I can see where you are coming from but I do not consider myself part of the problem. This is not "my" government nor are these "my" big fortune 500 businesses who they are fighting. If somebody gets killed that otherwise causes me trouble or even downright harm, then I welcome that death. I would love to tell you more here but going any further than that could land me into serious trouble:-)
I am sure that the terrorists understand that it does not make any sense to blow up innocent civilians because any such an attack would only benefit their enemies. I know of few major attacks that have not been a false flag maneuver by what I would call the true terrorizers: for example western govnerment agencies that blow up subways and trains to frighten the populace. In fact, I am certain that only very few terrorist attacks have occurred in the past decades, otherwise we would have had so many more attacks against police stations, military and intelligence installations and maybe even the IRS or whatever else that kind of scum happens to be called in your country.
6 billion you say, did you know that with $6 000 000 000 a year you could pay one million people of the poorest here in the US a monthly 500 dollars which would allow them the security to turn around and tell their McJob bosses to fuck off. This in turn would have the effect of raising minimum wages benefiting millions more.
Oh and did you know that Israel gets the same amount from Germany each year? Another million of their people who could tell their Mcjob bosses Scheiss!
So if I write a book and show that Global Warming is just hype and propaganda, do I get "courtesy placement" on slashdot too??! After all it says so in a book...!!
The jury is still out on the CO2 angle and proselytizing to the slashdot CO2 choir wont help.
Who btw is funding the CO2 crowd.... why of course the business interests that are built squarely on the CO2 business plan. The shortest way to locate these is simply to follow the Euros from the CO2-Professors wallet back to the eurosocialist elite coffers.
Oh well... slashdot and responsible journalism....
I'm not sure how long the Xbox360 people are along opening the box, last time I heard about them there was a bug in the dvdrom firmware that allows people to run backup copies on their box. But seriously, hacking the XBox360 seems to be no trivial issue with crypto keys buried in silicone and system components authenticating and encrypting to each other.
Another class of device not readily tampered with are ATM machines, incidentally a lot of these made by Diebold. There is no easy way to get at the cash except having either a valid ATM card, the key to the safe or couple of sticks of dynamite. Exchanges with a backend host are cryptographically authenticated and encrypted meaning you can't impersonate that 70s CICS application telling the machine to give you money unless you have key material that is buried in a security module (looks like a mobile phone sim card nowadays).
Why is it one does _not_ wonder why the Diebold voting machines are such a bunch of crap?
Would you like me to prepare a gallow from a template for you?
The dataset delivered with the program will most likely be some sort of graph with migitating and aggravting nodes such as "Did the defendant carry a firearm? (y/n)" "Did the defendant admit guilt? (y/n)" etc. and each node traversed will probably add or subtract a certain percentage from the sentence.
As far as I know, in the Unlimited States of Anguish they have sentencing guidelines which pretty much take common sense and fairness out of US sentencing allowing decade long to life terms for posession of Marijuana. But let's see how well the Sentence-Wizard does in that other dictatorship first.
The "experts" are "in charge" of Wikipedia anyway. Just try to change anything on key articles like "George W. Bush", "The Holocaust", "israel", "Jesus Christ", "Catholic Church" or even the "Anti Defamation League" and watch how an "expert" with admin rights blocks you and corrects your evil. The good thing about Wikipedia is that no matter how much lip service is paid to the concept of "Neutral Point of View" all key articles usually revert according to catechism and dogma.
I recommend anyone really looking at Wikipedia to look through an article's discussion page and check out the history for deletions or "vandalism reverts". You will find many unwelcome fact there that has been flagged vandalism.
We didn't even begin to explore what meeting intelligent life could be like...
"You know, they look remarkably like big teddy bears, but they're dressed up in armor and they carry machine guns. I've seen them attack. When you put them down you have to make sure they're done for. Aim for their heads and blow out their brains, anything less than that and chances are they'll hose you down before they go back to Teddyhell or wherever they came from. Fucken freaking bears on steroids, I heard they rip off people's heads and play sick games with them. Heard they captured some Teddies and found a way to talk to them, one of them called us "weird furless freaks" and that they're going to make us sorry for coming here.
Personally, but don't you dare tell anyone this but I can't really hold it against them. We've been dropping bombs on their cities the day we got here and one of those places was a 250 square mile Manhattan. No wonder they're...... upset with us.
26.03.2137 1500 Entry #135811 Donny had an accident today and was exposed to the xenosphere out there. I'm starting to get a little worried here because this morning he was still fine, four hours into the quarantine period but Walt says from what he's been able to tell Donny has started coughing up bloody phlegm. 26.03.2137 2000 Entry #135812 Walt convinced me to let him take the portable xray into the airlock and took pictures of Donny's lungs. From what I understand the situation couldn't be worse. According to Walt his lungs and bronchial tubes are filling up with some sort of xenobiological organism kind of like a mold. Walt is trying out all sorts of antibiotics and antiviral medication but it doesn't look good. 27.03.2137 0100 Entry #135813 Donny died a terrible death just minutes ago 0005 hours choking and going into convulsions. He was only exposed to the atmosphere of this world for maybe four minutes until he got back into the lock but that's obviously all it takes to get infected. To think that this planet looks so earth-like, the clear lakes and rivers and even the atmosphere is remarkably close to Earth but then when you see this odd yellowish vegetation not really definable in Earth terms as fungus, plant or animal, rather some odd mix of the characteristics of all of these... that life is really hostile, I don't think people will ever be able to live here. Anyhow we buried Donny minutes after and I think going from the discoloration on his left cheek that some of it was working it's way into his system through the skin too but that will probably be explored in depth in Walt's medical report.
I don't buy into the environmentalist control paradigm, Steve just because yet another Piltdown Man unearthed by the same bunch of people who are directly or indirectly are funded by the same European socialist crowd that is busy shutting down that continent. I don't buy into the Bushian control paradigm of endless War on Terror either but given the choice between the two I will settle for the lesser evil and that is where I am living in abject poverty _but_ have hot food and warm water ever so much more often.
To these scientists and those who tout there findings maybe out of malice maybe only out of gullibility: Apart from fancy graphics and a bunch of figures on the side of it you have nothing compelling to show for your theories as the word of your renowned scientists who for the most part are in one way or other flogging the subject for tenure, research grants and of course kickbacks from the environmentalist "industry" they have helped build in Europe. And then there are other just as renowned scientists paid by yet other interests which whip up the same kind of charts, reports and findings as the environmentalist crowd only of course this time around debunking the Piltdown Man.
So you see, within the frame of "Scientist say" there is no way this subject can be argued. A more sucessful way of researching the subject would be to chart the money flow to "research" and the interests and the true motivation those funds originate from. With a control paradigm interest in the way, that is built on shutting down human freedom by means of the environmental angle this is probably a much harder task than doctoring carbon results and giving a press conference.
I know someone is going to be really upset over this obvious break with catechism and will mod me down over this, presumably with a -1 Troll. That would however be an admission of defeat and it would show you are evading the key point I am making here:
You will always find a bunch of people that will sing your song as long as they stand enough to gain. With that kind of corruption in academia who can we trust?
You have been randomly selected to serve your country in a biological warfare experiment. Please roll up your sleeve.
Oh well, when duty calls:-)
Permission to laugh granted, reevaluating threat..
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Steve Irwin Dead
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You know in a way you're right, I was first dismayed to read that Irwin - a guy who played around with some of the deadliest animals on the face of this planet - died because of a sting-ray. (Though this recent Darwin Award is now having me reevaluate the string-ray threat). But then someone who plays around with Brown Snakes and Crocodiles had it coming and I'm sure deep down he knew that someday one critter or another would sink its teeth into him. I guess none of us were expecting it to be the tail barb of a sting-ray, least of all him.
On the other hand I had to laugh at the joke someone pulled with dying at what one likes to do best, obviously then a coder dying from a pointer through her chest. His demise will be made fun off because that's the easiest way for us who actually liked the guy we saw on TV and who are thus a lot more removed from him to deal with this.
Jokes like that's are perfectly okay though I guess its obvious that talk like that is best kept away from his wife and children. I am much more personally saddened for them.
You should be glad that grammar and proper spelling are not mandatory net skills or you could watch your modem disconnect this minute.
Second not everybody has McKaspersky-Norton's A-fee based Security Symantesizer for the Internet for various reasons, mostly because they don't want to buy into the obscene subscription scheme or have no clue what to do once malware decapacitates it even they even notice what has happened.
Oh and there's no real way at the moment to dodge the malware issue no matter how conscientious you have configured and armored your Windows (or Mac, Linux, Solaris, AIX, VMS, HP-UX, zOS, zVM-CMS, TOPS-20, AOS, or whatever you're running if that were the most common operating system in the world)... you can get 0wn3d and hax0r3d by going to a website with a jpg on the site and a vulnerability in your browsers jpeg library.
Hell... even I couldn't even tell if this box here is still secure or has already been owned just by looking at it. I would have to get under the hood and trace the traffic other a period of 24 hours or more to see that there is not some piece of shitware which is calling home or has it's "Master" accessing it. Tripwire doesn't cut it when they patch your kernel.
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5. Your computer is about to access the internet on your behalf. Please thumbscan.
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Huh? What's wrong with a corporation to "give back" once in a blue moon even if it's only with funding and supplying the man power for the certification of a certain piece of OSS?
Why not guide your boss's thinking down that avenue and let the corp, which is probably benefiting from OSS with a couple of hundred Linux servers, give a little something back to "the community" ??!
How little you know small one:-) The higher you climb the pyramid, no matter which side you are climbing on, even be it the catholic side, the closer you get to The Eye, the more contempt you have for the ignorant masses. And the higher you climb th narrower the sides of the pyramid get the more blatant the interaction between the "sides" gets, such such as the catholic Jesuits founding the Bavarian Illuminati in Ingolstadt or Sir Albert Pike a 33rd degree Freemason founding the Ku-Klux-Klan and so forth.
We all serve the Eye, most of us unwittingly, many eagerly and going from your definition everything on this planet qualifies as a cult, from society at large to your next-door wicca coven to your baptist church. Well I suppose with the exception of Landover Baptist of course, which is definitely an exception and maybe whatever leaked from Robert Wilson's deranged hashish enhanced thought into your reality tunnel.
I'm sorry but I think the entire article is patently stupid. Apple and Microsoft if anything are viable on the desktop but saying that the choice boils down to the two in servers is simply so homecomputer small-fries kind of "Look-at-ma! I-just-overclocked-my-pentium' thinking. I can assure you. We will NOT be running Microsoft nor Apple even by the turn of the _next_ century and along with us I think most of anyone else I know.
Okay, I might find kinder words if this weren't so outrageously stupid but hey...
To whoever wrote this: What about Sun? What about IBM? What about HP?
Yeah. I'm with you Dark Brother, I'm with you. Here are a couple sick and demented things I would see him suffer:
First we pour gallons of honey, molasses and maplesyrup over his head. Then we roll him in a variety of nuts, raisins, chestnuts and tie half a slaughtered pig to his back. Then we drop him off to Alaska and tell him to run for his life... The next bear is just 40 miles around the corner and gaining fast.
It's pretty simple, take DES for example. ECB "Electronic Codebook Mode" DES maps 64 bits of plaintext onto 64 bits of ciphertext using a given key. Running the resulting ciphertext again through DES maps those 64 bits of ciphertext to a 64 bits of final cipher text, However, there's also a single key that maps those 64 bits of plaintext directly in one go to the 64 bits of FINAL ciphertext but you don't now what is.
FC = DESECB(DESECB(P,K1),K2) = DESECB(P,Kunknown)
Of course there is a slight chance that I'm mistaken here but then IANAC where C is in the set of {Cryptographer, Cryptanalyst}.
Problem: People are hurting other people on the internet
with unsubstantiated claims and vicious "hate speech"*
Paid-for tiger teams inflict sensational damage and media focuses on it.
Reaction: Somebody ought to do something about this! If that is "Free Speech" then we certainly don't need it! There should be a law against it.
Solution: Another law outlawing "unbridled" speech. What they wanted all along and now they even got people clamoring for it.
Yawn.
* a previous module already installed that is also designed to put a stop to free speech.
I find your employer offensive please remove link
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Even though you and me have a lot in common here's something I will not ignore and I have the guts to tell you this right out in the open without hiding behind AC:
Even though you happen to work for a background check and drug testing company there really is no reason to flaunt that. I particularily resent the drug testing side of it since the choice of what someone will put into their body and what not is a natural right not for employers and least of all for governments to regulate.
Btw, especially hideously delightful are the FUD messages
"over 30% of all offenders are multi-state offenders" "embezzlement costs billions of dollars"
I understand you may need the job but beyond that all understanding and sympathy ends.
Other than that taking back up the issue here, I see that you love sun machines like I do. You're onto something here too. I actually have a SS20 sitting under my desk and it still works just fine and down in the cellar there's a E3K and a couple of U60s humming away. Likewise the PCs I had eked out the last days of their lives as firewalls and caching proxies and died slow and painful deaths. Other than that at work we are likewise heavy into Sun but even though I could brag about working for that organization I wont.
Regards
Apple opted for poor quality when they chose Intel
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Once you enter the realm of x86 PC based hardware, poor quality is the result and there is nothing Apple or anyone else can do about that. Now that's a pretty placative thesis here but before rolling with your eyes, bear with me and I will tell you why that is so. The gist of what I'm saying is, that beefing up quality assurance is not the magic bullet here. The tremendous extra effort that would have to be spent on having _reasonable_ quality here is vastly in excess of staying with the former, reliable technology.
I'm not here to bash Apple over the head with this and they're not the only ones that has gotten burned here, even Sun Microsystems came up a while ago with cheap entry level intel-based boxes. Sadly these blew up on them (well the machines blew up on their customers, and THEY in turn blew up on Sun). Among several annoying minor issues there were tremendous problems with the IDE interface.
So what is the problem here? Why I can't they get things to work before they ship? Well, as opposed to admittedly more expensive but tested technology, X86-PC hardware is fast tracked to market where everybody, from the manufacturer of the mainboard to the designer of the chipsets expect it to evolve over time to stability, from revision to revision, pretty much recruiting the user as an involuntary beta tester. Pretty upsetting that thought but that is exactly the way it is. The main reason this market works like it does is on one side the fierce competition among and on the other side the fact that most of the buyers there have a high tolerance for product defects.
There are good reasons for why things are the way they are but of course if you want to build a reliable system then there are certain choices to be made and certain things to be avoided. Apple is just now repeating an extremely painful l esson it could have observed from Sun but it seems that human behavior sometimes pretty similar on the organizational level as it is on the individual: No matter how often you are told, You have to touch the hot stove yourself to find out.
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I can see where you are coming from but I do not consider myself part of the problem. :-)
This is not "my" government nor are these "my" big fortune 500 businesses who they
are fighting. If somebody gets killed that otherwise causes me trouble or even downright
harm, then I welcome that death. I would love to tell you more here but going any
further than that could land me into serious trouble
I am sure that the terrorists understand that it does not make any sense to blow up innocent
civilians because any such an attack would only benefit their enemies. I know of few major
attacks that have not been a false flag maneuver by what I would call the true terrorizers:
for example western govnerment agencies that blow up subways and trains to frighten the populace.
In fact, I am certain that only very few terrorist attacks have occurred in the past decades,
otherwise we would have had so many more attacks against police stations, military and
intelligence installations and maybe even the IRS or whatever else that kind of scum happens to
be called in your country.
6 billion you say, did you know that with $6 000 000 000 a year you could pay
one million people of the poorest here in the US a monthly 500 dollars which
would allow them the security to turn around and tell their McJob bosses to
fuck off. This in turn would have the effect of raising minimum wages benefiting
millions more.
Oh and did you know that Israel gets the same amount from Germany each year?
Another million of their people who could tell their Mcjob bosses Scheiss!
So if I write a book and show that Global Warming is just hype and propaganda, do I get
"courtesy placement" on slashdot too??! After all it says so in a book...!!
Says the feds burned those people on purpose.
The jury is still out on the CO2 angle and proselytizing to the slashdot CO2 choir
....
wont help.
Who btw is funding the CO2 crowd.... why of course the business interests that are built
squarely on the CO2 business plan. The shortest way to locate these is simply to follow
the Euros from the CO2-Professors wallet back to the eurosocialist elite coffers.
Oh well... slashdot and responsible journalism
I'm not sure how long the Xbox360 people are along opening the box, last time I heard about them there
was a bug in the dvdrom firmware that allows people to run backup copies on their box. But seriously,
hacking the XBox360 seems to be no trivial issue with crypto keys buried in silicone and system components
authenticating and encrypting to each other.
Another class of device not readily tampered with are ATM machines, incidentally a lot of these made by Diebold.
There is no easy way to get at the cash except having either a valid ATM card, the key to the safe or
couple of sticks of dynamite. Exchanges with a backend host are cryptographically authenticated and encrypted
meaning you can't impersonate that 70s CICS application telling the machine to give you money unless you
have key material that is buried in a security module (looks like a mobile phone sim card nowadays).
Why is it one does _not_ wonder why the Diebold voting machines are such a bunch of crap?
Would you like me to prepare a gallow from a template for you?
The dataset delivered with the program will most likely be some sort of graph with
migitating and aggravting nodes such as "Did the defendant carry a firearm? (y/n)"
"Did the defendant admit guilt? (y/n)" etc. and each node traversed will probably add or
subtract a certain percentage from the sentence.
As far as I know, in the Unlimited States of Anguish they have sentencing guidelines
which pretty much take common sense and fairness out of US sentencing allowing
decade long to life terms for posession of Marijuana. But let's see how well the
Sentence-Wizard does in that other dictatorship first.
The "experts" are "in charge" of Wikipedia anyway. Just try to change anything on key articles
like "George W. Bush", "The Holocaust", "israel", "Jesus Christ", "Catholic Church" or even
the "Anti Defamation League" and watch how an "expert" with admin rights blocks you and corrects your
evil. The good thing about Wikipedia is that no matter how much lip service is paid to the concept of
"Neutral Point of View" all key articles usually revert according to catechism and dogma.
I recommend anyone really looking at Wikipedia to look through an article's discussion page and
check out the history for deletions or "vandalism reverts". You will find many unwelcome fact there
that has been flagged vandalism.
We didn't even begin to explore what meeting intelligent life could be like...
... ... upset with us.
"You know, they look remarkably like big teddy bears, but they're dressed up in armor
and they carry machine guns. I've seen them attack. When you put them down you have to
make sure they're done for. Aim for their heads and blow out their brains, anything
less than that and chances are they'll hose you down before they go back to Teddyhell
or wherever they came from. Fucken freaking bears on steroids, I heard they rip off
people's heads and play sick games with them. Heard they captured some Teddies and
found a way to talk to them, one of them called us "weird furless freaks" and that
they're going to make us sorry for coming here.
Personally, but don't you dare tell anyone this but I can't really hold it against them.
We've been dropping bombs on their cities the day we got here and one of those places
was a 250 square mile Manhattan. No wonder they're
26.03.2137 1500 Entry #135811
Donny had an accident today and was exposed to the xenosphere out there. I'm starting to get a little worried here
because this morning he was still fine, four hours into the quarantine period but Walt says from what he's been
able to tell Donny has started coughing up bloody phlegm.
26.03.2137 2000 Entry #135812
Walt convinced me to let him take the portable xray into the airlock and took pictures of Donny's lungs.
From what I understand the situation couldn't be worse. According to Walt his lungs and bronchial tubes are
filling up with some sort of xenobiological organism kind of like a mold. Walt is trying out all sorts of
antibiotics and antiviral medication but it doesn't look good.
27.03.2137 0100 Entry #135813
Donny died a terrible death just minutes ago 0005 hours choking and going into convulsions. He was only exposed
to the atmosphere of this world for maybe four minutes until he got back into the lock but that's obviously all it
takes to get infected. To think that this planet looks so earth-like, the clear lakes and rivers and even the
atmosphere is remarkably close to Earth but then when you see this odd yellowish vegetation not really definable
in Earth terms as fungus, plant or animal, rather some odd mix of the characteristics of all of these... that
life is really hostile, I don't think people will ever be able to live here. Anyhow we buried Donny minutes after
and I think going from the discoloration on his left cheek that some of it was working it's way into his system
through the skin too but that will probably be explored in depth in Walt's medical report.
I would rather send my kids to Terence McKenna High School.
I don't buy into the environmentalist control paradigm, Steve just because yet another Piltdown Man
unearthed by the same bunch of people who are directly or indirectly are funded by the same
European socialist crowd that is busy shutting down that continent. I don't buy into the
Bushian control paradigm of endless War on Terror either but given the choice between the two
I will settle for the lesser evil and that is where I am living in abject poverty _but_
have hot food and warm water ever so much more often.
To these scientists and those who tout there findings maybe out of malice maybe only out of gullibility:
Apart from fancy graphics and a bunch of figures on the side of it you have nothing compelling
to show for your theories as the word of your renowned scientists who for the most part are
in one way or other flogging the subject for tenure, research grants and of course kickbacks
from the environmentalist "industry" they have helped build in Europe. And then there are other
just as renowned scientists paid by yet other interests which whip up the same kind of charts,
reports and findings as the environmentalist crowd only of course this time around debunking
the Piltdown Man.
So you see, within the frame of "Scientist say" there is no way this subject can be argued.
A more sucessful way of researching the subject would be to chart the money flow to "research"
and the interests and the true motivation those funds originate from. With a control paradigm
interest in the way, that is built on shutting down human freedom by means of the environmental
angle this is probably a much harder task than doctoring carbon results and giving a press
conference.
I know someone is going to be really upset over this obvious break with catechism and will mod
me down over this, presumably with a -1 Troll. That would however be an admission of defeat
and it would show you are evading the key point I am making here:
You will always find a bunch of people that will sing your song as long as they stand enough
to gain. With that kind of corruption in academia who can we trust?
You have been randomly selected to serve your country in a biological warfare experiment. Please roll up your sleeve.
:-)
Oh well, when duty calls
You know in a way you're right, I was first dismayed to read that Irwin - a guy who played around
with some of the deadliest animals on the face of this planet - died because of a sting-ray.
(Though this recent Darwin Award is now having me reevaluate the string-ray threat). But then
someone who plays around with Brown Snakes and Crocodiles had it coming and I'm sure deep down
he knew that someday one critter or another would sink its teeth into him. I guess none of us were
expecting it to be the tail barb of a sting-ray, least of all him.
On the other hand I had to laugh at the joke someone pulled with dying at what one likes to do
best, obviously then a coder dying from a pointer through her chest. His demise will be
made fun off because that's the easiest way for us who actually liked the guy we saw on TV and
who are thus a lot more removed from him to deal with this.
Jokes like that's are perfectly okay though I guess its obvious that talk like that is best kept away
from his wife and children. I am much more personally saddened for them.
You should be glad that grammar and proper spelling are not mandatory
net skills or you could watch your modem disconnect this minute.
Second not everybody has McKaspersky-Norton's A-fee based Security
Symantesizer for the Internet for various reasons, mostly because they
don't want to buy into the obscene subscription scheme or have no clue what
to do once malware decapacitates it even they even notice what has happened.
Oh and there's no real way at the moment to dodge the malware issue no
matter how conscientious you have configured and armored your Windows
(or Mac, Linux, Solaris, AIX, VMS, HP-UX, zOS, zVM-CMS, TOPS-20, AOS,
or whatever you're running if that were the most common operating system
in the world)... you can get 0wn3d and hax0r3d by going to a website with
a jpg on the site and a vulnerability in your browsers jpeg library.
Hell... even I couldn't even tell if this box here is still secure or has
already been owned just by looking at it. I would have to get under the hood
and trace the traffic other a period of 24 hours or more to see that there
is not some piece of shitware which is calling home or has it's "Master"
accessing it. Tripwire doesn't cut it when they patch your kernel.
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Huh? What's wrong with a corporation to "give back" once in a blue moon
even if it's only with funding and supplying the man power for the certification of a
certain piece of OSS?
Why not guide your boss's thinking down that avenue and let the corp,
which is probably benefiting from OSS with a couple of hundred Linux servers,
give a little something back to "the community" ??!
How little you know small one :-) The higher you climb the pyramid, no matter which side you are climbing on, even be it the
catholic side, the closer you get to The Eye, the more contempt you have for the ignorant masses. And the higher you climb
th narrower the sides of the pyramid get the more blatant the interaction between the "sides" gets, such such as
the catholic Jesuits founding the Bavarian Illuminati in Ingolstadt or Sir Albert Pike a 33rd degree Freemason founding
the Ku-Klux-Klan and so forth.
We all serve the Eye, most of us unwittingly, many eagerly and going from your definition everything on this planet qualifies as a
cult, from society at large to your next-door wicca coven to your baptist church. Well I suppose with the exception of
Landover Baptist of course, which is definitely an exception and maybe whatever leaked from Robert Wilson's deranged hashish
enhanced thought into your reality tunnel.
I'm sorry but I think the entire article is patently stupid. Apple and Microsoft if anything
are viable on the desktop but saying that the choice boils down to the two in servers is simply
so homecomputer small-fries kind of "Look-at-ma! I-just-overclocked-my-pentium' thinking.
I can assure you. We will NOT be running Microsoft nor Apple even by the turn of the _next_
century and along with us I think most of anyone else I know.
Okay, I might find kinder words if this weren't so outrageously stupid but hey...
To whoever wrote this: What about Sun? What about IBM? What about HP?
Yeah. I'm with you Dark Brother, I'm with you. Here are a couple sick and demented things
I would see him suffer:
First we pour gallons of honey, molasses and maplesyrup over his head. Then we roll him
in a variety of nuts, raisins, chestnuts and tie half a slaughtered pig to his back.
Then we drop him off to Alaska and tell him to run for his life... The next bear is
just 40 miles around the corner and gaining fast.
It's pretty simple, take DES for example. ECB "Electronic Codebook Mode" DES maps 64 bits of plaintext onto 64 bits of ciphertext using
a given key. Running the resulting ciphertext again through DES maps those 64 bits of ciphertext to a 64 bits of final cipher text,
However, there's also a single key that maps those 64 bits of plaintext directly in one go to the 64 bits of FINAL ciphertext but
you don't now what is.
FC = DESECB(DESECB(P,K1),K2) = DESECB(P,Kunknown)
Of course there is a slight chance that I'm mistaken here but then IANAC where C is in the set of {Cryptographer, Cryptanalyst}.
my first 1st post attempt... and nothing intelligent to say about the problem
except that they're upset at a non-issue
Greetings from the land of Hegel:
Problem. Reaction Solution.
Problem: People are hurting other people on the internet
with unsubstantiated claims and vicious "hate speech"*
Paid-for tiger teams inflict sensational damage and
media focuses on it.
Reaction: Somebody ought to do something about this! If that
is "Free Speech" then we certainly don't need it! There should
be a law against it.
Solution: Another law outlawing "unbridled" speech. What
they wanted all along and now they even got people clamoring
for it.
Yawn.
* a previous module already installed that is also designed to
put a stop to free speech.
Even though you and me have a lot in common here's something I will not ignore and I have the guts to tell you this
right out in the open without hiding behind AC:
Even though you happen to work for a background check and drug testing company there really is no reason to flaunt that.
I particularily resent the drug testing side of it since the choice of what someone will put into their body and what not
is a natural right not for employers and least of all for governments to regulate.
Btw, especially hideously delightful are the FUD messages
"over 30% of all offenders are multi-state offenders"
"embezzlement costs billions of dollars"
I understand you may need the job but beyond that all understanding and sympathy ends.
Other than that taking back up the issue here, I see that you love sun machines like I do. You're onto something here too. I actually have
a SS20 sitting under my desk and it still works just fine and down in the cellar there's a E3K and a couple of U60s humming away. Likewise
the PCs I had eked out the last days of their lives as firewalls and caching proxies and died slow and painful deaths.
Other than that at work we are likewise heavy into Sun but even though I could brag about working for that organization I wont.
Regards
Once you enter the realm of x86 PC based hardware, poor quality is the result
and there is nothing Apple or anyone else can do about that. Now that's a
pretty placative thesis here but before rolling with your eyes, bear with me
and I will tell you why that is so. The gist of what I'm saying is, that
beefing up quality assurance is not the magic bullet here. The tremendous
extra effort that would have to be spent on having _reasonable_ quality
here is vastly in excess of staying with the former, reliable technology.
I'm not here to bash Apple over the head with this and they're not the
only ones that has gotten burned here, even Sun Microsystems came up a while
ago with cheap entry level intel-based boxes. Sadly these blew up on them
(well the machines blew up on their customers, and THEY in turn blew up on Sun).
Among several annoying minor issues there were tremendous problems with the
IDE interface.
So what is the problem here? Why I can't they get things to work before they ship?
Well, as opposed to admittedly more expensive but tested technology, X86-PC
hardware is fast tracked to market where everybody, from the manufacturer of the
mainboard to the designer of the chipsets expect it to evolve over time to
stability, from revision to revision, pretty much recruiting the user as an
involuntary beta tester. Pretty upsetting that thought but that is exactly the way
it is. The main reason this market works like it does is on one side the fierce
competition among and on the other side the fact that most of the buyers there
have a high tolerance for product defects.
There are good reasons for why things are the way they are but of course if you
want to build a reliable system then there are certain choices to be made and
certain things to be avoided. Apple is just now repeating an extremely painful l
esson it could have observed from Sun but it seems that human behavior sometimes pretty similar on the organizational level as it is on the individual: No matter
how often you are told, You have to touch the hot stove yourself to find out.