Next, they should make an idle time-out (anyone idle more than an hour gets/kill'ed with a 10 minute ban against relogging in), and banish any clients that automatically respond to anything.
Bad idea, I think. It'd be trivial to code up a 'bot that "chats" at appropriate intervals (further eating bandwidth) simply by repeating something already said by a real person on another channel. Also, it would be quite non-trivial to reliably discern a room of such auto-responding 'bots from two 13 year old goofuses having a real chat conversation.
They pefrom a safety inspection on the wire, i.e. cutting it into tiny bits if it is a crappy extension cord
Heh. As an electrician and former member of the electricians union in Vegas (IBEW 357) I got to set up a few of these shows. When you see some nimrod powering a bank of 500W halogen spotlights off a 14-gauge Wal-Mart extension cord and wondering where that smell of burning plastic is coming from, you'd do the same thing. I had trouble not trying to strangle them with it afterwards, myself.
I wonder how long the publishers of movies such as this are going to get away with doing this. The only reason they do this is to maximize the amount of money they possibly squeeze out of the mindless masses that enjoy seeing pretty pictures moving.
It's disgusting, it is. I bought "Army of Darkness - Limited Edition" right when it was released because it was (as the title says) a "limited edition" of which only 30,000 were supposed to be produced... but then later came the "Special Edition" (30,000 copies), the "Director's Cut" (30,000 copies) and the "Bootleg Edition" (as many copies as they can sell!)-- none of which are, to my knowledge, any different from the "Limited Edition" I purchased. Lately there's been rumor of yet another edition with actual EXTRA FOOTAGE beyond that found in the L.E., but that was the rumor about ALL of them before they came out. It's the lure of easy money: Rewrap the DVD in different artwork and re-release. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Au contraire, mon frere! One can buy replica car kits for pretty much any type of car, past or present, including the Stutz Bearcat. Here's a collection of photos from a kit car show last year. Scroll down and read the caption beside the picture just under the "Vintage Spyders" one.
If your key is 11333 you can try 0-8 on the first three cuts and deduce that the MK is
xxy33...
Well yeah, it can be done if you know the depth increment and the maximum adjacent cut differential, but that's a bit more complicated and requires more research than just "filing down.010 at a time" like the original paper suggested.
I haven't known military personnel who explicitly say they want to kill people, but I've known many who said that they wanted "action" and were bored. Especially if they are actually deployed, since much of the work at that point is just - waiting. The fact that "action" consists of killing other people goes unsaid.
As a veteran, I can say that most of the desire to see "action" is concentrated in those who haven't seen it yet. I found I like boredom better, as do most people.
You could create and fund probably over 7 schools with that tiny budget.
Are you on crack? $7M Isn't enough to even build a single school, much less fund it.
Every little bit helps.
Only if you end up throwing enough little bits together. One little bit like this is totally irrelevant. If you want to save money, try the various corporate-welfare farm subsidies. Furthermore, I contend that our current problems in education aren't from lack of money-- they're from inept leadership. Here in Los Angeles, our local bureaucrat toads just poured $160M down a rathole called the Belmont Learning Center. It's built on a toxic waste dump over an earthquake fault. It'll never open. That's not lack of money, that's lack of rationality!
Besides, this is the Army's PR budget. If they didn't spend it on this, they'd spend it on TV commercials. Would you rather the money went to programmers, or mutton-head Madison avenue suits?
If your office key is cut to 99333, and the master key is 51133, then one of the keys you'd have to cut using this system is 91333.
Once you've discovered the first master cut is 5, you can use 51333 instead of 91333.
That would indeed work. It does, however, require a little bit more thinking than just filing down the key blank.010" at a time. And what if the MK was 99333 and your key was 11333 (unlikely, but possible)? THere's no way to get the first one down to a 9 without doing the second, and vice-versa. See? Besides, I didn't say these were all plan-foilers-- just potential "complications".
Having worked as a locksmith on and off over the last 10 years, I can think of a few complications that would make this system less effective:
1) interchangeable core locks (Falcon or Best types). In addition to having master pins for the master key, there will be additional pins for the alternate shear line for pulling the cylinder out. Basically, if you find another key cut that works, you don't know if you have found the master key or the cylinder removal key cut.
2) MK? GMK? GGMK? Some key systems have multiple levels of keying. Though a well-designed system won't have too many stacked master pins, you still will likely end up finding a cut that works and not knowing if it's for the Master Key, Grand Master Key, Great-Grand Master Key, etc. Depending on the "resolution" of the key system, you could end up with a sub-master that only opens (say) five doors.
3) restricted keyways. Medeco, Assa, Schlage, et. al offer numerous restricted keyways. Good like finding blanks.
4) maximum adjacent cut differential. A Schlage key, for example, can have a depth from 0-9 on any given cut, but no two cuts that differ by more than 7 can be next to each other. If your office key is cut to 99333, and the master key is 51133, then one of the keys you'd have to cut using this system is 91333. A nine and a one are over the max differential, which would either obliterate the "1" cut, or the angle between them would be too steep-- in which case, good luck pulling this key out again.
So yes, it makes it harder when you don't know a locksmith who can get you the blank, but if you just hunt around, you can get any blank you want.
Well, that's not exactly true. Try finding a 6-pin Yale 999R blank so you can copy a USPS mailbox key. Or how about a Medeco G3 Biaxial blank? Or something as lame as a Schlage Primus 000509? Key Control is usually achieved by using restricted blanks; and if the installation is worth protecting, they'll usually institute some sort of key control. Sometimes they only do so after the first noteworthy theft, though.
And tell me how lock picking won't get you to anywhere in a building?
his point was that if you pick the lock, it only gets you into one lock. If you want to get in another, you have to pick that one too. If you make a key using this method, you can get in ANY door with no additional work. Picking locks is time consuming.
Start supporting number-sharing? I have 3 phone lines, but only one of them is ever used to receive calls
The phone number isn't just a "handle" for people to dial in, it's essentially an "address" for the particular copper pair with dial tone. You can't have three seperate POTS lines "share" a single phone number. Theoretically, the various telco's could implement a "non-dialable" address for a copper pair that would exist seperate from the pool of "regular" numbers, but that would require MASSIVE re-engineering of the routing/accounting software. The whole point of overlays and area code splitting is that it can be done without really changing the existing switching software and hardware. It's all about saving money.
On an interesting side note, here in Los Angeles, Verizon tried to implement an overlay in 310 because they said they were running out of numbers. Turns out they had plenty of numbers; they just wanted to force local competitors (like AT&T) to take the overlay area code numbers while they kept all the 310's. That would have given them a sales advantage ("we can give you a 310 number, but AT&T can't"), except that a lot of very wealthy people live in 310 (Brentwood, Bel Air, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica) and they weren't going to let Verizon's greed force them to dial 11 digits. They called their pals at the Public Utilities Commission and had the overlay plan killed. That was 3 years ago and (funny thing) we still have plenty of 310 numbers...
When local telco's start talking "overlay" instead of "split", be wary: it's not always out of necessity. If it's Verizon talking overlay, it's probably just a fiendish plot.
Though the Meridian does that that 'phone remembers it's #' feature. I don't use it, I just don't trust it enough;)
Set Relocation. Nothing gives me nightmares like walking into an office and finding that they've had Set Relocation turned on for, oh, the last THREE YEARS, and now the ext#'s don't match the port#'s. Set Relocation is one of those features that sounds great, but doesn't actually help.
Unless you made your Garage Door opener WITHOUT dips -- and cycled through the combos in.001 seconds...
I have actually built one of these. The problem is, you can't go through the codes that fast. On average, it seems to take the receiver about a quarter second to "hear" the signal clearly enough to open the door. The two scanners I built work for Linear (8 DIPs) and MultiCode (10 DIPs). It only takes the Linear scanner up to a minute to find the right code, but the MultiCode can take over 4 minutes. If one perhaps had a better antenna or more powerful transmitter it might be able to cycle faster, but off-the-shelf transmitters average about.25 seconds.Any less than that and you'll probably have to cycle through the whole range of caodes more than once, and that really slows it down.
the defendant is selling a device to circumvent security measures designed for Joe Publics house. I think in this case the DMCA actually works in Joe Publics favor
But the problem is that this is not an issue covered by the DMCA. The DMCA prohibits circumventing security measures that limit access to copyrighted works. Joe Public's house is not a copyrighted work, it's a frickin' physical structure. Invoking the DMCA here is like suing the hardware store for copying keys, because the keys are designed to be a security measure on a house. See the problem here?
I would include a reference to a coffee-hot lawsuit except that defenders of the right to be stupid would start flaming me
OK, then how about I flame you for not knowing the reason for the big award in the hot coffee lawsuit:
Woman spills hot coffee in her lap and gets big $$$. Sounds absurd, but McDonald's was not just an innocent vendor of coffee who failed to warn a customer not to put the coffee cup in her lap. No, the problem was the McDonald's was heating the coffee water to 190 degrees in order to get more yield from a given quantity of coffee grounds. There's nothing wrong with that per se, but they were serving the coffee at 190 degrees. Anything over 160 degrees is dangerous. At 190 degrees, burns are practically guaranteed. At 190 degrees, styrofoam will become soft. You see where this is leading? McDonald's had been warned numerous times in the past not to serve their coffee that hot, but they continued. Then someone got hurt and required a lot of expensive reconstructive surgery. McDonald's claimed it was her own fault for putting the coffee cup in her lap. The judge, however, seeing that McDonalds knew 190 degree coffee was dangerous, but decided to negligently endanger customers in order to maximize profit ruled against them. He levied punitive damages equal to five days' coffee sales, which turned out to be several million dollars. McDonald's no longer serves their coffee at 190 degrees, but it took more than just warnings to make them stop. It took a big punitive damage hit.
This case, I think, is one of the few cases where the system actually worked, and it just frosts me that people still think that it was a frivolous lawsuit with McDonald's as the innocent victim.
I don't think so, I think the editor simply has no idea what 'upshot' means. He probably meant to use a fancy word for 'summary'.
No, he used "upshot" correctly. The word either means 1) The final result; the outcome. or 2)
The central idea or point; gist.
What do you think the word means?
and they learn very quickly to reflect the biases of the owners - people like Rupert Murdoch. I would hardly call Rupert Murdoch Liberal.
Like I said in a previous post, for every Rupert Murdoch there's a Ted Turner, and Fox News isn't the only media outlet available. I prefer to base my conclusions regarding bias in the media on what I see in the media, rather than the supposition that the owner of said media outlet must be twisting the news to his views.
As an example of media bias, look at the media frenzy over the presidential blowjob
and college pot usage,
I think the big deal there is that the former incident was about sleazy sexual behavior and that he was shown to be a liar when questioned about it; and in the latter, he was also probably a liar (I didn't inhale). Sex and lies sell papers.
then compare it with the near silence over Bush's alleged Cocaine habit
Alleged. That's the key word there. The media can't push stories without at least a LITTLE corroboration. I'm sure if he said that there was cocaine in front of him but he only pushed it around with the straw, it'd go as far as the "I didn't inhale" story did and he'd never hear the end of it.
Vietnam service defending Texas from the vietcong (sometimes)
What's the scandal? That he was able to avoid going to 'Nam like every other non-poor white boy in the country? We all know the lowest rungs of society are the only ones who couldn't escape the draft. Failing to volunteer to fight in an unpopular war is hardly a surprising move.
and the long history of heavy drinking.
If he came stumbling out of Air Force One with his pants around his ankles and an empty whiskey bottle in his hand, we'd hear about it. It's kind of a non-story if he admits he used to have a problem with it and doesn't drink anymore.
I think the "bias" you're seeing here is just wishful thinking. Clinton is a sleazebag, and Bush is a boring family man. I don't like either of their politics, but I must say that Bush is too boring to be scandalized in the media. No bias, just dullness.
And I would suggest you check out the Media Research Center [mrc.org].
Their daily report shows plenty of examples of media bias.
Indeed. I read the consortiumnews larticle he linked to, and pretty much the entire article says "the whole media is biased conservative. proof: Fox News, Washington Times, Rush Limbaugh". Those three are hardly the whole media. And for every Rupert Murdoch there's a Ted Turner.
Interesting. But why didn't the Soviets just sometimes send out bogus noise messages that appeared to be encrypted that way, in order to "drown" you?
Well, like the other guy said, electronic warfare wasn't their strong suit. We had digital burst-coded frequency hopping datalinks, and they were using freakin' morse code. They had trouble getting their guys on the receiving end to turn to the right page in the damn codebook. I can't tell you how many times we'd see this situation: sender transmits coded message (usually ten or twenty groups of 3 or 4 digits), the receiving end says "retransmit - unable to decode" some 5 or 6 times, then the sender says (essentially) "fuckit - here's the message UNCODED, moron". This gave us the meaning of 10-20 blocks in the code table. After a day or 2, we'd have 80% of the code table filled in. And yeah, they'd change code tables, but the more often they changed 'em, the more likely it was that some conscript soviet radio monkey was gonna get confused. They just couldn't win. Really, the soviets were no match for us after ~1985. Even during the Gulf War, with less training and worse equipment, the Iraqis exercised MUCH better radio discipline than the soviets ever did.Of course, every time an Iraqi would key up his radio mic we'd DF his location and call in either artillery or AH-64 Apaches on his location, so they had the benefit of the School of Hard Knocks going for them...
If they started charging for access, I'd buy a subscription and charge it to my company. I am constantly finding solutions and ideas to do my job in the usenet archive.
You said it, man. need to reset a lost BayStack 350 switch console password? dejanews.
Just check for "porn". Do you really think Pornfurniture.com is the most relevant search item for porn? Following pagerank rules it should be way down to result number -3.000
On what do you base that conclusion? The way Google ranks pages, yes it is the most relevant result. I don't doubt that more people link ro furnitureporn.com (you didn't even copy the domain correctly!) than to any other "porn" site there. I know I've seen links to furnitureporn.com in several places. I can't say that about ANY of the others on the first page.
But they do manipulate search results, to force companies to pay for advertisements.
That IS the TRUE about Google.
So that's the "true" about Google, eh? And from whom did this "true" come? Please, substantiate your claims with a few factual references. Perhaps you have the URL to Google's "Secret Payment Page For Better Placement"? All I could find is Google's explaination of the PageRank system, which includes this quote: "And though we do run relevant ads above and next to our results, Google does not sell placement within the results themselves (i.e., no one can buy a higher PageRank). "
Unless you can produce anything more meaningful than ignorant suppositions to support your position, I'm afraid I'm going to have to believe Google.
Also, note that the only people who are going to build receivers that do this are people who are INTERESTED in tracking you. Having a jamming device like this is going to advertise "I have something to hide" to anybody who looks at the logs. (Not that this SHOULD be the case, but the fact is that it will be - just like sending PGP'ed email while that isn't the norm
Indeed. As a signal intel analyst in the army, the fact that a certain TYPE of encryption was being used was often more important than the content of the message. When an East German armor regiment sent out a message using a code way too sophisticated for your average east german comms soldier, you knew there were Soviet Army bigwigs there with their OWN comms guys. "Intelligence" folks work at all different levels, so you have to be careful not only of what you say, but also what you DON'T say, and also WHEN you say it...
stop being so racist (yes, academic elitism is a form of racism, mind you).
Incorrect. academic elitism is judging someone by their level of formal education. Racism is judging based on skin color/ethnicity. Now, if one assumes that "all negroes are uneducated slobs" or the like, that's racism. It is not, however, academic elitism until one concludes that being uneducated is bad.
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Bad idea, I think. It'd be trivial to code up a 'bot that "chats" at appropriate intervals (further eating bandwidth) simply by repeating something already said by a real person on another channel. Also, it would be quite non-trivial to reliably discern a room of such auto-responding 'bots from two 13 year old goofuses having a real chat conversation.
Heh. As an electrician and former member of the electricians union in Vegas (IBEW 357) I got to set up a few of these shows. When you see some nimrod powering a bank of 500W halogen spotlights off a 14-gauge Wal-Mart extension cord and wondering where that smell of burning plastic is coming from, you'd do the same thing. I had trouble not trying to strangle them with it afterwards, myself.
It's disgusting, it is. I bought "Army of Darkness - Limited Edition" right when it was released because it was (as the title says) a "limited edition" of which only 30,000 were supposed to be produced... but then later came the "Special Edition" (30,000 copies), the "Director's Cut" (30,000 copies) and the "Bootleg Edition" (as many copies as they can sell!)-- none of which are, to my knowledge, any different from the "Limited Edition" I purchased. Lately there's been rumor of yet another edition with actual EXTRA FOOTAGE beyond that found in the L.E., but that was the rumor about ALL of them before they came out. It's the lure of easy money: Rewrap the DVD in different artwork and re-release. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Au contraire, mon frere! One can buy replica car kits for pretty much any type of car, past or present, including the Stutz Bearcat. Here's a collection of photos from a kit car show last year. Scroll down and read the caption beside the picture just under the "Vintage Spyders" one.
xxy33...
Well yeah, it can be done if you know the depth increment and the maximum adjacent cut differential, but that's a bit more complicated and requires more research than just "filing down .010 at a time" like the original paper suggested.
As a veteran, I can say that most of the desire to see "action" is concentrated in those who haven't seen it yet. I found I like boredom better, as do most people.
Are you on crack? $7M Isn't enough to even build a single school, much less fund it.
Every little bit helps.
Only if you end up throwing enough little bits together. One little bit like this is totally irrelevant. If you want to save money, try the various corporate-welfare farm subsidies. Furthermore, I contend that our current problems in education aren't from lack of money-- they're from inept leadership. Here in Los Angeles, our local bureaucrat toads just poured $160M down a rathole called the Belmont Learning Center. It's built on a toxic waste dump over an earthquake fault. It'll never open. That's not lack of money, that's lack of rationality!
Besides, this is the Army's PR budget. If they didn't spend it on this, they'd spend it on TV commercials. Would you rather the money went to programmers, or mutton-head Madison avenue suits?
Once you've discovered the first master cut is 5, you can use 51333 instead of 91333.
That would indeed work. It does, however, require a little bit more thinking than just filing down the key blank .010" at a time. And what if the MK was 99333 and your key was 11333 (unlikely, but possible)? THere's no way to get the first one down to a 9 without doing the second, and vice-versa. See? Besides, I didn't say these were all plan-foilers-- just potential "complications".
1) interchangeable core locks (Falcon or Best types). In addition to having master pins for the master key, there will be additional pins for the alternate shear line for pulling the cylinder out. Basically, if you find another key cut that works, you don't know if you have found the master key or the cylinder removal key cut.
2) MK? GMK? GGMK? Some key systems have multiple levels of keying. Though a well-designed system won't have too many stacked master pins, you still will likely end up finding a cut that works and not knowing if it's for the Master Key, Grand Master Key, Great-Grand Master Key, etc. Depending on the "resolution" of the key system, you could end up with a sub-master that only opens (say) five doors.
3) restricted keyways. Medeco, Assa, Schlage, et. al offer numerous restricted keyways. Good like finding blanks.
4) maximum adjacent cut differential. A Schlage key, for example, can have a depth from 0-9 on any given cut, but no two cuts that differ by more than 7 can be next to each other. If your office key is cut to 99333, and the master key is 51133, then one of the keys you'd have to cut using this system is 91333. A nine and a one are over the max differential, which would either obliterate the "1" cut, or the angle between them would be too steep-- in which case, good luck pulling this key out again.
Well, that's not exactly true. Try finding a 6-pin Yale 999R blank so you can copy a USPS mailbox key. Or how about a Medeco G3 Biaxial blank? Or something as lame as a Schlage Primus 000509? Key Control is usually achieved by using restricted blanks; and if the installation is worth protecting, they'll usually institute some sort of key control. Sometimes they only do so after the first noteworthy theft, though.
his point was that if you pick the lock, it only gets you into one lock. If you want to get in another, you have to pick that one too. If you make a key using this method, you can get in ANY door with no additional work. Picking locks is time consuming.
The phone number isn't just a "handle" for people to dial in, it's essentially an "address" for the particular copper pair with dial tone. You can't have three seperate POTS lines "share" a single phone number. Theoretically, the various telco's could implement a "non-dialable" address for a copper pair that would exist seperate from the pool of "regular" numbers, but that would require MASSIVE re-engineering of the routing/accounting software. The whole point of overlays and area code splitting is that it can be done without really changing the existing switching software and hardware. It's all about saving money.
On an interesting side note, here in Los Angeles, Verizon tried to implement an overlay in 310 because they said they were running out of numbers. Turns out they had plenty of numbers; they just wanted to force local competitors (like AT&T) to take the overlay area code numbers while they kept all the 310's. That would have given them a sales advantage ("we can give you a 310 number, but AT&T can't"), except that a lot of very wealthy people live in 310 (Brentwood, Bel Air, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica) and they weren't going to let Verizon's greed force them to dial 11 digits. They called their pals at the Public Utilities Commission and had the overlay plan killed. That was 3 years ago and (funny thing) we still have plenty of 310 numbers...
When local telco's start talking "overlay" instead of "split", be wary: it's not always out of necessity. If it's Verizon talking overlay, it's probably just a fiendish plot.
Set Relocation. Nothing gives me nightmares like walking into an office and finding that they've had Set Relocation turned on for, oh, the last THREE YEARS, and now the ext#'s don't match the port#'s. Set Relocation is one of those features that sounds great, but doesn't actually help.
Heh. That's what my boss (a locksmith) calls a "rotary lockpick". Works on everything...
I have actually built one of these. The problem is, you can't go through the codes that fast. On average, it seems to take the receiver about a quarter second to "hear" the signal clearly enough to open the door. The two scanners I built work for Linear (8 DIPs) and MultiCode (10 DIPs). It only takes the Linear scanner up to a minute to find the right code, but the MultiCode can take over 4 minutes. If one perhaps had a better antenna or more powerful transmitter it might be able to cycle faster, but off-the-shelf transmitters average about .25 seconds.Any less than that and you'll probably have to cycle through the whole range of caodes more than once, and that really slows it down.
But the problem is that this is not an issue covered by the DMCA. The DMCA prohibits circumventing security measures that limit access to copyrighted works. Joe Public's house is not a copyrighted work, it's a frickin' physical structure. Invoking the DMCA here is like suing the hardware store for copying keys, because the keys are designed to be a security measure on a house. See the problem here?
OK, then how about I flame you for not knowing the reason for the big award in the hot coffee lawsuit:
Woman spills hot coffee in her lap and gets big $$$. Sounds absurd, but McDonald's was not just an innocent vendor of coffee who failed to warn a customer not to put the coffee cup in her lap. No, the problem was the McDonald's was heating the coffee water to 190 degrees in order to get more yield from a given quantity of coffee grounds. There's nothing wrong with that per se, but they were serving the coffee at 190 degrees. Anything over 160 degrees is dangerous. At 190 degrees, burns are practically guaranteed. At 190 degrees, styrofoam will become soft. You see where this is leading? McDonald's had been warned numerous times in the past not to serve their coffee that hot, but they continued. Then someone got hurt and required a lot of expensive reconstructive surgery. McDonald's claimed it was her own fault for putting the coffee cup in her lap. The judge, however, seeing that McDonalds knew 190 degree coffee was dangerous, but decided to negligently endanger customers in order to maximize profit ruled against them. He levied punitive damages equal to five days' coffee sales, which turned out to be several million dollars. McDonald's no longer serves their coffee at 190 degrees, but it took more than just warnings to make them stop. It took a big punitive damage hit.
This case, I think, is one of the few cases where the system actually worked, and it just frosts me that people still think that it was a frivolous lawsuit with McDonald's as the innocent victim.
No, he used "upshot" correctly. The word either means 1) The final result; the outcome. or 2) The central idea or point; gist.
What do you think the word means?
Like I said in a previous post, for every Rupert Murdoch there's a Ted Turner, and Fox News isn't the only media outlet available. I prefer to base my conclusions regarding bias in the media on what I see in the media, rather than the supposition that the owner of said media outlet must be twisting the news to his views.
As an example of media bias, look at the media frenzy over the presidential blowjob and college pot usage,
I think the big deal there is that the former incident was about sleazy sexual behavior and that he was shown to be a liar when questioned about it; and in the latter, he was also probably a liar (I didn't inhale). Sex and lies sell papers.
then compare it with the near silence over Bush's alleged Cocaine habit
Alleged. That's the key word there. The media can't push stories without at least a LITTLE corroboration. I'm sure if he said that there was cocaine in front of him but he only pushed it around with the straw, it'd go as far as the "I didn't inhale" story did and he'd never hear the end of it.
Vietnam service defending Texas from the vietcong (sometimes)
What's the scandal? That he was able to avoid going to 'Nam like every other non-poor white boy in the country? We all know the lowest rungs of society are the only ones who couldn't escape the draft. Failing to volunteer to fight in an unpopular war is hardly a surprising move.
and the long history of heavy drinking.
If he came stumbling out of Air Force One with his pants around his ankles and an empty whiskey bottle in his hand, we'd hear about it. It's kind of a non-story if he admits he used to have a problem with it and doesn't drink anymore.
I think the "bias" you're seeing here is just wishful thinking. Clinton is a sleazebag, and Bush is a boring family man. I don't like either of their politics, but I must say that Bush is too boring to be scandalized in the media. No bias, just dullness.
Indeed. I read the consortiumnews larticle he linked to, and pretty much the entire article says "the whole media is biased conservative. proof: Fox News, Washington Times, Rush Limbaugh". Those three are hardly the whole media. And for every Rupert Murdoch there's a Ted Turner.
Well, like the other guy said, electronic warfare wasn't their strong suit. We had digital burst-coded frequency hopping datalinks, and they were using freakin' morse code. They had trouble getting their guys on the receiving end to turn to the right page in the damn codebook. I can't tell you how many times we'd see this situation: sender transmits coded message (usually ten or twenty groups of 3 or 4 digits), the receiving end says "retransmit - unable to decode" some 5 or 6 times, then the sender says (essentially) "fuckit - here's the message UNCODED, moron". This gave us the meaning of 10-20 blocks in the code table. After a day or 2, we'd have 80% of the code table filled in. And yeah, they'd change code tables, but the more often they changed 'em, the more likely it was that some conscript soviet radio monkey was gonna get confused. They just couldn't win. Really, the soviets were no match for us after ~1985. Even during the Gulf War, with less training and worse equipment, the Iraqis exercised MUCH better radio discipline than the soviets ever did.Of course, every time an Iraqi would key up his radio mic we'd DF his location and call in either artillery or AH-64 Apaches on his location, so they had the benefit of the School of Hard Knocks going for them...
You said it, man. need to reset a lost BayStack 350 switch console password? dejanews.
On what do you base that conclusion? The way Google ranks pages, yes it is the most relevant result. I don't doubt that more people link ro furnitureporn.com (you didn't even copy the domain correctly!) than to any other "porn" site there. I know I've seen links to furnitureporn.com in several places. I can't say that about ANY of the others on the first page.
But they do manipulate search results, to force companies to pay for advertisements. That IS the TRUE about Google.
So that's the "true" about Google, eh? And from whom did this "true" come? Please, substantiate your claims with a few factual references. Perhaps you have the URL to Google's "Secret Payment Page For Better Placement"? All I could find is Google's explaination of the PageRank system, which includes this quote:
"And though we do run relevant ads above and next to our results, Google does not sell placement within the results themselves (i.e., no one can buy a higher PageRank). "
Unless you can produce anything more meaningful than ignorant suppositions to support your position, I'm afraid I'm going to have to believe Google.
jackass.
Indeed. As a signal intel analyst in the army, the fact that a certain TYPE of encryption was being used was often more important than the content of the message. When an East German armor regiment sent out a message using a code way too sophisticated for your average east german comms soldier, you knew there were Soviet Army bigwigs there with their OWN comms guys. "Intelligence" folks work at all different levels, so you have to be careful not only of what you say, but also what you DON'T say, and also WHEN you say it...
Incorrect. academic elitism is judging someone by their level of formal education. Racism is judging based on skin color/ethnicity. Now, if one assumes that "all negroes are uneducated slobs" or the like, that's racism. It is not, however, academic elitism until one concludes that being uneducated is bad.