Scammer: I'm here to beat the tar out of David Hyde Pierce of the Church of the Painted Breast, who stole $80 from me while I was trying to rip him off for $18,000.
Customs Agent: *puts on gloves* Step into this room, sir.
There's no way they could really press charges.
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If they ever knocked on the 419 eater's door, all he'd have to say is, "Listen, I know what it looks like on the website, but it's all photoshopped and fake. I emailed the guy, but he never sent the money. It's my cash, a picture the guy sent, and a photoshopped photo of the envelope."
They'd never get a conviction.
I AM NOT A LAWYER, but if the guy ever gets that knock, the only thing he should say is, "I want a lawyer," over and over again until he gets one.
You're correct, though: two wrongs don't make a right. There's no point in having a Criminal Justice system if we don't uphold our laws and lead by example. Rather than punish the scammer by ripping him off, he should have used the information he gathered to get charges pressed against him in Nigeria.
If you want to be possessive, it's just I-T-S. But if you want to use a contraction, it's I-T-APOSTROPHE-S. </song> Please don't make me stoop to correcting grammar and punctuation.
I liked the MW engine. I didn't like a lot of things about it, but I liked the way you could get gear or skills that would let you abuse the map at your leisure.
In NWN, your character can be stopped by a slightly differently coloured tile. In MW, you could jump over it. If you had good gear, you could FLY over it. That's what I enjoyed about Morrowind.
I think the title says it all; I think this is a violation of the moderation guidelines. I still think you're wrong, but you're mostly on topic and you're reasonably coherent. You've garnered ten responses, which I find a better indicator of excellence than how many points you get.
Alas, it looks like someone's neglected to read the moderation guidelines. I'm emailing taco - are you?
"I don't agree with a word you say, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it." - Voltaire.
Sex IS glamourous and enjoyable. It's the way we can actually create life. We can show our love for our partners. We can use it for removing stress or for getting what we want. It's a great tool. Check that - it's a great SET of tools.
Not talking about sex (which is forbidden in paces like Afghanistan and Iraq) leads to things like teen pregnancies and high STD transmission rates. My view is that not talking about sex is more offensive than talking about it.
Where did you learn about sex? Ever? Did you watch a film in grade six, or did you learn second-hand from your older brother?
"Lewd" talk has a place in public discourse. We have to tell our kids about pregnancy and disease or they're going to fuck up their lives (pun intended) I have a daughter. My job is to make sure that she uses protection every time she does anything sexual. (I have a lot of time to prepare!) To do less is to abandon her. It is our duty to make sure our kids know about AIDS, syphillis, ghonnorea, hepatitis, herpes, babies, and everything else that goes with sex. If not, then they will find out from a doctor when they get treated - if they are lucky enough to get a treatable disease.
As for your religious leanings, I think you have to review the history of your country. I'm not from the US, and even I know that you're wrong. The US was formed to get away from the tryanny of England. The US citizens were considered second-class to the British. That and the taxation-without-representation. Nothing else. The rest are amendments, which should be looked at with the same light as the 18th amendment. (Wherein a black man is worth 1/14 of the worth of a white man.) You do not get your rights from God. You get these rights from the legislature - other humans. That's right; everything you have in your country is from the work of other humans. If you don't get out there and kick the shit out of people who try to take away what other humans have worked towards, you get Afghanistan or Iraq or Saudi Arabia or Nigeria.
You have the right to do whatever you want as long as you harm none. You have the right to free speech, including things like "I'm going to fuck you up the ass." You have a duty to protect my right to say that - as much as it offends you.
As for Bush, he's a war-monger. If he was serious about human rights violations, he'd invade China or Saudi Arabia. However, he's going after people with a connection to Oil that he doesn't have economic ties to. Nothing has changed in Afghanistan or Iraq, except now there are more people willing to take up the sword to kill Americans. If he wanted to prevent war and was serious, he would have landed thousands of troops in Iran after the earthquake to rebuild schools, mosques, and hospitals.
Remember, the "W" in George W Bush stands for "Wha' Happen?!?"
That's the great thing about PBS. They don't censor themselves; they don't have to watch their fucking mouth. The reason you haven't seen swearing and nudity on private channels is because folks sue when they find nudity or profanity. No lawyer, no matter how slimy he is, is going to take the case of suing PBS. It's like suing Habitat for Humanity or the Salvation Army.
On TV, we can show somebody having their fucking brains blown out and show the grey goop dripping off the wall. That's fine for kids to see. Yet somehow, it's not okay to say "blow job" and a naked person. I don't know about you, but I'd rather my daughter be more comfortable with nudity and be willing to talk about sex than have her be comfortable with ultra-violence. If you honestly think that violence is better than nudity, you have a serious flaw in your brain.
As for the leftwards slant, I've got good karma and I'll not burn it on the likes of you.
Sound requires some form of vibrational medium to travel. Air or water, for example. In space, sound cannot travel since there's no medium to travel through. It's always bothered me that the ships in most SciFi make whooshing noises.
Light only requires "not stuff in the way". Since there's nothing in the vacuum that gets in the way, light can travel perfectly. (c is the speed of light in a vacuum!) There would be a shadow produced, but it would be an incredibly stark shadow.
Our bodies can take care of themselves. We've had tens of thousands of years to develop an amazing immune system. Bio-weapons won't end up killing a significant portion of the population. (Unless you're dead, then I suppose it's significant to you.)
Weaponized smallpox was released from a Soviet lab in the 80s. Only 17 people died. SARS killed about 200 people worldwide IIRC. By comparison, almost 3000 people die in the US every year from toilet-related injuries; 20 000 children worldwide starve to death every year. Even the plague didn't kill us all, and we didn't have any medicines, any way to track the disease, or have basic concepts of hygenie. OUr bodies are really, really tough, and we've had a lot of time to get really tough on disease.
As for chemical weapons, the reason places like the US and UK stopped using them after WWI was not to be altrustic, but to save money. On average, it takes about 1 ton of materials to kill someone with a chemical weapon like mustard gas. It takes a lot less lead mass to kill someone if you put in in a gun.
Finally, I've done work in the biomatics field. (Not much, mind you; it was a co-op workterm.) You can't run the sims on your desktop P4 or the future P7 9.8 TGHz. (Or Athlon 9800000+)It takes a real grunty supercomputer a very, very, very long time to run the simulations. How long? 10 us of data takes about 2 minutes for an alanine molecule. Alanine is very small as far as molecules go; it's one of the 4 key blocks for DNA. Multiply that by the vast number of blocks of DNA you'd have to manipulate to get any sort of virus, and you'd be more likely to die of old age than from a genetically engineered viral weapon.
By the way, when or if any bio-weapons show up, I'll be the guy not wearing the mask.
I think keybsnbits is trying to encourage the writer to mix large amounts of current with lots of water. We already know that he doesn't ground himself properly.
I worked at a branch of the military for a while. During one of the status reports, I heard this story:
Two repair techs lock out the machine they're working on with padlocks and put the keys in their respective pockets. Once they're done the repair, they go to turn the lockout off, and...
"What the [pretty flowers]? The [fluffy bunnies] padlocks are [cute kitten] missing!"
They searched the ship, and they found a drawer full of bent, broken, and damaged padlocks. It didn't belong to anyone, but it was a real WTF moment. Not only did someone ignore the lockout routine, but the guy pried open the padlocks to turn the locked out machine on.
I wonder how XP Home would have fared in this little contest. That's the real bad one. Of course, they might not have had the computing resources to find a number that high. Remember - there are three kinds of lies. Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
I think their point is that it's not the operating system that mucks things up, it's the proliferation of the OS that makes it more effective to make things muck up. If you can write an exploit for OSX vs XP Home and have it take the same amount of time to write, you're better off with the XP Home exploit because you get more compromised machines with the same work.
Your OS is not secure. There are exploits. Don't be smug, or some writer that's got a lot of time and motivation will wipe that grin right off your face.
Sorry, folks, but if you put your little iPod transmitter up against the giant commercial transmitters, the giant commercial one is going to win.
Bear with me, I'm not going to go into details when I can't draw pictures.
If you have two signals at the same frequency arriving at the radio at the same time, they'll overlap, not cancel. Let's say you're broadcasting the "blank" signal at, say, 100 MHz. The radio will receive a constant 100MHz signal.
The way FM works is by changing the phase of the broadcasting signal in relation to the unmodulated signal. So, you'll get the silent signal (which will be unmodulated) and the real signal (modulated). The radio will process BOTH signals - they use processors to decode the signals. I don't know if you know this, but they're kind of fast now. They can handle multiple singals.
If you broadcast another audio signal, you'll get the two audio signals overlapping. Keep in mind that you're putting your tiny little iPod wire up against a great big dirty commerical broadcasting antenna. If you win, I'd wager that the Feds are going to want to ask you a few questions.
They haven't done this in real life. If you say you have, then you're lying. Of course, I'm just an Electronics Engineer - what do I know?
What's next, accepting articles from weekly world news? This isn't fark.
The firewall can be turned off, but it doesn't detect that you have an existing firewall. It might check for Zone alarm and other software firewalls, but I've never used any software firewalls. (I've never had a virus - ever.)
Someone installed a beta version of SP2 or something here at work, and it's a real fighter. In the security panel (new), you can select the firewall, then tell it that you "have a firewall that I'll monitor." Then it will stop turning on the XP firewall. If you turn it off, you're absolutely fine on your corporate workgroup. We've got a hardware firewall between us and the world, and having software firewalls on some of the machines would make filesharing interesting, to say the least.
The security panel also checks your Antivirus software status and Windows updates.
There's a guide called "Surviving the First Day of Windows XP". Google it; I'll abstain. You should do this:
Basically, do this: 1. Install your hardware firewall. Configure it using the guidelines at Gibson Research. If your time's not worth the $30 for an on-sale router, don't bother installing anything and stop reading, since you're not worth my time. 2. Get your fresh install completed. Bring a book. 3. Disable messenger, server, and enable the XP firewall. Check with black viper to see what's safe to disable. (Hint: almost everything!) 4. Install an antivirus program. 5. Update your virus program. 6. Download your critical patches. DO NOT INSTALL ANYTHING BUT CRITICAL PATCHES. 7. Update your hosts file using Mike Skalla's ad blocking file. (Google for Mike's ad blocking) 8. Download Spybot-search and destroy. It has an immunize feature to stop a lot of processes from running. 9. Now you can update your non-critical files. This includes thing like driver updates, DirectX, etc. If you're keen, Spybot will check for registry changes so you can keep your eye out for spyware. 10. Check with Gibson Research again, and see if you've got a full green spread on the scan.
That's it. You can now enjoy a year or so of XP use before you have to go through this again.
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Didn't they arrest 500 people last month for running these scams? Ah, yes, here's the link:
Scammers arrested.
Customs Agent: Reason for entering the country?
Scammer: I'm here to beat the tar out of David Hyde Pierce of the Church of the Painted Breast, who stole $80 from me while I was trying to rip him off for $18,000.
Customs Agent: *puts on gloves* Step into this room, sir.
If they ever knocked on the 419 eater's door, all he'd have to say is, "Listen, I know what it looks like on the website, but it's all photoshopped and fake. I emailed the guy, but he never sent the money. It's my cash, a picture the guy sent, and a photoshopped photo of the envelope."
They'd never get a conviction.
I AM NOT A LAWYER, but if the guy ever gets that knock, the only thing he should say is, "I want a lawyer," over and over again until he gets one.
You're correct, though: two wrongs don't make a right. There's no point in having a Criminal Justice system if we don't uphold our laws and lead by example. Rather than punish the scammer by ripping him off, he should have used the information he gathered to get charges pressed against him in Nigeria.
If you want to be possessive, it's just I-T-S.
But if you want to use a contraction, it's I-T-APOSTROPHE-S.
</song>
Please don't make me stoop to correcting grammar and punctuation.
I liked the MW engine. I didn't like a lot of things about it, but I liked the way you could get gear or skills that would let you abuse the map at your leisure.
In NWN, your character can be stopped by a slightly differently coloured tile. In MW, you could jump over it. If you had good gear, you could FLY over it. That's what I enjoyed about Morrowind.
The graphics were a little... well, you know.
I think the title says it all; I think this is a violation of the moderation guidelines. I still think you're wrong, but you're mostly on topic and you're reasonably coherent. You've garnered ten responses, which I find a better indicator of excellence than how many points you get.
Alas, it looks like someone's neglected to read the moderation guidelines. I'm emailing taco - are you?
"I don't agree with a word you say, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it." - Voltaire.
Sex IS glamourous and enjoyable. It's the way we can actually create life. We can show our love for our partners. We can use it for removing stress or for getting what we want. It's a great tool. Check that - it's a great SET of tools.
Not talking about sex (which is forbidden in paces like Afghanistan and Iraq) leads to things like teen pregnancies and high STD transmission rates. My view is that not talking about sex is more offensive than talking about it.
Where did you learn about sex? Ever? Did you watch a film in grade six, or did you learn second-hand from your older brother?
"Lewd" talk has a place in public discourse. We have to tell our kids about pregnancy and disease or they're going to fuck up their lives (pun intended) I have a daughter. My job is to make sure that she uses protection every time she does anything sexual. (I have a lot of time to prepare!) To do less is to abandon her. It is our duty to make sure our kids know about AIDS, syphillis, ghonnorea, hepatitis, herpes, babies, and everything else that goes with sex. If not, then they will find out from a doctor when they get treated - if they are lucky enough to get a treatable disease.
As for your religious leanings, I think you have to review the history of your country. I'm not from the US, and even I know that you're wrong. The US was formed to get away from the tryanny of England. The US citizens were considered second-class to the British. That and the taxation-without-representation. Nothing else. The rest are amendments, which should be looked at with the same light as the 18th amendment. (Wherein a black man is worth 1/14 of the worth of a white man.) You do not get your rights from God. You get these rights from the legislature - other humans. That's right; everything you have in your country is from the work of other humans. If you don't get out there and kick the shit out of people who try to take away what other humans have worked towards, you get Afghanistan or Iraq or Saudi Arabia or Nigeria.
You have the right to do whatever you want as long as you harm none. You have the right to free speech, including things like "I'm going to fuck you up the ass." You have a duty to protect my right to say that - as much as it offends you.
As for Bush, he's a war-monger. If he was serious about human rights violations, he'd invade China or Saudi Arabia. However, he's going after people with a connection to Oil that he doesn't have economic ties to. Nothing has changed in Afghanistan or Iraq, except now there are more people willing to take up the sword to kill Americans. If he wanted to prevent war and was serious, he would have landed thousands of troops in Iran after the earthquake to rebuild schools, mosques, and hospitals.
Remember, the "W" in George W Bush stands for "Wha' Happen?!?"
Wow, that's worthy of an article all by itself. Did you submit it?
No soldier I know has ever supported war.
Not on PBS, they're not prohibited.
That's the great thing about PBS. They don't censor themselves; they don't have to watch their fucking mouth. The reason you haven't seen swearing and nudity on private channels is because folks sue when they find nudity or profanity. No lawyer, no matter how slimy he is, is going to take the case of suing PBS. It's like suing Habitat for Humanity or the Salvation Army.
On TV, we can show somebody having their fucking brains blown out and show the grey goop dripping off the wall. That's fine for kids to see. Yet somehow, it's not okay to say "blow job" and a naked person. I don't know about you, but I'd rather my daughter be more comfortable with nudity and be willing to talk about sex than have her be comfortable with ultra-violence. If you honestly think that violence is better than nudity, you have a serious flaw in your brain.
As for the leftwards slant, I've got good karma and I'll not burn it on the likes of you.
Light propogates. Sound does not.
Sound requires some form of vibrational medium to travel. Air or water, for example. In space, sound cannot travel since there's no medium to travel through. It's always bothered me that the ships in most SciFi make whooshing noises.
Light only requires "not stuff in the way". Since there's nothing in the vacuum that gets in the way, light can travel perfectly. (c is the speed of light in a vacuum!) There would be a shadow produced, but it would be an incredibly stark shadow.
Our bodies can take care of themselves. We've had tens of thousands of years to develop an amazing immune system. Bio-weapons won't end up killing a significant portion of the population. (Unless you're dead, then I suppose it's significant to you.)
Weaponized smallpox was released from a Soviet lab in the 80s. Only 17 people died. SARS killed about 200 people worldwide IIRC. By comparison, almost 3000 people die in the US every year from toilet-related injuries; 20 000 children worldwide starve to death every year. Even the plague didn't kill us all, and we didn't have any medicines, any way to track the disease, or have basic concepts of hygenie. OUr bodies are really, really tough, and we've had a lot of time to get really tough on disease.
As for chemical weapons, the reason places like the US and UK stopped using them after WWI was not to be altrustic, but to save money. On average, it takes about 1 ton of materials to kill someone with a chemical weapon like mustard gas. It takes a lot less lead mass to kill someone if you put in in a gun.
Finally, I've done work in the biomatics field. (Not much, mind you; it was a co-op workterm.) You can't run the sims on your desktop P4 or the future P7 9.8 TGHz. (Or Athlon 9800000+)It takes a real grunty supercomputer a very, very, very long time to run the simulations. How long? 10 us of data takes about 2 minutes for an alanine molecule. Alanine is very small as far as molecules go; it's one of the 4 key blocks for DNA. Multiply that by the vast number of blocks of DNA you'd have to manipulate to get any sort of virus, and you'd be more likely to die of old age than from a genetically engineered viral weapon.
By the way, when or if any bio-weapons show up, I'll be the guy not wearing the mask.
I think keybsnbits is trying to encourage the writer to mix large amounts of current with lots of water. We already know that he doesn't ground himself properly.
In my last co-op term before I graduated, I heard one guy call it a "campacitor".
No, that's not a typo. He put the "m" in there when he talked. It wasn't just once; every time he meant to say "capacitor", he said "campacitor".
Oh, right: My degree is in Electronics Engineering.
To find my comments, just click on my name. The comments will have links to the articles.
I don't know why I'm responding to an AC, but what the hell...
Here's a scary story:
I worked at a branch of the military for a while. During one of the status reports, I heard this story:
Two repair techs lock out the machine they're working on with padlocks and put the keys in their respective pockets. Once they're done the repair, they go to turn the lockout off, and...
"What the [pretty flowers]? The [fluffy bunnies] padlocks are [cute kitten] missing!"
They searched the ship, and they found a drawer full of bent, broken, and damaged padlocks. It didn't belong to anyone, but it was a real WTF moment. Not only did someone ignore the lockout routine, but the guy pried open the padlocks to turn the locked out machine on.
They never found out who did it.
Don't forget, two days ago, Slashdot fell for it when some guy said he could jam commercial radio signals with his iPod FM transmitter.
People got angry at me for calling Shenanigans!
They own the frequeny and they don't want you on it. If you didn't want them to use the same frequency, too bad.
You can use any frequency you'd like to detonate an IED.
I wonder how XP Home would have fared in this little contest. That's the real bad one. Of course, they might not have had the computing resources to find a number that high. Remember - there are three kinds of lies. Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
I think their point is that it's not the operating system that mucks things up, it's the proliferation of the OS that makes it more effective to make things muck up. If you can write an exploit for OSX vs XP Home and have it take the same amount of time to write, you're better off with the XP Home exploit because you get more compromised machines with the same work.
Your OS is not secure. There are exploits. Don't be smug, or some writer that's got a lot of time and motivation will wipe that grin right off your face.
Sorry, folks, but if you put your little iPod transmitter up against the giant commercial transmitters, the giant commercial one is going to win.
Bear with me, I'm not going to go into details when I can't draw pictures.
If you have two signals at the same frequency arriving at the radio at the same time, they'll overlap, not cancel. Let's say you're broadcasting the "blank" signal at, say, 100 MHz. The radio will receive a constant 100MHz signal.
The way FM works is by changing the phase of the broadcasting signal in relation to the unmodulated signal. So, you'll get the silent signal (which will be unmodulated) and the real signal (modulated). The radio will process BOTH signals - they use processors to decode the signals. I don't know if you know this, but they're kind of fast now. They can handle multiple singals.
If you broadcast another audio signal, you'll get the two audio signals overlapping. Keep in mind that you're putting your tiny little iPod wire up against a great big dirty commerical broadcasting antenna. If you win, I'd wager that the Feds are going to want to ask you a few questions.
They haven't done this in real life. If you say you have, then you're lying. Of course, I'm just an Electronics Engineer - what do I know?
What's next, accepting articles from weekly world news? This isn't fark.
What they should do is EASE the export restrictions on computers and give the scientists in these "aspiring nuclear weapons states" Slashdot accounts.
Then we'd be safe from nuclear weapons, because nobody would ever get any work done.
While we're at it, let's give them so much porn they choke. (pun intended)
Here's what could have happened:
Edwards: "Nope, it'll never work."
NASA: "No more cheques for you, then."
Edwards: "B'oh."
The gay version is called "Spidermen".
Funnily enough, both movies star Tobey McGuire.
The firewall can be turned off, but it doesn't detect that you have an existing firewall. It might check for Zone alarm and other software firewalls, but I've never used any software firewalls. (I've never had a virus - ever.)
Someone installed a beta version of SP2 or something here at work, and it's a real fighter. In the security panel (new), you can select the firewall, then tell it that you "have a firewall that I'll monitor." Then it will stop turning on the XP firewall. If you turn it off, you're absolutely fine on your corporate workgroup. We've got a hardware firewall between us and the world, and having software firewalls on some of the machines would make filesharing interesting, to say the least.
The security panel also checks your Antivirus software status and Windows updates.
There's a guide called "Surviving the First Day of Windows XP". Google it; I'll abstain. You should do this:
Basically, do this:
1. Install your hardware firewall. Configure it using the guidelines at Gibson Research. If your time's not worth the $30 for an on-sale router, don't bother installing anything and stop reading, since you're not worth my time.
2. Get your fresh install completed. Bring a book.
3. Disable messenger, server, and enable the XP firewall. Check with black viper to see what's safe to disable. (Hint: almost everything!)
4. Install an antivirus program.
5. Update your virus program.
6. Download your critical patches. DO NOT INSTALL ANYTHING BUT CRITICAL PATCHES.
7. Update your hosts file using Mike Skalla's ad blocking file. (Google for Mike's ad blocking)
8. Download Spybot-search and destroy. It has an immunize feature to stop a lot of processes from running.
9. Now you can update your non-critical files. This includes thing like driver updates, DirectX, etc. If you're keen, Spybot will check for registry changes so you can keep your eye out for spyware.
10. Check with Gibson Research again, and see if you've got a full green spread on the scan.
That's it. You can now enjoy a year or so of XP use before you have to go through this again.
The study doesn't mention Microsoft once.
Really. It's home PCs. That includes Linux, Macs, OS/2, etc.
I know it's slashdot, but shouldn't you RTFA before you submit the FA?