I've got a 1.6GHz Atom N280 and 1GB RAM in my netbook. There is no way I will risk it with anything like WoW, it gets plenty warm enough just upstreaming live nHD video at 15fps. (I think the Intel video thing, if it's the same as mine, does 1024WSVGA native, QXGA external, and is labeled "Intel GMA900 Series" (mine's actually labeled "Intel GMA950"). Either output you use, it uses almost exactly 1MB of system memory for buffering, hence frame rates on larger screens will suck donkey bollocks).
for the law to apply, it must apply to ALL in equal measure.
Just from the summary, I can say that the law certainly has been broken. The Computer Misuse Act specifically forbids unauthorised interception of network signals - as has clearly happened here. It also specifically forbids unauthorised manipulation of computer code - as has clearly happened here. I could write a list, but I'll leave that exercise for the guys and legals at Dice. Hint: write the informations against the Corporate Director at GCHQ and against the Minister responsible (who not only *had* to have knowledge of the activity (IGNORANCE IS NOT AN EXCUSE UNDER THE LAW), he *had* to have authorised it!).
OK, I do honestly believe that this is one of many books on the FBI's tag list, since it has been publicly and repeatedly linked to such luminous bods as Hinckley, Oswald and Chapman, but I really don't think it's down to its content, it's purely down to the association with political assassins. What you're more likely to find a Federal agent tagging on the spine of, is Kitchen Improvised Plastic Explosives and Anarchist Cookbook and Suicide Vests For Dummies (does that one really exist? I thought I'd just made it up!) (why do they call them suicide vests? Such a misnomer, there's also a lot of homicide involved). There are stories of people being jailed for the mere possession of such titles on their laptops (google it yourself).
"Copy a song to your laptop from a friend's Beyonce CD? You just violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Did you buy some clothes in Delaware because they were tax free? You're probably evading taxes. Did you give your 20-year-old nephew a glass of wine at dinner? Illegal in many states.
Citizens that the federal government wants to indict, the federal government can indict if it monitors them closely enough. That's why it's so disturbing to learn that the federal government doesn't need to obtain a warrant on us in order to get our emails and phone records."
- Tim Carney (Washington Examiner, June 9 2013)
Below are some reasons why this revelation should make you pissed off enough to start reaching for your gun:
The vagueness of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act makes violating a website’s terms of service a possible felony. We’re not just referring to government websites. *All* websites. That alongside PATRIOT, potentially makes terrorists out of everybody who has a Facebook or Twitter account and uses it to vent.
Would you say, “I don’t need medical marijuana so I don’t care if they imprison those who do”? Sadly, some people do. Fundamentally, saying “I have nothing to hide,” is similar to saying “I don’t care about those who do”. You selfish bastard.
And what does the Government do with the data once they have it? Google around and you'll find social workers "misplacing" diaries, politicians "losing" laptops, then suddenly the data contained therein appears on Wikileaks and the hardware (if it's a laptop) appearing in the sales section of Gumtree. God forbid the data collection ends up with us facing another Gilberto Valle! (Gilberto Valle had an unusual sexual fetish. He fantasized about kidnapping, killing, and eating young women. Valle was also a member of the New York Police Department, and was convicted in March this year of plotting to make his fantasies a reality. Whether he really meant to do so is up in the air (his defense was that this was all sexual roleplay), but he was also convicted of looking up his potential targets in a national crime database, accessible due to his position of authority). That alone is scary, but then we're talking about not just collecting data on convicted criminals here, we're talking about massive amounts of data being collected on *everybody*. You should ALL be fucking nervous!
A question I'd like answered, is where is the Church Committee in all of this? They're suspiciously quiet these days. Why aren't they donning Spiderman and Batman costumes and hanging themselves from the flagstaff at the Senate Building? Because this shit is all fucked up.
um... hate to tell you this, but MHT had absolutely nothing to do with that. It was down to Reagan challenging Gorbachev to tear down the wall and popularist reaction to that challenge in physically tearing the wall down that ended the cold war. Thatcher was too busy going senile after not only sending our entire naval force to the Falklands to beat the shit out of the "brown bastards" who had the brass neck to claim back their territory which had previously been *annexed* in the name of the Empire, she started the whole deindustrialisation of our once great nation starting with the steel industry, the coal industry, water and power utilities, the telecommunications infrastructure, roads and railways, the canals and her parting shot? Well, this was the ONE good thing she left us: our hostility towards European unionism and our resistance to the Superstate. She grew up in the dust of war, she remembered what that war was about, and saw the Turned Swastika in the European Community of the 1970s and 80s, and rightly despised it.
I wonder if you're kidding. Hitachi drives use IBM Deskstar/Travelstar tech since they acquired the arm from IBM... actually, I have to admit, that was an immediate improvement under the sticker, having bought (and still have) a Travelstar PCMCIA controller with an 8GB EIDE drive just before the asset transfer, the drive was a lot flaky until I replaced it with a 20GB and after that it gave me 8.5 years of solid service. The 8GB is still around, but it is not stable enough for critical storage.
if you want to get technical, unless the device has a hard switch across the positive rail then as long as there is potential in the battery the device IS OPERATING, even if it appears to be "switched off" - there is still power running through it.
Guys, you really don't need a(nother) distraction inside the cabin to make you any more dangerous. Turn off the fucking phone, set your GPS BEFORE you turn the key and set it to audio prompting, belt the kids in, gag them if necessary, tell the FSP to STFU, drive safe.
The question as to whether you are paying 100% attention to your primary task behind the wheel - that being, not causing a hazard on the road - is a binary. YOU ARE or YOU ARE NOT.
If you have a digital display flashing directly in front of your eye, you are distracted. Congratulations, you have just become a hazard to others, now take your ticket and FUCK OFF.
making/possession of substances intended to cause explosions. Offences Against The Person Act 1861. I can't remember which section, it's somewhere near "Piracy at Sea".
I own several firearms. ALL of them fully functional projectile throwers.
All of them LEGAL.
Only thing that would make them ILLEGAL would be if I decided to do something ILLEGAL with them. Apart from that, they are just lumps of inanimate metal.
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I've got a 1.6GHz Atom N280 and 1GB RAM in my netbook. There is no way I will risk it with anything like WoW, it gets plenty warm enough just upstreaming live nHD video at 15fps. (I think the Intel video thing, if it's the same as mine, does 1024WSVGA native, QXGA external, and is labeled "Intel GMA900 Series" (mine's actually labeled "Intel GMA950"). Either output you use, it uses almost exactly 1MB of system memory for buffering, hence frame rates on larger screens will suck donkey bollocks).
sovereign immunity only applies to civil claims.
Criminal claims against individuals is NOT covered by any privilege.
for the law to apply, it must apply to ALL in equal measure.
Just from the summary, I can say that the law certainly has been broken. The Computer Misuse Act specifically forbids unauthorised interception of network signals - as has clearly happened here. It also specifically forbids unauthorised manipulation of computer code - as has clearly happened here. I could write a list, but I'll leave that exercise for the guys and legals at Dice. Hint: write the informations against the Corporate Director at GCHQ and against the Minister responsible (who not only *had* to have knowledge of the activity (IGNORANCE IS NOT AN EXCUSE UNDER THE LAW), he *had* to have authorised it!).
ask the horses.
"You weren't there, man!"
four words:
Catcher In The Rye.
OK, I do honestly believe that this is one of many books on the FBI's tag list, since it has been publicly and repeatedly linked to such luminous bods as Hinckley, Oswald and Chapman, but I really don't think it's down to its content, it's purely down to the association with political assassins. What you're more likely to find a Federal agent tagging on the spine of, is Kitchen Improvised Plastic Explosives and Anarchist Cookbook and Suicide Vests For Dummies (does that one really exist? I thought I'd just made it up!) (why do they call them suicide vests? Such a misnomer, there's also a lot of homicide involved). There are stories of people being jailed for the mere possession of such titles on their laptops (google it yourself).
"Copy a song to your laptop from a friend's Beyonce CD? You just violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Did you buy some clothes in Delaware because they were tax free? You're probably evading taxes. Did you give your 20-year-old nephew a glass of wine at dinner? Illegal in many states.
Citizens that the federal government wants to indict, the federal government can indict if it monitors them closely enough. That's why it's so disturbing to learn that the federal government doesn't need to obtain a warrant on us in order to get our emails and phone records."
- Tim Carney (Washington Examiner, June 9 2013)
Below are some reasons why this revelation should make you pissed off enough to start reaching for your gun:
The vagueness of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act makes violating a website’s terms of service a possible felony. We’re not just referring to government websites. *All* websites. That alongside PATRIOT, potentially makes terrorists out of everybody who has a Facebook or Twitter account and uses it to vent.
Would you say, “I don’t need medical marijuana so I don’t care if they imprison those who do”? Sadly, some people do. Fundamentally, saying “I have nothing to hide,” is similar to saying “I don’t care about those who do”. You selfish bastard.
And what does the Government do with the data once they have it? Google around and you'll find social workers "misplacing" diaries, politicians "losing" laptops, then suddenly the data contained therein appears on Wikileaks and the hardware (if it's a laptop) appearing in the sales section of Gumtree. God forbid the data collection ends up with us facing another Gilberto Valle! (Gilberto Valle had an unusual sexual fetish. He fantasized about kidnapping, killing, and eating young women. Valle was also a member of the New York Police Department, and was convicted in March this year of plotting to make his fantasies a reality. Whether he really meant to do so is up in the air (his defense was that this was all sexual roleplay), but he was also convicted of looking up his potential targets in a national crime database, accessible due to his position of authority). That alone is scary, but then we're talking about not just collecting data on convicted criminals here, we're talking about massive amounts of data being collected on *everybody*. You should ALL be fucking nervous!
A question I'd like answered, is where is the Church Committee in all of this? They're suspiciously quiet these days. Why aren't they donning Spiderman and Batman costumes and hanging themselves from the flagstaff at the Senate Building? Because this shit is all fucked up.
come near me with that needle and I'll stab you in the eye with it.
beat the "think of a number..." test: think of a number outside of the box. For a number between 1 and 10, think "11". Then just sit back and smile.
netbooks aren't intended for World of Warcraft.
thanks, I'll stick with my hothouse desalination process. No hydrogel required. Just a big glass building and a few lengths of halfpipe.
um... hate to tell you this, but MHT had absolutely nothing to do with that. It was down to Reagan challenging Gorbachev to tear down the wall and popularist reaction to that challenge in physically tearing the wall down that ended the cold war. Thatcher was too busy going senile after not only sending our entire naval force to the Falklands to beat the shit out of the "brown bastards" who had the brass neck to claim back their territory which had previously been *annexed* in the name of the Empire, she started the whole deindustrialisation of our once great nation starting with the steel industry, the coal industry, water and power utilities, the telecommunications infrastructure, roads and railways, the canals and her parting shot? Well, this was the ONE good thing she left us: our hostility towards European unionism and our resistance to the Superstate. She grew up in the dust of war, she remembered what that war was about, and saw the Turned Swastika in the European Community of the 1970s and 80s, and rightly despised it.
4.92 inches.
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hm, now there's the next /. poll right there.
"How many hard disk (spinny) drives do you use on a daily basis?"
My answer:
DVR - 1
laptops (x2) - 2
homebuilt digital picture frames (Dell Latitude FTW) - 3
video processor - 5 (4 RAID + 1 sys)
home desktop: 2
son's desktop/gamer rig: 2
SAN storage - 8 (4x2TB 3x1TB 1x320GB JBOD)
Not counting online storage, such as google+ or other cloud services, search engines, email &c.: 23 total
I wonder if you're kidding. Hitachi drives use IBM Deskstar/Travelstar tech since they acquired the arm from IBM... actually, I have to admit, that was an immediate improvement under the sticker, having bought (and still have) a Travelstar PCMCIA controller with an 8GB EIDE drive just before the asset transfer, the drive was a lot flaky until I replaced it with a 20GB and after that it gave me 8.5 years of solid service. The 8GB is still around, but it is not stable enough for critical storage.
is that in Germany?
Micropolis didn't go due to failure rates at all, they were liquidated following a massive securities fraud. Anecdote fail.
my oldest drive... hang on...122MB Quantum Prodrive ELS, still working, no bad sectors. Sees occasional use as a scratchpad for my print server.
if you want to get technical, unless the device has a hard switch across the positive rail then as long as there is potential in the battery the device IS OPERATING, even if it appears to be "switched off" - there is still power running through it.
Let the record show that the witness was crossing fingers behind his back as he said that.
mod up.
Guys, you really don't need a(nother) distraction inside the cabin to make you any more dangerous. Turn off the fucking phone, set your GPS BEFORE you turn the key and set it to audio prompting, belt the kids in, gag them if necessary, tell the FSP to STFU, drive safe.
The question as to whether you are paying 100% attention to your primary task behind the wheel - that being, not causing a hazard on the road - is a binary. YOU ARE or YOU ARE NOT.
If you have a digital display flashing directly in front of your eye, you are distracted. Congratulations, you have just become a hazard to others, now take your ticket and FUCK OFF.
don't get me started on that genocidal maniac...
Dickie Attenborough or Tommy Lee Jones.
Many of us know what happens when those two get near dino DNA and dormant volcanoes under LA.
(Mommy gets very angry).
making/possession of substances intended to cause explosions. Offences Against The Person Act 1861. I can't remember which section, it's somewhere near "Piracy at Sea".
I own several firearms. ALL of them fully functional projectile throwers.
All of them LEGAL.
Only thing that would make them ILLEGAL would be if I decided to do something ILLEGAL with them. Apart from that, they are just lumps of inanimate metal.
Come get me.