I've occasionally startled people by identifying their brand and model of computer or terminal over the phone just by the sound of their keyboards. Membrane keyboards have deprived me of this form of amusement though.
The biggest worry I remember was not knowing how long we'd be out before we'd see a paycheck again, since we had to rely on savings or credit to in the meantime. It was long enough ago that I honestly don't remember when we were told we'd get our back-pay, only that at the time the whole thing felt like a pointless publicity stunt--and this time around it just feels like deja vu. It'll blow over. There are other government-related issues much more worth worrying about than politicians acting like overgrown brats and a relative handful of Federal employees getting to spend more time with their families for a while.
They're free to do whatever, as long as they're ready to return to work with only a day's notice. Then they get paid for all the time they were out of work once the budget's resolved. It's basically a paid vacation, except you don't get paid until it's over, and you can't really travel out-of-area. Source: Was furloughed during Clinton's reign.
>Yet, somehow this reminds me of Comcast's CableCard activation line. Every time I've called it, I get someone sounding exactly the same
Not unlike historical switchboard operators who were given standardized elocution training and all used to sound much the same.
>But an in-person intercept is known to both parties.
Nobody seems to remember the ways this was done back in the days before all-electronic communications. Anything from binoculars and shotgun mics to planted wireless electronic bugs are just as useable today as they were during the Cold War.
Destruction is a form of seizure, in that it deprives the owner of their property. This interpretation has been used successfully in (somewhat off-topic here) cases of LEOs shooting people's pets; since pets are considered property by law, courts have upheld killing them without due process is a 4th Amendment violation.
BSD is a fork of original AT&T UNIX, so yes, it still has some claim to the title. Linux, however, is only a UNIX-alike, and rather a kludgey mess of one at that.
Trouble first started when loud advocates started promoting Linux as the bestest thing evar, saying they wanted to replace MSWin in the server room, yet managed instead to displace commercial UNIX. Then corporate agism took its toll, as more experienced admins were replaced with fresh-faced kids whose only experiences were running MSWin and Linux at home and feeling that this gave them all the knowledge they needed to be enterprise admins. This lead to IT being relatively handy with Linux and abysmal with anything else, and in turn those non-Linux systems not being administered correctly and failing when they wouldn't under competent administration.
The fact that so many posters here are indignantly declaring Linux to be UNIX just speaks to how bad the situation has gotten. Can't say I regret having retired a few years back when I see that this is the environment I'd be facing if I were still working in tech today.
>Some people founded such sites out of high principle; others for the LULZ; and many because they simply wanted to download movies and music and possibly highly illegal drugs for free.
>download movies and music and possibly highly illegal drugs for free.
>download illegal drugs
...which party is at fault for one transgression or another, when it should be readily apparent by now that neither major party is working for the people's interests. The more people distracted in red vs blue finger-pointing, the less focus is on the real problems. There is no benefit in party loyalty.
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>but /. never picked it up
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/10/04/162254/how-the-nsa-targets-tor
>Indeed the government will not physically get into your house without a warrant
The residents of Watertown might disagree:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWsbBhzxYw8
*coughMantridcough*
I've occasionally startled people by identifying their brand and model of computer or terminal over the phone just by the sound of their keyboards. Membrane keyboards have deprived me of this form of amusement though.
The biggest worry I remember was not knowing how long we'd be out before we'd see a paycheck again, since we had to rely on savings or credit to in the meantime. It was long enough ago that I honestly don't remember when we were told we'd get our back-pay, only that at the time the whole thing felt like a pointless publicity stunt--and this time around it just feels like deja vu. It'll blow over. There are other government-related issues much more worth worrying about than politicians acting like overgrown brats and a relative handful of Federal employees getting to spend more time with their families for a while.
They're free to do whatever, as long as they're ready to return to work with only a day's notice. Then they get paid for all the time they were out of work once the budget's resolved. It's basically a paid vacation, except you don't get paid until it's over, and you can't really travel out-of-area. Source: Was furloughed during Clinton's reign.
...the MAFIAA are first in line. This will surely end well.
>'[W]hen you're in the middle of a game and someone wants to watch TV, you can just grab a Vita and keep on playing.
Because we're still living in the '50s where every household has only one tv.
You insensitive clods.
If it does ever head to Earth, it too will be a shooting star.
> ... is what they're pointing at. Notice how that's left out of the article.
True, they were rather nebulous about it.
>Yet, somehow this reminds me of Comcast's CableCard activation line. Every time I've called it, I get someone sounding exactly the same
Not unlike historical switchboard operators who were given standardized elocution training and all used to sound much the same.
...who reads "NASA LADEE" in Jerry Lewis's voice?
>But an in-person intercept is known to both parties.
Nobody seems to remember the ways this was done back in the days before all-electronic communications. Anything from binoculars and shotgun mics to planted wireless electronic bugs are just as useable today as they were during the Cold War.
>police dog [...] hits on everyone
Damn those slutty police dogs!
Destruction is a form of seizure, in that it deprives the owner of their property. This interpretation has been used successfully in (somewhat off-topic here) cases of LEOs shooting people's pets; since pets are considered property by law, courts have upheld killing them without due process is a 4th Amendment violation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHuONYJYWOg
BSD is a fork of original AT&T UNIX, so yes, it still has some claim to the title. Linux, however, is only a UNIX-alike, and rather a kludgey mess of one at that.
Trouble first started when loud advocates started promoting Linux as the bestest thing evar, saying they wanted to replace MSWin in the server room, yet managed instead to displace commercial UNIX. Then corporate agism took its toll, as more experienced admins were replaced with fresh-faced kids whose only experiences were running MSWin and Linux at home and feeling that this gave them all the knowledge they needed to be enterprise admins. This lead to IT being relatively handy with Linux and abysmal with anything else, and in turn those non-Linux systems not being administered correctly and failing when they wouldn't under competent administration.
The fact that so many posters here are indignantly declaring Linux to be UNIX just speaks to how bad the situation has gotten. Can't say I regret having retired a few years back when I see that this is the environment I'd be facing if I were still working in tech today.
>Some people founded such sites out of high principle; others for the LULZ; and many because they simply wanted to download movies and music and possibly highly illegal drugs for free.
>download movies and music and possibly highly illegal drugs for free.
>download illegal drugs
wat
Check into the recent death of Michael Hastings.
Just like those "Gummint is watching everything you do!" tinfoilers were wrong. I'M ONTO YOU!
...which party is at fault for one transgression or another, when it should be readily apparent by now that neither major party is working for the people's interests. The more people distracted in red vs blue finger-pointing, the less focus is on the real problems. There is no benefit in party loyalty.
...who introduced intentional glitches in Windows when it detected you were running it on anything but genuine MS-DOS.
Not that I have a whole lot of sympathy for Google these days either...
Avoiding license plate scanners is easy. Switch to bicycle.
The death penalty was already taken off the table--solely with the intent of taking away a major incentive for countries to grant Snowden asylum, and in hopes of improving the chances of getting him extradited. http://news.yahoo.com/no-death-penalty-snowden-convicted-us-says-213552147.html