Physical vulnerabilites (location, etc...) aren't the biggest worry.
Not too long ago, Wired ran an article about the apparent h4x0ring of phone lines in and around Las Vegas. It seems that a certain escort service (prostitution is legal there) would stop receiving phone calls, especially on busy nights. The employees would call their number from another line, but the phone wouldn't ring. When the authorities came to investigate, the phones miraculously started working again. So the mobsters are in it with the telco employees or the cops or the h4x0rz. Anybody with a copy of phrack or 2600 can probably hijack a switch. This has been known for years. Perhaps there is a large-scale secret phone net that dries up when the telcos or feds try to dial in?
Regardless, the telco infrastructure is hopelessly inadequate.
Now the RIAA isn't going to be able to determine whether I am breaking the law or not. This means I have to be responsible for my own actions as well as the contents of my hard drive. The horror!
Or it will--as soon as their trade ass'n (Direct Marketing Assocation?) convinces Congress that it may cut revenues. It is technological circumvention after all, and this is apparently the season for draconian income-protection legislation.
How long before they drop the ruse and just take our whole fuckin' paycheck? They can split it up among the federal government, the RIAA, the SPA, the MPAA, and--of course--the Big Five Media Companies.
Thanks for the compliment. I apologize for the "browner than" thing: I committed the sin of prejudice when I assumed you were white. You and I have very different opinions although they were probably very similar not too long ago.
I believe that our decision (with Britain) to establish the Israeli state and fulfill Hebrew prophecy was the first of many events which set the events of 9/11 in motion. Helping out one side in a conflict is unethical and creates new enemies. With the exception of Carter, the last several American presidents have been complicit in raising the level of anti-U.S. sentiment worldwide through the short-sighted whims of America's corporate leaders and election financiers.
I am no longer afraid of death, so how can my tune change? I do not live in the Ivory Tower that you have heard so much about on talk radio. I'm just letting go and allowing myself to be bathed in the Light of Love. Meditate and Realize.
Definitely most abundant. Net users at least have the opportunity to see multiple sides of every issue or event. It's a matter of diligence though--the lazy will be force fed a re-hash of the Big Five censored-and-ready-to-eat television "news"; but the curious and driven can become more enlightened as time goes on.
I am startled by not only the diversity of opinion--an endangered species in meatspace--but the growing animosity against the "other" side, much like what is going on in meatspace (try standing on a busy streetcorner with a sign that says "Make love, not war"). The willingness of Americans to waive their Civil Rights for a continued false feeling of security presents quite a danger to the diversity of the 'Net. Maybe the combination of general delusion and hostility will bring in the notion that minority points of view are terrorist expression and should be hastily punished in a most hostile fashion.
If this happens, the terrorists will rejoice in their victory.
Just trying to grok "mutually orthogonal". Is that redundant, or just over my head? Not trying to nitpick, but to understand something my networking prof never explained.
On their turf? That's called offense.
We need to defend ourselves against our desire to live beyond our means. We need to defend our ears against the cries of Billionaires. We need to defend our spiritual beliefs against nationalism.
As well, I am sure that it must be nice to view people unlike yourself as your enemies--it is much easier on the ol' conscience, at least. By the way, our largest corporations thank you for keeping Southeast Asia safe for American Capitalism. Those people don't matter anyway, being both commie and non-christian. They're browner than us, too.
I can kill with my bare hands or with a gun, but choose not to. I have no enemy. I will never, ever ask Bush for help. I will never ask another human to kill for me or to avenge my death.
There is no objective reality. However (and all of the World's religions state this, no matter how deeply it is buried...) all humans are a part of the Creator. Killing is wrong, even if it is done to teach someone the lesson that killing is wrong, or that killing people who kill people is wrong. Our (America's) desire to control the World and make servants of all has led us to kill over and over again. You can make all sorts of political/economic/objectivist arguments to rationalize your case, but you can't fool Krishna.
Our leaders (political and corporate) are making one final, desparate push towards the establishment of an authoritarian one-world government. I'm sure they appreciate your support.
Here is the point-by-point rebuttal you have requested:
Kuwait was a soverign nation: So was Panama, but that didn't stop Bush (the spook, not the draft-dodging cokehead) from kidnapping its President (violation of International Law?).
he would now be controlling Kuwait, and the entire Arabian Peninsula: Yes. If our President and corporate leaders were brave enough to ween us from the Arabian Oil Teat, Hussein would now be sitting among the largest deposits of oil and sand and realizing the hollowness of his victory. That story would make a good Greek tragedy or biblical parable.
mad man with the worlds 4th most powerful army: we found that our intelligence people vastly overestimated the size of Iraq's army, just as Reagan's intelligence people overestimated the size of the USSR's army. It wasn't news enough for the "liberal" CNN to cover; I had to find that out from our allies' papers & the back pages of our own. During the Gulf War, even our troops were amazed at the shoddiness of Hussein's conscripted army, but not amazed enough to keep from burying them alive.
But I guarantee you hipocrite that you drive to work in your car every day: sorry, I ride my bike and try to convince others to do the same. I would be happiest if none of my possessions were made/transported with oil, but in the meantime I think our country could satisfy its energy needs without simultaneously destroying and demonizing another culture.
I bet your not even an American, critizing us: nice try, but wrong again. I love my country enough to try to convince other Americans to save us (and the rest of the world) from the almost instinctual greed we have learned in the age of Materialism.
Son, I think your level of reasoning skill lies somewhere between your grammar skills and your spelling skills. Please troll on another forum.
When Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, we responded not by becoming independent from fossil fuels but by establishing a permanent military presence in Islamic holy lands. Even then we were warned by ibn Laden of the consequences of our actions. Even now he is saying that America will not be safe until we leave their holy lands. He has factually and impassionately stated both the problem and the only acceptable solution. He hasn't even the slightest fantasy of taking over America. He just wants us to leave them alone. Sounds simple to me. However, both Papa Bear Bush and Little Bear Bush are oilmen whose pockets are lined by the richest corporations. How many more Americans will these two gentlemen (a term I use loosely) sacrifice with their greed-driven ideologies?
I am disappointed in Little Bear Bush for lying to us once again. During his speech (9/11 or 9/12), he stated that we will use every tool at our disposal, including diplomacy. Time and again, the leaders of the Taleban have stated their desire to speak with us, which fits the dictionary definition of diplomacy. Time and again, Bush and company have rejected the Taleban's proposals. Bush's idea of diplomacy is apparently as screwy as his handle on compassion.
On a side note, we may be witnessing the beginning of an Anthrax outbreak. This is poetic, considering that most Americans are "following the flock" with meaningless flag-waving and spouting of rhetoric.
The local Mom & Pop (Ward's) has attracted many people who are disillusioned with corporate chain stores. The store has shown its gratitude by offering a wide variety of health foods and natural products. I buy my food in bulk there; at least the distributors aren't owned by tobacco companies. The Mom & Pops have such an intimate relationship with their customers that they don't need to resort to these cards. Shopping cards are a way of asking "Of the products our accountants want us to stop selling, which can you not live without?".
Fascism sucks, too--whether in 1940's Europe or 2000's America. People should subvert this crap by registering shopping cards with Dubya's name and address and only buying spoons, baking soda, nasal spray, and straws.
I believe it's called a Deloris. Whenever I plug my tongue into my box (my girl's box, rather), the local sheriff shows up to tell me I have performed an Illegal Operation. Oral sex is considered sodomy here--a felony--which is proof that we still live in the Dark Ages.
I agree. But is our chosen modality of business--centralized--the reason why this technology can't work, or does this proposal point out another flaw in the centralized office scheme? It sounds like another tick in the "Pros" column for the Pros/Cons debate over telecommuting & home offices to me.
Yes. That is what is happening in the brain, right? Read up on some Cog. Psych. & Human Factors lit and you will see documentation of both (1) increased reaction time and (2) increased probability of erroneous commands in translating a thought into a series of manual commands.
Many people (you & I included) are very adept with a mouse. A little NLP will go a long way. I anticipate a steep learning curve, though. Yea innovation!
Natural Language Processing has my vote. Some of these folks are working on it already. Wouldn't it be nice to say "move this thing over here", or some other combination of speech and gesturing, rather than all these inane menus and clicks? Someone still needs to develop the pipe infrastructure, tho. Just *don't* make it so narrow as to become worthless.
It's always so easy to identify people who have never taken LSD--they're the ones who speak of "bad trips" and "flashbacks" and all that COINTELPRO fiction. Maybe you can leave the world of the naïve and join the world of John F. Kennedy, Cary Grant, Carl Sagan, Huston Smith, and other examples of highly effective people who have tripped on LSD.
it could have supplied 15 million doses of the drug, or about a third of the world's supply
You must have gotten these statistics from the Dealers of Ecstacy Agency, who must be the ones selling all the drugs, since they seem to know so much about the quantities, prices, etc. Have you noticed that their shingle reads "Drug Enforcement Administration" rather than "Drug Law Enforcement Administration"? It appears they are forcing everyone to take drugs, since per capita consumption of illegal drugs has increased even though over 1,000,000 people are currently jailed on drug charges and over $17,000,000,000 has been stolen from drug users/sellers to finance the police state.
If all the bad things they said about illegal drugs were true, the ground would be piled about three feet deep with all the bodies of people who jump from buildings in anticipation of flying, and 50% of men would have to wear B- or C-cup bras to hold their enlarged breasts. Alas, the voices of science and reason have been drowned by the baseless rhetoric of politicians. Thank you, Mister Gunnery Sergeant, for serving as such a fine example of the effectiveness of semantic programming.
a hydrogen-powered airplane would not have produced the fire and intense heat that brought down the World Trade Center towers...
Reminds me of the adage "If frogs had wings, their asses wouldn't smack the ground when they land". There is a 0.00000000000000000% chance that future terrorist attacks will share any implementation details with the WTC attacks. This is just yet another example of someone trying to capitalize on the general populace's temporarily inability to think rationally. He may as well take out a full page newspaper ad, complete with a statement condemning "the cowardly attacks" by those "hiding in the shadows" augmented by a picture of his product's packing, or offer up a national I.D. card so that American Citizens can be more heavily identified.
I think the problem--and the solution--lies in our foreign policy. Will the Pashtuns, about to recieve aid from the West, be the next ones to bite us in the ass?
Linux developers drew on 25 years of UNIX evolution and experience
So true, so true. My experience with kernel-level *n?x programming (no MS kernel experience, call me biased...) has instilled great respect for their reliance on developing from a clean, tight model. Because an entity can only be a file or a process, access control is intrinsic, never an afterthought.
A good analogy is the difference between the DoD TCP/IP and OSI networking layer models. The TCP/IP model was developed to accomodate an application; OSI applications are developed to fit the model. Like POSIX, the OSI model ensures clean separation between layers in applications. POSIX, etc. dictates a true multiuser multimachine system, whereas Windows (pre-2K) is a kludge built to extend DOS--a single user, single machine O/S that was actually good for its time (early 1980's).
A valid point against the strictly layered models is the potential performance penalty from inter-layer communication. I think it's a small price to pay in this age, where the potential cost of vulnerabilities is exorbitant.
<soccer mom voice>
You don't have a fever, Timmy. You're just a little thermo-electrically abundant right now.
</soccer mom voice>
But seriously, will Tylenol® makers Johnson & Johnson now be at odds with the energy companies? I wonder how long before Informed Experts appear on TV commercials to let us know that a fever is a good thing, or the D.E.A. shows up at raves to pass out free thermoelectric generators with handfuls of PMA...
Between this technology and LED lighting, cultivators of certain brain-change vegetables will have a much easier time staying out of jail. Let's see: low power, low heat waste, a renewable energy source...now all the world needs is for someone to invent robotic scissors for manicuring the finished product. Cheech and Chong meets Mr. Science!
How do you expect these "owners of corporations" to pay their employees, invest in new technology, put money away for the proverbial "rainy day," etc. if they don't make a profit?
You are speaking of Expenses, which are deducted from Revenues to arrive at another figure called Profit, and Capital Expenditures, which are amortized as Expenses over arbitrarily chosen periods of time. My friend, it is time for you to enroll at your local institution of higher learning.
My earlier rant was based upon years of direct experience, observation, and the realities of capitalist dogma. The majority owners of nearly all U.S. corporations make up the richest 5% of the population. The minority owners are middle-class folk like you and I who have 401Ks and mutual funds. Each year, the majority owners place an order for the profit they would like to receive in the next year. Management seeks that level of profit, as Malcolm X would say, "by any means necessary".
The labor front: slash as many jobs as possible, because the government will pick up the tab for 26 weeks.
The legislative front: give plenty of bribes^H^H^H^H^H^H political donations, so that your trade association can bring your plight to Congress, ensuring safety from those dreaded hackers.
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Physical vulnerabilites (location, etc...) aren't the biggest worry.
Not too long ago, Wired ran an article about the apparent h4x0ring of phone lines in and around Las Vegas. It seems that a certain escort service (prostitution is legal there) would stop receiving phone calls, especially on busy nights. The employees would call their number from another line, but the phone wouldn't ring. When the authorities came to investigate, the phones miraculously started working again. So the mobsters are in it with the telco employees or the cops or the h4x0rz. Anybody with a copy of phrack or 2600 can probably hijack a switch. This has been known for years. Perhaps there is a large-scale secret phone net that dries up when the telcos or feds try to dial in?
Regardless, the telco infrastructure is hopelessly inadequate.
Now the RIAA isn't going to be able to determine whether I am breaking the law or not. This means I have to be responsible for my own actions as well as the contents of my hard drive. The horror!
Or it will--as soon as their trade ass'n (Direct Marketing Assocation?) convinces Congress that it may cut revenues. It is technological circumvention after all, and this is apparently the season for draconian income-protection legislation.
How long before they drop the ruse and just take our whole fuckin' paycheck? They can split it up among the federal government, the RIAA, the SPA, the MPAA, and--of course--the Big Five Media Companies.
Thanks for the compliment. I apologize for the "browner than" thing: I committed the sin of prejudice when I assumed you were white. You and I have very different opinions although they were probably very similar not too long ago.
I believe that our decision (with Britain) to establish the Israeli state and fulfill Hebrew prophecy was the first of many events which set the events of 9/11 in motion. Helping out one side in a conflict is unethical and creates new enemies. With the exception of Carter, the last several American presidents have been complicit in raising the level of anti-U.S. sentiment worldwide through the short-sighted whims of America's corporate leaders and election financiers.
I am no longer afraid of death, so how can my tune change? I do not live in the Ivory Tower that you have heard so much about on talk radio. I'm just letting go and allowing myself to be bathed in the Light of Love. Meditate and Realize.
Definitely most abundant. Net users at least have the opportunity to see multiple sides of every issue or event. It's a matter of diligence though--the lazy will be force fed a re-hash of the Big Five censored-and-ready-to-eat television "news"; but the curious and driven can become more enlightened as time goes on.
I am startled by not only the diversity of opinion--an endangered species in meatspace--but the growing animosity against the "other" side, much like what is going on in meatspace (try standing on a busy streetcorner with a sign that says "Make love, not war"). The willingness of Americans to waive their Civil Rights for a continued false feeling of security presents quite a danger to the diversity of the 'Net. Maybe the combination of general delusion and hostility will bring in the notion that minority points of view are terrorist expression and should be hastily punished in a most hostile fashion.
If this happens, the terrorists will rejoice in their victory.
Imagine if HTML was patented way back in the 1.0 days. By now the owners of the patent would have:
Instead they gave freely and changed the world. ;)
Just trying to grok "mutually orthogonal". Is that redundant, or just over my head? Not trying to nitpick, but to understand something my networking prof never explained.
Death is the ultimate trickster, too. Execute a murderer and you become...a murderer.
On their turf? That's called offense. We need to defend ourselves against our desire to live beyond our means. We need to defend our ears against the cries of Billionaires. We need to defend our spiritual beliefs against nationalism.
As well, I am sure that it must be nice to view people unlike yourself as your enemies--it is much easier on the ol' conscience, at least. By the way, our largest corporations thank you for keeping Southeast Asia safe for American Capitalism. Those people don't matter anyway, being both commie and non-christian. They're browner than us, too.
I can kill with my bare hands or with a gun, but choose not to. I have no enemy. I will never, ever ask Bush for help. I will never ask another human to kill for me or to avenge my death.
There is no objective reality. However (and all of the World's religions state this, no matter how deeply it is buried...) all humans are a part of the Creator. Killing is wrong, even if it is done to teach someone the lesson that killing is wrong, or that killing people who kill people is wrong. Our (America's) desire to control the World and make servants of all has led us to kill over and over again. You can make all sorts of political/economic/objectivist arguments to rationalize your case, but you can't fool Krishna.
Our leaders (political and corporate) are making one final, desparate push towards the establishment of an authoritarian one-world government. I'm sure they appreciate your support.
Here is the point-by-point rebuttal you have requested:
Son, I think your level of reasoning skill lies somewhere between your grammar skills and your spelling skills. Please troll on another forum.
When Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, we responded not by becoming independent from fossil fuels but by establishing a permanent military presence in Islamic holy lands. Even then we were warned by ibn Laden of the consequences of our actions. Even now he is saying that America will not be safe until we leave their holy lands. He has factually and impassionately stated both the problem and the only acceptable solution. He hasn't even the slightest fantasy of taking over America. He just wants us to leave them alone. Sounds simple to me. However, both Papa Bear Bush and Little Bear Bush are oilmen whose pockets are lined by the richest corporations. How many more Americans will these two gentlemen (a term I use loosely) sacrifice with their greed-driven ideologies?
I am disappointed in Little Bear Bush for lying to us once again. During his speech (9/11 or 9/12), he stated that we will use every tool at our disposal, including diplomacy. Time and again, the leaders of the Taleban have stated their desire to speak with us, which fits the dictionary definition of diplomacy. Time and again, Bush and company have rejected the Taleban's proposals. Bush's idea of diplomacy is apparently as screwy as his handle on compassion.
On a side note, we may be witnessing the beginning of an Anthrax outbreak. This is poetic, considering that most Americans are "following the flock" with meaningless flag-waving and spouting of rhetoric.
The local Mom & Pop (Ward's) has attracted many people who are disillusioned with corporate chain stores. The store has shown its gratitude by offering a wide variety of health foods and natural products. I buy my food in bulk there; at least the distributors aren't owned by tobacco companies. The Mom & Pops have such an intimate relationship with their customers that they don't need to resort to these cards. Shopping cards are a way of asking "Of the products our accountants want us to stop selling, which can you not live without?".
Fascism sucks, too--whether in 1940's Europe or 2000's America. People should subvert this crap by registering shopping cards with Dubya's name and address and only buying spoons, baking soda, nasal spray, and straws.
I believe it's called a Deloris. Whenever I plug my tongue into my box (my girl's box, rather), the local sheriff shows up to tell me I have performed an Illegal Operation. Oral sex is considered sodomy here--a felony--which is proof that we still live in the Dark Ages.
I agree. But is our chosen modality of business--centralized--the reason why this technology can't work, or does this proposal point out another flaw in the centralized office scheme? It sounds like another tick in the "Pros" column for the Pros/Cons debate over telecommuting & home offices to me.
Yes. That is what is happening in the brain, right? Read up on some Cog. Psych. & Human Factors lit and you will see documentation of both (1) increased reaction time and (2) increased probability of erroneous commands in translating a thought into a series of manual commands.
Many people (you & I included) are very adept with a mouse. A little NLP will go a long way. I anticipate a steep learning curve, though. Yea innovation!
Natural Language Processing has my vote. Some of these folks are working on it already. Wouldn't it be nice to say "move this thing over here", or some other combination of speech and gesturing, rather than all these inane menus and clicks? Someone still needs to develop the pipe infrastructure, tho. Just *don't* make it so narrow as to become worthless.
It's always so easy to identify people who have never taken LSD--they're the ones who speak of "bad trips" and "flashbacks" and all that COINTELPRO fiction. Maybe you can leave the world of the naïve and join the world of John F. Kennedy, Cary Grant, Carl Sagan, Huston Smith, and other examples of highly effective people who have tripped on LSD.
You must have gotten these statistics from the Dealers of Ecstacy Agency, who must be the ones selling all the drugs, since they seem to know so much about the quantities, prices, etc. Have you noticed that their shingle reads "Drug Enforcement Administration" rather than "Drug Law Enforcement Administration"? It appears they are forcing everyone to take drugs, since per capita consumption of illegal drugs has increased even though over 1,000,000 people are currently jailed on drug charges and over $17,000,000,000 has been stolen from drug users/sellers to finance the police state.
If all the bad things they said about illegal drugs were true, the ground would be piled about three feet deep with all the bodies of people who jump from buildings in anticipation of flying, and 50% of men would have to wear B- or C-cup bras to hold their enlarged breasts. Alas, the voices of science and reason have been drowned by the baseless rhetoric of politicians. Thank you, Mister Gunnery Sergeant, for serving as such a fine example of the effectiveness of semantic programming.
This silo is screaming for an entrepreneur. Now if I can only get in the Corporate Welfare line for some of that $70 Billion action...
Reminds me of the adage "If frogs had wings, their asses wouldn't smack the ground when they land". There is a 0.00000000000000000% chance that future terrorist attacks will share any implementation details with the WTC attacks. This is just yet another example of someone trying to capitalize on the general populace's temporarily inability to think rationally. He may as well take out a full page newspaper ad, complete with a statement condemning "the cowardly attacks" by those "hiding in the shadows" augmented by a picture of his product's packing, or offer up a national I.D. card so that American Citizens can be more heavily identified.
I think the problem--and the solution--lies in our foreign policy. Will the Pashtuns, about to recieve aid from the West, be the next ones to bite us in the ass?
So true, so true. My experience with kernel-level *n?x programming (no MS kernel experience, call me biased...) has instilled great respect for their reliance on developing from a clean, tight model. Because an entity can only be a file or a process, access control is intrinsic, never an afterthought.
A good analogy is the difference between the DoD TCP/IP and OSI networking layer models. The TCP/IP model was developed to accomodate an application; OSI applications are developed to fit the model. Like POSIX, the OSI model ensures clean separation between layers in applications. POSIX, etc. dictates a true multiuser multimachine system, whereas Windows (pre-2K) is a kludge built to extend DOS--a single user, single machine O/S that was actually good for its time (early 1980's).
A valid point against the strictly layered models is the potential performance penalty from inter-layer communication. I think it's a small price to pay in this age, where the potential cost of vulnerabilities is exorbitant.
<soccer mom voice> You don't have a fever, Timmy. You're just a little thermo-electrically abundant right now. </soccer mom voice>
But seriously, will Tylenol® makers Johnson & Johnson now be at odds with the energy companies? I wonder how long before Informed Experts appear on TV commercials to let us know that a fever is a good thing, or the D.E.A. shows up at raves to pass out free thermoelectric generators with handfuls of PMA...
Between this technology and LED lighting, cultivators of certain brain-change vegetables will have a much easier time staying out of jail. Let's see: low power, low heat waste, a renewable energy source...now all the world needs is for someone to invent robotic scissors for manicuring the finished product. Cheech and Chong meets Mr. Science!
You are speaking of Expenses, which are deducted from Revenues to arrive at another figure called Profit, and Capital Expenditures, which are amortized as Expenses over arbitrarily chosen periods of time. My friend, it is time for you to enroll at your local institution of higher learning.
My earlier rant was based upon years of direct experience, observation, and the realities of capitalist dogma. The majority owners of nearly all U.S. corporations make up the richest 5% of the population. The minority owners are middle-class folk like you and I who have 401Ks and mutual funds. Each year, the majority owners place an order for the profit they would like to receive in the next year. Management seeks that level of profit, as Malcolm X would say, "by any means necessary".
They operate on many fronts: