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> The real reason that directories under Windows Explorer take a long time to display is that after Windows Explorer loads the directory it then loads the metadata about the file and in some cases scans the file to
check which icon it should display. It's this action that causes the system to go slowly and causes network shares to slow down, not the file system. If you go to the CMD prompt and run a DIR on a given directory, you should notice that it goes by quite speedily with little disk action. Browse to it in Windows Explorer and it could take a while longer depending on the type of files stored in the directory.
Speaking of which, is there a registry key or hidden option I can tweak to make Windoze Exploder NOT DO THIS?
For Fark's sake, I'm also damn near taking my NTFS partitions with my pr0^H^H^Hmp3^H^H^Hware^H^H^H^H uh, application data, and turning them back into FAT32. NTFS = good for the drive that holds the OS. Good for servers. Waste of time for flat data.
> I'm reminded of the scene where he spins the data ring and hears about the war which destroyed
civilization having lasted over 300 years.
(Warning: very obscure musical reference comin' up)
H.G. Wells said in his last book, "Mind at the End of the Tether", that this - is the end. He said there will never be another generation. And today, fear, problems, bewilderment, on every side... Our time is desperately short... Our time is now... Is there a way out? Is there a way out?
> what if the "Tribe" is more than just a nation, we are on one planet, we are one race, Why can there not be one Tribe. Race is seperated by not being able to interbreed. Think of dogs, there is only a couple of races, but lots of breeds
You have obviously never observed canines in the wild.
If you are a dog, the two most important things in your life are knowing who's in your pack and who's not, and knowing where, in your pack's dominance hierarchy, you stand with respect to any other dog in your pack that you deal with.
A Chihuahua lost in the arctic, howling "Sing Kum-ba-yah with me and share your warmth, for we are all canine!" to a nearby wolf pack, will soon learn a new meaning for "Yo quiero Taco Bell".
> Holy Crap!! Richard Dawkin is a/.er! > and he's been possessed by Rummy!
*ROFLMAO*, I know you meant it as an insult, but actually, that's a pretty fair summation of my point of view. [evil grin]
> Yes, more money for guns in space. Less money for education, so we'll be sure to continue electing morons who don't know anything about foreign policy, and we'll be sure to have an action-packed future with laser cannons and all kinds of cool shit like.
The current education system produces slack-jawed drooling morons suitable only as cannon fodder for the next election.
Historically, that's been OK. Education is useful to tribal alphas only insofar that it preserves the tribe's social stability. Since the Industrial Revolution, the purpose of public education has never been anything more than the production of an army of workers who know how to show up on time, start working when a bell rings, and stop working when another bell rings, then go home to mate, spawn, and die.
That works when there's only one tribe, or when you're the top tribe by a colossal margin. It's no longer a stable system when the tribe next door (whose culture does value education as well as the maintenance of an ordered society) realizes that it's hit critical mass, and that it can now start producing laser cannons and researching bioengineered tissue samples to produce rad-hardened cyber-brains that can be hooked up to fire the laser cannons. (Meanwhile, our tribe stares and navel-gazes, fretting uselessly about "Frankenfoods" and "Fetal rights". Rest of the world's busy using the tech.)
And that's when I start to worry about the education we provide to our tribe's next generation. So for the record - yeah, I'm the product of a memetic crossbreeding between Dawkins and Rummy-on-crack - but I'm in favor of more dollars for education, provided that those dollars are used in crushing the teachers' unions, wiping out the public school system, and replacing the whole damn thing with private schools and vouchers.
A free market in school choice will allow for both the production of slack-jawed creationist hicks and conformist inner-city welfare slugs useful only as sources of votes in the next election (characterizations of hicks and slugs may vary depending on which alpha you vote for; you need to be within 10 points of a 50/50 split between both alphas for optimal stability), but at least some of my tribe will get enough of an education to build laser cannons, too.
No, I don't think the future is going to be pretty, but it can at least be pretty neat.
> It really is sad. All that money, technology, and thinking time that could be spent for the advancement of our knowledge. > >
Without this turning into a "world peace" argument, I think that the only time we'll ever really get anywhere is when the nations begin to work together.
Humans are tribal animals. We will not "work together", because it is not in our nature to "work with" competing tribes. Don't like it? Wait 3-4 million years and see if there's evolutionary pressure to change our nature. Or not. Evolution's a blind watchmaker - perhaps tribalism is a good thing, so long as we're smart enough not to exterminate ourselves in the process of wiping out competing tribes.
In the meantime, the militarization of space is a Good Thing. Again, we're tribal animals. If you want to get off this rock in your lifetime, you're going to need your tribe to pour billions of dollars into space research.
Your fellow tribesmen aren't going to pour billions of dollars into R&D just to put you into orbit. They just might pour that money into R&D if they think that doing so will provide them with a military advantage over (or at least keep pace with) a competing tribe.
Remember that funding, not rocket fuel, is what makes rockets go up. The only way launch costs are going to get to $100/pound is if someone wants to put a 5000-ton gunnery platform up there within a $1B budget.
> IBM has the money, why not offer SCO a buyout?
> >
SCO would go either one of three ways..
> >
1. they'd accept
2. they'd (hah) politely decline
3. they'd decline, then tell the media that IBM has no faith in their case due to the attempted buyout, and just whore up more media time > >I hate to dis such a great idea, but SCO is pre-destined to choose 3.
Incorrect. SCO would accept the buyout.
This whole thing started when SCO decided they could extort a $200-300M buyout by suing IBM for $1B. "You know that in court, whether we have a leg to stand on doesn't matter, so long as we can confuse a judge. Buy us out now for a relative pittance, or take your chances with the court."
IBM said "You've got to be fucking kidding us. We'll take our chances in court. We don't believe you'll find a judge dumb enough to fall for your scam."
And so, here we are. But I assure you, if IBM were to capitulate and offer SCO the buyout, SCO would take it, because a buyout is what they've wanted all along..
> The Spamhaus Project says that "90% of spam received by Internet users in North
America and Europe is sent by a hard-core group of under 200 spam outfits." Yet these companies/individuals know that their marketing hardly ever works (what's the reply rate of spam? Something like.0001%?). So why do they keep coming to work? Are they idiots? Or just
malignant bastards?
The 200-odd spam kingpins are malignant bastards. They are not idiots.
> And why do companies keep using spam for advertising?
The customers of Eddy Marin and the 200-odd spam kingpins are both malignant bastards and idiots.
If you hire Eddy Marin to spam for you, Eddy Marin makes money whether you make money or not. If you're an idiot and a malignant bastard, you'll hire an Ethikul E-Bidniz Murketeer to "help you get the message out to a 100% confirmed opt-in list of targets, the EEBM will gladly take your money and ruin your reputation (Ford, DaimlerChrysler, Martha Stewart Online).
So yeah, that's why, even despite a near-zero response rate and the visceral hatred his marketing campaigns bring towards his customers, Eddy Marin gets up in the morning and goes to work.
> Is it just me, or does anyone else wish that the government was forced to enforce its own laws,
instead of picking and choosing when and where to do so? There are a truly ridiculous number of laws on the books that are rarely enforced, until the prosecutors feel they have a "good" case to drop the hammer on some poor schmuck.
> > The public doesn't care about laws that aren't enforced, so most people break the law every day blissfully unaware. It would seem that laws that nobody cares about need to be done away with, instead of criminalizing large portions of the population.
"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said
Dr. Ferris. "We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that
it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against - then you'll know
that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We're after power
and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick,
and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares
so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live
without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens'
What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that
can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt.
Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."
- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957.
Enforcement is not an option. There are so many laws on the books that the system would collapse under the weight of its own bureaucracy if even a tenth of them were enforced.
Repeal is not an option. Dropping the laws would be nothing short of suicidal in terms of maintaining control over a fundamentally lawless population.
The only solution that makes sense is the present one. Your freedom comes with responsibility. Use it wisely.
he music in your headphones is drowned out by the > Weird. I don't know why the girl that lives next door would be calling verisign in the middle of the night, though.
Dude, you soe owe me a new keyboard to replace this coffee-stained one.
> It should be noted that the bugs in the BIND patch are really Verisign's fault, not ISC's. Verisign
(Network Solutions) is the company that unilaterally decided to break the.com and.net TLD servers by making them return false data, with almost no advance warning. ISC basically came up with an emergency response to support their customers, and it's unsurprising that it wasn't perfect.
Preach on, brother. None of this would have happened had Verislime decided that it wanted to 0wn teh intarweb.
Q: How do you know your sysadmin is talking to someone at Verisign?
A: The music in your headphones is drowned out by the thump-thump-thump of a head being banged on a desk, as well as the words "cocksucker" and "motherfucker", at a range of at least six cubicles.
> Find out that bunghole police officer has habit of abusing power.
"Objection. The witness [Officer Unfriendly] is not on trial. The defendant is on trial. What is relevant is whether or not the defendant was resisting arrest on October 13, 2003, not whether Officer Unfriendly has gone through one crate of pepper spray every month since 1997."
> The location and type of the nuclear weapons assigned to the USS Nimitz Battle-Group might be
"Top-Secret" but where Admiral Hagbutt's Comcast bill is sent isn't "Top-Secret".
Suppose we have two direct-to-satellite TV companies, FunkySat and FloozySat.
FunkySat officially only offers coverage to the Indian subcontinent, and the only American FloozySat subscribers are on the edge of its footprint in Alaska.
If I find on GIA that Admiral Hagbutt has cancelled his Comcast subscription, and I also find on GIA that he's purchased a six-month FunkySat and FloozySat subscription, then insofar as the location of his Battle Group is Top Secret, I'd goddamn well better treat his satellite TV subscriptions as Top Secret too.
The rest of your post, I also agree with, especially this part:
> I really think the most important part of this story and the changes in the GIA is the fact that they want to move it to a system where they can't be sued if they post incorrect information. > > That is a bad, bad idea.
Corollary: If you're working at MIT and are worried about getting sued because your users are posting libel (or worse, compromising national or personal security) as part of your pet project, then perhaps you should (oh, I dunno), stop running your pet project.:)
> There are likely many people in positions of government power that are abusing that power, but since they are relatively obscure, they don't get much notice. For instance, you get pulled over by a police officer that is abusive and he gives you a ticket that you don't deserve. You go home, do a search in this system and you get a whole list of crap that this person has done. You could carry this into court and get this person in some hot water.
"get this person in some hot water".
That's the most interesting misspelling for "get thrown out of court on your ass for attempting to introduce hearsay as evidence" I've seen yet! What kind of keyboard do you have? I want one!
> Judge returns to court and sentances everyone at Glib Telemarketing to a slow and painful death. > >What does it take to make our world come alive? What does it take to make us sing? (SoM// Vision Thing)
Best juxtaposition of.sig and post ever.
One million points of light, each one a telemarketer from Glib Telemarketing being burnt at the stake. That's my Vision Thing, and the next time there's a recall election, I'm running for Governor on it!
> if you look at what the patriot act has been used for, it's being used not in hunting
down terrorists, but for cyber-crime and drug lords,
Patrick Henry didn't say "Give me skr1pt-k1ddi3z hopped up on h4xr03d-sudafed or give me death".
> The government's tools of data extraction have gotten better; we need better ways to keep ourselves safe. I'm not perfect, none of us are.
Then perhaps it's time to start rethinking our priorities and working towards perfection.
If we cannot behave responsibly without Big Brother looking over our virtual shoulder 24/7, what does that say about us?
Perhaps we're no longer capable of handling the type of liberty of the sort that Ben Franklin wrote about. Freedom comes with responsibility.
> Do we really want every aspect of our lives open to the government? Even if we trust the current government (which I do not), who is to say that future goverments will deserve even the trust our current gov't does?
Whether you (or I) want it or not, the people have - through their elected representatives - decided that yes, they do trust this administration and those that succeed it. The time for that debate has long since passed.
> "Now looky here boy. Ya ain't under oath. Hell, we ain't even accused ya of a crime yet, so ya can just stuff all that Fifth Ammendment malarky. Ya gots to tell us whether ya did it or not."
> > "Bite me." > > "Damn, we didn't count on that."
*grin*.
"Your Honor, when he asked me what I thought of that, I realized that lying to him - even though neither under oath nor arrest - was obstruction of justice. That's when I told him he could either bite me, or go fuck himself. And that's why I'm here as plaintiff in a civil suit for medical expenses to for the stitches from the bite marks outa my arm, and why he's countersuing me for his dental bills."
> That doesn't mean simply the expression of ideas, but also in what manner I express those ideas. > >
That includes whatever particular language or encoding system I desire to use. > >
If the FBI wishes to to figure out what my speach means, well, that's up to them kid.
Yep. Of course, the FBI also has the right to ask Congress to require that your speect be wiretappable. Or rather to use one of the many laws that Congress has already passed to that effect - and merely start enforcing it.
The Fourth don't apply, because Congress has made an end-run around it in law. Except it's *not* an end-run, because it's been repeatedly upheld by the Supreme Court. The Fourth applies just fine. It's just that what you think the Fourth means, ain't what the Fourth means.
> I also have the right to be secure in my papers. Even if those "papers" are digital and I cannot be forced to testify against myself. > >
Again, the FBI can go scratch.
As you do not swear an oath to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you [Whups, First Amendment prohibits the use of that word in a Federal Building, you know, the word describing a non-demoninational supernatural entity! The First does apply!]
Anyways - what you say in email, on the phone, or over an encrypted VoIP tunnel, ain't testimony. So the Fifth don't apply.
> Once upon a time until a judge agreed that there was sufficient evidence that I had actually commited a crime the FBI had no right to even question my speach or papers in the first place
That time is over. Deal.
If your "freedom" only resulted in you being buried under tons of radioactive rubble, I'd be all for it. But when your "freedom" and "rights" have the potential to enable our enemies to slaughter millions of your countrymen alongside you, perhaps it's time to reconsider.
Life. Liberty. Pursuit of happiness. Choose any two, but without life, you cannot pursue happiness, for the dead have no liberty.
> Also, pauldy, I'm not saying "government bad". I'm saying "government cannot be trusted". Government, like fire, has its uses. But would you want a fire to burn out of control?
Forests are pretty. Forests after fires aren't pretty. But forests without periodic fires to cleanse them of decades rotting wood and dried-out tinder are disasters in the making.
If you lie about illegally importing a biohazard, and lie again about what you did with it, what else might you be lying about?
Given the choice, I'll take a little backfire (which this looks like) now, or even a big brush fire (which is what even the most tinfoil-hatted anti-PATRIOT types fear) if the backfire gets out of control, if it ups the odds of preventing the kind of attack that would prompt a full-blown wildfire (on the order of, say, Stalin's purges) further down the road.
Sometimes a fire is good for a forest. I think this is one of those times.
> Now it's your turn, people of the United States. Civil disobedience en masse! Writing and calling(!) your representatives! Voting for the correct candidates in elections! Or - vote at all, make use of your democratic rights!
Writing and calling your representatives is not civil disobedience.
Voting for the correct candidates - or any candidate at all - is not civil disobedience.
Civil disobedience consists in committing a crime, admitting it publicly, and being willing to face the punishment - however absurd - for that crime.
You appear to have committed 15 acts of civil disobedience in your post. I have committed only five.
because wotthehell archy there's a hell of a universe next door and lets see the pigfuckers from suncomm try and follow us there
> [Ever get that] April fools in October feeling? Slashdot poll: Initial reaction to SunnComm's suit: 1) You've got to be fucking kidding me? 2) You've got to be fucking kidding me? 3) You've got to be fucking kidding me? 4) You've got to be fucking kidding me? 5) Cowbody Neal has got to be fucking kidding me?!
1) What the fuck?
2) What the fucking fuck?
3) What the fucking fuck fuck?
4) Cowboy Neal doesn't even know what the fucking fuck fuck
(I have no point, I just like banging my head against the desk, screaming "What the fucking fuck fuck?" at the top of my lungs)
Kerio is a rules-based GUI-configurable software firewall tool. It ain't a hardware firewall, but it's IMO much more configurable and flexible than ZoneAlarm.
And Norton Ghost. Because if you're smart enough to keep your personal data on a separate partition from the OS and applications, re-dumping a partition takes 15 minutes when things get b0rk3d, thereby beating the fuck out of reinstalling Winblows and downloading patches.
> they don't want Jimmy's parents complaining about how their child got ragged on as a "Pikachu-f---er" during Pokemon Online.
Hey, that's a new one! I like it! Have you been playing Star Wars Galaxies too?:)
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> Likewise, no computer is hack proof. We all know why, so I wont bother explaing here. But to help
explain this to non-techs, I draw this comparison: In order for there to be a car where occupants are injury-free after an accident, the car's gas efficiency would be interpreted not in miles-per-gallon, but rather gallons-per-mile. Why? Because of the sheer weight such a car would have to be.
Better analogy:
Once you've gotten your co-worker to agree to a statement like that, point out that when everyone is driving an M1 Abrams "for safety", injury rates won't go down. If you're in an M1 and you collide head-on into another M1, both of you are going to have a Really Bad Day. You've got a huge added cost, but no real improvement in safety.
Security works like that. It's possible to do things that sound Really Really Good on paper, and cost Lots and Lots of Money, and still end up no safer than before.
Slashdot Mirror
Speaking of which, is there a registry key or hidden option I can tweak to make Windoze Exploder NOT DO THIS?
For Fark's sake, I'm also damn near taking my NTFS partitions with my pr0^H^H^Hmp3^H^H^Hware^H^H^H^H uh, application data, and turning them back into FAT32. NTFS = good for the drive that holds the OS. Good for servers. Waste of time for flat data.
(Warning: very obscure musical reference comin' up)
Crank up the bass and let it rip.
You have obviously never observed canines in the wild.
If you are a dog, the two most important things in your life are knowing who's in your pack and who's not, and knowing where, in your pack's dominance hierarchy, you stand with respect to any other dog in your pack that you deal with.
A Chihuahua lost in the arctic, howling "Sing Kum-ba-yah with me and share your warmth, for we are all canine!" to a nearby wolf pack, will soon learn a new meaning for "Yo quiero Taco Bell".
> and he's been possessed by Rummy!
*ROFLMAO*, I know you meant it as an insult, but actually, that's a pretty fair summation of my point of view. [evil grin]
> Yes, more money for guns in space. Less money for education, so we'll be sure to continue electing morons who don't know anything about foreign policy, and we'll be sure to have an action-packed future with laser cannons and all kinds of cool shit like.
The current education system produces slack-jawed drooling morons suitable only as cannon fodder for the next election. Historically, that's been OK. Education is useful to tribal alphas only insofar that it preserves the tribe's social stability. Since the Industrial Revolution, the purpose of public education has never been anything more than the production of an army of workers who know how to show up on time, start working when a bell rings, and stop working when another bell rings, then go home to mate, spawn, and die.
That works when there's only one tribe, or when you're the top tribe by a colossal margin. It's no longer a stable system when the tribe next door (whose culture does value education as well as the maintenance of an ordered society) realizes that it's hit critical mass, and that it can now start producing laser cannons and researching bioengineered tissue samples to produce rad-hardened cyber-brains that can be hooked up to fire the laser cannons. (Meanwhile, our tribe stares and navel-gazes, fretting uselessly about "Frankenfoods" and "Fetal rights". Rest of the world's busy using the tech.)
And that's when I start to worry about the education we provide to our tribe's next generation. So for the record - yeah, I'm the product of a memetic crossbreeding between Dawkins and Rummy-on-crack - but I'm in favor of more dollars for education, provided that those dollars are used in crushing the teachers' unions, wiping out the public school system, and replacing the whole damn thing with private schools and vouchers.
A free market in school choice will allow for both the production of slack-jawed creationist hicks and conformist inner-city welfare slugs useful only as sources of votes in the next election (characterizations of hicks and slugs may vary depending on which alpha you vote for; you need to be within 10 points of a 50/50 split between both alphas for optimal stability), but at least some of my tribe will get enough of an education to build laser cannons, too.
No, I don't think the future is going to be pretty, but it can at least be pretty neat.
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> Without this turning into a "world peace" argument, I think that the only time we'll ever really get anywhere is when the nations begin to work together.
Humans are tribal animals. We will not "work together", because it is not in our nature to "work with" competing tribes. Don't like it? Wait 3-4 million years and see if there's evolutionary pressure to change our nature. Or not. Evolution's a blind watchmaker - perhaps tribalism is a good thing, so long as we're smart enough not to exterminate ourselves in the process of wiping out competing tribes.
In the meantime, the militarization of space is a Good Thing. Again, we're tribal animals. If you want to get off this rock in your lifetime, you're going to need your tribe to pour billions of dollars into space research.
Your fellow tribesmen aren't going to pour billions of dollars into R&D just to put you into orbit. They just might pour that money into R&D if they think that doing so will provide them with a military advantage over (or at least keep pace with) a competing tribe.
Remember that funding, not rocket fuel, is what makes rockets go up. The only way launch costs are going to get to $100/pound is if someone wants to put a 5000-ton gunnery platform up there within a $1B budget.
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> SCO would go either one of three ways..
>
> 1. they'd accept 2. they'd (hah) politely decline 3. they'd decline, then tell the media that IBM has no faith in their case due to the attempted buyout, and just whore up more media time
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>I hate to dis such a great idea, but SCO is pre-destined to choose 3.
Incorrect. SCO would accept the buyout.
This whole thing started when SCO decided they could extort a $200-300M buyout by suing IBM for $1B. "You know that in court, whether we have a leg to stand on doesn't matter, so long as we can confuse a judge. Buy us out now for a relative pittance, or take your chances with the court."
IBM said "You've got to be fucking kidding us. We'll take our chances in court. We don't believe you'll find a judge dumb enough to fall for your scam."
And so, here we are. But I assure you, if IBM were to capitulate and offer SCO the buyout, SCO would take it, because a buyout is what they've wanted all along..
The 200-odd spam kingpins are malignant bastards. They are not idiots.
> And why do companies keep using spam for advertising?
The customers of Eddy Marin and the 200-odd spam kingpins are both malignant bastards and idiots.
If you hire Eddy Marin to spam for you, Eddy Marin makes money whether you make money or not. If you're an idiot and a malignant bastard, you'll hire an Ethikul E-Bidniz Murketeer to "help you get the message out to a 100% confirmed opt-in list of targets, the EEBM will gladly take your money and ruin your reputation (Ford, DaimlerChrysler, Martha Stewart Online).
So yeah, that's why, even despite a near-zero response rate and the visceral hatred his marketing campaigns bring towards his customers, Eddy Marin gets up in the morning and goes to work.
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> The public doesn't care about laws that aren't enforced, so most people break the law every day blissfully unaware. It would seem that laws that nobody cares about need to be done away with, instead of criminalizing large portions of the population.
Enforcement is not an option. There are so many laws on the books that the system would collapse under the weight of its own bureaucracy if even a tenth of them were enforced.
Repeal is not an option. Dropping the laws would be nothing short of suicidal in terms of maintaining control over a fundamentally lawless population.
The only solution that makes sense is the present one. Your freedom comes with responsibility. Use it wisely.
Dude, you soe owe me a new keyboard to replace this coffee-stained one.
Preach on, brother. None of this would have happened had Verislime decided that it wanted to 0wn teh intarweb.
Q: How do you know your sysadmin is talking to someone at Verisign?
A: The music in your headphones is drowned out by the thump-thump-thump of a head being banged on a desk, as well as the words "cocksucker" and "motherfucker", at a range of at least six cubicles.
It's called rules of evidence.
> Find out that bunghole police officer has habit of abusing power.
"Objection. The witness [Officer Unfriendly] is not on trial. The defendant is on trial. What is relevant is whether or not the defendant was resisting arrest on October 13, 2003, not whether Officer Unfriendly has gone through one crate of pepper spray every month since 1997."
"Sustained."
Suppose we have two direct-to-satellite TV companies, FunkySat and FloozySat. FunkySat officially only offers coverage to the Indian subcontinent, and the only American FloozySat subscribers are on the edge of its footprint in Alaska.
If I find on GIA that Admiral Hagbutt has cancelled his Comcast subscription, and I also find on GIA that he's purchased a six-month FunkySat and FloozySat subscription, then insofar as the location of his Battle Group is Top Secret, I'd goddamn well better treat his satellite TV subscriptions as Top Secret too.
The rest of your post, I also agree with, especially this part:
> I really think the most important part of this story and the changes in the GIA is the fact that they want to move it to a system where they can't be sued if they post incorrect information.
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> That is a bad, bad idea.
Corollary: If you're working at MIT and are worried about getting sued because your users are posting libel (or worse, compromising national or personal security) as part of your pet project, then perhaps you should (oh, I dunno), stop running your pet project. :)
"get this person in some hot water".
That's the most interesting misspelling for "get thrown out of court on your ass for attempting to introduce hearsay as evidence" I've seen yet! What kind of keyboard do you have? I want one!
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>What does it take to make our world come alive? What does it take to make us sing? (SoM
Best juxtaposition of .sig and post ever.
One million points of light, each one a telemarketer from Glib Telemarketing being burnt at the stake. That's my Vision Thing, and the next time there's a recall election, I'm running for Governor on it!
Patrick Henry didn't say "Give me skr1pt-k1ddi3z hopped up on h4xr03d-sudafed or give me death".
> The government's tools of data extraction have gotten better; we need better ways to keep ourselves safe. I'm not perfect, none of us are.
Then perhaps it's time to start rethinking our priorities and working towards perfection. If we cannot behave responsibly without Big Brother looking over our virtual shoulder 24/7, what does that say about us?
Perhaps we're no longer capable of handling the type of liberty of the sort that Ben Franklin wrote about. Freedom comes with responsibility.
> Do we really want every aspect of our lives open to the government? Even if we trust the current government (which I do not), who is to say that future goverments will deserve even the trust our current gov't does?
Whether you (or I) want it or not, the people have - through their elected representatives - decided that yes, they do trust this administration and those that succeed it. The time for that debate has long since passed.
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> "Bite me."
>
> "Damn, we didn't count on that."
*grin*.
"Your Honor, when he asked me what I thought of that, I realized that lying to him - even though neither under oath nor arrest - was obstruction of justice. That's when I told him he could either bite me, or go fuck himself. And that's why I'm here as plaintiff in a civil suit for medical expenses to for the stitches from the bite marks outa my arm, and why he's countersuing me for his dental bills."
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> That includes whatever particular language or encoding system I desire to use.
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> If the FBI wishes to to figure out what my speach means, well, that's up to them kid.
Yep. Of course, the FBI also has the right to ask Congress to require that your speect be wiretappable. Or rather to use one of the many laws that Congress has already passed to that effect - and merely start enforcing it.
The Fourth don't apply, because Congress has made an end-run around it in law. Except it's *not* an end-run, because it's been repeatedly upheld by the Supreme Court. The Fourth applies just fine. It's just that what you think the Fourth means, ain't what the Fourth means.
> I also have the right to be secure in my papers. Even if those "papers" are digital and I cannot be forced to testify against myself.
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> Again, the FBI can go scratch.
As you do not swear an oath to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you [Whups, First Amendment prohibits the use of that word in a Federal Building, you know, the word describing a non-demoninational supernatural entity! The First does apply!]
Anyways - what you say in email, on the phone, or over an encrypted VoIP tunnel, ain't testimony. So the Fifth don't apply.
> Once upon a time until a judge agreed that there was sufficient evidence that I had actually commited a crime the FBI had no right to even question my speach or papers in the first place
That time is over. Deal.
If your "freedom" only resulted in you being buried under tons of radioactive rubble, I'd be all for it. But when your "freedom" and "rights" have the potential to enable our enemies to slaughter millions of your countrymen alongside you, perhaps it's time to reconsider.
Life. Liberty. Pursuit of happiness. Choose any two, but without life, you cannot pursue happiness, for the dead have no liberty.
Forests are pretty. Forests after fires aren't pretty. But forests without periodic fires to cleanse them of decades rotting wood and dried-out tinder are disasters in the making.
If you lie about illegally importing a biohazard, and lie again about what you did with it, what else might you be lying about?
Given the choice, I'll take a little backfire (which this looks like) now, or even a big brush fire (which is what even the most tinfoil-hatted anti-PATRIOT types fear) if the backfire gets out of control, if it ups the odds of preventing the kind of attack that would prompt a full-blown wildfire (on the order of, say, Stalin's purges) further down the road.
Sometimes a fire is good for a forest. I think this is one of those times.
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> that all depends on who you know bucko.
And they make a great all-natural penis-growth method. Add 3-6 inches in minutes!
Doesn't help with getting the college degree, though.
Writing and calling your representatives is not civil disobedience.
Voting for the correct candidates - or any candidate at all - is not civil disobedience.
Civil disobedience consists in committing a crime, admitting it publicly, and being willing to face the punishment - however absurd - for that crime.
You appear to have committed 15 acts of civil disobedience in your post. I have committed only five.
because wotthehell archy there's a hell of a universe next door and lets see the pigfuckers from suncomm try and follow us there
1) What the fuck?
2) What the fucking fuck?
3) What the fucking fuck fuck?
4) Cowboy Neal doesn't even know what the fucking fuck fuck
(I have no point, I just like banging my head against the desk, screaming "What the fucking fuck fuck?" at the top of my lungs)
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> In that case, what everyone really wants to know is: "Is AT&T allowed ?
I SLASHDOTTED K1B0!
Does that mean I can finally use a fractional Kibo number?
Or at least put a "K++++andahalf" in my Geek Code entry? I mean, [censored]ing Kibo's webserver is pretty close to [censored] with Kibo himself.
Kerio Personal Firewall.
Kerio is a rules-based GUI-configurable software firewall tool. It ain't a hardware firewall, but it's IMO much more configurable and flexible than ZoneAlarm.
And Norton Ghost. Because if you're smart enough to keep your personal data on a separate partition from the OS and applications, re-dumping a partition takes 15 minutes when things get b0rk3d, thereby beating the fuck out of reinstalling Winblows and downloading patches.
Hey, that's a new one! I like it! Have you been playing Star Wars Galaxies too? :)
Better analogy:
Once you've gotten your co-worker to agree to a statement like that, point out that when everyone is driving an M1 Abrams "for safety", injury rates won't go down. If you're in an M1 and you collide head-on into another M1, both of you are going to have a Really Bad Day. You've got a huge added cost, but no real improvement in safety.
Security works like that. It's possible to do things that sound Really Really Good on paper, and cost Lots and Lots of Money, and still end up no safer than before.