White-collar crimes like this are barely punished. Five years is a joke considering possible intelligence compromise from doctored gear.
Want to DETER white-collar criminals? Give them hard time in population where they must struggle to survive and cannot recover when they finally do get out. Destroy them as examples to others.
"It's stupid to be overly dependent on another nation."
For Germany and France to depend on each other is arguably useful, and better than going on holiday through each others turf with armies every few decades.
If you "know" they aren't "needed any more" than precisely which components (not vaporware, which make/model/part numbers!) should be fitted instead.
Precisely what does "1-2 motors directly to the wheels" actually MEAN? It's in no way self-explanatory. Shaft drive? Hub motors? You've taken into account unsprung weight and maintenance? You are a mechanic with experience or an engineer?
You are excused if English isn't your first language, otherwise you are babbling.
"I *RARELY* have to scratch out an OS install. If you have to do that 'on an regular basis' you are doing something wrong. As a scratch out rebuild takes 2-5 hours (depending on network). Plus all the time reinstalling all of your applications again."
I'm used to Ghosting my clean installs and saving images. No problem. Clonezilla works nicely too, and of course there's old-school dd. When I load a PC for someone else I either keep the clone or leave restore media inside the (desktop) case so I won't have to hunt it down. That makes a restore mostly "blue bar time" while I go do something else.
There are so many imaging and offline update solutions now that it's easy to find one to suit your needs.
I don't have to nuke my personal installs often, but most of those are snapshotted in Virtualbox (Ubuntu host) so that's REALLY painless! 8-P
I don't reload Vista. I consider it my duty to replace it with something less annoying.
That much thrashing indicates something is wrong and/or you have too little RAM. The first solution for any old Windows install is to nuke-and-pave (format and reinstall). It takes less time than troubleshooting. Update, add apps, and see if the behaviour recurs.
Hiding things in plain sight makes much more sense and is the most logical way to beat searches. This could be handy in totalitarian countries.
Don't put your NAS in a cupboard or closet. Those are obvious places to search. Put it in an appliance or other piece of electronic gear instead.
Stereo gear, VCRs, CRT monitors, kitchen appliances, smoke detectors, any place where an anonymous PC board could be hidden or even look quite natural if the equipment were opened. It is easy to secure electronic parts with modern adhesives. 3M 5200 Marine adhesive (rated for thru-hull fittings on boats) works fine. You can much more discreetly power equipment if it's inside powered equipment!
No one looks for a NAS in a motor vehicle. Unless the searcher is a mechanic and knows what to look for on a specific model vehicle, one could gut a computer or system module from another vehicle and even "blend in" a convincing wiring harness taped into the vehicles own.
Likewise, you could put a NAS in an audio amp housing and benefit from the integral heatsinks. If you are really into it, you could turn the system on and off with an ordinary car remote.
Young people (mostly) didn't know shit about tech back in The Day either, nor did many older folks.
Don't confuse the masses with techies. They have always been different. People were often able to fix shit which failed often (by playing swaptronics with tubes in the tube tester at the hardware store), but that was more necessity than anything else. If you didn't know how to troubleshoot a points ignition, you got to pay someone to un-fuck your car, lawn mower, etc, on a frequent basis.
There are plenty of young techies today too. I've met many of them in the Air Force and when I worked vo-tech. The SOCIAL aspect has moved to the internet, which I regard as a vast improvement.
"Wealthy capitalists pretty much spent the first half of the twentieth century indoctrinating every western culture they could into believing communism and socialism are capital-E Evil"
Bolsheviks meantime happily exploited the required preconditions of Communism to destroy their opponents (the required preconditions of Communism ensure benign Communism won't be implemented because those who want private property must be killed and the killers won't stop at the Capitalists when killing competing Communists is logical and useful!). Maoists ditto, plus the delectable fun-fest of the Cultural Revolution. Let's not forget the Khmer Rouge.
You cannot have Communism without exterminating Capitalism, transferring all power to the State, and that results in the extinction of personal freedom.
In no Communist society may one be a Capitalist. In a Capitalist society, one may personally practice Communism.
Communism isn't in the "best interest" of all participants. It is in the interest of those who consume the services of the motivated while doing the least possible themselves.
Such behavior is flawlessly logical, so it happens. "From each according to his abilities" logically turns into "from each as the State may squeeze". "To each according to his needs" logically turns into "to each according to his personal power and skills of acquisition".
You conveniently forget the parasite who simply leeches off the rest.
"Communism hasn't failed mankind, mankind has always failed Communism."
An ideology which blithely ignores human reality and human needs and human behaviors is literally not sane and mankind has no obligation to humor its proponents.
Anything which doesn't WORK in the REAL WORLD is shit.
"Marxism relies on people behaving like bees, which is fine for bees, it just doesn't work for people."
Marxism requires destroying people who don't want to behave like bees, requires taking any "honey" they might wish to have for themselves, and requires total ENFORCED social uniformity in order to function.
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I don't know that the gaming world is ready for realistic, historic, sometimes "evil" (whatever that means) and often logical killing of civilians.
Wiping out your opponents does work, which is among the reasons Stalin and Mao crushed their opponents and were victorious.
White-collar crimes like this are barely punished. Five years is a joke considering possible intelligence compromise from doctored gear.
Want to DETER white-collar criminals? Give them hard time in population where they must struggle to survive and cannot recover when they finally do get out. Destroy them as examples to others.
Always remember that law is not more or less than an arrangement of convenience for maintaining social order.
We choose which laws we obey based on the cost/benefit perception we have of the results.
Don't act as if law is sacred and that all law should be obeyed because it's "law".
"As a 49 yo grandmother, feminist and C programmer of 20+ years, i find this offensive."
Pics with timestamp plox?
"It's stupid to be overly dependent on another nation."
For Germany and France to depend on each other is arguably useful, and better than going on holiday through each others turf with armies every few decades.
Cable modems authenticate by MAC address hanging two off a coax splitter would be quite practical
What other power measuring equipment have you used to counteract their claims?
"The attractiveness of the opposite sex greatly increases by two to four beers."
Which begs the question of feeding THEM the beer or drinking it oneself.
Be not overfond of hearing aids. One key to long marriage is not to have to respond to everything. :)
"This will mean more and more hydrocarbons will have to be used to sustain the German economy."
The neighbors can alleviate that problem:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/readings/french.html
France isn't stopping nuclear power, and can sell plenty of same to Germany.
You can buy electricity from France and put off the reckoning.
If you "know" they aren't "needed any more" than precisely which components (not vaporware, which make/model/part numbers!) should be fitted instead.
Precisely what does "1-2 motors directly to the wheels" actually MEAN?
It's in no way self-explanatory. Shaft drive? Hub motors? You've taken into account unsprung weight and maintenance? You are a mechanic with experience or an engineer?
You are excused if English isn't your first language, otherwise you are babbling.
"I *RARELY* have to scratch out an OS install. If you have to do that 'on an regular basis' you are doing something wrong. As a scratch out rebuild takes 2-5 hours (depending on network). Plus all the time reinstalling all of your applications again."
I'm used to Ghosting my clean installs and saving images. No problem. Clonezilla works nicely too, and of course there's old-school dd. When I load a PC for someone else I either keep the clone or leave restore media inside the (desktop) case so I won't have to hunt it down. That makes a restore mostly "blue bar time" while I go do something else.
There are so many imaging and offline update solutions now that it's easy to find one to suit your needs.
I don't have to nuke my personal installs often, but most of those are snapshotted in Virtualbox (Ubuntu host) so that's REALLY painless! 8-P
I don't reload Vista. I consider it my duty to replace it with something less annoying.
That much thrashing indicates something is wrong and/or you have too little RAM.
The first solution for any old Windows install is to nuke-and-pave (format and reinstall). It takes less time than troubleshooting. Update, add apps, and see if the behaviour recurs.
Hiding things in plain sight makes much more sense and is the most logical way to beat searches. This could be handy in totalitarian countries.
Don't put your NAS in a cupboard or closet. Those are obvious places to search. Put it in an appliance or other piece of electronic gear instead.
Stereo gear, VCRs, CRT monitors, kitchen appliances, smoke detectors, any place where an anonymous PC board could be hidden or even look quite natural if the equipment were opened. It is easy to secure electronic parts with modern adhesives. 3M 5200 Marine adhesive (rated for thru-hull fittings on boats) works fine. You can much more discreetly power equipment if it's inside powered equipment!
No one looks for a NAS in a motor vehicle. Unless the searcher is a mechanic and knows what to look for on a specific model vehicle, one could gut a computer or system module from another vehicle and even "blend in" a convincing wiring harness taped into the vehicles own.
Likewise, you could put a NAS in an audio amp housing and benefit from the integral heatsinks. If you are really into it, you could turn the system on and off with an ordinary car remote.
Young people (mostly) didn't know shit about tech back in The Day either, nor did many older folks.
Don't confuse the masses with techies. They have always been different. People were often able to fix shit which failed often (by playing swaptronics with tubes in the tube tester at the hardware store), but that was more necessity than anything else. If you didn't know how to troubleshoot a points ignition, you got to pay someone to un-fuck your car, lawn mower, etc, on a frequent basis.
There are plenty of young techies today too. I've met many of them in the Air Force and when I worked vo-tech. The SOCIAL aspect has moved to the internet, which I regard as a vast improvement.
Check with a few Heathkit collector sites. Some repro paints are available on Ebay.
Me lubs Old School industrial paint colors....
Something along this line would be amusing:
http://www.enjoytherandom.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/2640789668_48a2a84ddf.jpg
Google the RICO Act. It's interesting stuff.
The wreck contained a missing prototype IPhone which was located and recovered by the Apple Security Scuba Team.
"Wealthy capitalists pretty much spent the first half of the twentieth century indoctrinating every western culture they could into believing communism and socialism are capital-E Evil"
Bolsheviks meantime happily exploited the required preconditions of Communism to destroy their opponents (the required preconditions of Communism ensure benign Communism won't be implemented because those who want private property must be killed and the killers won't stop at the Capitalists when killing competing Communists is logical and useful!). Maoists ditto, plus the delectable fun-fest of the Cultural Revolution. Let's not forget the Khmer Rouge.
You cannot have Communism without exterminating Capitalism, transferring all power to the State, and that results in the extinction of personal freedom.
In no Communist society may one be a Capitalist.
In a Capitalist society, one may personally practice Communism.
Communism isn't in the "best interest" of all participants. It is in the interest of those who consume the services of the motivated while doing the least possible themselves.
Such behavior is flawlessly logical, so it happens. "From each according to his abilities" logically turns into "from each as the State may squeeze". "To each according to his needs" logically turns into "to each according to his personal power and skills of acquisition".
You conveniently forget the parasite who simply leeches off the rest.
"Communism hasn't failed mankind, mankind has always failed Communism."
An ideology which blithely ignores human reality and human needs and human behaviors is literally not sane and mankind has no obligation to humor its proponents.
Anything which doesn't WORK in the REAL WORLD is shit.
"Marxism relies on people behaving like bees, which is fine for bees, it just doesn't work for people."
Marxism requires destroying people who don't want to behave like bees, requires taking any "honey" they might wish to have for themselves, and requires total ENFORCED social uniformity in order to function.