Or "usual" missions. Ask any 18-wheeler driver if they use a "piss jug"! When you are stuck in traffic, or have valuable cargo, or don't want to stop in a bad neighborhood, a plastic jug solves problems nicely.
Since 9/11, the loss of an aircraft and all souls onboard is seen as an acceptable alternative to the same loss plus the hijackers target of choice. That means a system that will prevent hijacker control of an aircraft is coupled with the public perception that the aircraft can be written off if necessary. Hijacker control by threatening passengers is forfeited when that threat is insufficient to compel complaince with their wishes. Sensible enough. We can afford to lose people and airplanes (we lose over 40,000 lives in car crashes in the US alone each year) but we can less afford the social and economic disruption of another WTC or Pentagon crash.
Prosecute the attackers for aggravated (the filming being specified grounds) assault. Prosecute those filming it as accessories to the assault. Posession of camera gear in that context proves conspiracy, so nail all concerned as co-conspirators.
That's a useful idea, particularly because the live CD could also hold Windows (for buyers who already have a legal OS) drivers. It could boot to Memtest, boot to Linux (a Dell-themed Knoppix variant?), hard drive diagnostic utilities, etc. There are plenty of multiboot live CDs on the net for examples.
The Linux community may say that, but what use is preinstalled Linux to a Linux user? By the time you are able to use Linux, you've surmounted the (many) inconvenient barriers to entry, already know how to install it to your preferences, and know how to pick hardware. Entry-level users need massive handholding, something that does not make sense for Dell to offer. Instead, just ask for the FreeDOS option. Your box will boot to "something" for test purposes, then you can nuke it and load your OS of choice.
"Catching and neutralizing them...after the fact?"
That does not exclude catching and neutralizing them before the fact, but catching them all that way is unlikely. Catching some after the fact can lead to catching others before the fact.
If this were simple we'd already have NeoCon peace on earth.
"No matter how hard you try, you simply cannot stop people from wreaking havoc unless they decide they don't want to, period."
You can, however, stop the same ones from wreaking havoc twice.
"Stopping the terrorists before they detonated the bomb in the first place. It can be done. Without violating people's civil rights. But we don't want to spend time or money on human intelligence because that takes effort. "
It's not a binary choice between methods and there are no guaranteed outcomes. Humint can pay off, but against a closed organization or group infiltration can be impossible or impractical. The organization may operate in a friendly environment where locals will not willingly cooperate against them.
Fighters can adopt a cell-based org structure that limits infiltration, or go further and simply broadcast the message and techniques for violent action hoping to reach their core audience. This is already happening.
"Wow, that would be cool -- a bomb goes off somewhere and all the FBI has to do is rewind the tape to find out where the car came from that had the bomb. Ha! That'll show those terrorists!"
It isn't about SHOWING them anything, it's about catching and neutralizing them. Deterrence no workee when the opponent does not choose to be deterred.
"Yes I would like to be able to build a laptop like I build a desktop."
Desktops mostly use cases and mobos with standard form-factors. It is not the tradition to build modular, easily upgradeable laptops and probably never will be. The quicker an expensive laptop is obsolete the quicker manufacturers can sell a new one. Old lappies go beyond economical repair very easily unless one has a stash of organ donor machines. They are a disposable item.
"For example, after a car bomb detonates, one would have the ability to play high-resolution data backward in time to follows the vehicle back to the source, and then use that knowledge to focus collection and gain additional information by organizing and searching through archived data."
No more "Hooveristic" than a camera at the local Quickie Mart. An action is filmed, the data trail is followed backwards until something useful is found.
"We all know that people are unpredictable. You can't apply scientific rationale to people."
This is not about predicting them, it is about recording what is done in public space and using it to trace activities back to source.
"Do you really need the shit they produce? No you dont NEED it."
The only way for the weak ("us") to beat the strong is to leverage their own responses against them. Their reflex reaction to distribution they do not like is more and more onerous restriction. I welcome this. The few people who break their DRM will provoke even more obnoxious DRM. DRM does not generally restrict anything I care about, so making it less convenient to obtain things I wouldn't obtain in the first place bothers me not.
Another benefit for geeks is that the more complicated these schemes make it for users, the more demand there is for our labor.
There can be balance. It's difficult to do, but a good teacher can instill a joy in learning, create inspiring assignments that aren't "memorize and regurgitate", and instill a healthy competitive drive as opposed to assholery. Americans often forget that sportsmanship and ethics can be taught as part of teaching competition, which is what a GOOD athletic coach demands of his players.
Wait, come back! I'd like to hear from whoever modded this "Flamebait" which part of the joke they didn't get. I don't care about the moderation, but WTF?
One way to get paid and get $$ for college is to join the Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve, Coast Guard, or any of the other military options that do not involve going to the sandbox/going to the sandbox with any real risk of experiencing anything icky.
Avoid the Army and Marines for obvious reasons. They actually do military stuff including physical labor. Screw that.
Active duty blows in terms of getting a degree (unless you have a career field with stable hours) but the Air Guard and Reserve weenies are contented and stay in a long time for good reason. Many of their jobs amount to a part-time Civil Service position in uniform, and time served is often credited towards government service. Government benefits rock, many government employees are near retirement, and if you can slide into a government career you can make out like the proverbial fat rat. Guard and Rseseve folks hold local jobs and are in useful human networks.
Any Guard or Reserve unit you are considering will be happy to talk with you direct (it filters out folks who won't fit and you'll get an idea of the local atmosphere) and THEN go see a recruiter after you already know all the answers.
"man this guy is great, whish that we could have another INTELLIGENT guy to provide us with a cheap way to make our electricity like our own personal wind generator"
Plenty of folks with proven wind generator designs are as far away as a quick Google search. If you need a basic machine tool to make any of the bits, check out the multimachine Yahoo group. There are plenty of hardware geeks out there, some of the more impressive can be found on Farm Show magazine.
"I was getting tired of all the fear-mongering with regard to China."
The copper reclaimed from the circuit boards is being machined into shaped charge projectiles by the Sino-Jihadist Internationale, a shadowy Islamo-Maoist group. Just when we thought the Yellow Peril had receded, it reappears in a slightly browner incarnation.
"Everyday Joe" does not want Linux, and if he tries it he will reject it because it does not run Windows software, which is the "Everyday Joe" purpose for a computer. When Joes EMPLOYER runs Linux is when he'll be interested. Everyday Joe does not need Linux, and if we want to avoid a backlash we won't offer it to him except on appliances where he won't fsck with it.
Incarceration is an answer, but there is no single answer. There is no way to make people behave if they don't wish to, but we can lock them up and keep them in the slammer longer. The UK prison system is a walk in the park compared to the US.
Combine UK surveillance with the harshest US punishment and incarceration rates, and make every prison look like Parchman. Prison should crush prisoners and utterly break their will because they are bad humans who have nullified their value to society. They can be an example to others of the consequences of crime. Take the fight to the enemy and smash them. It isn't PC to say this, but punks only undestand force.
Unless Bad Things happen to criminals, there is no reason not to be one.
"Gun laws (as Americans will say, right to bear arms etc) are not the answer."
Personal armament has been an answer for the MANY people who have used them in self defense, often without firing a shot. My wife is among them. A deterred, wounded, or dead perp is no loss. An injured, robbed, or raped innocent citizen is.
"Real people" are often dumber than the proverbial box of hammers. I'd rather have cameras watching me any day so I can potentially use the footage (possibly along with other footage) to prove my innocence should any questions arise. Ubiquitous private and public cameras mean the death of privacy, so I want as level a playing field as possible.
I live in a quaint little rural town. Given the choice between Bubbas eyewitness testimony or video footage, I'd feel much more comfortable going to court with pictures of truth.
I'll have to plug into an inverter/battery setup (got those) and get off my arse to setup a pedal-operated alternator (have parts) to charge 'em with.
Shipping containers are usually easy to find, especially when you are near the coast. They are SWEET structures, and cheaper by far then the conventional equivalent. I lubs me watertight, comfortable, vermin-proof workspace. Adding power is easy. Use a bimetal holesaw and an electric drill to cut conduit holes, and use heavily galvanized hardware or stainless (if you have big bucks or a good scrounge) hardware to bolt it up. I through-bolt using anti-seize/Nolox and RTV building sealant to caulk seams. paint the roof aluminum or if you can, grab some glass microspheres to mix in the paint.
I found mine by Googling (Transsales in Sumter, SC). The 40 foot High Cube are the nicest, but there are a variety from 20' up. I can go on at length about getting, unloading, setting, and configuring them so shoot me an email at logisticslist61ATyahooDOTcom with ISO Container in the subject line. I'd be happy to be of help.
Your response makes sense, but let's not forget that most people are ignorant, uneducated, stupid, or combinations thereof.
Instead of trying to change these folks, it would perhaps be more effective to manipulate them so they perceive they get what they want (for example, broadcast TV directed at the lowest common denominator) while we move to segregated, freer, better media. Some fear-freak housewife should be able to watch Lifetime TV 24/7, and never see anything else if that is what she wants. I don't go there so I don't care.
"If an EMP blast ever hit our nation, the people that can write without spell check, compose without an electronic thesaurus, do math without calculators, and research without the internet would become gods of society."
AssUming EMP gives a 100% mort rate on all our toys, including the computers I have stored (not plugged in) in a grounded 40ft steel shipping container. (I'm not a survivalist, I just like cheap, dry, gasketed shop space.)
I'm a US citizen, and I'm delighted that Canada is more tightly controlling access.
Canada belongs to CANADIANS. Visitors should either be fine with that or stay the fek out. Don't like being excluded for a criminal record? Don't choose to commit crimes.
"You want your citizens to have freeer access to Canada? Sure. What's in it for us?"
Access is a great privilege, not a right. If it hurts the feelings of a few tourists, so what? Good to see Canada asserting itself.
High sentences for non-violent crimes fill our prisons with people who DISPLACE violent offenders back on to the street. Creating a revolving door justice system by overfill isn't the most brilliant crimefighting strategy.
That's not bad idea. When cameras and storage become trivially cheap, taking pics of what you see could protect you and prove guilt if someone cuts you off and you hit them.
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Or "usual" missions.
Ask any 18-wheeler driver if they use a "piss jug"! When you are stuck in traffic, or have valuable cargo, or don't want to stop in a bad neighborhood, a plastic jug solves problems nicely.
Connection to the perpetrators would also have to be proven, by witnesses, evidence, or other standard methods. That's what courts are for.
Since 9/11, the loss of an aircraft and all souls onboard is seen as an acceptable alternative to the same loss plus the hijackers target of choice.
That means a system that will prevent hijacker control of an aircraft is coupled with the public perception that the aircraft can be written off if necessary. Hijacker control by threatening passengers is forfeited when that threat is insufficient to compel complaince with their wishes.
Sensible enough. We can afford to lose people and airplanes (we lose over 40,000 lives in car crashes in the US alone each year) but we can less afford the social and economic disruption of another WTC or Pentagon crash.
They don't need to do it at all.
Prosecute the attackers for aggravated (the filming being specified grounds) assault.
Prosecute those filming it as accessories to the assault.
Posession of camera gear in that context proves conspiracy, so nail all concerned as co-conspirators.
That's a useful idea, particularly because the live CD could also hold Windows (for buyers who already have a legal OS) drivers.
It could boot to Memtest, boot to Linux (a Dell-themed Knoppix variant?), hard drive diagnostic utilities, etc. There are plenty of multiboot live CDs on the net for examples.
The Linux community may say that, but what use is preinstalled Linux to a Linux user?
By the time you are able to use Linux, you've surmounted the (many) inconvenient barriers to entry, already know how to install it to your preferences, and know how to pick hardware.
Entry-level users need massive handholding, something that does not make sense for Dell to offer.
Instead, just ask for the FreeDOS option. Your box will boot to "something" for test purposes, then you can nuke it and load your OS of choice.
"Catching and neutralizing them...after the fact?"
That does not exclude catching and neutralizing them before the fact, but catching them all that way is unlikely. Catching some after the fact can lead to catching others before the fact.
If this were simple we'd already have NeoCon peace on earth.
"No matter how hard you try, you simply cannot stop people from wreaking havoc unless they decide they don't want to, period."
You can, however, stop the same ones from wreaking havoc twice.
"Stopping the terrorists before they detonated the bomb in the first place. It can be done. Without violating people's civil rights. But we don't want to spend time or money on human intelligence because that takes effort. "
It's not a binary choice between methods and there are no guaranteed outcomes.
Humint can pay off, but against a closed organization or group infiltration can be impossible or impractical. The organization may operate in a friendly environment where locals will not willingly cooperate against them.
Fighters can adopt a cell-based org structure that limits infiltration, or go further and simply broadcast the message and techniques for violent action hoping to reach their core audience. This is already happening.
"Wow, that would be cool -- a bomb goes off somewhere and all the FBI has to do is rewind the tape to find out where the car came from that had the bomb. Ha! That'll show those terrorists!"
It isn't about SHOWING them anything, it's about catching and neutralizing them. Deterrence no workee when the opponent does not choose to be deterred.
"Yes I would like to be able to build a laptop like I build a desktop."
Desktops mostly use cases and mobos with standard form-factors.
It is not the tradition to build modular, easily upgradeable laptops and probably never will be. The quicker an expensive laptop is obsolete the quicker manufacturers can sell a new one. Old lappies go beyond economical repair very easily unless one has a stash of organ donor machines. They are a disposable item.
"For example, after a car bomb detonates, one would have the ability to play high-resolution data backward in time to follows the vehicle back to the source, and then use that knowledge to focus collection and gain additional information by organizing and searching through archived data."
No more "Hooveristic" than a camera at the local Quickie Mart. An action is filmed, the data trail is followed backwards until something useful is found.
"We all know that people are unpredictable. You can't apply scientific rationale to people."
This is not about predicting them, it is about recording what is done in public space and using it to trace activities back to source.
"Do you really need the shit they produce? No you dont NEED it."
The only way for the weak ("us") to beat the strong is to leverage their own responses against them. Their reflex reaction to distribution they do not like is more and more onerous restriction.
I welcome this. The few people who break their DRM will provoke even more obnoxious DRM. DRM does not generally restrict anything I care about, so making it less convenient to obtain things I wouldn't obtain in the first place bothers me not.
Another benefit for geeks is that the more complicated these schemes make it for users, the more demand there is for our labor.
There can be balance. It's difficult to do, but a good teacher can instill a joy in learning, create inspiring assignments that aren't "memorize and regurgitate", and instill a healthy competitive drive as opposed to assholery. Americans often forget that sportsmanship and ethics can be taught as part of teaching competition, which is what a GOOD athletic coach demands of his players.
Wait, come back! I'd like to hear from whoever modded this "Flamebait" which part of the joke they didn't get. I don't care about the moderation, but WTF?
One way to get paid and get $$ for college is to join the Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve, Coast Guard, or any of the other military options that do not involve going to the sandbox/going to the sandbox with any real risk of experiencing anything icky.
Avoid the Army and Marines for obvious reasons. They actually do military stuff including physical labor. Screw that.
Active duty blows in terms of getting a degree (unless you have a career field with stable hours) but the Air Guard and Reserve weenies are contented and stay in a long time for good reason. Many of their jobs amount to a part-time Civil Service position in uniform, and time served is often credited towards government service. Government benefits rock, many government employees are near retirement, and if you can slide into a government career you can make out like the proverbial fat rat. Guard and Rseseve folks hold local jobs and are in useful human networks.
Any Guard or Reserve unit you are considering will be happy to talk with you direct (it filters out folks who won't fit and you'll get an idea of the local atmosphere) and THEN go see a recruiter after you already know all the answers.
"man this guy is great, whish that we could have another INTELLIGENT guy to provide us with a cheap way to make our electricity like our own personal wind generator"
Plenty of folks with proven wind generator designs are as far away as a quick Google search. If you need a basic machine tool to make any of the bits, check out the multimachine Yahoo group. There are plenty of hardware geeks out there, some of the more impressive can be found on Farm Show magazine.
"I was getting tired of all the fear-mongering with regard to China."
The copper reclaimed from the circuit boards is being machined into shaped charge projectiles by the Sino-Jihadist Internationale, a shadowy Islamo-Maoist group. Just when we thought the Yellow Peril had receded, it reappears in a slightly browner incarnation.
"Everyday Joe" does not want Linux, and if he tries it he will reject it because it does not run Windows software, which is the "Everyday Joe" purpose for a computer.
When Joes EMPLOYER runs Linux is when he'll be interested. Everyday Joe does not need Linux, and if we want to avoid a backlash we won't offer it to him except on appliances where he won't fsck with it.
Incarceration is an answer, but there is no single answer. There is no way to make people behave if they don't wish to, but we can lock them up and keep them in the slammer longer. The UK prison system is a walk in the park compared to the US.
Combine UK surveillance with the harshest US punishment and incarceration rates, and make every prison look like Parchman.
Prison should crush prisoners and utterly break their will because they are bad humans who have nullified their value to society. They can be an example to others of the consequences of crime. Take the fight to the enemy and smash them. It isn't PC to say this, but punks only undestand force.
Unless Bad Things happen to criminals, there is no reason not to be one.
"Gun laws (as Americans will say, right to bear arms etc) are not the answer."
Personal armament has been an answer for the MANY people who have used them in self defense, often without firing a shot. My wife is among them.
A deterred, wounded, or dead perp is no loss. An injured, robbed, or raped innocent citizen is.
"Real people" are often dumber than the proverbial box of hammers.
I'd rather have cameras watching me any day so I can potentially use the footage (possibly along with other footage) to prove my innocence should any questions arise.
Ubiquitous private and public cameras mean the death of privacy, so I want as level a playing field as possible.
I live in a quaint little rural town. Given the choice between Bubbas eyewitness testimony or video footage, I'd feel much more comfortable going to court with pictures of truth.
I'll have to plug into an inverter/battery setup (got those) and get off my arse to setup a pedal-operated alternator (have parts) to charge 'em with.
Shipping containers are usually easy to find, especially when you are near the coast. They are SWEET structures, and cheaper by far then the conventional equivalent. I lubs me watertight, comfortable, vermin-proof workspace. Adding power is easy. Use a bimetal holesaw and an electric drill to cut conduit holes, and use heavily galvanized hardware or stainless (if you have big bucks or a good scrounge) hardware to bolt it up. I through-bolt using anti-seize/Nolox and RTV building sealant to caulk seams. paint the roof aluminum or if you can, grab some glass microspheres to mix in the paint.
I found mine by Googling (Transsales in Sumter, SC). The 40 foot High Cube are the nicest, but there are a variety from 20' up.
I can go on at length about getting, unloading, setting, and configuring them so shoot me an email at logisticslist61ATyahooDOTcom with ISO Container in the subject line. I'd be happy to be of help.
Linky with interesting info: http://www.seabox.com/
Your response makes sense, but let's not forget that most people are ignorant, uneducated, stupid, or combinations thereof.
Instead of trying to change these folks, it would perhaps be more effective to manipulate them so they perceive they get what they want (for example, broadcast TV directed at the lowest common denominator) while we move to segregated, freer, better media. Some fear-freak housewife should be able to watch Lifetime TV 24/7, and never see anything else if that is what she wants. I don't go there so I don't care.
"If an EMP blast ever hit our nation, the people that can write without spell check, compose without an electronic thesaurus, do math without calculators, and research without the internet would become gods of society."
AssUming EMP gives a 100% mort rate on all our toys, including the computers I have stored (not plugged in) in a grounded 40ft steel shipping container. (I'm not a survivalist, I just like cheap, dry, gasketed shop space.)
Maybe it's time for an "Ask Slashdot" on EMP...
I'm a US citizen, and I'm delighted that Canada is more tightly controlling access.
Canada belongs to CANADIANS. Visitors should either be fine with that or stay the fek out.
Don't like being excluded for a criminal record? Don't choose to commit crimes.
"You want your citizens to have freeer access to Canada? Sure. What's in it for us?"
Access is a great privilege, not a right. If it hurts the feelings of a few tourists, so what? Good to see Canada asserting itself.
High sentences for non-violent crimes fill our prisons with people who DISPLACE violent offenders back on to the street. Creating a revolving door justice system by overfill isn't the most brilliant crimefighting strategy.
That's not bad idea. When cameras and storage become trivially cheap, taking pics of what you see could protect you and prove guilt if someone cuts you off and you hit them.