Unfortunately this doesn't work as advertised. I was receiving those "Your Car Warranty is Expiring" notices from some shady company who even put the Chevrolet logo on their mailer. I sent two samples along with a completed form. On the form I stated that I found the mailings to be sexually explicit and offensive. About a month later, I heard back from the Classification Office in New York stating that, sadly, only sexually explicit articles were eligible for such an order and the samples I'd sent don't qualify.
Apparently this trick did work in the past, there's a documented case about someone who did this for annoying mailings they received from a real estate agent. USPS barred the real estate agent from sending further mail to that recipient, he sent more anyway and was fined. Upon appeal it was ruled that it's up to the recipient to determine what is or isn't sexually explicit, and the fine was upheld.
Assuming you're in the United States, you might be surprised what sort of laws are on the books. Things like spitting into a public trash can, having a porch light that shines into someone else's window, riding motorcycles two-wide on a roadway, setting out a D-CON rat poison trap in your back yard, drinking a beer in your own yard, not stopping to pick up and dispose of a squirrel that you hit with your vehicle, etc. are all illegal in certain places. Unless you've read your entire state code (Cornell has them online, take a couple of weeks to read yours) you have no clue how many laws you're breaking every day.
Do some real investigative work and make your freaking case. If the only evidence you have on someone is contained within their cell phone, perhaps they aren't guilty of anything they ought to be getting arrested for.
Makes me wonder if their family members also get those plates.
In my state at least, the congressperson's spouse is entitled to one. Same goes for judges (and their spouses) who also get special "Judiciary" plates if they want them.
It depends on which version of dd-wrt you installed, not necessarily when you installed it. I have a WRT54G that I just flashed r14929 on a few weeks ago, but it's fine, because that build is from 2010 and predates the Heartbleed vulnerability. The vulnerable builds are 19163 to 23882, see here.
Yes, parody is protected in the US, and parody against public figures has a long history of protection. However, once you piss off a politician, you can expect to be raked over the coals no matter what your rights. It's going to be expensive unless you can get the EFF or someone similar on board.
Now wait, did I just hear that some guy named Ardis likes to slob knobs in a McDonald's restroom?
Mail order? If I remember correctly, he went up to Canada ostensibly on business, and used his city credit card at the dildo store; that particular trip was what broke the scandal wide open. D'oh! If he'd just paid cash...
As for the quality of Canadian dildos, I have no idea.
Then there's Greg Davis, former (R) Mayor of Southaven, who got caught racking up thousands of taxpayer dollars to take his secret boyfriend on trips and buy dildos in Canada. You can't make this shit up.
Yet another buzzword invented by some CIO/CTO somewhere in an effort to consolidate multiple job roles and eliminate warm chairs. No surprise that its genesis seems to be in the startup world.
"DevOps" is a fucked up amalgam of the developers, the DBAs, the system admins, the mail admins, the storage and backup admins, and sometimes the field techs... All to extract more work from fewer people for less money.
Sea Shepherd can eat my ass. All the way up in there, rim me, baby. Tickle with your tongues and latch onto the corn and peanuts. And I guess you're cool if I shart butyric acid?
I have a hard time believe the FTC will follow through with reviewing and verifying the contents of these security audits.
They probably aren't planning to, and won't need to. Credit Karma will set up a new corporate entity like "Karma New Holdings LLC," transfer all assets including the domain, customers, and brand, and keep on truckin'. Hell it's probably already been done. Assuming the FTC ever does call them up two years from now, the entity which received sanctions will conveniently no longer exist.
The bubble has burst, and "being acquired by Facebook" is no longer sexy. In fact after a long string of acquisitions this is the first one I recall having a public backlash. I figure it's all downhill (for them) from here.
I'd still take the money, sure. But advertise on deez nuts. A billion a ball for your tattoo of choice.
It's also an enormous jobs program, employing 50,000 nut-cuppers and breast-gropers alone, without even getting started on air marshals, behavioral analysts, and of course thousands more management positions. Don't expect TSA disappear anytime soon, no matter who's in the White House.
What is this embedded PDF crap? Around here we have a tradition of warning people when a link goes to a PDF, and now they're being embedded right in the story? I thought I opted out of the beta shit.
Apparently, all they need to do is tell the Court that they've signed an NDA with the manufacturer of these ANPR cameras. Seems to be working pretty well for police departments all across the US who are sucking up thousands? millions? of completely innocent parties' cellphone connections via "StingRay" devices.
Right now DNA often comes in near the end of an investigation; you have to select people to test based on traditional detective work, and then you must legally acquire their DNA to match with your sample. If suspects don't want to give you DNA simply because you asked nicely, you have to be fairly sure of their guilt - and able to convince a judge of why you're sure - before you can get their DNA involuntarily.
So police work is hard. Boo fucking hoo. When someone's freedom (or life) hangs in the balance, it ought to be hard.
So many attempted lawsuits against the USG over various spying revelations have been refused because the complainant has no "standing," i.e. legal proof that they have been damaged. I imagine that if the list of targets were to leak, that would give those individuals valid standing to sue. As someone who was the DBA at a US$6-7B/yr corporation for more than 7 years I sort of suspect my name is on their list. I will say one thing, there's no fucking way any NSA ratware got into systems under my control using me as a conduit.
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AIM, at least, is widely used within the financial world.
Interesting. The actual AOL-produced client, or Pidgin with OTR?
Unfortunately this doesn't work as advertised. I was receiving those "Your Car Warranty is Expiring" notices from some shady company who even put the Chevrolet logo on their mailer. I sent two samples along with a completed form. On the form I stated that I found the mailings to be sexually explicit and offensive. About a month later, I heard back from the Classification Office in New York stating that, sadly, only sexually explicit articles were eligible for such an order and the samples I'd sent don't qualify.
Apparently this trick did work in the past, there's a documented case about someone who did this for annoying mailings they received from a real estate agent. USPS barred the real estate agent from sending further mail to that recipient, he sent more anyway and was fined. Upon appeal it was ruled that it's up to the recipient to determine what is or isn't sexually explicit, and the fine was upheld.
The rules must have changed.
Assuming you're in the United States, you might be surprised what sort of laws are on the books. Things like spitting into a public trash can, having a porch light that shines into someone else's window, riding motorcycles two-wide on a roadway, setting out a D-CON rat poison trap in your back yard, drinking a beer in your own yard, not stopping to pick up and dispose of a squirrel that you hit with your vehicle, etc. are all illegal in certain places. Unless you've read your entire state code (Cornell has them online, take a couple of weeks to read yours) you have no clue how many laws you're breaking every day.
Do some real investigative work and make your freaking case. If the only evidence you have on someone is contained within their cell phone, perhaps they aren't guilty of anything they ought to be getting arrested for.
Makes me wonder if their family members also get those plates.
In my state at least, the congressperson's spouse is entitled to one. Same goes for judges (and their spouses) who also get special "Judiciary" plates if they want them.
It depends on which version of dd-wrt you installed, not necessarily when you installed it. I have a WRT54G that I just flashed r14929 on a few weeks ago, but it's fine, because that build is from 2010 and predates the Heartbleed vulnerability. The vulnerable builds are 19163 to 23882, see here.
So does Memphis. It's some of the cleanest drinking water in the world.
Llaw enforcement will be lloving this new devellllopment, they'llll have yet another way to llook at the dark web.
Yes, parody is protected in the US, and parody against public figures has a long history of protection. However, once you piss off a politician, you can expect to be raked over the coals no matter what your rights. It's going to be expensive unless you can get the EFF or someone similar on board.
Now wait, did I just hear that some guy named Ardis likes to slob knobs in a McDonald's restroom?
Mail order? If I remember correctly, he went up to Canada ostensibly on business, and used his city credit card at the dildo store; that particular trip was what broke the scandal wide open. D'oh! If he'd just paid cash...
As for the quality of Canadian dildos, I have no idea.
Then there's Greg Davis, former (R) Mayor of Southaven, who got caught racking up thousands of taxpayer dollars to take his secret boyfriend on trips and buy dildos in Canada. You can't make this shit up.
Yet another buzzword invented by some CIO/CTO somewhere in an effort to consolidate multiple job roles and eliminate warm chairs. No surprise that its genesis seems to be in the startup world.
"DevOps" is a fucked up amalgam of the developers, the DBAs, the system admins, the mail admins, the storage and backup admins, and sometimes the field techs... All to extract more work from fewer people for less money.
She's pretty sharp, well connected, and understands how the government sees these types of date & service providers.
Which is precisely why I'd like to see her go be NFL Commissioner and leave the internet the fuck alone.
Yes, especially when we drop Coke bottles into their villages while flying overhead.
One founder didn't even realize he was depressed until glucose and blood tests came back normal
What? His tests came back normal and that was a sign of depression? Oh, I see, it was just a poor summary.
Sea Shepherd can eat my ass. All the way up in there, rim me, baby. Tickle with your tongues and latch onto the corn and peanuts. And I guess you're cool if I shart butyric acid?
You're nothing but terrorists on the open ocean.
I have a hard time believe the FTC will follow through with reviewing and verifying the contents of these security audits.
They probably aren't planning to, and won't need to. Credit Karma will set up a new corporate entity like "Karma New Holdings LLC," transfer all assets including the domain, customers, and brand, and keep on truckin'. Hell it's probably already been done. Assuming the FTC ever does call them up two years from now, the entity which received sanctions will conveniently no longer exist.
If you infiltrate, say, Target's internal network and POS systems, you aren't going to use them for a botnet and tip your hand.
Hi John,
How might I find my way to a posh life on tropical islands, with young women at my beck and call? I'll deal with the locals.
Warm regards,
The bubble has burst, and "being acquired by Facebook" is no longer sexy. In fact after a long string of acquisitions this is the first one I recall having a public backlash. I figure it's all downhill (for them) from here.
I'd still take the money, sure. But advertise on deez nuts. A billion a ball for your tattoo of choice.
It's also an enormous jobs program, employing 50,000 nut-cuppers and breast-gropers alone, without even getting started on air marshals, behavioral analysts, and of course thousands more management positions. Don't expect TSA disappear anytime soon, no matter who's in the White House.
What is this embedded PDF crap? Around here we have a tradition of warning people when a link goes to a PDF, and now they're being embedded right in the story? I thought I opted out of the beta shit.
Apparently, all they need to do is tell the Court that they've signed an NDA with the manufacturer of these ANPR cameras. Seems to be working pretty well for police departments all across the US who are sucking up thousands? millions? of completely innocent parties' cellphone connections via "StingRay" devices.
Right now DNA often comes in near the end of an investigation; you have to select people to test based on traditional detective work, and then you must legally acquire their DNA to match with your sample. If suspects don't want to give you DNA simply because you asked nicely, you have to be fairly sure of their guilt - and able to convince a judge of why you're sure - before you can get their DNA involuntarily.
So police work is hard. Boo fucking hoo. When someone's freedom (or life) hangs in the balance, it ought to be hard.
So many attempted lawsuits against the USG over various spying revelations have been refused because the complainant has no "standing," i.e. legal proof that they have been damaged. I imagine that if the list of targets were to leak, that would give those individuals valid standing to sue. As someone who was the DBA at a US$6-7B/yr corporation for more than 7 years I sort of suspect my name is on their list. I will say one thing, there's no fucking way any NSA ratware got into systems under my control using me as a conduit.