Had he spoken up as soon as he'd discovered hi iPod missing and the suddenly strange behaviour of the flight attendants, they might have brushed off the incident.
Unlikely. You know those 'cell phone terrorists' in Michigan? Yeah, they totally explained their behavior. It didn't help them one bit. In fact, it made them MORE suspicious once they explained that they were removing the batteries from the phone. A search of their laptop revealed pictures of a bridge... "OMG! THEY'RE GOING TO BLOW UP OUR BRIDGE!!!"
What do you expect in this paranoid climate? "Oh, that sounds perfectly reasonable! Let's not err on the side of caution here. Billy, you can have your potential bomb back! No need to call TSA, folks! Everything is just fine here."
1] People involved in security love to over-react to security issues. Take those Arabs in Michigan buying cell phones. My God, was there rampant paranoid speculation about what they were doing. (RECAP: "Make meth out of cell phone batteries", "Provide cell phones for anonymous terrorist organizing", "Provide cell phones to make bomb detonators", "Going to blow up our bridge", and best of all, even if they were telling the truth, they could be selling the phones to "Raise money for terrorist activities". I mean... WTF?)
2] If you end up doing something that a remotely paranoid security type would find suspicious, even by accident, do yourself a favor and DON'T tell anyone. No, really. They're just better off not knowing, and you'll be no worse off than if they discover something on their own later and have a paranoid fit.
A lawyer can argue about it all they like. The simple fact is they won't get any traction in trying to redefine a person's rented residence as commercial space.
The cops in my state were very encouraged and supportive of private citizens' efforts to have cameras installed in police cards. That is, of course, until they realized that those same cameras could be used to check up on the cops themselves. Then they resisted.:)
I seem to remember somewhere a reference about credit card transactions getting into government hands. Something about someone wanting the extra balance on their card mailed to them. But the credit card companies stalling and delaying for a few days, allegedly to get permission from Homeland Security?
Oh. Here's a related story. Two payments from two different sources on a credit card got Homeland Security involved, the second payment rejected, and a $140 overcharge.
So they're in the telephone system... They're in the credit card system... They're in the banking system.
I think at this point, we probably shouldn't be asking so much what they are into, but what they are not.
The difference is that was product tampering, which didn't happen at the centralized production point, but out on the shelves. That is where the tampering with Tylenol was going on. When you've got tampering at the factory level, the initial impact may be worse, but the clean-up is much easier. Because you can track lot numbers and shipments.
Centralized tampering is easier to mitigant than decentralized tampering.
And then once Tylenol has a scare... someone would have to find a way to pull the same feat at several other drug companies to create any real sense of fear or panic. And that would mean breaking into totally dissimilar systems (unlike shelf product tampering) and redoing things from the ground up. Unlikely.
So distributed tampering on shelves (small scale, but easily reproducable) is nothing at all like centralized tampering at the factory level. That's high risk.
I mean, really, this all sounds more like industrial sabotage than terror. I mean, are you really going to have people running in fear for their lives that... say... the next time they fill up their car, the gas pump might explode? Or that any pill that they take next could be their last?
Most acts that they're looking at would be one time things, and isolated/restricted in nature. (Also making it easy to identify/avoid/fix.) I can't see that something like this would actually cause terror.
Bit by bit, it seems, that America is changing into something quite different than I was taught in school. Like the supreme court ruling that allows local governments to sieze your land for a better purpose as just one of many examples.
Was it just that I was young and naive and believed in a good country that stuck to its principles? That principles meant something to this country?
So he did some minor changing of fonts and box colors. Really, that is about it. No major sweeping changes. No rearrangement of significant contents that I saw. And actually......that is the secret to winning these kinds of contests. Sure, you could go for bold and daring. Commit fashion suicide and creating something challenging. But typically, judges who area owners/users want just minor improvements on what they already have. Not any big redo.
Ultimately, I think that is why this CSS won. (Which isn't that great or bad of a thing, IMHO. That is just how these kinds of contests usually run unless there are some major flaws with the design to start with.)
"premature to discuss" means, "Hey! Can you take a look at this after we've sold and delivered all the hardware to roll this out?" LOL -- Backstabbing the telcos and cable companies. Gotta love it.
> There is no "somewhere else" that Google can go to. > Since the ISP's that get their funding this way will > be able to charge their end users less, you'll start > to see lower cost (to the consumer) ISP's popping up > who get their funding from the sites they provide > high bandwidth to.
LOL. Can't fool me with that one! As if we'd ever see that happen. (Or just as likely, we'd end up getting the same speeds as Europeans, and we're "saving money" by paying just as much.)
NEVER NEVER NEVER trust telecommuncations companies and former monopolies. They never have customer best interests at heart. Never.
So in China... NPOV becomes PGPOV? (pro government point of view)?
LOL. That's funny stuff. In the US, they reject text for not having a neutral point of view. In China, they reject text for not having a "positive" point of view.
Let's trying to name our products as confusingly as possible:
Memory Stick (with MagicGate) Memory Stick Pro Memory Stick Duo Memory Stick Pro Duo
Darned if I know which one will or will not work in my camera. Looks like they want to do the same thing for motherboards.
I did a small hack myself...
on
Retro Gaming Hacks
·
· Score: 4, Informative
I made a few hacks on Tempest....
I made the Open Level Selection Hack and also unlocked the maximum men bonus from 6 to 255. (Changed ROMs available here.)
The toughest part was getting around the CRC protection on the ROMs. You'd think it'd be simple, but Atari really hid the code to that pretty well. In the end, I got it figured out how to bypass the code by simply changing an unused byte elsewhere to what I needed.
I also documented a bit about Tempest and its source code. Others have since built on the work. Lots of neat stuff in there.
The oddity in that one was the very large number of Diggs it received so quickly to get FPP.
ALSO that one of the Diggs was from Diggnation. That being the first time such a low digg count article received a Diggnation stamp of approval.
It looked very strongly like someone at Digg gamed the article to get in a Pro-Yahoo! article to the front page. Not quite a democracy, but the editors overriding the democracy.
There is so much I loved in Starcon II. I almost didn't reply to this topic after sending my email this morning. Too bad this got posted on Easter.
One examples of what I very much liked about Starcon II is how it had the battle of ideals between the Kohr-Ah and the Kzer-Za. It fit together in such a wonderful way... kind of like The Terrible Secret of Space [the Flash movie based on the music from The Laziest Men on Mars]. (Two robots arguing if the best way to protect humans from The Terrible Secret of Space is by pushing them down the stairs, or instead, shoving them down the stairs.)
It was the great humor that made the game. Toys for Bob totally understands this. I really _do_ hope this game gets made, and that Toys for Bob gets the work.
Traditionally with SQL, a user is capable of perfoming one or more unrestrained queries, which can bring a traditional database to its knees. What SQL has been lacking, up until this point, is stability and restraint. This is why rails are necessary for SQL.
Rails help to keep SQL on the tracks and to prevent queries from running unrestrained against a database. With rails, you don't have to worry about unsafe queries against your database. Everything is tightly controlled, and you can have a simple three line search engine without a great deal of overhead that normally goes into all of that normalization, checking, deadlock prevention, etc etc.
This was a very nice read. It told a story that I was interested in, it came across with an interesting and unique viewpoint, and it told the story in a compelling way. I'd love to read more stories just like this one.
I enjoy my trips to Vinita oklahoma. Small towns like that are great in that just about everyone's home is a WiFi public hot spot. I just take a stroll down the street with my Palm TX, refresh my RSS feeds, visit some websites...
Actually, I was quite shocked how even more insecure people were with their WiFi than in my own town. But really, I guess they don't have too much reason to worry.
I always rate the credibility of a game reviewer on the INVERSE of their score for the game Master of Orion III, which was widely acknowledged to be an awful title.
Yet you'll find reviewers who give it quite a good score "4.3/5". And they'll wax poetic about some of the worst and repetitive features of the game. "I always turn up the speakers when I've gotten a diplomatic message to hear the wonderful alien voices."
Slashdot Mirror
You'll probably get just as funny of a look as if you told anyone else that Israel has won?
I tend to agree with the original poster. The terrorists have won the war on terror. They've turned our own system into a terror machine.
Had he spoken up as soon as he'd discovered hi iPod missing and the suddenly strange behaviour of the flight attendants, they might have brushed off the incident.
Unlikely. You know those 'cell phone terrorists' in Michigan? Yeah, they totally explained their behavior. It didn't help them one bit. In fact, it made them MORE suspicious once they explained that they were removing the batteries from the phone. A search of their laptop revealed pictures of a bridge... "OMG! THEY'RE GOING TO BLOW UP OUR BRIDGE!!!"
What do you expect in this paranoid climate? "Oh, that sounds perfectly reasonable! Let's not err on the side of caution here. Billy, you can have your potential bomb back! No need to call TSA, folks! Everything is just fine here."
1] People involved in security love to over-react to security issues. Take those Arabs in Michigan buying cell phones. My God, was there rampant paranoid speculation about what they were doing. (RECAP: "Make meth out of cell phone batteries", "Provide cell phones for anonymous terrorist organizing", "Provide cell phones to make bomb detonators", "Going to blow up our bridge", and best of all, even if they were telling the truth, they could be selling the phones to "Raise money for terrorist activities". I mean... WTF?)
2] If you end up doing something that a remotely paranoid security type would find suspicious, even by accident, do yourself a favor and DON'T tell anyone. No, really. They're just better off not knowing, and you'll be no worse off than if they discover something on their own later and have a paranoid fit.
A lawyer can argue about it all they like. The simple fact is they won't get any traction in trying to redefine a person's rented residence as commercial space.
Apartments and rent houses are not commercial places and certainly aren't zoned as such.
Somewhat amusing and related...
:)
The cops in my state were very encouraged and supportive of private citizens' efforts to have cameras installed in police cards. That is, of course, until they realized that those same cameras could be used to check up on the cops themselves. Then they resisted.
I seem to remember somewhere a reference about credit card transactions getting into government hands. Something about someone wanting the extra balance on their card mailed to them. But the credit card companies stalling and delaying for a few days, allegedly to get permission from Homeland Security?
Oh. Here's a related story. Two payments from two different sources on a credit card got Homeland Security involved, the second payment rejected, and a $140 overcharge.
So they're in the telephone system...
They're in the credit card system...
They're in the banking system.
I think at this point, we probably shouldn't be asking so much what they are into, but what they are not.
The difference is that was product tampering, which didn't happen at the centralized production point, but out on the shelves. That is where the tampering with Tylenol was going on. When you've got tampering at the factory level, the initial impact may be worse, but the clean-up is much easier. Because you can track lot numbers and shipments.
Centralized tampering is easier to mitigant than decentralized tampering.
And then once Tylenol has a scare... someone would have to find a way to pull the same feat at several other drug companies to create any real sense of fear or panic. And that would mean breaking into totally dissimilar systems (unlike shelf product tampering) and redoing things from the ground up. Unlikely.
So distributed tampering on shelves (small scale, but easily reproducable) is nothing at all like centralized tampering at the factory level. That's high risk.
I mean, really, this all sounds more like industrial sabotage than terror. I mean, are you really going to have people running in fear for their lives that... say... the next time they fill up their car, the gas pump might explode? Or that any pill that they take next could be their last?
Most acts that they're looking at would be one time things, and isolated/restricted in nature. (Also making it easy to identify/avoid/fix.) I can't see that something like this would actually cause terror.
Again, CyberSabotage. Nothing more.
Bit by bit, it seems, that America is changing into something quite different than I was taught in school. Like the supreme court ruling that allows local governments to sieze your land for a better purpose as just one of many examples.
Was it just that I was young and naive and believed in a good country that stuck to its principles? That principles meant something to this country?
So he did some minor changing of fonts and box colors. Really, that is about it. No major sweeping changes. No rearrangement of significant contents that I saw. And actually... ...that is the secret to winning these kinds of contests. Sure, you could go for bold and daring. Commit fashion suicide and creating something challenging. But typically, judges who area owners/users want just minor improvements on what they already have. Not any big redo.
Ultimately, I think that is why this CSS won. (Which isn't that great or bad of a thing, IMHO. That is just how these kinds of contests usually run unless there are some major flaws with the design to start with.)
"premature to discuss" means, "Hey! Can you take a look at this after we've sold and delivered all the hardware to roll this out?" LOL -- Backstabbing the telcos and cable companies. Gotta love it.
> There is no "somewhere else" that Google can go to.
> Since the ISP's that get their funding this way will
> be able to charge their end users less, you'll start
> to see lower cost (to the consumer) ISP's popping up
> who get their funding from the sites they provide
> high bandwidth to.
LOL. Can't fool me with that one! As if we'd ever see that happen. (Or just as likely, we'd end up getting the same speeds as Europeans, and we're "saving money" by paying just as much.)
NEVER NEVER NEVER trust telecommuncations companies and former monopolies. They never have customer best interests at heart. Never.
So in China... NPOV becomes PGPOV? (pro government point of view)?
LOL. That's funny stuff. In the US, they reject text for not having a neutral point of view. In China, they reject text for not having a "positive" point of view.
Let's trying to name our products as confusingly as possible:
Memory Stick (with MagicGate)
Memory Stick Pro
Memory Stick Duo
Memory Stick Pro Duo
Darned if I know which one will or will not work in my camera. Looks like they want to do the same thing for motherboards.
I made a few hacks on Tempest....
I made the Open Level Selection Hack and also unlocked the maximum men bonus from 6 to 255. (Changed ROMs available here.)
The toughest part was getting around the CRC protection on the ROMs. You'd think it'd be simple, but Atari really hid the code to that pretty well. In the end, I got it figured out how to bypass the code by simply changing an unused byte elsewhere to what I needed.
I also documented a bit about Tempest and its source code. Others have since built on the work. Lots of neat stuff in there.
The oddity in that one was the very large number of Diggs it received so quickly to get FPP.
ALSO that one of the Diggs was from Diggnation. That being the first time such a low digg count article received a Diggnation stamp of approval.
It looked very strongly like someone at Digg gamed the article to get in a Pro-Yahoo! article to the front page. Not quite a democracy, but the editors overriding the democracy.
Here is an example of a forced FPP:r oversy_about_Not_Being_1_-_Wrong_Wrong_Wrong
http://digg.com/technology/Yahoo_Responds_to_Cont
There is so much I loved in Starcon II. I almost didn't reply to this topic after sending my email this morning. Too bad this got posted on Easter.
One examples of what I very much liked about Starcon II is how it had the battle of ideals between the Kohr-Ah and the Kzer-Za. It fit together in such a wonderful way... kind of like The Terrible Secret of Space [the Flash movie based on the music from The Laziest Men on Mars]. (Two robots arguing if the best way to protect humans from The Terrible Secret of Space is by pushing them down the stairs, or instead, shoving them down the stairs.)
It was the great humor that made the game. Toys for Bob totally understands this. I really _do_ hope this game gets made, and that Toys for Bob gets the work.
Traditionally with SQL, a user is capable of perfoming one or more unrestrained queries, which can bring a traditional database to its knees. What SQL has been lacking, up until this point, is stability and restraint. This is why rails are necessary for SQL.
Rails help to keep SQL on the tracks and to prevent queries from running unrestrained against a database. With rails, you don't have to worry about unsafe queries against your database. Everything is tightly controlled, and you can have a simple three line search engine without a great deal of overhead that normally goes into all of that normalization, checking, deadlock prevention, etc etc.
Finally! I'm waiting for HTML on Rails next!
Point taken. It was a soft sell for Snapper.
But I do, otherwise, like this kind of story.
This was a very nice read. It told a story that I was interested in, it came across with an interesting and unique viewpoint, and it told the story in a compelling way. I'd love to read more stories just like this one.
Since you were 8, you married an Ada woman and lived in Norman? That explains it! :)
I enjoy my trips to Vinita oklahoma. Small towns like that are great in that just about everyone's home is a WiFi public hot spot. I just take a stroll down the street with my Palm TX, refresh my RSS feeds, visit some websites...
Actually, I was quite shocked how even more insecure people were with their WiFi than in my own town. But really, I guess they don't have too much reason to worry.
The soft underbelly of the heartland, indeed!
I always rate the credibility of a game reviewer on the INVERSE of their score for the game Master of Orion III, which was widely acknowledged to be an awful title.
e cted=0303moo3 "4.3 out of 5"e =moo3&page=3 "3 out of 5"3 /review.html?q=master%20of%20orion
Yet you'll find reviewers who give it quite a good score "4.3/5". And they'll wax poetic about some of the worst and repetitive features of the game. "I always turn up the speakers when I've gotten a diplomatic message to hear the wonderful alien voices."
Compare/Contrast the following reviews. Who would YOU go to for the truth next time?
#1: http://www.stratosgroup.com/reviews/games.php?sel
#2: http://pc.ign.com/articles/386/386281p6.html "9.2 out of 10 and Editor's Choice Award"
#3: http://www.avault.com/reviews/review_temp.asp?gam
#4: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/masteroforion
"6.7 out of 10"