Additionally, the casinos use statistics to find problems. They know how much people are "supposed" to win over time. In elections, it's called polling. Of course, in 2004, the exit polls showed Kerry winning. In 2000, the exit polls showed Gore winning. But the supreme court threw it out in 00 and Kerry gave up in 04 to keep his Senate seat.
The casinos also use surveilance cameras to watch people playing. I've always said a time coded live webcam of every machine would work wonders for security. Don't show the votes, of course. Same thing with the ballot boxes.
Another thing is trust. In a casino, they do a lot to promote the people who are winning. But at the end of the day, it's pretty obvious you can expect to LOSE at a casino. How else would they stay in business? They make no secret about their evilness. It's up to you if you want to go to a casino and lose your money (or maybe make some). In politics, they do a lot to promote the people who are winning. But we the People should not expect to lose. The problem is that it's not realistic to expect to be pleased by a lawmaker. They really do have to have EVERYONE into account and the easiest way to decide who matters most is with MONEY. The problem is that as the cycle continues, more and more favor goes to the big business (from both sides) and less to the individual. And over time, our individual lives matter less and less. But they still matter. Obama said it best that everyone matters, even the poor person on the street corner, the guy with no legs, the girl with no sight. We all matter. And if we all start believing that instead of thinking that we're somehow better than everyone else, politics will mirror those beliefs. I think that a lot of people already believe in that, maybe a lot more than actually say it.
File an insurance claim with the shipping company. They will investigate, tell you it was delivered and then you take that back to Paypal in the form of a small claims court suit. They will settle.
Add to this the fact that PayPal constantly pushes linking your PayPal account to your "real" bank account (apparently so they can clean you out in one fell swoop) and you have a recipe for... well, I'd say about 5 lbs of ammonium nitrate, some black powder, and a time-delay fuse.
I have a separate bank account I use only with paypal. It's at the same bank I have my primary checking account at, so I can make free transfers between the two. I do that to get my seller money faster. To fund purchases, I always use a credit card, that way I get buyer protection for anything over $50 if fraud occurs. As far as the other problem, you're going to want to confine that mixure in a length of steel pipe with threaded end caps. Be sure to wipe down the threads on the second end cap with a wet rag before screwing it on--otherwise friction may ignite a stray grain of powder and ruin your afternoon.
I think a lot of the old programmers from the first boom just got into it because they heard about the money and weren't really made from "the cloth", so they went to other jobs. I'm not in a panic because I'm smart, I've just kept working and haven't tried to get in over my head like so many graduates. These 4.0 college GPA fags don't know how to think for themselves. It's the same damn problem over and over again. They got a 4.0 in kissing ass. So you have a degree, so what? You can't solve a problem on your own without your professor holding your dick (/britches)! My antiauthoritarian values have gotten me way further than ass kissing in this business. If you watch yourself get passed over for the promotion you deserve and haven't moved on (after first placing smelly cheese on the fuser of the office copier and snatching a generous "severence package" of licensed software CD's) it's not their fault anymore. It's yours. You are an idiot if you think someone isn't going to promote their cousin/drinking buddy over you.
Merits don't typically matter in corporate America. But, in certain circles, especially higher up in the system, there are those that appreciate the rebel, the person who's not afraid to disagree with them and really help build the company. You have to find those people and latch onto them--let them kiss ass and you can ride up with them and find more like-minded individuals.
Just keep in mind one thing--you will be able to find another job. So don't worry about kissing people's toes and worry more about pushing the limits of your understanding and knowledge so when the time does come to get a new position, you have the confidence to excel and get the pay you deserve. I used to do hiring for a company and it's really amazing how many total pieces of shit try to get jobs and don't even comb their hair. Don't make stupid mistakes, speak up if you are right, and don't let anyone scare you.
I recommend just getting a damn job and not thinking about it too much. You ALWAYS have time to change your course and if you're sitting around thinking about it you're losing month after month of valuable experience you can take with you the rest of your life.
If you aren't happy after a year, switch up. No one cares how long you were at your previous job if you're good enough (as long as it's at least a year). I don't think you can consider yourself a computer "expert" if you only do one job your whole life. I think all junior people should spend at least a year doing Helldesk, even if you think you're over-qualified. Being out on the frontlines with actual users can really help you a few years later when you're a developer.
I think that every junior should also spend time working non-computer stuff like accounting, filing, reading forms and the other usual day to day crap. You are going to be writing the applications that replace those people's jobs and in reality it's harder than you think to manage 10000 paper files or do accrual accounting.
I think junior people should work for companies of all sizes. Small companies are good experience when you're young and don't have a lot of responsibility. There's a shitload of stress because your boss won't always know where the money's coming from next month but that teaches you to be creative, cheap, fast. You'll probably be doing other stuff like running documents around town for your boss or doing stuff that's not in your job title. But hey, experience is experience.
Medium companies are great because there's lots of money in it, people are usually pretty nice and they are fairly stable. Sometimes the bosses get too rich and happy and there's not a lot to do, growth stalls along with your personal career growth. You can get caught in one of these places for 20 years, turn around when your boss retires at 40 and try to get a new job only to find you are now obsolete.
Large companies are not fun for young people. They have everything figured out already, it seems. They have a huge 4" three ring binder for every position including janitor with step by step daily tasks and routines. Good benefits, stable pay, regular pay increases. At the end of the day, you are just a number.
Your own business: You get to be all 3 hopefully, and then retire on your savings and cashed in stock and spend the rest of your life sailing the world, having a few mistresses, large houses, fast cars, etc. Or you fail and go bankrupt and have to go back to another company and be poor again.
Who specifically are we at war with? That is to say, other than "the terrorists." Who do we have to kill or who has to surrender to end this war, bin Laden, the Taliban? The fact is, we are not at war in any meaningful sense of the word. We are at war only in the same sense that we are at war with drugs and poverty.
Or as I like to say, "There is No War". Watch "Wag the Dog", it's interesting.
"I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.. I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, men other-centered can build up. I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land.... " --Martin L. King, 1964 Nobel Prize for Peach acceptance speech.
Say each one has an averaged sized extended family, say 30-40 people, that means 2000 x 40 = 80000 people immediately involved emotionally (i.e. a close family member directly involved. If each of those people has 30-40 people they know, 3.2 Million people know someone who was directly or immediately emotionally involved. Of course, there were a lot of rescued people as the buildings got evac'd pretty quickly due to policies put into place during the Clinton administration after the first bombing. Not to mention the rescuers, and the people who work in the immediately surrounding dense finanical district. So make that first number closer to 100,000. * 40 = 4,000,000 people * 40 = 160 million people or around 50% of the US who know someone emotionally involved.
But even that 160,000,000, although fully HALF of our population, it only represents a little over 2 percent of the world population, hardly even noticeable.
Anyway, alls I'm saying is we have bigger problems to worry about as a world than security, especially when the numbers are as small as this. Everyone needs to seriously stop watching TV and reading online news--it is going to rot our brains and society to nothing. Look outside and see what's changed since that fateful day in Sept. I mean, excepting the "security enhancements", the sky is still blue, the sun is still shining, the park is still nice, the food is still good, the beer is still cold. If there was any effect, it's all inside of our heads. I think we should all instead think of it like you do the death of an elderly grandmother. It was just time. It happened. After the initial period of mourning, why should we all be affected by it. And our children, who are yet to be born, did not have to experience the shock. Why should we infect future generations with it by passing laws for our own selfish current benefit? Grandma would want us to go on living, not dwell on her death. Likewise I think we should do the same thing for the dead of this incident.
Checking ID's reduces the number of people going through security. That's it. It's not designed to keep any particular person out (since you don't have to show ID anyway), it just means that less people are likely to go through security who are not actually flying. This reduces the number of people that need to be screened, and thus reduces the amount of money that needs to be spent on equipment and screeners.
Exactly, that's why this lawmaker who called for the arrest of this person should be chastized. Arrest people for having ideas? That doesn't sound like a democracy. I mean, if they are after the tool, they should also arrest anyone with a copy of Photoshop (not to mention the entire Adobe staff), every Kinko's employee, etc etc etc. Heck, I could make a boarding pass in latex in a few minutes. Especially when the security issue is not that important to real actual security.
Get real. Although 2000 AMERICANS is a significant percentage of AMERICA, 2000 PEOPLE is not a significant percentage of HUMANITY. Even if terrorists were somehow able to construct a functional nuclear device, smuggle it into a major city and manage to detonate it and kill 100,000 people, it's still meaningless as far as humanity is concerned. A great tragedy, the country would be pretty numb, almost everyone would know someone who died and those people who were in city would have their lives unjustly ended early. BUT, humanity will go on. Even 10 bombs, or 100! Anyone who wants to make a nuclear bomb bad enough can get the info needed to build one. So why not publish it online so everyone knows how to make one, then the security guards actually know what one looks like, the person who finds it knows how it works and then more people can think of solutions to stop them.
Instead, the current mindset is to limit the information, and therefore the people working to solve the problem, thus leading to no solutions being found. That is why this is a huge farce. Lawmakers are using a tragedy to not only take and spend money but to take away our freedoms and increase their own power. And in the end, as is shown here and will be continually shown TIME AND TIME AGAIN in the future, all of their so called "security measures" will prove to be just as easily bypassed.
The real reason was to limit the number of people who get in to the boarding area so they need less employees to clean toilets and carpets, less wear on carpets, less seating required, etc. because all of those employees will have to be security checked. It's security compartmentalization. It doesn't MATTER if a small number people start printing out boarding passes to get behind the gates. They always could. It's just preventing the flocking of sheep in places where they have to be served, and thus creating a bigger security risk in the form of authorized employees. In addition, that means fewer faces for a facial recognition algorithm to search and of course a captive audience for any food services deep in the terminal.
This information does not lower the security of the system. It was already very low. Just as bolt cutters will never be banned even though they can cut locks, this guy shouldn't be arrested because he is generating an HTML file. PEOPLE make terror, not tools. The more information people have, the less likely they are to fear the government, and thus the less likely they will want to cause insurrection. Information, like humanity, wants to be free. One might argue that the whole middle east is based on a problem of information--people there are affected by real-world conditions on the ground and they don't understand that it's not US (americans) that are causing those problems. It's their leaders and our leaders, keeping the real information from them. If everyone knew what everyone else was thinking, we'd know for sure that politicians and governments are all liars and are using us for our money and slave labor. As long as that's being done for the collective GOOD, so be it, but when it's used for the collective harm and benefits only those in power, you have what's called a Dictatorship. Which is not what America is supposed to be about.
So next time they go spouting off about some stupid new security measure that seems to be for the collective good but doesn't really do anything, look to see who benefits. Then you'll know if it really was done to protect YOU or to protect some rich factory or security company owner.
It's a federal felony to tamper with voting. So we just need someone to come forward from their camp and tell us what they did and we'll be rid of them for a long long time.
Everyone is missing the point. WE DON'T NEED MORE SECURITY. We need a better system. It doesn't matter how secure the voting apparatus is if you can't trust the people COUNTING the votes.
The whole black box voting thing came as a response to some elections being RIGGED in 2004. The governments responsible for the elections said "that's impossible, these machines are secure" and we went on to prove that they weren't. So basically, they could have been rigged.
But what needs to be known by every citizen is not that the machines are insecure. They need to realize that there are people who are rigging the elections. And it's not going to be some dickhead cracker who rigs the election. It's going to be the Secret Service or the CIA or some election commissioner somewhere who's a friend of a friend of the president or an influential senator. The MACHINES are not the problem. The PROBLEM is we can't trust the people who HOLD the elections because they are RIGGING them. More security will not solve that problem--it will simply hide more information and allow the government/shadow people/whatever to control the results more easily. Just like the false fear of the word "terror", increased security in voting will mean giving up some of your freedom, AGAIN.
What I am scared of is some non-technical asshole reporter at the Washington Post picking up this story, misquoting/paraphrasing the article and slapping a headline like "Hackers Post HOWTO Manual to Rig Elections". The public will then percieve their enemy to be "hackers" or "people who know about voting machines". Thus, the lawmakers will seize this brief distrust and make such information illegal, furthering their control over the voting. THE MACHINES ARE NOT THE PROBLEM. PEOPLE ARE *RIGGING* THE ELECTIONS.
You make a fast project plan, determine who is invested in it. Determine the final value of the project. Determine the cost of the project. Then make sure you get 50% upfront, 25% at some predetermined point in the project plan and 25% at completion. If they balk at the second 25% you give them one chance then you drop the contract. As a coder, you will have to kiss some ass and take some shit work for the first couple of jobs to get a good rep. Then you can offer references, a US phone number, etc. Somethings are more important to a business than saving $500. Of course, the bad clients it does matter to, so you are getting rid of them before you have a chance to experience the heartache firsthand.
That's why you have a contract renegotiation clause at every minor (1/100) version.
v0.01 Type on keys and it appears on screen ($50)
User is not satisfied. Says he wants to EDIT text. Say that wasn't in the original work spec HE SIGNED, offer to make the improvements FOR A SMALL FEE.
v0.02 vi
User is not satisfied, says he wants INTERACTIVITY. Say that wasn't in the original work spec HE SIGNED, offer to make the improvements FOR A SMALL FEE.
v1.0 You've just made $5000!
Remember the wise words: fast, good, cheap, pick any two. There's plenty of coding work, if your current employer can't afford to keep paying you, you can steal the code, take it to a competitor and get hired for double the pay! Rinse and repeat!
Rule #9: NEVER SIGN CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENTS. Your reply should be that of disgust, "You don't TRUST me?"
Rule #10: NEVER SIGN A CONTRACT THAT DOESN'T HAVE A PAY INCREASE
There is no honor as a ronin, but there is lots of dough. Don't be afraid to make enemies--your Dead Man's Switch and offshore banking will protect you and your children!
Why would audio be kernel level? Just because it HAS doesn't mean it SHOULD. There should be a nice open interface that lets me makeSound(*sound) without having to worry about ANYTHING. That's why they call it an OPERATING SYSTEM. Hardware manufacturers and game developers won't risk it?
That's a negative. M$FT got big because they made an industry. Your beloved AMD and nVidia are going to love the excuse to push new "certified" hardware, and keep a step ahead of the generic makers. Your game publishers love to release an "exclusive"--they can charge more for it!
What makes you think the industry likes moving millions of units of commodity hardware? They can make as much money moving fewer units of the newest stuff. And since there is one "got to have it" involved in the equation, so much the better. What is it, you ask? Windows Vista. That's right, your PHB already has his name on the preorder and you know it's coming on every new Dell your company orders. And when the CEO ships out a special memo with his shiny new version of Outlook, the rest of the company has to upgrade to read it.
Now they'll replace tag with mandatory military training, for their "safety". It's really amazing what pussies kids are today. Why, I used to have to walk 3 miles in 40 below weather and we didn't just play tag, we played "smear the queer", in a field of shoddy blacktop with broken glass and children's blood from last week's game.
If you got injured, you were an idiot. It's called natural selection. The problem is that kids are so coddled today. But what's going to happen when today's kids are in their 20's and Mom and/or Dad stops coddling them? That's right, all hell is going to break loose. Because these people have no idea how to take care of themselves, terrorism is just the beginning of the fears that have been instilled in them. These kids are afraid to go outside because their Mothers coddle them so.
I disagree with it, but the school must be covering it's ass--probably an angry parent with the media on their side. Still, you need to let kids be kids, stop trying to teach them to read by age 1 or keep them locked at home in bed. You have to roll the dice and take a few risks to get a great kid. Otherwise, your kid is going to grow up into a psycho.
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Specifically the technical standards.
Additionally, the casinos use statistics to find problems. They know how much people are "supposed" to win over time. In elections, it's called polling. Of course, in 2004, the exit polls showed Kerry winning. In 2000, the exit polls showed Gore winning. But the supreme court threw it out in 00 and Kerry gave up in 04 to keep his Senate seat.
The casinos also use surveilance cameras to watch people playing. I've always said a time coded live webcam of every machine would work wonders for security. Don't show the votes, of course. Same thing with the ballot boxes.
Another thing is trust. In a casino, they do a lot to promote the people who are winning. But at the end of the day, it's pretty obvious you can expect to LOSE at a casino. How else would they stay in business? They make no secret about their evilness. It's up to you if you want to go to a casino and lose your money (or maybe make some). In politics, they do a lot to promote the people who are winning. But we the People should not expect to lose. The problem is that it's not realistic to expect to be pleased by a lawmaker. They really do have to have EVERYONE into account and the easiest way to decide who matters most is with MONEY. The problem is that as the cycle continues, more and more favor goes to the big business (from both sides) and less to the individual. And over time, our individual lives matter less and less. But they still matter. Obama said it best that everyone matters, even the poor person on the street corner, the guy with no legs, the girl with no sight. We all matter. And if we all start believing that instead of thinking that we're somehow better than everyone else, politics will mirror those beliefs. I think that a lot of people already believe in that, maybe a lot more than actually say it.
I was going to say... Wouldn't it be ironic if they got laid off because they fell for a fake email that said they were getting laid off?
Correct, it tries to validate your copy of Windows itself. (the installer) There's a fixed installer floating around the 0-day sites.
Because terrorism means Muslim nutcase setting off a bomb, right?
File an insurance claim with the shipping company. They will investigate, tell you it was delivered and then you take that back to Paypal in the form of a small claims court suit. They will settle.
Add to this the fact that PayPal constantly pushes linking your PayPal account to your "real" bank account (apparently so they can clean you out in one fell swoop) and you have a recipe for... well, I'd say about 5 lbs of ammonium nitrate, some black powder, and a time-delay fuse.
I have a separate bank account I use only with paypal. It's at the same bank I have my primary checking account at, so I can make free transfers between the two. I do that to get my seller money faster. To fund purchases, I always use a credit card, that way I get buyer protection for anything over $50 if fraud occurs. As far as the other problem, you're going to want to confine that mixure in a length of steel pipe with threaded end caps. Be sure to wipe down the threads on the second end cap with a wet rag before screwing it on--otherwise friction may ignite a stray grain of powder and ruin your afternoon.
How, exactly, can one "unveil" a classified, secret project?
Easy: they're hypocrites, you oxymoron.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation could buy 100,000 of these for about 2 weeks of interest on their investments.
I think a lot of the old programmers from the first boom just got into it because they heard about the money and weren't really made from "the cloth", so they went to other jobs. I'm not in a panic because I'm smart, I've just kept working and haven't tried to get in over my head like so many graduates. These 4.0 college GPA fags don't know how to think for themselves. It's the same damn problem over and over again. They got a 4.0 in kissing ass. So you have a degree, so what? You can't solve a problem on your own without your professor holding your dick (/britches)! My antiauthoritarian values have gotten me way further than ass kissing in this business. If you watch yourself get passed over for the promotion you deserve and haven't moved on (after first placing smelly cheese on the fuser of the office copier and snatching a generous "severence package" of licensed software CD's) it's not their fault anymore. It's yours. You are an idiot if you think someone isn't going to promote their cousin/drinking buddy over you.
Merits don't typically matter in corporate America. But, in certain circles, especially higher up in the system, there are those that appreciate the rebel, the person who's not afraid to disagree with them and really help build the company. You have to find those people and latch onto them--let them kiss ass and you can ride up with them and find more like-minded individuals.
Just keep in mind one thing--you will be able to find another job. So don't worry about kissing people's toes and worry more about pushing the limits of your understanding and knowledge so when the time does come to get a new position, you have the confidence to excel and get the pay you deserve. I used to do hiring for a company and it's really amazing how many total pieces of shit try to get jobs and don't even comb their hair. Don't make stupid mistakes, speak up if you are right, and don't let anyone scare you.
I recommend just getting a damn job and not thinking about it too much. You ALWAYS have time to change your course and if you're sitting around thinking about it you're losing month after month of valuable experience you can take with you the rest of your life.
If you aren't happy after a year, switch up. No one cares how long you were at your previous job if you're good enough (as long as it's at least a year). I don't think you can consider yourself a computer "expert" if you only do one job your whole life. I think all junior people should spend at least a year doing Helldesk, even if you think you're over-qualified. Being out on the frontlines with actual users can really help you a few years later when you're a developer.
I think that every junior should also spend time working non-computer stuff like accounting, filing, reading forms and the other usual day to day crap. You are going to be writing the applications that replace those people's jobs and in reality it's harder than you think to manage 10000 paper files or do accrual accounting.
I think junior people should work for companies of all sizes. Small companies are good experience when you're young and don't have a lot of responsibility. There's a shitload of stress because your boss won't always know where the money's coming from next month but that teaches you to be creative, cheap, fast. You'll probably be doing other stuff like running documents around town for your boss or doing stuff that's not in your job title. But hey, experience is experience.
Medium companies are great because there's lots of money in it, people are usually pretty nice and they are fairly stable. Sometimes the bosses get too rich and happy and there's not a lot to do, growth stalls along with your personal career growth. You can get caught in one of these places for 20 years, turn around when your boss retires at 40 and try to get a new job only to find you are now obsolete.
Large companies are not fun for young people. They have everything figured out already, it seems. They have a huge 4" three ring binder for every position including janitor with step by step daily tasks and routines. Good benefits, stable pay, regular pay increases. At the end of the day, you are just a number.
Your own business: You get to be all 3 hopefully, and then retire on your savings and cashed in stock and spend the rest of your life sailing the world, having a few mistresses, large houses, fast cars, etc. Or you fail and go bankrupt and have to go back to another company and be poor again.
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Who specifically are we at war with? That is to say, other than "the terrorists." Who do we have to kill or who has to surrender to end this war, bin Laden, the Taliban? The fact is, we are not at war in any meaningful sense of the word. We are at war only in the same sense that we are at war with drugs and poverty.
Or as I like to say, "There is No War". Watch "Wag the Dog", it's interesting.
"I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.. I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, men other-centered can build up. I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land.... "
--Martin L. King, 1964 Nobel Prize for Peach acceptance speech.
Say each one has an averaged sized extended family, say 30-40 people, that means 2000 x 40 = 80000 people immediately involved emotionally (i.e. a close family member directly involved. If each of those people has 30-40 people they know, 3.2 Million people know someone who was directly or immediately emotionally involved. Of course, there were a lot of rescued people as the buildings got evac'd pretty quickly due to policies put into place during the Clinton administration after the first bombing. Not to mention the rescuers, and the people who work in the immediately surrounding dense finanical district. So make that first number closer to 100,000. * 40 = 4,000,000 people * 40 = 160 million people or around 50% of the US who know someone emotionally involved.
But even that 160,000,000, although fully HALF of our population, it only represents a little over 2 percent of the world population, hardly even noticeable.
Anyway, alls I'm saying is we have bigger problems to worry about as a world than security, especially when the numbers are as small as this. Everyone needs to seriously stop watching TV and reading online news--it is going to rot our brains and society to nothing. Look outside and see what's changed since that fateful day in Sept. I mean, excepting the "security enhancements", the sky is still blue, the sun is still shining, the park is still nice, the food is still good, the beer is still cold. If there was any effect, it's all inside of our heads. I think we should all instead think of it like you do the death of an elderly grandmother. It was just time. It happened. After the initial period of mourning, why should we all be affected by it. And our children, who are yet to be born, did not have to experience the shock. Why should we infect future generations with it by passing laws for our own selfish current benefit? Grandma would want us to go on living, not dwell on her death. Likewise I think we should do the same thing for the dead of this incident.
Checking ID's reduces the number of people going through security. That's it. It's not designed to keep any particular person out (since you don't have to show ID anyway), it just means that less people are likely to go through security who are not actually flying. This reduces the number of people that need to be screened, and thus reduces the amount of money that needs to be spent on equipment and screeners.
Exactly, that's why this lawmaker who called for the arrest of this person should be chastized. Arrest people for having ideas? That doesn't sound like a democracy. I mean, if they are after the tool, they should also arrest anyone with a copy of Photoshop (not to mention the entire Adobe staff), every Kinko's employee, etc etc etc. Heck, I could make a boarding pass in latex in a few minutes. Especially when the security issue is not that important to real actual security.
Get real. Although 2000 AMERICANS is a significant percentage of AMERICA, 2000 PEOPLE is not a significant percentage of HUMANITY. Even if terrorists were somehow able to construct a functional nuclear device, smuggle it into a major city and manage to detonate it and kill 100,000 people, it's still meaningless as far as humanity is concerned. A great tragedy, the country would be pretty numb, almost everyone would know someone who died and those people who were in city would have their lives unjustly ended early. BUT, humanity will go on. Even 10 bombs, or 100! Anyone who wants to make a nuclear bomb bad enough can get the info needed to build one. So why not publish it online so everyone knows how to make one, then the security guards actually know what one looks like, the person who finds it knows how it works and then more people can think of solutions to stop them.
Instead, the current mindset is to limit the information, and therefore the people working to solve the problem, thus leading to no solutions being found. That is why this is a huge farce. Lawmakers are using a tragedy to not only take and spend money but to take away our freedoms and increase their own power. And in the end, as is shown here and will be continually shown TIME AND TIME AGAIN in the future, all of their so called "security measures" will prove to be just as easily bypassed.
The real reason was to limit the number of people who get in to the boarding area so they need less employees to clean toilets and carpets, less wear on carpets, less seating required, etc. because all of those employees will have to be security checked. It's security compartmentalization. It doesn't MATTER if a small number people start printing out boarding passes to get behind the gates. They always could. It's just preventing the flocking of sheep in places where they have to be served, and thus creating a bigger security risk in the form of authorized employees. In addition, that means fewer faces for a facial recognition algorithm to search and of course a captive audience for any food services deep in the terminal.
This information does not lower the security of the system. It was already very low. Just as bolt cutters will never be banned even though they can cut locks, this guy shouldn't be arrested because he is generating an HTML file. PEOPLE make terror, not tools. The more information people have, the less likely they are to fear the government, and thus the less likely they will want to cause insurrection. Information, like humanity, wants to be free. One might argue that the whole middle east is based on a problem of information--people there are affected by real-world conditions on the ground and they don't understand that it's not US (americans) that are causing those problems. It's their leaders and our leaders, keeping the real information from them. If everyone knew what everyone else was thinking, we'd know for sure that politicians and governments are all liars and are using us for our money and slave labor. As long as that's being done for the collective GOOD, so be it, but when it's used for the collective harm and benefits only those in power, you have what's called a Dictatorship. Which is not what America is supposed to be about.
So next time they go spouting off about some stupid new security measure that seems to be for the collective good but doesn't really do anything, look to see who benefits. Then you'll know if it really was done to protect YOU or to protect some rich factory or security company owner.
Brings new meaning to another Arlo Guthrie Song, Coming into Los Angeles:
Coming into Los Angel-ees
Bringin in a couple of Keys
Don't touch my bag if you please
Mr. Customs man
where Keys= well you get it
It's a federal felony to tamper with voting. So we just need someone to come forward from their camp and tell us what they did and we'll be rid of them for a long long time.
Everyone is missing the point. WE DON'T NEED MORE SECURITY. We need a better system. It doesn't matter how secure the voting apparatus is if you can't trust the people COUNTING the votes.
The whole black box voting thing came as a response to some elections being RIGGED in 2004. The governments responsible for the elections said "that's impossible, these machines are secure" and we went on to prove that they weren't. So basically, they could have been rigged.
But what needs to be known by every citizen is not that the machines are insecure. They need to realize that there are people who are rigging the elections. And it's not going to be some dickhead cracker who rigs the election. It's going to be the Secret Service or the CIA or some election commissioner somewhere who's a friend of a friend of the president or an influential senator. The MACHINES are not the problem. The PROBLEM is we can't trust the people who HOLD the elections because they are RIGGING them. More security will not solve that problem--it will simply hide more information and allow the government/shadow people/whatever to control the results more easily. Just like the false fear of the word "terror", increased security in voting will mean giving up some of your freedom, AGAIN.
What I am scared of is some non-technical asshole reporter at the Washington Post picking up this story, misquoting/paraphrasing the article and slapping a headline like "Hackers Post HOWTO Manual to Rig Elections". The public will then percieve their enemy to be "hackers" or "people who know about voting machines". Thus, the lawmakers will seize this brief distrust and make such information illegal, furthering their control over the voting. THE MACHINES ARE NOT THE PROBLEM. PEOPLE ARE *RIGGING* THE ELECTIONS.
Utilize the quick-kill method:
You make a fast project plan, determine who is invested in it. Determine the final value of the project. Determine the cost of the project. Then make sure you get 50% upfront, 25% at some predetermined point in the project plan and 25% at completion. If they balk at the second 25% you give them one chance then you drop the contract. As a coder, you will have to kiss some ass and take some shit work for the first couple of jobs to get a good rep. Then you can offer references, a US phone number, etc. Somethings are more important to a business than saving $500. Of course, the bad clients it does matter to, so you are getting rid of them before you have a chance to experience the heartache firsthand.
That's why you have a contract renegotiation clause at every minor (1/100) version.
v0.01 Type on keys and it appears on screen ($50)
User is not satisfied. Says he wants to EDIT text. Say that wasn't in the original work spec HE SIGNED, offer to make the improvements FOR A SMALL FEE.
v0.02 vi
User is not satisfied, says he wants INTERACTIVITY. Say that wasn't in the original work spec HE SIGNED, offer to make the improvements FOR A SMALL FEE.
v1.0 You've just made $5000!
Remember the wise words: fast, good, cheap, pick any two. There's plenty of coding work, if your current employer can't afford to keep paying you, you can steal the code, take it to a competitor and get hired for double the pay! Rinse and repeat!
Rule #9: NEVER SIGN CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENTS. Your reply should be that of disgust, "You don't TRUST me?"
Rule #10: NEVER SIGN A CONTRACT THAT DOESN'T HAVE A PAY INCREASE
There is no honor as a ronin, but there is lots of dough. Don't be afraid to make enemies--your Dead Man's Switch and offshore banking will protect you and your children!
Why would audio be kernel level? Just because it HAS doesn't mean it SHOULD. There should be a nice open interface that lets me makeSound(*sound) without having to worry about ANYTHING. That's why they call it an OPERATING SYSTEM. Hardware manufacturers and game developers won't risk it?
That's a negative. M$FT got big because they made an industry. Your beloved AMD and nVidia are going to love the excuse to push new "certified" hardware, and keep a step ahead of the generic makers. Your game publishers love to release an "exclusive"--they can charge more for it!
What makes you think the industry likes moving millions of units of commodity hardware? They can make as much money moving fewer units of the newest stuff. And since there is one "got to have it" involved in the equation, so much the better. What is it, you ask? Windows Vista. That's right, your PHB already has his name on the preorder and you know it's coming on every new Dell your company orders. And when the CEO ships out a special memo with his shiny new version of Outlook, the rest of the company has to upgrade to read it.
More like "rise from the ashes" marketing campaign and press release, announce the sale of the brand to Apple, pump and dump.
WGA = WGA's Genuine Advantage... ...some GNU freaks are gonna dock me for that one, but it's SO worth it.
It's a recursive acronym, if you didn't already get it..
Now they'll replace tag with mandatory military training, for their "safety". It's really amazing what pussies kids are today. Why, I used to have to walk 3 miles in 40 below weather and we didn't just play tag, we played "smear the queer", in a field of shoddy blacktop with broken glass and children's blood from last week's game.
If you got injured, you were an idiot. It's called natural selection. The problem is that kids are so coddled today. But what's going to happen when today's kids are in their 20's and Mom and/or Dad stops coddling them? That's right, all hell is going to break loose. Because these people have no idea how to take care of themselves, terrorism is just the beginning of the fears that have been instilled in them. These kids are afraid to go outside because their Mothers coddle them so.
I disagree with it, but the school must be covering it's ass--probably an angry parent with the media on their side. Still, you need to let kids be kids, stop trying to teach them to read by age 1 or keep them locked at home in bed. You have to roll the dice and take a few risks to get a great kid. Otherwise, your kid is going to grow up into a psycho.
When was the last time you thought your vote would be actually COUNTED CORRECTLY?