The problem with World of Warcraft is that as a game it's a pleasurable "waste of time" which of course if it doesn't waste a hell of a lot of your time is a good thing the way I see it.
The problem with WoW is not that it's a waste of time but that it's a time-waster.
If you read what the man has to say on the blog who quit, then it's 12 hours a week you have to put in just to keep up the game and if you want to "make progress" you have to invest as much as ten hours a day. Not to mention that you have to be on time and well prepared for raids and other team events which probably coincide with a lot of what is left of the former pre-World of Warcraft life.
And the game is designed to take up as much of your time as is possible. After all, all games like it charge people for the time they spend online. I would however take this one step further and say that this is just another way people's time, attention and in short life is monopolized. It's like the blogger said, a second ten hour job. I personally find it surprising that people who have already more than half of their day wasted with "gainful employment" (commute 30%, working / pretending that you're working 70%), I find it remarkable that people find so little value in their remaining "free time" that they'll blow it away like that.
If I were them I would so I wanted to blow the time on profane bs at least try to do something to "upset the apple cart", like go to RTMark and pick a nice project to do. Oh wait... I guess that's just what "entertainment" like that is supposed to prevent.
The day I find something worthwhile on a copy protected medium is the day I will buy the super-duper encrypted media and the military-grade protected cryptoplayer to view it on my remote controlled (remote controlled by the TV station, that is) HDTV set. How they fit a DVD with a crypto dongle, especially the clunky shit from Aladdin, without tearing the disk apart once it spins up to a couple of thousands rpm is beyond me. But then I don't really care.
Trouble is, I can't watch CNN for more than say five minutes before I start laughing. If you ask me, they show CNN at the airports to single out those that don't react "properly" to it, but hey I just can't. Same thing goes for the shit they have at the video rentals. The only stuff worthwhile watching there is pornography, You can only wank yourself ever so much often and for only so long, so it doesn't steal you time like all the other "entertainment" (haha) does.
Taking a hard look at the word "entertainment" and you can find out what its ulterior purpose is: "enter" in latin means "to try, to attempt to do" ("the entrepreneur") and "tain" comes from latin tenere, to hold to keep ("retain"). So basically to what entertainment boils down to is "Stuff to try and hold you/keep you" down and dumb. Which is exactly what it does.
So... you tell me. Why should I pay for this? More important, why should anybody want to hack whatever "unhackable" scheme they come up next?
If Mr. Lubrano had been a high ranking belgian official he would have fared a lot better than he did. Same thing goes if he had been a US senator. At least he should have either maneuvered himself into a position where stop an investigation with a phone call.
Another precaution he could have taken was to indulge himself in South America, Eastern Europe (Romania comes particularily to mind) or South East Asia. After researching these countries carefully and making the right contacts he could have given his perversions free rein over an innocent child. He might never been invited to the Bohemian Grove but he could have at least sampled in some of their pleasures. Travelling abroad for pleasures would have been only more expensive for him cash-wise. Now instead of plunging his cock into a six-year old's ass he's instead yet again going to be reminded by Mohammed and Leroy and all the other "big and bad old nigguhs on Block C" what it's like.
All in all it boils down to perspective and circumspection. Lubrano had neither. He will definitely take it in the ass.
So they're getting UHF TV channels 52-69 and the VHF channels too? Looking at any frequency allocation plan, really, US or European all I see is a lot of spectrum going to "government" and military applications. Look at the US allocation plan and look at the activity code "government exclusive" / "government/non-government shared". Same thing when you look at the German allocation plan. Here they try to hide the amount of spectrum assigned to the government by just differentiating between military and civil application ("Nutzung mil/ziv") for example by labelling "BOS" applications ("public safety" or rather "public order") applications as civil (ziv). Btw, you have to know that "BOS" means "Behoerden der Oeffentlichen Sicherheit", "Public Safety Agencies", they don't tell you that.
It's not that they would hide it somewhere in the plane tickets or give people an 'Airport Access Card' or something. No, this is something that goes around the neck like a noose or a slave collars - which is what it is.
I guess by now a dozen people have already screamed possibly ALL-CAPS into the discussion with fury over this, but this is really just the beginning. They were talking about implanting you with an RFID chip at the hospital in order for you to get further treatment ("oh and of course better treatment that would purportedly not be possible without being able to swipe a scanner over you to get your ID). Now it's airports and oh it already has happened in US school (nurseries of the future obedient serfs of America) many times over.
I'm not kidding you, flamebaiting, trolling, you, godwinning you or whatever else you might think for you who this is hard to swallow. For me it's being forced to wear something around my neck that can make them track and monitor even the slightest twitch I make what is too hard to swallow.
Reading TFA I thought it could probably somehow defeat most PC firewalls like the one they ship with Windows XP _inbound_, somehow threading its way through the lethal digital packet perimeter by hitting the firewall hard over its head with irregular bit settings and funny buffer overflow code-injecting variable length tcp option fields no man has thought of before...... now all it does is using outbound port tcp/80 to tattle back home. They don't even bother to "support" the handful of standalone windows firewalls that are out there and stealthily modify the firewall configuration.
Me with my TA behind my router I think I have less to worry about.
Me with my terminal adapter which happens to be integrated with my router, I think I have plenty to worry about. Who says its firmware is not rigged? Who says they can't upload a patch to it or otherwise tamper with it??
On the other hand, why do these shitheads need to tamper with someones machine if they can just pick off the conversation directly from the wires at the provider (unless they're using encryption)??!
on Arrakis I guess not wanting to contaminate the spice worms.
No such considerations were afforded to Iraq which at most has to offer oil thought safe from contamination. Most of the aftermath to the effects of exposure to the radioactive metal dust from depleted uranium shells becoming obvious now, such as cancers in adults, malformed children missing limbs and in some cases babies born without brains... and on top of that thousands of gallons of chemical warfare agents and a couple of million tons of fallout from major oil wells that burned for weeks to months.
Right now it would probably be healthier to drink out of a puddle in downwind Nevada than whatever water they could extract in Iraq.
Here's a movie you might want to watch that shows you just what a contaminated mess our Beloved Leader left in Iraq:
It has a nice interview in there with Dr. Doug Rokke the former director of the Army Depleted Uranium Project. Watch him cry in shame in front of the camera.
At the end be sure to watch the interview with Sgt Bob Jones, who came down with the Gulf War syndrome and listen to how he describes the ultimate treatment they came up with:
A field trip to Arlington cemetary and telling him and his family to "learn to cope".
I just asked the bear who prowls through my backyard if it is okay to subvert other lifeforms for our use. He looked at me puzzled, walked over and raised his right paw to maul me. Then he paused and asked me "You know what I am mauling you for?". I looked at him first in amazement, oh wow! a talking bear and then I remembered that he could just rip me apart if he wanted to so I ventured "I suppose its not okay to enslave other creatures or otherwise make use of them". The bear looked at me and rolled his eyes upward and then moaned: "You have no fur. You have no teeth. Youre the weakest critter in the world and now youre telling me youre the dumbest of them all. I dont fucking believe it! Look buster, this morning I ate my way through a bee hive and ate a couple of rats by digging them up in their burrow, for lunch I had a ton of nuts and berries and stopped by the cadaver of that dog that got run over last night and if Im lucky Im going to have moose for dinner tonight. If we bears had use for cameras we would stick you inside them to draw us pictures. I looked at him in amazement. According to him it was perfectly all right to subvert other lifeforms for his use. Before I had time to fully think things through he asked me, "Are you ready?". Ready for what, I asked him. "Ready to take your medicine, ready to take what you have coming furless freak!". I didnt answer him, I just ducked my head and then I woke up in the intensive care unit.
Which is why you shouldnt try to sell Audi secrets to Volkswagen. If at all go after their supply chain. The F500 as well as banks and insurances cooperate. If youre prepared to do the time, I would recommend small to medium sized businesses to whom you can indeed sell competitor information. Dont expect to be paid millions though.
I haven't read any books by him, so maybe I'm really missing out on something. But instead of sending him money, I'd rather send him a letter advising him on how to live a better life throw a steady income job.
Doubtlessly a whole bunch of people told you up front that he's in a wheelchair and suffering from extremely agonizing and immobilizing Post-Polio Syndrome, the aftermath of being exposed to the Poliomyelitis virus. I'm going to go one step further and tell you that you are one dumb piece of shit.
You aren't familiar with his work, you know jack about his life and your head thrust deep into the reality tunnel of the upper-prole / lower middle-class serf.
I'm not much of a physicist but a while back in the mid 90s someone came up with a way to get MeV electrons by hitting a very thin metal foil with a laser.
"High-energy electron beam production by femtosecond laser interactions with exploding-foil plasmas"
They were already back then ten years ago jawing about cheap radiation equipment for example for radiation therapy etc. Nothing came of it, I wonder why Siemens or Varian or all the rest of the equipment manufacturers aren't delighted that there now is a cheap alternative?
Btw, you don't need to wear that lead apron while burning DVDs:-)
Back in the good old days you would load a game on your Commodore 64 and prior to running it patch it in memory with the POKE command in Basic to get you unlimited lives etc. Some things most obviously never change, nowadays it seems you have to superpoke your windows box to keep it unowned.
As far as their profits are concerned, these are indeed negligible when you compare them to other "businesses" who work hard to keep America and the rest of the world unhealty. Look at Altria (the merger of Philip Morris Tobacco and Kraft Foods).
However as far as the Druids in Hollywood are concerned, their impact is actually incalculably high, because their propaganda and role model programming goes a long way to keeping the status quo. As a matter of fact: One way to really hurt Hollywood in their mission would be - if it were only technically feasible - to cram the prole feed they put out into a highly secure DRM system making piracy almost impossible. You can depend on it that they would leak keys or get rid of a system like that altogether if it means that so much fewer people are exposed to their garbage. Their main interest is to get into your living room and into the space between your ears and not the money they may or not recap on the movies they put out.
As an interesting side note, Germany is about to abandon the concept of free television reception altogether. In the first quarter of next year, Germany's private television stations will all switch on the encryption on their digital signals and after analog is phased out by 2009 if Herr von Kraut wants to watch television he will have to pop in a smart card into his receiver. Watch this scheme burn and get abandoned once they find that even less than 3% fewer people are watching.
but it's yet only another marketing ploy. Wait till you see Snoopy or Scooby Doo turn up on the map, or they start the Google Maps Treasure Hunt next year.
We have no definition of victory. You can't compare this current erosion of rights, done in the name of perpetual war, with any erosion of rights that might've occurred during the well-defined WWII,because no one has any idea when we'll even know that it's time to expect our rights back.
We will tell you when you can have your "rights' back, slave!
... it really wonder about all the other "laws" and "regulations" they "pass". Note my quotation marks, I don't think anything they do or come up with is in any way honest and worthy and the act of "passing the law" is a farce in itself.
The real issue to be upset here is not that they're not happy about losing their grip on gambling, the real issue to be upset here is about how they're conning us.
But it's all right I suppose. After all we have other things to worry about and we can't be bothered with stuff that is so clearly off our radar. We got lives to attend to and bills to pay... and never mind that it's them who make us miserable and they're the reason the bills are so high.
But when I do let you know something about me, then know that even though I'm a high school dropout I am also a 22 year old 5"4 athletic blonde female and I just love the sex older men can give me and I'm interested in dating and romance. I like Billy Graham, Zachariah Sitchen but I hate Prince Phillip and I earn more than a hundred thousand dollars a year working as a pharma whore.
Most ATMs require pin verification against a special operator card to access maintenance functions.
Since you're talking about Microsoft's SQL variant here let it be noted that all the key players are no better.
For example MySQL didn't even set a password for the default administrative account for a long time and even
Oracle let's you logon as scott/tiger and I think the Oracle dba default password is even "changeme" or "changethis".
As far as the default password issue is concerned, most products will warn you to change the default
passwords ASAP. Change the default password ASAP or you richly deserve what you get.
There are no true multi-party democracies in Europe nor anywhere else on the planet. At best there's the inner and the outer party. Health care for all btw means substantially poorer health care at exorbitant mandatory membership premiums while higher income is permitted to switch to massively lower rate, high quality private health insurance. Fuck socialism for it sucks.
A default password that is MEANT to be CHANGED ASAP is not supersecret. It's in the fucking manual and even if the manual is not on the web then you can probably order one from the manufacturer and they wont make sure you even purchased the ATM to go with it.
The real news is that the people who set ATMs up and operate them are as dumb as dog shit.
Voting machines are most obviously _designed_ to be tampered with because of multiple issues discussed all other net such as the total lack of cryptography to secure voting results.
Pressing CTRL-1 on a Triton ATM to bring up it's management login screen is nowhere near the total lack of security in comparison to a voting machine and there is no magic key sequence to get the cash dispenser to empty the cash in the ATM into your greedy hands. Why even if you got into the Dispenser test diag the dispenser would not send the cash to the exit gate but instead send it to reject cassette. The only thing you could potentially do IF you had the password was to reconfigure the cash denominations of the individual cassettes turning a $20 bill into a $5. I didn't really look all that hard into the manual but there seems no way to change the keys in the security module to hijack the terminal from its host.
Of course there are even better ways of handling security issue here such as somebody here suggested that the ATM refuses to perform withdrawal operations with the default password in place. Other ATMs require pin verification from a special operator card to enter management functions and still others do not allow any management functions from the customer screen at all, but only from a rear control panel or from an attached notebook.
All in all ATMs are worlds ahead of the Electionstealer 2000 voting terminals. Transactions with the host are secured by a security module (looks like a mobile phone SIM Card) which calculates cryptographic checksums and the host authenticates likewise to the terminal. You can depend that if they built that kind of protection into voting machines then to make sure only authorized voting fraud occurs.
So please spare us the "very very very stupid people"...
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The problem with World of Warcraft is that as a game it's a pleasurable "waste of time"
which of course if it doesn't waste a hell of a lot of your time is a good thing the
way I see it.
The problem with WoW is not that it's a waste of time but that it's a time-waster.
If you read what the man has to say on the blog who quit, then it's 12 hours a week you have
to put in just to keep up the game and if you want to "make progress" you have to invest as
much as ten hours a day. Not to mention that you have to be on time and well prepared for raids
and other team events which probably coincide with a lot of what is left of the former
pre-World of Warcraft life.
And the game is designed to take up as much of your time as is possible. After all, all games
like it charge people for the time they spend online. I would however take this one step further
and say that this is just another way people's time, attention and in short life is monopolized.
It's like the blogger said, a second ten hour job. I personally find it surprising that people
who have already more than half of their day wasted with "gainful employment" (commute 30%, working /
pretending that you're working 70%), I find it remarkable that people find so little value in
their remaining "free time" that they'll blow it away like that.
If I were them I would so I wanted to blow the time on profane bs at least try to do something
to "upset the apple cart", like go to RTMark and pick a nice
project to do. Oh wait... I guess that's just what "entertainment" like that is supposed to prevent.
The day I find something worthwhile on a copy protected medium is the day I will buy
the super-duper encrypted media and the military-grade protected cryptoplayer to view
it on my remote controlled (remote controlled by the TV station, that is) HDTV set.
How they fit a DVD with a crypto dongle, especially the clunky shit from Aladdin, without
tearing the disk apart once it spins up to a couple of thousands rpm is beyond me.
But then I don't really care.
Trouble is, I can't watch CNN for more than say five minutes before I start laughing.
If you ask me, they show CNN at the airports to single out those that don't react
"properly" to it, but hey I just can't. Same thing goes for the shit they have at the
video rentals. The only stuff worthwhile watching there is pornography, You can only
wank yourself ever so much often and for only so long, so it doesn't steal you time
like all the other "entertainment" (haha) does.
Taking a hard look at the word "entertainment" and you can find out what its ulterior
purpose is: "enter" in latin means "to try, to attempt to do" ("the entrepreneur")
and "tain" comes from latin tenere, to hold to keep ("retain"). So basically to what
entertainment boils down to is "Stuff to try and hold you/keep you" down and dumb.
Which is exactly what it does.
So... you tell me. Why should I pay for this? More important, why should anybody want to
hack whatever "unhackable" scheme they come up next?
If Mr. Lubrano had been a high ranking belgian official he would have fared a lot better
than he did. Same thing goes if he had been a US senator. At least he should have either
maneuvered himself into a position where stop an investigation with a phone call.
Another precaution he could have taken was to indulge himself in South America, Eastern
Europe (Romania comes particularily to mind) or South East Asia. After researching these
countries carefully and making the right contacts he could have given his perversions
free rein over an innocent child. He might never been invited to the Bohemian Grove but
he could have at least sampled in some of their pleasures. Travelling abroad for pleasures
would have been only more expensive for him cash-wise. Now instead of plunging his cock
into a six-year old's ass he's instead yet again going to be reminded by Mohammed and Leroy
and all the other "big and bad old nigguhs on Block C" what it's like.
All in all it boils down to perspective and circumspection. Lubrano had neither. He will
definitely take it in the ass.
So they're getting UHF TV channels 52-69 and the VHF channels too? Looking at
any frequency allocation plan, really, US or European all I see is a lot of
spectrum going to "government" and military applications. Look at the US allocation plan
and look at the activity code "government exclusive" / "government/non-government
shared". Same thing when you look at the German allocation plan. Here they try to hide the amount of spectrum assigned to the government by just differentiating between military and civil application ("Nutzung mil/ziv") for example by labelling "BOS" applications ("public safety" or rather "public order") applications as civil (ziv). Btw, you have to know that "BOS" means "Behoerden der Oeffentlichen Sicherheit", "Public Safety Agencies", they don't tell you that.
that is what firefox needs!
It's not that they would hide it somewhere in the plane tickets or give people an
'Airport Access Card' or something. No, this is something that goes around the neck
like a noose or a slave collars - which is what it is.
I guess by now a dozen people have already screamed possibly ALL-CAPS into the discussion with fury over
this, but this is really just the beginning. They were talking about implanting you
with an RFID chip at the hospital in order for you to get further treatment ("oh and
of course better treatment that would purportedly not be possible without being able to
swipe a scanner over you to get your ID). Now it's airports and oh it already has
happened in US school (nurseries of the future obedient serfs of America) many times over.
I'm not kidding you, flamebaiting, trolling, you, godwinning you or whatever else you
might think for you who this is hard to swallow. For me it's being forced to wear something
around my neck that can make them track and monitor even the slightest twitch I make
what is too hard to swallow.
Reading TFA I thought it could probably somehow defeat most PC firewalls like the one they ship with Windows XP ... now all it does is using outbound port tcp/80 to tattle back home. They don't even bother to "support" the
_inbound_, somehow threading its way through the lethal digital packet perimeter by hitting the firewall
hard over its head with irregular bit settings and funny buffer overflow code-injecting variable length
tcp option fields no man has thought of before...
handful of standalone windows firewalls that are out there and stealthily modify the firewall configuration.
I am not impressed.
Me with my TA behind my router I think I have less to worry about.
Me with my terminal adapter which happens to be integrated with my router,
I think I have plenty to worry about. Who says its firmware is not rigged?
Who says they can't upload a patch to it or otherwise tamper with it??
On the other hand, why do these shitheads need to tamper with someones
machine if they can just pick off the conversation directly from the wires
at the provider (unless they're using encryption)??!
so that Ayatollah Al Imami and his Taliban friends can go over the contents.
on Arrakis I guess not wanting to contaminate the spice worms.
No such considerations were afforded to Iraq which at most has to offer oil thought
safe from contamination. Most of the aftermath to the effects of exposure to the
radioactive metal dust from depleted uranium shells becoming obvious now, such as
cancers in adults, malformed children missing limbs and in some cases babies born
without brains... and on top of that thousands of gallons of chemical warfare
agents and a couple of million tons of fallout from major oil wells that burned for
weeks to months.
Right now it would probably be healthier to drink out of a puddle in downwind Nevada
than whatever water they could extract in Iraq.
Here's a movie you might want to watch that shows you just what a contaminated mess
our Beloved Leader left in Iraq:
http://www.beyondtreason.com/
It has a nice interview in there with Dr. Doug Rokke the former director of the Army
Depleted Uranium Project. Watch him cry in shame in front of the camera.
At the end be sure to watch the interview with Sgt Bob Jones, who came down with the
Gulf War syndrome and listen to how he describes the ultimate treatment they came up with:
A field trip to Arlington cemetary and telling him and his family to "learn to cope".
I just asked the bear who prowls through my backyard if it is okay to subvert
other lifeforms for our use. He looked at me puzzled, walked over and raised
his right paw to maul me. Then he paused and asked me "You know what I am mauling
you for?". I looked at him first in amazement, oh wow! a talking bear and then
I remembered that he could just rip me apart if he wanted to so I ventured
"I suppose its not okay to enslave other creatures or otherwise make use of them".
The bear looked at me and rolled his eyes upward and then moaned: "You have no fur.
You have no teeth. Youre the weakest critter in the world and now youre telling
me youre the dumbest of them all. I dont fucking believe it! Look buster, this
morning I ate my way through a bee hive and ate a couple of rats by digging them up
in their burrow, for lunch I had a ton of nuts and berries and stopped by the cadaver
of that dog that got run over last night and if Im lucky Im going to have moose
for dinner tonight. If we bears had use for cameras we would stick you inside them to
draw us pictures. I looked at him in amazement. According to him it was perfectly
all right to subvert other lifeforms for his use. Before I had time to fully think
things through he asked me, "Are you ready?". Ready for what, I asked him. "Ready
to take your medicine, ready to take what you have coming furless freak!". I didnt
answer him, I just ducked my head and then I woke up in the intensive care unit.
Which is why you shouldnt try to sell Audi secrets to Volkswagen. If at all
go after their supply chain. The F500 as well as banks and insurances cooperate.
If youre prepared to do the time, I would recommend small to medium sized businesses
to whom you can indeed sell competitor information. Dont expect to be paid
millions though.
I haven't read any books by him, so maybe I'm really missing out on something. But instead of sending him money, I'd rather send him a letter advising him on how to live a better life throw a steady income job.
Doubtlessly a whole bunch of people told you up front that he's in a wheelchair and suffering from extremely agonizing and immobilizing Post-Polio Syndrome, the aftermath of being exposed to the Poliomyelitis virus. I'm going to go one step further
and tell you that you are one dumb piece of shit.
You aren't familiar with his work, you know jack about his life and your head thrust deep into the reality tunnel of the
upper-prole / lower middle-class serf.
I'm not much of a physicist but a while back in the mid 90s someone came up with a way to get
:-)
MeV electrons by hitting a very thin metal foil with a laser.
"High-energy electron beam production by femtosecond laser interactions
with exploding-foil plasmas"
http://xray.ipcf.cnr.it/archivio/PRE_RC_01.pdf
They were already back then ten years ago jawing about cheap radiation equipment for example for
radiation therapy etc. Nothing came of it, I wonder why Siemens or Varian or all the rest of the equipment
manufacturers aren't delighted that there now is a cheap alternative?
Btw, you don't need to wear that lead apron while burning DVDs
Back in the good old days you would load a game on your Commodore 64 and prior to running it patch
it in memory with the POKE command in Basic to get you unlimited lives etc. Some things most obviously
never change, nowadays it seems you have to superpoke your windows box to keep it unowned.
Need I say more?
As far as their profits are concerned, these are indeed negligible when you compare them to other "businesses" who work hard
to keep America and the rest of the world unhealty. Look at Altria (the merger of Philip Morris Tobacco and Kraft Foods).
However as far as the Druids in Hollywood are concerned, their impact is actually incalculably high, because their propaganda and
role model programming goes a long way to keeping the status quo.
As a matter of fact: One way to really hurt Hollywood in their mission would be - if it were only technically feasible - to cram
the prole feed they put out into a highly secure DRM system making piracy almost impossible. You can depend on it that they would
leak keys or get rid of a system like that altogether if it means that so much fewer people are exposed to their garbage.
Their main interest is to get into your living room and into the space between your ears and not the money they may or not recap
on the movies they put out.
As an interesting side note, Germany is about to abandon the concept of free television reception altogether. In the first quarter
of next year, Germany's private television stations will all switch on the encryption on their digital signals and after analog
is phased out by 2009 if Herr von Kraut wants to watch television he will have to pop in a smart card into his receiver.
Watch this scheme burn and get abandoned once they find that even less than 3% fewer people are watching.
but it's yet only another marketing ploy. Wait till you see Snoopy or Scooby Doo turn up
on the map, or they start the Google Maps Treasure Hunt next year.
We have no definition of victory. You can't compare this current erosion of rights, done in the name of perpetual war, with any erosion of rights that might've occurred during the well-defined WWII, because no one has any idea when we'll even know that it's time to expect our rights back.
We will tell you when you can have your "rights' back, slave!
... it really wonder about all the other "laws" and "regulations" they "pass".
... and never mind that it's them who make us miserable
Note my quotation marks, I don't think anything they do or come up with is
in any way honest and worthy and the act of "passing the law" is a farce
in itself.
The real issue to be upset here is not that they're not happy about losing their
grip on gambling, the real issue to be upset here is about how they're conning
us.
But it's all right I suppose. After all we have other things to worry about and
we can't be bothered with stuff that is so clearly off our radar. We got lives to
attend to and bills to pay
and they're the reason the bills are so high.
But when I do let you know something about me, then know that even though I'm a high school dropout
I am also a 22 year old 5"4 athletic blonde female and I just love the sex older men can give me and I'm
interested in dating and romance. I like Billy Graham, Zachariah Sitchen but I hate Prince Phillip and
I earn more than a hundred thousand dollars a year working as a pharma whore.
Most ATMs require pin verification against a special operator card to access maintenance functions. Since you're talking about Microsoft's SQL variant here let it be noted that all the key players are no better. For example MySQL didn't even set a password for the default administrative account for a long time and even Oracle let's you logon as scott/tiger and I think the Oracle dba default password is even "changeme" or "changethis". As far as the default password issue is concerned, most products will warn you to change the default passwords ASAP. Change the default password ASAP or you richly deserve what you get.
There are no true multi-party democracies in Europe nor anywhere else on the planet. At best there's the inner
and the outer party. Health care for all btw means substantially poorer health care at exorbitant
mandatory membership premiums while higher income is permitted to switch to massively lower rate, high quality
private health insurance. Fuck socialism for it sucks.
A default password that is MEANT to be CHANGED ASAP is not supersecret. It's in the fucking
manual and even if the manual is not on the web then you can probably order one from the
manufacturer and they wont make sure you even purchased the ATM to go with it.
The real news is that the people who set ATMs up and operate them are as dumb as dog shit.
UUuuuuh secret password! Uuuuuuh!
Voting machines are most obviously _designed_ to be tampered with because of multiple issues
discussed all other net such as the total lack of cryptography to secure voting results.
Pressing CTRL-1 on a Triton ATM to bring up it's management login screen is nowhere near the
total lack of security in comparison to a voting machine and there is no magic key sequence
to get the cash dispenser to empty the cash in the ATM into your greedy hands. Why even if
you got into the Dispenser test diag the dispenser would not send the cash to the exit gate but
instead send it to reject cassette. The only thing you could potentially do IF you had the password
was to reconfigure the cash denominations of the individual cassettes turning a $20 bill into a $5.
I didn't really look all that hard into the manual but there seems no way to change the keys in the
security module to hijack the terminal from its host.
Of course there are even better ways of handling security issue here such as somebody here suggested that
the ATM refuses to perform withdrawal operations with the default password in place. Other ATMs require
pin verification from a special operator card to enter management functions and still others do not allow
any management functions from the customer screen at all, but only from a rear control panel or from an
attached notebook.
All in all ATMs are worlds ahead of the Electionstealer 2000 voting terminals. Transactions with the host are
secured by a security module (looks like a mobile phone SIM Card) which calculates cryptographic checksums and
the host authenticates likewise to the terminal. You can depend that if they built that kind of protection into
voting machines then to make sure only authorized voting fraud occurs.
So please spare us the "very very very stupid people"...