Don't buy HP cameras. Or at least new ones. It isn't like there is a shortage of old cameras out there. I'm not sure why HP has been pushing this for over a year, it is goddamn retarded. The only thing I can think of is that HP is hoping to see privacy legislation passed. Still, stupid.
I'm shocked it took so long. McAfee bought Neoworx in 2002, and the NeoWatch firewall was the first one that I had seen that would automatically do a little graphical trace for you. Basically a firewall with a cheapo neotrace embedded in it (you could also use the full version if you had it)
I used neowatch... shit, it's been years. I recall running it on a Windows 95 or 98 system, I'm pretty sure it was the first one out there. The patent is pretty narrow though, If they were first, I don't see much to bitch about (excluding the standard patent stupidity)
You know, I'll agree with you on the time travel thing, they have raped it dead. I will disagree on year of hell though, I thought "year of hell" was pretty good - it was, at the very least, original - especially given that most of the trek stuff is a rehash from st tos / whatever.
Enterprise, end of third season, my reaction was Well great, ok, whats next? Eh? What the fuck? Nazis? Who the fuck thought it would be a good idea to bring back fucking nazis? Kirk fought nazis, wtf. I HOPE YOU DIE!! I want my hour back.
There is a torrent (or was) out there, someone seeded the entire series of saab. I wish they would put it on DVD (and bring it back, but hey, one step at a time)
Or don't. Bad news sells, and gets grant money. And nothing is bad news like a doomsday prediction. I'm not trying to troll, but there have been "10 years to doomsday" reports based on... wait for it global cooling. Of course, this was in the days before the Internet and during the time it was popular to endorse that. Don't trust me? Pick up a Newsweek from April 1975. Or just do a bit of research, you'll find a lot of the same scientists who were alarmists for global cooling switched to global warming.
Virtually all of the environmental organizations out there have been hijacked by groups that are more anti-corporate and anti-capitalist. I'm not just saying this, so is one of their founders (see Patrick Moore). If you want more proof, go to a environmental protest, the majority of folks there are complete morons and unable to answer the simplest things about the environment. In high school, I went and got 25 folks to sign a "Ban sodium chloride" petition. The vast majority are there for yelling and for a chance for (under-educated) white middle class college aged kids to fight against "the man". I really can't take anything these folks say at face value anymore.
Hey, I think it is a great idea to start using energy sources that are somewhat more modern, but alarmist fear mongering isn't the right way to go about it. At a certain point people start beginning cynical.
If you are afraid of your government, permit me to point out the idiocy of opposing B-52s with M-16s or AK-47s. Some folks in Iraq seem to have missed that memo.
Actually, global cooling was the "in thing" for fearmongering "eco-scientists" about 30 years ago. Then, in the late 70s, early 80's most of these fuckers switched to global warming in a heartbeat and now we are all supposed to be afraid of that. Not really a new line of bull, just more "hug the earth because everything we do will result in catastrophy within 40 years" bullshit.
perhaps because when longhorn is released (finally) these 'advanced' cards will be the only thing available and you will have about the same luck buying an 'old' card as people buying a 1mb trident card today
fuck directdraw accceleration of video too, who needs to resize video? maybe we should just go back to EGA, after all, email shouldn't need more than 256 colors,
No, you're actually the one who is wrong. Completely and utterly.
No one owns a gun for self defence? The police? Bank guards? Private citizens?
A great deal of people who live in the city own a firearm. Quite a number of Canadians hunt.
Handguns are perfectly legal to own. Concealed carry permits are also issued, although they are somewhat of a bitch to get.
The training / gun safety course is a joke (for both rifles and pistols). You can check out a book at the library and take both tests for well under a hundred bucks. You DO NOT have to take a course. You have to renew it every 5 years or so. The purpose is, of course, to prevent the stupid from getting shot and the renewal is a plan to pay for the registration program, which has gone a wee bit over budget (ok, it's a fucking disgrace, 1.5 billion dollars OVER budget with more coming) That said the registration plan has dug such a deep hole for itself, it cannot pay for itself in the next generation if the fees stay the same.
Walmart has no interest in selling guns in Canada, the market is too small for them to undertake the costs of becoming a gun dealer. Canada does have, on the other hand, tons of gun shows (where you can buy a M1 Garand for about half of the price in the USA) and pretty much every town has a gun store or two.
Nice try talking about Canada and guns though. You don't even live in Canada, do you?
By the way, 80% of Canadian firearms deaths are suicide.
Just curious, but what would be so bad about getting a warrant? Asking a judge, "Do you think it is appropriate to do this?" I don't want to go off on a tangent, but there are a lot of "slow" cops out there, perhaps they shouldn't have the power to tag as many cars as they have trackers. I know that there may be internal guidelines of the police force, but then again, there may not be - clearly, in some situations it is illegal (and unethical, but hey, that's a minor thing) to do this (the guy in Colorado who was convicted of tracking his wife via GPS) What is nice about forcing folks to obtain a warrant is that it (in theory anyways) evens out inconsistency. There is that whole thing we like to have called "probable cause", since it has worked pretty well for the last could hundred years and all (well, almost, PATRIOT Act.)
What this all boils down to is that you, as a citizen, do not have an expectation of privacy on public land. Ok, fine, you've known that for a while and you've heard the arguments for / against that for a while now too (i.e. if tracking by vehicle is allowed, how about tracking by cell phone, discovery of everyone who you interact with, etc, etc etc) Now, the real question is what happens to a GPS transmitter if it goes onto private land. Does it turn off? I'm guessing no. Can police access or retreive data from when the vehicle was located on private land? Can they use that data in court? Essentially, can they (if using a "passive" device), without a warrant, gain information on you that they could not of have without one - even in situations where, had they had asked for a warrant, one would not of have been granted for a lack of probable cause, and can evidence gathered during this time period be used against you in court? Sort of "it is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission", but in this case, they don't even ask for forgiveness. (If you go off on a slight tangent here, is it now ok, on the federal level, to track people via GPS enabled cell phones (only in public places of course) without a warrant?)
It is pretty much carte blanche for federal and state police to throw whatever on the bottom of your car without a warrant (except in Washington, etc, see below). They have had it for radio tracking systems for a while now, this federal ruling re-affirms that they can do the same with GPS devices (again, with exceptions).
Realistically, someone in the next 10 years will appeal their decision in a similar case, so this judges opinion may not really matter. I'm guessing (certain) this case will be appealed, so we won't have to wait, seeing as the defendant is a lawyer, the ACLU has already been involved and all. Judge Hurd is at the lowest rung of the federal system, so it really isn't that big of a deal right now. That said, if the circuit court rules the same way, we might have a bit of a problem. If It hits the Supreme Court, it sure will be interesting.
The Supreme Court of Washington stated in State of Washington V William Bradley Jackson "If police are not required to obtain a warrant under article I, section 7 before attaching a GPS device to a citizen's vehicle, then there is no limitation on the State's use of these devices on any person's vehicle, whether criminal activity is suspected or not. The resulting trespass into private affairs of Washington citizens is precisely what article I, section 7 was intended to prevent. It should be recalled that one aspect of the infrared thermal imaging surveillance in Young that troubled us was the fact that if its use did not require a warrant, there would be no limitation on the government's ability to use it on any private residence, at any time regardless of whether criminal activity is suspected. Young, 123 Wn.2d at 186-87.
As with infrared thermal imaging surveillance, use of GPS tracking devices is a particularly intrusive method of surveillance, making it possible to acquire an enormous amount of personal information about the citizen under circumstanc
It is shocking, simply shocking that someone who gets paid $10 an hour steals customer information if he has the chance because the company's security policies were virtually useless.
You know, that wouldn't be such an issue if the credit reporting bureaus weren't incompetent arrogant dipshits when it comes to dealing with things like this. Harsh? Maybe, but I don't think it is overly so.
Have you ever wondered why there are dozens of credit bureaus (3 major ones, I know) and why folks who are thinking of giving you a loan will check the 3 major ones and maybe some of the minor ones? It's because the data that each one has is so highly suspect that it is essentially useless.
Credit bureaus normally DO NOT share data with each other in what is apparantly a childish and futile attempt for each one to corner the market. Data like corrections (or mistakes) are not necessarily passed on and your "credit report" can (will?) vary from one to another. I'm not going to even go into the dispute "investigation" process or how folks with the same social security number have to deal with this again and again.
In any other industry, this shit would not be allowed to go on, it is just that as someone who needs money, you're the bitch, plain and simple.
Think about it for a second - FTC states that you have a 1 in 3 chance of having an significant error on your credit report. The error will affect your purchasing power and most likely (for some odd reason, credit reports tend to err in the negative) cost you hundreds, if not thousands of dollars in the long run (you'll also get fucked on car insurance rates now). ./spent over a year, a fucking goddamn year, dealing with these arrogant sonsafuckingbitches trying to get a bogus credit card account removed. The card was issued 8 years before I was born. .//no, not bitter, why do you ask?
1. Use netstumbler / kismet, find out what channel has the most noise. If it's on every channel, it's probably a shitty cordless phone that is interfering. Try the channel 14 trick others have suggested (if you can) 2. Channels 1, 6, 11 don't overlap. If there are unsecured AP's, perhaps *cough* "convincing your neighbors to change to a different channel" *cough* might be appropriate. 3. WTF is going on with your router, there seems to be something seriously wrong with signal strength - most routers aren't that strong, and shouldn't be interfering unless you're in a college single room dorm type situation. Check your antenna - if it is removable, check to make sure you didn't squash the pin inside and make sure the connection is (not too, but finger) tight. You might be able to upgrade the antenna for pretty cheap too. An slightly bigger omni should break through the interference, but it will also piss off your neighbors and make you a nice person to leech off of.
Antenna polarity and positioning are also important - most stock antennas put out a "doughnut" shaped signal, you'll generally get better range horizontally than vertically. If you have 2 antennas, try playing with the antenna modes if you can (left only, right only, diversity, etc). Create an "L" with the antennas, and aim the L at the target point (i.e. if you were looking at the router you would see the L (or backwards L, whatever)
Try a wifi reflector maybe? I say maybe because if you can't get a signal 30 feet away, then something else is wrong - there is one exception to this - A signal can go through a sheetrock wall quite easily, but if you are on a funny angle it has to pass through a lot of Think of a 2 foot thick wall with a wifi card and router on each side. The most the signal has to penetrate is 2 feet - now place a router on the floor and go up one story and have the wireless card right beside the wall. Do a quick sketch or remember trig;) You could be "passing" through a dozen feet of wall or more. Obviously that won't work.
If all else fails, pick up a vagi antenna with an 8 degree or so beam, aim it at offenders and blast 50 watts of 2.4 Ghz Radio death at their equipment;)
They cost money, and come out way more often than Microsoft upgrades. They are also much more significant. Windows 95 to 98 to Me? Not much of a difference, a couple added things, fixes, etc, but nothing really set one apart from the other.
That said, the updates (and everything else) is very widely pirated. You'll notice one thing about mac users, generally those who file share, etc are not just leeches, they have nicer pipes to upload through as well. "PC Warez" (haven't used that word in a while, sorry) just seems so cold nowadays, Mac "download" sites seem to be more personal, as if you went to a swap meet and someone said, "Sure, I'll make you a copy" or if you were on a bbs 15 years ago./anyways...
You're missing d.) taxed to fuck like cigarettes and alcohol. If pot, etc, is legalized, you'll see an enormous tax placed on it almost overnight and your imported drugs will still be illegal under the guise of safety or defeating terrorism or something like that.
BTW, H (which is pretty much as "black" as you can get) is pretty much free now, compared to what it was 30 years ago. Still, plenty of money to be made.
Because a bunch of ISPs and especially universities are crippling bittorrent bandwidth. WoW had a shitload of people bitching about it during beta testing.
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Don't buy HP cameras.
Or at least new ones.
It isn't like there is a shortage of old cameras out there.
I'm not sure why HP has been pushing this for over a year, it is goddamn retarded. The only thing I can think of is that HP is hoping to see privacy legislation passed. Still, stupid.
I'm shocked it took so long. ... shit, it's been years. I recall running it on a Windows 95 or 98 system, I'm pretty sure it was the first one out there.
McAfee bought Neoworx in 2002, and the NeoWatch firewall was the first one that I had seen that would automatically do a little graphical trace for you. Basically a firewall with a cheapo neotrace embedded in it (you could also use the full version if you had it)
I used neowatch
The patent is pretty narrow though, If they were first, I don't see much to bitch about (excluding the standard patent stupidity)
You know, I'll agree with you on the time travel thing, they have raped it dead. I will disagree on year of hell though, I thought "year of hell" was pretty good - it was, at the very least, original - especially given that most of the trek stuff is a rehash from st tos / whatever.
Enterprise, end of third season, my reaction was
Well great, ok, whats next?
Eh?
What the fuck?
Nazis?
Who the fuck thought it would be a good idea to bring back fucking nazis? Kirk fought nazis, wtf.
I HOPE YOU DIE!!
I want my hour back.
There is a torrent (or was) out there, someone seeded the entire series of saab. I wish they would put it on DVD (and bring it back, but hey, one step at a time)
Linky to 1975 Newsweek Magazine Article that predicts 10 years until we run out of food because of global cooling
Or don't. ... wait for it global cooling. Of course, this was in the days before the Internet and during the time it was popular to endorse that.
Bad news sells, and gets grant money.
And nothing is bad news like a doomsday prediction.
I'm not trying to troll, but there have been "10 years to doomsday" reports based on
Don't trust me? Pick up a Newsweek from April 1975. Or just do a bit of research, you'll find a lot of the same scientists who were alarmists for global cooling switched to global warming.
Virtually all of the environmental organizations out there have been hijacked by groups that are more anti-corporate and anti-capitalist.
I'm not just saying this, so is one of their founders (see Patrick Moore).
If you want more proof, go to a environmental protest, the majority of folks there are complete morons and unable to answer the simplest things about the environment. In high school, I went and got 25 folks to sign a "Ban sodium chloride" petition.
The vast majority are there for yelling and for a chance for (under-educated) white middle class college aged kids to fight against "the man".
I really can't take anything these folks say at face value anymore.
Hey, I think it is a great idea to start using energy sources that are somewhat more modern, but alarmist fear mongering isn't the right way to go about it. At a certain point people start beginning cynical.
Don't.
Cry.
Wolf.
You.
Stupid.
Fuckers.
You could do this under 10.1 (and I think 10 beta), but it is nice that it is actually nice and easy to do now.
Don't be shocked. "Gun deaths" includes suicides, which is a pretty big part of the number.
If you are afraid of your government, permit me to point out the idiocy of opposing B-52s with M-16s or AK-47s.
Some folks in Iraq seem to have missed that memo.
What is there to know? we (the under 35 crowd) are fucked, no matter what happens.
Actually, global cooling was the "in thing" for fearmongering "eco-scientists" about 30 years ago. Then, in the late 70s, early 80's most of these fuckers switched to global warming in a heartbeat and now we are all supposed to be afraid of that.
Not really a new line of bull, just more "hug the earth because everything we do will result in catastrophy within 40 years" bullshit.
perhaps because when longhorn is released (finally) these 'advanced' cards will be the only thing available and you will have about the same luck buying an 'old' card as people buying a 1mb trident card today
fuck directdraw accceleration of video too, who needs to resize video?
maybe we should just go back to EGA, after all, email shouldn't need more than 256 colors,
Because a small minority has never been a problem for an occupying force to deal with, right?
I also think you over-estimate the willingness of the military to follow orders when they are ordered to target fellow Americans.
No, you're actually the one who is wrong. Completely and utterly.
No one owns a gun for self defence? The police? Bank guards? Private citizens?
A great deal of people who live in the city own a firearm. Quite a number of Canadians hunt.
Handguns are perfectly legal to own. Concealed carry permits are also issued, although they are somewhat of a bitch to get.
The training / gun safety course is a joke (for both rifles and pistols). You can check out a book at the library and take both tests for well under a hundred bucks.
You DO NOT have to take a course.
You have to renew it every 5 years or so. The purpose is, of course, to prevent the stupid from getting shot and the renewal is a plan to pay for the registration program, which has gone a wee bit over budget (ok, it's a fucking disgrace, 1.5 billion dollars OVER budget with more coming) That said the registration plan has dug such a deep hole for itself, it cannot pay for itself in the next generation if the fees stay the same.
Walmart has no interest in selling guns in Canada, the market is too small for them to undertake the costs of becoming a gun dealer. Canada does have, on the other hand, tons of gun shows (where you can buy a M1 Garand for about half of the price in the USA) and pretty much every town has a gun store or two.
Nice try talking about Canada and guns though.
You don't even live in Canada, do you?
By the way, 80% of Canadian firearms deaths are suicide.
Been to Sudan recently?
It would of have, but pursing a defamation case where none exists isn't the best way to establish precedent (correct spelling ;)
Just curious, but what would be so bad about getting a warrant? Asking a judge, "Do you think it is appropriate to do this?"
I don't want to go off on a tangent, but there are a lot of "slow" cops out there, perhaps they shouldn't have the power to tag as many cars as they have trackers.
I know that there may be internal guidelines of the police force, but then again, there may not be - clearly, in some situations it is illegal (and unethical, but hey, that's a minor thing) to do this (the guy in Colorado who was convicted of tracking his wife via GPS) What is nice about forcing folks to obtain a warrant is that it (in theory anyways) evens out inconsistency. There is that whole thing we like to have called "probable cause", since it has worked pretty well for the last could hundred years and all (well, almost, PATRIOT Act.)
What this all boils down to is that you, as a citizen, do not have an expectation of privacy on public land. Ok, fine, you've known that for a while and you've heard the arguments for / against that for a while now too (i.e. if tracking by vehicle is allowed, how about tracking by cell phone, discovery of everyone who you interact with, etc, etc etc)
Now, the real question is what happens to a GPS transmitter if it goes onto private land. Does it turn off? I'm guessing no.
Can police access or retreive data from when the vehicle was located on private land? Can they use that data in court? Essentially, can they (if using a "passive" device), without a warrant, gain information on you that they could not of have without one - even in situations where, had they had asked for a warrant, one would not of have been granted for a lack of probable cause, and can evidence gathered during this time period be used against you in court?
Sort of "it is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission", but in this case, they don't even ask for forgiveness.
(If you go off on a slight tangent here, is it now ok, on the federal level, to track people via GPS enabled cell phones (only in public places of course) without a warrant?)
It is pretty much carte blanche for federal and state police to throw whatever on the bottom of your car without a warrant (except in Washington, etc, see below). They have had it for radio tracking systems for a while now, this federal ruling re-affirms that they can do the same with GPS devices (again, with exceptions).
Realistically, someone in the next 10 years will appeal their decision in a similar case, so this judges opinion may not really matter.
I'm guessing (certain) this case will be appealed, so we won't have to wait, seeing as the defendant is a lawyer, the ACLU has already been involved and all.
Judge Hurd is at the lowest rung of the federal system, so it really isn't that big of a deal right now. That said, if the circuit court rules the same way, we might have a bit of a problem. If It hits the Supreme Court, it sure will be interesting.
The Supreme Court of Washington stated in
State of Washington V William Bradley Jackson
"If police are not required to obtain a warrant under article I, section 7 before attaching a GPS device to a citizen's vehicle, then there is no limitation on the State's use of these devices on any person's vehicle, whether criminal activity is suspected or not.
The resulting trespass into private affairs of Washington citizens is precisely what article I, section 7 was intended to prevent. It should be recalled that one aspect of the infrared thermal imaging surveillance in Young that troubled us was the fact that if its use did not require a warrant, there would be no limitation on the government's ability to use it on any private residence, at any time regardless of whether criminal activity is suspected. Young, 123 Wn.2d at 186-87.
As with infrared thermal imaging surveillance, use of GPS tracking devices is a particularly intrusive method of surveillance, making it
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It is shocking, simply shocking that someone who gets paid $10 an hour steals customer information if he has the chance because the company's security policies were virtually useless.
You know, that wouldn't be such an issue if the credit reporting bureaus weren't incompetent arrogant dipshits when it comes to dealing with things like this.
/spent over a year, a fucking goddamn year, dealing with these arrogant sonsafuckingbitches trying to get a bogus credit card account removed. The card was issued 8 years before I was born. //no, not bitter, why do you ask?
Harsh? Maybe, but I don't think it is overly so.
Have you ever wondered why there are dozens of credit bureaus (3 major ones, I know) and why folks who are thinking of giving you a loan will check the 3 major ones and maybe some of the minor ones?
It's because the data that each one has is so highly suspect that it is essentially useless.
Credit bureaus normally DO NOT share data with each other in what is apparantly a childish and futile attempt for each one to corner the market. Data like corrections (or mistakes) are not necessarily passed on and your "credit report" can (will?) vary from one to another. I'm not going to even go into the dispute "investigation" process or how folks with the same social security number have to deal with this again and again.
In any other industry, this shit would not be allowed to go on, it is just that as someone who needs money, you're the bitch, plain and simple.
Think about it for a second - FTC states that you have a 1 in 3 chance of having an significant error on your credit report. The error will affect your purchasing power and most likely (for some odd reason, credit reports tend to err in the negative) cost you hundreds, if not thousands of dollars in the long run (you'll also get fucked on car insurance rates now).
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1. Use netstumbler / kismet, find out what channel has the most noise. If it's on every channel, it's probably a shitty cordless phone that is interfering. Try the channel 14 trick others have suggested (if you can)
;) You could be "passing" through a dozen feet of wall or more. Obviously that won't work.
;)
2. Channels 1, 6, 11 don't overlap. If there are unsecured AP's, perhaps *cough* "convincing your neighbors to change to a different channel" *cough* might be appropriate.
3. WTF is going on with your router, there seems to be something seriously wrong with signal strength - most routers aren't that strong, and shouldn't be interfering unless you're in a college single room dorm type situation.
Check your antenna - if it is removable, check to make sure you didn't squash the pin inside and make sure the connection is (not too, but finger) tight. You might be able to upgrade the antenna for pretty cheap too. An slightly bigger omni should break through the interference, but it will also piss off your neighbors and make you a nice person to leech off of.
Antenna polarity and positioning are also important - most stock antennas put out a "doughnut" shaped signal, you'll generally get better range horizontally than vertically. If you have 2 antennas, try playing with the antenna modes if you can (left only, right only, diversity, etc). Create an "L" with the antennas, and aim the L at the target point (i.e. if you were looking at the router you would see the L (or backwards L, whatever)
Try a wifi reflector maybe? I say maybe because if you can't get a signal 30 feet away, then something else is wrong - there is one exception to this - A signal can go through a sheetrock wall quite easily, but if you are on a funny angle it has to pass through a lot of
Think of a 2 foot thick wall with a wifi card and router on each side. The most the signal has to penetrate is 2 feet - now place a router on the floor and go up one story and have the wireless card right beside the wall. Do a quick sketch or remember trig
If all else fails, pick up a vagi antenna with an 8 degree or so beam, aim it at offenders and blast 50 watts of 2.4 Ghz Radio death at their equipment
They cost money, and come out way more often than Microsoft upgrades. They are also much more significant. Windows 95 to 98 to Me? Not much of a difference, a couple added things, fixes, etc, but nothing really set one apart from the other.
/anyways...
That said, the updates (and everything else) is very widely pirated.
You'll notice one thing about mac users, generally those who file share, etc are not just leeches, they have nicer pipes to upload through as well. "PC Warez" (haven't used that word in a while, sorry) just seems so cold nowadays, Mac "download" sites seem to be more personal, as if you went to a swap meet and someone said, "Sure, I'll make you a copy" or if you were on a bbs 15 years ago.
You're missing
d.) taxed to fuck like cigarettes and alcohol.
If pot, etc, is legalized, you'll see an enormous tax placed on it almost overnight and your imported drugs will still be illegal under the guise of safety or defeating terrorism or something like that.
BTW, H (which is pretty much as "black" as you can get) is pretty much free now, compared to what it was 30 years ago. Still, plenty of money to be made.
Because a bunch of ISPs and especially universities are crippling bittorrent bandwidth. WoW had a shitload of people bitching about it during beta testing.
last line re: bittorrent.