If there is a civil-rights movement for hackers, perhaps the language about it will come under greater scrutiny. could I become a hacker-american then? "Leave the gun, take the canoli."
I don't think bringing you're own laptop or whatever would do it. At some point you'd probably have to connect to your employers network, so if they aren't able to scan you directly they'll just sniff what comes over your connection. Plus, if you're sending email from your own non-employer email to your co-workers, I'm sure they'd just be more dilligent about scanning the email of whoever you're talking to...there's now way to win. they control the horizontal...they control the vertical...
not only that, but publicdata.com will allow you (for a monthly fee) to lookup info on drivers license, death records, license plates, criminal history, voters registration information. It's all only information that is legally available for anyone if you go up to the courthouse and ask for it, but here people can do it easily online. True there's lots of bad things that can be done with it, but that could be said about lots of things in this world.... "Leave the gun, take the canoli."
there's already something like this...
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i read an article awhile back about a system kinda like the lojack. you have to enter a password or something and if you don't then the next time the laptop is connected to a LAN/the internet it sends a message to a monitoring company telling ip address et al.
can't remember where I saw this... "Leave the gun, take the canoli."
I knew a guy who was a serious blackbelt in Karate. I don't know what degree, but from his demonstrations and from other things I'd heard, he was telling the truth. I found him to be a really great guy. Always polite, never forceful. He seemed to know that he had a skill but he also knew that he had a responsibility to use that in the proper manner.
of course I've also met a few others who had some degree of fighting experiance (ranging from real training like the guy above to just plain streetsmarts), and I will admit that most of them were very arrogant about their skills. But, it was that first guy who convinced me that my son will have no problem getting my approval if he wants to sign up for lessons. "Leave the gun, take the canoli."
if you want to jump more than 6 inches, check out hydraulic systems for lowriders. some of the highest jumps are over 40 inches...course I don't think they can really move when they're going that high, but I'd like to see someone try..
I don't know, I usually have a hard time finding which way is north at night and such because (1) in the big cities you can't see too many stars, and (2)in some parts of this beloved town the street signs are fair game for "collectors"...
I ususally know where I'm going, but it'd be nice to not have to get a paper map out and have to see where you're going to have to turn while you're trying to cross four lanes of heavy traffic.
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While i don't think it's groundbreaking, I do think it's a good idea. I know when my last company gave me a pager I sure gave the number out faster to my friends and family than to the co-workers who needed it. Same with the computers. I'm sure it'll get more use with the kids writing papers or surfing to sites they shouldn't than from the adults who are supposed to be using it. Besides, how much work at home can you do when your job is to install bucket seats in cars?
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I belive I saw that the reason a cat can jump so well is the way their back leg muscles are designed. they ahve the ability to use them more like springs, something we can't do. At least not till I get my implants put in.
why would you automatically assume that a 14-year-old would know less than a 35-year-old SysAdmin? When I was 14 I knew a lot more than some SysAdmin's I knew. Even now I know people who've been Admins for 15-20 years who still don't konw as much as I do.
What if the government came up with some magic little box of tricks that stopped people from murdering. Would that be bad thing?
well if someone was threatening my life and the only way to stop would be murder in self-defense, I think it would be a bad thing.
there are always ways to get around things, I know the first thing the school bus drivers did on the new school buses was to break the speed limiter. they said there was no way to get on some highways if you couldn't get the bus going fast enough cause people wouldn't yield.
yeah, but I know that if I had to rush someone (not to mention myself) to the hospital I might not be in good enough mental condition to drive. Say if your wife gets hurt pretty badly, and you're trying to keep an eye on her and on the road, that'd more dangerous I think...
Unless you particularly want to become an inadvertant celebrity on national TV, you might want to be a little careful round CCTV cameras.
true, I was watching a show on the discovery channel that was talking about the CCTV stuff in Britain. It showed this guy who was depressed at one time and decided he was going to go to a bridge and kill himself by slicing his wrists. He didn't know at the time that a CC camera was watching him. Unfortunately, a "real life" cop show got hold of the footage of the police stopping him and implied that the guy was waiting there to try and knife someone. He was then shunned by family and co-workers because they thought he was a wannabe murderer.
Let's not go overboard here. There's no reason to scream "Tyranny!" and riot because someone said something that's self-evidently true, even if it is unpalatable...
no, there's no reason, but there is plenty of reason now not to want to vote for someone like this. Anyone who would even think about restricting one of the basic freedoms of our country just because he doesn't like what's being said shouldn't ever be allowed in a position of power. The fact that it would be nearly impossible for him to get that freedom revoked, and pretty hard to get it restricted isn't the point (IMHO), I just can't believe he would have let that statement slip...
I think the original poster meant things that had legitimate purposes. Nerve gas and your special genetic toxin only seem to have sinister purposes, and therefore designing something like that would definately leave you open to accountability. But gun manufacturers and CDC give us products whose primary, intended uses are for legitimate things.
i thought that plagerizing was repeating someone elses statements word for word as your own. but, i think that if you take all the information from a given source and draw your own conclusions (or whatever), even if it comes out as the same opinions but in different wording it's perfectly legal.
is what i'd like to know. I know i own almost every album that my mp3's come off of. The only reason I spent so much time dl'ing them is that i do like to see if i'll like a song or a CD before i go and spend my money. I know there are lots of people out there who will just rack up the GB's with mp3's of songs they have no intention of buying, but i understood the current US law to say that if you have a legal recording you can copy it in as many different ways, as long as it's for your own use. So what if they put thm in shared directories, "oh hey, let's go to so-and-so's room to study, i'll share out my stuff so we can listen to it from over there". dunno, sounds like a big stink about nothing....
an opening to sue for destroying their resale value
I didn't think software had a resale value really, i thought that once you bought it, you weren't allowed to resell it to anyone due to possible copyright violations...
OT...I attended my little sister's grade school graduation (when I was in school, we had graduation from 12th grade, and that was it). Every single kid in that school got an award for something. One kid got an award for being helpful on the schoolbus. When every kid gets an award does, it seems that my sister's awards for excellence in english, math, and science are for nothing. If she just hadn't tried, she still would have gotten an award, so why bother...jeez, just makes me sick. I've got a kid now and I have no idea what I'm going to do to educate him...
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If there is a civil-rights movement for hackers, perhaps the language about it will come under greater scrutiny. could I become a hacker-american then?
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
actually I've been wanting to try setting up the VT 220 terminal I've got, but haven't had a chance to do anything yet.....
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
I don't think bringing you're own laptop or whatever would do it. At some point you'd probably have to connect to your employers network, so if they aren't able to scan you directly they'll just sniff what comes over your connection. Plus, if you're sending email from your own non-employer email to your co-workers, I'm sure they'd just be more dilligent about scanning the email of whoever you're talking to...there's now way to win. they control the horizontal...they control the vertical...
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
not only that, but publicdata.com will allow you (for a monthly fee) to lookup info on drivers license, death records, license plates, criminal history, voters registration information. It's all only information that is legally available for anyone if you go up to the courthouse and ask for it, but here people can do it easily online. True there's lots of bad things that can be done with it, but that could be said about lots of things in this world....
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
i read an article awhile back about a system kinda like the lojack. you have to enter a password or something and if you don't then the next time the laptop is connected to a LAN/the internet it sends a message to a monitoring company telling ip address et al.
can't remember where I saw this...
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
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http://www.maxtarget.com/hardware/cdrom/mp3_ken
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
found some info on these here. really nothing, just says there's one coming...I'll post more if I find more.
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
I knew a guy who was a serious blackbelt in Karate. I don't know what degree, but from his demonstrations and from other things I'd heard, he was telling the truth. I found him to be a really great guy. Always polite, never forceful. He seemed to know that he had a skill but he also knew that he had a responsibility to use that in the proper manner.
of course I've also met a few others who had some degree of fighting experiance (ranging from real training like the guy above to just plain streetsmarts), and I will admit that most of them were very arrogant about their skills. But, it was that first guy who convinced me that my son will have no problem getting my approval if he wants to sign up for lessons.
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
if you want to jump more than 6 inches, check out hydraulic systems for lowriders. some of the highest jumps are over 40 inches...course I don't think they can really move when they're going that high, but I'd like to see someone try..
I don't know, I usually have a hard time finding which way is north at night and such because (1) in the big cities you can't see too many stars, and (2)in some parts of this beloved town the street signs are fair game for "collectors"...
I ususally know where I'm going, but it'd be nice to not have to get a paper map out and have to see where you're going to have to turn while you're trying to cross four lanes of heavy traffic.
try this, it's completely uncensored...
While i don't think it's groundbreaking, I do think it's a good idea. I know when my last company gave me a pager I sure gave the number out faster to my friends and family than to the co-workers who needed it. Same with the computers. I'm sure it'll get more use with the kids writing papers or surfing to sites they shouldn't than from the adults who are supposed to be using it. Besides, how much work at home can you do when your job is to install bucket seats in cars?
I belive I saw that the reason a cat can jump so well is the way their back leg muscles are designed. they ahve the ability to use them more like springs, something we can't do. At least not till I get my implants put in.
why would you automatically assume that a 14-year-old would know less than a 35-year-old SysAdmin? When I was 14 I knew a lot more than some SysAdmin's I knew. Even now I know people who've been Admins for 15-20 years who still don't konw as much as I do.
I'm humble, really.
I've got .wav files of those on my windoze machine for various things...
What if the government came up with some magic little box of tricks that stopped people from murdering. Would that be bad thing?
well if someone was threatening my life and the only way to stop would be murder in self-defense, I think it would be a bad thing.
there are always ways to get around things, I know the first thing the school bus drivers did on the new school buses was to break the speed limiter. they said there was no way to get on some highways if you couldn't get the bus going fast enough cause people wouldn't yield.
..or rush to a hospital
yeah, but I know that if I had to rush someone (not to mention myself) to the hospital I might not be in good enough mental condition to drive. Say if your wife gets hurt pretty badly, and you're trying to keep an eye on her and on the road, that'd more dangerous I think...
toilet paper...
Unless you particularly want to become an inadvertant celebrity on national TV, you might want to be a little careful round CCTV cameras.
true, I was watching a show on the discovery channel that was talking about the CCTV stuff in Britain. It showed this guy who was depressed at one time and decided he was going to go to a bridge and kill himself by slicing his wrists. He didn't know at the time that a CC camera was watching him. Unfortunately, a "real life" cop show got hold of the footage of the police stopping him and implied that the guy was waiting there to try and knife someone. He was then shunned by family and co-workers because they thought he was a wannabe murderer.
Let's not go overboard here. There's no reason to scream "Tyranny!" and riot because someone said
something that's self-evidently true, even if it is unpalatable...
no, there's no reason, but there is plenty of reason now not to want to vote for someone like this. Anyone who would even think about restricting one of the basic freedoms of our country just because he doesn't like what's being said shouldn't ever be allowed in a position of power. The fact that it would be nearly impossible for him to get that freedom revoked, and pretty hard to get it restricted isn't the point (IMHO), I just can't believe he would have let that statement slip...
I think the original poster meant things that had legitimate purposes. Nerve gas and your special genetic toxin only seem to have sinister purposes, and therefore designing something like that would definately leave you open to accountability. But gun manufacturers and CDC give us products whose primary, intended uses are for legitimate things.
i thought that plagerizing was repeating someone elses statements word for word as your own. but, i think that if you take all the information from a given source and draw your own conclusions (or whatever), even if it comes out as the same opinions but in different wording it's perfectly legal.
is what i'd like to know. I know i own almost every album that my mp3's come off of. The only reason I spent so much time dl'ing them is that i do like to see if i'll like a song or a CD before i go and spend my money. I know there are lots of people out there who will just rack up the GB's with mp3's of songs they have no intention of buying, but i understood the current US law to say that if you have a legal recording you can copy it in as many different ways, as long as it's for your own use. So what if they put thm in shared directories, "oh hey, let's go to so-and-so's room to study, i'll share out my stuff so we can listen to it from over there". dunno, sounds like a big stink about nothing....
an opening to sue for destroying their resale value
I didn't think software had a resale value really, i thought that once you bought it, you weren't allowed to resell it to anyone due to possible copyright violations...
OT...I attended my little sister's grade school graduation (when I was in school, we had graduation from 12th grade, and that was it). Every single kid in that school got an award for something. One kid got an award for being helpful on the schoolbus. When every kid gets an award does, it seems that my sister's awards for excellence in english, math, and science are for nothing. If she just hadn't tried, she still would have gotten an award, so why bother...jeez, just makes me sick. I've got a kid now and I have no idea what I'm going to do to educate him...