That shouldn't be very hard. You do know what the unofficial government payload is on those satellites, right? Titanium cased nukes. The launch is easy. Just aim and give it a little shove. Then it detonates at the appropriate altitude. It's so much more efficient to already have your nukes up there, than to have to launch them from the surface and wait for them to come back down.
You really don't want to just pop one in orbit though. It'll leave one heck of a mess up there. It's not just debris, it's radioactive debris.
The big difference between regular security cameras, and the devices in question are that they're getting an image through my clothes.
Although officially they don't record such images, it doesn't make any sense from an intelligence standpoint for them not to have them recorded. Just because a target walked through a scanner before they were a target doesn't mean that they wouldn't want as much information as possible once they realize the target is significant.
For example, post 9/11, wouldn't they have wanted every bit of information available on the alleged hijackers? Where did they hide the equipment? Was it viable? When the planes were notified, they could have been told "The explosives are a decoy. Disregard threat and neutralize hijackers." Things would have turned out significantly different. There may have been a few casualties from the boxcutters that they were carrying, but it would have been significantly less than the final result.... and yes, my want for privacy doesn't always align with my logical standpoint for intelligence gathering. But, I'm a civilian, not in the intelligence community. If I was,... well... I'd still want *my* privacy, since I'd have already been vetted as a trustworthy individual, but I'd want to know absolutely as much as possible about potential targets.
It wouldn't be the first time people have masturbated to pictures of me. As long as I don't have to see it, I don't really care. Don't forget, I used to work for a porn company. No much really scares me any more. If they're being distributed, I want a percentage of the profits though. No one gets into porn for the beauty of the human form, the get into it for the money. Since I'm not getting paid for the pictures being taken by the TSA, I'm more than a bit offended. What the folks do in their little viewing booth is their own business.
What do you think the CIA was chartered to do? Or more like, what they've been doing for decades.
It doesn't involve American troops patrolling the streets of a foreign nation, enforcing our laws, and working outside of our laws.
Proper action is taken through an abundance of *GOOD* intelligence, using that intelligence properly.
Our goal for going in was to take Osama Bin Laden. That goal was forgotten and still has never been achieved. Putting thousands of troops on the ground there will only serve to relocate him. Well, it has only served to relocate him. He's not going to be hiding out in a house in the middle of US occupied territory. You're not going to find him hiding behind a bush with a convoy driving by.
Instead of the wasted money to keep our troops on the ground there, proper use of intelligence and a strategic strike could have wiped him out where he sat.
It's much easier to hit a target who isn't aware that you know where he is until it's too late. Sending the target on the run into any number of countries now opens up your search area to... umm... the entire planet. Well, most likely one of dozens of countries, but still that's dozens of countries.
We've made what could have been several weeks of intelligence gathering and a one day mission, into years of US occupation of foreign territories.
6 people running around is almost 2,000 btus, throw in another 1,000 btus from waste heat from the plasma and sound system, and another couple hundred from the dogs and I might not have to turn the heating on
Which coincidentally is why movie theaters are cold if you get there first.:) The capacity is determined by the maximum load (all seats filled + outside air temperature). When you have a 10 ton air conditioner blowing down, it makes cold real fast.:) With all those damned warm bodies it takes more to keep it cool. The solution? Only show movies to corpses.
At one job, we didn't have heat in the building. We hadn't noticed until we moved the servers out to a datacenter. Apparently, sometime during our growth the heat broke. The server room had it's own air conditioning, but we'd leave the door open because it was already secure (four people sitting at the entrance, and you needed a key and access card to get in the front door). In the winter, we noticed it got a little cooler, but it never dropped below 68, and the server room air conditioner was still running all the time. So the solution to your heating problem may not be to bring in extra people and a plasma TV, but to run a bigger beowulf cluster.:)
You know, for an AC that was insightful. Ya, if it doesn't work end to end, it doesn't work. If the cameras capture RGB, and everything passes RGB through, then all you're going to see at the far end is RGB.
Some folks will argue CYMK, but you'll still end up with the colors where the two overlap.
Over the years, I've seen so many different hyped things that really don't do much for you. A while back, friend of mine was all about DAT tapes for "real" audio. You couldn't buy music recorded on DAT tapes. All you could hope to do is convert another media to that, so you're still stuck with the lowest quality between the source and the destination.
Those examples are reinforcement that we must continue to fear the "terrorist" enemy. They may be false flag operations, or single individuals (or small groups) trying to execute plans beyond their ability.
The Times Square bomber couldn't have had proper training in executing what he attempted. Training would have included practical experience in the creation and detonation of the item in question. If he had training and practical experience, he would have known that his method would not have worked. You don't even need the Internet to learn how to do it. All it takes is some practice in an isolated area. There are plenty of places in the US where a person could build practice bombs, and know if they'll work or not. The Internet would help in creating more advanced explosives though. I couldn't tell you how to cook up improvised explosives from household items, but I can tell you that a little bit of propane being ignited will make your ears ring. A lot will do a lot more.
On the ear ringing, I was trying to help someone get a propane heater working. I didn't know the regulator was defective. It leaked, there was an ignition, and I couldn't hear right for about an hour. And no, there was no real damage nor casualties. It was just enough to say "don't do that again".
Ummm, officially, to stop "the terrorists" and to bring freedom and democracy to the unwashed masses. Unofficially, to control our oil interests. At least with WWI and WWII, the enemy was clearly defined. In the current situation it's any man, woman, or child who may be in the way.
Regardless of the reason presented for our presence there, there are still foreign troops in their country enforcing laws given to them by an outside force. It's not a new story, it's been going on for longer than we have written history for. We (unfortunately) haven't grown beyond this, except our tools and tactics for executing these decisions have become more refined.... and before anyone says it, which someone will always do, I'm not talking poorly of our troops. I'm talking badly about the decision makers who are sending the troops out to execute those decisions.
But that's where "lascivious exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of any person" comes into question. The definition of "lascivious" is not included in the definitions. We'll fall back to the dictionary definition in this case.
1. Given to or expressing lust; lecherous. 2. Exciting sexual desires; salacious.
Viewing of my genitalia has been cause for lust and has excited sexual desire. Even a normal mask wouldn't hide my full package (as it were). In that, it could be believed that a viewer would find it sexually exciting to view a nude image of me, in a normal photograph or a TSA/DHS authorized scan. Therefore it could be argued that the image of me in such a manner does fall under the cited laws.
Well, if you still have contacts there, I have one complaint. When they put me through it, I asked for a copy of my images. They still have no been delivered. Any time I have acted as a model, I have been provided a copy of all photographs during that shoot. I also did not sign a model release, and they had a clear view of my unclothed body recorded. Pursuant to Title 18, Part I, Chapter 110, 2257, they are required to have full documentation on file regarding such images. If I recall correction, violation of that code is punishable by 5 years and/or $25,000 per offense.
I hope they haven't put anyone under the age of 18 through, or they're in for a world of trouble. Possession of child pornography?
A friend of mine who's a big NASCAR fan begged me to go with him to Talladega. He brought his RV. I flew to Atlanta for work, and then drive out to meet him. I could have sworn I saw a sign that said "Welcome to Deliverance, Alabama" at some point before I got there (it was late, I was tired). I took that sign to mean it is the nation of Alabama. I swear everything changed when I hit the border. I did find it odd that there was no border checkpoint, but that can happen.
When I got there, I was greeted by several thousand rednecks, cold beer, and cars driving in circles. I recognized there was only one thing I could do. Drink myself into a stupor until it was time to leave.:)
For some reason, I see that as the plot of one of the "Saw" movies. Every time the other team makes a run, some more evil torture is committed to the victim. Of course, they'd have a boyfriend/girlfriend couple, where the boyfriend is being tortured, and the girlfriend is losing miserably. The more she cries, the worse she plays, and voila, dead boyfriend. I wouldn't worry much though, they'd kill off the girlfriend in a subsequent scene.:)
If Jesus Christ himself wrote a browser, it would all be in Old Aramaic. That'd make reading any of the text a bitch.:) I don't know about you, but I don't know how to read Old Aramaic.
I'm amazed at how many people blame their computer for their Internet speeds. Several years ago, someone I knew had a good computer, but was on dialup. They brought the computer to me. I plugged it into my network, played with it a little, and then asked them to demonstrate the problem. "Oh, you fixed it!". I hadn't done anything. I tried to explain that their bottleneck was their dialup speeds. They didn't quite understand. They took it home, and called to say it's still slow.
I finally got them to go buy connectivity from their cable company. The basic package was the same cost as their dialup. They were amazed. Then their kid tried uploading over it, and it took an hour to upload some video they shot. "My computer is slow doing this...." They brought it back to me, and again I demonstrated it wasn't the computer. I tried to explain the speed of the package they got, and that there were other packages if they wanted to spend more money. Of course they didn't want to spend more money, so they just told the kids "it's because the computer is too slow." {sigh}
It's a matter of if you look like you belong there, or you look like you're causing trouble. It's in how your body language reflects what you're doing.
When I've been doing what should be totally illegal, I've held a professional appearance. For example, I've driven up to a parked car, jimmied the door open, got in, reached around under the dash, and the drove away (with a friend driving my car." To any bystander, I just stole the car.
In reality, it belonged to a friend. She dropped her keys while she was getting out, but still locked the doors. She got a ride home, and asked me to get her car for her. The keys were somewhere on the driver's floor. No one in the neighborhood knew me, but still took a $20k car.
Playing the part right, you can do almost anything. Look at the couple who crashed the party at the Whitehouse. They looked the part. They got away with it until afterwards. I can't say I've ever done anything so brazen (or stupid), but I have shown up to the wrong event, looked like I belonged, mingled and then left.
You could drive up almost anywhere in a white van, put out cones, block an entire lane of traffic, and do almost anything you'd like. If you play the interactions right, no one will bother you.
This happened in LA several years ago. It was run here on Slashdot. A guy decided the freeway signs sucked (they all do around LA). He drove up, changed the sign, and was even waved at to say "hi" by some police cars. If he acted adversely, they would have arrested him on the spot. Instead, he got away with it. Well, until he posted pictures of the act online.:)
I once got escalated privileges to a US government network. It was hacking, if you so desire to call it that. They needed access to a resource which hadn't been properly provisioned. I asked for permission from the office supervisor who grated it, since the people who were suppose to do it had failed for months. I worked my way through and gave access to them. They never heard a word about the intrusion, nor the change in privileges.
On a simpler note, I walked into a club without paying.:) A friend of mine throws lavish parties about once a month. Well, now it's like 3 to 4 times a month. My friend knew I was coming. The bouncers didn't know me. The attendant collecting admission money didn't know me. I walked right past the line, through the doors, and into the club. One bouncer said something like "hey, you can't do that", but never actually stopped me. I found my friend after about 20 minutes, and we laughed about it. It was all in the impression I gave. I wasn't very happy after a 4 hour drive. I was late (by like an hour). I walked past the line pissed off and it appeared I just belonged there.
So back to the lock cutting. If you *look* like you belong there, you probably do. No one will question it. Walking down the street with bolt cutters to unlock a bike looks suspicious. Setting up equipment to do it gives the impression that you are doing something for a purpose. If I pulled up in a white van, and cut the chain with a torch, it's likely no one would say a word.
It doesn't work so well with the TSA, DHS, and quite a few other agencies, so I don't actually recommend doing anything illegal. Everything I've done that appears illegal was actually with permission. If it came down to it, I'd be able to point them to someone up the chain of command how would confirm authorization.
I did something like that a long time ago, because AOL was complaining about receiving email from hosted customers that didn't have reverse DNS. We couldn't possibly provide each user on virtual hosting servers with their own IP's, and we couldn't just pick one customer to show, so we initially provided the hostname of the machine as the reverse (a01.nyc.example.com). They responded that they wouldn't allow hostnames like that. I changed it to show the IP with our name at the end (192.168.1.1.example.com), which they refused. I then changed it to provide the IP in roman numbers, with our generic hostname at the end (192.168.1.1 = CXCII.CLXVII.I.I.example.com). They told us that the names were obviously not unique to the machines, since the first three "words" were the same for 254 different machines. I then reversed the number portion of it (192.168.1.1 = I.I.CLXVII.CXCI.example.com). That satisfied them, so we kept it for a long time. Once in a while, I'd get someone that referenced the inverse roman numeral hostname, which I always thought was entertaining.:)
That's only for those who learned latin from a pig.:) I was told a long time ago to not listen to talk farm animals, no matter how honest they may seem. It's even more important to avoid the flying kind, unless you provided the propulsion. I find a regular arm catapult or counterweight trebuchet to be entertaining, but rocket power is definitely the best way to go. You have to be careful though if you plan on reusing the pig.
I haven't seen a card sent arbitrarily in years, but in the past I actually have seen lines of credit being opened by sending a card to the person at their address.
I had a fraud case, where HSBC bank sent a $7,000 "check" to my old address. All that was required to open the line of credit was to cash or deposit the check. Whoever stole the mail from my old address wrote my name on the back and therefore opened the line of credit for me. It took a few months for their collections department to call me because I hadn't been paying.
Card holders in good standing can have their limits raised without notice. My mom has had credit cards for years. It was a fairly regular thing for them to increase her available line of credit, only notifying her that it happened. Since the economy took a turn for the worse, they've now been lowering the limits even though she has been paying faithfully on them for years.
It's not uncommon for them to change the interest rates too. What was a 3% card with a $20k limit suddenly became a 20% card with a $3k limit. A bit later it became a 29.99% card. As you said, they always use wording to allow any changes they see fit.
If you cut the locking part part (the bolt and cover it appears), the boot should fall off with minimal heat being transfered to the tire or wheel. Like, if you're good with a torch, the metal should be warm to the touch at the tire. If not, you'd have to cut the outer arm. Depending on the size of the tire, you may have to have someone handy with a water hose so you don't catch the tire on fire. That would likely cost a replacement tire though. Then it's a question of which is more expensive, one new tire, or paying the fine.:)
Of course, getting caught doing it would be far more expensive than the original fine. I'm sure they could come up with a stack of charges including vandalism (of city property), tampering with city equipment, obstructing the duties of law enforcement, and they could probably also throw in circumvention of a security device of some sort.
Regular electrical tape worked against the ignition. It was duct tape that didn't help at all. Electrical tape tends to slip under stress, so you'll find yourself in contact with the sticky residue where it had been placed. The same happens under heat. Like, I was helping a friend with his truck. Someone had previously used electrical tape to bundle some wires. The inside of the truck was warm (it had been sitting in the sun), and the tape was a gooey mess that slipped pretty easily. I haven't seen that rubberized tape in any retail stores yet. At least I haven't noticed it. I'll have to keep my eyes open for it.
Angle grinders are noisy, and leave a nice shower of sparks, but are bound to get someone's attention. Well, so does a torch. Not quite as much noise, but still it's pretty obvious.
My dad locked up my bicycle when I was a kid. It took me about 10 minutes with a hacksaw to cut through one leg of the lock. Usually only one leg locks (the one that latches). The other is just loose. Good bolt cutters will reduce that time from 10 minutes to about 2 seconds.:) As I've learned since then, you can use a shim (thin piece of metal) to force the lock open, by sliding it down the locking side and hitting the catch that's engaged into the locking leg. The last method lets you relock it, so they can just wonder how you got it out.:) That depends on if you have a shim small enough to fit into the gap between the lock and the leg. You can shim most residential doors too, and it's quicker than using a lockpick or even a bump key.
I found out in middle school, most of the cheap combination "Masterlock" padlocks that students use can just be shaken open. At the end of the school year, we had to clear our lockers, and took the locks home. I had put the lock on one of my belt loops. While I was running, it fell open.:) Sufficient shaking and sloppy tolerances will let the catch bounce out of the way. From then on, any time I needed to get into a locker, it was just a matter of shaking it violently until it popped open. Likewise, shaking the owner violently until he gave up the combination worked too. Sometimes it only took the threat.:)
Not really. I've received quite a few court orders over the years. The last major one was my home foreclosure. On the first notice from the courts, I had 30 days to reply. Otherwise, I defaulted to the judgement of the courts. It was simply mailed to the house, so there was no confirmation that I had even received it.
I had lost my job not too long after purchasing the house. It took me months to find any sort of work, which was 25% of my old pay and nowhere near enough to save the house. I worked hard to find something with better pay, which I couldn't find.
The final one was the same way. I believe it was 7 days from the final judgement until the auction at the court house. It was basically "pay up or move out."
Had I been unavailable for whatever reason (in the hospital, out of country, etc) all I would have known is that I had a house when I left, and when I came back the locks would have been changed. It never required input from me, except to delay the foreclosure on the first notice, which I simply filed a paper at the court house without providing identification.
Even with a speeding ticket, you have so many days to respond. Failure to respond results in a judgement against you being recorded (admission of guilt). By paying the ticket, you admit guilt. The only way to not plea guilty is to show up in court and say "not guilty" when the judge asks how you plea.
With ToS, it's usually written into the contract that the provider may change those terms at any time, and it's your responsibility to keep updated on the changes. They're also written vaguely enough so those terms could state "by continuing service, you agree to pay $1,000,000 per year and surrender your first born upon demand by [the company]"
You did read all the documents provided, and the ones that are buried on their web site which are referenced to by a single line saying "... and other terms as stated on our web site."
I agree, but I always have electrical tape handy, and don't always have heat shrink tubing. With a little practice, you can do electrical tape up pretty nicely. But it's still electrical tape.:)
Since he's going to be handling it all the time, he could have spent a few spare minutes on it. It would have been worth it.
Don't worry, they'll spend enough time searching your other cavities that you'll be more than happy to sneeze out the contraband and hand it over with a "Please, please stop! Please get his hand out of there!"
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That shouldn't be very hard. You do know what the unofficial government payload is on those satellites, right? Titanium cased nukes. The launch is easy. Just aim and give it a little shove. Then it detonates at the appropriate altitude. It's so much more efficient to already have your nukes up there, than to have to launch them from the surface and wait for them to come back down.
You really don't want to just pop one in orbit though. It'll leave one heck of a mess up there. It's not just debris, it's radioactive debris.
The big difference between regular security cameras, and the devices in question are that they're getting an image through my clothes.
Although officially they don't record such images, it doesn't make any sense from an intelligence standpoint for them not to have them recorded. Just because a target walked through a scanner before they were a target doesn't mean that they wouldn't want as much information as possible once they realize the target is significant.
For example, post 9/11, wouldn't they have wanted every bit of information available on the alleged hijackers? Where did they hide the equipment? Was it viable? When the planes were notified, they could have been told "The explosives are a decoy. Disregard threat and neutralize hijackers." Things would have turned out significantly different. There may have been a few casualties from the boxcutters that they were carrying, but it would have been significantly less than the final result. ... and yes, my want for privacy doesn't always align with my logical standpoint for intelligence gathering. But, I'm a civilian, not in the intelligence community. If I was, ... well ... I'd still want *my* privacy, since I'd have already been vetted as a trustworthy individual, but I'd want to know absolutely as much as possible about potential targets.
It wouldn't be the first time people have masturbated to pictures of me. As long as I don't have to see it, I don't really care. Don't forget, I used to work for a porn company. No much really scares me any more. If they're being distributed, I want a percentage of the profits though. No one gets into porn for the beauty of the human form, the get into it for the money. Since I'm not getting paid for the pictures being taken by the TSA, I'm more than a bit offended. What the folks do in their little viewing booth is their own business.
What do you think the CIA was chartered to do? Or more like, what they've been doing for decades.
It doesn't involve American troops patrolling the streets of a foreign nation, enforcing our laws, and working outside of our laws.
Proper action is taken through an abundance of *GOOD* intelligence, using that intelligence properly.
Our goal for going in was to take Osama Bin Laden. That goal was forgotten and still has never been achieved. Putting thousands of troops on the ground there will only serve to relocate him. Well, it has only served to relocate him. He's not going to be hiding out in a house in the middle of US occupied territory. You're not going to find him hiding behind a bush with a convoy driving by.
Instead of the wasted money to keep our troops on the ground there, proper use of intelligence and a strategic strike could have wiped him out where he sat.
It's much easier to hit a target who isn't aware that you know where he is until it's too late. Sending the target on the run into any number of countries now opens up your search area to ... umm ... the entire planet. Well, most likely one of dozens of countries, but still that's dozens of countries.
We've made what could have been several weeks of intelligence gathering and a one day mission, into years of US occupation of foreign territories.
Which coincidentally is why movie theaters are cold if you get there first. :) The capacity is determined by the maximum load (all seats filled + outside air temperature). When you have a 10 ton air conditioner blowing down, it makes cold real fast. :) With all those damned warm bodies it takes more to keep it cool. The solution? Only show movies to corpses.
At one job, we didn't have heat in the building. We hadn't noticed until we moved the servers out to a datacenter. Apparently, sometime during our growth the heat broke. The server room had it's own air conditioning, but we'd leave the door open because it was already secure (four people sitting at the entrance, and you needed a key and access card to get in the front door). In the winter, we noticed it got a little cooler, but it never dropped below 68, and the server room air conditioner was still running all the time. So the solution to your heating problem may not be to bring in extra people and a plasma TV, but to run a bigger beowulf cluster. :)
You know, for an AC that was insightful. Ya, if it doesn't work end to end, it doesn't work. If the cameras capture RGB, and everything passes RGB through, then all you're going to see at the far end is RGB.
Some folks will argue CYMK, but you'll still end up with the colors where the two overlap.
Over the years, I've seen so many different hyped things that really don't do much for you. A while back, friend of mine was all about DAT tapes for "real" audio. You couldn't buy music recorded on DAT tapes. All you could hope to do is convert another media to that, so you're still stuck with the lowest quality between the source and the destination.
Those examples are reinforcement that we must continue to fear the "terrorist" enemy. They may be false flag operations, or single individuals (or small groups) trying to execute plans beyond their ability.
The Times Square bomber couldn't have had proper training in executing what he attempted. Training would have included practical experience in the creation and detonation of the item in question. If he had training and practical experience, he would have known that his method would not have worked. You don't even need the Internet to learn how to do it. All it takes is some practice in an isolated area. There are plenty of places in the US where a person could build practice bombs, and know if they'll work or not. The Internet would help in creating more advanced explosives though. I couldn't tell you how to cook up improvised explosives from household items, but I can tell you that a little bit of propane being ignited will make your ears ring. A lot will do a lot more.
On the ear ringing, I was trying to help someone get a propane heater working. I didn't know the regulator was defective. It leaked, there was an ignition, and I couldn't hear right for about an hour. And no, there was no real damage nor casualties. It was just enough to say "don't do that again".
Ummm, officially, to stop "the terrorists" and to bring freedom and democracy to the unwashed masses. Unofficially, to control our oil interests. At least with WWI and WWII, the enemy was clearly defined. In the current situation it's any man, woman, or child who may be in the way.
Regardless of the reason presented for our presence there, there are still foreign troops in their country enforcing laws given to them by an outside force. It's not a new story, it's been going on for longer than we have written history for. We (unfortunately) haven't grown beyond this, except our tools and tactics for executing these decisions have become more refined. ... and before anyone says it, which someone will always do, I'm not talking poorly of our troops. I'm talking badly about the decision makers who are sending the troops out to execute those decisions.
But that's where "lascivious exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of any person" comes into question. The definition of "lascivious" is not included in the definitions. We'll fall back to the dictionary definition in this case.
1. Given to or expressing lust; lecherous.
2. Exciting sexual desires; salacious.
Viewing of my genitalia has been cause for lust and has excited sexual desire. Even a normal mask wouldn't hide my full package (as it were). In that, it could be believed that a viewer would find it sexually exciting to view a nude image of me, in a normal photograph or a TSA/DHS authorized scan. Therefore it could be argued that the image of me in such a manner does fall under the cited laws.
Well, if you still have contacts there, I have one complaint. When they put me through it, I asked for a copy of my images. They still have no been delivered. Any time I have acted as a model, I have been provided a copy of all photographs during that shoot. I also did not sign a model release, and they had a clear view of my unclothed body recorded. Pursuant to Title 18, Part I, Chapter 110, 2257, they are required to have full documentation on file regarding such images. If I recall correction, violation of that code is punishable by 5 years and/or $25,000 per offense.
I hope they haven't put anyone under the age of 18 through, or they're in for a world of trouble. Possession of child pornography?
Wish? I thought it *was* another country. :)
A friend of mine who's a big NASCAR fan begged me to go with him to Talladega. He brought his RV. I flew to Atlanta for work, and then drive out to meet him. I could have sworn I saw a sign that said "Welcome to Deliverance, Alabama" at some point before I got there (it was late, I was tired). I took that sign to mean it is the nation of Alabama. I swear everything changed when I hit the border. I did find it odd that there was no border checkpoint, but that can happen.
When I got there, I was greeted by several thousand rednecks, cold beer, and cars driving in circles. I recognized there was only one thing I could do. Drink myself into a stupor until it was time to leave. :)
For some reason, I see that as the plot of one of the "Saw" movies. Every time the other team makes a run, some more evil torture is committed to the victim. Of course, they'd have a boyfriend/girlfriend couple, where the boyfriend is being tortured, and the girlfriend is losing miserably. The more she cries, the worse she plays, and voila, dead boyfriend. I wouldn't worry much though, they'd kill off the girlfriend in a subsequent scene. :)
If Jesus Christ himself wrote a browser, it would all be in Old Aramaic. That'd make reading any of the text a bitch. :) I don't know about you, but I don't know how to read Old Aramaic.
I'm amazed at how many people blame their computer for their Internet speeds. Several years ago, someone I knew had a good computer, but was on dialup. They brought the computer to me. I plugged it into my network, played with it a little, and then asked them to demonstrate the problem. "Oh, you fixed it!". I hadn't done anything. I tried to explain that their bottleneck was their dialup speeds. They didn't quite understand. They took it home, and called to say it's still slow.
I finally got them to go buy connectivity from their cable company. The basic package was the same cost as their dialup. They were amazed. Then their kid tried uploading over it, and it took an hour to upload some video they shot. "My computer is slow doing this...." They brought it back to me, and again I demonstrated it wasn't the computer. I tried to explain the speed of the package they got, and that there were other packages if they wanted to spend more money. Of course they didn't want to spend more money, so they just told the kids "it's because the computer is too slow." {sigh}
It's a matter of if you look like you belong there, or you look like you're causing trouble. It's in how your body language reflects what you're doing.
When I've been doing what should be totally illegal, I've held a professional appearance. For example, I've driven up to a parked car, jimmied the door open, got in, reached around under the dash, and the drove away (with a friend driving my car." To any bystander, I just stole the car.
In reality, it belonged to a friend. She dropped her keys while she was getting out, but still locked the doors. She got a ride home, and asked me to get her car for her. The keys were somewhere on the driver's floor. No one in the neighborhood knew me, but still took a $20k car.
Playing the part right, you can do almost anything. Look at the couple who crashed the party at the Whitehouse. They looked the part. They got away with it until afterwards. I can't say I've ever done anything so brazen (or stupid), but I have shown up to the wrong event, looked like I belonged, mingled and then left.
You could drive up almost anywhere in a white van, put out cones, block an entire lane of traffic, and do almost anything you'd like. If you play the interactions right, no one will bother you.
This happened in LA several years ago. It was run here on Slashdot. A guy decided the freeway signs sucked (they all do around LA). He drove up, changed the sign, and was even waved at to say "hi" by some police cars. If he acted adversely, they would have arrested him on the spot. Instead, he got away with it. Well, until he posted pictures of the act online. :)
I once got escalated privileges to a US government network. It was hacking, if you so desire to call it that. They needed access to a resource which hadn't been properly provisioned. I asked for permission from the office supervisor who grated it, since the people who were suppose to do it had failed for months. I worked my way through and gave access to them. They never heard a word about the intrusion, nor the change in privileges.
On a simpler note, I walked into a club without paying. :) A friend of mine throws lavish parties about once a month. Well, now it's like 3 to 4 times a month. My friend knew I was coming. The bouncers didn't know me. The attendant collecting admission money didn't know me. I walked right past the line, through the doors, and into the club. One bouncer said something like "hey, you can't do that", but never actually stopped me. I found my friend after about 20 minutes, and we laughed about it. It was all in the impression I gave. I wasn't very happy after a 4 hour drive. I was late (by like an hour). I walked past the line pissed off and it appeared I just belonged there.
So back to the lock cutting. If you *look* like you belong there, you probably do. No one will question it. Walking down the street with bolt cutters to unlock a bike looks suspicious. Setting up equipment to do it gives the impression that you are doing something for a purpose. If I pulled up in a white van, and cut the chain with a torch, it's likely no one would say a word.
It doesn't work so well with the TSA, DHS, and quite a few other agencies, so I don't actually recommend doing anything illegal. Everything I've done that appears illegal was actually with permission. If it came down to it, I'd be able to point them to someone up the chain of command how would confirm authorization.
Hahaha.
I did something like that a long time ago, because AOL was complaining about receiving email from hosted customers that didn't have reverse DNS. We couldn't possibly provide each user on virtual hosting servers with their own IP's, and we couldn't just pick one customer to show, so we initially provided the hostname of the machine as the reverse (a01.nyc.example.com). They responded that they wouldn't allow hostnames like that. I changed it to show the IP with our name at the end (192.168.1.1.example.com), which they refused. I then changed it to provide the IP in roman numbers, with our generic hostname at the end (192.168.1.1 = CXCII.CLXVII.I.I.example.com). They told us that the names were obviously not unique to the machines, since the first three "words" were the same for 254 different machines. I then reversed the number portion of it (192.168.1.1 = I.I.CLXVII.CXCI.example.com). That satisfied them, so we kept it for a long time. Once in a while, I'd get someone that referenced the inverse roman numeral hostname, which I always thought was entertaining. :)
That's only for those who learned latin from a pig. :) I was told a long time ago to not listen to talk farm animals, no matter how honest they may seem. It's even more important to avoid the flying kind, unless you provided the propulsion. I find a regular arm catapult or counterweight trebuchet to be entertaining, but rocket power is definitely the best way to go. You have to be careful though if you plan on reusing the pig.
I haven't seen a card sent arbitrarily in years, but in the past I actually have seen lines of credit being opened by sending a card to the person at their address.
I had a fraud case, where HSBC bank sent a $7,000 "check" to my old address. All that was required to open the line of credit was to cash or deposit the check. Whoever stole the mail from my old address wrote my name on the back and therefore opened the line of credit for me. It took a few months for their collections department to call me because I hadn't been paying.
Card holders in good standing can have their limits raised without notice. My mom has had credit cards for years. It was a fairly regular thing for them to increase her available line of credit, only notifying her that it happened. Since the economy took a turn for the worse, they've now been lowering the limits even though she has been paying faithfully on them for years.
It's not uncommon for them to change the interest rates too. What was a 3% card with a $20k limit suddenly became a 20% card with a $3k limit. A bit later it became a 29.99% card. As you said, they always use wording to allow any changes they see fit.
You shouldn't need to get anywhere near the rim when cutting.
Look at this picture (not mine). And the details (and video of how it's put on) from the manufacturer.
If you cut the locking part part (the bolt and cover it appears), the boot should fall off with minimal heat being transfered to the tire or wheel. Like, if you're good with a torch, the metal should be warm to the touch at the tire. If not, you'd have to cut the outer arm. Depending on the size of the tire, you may have to have someone handy with a water hose so you don't catch the tire on fire. That would likely cost a replacement tire though. Then it's a question of which is more expensive, one new tire, or paying the fine. :)
Of course, getting caught doing it would be far more expensive than the original fine. I'm sure they could come up with a stack of charges including vandalism (of city property), tampering with city equipment, obstructing the duties of law enforcement, and they could probably also throw in circumvention of a security device of some sort.
Regular electrical tape worked against the ignition. It was duct tape that didn't help at all. Electrical tape tends to slip under stress, so you'll find yourself in contact with the sticky residue where it had been placed. The same happens under heat. Like, I was helping a friend with his truck. Someone had previously used electrical tape to bundle some wires. The inside of the truck was warm (it had been sitting in the sun), and the tape was a gooey mess that slipped pretty easily. I haven't seen that rubberized tape in any retail stores yet. At least I haven't noticed it. I'll have to keep my eyes open for it.
Angle grinders are noisy, and leave a nice shower of sparks, but are bound to get someone's attention. Well, so does a torch. Not quite as much noise, but still it's pretty obvious.
My dad locked up my bicycle when I was a kid. It took me about 10 minutes with a hacksaw to cut through one leg of the lock. Usually only one leg locks (the one that latches). The other is just loose. Good bolt cutters will reduce that time from 10 minutes to about 2 seconds. :) As I've learned since then, you can use a shim (thin piece of metal) to force the lock open, by sliding it down the locking side and hitting the catch that's engaged into the locking leg. The last method lets you relock it, so they can just wonder how you got it out. :) That depends on if you have a shim small enough to fit into the gap between the lock and the leg. You can shim most residential doors too, and it's quicker than using a lockpick or even a bump key.
I found out in middle school, most of the cheap combination "Masterlock" padlocks that students use can just be shaken open. At the end of the school year, we had to clear our lockers, and took the locks home. I had put the lock on one of my belt loops. While I was running, it fell open. :) Sufficient shaking and sloppy tolerances will let the catch bounce out of the way. From then on, any time I needed to get into a locker, it was just a matter of shaking it violently until it popped open. Likewise, shaking the owner violently until he gave up the combination worked too. Sometimes it only took the threat. :)
Not really. I've received quite a few court orders over the years. The last major one was my home foreclosure. On the first notice from the courts, I had 30 days to reply. Otherwise, I defaulted to the judgement of the courts. It was simply mailed to the house, so there was no confirmation that I had even received it.
I had lost my job not too long after purchasing the house. It took me months to find any sort of work, which was 25% of my old pay and nowhere near enough to save the house. I worked hard to find something with better pay, which I couldn't find.
The final one was the same way. I believe it was 7 days from the final judgement until the auction at the court house. It was basically "pay up or move out."
Had I been unavailable for whatever reason (in the hospital, out of country, etc) all I would have known is that I had a house when I left, and when I came back the locks would have been changed. It never required input from me, except to delay the foreclosure on the first notice, which I simply filed a paper at the court house without providing identification.
Even with a speeding ticket, you have so many days to respond. Failure to respond results in a judgement against you being recorded (admission of guilt). By paying the ticket, you admit guilt. The only way to not plea guilty is to show up in court and say "not guilty" when the judge asks how you plea.
With ToS, it's usually written into the contract that the provider may change those terms at any time, and it's your responsibility to keep updated on the changes. They're also written vaguely enough so those terms could state "by continuing service, you agree to pay $1,000,000 per year and surrender your first born upon demand by [the company]"
You did read all the documents provided, and the ones that are buried on their web site which are referenced to by a single line saying "... and other terms as stated on our web site."
I agree, but I always have electrical tape handy, and don't always have heat shrink tubing. With a little practice, you can do electrical tape up pretty nicely. But it's still electrical tape. :)
Since he's going to be handling it all the time, he could have spent a few spare minutes on it. It would have been worth it.
Ya, it was to get your attention. The link is a redirect to a malware site.
Don't worry, they'll spend enough time searching your other cavities that you'll be more than happy to sneeze out the contraband and hand it over with a "Please, please stop! Please get his hand out of there!"