All of which is true if you lose your driver's license and expect to pay with credit card.
right, so why add yet another item that has to be involved in the whole thing, instead of just using the existing items to provide the identity needed?
Cash is your friend.
you live in a cash-only society? lucky you. you must be either super-rich, or not bothered with the idea of carrying around tens of thousands of dollars with you to pay for luxury items.
oh, sorry, wait. only the poor classes will have Real ID problems. the super-rich, with all their cash reserves, won't have a problem not using it...
I have no ID because I've never learned to drive. I can't buy beer or get into clubs because I don't have ID. I can't get a bank account because I don't have ID. Since I don't drink and don't need a bank account, none of this is a problem, but I'm far from normal.
you don't really participate in society much, i think..
To be honest, I don't see a *huge* problem with mandatory ID cards.
You lose the card. You can't cash checks, withdraw money from your bank, shop at the grocery store, go out drinking with mates, buy plane tickets, get on a plane.
The point is: it is a limit being put on the actions of society. When you need an ID card in order to buy milk, your life will revolve around whether or not you have that ID card on you, or not.
It may seem strange to the modern citizen, but it is actually possible to live a safe, happy, comfortable life, without needing ID right now. If the ID act goes into place, and its mandatory: without that card, your life will be hell. Restricted. You will not be able to live 'within the so-called normal limits' of society.
Think of it as a mandatory genetic modificiation which, if not performed, precludes you from certain society. Like circumcision.
it seems to me that the real problem with the sl5500's battery life (well, with mine anyway) was that the battery it shipped with was inferior.
i got a new one from the local camera store, and i get close to 2 hours worth of use out of it. thats enough for me.. i don't mind carrying an extra battery if i need to watch something on a plane, it fits right alongside the CF-stack full of media..
.. i for one welcome our new "bug that ate the oceans" overlord, and would like to remind them that, as a useless bag of mostly water, i'd be quite happy to disappear into a large puff of gas, at a moments terrible andromeda-zone notice..
And I'd say all are better off if there are good and capable friends around to help.
Without full and total disclosure about the failures of a mental-screening system, whereby 'standards of mental health' are established, how can you know whether or not the system of health works?
the current 'field of mental health' simply has far too much to hide. the very nature of the right of privacy precludes the right to 'help someone be normal because they dont fit societies standards'. always.
the fact that ROC is pumping out millions of chipsets capable of being exploited is the point. its not a political statement; its a reflection on the state of the USB fob market.
system-on-chip USB firmware is a fresh target for virus writers. there are more USB fobs in the world than PC's..
boring, not insightful. i mean c'mon. its been a mantra for 20 years in compute-room environments, sure, that physical-access=no security.
but, in case you haven't been outside lately, PC's are freakin' everywhere man. are you ignoring the fact that not everyone lives in their moms' basement surrounded by beige?
lets see, in the last 24 hours, i've seen public-access PC's running Windows, with USB keyboards, in about 20 places.
of course, i live near a large number of rather large cities, not in mom's basement.. but still. this is a huge thing.
the question begs asking: what other OS's are susceptible to such attacks? suddenly, those bulk-basement discount USB fob's are not just cheap places to stack pr0n, but also a potential network host which must be firewalled.. especially if they've got "Made in the ROC" on them.
well done Windows, anyway. glad i haven't used microsoft products in earnest for at least 10 years, but i'm still going to try a few of my own attacks on some drivers/usb/*.c sooner or later..
you can't tell me this is a top-10 list without having the megacar.. you just can't. i remember the web in the 90's. megacar was the best thing going..
.. as I unpacked it for the first time from its happy foam box, plugged it into the telly, and proceeded to clik-clik away on its beautiful little chiclet keys. oh, how i love that oric-1, even still today.. trips back home to the family wouldn't be the same without a quick crank of the treasurebox in the attic, a "10 PING; ZAP; SHOOT; EXPLODE; GOTO 10" or two..
#2: Then, a few years later, the same smell (only much, much, much more intense) when I unpacked my first MIPS Magnum pizzabox, placed it on my desk, watched it boot, and prepared to port my code to it.. oh my, how the raw power of me, professional C programmer, felt that day.
Rather, the original goal of inventions like this as well as anti-depressants are to simply return the depressed to a normal state of mind in which they can cope with everyday life without the overwhelming imbalance.
Either you didn't understand the grandparent post, or you chose to ignore his point entirely.
What society considers a 'normal state of mind' will change drastically, as more and more people become mindless zombies hell-bent on their next subscription/capacitor discharge.
Proponents of devices like this want to change society according to their rules.
Sheesh. It costs them nothing to manufacture these goods, but boy are they sure going to profit from the sale and exchange of them.
Doesn't it strike anyone else odd that this popularization of video gaming is a definite kind of legalized, socially tolerated brainwashing? Is the fact that its a wide open public service overshadowing the reality that, in fact, people are being conned out of thousands of dollars for non-real objects which cost *nothing* to manufacture, and that they're simply doing it in order to participate in wild fantasies, escaping from the reality of the world?
Titor was right; the future is going to look at this era with grand disdain, a lazy unproductive self-centered culture. One can only hope, anyway...
Though I don't doubt that to a certain extent much of M$ staff is confused on the issue, the main goal is to create a distraction which seems to have worked.
It only works on people who do not use, or try to use, Linux. It only works on the Linux-un-educated..
The defeat for this attack: give such a person a LiveCD from Ubuntu, or MEPIS, or Gobo, etc.
The one thing that will defeat all Microsoft anti-Linux FUD: actual use of Linux by a Linux user.
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All of which is true if you lose your driver's license and expect to pay with credit card.
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.. and now i see why.
right, so why add yet another item that has to be involved in the whole thing, instead of just using the existing items to provide the identity needed?
Cash is your friend.
you live in a cash-only society? lucky you. you must be either super-rich, or not bothered with the idea of carrying around tens of thousands of dollars with you to pay for luxury items.
oh, sorry, wait. only the poor classes will have Real ID problems. the super-rich, with all their cash reserves, won't have a problem not using it
I have no ID because I've never learned to drive. I can't buy beer or get into clubs because I don't have ID. I can't get a bank account because I don't have ID. Since I don't drink and don't need a bank account, none of this is a problem, but I'm far from normal.
you don't really participate in society much, i think
You're a fucking moron.
To be honest, I don't see a *huge* problem with mandatory ID cards.
You lose the card. You can't cash checks, withdraw money from your bank, shop at the grocery store, go out drinking with mates, buy plane tickets, get on a plane.
The point is: it is a limit being put on the actions of society. When you need an ID card in order to buy milk, your life will revolve around whether or not you have that ID card on you, or not.
It may seem strange to the modern citizen, but it is actually possible to live a safe, happy, comfortable life, without needing ID right now. If the ID act goes into place, and its mandatory: without that card, your life will be hell. Restricted. You will not be able to live 'within the so-called normal limits' of society.
Think of it as a mandatory genetic modificiation which, if not performed, precludes you from certain society. Like circumcision.
Oops... never mind.
if it goes 'oops... never mind', i say kill it. if all we get to is 'oops...', then clearly it has killed us.
Okay, what about which one runs GIMP fastest, then?
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that's an equally interesting test
Want to attach something serial? Bend over for a zcable or don't type.
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i've got an IR keyboard from Taurus that works pretty well with my aging sl5500. in fact, i'd say its one of my favourite keyboards
i've had the sl5500 for a few years now too, and i have to say its a wonderful thing to have a webserver in my bookshelf
it seems to me that the real problem with the sl5500's battery life (well, with mine anyway) was that the battery it shipped with was inferior.
.. i don't mind carrying an extra battery if i need to watch something on a plane, it fits right alongside the CF-stack full of media ..
i got a new one from the local camera store, and i get close to 2 hours worth of use out of it. thats enough for me
.. i for one welcome our new "bug that ate the oceans" overlord, and would like to remind them that, as a useless bag of mostly water, i'd be quite happy to disappear into a large puff of gas, at a moments terrible andromeda-zone notice ..
Yet another way for Microsoft to generate revenue.
And I'd say all are better off if there are good and capable friends around to help.
Without full and total disclosure about the failures of a mental-screening system, whereby 'standards of mental health' are established, how can you know whether or not the system of health works?
the current 'field of mental health' simply has far too much to hide. the very nature of the right of privacy precludes the right to 'help someone be normal because they dont fit societies standards'. always.
otherwise, we get doctrine and dictators..
the fact that ROC is pumping out millions of chipsets capable of being exploited is the point. its not a political statement; its a reflection on the state of the USB fob market.
..
system-on-chip USB firmware is a fresh target for virus writers. there are more USB fobs in the world than PC's
boring, not insightful. i mean c'mon. its been a mantra for 20 years in compute-room environments, sure, that physical-access=no security.
but, in case you haven't been outside lately, PC's are freakin' everywhere man. are you ignoring the fact that not everyone lives in their moms' basement surrounded by beige?
lets see, in the last 24 hours, i've seen public-access PC's running Windows, with USB keyboards, in about 20 places.
of course, i live near a large number of rather large cities, not in mom's basement
the question begs asking: what other OS's are susceptible to such attacks? suddenly, those bulk-basement discount USB fob's are not just cheap places to stack pr0n, but also a potential network host which must be firewalled
well done Windows, anyway. glad i haven't used microsoft products in earnest for at least 10 years, but i'm still going to try a few of my own attacks on some drivers/usb/*.c sooner or later
who cares about clinton? is he currently in charge?
comparing Bush to Clinton is a pathetic argument; one is in power eroding peoples rights, and one isn't.
do something about the idiot in power *now*, not the idiot who used to be in power..
Now, over a decade later, the person that she could have been is irrevocably lost.
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Who decides who she could have been, you or her?
I think holding people up to false and unfair ideals without letting them just be who they want to be is the real mental disease
"AlterVista.com"
(and point it to linuxdevices.com, of course... tee hee!)
'genuine psychological disorder' == defined for you by your industrial masters.
'schizophrenia' just means "someone i don't like to talk to".
no "MEGACAR"?!!?
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you can't tell me this is a top-10 list without having the megacar.. you just can't. i remember the web in the 90's. megacar was the best thing going
Re: X-Files.
I am interested in your newsletter and would like to learn more.
When someone pays admission to a theme park, what *real* object are they getting?
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Access to real private property.
When someone pays to watch a movie, what *real* object are they getting?
Access to real private property.
Its the same concept behind why people buy books; they aren't looking to purchase a bunch of bound pages.
So I can buy and read a book without experiencing the physical nature of it?
I am interested in your kool-aid^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hnewsletter and would like to know more
http://www.freep.com/art/2000/mar/03/handgun.jpg
what part of the word 'peace' do you not understand?
.. as I unpacked it for the first time from its happy foam box, plugged it into the telly, and proceeded to clik-clik away on its beautiful little chiclet keys. oh, how i love that oric-1, even still today.. trips back home to the family wouldn't be the same without a quick crank of the treasurebox in the attic, a "10 PING; ZAP; SHOOT; EXPLODE; GOTO 10" or two ..
.. oh my, how the raw power of me, professional C programmer, felt that day.
..
#2: Then, a few years later, the same smell (only much, much, much more intense) when I unpacked my first MIPS Magnum pizzabox, placed it on my desk, watched it boot, and prepared to port my code to it
#3: Booting Yggdrasil-Linux on my ol' 386 about 2 years after the Magnum experience
#4: booting new hardware i had a small hand in developing for the first time.
Rather, the original goal of inventions like this as well as anti-depressants are to simply return the depressed to a normal state of mind in which they can cope with everyday life without the overwhelming imbalance.
Either you didn't understand the grandparent post, or you chose to ignore his point entirely.
What society considers a 'normal state of mind' will change drastically, as more and more people become mindless zombies hell-bent on their next subscription/capacitor discharge.
Proponents of devices like this want to change society according to their rules.
Repeat after me: There is no normal.
Well, Tom Cruise is not entirely incorrect (although he's certainly insensitive, and somewhat insane).
.. according to their ways, not yours.
Define 'insane'?
Congratulations. You've just formed the basis of a multi-trillion dollar business empire.
1. Define 'insanity'.
2. Sell drugs to make people conform to #1's definition.
3. [there is no "3. ???"]
4. Profit!!!!
Trust not the seller of drugs designed to change ones life, for they will indeed, for a profit, change your life
yo, wirehead, get me some coffee..
boink!
good slave. have a femto-second of pure pleasure.
Sheesh. It costs them nothing to manufacture these goods, but boy are they sure going to profit from the sale and exchange of them.
Doesn't it strike anyone else odd that this popularization of video gaming is a definite kind of legalized, socially tolerated brainwashing? Is the fact that its a wide open public service overshadowing the reality that, in fact, people are being conned out of thousands of dollars for non-real objects which cost *nothing* to manufacture, and that they're simply doing it in order to participate in wild fantasies, escaping from the reality of the world?
Titor was right; the future is going to look at this era with grand disdain, a lazy unproductive self-centered culture. One can only hope, anyway...
Though I don't doubt that to a certain extent much of M$ staff is confused on the issue, the main goal is to create a distraction which seems to have worked.
..
It only works on people who do not use, or try to use, Linux. It only works on the Linux-un-educated
The defeat for this attack: give such a person a LiveCD from Ubuntu, or MEPIS, or Gobo, etc.
The one thing that will defeat all Microsoft anti-Linux FUD: actual use of Linux by a Linux user.