[August 2002] "So, point five, that process which was initiated in the first week in February, uh, decided in principle, uh in the spring to add to the existing Clinton strategy and to increase CIA resources, for example, for covert action, five-fold, to go after Al Qaeda."
or
[60 Minutes, March 2004]
"Clarke was the president's chief adviser on terrorism, yet it wasn't until Sept. 11 that he ever got to brief Mr. Bush on the subject. Clarke says that prior to Sept. 11, the administration didn't take the threat seriously."
1. Payload. This small, and you can't really carry a lot of weight, and you can only make an effective explosive so small. A typical grenade is about a pound or so. Of course, you could make the a/c body out of the explosive, and send it on a one way trip...;) 2. Jamming. It's one thing to lose control of a camera toting aircraft, quite another to have your flying grenade turn around and get you. Armed Predators can cary much better antijam electronics, because they are biggger.
3. Speed. See it coming, and even on foot you could probably evade a grenade carrying R/C plane.
An effective weapons platform still needs to be somewhat bigger, primarily due to simple physics.
Split the back and front ends. Recommended procedure anyway.
Write a new Access2K front end for those on the front edge of the conversion bubble. Both the 2k and 97 (or XP or 2003) front ends talk to the same original back end.
You can even write a small routine to detect which client the user is using, and shunt him to the correct front end.
I don't see why the gov't can't invest in (and get a return from) a local ISP. Let the ISP run the system, let the gov't. help to fund it and when the profits appear, some of those go back to the gov't.
In light of what is currently going on with the FCC and the F word, Janet's boob, and Howard Stern, do you really want their hands in your internet traffic?
b) i get to use some handcuff microsoft monoply DRM schema instead of the aptly named "Fairplay" DRM from itunes.
[from Walmart] What are the restrictions on how I can use the music I download?
By purchasing a music download, you are entitled to:
Download the music to 1 computer and back up music to 2 additional computers (see instructions below)
Make 10 burns to a CD
Make unlimited transfers to a portable device
[from iTunes] In a nutshell, your FairPlay agreement entitles you to: play your music on up to three computers (and enjoy unlimited synching with iPods), allows unlimited burning for individual songs and lets you burn unchanged playlists up to 10 times each.
Except for AAC v WMA, iTunes v browser, Apple v Microsoft/Walmart, they sound quite similar.
But we'd never let facts get in the way of a good opportunity to get modded up by slamming MS, would we?
Dubious legality, IMHO. Depending on where you live.
When the first round of RIAA lawsuits came out, the mother of our poster child, the 12 year old, had evidently 'paid for' legal music. Or so she thought. $29.95 for KazaaPro. Many, many were the comments in here about "How could anyone be so stupid as to think that a mere $30 would give you legal access to ten's of thousands of songs?"
I pose the same question to you, dear allofmp3.com user. How is it that allofmp3 has negotiated such a better deal than Apple for all that music? On the order of $0.03 per song instead of $0.99 at iTunes? (of course the RIAA is in the mddle of that 99 cents there, skimming off a bunch, but THAT much?)
Of course the allofmp3 content manager is going to say it's legit. Did you expect him to say "naaa...it's all illegal, but we're in Russia, backed by the Russian Mafia, so they can't touch us."
1. Why would they? 2. Force a site hosted in Korea how, exactly? 3. Define 'porn site'. Does that include your beach vacation photolog, that happens to include a topless woman in the background of one of your shots?
Manipulating a 2D space (your screen) with a 3D view is counterintuitive, unless you're actually building something (CAD). If we had an actual 3D monitor that you can look in from the side, then a 3D GUI might work.
A bit? Did he or didn't he vote for taking action in Iraq? [Yes, he did] Did he or didn't he vote for the $87B to fund it? [No, he didn't] If you ask him, we might never actually know WTF he stands for.
decorated Vietnam vet
...who threw his medals away in a very public showing. And then displayed them on his office wall. And now uses those medals as a campaign point.
best hope for a not-Bush president
'Not-Bush' Would Kerry actually be a better president, and why? [Because he's 'not Bush' is not an answer] Be specific. There will be a test.
I speak for myself when I say that "vigilante" is not a word we ever claimed. We aren't raging against internet piracy or p2p.
Oh really? Your statements on website would seem to disagree with that
"At the start of this year, we (Justin and Clif, Clif and Justin) decided to start a new project. We declared war on illegal file sharing and pirates. The goal was to waste their time and bandwidth while tracking them and how the file moves around.
Other 'interesting statements: 3. We dissagree with the notion that this is a "Trojan". Our program is aboslutely dormant unless specifically and purposefully executed by the downloader.
Exactly the same as the Beagle and other email trojan variants.
We aren't reporting these people to anyone in
the law enforment field, even though we should be.
Why is it that so many of these government security programs seem afronted by the concept of "transparency". They say things like "race and national origin will absolutely not be considered", but they don't give you any idea of what WILL be.
Because if they DID say "We will be looking primarily at ethnic Basques, Muslims, and Northern Irish", they would be so inundated with defamation and discrimiation suits that nothing would ever get done.
Add to that the obscurity bit - "No, we're not going to publish the parameters, so the bad guys cannot predict how to beat the system"
Have the Martians knock down a skyscraper, like the Sears Tower or the Transamerica building.
Unfortunately, I think they'd probably shy away from knocking down any skyscrapers. The tie-in with the current terrorist thing, and the current round of elections would be too much.
"yes...we defeated those evil 'aliens' that knocked down our skyscraper!"
How about a virus that does nothing but try to spread as far and wide as possible without doing anything malicious. Then, after a pre-determined ammount of time it would announce its presence to the luser and provide both instructions for its removal and common sense advice on how to avoid being infected by viri in the first place.
Interesting, yes. But, unfortunately, its delivery to the user wouldn't differ significantly from the endless popups proclaiming "Your PC is broadcasting its address!!!!" Very hard to tell the valid from the evil to the unwashed.
Later, one of the little kiddies will take it apart, insert some small malicious thing, and send it on its way again.
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Well..I guess you have a different definition of contradiction than I do.
"increase resources to go after Al-Qaeda" and "didn't take the threat seriously" sure sound different to me.
Richard Clarke is telling the truth.
Which truth?
[August 2002]
"So, point five, that process which was initiated in the first week in February, uh, decided in principle, uh in the spring to add to the existing Clinton strategy and to increase CIA resources, for example, for covert action, five-fold, to go after Al Qaeda."
or
[60 Minutes, March 2004] "Clarke was the president's chief adviser on terrorism, yet it wasn't until Sept. 11 that he ever got to brief Mr. Bush on the subject. Clarke says that prior to Sept. 11, the administration didn't take the threat seriously."
A grenade is around a pound. You'd need a bigger a/c to carry a pound of dead weight.
Now...if you build the body or skin out of the explosive...
1. Payload. This small, and you can't really carry a lot of weight, and you can only make an effective explosive so small. A typical grenade is about a pound or so. Of course, you could make the a/c body out of the explosive, and send it on a one way trip...;)
2. Jamming. It's one thing to lose control of a camera toting aircraft, quite another to have your flying grenade turn around and get you. Armed Predators can cary much better antijam electronics, because they are biggger.
3. Speed. See it coming, and even on foot you could probably evade a grenade carrying R/C plane.
An effective weapons platform still needs to be somewhat bigger, primarily due to simple physics.
Actually, it doesn't have to be that hard.
Split the back and front ends. Recommended procedure anyway.
Write a new Access2K front end for those on the front edge of the conversion bubble. Both the 2k and 97 (or XP or 2003) front ends talk to the same original back end.
You can even write a small routine to detect which client the user is using, and shunt him to the correct front end.
All front ends talk to a common back end.
What did you expect them to say?
"Their product almost as good as ours, so don't bother giving us money."
Sales/marketing will say anything to promote their own stuff.
Remember...there was a marketing team for the Edsel and the Yugo.
I don't see why the gov't can't invest in (and get a return from) a local ISP. Let the ISP run the system, let the gov't. help to fund it and when the profits appear, some of those go back to the gov't.
In light of what is currently going on with the FCC and the F word, Janet's boob, and Howard Stern, do you really want their hands in your internet traffic?
'Invest in' will = 'control of'.
So videos and images of anal rape, bondage, gangbangs...are not 'porn', as long as they're not selling something?
Yes, the iTunes licensing is somewhat less restrictive. But the parent to which I was responding implied a much wider gulf between the two.
handcuff microsoft monoply DRM schema
vs
aptly named "Fairplay" DRM
b) i get to use some handcuff microsoft monoply DRM schema instead of the aptly named "Fairplay" DRM from itunes.
[from Walmart]
What are the restrictions on how I can use the music I download?
By purchasing a music download, you are entitled to:
Download the music to 1 computer and back up music to 2 additional computers (see instructions below)
Make 10 burns to a CD
Make unlimited transfers to a portable device
[from iTunes]
In a nutshell, your FairPlay agreement entitles you to:
play your music on up to three computers (and enjoy unlimited synching with iPods),
allows unlimited burning for individual songs and
lets you burn unchanged playlists up to 10 times each.
Except for AAC v WMA, iTunes v browser, Apple v Microsoft/Walmart, they sound quite similar.
But we'd never let facts get in the way of a good opportunity to get modded up by slamming MS, would we?
I want to be able to choose for my electricy comes from a hydro plant and not a coal plant for example.
Assuming, of course, that there is a hydro plant in the general vicinity.
Dubious legality, IMHO. Depending on where you live.
When the first round of RIAA lawsuits came out, the mother of our poster child, the 12 year old, had evidently 'paid for' legal music. Or so she thought. $29.95 for KazaaPro. Many, many were the comments in here about "How could anyone be so stupid as to think that a mere $30 would give you legal access to ten's of thousands of songs?"
I pose the same question to you, dear allofmp3.com user.
How is it that allofmp3 has negotiated such a better deal than Apple for all that music? On the order of $0.03 per song instead of $0.99 at iTunes? (of course the RIAA is in the mddle of that 99 cents there, skimming off a bunch, but THAT much?)
Of course the allofmp3 content manager is going to say it's legit. Did you expect him to say "naaa...it's all illegal, but we're in Russia, backed by the Russian Mafia, so they can't touch us."
Read the allofmp3 legal bits.
creating a .kids domain that is limited to pg-13 content.
Wheee....a ready made playground for pedophiles to troll for victims.
How would you enforce the content limitation?
force all of the porn sites to go there.
1. Why would they?
2. Force a site hosted in Korea how, exactly?
3. Define 'porn site'. Does that include your beach vacation photolog, that happens to include a topless woman in the background of one of your shots?
we have a true, 3D monitor.
Manipulating a 2D space (your screen) with a 3D view is counterintuitive, unless you're actually building something (CAD). If we had an actual 3D monitor that you can look in from the side, then a 3D GUI might work.
Flip-flopped on issues a bit,
A bit? Did he or didn't he vote for taking action in Iraq? [Yes, he did]
Did he or didn't he vote for the $87B to fund it? [No, he didn't]
If you ask him, we might never actually know WTF he stands for.
decorated Vietnam vet
...who threw his medals away in a very public showing. And then displayed them on his office wall. And now uses those medals as a campaign point.
best hope for a not-Bush president
'Not-Bush'
Would Kerry actually be a better president, and why? [Because he's 'not Bush' is not an answer]
Be specific. There will be a test.
The Blackjack is also about 50% bigger than the B-1
I speak for myself when I say that "vigilante" is not a word we ever claimed. We aren't raging against internet piracy or p2p.
Oh really? Your statements on website would seem to disagree with that
"At the start of this year, we (Justin and Clif, Clif and Justin) decided to start a new project. We declared war on illegal file sharing and pirates. The goal was to waste their time and bandwidth while tracking them and how the file moves around.
Other 'interesting statements:
3. We dissagree with the notion that this is a "Trojan".
Our program is aboslutely dormant unless specifically and purposefully executed by the downloader.
Exactly the same as the Beagle and other email trojan variants.
We aren't reporting these people to anyone in the law enforment field, even though we should be.
Yes you are. By posting it online, in real time.
We could go on...
The logging happens when they click a button.
Do you tell them of that fact before they click?
It appears you don't. There is no other escape button on the popup window. No other mechanism, other than alt-F4, to dismiss your box.
You give the user little opportunity to not have it phone home.
A LOT of comments about loss of privacy, false positives, etc, etc
Ok....how would YOU do it?
If this is the wrong solution, what is the right solution?
Why is it that so many of these government security programs seem afronted by the concept of "transparency". They say things like "race and national origin will absolutely not be considered", but they don't give you any idea of what WILL be.
Because if they DID say "We will be looking primarily at ethnic Basques, Muslims, and Northern Irish", they would be so inundated with defamation and discrimiation suits that nothing would ever get done.
Add to that the obscurity bit - "No, we're not going to publish the parameters, so the bad guys cannot predict how to beat the system"
Have the Martians knock down a skyscraper, like the Sears Tower or the Transamerica building.
Unfortunately, I think they'd probably shy away from knocking down any skyscrapers. The tie-in with the current terrorist thing, and the current round of elections would be too much.
"yes...we defeated those evil 'aliens' that knocked down our skyscraper!"
If I get rear-ended at traffic lights, I can take some photos of the incident to supply with the insurance forms as an example.
That's why I keep a film disposable in the car. Basically free, always ready to use, no questions about digital editing.
I have a number of servers and custom applications configured to notify me by text message, in the event of a problem.
Are these work servers? If so, ask them exactly how you should be notified in case there is a problem? Clairvoyance?
How about a virus that does nothing but try to spread as far and wide as possible without doing anything malicious. Then, after a pre-determined ammount of time it would announce its presence to the luser and provide both instructions for its removal and common sense advice on how to avoid being infected by viri in the first place.
Interesting, yes. But, unfortunately, its delivery to the user wouldn't differ significantly from the endless popups proclaiming "Your PC is broadcasting its address!!!!" Very hard to tell the valid from the evil to the unwashed.
Later, one of the little kiddies will take it apart, insert some small malicious thing, and send it on its way again.