Here is the start of the corruption and favoritism - The Port Authority will occupy 1/3 of the building!
It's only fitting. The twin towers were almost as much of a debacle. The idea to make them the world's tallest buildings was a PR move, and made for cost overruns and delays.
But the port authority occupying 1/3rd of the building isn't favoritism. The PA was one of the building's major tenants from the beginning. The buildings created far more office space than was needed (there were acres of unused space in the buildings into the 80's), so the Port Authority took up the slack.
From a Sim Tower / land usage / cold hearted bastard stand point, a smaller building on that site makes more sense. I don't know what the usage by floor was on those buildings, but I bet there was a lot of (no pun intended) "Dead space."
Despite what the realators might say, there's a ton of office space available in New York. The Freedom tower will never be "full". The Twin Towers were never "full." Hell, I think the Empire state building is only 45% full, if that.
The French have a reputation of being as petty, pissy and obnoixious as the U.S. That's probably part of the source of the animosity between the two cultures. We're too much alike and won't admit it.
As an American, I'd rather see the reactor built in Japan. There's a laundry list of reasons (the French seem to handle internation opinion & criticism about as well as we do), but if it makes you Euro's feel warm, fuzzy, and supieror, then fine;
"I don't want them thar frechies building nuthin' cause they didn't support the war. Damn Frogs. God Bless America! Power of Pride! Never Forget!"
Have I reinforced the stereotypes enough? Or should I post a link to pictures of my pickup truck?
The U.S. could get the whole planet laid, and they'd still complain. If we supported the French Project we'd be unjustly shutting out Japan of an economic opportunity.
Somehow I don't think they can crack them that quickly, can they? Don't they need a decent sampling of packets?
Airsnort used to need about 100meg worth of data (not just SSID broadcast packets) to crack 128bit WEP. Sometimes it needed less, sometimes more. Either way they'd have had to do a little bit of circling to get that much data:)
They'd have had a little more fun had they used Kismet. Then they've have picked up some of the AP's that weren't broadcasting SSID's (kismet works in promiscuous (sp) mode, while Netstumbler is very chatty) and would have gotten a better idea of how many AP's were set to their factory defaults.
If this is true (and legal) I would think this would definately apply to your SSN. Especially since it's unique, you could easily register it as original. This would make it easy to collect damages and assign a value to it as your SSN should only be used by the people you give it to.
You cannot file a copyright or trade mark on a number, per se.
Lets look a Nascar Legend and merchandising powerhouse Dale Earnhardt. He (well, his company, DEI) does not hold a copyright on the number 3. instead they happen to hold a copyright on a number 3 that is in that particular style.
Otherwise, what's keeping me from filing a copyright on all integers and decimals and suing the entire western world?
Wow, he's called "steve-o" ? The marketing / PR folks screwed the pooch a bit there.
Nothing like having one of your two most recognizable corporate officers sharing a name with a guy who's known for stapling his ball sack to his leg. The other Steve-o
I'm either troll biting or being redundant here but.....
The counterfiters aren't winning. Xerox and Canon are. In the 30 years you mentioned, high quality currency reproduction was expensive and difficult. Now for 200 bucks at office depot I can crank out currency that would pass at most 7-11's.
For once those in charge are actually trying to stay ahead of the game. They made an initial series of changes, kept what works well (water marking for example, and super small text) and have translated that into a more effective product. A 'complaint' about US currency, at least from collectors, is that there's a lack of variety. The Treasury has acknowledged that, and since it's also a great way to keep counterfiters on their toes, they've changed their SOP. We won't got 50 years without changing bills again.
There's nothing hush hush about it, Art Bell. Counterfiting has been going on since the dawn of currency. This won't stop it, it'll just make it another notch harder.
Vending machines are the reason why they started with the higher denomenations. Most machines don't take anything higher than a five. It'll be a few years before they get down to the lower bills.
Joint sales would have been a moot point. If clearchannel can own 10,000 stations, there's no need for them to to sneak around rules limiting them to a few hundred.
I'm hoping a real solution is proposed in this bill's place.
The internet. Providing access to the ideas of ignorant fucks since 1969. Over 99 billion ignorant ideas served, laughed at, ridiculed, and shat into oblivion.
You won't find this story. Strangely, it will have been replaced with a speech commemorating a fallen soldier named comrade Ogilvy.
(translation for those who haven't read 1984: Prove the RIAA actually sued a 12-year old girl, and that this story isn't a careful fabrication designed to spark fear amongst those who are downloading)
In some cities, the standard "Toynbee tile" is accompanied by smaller adjacent tiles that express sentiments such as:
Submit. Obey.
Could this be an attempt to link into the Obey phenomenon? Sure, the tiles started in the 80's, but perhaps a new breed of social engineers are trying to plug us into the idea of examining our surroundings?
Or maybe some folks think that graffetti doesn't have to be a bad spray job that says "dave love's jessica" or "metallica rules!"
My old ISP put their "setup" on a CD for ease of installation. just simple scripts that created detected the modem, configured DNS, and (here's the relevant part) set the IE homepage to www.isp.com.
Bulk out a CD with the nessicary information and distribute them to the dorms. As part of the setup, point IE or netscape to someplace like http://housecall.trendmicro.com, or set up your own remote AV scanner. Make a completed scan part of the setup. If a machine doesn't do a complete scan, it doesn't get network access.
I picked up my nokia 6150 yesterday after leaving it on the charger over night. By morning (on from 12am to 6:30am) it was too hot to touch, and now it won't turn on.
It's been charged longer with no ill effects, and it's using the original Nokia battery.
Yeah, like key servers for network delivered software, or at least software that goes looking for a license via the network. Stuff that the admin creates and runs.
This isn't in the same ballpark, and is barely the same sport. We're talking about software that's being installed, in a way that isn't entirely obvious to the end user or admin (I'm sure it's mentioned somewhere around page 75 of the EULA).
It's underhanded, sneaky, and another example of companies skirting requirements that the government couldn't (well, shouldn't) dream of. Skipping a search warrent altogether, no need for probable cause to create the warrent in the first place. (save the patriot act discussion, we've all heard it ad naseum and likely agree)
What's worse is, this sort of thing is going unchallenged and will eventually be looked at as common place if it isn't cut off now. Piracy sucks, especially when you're a nickle and dime operation that's trying to get by without being bought out by a company that's run by fucktards who'll run you into the ground, ruin your name, then fire you because of their mistakes (cough *EA* cough). But invading my privacy and/or treating me like a criminal even if I'm not is bullshit.
The question, abstracted all to hell, is whether or not we've got the right to commit a crime, or if...(this isn't the right wording, but close enough)..the intent to commit a crime is a crime?
So, have any theaters annouced plans to run reloaded and revolutions back to back? I've never been to a double feature, and this seems like a good place to start.
And no, I haven't seen reloaded yet. There was too much hype, I'd have left the theater disappointed.
Auto updates don't have to suck. For instance, take a sample of your users, say the three or four that actually have a clue, and can survive should their PC be down for 30 minutes (hint: office assistants. Managers who like to feel special) while you re-image it. Set their machines to download and install the updates automatically, once a week. Let them know that if they see anything out of the ordinary, call you on the spot. The rest of the flock updates once a month.
Now you've got a control group to test updates on. If MS manages to drop the ball and release a huge failure of a patch (not all mickeysoft patches are failures), you haven't lost your entire system. In a perfect world, bad patches don't get released, but the world's not perfect and *all* operating systems need to be patched.
Another option. You've got three different settings for auto updates. Notify before download and notify before install, Download automatically and notify when they're ready to be installed, and Auto download, auto install. Set your boxes to download/notify and don't install until you know the patch to be safe. I will grant you that Auto/auto can be suicide in a production environment.
Bitching because microsoft makes 2nd rate software is a fine avocation. Bitching because you have to support their crap software is the slashdot equivilent of the national past time. But bitching because you're too lazy to make an effort? Try lighting a candle for once instead of just cursing the darkness.
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Here is the start of the corruption and favoritism - The Port Authority will occupy 1/3 of the building!
It's only fitting. The twin towers were almost as much of a debacle. The idea to make them the world's tallest buildings was a PR move, and made for cost overruns and delays.
But the port authority occupying 1/3rd of the building isn't favoritism. The PA was one of the building's major tenants from the beginning. The buildings created far more office space than was needed (there were acres of unused space in the buildings into the 80's), so the Port Authority took up the slack.
From a Sim Tower / land usage / cold hearted bastard stand point, a smaller building on that site makes more sense. I don't know what the usage by floor was on those buildings, but I bet there was a lot of (no pun intended) "Dead space."
Despite what the realators might say, there's a ton of office space available in New York. The Freedom tower will never be "full". The Twin Towers were never "full." Hell, I think the Empire state building is only 45% full, if that.
Pork, the other government meat.
The French have a reputation of being as petty, pissy and obnoixious as the U.S. That's probably part of the source of the animosity between the two cultures. We're too much alike and won't admit it.
As an American, I'd rather see the reactor built in Japan. There's a laundry list of reasons (the French seem to handle internation opinion & criticism about as well as we do), but if it makes you Euro's feel warm, fuzzy, and supieror, then fine;
"I don't want them thar frechies building nuthin' cause they didn't support the war. Damn Frogs. God Bless America! Power of Pride! Never Forget!"
Have I reinforced the stereotypes enough? Or should I post a link to pictures of my pickup truck?
The U.S. could get the whole planet laid, and they'd still complain. If we supported the French Project we'd be unjustly shutting out Japan of an economic opportunity.
roses are red, and ready for plucking,
you're sixteen, and ready for high school.
Somehow I don't think they can crack them that quickly, can they? Don't they need a decent sampling of packets?
:)
Airsnort used to need about 100meg worth of data (not just SSID broadcast packets) to crack 128bit WEP. Sometimes it needed less, sometimes more. Either way they'd have had to do a little bit of circling to get that much data
They'd have had a little more fun had they used Kismet. Then they've have picked up some of the AP's that weren't broadcasting SSID's (kismet works in promiscuous (sp) mode, while Netstumbler is very chatty) and would have gotten a better idea of how many AP's were set to their factory defaults.
It's the same feeling I had a few months ago when the batch of RPC vulnerabilities was annouced.
At least I'm coming up on a nice long holidy for christmas. Fixing the soon-to-be-'sploited machines won't be a concern until after the new year.
/.'d
If this is true (and legal) I would think this would definately apply to your SSN. Especially since it's unique, you could easily register it as original. This would make it easy to collect damages and assign a value to it as your SSN should only be used by the people you give it to.
You cannot file a copyright or trade mark on a number, per se.
Lets look a Nascar Legend and merchandising powerhouse Dale Earnhardt. He (well, his company, DEI) does not hold a copyright on the number 3. instead they happen to hold a copyright on a number 3 that is in that particular style.
Otherwise, what's keeping me from filing a copyright on all integers and decimals and suing the entire western world?
Thank God for appeals and continuances. I'd just die if Slashdot stopped running their thrice daily SCO updates.
Wow, he's called "steve-o" ? The marketing / PR folks screwed the pooch a bit there.
Nothing like having one of your two most recognizable corporate officers sharing a name with a guy who's known for stapling his ball sack to his leg.
The other Steve-o
RTFA
the site started on a P-90. It's now running on a couple of boxes.
I'm either troll biting or being redundant here but.....
The counterfiters aren't winning. Xerox and Canon are. In the 30 years you mentioned, high quality currency reproduction was expensive and difficult. Now for 200 bucks at office depot I can crank out currency that would pass at most 7-11's.
For once those in charge are actually trying to stay ahead of the game. They made an initial series of changes, kept what works well (water marking for example, and super small text) and have translated that into a more effective product. A 'complaint' about US currency, at least from collectors, is that there's a lack of variety. The Treasury has acknowledged that, and since it's also a great way to keep counterfiters on their toes, they've changed their SOP. We won't got 50 years without changing bills again.
There's nothing hush hush about it, Art Bell. Counterfiting has been going on since the dawn of currency. This won't stop it, it'll just make it another notch harder.
You've got vending machines that accept $20's?
Vending machines are the reason why they started with the higher denomenations. Most machines don't take anything higher than a five. It'll be a few years before they get down to the lower bills.
That's all very well, but what about vegetarians? Are we going to just let them starve to death?
They can go outside when the eye of the storm passes overhead and graze on what's left of the front yard.
On the other hand, wouldn't the FBI be looking hard at him now that has built something like this?
Why?
Joint sales would have been a moot point. If clearchannel can own 10,000 stations, there's no need for them to to sneak around rules limiting them to a few hundred.
I'm hoping a real solution is proposed in this bill's place.
The internet. Providing access to the ideas of ignorant fucks since 1969. Over 99 billion ignorant ideas served, laughed at, ridiculed, and shat into oblivion.
You won't find this story. Strangely, it will have been replaced with a speech commemorating a fallen soldier named comrade Ogilvy.
(translation for those who haven't read 1984: Prove the RIAA actually sued a 12-year old girl, and that this story isn't a careful fabrication designed to spark fear amongst those who are downloading)
Funny, you expect a Score: -1, troll, you get a Score: 5, interesting. Some days are like that.
They aren't related. But i found it odd that there was an Obey message attached to some of the tiles.
In some cities, the standard "Toynbee tile" is accompanied by smaller adjacent tiles that express sentiments such as:
Submit. Obey.
Could this be an attempt to link into the Obey phenomenon? Sure, the tiles started in the 80's, but perhaps a new breed of social engineers are trying to plug us into the idea of examining our surroundings?
Or maybe some folks think that graffetti doesn't have to be a bad spray job that says "dave love's jessica" or "metallica rules!"
My old ISP put their "setup" on a CD for ease of installation. just simple scripts that created detected the modem, configured DNS, and (here's the relevant part) set the IE homepage to www.isp.com.
Bulk out a CD with the nessicary information and distribute them to the dorms. As part of the setup, point IE or netscape to someplace like http://housecall.trendmicro.com, or set up your own remote AV scanner. Make a completed scan part of the setup. If a machine doesn't do a complete scan, it doesn't get network access.
I picked up my nokia 6150 yesterday after leaving it on the charger over night. By morning (on from 12am to 6:30am) it was too hot to touch, and now it won't turn on.
It's been charged longer with no ill effects, and it's using the original Nokia battery.
Yeah, like key servers for network delivered software, or at least software that goes looking for a license via the network. Stuff that the admin creates and runs.
This isn't in the same ballpark, and is barely the same sport. We're talking about software that's being installed, in a way that isn't entirely obvious to the end user or admin (I'm sure it's mentioned somewhere around page 75 of the EULA).
It's underhanded, sneaky, and another example of companies skirting requirements that the government couldn't (well, shouldn't) dream of. Skipping a search warrent altogether, no need for probable cause to create the warrent in the first place. (save the patriot act discussion, we've all heard it ad naseum and likely agree)
What's worse is, this sort of thing is going unchallenged and will eventually be looked at as common place if it isn't cut off now. Piracy sucks, especially when you're a nickle and dime operation that's trying to get by without being bought out by a company that's run by fucktards who'll run you into the ground, ruin your name, then fire you because of their mistakes (cough *EA* cough). But invading my privacy and/or treating me like a criminal even if I'm not is bullshit.
The question, abstracted all to hell, is whether or not we've got the right to commit a crime, or if...(this isn't the right wording, but close enough)..the intent to commit a crime is a crime?
So, have any theaters annouced plans to run reloaded and revolutions back to back? I've never been to a double feature, and this seems like a good place to start.
And no, I haven't seen reloaded yet. There was too much hype, I'd have left the theater disappointed.
Auto updates don't have to suck. For instance, take a sample of your users, say the three or four that actually have a clue, and can survive should their PC be down for 30 minutes (hint: office assistants. Managers who like to feel special) while you re-image it. Set their machines to download and install the updates automatically, once a week. Let them know that if they see anything out of the ordinary, call you on the spot. The rest of the flock updates once a month.
Now you've got a control group to test updates on. If MS manages to drop the ball and release a huge failure of a patch (not all mickeysoft patches are failures), you haven't lost your entire system. In a perfect world, bad patches don't get released, but the world's not perfect and *all* operating systems need to be patched.
Another option. You've got three different settings for auto updates. Notify before download and notify before install, Download automatically and notify when they're ready to be installed, and Auto download, auto install. Set your boxes to download/notify and don't install until you know the patch to be safe. I will grant you that Auto/auto can be suicide in a production environment.
Bitching because microsoft makes 2nd rate software is a fine avocation. Bitching because you have to support their crap software is the slashdot equivilent of the national past time. But bitching because you're too lazy to make an effort? Try lighting a candle for once instead of just cursing the darkness.