Virus-vulnerable monoculture network!". "It's really quite simple you see, there is no other way to guarantee that the virus of the week, coded by some filipino script kiddy, can shutdown every single computer on our network" says J.D. Umbass, superintendent of Jefferson County School System, Pennsylvania. "Besides, if kids every growing up having an alternative perspective on computer technology, they may accidentally understand it." "And it can't be overstated, just how much we save yearly, by being able to hire idiots that only know how to say 'Reboot the computer and see if that fixes your problem'", J.D. Umbass.
"Most important to remember though, is that we don't really teach the children anything other than how to be the secretary or register monkeys of tomorrow, earning minimum wage, and never quite enough to own the likes of the beautiful machines in our computer lab. So what does it matter, if they only get to experience the most ill-designed OS ever concieved, that's what Microsoft is extorting every PC and POS manufacturer into using." said J.D. Umbass.
Yes, but I'd do it with a $5 DCT I picked up at a thrift store. That way, it's not in their database, and we only have to satisfy the DCT, not the headend.
With Mototorola digital boxes, theyre using SCTE DVS-178, which I believe is really similar to docsis. That is, a cable modem would have to be reprogrammed to listen/talk on different frequencies, but the modulation, and other peculiarities of the protocol are the same. Some cable modems like the older toshibas also have lots of internal programming ports... so this might be possible to change, but most importantly of all, they're damn easy to hook up to a computer, unlike the $10,000 lab equipment I checked on.
Yes, and that's why we need to build MetaNET. Anyone operating any kind of website other than "hi! this is my free 1 meg webpage that my isp gave me so i could learn html" website should be investing their time in making Meta work.
Just a guess, but they may have found some max232 ICs in his suitcase, or even more damning, iso7816 sockets. But, they must not have found atmel AVR cpu's, or he surely would have been summarily executed.
See, judged by this government of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations, he didn't stand a chance. Mere citizens are not allowed to own, design or use smartcard-PC interfaces, and he broke this mightiest of laws.
The scary part is, in the course of trying to design an apple2 ethernet card once, I built my own JTAG cable (gotta love xilinx cplds). No one could claim that this is illegal, but depending on context, a JTAG cable might be deemed illegal, in the same way this guys device is (for the satellite TV ignorant, he wasn't selling access devices, just a device that can read/write access cards, often for perfectly legit uses). All it would take, is some DirecTV nazi's getting pissed at me, and I might suffer similar fate (though of a lesser magnitude since I don't sell to others). Thank god I never bothered to try to use a $1 18" parabolic dish from the flea market for 802.11, or it would already have happened....
I'm not sure we mean the same thing. In the US, what little I do understand of it as a layman, a bankruptcy will only ever happen if you have more debt than liquid assets, or are so close that it's difficult to determine if this is the case.
What you describe, sounds to me like if I was owed $1000 by a million dollar company, that company could still be forced to shut down (presumably with the other $999,000 being split to the shareholders).
This simply doesn't happen over here. Nothing can force that company to shut down, short of complete insolvency. Seem to remember hearing of the very rare company that voluntarily dissolves, but other than that those 2 (latter much less likely than the former) outcomes, a corporation is immortal.
We may share some heritage, ancient laws and whatnot, but it seems to me that we've taken very different directions.
Not only am I not close to halting my own illicit practices, but I'm trying to figure out a way to build an impenetrable barrier between those like myself, and the DMCA apologists, narcs, and lawyers of the world.
In the states, incorporated entities are like gods. They're immortal, except when a goverment or another corporation(greater gods) kills them. This is almost *always* because of some sort of bankruptcy issue, their chartrs are never, ever revoked.
Now, if our political processes ever allowed for good ideas like this to be implemented, I'd go out an vote or something. Oh well.
Wrongful termination is possible in any state. For instance, if I fire my secretary because she won't give me a blowjob, is that ok in Kansas, because it's an "at-will employment" state?
What if I fire a black man, because dark skin bothers me?
Or maybe, I just decide you're ugly and stupid. And I tell that to your face, before having the security guards escort you to the parking lot?
If they're stupid enough to make the reason known to you, and it's a very bad reason (forcing a salaried employee to work more than double reasonable hours for weeks on end, with no compensation) he can sue, and even win. It's not guaranteed, mind you.
Quitting means you aren't eligible for unemployment. Get fired instead. Better yet, get fired without cause, which should be easy to do in this situation. Show up for 40, and ignore any comments, questions, demands, shouting about leaving "early".
Then sue for wrongful termination. This isn't asking him to put in 45 hour weeks to make the fiscal quarter look good. This is nothing short of outright abuse, and is probably a violation of labor law. Might even want to check with the dept of labor in his state...
I have a better idea. Show up for 40, but be extra polite, and do everything perfect. Don't call in or anything, just show up at the normal start time, leave at the normal day's end. If they call you into a meeting, don't say anything, just listen. Within 3 days time, you will be fired. But you've already got the lawyer on retainer for wrongful termination at that point.
It may not work, but has a hell of a better chance than "let's all band together".
True. But even the Constitution doesn't actually grant them, they just chose to list some. Unlisted rights do exist, and the fact that they didn't choose to list them doesn't mean they aren't a fundamental right.
The Constitution does allow for a right to be "revoked" however... perhaps because it never really was fundamental in the first place (hypothetical). But spouting off why it shouldn't exist isn't enough for that, you're suppose to add an ammendment that effect.
But in the end, yes I agree with you... the Constitution does a good job of listing most of the fundamental human rights, but they aren't fundamental because the Constitution lists them. If this idiot got a few ammendments passed, it wouldn't be nearly as useful in that respect.
PS The predators you speak of are most often humans rather than rabid lions or bears...
So, by virtue of you, Great Slashdot Troll Ceejayoz, simply deciding it's not relevant anymore, every single clause in the Constitution can immediately be invalidated?
Even those describing how a clause/ammendment can officially and legally be invalidated?
I always knew the trolls thought they had super-powers, but they were usually along the lines of "Wow, I can post ascii-art goatse.cx pictures and no one can stop me!". You'd be entertaining, if the sheer stupidity didn't leave a bad taste in my mouth.
Didn't know about the harmonica adapter... wish I did. I would probably own a the farallon now.
The LattisTalk blade is 3394. I didn't recieve any docs with it when purchased (on ebay this january), and my searches since then havent turned up another. If you see someone bid on it, assume that it's me and email me.. I've already got one, I can be convinced not to be greedy.
I have seen them turn up on usenet in the past 5 years, but nothing recent. And a few other wholesalers, though the prices look too high for me.
Besides, I just know that you're waiting for me to do the AIX port of netatalk, so that you can get the MCA localtalk adapter working in your RS/6000...;)
People no longer need to assemble in public places to protest, they can do so with their campaign donation dollars.
Maybe we can start gutting the other ammendments too.
If you're so damn sure that the 2nd is absolutely no longer necessary, your obligations are clear as a citizen. You need to get an ammendment passed that does away with that right. There are several methods available, and provided that you can do so, I will be satisfied that I do not have the right to own firearms. The sad truth is, you're a conniving little bitch, that knows such an ammendment would never pass (whether that's a good thing or not, I'm undecided) and instead you choose to undermine it at every available turn. The US Constitution is truly a wisely written and carefully concieved document... no one in our goverment today has even 1/100th the sense of its authors. And it does indeed constitutionally guarantee my right to bear arms, whether or not you make up bullshit excuses.
Anyone that doesn't believe there might come a time when owning a gun is incredibly advantageous, is a fool. Like most rights, though, it is not without its perils and has its associated duties. (something the mountain-men/gun-nuts often forget) I don't own a gun, I don't want to. I also don't want such a time to come, when I might want or need one. But when I see such a pathetic little worm like yourself, preaching how I shouldn't have that right, when you don't even know if I'm capable of dealing with said perils and meeting my dutiful obligations, it makes me sick.
The world needs for militaries to not own weapons. Individuals with guns have never been that much of a problem.
Those suck. They use the big centronics port, and you're supposed to break that out into rj45 with a seperate, proprietary panel.
If you can get a Lattistalk blade, I recommend them. The synoptics 3030 chassis is only 2u high, and could theoretically take 3 of the things (dunno if software would like that). 12 ports of rj11 phonenet per, with each port supporting up to 4 daisy-chained machines...
I still want PCI localtalk though, if only for my x86 linux box. Too few isa slots on new stuff, if any at all.
That's just mini8 serial devices or printers, is it not? If you need actual localtalk, you're forced to use one of those crappy ethernet-localtalk bridges. You probably mean appletalk (network software, protocol, etc) support is still there.
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My favorite Segal movie was Executive Decision. He really shined in that one. He needs to make more like it.
Virus-vulnerable monoculture network!". "It's really quite simple you see, there is no other way to guarantee that the virus of the week, coded by some filipino script kiddy, can shutdown every single computer on our network" says J.D. Umbass, superintendent of Jefferson County School System, Pennsylvania. "Besides, if kids every growing up having an alternative perspective on computer technology, they may accidentally understand it." "And it can't be overstated, just how much we save yearly, by being able to hire idiots that only know how to say 'Reboot the computer and see if that fixes your problem'", J.D. Umbass.
"Most important to remember though, is that we don't really teach the children anything other than how to be the secretary or register monkeys of tomorrow, earning minimum wage, and never quite enough to own the likes of the beautiful machines in our computer lab. So what does it matter, if they only get to experience the most ill-designed OS ever concieved, that's what Microsoft is extorting every PC and POS manufacturer into using." said J.D. Umbass.
Wouldn't mind seeing those myself...
Please check out my website devoted to this stuff. Contributions welcome....
Yes, but I'd do it with a $5 DCT I picked up at a thrift store. That way, it's not in their database, and we only have to satisfy the DCT, not the headend.
With Mototorola digital boxes, theyre using SCTE DVS-178, which I believe is really similar to docsis. That is, a cable modem would have to be reprogrammed to listen/talk on different frequencies, but the modulation, and other peculiarities of the protocol are the same. Some cable modems like the older toshibas also have lots of internal programming ports... so this might be possible to change, but most importantly of all, they're damn easy to hook up to a computer, unlike the $10,000 lab equipment I checked on.
Could be fun, if anyone feels like helping.
Digital Cablebox Compatibility Chart
Also, wouldn't mind having some pics of the 8000 series, if anyone feels like donating.
Thanks in advance....
So buy a BDM programming cable, and help me figure it out....
Details here.
Yes, and that's why we need to build MetaNET. Anyone operating any kind of website other than "hi! this is my free 1 meg webpage that my isp gave me so i could learn html" website should be investing their time in making Meta work.
Just a guess, but they may have found some max232 ICs in his suitcase, or even more damning, iso7816 sockets. But, they must not have found atmel AVR cpu's, or he surely would have been summarily executed.
See, judged by this government of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations, he didn't stand a chance. Mere citizens are not allowed to own, design or use smartcard-PC interfaces, and he broke this mightiest of laws.
The scary part is, in the course of trying to design an apple2 ethernet card once, I built my own JTAG cable (gotta love xilinx cplds). No one could claim that this is illegal, but depending on context, a JTAG cable might be deemed illegal, in the same way this guys device is (for the satellite TV ignorant, he wasn't selling access devices, just a device that can read/write access cards, often for perfectly legit uses). All it would take, is some DirecTV nazi's getting pissed at me, and I might suffer similar fate (though of a lesser magnitude since I don't sell to others). Thank god I never bothered to try to use a $1 18" parabolic dish from the flea market for 802.11, or it would already have happened....
Then again, I suppose there are many different flaws in the existing internet, enough to warrant different solutions... ;)
I'm not sure we mean the same thing. In the US, what little I do understand of it as a layman, a bankruptcy will only ever happen if you have more debt than liquid assets, or are so close that it's difficult to determine if this is the case.
What you describe, sounds to me like if I was owed $1000 by a million dollar company, that company could still be forced to shut down (presumably with the other $999,000 being split to the shareholders).
This simply doesn't happen over here. Nothing can force that company to shut down, short of complete insolvency. Seem to remember hearing of the very rare company that voluntarily dissolves, but other than that those 2 (latter much less likely than the former) outcomes, a corporation is immortal.
We may share some heritage, ancient laws and whatnot, but it seems to me that we've taken very different directions.
Not only am I not close to halting my own illicit practices, but I'm trying to figure out a way to build an impenetrable barrier between those like myself, and the DMCA apologists, narcs, and lawyers of the world.
See sig for details.
Voting sends the message that I believe my vote counts. It's an endorsement of a corrupt, failed system. I choose not to endorse this system.
It's not that we have the wrong politicians in office, it's that we have any of them there at all.
In the states, incorporated entities are like gods. They're immortal, except when a goverment or another corporation(greater gods) kills them. This is almost *always* because of some sort of bankruptcy issue, their chartrs are never, ever revoked.
Now, if our political processes ever allowed for good ideas like this to be implemented, I'd go out an vote or something. Oh well.
Well of course he's a trolling grandmaster. Look at the 4 digit (low 4 digit too!) uid....
Wrongful termination is possible in any state. For instance, if I fire my secretary because she won't give me a blowjob, is that ok in Kansas, because it's an "at-will employment" state?
What if I fire a black man, because dark skin bothers me?
Or maybe, I just decide you're ugly and stupid. And I tell that to your face, before having the security guards escort you to the parking lot?
If they're stupid enough to make the reason known to you, and it's a very bad reason (forcing a salaried employee to work more than double reasonable hours for weeks on end, with no compensation) he can sue, and even win. It's not guaranteed, mind you.
Quitting means you aren't eligible for unemployment. Get fired instead. Better yet, get fired without cause, which should be easy to do in this situation. Show up for 40, and ignore any comments, questions, demands, shouting about leaving "early".
Then sue for wrongful termination. This isn't asking him to put in 45 hour weeks to make the fiscal quarter look good. This is nothing short of outright abuse, and is probably a violation of labor law. Might even want to check with the dept of labor in his state...
I have a better idea. Show up for 40, but be extra polite, and do everything perfect. Don't call in or anything, just show up at the normal start time, leave at the normal day's end. If they call you into a meeting, don't say anything, just listen. Within 3 days time, you will be fired. But you've already got the lawyer on retainer for wrongful termination at that point.
It may not work, but has a hell of a better chance than "let's all band together".
(4) Build a new global, routed network using private address space with VPN software. Keep other people from hijacking it this network....
My own "ebook" is somewhat lame, and still not finished, but I did (at least partially) intend it for someone at the 12 yr old level.
Introduction to Assembly Language
PS Spalp="society for the preservation of assembly language programming", not some weird porn site...
True. But even the Constitution doesn't actually grant them, they just chose to list some. Unlisted rights do exist, and the fact that they didn't choose to list them doesn't mean they aren't a fundamental right.
The Constitution does allow for a right to be "revoked" however... perhaps because it never really was fundamental in the first place (hypothetical). But spouting off why it shouldn't exist isn't enough for that, you're suppose to add an ammendment that effect.
But in the end, yes I agree with you... the Constitution does a good job of listing most of the fundamental human rights, but they aren't fundamental because the Constitution lists them. If this idiot got a few ammendments passed, it wouldn't be nearly as useful in that respect.
PS The predators you speak of are most often humans rather than rabid lions or bears...
So, by virtue of you, Great Slashdot Troll Ceejayoz, simply deciding it's not relevant anymore, every single clause in the Constitution can immediately be invalidated?
Even those describing how a clause/ammendment can officially and legally be invalidated?
I always knew the trolls thought they had super-powers, but they were usually along the lines of "Wow, I can post ascii-art goatse.cx pictures and no one can stop me!". You'd be entertaining, if the sheer stupidity didn't leave a bad taste in my mouth.
Didn't know about the harmonica adapter... wish I did. I would probably own a the farallon now.
;)
The LattisTalk blade is 3394. I didn't recieve any docs with it when purchased (on ebay this january), and my searches since then havent turned up another. If you see someone bid on it, assume that it's me and email me.. I've already got one, I can be convinced not to be greedy.
I have seen them turn up on usenet in the past 5 years, but nothing recent. And a few other wholesalers, though the prices look too high for me.
Besides, I just know that you're waiting for me to do the AIX port of netatalk, so that you can get the MCA localtalk adapter working in your RS/6000...
PS Whats the "xyplex" ? Never heard of it...
People no longer need to assemble in public places to protest, they can do so with their campaign donation dollars.
Maybe we can start gutting the other ammendments too.
If you're so damn sure that the 2nd is absolutely no longer necessary, your obligations are clear as a citizen. You need to get an ammendment passed that does away with that right. There are several methods available, and provided that you can do so, I will be satisfied that I do not have the right to own firearms. The sad truth is, you're a conniving little bitch, that knows such an ammendment would never pass (whether that's a good thing or not, I'm undecided) and instead you choose to undermine it at every available turn. The US Constitution is truly a wisely written and carefully concieved document... no one in our goverment today has even 1/100th the sense of its authors. And it does indeed constitutionally guarantee my right to bear arms, whether or not you make up bullshit excuses.
Anyone that doesn't believe there might come a time when owning a gun is incredibly advantageous, is a fool. Like most rights, though, it is not without its perils and has its associated duties. (something the mountain-men/gun-nuts often forget) I don't own a gun, I don't want to. I also don't want such a time to come, when I might want or need one. But when I see such a pathetic little worm like yourself, preaching how I shouldn't have that right, when you don't even know if I'm capable of dealing with said perils and meeting my dutiful obligations, it makes me sick.
The world needs for militaries to not own weapons. Individuals with guns have never been that much of a problem.
Those suck. They use the big centronics port, and you're supposed to break that out into rj45 with a seperate, proprietary panel.
If you can get a Lattistalk blade, I recommend them. The synoptics 3030 chassis is only 2u high, and could theoretically take 3 of the things (dunno if software would like that). 12 ports of rj11 phonenet per, with each port supporting up to 4 daisy-chained machines...
I still want PCI localtalk though, if only for my x86 linux box. Too few isa slots on new stuff, if any at all.
That's just mini8 serial devices or printers, is it not? If you need actual localtalk, you're forced to use one of those crappy ethernet-localtalk bridges.
You probably mean appletalk (network software, protocol, etc) support is still there.
Or am I mistaken?