It will absolutely suck/piss away government funds / your money. AT&T is charging the Denver International Airport $250,000 a month for wifi connectivity (See June Computerworld article by Bob Brewin) That said, Texas is the only place in the country where I found a "No Loitering" sign at a rest stop. I found that slightly amusing.
They would probably make more with a flat rate system. This would, of course, depend on what the % was, but in the current system, once you figure out exemptions, etc, the people with over $80,000 a year don't really pay much tax compared to someone making $15,000 a year.
Does evidence that you do use your smart card programming interface/hardware for legitimate purposes count towards the not-well-defined "sufficient" amount of evidence "demonstrating that [you] did not use [your] devices for signal theft"
It doesn't matter. The cost of a plane ticket to federal court and a lawyer exceeds the cost of the settlement. That is where the problem is.
Seriously, someone who anally rapes you when you play their "music"? I really can't comprehend how a bunch of people sat together in a room and were like, "oh yeah, people are gonna love this, this is a great idea!". How detached from reality can they be? Enough people are already paranoid about use of fingerprints, etc, but apparantly there are enough sheep for companies to make money.
More and more people will now just download what they want to watch / edit / et al - this will push more and more people underground. The RIAA hasn't had much success with stopping such a thing, (ooh, 500 people served every month?) so I wonder how much success the networks etc will have with it.
Right now, you can download damn near dvd (read tivo compressed with xvid) quality rips of virtually every tv show off the internet - and usually very quickly (assuming you have broadband and that you are trying to get something that was aired in the last month). These rips have no commericals and look even better than what I get through the cable tv.
I really can't see why people would want to actually sit in front of a TV and suffer through 20 minutes of commericals, especially given the fact that you can watch it when you want and not have to worry about setting the damn vcr or any of these bullshit copy restrictions.
yeah, not arguing with anything you're saying. There certainly won't be an nuclear explosion. Airborne material carried by smoke and prevailing winds would be bad though.
I was talking about the driver compartment in order to stop the vehicle. Not the actual container. I could of have been a bit more clear about that, my bad.
Of course, it would be rather hard to hide a big ass convoy or even a single truck. As I understand it, these containers aren't exactly easy to disguise as they are a bit bigger than the standard trailers. Also, they will be going a great distance to a known destination, so it should be pretty easy to figure out where they will be, etc.
Also, all these tests are assuming "accident conditions", being broadsided, etc by large objects, not tiny objects at high speed (i.e. bullets, metal plates accelerated to mach 4, etc). Besides, I was referring to stoping the vehicle by taking out the driver, with a 50 BMG, it should be possible. I know of no transparant surface that could prevent such a round from penetrating. Depleted uranium rounds are also created in this caliber, which should penetrate about 2-4" of hardened steel - granted most of these rounds are in the hands of the military, but you can get them. This is also assuming that the average terrorist can't find instructions on how to make thermite which will burn through whatever shielding they have.
maybe your point was just not to be trucking to stuff around in the first place.
yeah. Many targets.
A copper plate with a fair bit of rdx / tnt behind it would also work. 1 pound accelerated to mach 4 or so should do about enough damage to anything to make it leak.
no, but you can shoot the container with a high velocity large bore rifle, or blow up a section of the highway, or create a high velocity projectile using explosives and copper plates, or even drive a propane / LNG tanker into the side of the transport vehicle. Heck, a learjet at a good speed would also work. I might add that reactive armor only works once. If people are willing to commit suicide runs (as is the case), it is a bitch to secure stuff like this, there are oodles of thing that someone can think of that would be able to create leaks. You would need a hell of a convoy to protect stuff like this. One spill would be a fucker to clean up. It would be virtually impossible to prevent the spread if there was a good sized fire burning and once particles become airborne.
I've always been partial to mixing the material with lead and cement, then placing it into containers designed to withstand deep sea pressures, booby trapping them and guiding it into deep sea trenches, but I'm not exactly certified to offer suggestions as to how to secure such things.
You missed his point, there would be literally thousands of trucks / convoys needed to transport this across the country. Each being a target. Considering a.50 Cal BMG rifle can be bought by civilains with little or no background checks for as little as $1700 (with ammo for about $1 a round), this is a pretty big concern. 50 BMG will penetrate damn near anything and will have a nice range to boot. If you're bored (or if someone else is) figure out the kinetic energy that a 650 grain projectile has at 900m/s
Yeah, they are "wallet raping" everyone with XP. And will contrinue to do so until longhorn comes out. MS is making a killing delaying their launch date for Longhorn. There isn't any incentive for them to do otherwise.
They have realized "hey, there really isn't any serious competition, so we really don't need to improve our products with the exception of patches, etc." In the meantime, they collect their fees for almost every computer sold through retail channels while paying almost nothing for programmers (or diverting their programmers to different groups)
Also, realistically, the people who know how to pirate their software and bypass the activation will still do it if XP is $50, if not out of habit, then just to "stick it to the man". That said, I agree with you that the current retail price for XP is vulgar.
MS is making tons of money off OEMs (dell and the like), and will continue to do so for the forseeable future.
On a side note, I don't think XP is that unstable, it is still shitty driver manufacturers (ATI) that cause a lot of stability problems. Hardware has a bit to do with it too, I think bad ram is becoming more common as we see chips drop in price and capacities increase.
Security holes are a different matter, although anyone running a box without a firewall enabled (*nix or windows) or a router between them and the net is a damn fool. That said, it will take a destructive virus (i.e. wipe all data and flash the bios) to make the average joe aware of security, which will really put the fire under MS's ass. I'm sure it will happen in the next year or two given the fucking script kiddies we have now. Although it will piss a whole bunch of people off (especially the oems who will have to pull millions of bios chips (or boards if the chips can't be replaced) out of their ass) it will be a _very_ chaotic month and something like this should tighten security up quite a bit and drive hardware / software (AV / firewall) sales.
oh. But wait. There are no other cable ISPs in my area and the DSL company just doesn't feel like expanding the DSLAM because it is full. If you want high speed access, especially in cable only areas, you don't really have any other ISP's to switch to.
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also echoes, but that usually isnt a concern on ships surrounded by a bunch of water.
It isn't all that quiet right now when the guns are firing. . .
if anyone has a spare, root ((((AT))))) loraksus.org
likewise, what is the speed of sound in a vacuum ;)
It will absolutely suck /piss away government funds / your money.
AT&T is charging the Denver International Airport $250,000 a month for wifi connectivity (See June Computerworld article by Bob Brewin)
That said, Texas is the only place in the country where I found a "No Loitering" sign at a rest stop. I found that slightly amusing.
I call it bullshit, but whatever. He's trying to say that he gets rooted in the 15 seconds that it takes from boot to windows update. Smells like fud.
selective enforcement. . .
not a new idea, see DWB, DWA.
They would probably make more with a flat rate system. This would, of course, depend on what the % was, but in the current system, once you figure out exemptions, etc, the people with over $80,000 a year don't really pay much tax compared to someone making $15,000 a year.
what's wrong with vi and static pages?
Does evidence that you do use your smart card programming interface/hardware for legitimate purposes count towards the not-well-defined "sufficient" amount of evidence "demonstrating that [you] did not use [your] devices for signal theft"
It doesn't matter. The cost of a plane ticket to federal court and a lawyer exceeds the cost of the settlement. That is where the problem is.
Ahh, you worked for livebridge I presume?
Like, wow, damn. /sigh
Go dell.
Seriously, someone who anally rapes you when you play their "music"?
I really can't comprehend how a bunch of people sat together in a room and were like, "oh yeah, people are gonna love this, this is a great idea!". How detached from reality can they be?
Enough people are already paranoid about use of fingerprints, etc, but apparantly there are enough sheep for companies to make money.
"limited resource computing devices"
which is of course not defined.
If you're surprised, just respond with an empty ac post (or put crap in so the filter lets you).
pay out $2-25K for high definition home theater and near DVD quality doesn't cut it anymore.
As opposed to what exactly? The quality of cable tv? Anything that is being broadcast right now? Even the Tivo doesn't record uncompressed.
I'd hate to sound dissmissive but I can't exactly understand what your point is.
More and more people will now just download what they want to watch / edit / et al - this will push more and more people underground. The RIAA hasn't had much success with stopping such a thing, (ooh, 500 people served every month?) so I wonder how much success the networks etc will have with it.
Right now, you can download damn near dvd (read tivo compressed with xvid) quality rips of virtually every tv show off the internet - and usually very quickly (assuming you have broadband and that you are trying to get something that was aired in the last month). These rips have no commericals and look even better than what I get through the cable tv.
I really can't see why people would want to actually sit in front of a TV and suffer through 20 minutes of commericals, especially given the fact that you can watch it when you want and not have to worry about setting the damn vcr or any of these bullshit copy restrictions.
yeah, not arguing with anything you're saying. There certainly won't be an nuclear explosion.
Airborne material carried by smoke and prevailing winds would be bad though.
I was talking about the driver compartment in order to stop the vehicle. Not the actual container. I could of have been a bit more clear about that, my bad.
Of course, it would be rather hard to hide a big ass convoy or even a single truck. As I understand it, these containers aren't exactly easy to disguise as they are a bit bigger than the standard trailers.
Also, they will be going a great distance to a known destination, so it should be pretty easy to figure out where they will be, etc.
Also, all these tests are assuming "accident conditions", being broadsided, etc by large objects, not tiny objects at high speed (i.e. bullets, metal plates accelerated to mach 4, etc). Besides, I was referring to stoping the vehicle by taking out the driver, with a 50 BMG, it should be possible. I know of no transparant surface that could prevent such a round from penetrating. Depleted uranium rounds are also created in this caliber, which should penetrate about 2-4" of hardened steel - granted most of these rounds are in the hands of the military, but you can get them.
This is also assuming that the average terrorist can't find instructions on how to make thermite which will burn through whatever shielding they have.
maybe your point was just not to be trucking to stuff around in the first place.
yeah. Many targets.
A copper plate with a fair bit of rdx / tnt behind it would also work. 1 pound accelerated to mach 4 or so should do about enough damage to anything to make it leak.
no, but you can shoot the container with a high velocity large bore rifle, or blow up a section of the highway, or create a high velocity projectile using explosives and copper plates, or even drive a propane / LNG tanker into the side of the transport vehicle. Heck, a learjet at a good speed would also work. I might add that reactive armor only works once.
If people are willing to commit suicide runs (as is the case), it is a bitch to secure stuff like this, there are oodles of thing that someone can think of that would be able to create leaks. You would need a hell of a convoy to protect stuff like this.
One spill would be a fucker to clean up. It would be virtually impossible to prevent the spread if there was a good sized fire burning and once particles become airborne.
I've always been partial to mixing the material with lead and cement, then placing it into containers designed to withstand deep sea pressures, booby trapping them and guiding it into deep sea trenches, but I'm not exactly certified to offer suggestions as to how to secure such things.
You missed his point, there would be literally thousands of trucks / convoys needed to transport this across the country. Each being a target. .50 Cal BMG rifle can be bought by civilains with little or no background checks for as little as $1700 (with ammo for about $1 a round), this is a pretty big concern. 50 BMG will penetrate damn near anything and will have a nice range to boot. If you're bored (or if someone else is) figure out the kinetic energy that a 650 grain projectile has at 900m/s
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Yeah, they are "wallet raping" everyone with XP. And will contrinue to do so until longhorn comes out. MS is making a killing delaying their launch date for Longhorn. There isn't any incentive for them to do otherwise.
They have realized "hey, there really isn't any serious competition, so we really don't need to improve our products with the exception of patches, etc." In the meantime, they collect their fees for almost every computer sold through retail channels while paying almost nothing for programmers (or diverting their programmers to different groups)
Also, realistically, the people who know how to pirate their software and bypass the activation will still do it if XP is $50, if not out of habit, then just to "stick it to the man". That said, I agree with you that the current retail price for XP is vulgar.
MS is making tons of money off OEMs (dell and the like), and will continue to do so for the forseeable future.
On a side note, I don't think XP is that unstable, it is still shitty driver manufacturers (ATI) that cause a lot of stability problems. Hardware has a bit to do with it too, I think bad ram is becoming more common as we see chips drop in price and capacities increase.
Security holes are a different matter, although anyone running a box without a firewall enabled (*nix or windows) or a router between them and the net is a damn fool.
That said, it will take a destructive virus (i.e. wipe all data and flash the bios) to make the average joe aware of security, which will really put the fire under MS's ass.
I'm sure it will happen in the next year or two given the fucking script kiddies we have now.
Although it will piss a whole bunch of people off (especially the oems who will have to pull millions of bios chips (or boards if the chips can't be replaced) out of their ass) it will be a _very_ chaotic month and something like this should tighten security up quite a bit and drive hardware / software (AV / firewall) sales.
oh. But wait.
There are no other cable ISPs in my area and the DSL company just doesn't feel like expanding the DSLAM because it is full.
If you want high speed access, especially in cable only areas, you don't really have any other ISP's to switch to.