Of course they are. Probably lame ones like a couple nice dinners and a few grand in cash under the table (over and above what is legally given), but any time you see a politician spouting something so stupid, there is money involved. Maybe they were just told to say it, maybe they don't know any better and a lobbyist gave them "all they need to know" or, as in this case, they know they are in the wrong and are trying to cover their ass so the money keeps rolling in.
This will probably end up in a settlement, and in it, the car makers will pledge to do x,y,z in terms of emissions, etc. Just like pretty much every case where a telecomm company was sued by the state for screwing consumers "we'll bring out dsl to smalltown, oregon by 2007" etc. Nuisance, but sometimes the states "negotiate" this way.
To be specific, you have to prove this to a jury which is probably composed partially of people who didn't finish high school. I'd argue that this is much, much easier. I'm actually surprised this hasn't been quashed by arnie.
If you get a Samsung phone, it won't be a "If I want to take my phone and snap it in half" but a "damnit I want to break this fucking phone in half because the piece of shit resets all the goddamn time". But, of course youtube will pull it no matter what.
You're probably one of those assholes who do the spinning knife thing with speedhack in CS. Or use auto aim, auto fire bots. I find it funny that a lot of the cheaters like to think they have skill, when in fact even a quadraplegic using his air tube for control can excel with such cheats.
Seriously though, Diebold machines are a joke. What I don't understand is why widespread vandalism of these machines hasn't been done. The exploits are, from what I understand, incredibly simple. Unfortunately, I have a feeling that even if Osama bin Laden won the 2008 presidential election based on votes from machines, it would just be blamed on "terrorist hackers" and no actual accountability would be implemented. Then, 2 years later, the American public would go back to voting on the same buggy machines, as oblivious as usual. Nothing would of have changed.
Or the guy could just be going to school locally and instead of dropping $600 a month on a shitty closet of a dorm room plus the cost of food, he's staying with his parents, maybe helping them fix their new place up. By doing that, he's saving $7200 plus food, which is significant. Even moreso when you consider that you're going to have to work an aditional ~30% just to pay the taxman. Dorm life is fun, but when you're kept up every night by the douchebag in the next room, the assholes who think it's fine to light up a smoke in the stairwell and set off the smoke detectors for the entire goddamn building every fucking 3 weeks, have a drunk stumble into your room one night because his key fits your lock - to say nothing of numerous hit and runs on cars in the parking lot, rapes, stabbings, or a honest to god gunfight over a drug deal (not shootings but gunfights, involving several people shooting at each other, and most of those bullets going straight through 10 sheets of sheetrock), it begins to get old really fucking quick. Oh, yeah, and the crackheads that break a $130 car window to steal loose change and the methheads that try to mug you until you show them something made of metal that fits in your hand (which, btw, may be a felony to carry on campus). All of this happened while I was at the dorms in portland state university. Fuck that, what a waste of money. Learning a trade or bettering yourself, absolutely, do that, just realize that paying for dorms has some drawbacks.
Sprint and verizon will terminate your contract if you begin to use their data service "excessively". No warnings, no appeal, but it gets you out of their contract.
Apparantly, if you're a hot redhead, you can hang around and pester them continously for a job and get your foot in the door that way.... (see Kari on Letterman)
Call ONLY the Legal Department of the ESPC at 214. 350.1892
Would hate to be checking messages on their machine tommorow.
And yes, I'm saying go and call. These groups should realize that threatening the buyers with lawsuits and prison time will not go without retalitation. This is the equivalent of the RIAA hunting down the people who bought copies of professionally pirated, legitimate looking cds and demanding settlements or threatening to sue. While a C&D may be appropriate, legal threats are not. Harrassment of the victims is just despicable. Fuck them and their $300 settlement.
If a prosecutor wanted to be an ass about it, add a couple dozen counts of "protect the children" laws involving posting of pornography where children can access it. Don't believe I saw a age verification and I'm pretty sure he has no 2257 records which is a federal thing. Can't see a jury siding with him, even if the jury felt bad, most jurors won't do the nullification thing. The question is whether there is the motivation to do so. Civil suits for copyright infringement (with those wonderful minimum damages) for reposting his pictures (and driving traffic to his site / getting interviews with the nyt, etc so there may be a commercial aspect here) aren't out of the question either. If the victims are willing to file the court papers, this is an open and shut case. He's well and trully fucked if one of those pictures turns out to be a minor.
Yes, and in some states, possibly illegal (blow jobs, titty fucking and anal sex are still illegal in several states) Even in some of the more liberal states, you can bet that if any of these guys are involved in in custody suits for children, they will lose.
And explain your concerns. Some manufacturers have a policy where you only return part of a drive (usually the cover) if you don't want your sensitive data to be transported.
Once you get the replacement drives, take them to the range and fill them with bullet holes. A 2 3/4" 12 gauge slug should take out a quarter of the drive at a time. Or fill with 9mm holes - when hit, the platter around the entry hole gets pulled out. A.22 from a rifle will work as well, but you'll need to put a dozen rounds through it. If you hit the drive on the edge dead center with an 8mm, the drive should be able to stop the bullet, which transfers a lot of energy to the case and sends the drive flying 50+ feet down range.
Tons of fun. Much faster and easier than sledge hammers.
Resolution/DPI independence Some apps look like crap when resized - resource monitor and the windows media player intro screens.
New start menu really is a LOT better than XPs Not really. Much of the same actually. It's black. The search bar in it is nice, but since the search bar is in almost every window, it isn't as nice. I don't like the scrolling "all programs" thing they did either. I usually have tons of items in there. At least it looks like they got rid of the "click the carrot to show all your programs" thing. Administrative tools doesn't expand for me in the all programs scrolley menu (it does on the other part of the taskbar/shrug). I'm still confused about what the power button on the start menu does. Hibernate isn't mentioned anywhere there, but it is in the power management dialogues. I know when I hit shut down last night fans were stlll running after it was "off", thought it was a nifty feature to let the stuff inside cool off while the box was in standby (and then shut off), but they were still running this morning.
WAY better file operations dialogs No pause or queue up options, so mr hard drive gets to thrash. Sure, they added the speed (18mb/s etc) and some other info, but that isn't much of a change. Priority is still high on copy operations - I understand that is a matter of taste, but I'd prefer that a copy operation run at lower priority than, say, the search app. Oh, the copy box lies to you. Even though it says it's still calculating, it's actually copying. Speaking of disk thrashing, the defrag app is hidden somewhere (i.e not in the manage mmc, I had to search for it). No analyze button that I could see.
WAY better file operations in general (no more huge lag when accessing network devices, disks, etc.) Dragging a file to a shortcut that points to a disconnected computer will still freeze the desktop - and it remains frozen for a far longer time than it does in XP/2k3 server. Even better, the info box that tells us the other computer can't be reached pops up under the current window and is modal to the desktop (so the desktop looks frozen to the user until you start minimizing windows) I'll have to give it to MS that they sort of fixed the "hangs desktop if you drag icon over the shortcut" problem they've had since 95, but would it be that hard to toss up a "looking for missing computer" dialogue box for the "drag onto"? Oh, and write cache is disabled on hard drives by default - just like in 2k3 server. Good? Bad?
New audio subsystem with TONS of cool features like being able to adjust audio for individual applications or the system as a whole. Quite nice. Especially with annoying browser ads nowadays. Still looking for the recording mixer...
You should add a couple things. Help dialogues are really (actually impressing) fast. In 2k3 server and xp, they were dreadfully slow. Automated scheduled defrags (this will put a couple companies out of business;) The wallpaper changer doesn't suck (as much) Reliability and performance monitor is cool.
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The intro is a little lame, the video starts about 53 seconds.
Though this was pretty good. Not bad for an amateur vid.
Of course they are. Probably lame ones like a couple nice dinners and a few grand in cash under the table (over and above what is legally given), but any time you see a politician spouting something so stupid, there is money involved.
Maybe they were just told to say it, maybe they don't know any better and a lobbyist gave them "all they need to know" or, as in this case, they know they are in the wrong and are trying to cover their ass so the money keeps rolling in.
I always heard it as "MEDIC!!" but yeah, guess that works too.
Mixing white and blue collar sociopaths is a great way to start an organized crime syndicate.
Still an assholish way to go about it though....
This will probably end up in a settlement, and in it, the car makers will pledge to do x,y,z in terms of emissions, etc.
Just like pretty much every case where a telecomm company was sued by the state for screwing consumers "we'll bring out dsl to smalltown, oregon by 2007" etc.
Nuisance, but sometimes the states "negotiate" this way.
To be specific, you have to prove this to a jury which is probably composed partially of people who didn't finish high school. I'd argue that this is much, much easier.
I'm actually surprised this hasn't been quashed by arnie.
They should have fun proving that global warming actually exists and that it is the result of cars. Then again, we are talking about an American jury.
If you get a Samsung phone, it won't be a "If I want to take my phone and snap it in half" but a "damnit I want to break this fucking phone in half because the piece of shit resets all the goddamn time".
But, of course youtube will pull it no matter what.
You're probably one of those assholes who do the spinning knife thing with speedhack in CS.
Or use auto aim, auto fire bots.
I find it funny that a lot of the cheaters like to think they have skill, when in fact even a quadraplegic using his air tube for control can excel with such cheats.
*grabs popcorn*
Seriously though, Diebold machines are a joke. What I don't understand is why widespread vandalism of these machines hasn't been done.
The exploits are, from what I understand, incredibly simple.
Unfortunately, I have a feeling that even if Osama bin Laden won the 2008 presidential election based on votes from machines, it would just be blamed on "terrorist hackers" and no actual accountability would be implemented.
Then, 2 years later, the American public would go back to voting on the same buggy machines, as oblivious as usual. Nothing would of have changed.
Or the guy could just be going to school locally and instead of dropping $600 a month on a shitty closet of a dorm room plus the cost of food, he's staying with his parents, maybe helping them fix their new place up.
By doing that, he's saving $7200 plus food, which is significant.
Even moreso when you consider that you're going to have to work an aditional ~30% just to pay the taxman.
Dorm life is fun, but when you're kept up every night by the douchebag in the next room, the assholes who think it's fine to light up a smoke in the stairwell and set off the smoke detectors for the entire goddamn building every fucking 3 weeks, have a drunk stumble into your room one night because his key fits your lock - to say nothing of numerous hit and runs on cars in the parking lot, rapes, stabbings, or a honest to god gunfight over a drug deal (not shootings but gunfights, involving several people shooting at each other, and most of those bullets going straight through 10 sheets of sheetrock), it begins to get old really fucking quick.
Oh, yeah, and the crackheads that break a $130 car window to steal loose change and the methheads that try to mug you until you show them something made of metal that fits in your hand (which, btw, may be a felony to carry on campus). All of this happened while I was at the dorms in portland state university.
Fuck that, what a waste of money.
Learning a trade or bettering yourself, absolutely, do that, just realize that paying for dorms has some drawbacks.
Sprint and verizon will terminate your contract if you begin to use their data service "excessively". No warnings, no appeal, but it gets you out of their contract.
People in New York don't pay assloads (~40% income + 7% sales tax) of tax.
Prices for every day goods are also higher in Canada.
Apparantly, if you're a hot redhead, you can hang around and pester them continously for a job and get your foot in the door that way....
(see Kari on Letterman)
If you'd add "and then spend SettlementInDollars*4 to set up their own ineffective service/website" I'd agree with you.
Call ONLY the Legal Department of the ESPC at 214. 350.1892
Would hate to be checking messages on their machine tommorow.
And yes, I'm saying go and call. These groups should realize that threatening the buyers with lawsuits and prison time will not go without retalitation. This is the equivalent of the RIAA hunting down the people who bought copies of professionally pirated, legitimate looking cds and demanding settlements or threatening to sue. While a C&D may be appropriate, legal threats are not. Harrassment of the victims is just despicable.
Fuck them and their $300 settlement.
If a prosecutor wanted to be an ass about it, add a couple dozen counts of "protect the children" laws involving posting of pornography where children can access it. Don't believe I saw a age verification and I'm pretty sure he has no 2257 records which is a federal thing. Can't see a jury siding with him, even if the jury felt bad, most jurors won't do the nullification thing.
The question is whether there is the motivation to do so.
Civil suits for copyright infringement (with those wonderful minimum damages) for reposting his pictures (and driving traffic to his site / getting interviews with the nyt, etc so there may be a commercial aspect here) aren't out of the question either. If the victims are willing to file the court papers, this is an open and shut case.
He's well and trully fucked if one of those pictures turns out to be a minor.
You have heard of the Internet, right? It's famous for publishing things that people don't want other people to see.
And for people who go to prison for posting nudie pics of their ex after a breakup.
Yes, and in some states, possibly illegal (blow jobs, titty fucking and anal sex are still illegal in several states)
Even in some of the more liberal states, you can bet that if any of these guys are involved in in custody suits for children, they will lose.
Yeah, in fact, he'd get murdered by a pack of butch lesbians who carry knives.
or rather take the *dead* drives to the range ;)
And explain your concerns. Some manufacturers have a policy where you only return part of a drive (usually the cover) if you don't want your sensitive data to be transported.
.22 from a rifle will work as well, but you'll need to put a dozen rounds through it.
Once you get the replacement drives, take them to the range and fill them with bullet holes. A 2 3/4" 12 gauge slug should take out a quarter of the drive at a time. Or fill with 9mm holes - when hit, the platter around the entry hole gets pulled out.
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If you hit the drive on the edge dead center with an 8mm, the drive should be able to stop the bullet, which transfers a lot of energy to the case and sends the drive flying 50+ feet down range.
Tons of fun. Much faster and easier than sledge hammers.
It's a lot more fun to shoot them ;)
Resolution/DPI independence
/shrug). I'm still confused about what the power button on the start menu does. Hibernate isn't mentioned anywhere there, but it is in the power management dialogues. I know when I hit shut down last night fans were stlll running after it was "off", thought it was a nifty feature to let the stuff inside cool off while the box was in standby (and then shut off), but they were still running this morning.
;)
Some apps look like crap when resized - resource monitor and the windows media player intro screens.
New start menu really is a LOT better than XPs
Not really. Much of the same actually. It's black. The search bar in it is nice, but since the search bar is in almost every window, it isn't as nice.
I don't like the scrolling "all programs" thing they did either. I usually have tons of items in there. At least it looks like they got rid of the "click the carrot to show all your programs" thing.
Administrative tools doesn't expand for me in the all programs scrolley menu (it does on the other part of the taskbar
WAY better file operations dialogs
No pause or queue up options, so mr hard drive gets to thrash. Sure, they added the speed (18mb/s etc) and some other info, but that isn't much of a change.
Priority is still high on copy operations - I understand that is a matter of taste, but I'd prefer that a copy operation run at lower priority than, say, the search app.
Oh, the copy box lies to you. Even though it says it's still calculating, it's actually copying.
Speaking of disk thrashing, the defrag app is hidden somewhere (i.e not in the manage mmc, I had to search for it). No analyze button that I could see.
WAY better file operations in general (no more huge lag when accessing network devices, disks, etc.)
Dragging a file to a shortcut that points to a disconnected computer will still freeze the desktop - and it remains frozen for a far longer time than it does in XP/2k3 server.
Even better, the info box that tells us the other computer can't be reached pops up under the current window and is modal to the desktop (so the desktop looks frozen to the user until you start minimizing windows)
I'll have to give it to MS that they sort of fixed the "hangs desktop if you drag icon over the shortcut" problem they've had since 95, but would it be that hard to toss up a "looking for missing computer" dialogue box for the "drag onto"?
Oh, and write cache is disabled on hard drives by default - just like in 2k3 server. Good? Bad?
New audio subsystem with TONS of cool features like being able to adjust audio for individual applications or the system as a whole.
Quite nice. Especially with annoying browser ads nowadays.
Still looking for the recording mixer...
You should add a couple things.
Help dialogues are really (actually impressing) fast. In 2k3 server and xp, they were dreadfully slow.
Automated scheduled defrags (this will put a couple companies out of business
The wallpaper changer doesn't suck (as much)
Reliability and performance monitor is cool.
Running 5600.