I agree! I just wish their system would branch into the other government systems and do some cross checking.
Here's something that Massachusetts could do that would probably solve alot of financial problems.
1. Go through the welfare system and evaluate every person on the roles. Find the people cheating the system and exact from them their ill gains. People who have no intention of getting a job and just want to clamp onto the tit that is the welfare system should be tossed out in the street (in front of an MBTA bus)
It's possible that it could have been used for an air to air type role, but it never will.
The F-117A is designed for one specific role. Infultrately air space with active radar guided anti aircraft defenses and destroying high value hardended targets.
Now that we have the F-22, it would be better suited for attacking an AWACS type system better than the F-117A.
So, if they hit this "read" button, does a manual suddenly pop out of the dash?
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What needs to happen is that a german laywer, upon getting their privacy violated, needs to take the offending party to court and sue the shit out of them on the basis they are violating their civil rights (as granted through "Datenshutz". Or they need to lobby their elected offical to do something about it.*
*Note: I know nothing of the German court system, hence this comment could be total rubbish.
"Internet radio, a promising new industry that threatened to give listeners choices far exceeding anything on the increasingly variety-less (and technologically stone-age) AM and FM bands, was shot in its cradle. Guns, ammo and the occasional "Yee-Haw!" were provided by the recording industry and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which embodies all the fears felt by Hollywood's alpha dinosaurs when they lobbied the Act through Congress in 1998."
One day we'll have internet radio, bloated with blinking ads and bullshit (tragically enough)
Possibly, here's one expensive solution. Some solid state memory card company should start making write once memory that would work in a digital camera. Along with the image would be an md5 sum.
Then the images could be copied to cdrom along with the md5 sums. If the defense feels that the images have been tampered with, they can always be verified against the md5sum and then if so, the archived memory card.
Actually, the truely great hackers would have a "?" where the photo is and would have a bio like
Handle: "The Dark Sultan" Age: Unknown. Origin: Unknown. Location: Unknown. MO: Signs all hacks with a picture of an sultan holding a sword that's encrusted with microchips.
Claims to Fame: Replaced all the photo data in the NSA's badge security system with pictures of bozo the clown.
Inserted a software patch into AT&T's SINAP software that patched all directory assistance calls to the CEO's personal phone....
I've heard of these guys. Those "independant colection contractors" go from court house to court house and pay the 5 bucks and get all the info that was entered into the system from the day before, enter it into forms and then send it off to ChoicePoint to get inserted into their database.
This information gets used for stuff like criminal background checks, etc. Want to guess who's the biggest user of CheckPoints data? The government. When the FBI does a background check on someone, how do you think they do it? First, they check their databases. Then they goto the private data collectors.
The scary thing is, I've heard that getting erroneous data out of these databases is nearly impossible (much like getting erroneous data out of your credit report). So, the next time you go apply for a job and you don't get a call back, it might be because CheckPoint dished up erroneous dirt on you...
I'm a happy customer with one exception... MS Project.
Though it's not my personal choice, my boss forces our unit to use project to orchestrate projects. It's the one reason I'm not running linux on this machine. Running a VMware session just so I can run project is just a waste of resources.
If CodeWeavers ever get Project to work properly under linux, they'll be one less windows box in the world...
I wonder if it would make sense to just erect some super tall towers with some fractally shaped spines all over them (or some other pattern that would maximize surface area).
Or
have said tower actually be a bunch of pipes that would suck in the smog and draw it over a set of baffles and screens coated with this stuff. You could even have the pipes be coated with those flexible solar panels to power the blowers.
Another idea would be to just install these on the roofs of sky scrappers.
Actually probably nothing, though the stabilzing agent is probably a mild respritory irritant. However in labratory tests, nanoparticles have been shown to be comparitably more distructive compared to their regular sized bretheren. Carbon nanotubes when introduced into the air supply of rats caused them to have massive lung lesions (SP!). I think this is because nanoparticles are small enough to pass right through the a cells outer membrane and cause all kinds of chaos. [obviously, do the SANE thing and do some googling on the effects of nanoparticles on lung tissue]
Why do we just get a bunch of sheep, shear them for their wool, spin it into thread and then sew ourselves some RFID free clothes!
Oh wait, our sheep will probably have RFID tags in them too...
Seriously though... what they should mandate is that products with RFID tags should be labeled as such. "This product contains a Radio Frequency Identification Tag"
The ultimate solution the problem is going to be white listing.
Yes, I'm sure that I'll miss some important piece of email from someone I've never met (their probably a princess of some African country and they need my help to move some cash...). Oh wait, I only get email from people that I have some sort of relation with, so that really isn't an issue...
I'm currently using a white list system where I've got two inboxes. One is for general mail and the other is for mail that's from people on my friends list.
I'm yet to get a piece of spam in my "members only" inbox.
However, I don't think microsoft is ever going to see the savings in integrated manufacturing that Sony has.
The reason is quite simple. Inside a PS2, Sony owns everything. The emotion engine, the audio hardware, the mpeg decoder, everything. So, when it decides to put the video silicon and the emotion chip silicon on the same die, there are not any problems. Microsoft on the other hand has to contend with all these disperent companies who wouldn't be too keen to letting each other have a look at the insides of their hardware...
Also, unless Microsoft has set up its own fab plant, Intel is running a line of celerons just for Xboxes. Likewise, Nvidia has to put manufacturing capacity aside to make video cards for Xboxes. I don't see either of those companies negoiating a lower contract to continue to build an antiquated product...
Sony has none of those problems. In fact it could be argued that it goes the otherway for Sony. As Sony works to create a more integrated PS2, that know how gets used to integrate other products in the Sony line and visa versa.
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Yeah, because just like Spammers, they live in a moral vacuum.
Considering that spammers have resorted to using peoples personal computers as zombie hosts, your burglary analogy is very apropos.
"Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses."
-- Arthur C. Clarke
I agree! I just wish their system would branch into the other government systems and do some cross checking.
Here's something that Massachusetts could do that would probably solve alot of financial problems.
1. Go through the welfare system and evaluate every person on the roles. Find the people cheating the system and exact from them their ill gains. People who have no intention of getting a job and just want to clamp onto the tit that is the welfare system should be tossed out in the street (in front of an MBTA bus)
2. Agressively prosecute medicare fraud.
It's possible that it could have been used for an air to air type role, but it never will.
The F-117A is designed for one specific role. Infultrately air space with active radar guided anti aircraft defenses and destroying high value hardended targets.
Now that we have the F-22, it would be better suited for attacking an AWACS type system better than the F-117A.
So, if they hit this "read" button, does a manual suddenly pop out of the dash?
What needs to happen is that a german laywer, upon getting their privacy violated, needs to take the offending party to court and sue the shit out of them on the basis they are violating their civil rights (as granted through "Datenshutz". Or they need to lobby their elected offical to do something about it.*
*Note: I know nothing of the German court system, hence this comment could be total rubbish.
"Internet radio, a promising new industry that threatened to give listeners choices far exceeding anything on the increasingly variety-less (and technologically stone-age) AM and FM bands, was shot in its cradle. Guns, ammo and the occasional "Yee-Haw!" were provided by the recording industry and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which embodies all the fears felt by Hollywood's alpha dinosaurs when they lobbied the Act through Congress in 1998."
One day we'll have internet radio, bloated with blinking ads and bullshit (tragically enough)
So what your saying is that 3 days from now, they'll be some variant of mydoom specifically designed to attack this flaw?
Possibly, here's one expensive solution. Some solid state memory card company should start making write once memory that would work in a digital camera. Along with the image would be an md5 sum.
Then the images could be copied to cdrom along with the md5 sums. If the defense feels that the images have been tampered with, they can always be verified against the md5sum and then if so, the archived memory card.
Actually, the truely great hackers would have a "?" where the photo is and would have a bio like
...
Handle: "The Dark Sultan"
Age: Unknown.
Origin: Unknown.
Location: Unknown.
MO: Signs all hacks with a picture of an sultan holding a sword that's encrusted with microchips.
Claims to Fame:
Replaced all the photo data in the NSA's badge security system with pictures of bozo the clown.
Inserted a software patch into AT&T's SINAP software that patched all directory assistance calls to the CEO's personal phone.
I've heard of these guys. Those "independant colection contractors" go from court house to court house and pay the 5 bucks and get all the info that was entered into the system from the day before, enter it into forms and then send it off to ChoicePoint to get inserted into their database.
This information gets used for stuff like criminal background checks, etc. Want to guess who's the biggest user of CheckPoints data? The government. When the FBI does a background check on someone, how do you think they do it? First, they check their databases. Then they goto the private data collectors.
The scary thing is, I've heard that getting erroneous data out of these databases is nearly impossible (much like getting erroneous data out of your credit report). So, the next time you go apply for a job and you don't get a call back, it might be because CheckPoint dished up erroneous dirt on you...
I'm a happy customer with one exception... MS Project.
Though it's not my personal choice, my boss forces our unit to use project to orchestrate projects. It's the one reason I'm not running linux on this machine. Running a VMware session just so I can run project is just a waste of resources.
If CodeWeavers ever get Project to work properly under linux, they'll be one less windows box in the world...
that's the whole idea of playing with "friends".
I'm pretty sure that nearly a 1/3 of 1/2 the people I play against online I'd probably run from for fear of my life if I met them in person...
I wonder if it would make sense to just erect some super tall towers with some fractally shaped spines all over them (or some other pattern that would maximize surface area).
Or
have said tower actually be a bunch of pipes that would suck in the smog and draw it over a set of baffles and screens coated with this stuff. You could even have the pipes be coated with those flexible solar panels to power the blowers.
Another idea would be to just install these on the roofs of sky scrappers.
Actually probably nothing, though the stabilzing agent is probably a mild respritory irritant. However in labratory tests, nanoparticles have been shown to be comparitably more distructive compared to their regular sized bretheren. Carbon nanotubes when introduced into the air supply of rats caused them to have massive lung lesions (SP!). I think this is because nanoparticles are small enough to pass right through the a cells outer membrane and cause all kinds of chaos. [obviously, do the SANE thing and do some googling on the effects of nanoparticles on lung tissue]
So does SBC stand for Sucks to Be their Customer?
*shrugs* I guess this must be a windows problem.
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Why do we just get a bunch of sheep, shear them for their wool, spin it into thread and then sew ourselves some RFID free clothes!
Oh wait, our sheep will probably have RFID tags in them too...
Seriously though... what they should mandate is that products with RFID tags should be labeled as such. "This product contains a Radio Frequency Identification Tag"
Well, their site is fine... the problem is that they've only got 1/3 of all the bandwidth of the internet and we control 1/5...
Combine this with a good Broadband/DSL provider and Vonage and you've just freed yourself from the tyranny that is Verizon...
The ultimate solution the problem is going to be white listing.
Yes, I'm sure that I'll miss some important piece of email from someone I've never met (their probably a princess of some African country and they need my help to move some cash...). Oh wait, I only get email from people that I have some sort of relation with, so that really isn't an issue...
I'm currently using a white list system where I've got two inboxes. One is for general mail and the other is for mail that's from people on my friends list.
I'm yet to get a piece of spam in my "members only" inbox.
Well, the software is free, it just costs $699 to get it shipped to your house...
What I want to understand is what she was doing upside down in the booth so that he could pull down her sweater...
Though if I ever drive by and see someone trying to use a blowup doll as a car jack, I'll think of this..
Woman dies from premature rapture
Though I wonder if any of us would really notice. Of all the fans in my machine (7), the power supply is the least noisy of them all.
I'd rather they spend their time researching quieter case and CPU fans.
However, I don't think microsoft is ever going to see the savings in integrated manufacturing that Sony has.
The reason is quite simple. Inside a PS2, Sony owns everything. The emotion engine, the audio hardware, the mpeg decoder, everything. So, when it decides to put the video silicon and the emotion chip silicon on the same die, there are not any problems. Microsoft on the other hand has to contend with all these disperent companies who wouldn't be too keen to letting each other have a look at the insides of their hardware...
Also, unless Microsoft has set up its own fab plant, Intel is running a line of celerons just for Xboxes. Likewise, Nvidia has to put manufacturing capacity aside to make video cards for Xboxes. I don't see either of those companies negoiating a lower contract to continue to build an antiquated product...
Sony has none of those problems. In fact it could be argued that it goes the otherway for Sony. As Sony works to create a more integrated PS2, that know how gets used to integrate other products in the Sony line and visa versa.