If that's confusing, you may be relying too much on others. Rather than take everything you hear to heart, investigate on your own.
For example: I agree, I think Disney was wrong to stop the publishing of Fahrenheit 9/11. It's a repression of free speech. Do I agree with all of the garbage Moore put in the movie? Not necessarily. I have a little firsthand insight into the way the intel community and the U.S. war machine works whereas he's pretty much projecting everything from his own pointed views. On the other hand, I don't agree with some of President Bush's antics either. Yes I think he's done some great things during his initial term, but he also screwed up a whole slew of ideas and basically spent US tax dollars on things he shouldn't have.
Another Example: In this day and age, anyone who's thinking along a political party line needs to seriously step back and take a good look at what's going on around them. Think about it... in November, if you're a U.S. citizen and voting in the election, your ballot will look something like this:
[ ] Republicrat Globalist from the Oligarchy
[ ] Democan Globalist from the Oligarchy
[ ] Someone else who doesn't matter much
We'll be screwed either way. Same end, different means. In the long run, we're still screwed. I'd run for the office, but a) I'm not old enough, and b) I'm not part of the Oligarchy club yet.
Moral of the story: Take the time to review the facts and figure out what to think on your own. If you don't, you'll end up just another sheep in the herd being led towards the mass media feeding frenzy. In case you haven't noticed, there are no more objective news outlets... NONE. It's either FoxNews.com or [insert any of the thousands of liberal news outlets here]. Disney is one of those outlets.
My personal take on Disney: great videos, great movies, great activities for children... I like to leave it at that. I know they can be a big, bad, evil, leftist media corporation; but that doesn't mean I'm not going to go out and buy the Aladdin DVD for my child.
The Marine Corps falls under the Department of the Navy. Technically, they're a separate entity. However, the USMC chain of command goes through the Secretary of the Navy. At least they let us play in the Joint Chiefs of Staff games.
Aren't all Windows users already sacrificing security for compatibility just by using Windows? Perhaps this is just meant to level the playing field.
I'm sure Microsoft will be releasing an update full of application compatibility fixes shortly after the SP2 release. Even in vanilla XP, you can run applications in Win95/98 compatibility mode. I don't see any reason to change it now.
I have fond memories of yelling many a "bang! bang!" and (my personal favorite) "budda budda jam!" during training exercises.
I was active duty USMC from 1992 through 1998 (aptly dubbed "Clinton's Corps"). It's good to know that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Whether you have a Republican globalist in the White House or a Democrat globalist ruling the roost, the people who need it most still get the short end of the stick when it comes to military spending. In the end, the D.C. suits in charge are all globalists with the common goal of the oligarchy in mind.
We had practically no green money (USMC money) for things like training and education, but blue money (US Navy money for the aviation side of the house) seemed to come out of the friggin woodwork. I couldn't get a new three ring binder without filling out two forms (in triplicate!) and a two week wait for the purchase to be approved, but one avionics jockey with a few too many beers in him from the night before drops a $45K helicopter battery on the tarmac and POOF!! a new battery practically materializes out of nowhere with no paperwork and no questions asked.
The Marines are well known for doing the best job with the worst equipment and no preparation. Keep up the good work, and watch your ass in Iraq.
Sounds to me like this is just an inter-stellar traveller from afar making his daily rounds. I'm going to laugh if we try to land a probe on a comet and some windshield wiper-like apparatus fires up and sweeps the probe off.
With most of the Saturn V rockets weathering away thanks to the elements, I can not stress what a difference it can make to actually go to the Kennedy Space Center and see the restored Saturn V inside the (air conditioned... thank heavens) Apollo/Saturn V Center. Not only do you get the to see the rocket itself, but they also have a full blown tour complete with a view of the launch pads and (for us geeks) the actual consoles used at launch control. Definitely worth a visit.
Side note: If you stay in the Cocoa Beach area overnight, make sure you book yourself on the big casino cruise boat for that evening. Even if you don't gamble, it's free, fun, and the buffet rocks.
After my last post, I remembered that someone bought out Western (I think). Might have even been Advance.
CarQuest, on the other hand, must not be very prominent nationwide. I don't think I've ever heard of them. Then again, I live less than a mile from the Advance Auto Corporate HQ, so they pretty much have a lock on the consumer auto parts sales in this area.
...is whether or not you even _need_ to contact customer service. Personally, I've never really had much trouble with any cellphone company or service simply because I hardly ever call them. They send the bill, I pay it, the phone works. I guess I'm one of the lucky ones.
what's to stop you from bringing your own hard disk to work in your pocket, and switching it with the one to be destroyed when you disassemble the machine?
Men in green camoflauge utilities with loaded weapons who go through your bags when you enter and exit. That coupled with the big sign out front that reads "Use of deadly force authorized" are usually enough to convice people to NOT try such antics.
Oh... and a little piece of paper they make you sign. It mentions something about a hefty fine and an all expenses paid vacation at some place in Kansas.
I was lucky enough to never have to worry about this sort of problem when I worked for Uncle Sam. We had to take the actual platters out of our discarded hard disks and grind them down with a belt sander. No recyling either. Once we had a pile of dust, we had to dump the remains in a drum of some sort of acidic crap (usually used to destroy reams of sensitive print material). I always found it funny to see a few nice, shiny disks in the bottom of the safe with a classification label on them awaiting their demise.
Perhaps there's money to be made in performing this sort of destructive service for banks and other entities handling sensitive customer information.
Perhaps these will be a little easier to read (forgot to change the < to <)
<dEad{Ni}> but you have more problems with win95 than i have ever imagined anyone having <Tolen{Ni}> nah...you should see some of the people on my dorm floor... <Tolen{Ni}> one guy had to fdisk like 5 times last semester <Magaera{Ni}> hehe <Magaera{Ni}> You CAN'T corrupt the BeOS file system <Magaera{Ni}> Even by kicking out the power cord <Gunfighter{Ni}> you can't play Q2 on it either:P
<Magaera{Ni}> potty stop - brb <Gunfighter{Ni}> overkill.. yellow card <Magaera{Ni}> what, you'd rather say i was going to "the little programmer's room" or something?? <Deathwish{Ni}> I got take a BeOS
<Magaera{Ni}> "BeOS combines the best features of all the major operating systems: the ease-of-use of the Macintosh, the power and flexibility of Linux, and Minesweeper from Windows."
A few years back, one of the members of my Quake clan was a programmer who preferred BeOS as his platform of choice for development and other everyday tasks. He eventually went to work for Be and we didn't hear from him much after that. Nevertheless, we always gave him hell about his BeOS preference. Here are a few choice quotes from our IRC logs:
This first one is particularly applicable as it pertains to the "uncorruptable" BeOS filesystem.
but you have more problems with win95 than i have ever imagined anyone having
nah...you should see some of the people on my dorm floor...
one guy had to fdisk like 5 times last semester
hehe
You CAN'T corrupt the BeOS file system
Even by kicking out the power cord
you can't play Q2 on it either:P
potty stop - brb
overkill.. yellow card
what, you'd rather say i was going to "the little programmer's room" or something??
I got take a BeOS
"BeOS combines the best features of all the major operating systems: the ease-of-use of the Macintosh, the power and flexibility of Linux, and Minesweeper from Windows."
She makes me play games so she can quilt and watch TV without interruption. Granted, she's right behind me while I'm fraggin, but we consider it quality time.
3. From there you can cover a little review material as well as some more advanced topics in Dive Into Python.
I made the mistake of leaving "Learning Perl" and "Learn to Program in C in 21 Days" lying around the house. My wife read them and understood them for the most part, but she's not exactly whipping out kernel modules. The track mentioned above is definitely better for, as you put it, a "terrified adult".
I did some consulting for a local school system near my home (Southwestern Virginia) recently. I wasn't surprised to see that they had a multi-level web caching/filtering system, but I was quite surprised to see that the software was running on Sun servers. The servers themselves were so underutilized I laughed. The local ILEC had sold them the system for premium prices minus a piddly.edu discount. A single Pentium II (with tons of cheap RAM) running Squid could have very easily handled the caching/filtering load for this small school system's entire Internet usage.
Let me preface this by saying that I am the network administrator for a small ISP. Here goes...
My lovely chat with tech support at another ISP (idiots). The following is a transcript of my chat with Tom at Earthlink's tech support.
Welcome to Earthlink LiveChat. Your chat session will begin shortly.
Tired of Spam? With Earthlink's free spamBlocker you can customize your settings to eliminate all of your unwanted email!
Tom M says: Thank you for contacting EarthLink LiveChat, how may I help you today?
Gun: Yes, I need to check and see if my forwards to a [yourdomain] account are being blocked based on the server they're being forwarded from. Do you need the IP address, forward address??
Tom M: In order to resolve this issue I need to know what email program you are using. If you are unsure, please open your email as you normally would, click on the Help menu (at the top by File, Edit View, etc) and click on About. In there you will find the name of the program and the version. please let me know what they are.
Gun: they are SMTP and, I imagine, POP3. I'm the administrator, not the end user
Tom M: Could you please be more specific about the issue?
Gun: rfk@[ourdomain].com forwards to rkruse@[yourdomain].com, but mails are not getting through to [yourdomain].com... at least, not to rkruse@[yourdomain].com. Therefore we have a mutual, unhappy customer as I host the [ourdomain].com domain, and you host [yourdomain].com, do you not?
Tom M: Kindly hold on.
Note: ALERT!! ALERT!! I could practically _hear_ the Indian accent as soon as he said this. This means I've reached a level 1 moron at a call center in India. Granted, not all people in such call centers (or call centers in India) are morons, but in this case, I think I ended up with the lowest bidder. Shame on you Earthlink!.
Tom M: Kindly hold on while I verify your account.
Gun: It's not my account, but go right ahead
Tom M: Have you set the forwarding feature in this email address rfk@[ourdomain].com to forward emails to rkruse@[yourdomain].com?
Gun: yes
Tom M: I am working on this issue and please hold on.
Tom M: I suggest you contact to the [ourdomain].com technical support regarding this issue.
Gun: I am the [ourdomain].com tech support! I was contacted, now I'm contacting you
Tom M: Okay, it appears that there might be problem at [ourdomain].com email address.
Gun: such as?
Tom M: As you set the forwarding email feature in the rfk@[ourdomain].com, you need to contact to their technical support to resolve the issue.
Gun: one last time... I AM THE TECH SUPPORT
Note: You'd think he would get the point by now, right?
Tom M: Okay, the problem seems to be at their end.
Gun: How so? We're forwarding email all over the world, and it all works except for this guy's. Doesn't sound like a problem on our end. Would you like for me to cat his.qmail file and paste it here for you to confirm?
Tom M: As you set the forwarding feature at this email address rfk@[ourdomain].com, I suggest you contact to this domain [ourdomain] administrator.
Gun: I am this domain [ourdomain] administrator
Gun: please repeat that back to me so that I know you understand... say something along the lines of "Gun has complete and god-like control over the [ourdomain].com domain"
Note: AAAAAAAAUUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHH
Tom M: Can I know where did you set the forwarding feature?
Gun: certainly! we use Qmail as our mta
Tom M: I am sorry to inform you that EarthLink does not given any technical support for Qmail.
So how would they prosecute this if the blame falls on VoteHere via BlackBoxVoting? Is this something that would be considered industrial espionage and prosecuted under trade secret law? What about BlackBoxVoting being labeled the "middleman" in the leak?
I agree. Voice notes are definitely the way to go. However, there's no reason to spend a lot of cash on device with a tons of bells and whistles you may not need.
To this day, I still use the analog microcassette recorder I bought in 1995. 2 x AA batteries, and a pack of three microcassettes are usually enough to last me a few weeks. I record just about anything I want to remember (billing times for clients; error codes; ideas for the question to the answer to life, the universe, and everything; etc.) and just transcribe the information later. This works great because I can carry the recorder and as many microcassettes as I need in a spare pocket on my laptop bag. If I run out of cassette, I can drop $5 at just about any drug/grocery/electronics store and pick up more recording space. If something happens to the recorder itself, I can just pop the cassettes into a new (cheap!) recorder and not worry about lost data.
The text-to-speech would be nice, but I find that when I go to transcribe the information I end up throwing a lot of it out anyways.
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For example: I agree, I think Disney was wrong to stop the publishing of Fahrenheit 9/11. It's a repression of free speech. Do I agree with all of the garbage Moore put in the movie? Not necessarily. I have a little firsthand insight into the way the intel community and the U.S. war machine works whereas he's pretty much projecting everything from his own pointed views. On the other hand, I don't agree with some of President Bush's antics either. Yes I think he's done some great things during his initial term, but he also screwed up a whole slew of ideas and basically spent US tax dollars on things he shouldn't have.
Another Example: In this day and age, anyone who's thinking along a political party line needs to seriously step back and take a good look at what's going on around them. Think about it... in November, if you're a U.S. citizen and voting in the election, your ballot will look something like this:
We'll be screwed either way. Same end, different means. In the long run, we're still screwed. I'd run for the office, but a) I'm not old enough, and b) I'm not part of the Oligarchy club yet.
Moral of the story: Take the time to review the facts and figure out what to think on your own. If you don't, you'll end up just another sheep in the herd being led towards the mass media feeding frenzy. In case you haven't noticed, there are no more objective news outlets... NONE. It's either FoxNews.com or [insert any of the thousands of liberal news outlets here]. Disney is one of those outlets.
My personal take on Disney: great videos, great movies, great activities for children... I like to leave it at that. I know they can be a big, bad, evil, leftist media corporation; but that doesn't mean I'm not going to go out and buy the Aladdin DVD for my child.
The Marine Corps falls under the Department of the Navy. Technically, they're a separate entity. However, the USMC chain of command goes through the Secretary of the Navy. At least they let us play in the Joint Chiefs of Staff games.
Aren't all Windows users already sacrificing security for compatibility just by using Windows? Perhaps this is just meant to level the playing field.
I'm sure Microsoft will be releasing an update full of application compatibility fixes shortly after the SP2 release. Even in vanilla XP, you can run applications in Win95/98 compatibility mode. I don't see any reason to change it now.
I have fond memories of yelling many a "bang! bang!" and (my personal favorite) "budda budda jam!" during training exercises.
I was active duty USMC from 1992 through 1998 (aptly dubbed "Clinton's Corps"). It's good to know that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Whether you have a Republican globalist in the White House or a Democrat globalist ruling the roost, the people who need it most still get the short end of the stick when it comes to military spending. In the end, the D.C. suits in charge are all globalists with the common goal of the oligarchy in mind.
We had practically no green money (USMC money) for things like training and education, but blue money (US Navy money for the aviation side of the house) seemed to come out of the friggin woodwork. I couldn't get a new three ring binder without filling out two forms (in triplicate!) and a two week wait for the purchase to be approved, but one avionics jockey with a few too many beers in him from the night before drops a $45K helicopter battery on the tarmac and POOF!! a new battery practically materializes out of nowhere with no paperwork and no questions asked.
The Marines are well known for doing the best job with the worst equipment and no preparation. Keep up the good work, and watch your ass in Iraq.
Semper Fi!
Sounds to me like this is just an inter-stellar traveller from afar making his daily rounds. I'm going to laugh if we try to land a probe on a comet and some windshield wiper-like apparatus fires up and sweeps the probe off.
With most of the Saturn V rockets weathering away thanks to the elements, I can not stress what a difference it can make to actually go to the Kennedy Space Center and see the restored Saturn V inside the (air conditioned... thank heavens) Apollo/Saturn V Center. Not only do you get the to see the rocket itself, but they also have a full blown tour complete with a view of the launch pads and (for us geeks) the actual consoles used at launch control. Definitely worth a visit.
Side note: If you stay in the Cocoa Beach area overnight, make sure you book yourself on the big casino cruise boat for that evening. Even if you don't gamble, it's free, fun, and the buffet rocks.
After my last post, I remembered that someone bought out Western (I think). Might have even been Advance.
CarQuest, on the other hand, must not be very prominent nationwide. I don't think I've ever heard of them. Then again, I live less than a mile from the Advance Auto Corporate HQ, so they pretty much have a lock on the consumer auto parts sales in this area.
Western Auto?
For every action, there is an equal and opposite Slashdot effect.
Advance Auto, eh?
Goto the main site and click on the Supported Engines link.
Looks like Mr. Goatse.cx has already found an exploit and made his presence known.
"Waiter... there's a sphincter in my Zope"
...is whether or not you even _need_ to contact customer service. Personally, I've never really had much trouble with any cellphone company or service simply because I hardly ever call them. They send the bill, I pay it, the phone works. I guess I'm one of the lucky ones.
what's to stop you from bringing your own hard disk to work in your pocket, and switching it with the one to be destroyed when you disassemble the machine?
Men in green camoflauge utilities with loaded weapons who go through your bags when you enter and exit. That coupled with the big sign out front that reads "Use of deadly force authorized" are usually enough to convice people to NOT try such antics.
Oh... and a little piece of paper they make you sign. It mentions something about a hefty fine and an all expenses paid vacation at some place in Kansas.
I was lucky enough to never have to worry about this sort of problem when I worked for Uncle Sam. We had to take the actual platters out of our discarded hard disks and grind them down with a belt sander. No recyling either. Once we had a pile of dust, we had to dump the remains in a drum of some sort of acidic crap (usually used to destroy reams of sensitive print material). I always found it funny to see a few nice, shiny disks in the bottom of the safe with a classification label on them awaiting their demise.
Perhaps there's money to be made in performing this sort of destructive service for banks and other entities handling sensitive customer information.
Perhaps these will be a little easier to read (forgot to change the < to <)
:P
<dEad{Ni}> but you have more problems with win95 than i have ever imagined anyone having
<Tolen{Ni}> nah...you should see some of the people on my dorm floor...
<Tolen{Ni}> one guy had to fdisk like 5 times last semester
<Magaera{Ni}> hehe
<Magaera{Ni}> You CAN'T corrupt the BeOS file system
<Magaera{Ni}> Even by kicking out the power cord
<Gunfighter{Ni}> you can't play Q2 on it either
<Magaera{Ni}> potty stop - brb
<Gunfighter{Ni}> overkill.. yellow card
<Magaera{Ni}> what, you'd rather say i was going to "the little programmer's room" or something??
<Deathwish{Ni}> I got take a BeOS
<Magaera{Ni}> "BeOS combines the best features of all the major operating systems: the ease-of-use of the Macintosh, the power and flexibility of Linux, and Minesweeper from Windows."
A few years back, one of the members of my Quake clan was a programmer who preferred BeOS as his platform of choice for development and other everyday tasks. He eventually went to work for Be and we didn't hear from him much after that. Nevertheless, we always gave him hell about his BeOS preference. Here are a few choice quotes from our IRC logs:
:P
This first one is particularly applicable as it pertains to the "uncorruptable" BeOS filesystem.
but you have more problems with win95 than i have ever imagined anyone having
nah...you should see some of the people on my dorm floor...
one guy had to fdisk like 5 times last semester
hehe
You CAN'T corrupt the BeOS file system
Even by kicking out the power cord
you can't play Q2 on it either
potty stop - brb
overkill.. yellow card
what, you'd rather say i was going to "the little programmer's room" or something??
I got take a BeOS
"BeOS combines the best features of all the major operating systems: the ease-of-use of the Macintosh, the power and flexibility of Linux, and Minesweeper from Windows."
She makes me play games so she can quilt and watch TV without interruption. Granted, she's right behind me while I'm fraggin, but we consider it quality time.
1. Have her read ESR's How to Become a Hacker.
2. After that, start her on Learning to Program.
3. From there you can cover a little review material as well as some more advanced topics in Dive Into Python.
I made the mistake of leaving "Learning Perl" and "Learn to Program in C in 21 Days" lying around the house. My wife read them and understood them for the most part, but she's not exactly whipping out kernel modules. The track mentioned above is definitely better for, as you put it, a "terrified adult".
I did some consulting for a local school system near my home (Southwestern Virginia) recently. I wasn't surprised to see that they had a multi-level web caching/filtering system, but I was quite surprised to see that the software was running on Sun servers. The servers themselves were so underutilized I laughed. The local ILEC had sold them the system for premium prices minus a piddly .edu discount. A single Pentium II (with tons of cheap RAM) running Squid could have very easily handled the caching/filtering load for this small school system's entire Internet usage.
What a waste.
Actually, they didn't have the IP blocked. It was the customer. He had some freaky filtering turned on in his Earthlink account settings.
My lovely chat with tech support at another ISP (idiots). The following is a transcript of my chat with Tom at Earthlink's tech support.
Welcome to Earthlink LiveChat. Your chat session will begin shortly.
Tired of Spam? With Earthlink's free spamBlocker you can customize your settings to eliminate all of your unwanted email!
Tom M says: Thank you for contacting EarthLink LiveChat, how may I help you today?
Gun: Yes, I need to check and see if my forwards to a [yourdomain] account are being blocked based on the server they're being forwarded from. Do you need the IP address, forward address??
Tom M: In order to resolve this issue I need to know what email program you are using. If you are unsure, please open your email as you normally would, click on the Help menu (at the top by File, Edit View, etc) and click on About. In there you will find the name of the program and the version. please let me know what they are.
Gun: they are SMTP and, I imagine, POP3. I'm the administrator, not the end user
Tom M: Could you please be more specific about the issue?
Gun: rfk@[ourdomain].com forwards to rkruse@[yourdomain].com, but mails are not getting through to [yourdomain].com... at least, not to rkruse@[yourdomain].com. Therefore we have a mutual, unhappy customer as I host the [ourdomain].com domain, and you host [yourdomain].com, do you not?
Tom M: Kindly hold on.
Note: ALERT!! ALERT!! I could practically _hear_ the Indian accent as soon as he said this. This means I've reached a level 1 moron at a call center in India. Granted, not all people in such call centers (or call centers in India) are morons, but in this case, I think I ended up with the lowest bidder. Shame on you Earthlink!.
Tom M: Kindly hold on while I verify your account.
Gun: It's not my account, but go right ahead
Tom M: Have you set the forwarding feature in this email address rfk@[ourdomain].com to forward emails to rkruse@[yourdomain].com?
Gun: yes
Tom M: I am working on this issue and please hold on.
Tom M: I suggest you contact to the [ourdomain].com technical support regarding this issue.
Gun: I am the [ourdomain].com tech support! I was contacted, now I'm contacting you
Tom M: Okay, it appears that there might be problem at [ourdomain].com email address.
Gun: such as?
Tom M: As you set the forwarding email feature in the rfk@[ourdomain].com, you need to contact to their technical support to resolve the issue.
Gun: one last time... I AM THE TECH SUPPORT
Note: You'd think he would get the point by now, right?
Tom M: Okay, the problem seems to be at their end.
Gun: How so? We're forwarding email all over the world, and it all works except for this guy's. Doesn't sound like a problem on our end. Would you like for me to cat his .qmail file and paste it here for you to confirm?
Tom M: As you set the forwarding feature at this email address rfk@[ourdomain].com, I suggest you contact to this domain [ourdomain] administrator.
Gun: I am this domain [ourdomain] administrator
Gun: please repeat that back to me so that I know you understand... say something along the lines of "Gun has complete and god-like control over the [ourdomain].com domain"
Note: AAAAAAAAUUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHH
Tom M: Can I know where did you set the forwarding feature?
Gun: certainly! we use Qmail as our mta
Tom M: I am sorry to inform you that EarthLink does not given any technical support for Qmail.
Note: Please make the bad man stop.
Gun: hermes [ourdomain].com # pwd /var/vpopmail/domains/4/[ourdomain].com hermes [ourdomain].com #
I guess I'd better hurry up and get my patent for the anti^H^H^H^Hnanobiotics submitted.
So how would they prosecute this if the blame falls on VoteHere via BlackBoxVoting? Is this something that would be considered industrial espionage and prosecuted under trade secret law? What about BlackBoxVoting being labeled the "middleman" in the leak?
I agree. Voice notes are definitely the way to go. However, there's no reason to spend a lot of cash on device with a tons of bells and whistles you may not need.
To this day, I still use the analog microcassette recorder I bought in 1995. 2 x AA batteries, and a pack of three microcassettes are usually enough to last me a few weeks. I record just about anything I want to remember (billing times for clients; error codes; ideas for the question to the answer to life, the universe, and everything; etc.) and just transcribe the information later. This works great because I can carry the recorder and as many microcassettes as I need in a spare pocket on my laptop bag. If I run out of cassette, I can drop $5 at just about any drug/grocery/electronics store and pick up more recording space. If something happens to the recorder itself, I can just pop the cassettes into a new (cheap!) recorder and not worry about lost data.
The text-to-speech would be nice, but I find that when I go to transcribe the information I end up throwing a lot of it out anyways.
Thank you! I knew I was forgetting something in my list of enhancements.