Well, the whole government conspiracy bit is far from proven but the tags clearly exist. You can see them being demonstrated in this video.
I'm already so damned trackable that I don't honestly care about my car being slightly more trackable. I carry one or two cell phones, I use automatic toll collection systems when they're available, and I pay for nearly everything with American Express.
If the government starts using these tags, or the alleged tracking system, in unconstitutional ways, then I'll be concerned. If, however, they just make it so they can locate my car faster after it's been reported stolen, then I'm happy.
Like so much of government these days, the big problem is that they're not being open and honest with us.
Even the most far-right wing, Christian Coalition, fundamentalist, conservative zealot doesn't believe sex is bad, just that it should be confined to marriage.
you forgot that it should be confined to marraige, and only for the purposes of having children, and never for pleasure, marraige or not.
Yet if that same auto-maker was being run by a cable company, I would have to purchase Air-Conditioning, Power Windows and an in dash CD Player before I could get the comfy seats.
You haven't ever bought a new car, have you? That 's exactly how buying a car works. As an example, let's look at an extremely average car, the Honda Accord Coupe. So you're happy with the plain jane car, the Accord LX. Now let's say you want to add comfy seats... they're not an option on the LX, to get them you must buy the EX, which starts at $2400 more than the LX, and comes with a 6-disc in-dash cd changer, 16" alloy wheels, and a power moonroof that you may or may not want.
From a technical perspective, I believe that they're getting culled for a reason. Mandrake is the 'bleeding edge' distro, and that used to have some value, because users used to regularly need the latest versions of applications, libraries and the kernel to be able to accomplish their goals.
These days though, most goals can be accomplished with software that's stabilized and has been regression tested for a few months, thus making many other distributions preferable to mandrake.
It's sad to see them go out of business, but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't go bankrupt.
I use gigabit at home, despite having a 5mbit pipe. with gigabit, your fileserver really is as fast as having all your data locally on every single box. this way i only need to care about data in one place, much easier than the alternative of a little data here, a little there, and so on.
My family and I are swapping gifts as always. In addition to this, we're planning to get together and enjoy each others' company. It's wonderful.
We're all successful adults, and it's enjoyable to spend a small fraction of my time and money finding useful, enjoyable gifts for my loved ones.
The best part of this approach is that we're left with little reminders of our family all over our homes and in our memories. I've received useful electronics that reminds me of the person who gave them to me, vacations which left me with lasting memories (and photographs) and all sorts of little things that show that somebody was thinking of me.
Nobody cares how much money gets spent, because that's not the point. Some gifts are worth tens of thousands of dollars, others have no financial cost at all. And honestly, I like the golf course first aid kit I received from one of my friends just as much as one of the all-out vacations I've received from my family. The important thing is that they took some time out of their busy lives to find something special for me.
Enjoy your non-gift holiday, but don't forget that it's possible to have a relaxed and wonderful holiday, and to exchange gifts. Not to mention the fact that it's fun finding those gifts that you know will be well loved.
Just a question, what are you using to get 10 coax runs? I have a spauns 5802 which is a nice 5x8 multiswitch, but (as of a few months ago anyway) I hadn't seen any straightforward 10 way multiswitches.
Take a look at this diagram. Are your financial, educational, travel, medical, veterinary, country entry, transportation, and communication records all public? did you register your face, finger prints, gait and iris into a public database as well?
the TIA focuses on compiling all information, not just that which is public, thus the name 'total information awareness'. At least they made an honest logo.
Tracking such as your describing already is implemented.
All the advanced digital settops have the ability to "phone home" with viewer habits when installed on two-way cable systems, or installed with a telco return. Thus, unless you have one-way cable and you didn't hook up a phone line to your cable box, your viewing habits are probably being tracked.
As far as anonymity goes, there isn't any. The boxes send their unique ids back to the headend along with the saved data, so the cable company can identify exactly who is watching what, when.
What "social bracket" are you in, the very, very shortsighted one?
You don't need to be particularly smart to realize that a $200 outlay that pays for itself in a year and a half is a pretty decent return on investment, and is a good idea.
Am I the only geek who actually thinks that the amazon.com one-click patent is valid? Hell, they only thing they've done with that patent is sue the evil megacorp barnes and noble.
Amazon is just using the available legal tools to try to protect their original concepts from the other megacorps, there's no reason to believe that they're trying to steal christmas, charge royalties on breathing or any of the other sinister accusations that are flying around here like shit in a monkey cage.
I ordered GTA:VC months ahead of time (along with several million other people), because GTA3 was so damned entertaining. Day before release date rolls around and they're saying that they won't be shipping my copy for another week or so, thus completely defeating the reason that I preordered. Conveniently enough, ebgames.com was able to ship me a copy for release day play, as they had realized that the masses of preorders probably wanted their game on release day.
What he said is indeed true. Caffeine is more addictive than cocaine, gram for gram. As for cocaine making a person addicted after a single use, you've been DARE educated. It's addictive, but it's not that addictive, unless you're defining 'single use' to mean 'monthlong binge'.
Well, let's take a drug that's available legally and otherwise: oxycontin.
Oxycontin is available on the street, for prices ranging between $0.50 and $1.00 per milligram. By prescription it costs approximately $0.10 per milligram (at the retail level).
That's a 5 to 10 fold increase in price, due to legality right there. And that's with a product that currently has a high markup due to there being no generic equivalent. Thus, a bag of heroin, if legalized, should be available for significantly under $2 (bags are currently $10 in major metropolitan areas)
Almost every single ident response on IRC is faked. hell, even the stock identd daemons support.fakeid files these days. (at least FreeBSD's builtin identd does)
identd is a protocol which only works if every user is trusted. despite this, some very ignorant irc admins try to use the protocol to create trust. clearly this is a poorly thought out plan. add to that the fact that identd listens on a low port, so it needs to be a privileged process and you have ignorant admins exposing their network's users to unneccessary risk, for no gain.
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I have significant experience with VRRP and can attest that it's a Good Thing(tm). I've used it on border routers, on load balancers and on SSL accelerators, and it's incredibly useful not just for preventing unplanned downtime, but it also makes it easy to fail to a second router, upgrade the primary router, then cut back to the primary router and upgrade the secondary router without ever having downtime.
And honestly, if you're having significant problems due to router misconfiguration, you should really consider replacing your network staff. A few glitches are to be expected, but if they're causing more downtime than your hardware, perhaps they need to study up before they're allowed near your production kit.
i could be wrong, but how many times has a security patch caused a problem?
Personally, I've seen patches for solaris and redhat that fucked Oracle. I've seen Oracle patches that fucked SAP. I've seen a solaris patch that fucked CheckPoint. I've seen any number of patches which didn't even fix anything.
Go look at the records on patch releases, and you'll see that it's not uncommon for a vendor to fix the same problem twice in a row, about a week or two apart, because the first fix either didn't fix the problem or it caused major issues with something.
Those silly terrrists believe that if they've succeeded in harming the Zionist infidels, that they've helped bring all glory to Allah, and death will only result in an eternity in paradise, with gardens, vineyards, fountains, young boys, high-bosomed virgins, and a 100% free whoremart for those times when they've realized that virgins make for lousy fucks.
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give credit where credit is due. your sig is a mitch hedberg quote.
really? that's odd.
it'd be nice to see that feature available without writing the software myself, or spending $100k though.
I'm already so damned trackable that I don't honestly care about my car being slightly more trackable. I carry one or two cell phones, I use automatic toll collection systems when they're available, and I pay for nearly everything with American Express.
If the government starts using these tags, or the alleged tracking system, in unconstitutional ways, then I'll be concerned. If, however, they just make it so they can locate my car faster after it's been reported stolen, then I'm happy.
Like so much of government these days, the big problem is that they're not being open and honest with us.
So umm... what was your point again?
These days though, most goals can be accomplished with software that's stabilized and has been regression tested for a few months, thus making many other distributions preferable to mandrake.
It's sad to see them go out of business, but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't go bankrupt.
I use gigabit at home, despite having a 5mbit pipe. with gigabit, your fileserver really is as fast as having all your data locally on every single box. this way i only need to care about data in one place, much easier than the alternative of a little data here, a little there, and so on.
We're all successful adults, and it's enjoyable to spend a small fraction of my time and money finding useful, enjoyable gifts for my loved ones.
The best part of this approach is that we're left with little reminders of our family all over our homes and in our memories. I've received useful electronics that reminds me of the person who gave them to me, vacations which left me with lasting memories (and photographs) and all sorts of little things that show that somebody was thinking of me.
Nobody cares how much money gets spent, because that's not the point. Some gifts are worth tens of thousands of dollars, others have no financial cost at all. And honestly, I like the golf course first aid kit I received from one of my friends just as much as one of the all-out vacations I've received from my family. The important thing is that they took some time out of their busy lives to find something special for me.
Enjoy your non-gift holiday, but don't forget that it's possible to have a relaxed and wonderful holiday, and to exchange gifts. Not to mention the fact that it's fun finding those gifts that you know will be well loved.
Just a question, what are you using to get 10 coax runs? I have a spauns 5802 which is a nice 5x8 multiswitch, but (as of a few months ago anyway) I hadn't seen any straightforward 10 way multiswitches.
the TIA focuses on compiling all information, not just that which is public, thus the name 'total information awareness'. At least they made an honest logo.
All the advanced digital settops have the ability to "phone home" with viewer habits when installed on two-way cable systems, or installed with a telco return. Thus, unless you have one-way cable and you didn't hook up a phone line to your cable box, your viewing habits are probably being tracked.
As far as anonymity goes, there isn't any. The boxes send their unique ids back to the headend along with the saved data, so the cable company can identify exactly who is watching what, when.
Isn't digital technology great?
You don't need to be particularly smart to realize that a $200 outlay that pays for itself in a year and a half is a pretty decent return on investment, and is a good idea.
2.5 years ago the service fee was $10/mo, not $13/mo.
You claim you prefer one-time charges, but you didn't pay for lifetime service (which was only $100 2.5 years ago).
Amazon is just using the available legal tools to try to protect their original concepts from the other megacorps, there's no reason to believe that they're trying to steal christmas, charge royalties on breathing or any of the other sinister accusations that are flying around here like shit in a monkey cage.
I ordered GTA:VC months ahead of time (along with several million other people), because GTA3 was so damned entertaining. Day before release date rolls around and they're saying that they won't be shipping my copy for another week or so, thus completely defeating the reason that I preordered. Conveniently enough, ebgames.com was able to ship me a copy for release day play, as they had realized that the masses of preorders probably wanted their game on release day.
What he said is indeed true. Caffeine is more addictive than cocaine, gram for gram. As for cocaine making a person addicted after a single use, you've been DARE educated. It's addictive, but it's not that addictive, unless you're defining 'single use' to mean 'monthlong binge'.
Oxycontin is available on the street, for prices ranging between $0.50 and $1.00 per milligram. By prescription it costs approximately $0.10 per milligram (at the retail level).
That's a 5 to 10 fold increase in price, due to legality right there. And that's with a product that currently has a high markup due to there being no generic equivalent. Thus, a bag of heroin, if legalized, should be available for significantly under $2 (bags are currently $10 in major metropolitan areas)
rob does wayne newton.
Almost every single ident response on IRC is faked. hell, even the stock identd daemons support .fakeid files these days. (at least FreeBSD's builtin identd does)
identd is a protocol which only works if every user is trusted. despite this, some very ignorant irc admins try to use the protocol to create trust. clearly this is a poorly thought out plan. add to that the fact that identd listens on a low port, so it needs to be a privileged process and you have ignorant admins exposing their network's users to unneccessary risk, for no gain.
And honestly, if you're having significant problems due to router misconfiguration, you should really consider replacing your network staff. A few glitches are to be expected, but if they're causing more downtime than your hardware, perhaps they need to study up before they're allowed near your production kit.
Go look at the records on patch releases, and you'll see that it's not uncommon for a vendor to fix the same problem twice in a row, about a week or two apart, because the first fix either didn't fix the problem or it caused major issues with something.
A camera ain't gunna do shit.
- Public Libraries
- Kinko's
- Hotel Rooms
- Tourist Information Centers
- Airport Lounges
- Highway Rest Stops (often have Public Internet Terminals)
- Internet Cafes
- Cable Company Kiosks
I hope that helps you commit your fiendish acts of email and web browsing after all the 802.11b access points in the world have been properly secured.Praise Allah.
you sir, are an enemy combatant.