Perfect. Steal some outlets (carefully) from a hotel, and put them at the house. It'll be a whole new world of piracy. Wait til they start getting cloned. I'd bet the power company may have a huge bill for their own offices.
You shouldn't have posted as AC. Some people won't see this, and you have the right answer.
Set the A records to wherever the new web hosting provider will be. Set the MX record to where the mail is to be delivered. It will then be up to him (the submitter) to forward mail for anything specific at the domain, such as webmaster@ to the real webmaster.
Or in bind...
; ; domain: example.com ; $TTL 3600 @ IN SOA ns.example.com. webmaster.example.com. (
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3600 ; Retry after one hour
86400 ; Expire after one day
3600 ) ; Mininum TTL of one hour ; ; name servers for this domain ;
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IN NS ns2.example.com.
IN NS ns3.example.com. ; ; A and MX records ;
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example.com. IN TXT "v=spf1 ip4:5.6.7.0/25 a mx include:example.com include:example.com ~all" *.example.com. IN TXT "v=spf1 ip4:5.6.7.0/25 a mx include:example.com include:example.com ~all"
And most importantly, the submitter shouldn't have needed to even ask this. Dearest submitter, please turn in your geek card on your way out.
According to this article, the average salary was raised to $293/mo. (293*12)/2080 = $1.69/hr @ 40 hr/wk.
But that's not an accurate reflection of the pay rate. The employees work 12 to 16 hours a day, 6 to 7 days a week. So their week will be 72 to 112 hours. That makes their effective hourly wage (293*12)/(72*52) = 3516/3744 = $0.93/hr (293*12)/(112*52) = 3516/5824 = $0.60/hr
That's not a pay rate. That's payment to fit into a loophole so slavery is legal. If you think it's fair, I'll happily employ you with the above average pay of $1.00/hr.
The US minimum wage isn't $25/hr. The US federal minimum wage is $7.25/hr. ($15,080/yr) That is based on what a fair living wage is, but still puts a family of 2 under the poverty line. With 25% of workers in the US (adjusted U-6 number) unemployed, it can easily be assumed an "average" family of 4 (2 working age adults, 2 children), would living under the poverty line ($23,050 w/ 4 family members).
Unions in the US came about because employees were working too many hours (70+ hrs/wk), and paid too little to thrive (under the poverty line). I'm not a fan of some of the methodologies that unions used, but they did help resolve problems in the past. They shouldn't even be needed any more, but they lobby to keep pay rates fair, so people can survive and thrive.
There are current proposals on the table to remove US minimum wage laws. Yup, then we could compete with the foreign manufacturing plants. We'd also be increasing our working poor population.
Now, if you don't mind, try to use facts, rather than regurgitating Fox News "reporting". It only makes you look like an idiot.
I've spent plenty of time complaining about Dell too, don't worry.:) This was an apple-centric thread, which is why I called them by name.
Many corps use Dell, so they have an emotional tie to the Dell equipment. It's something I really have never understood. They charge more than their competitors, and generally use commodity hardware. They get cases and motherboards built just far enough off of standard that they aren't interchangeable. They do a better job of marketing. They show amazing "starting at" prices, but once you configure one to be comparable, the price is far higher than competitive. Still, people tell me how great a "deal" they got from Dell, by paying double what the machine was worth. Hrm.
Apple takes the other approach. Screw advertising the cheapest prices. They go straight for the boutique audience. Why buy brand X at $50, when you can buy brand A for $400.
You know, I really wonder about that too. I picked up a cell phone there, not too long ago. It was the same price as anywhere else. I only got it there because it was closest. It took 3 employees about 2 hours to figure out how to activate it. In that 2 hours, no one else came in. There was plenty of traffic coming into other stores around it though.
How does a $100 purchase pay for 3 employees, and the overhead of the building?
I'd say it's rare, but in other locations around the country that I've been to, it's always been the same situation. Since most of the stores stopped carrying small electronic components, I really haven't been going there much. When they did have the small components, there were always people coming in. They may only want a pack of resistors, but they frequently buy something else, just because. That impulse buy is a powerful tool. They have nothing that makes a consumer *want* to go in. So it's a store full of impulse buys, and no reason for customers to ever see them.
The last trip there, I bought some shrink tube, solder, and on the impulse buy I got a new multimeter. When I got it home, it turned out that it took a weird little battery that I could only find via Radio Shack, and even then the battery was $30, and was exclusive to their online store. The multimeter was only $10, so I returned it. They tried to talk me into keeping it, and they would order the battery for me. {sigh}. Then they tried to upsell me to another one that took regular batteries. They could quite comprehend "no, I don't want it, because it doesn't work, and I won't spend $30 for the battery for a $10 multimeter."
I believe Apple is being targeted, because they just reported record profits. Profits, mind you, are largely because of the business practices at Foxconn. If they couldn't sell a $5 iPad for $500, their profits wouldn't have been so large.
I'd rather see the manufacturing jobs moved to where the consumers are. If the 40% of the users are in the us, 40% of the devices should be manufactured here. It makes sound economic sense. Instead, these companies prefer to manufacture in the absolutely cheapest places possible, disregarding what would be human rights violations here in the US. In the end, the blame is with the consumers. They are happily spending too much money on a name brand, when they know what business practices are in place.
I only mention Apple, because you did. Unfortunately for the consumer, right now it's near impossible to find quite a bit of merchandise that was manufactured in their own country.
The only argument that can be made for keeping these jobs offshore is, they can do it cheaper. There's no way you can find American workers who can afford to work for $20/mo. You'd be hard pressed to eat on $20/mo, much less have a place to live.
Companies should be looking at being economically responsible, rather than admiring their record earnings. There's no prize for doing so though. If you turn higher profits, your share holders make more money, and your stock prices climb. If you just break even, your company won't have an excellent growth forecast, and that doesn't play well on Wall Street.
Its best to go for the plausible deniability route. Don't open up the files in the first place. Don't even bother look at the contents. If you receive a drive, format it. If you receive such a drive, and you are concerned about the contents, DoD wipe it.
If there's an investigation on why a drive was released from a secure environment with privileged data on it, and they do trace it down to you, the truth will protect you.
"Did you buy a hard drive from X vendor?"
"Yes. It had partitions on it, so I wiped it, and started using it."
"Did you see any of the contents?"
"No. I wiped it first."
"Thank you."
The screw up in that chain isn't you for buying a used hard drive from a reputable vendor, with data on it. The screw up was allowing a hard drive with confidential data on it out of their control.
I'd be a bit miffed with the vendor. If you were sold a "refurbished" unit, that means that it was tested and returned to factory condition. It shouldn't have had *any* indication that it was previously used, except for possibly some marks on the case. They shouldn't be reselling returned items as refurbished, without refurbishing them.
Lets not forget the more entertaining versions. Thermite or a 12 gauge slug. It all depends on how friendly you are with your local fire department and law enforcement.
That's what I'm wondering. I'm a Boost Mobile user. They were a subsidary of Nextel, but because the iDEN network was so horrible, Boost has been offering CDMA devices for several years now.
I've had several Boost Mobile CDMA devices now, including an Android that I'm using now. I wonder what that means for the future of Sprint and Boost Android users. If Google took it out of the Android code, does that just mean that the Sprint devs have to put it back in on their own? If so, we have nothing to worry about.
I don't really want to switch. I've been on the Boost pre-paid plan for a while, and with their "shrinkage" plan, my unlimited bill is only phone is only $40/mo right now.
I can't really complain about the service. It works everywhere I go. The only place that I'd have problems is traveling internationally, which I haven't done in a while since our economy has been so bad. In the past, when I traveled to Europe, I just bought a cheap prepaid phone locally, and enjoyed their free incoming calls.
3) Complaining about moderation, poll options, isn't going to make you any friends.
4) Your usernames in the citations relate to being a troll or a karma whore.
5) Trying to score FP with copy and paste drivel isn't going to make you any friends.
You may think you're smart, funny, and devastatingly handsome. Since we haven't seen a picture of you, all I can say is that you're wrong on at least 2 counts. In that, you've probably managed to get some people to specifically mod *you* down.
Finally, you don't seem to really understand who the "moderators" are. It's all of us. As long as you can manage to write something intelligent occasionally, you'll get mod points. It's not a secret gang of moderating thugs out to ruin your life. I've seen my own posts go from -1 to 5 with a couple dozen moderations, usually based on the controversy of the topic.
I fully expect this post to be modded down, because it did not lend anything to the topic at hand. That's fine, because I will post my opinion in another comment, which isn't tainted by your stench.
Everyone's promised not to use the nuclear bombs that they have stockpiled all over the world. So we keep making bigger and bigger conventional bombs.
But... Why... A tactical strike with proper planning goes a lot farther, and doesn't require a freaking fortune to design, test, and implement. What happened to the good old days of special forces HALO jumping under the cover of darkness, and neutralizing the threat? Isn't it a lot easier to force your way through the door, rather than dropping a bomb on top of a fortified position?
I guess the concussion of a big bomb is more impressive than virtually silently destroying a target. I guess if the goal is collateral damage, they're asking for the right tool for the job.
Ya, I was fairly sure they shut down operations in 2008.
The place was a joke to start with. From what I understood, they had negotiated some terms with some nations, for some sort of recognition, but that was about it.
The Sealand site is still up, and flogging merchandise including your own royal title (which would probably get you executed in no less than a dozen other countries). The havenco site is gone. I'd have to assume most or all of their connectivity is gone. Wasn't it provided by microwave links, and not actual cables? I'd bet those could be brought up without too much trouble. They could also be taken down pretty easily from a court order or financial pressures.
When there was talk about the Pirate Bay move, I had posted that it would make more financial sense to put it on a freighter. They could easily run with microwave links, and sit in International waters.
The whole idea was iffy for HavenCo. Its insanity for WikiLeaks. They have set themselves up to be the enemy of many states, and therefore fair game for military action in international waters. Who do you call for help, when you've made an enemy of just about every nation on the planet.
"S.O.S. This is SS Wikileaks. We're under attack. Please assist. Pan-Pan, Pan-Pan, Pan-Pan. This is SS Wikileaks. We are under attack. Please assist."
"SS Wikileaks, this is HMS Bulwark. We have received your distress. The nearest ship is 7 days out. Stay at your current coordinates. Help will arrive."
SS Wikileaks was never heard from again.
Hmm. Starting up HavenCo again does seem to make more sense. A few errant shots during a spontaneous "training exercise" would deal with the problem quickly and decisively. That, and it wouldn't tend to drift around as much.
I'm not quite sure if your tinfoil hat is screwed on too tight, or if you just confessed to planning some sort of attack.
As far as an "unwired taser". Sure, it's theoretically possible to have a taser without wires. Have you ever tossed a charged capacitor to someone? If not, talk to a seasoned mechanic who worked on cars made before 1974, when distributors had a big capacitor in them. That was an old prank that was done frequently to new techs.
Now, launching unwired tasers from a UAV has substantial problems, like targeting. UAVs are small, and therefore unstable. Even launching a AC130 style bombardment into a crowd would stun a small portion of the group.
Weaponized UAVs do exist. The military has them. It's well known and documented. That is, documented by the military for public release, and reports are available in the news media. Just look for information on the General Atomics MQ-1 Predator and the AGM-114 Hellfire missiles. That's how the military weaponizes UAVs. They aren't interested in stunning a few people. When they want a threat eliminated, they eliminate it.
The abundance of crappy games is the only thing holding G+ back right now. Why would anyone even use it on a regular basis? There's no incentive for the general population.
Actually, I was just shopping for phones. There are plenty of Android phones on prepaid providers. The only proof of age that's really required for a prepaid is your ability to walk into a store with cash. Buy the phone for cash. Buy a reload card for cash. Done.
They're also useful for sending out to your secret network of spies. "Well, the phones and cards were purchased with cash by a 15 year old kid in Podunk, Alabama."
Just kidding. No self respecting spy would have a 15 year old kid buy a burn phone for them. It's too much of a liability.:)
2010 - Former head of El Al security says "... we have learned nothing from our past security breaches, including the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001."... "We changed from FAA to TSA and guys with new uniforms. The only group being punished is the American traveler who must now endure longer lines."
Shit. Even El Al says the TSA is dumb.
But at least several contractors have made an awful lot of money in the process. Oh wait.. Our taxes are paying for that multi-billion dollar mistake. That was an estimated $6.9 billion estimate in 2010, and the number keeps climbing. But hey, it's the US budget. We can always burn up as much as we want, and raise the debt limit. I asked my bank, they said they wouldn't raise *my* debt limit, so I'm a bit confused how this whole thing works. Maybe I shouldn't have said I needed to raise it by $1.2 trillion.
Well, actually he didn't hit me. I was working in an office building, getting paid shit. I had to park 6 blocks away in a dirt lot. To get to my car, I had to walk across the two streets in the area that had lights in sequence, and had to watch carefully for people running red lights. That day, I was about 30 seconds shy of crossing the intersection. I heard the screech, saw the bus stop in the middle of the intersection on a green light. When I got closer, that's when I saw the car where it didn't belong, and got the story by listening to the passengers as I walked by.
You can't predict that because that accident happened that way, that all accidents would be the same. I've seen cars hit on various places. Check out any junk yard. You'll see damage on front fenders, rear quarter panels, and even directly on the doors. Actually, if you look around, and the yard is big enough, you'll see just about every kind of collision that can happen.
If the bus hadn't been hit, because it was a VW bug instead, would he have hit someone at the next non-sequential light? The next one non-sequential light typically had a lot more cross traffic. If we go beyond this, "what if", becomes a discussion of fate, which I simply don't believe in.
I guess they weren't selling as well as the lots of knives and other assorted stuff.
This is almost entertaining. They cite the risk, and why they're seizing everything. Then they complain about the litigious nature of many organizations, so they can't donate seized liquids. As you can see linked in my previous post, those liquids aren't passively harmful. If you opened up a glass bottle of "water", and took a drink to find that it's sulfuric acid, that's a huge risk. By tossing the bottle in a nearby trash can, as they do, If say a gallon glass bottle of sulfuric acid breaks when tossed into the trash, that'd be a pretty serious issue.
If they really believed liquids needed to be disposed of, because they created a hazard to aircraft, they'd also have hazmat dispose of all their liquids. I have yet to see a hazmat team show up. I've seen janitors though. Depending on the airport, they'll carry the same trash bags full of dangerous items through the secure area to throw them away.
I'd prefer, if the items were as dangerous as claimed, that a hazmat team, or bomb squad, transport them appropriately for demolition. But that would imply that there are really hazardous items being seized.
I've gone through a good bit of performance driver training over the years. Being that I have, I've seen people who drive better than me. Unfortunately, after the classes, you see every idiot on the road. The ones on their cell phone, eating with one hand, and beating the kid in the back seat with the other.
All drivers should be required to have advanced training, They should be required to take additional driving courses every four years. I'd say every year, but I'm sure that wouldn't fly. The training shouldn't consist of "drive the speed limit", "stop at the stop sign" and "parallel park there". It should involve collision advoidance, spins and recovery, precision driving (how not to bounce over the curb on a right hand turn). At one, cones were placed 6" wider than our vehicles, and we were to navigate through them. Even nudging a cone was a fail.
As it is, at least in my state, once you get your license you're never required to prove your ability again. I had the "hardest" requirements in over 20 years, where I had to do the vision test, and take a multiple choice test on street signs. The correct answers were pathetically obvious.
The only real proof that anyone is competent to drive is that they don't wreck their cars too often. As long as you can get insurance, you can keep driving. Even after that, people do drive without licenses and suspended drivers licenses. Most of the time, they're only caught when they crash into someone.
Safer vehicles aren't the solution. Making sure only people who are competent to drive is. Accidents will still happen, but if drivers were better, they would be less likely. Of course, it would reduce the number of drivers on the road. Industries wouldn't like that, and people would scream, so it will never happen. You gotta love politics.
Even lighters were banned for a while, but after enough complaints, they again allowed them.
Terrorists must be anyone who isn't an old rich white guy. If they talk funny, look different, or behave differently due to cultural differences, they must be terrorists. The evil enemy that all Americans must fear.
The terrorist behind every Bush fear subsided. Then we killed the leader of the terrorists we were told to fear.
They are trying to find the next threat. If there isn't a threat, there isn't a need for DHS, is there? Those new threats will keep coming. They may be foreign nationals with a misguided grudge. They may even be regular, but insane, Americans.
If they don't get enough real threats, they'll overstate some minor threat. They weren't clear what the real threat was. It could have been a local kid, who bounced through an off-shore server, who managed to log into a control box.
My question is, why the hell would they leave those controls accessible by the Internet in general? Why was it connected to the Internet at all? Assuming there was a good reason for it, why weren't they restricted to select IPs? Rather than freaking out and blaming "the terrorists", why don't we focus on the problems like "our infrastructure shouldn't be accessible by the whole Internet".
Hell, when I stick a server online with a previously unused IP, I get people trying to hit it in no time. If you want some entertainment, put an older unpatched distribution up with root logins enabled, and set the password to "password". I'd give it 10 minutes before it had new people running it.
Lets not forget who the new terrorists are. All those people who agree with, or fall into the category of 99%. Domestic terrorism is our greatest threat. They must be stopped. We're going to need bigger prisons and more guys with badges and guns.
Oh wait.. I forgot the right line. "I trust our government. Terrorists are behind every Bush. Protect me government. I'll give up any rights you ask me to."
shit.. 26mpg.:) The car is limited by the computer at 165mph, although I haven't had a chance to prove it yet. There are some groups that rent super speedways. That's the only way I'm willing to try. At 242 f/s, I don't feel all the comfortable on open highways.
I think these are the pictures you are looking for. They're well commented, and point out the obvious fact that the "smart" cars in the photos weren't smart cars. The first was probably a mid to full size car. I can't even begin to guess what the car was. Something gray, that had at least 1 wheel, and had 5 lugs on a wheels.
That is a horrible crash though. They didn't stand a chance, between two loaded rock trucks.
They do make a point. Bigger vehicles survive wrecks better. I bought a 40' city bus as an RV. In every crash photo I've seen involving vehicles of that type, the bus comes out unscathed, while the passenger vehicles don't do so well. I saw an accident in town a while back. All the traffic signals when you're going North bound change sequentially, so if you hold 40mph, you'll go through without needing to stop. I drove the road enough to know, there are a couple signals that don't always change in sequence with the others. It seems a driver of a small sedan didn't know about the signals that can change out of sequence. He slammed into the side of the bus, hitting it at the rear door. The only damage on the bus was that the door jammed. The passengers all walked off without injuries. The driver of the car was loaded up on a back board to be delivered to the hospital. Judging by the fact the front of his car was 3 feet shorter than it would have started at, I'd say he needed the hospital.
I don't work in that area any more, but I saw plenty of near misses, where people assumed the light would turn green, but it didn't.
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Perfect. Steal some outlets (carefully) from a hotel, and put them at the house. It'll be a whole new world of piracy. Wait til they start getting cloned. I'd bet the power company may have a huge bill for their own offices.
You shouldn't have posted as AC. Some people won't see this, and you have the right answer.
Set the A records to wherever the new web hosting provider will be. Set the MX record to where the mail is to be delivered. It will then be up to him (the submitter) to forward mail for anything specific at the domain, such as webmaster@ to the real webmaster.
Or in bind...
And most importantly, the submitter shouldn't have needed to even ask this. Dearest submitter, please turn in your geek card on your way out.
My mistake on the salary.
According to this article, the average salary was raised to $293/mo. (293*12)/2080 = $1.69/hr @ 40 hr/wk.
But that's not an accurate reflection of the pay rate. The employees work 12 to 16 hours a day, 6 to 7 days a week. So their week will be 72 to 112 hours. That makes their effective hourly wage (293*12)/(72*52) = 3516/3744 = $0.93/hr (293*12)/(112*52) = 3516/5824 = $0.60/hr
That's not a pay rate. That's payment to fit into a loophole so slavery is legal. If you think it's fair, I'll happily employ you with the above average pay of $1.00/hr.
The US minimum wage isn't $25/hr. The US federal minimum wage is $7.25/hr. ($15,080/yr) That is based on what a fair living wage is, but still puts a family of 2 under the poverty line. With 25% of workers in the US (adjusted U-6 number) unemployed, it can easily be assumed an "average" family of 4 (2 working age adults, 2 children), would living under the poverty line ($23,050 w/ 4 family members).
Unions in the US came about because employees were working too many hours (70+ hrs/wk), and paid too little to thrive (under the poverty line). I'm not a fan of some of the methodologies that unions used, but they did help resolve problems in the past. They shouldn't even be needed any more, but they lobby to keep pay rates fair, so people can survive and thrive.
There are current proposals on the table to remove US minimum wage laws. Yup, then we could compete with the foreign manufacturing plants. We'd also be increasing our working poor population.
Now, if you don't mind, try to use facts, rather than regurgitating Fox News "reporting". It only makes you look like an idiot.
I've spent plenty of time complaining about Dell too, don't worry. :) This was an apple-centric thread, which is why I called them by name.
Many corps use Dell, so they have an emotional tie to the Dell equipment. It's something I really have never understood. They charge more than their competitors, and generally use commodity hardware. They get cases and motherboards built just far enough off of standard that they aren't interchangeable. They do a better job of marketing. They show amazing "starting at" prices, but once you configure one to be comparable, the price is far higher than competitive. Still, people tell me how great a "deal" they got from Dell, by paying double what the machine was worth. Hrm.
Apple takes the other approach. Screw advertising the cheapest prices. They go straight for the boutique audience. Why buy brand X at $50, when you can buy brand A for $400.
You know, I really wonder about that too. I picked up a cell phone there, not too long ago. It was the same price as anywhere else. I only got it there because it was closest. It took 3 employees about 2 hours to figure out how to activate it. In that 2 hours, no one else came in. There was plenty of traffic coming into other stores around it though.
How does a $100 purchase pay for 3 employees, and the overhead of the building?
I'd say it's rare, but in other locations around the country that I've been to, it's always been the same situation. Since most of the stores stopped carrying small electronic components, I really haven't been going there much. When they did have the small components, there were always people coming in. They may only want a pack of resistors, but they frequently buy something else, just because. That impulse buy is a powerful tool. They have nothing that makes a consumer *want* to go in. So it's a store full of impulse buys, and no reason for customers to ever see them.
The last trip there, I bought some shrink tube, solder, and on the impulse buy I got a new multimeter. When I got it home, it turned out that it took a weird little battery that I could only find via Radio Shack, and even then the battery was $30, and was exclusive to their online store. The multimeter was only $10, so I returned it. They tried to talk me into keeping it, and they would order the battery for me. {sigh}. Then they tried to upsell me to another one that took regular batteries. They could quite comprehend "no, I don't want it, because it doesn't work, and I won't spend $30 for the battery for a $10 multimeter."
I believe Apple is being targeted, because they just reported record profits. Profits, mind you, are largely because of the business practices at Foxconn. If they couldn't sell a $5 iPad for $500, their profits wouldn't have been so large.
I'd rather see the manufacturing jobs moved to where the consumers are. If the 40% of the users are in the us, 40% of the devices should be manufactured here. It makes sound economic sense. Instead, these companies prefer to manufacture in the absolutely cheapest places possible, disregarding what would be human rights violations here in the US. In the end, the blame is with the consumers. They are happily spending too much money on a name brand, when they know what business practices are in place.
I only mention Apple, because you did. Unfortunately for the consumer, right now it's near impossible to find quite a bit of merchandise that was manufactured in their own country.
The only argument that can be made for keeping these jobs offshore is, they can do it cheaper. There's no way you can find American workers who can afford to work for $20/mo. You'd be hard pressed to eat on $20/mo, much less have a place to live.
Companies should be looking at being economically responsible, rather than admiring their record earnings. There's no prize for doing so though. If you turn higher profits, your share holders make more money, and your stock prices climb. If you just break even, your company won't have an excellent growth forecast, and that doesn't play well on Wall Street.
Funny, she didn't charge me a thing.
Gotta love the spammers. They never stop trying.
Its best to go for the plausible deniability route. Don't open up the files in the first place. Don't even bother look at the contents. If you receive a drive, format it. If you receive such a drive, and you are concerned about the contents, DoD wipe it.
If there's an investigation on why a drive was released from a secure environment with privileged data on it, and they do trace it down to you, the truth will protect you.
"Did you buy a hard drive from X vendor?"
"Yes. It had partitions on it, so I wiped it, and started using it."
"Did you see any of the contents?"
"No. I wiped it first."
"Thank you."
The screw up in that chain isn't you for buying a used hard drive from a reputable vendor, with data on it. The screw up was allowing a hard drive with confidential data on it out of their control.
I'd be a bit miffed with the vendor. If you were sold a "refurbished" unit, that means that it was tested and returned to factory condition. It shouldn't have had *any* indication that it was previously used, except for possibly some marks on the case. They shouldn't be reselling returned items as refurbished, without refurbishing them.
Lets not forget the more entertaining versions. Thermite or a 12 gauge slug. It all depends on how friendly you are with your local fire department and law enforcement.
We have ours at the bar. Of course, we're a group who believe in the phrase "only losers quit, and only quitters lose."
Bartenders, pour us another round!
They're putting in wifi, so we can check Slashdot and Facebook while we drink and smoke. Put a couple cots in the back, and we'll never leave.
Gotta run, it's time for the 2pm shot contest.
That's what I'm wondering. I'm a Boost Mobile user. They were a subsidary of Nextel, but because the iDEN network was so horrible, Boost has been offering CDMA devices for several years now.
I've had several Boost Mobile CDMA devices now, including an Android that I'm using now. I wonder what that means for the future of Sprint and Boost Android users. If Google took it out of the Android code, does that just mean that the Sprint devs have to put it back in on their own? If so, we have nothing to worry about.
I don't really want to switch. I've been on the Boost pre-paid plan for a while, and with their "shrinkage" plan, my unlimited bill is only phone is only $40/mo right now.
I can't really complain about the service. It works everywhere I go. The only place that I'd have problems is traveling internationally, which I haven't done in a while since our economy has been so bad. In the past, when I traveled to Europe, I just bought a cheap prepaid phone locally, and enjoyed their free incoming calls.
Not to feed a troll, but...
1) You have too much time on your hands.
2) The posts you linked are irrelevant.
3) Complaining about moderation, poll options, isn't going to make you any friends.
4) Your usernames in the citations relate to being a troll or a karma whore.
5) Trying to score FP with copy and paste drivel isn't going to make you any friends.
You may think you're smart, funny, and devastatingly handsome. Since we haven't seen a picture of you, all I can say is that you're wrong on at least 2 counts. In that, you've probably managed to get some people to specifically mod *you* down.
Finally, you don't seem to really understand who the "moderators" are. It's all of us. As long as you can manage to write something intelligent occasionally, you'll get mod points. It's not a secret gang of moderating thugs out to ruin your life. I've seen my own posts go from -1 to 5 with a couple dozen moderations, usually based on the controversy of the topic.
I fully expect this post to be modded down, because it did not lend anything to the topic at hand. That's fine, because I will post my opinion in another comment, which isn't tainted by your stench.
Everyone's promised not to use the nuclear bombs that they have stockpiled all over the world. So we keep making bigger and bigger conventional bombs.
But... Why... A tactical strike with proper planning goes a lot farther, and doesn't require a freaking fortune to design, test, and implement. What happened to the good old days of special forces HALO jumping under the cover of darkness, and neutralizing the threat? Isn't it a lot easier to force your way through the door, rather than dropping a bomb on top of a fortified position?
I guess the concussion of a big bomb is more impressive than virtually silently destroying a target. I guess if the goal is collateral damage, they're asking for the right tool for the job.
Ya, I was fairly sure they shut down operations in 2008.
The place was a joke to start with. From what I understood, they had negotiated some terms with some nations, for some sort of recognition, but that was about it.
The Sealand site is still up, and flogging merchandise including your own royal title (which would probably get you executed in no less than a dozen other countries). The havenco site is gone. I'd have to assume most or all of their connectivity is gone. Wasn't it provided by microwave links, and not actual cables? I'd bet those could be brought up without too much trouble. They could also be taken down pretty easily from a court order or financial pressures.
When there was talk about the Pirate Bay move, I had posted that it would make more financial sense to put it on a freighter. They could easily run with microwave links, and sit in International waters.
The whole idea was iffy for HavenCo. Its insanity for WikiLeaks. They have set themselves up to be the enemy of many states, and therefore fair game for military action in international waters. Who do you call for help, when you've made an enemy of just about every nation on the planet.
"S.O.S. This is SS Wikileaks. We're under attack. Please assist. Pan-Pan, Pan-Pan, Pan-Pan. This is SS Wikileaks. We are under attack. Please assist."
"SS Wikileaks, this is HMS Bulwark. We have received your distress. The nearest ship is 7 days out. Stay at your current coordinates. Help will arrive."
SS Wikileaks was never heard from again.
Hmm. Starting up HavenCo again does seem to make more sense. A few errant shots during a spontaneous "training exercise" would deal with the problem quickly and decisively. That, and it wouldn't tend to drift around as much.
I'm not quite sure if your tinfoil hat is screwed on too tight, or if you just confessed to planning some sort of attack.
As far as an "unwired taser". Sure, it's theoretically possible to have a taser without wires. Have you ever tossed a charged capacitor to someone? If not, talk to a seasoned mechanic who worked on cars made before 1974, when distributors had a big capacitor in them. That was an old prank that was done frequently to new techs.
Now, launching unwired tasers from a UAV has substantial problems, like targeting. UAVs are small, and therefore unstable. Even launching a AC130 style bombardment into a crowd would stun a small portion of the group.
Weaponized UAVs do exist. The military has them. It's well known and documented. That is, documented by the military for public release, and reports are available in the news media. Just look for information on the General Atomics MQ-1 Predator and the AGM-114 Hellfire missiles. That's how the military weaponizes UAVs. They aren't interested in stunning a few people. When they want a threat eliminated, they eliminate it.
The abundance of crappy games is the only thing holding G+ back right now. Why would anyone even use it on a regular basis? There's no incentive for the general population.
Actually, I was just shopping for phones. There are plenty of Android phones on prepaid providers. The only proof of age that's really required for a prepaid is your ability to walk into a store with cash. Buy the phone for cash. Buy a reload card for cash. Done.
They're also useful for sending out to your secret network of spies. "Well, the phones and cards were purchased with cash by a 15 year old kid in Podunk, Alabama."
Just kidding. No self respecting spy would have a 15 year old kid buy a burn phone for them. It's too much of a liability. :)
I can't argue about the security theater, obviously.
On the subject of El Al, here's a bit more reading.
2002 El Al LAX shooting is terrorism
2002 Security guards on Israel's national airline El Al overpowered a man who tried to hijack a flight from Tel Aviv to Istanbul
2006 El Al bombing foiled by German authorities
2010 - Former head of El Al security says "... we have learned nothing from our past security breaches, including the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001." ... "We changed from FAA to TSA and guys with new uniforms. The only group being punished is the American traveler who must now endure longer lines."
Shit. Even El Al says the TSA is dumb.
But at least several contractors have made an awful lot of money in the process. Oh wait.. Our taxes are paying for that multi-billion dollar mistake. That was an estimated $6.9 billion estimate in 2010, and the number keeps climbing. But hey, it's the US budget. We can always burn up as much as we want, and raise the debt limit. I asked my bank, they said they wouldn't raise *my* debt limit, so I'm a bit confused how this whole thing works. Maybe I shouldn't have said I needed to raise it by $1.2 trillion.
Well, actually he didn't hit me. I was working in an office building, getting paid shit. I had to park 6 blocks away in a dirt lot. To get to my car, I had to walk across the two streets in the area that had lights in sequence, and had to watch carefully for people running red lights. That day, I was about 30 seconds shy of crossing the intersection. I heard the screech, saw the bus stop in the middle of the intersection on a green light. When I got closer, that's when I saw the car where it didn't belong, and got the story by listening to the passengers as I walked by.
You can't predict that because that accident happened that way, that all accidents would be the same. I've seen cars hit on various places. Check out any junk yard. You'll see damage on front fenders, rear quarter panels, and even directly on the doors. Actually, if you look around, and the yard is big enough, you'll see just about every kind of collision that can happen.
If the bus hadn't been hit, because it was a VW bug instead, would he have hit someone at the next non-sequential light? The next one non-sequential light typically had a lot more cross traffic. If we go beyond this, "what if", becomes a discussion of fate, which I simply don't believe in.
I guess they weren't selling as well as the lots of knives and other assorted stuff.
This is almost entertaining. They cite the risk, and why they're seizing everything. Then they complain about the litigious nature of many organizations, so they can't donate seized liquids. As you can see linked in my previous post, those liquids aren't passively harmful. If you opened up a glass bottle of "water", and took a drink to find that it's sulfuric acid, that's a huge risk. By tossing the bottle in a nearby trash can, as they do, If say a gallon glass bottle of sulfuric acid breaks when tossed into the trash, that'd be a pretty serious issue.
If they really believed liquids needed to be disposed of, because they created a hazard to aircraft, they'd also have hazmat dispose of all their liquids. I have yet to see a hazmat team show up. I've seen janitors though. Depending on the airport, they'll carry the same trash bags full of dangerous items through the secure area to throw them away.
I'd prefer, if the items were as dangerous as claimed, that a hazmat team, or bomb squad, transport them appropriately for demolition. But that would imply that there are really hazardous items being seized.
I agree totally.
I've gone through a good bit of performance driver training over the years. Being that I have, I've seen people who drive better than me. Unfortunately, after the classes, you see every idiot on the road. The ones on their cell phone, eating with one hand, and beating the kid in the back seat with the other.
All drivers should be required to have advanced training, They should be required to take additional driving courses every four years. I'd say every year, but I'm sure that wouldn't fly. The training shouldn't consist of "drive the speed limit", "stop at the stop sign" and "parallel park there". It should involve collision advoidance, spins and recovery, precision driving (how not to bounce over the curb on a right hand turn). At one, cones were placed 6" wider than our vehicles, and we were to navigate through them. Even nudging a cone was a fail.
As it is, at least in my state, once you get your license you're never required to prove your ability again. I had the "hardest" requirements in over 20 years, where I had to do the vision test, and take a multiple choice test on street signs. The correct answers were pathetically obvious.
The only real proof that anyone is competent to drive is that they don't wreck their cars too often. As long as you can get insurance, you can keep driving. Even after that, people do drive without licenses and suspended drivers licenses. Most of the time, they're only caught when they crash into someone.
Safer vehicles aren't the solution. Making sure only people who are competent to drive is. Accidents will still happen, but if drivers were better, they would be less likely. Of course, it would reduce the number of drivers on the road. Industries wouldn't like that, and people would scream, so it will never happen. You gotta love politics.
You are absolutely right. If there is no threat, there is no job. So they will make themselves worthwhile any way they can.
Consider the current "Terrorists want to blow up your plane with binary explosives!". You can't carry a soda on a plane, unless you purchased from a TSA approved vendor inside of the security perimeter. And dear god, a mother can't bring a bottle of breast milk.
Even lighters were banned for a while, but after enough complaints, they again allowed them.
Terrorists must be anyone who isn't an old rich white guy. If they talk funny, look different, or behave differently due to cultural differences, they must be terrorists. The evil enemy that all Americans must fear.
The terrorist behind every Bush fear subsided. Then we killed the leader of the terrorists we were told to fear.
They are trying to find the next threat. If there isn't a threat, there isn't a need for DHS, is there? Those new threats will keep coming. They may be foreign nationals with a misguided grudge. They may even be regular, but insane, Americans.
If they don't get enough real threats, they'll overstate some minor threat. They weren't clear what the real threat was. It could have been a local kid, who bounced through an off-shore server, who managed to log into a control box.
My question is, why the hell would they leave those controls accessible by the Internet in general? Why was it connected to the Internet at all? Assuming there was a good reason for it, why weren't they restricted to select IPs? Rather than freaking out and blaming "the terrorists", why don't we focus on the problems like "our infrastructure shouldn't be accessible by the whole Internet".
Hell, when I stick a server online with a previously unused IP, I get people trying to hit it in no time. If you want some entertainment, put an older unpatched distribution up with root logins enabled, and set the password to "password". I'd give it 10 minutes before it had new people running it.
Lets not forget who the new terrorists are. All those people who agree with, or fall into the category of 99%. Domestic terrorism is our greatest threat. They must be stopped. We're going to need bigger prisons and more guys with badges and guns.
Oh wait.. I forgot the right line. "I trust our government. Terrorists are behind every Bush. Protect me government. I'll give up any rights you ask me to."
shit.. 26mpg. :) The car is limited by the computer at 165mph, although I haven't had a chance to prove it yet. There are some groups that rent super speedways. That's the only way I'm willing to try. At 242 f/s, I don't feel all the comfortable on open highways.
I think these are the pictures you are looking for. They're well commented, and point out the obvious fact that the "smart" cars in the photos weren't smart cars. The first was probably a mid to full size car. I can't even begin to guess what the car was. Something gray, that had at least 1 wheel, and had 5 lugs on a wheels.
That is a horrible crash though. They didn't stand a chance, between two loaded rock trucks.
They do make a point. Bigger vehicles survive wrecks better. I bought a 40' city bus as an RV. In every crash photo I've seen involving vehicles of that type, the bus comes out unscathed, while the passenger vehicles don't do so well. I saw an accident in town a while back. All the traffic signals when you're going North bound change sequentially, so if you hold 40mph, you'll go through without needing to stop. I drove the road enough to know, there are a couple signals that don't always change in sequence with the others. It seems a driver of a small sedan didn't know about the signals that can change out of sequence. He slammed into the side of the bus, hitting it at the rear door. The only damage on the bus was that the door jammed. The passengers all walked off without injuries. The driver of the car was loaded up on a back board to be delivered to the hospital. Judging by the fact the front of his car was 3 feet shorter than it would have started at, I'd say he needed the hospital.
I don't work in that area any more, but I saw plenty of near misses, where people assumed the light would turn green, but it didn't.