Personally, that is one of my favorite parts of the books and of the audio books and I was hoping that it wouldn't end up on the cutting room floor for the theatrical release. Guess I'll have to start saving my pennies for the extended deluxe hyper with blinking lights ROTK version of the DVD...
"Fortunately, I live in the United States of America, where we are gradually coming to understand that nothing we do is ever our fault, especially if it is really stupid."
In almost every aspect of life, I run into this. People who are unable to take responsibility for their action or inaction. Everything is always everybody else's fault.
They didn't lose their job because they neve showed up to work on time and then left early and took a two hour lunch. They "quit" because the boss was a hardass.
Here are some of the other funny ones that I heard lately.
Some girl is suing the Army because she didn't realize that by signing up, she might have to goto war...
A guy is suing his two (ex)buddies and a junk yard... The three mensa members decided (after some liquid courage) to go into a junk yard and put a bowling ball on top of a junk yard and take pot shots at it with a handgun. Needless to say, our buddy ended up short an eye over the whole thing... Now why it's the junk yards fault... see statement above...
It's just amazing and tragic all at the same time.
Go to any American resturant and order "Fish & Chips" and it'll come with "Steak" fries (which are the type of fries you are describing)
As for the vinegar, it usually comes bound up with a lot of salt and tomato paste...
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What your talking about is radio screen scraping.
Basically, your monitor is a big antennae that's emitting signals in every direction. With the proper equipment people sitting in a van outside your house can pick those signals up and see your screen. (Personally I'd like to see this demonstrated)
So what are your options. 1. Use and LCD panel and have the video signal from your machine to your monitor be encrypted. 2. Learn morse code and just have all your sensitive stuff outputed to the LED's on your keyboard. (there are programs that'll already do that) 3. Use your computer inside a faraday cage...
One of my wife's friends (IQ=Bag of hammers) decided to buy birth control from some online pharmacy she saw in a piece of spam...
Needless to say, she's due in August. (Yes, this is the same pharmacy that got in trouble for selling birth control pills with no birth control in them...)
low budget wrestling movies and wannabe rapper videos." <p> How would these be any different from big budget wrestling movies and non-wannabe rapper videos? <p> Though I'm imaging somewhere at a demonic alter representatives of the RIAA/MPAA are asking for guidance on how they can let out the lawyer dogs on this thing. I can see it now... "Well, it can view video and play muisc and well we control all things video and music, but we don't control this, therefore it must be abliterated!" <p> Also at this demonic alter Darl McBride is an alter boy(toy) <p>
So inside this bubble of acetone vapor they get temperatures of 100 million kelvin.
Firstly, is it something where they could have a whole vat of these bubbles being created and destroyed with sonic waves constantly and through this vat you could have water pipes that would create steam and drive a turbine?
Secondly, is this something that could one day be the equivalent of Mr. Fusion. Where the thing just hums away in little brick house at the end of the block and all the electrical wires run from it (no way is any energy company going to let consumers have a free powerful energy source)
I think this is an intrinsically cool technology by itself, I just hope they can turn it into a viable energy source.
Well, we have 60% of the worlds computers probably... hence we probably generate 60% of the worlds spam.
Plus with the diversity of ISP's in the US, a truely dedicated spammer has lots of options for getting their product out...
This book is great...
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I recently bought it from BookPool.com and it was cheap!
Disclaimer: My buddy works at bookpool (but their prices really are great!)
I've been using this book to migrate our existing sendmail gobbilygook mailsystem to a sane well documented postfix system and I've found the book to be a great help as I've had to do a one to one comparision between sendmail and postfix for configuration stuff.
Plus Dent's writing style is excellent and the book is well laid out.
I think the other thing is that the authorites want to look effective. They want to get on TV and say "Today, we've stopped the flow of information to people who would use it to [insert some nasty crime]" <p> What they don't want the genreal public to realize is that what they are infact saying is "We'll, we've picked all the low hanging fruit on this topic." If it wasn't too much money or effort, we might look into how people who are looking at webites about paramilitary tactics are also stockpiling large ammount of weapons, etc...
It brings up all kinds of confusing questions. If I create a site that explains in detail how to commit suicide and someone reads the site and follows through and it works, am I to be held liable by the relatives of the person? Even though you could argue that the person had suicidal tendencies (otherwise why would they be looking at suicide instructions). Could it be argued in the courts that I was the enabler?
What is someone puts up a site about paramilitary tactics and then a group of loonies use the website as a guide and storm a school and kill a bunch of people. Is the author of the webpage responsible? What about all those sites out there that have bomb/drug/gun instructions?
I know they'll be those people who will argue that for the "good" of everybody those type of subjects shouldn't be on the internet. The danger is that this is slippery slope.
I'd be interested to see what these things look like attached directly to an ATM. It just seems that this extra bit of plastic sticking out the front of the ATM would be a bit conspicuous...
There is someone here on slashdot that has a sig that sums it up
"The moon is covered with astronomical odds".
Nobody wants nuclear proliferation and global degradation (other than GWB). However at the same time, it'll all be mute if suddenly an astronomer goes "Oh Shit, were gonna get slammed with a texas sized rock in 10 years" and we have no plan in place to deal with it. The problem is that nobody will take this kind of threat seriously until our feet are in the fire...
I'm of the mind set that we should ensure humanities survival by sprending ourselves out and working towards colonizing other planets and working on longterm off earth space colonies. Part of that strategy would be that every offworld establishment would have a complete copy of the earths data (world history / theorethical / medical / scientific / mechanical / etc) Basically, everything you'd need to build anything and the knowlege stored so it could be taught.
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More likely, the NSA's already got a dozen of these things and loves them...
Personally, that is one of my favorite parts of the books and of the audio books and I was hoping that it wouldn't end up on the cutting room floor for the theatrical release. Guess I'll have to start saving my pennies for the extended deluxe hyper with blinking lights ROTK version of the DVD...
You are absolutely on the mark.
To quote the great Dave Barry:
"Fortunately, I live in the United States of America, where we are gradually coming to
understand that nothing we do is ever our fault, especially if it is really stupid."
In almost every aspect of life, I run into this. People who are unable to take responsibility for their action or inaction. Everything is always everybody else's fault.
They didn't lose their job because they neve showed up to work on time and then left early and took a two hour lunch. They "quit" because the boss was a hardass.
Here are some of the other funny ones that I heard lately.
Some girl is suing the Army because she didn't realize that by signing up, she might have to goto war...
A guy is suing his two (ex)buddies and a junk yard... The three mensa members decided (after some liquid courage) to go into a junk yard and put a bowling ball on top of a junk yard and take pot shots at it with a handgun. Needless to say, our buddy ended up short an eye over the whole thing... Now why it's the junk yards fault... see statement above...
It's just amazing and tragic all at the same time.
Go to any American resturant and order "Fish & Chips" and it'll come with "Steak" fries (which are the type of fries you are describing)
As for the vinegar, it usually comes bound up with a lot of salt and tomato paste...
What your talking about is radio screen scraping.
Basically, your monitor is a big antennae that's emitting signals in every direction. With the proper equipment people sitting in a van outside your house can pick those signals up and see your screen.
(Personally I'd like to see this demonstrated)
So what are your options.
1. Use and LCD panel and have the video signal from your machine to your monitor be encrypted.
2. Learn morse code and just have all your sensitive stuff outputed to the LED's on your keyboard. (there are programs that'll already do that)
3. Use your computer inside a faraday cage...
Funny Story...
One of my wife's friends (IQ=Bag of hammers) decided to buy birth control from some online pharmacy she saw in a piece of spam...
Needless to say, she's due in August. (Yes, this is the same pharmacy that got in trouble for selling birth control pills with no birth control in them...)
Well, if someone was paying you 86 million dollars... you'd use their software too!
As a side note, having been forced to work with SCO's operating system, it actually makes windows look like a viable choice...
Here's a conspiracey theory for you...
Indian virus writers are writing virues to increase call volumes so more companies will outsource their anwering centers to India...
More likely some punk somewhere gets a charge off the idea that they alone can cause world wide mayhem...
Nope, totally a preview button accident...
low budget wrestling movies and wannabe rapper videos."
<p>
How would these be any different from big budget wrestling movies and non-wannabe rapper videos?
<p>
Though I'm imaging somewhere at a demonic alter representatives of the RIAA/MPAA are asking for guidance on how they can let out the lawyer dogs on this thing. I can see it now... "Well, it can view video and play muisc and well we control all things video and music, but we don't control this, therefore it must be abliterated!"
<p>
Also at this demonic alter Darl McBride is an alter boy(toy)
<p>
So inside this bubble of acetone vapor they get temperatures of 100 million kelvin.
Firstly, is it something where they could have a whole vat of these bubbles being created and destroyed with sonic waves constantly and through this vat you could have water pipes that would create steam and drive a turbine?
Secondly, is this something that could one day be the equivalent of Mr. Fusion. Where the thing just hums away in little brick house at the end of the block and all the electrical wires run from it (no way is any energy company going to let consumers have a free powerful energy source)
I think this is an intrinsically cool technology by itself, I just hope they can turn it into a viable energy source.
Equally cool are the people who have taken the quake2 engine and written their own version of Counter Strike on it.
Better yet... they found standing water because despite all the space hardening that the rovers went through, they weren't water proof... ;-)
Or for the redhat crowd...
yum -y install mplayer
Presto, your done.
Well, we have 60% of the worlds computers probably... hence we probably generate 60% of the worlds spam.
Plus with the diversity of ISP's in the US, a truely dedicated spammer has lots of options for getting their product out...
Disclaimer: My buddy works at bookpool (but their prices really are great!)
I've been using this book to migrate our existing sendmail gobbilygook mailsystem to a sane well documented postfix system and I've found the book to be a great help as I've had to do a one to one comparision between sendmail and postfix for configuration stuff.
Plus Dent's writing style is excellent and the book is well laid out.
Gah, now you've done it! I'm gonna have to go out and buy some of the SAC stuff!
Though annoyingly, my wife hates GiTS. Though she's a huge cowboy bebop / Lain fan.
*shrugs*
I think the other thing is that the authorites want to look effective. They want to get on TV and say "Today, we've stopped the flow of information to people who would use it to [insert some nasty crime]"
<p>
What they don't want the genreal public to realize is that what they are infact saying is "We'll, we've picked all the low hanging fruit on this topic." If it wasn't too much money or effort, we might look into how people who are looking at webites about paramilitary tactics are also stockpiling large ammount of weapons, etc...
It brings up all kinds of confusing questions. If I create a site that explains in detail how to commit suicide and someone reads the site and follows through and it works, am I to be held liable by the relatives of the person? Even though you could argue that the person had suicidal tendencies (otherwise why would they be looking at suicide instructions). Could it be argued in the courts that I was the enabler?
What is someone puts up a site about paramilitary tactics and then a group of loonies use the website as a guide and storm a school and kill a bunch of people. Is the author of the webpage responsible? What about all those sites out there that have bomb/drug/gun instructions?
I know they'll be those people who will argue that for the "good" of everybody those type of subjects shouldn't be on the internet. The danger is that this is slippery slope.
I'd be interested to see what these things look like attached directly to an ATM. It just seems that this extra bit of plastic sticking out the front of the ATM would be a bit conspicuous...
There is someone here on slashdot that has a sig that sums it up
"The moon is covered with astronomical odds".
Nobody wants nuclear proliferation and global degradation (other than GWB). However at the same time, it'll all be mute if suddenly an astronomer goes "Oh Shit, were gonna get slammed with a texas sized rock in 10 years" and we have no plan in place to deal with it. The problem is that nobody will take this kind of threat seriously until our feet are in the fire...
I'm of the mind set that we should ensure humanities survival by sprending ourselves out and working towards colonizing other planets and working on longterm off earth space colonies. Part of that strategy would be that every offworld establishment would have a complete copy of the earths data (world history / theorethical / medical / scientific / mechanical / etc) Basically, everything you'd need to build anything and the knowlege stored so it could be taught.
Ditto. My wife is througly addicted to Never Winter Nights. When she's not playing that, it's Kingdom Hearts or Sly Cooper or Rachet & Clank.
She has no interest in FPS's at all.
Yup, that about sums it up.
If you add in all the virus mail floating around, the load has only increased on my systems.
At last check, I blocked about 700 netsky messages today.
You forgot a big group... Slashdotters...