are you really going to roll the dice on a 1% chance of losing New York/London/Paris/Moscow/Beijing?
Doesn't it seem like you'd get the same MAD results if you threatened to nuke your own country? "If one bomb touches us, they all go off! Enjoy your remaining half-life, Ivan." It's a quick death versus a slow one (except, if memory serves, in New Zealand).
I'm being flip for the karma, but this is a non-rhetorical question. Humans wouldn't survive a total stockpile detonation, would they?
Any slightly erotic sculpture from prehistory is labeled a "venus" (which should tell an outsider buckets about our culture). Try searching for 'venus' and 'prehistoric'.
It makes me wonder why we as the most advanced and technologically superior country, have failed to capture Osama bin Laden
Huh... according to high ranking scuttlebutt at the pentagon we've known precisely where OBL has been hiding for the past few years. Independantly related to me by two separate individuals... Top Men, both.
I think the real suprise is that you totally buy the whole "we're so inept we can't find a dialysis patient in the middle of a country the size of Texas" argument. Would you believe it if they were talking about soviet russia back in the 60s? Nope. But for some reason you see pictures of these neck-beard dirt farmers today and suddenly all bets are off.
1) you're trying to have a conversation about two separate topics w/ 2 separate people
2) you've mixed up both the topics and the people already
3) you've replied to your OWN posts when you meant to reply to someone else's
4) you really like the word 'semantics'
Have to say that I'm really enjoying the fact that you work in IT but get pissed off by ppl arguing over linguistics. The irony is maxing my CPU out.
Actually, just-for-the-hell-of-it random crime in general is a lot harder to trace than motivated crime.
Yeah, it seems that triangulation would only be appropriate if we're talking about a repeated pattern of accessing known hotspots. To raise an unpleasant analogy, how much more difficult would it be to catch a belltower sniper if they only fired one shot?
I should point out that these blackhats in particular should NEVER get caught unless they are extremely prideful and/or stupid
I dunno, NEVER is a pretty strong word. I just don't think I'd trust a "they'll never catch me, I'm using a radio!" mentality to keep me out of prison.
Yeah, I started out searching for a way to add a third antenna onto a linksys and found the new belkin. I was thinking that the antennas might be detachable (or MADE to be detachable) for better positioning... just interesting to see a stock router w/ 3. Hmm... would simply weaving a strip of foil between the antennas suffice?
The MAC address is a non-issue, from my perspective. We're interested in physical location here, not network identity. Unless you've got to weed out one rogue connection from a slew of legit, all in the same building, I just don't see this as relevant other than as a reference point.
As far as logs being held up in court, I don't know. How are crimes prosecuted now? I'm guessing that there is a way to present them as legal evidence, or we'd all just be telling the RIAA to go fuck themselves.
Again, I just don't think it's safe to assume that a wifi connection is anonymous as far as your physical location is concerned.
I'm no blackhat, but I've got to point out that any hacker that's been arrested is careless, and it's been that way for quite a few years now.
I think your assumption relies on the feds (et al) trying to track you down after the fact. WiFi is anonymous only when you're disconnected.
Hmm, was just thinking about how easy it'd be to triangulate a connection to my home router, and noticed Belkin's pre-n wireless router on their home page. 3 antennas. I think it'd behoove our leet brothers and sisters to assume that any wifi connection is being logged and xreferenced w/ google maps, with a little flag over your treehouse that reads "asshat".
Of course, anyone w/ a handheld RF monitor, a couple of friends and the willingness to burn a little shoe leather can grab you in real time.
That's what I immediately thought of... seems like a real hardware-intensive way to do the same thing, for more money and less functionality. I read the FA, am I missing something? (emoticon denoting my comment as snark-free)
However, if a librarian sees something illegal going on, wouldn't it be his or her duty to report it for further investigation?
I know that teachers and doctors are required by federal law to report child abuse. Not sure if there is the same requirement for librarians, but I'd kind of doubt it since they aren't in the same position of trust. As far as any other sort of activity, are any of us legally (if not morally) obligated to rat out another citizen?
It depends on what you mean by "physical discipline". I think the way it works in most states today is that you may torment your child to your heart's content, but if it leaves a mark you've crossed the line.
I've heard lots of people have problems with ATI cards
Since I'm not going to be doing any gaming w/ this box, I'm thinking about just pulling that ATI card and using the onboard graphics chip. Gotta be more standard than the card, and I really can't remember if today's cards even assist w/ 2d acceleration anymore.
He was a respectable jazz musician before that song... just had his entire body of work eclipsed by a throwaway pop jingle. A lesson for us all, truly.
Yah, I'm starting to think that I've got a bad setup somehow. Trust me though, X runs like ass on my fairly new box. Since the monitor is connected to a mac and a windows box as well, I can pretty much rule out a bad one.
So I can take it as read, guys, that any X issues I have relative to speed and refresh rate etc etc are my own personal problems. Even though my experience on modern hardware is identical to my experience on an old mac clone. Time to do some research I guess.
Just joking about the eyes... some sort of widget I remember from a while ago... they'd follow your cursor around the screen. Disregard.
Radiation King is a simpsons reference... in reality it was a giant old SuperMatch 21". When you'd turn it on any dust particles in the air would temporarily waver around the thing... kind of creepy.
Man, nothing like explaining a joke to make you feel lame.
It's a newer ATI (can't remember model offhand and I'm not in a position to check right now). Radeon 9xxx or something.
I was under the impression that X's slowness was due to it's aging and impossible-to-change-without-a-complete-rewrite client/server architecture. I'd be happy to learn that it just needs the latest drivers in order to render 2D properly. (side note, all the 3d games I've tried have worked flawlessly with stock install).
It handles like crap. It's slow and unresponsive on a top notch box. Dragging windows around leaves tracers. There are eyes that watch me from the toolbar, and they NEVER BLINK.
At least I no longer have to roll my own monitor profiles, but this might be because I finally got rid of the 20 year old Radiation King.
I've never purchased a Mac because they simply don't have the software titles I'm interested in and Windows does. I mean sure, they've got great stuff, but they lack in GAMES, yes games... I've said it, gotten it out. I'm a gamer and so are all of my friends. I'd venture to say a good chunk of those purchasing PC's are in the same group as me (surf the web and play games). So if the Apple OS became more popular, wouldn't more developers consider making a version of their game in the Apple OS flavor?
I don't understand... there are versions of both games (WoW and Battlefield) available for Mac right now. And please, don't tell me that there are other games out there... I think I'd have heard about them by now.
Here's an interesting paragraph (taken from one of the MANY, MANY papers written that tore the authors of The Bell Curve a new one over their shoddy research) that touches on education -> IQ (not that that was the main point of my comment, you slippery devil):
The socioeconomic status of one's parents cannot in any immediate sense "cause" one's IQ to be high or low. Family income obviously cannot directly determine a child's performance on an IQ test. But income and the other components of an index of socioeconomic status can serve as rough indicators of the rearing environment to which a child has been exposed. With exceptions, a child of a well-to-do broker is more likely to be exposed to book learning earlier and more intensively than is a child of a laborer. And extensive practice at reading and calculating does affect, very directly, one's IQ score. That is one plausible way of interpreting the statistical link between parental socioeconomic status and a child's IQ. From an article in Scientific American, Feb 1995
Henry, I'd also like to make you aware that the main point of The Bell Curve was to turn people against affirmative action. Bob Herbert of the NYT famously said it was "just a genteel way of calling someone a nigger." When you quote statistics from such a book the people reading your posts (or, worse, listening to you) will assume that you know this, and that you are a goddamn Nazi. If that isn't the case, it'd be a good idea to examine your belief system in order to determine exactly why you find this concept attractive.
It's amazing that you'll take the time to do a "little calculation with the old z-table" but not a "little search with the old g-table".
BTW, your "IQ boosting pill" is called "Education". It's freely available, but the dosage and quality will vary depending on your location. Looks like you got a bad one.
Great comment... too bad it's not high enough up to see any moderation.
The implied social contract is breaking down, and I don't think the kids started it.
I keep hearing about a "social contract", mainly from older books and people. It sounds like a nice idea in theory, but implies a level of altruism and commitment I really don't see coming from the leaders (business and govt.) of our country.
Once again, we have a discussion focused primarily on "my rights", without any discussion whatsoever of your resposibilities to, and as a representitive of, your employer.
I'm not sure where people get the idea that their employees still come with some sort of built-in loyalty. That's over, at least for the younger generations. Must have been weird living in the 50s.
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are you really going to roll the dice on a 1% chance of losing New York/London/Paris/Moscow/Beijing?
Doesn't it seem like you'd get the same MAD results if you threatened to nuke your own country? "If one bomb touches us, they all go off! Enjoy your remaining half-life, Ivan." It's a quick death versus a slow one (except, if memory serves, in New Zealand).
I'm being flip for the karma, but this is a non-rhetorical question. Humans wouldn't survive a total stockpile detonation, would they?
Any slightly erotic sculpture from prehistory is labeled a "venus" (which should tell an outsider buckets about our culture). Try searching for 'venus' and 'prehistoric'.
If popular culture teaches us anything, it's that a Mars landing always means DEATH.
It makes me wonder why we as the most advanced and technologically superior country, have failed to capture Osama bin Laden
Huh... according to high ranking scuttlebutt at the pentagon we've known precisely where OBL has been hiding for the past few years. Independantly related to me by two separate individuals... Top Men, both.
I think the real suprise is that you totally buy the whole "we're so inept we can't find a dialysis patient in the middle of a country the size of Texas" argument. Would you believe it if they were talking about soviet russia back in the 60s? Nope. But for some reason you see pictures of these neck-beard dirt farmers today and suddenly all bets are off.
yah, I see that:
1) you're trying to have a conversation about two separate topics w/ 2 separate people
2) you've mixed up both the topics and the people already
3) you've replied to your OWN posts when you meant to reply to someone else's
4) you really like the word 'semantics'
Have to say that I'm really enjoying the fact that you work in IT but get pissed off by ppl arguing over linguistics. The irony is maxing my CPU out.
How many colocation providers or dedicated server providers charge you for electricity?
I'm sure they pass the cost of electricity on to you, the customer. If their bills start going up I'd bet they raise your rates.
Actually, just-for-the-hell-of-it random crime in general is a lot harder to trace than motivated crime.
Yeah, it seems that triangulation would only be appropriate if we're talking about a repeated pattern of accessing known hotspots. To raise an unpleasant analogy, how much more difficult would it be to catch a belltower sniper if they only fired one shot?
I should point out that these blackhats in particular should NEVER get caught unless they are extremely prideful and/or stupid
I dunno, NEVER is a pretty strong word. I just don't think I'd trust a "they'll never catch me, I'm using a radio!" mentality to keep me out of prison.
Yeah, I started out searching for a way to add a third antenna onto a linksys and found the new belkin. I was thinking that the antennas might be detachable (or MADE to be detachable) for better positioning... just interesting to see a stock router w/ 3. Hmm... would simply weaving a strip of foil between the antennas suffice?
The MAC address is a non-issue, from my perspective. We're interested in physical location here, not network identity. Unless you've got to weed out one rogue connection from a slew of legit, all in the same building, I just don't see this as relevant other than as a reference point.
As far as logs being held up in court, I don't know. How are crimes prosecuted now? I'm guessing that there is a way to present them as legal evidence, or we'd all just be telling the RIAA to go fuck themselves.
Again, I just don't think it's safe to assume that a wifi connection is anonymous as far as your physical location is concerned.
You might have saved yourself a little time if you'd taken note of the article's host domain.
I'm no blackhat, but I've got to point out that any hacker that's been arrested is careless, and it's been that way for quite a few years now.
I think your assumption relies on the feds (et al) trying to track you down after the fact. WiFi is anonymous only when you're disconnected.
Hmm, was just thinking about how easy it'd be to triangulate a connection to my home router, and noticed Belkin's pre-n wireless router on their home page. 3 antennas. I think it'd behoove our leet brothers and sisters to assume that any wifi connection is being logged and xreferenced w/ google maps, with a little flag over your treehouse that reads "asshat".
Of course, anyone w/ a handheld RF monitor, a couple of friends and the willingness to burn a little shoe leather can grab you in real time.
That's what I immediately thought of... seems like a real hardware-intensive way to do the same thing, for more money and less functionality. I read the FA, am I missing something? (emoticon denoting my comment as snark-free)
However, if a librarian sees something illegal going on, wouldn't it be his or her duty to report it for further investigation?
I know that teachers and doctors are required by federal law to report child abuse. Not sure if there is the same requirement for librarians, but I'd kind of doubt it since they aren't in the same position of trust. As far as any other sort of activity, are any of us legally (if not morally) obligated to rat out another citizen?
Obviously should have read "Perens poo-poos penguin patent pool".
It depends on what you mean by "physical discipline". I think the way it works in most states today is that you may torment your child to your heart's content, but if it leaves a mark you've crossed the line.
I've heard lots of people have problems with ATI cards
Since I'm not going to be doing any gaming w/ this box, I'm thinking about just pulling that ATI card and using the onboard graphics chip. Gotta be more standard than the card, and I really can't remember if today's cards even assist w/ 2d acceleration anymore.
He was a respectable jazz musician before that song... just had his entire body of work eclipsed by a throwaway pop jingle. A lesson for us all, truly.
Yah, I'm starting to think that I've got a bad setup somehow. Trust me though, X runs like ass on my fairly new box. Since the monitor is connected to a mac and a windows box as well, I can pretty much rule out a bad one.
So I can take it as read, guys, that any X issues I have relative to speed and refresh rate etc etc are my own personal problems. Even though my experience on modern hardware is identical to my experience on an old mac clone. Time to do some research I guess.
Just joking about the eyes... some sort of widget I remember from a while ago... they'd follow your cursor around the screen. Disregard.
Radiation King is a simpsons reference... in reality it was a giant old SuperMatch 21". When you'd turn it on any dust particles in the air would temporarily waver around the thing... kind of creepy.
Man, nothing like explaining a joke to make you feel lame.
It's a newer ATI (can't remember model offhand and I'm not in a position to check right now). Radeon 9xxx or something.
I was under the impression that X's slowness was due to it's aging and impossible-to-change-without-a-complete-rewrite client/server architecture. I'd be happy to learn that it just needs the latest drivers in order to render 2D properly. (side note, all the 3d games I've tried have worked flawlessly with stock install).
It handles like crap. It's slow and unresponsive on a top notch box. Dragging windows around leaves tracers. There are eyes that watch me from the toolbar, and they NEVER BLINK.
At least I no longer have to roll my own monitor profiles, but this might be because I finally got rid of the 20 year old Radiation King.
Does this mean we'll get a replacement for X anytime soon?
It hurts so bad. It's like being stuck somewhere between Win 3.1 and 95.
I've never purchased a Mac because they simply don't have the software titles I'm interested in and Windows does. I mean sure, they've got great stuff, but they lack in GAMES, yes games... I've said it, gotten it out. I'm a gamer and so are all of my friends. I'd venture to say a good chunk of those purchasing PC's are in the same group as me (surf the web and play games). So if the Apple OS became more popular, wouldn't more developers consider making a version of their game in the Apple OS flavor?
I don't understand... there are versions of both games (WoW and Battlefield) available for Mac right now. And please, don't tell me that there are other games out there... I think I'd have heard about them by now.
Here's an interesting paragraph (taken from one of the MANY, MANY papers written that tore the authors of The Bell Curve a new one over their shoddy research) that touches on education -> IQ (not that that was the main point of my comment, you slippery devil):
The socioeconomic status of one's parents cannot in any immediate sense "cause" one's IQ to be high or low. Family income obviously cannot directly determine a child's performance on an IQ test. But income and the other components of an index of socioeconomic status can serve as rough indicators of the rearing environment to which a child has been exposed. With exceptions, a child of a well-to-do broker is more likely to be exposed to book learning earlier and more intensively than is a child of a laborer. And extensive practice at reading and calculating does affect, very directly, one's IQ score. That is one plausible way of interpreting the statistical link between parental socioeconomic status and a child's IQ.
From an article in Scientific American, Feb 1995
Henry, I'd also like to make you aware that the main point of The Bell Curve was to turn people against affirmative action. Bob Herbert of the NYT famously said it was "just a genteel way of calling someone a nigger." When you quote statistics from such a book the people reading your posts (or, worse, listening to you) will assume that you know this, and that you are a goddamn Nazi. If that isn't the case, it'd be a good idea to examine your belief system in order to determine exactly why you find this concept attractive.
It's amazing that you'll take the time to do a "little calculation with the old z-table" but not a "little search with the old g-table".
BTW, your "IQ boosting pill" is called "Education". It's freely available, but the dosage and quality will vary depending on your location. Looks like you got a bad one.
Great comment... too bad it's not high enough up to see any moderation.
The implied social contract is breaking down, and I don't think the kids started it.
I keep hearing about a "social contract", mainly from older books and people. It sounds like a nice idea in theory, but implies a level of altruism and commitment I really don't see coming from the leaders (business and govt.) of our country.
Once again, we have a discussion focused primarily on "my rights", without any discussion whatsoever of your resposibilities to, and as a representitive of, your employer.
I'm not sure where people get the idea that their employees still come with some sort of built-in loyalty. That's over, at least for the younger generations. Must have been weird living in the 50s.