Getting a Drivers License in Georgia requires you to provide your finger prints. I am wary of this and still expect my conformity to come back and haunt me. Seems that the DMV is just a way to get more finger prints to compare against in crimes.
I've watched enough 'Law and Order' as well as 'Forensic files' , 'The New Detectives' and others. Seems to me that just a FEW hits on your fingerprint is enough to convince people that it was really yours. Until I commit a crime, I don't want the state having my Fingerprint. Much less a grocery store.
This is something, along with the 'bonus cards' that I hope to never give in to. I do believe that these finger ID systems will just be another way to track people and their movements. I mean if Hardcore right wingers want to talk about 'the mark of the beast' and such in relation to people being BarCoded, how are they going to react when they hear that EVERYONE HAS A SERIAL NUMBER ENCODED INTO THEIR FINGER PRINT!!??!?!
This is truely a step towards total population control.
I had a linux box as my "computer" when the cable guy came out a couple years back. It had Redhat 6.2 or 7 on it. I think it was running the FVWM295 stuff so it LOOKED like windows 95... they guy sat down at it after plugging things in and hit the "start" menu. He looked all over for about a minute till he kinda sheepishly looked at me... I said, It's linux, I better drive. Fired up a terminal, ran dhcpcd and grabbed an address. Sent him on his way. It was kinda funny to mess with his head like that though.
No one uses napster anymore. No one is going to pay to download questionable MP3s. No one will make a profit on this model.
The shareholders should sell for whatever they can get. If this company is dumb enough to buy a dead product, LET THEM. I mean, take the money and run.... as the old saying goes...
They're going to commoditize sql server the same way they did iis in Win2K and XP. Then some latent hole that has been around forever in sql server but nobody ever really exploited because only a moron would have a sql server box outside a firewall will get rediscovered, and it will make nimda look like the chicken pox. It will spread faster than nimda, and it will be way more evil. Because blowing up an SQL server is one thing.. you might lose a DB. But blowing your DB'd filesystem...
Just think how Remotely exploitable this will be. And if it uses SQL commands... deleting all the files will be MUCH simpler than del *.*
Microsoft will flop on this one too. It will be badly executed and Implemented and I for one cant wait to see the exploits and laugh. Course then I'll see SQL access attempts on my firewall rather than Errors on my Apache.
At least in the Southeast with the possibility of everyone having a gun, there is a level of deterrence. With less guns legally owned by people, there is less chance that who you try and rob will have a gun. Hence the possbility drops that you'll be shot while comitting such a crime. So, whats better? The Government and State telling you that you can't protect yourself, or having the option of whatever personal firepower you want?
He had to move to California from New York, not because of the EMF, but because any wackjob can convince the other nutcases in California to let him have some soverign space to stand in. California is the "Hold My hand and Pamper my Whim" State. Since the 1960's California has been a haven for complainers, hippies, whiners, and other assorted wastes of Carbon. Just because NYC most likely laughed at him for wearing his Aluminum Foil Cap, he moves to CA where he will fit in with the rest of the weirdos.
I say , Jackhammer California off the continent, and let them have their own little Hippie Wackjob commune Island, and stop polluting the rest of our country with their useless ideals.
Mod Down, Flaimbait
FU CALI
It allows you to delete files from your hard drive
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Windows XP Has Arrived
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Oddworld 3, "Munch's Oddysee" is also only coming out for the X box. Thanks microsoft. Buy up the good game companies and FORCE THEIR HANDS in the gaming market. I refuse to buy an X box for ONE game. But Microsoft is BANKING on this.
I could use one of those, I have a copy of A/UX i need to run. But it has to be an 030 or 040 class machine with an FPU and No DSP chips. Must... complete.... unix farm.... I did however get Debian running on a PowerComputing PowerCenter 132.
They cite in the workding that they ban perl. Now Windows Services for UNIX 2.0 SHIPS with ActivePerl... Hrmm... how can they expect their developers to omply with things they they themselves dont comply with... Is this just another attempt to make people use ASP?
Overdue Library Books and Shuttle Explosions
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The Challenger
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this is also the 15th anniversary of me turning in a late library book in 4th grade. I was having to face the music on a book that was overdue when I witnessed this fateful explosion. Had it not been for the bitch in the library and the pricipal, I would have missed this sorrowful occasion. thanks assholes in elementary school.
I have been kicking myself since I didn't buy it when it was originally released. Then when i looked for it again, nowhere to be found. Anyone know why it was pulled from distribution?
I do not advicate the complete censoring of anything. Be it music, information, products, or people's opinions. But if the government is going to force this to be an issue because of lazy parents and fat pocketed politicians then we have to look at the options and availability of "blocking software". Everyone knows and thses crappy programs that run on the end user PC and make feeble attempts at controlling the information. But I think the only valid solution is to get a hardware firewall like the Cisco PIX and run it in conjunction with the WebSense Software. This software runs on either Solaris or NT and does a damned good job. Albeit expensive, if the government is going to require this there should be some funding to make it happen.
I've used websense on several occasions and this is one piece of sofware that talks directly to the PIX and sets up the rules for what you can and cant see. Also your average scriptkiddie will not be able to get around it.
I know this sounds biased towards blocking software but this is what is going to eventually happen, given the decline in parenting responsibility. And not only will this setup give a solution to this censorware problem, it will also firewall and protect these systems.
Censorware is wrong on many levels, but alot of companies are resorting to these solutions because they feel they cannot trust their employees, which creates extra dissention and hostility and poor job performance. One day people will be able to trust one another with information, but as long as those in power want to hold that info to themselves to keep ahead and tell us what to do, we will never reach that era.
Aparantly some people are walking around with their thumbs permanantly inserted into their sphincter. It is really hard to fathom that someone thinks that this kind of suit would work. THe free information economy is loooming ahead and big business is getting worried that they will no longer leverage control over the whole world, the information contained therein, and people in general. I hope this is tossed out and laughed at. Noone would ever accept terms like that. pay one entity for hyperlinking... go fuck yourself.
I was an ICQ junkie for years, ICQ allows you to block people from adding you as a contact, you can be invisible, etc... But I started Using AIM so i could talk to family and friends who used AOL. SO it was a convienience thing to talk to my mom and sister. As AIM worked better behind all of the firewalls my friends and I have we kinda used it more and more.
Now AIM is basically "Online Stalking in can". You cant prevent anyone from seeing if you're on unless you use a different screen name to stalk them back. ICQ provides a better service for such things. BUT ICQ gets continually bigger and bloated and just really pisses me off, Especially when the features i like (privacy etc) cause me to wait 3 weeks after a format or crash to add contacts and get re authorized. So its a trade off. Privacy for convienience. But Ill take it. The thing i would like to see implemented into AIM and the OpenAIM is password encryption. I think that TOC is clear text, prolly oscar also. Privacy doesn't mean all that much to me as far as messaging clients go, other than password encryption, or maybe 2 way encrypted file transfers. say you're sending a hot steamy love letter to someone and your netadmin ( possibly me ) used a really nice sniffer and captures all the packets and assembles them... blah blah i know e can all dream for total encryption
I like AIM better because of the way i use it. ICQ is nicer some times but behind a firewall, EVEN with the newer versions... It is still a shitload slower than AIM. and it still wont talk to AOL users.
Cluster
Pinball is better than video games
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When i was very young my family owned an arcade. I loved the pinball games more than anything. Although pinball games are getting more hi tech nowadays I still love them for the basic reason that they involve more skill than any video game. Pinball games have been a part of my life for years and I always seek them out in any arcade I walk into. I only wish that i had snough cash to buy 15 or more machines and start my own pinball room in my house.
I really hope this kind of technology does not go away because no matter how the techn0ology advances in video games, pinball is still the king of games.
Walk into any video arcade and you will see about a 30-1 ratio of video to pinball. Maybe developers got lured into video because of the money and the shiny aspect of it.
I for one will be totally saddened on the day that pinball machines are nolonger produced. Although this will make them more valueable but it will mean that it will cost more for me to buy one. Maybe ill start a company, Go IPO quickly and put all the stock profit into building a pinball company... dreams... wishes... it could happen....
Actually, If alot of the recent millionaires bought up all the stock really cheap. And say they issue like 1 million shares or something. Then everyone sells them all. and the company is left holding all the shares. Eventually with no product pushing to generate revenues, and Taxes on the Shares of a Public company come Due. Then they lose all the cash they had, and directly go bankrupt and try their had ot other crimes of fraud. Such as promising old ladies they have one a sweepstakes.
Steve, Many many years ago my family owned a computer store we touted as "the only apple only dealer in town" In those days with mostly just apple ][ series and some early macintoshes, I met you on several occasions. To me that added a personal touch to the company that apple was, And also made me more proud to own an apple product. Especially since I had an apple ][e and a mac 128 and mac 512 Signed by you. Through the years it seemed to me that more and more apple Lost its nice personality and became more of just a Machine to makret products and Mac Users began to Have to fight their friends over computing issues. I eventually lost my drive as an Apple supporter and a mac fanatic when I began to do alot of unix and networking. Even now it seems that just a simple question about hardware to the SOS-APPLE line and you have to pay about as much as microsoft tech support.
Do you think that apple has lost that personal touch that everyone loved so much in the 80's, and If so at what point do you think it really begain to decline.
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Getting a Drivers License in Georgia requires you to provide your finger prints. I am wary of this and still expect my conformity to come back and haunt me. Seems that the DMV is just a way to get more finger prints to compare against in crimes.
I've watched enough 'Law and Order' as well as 'Forensic files' , 'The New Detectives' and others. Seems to me that just a FEW hits on your fingerprint is enough to convince people that it was really yours. Until I commit a crime, I don't want the state having my Fingerprint. Much less a grocery store.
This is something, along with the 'bonus cards' that I hope to never give in to. I do believe that these finger ID systems will just be another way to track people and their movements. I mean if Hardcore right wingers want to talk about 'the mark of the beast' and such in relation to people being BarCoded, how are they going to react when they hear that EVERYONE HAS A SERIAL NUMBER ENCODED INTO THEIR FINGER PRINT!!??!?!
This is truely a step towards total population control.
http://gallery.networkgeek.org/computers
There's a rather comprehensive quick look at what my 2 computer rooms look like.
I had a linux box as my "computer" when the cable guy came out a couple years back. It had Redhat 6.2 or 7 on it. I think it was running the FVWM295 stuff so it LOOKED like windows 95... they guy sat down at it after plugging things in and hit the "start" menu. He looked all over for about a minute till he kinda sheepishly looked at me... I said, It's linux, I better drive. Fired up a terminal, ran dhcpcd and grabbed an address. Sent him on his way. It was kinda funny to mess with his head like that though.
A mac user. go figure...
Hell yes this is flamebait!
how is skipping/fast forwarding thru an ad any different than taking a poop during a commercial break?
semi off topic.... sue me...
No one uses napster anymore. No one is going to pay to download questionable MP3s. No one will make a profit on this model.
The shareholders should sell for whatever they can get. If this company is dumb enough to buy a dead product, LET THEM. I mean, take the money and run.... as the old saying goes...
A fool and his money are soon parted...
They're going to commoditize sql server the same way they did iis in Win2K and XP. Then some latent hole that has been around forever in sql server but nobody ever really exploited because only a moron would have a sql server box outside a firewall will get rediscovered, and it will make nimda look like the chicken pox. It will spread faster than nimda, and it will be way more evil. Because blowing up an SQL server is one thing.. you might lose a DB. But blowing your DB'd filesystem...
Just think how Remotely exploitable this will be. And if it uses SQL commands... deleting all the files will be MUCH simpler than del *.*
Microsoft will flop on this one too. It will be badly executed and Implemented and I for one cant wait to see the exploits and laugh. Course then I'll see SQL access attempts on my firewall rather than Errors on my Apache.
Well, if you are constantly banging refresh to see them. You shouldnt be trying to get First Post so hard.
I mean when did Pater suddenly become the guy who controls Anime on TV?
At least in the Southeast with the possibility of everyone having a gun, there is a level of deterrence. With less guns legally owned by people, there is less chance that who you try and rob will have a gun. Hence the possbility drops that you'll be shot while comitting such a crime. So, whats better? The Government and State telling you that you can't protect yourself, or having the option of whatever personal firepower you want?
FLAMEBAIT!
bah./...
He had to move to California from New York, not because of the EMF, but because any wackjob can convince the other nutcases in California to let him have some soverign space to stand in. California is the "Hold My hand and Pamper my Whim" State. Since the 1960's California has been a haven for complainers, hippies, whiners, and other assorted wastes of Carbon. Just because NYC most likely laughed at him for wearing his Aluminum Foil Cap, he moves to CA where he will fit in with the rest of the weirdos.
I say , Jackhammer California off the continent, and let them have their own little Hippie Wackjob commune Island, and stop polluting the rest of our country with their useless ideals.
Mod Down, Flaimbait
FU CALI
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/10/25/xp.london .launch/index.html
"The system promises fewer computer crashes and will allow users to delete data from their hard drive."
As opposed to crashing and deleting things for you.
Oddworld 3, "Munch's Oddysee" is also only coming out for the X box. Thanks microsoft. Buy up the good game companies and FORCE THEIR HANDS in the gaming market. I refuse to buy an X box for ONE game. But Microsoft is BANKING on this.
...assholes...
I could use one of those, I have a copy of A/UX i need to run. But it has to be an 030 or 040 class machine with an FPU and No DSP chips. Must ... complete.... unix farm.... I did however get Debian running on a PowerComputing PowerCenter 132.
They cite in the workding that they ban perl. Now Windows Services for UNIX 2.0 SHIPS with ActivePerl... Hrmm... how can they expect their developers to omply with things they they themselves dont comply with... Is this just another attempt to make people use ASP?
this is also the 15th anniversary of me turning in a late library book in 4th grade. I was having to face the music on a book that was overdue when I witnessed this fateful explosion. Had it not been for the bitch in the library and the pricipal, I would have missed this sorrowful occasion. thanks assholes in elementary school.
I have been kicking myself since I didn't buy it when it was originally released. Then when i looked for it again, nowhere to be found. Anyone know why it was pulled from distribution?
I've used websense on several occasions and this is one piece of sofware that talks directly to the PIX and sets up the rules for what you can and cant see. Also your average scriptkiddie will not be able to get around it.
I know this sounds biased towards blocking software but this is what is going to eventually happen, given the decline in parenting responsibility. And not only will this setup give a solution to this censorware problem, it will also firewall and protect these systems.
Censorware is wrong on many levels, but alot of companies are resorting to these solutions because they feel they cannot trust their employees, which creates extra dissention and hostility and poor job performance. One day people will be able to trust one another with information, but as long as those in power want to hold that info to themselves to keep ahead and tell us what to do, we will never reach that era.
Aparantly some people are walking around with their thumbs permanantly inserted into their sphincter. It is really hard to fathom that someone thinks that this kind of suit would work. THe free information economy is loooming ahead and big business is getting worried that they will no longer leverage control over the whole world, the information contained therein, and people in general. I hope this is tossed out and laughed at. Noone would ever accept terms like that. pay one entity for hyperlinking... go fuck yourself.
I was an ICQ junkie for years, ICQ allows you to block people from adding you as a contact, you can be invisible, etc... But I started Using AIM so i could talk to family and friends who used AOL. SO it was a convienience thing to talk to my mom and sister. As AIM worked better behind all of the firewalls my friends and I have we kinda used it more and more.
Now AIM is basically "Online Stalking in can". You cant prevent anyone from seeing if you're on unless you use a different screen name to stalk them back. ICQ provides a better service for such things. BUT ICQ gets continually bigger and bloated and just really pisses me off, Especially when the features i like (privacy etc) cause me to wait 3 weeks after a format or crash to add contacts and get re authorized. So its a trade off. Privacy for convienience. But Ill take it. The thing i would like to see implemented into AIM and the OpenAIM is password encryption. I think that TOC is clear text, prolly oscar also. Privacy doesn't mean all that much to me as far as messaging clients go, other than password encryption, or maybe 2 way encrypted file transfers. say you're sending a hot steamy love letter to someone and your netadmin ( possibly me ) used a really nice sniffer and captures all the packets and assembles them... blah blah i know e can all dream for total encryption
I like AIM better because of the way i use it. ICQ is nicer some times but behind a firewall, EVEN with the newer versions... It is still a shitload slower than AIM. and it still wont talk to AOL users.
Cluster
When i was very young my family owned an arcade. I loved the pinball games more than anything. Although pinball games are getting more hi tech nowadays I still love them for the basic reason that they involve more skill than any video game. Pinball games have been a part of my life for years and I always seek them out in any arcade I walk into. I only wish that i had snough cash to buy 15 or more machines and start my own pinball room in my house.
I really hope this kind of technology does not go away because no matter how the techn0ology advances in video games, pinball is still the king of games.
Walk into any video arcade and you will see about a 30-1 ratio of video to pinball. Maybe developers got lured into video because of the money and the shiny aspect of it.
I for one will be totally saddened on the day that pinball machines are nolonger produced. Although this will make them more valueable but it will mean that it will cost more for me to buy one. Maybe ill start a company, Go IPO quickly and put all the stock profit into building a pinball company... dreams... wishes... it could happen....
hoping this scenario doesnt happen....
Clustersnarf
Actually,
If alot of the recent millionaires bought up all the stock really cheap. And say they issue like 1 million shares or something. Then everyone sells them all. and the company is left holding all the shares. Eventually with no product pushing to generate revenues, and Taxes on the Shares of a Public company come Due. Then they lose all the cash they had, and directly go bankrupt and try their had ot other crimes of fraud. Such as promising old ladies they have one a sweepstakes.
DP
Steve,
Many many years ago my family owned a computer store we touted as "the only apple only dealer in town" In those days with mostly just apple ][ series and some early macintoshes, I met you on several occasions. To me that added a personal touch to the company that apple was, And also made me more proud to own an apple product. Especially since I had an apple ][e and a mac 128 and mac 512 Signed by you. Through the years it seemed to me that more and more apple Lost its nice personality and became more of just a Machine to makret products and Mac Users began to Have to fight their friends over computing issues. I eventually lost my drive as an Apple supporter and a mac fanatic when I began to do alot of unix and networking. Even now it seems that just a simple question about hardware to the SOS-APPLE line and you have to pay about as much as microsoft tech support.
Do you think that apple has lost that personal touch that everyone loved so much in the 80's, and If so at what point do you think it really begain to decline.
Daniel Powell
Insert ODBC instead of ODBS
switching keyboards really FUBARS my typing .