If you are a terrorist and you want to cause mass chaos. How would you do it?
Uh, how about stopping all US film and TV production work by, oh I don't know, let's say getting all the writers to go on strike, say? With their constant diet of inane tv vacuities suspended, Americans' brains will start to work again, resulting in a nationwide uprising within about a week!!
To be fair, "Live at Red Rocks" had it's moments as well. Also the "fuck the revolution!" rant on Rattle and Hum, during 'Sunday Bloody Sunday', just after the Enniskillen atrocity, was really spot on, & Bongo or whatever his name is was probably the only person who could get away with saying that stuff. I was in northern ireland at the time and it certainly caused, well, a bit of a stir.
Our only real hope at this point is that they hurry up and release Windows 7, I would say that your only real hope at this point is to get yourself a clue and switch to Free software.
And by "evil", I mean "eating the still beating hearts of innocent babies", not "swearing when you stub your toe". I mean cynically manipulating people to bring suffering and misery to others for your own selfish ends. Really, properly, capital-E Evil. Then, you live a long and evil life bringing woe and suffering wherever you go.
So we have to trust the government (and it's agencies) to investigate itself, because we don't trust the government not to lie to us about Bad Stuff that some persons in the govt or it's agencies have been up to?
Lordy, the jokes just write themselves on a story like this, don't they...
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Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster that Microsoft swallowed that ESR crap about "you can't defeat open source by buying the company". Imagine if they'd seen the light (a black light...) and started shopping for open source or Free software companies. *shudder*
Draughts, then chess, then Risk and Monopoly. Then in 1977 or 78, in the municipal swimming pool in Harlow New Town, there was a Depthcharge machine... and then Galaxians... and for some reason I've a really vivid memory of playing that, hearing "Games Without Frontiers" for the first time on the muzak system whilst we waited for the coach... and eating Frazzles from a vending machine. Ahh me, what days they were living in a concrete slum full of evacuees from the East End blitz and slum clearances, during the 1970s... Then in '82 we got a ZX Spectrum; I've still never seen anything to touch Jumping Jack (though completely Sabre Wulf and being the second person to have my high score published in Popular Computing Weekly was quite a high as well...) Then came the PC and GOD was it dull and uninteresting... and I tuned out for 3 or 4 years until stumbling over a room full of original Macs in my first year at university.
No, I don't blog, that would be pointless self-indulgence!
And where do these fuckwits get off with using bullshit jargon phrases (where does "clear and present danger" come from, anyway? It must be something military, given the type of scum who like to posture by using it to defend whatever bullshit they're up to.
God I must be old... I just installed it, it runs perfectly, has a lovely dated earlyu 90s style U but I have no fucking idea how what to do or how to do it. I've clicked away and tried to "bulldoze first" but nothing happens on the main map display. Mebbe it's time I stopped hanging around here and left it for the kids...
Yeah, this is a crock. There's no rational justification for manned spaceflight at all beyond the "ooh, shiny!" aspect (Which is all that the "wow, that's so cool!" reaction most of us still have to pics of people in zero G or whatever. *unmanned* spaceflight OTOH is clearly an incredibly rich resource, returning all those lovely technology spin-offs and pork, with the benefit of a vast amount of data for relatively tiny amounts. (Can anyone can point to a single scientific discovery from the STS programme that compares with what Spirit rover saw when it woke up in Eagle crater? ) Bearing in mind that a single 10 day Shuttle mission costs way more than the 4-years-10km-plus-roved MER projects.
Humbled?? Is this some sort of secret clone Clarkson that's roaming the earth? Doesn't sound much like the tosser we know and loathe so much. Viz ran a Roger Mellie (The Man on the Telly) strip taking the piss out of him, it has him doing a piece to camera - "this is the all-new Ferarri Testosterone, and it's 500 BHP of snorting, snarling bitch. If this car was a woman I'd drop my kecks right now and give it one right up the exhaust pipe. IN fact I think I will!" (next frame) "Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Yeah, bitch, you like it like that don't you?!" "sproing, sproing sproing" (car springs) "Cut!"
I keep seeing these crazy proposals for electronic machines with a paper audit trail. Really, this is a classic case of the belief in a technological silver bullet. I know I sound like a cracked record here, paper and pencil with a big X next to the candidate of your choice is still the simplest, and hence most secure, solution going. eVoting is a white elephant.
RISKS Digest recommendation thirded with alacrity. It should be a must read for virtually everyone technical, designers, developers, architects, sysadmins,.. in fact I wish the general public read it as well, sometimes. Might set their expectations a bit more realistically when they're planning things like ID card systems, working on the assumption that computers are like the ones in Star Trek in being omniscient and virtually error-proof.
....that's LOOPY. When it's easier / quicker / better to phone the cops down the road rather than go via the official 911 / 999 / 211 service, something somewhere is profoundly fucked. (Incidental anecdote: my 97 year old grandmother lives next door to an ambulance station. In the past, when she's had a call, relatives have knocked them up - and received service from them - but they absolutely *insist* that you call 999 and jump through the official hoops at the same time (when control call them they just report "already on-scene") but it's kinda important for things like tracking response times, demand levels etc. If everyone just calls their friendly local neighbourhood cop rather than going the official route, that's a sort of catch-22...
Anyway, doesn't the FCC or whatever body regulate that sort of stuff? here in the socialist paradise of the United Kingdom we have pretty hard and fast standards for emergency response (IIRC it's 8-12 minutes for an ambulance to be on scene, and that applies basically everywhere except isolated & sparsely populated areas like central wales or the Scottish highlands.) Wait half an hour for a reply from the cops in a life-and-death situation and you'd make the front page of the local paper, at least.
Also, I did mod the box so that it powers back on automatically after a power failure. Cool - how? I've recently acquired my first proper soldering iron & need a project:>
Why not use £50 NSLU2? Dinky little ARM box with a Cisco logo on the front - it comes with a cheap as chips web UI, supports SMB and various other ways to push/pull data. And of course you can nuke the default firmware and blat it with a proper full-blown Linux installation and install software galore (Asterisk, even!) I've got my root fs on a flash stick, which makes booting pretty fast - the other USB slot has a single 500Gb drive, but you could easily make drives 2.
You have to buy the drives as well of course, but I paid less than 70 quid for my 500Gb EISA drive. In my specific setup, the main drive could of course go bang, but I'm using it for network attached backup rather than primary storage. No reason you couldn't do it though.
Could someone please tell me how TPB is somehow offering some new business model for the people who make the music? If the old business model's bust, whose problem is that? Not mine, and not TPB's. *shrug*
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Uh, how about stopping all US film and TV production work by, oh I don't know, let's say getting all the writers to go on strike, say? With their constant diet of inane tv vacuities suspended, Americans' brains will start to work again, resulting in a nationwide uprising within about a week!!
Oh wait, no - that's a conspiracy theory, huh.
To be fair, "Live at Red Rocks" had it's moments as well. Also the "fuck the revolution!" rant on Rattle and Hum, during 'Sunday Bloody Sunday', just after the Enniskillen atrocity, was really spot on, & Bongo or whatever his name is was probably the only person who could get away with saying that stuff. I was in northern ireland at the time and it certainly caused, well, a bit of a stir.
"I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed."
Other info as of last week:
Various discussions:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=651748
(useful discussion starts on page 3 or so)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/11/mysterious_web_infection/
(describes the inability of ScanSafe to work out what's happening)
Trend have a piece on their blog:
http://blog.trendmicro.com/e-commerce-sites-invaded/
SANS/ISC
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=3834&rss
invisble haxxxer!!!
Then you die.
Then you are reincarnated as an IT manager.
Really, Hans, please do take your meds and settle down or we'll have to get Nurse Ratchett back again.
$ grep -iR ${expression} /home/imipak/
My... brain... hurts!!!
Lordy, the jokes just write themselves on a story like this, don't they...
Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster that Microsoft swallowed that ESR crap about "you can't defeat open source by buying the company". Imagine if they'd seen the light (a black light...) and started shopping for open source or Free software companies. *shudder*
No, I don't blog, that would be pointless self-indulgence!
There's a really nice animation on the Flyby 1 page: 10Mb version, 84Mb version.
And where do these fuckwits get off with using bullshit jargon phrases (where does "clear and present danger" come from, anyway? It must be something military, given the type of scum who like to posture by using it to defend whatever bullshit they're up to.
God I must be old... I just installed it, it runs perfectly, has a lovely dated earlyu 90s style U but I have no fucking idea how what to do or how to do it. I've clicked away and tried to "bulldoze first" but nothing happens on the main map display. Mebbe it's time I stopped hanging around here and left it for the kids...
Yeah, this is a crock. There's no rational justification for manned spaceflight at all beyond the "ooh, shiny!" aspect (Which is all that the "wow, that's so cool!" reaction most of us still have to pics of people in zero G or whatever. *unmanned* spaceflight OTOH is clearly an incredibly rich resource, returning all those lovely technology spin-offs and pork, with the benefit of a vast amount of data for relatively tiny amounts. (Can anyone can point to a single scientific discovery from the STS programme that compares with what Spirit rover saw when it woke up in Eagle crater? ) Bearing in mind that a single 10 day Shuttle mission costs way more than the 4-years-10km-plus-roved MER projects.
Humbled?? Is this some sort of secret clone Clarkson that's roaming the earth? Doesn't sound much like the tosser we know and loathe so much. Viz ran a Roger Mellie (The Man on the Telly) strip taking the piss out of him, it has him doing a piece to camera - "this is the all-new Ferarri Testosterone, and it's 500 BHP of snorting, snarling bitch. If this car was a woman I'd drop my kecks right now and give it one right up the exhaust pipe. IN fact I think I will!" (next frame) "Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Yeah, bitch, you like it like that don't you?!" "sproing, sproing sproing" (car springs) "Cut!"
I keep seeing these crazy proposals for electronic machines with a paper audit trail. Really, this is a classic case of the belief in a technological silver bullet. I know I sound like a cracked record here, paper and pencil with a big X next to the candidate of your choice is still the simplest, and hence most secure, solution going. eVoting is a white elephant.
RISKS Digest recommendation thirded with alacrity. It should be a must read for virtually everyone technical, designers, developers, architects, sysadmins,.. in fact I wish the general public read it as well, sometimes. Might set their expectations a bit more realistically when they're planning things like ID card systems, working on the assumption that computers are like the ones in Star Trek in being omniscient and virtually error-proof.
Anyway, doesn't the FCC or whatever body regulate that sort of stuff? here in the socialist paradise of the United Kingdom we have pretty hard and fast standards for emergency response (IIRC it's 8-12 minutes for an ambulance to be on scene, and that applies basically everywhere except isolated & sparsely populated areas like central wales or the Scottish highlands.) Wait half an hour for a reply from the cops in a life-and-death situation and you'd make the front page of the local paper, at least.
You have to buy the drives as well of course, but I paid less than 70 quid for my 500Gb EISA drive. In my specific setup, the main drive could of course go bang, but I'm using it for network attached backup rather than primary storage. No reason you couldn't do it though.