As someone pointed out, this isn't about a colonial-british "stand toe to toe and shoot each other" style battle between the military and armed civilians.
This is about guerilla warfare, and the massive impact a single armed citizen could have by SELECTIVELY popping SPECIFIC people with bullets.
Vietnam taught this to us. Afghanistan and Iraq are giving us the refresher.
Also, the fact that the person shooting at them could be a friend or family member is going to make the police and military DISTINCTLY uncomfortable, inhibiting their efficacy.
A door does not announce: Hi! Here I am! (SSID broadcast) I'm unlocked! (No WEP/WPA or MAC limitation) Please come in! (Assigns an IP address) Here! Help yourself! (Assigns a gateway and routes packets.)
I have a special model that goes to 11.001315 for the ultimate in hyper-level acoustic excess. I can precisely beat myself into jelly with this model and a couple of 5-story high speaker stacks.
snake oil waste of money ripoff unconscionable stupid throwing your money away pure garbage cheat immoral denon harry potter fraud auto-erotic asphixiation internet itsjustadamnethernetcable not good overpriced pt barnum pure lunacy shameful slashdot snakeoil utter stupidity of monumental scale
And the reviews are just hilarious.
Needless to say, anyone stupid enough to buy one of these needs to be shot on general principles, not to mention preventing such stupidity from being disseminated into the gene pool.
If they want the benefits of open source, they play by the rules. If they don't want to play by the rules, they can fuck the hell off and develop the shit themselves and pay for it.
Sorry, they could have been running a fully locked down setup that even the legitimate END USER has trouble getting into, and it wouldn't make any difference.
If they were able to get the laptop long enough to copy the system, you're screwed either way.
As an Eagle Scout (and current heterosexual lapsed Catholic) I feel sorry for the Scouting Organization. They're deeply in bed with their major supporter, the Mormon Church. And they've been told, in no uncertain words, that if they even unofficially allows gays or atheists/agnostics, they cut off all their funding. And we're talking about more than a couple million bucks here.
Yes, they could say "go to hell". But then when the funding dries up, and they have to close 3/4 of all their facilities, exactly how large of an impact (positive or otherwise) can they have on the boys they deal with?
It's nice to hear so many people who think they should cut off their nose to spite their face. And, on a certain level, I DO agree with this sentiment. I simply thing they do more good the way they are than if they hobbled themselves.
Scouting is about developing as a PERSON. Not a Christian, not gay or straight, a person. Sexuality has exactly (excuse the pun) DICK to do with the equation. And even religion, other than pointing out that a person should be moral and upright as they can manage, is only a very VERY small factor (or at least was for me).
Personally, I would have no qualms about having a fellow Scout who didn't believe (or wasn't sure of) the existence of God. As long as they act within the spirit (if you're pardon the expression) of Scouting, they could be a freaking Scientologist for all I care. What they subscribe to (or fail to subscribe to) within their religious life has little to do with me.
Also, other than a mild discomfort that's due to social conditioning and that I haven't totally shaken off, I really have no legitimate bitches about having fellow Scouts who may be non-heterosexual. Sadly, when I was younger and slightly more immature, I probably would have been less "understanding". Again, social programming and the fact that I was in my early to mid teens and not really an expert on my own sexuality yet, so I probably wouldn't have been the best person to come to for a frank discussion on one's choice of sexual identity.
Okay...now where was I...damn moral rants...
Anyhoo, I think that if something like what they want exists, great. Use it, have fun. If anyone wants to develop stuff for them, great. Use it, have fun.
If they simply want cost-free software and development time to suit their own needs, no. Sorry. Do not pass Go. Do not collect 200 merit badges.
If anyone has personal issues with their social policy, don't develop for them. If they use a project you've contributed time/code/money to? Suck it up and drive on or contribute to a new project.
Slashdot Mirror
We've flattened their fingers
We branded their buns
Nothing is working
Send in the nuns!
"This isn't social engineering,"
"Talk slick and carry fake documents, and you can make your way into the heart of most businesses."
Pretty much the definition of social engineering.
As someone pointed out, this isn't about a colonial-british "stand toe to toe and shoot each other" style battle between the military and armed civilians.
This is about guerilla warfare, and the massive impact a single armed citizen could have by SELECTIVELY popping SPECIFIC people with bullets.
Vietnam taught this to us. Afghanistan and Iraq are giving us the refresher.
Also, the fact that the person shooting at them could be a friend or family member is going to make the police and military DISTINCTLY uncomfortable, inhibiting their efficacy.
"I for one could hardly live without freedom of speech, but I have no problem to live without a gun."
False choice.
Nobody is saying you have to live without either. In fact, the second could aid in protecting the first.
Bears already have arms. They're attached to their claws.
And Spielberg took over the project....
No, it's not. You're a victim of misreading and over-editing.
You missed the key sentence.
At their extreme , these traits would be highly detrimental for life in traditional human societies.
They're saying that while a little of these traits can get you laid, excessive levels of them wind up getting you ostracized from society.
A door does not announce:
Hi! Here I am! (SSID broadcast)
I'm unlocked! (No WEP/WPA or MAC limitation)
Please come in! (Assigns an IP address)
Here! Help yourself! (Assigns a gateway and routes packets.)
So you're comparing apples and cheese graters.
GNU more Mr. Nice Guy...
*Pulls on asbestos undies*
I have a special model that goes to 11.001315 for the ultimate in hyper-level acoustic excess. I can precisely beat myself into jelly with this model and a couple of 5-story high speaker stacks.
Wow. $3-4 for UTP, and $5-7 for the same length of STP.
$510 for the cable.
And here's all the tags associated with it:
snake oil
waste of money
ripoff
unconscionable
stupid
throwing your money away
pure garbage
cheat
immoral
denon
harry potter
fraud
auto-erotic asphixiation
internet
itsjustadamnethernetcable
not good
overpriced
pt barnum
pure lunacy
shameful
slashdot
snakeoil
utter stupidity of monumental scale
And the reviews are just hilarious.
Needless to say, anyone stupid enough to buy one of these needs to be shot on general principles, not to mention preventing such stupidity from being disseminated into the gene pool.
This season a car
It breaks the laws of physics
Investor fraud aye
Aw come on! I don't want to explode into a communal goo again!
Been there, done that, sent postcards (only look if you have a strong stomach).
A father was imparting his wisdom to his son.
"Son, there are two rules in life. Number one. Trust nobody. Number two. Trust only me."
"Yes papa!"
"Are you ready to follow these two rules?"
"Yes papa!"
"Do you trust me?"
"Yes papa!"
And with that, the father picked up his son and dropped him on his head.
When the child had finished sobbing hysterically, he asked his father why he'd done that.
"You forgot Rule Number One."
Hey, I never said it was RIGHT.
I just said that it is, currently, legal.
Personally, I'd pay to see these fuckers burning in hell right now myself.
"How are these underhanded lying scumbag tactics even legal?"
Because forum shopping isn't illegal.
And there is no double jeopardy rules in civil cases. They're allowed to bring the case to court as many times as they can find venues.
HOWEVER, because of the preceeding cases, every venue they pop up in should get their case shot down again, and again, and again.
Think "whack-a-mole".
But things like neglecting to attach case history is stuff that can get these fuckers censured and possibly disbarred.
Here's hoping!
Two words for that:
Eat shit
Two more words for that:
and die
If they want the benefits of open source, they play by the rules. If they don't want to play by the rules, they can fuck the hell off and develop the shit themselves and pay for it.
Welcome our "we're too primitive to hack" hacker overlords.
Oh yes. One more thing.
*COUGH*BULLSHIT*COUGH*BULLSHIT*COUGH*
Now where were we?
Sorry, but EBay is just as shady as PayPal is.
I refuse to EVER give any more money to PayPal or EBay again.
Sorry, they could have been running a fully locked down setup that even the legitimate END USER has trouble getting into, and it wouldn't make any difference.
If they were able to get the laptop long enough to copy the system, you're screwed either way.
No. It's a problem with Windows Internet Explorer that's exacerbated by a problem with Windows Safari.
Safari should NOT be auto-dumping files onto the Windows desktop. PERIOD.
There's enough blame to go around everywhere.
As an Eagle Scout (and current heterosexual lapsed Catholic) I feel sorry for the Scouting Organization. They're deeply in bed with their major supporter, the Mormon Church. And they've been told, in no uncertain words, that if they even unofficially allows gays or atheists/agnostics, they cut off all their funding. And we're talking about more than a couple million bucks here.
Yes, they could say "go to hell". But then when the funding dries up, and they have to close 3/4 of all their facilities, exactly how large of an impact (positive or otherwise) can they have on the boys they deal with?
It's nice to hear so many people who think they should cut off their nose to spite their face. And, on a certain level, I DO agree with this sentiment. I simply thing they do more good the way they are than if they hobbled themselves.
Scouting is about developing as a PERSON. Not a Christian, not gay or straight, a person. Sexuality has exactly (excuse the pun) DICK to do with the equation. And even religion, other than pointing out that a person should be moral and upright as they can manage, is only a very VERY small factor (or at least was for me).
Personally, I would have no qualms about having a fellow Scout who didn't believe (or wasn't sure of) the existence of God. As long as they act within the spirit (if you're pardon the expression) of Scouting, they could be a freaking Scientologist for all I care. What they subscribe to (or fail to subscribe to) within their religious life has little to do with me.
Also, other than a mild discomfort that's due to social conditioning and that I haven't totally shaken off, I really have no legitimate bitches about having fellow Scouts who may be non-heterosexual. Sadly, when I was younger and slightly more immature, I probably would have been less "understanding". Again, social programming and the fact that I was in my early to mid teens and not really an expert on my own sexuality yet, so I probably wouldn't have been the best person to come to for a frank discussion on one's choice of sexual identity.
Okay...now where was I...damn moral rants...
Anyhoo, I think that if something like what they want exists, great. Use it, have fun.
If anyone wants to develop stuff for them, great. Use it, have fun.
If they simply want cost-free software and development time to suit their own needs, no. Sorry. Do not pass Go. Do not collect 200 merit badges.
If anyone has personal issues with their social policy, don't develop for them. If they use a project you've contributed time/code/money to? Suck it up and drive on or contribute to a new project.
THIS! IS! FREE SOFTWARE!
Or treatable to be fire-resistant?
I can see a lot of uses for it even if it isn't. But I can see some fairly awe-inspiring ones if it's possible.
What took you so long to come back. You KNEW you'd be back right? WE did!
Now bend over and think happy thoughts!