He wasn't flying in them, he was flying against them. Besides, Fokker is a Dutch company IIRC, and sells (sold) planes to the highest bidder...I believe Sweden, Belgium, and Finland all flew Fokkers during WWII, not sure about WWI.
"Japanese" cars sold in the U.S. don't come from Japan any more. They're made domestically. Therefore, the advantage of having a car built by robotic workers who obsessively sweat over every detail of the car's construction is lost. Don't even ask me about the Sony plants in Mexico...
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He's a *repo man*, for God's sake...he's not exactly in the pity business. Think for a second about what he does...he takes luxury cars away from people who have not made a payment in ages (it takes many rounds of letters back and forth before they send the repo man out). Look in the article..."million-dollar house and can't make a car payment". It's hard to feel sorry for such people, seeing as they made in a month what it takes the honest tradesman (which is what repo men are) to make in a whole year. A little payback is sweet, and besides, the less yuppie-driven SUVs on the road, the better.
Okay...really, really dumb question, but here goes. What exactly is bad about all the Star Trek novels? I've never read one, or really had any interest myself, but what makes them evil?
So, it seems the FCC was right, such things were in the nature of a convenience or luxury, availible only to a select few who could afford the outrageous prices.
Bill Gates is an unscrupulous, dishonest businessman. He is giving away mass amounts of money so easily-influenced persons like yourself can point to the charity and say, "See, he's a nice guy". In all likelihood this strategy will work for him, as it did for such other robber barons and crooks such as Rockefeller, Carnegie, and the Kennedys.
Anybody who can't effectively express a nickname in 9 characters has no business chatting. Who the fuck cares if you can have your idiot "IreadTheAnarchistCookBookAndThinkImKewlCauseIcanM akeAGasolineBomb" nickname.
I think EFnet could "do well" by not listening to idiots, and shunting them off to the other, lesser networks where the network admins will give you back your nick when the bad man takes it from you and you can't defend yourself. Sheesh.
No, they're not "playing hard" at all. The point is they don't do investigations. They merely threaten and bully and lie to get their convictions, which is all they really care about. It's fine as long as it doesn't happen to you (it could never happen to you, right?)
It's no surprise, really. The FBI doesn't do old-fashioned gumshoe investigations any more. The only tactic used nowadays is deception (lying) to get confessions, and then using those confessions to get evidence against others.
Dropping packets silently is more secure. Don't ask me why, I asked one time, and they just said, "dropping packets silently is more secure, now shut up and sit down, you non-NANOG-reading luser, whilst I upgrade my routers to the latest FreeBSD-STABLE ".
ISP work is well-known as being a dead-end career. The only perk is it's usually entry-level, and you get to read lots of manuals and send HUP signals to apache processes and register domain names and such.
I don't know how to say this, but reading this article gives me an uneasy feeling, and sets off my bullshit detector.
Its excessive use of buzzwords (honeynet, blackhat, etc) and attempts at sounding important just don't jibe with what I know. Example:
"We have even captured real time video shots of
blackhats involved in the attacks on our systems. This gives us insight on how
blackhats target and attack systems." How does this follow? You got some webcam video of some guy sitting in front of a PC, what insight is to be gained from that? Jeez. Another gem: "one of the primary sources of information a Honeynet can gather is
communication amongst blackhats, such as IRC" WHOO BOY! You can sit on irc and watch script kiddies talk...this is one of the primary uses of a "Honeynet"? Computer security folks have a bad enough reputation as it is for being scam artists and buzzword propagators, and I think we can safely put the people referenced by this article into the "full of bullshit" file.
Hey, they got far more press coverage by breaking the law than they would have with a conventional, legal, ad campaign. $500 fine is nothing, especially if it "enhances" IBM's new image as a devil-may-care rebel.
Except for the street-corner video camera that watches you enter at 8:37, leave at 9:20, and the evidence from the mail you sent arrived at 8:53 with a header indicating it passed through the internet cafe's servers.
Jailhouse phones are a different class-of-service than pay phones. Pay phones require the user to make a deposit before making a call, and jailhouse phones only allow collect calls, usually with a maximum of 15 minutes duration.
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He wasn't flying in them, he was flying against them. Besides, Fokker is a Dutch company IIRC, and sells (sold) planes to the highest bidder...I believe Sweden, Belgium, and Finland all flew Fokkers during WWII, not sure about WWI.
Anybody want to tell me what this means? I sure as hell can't make head nor tail of it.
A DS0 is not the same as a POTS line, ISP-boy.
"Japanese" cars sold in the U.S. don't come from Japan any more. They're made domestically. Therefore, the advantage of having a car built by robotic workers who obsessively sweat over every detail of the car's construction is lost. Don't even ask me about the Sony plants in Mexico...
He's a *repo man*, for God's sake...he's not exactly in the pity business. Think for a second about what he does...he takes luxury cars away from people who have not made a payment in ages (it takes many rounds of letters back and forth before they send the repo man out). Look in the article..."million-dollar house and can't make a car payment". It's hard to feel sorry for such people, seeing as they made in a month what it takes the honest tradesman (which is what repo men are) to make in a whole year. A little payback is sweet, and besides, the less yuppie-driven SUVs on the road, the better.
Okay...really, really dumb question, but here goes. What exactly is bad about all the Star Trek novels? I've never read one, or really had any interest myself, but what makes them evil?
You've been reading too many enviro-nut websites. Get out a little more often, maybe try to learn hang-gliding.
So, it seems the FCC was right, such things were in the nature of a convenience or luxury, availible only to a select few who could afford the outrageous prices.
Do.....you talk......like Captain Kirk in.....real life...or do you.......just type that........way?
Bill Gates is an unscrupulous, dishonest businessman. He is giving away mass amounts of money so easily-influenced persons like yourself can point to the charity and say, "See, he's a nice guy". In all likelihood this strategy will work for him, as it did for such other robber barons and crooks such as Rockefeller, Carnegie, and the Kennedys.
Looks like it's time to drag the Hello Kitty Vibrator out again. Just so you know, Kitty's head goes in first.
I think EFnet could "do well" by not listening to idiots, and shunting them off to the other, lesser networks where the network admins will give you back your nick when the bad man takes it from you and you can't defend yourself. Sheesh.
Aristotle was a philosopher, not a scientist.
No, they're not "playing hard" at all. The point is they don't do investigations. They merely threaten and bully and lie to get their convictions, which is all they really care about. It's fine as long as it doesn't happen to you (it could never happen to you, right?)
A busy, determined little troll, aren't you?
not forever, only a couple hundred years.
It's no surprise, really. The FBI doesn't do old-fashioned gumshoe investigations any more. The only tactic used nowadays is deception (lying) to get confessions, and then using those confessions to get evidence against others.
Dropping packets silently is more secure. Don't ask me why, I asked one time, and they just said, "dropping packets silently is more secure, now shut up and sit down, you non-NANOG-reading luser, whilst I upgrade my routers to the latest FreeBSD-STABLE ".
ISP work is well-known as being a dead-end career. The only perk is it's usually entry-level, and you get to read lots of manuals and send HUP signals to apache processes and register domain names and such.
I don't know how to say this, but reading this article gives me an uneasy feeling, and sets off my bullshit detector. Its excessive use of buzzwords (honeynet, blackhat, etc) and attempts at sounding important just don't jibe with what I know. Example: "We have even captured real time video shots of blackhats involved in the attacks on our systems. This gives us insight on how blackhats target and attack systems." How does this follow? You got some webcam video of some guy sitting in front of a PC, what insight is to be gained from that? Jeez. Another gem: "one of the primary sources of information a Honeynet can gather is communication amongst blackhats, such as IRC" WHOO BOY! You can sit on irc and watch script kiddies talk...this is one of the primary uses of a "Honeynet"? Computer security folks have a bad enough reputation as it is for being scam artists and buzzword propagators, and I think we can safely put the people referenced by this article into the "full of bullshit" file.
Yeah, everybody knows that the only possible use of the unix shell is for is cracking, Mr. "suidrewt.org".
Hey, they got far more press coverage by breaking the law than they would have with a conventional, legal, ad campaign. $500 fine is nothing, especially if it "enhances" IBM's new image as a devil-may-care rebel.
So, another nation has the ability to destroy the world in a fit of pique. Great.
Except for the street-corner video camera that watches you enter at 8:37, leave at 9:20, and the evidence from the mail you sent arrived at 8:53 with a header indicating it passed through the internet cafe's servers.
Jailhouse phones are a different class-of-service than pay phones. Pay phones require the user to make a deposit before making a call, and jailhouse phones only allow collect calls, usually with a maximum of 15 minutes duration.