I dont see an opensource project on that. It would be nice but the number of people that can read Demotic and Hieratic is small. Many more can read Coptic, Kemetic Heiroglyphics and those could get translated.
I can only think of about 12 people who can translte Hieratic, and only another 13 or 14 that can transpose the Hieratic chacters to Kemetic Heiroglyphics.
It would be fun, but if you translate it and write it into a book you can re-copyright the works (my understanding of current copyright law)
I can see it now, Yes your honor He has violated the copyright on my book which is 3000 years old.:)
The weather man can not predict the weather 7 days in advance, why should I believe that weather predictions in the 10, 50, 100, or 200 years from now range are going to be right? I am sorry; I just can not swallow that one!
I ran an anonymous service for 5 years providing anonymous browsing and anonymous e-mail. Looking at this article and calming that it is being abused and should be shut down (As one person has done) is nuts! When I ran my server I maintained a count on the number of transactions. This is the number of anonymous e-mails and the number of anonymous http connections. We averaged 500,000 e-mails a day (15,000,000 per month) and over 25,000,000 http tractions per month. This generated an average of 324 emails to abuse/complaints per month. Less than 10% of the complaints were abuses of the system. I would not considered the posting of KKK material to the alt.white.power group an abuse of the system but it would generate complaints. I may not agree with there views but they have a right to them.
What you are seeing is one abuse of the system. This abuse is not put into prospective. If it were we would have an idea of the amount of traffic the Tor network handles and compare that to the number of abuses we see. We can not condom the network or servers based on a soul abuse of the system!
Recently the president condemned Anonymous E-mail and pay as you go Cell phones and announced that we need to pass laws to stop it. This is just wrong! It is like saying that be for you can publish anything, you must ID your self. This is against everything that the founding Fathers stood for! The Federalist papers are a great example of that!
The Federalist Papers were a series of articles written under the pen name of Publius by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. Madison, widely recognized as the Father of the Constitution, would later go on to become President of the United States. Jay would become the first Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. Hamilton would serve in the Cabinet and become a major force in setting economic policy for the US.
Our founding Fathers hid there identity behind a pen name! So next time you condemn anonymity, remember that it is the way to have unwanted political views heard with out being persecuted for your ideas.
Time to patent new business model that increases customer satisfaction through the extension of services at prices the customer can afford while providing support and an extended "Customer is right" attitude.
Then I can sue all the companies that have happy customers, hmmm It may be hard to find them now.
So the general concept is that the Bible is 100% correct and god created all things on heaven and earth. All in a 7 day span (6 and 1 to rest). There is no way that genesis could just be a story, told to teach a moral point.
If that is the case, then the rest of the bible must be 100% correct. Why would God lie to us?
So, I hope you are ready for HELL! The conservatives seem to think that bringing about the end times will accelerate them into heaven and bring about heaven on earth. So in Revelation 7:3-4
3"Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God." 4Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.
If the bible is 100% correct and genesis is to be an accrete telling of the creation. Then revelation is an accrete telling of the end times and only 144,000 will be called up to heaven and miss the end of the world! When the rapture comes there is a good chance that YOU will be left behind! Think about it.
Now add to that the 120,000 go missing in California each year. I would say YOU HAVE BEEN LEFT BEHIND! This is HELL on EARTH!
IANAL but it seems to me that some one should file charges on the president and the NSA based on
USC TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 13 > 241
If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured-- They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
and maybe even
TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 13 > 242
Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
I say we make an example of them all. They like to make examples of others.
Buy a house? What is it that you pay each and every year in order to live in that house? Property taxes.
Property taxes (certainly over here UK) pay for police, fire, ambulance, street sweepers, rubbish collection etc. OK, some pocket lining, I agree, but think what your neighborhood would be like without any of the above...
In the US each state is different. In the state that I live in, I pay 2.5% per 100$ valuation of the the property. It should be noted that the state constitution limits them to 1.5% per 100$ valuation. They just do not think it is enough so they ignore the constitutional restriction. They have been sued over it and lost the case. The courts ordered them to reduce the amount. They just continue to ignore the constitutional and the court order. The state decides the value of the property. Which I see as a conflict of interest. It pays only for public schools. (For me, somewhere in the range of $10,000 each year)
There is a 1.75% sales tax that pays for city services such as fire and street sweeping.
There is a 6.25% sales tax that goes to the state; I am not sure what that is for.
There is a.25% sales tax that is given to the local major league baseball team to pay for there stadium. Why am I paying for it, when they make millions off of it?
There is a loto that has generated 9Bil for the state. This was suposed to go to the schools and reduce the property tax. Instead it goes into the general accounting fund and is used for, well I am not sure what it is used for.
Police make there money by writing tickets, this may change as one town of 7,000 people made the news. They had over 10mil in outstanding tickets for the last year. All written to people outside the city.
The city charges 64$ a month for rubbish collection. If you do not pay for it you can not use the dump, and they will ticket you for excess garbage on your property. The will also give you environmental tickets if you try to burry it or burn it. Those are city code tickets, fail to pay them and they take your property.
You have to be licensed to drive the vehicle, great (50$ every 3 years). Then you have to license the vehicle at a cost of close to 95$ per year. Then there is inspection of the vehicle, costs around 85$ a year.
This is just on the state and local level; don't even get me started on the federal level!
So in some ways the original poster is right. I really do not own any of it. The state can take it back when they decide and I am forced to pay for stuff that I may or may not use. Fail to pay and they will take your house, car, etc.
As to the vehicle, I have a title on it. If I own it and can use it any way I want on my own property, why do I have to transfer the title to the state I am living in? If I move I have to transfer the title to the new state.
Na, a little potassium nitrate, Ammonium nitrate, or calcium nitrate in your pocket. Put hand in, rub on hand, walk around shacking hands, talking to people, tapping people on the shoulder, pushing there luggage out of the way, etc. We are only talking ppb here. It is not that hard to seed people with a small amount of a substance.
The issue at the airport is not a technical issue. It is not that they do not have the equipment to do the job. It is that they do not want to pay the people. If they would pay the TSA folks good money I am sure there would be a good job done. As it stands I have walked through airport security with items that you are not supposed to carry on the plane. It is just a matter of knowing how to look and what they are looking for.
This technology, as well as some others I have seen, has a major problem. All the terrorists have to do is spend some time seeding the people in line with small amounts of powdered explosives. Make the detector go off on every one. The minimum wage security person decides the unit is broke; his almost minimum wage manager puts in the fix request which will take weeks. In the mean time, it is back to business as usual.
This is a mess and a waist of time.
Next you know, they will be selling them to your boss to check you as you come to work.
Be careful, if the government can get it, the private sector can get it and they do not have to honnor your rights.
IE7 is standards compliant; It even improves on the standards with all new features! It is free for Windows, everyone runs windows. It is safe, provided you run the anti-spy ware, anti-virus, anti-add ware, and a good firewall.
There is a market for it. Unfortunately the twits in charge have decided that getting laid is only legal if it is free. If you can not get it for free and you have to pay for it, you will go to jail.
We know from phisics that time is not a constent. Our measurment of time is, but time it self is not a constent nore does it have to move in a given direction. So how can we measure the age of an object, if we do not know the rate at which time has passed for that object? I know this sounds odd, but lets assume that here on earth time is moving at 1x and in M33 time is moving at 2x, thus the calculation would be off by a factor of 2.
See also: 40-hour work week and Family Medical Leave Act. These are the reasons you know your father's faces, and the reason your mother was able to go BACK to work after having you.
Do you work in the tech field? 40 hours? More like 60 to 80 hours with no overtime. I even had a boss that announced his new cost saving measures, Lay off 1/2 of the IT Staff and every one was required to work a minimum of 80 hours. He saved 1/2 his budget and got promoted for it. As to the Family Medical Leave Act, Ha! My Wife was fired for trying to take maternity leave. They just forgot that she had asked for the leave and fired her for not showing up to work. A lot of good it has done.
Fantasy has several established archetypes so there's enough variety in character choice. Warrior, Rogue, Ranger, Mage, Healer, and some variation in between. Sci-Fi's got guns. That's it. If you're Star Wars you've got guns and lightsabers, but Jedi are supposed to be rare
I would call the lack of character choice a lack of imagination!
With Sci-Fi you can have any number of races as well as archetypes, for example
Mercenary, Thief, Pirate, Techno-mage, Dr., Scientist, the list goes on. It is all up to the imagination. Tech can make up for magic and use some of the same names. For example, a cloak of invisibility could be as simple as a nanoscopic camera/projection system built into a cloak.
Personally I find most Sci-Fi MMO games lacking in game play. The best I have seen was elite on the Commodore 64, 10 galaxies with 200+ solar systems per galaxy.
Man the one that looks challenging and it requires.NET framework to be installed, Which requires Windows Installer 3.0 to me installed, which required the new Windows Genuine advantage to be installed so Micro$loth can check my system and make sure the IT group of this fortune 100 company did not make an illegal copy.
Man I hate Windows
Oh look, my copy of Windows is illegal; I guess the 5,000 seat enterprise license was a waste of money!
I have read through the responses and take issue with a few of the comments.
#1) If you do not like it use public transit, bicycles, rollerblades, etc.
This is not always feasible. For example, the area I am in has a population of 5.7 million and covers an area of 8,991 sq. mi. There is only a limited public transit system and I would have to drive 20 miles to get to the nearest bus or train terminal. Only to ride the bus a total of 2 miles to work. If they upped the public transit system then it may work but that takes more taxes to fund the upgrade and to subsidize the public transit system as most are not profitable.
#2) Who cares, as long as you are legal it is no big deal.
I wish this was true. Lets face it, if the system can be abused it will be. Here is what I see.
Joes insurance: Yes Mr. Bill, your insurance did go up 900$ this month.
Mr. Bill: Why?
Joes Insurance: We are now linked with the LPR system and your insurance has been adjusted to meet your usage.
Mr. Bill: What do you mean by "To meet my usage?"
Joes Insurance: Well when we ran you through the system we found that every Friday you stop at the bar around the corner from your house and spend 3 hours there. Statistics show that you have an 85% change of getting a DUI. We also found that you are spending 2 hours every evening teaching your 15 year old son to drive, So we added the student driver rate. There is also the fact that in all you're driving, 95% of the time you are with in 20 miles of your house. Statisticly you are more likely to have an accident with in 20 miles of your home. This has forced us to move you into the high risk bracket.
All of this is just the tip of the ice burg. My guess is that they will find ways to abuse it that we never thought about!
I have looked into lulu, my issue was the rules lulu had on the content.
I have 2 books that I have written. One is along the lines of "Steel this book" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/156858217X/sr=8-1 /qid=1153516930/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-7799701-8095015?i e=UTF8 The other is, well, more controversial. Both could be considered objectionable, and could facilitate the breaking of the law. Both are violations of there member agreement. As such I can not use them or any other print on demand service to self publish.
I could beat some of the early biometric thumb print scanners with a penile, pocket knife, and a couple of seconds. Wipe it clean, watch for some one to use it to log in, dust it with fine graphite, cover scanner with hand or shirt, press scan button.
The real question is what happens when the person does not have a finger print? I don't!
The state started scanning everyone's finger prints in to get a Drivers license. I used a belt sander and an 80 grit sanding belt. 3 minuets and No more finger prints! They are dead skin, they come off easy.
Oh well, I never liked the whole biometric thing. A 10 character randomly generated password using a combination of upper case, lower case, letters, numbers, and special character works just fine for now.
--
Are you truly paranoid if they are out to get you?
Slashdot Mirror
Ok,
:>
2 x 1000w HPS lights == 720 KwH ~ $0.06 == $43.20 per month X 3 months == $129.60
That would be 2Kg of MJ for $129.60
I dont see an opensource project on that. It would be nice but the number of people that can read Demotic and Hieratic is small. Many more can read Coptic, Kemetic Heiroglyphics and those could get translated.
:)
I can only think of about 12 people who can translte Hieratic, and only another 13 or 14 that can transpose the Hieratic chacters to Kemetic Heiroglyphics.
It would be fun, but if you translate it and write it into a book you can re-copyright the works (my understanding of current copyright law)
I can see it now, Yes your honor He has violated the copyright on my book which is 3000 years old.
This is what you asked for, I hope you can read Coptic, Demotic, Hieratic, and Kemetic Heiroglyphics.
a pis/search/
Have fun.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/projects/digital/
The weather man can not predict the weather 7 days in advance, why should I believe that weather predictions in the 10, 50, 100, or 200 years from now range are going to be right? I am sorry; I just can not swallow that one!
I ran an anonymous service for 5 years providing anonymous browsing and anonymous e-mail. Looking at this article and calming that it is being abused and should be shut down (As one person has done) is nuts! When I ran my server I maintained a count on the number of transactions. This is the number of anonymous e-mails and the number of anonymous http connections. We averaged 500,000 e-mails a day (15,000,000 per month) and over 25,000,000 http tractions per month. This generated an average of 324 emails to abuse/complaints per month. Less than 10% of the complaints were abuses of the system. I would not considered the posting of KKK material to the alt.white.power group an abuse of the system but it would generate complaints. I may not agree with there views but they have a right to them.
What you are seeing is one abuse of the system. This abuse is not put into prospective. If it were we would have an idea of the amount of traffic the Tor network handles and compare that to the number of abuses we see. We can not condom the network or servers based on a soul abuse of the system!
Recently the president condemned Anonymous E-mail and pay as you go Cell phones and announced that we need to pass laws to stop it. This is just wrong! It is like saying that be for you can publish anything, you must ID your self. This is against everything that the founding Fathers stood for! The Federalist papers are a great example of that!
The Federalist Papers were a series of articles written under
the pen name of Publius by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison,
and John Jay. Madison, widely recognized as the Father of
the Constitution, would later go on to become President of
the United States. Jay would become the first Chief Justice
of the US Supreme Court. Hamilton would serve in the Cabinet
and become a major force in setting economic policy for the US.
Our founding Fathers hid there identity behind a pen name! So next time you condemn anonymity, remember that it is the way to have unwanted political views heard with out being persecuted for your ideas.
Note to self,
Time to patent new business model that increases customer satisfaction through the extension of services at prices the customer can afford while providing support and an extended "Customer is right" attitude.
Then I can sue all the companies that have happy customers, hmmm It may be hard to find them now.
Ok, Ill give ID a chance.
:)
So the general concept is that the Bible is 100% correct and god created all things on heaven and earth. All in a 7 day span (6 and 1 to rest). There is no way that genesis could just be a story, told to teach a moral point.
If that is the case, then the rest of the bible must be 100% correct. Why would God lie to us?
So, I hope you are ready for HELL! The conservatives seem to think that bringing about the end times will accelerate them into heaven and bring about heaven on earth. So in Revelation 7:3-4
3"Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God." 4Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.
If the bible is 100% correct and genesis is to be an accrete telling of the creation. Then revelation is an accrete telling of the end times and only 144,000 will be called up to heaven and miss the end of the world! When the rapture comes there is a good chance that YOU will be left behind! Think about it.
Now add to that the 120,000 go missing in California each year. I would say YOU HAVE BEEN LEFT BEHIND! This is HELL on EARTH!
Enjoy!
Thought is merely a series of chemical reactions.
:)
Which is why I think Ps. Cubensis and Ps. Mexicana mushrooms are so much fun.
IANAL but it seems to me that some one should file charges on the president and the NSA based on
USC TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 13 > 241
If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or
If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured--
They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
and maybe even
TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 13 > 242
Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
I say we make an example of them all. They like to make examples of others.
Buy a house? What is it that you pay each and every year in order to live in that house? Property taxes.
.25% sales tax that is given to the local major league baseball team to pay for there stadium. Why am I paying for it, when they make millions off of it?
Property taxes (certainly over here UK) pay for police, fire, ambulance, street sweepers, rubbish collection etc. OK, some pocket lining, I agree, but think what your neighborhood would be like without any of the above...
In the US each state is different. In the state that I live in, I pay 2.5% per 100$ valuation of the the property. It should be noted that the state constitution limits them to 1.5% per 100$ valuation. They just do not think it is enough so they ignore the constitutional restriction. They have been sued over it and lost the case. The courts ordered them to reduce the amount. They just continue to ignore the constitutional and the court order. The state decides the value of the property. Which I see as a conflict of interest. It pays only for public schools. (For me, somewhere in the range of $10,000 each year)
There is a 1.75% sales tax that pays for city services such as fire and street sweeping.
There is a 6.25% sales tax that goes to the state; I am not sure what that is for.
There is a
There is a loto that has generated 9Bil for the state. This was suposed to go to the schools and reduce the property tax. Instead it goes into the general accounting fund and is used for, well I am not sure what it is used for.
Police make there money by writing tickets, this may change as one town of 7,000 people made the news. They had over 10mil in outstanding tickets for the last year. All written to people outside the city.
The city charges 64$ a month for rubbish collection. If you do not pay for it you can not use the dump, and they will ticket you for excess garbage on your property. The will also give you environmental tickets if you try to burry it or burn it. Those are city code tickets, fail to pay them and they take your property.
You have to be licensed to drive the vehicle, great (50$ every 3 years). Then you have to license the vehicle at a cost of close to 95$ per year. Then there is inspection of the vehicle, costs around 85$ a year.
This is just on the state and local level; don't even get me started on the federal level!
So in some ways the original poster is right. I really do not own any of it. The state can take it back when they decide and I am forced to pay for stuff that I may or may not use. Fail to pay and they will take your house, car, etc.
As to the vehicle, I have a title on it. If I own it and can use it any way I want on my own property, why do I have to transfer the title to the state I am living in? If I move I have to transfer the title to the new state.
Just something to think about.
Na, a little potassium nitrate, Ammonium nitrate, or calcium nitrate in your pocket. Put hand in, rub on hand, walk around shacking hands, talking to people, tapping people on the shoulder, pushing there luggage out of the way, etc. We are only talking ppb here. It is not that hard to seed people with a small amount of a substance.
The issue at the airport is not a technical issue. It is not that they do not have the equipment to do the job. It is that they do not want to pay the people. If they would pay the TSA folks good money I am sure there would be a good job done. As it stands I have walked through airport security with items that you are not supposed to carry on the plane. It is just a matter of knowing how to look and what they are looking for.
This technology, as well as some others I have seen, has a major problem. All the terrorists have to do is spend some time seeding the people in line with small amounts of powdered explosives. Make the detector go off on every one. The minimum wage security person decides the unit is broke; his almost minimum wage manager puts in the fix request which will take weeks. In the mean time, it is back to business as usual.
This is a mess and a waist of time.
Next you know, they will be selling them to your boss to check you as you come to work.
Be careful, if the government can get it, the private sector can get it and they do not have to honnor your rights.
Some one needs to mod GPG to include Steganography
One password decrypts to unimportant data, the other provides your true payload.
Then when they demand your password, you give them the first one. You have met the law and have plausible deniability.
IE7 is standards compliant; It even improves on the standards with all new features!
It is free for Windows, everyone runs windows.
It is safe, provided you run the anti-spy ware, anti-virus, anti-add ware, and a good firewall.
See IE7 can touch it and improve on it!
Man I am glad I run Linux!
There is a market for it. Unfortunately the twits in charge have decided that getting laid is only legal if it is free. If you can not get it for free and you have to pay for it, you will go to jail.
Man our legal system is messed up.
We know from phisics that time is not a constent. Our measurment of time is, but time it self is not a constent nore does it have to move in a given direction. So how can we measure the age of an object, if we do not know the rate at which time has passed for that object? I know this sounds odd, but lets assume that here on earth time is moving at 1x and in M33 time is moving at 2x, thus the calculation would be off by a factor of 2.
See also: 40-hour work week and Family Medical Leave Act. These are the reasons you know your father's faces, and the reason your mother was able to go BACK to work after having you.
Do you work in the tech field? 40 hours? More like 60 to 80 hours with no overtime. I even had a boss that announced his new cost saving measures, Lay off 1/2 of the IT Staff and every one was required to work a minimum of 80 hours. He saved 1/2 his budget and got promoted for it.
As to the Family Medical Leave Act, Ha! My Wife was fired for trying to take maternity leave. They just forgot that she had asked for the leave and fired her for not showing up to work. A lot of good it has done.
If Microsoft is the answer to the problem, you did not understand the problem!
%s/Microsoft/The Goverment/g
Fantasy has several established archetypes so there's enough variety in character choice. Warrior, Rogue, Ranger, Mage, Healer, and some variation in between. Sci-Fi's got guns. That's it. If you're Star Wars you've got guns and lightsabers, but Jedi are supposed to be rare
I would call the lack of character choice a lack of imagination!
With Sci-Fi you can have any number of races as well as archetypes, for example
Mercenary, Thief, Pirate, Techno-mage, Dr., Scientist, the list goes on. It is all up to the imagination. Tech can make up for magic and use some of the same names. For example, a cloak of invisibility could be as simple as a nanoscopic camera/projection system built into a cloak.
Personally I find most Sci-Fi MMO games lacking in game play. The best I have seen was elite on the Commodore 64, 10 galaxies with 200+ solar systems per galaxy.
Ill second that statment. I wish I could mod it up.
Man the one that looks challenging and it requires .NET framework to be installed, Which requires Windows Installer 3.0 to me installed, which required the new Windows Genuine advantage to be installed so Micro$loth can check my system and make sure the IT group of this fortune 100 company did not make an illegal copy.
Man I hate Windows
Oh look, my copy of Windows is illegal; I guess the 5,000 seat enterprise license was a waste of money!
I have read through the responses and take issue with a few of the comments.
#1) If you do not like it use public transit, bicycles, rollerblades, etc.
This is not always feasible. For example, the area I am in has a population of 5.7 million and covers an area of 8,991 sq. mi. There is only a limited public transit system and I would have to drive 20 miles to get to the nearest bus or train terminal. Only to ride the bus a total of 2 miles to work. If they upped the public transit system then it may work but that takes more taxes to fund the upgrade and to subsidize the public transit system as most are not profitable.
#2) Who cares, as long as you are legal it is no big deal.
I wish this was true. Lets face it, if the system can be abused it will be. Here is what I see.
Joes insurance: Yes Mr. Bill, your insurance did go up 900$ this month.
Mr. Bill: Why?
Joes Insurance: We are now linked with the LPR system and your insurance has been adjusted to meet your usage.
Mr. Bill: What do you mean by "To meet my usage?"
Joes Insurance: Well when we ran you through the system we found that every Friday you stop at the bar around the corner from your house and spend 3 hours there. Statistics show that you have an 85% change of getting a DUI. We also found that you are spending 2 hours every evening teaching your 15 year old son to drive, So we added the student driver rate. There is also the fact that in all you're driving, 95% of the time you are with in 20 miles of your house. Statisticly you are more likely to have an accident with in 20 miles of your home. This has forced us to move you into the high risk bracket.
All of this is just the tip of the ice burg. My guess is that they will find ways to abuse it that we never thought about!
I have looked into lulu, my issue was the rules lulu had on the content.
1 /qid=1153516930/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-7799701-8095015?i e=UTF8 The other is, well, more controversial. Both could be considered objectionable, and could facilitate the breaking of the law. Both are violations of there member agreement. As such I can not use them or any other print on demand service to self publish.
I have 2 books that I have written. One is along the lines of "Steel this book" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/156858217X/sr=8-
Oops,
That is what I get for being in a hurry and just clicking ok through the spell checker.
lol, sorry it should read pencil
I could beat some of the early biometric thumb print scanners with a penile, pocket knife, and a couple of seconds. Wipe it clean, watch for some one to use it to log in, dust it with fine graphite, cover scanner with hand or shirt, press scan button.
The real question is what happens when the person does not have a finger print? I don't!
The state started scanning everyone's finger prints in to get a Drivers license. I used a belt sander and an 80 grit sanding belt. 3 minuets and No more finger prints! They are dead skin, they come off easy.
Oh well, I never liked the whole biometric thing. A 10 character randomly generated password using a combination of upper case, lower case, letters, numbers, and special character works just fine for now.
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Are you truly paranoid if they are out to get you?