I have a thought. What if someone walks in with a great bing fuckoff EM pinch and sets it off in the voting booth. Or, even, a degausser placed strategically?
Another infection on the English vocabulary. I love it when people criticize "utility cover" as double-speak, then are the same people who fall for marketing droid words like this one. Everytime I hear 'pricepoint' I envision some slacker student waking up in the middle of a economics lecture, hearing only that word then writing it down. A couple of years out of Cardinal-Direction State U., the same person wakes up in the middle of team meeting and blurts this word perfunctorially. The next thing you know, it is dogma.:-)
Look. Libertarianism is another one of those wonderful ideas that is utter impractible -- like anarcho-syndicalism. It ignores sociology all together and the fact, to paraphrase Foucault, that someone will have to pick up the garbage. If they think that competition in the marketplace will take care of the problem of something like public health, then why does an practically lawless/liberated place like a Brazilian favela look like it does? If the principle that a market force would put someone up to cleaning up and charging for it, why doesn't it happen? Because the underlying social structure prevents it. Forget laws and gubmint. When the people are so structurally poor that they can't allow this crackpot view of the world to hold sway, why should we assume it would work anywhere else. I extend this to Free State movement. All of the white folk who are 'Libertarians' would move up there and boom the place would fall to shit because, by God, no one would want to sweep the streets. Answer? Import people who would and make damn sure they don't try to live outside that station. The old saw that 'Libertarianism is freedom for those who can afford it.' is, well, not far from the case. If you make the argument that Libertarianism is the true American political underpinning, I would assert that it is actually pragmatism. Nobody ever hunkered themselves down with their guns over Dewey's notion of work.
We're are still shutting down our students. You cannot provide access to University resources to non-University folks. This is already happening. It is a security hazard of the first order. I will gladly hand over any student who has a rogue AP and let's someone nefarious fucker on the their network. It would be their ass until they could prove otherwise. I stand by it. Also, you can't interfere with a previously installed system and must take steps to remediate the interference. That's in the FCC regs, which, BTW, are not law. Anyhow, we are cutting to G this semester. That takes care of the whole problem.
Explanation: virus is a New Latin word. Well, it is old, but it is used by us as a neologism. The rule of thumb is this: if an ancient coinage it declines according to Latin rules of grammar. If it is a word with no ancient meaning left (virus once meant 'venom' but was used rarely), then it should decline according to the rules of grammar of the adopting language. Virus has no meaning close to venom, and only has a modern sense of an microorganism that causes disease, or a malicious computer program. I guess there is a literary sense in which you can use virus to mean 'venom', but that is not a defintion, per se, but a synonym. So, not virii, but viruses. For example, in my native language, it is not virii, but 'virusov.' Always.
All killing is wrong. If you are against abortion, you must be against killing in general. Of course, you can claim some ridiculous thing like 'Original Sin,' but you have a lot of heavy lifting to do. Fascinating how anti-abortionists fought to save the life of a murderer who murdered to stop murder. Completely nuts. As to being in the way, a child is not in the way, it is simply out of the womb. To quote Dennis Miller, 'The death penalty is nothing more than abortion in the 93rd trimester.'
Or at least, the reason put forward for the war. You can hate me for the Latin but:
Res Loquitur Ipsa --------- Powell: Unlikely WMD Stocks Will Be Found in Iraq Mon Sep 13, 2004 03:27 PM ET
Reuters
By Arshad Mohammed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Colin Powell, who made the case to the world that pre-war Iraq had stocks of chemical and biological weapons, said on Monday he now thought these will probably never be found.
"I think it's unlikely that we will find any stockpiles," Powell told lawmakers when asked about the intelligence behind his Feb. 5, 2003, U.N. Security Council speech laying out U.S. arguments for the war with Iraq that began six weeks later.
Powell's latest comments appeared to be his most explicit to date suggesting that the central argument for President Bush's decision to invade Iraq -- the belief it possessed weapons of mass destruction -- was flawed.
As early as January Powell said it was an "open question" whether or not such arms would be found and he conceded the possibility Iraq might not have had any when the war began.
Bush himself had often said that even if no such weapons are found he did the right thing in invading Iraq in March 2003 and toppling Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, arguing that the country has been liberated from brutal dictatorship.
U.S. officials have also said that whether or not it had stockpiles in 2003, Iraq was a threat because it had possessed and used chemical weapons in the past, notably to kill 5,000 Iraqi Kurds in the town of Halabja in 1988.
The war in Iraq, in which more than 1,000 U.S. troops have died, and the violent insurgency that has developed since the U.S. invasion are a major issues in Bush's reelection battle against Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.
Powell made his comments as Charles Duelfer, the CIA-named leader of the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, is working on a report about his findings that was expected to be completed in the next few weeks.
Duelfer's predecessor, David Kay, said as he left the post in January that he believed there were no large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction when Washington went to war.
While he had reservations about the state of Iraq's efforts to obtain nuclear weapons when he spoke before the U.N. Security Council in February 2003, Powell insisted at that time that it had stocks of both biological and chemical weapons.
"There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more," Powell said then, at one point holding up a vial of simulated biological agent -- an image broadcast around the world.
"Our conservative estimate is that Iraq today has a stockpile of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical weapons agent," he said at the time.
Moderators have absolutely nothing to do with whether or not a submitted story gets accepted.
If they did, then you would only read stories about how Michael reads Plato's Laws every night and demands that Taco refer to him as: "Philosopher King."
FCC regulations are not law. They carry the weight of law in some cases, just as a tort does between two agents. We called General Counsel after seeing this thread (doubts even here?) and they told us that the students could not interfere with our wireless (FCC regulations require the user to mitigate all interference), we were there first (209 years) and that is good old English common law. Secondly, if anyone from outside of the university connects to one of those rogue APs connected to our network (not UTD's) the student is responsible for whatever happens up to facing the law (like perverts cruising kiddie porn on the AP registered in their names) and dismissal from the school.
We have this groovy thing called a 'spectrum analyzer.' We can find you. Also, the latest codebases on infrastructure APs have rogue AP detection (sends an SNMP trap). I can smell a rogue AP from 150 feet.... Also, you better switch the WAN side MAC address, I can always tell exactly where you are that way but dumping the CAM tables.
The AUP is a contract. Break the contract, suffer the consequences, which is why you read the fine print and why, personally, I don't use commercial software.;-)
The spectrum is not the problem. The allowing access to others and the interference with governmental infrastructure is. You can't use 2.4Ghz equipment at 1500 watts to maliciously interfere with signals. Tell you what sign up for a class at UTD and then sue. It'll get tossed out. How do I know? We have little lawyer-type students who try this shit all the time. "I paid for it. I can do anything I want." Nope. You signed a contract to not cause interference with governmental infrastructure and to not provide access to that governmental infrastructure by unauthorized parties. Do a FindLaw or, if you can, get on Lexis and look.
You don't know shit. The Ad-Hoc beacon is the different from Infrastructure, but the signal still stomps the Infrastructure APs. And M$, in its infinite wisdon, sets AdHocs as preferred networks by default so people who don't know any better (they are called users) get their traffic routed through/to God-know-whose machine. A distributed Man In The Middle?
The students have no leg to stand on. They are interfering with the network (9 User APs and one University AP on Channel 1 means no APs working) and they are most likely providing network services to non-University personnel. The first violates our AUP and the second is an offense with punishments ranging up to dismissal from the University. Its agin da law! If they think the General Counsel of the school didn't do its homework on this one, they are nuts.
We don't provide wireless in the dorms anyway for this very reason (our freshman men's dorms are a veritable Wild West of APs) and for the simple fact that each student has a dedicated 100mb (soon gig) link in their rooms. Why use wireless at 11mbs (I am cutting it all to g this year) shared? So you can be in bed when you are flogging the bishop to Anime Porn? Wah. Wah. Wah.
1 Number of Bush administration public statements on National security issued between 20 January 2001 and 10 September 2001 that mentioned al-Qa'ida.
104 Number of Bush administration public statements on National security and defence in the same period that mentioned Iraq or Saddam Hussein.
101 Number of Bush administration public statements on National security and defence in the same period that mentioned missile defence.
65 Number of Bush administration public statements on National security and defence in the same period that mentioned weapons of mass destruction.
0 Number of times Bush mentioned Osama bin Laden in his three State of the Union addresses.
73 Number of times that Bush mentioned terrorism or terrorists in his three State of the Union addresses.
83 Number of times Bush mentioned Saddam, Iraq, or regime (as in change) in his three State of the Union addresses.
$1m Estimated value of a painting the Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas, received from Prince Bandar, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States and Bush family friend.
0 Number of times Bush mentioned Saudi Arabia in his three State of the Union addresses.
1,700 Percentage increase between 2001 and 2002 of Saudi Arabian spending on public relations in the United States.
79 Percentage of the 11 September hijackers who came from Saudi Arabia.
3 Number of 11 September hijackers whose entry visas came through special US-Saudi "Visa Express" programme.
140 Number of Saudis, including members of the Bin Laden family, evacuated from United States almost immediately after 11 September.
14 Number of Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS) agents assigned to track down 1,200 known illegal immigrants in the United States from countries where al-Qa'ida is active.
$3m Amount the White House was willing to grant the 9/11 Commission to investigate the 11 September attacks.
$0 Amount approved by George Bush to hire more INS special agents.
$10m Amount Bush cut from the INS's existing terrorism budget.
$50m Amount granted to the commission that looked into the Columbia space shuttle crash.
$5m Amount a 1996 federal commission was given to study legalised gambling.
7 Number of Arabic linguists fired by the US army between mid-August and mid-October 2002 for being gay.
George Bush: Military man
1972 Year that Bush walked away from his pilot duties in the Texas National Guard, Nearly two years before his six-year obligation was up.
$3,500 Reward a group of veterans offered in 2000 for anyone who could confirm Bush's Alabama guard service.
600-700 Number of guardsmen who were in Bush's unit during that period.
0 Number of guardsmen from that period who came forward with information about Bush's guard service.
0 Number of minutes that President Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney, the Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, the assistant Defence Secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, the former chairman of the Defence Policy Board, Richard Perle, and the White House Chief of Staff, Karl Rove the main proponents of the war in Iraq served in combat (combined).
0 Number of principal civilian or Pentagon staff members who planned the war who have immediate family members serving in uniform in Iraq.
8 Number of members of the US Senate and House of Representatives who have a child serving in the military.
10 Number of days that the Pentagon spent investigating a soldier who had called the President "a joke" in a letter to the editor of a Newspaper.
46 Percentage increase in sales between 2001 and 2002 of GI Joe figures (children's toys).
Ambitious warrior
2 Number of Nations that George Bush has attacked and taken over since coming into office.
130 Approximate Number of countries (out of a total of 191 reco
helps or hurts the political process by influencing the vote with last-minute emotions rather than thoroughly contemplation
You don't understand US politics at all, do you? Most people in the States vote on a single issue based on an emotional attachment to that issue. People who are dual-issue voters (for example) will often vote for logically inconsistent co-positions such as pro-death penalty, but anti-abortion. Remember people in the States do not get their news from a multiplicity of sources and when the do access it, it is from outlets like FoxNews, which is unabashedly biased to the point of attacking critics of its coverage with pointed ad hominem smear campaigns.
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I have a thought. What if someone walks in with a great bing fuckoff EM pinch and sets it off in the voting booth. Or, even, a degausser placed strategically?
Now let me hit send and see how long it takes before the first, "Dude, your musical tastes blow," flame.
So do you have a Cheryl Teigs poster on your wall or Bo Derek?
I saw them at the Roseland in NYC for a Halloween Show. Best line ever:
'This song goes to all you guys who ain't gettin' laid. And that is every fuckin' one of you.'
Yeah. I like iTunes a lot, but I am keeping an eye on EMusic. Looks good.
pricepoint
:-)
Another infection on the English vocabulary. I love it when people criticize "utility cover" as double-speak, then are the same people who fall for marketing droid words like this one. Everytime I hear 'pricepoint' I envision some slacker student waking up in the middle of a economics lecture, hearing only that word then writing it down. A couple of years out of Cardinal-Direction State U., the same person wakes up in the middle of team meeting and blurts this word perfunctorially. The next thing you know, it is dogma.
Two words: Herschel. Savage.
Look. Libertarianism is another one of those wonderful ideas that is utter impractible -- like anarcho-syndicalism. It ignores sociology all together and the fact, to paraphrase Foucault, that someone will have to pick up the garbage. If they think that competition in the marketplace will take care of the problem of something like public health, then why does an practically lawless/liberated place like a Brazilian favela look like it does? If the principle that a market force would put someone up to cleaning up and charging for it, why doesn't it happen? Because the underlying social structure prevents it. Forget laws and gubmint. When the people are so structurally poor that they can't allow this crackpot view of the world to hold sway, why should we assume it would work anywhere else. I extend this to Free State movement. All of the white folk who are 'Libertarians' would move up there and boom the place would fall to shit because, by God, no one would want to sweep the streets. Answer? Import people who would and make damn sure they don't try to live outside that station. The old saw that 'Libertarianism is freedom for those who can afford it.' is, well, not far from the case. If you make the argument that Libertarianism is the true American political underpinning, I would assert that it is actually pragmatism. Nobody ever hunkered themselves down with their guns over Dewey's notion of work.
We're are still shutting down our students. You cannot provide access to University resources to non-University folks. This is already happening. It is a security hazard of the first order. I will gladly hand over any student who has a rogue AP and let's someone nefarious fucker on the their network. It would be their ass until they could prove otherwise. I stand by it. Also, you can't interfere with a previously installed system and must take steps to remediate the interference. That's in the FCC regs, which, BTW, are not law. Anyhow, we are cutting to G this semester. That takes care of the whole problem.
Explanation: virus is a New Latin word. Well, it is old, but it is used by us as a neologism. The rule of thumb is this: if an ancient coinage it declines according to Latin rules of grammar. If it is a word with no ancient meaning left (virus once meant 'venom' but was used rarely), then it should decline according to the rules of grammar of the adopting language. Virus has no meaning close to venom, and only has a modern sense of an microorganism that causes disease, or a malicious computer program. I guess there is a literary sense in which you can use virus to mean 'venom', but that is not a defintion, per se, but a synonym. So, not virii, but viruses. For example, in my native language, it is not virii, but 'virusov.' Always.
Even the low September usage stats represent a statistically useful sample
Egads! N>30!
All killing is wrong. If you are against abortion, you must be against killing in general. Of course, you can claim some ridiculous thing like 'Original Sin,' but you have a lot of heavy lifting to do. Fascinating how anti-abortionists fought to save the life of a murderer who murdered to stop murder. Completely nuts. As to being in the way, a child is not in the way, it is simply out of the womb. To quote Dennis Miller, 'The death penalty is nothing more than abortion in the 93rd trimester.'
Or at least, the reason put forward for the war. You can hate me for the Latin but:
Res Loquitur Ipsa
---------
Powell: Unlikely WMD Stocks Will Be Found in Iraq
Mon Sep 13, 2004 03:27 PM ET
Reuters
By Arshad Mohammed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Colin Powell, who made the case to the world that pre-war Iraq had stocks of chemical and biological weapons, said on Monday he now thought these will probably never be found.
"I think it's unlikely that we will find any stockpiles," Powell told lawmakers when asked about the intelligence behind his Feb. 5, 2003, U.N. Security Council speech laying out U.S. arguments for the war with Iraq that began six weeks later.
Powell's latest comments appeared to be his most explicit to date suggesting that the central argument for President Bush's decision to invade Iraq -- the belief it possessed weapons of mass destruction -- was flawed.
As early as January Powell said it was an "open question" whether or not such arms would be found and he conceded the possibility Iraq might not have had any when the war began.
Bush himself had often said that even if no such weapons are found he did the right thing in invading Iraq in March 2003 and toppling Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, arguing that the country has been liberated from brutal dictatorship.
U.S. officials have also said that whether or not it had stockpiles in 2003, Iraq was a threat because it had possessed and used chemical weapons in the past, notably to kill 5,000 Iraqi Kurds in the town of Halabja in 1988.
The war in Iraq, in which more than 1,000 U.S. troops have died, and the violent insurgency that has developed since the U.S. invasion are a major issues in Bush's reelection battle against Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.
Powell made his comments as Charles Duelfer, the CIA-named leader of the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, is working on a report about his findings that was expected to be completed in the next few weeks.
Duelfer's predecessor, David Kay, said as he left the post in January that he believed there were no large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction when Washington went to war.
While he had reservations about the state of Iraq's efforts to obtain nuclear weapons when he spoke before the U.N. Security Council in February 2003, Powell insisted at that time that it had stocks of both biological and chemical weapons.
"There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more," Powell said then, at one point holding up a vial of simulated biological agent -- an image broadcast around the world.
"Our conservative estimate is that Iraq today has a stockpile of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical weapons agent," he said at the time.
Rotting cabbage in my lower bowel creates explosive gases as well. That's it! Just pack 100000 NKoreans full of kimchee and run em across the DMZ.
Moderators have absolutely nothing to do with whether or not a submitted story gets accepted.
If they did, then you would only read stories about how Michael reads Plato's Laws every night and demands that Taco refer to him as: "Philosopher King."
FCC regulations are not law. They carry the weight of law in some cases, just as a tort does between two agents. We called General Counsel after seeing this thread (doubts even here?) and they told us that the students could not interfere with our wireless (FCC regulations require the user to mitigate all interference), we were there first (209 years) and that is good old English common law. Secondly, if anyone from outside of the university connects to one of those rogue APs connected to our network (not UTD's) the student is responsible for whatever happens up to facing the law (like perverts cruising kiddie porn on the AP registered in their names) and dismissal from the school.
We have this groovy thing called a 'spectrum analyzer.' We can find you. Also, the latest codebases on infrastructure APs have rogue AP detection (sends an SNMP trap). I can smell a rogue AP from 150 feet.... Also, you better switch the WAN side MAC address, I can always tell exactly where you are that way but dumping the CAM tables.
The AUP is a contract. Break the contract, suffer the consequences, which is why you read the fine print and why, personally, I don't use commercial software. ;-)
The spectrum is not the problem. The allowing access to others and the interference with governmental infrastructure is. You can't use 2.4Ghz equipment at 1500 watts to maliciously interfere with signals. Tell you what sign up for a class at UTD and then sue. It'll get tossed out. How do I know? We have little lawyer-type students who try this shit all the time. "I paid for it. I can do anything I want." Nope. You signed a contract to not cause interference with governmental infrastructure and to not provide access to that governmental infrastructure by unauthorized parties. Do a FindLaw or, if you can, get on Lexis and look.
You don't know shit. The Ad-Hoc beacon is the different from Infrastructure, but the signal still stomps the Infrastructure APs. And M$, in its infinite wisdon, sets AdHocs as preferred networks by default so people who don't know any better (they are called users) get their traffic routed through/to God-know-whose machine. A distributed Man In The Middle?
The students have no leg to stand on. They are interfering with the network (9 User APs and one University AP on Channel 1 means no APs working) and they are most likely providing network services to non-University personnel. The first violates our AUP and the second is an offense with punishments ranging up to dismissal from the University. Its agin da law! If they think the General Counsel of the school didn't do its homework on this one, they are nuts.
We don't provide wireless in the dorms anyway for this very reason (our freshman men's dorms are a veritable Wild West of APs) and for the simple fact that each student has a dedicated 100mb (soon gig) link in their rooms. Why use wireless at 11mbs (I am cutting it all to g this year) shared? So you can be in bed when you are flogging the bishop to Anime Porn? Wah. Wah. Wah.
Bush by numbers: Four years of double standards
By Graydon Carter
03 September 2004
1 Number of Bush administration public statements on National security issued between 20 January 2001 and 10 September 2001 that mentioned al-Qa'ida.
104 Number of Bush administration public statements on National security and defence in the same period that mentioned Iraq or Saddam Hussein.
101 Number of Bush administration public statements on National security and defence in the same period that mentioned missile defence.
65 Number of Bush administration public statements on National security and defence in the same period that mentioned weapons of mass destruction.
0 Number of times Bush mentioned Osama bin Laden in his three State of the Union addresses.
73 Number of times that Bush mentioned terrorism or terrorists in his three State of the Union addresses.
83 Number of times Bush mentioned Saddam, Iraq, or regime (as in change) in his three State of the Union addresses.
$1m Estimated value of a painting the Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas, received from Prince Bandar, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States and Bush family friend.
0 Number of times Bush mentioned Saudi Arabia in his three State of the Union addresses.
1,700 Percentage increase between 2001 and 2002 of Saudi Arabian spending on public relations in the United States.
79 Percentage of the 11 September hijackers who came from Saudi Arabia.
3 Number of 11 September hijackers whose entry visas came through special US-Saudi "Visa Express" programme.
140 Number of Saudis, including members of the Bin Laden family, evacuated from United States almost immediately after 11 September.
14 Number of Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS) agents assigned to track down 1,200 known illegal immigrants in the United States from countries where al-Qa'ida is active.
$3m Amount the White House was willing to grant the 9/11 Commission to investigate the 11 September attacks.
$0 Amount approved by George Bush to hire more INS special agents.
$10m Amount Bush cut from the INS's existing terrorism budget.
$50m Amount granted to the commission that looked into the Columbia space shuttle crash.
$5m Amount a 1996 federal commission was given to study legalised gambling.
7 Number of Arabic linguists fired by the US army between mid-August and mid-October 2002 for being gay.
George Bush: Military man
1972 Year that Bush walked away from his pilot duties in the Texas National Guard, Nearly two years before his six-year obligation was up.
$3,500 Reward a group of veterans offered in 2000 for anyone who could confirm Bush's Alabama guard service.
600-700 Number of guardsmen who were in Bush's unit during that period.
0 Number of guardsmen from that period who came forward with information about Bush's guard service.
0 Number of minutes that President Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney, the Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, the assistant Defence Secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, the former chairman of the Defence Policy Board, Richard Perle, and the White House Chief of Staff, Karl Rove the main proponents of the war in Iraq served in combat (combined).
0 Number of principal civilian or Pentagon staff members who planned the war who have immediate family members serving in uniform in Iraq.
8 Number of members of the US Senate and House of Representatives who have a child serving in the military.
10 Number of days that the Pentagon spent investigating a soldier who had called the President "a joke" in a letter to the editor of a Newspaper.
46 Percentage increase in sales between 2001 and 2002 of GI Joe figures (children's toys).
Ambitious warrior
2 Number of Nations that George Bush has attacked and taken over since coming into office.
130 Approximate Number of countries (out of a total of 191 reco
helps or hurts the political process by influencing the vote with last-minute emotions rather than thoroughly contemplation
You don't understand US politics at all, do you? Most people in the States vote on a single issue based on an emotional attachment to that issue. People who are dual-issue voters (for example) will often vote for logically inconsistent co-positions such as pro-death penalty, but anti-abortion. Remember people in the States do not get their news from a multiplicity of sources and when the do access it, it is from outlets like FoxNews, which is unabashedly biased to the point of attacking critics of its coverage with pointed ad hominem smear campaigns.
'Docile Bodies' is a big ole MF hammering point. Discipline and Punish has a whole chapter devoted to it. I hope he cited it....
People do it. Scripts exist....
2x10^256 to 1.
My bucks are on this being the first "holo" tech to market.
But when? In the next decade? Before DukeNukemIII? I love the 'Real Soon Now' meme. Wait. Can that even be a meme?