggy.
I played this last week, what a disappointing, pointless clusterfuck.
Sure, at which point they destroy your film, your camera and they perjure themselves on police reports and on the witness stand.
Law enforcement draws from the shallow end of the gene pool in the USA.
Sale of *any amount* under 50 kilos gets you a mandatory 5 years. Plus fines.
Distribution of any amount over 5 grams to a minor (under 21 years of age, not 18), OR within 1,000 feet of a school, housing project, youth center, video arcade, public pool, or playground automatically doubles the sentence and whatever fines.
Selling a few joints to a 19 year old? 10 years.
Average sentence for rape in the usa? 6 years.
Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
And... other sentencing enhancements can easily add a decade onto that.
But it's more fun to get all angsty and put other people down! We feel better about ourselves! We have a purpose! :'(
But if we think things through logically, it's like our lives are meaningless
Adobe: We Bitch and Moan until we Get Our Way(TM)
Yes, but we do it very, very slowly. Pegging processor cores and making browsers run like shit along the way.
Unless you end up in an uncontrollable spin, pass out and die.
But yeah, that would be fun.
2suit
rule 34... guess it does work.
If people want to use the Internet to download massive amounts of p2p content, do they really expect they should pay the same as Grandma who checks her email once a day? Bandwidth is a finite resource, even if we don't believe it.
Yeah, totally. And because of this move, Bell will be cutting the price of grandma's connection by 90%!
Oh wait, it won't, because this really isn't "usage based billing", but both a money grab and an effort to cripple competition even further.
They're charging a dollar a gig, which is quite literally thousands of times the actual cost.
And they're allowed to cripple the speed of wholesale lines while they offer higher speeds to their direct customers.
Never mind that they have all this leverage (in terms of infrastructure and last mile copper) because they were a monopoly until '97.
And sadly, there are more than enough people like you out there to let the telecoms get away with pretty much anything.
This is why our cost for broadband is about twice as much (well, even more now) as it is for people in the USA.
http://gizmodo.com/5390014/internet-speeds-and-costs-around-the-world-shown-visually
No, the "Canada is less dense and they have to provide to these small villages" argument does not fly because our broadband coverage of rural areas is laughably pathetic and a significant portion of small communities can't get any decent internet access.
And it's just going to get worse, so thanks for being part of that.
Being asked to pay $150 a month for truly unlimited internet access isn't that bad of a deal.
The term "entitlement generation" has reached my ears from time to time, and discussions like this one serve to highlight the truth of the matter. Where the hell do you people think all of this capability comes from? Do you think that the cable company just plugs in a router, and all of a sudden "the Internet" just works? I wonder how many network engineers Time Warner employees. I wonder how much those guys make a year. How about field techs? Customer service operators? Sales reps? How much do they have to pay in property taxes and electricity to keep their CO's running?
The term "stupid apologist motherfucker" has reached my ears from time to time and comments like yours really demonstrate that yes, a great many people are actually retarded.
Aside from the fact that $200 billion dollars of public money was spent nearly 20 years ago to upgrade infrastructure (and we got virtually fuckal in terms of improvement), telecomm companies in other countries seem to do well for less. The end user ends up paying much less and they get better service.
And do you know why? It's because stupid cunts such as yourself are willing to bend over and take it, all the while justifying their fucking by comparing the monthly cost to a few hours work.
It's because fuckwits such as yourself are sit on the boards that "oversee" the telecomm companies and let them get away with pretty much everything.
Carry on...
Yeah, and now we'll have monster cable phone chargers on the same shelf as the phone. For a reasonable price of only $80.
Capital punishment might not be be a great deterrent for crackheads who rob liquor stores, but I can assure you that if rich white men started dying for perverting the US legal system, there would be changes.
Doesn't matter though, it will never happen. It's not like this is the first case of corruption and judicial malpractice that we've seen. Judges and prosecutors are effectively immune from any sort of ramifications for their actions because the culture of corruption is so deeply entrenched.
This guy just got greedy and failed money laundering 101. Still deserves to dangle from a lamppost.
Rogers (in Canada) charges you airtime minutes when a message is left and again when you listen to it (regardless of whether you call from a landline or from the cell)
If a call hits the voicemail system (i.e. no left message, you still get docked 1 airtime minute)
Minor, but it's pretty fucking annoying.
The level of "assistance" isn't defined either.
Always, and you can use real locks. The action (part with the serial number) from a firearm also works, but you might have trouble with law enforcement in some of the states that have weird gun laws.
The problem is that fedex package sorting is... somewhat rough.
I applied for a job there many years ago and they did a tour of the sorting center - in under 15 minutes, I heard glass breaking 2-3 times, including a CRT popping. All this stuff was just thrown back onto the conveyor belt / back onto the truck. The contents were clearly broken, but the process was to just deliver and let insurance deal with it later.
And while, sure, it might be covered by insurance, you'll still be waiting 2 weeks for a check, even assuming they cover everything and don't fight you on it.
Meanwhile, you arrive at your shoot with only your dick in your hand.
Don't get me started on "delivery exceptions" and trying to take possession of a package which might be on a truck, might be in the depot, etc.
The appeal to drive it yourself is obvious.
Sure, if you want to pay IT support and computer programmers only base salary, that is fine. Just don't expect them to show up in the middle of the night or on Saturday when your severs crash. We will get to that bright and early at 9am next business day just like any other person who works 9-5. If you don't like it, well, that is too bad.
That's the thing about IT though. There are more than enough people out there who are willing to come in 2am Saturday.
I'm not sure what sets IT apart. Maybe because it's a sense of ownership or pride in "their" servers, maybe because they like being the hero, whatever.
Yes, they might bitch and moan, but odds are, they'll be there. Smart managers know this and they'll take advantage of it.
In my last job, a bunch of people quit in a short time period (fire, pay issues, work environment went to shit.)
Someone asked one guy "hey, so now that w, x, y and z are gone, I guess you'll be putting in overtime to help out?"
The guy looked up, nonchalantly said "nope" and walked away. We all laughed and joked about that for a while.
It took some time, but I finally realized that we though the joke was funny because we had all been willing to put in the extra overtime - we had all been so conditioned that answering "nope" wasn't even part of the decision making process.
The story is a lot less funny now.
But then no bitching if all you can buy is 256kbps. Bandwidth isn't free and the larger the links get, the more pricey they are.
Uncrippled 100 megabit internet costs under $50 a month in Japan.
Funny how bandwidth is much cheaper over there...
Of course, that means the kids here would have to call a long distance number and wait on hold for 20 minutes.
2. The system administrators, WHO WANT TO KEEP THEIR JOB, are going to go into a tirade of how he subverted their systems and purposely used "nefarious methods" to break system security, etc, etc. Basically, it's politics here - they don't want to look bad and/or lose their job so they will do everything in their power to make him look like a bad guy (which, to some extent, he is).
To clarify, in a publicly funded school, it's not just keeping their job, but keeping it for 25 years so they get that nice retirement.
People should have relatively little faith in most sysadmins who work at schools.
At one school, a group of us were trying to set up a wireless AP, but got it killed because of IT.
I'm not even talking about being on the "network", but getting a DSL line in, paying for it with student government funds, a banner page clearly identifying the AP as nothing to do with the school, etc. IT wouldn't allow it.
When they deployed wireless 2 years later, they spent a ton of money on cisco gear, hired some guy for several weeks to install 3 APs in the library. (all broadcasting on the same channel)
No WEP, no WPA, no security whatsoever, and best of all, they deployed it on the administrative network, which students weren't supposed to have access to because stuff like FERPA protected data was flowing on it.
While this may sound dumb, I think their crowning achievement was using ATM throughout the computer labs at the cost of $350 a PC in 2002 (1,200 PCs in the deployment IIRC). They wanted to do streaming video and audio and some salesman got them to blow over a million bucks on ATM cards and switches.
Best part - the labs were "quiet zones" - because of this, nobody could actually use streaming video or audio, until the next upgrade cycle, when they bought computers with sound cards.
At the same time, they ripped out the ATM because they realized it was fucking stupid idea in the first place and deployed Ethernet again.
More stupidity, the school's electronic grading program that some profs used had an "anonymous" mode - where you could print up a list of grades for posting in the class. In the name column, the students SSN was used. "IT approved solution"
But that's what you get when you have political appointees running IT. It's not their money, they are essentially unaccountable for their actions and the only thing they are good at is getting swindled by salespeople and politics. And they will use every dirty, low trick in the book to make sure they keep working there so they get their pension.
When I discovered they were running their wifi on the admin network (different IP subnet from the student network), I sure as hell didn't tell the administration. If they get hacked, they get hacked. I have virtually no stake in the matter, so it's fine with me.
At another school (also public), we had latency of about 800ms AND UP at least 4-5 times during every single day on the residential network. Lived there for a year, it never got fixed despite everyone complaining.
Truly, comrade, this is a day of glorious victory!
We have cleansed al-Qaeda's videos from Youtube and have set their agents fleeing! While some may hide their terroristic videos on liveleak or any of these websites, the days of the insurgency and radical Muslim warriors are at an end!
God Bless the USA!
I thought he was out of the presidential race, what does he need this latest bit of attention for?