Latest news is: within 24 hours of getting custody of the phone, a Government Technician, without asking, and having no mandate, no permission, to do so, CHANGED the password!!!
That action just might have lost data that had not been uploaded to iCloud since 1-1/2 months BEFORE the massacre in the County "GUN FREE ZONE"!!!
Government again inserts foot into mouth, then shoots foot, hits brain!
My father, a Captain in the Air Force, was stationed at Sidi Slimane Air Base, Morocco, Africa, in 1953/1954. A Strategic Air Command base, the rules should have been much more strict, but...I rode my bicycle all over the Atlantic coast, at Media Plage, (French for White Beach). the French Algerian War was in full swing, the French Moroccan War was in the terror pre-war phase, with French Foreign Legion unitscamped in small tents, near our home.
I rode for miles, gone much of the day on Saturdays, Sundays, playing with kids who were Arabs, Beduin, French. None of us spoke the languages of the others...
When the two USAF MPs were 'accidently' murdered by the rebels, all the US military families were ordered to move into base housing, 30 miles away. New territoty for this 7 year old to explore, as I rode off base, right through the gates!
One Saturday, I was met an hour away from home, by a Sirocco, aka, Hurricane!
Cat 3 winds gusting to Cat 4, made me walk my bicycle, for about 15 miles, to arrive home very wet, but, happy!
Never stopped my adventures, and did a 20 year USAF career, serving in 15 nations, and, with millions of others, caused extreme anxiety for all America's enemies.
Now, I am olderthan most of you, and consider all the sissy rules as stupid paranoia, but, do have my many firearms locked and loaded, because rapid response, and calm resolve, from making a call, to taking out a perp or thug with one shot, one kill accuracy, is my forte. Not paranoid, just prepared.
MOLON LABE!
Now, back to fixing up computers with the install of Linux Mint, for all the kids, FreeNAS, PC BSD, and more, for all the newbies. FLOSS ONLY, since 1997!
Problem with OSX is the Apple/Mac corporate philosophy of owning all works, no matter the authorship.
Add their expensive habits concerning what the user may see, use, but never really "own".
They give the Microsoft Corporate greed a bad name.
I will stick to the BSDs of which there are 39, for various platforms, and, the Linux Distros in their hundreds.
Of course, all the discussed FOSS applications and telescope steering software, are GNU projects.
Do ou like Astronomy? Physics? Astro-physics? Run Linux! Stellarium, Celestia, Table of eriodic elements.
12 digit calculator, plus, many programs that simply solve poly-nomial equations!
I distribute Linux Mint, and highly recommend it, because, it is supported in Linux Mint 13, to Aril 2017, and in Linux Mint 17, to April 2019!
Has LIVE support of some 258 folks on the chat servers (both Chat and Help are up at a simple click!).
What Free, Open source OS do you recommend / install on at least 52 computers each year?
But, Germany is practised at doing just that...
Does anyone recall the shaming of men, by the females of Munich, who demonstrated how easy it was, to install, and
run, Linux?
11 years ago, and some virus lover is now fomenting rebellion?
Typical.
Reason for Hollywood's reluctance: They seek to "be not modern" like Amish... Hollywood studios fight technology improvements at every turn, starting with
the Sony Betamax lawsuit... technophobes? Or, just paranoid of losing absolute control of Regional distribution, to milk the most profits from their audience!
Around here, there are a bunch of men who ONLY hunt wild boars with bowie knives... they jump out of trees and sever their spine.
Of course, wild boars have 4 razor sharp tusks, which means the wild boars have four 5 inch long knives versus the single one of the human...
Is that fair enough for you? I even make it more even...
I am disabled by 9 termainal diseases, am pushing 70 years, have had a quad bypass, only have 50% infraction index, and can't run...
So, I feel it is fair to bring my bolt action 1891 M91 Mosin Nagant rifle, with bayonet, and 5 rounds of ammo...
Yes, I also carry my 10" blade Bowie Knife... But, I can't climb a tree, so...
No racoon, squirrel (especially squirrel BRAINS! YUMMY!), Fox, Wolve, bear, wild hog! Gotta go get it myself! With my milsurp World War 1 rifle and 70 year old ammo!
Game trail cams are already available for $59.95 at WallyWorld... IF we do not cull the herds, the animals end up in residential neighborhoods, and a 1200 pound Moose, or 600 pound bear are NOT wsomething you want your wife to meet in the street! Or, in the yard! (I hope YOU take out the garbage!)
I hunt hog, among all varmint species, the most destructive, across 39 states! Each sow can birth up to 3 litters a year! They multiply like rabbits,
but, just three or four can destroy the lawns of 20 homes in one day of feeding!!! They compete with game species for resources.
Wild pigs destroy forests, farms, pastures! And, they can spread disease! Don't hit a 200 pound pig with your car or truck, for, just as with deer,
moose, bear, gators, the vehicle is totaled!
Hunters provide over $14 BILLION each year, of income and profit to outfitters, manufacturers, guides, hotels, taxidermists, restaurants, garages,
gas stations, and the travel industry! We also provide food to a HUGE number of public institutions in all 50 states, Indian Nations, and, the 12 territories!
When you try to limit hunting, weaponry, resources, you are directly influencing how much it will cost YOU in higher taxation, for all the programs and services
you enjoy, that are paid for by the hunting community! Just think of the taxes collected in the sales of $1,000.00 drones! Think of our searches and discoveries
of new species (10 new land species in the past three years!)... If you know someone in any institution, or government agency, who dines in their cafeteria,
know that some of their protein is from the wild!
If you can read this, thank a teacher! Read it in English? Thank a Veteran! If you are reading this, while eating wild game sausage, thank the hunting community!
FWIW, I shoot only 70 to 125 year old rifles, open sights, at up to 700 meters, with ammo that was sealed in tins during the 1940's!
Hey, I am giving as much slack as I can, to the wild things, in proper conservation management!
So, let me get this straight... Weev was convicted of a "crime" that the government prosecutors cannot explain, nor define, under the law?
Talk about stupidity in places of power! Talk about massive injustice! DISGUSTING!!!
Then, I find out it really might be a HUGE dislike of him, personally, because he is perceived to be un-repentant?
Sounds so much like the witch trials of Salem!
There, but for the grace of God, go I!
Why I left Microsoft behind in 1997... BSD and GNU/Linux with the fulfillment of the Gnu Hurd and FSF, are all I need!
The problem is, all the users I convert to a Free, Open Source Software OS, ask me if it does XYZ, because they are indoctrinated to want CRAPWARE from
the TV Advertisement! They believe TV ads!!!
That is, until about 5 minutes AFTER they start up their Linux, or BSD machine, and see fulfillment of all their wants and desires!
HP dc7100 P4 HT machines are $60.00, loaded with Linux Mint 13 Mate LTS, at my Seminole County Fl Library bookstore in the Main Branch!!
They get the tower, keyboard, AC Cord, and a mouse, (mice are in limited availability, better hurry!). No mail sales...
you have no idea how the current dictatorship works, do you, comrade? Un-imaginable sums of money will be printed by the Fed to fund implementation of new
technologies-ordered by the "Black Christ"!
The real reason? BoyScouts are NO longer encouraged to persue the Merit Badge for Atomic Energy, since Scout David Hahn did his in 1994-1995, and was arrested!! I share with Scout Masters everywhere the sadness of the lack of foresight of the scientific community in supporting Scouting, and the onerous over-sight by the Nuclear Regulatory Commision!
Where is the sense of adventure?
"Although his homemade reactor never achieved critical mass, it ended up emitting dangerous levels of radioactivity, likely well over 1,000 times normal background radiation. Alarmed, Hahn began to dismantle his experiments, but a chance encounter with police led to the discovery of his activities, which triggered a Federal Radiological Emergency Response involving the FBI and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. On June 26, 1995 the United States Environmental Protection Agency, having designated Hahn's mother's property as a Superfund hazardous materials cleanup site, dismantled the shed and its contents and buried them as low-level radioactive waste in Utah. Hahn refused medical evaluation for radiation exposure.[2]" Wiki.
The DATABASE is pirated from Spry Media, and the copyright removed... it is GPL (V2)...
Leave it to the government, to pferform major theft of Intellectual Property!
And, to charge the American taxpayer $534 MIllion!
Though it cost 356 times MORE than the Ipod 5 rollout, it is not even 2X better!!!
The Healthcare.Gov DataBase is LICENSED under GPL v2 by Spry Media, but, after the PIRACY, CGI wiped off the acknowledgement!
There's lots more about it all! Like, Hiring Mainframe folks INSTEAD of website developers and a few good proper programmers!
You wouldn't think they needed so much money, as not to hire a few good folk!
Contracted at $83.4 Million, can't imagine contractors couldn't do it for anything less than $634 Million! Apple spent $1.5 M for the iPhone 5...
More will rush to my door, for dual core HP dc7100 CMT systems, selling for $60.00 at the Seminole county Florida Library Bookstore!
Loaded with Linux Mint 13... IMMUNE to the 50 MILLION Microsoft Virus!!!
Runs upto 200 times FASTER than Microsoft in all the processes needed to get little pixels on the screen!
But, you knew that, right?
I really need an interactive web based database of software, such as is on distrowatch.com, but, that updates itself with the use of web crawlers.
(And, does ballistics for the Mosin Nagant 1891/30 using the various loads and bullet weights that are available to buy or load in the 7.62x54r cartridge!
Or, a one click movie/book/music database? )
Does abc programs work with, supported in, the XYZ OS?
If I give Jane her Linux Mint 13 program, will it function to output viable info that is readable in the abc program on the XYZ OS of Bob, Jim, Pat,
and Carol?
Does 48 grains of AA powder cause excessive pressures if behind a.3105" Boat Tail jacketed bullet, in a 28.7 inch barrel?
Can the range increase from a useable 2000 meters to the 3000 meters the bullet is capable of traveling?
Owners/users of 42.5 million Rifles/Carbines, might want to know!
The HUGE reward was that I moved on, while that small company continued to fail, and actually tried to bribe Government investigators, as to their contract qualifications! They cheated 49 staff employees out of pay, intimidated everyone, and stole works from legitimate competitors.
Glad they are gone from this classified government contracting arena, they won't be missed. I still wonder if they were on the payroll of foreign governments who are enemies to free countries. Well, my work there was done, and these workers won many awards from the clients, but, all glory and money was stolen from us, by the bosses! Dilbert moment, in real life!
Nope, I got no cash reward, nor did the other folks who joined me in turning in this scum to several agencies. Our reward is that
evil did NOT win in any way, and we are still a FREE people! Charges were brought, fines were levied, Jail was threatened for the bosses.
BTW, I don't give a crap about the proprietary software venue, but, theft is a crime, as is mistreatment of employees, and sooner or later,
evil villains will fall. Happy to have stopped their massacre of innocent victims!
Often, the theft of Intellectual Property is only the tip of the iceberg! If they don't run FLOSS, I am very wary of working for them!
Using only proprietary software, indicates that they are not the right kind of intellect to use all available tools, and can't compete with
those who do use Free, Libre, Open Source Software!
IOW, I can't tolerate idiots as bosses! I fire them as soon as they answer my question about FLOSS use, during the interview!
Retired disabled Veterans have every right to complain, because, without the Veterans, everyone would be living in a stalag, or, a gulag...
Military personnel in war zones are STILL denied the vote!
We already gave, to our country, and to yours, in the cause of peace and freedom, by the sacrifice of our bodies, in wounds and injuries racked up in wars and conflicts most civilians have not even learned of, because they are still classified.
My taxes add up to a rate of 38%. That is a really high sacrifice for someone living close to the poverty line.
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Latest news is: within 24 hours of getting custody of the phone, a Government Technician, without asking, and having no mandate, no permission, to do so, CHANGED the password!!! That action just might have lost data that had not been uploaded to iCloud since 1-1/2 months BEFORE the massacre in the County "GUN FREE ZONE"!!! Government again inserts foot into mouth, then shoots foot, hits brain!
My father, a Captain in the Air Force, was stationed at Sidi Slimane Air Base, Morocco, Africa, in 1953/1954. A Strategic Air Command base, the rules should have been much more strict, but...I rode my bicycle all over the Atlantic coast, at Media Plage, (French for White Beach). the French Algerian War was in full swing, the French Moroccan War was in the terror pre-war phase, with French Foreign Legion unitscamped in small tents, near our home. I rode for miles, gone much of the day on Saturdays, Sundays, playing with kids who were Arabs, Beduin, French. None of us spoke the languages of the others... When the two USAF MPs were 'accidently' murdered by the rebels, all the US military families were ordered to move into base housing, 30 miles away. New territoty for this 7 year old to explore, as I rode off base, right through the gates! One Saturday, I was met an hour away from home, by a Sirocco, aka, Hurricane! Cat 3 winds gusting to Cat 4, made me walk my bicycle, for about 15 miles, to arrive home very wet, but, happy! Never stopped my adventures, and did a 20 year USAF career, serving in 15 nations, and, with millions of others, caused extreme anxiety for all America's enemies. Now, I am olderthan most of you, and consider all the sissy rules as stupid paranoia, but, do have my many firearms locked and loaded, because rapid response, and calm resolve, from making a call, to taking out a perp or thug with one shot, one kill accuracy, is my forte. Not paranoid, just prepared. MOLON LABE! Now, back to fixing up computers with the install of Linux Mint, for all the kids, FreeNAS, PC BSD, and more, for all the newbies. FLOSS ONLY, since 1997!
Problem with OSX is the Apple/Mac corporate philosophy of owning all works, no matter the authorship. Add their expensive habits concerning what the user may see, use, but never really "own". They give the Microsoft Corporate greed a bad name. I will stick to the BSDs of which there are 39, for various platforms, and, the Linux Distros in their hundreds. Of course, all the discussed FOSS applications and telescope steering software, are GNU projects.
And, many objects of note, most meteors, have been discovered, and named, by "hobbyists"! Keep looking up!
Do ou like Astronomy? Physics? Astro-physics? Run Linux! Stellarium, Celestia, Table of eriodic elements. 12 digit calculator, plus, many programs that simply solve poly-nomial equations! I distribute Linux Mint, and highly recommend it, because, it is supported in Linux Mint 13, to Aril 2017, and in Linux Mint 17, to April 2019! Has LIVE support of some 258 folks on the chat servers (both Chat and Help are up at a simple click!). What Free, Open source OS do you recommend / install on at least 52 computers each year?
But, Germany is practised at doing just that... Does anyone recall the shaming of men, by the females of Munich, who demonstrated how easy it was, to install, and run, Linux? 11 years ago, and some virus lover is now fomenting rebellion? Typical.
Could the "yellow" be a reference to racial slurs, as in "Yellow Menace"?
Torrents work better, for me... GNU/Linux, BSD ISOs,"only", of course... (harummph, cough, cough...)
Reason for Hollywood's reluctance: They seek to "be not modern" like Amish... Hollywood studios fight technology improvements at every turn, starting with the Sony Betamax lawsuit... technophobes? Or, just paranoid of losing absolute control of Regional distribution, to milk the most profits from their audience!
Around here, there are a bunch of men who ONLY hunt wild boars with bowie knives... they jump out of trees and sever their spine. Of course, wild boars have 4 razor sharp tusks, which means the wild boars have four 5 inch long knives versus the single one of the human... Is that fair enough for you? I even make it more even... I am disabled by 9 termainal diseases, am pushing 70 years, have had a quad bypass, only have 50% infraction index, and can't run... So, I feel it is fair to bring my bolt action 1891 M91 Mosin Nagant rifle, with bayonet, and 5 rounds of ammo... Yes, I also carry my 10" blade Bowie Knife... But, I can't climb a tree, so...
No racoon, squirrel (especially squirrel BRAINS! YUMMY!), Fox, Wolve, bear, wild hog! Gotta go get it myself! With my milsurp World War 1 rifle and 70 year old ammo!
Game trail cams are already available for $59.95 at WallyWorld... IF we do not cull the herds, the animals end up in residential neighborhoods, and a 1200 pound Moose, or 600 pound bear are NOT wsomething you want your wife to meet in the street! Or, in the yard! (I hope YOU take out the garbage!) I hunt hog, among all varmint species, the most destructive, across 39 states! Each sow can birth up to 3 litters a year! They multiply like rabbits, but, just three or four can destroy the lawns of 20 homes in one day of feeding!!! They compete with game species for resources. Wild pigs destroy forests, farms, pastures! And, they can spread disease! Don't hit a 200 pound pig with your car or truck, for, just as with deer, moose, bear, gators, the vehicle is totaled! Hunters provide over $14 BILLION each year, of income and profit to outfitters, manufacturers, guides, hotels, taxidermists, restaurants, garages, gas stations, and the travel industry! We also provide food to a HUGE number of public institutions in all 50 states, Indian Nations, and, the 12 territories! When you try to limit hunting, weaponry, resources, you are directly influencing how much it will cost YOU in higher taxation, for all the programs and services you enjoy, that are paid for by the hunting community! Just think of the taxes collected in the sales of $1,000.00 drones! Think of our searches and discoveries of new species (10 new land species in the past three years!)... If you know someone in any institution, or government agency, who dines in their cafeteria, know that some of their protein is from the wild! If you can read this, thank a teacher! Read it in English? Thank a Veteran! If you are reading this, while eating wild game sausage, thank the hunting community! FWIW, I shoot only 70 to 125 year old rifles, open sights, at up to 700 meters, with ammo that was sealed in tins during the 1940's! Hey, I am giving as much slack as I can, to the wild things, in proper conservation management!
So, let me get this straight... Weev was convicted of a "crime" that the government prosecutors cannot explain, nor define, under the law? Talk about stupidity in places of power! Talk about massive injustice! DISGUSTING!!! Then, I find out it really might be a HUGE dislike of him, personally, because he is perceived to be un-repentant? Sounds so much like the witch trials of Salem! There, but for the grace of God, go I!
Why I left Microsoft behind in 1997... BSD and GNU/Linux with the fulfillment of the Gnu Hurd and FSF, are all I need! The problem is, all the users I convert to a Free, Open Source Software OS, ask me if it does XYZ, because they are indoctrinated to want CRAPWARE from the TV Advertisement! They believe TV ads!!! That is, until about 5 minutes AFTER they start up their Linux, or BSD machine, and see fulfillment of all their wants and desires! HP dc7100 P4 HT machines are $60.00, loaded with Linux Mint 13 Mate LTS, at my Seminole County Fl Library bookstore in the Main Branch!! They get the tower, keyboard, AC Cord, and a mouse, (mice are in limited availability, better hurry!). No mail sales...
Ok, let me get this straight, he has been deprived of both Christmas AND New Years? ghastly!!!
you have no idea how the current dictatorship works, do you, comrade? Un-imaginable sums of money will be printed by the Fed to fund implementation of new technologies-ordered by the "Black Christ"!
that you aren't American! Bad breath, very bad attitude, probably doesn't like guns, freedoms, Rights, nor, understands them...
The real reason? BoyScouts are NO longer encouraged to persue the Merit Badge for Atomic Energy, since Scout David Hahn did his in 1994-1995, and was arrested!! I share with Scout Masters everywhere the sadness of the lack of foresight of the scientific community in supporting Scouting, and the onerous over-sight by the Nuclear Regulatory Commision! Where is the sense of adventure? "Although his homemade reactor never achieved critical mass, it ended up emitting dangerous levels of radioactivity, likely well over 1,000 times normal background radiation. Alarmed, Hahn began to dismantle his experiments, but a chance encounter with police led to the discovery of his activities, which triggered a Federal Radiological Emergency Response involving the FBI and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. On June 26, 1995 the United States Environmental Protection Agency, having designated Hahn's mother's property as a Superfund hazardous materials cleanup site, dismantled the shed and its contents and buried them as low-level radioactive waste in Utah. Hahn refused medical evaluation for radiation exposure.[2]" Wiki.
The DATABASE is pirated from Spry Media, and the copyright removed... it is GPL (V2)... Leave it to the government, to pferform major theft of Intellectual Property! And, to charge the American taxpayer $534 MIllion! Though it cost 356 times MORE than the Ipod 5 rollout, it is not even 2X better!!!
The Healthcare.Gov DataBase is LICENSED under GPL v2 by Spry Media, but, after the PIRACY, CGI wiped off the acknowledgement! There's lots more about it all! Like, Hiring Mainframe folks INSTEAD of website developers and a few good proper programmers! You wouldn't think they needed so much money, as not to hire a few good folk! Contracted at $83.4 Million, can't imagine contractors couldn't do it for anything less than $634 Million! Apple spent $1.5 M for the iPhone 5...
More will rush to my door, for dual core HP dc7100 CMT systems, selling for $60.00 at the Seminole county Florida Library Bookstore! Loaded with Linux Mint 13... IMMUNE to the 50 MILLION Microsoft Virus!!! Runs upto 200 times FASTER than Microsoft in all the processes needed to get little pixels on the screen! But, you knew that, right?
I really need an interactive web based database of software, such as is on distrowatch.com, but, that updates itself with the use of web crawlers. (And, does ballistics for the Mosin Nagant 1891/30 using the various loads and bullet weights that are available to buy or load in the 7.62x54r cartridge! Or, a one click movie/book/music database? ) Does abc programs work with, supported in, the XYZ OS? If I give Jane her Linux Mint 13 program, will it function to output viable info that is readable in the abc program on the XYZ OS of Bob, Jim, Pat, and Carol? Does 48 grains of AA powder cause excessive pressures if behind a .3105" Boat Tail jacketed bullet, in a 28.7 inch barrel?
Can the range increase from a useable 2000 meters to the 3000 meters the bullet is capable of traveling?
Owners/users of 42.5 million Rifles/Carbines, might want to know!
The HUGE reward was that I moved on, while that small company continued to fail, and actually tried to bribe Government investigators, as to their contract qualifications! They cheated 49 staff employees out of pay, intimidated everyone, and stole works from legitimate competitors. Glad they are gone from this classified government contracting arena, they won't be missed. I still wonder if they were on the payroll of foreign governments who are enemies to free countries. Well, my work there was done, and these workers won many awards from the clients, but, all glory and money was stolen from us, by the bosses! Dilbert moment, in real life! Nope, I got no cash reward, nor did the other folks who joined me in turning in this scum to several agencies. Our reward is that evil did NOT win in any way, and we are still a FREE people! Charges were brought, fines were levied, Jail was threatened for the bosses. BTW, I don't give a crap about the proprietary software venue, but, theft is a crime, as is mistreatment of employees, and sooner or later, evil villains will fall. Happy to have stopped their massacre of innocent victims! Often, the theft of Intellectual Property is only the tip of the iceberg! If they don't run FLOSS, I am very wary of working for them! Using only proprietary software, indicates that they are not the right kind of intellect to use all available tools, and can't compete with those who do use Free, Libre, Open Source Software! IOW, I can't tolerate idiots as bosses! I fire them as soon as they answer my question about FLOSS use, during the interview!
Retired disabled Veterans have every right to complain, because, without the Veterans, everyone would be living in a stalag, or, a gulag... Military personnel in war zones are STILL denied the vote!
We already gave, to our country, and to yours, in the cause of peace and freedom, by the sacrifice of our bodies, in wounds and injuries racked up in wars and conflicts most civilians have not even learned of, because they are still classified. My taxes add up to a rate of 38%. That is a really high sacrifice for someone living close to the poverty line.