This can be quashed with a very simple Q&A. Simply ask Mr Jaynes if he made any money from his spam operation. If yes then he's screwed. The Bill of Rights covers and individual's rights. The 1st Amendment does not apply to commercial speech. Case closed.
For that matter why can't that be applied to candy, sex with the light on, sex without the intent of reproducing, sex toys, comfortable beds, colorful paint to decorate our walls, clothing for any other purpose than to keep warm, recreational vehicles, 2-seater cars, food that tastes good, etc, etc, yadda, yadda. If we were to measure some thing's worth by someone's definition of "productive value" we'd have a lot less shit in this world. Why not just turn us all into a bunch of fucking machines that do nothing but work and reproduce. Oh wait, Warren Jeffs already tried that.
They want to steal from unoccupied homes. Just being awake will chase most criminals from your home.
You might want to do a little more research if you plan on laying that claim again. I suggest you start here and work your way over to this gem. People with motives other than robbery break into homes every day. A simple Google search will demonstrate that quite effectively.
I'm borrowing my new neighbor's wifi to post from my new house. Unfortunately my ISP hasn't yet gotten my Internet to work. Oh wait, I am the ISP! My bad.
What would you suggest as a better alternative to Creative's soundcards for high-end home systems? Not defending Creative or their products; I'm laying out my plan for my next system...
Frankly I'm too irritated to say what I'm really thinking so I'll do 2 things. First I'll tell you to read this. Second I'll tell you that you're a fucking idiot.
Exactly. He's just like any other computer-addicted 11 yr old, but instead of wasting his knowledge being forced to play silly final fantasy ps3 games like most kids his age he's been given the opportunity to help his mom ** admin a school.
Average users would call him a "boy genius", slashdotters would probably describe him as "me when I was 11".
Precisely. Not to knock what this kid's doing but, just you said, this was me when I was 11, actually before I was 11.
My Story:
My mother was one of the first people in our school system to buy a Mac. She bought an Apple LC II. Prior to that it was Apple IIes and IIGs for our school (I was in elementary school at the time). I had been helping the school out with Apple II issues since I was in 4th grade. We had a IIe at home so I had a leg up on my classmates and teachers. She brought the LC II home for the summer and I tore into it. After that I became the defacto Mac guy for the school. There's a reason why I have this nickname. She transferred to another elementary school (was a teacher at mine) when I was in 5th grade.
I remember quite vividly the day the elementary school's secretary called me into the office to talk to the principal. It wasn't exactly an unusual occurrence since I was in trouble nearly daily. I couldn't figure out though which exact act I'd done landed me in the hot seat that day. When I got in there she handed me the phone. Still oblivious to what was going on I said hello. It was the principal working from the other elementary school and he had a computer problem. That wasn't the first time I'd been pulled from class to help with computers and it wasn't the last time either. I spent my remaining years in that school system as the district's IT guy. I was officially hired when I was in high school on the recommendation of Roy Keeton, an Apple Systems engineer (now deceased). My last period of the day was a career study period of sorts. I worked on the computers for the last hour of the day. I'd take a school car up to the elementary school (my old school had closed by then) and work on computers before practice started back at the HS. It became such a common occurrence that I even had a ready-made excuse for getting out of class. I could just tell my teachers that there was an emergency at the elementary school and they wouldn't bat an eye. Worked like a champ.:-)
So yes, I'm sure that many of the Slashdot readers got started at an early age like this kid or myself. We didn't have shops like CompUSA. Hell the Internet was barely kicking at the time and even then only through large college campuses for the most part. We had one of the first elementary schools in the state to have every computer on the Internet thanks for a piece of software I found (VICOM Internet Gateway). It also helped that I was 1/3 of the helpdesk for our local telco/ISP in high school too. And yes I would have been posting on Slashdot had it existed at the time. Unfortunately it wasn't created until the year I went to college.
Dinging the white house IT department for this isn't good. Heck, dinging Bush isn't necessarily a good idea. I've met some of the higher ups - and computer knowledge isn't their high point.
Horseshit. Criminal charges should be filed against all involved and that includes the IT Department. All higher-ups used RNC computers for day to day business. It wasn't a simple matter of a few people doing it. All of them did it. That's not an accident. That was a directive. All the higher-ups should be held accountable. IT had to have known that their were non-governmental computers on the premises and were used for day to day functions. IT knows everything; they always have and always will (which is why they have very high security clearances due to the nature of the information on the computers they have to service and people they have to support). They, and all other Americans, are required to report illegal activity they have direct knowledge of. To not do so is a willful act and runs contrary to the law. In my dreams I want to see every single member of the administration that participated or knew about this abuse of power and the support staff that did not report it charged. It's a pipe dream I know. Still I'd like to see it.
That's what happens when you've made up so many lies over the centuries that you can't remember the most recent version of the lie. The number your end up pulling out of your ass makes no sense.
The reason behind wanting to sync bookmarks between 2 machines is most likely because the wants to access his bookmarks on both machine simultaneously. I want to access my bookmarks on 4 machines simultaneously. I don't want to have to shutdown FF on PC #1 (and the 1.5GB of RAM that it's consuming) to take it to PC #2 and do something else with it. I want it on both machines. I want it on all my machines.
Isn't there a whole series of games for this coming Olympics that revolves around reverse engineerings American shit, sneaking it into the states,..., Profit! ?? The Chinese should definitely have a leg up in those games.
EVERY wireline and wireless carrier has facility like this between their central offices and Quantico, Virginia.
No they don't. We don't. None of our peer ILECs or CLECs do. The only case in which this would ever be the norm is if you are an RBOC, very large CLEC or very large wireless carrier and regularly field CALEA requests from the same law enforcement agency. Read that again just to make sure what I'd said registered. Even then it would have be be in excess of 23 simultaneous calls to justify more than a single PRI (possible for a large carrier but that's still 23 CALEA requests to the same LEA). Any law enforcement agency can go to court to get an order for a CALEA request. This could be the CIA, the FBI, your state's BI, your local county sheriff or even small town rural 2-person police department. LEAs do not share facilities; by law they aren't permitted to. There are 10s of thousands of LEAs that could get a court ordered CALEA request on one of your subs. The law that is CALEA was written to require that the tapped service be indistinguishable from the untapped service. It also requires that LEAs not know another LEA has a trap on said line. Ie, you can't say to the 2nd LEA that wants to tap a given line that "the xBI already tapped that one; are you part of the same LEA?"
The 3yr old Dell Inspiron 9200 that I'm typing this on has one. My new replacement laptop sitting next to me which is a Dell Precision M6300 also has one. I use a FireWire external HD on both laptops.
It's common sense. And how do you fix it? That's very simple. 1) Look further down the road than the latte that you're juggling while trying to dial a phone number of a touchscreen phone/PDA. That way you'll be able to see problems before you have to mash the brake. 2) Don't follow so close in heavy traffic.
There's a particular spot of roadway where I live that is always a problem at 17:00. It involves an side street's on-ramp with a US highway's exit-ramp at the end of the added lane. You have to deal with merging traffic going into and out of the added lane. When the traffic is heavy I always time my approach to coincide with a hole in the opposing lane's traffic, thus making merging easier and quicker. I also don't tailgate the person in front of me. Works like a charm. Those assholes who floor it to get around a line of cars only to cut them off fuck it up for the rest of us. The same goes for those drivers to incompetent to accelerate in the acceleration lane and back up traffic with their braking. It almost makes me long for the day of automated vehicles that can negotiate and merge as part of a defined process without idiot users to screw it up.
"Over concerns for lack of an anti-phishing mechanism for Paypal, clueful Internet users are telling other Mac users to use another unsecured micro-payment service."
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This can be quashed with a very simple Q&A. Simply ask Mr Jaynes if he made any money from his spam operation. If yes then he's screwed. The Bill of Rights covers and individual's rights. The 1st Amendment does not apply to commercial speech. Case closed.
For that matter why can't that be applied to candy, sex with the light on, sex without the intent of reproducing, sex toys, comfortable beds, colorful paint to decorate our walls, clothing for any other purpose than to keep warm, recreational vehicles, 2-seater cars, food that tastes good, etc, etc, yadda, yadda. If we were to measure some thing's worth by someone's definition of "productive value" we'd have a lot less shit in this world. Why not just turn us all into a bunch of fucking machines that do nothing but work and reproduce. Oh wait, Warren Jeffs already tried that.
This happened in a very high-end neighborhood. Don't even try to pretend that crime only happens in the projects.
You might want to do a little more research if you plan on laying that claim again. I suggest you start here and work your way over to this gem. People with motives other than robbery break into homes every day. A simple Google search will demonstrate that quite effectively.
HIPAA doesn't apply to the GP. He's a retail store and there's no reason for them to have any medical-related data which is all the HIPAA covers.
I'm interested in this. Do you have any links to more info?
I'm borrowing my new neighbor's wifi to post from my new house. Unfortunately my ISP hasn't yet gotten my Internet to work. Oh wait, I am the ISP! My bad.
Thanks for the tip. I'll give that a try on my next build.
What would you suggest as a better alternative to Creative's soundcards for high-end home systems? Not defending Creative or their products; I'm laying out my plan for my next system...
Frankly I'm too irritated to say what I'm really thinking so I'll do 2 things. First I'll tell you to read this. Second I'll tell you that you're a fucking idiot.
Average users would call him a "boy genius", slashdotters would probably describe him as "me when I was 11".
Precisely. Not to knock what this kid's doing but, just you said, this was me when I was 11, actually before I was 11.
My Story:
My mother was one of the first people in our school system to buy a Mac. She bought an Apple LC II. Prior to that it was Apple IIes and IIGs for our school (I was in elementary school at the time). I had been helping the school out with Apple II issues since I was in 4th grade. We had a IIe at home so I had a leg up on my classmates and teachers. She brought the LC II home for the summer and I tore into it. After that I became the defacto Mac guy for the school. There's a reason why I have this nickname. She transferred to another elementary school (was a teacher at mine) when I was in 5th grade.
I remember quite vividly the day the elementary school's secretary called me into the office to talk to the principal. It wasn't exactly an unusual occurrence since I was in trouble nearly daily. I couldn't figure out though which exact act I'd done landed me in the hot seat that day. When I got in there she handed me the phone. Still oblivious to what was going on I said hello. It was the principal working from the other elementary school and he had a computer problem. That wasn't the first time I'd been pulled from class to help with computers and it wasn't the last time either. I spent my remaining years in that school system as the district's IT guy. I was officially hired when I was in high school on the recommendation of Roy Keeton, an Apple Systems engineer (now deceased). My last period of the day was a career study period of sorts. I worked on the computers for the last hour of the day. I'd take a school car up to the elementary school (my old school had closed by then) and work on computers before practice started back at the HS. It became such a common occurrence that I even had a ready-made excuse for getting out of class. I could just tell my teachers that there was an emergency at the elementary school and they wouldn't bat an eye. Worked like a champ. :-)
So yes, I'm sure that many of the Slashdot readers got started at an early age like this kid or myself. We didn't have shops like CompUSA. Hell the Internet was barely kicking at the time and even then only through large college campuses for the most part. We had one of the first elementary schools in the state to have every computer on the Internet thanks for a piece of software I found (VICOM Internet Gateway). It also helped that I was 1/3 of the helpdesk for our local telco/ISP in high school too. And yes I would have been posting on Slashdot had it existed at the time. Unfortunately it wasn't created until the year I went to college.
***applause***
Horseshit. Criminal charges should be filed against all involved and that includes the IT Department. All higher-ups used RNC computers for day to day business. It wasn't a simple matter of a few people doing it. All of them did it. That's not an accident. That was a directive. All the higher-ups should be held accountable. IT had to have known that their were non-governmental computers on the premises and were used for day to day functions. IT knows everything; they always have and always will (which is why they have very high security clearances due to the nature of the information on the computers they have to service and people they have to support). They, and all other Americans, are required to report illegal activity they have direct knowledge of. To not do so is a willful act and runs contrary to the law. In my dreams I want to see every single member of the administration that participated or knew about this abuse of power and the support staff that did not report it charged. It's a pipe dream I know. Still I'd like to see it.
That's what happens when you've made up so many lies over the centuries that you can't remember the most recent version of the lie. The number your end up pulling out of your ass makes no sense.
One word, Kudos.
I agree with the other guy. McCain is a blatant hypocrite. The one ignoring the facts isn't the other person you're arguing with; it's you.
The reason behind wanting to sync bookmarks between 2 machines is most likely because the wants to access his bookmarks on both machine simultaneously. I want to access my bookmarks on 4 machines simultaneously. I don't want to have to shutdown FF on PC #1 (and the 1.5GB of RAM that it's consuming) to take it to PC #2 and do something else with it. I want it on both machines. I want it on all my machines.
Isn't there a whole series of games for this coming Olympics that revolves around reverse engineerings American shit, sneaking it into the states, ..., Profit! ?? The Chinese should definitely have a leg up in those games.
I have 2 cats. So does that mean I've cut my risk of heart-attack by 100% or does it just confirm that I'm still single?
Fuckin' aye! Nice writeup.
No they don't. We don't. None of our peer ILECs or CLECs do. The only case in which this would ever be the norm is if you are an RBOC, very large CLEC or very large wireless carrier and regularly field CALEA requests from the same law enforcement agency. Read that again just to make sure what I'd said registered. Even then it would have be be in excess of 23 simultaneous calls to justify more than a single PRI (possible for a large carrier but that's still 23 CALEA requests to the same LEA). Any law enforcement agency can go to court to get an order for a CALEA request. This could be the CIA, the FBI, your state's BI, your local county sheriff or even small town rural 2-person police department. LEAs do not share facilities; by law they aren't permitted to. There are 10s of thousands of LEAs that could get a court ordered CALEA request on one of your subs. The law that is CALEA was written to require that the tapped service be indistinguishable from the untapped service. It also requires that LEAs not know another LEA has a trap on said line. Ie, you can't say to the 2nd LEA that wants to tap a given line that "the xBI already tapped that one; are you part of the same LEA?"
Sorry but that doesn't even pass the sniff test.
The 3yr old Dell Inspiron 9200 that I'm typing this on has one. My new replacement laptop sitting next to me which is a Dell Precision M6300 also has one. I use a FireWire external HD on both laptops.
There's a particular spot of roadway where I live that is always a problem at 17:00. It involves an side street's on-ramp with a US highway's exit-ramp at the end of the added lane. You have to deal with merging traffic going into and out of the added lane. When the traffic is heavy I always time my approach to coincide with a hole in the opposing lane's traffic, thus making merging easier and quicker. I also don't tailgate the person in front of me. Works like a charm. Those assholes who floor it to get around a line of cars only to cut them off fuck it up for the rest of us. The same goes for those drivers to incompetent to accelerate in the acceleration lane and back up traffic with their braking. It almost makes me long for the day of automated vehicles that can negotiate and merge as part of a defined process without idiot users to screw it up.
There. That's better.
In case anyone is interested in seeing what the new server OS looks like, here's a screenshot. It looks about the same as 2k3 to me...