I've got a son turning 18 (draft age) in 4 years, so I'm shopping for a new nationality; Canada tops the list, but the whole socialist/no guns without heavy registration thing really puts me off. Anyone else manage to come up with a better alternative? my priorities are: 1) No Gestapo 2) I keep my guns (in case #1 changes) 3) Decent Schools
I don't agree with you. The US Supreme Court has determined that the freedom to read is strongly associated with freedom of speech; the patriot act has a chilling effect on the freedom to read by state enquiry into reading, for such an enquiry immediately suggests that some topics are off limits.
As a ISP, there is one aspect that is of particular concern, the enforcement of silence about investigations, which is a dangerous loss of executive accountability and itself an infringement on free speech; granted, a gag order could be issued by a judge in the past with much the same results, but a gag order was hard to get by law enforcement in the past because it was a clear violation of the 1st amendment.
Perhaps you can expand upon that? I thought it was accepted/. mantra that the patriot act has a chilling effect on free speech. but hey, if we're wrong...
for anyone who has trouble seeing it, I set up some non-evil versions (quictime, DivX, MPG) at http://www.changestorm.com.nyud.net:8090/downloads/Ballmer.htm 100% guaranteed goatse free.
The one on the left in the background is an IBM XT or a clone; I'm not sure about the one on the right; maybe a Lisa?
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I'm flogging a dead horse, as no one agrees with me; I obviously must be wrong, but.... example: FROST is a messaging application for freenet similar to usenet; when you post a message you are not setting up a relational database or anything like that, it's just text. freenet HAS legitimate uses, such as whistleblowing, the propogation of the DIEBOLD files, and posting information that you think your government wouldn't like you post. Does it make ANY sense to take something which could be easily read in the exact same format in which it was entered (text) and subject it to conversion to XML? up until mid-2003, it wasn't; you posted a.txt message containing only what you typed, and nothing else. Under the current system, the client requires 100% trust, as you have NO CLUE what is being sent out along with your message.
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Exactly! I mean WHERE is the artistry? if everyones software works the same and uses the same values, how is anyone going to become a code wizard like in days of yore?
um. Well, actually i wasn't being sarcastic, I just encounter too many situations where XML is used in a seemingly knee-jerk reaction instead of, for instance, a simple text file. the FREENET client FROST is a perfect example. a delimited text file would be a saner choice than using XML for structure in a application that is 100% about anonymity and security.
I hate XML. it's a totally useless waste of enthusiasm, and used for far too many things it shouldn't be used for. Like, for instance, anything involving security. Of course, that is just an opinion.
A winner! I would say a Magic Cookie, but that might cause problems... email me a shipping address, I'll send you a conventional cookie of the edible variety. Operation Sundevil. That was a fun thing, and the first instance that the government was capable of actually doing anything to make, um, "Technical Hobbyists" worry about covering their tracks.
Did anyone read the article? Think about how they are slanting things; the article gives the impression that the vast majority of new material is being initially provided by these shadow networks. Back in the day when I was dodging sundevils (a cookie if you get the reference), that was essentially true. In the current picture, it's a vast overstatement; yes, there are "elite top level" groups, but they are mainly kiddies; the majority of app and game files circulating on the 'net are either done by 1 person who figured out the crack from standard deprotection tools, or from the established cracking houses like paradox, class, etc. The wording and, um, flavor? of the article is to create a scary thing on the internet that even the relatively well informed have heard of remotely or even been a peripheral member of, much the same way the Bush administration manufactured links between 911 and Iraq, and for essentially the same reason. It IS obvious right? if you stop and think about it? This is just a step down the path of making us accept fewer online freedoms, as a necessary aspect of the war on cyber-terrorism.
Solitaire? very secure and reliable. Pinball is pretty good, also. I like the VPN client/server system built into NT-Win2k. it's very reliable, and the security problems it has are fixable with a little work. Exchange 5.5 mail server is robust and pretty secure.
We have the right to bear arms. or arm bears. I forget. "A well-regulated force consisting of all able-bodied civilians and female members of the national guard between ages 17 to 45 being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of those same people to keep and bear Arms suitable to an infantry force shall not be infringed" (the 2nd amendment restated using the expanded definition of what a militia is from U.S. Code, Title 10, Subtitle A, Part 1, Sec. 311) as we also have the right to defend ourselves with no restriction on weapon used, the rest follows.
I've seen "you don't understand multitasking" one too many times. Guess what? No one understands multitasking. It's a psychiatric concept when applied to humans, or in other words, not a hard science. It is one of those things which is impossible to know, or predict, except within very rough guidelines, much as with the ability to play a guitar; some people can't do it, some people can be trained to do it, and some people do it better than others without doing much more than picking one up.
Is it obvious to anyone else that this person was caught a while back, and has a sealed plea bargain for lesser sentence somewhere whhich he got by agreeing to let them monitor his activities for a while? Explains why he rolled over on himself so easily.
E v e n t L o g S H A D O W 1 4 : 3 6 : 0 4 P M 1 2 / 1 4 / 2 0 0 4 Ô $ mÔ $ m LfLe bAbAy
Maybe you aren't opening the right file? I had to take out enough to get by the junk filter, but aside from some non-standard characters and spacing between letters, it's completely readable. it's SysEvent.Evt; there are other system files there, and if you have your file extensions turned off (shudder) it's easy to click on the wrong one.
I just read the file in notepad. Next bet? (um, it's not EASY to read it in notepad, thats not the tool I would use by choice, as it's not formatted to be read in notepad). I used to keep tabs on a 70 sub-office WAN network by occasional checking the event logs.
Windows does log to plain text. Finally, a/.'r admitting that Win2k server is a "real server"... and wait, it's been about 0 degree's F here in N. Central KY (otherwise known as hell) for the last few days.... Ragnarok is coming!
Why does anyone use WinMX, Kazaa or any other spy and mal-ware software when
both eMule and
Shareaza are available? with source?
I guess I spend so much money on my hobby, CGI and the software for that, I
just can't handle the thought of buying something when a free application does
as good or better.
Some free software that is better than alternative commercial software (or
has no alternative):
You can also get tons of free software with the purchase of magazines (I
know, not really free); you can get the previous version or a free version of
just about any graphical app when you buy digit magazine, including software
that cost kilobucks as recently as a year ago.
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I've got a son turning 18 (draft age) in 4 years, so I'm shopping for a new nationality; Canada tops the list, but the whole socialist/no guns without heavy registration thing really puts me off.
Anyone else manage to come up with a better alternative? my priorities are:
1) No Gestapo
2) I keep my guns (in case #1 changes)
3) Decent Schools
Thank you for that ringing endorsement of my political views.
While you have an interesting point of view, I remain in disagreement.
I don't agree with you.
The US Supreme Court has determined that the freedom to read is strongly associated with freedom of speech; the patriot act has a chilling effect on the freedom to read by state enquiry into reading, for such an enquiry immediately suggests that some topics are off limits.
As a ISP, there is one aspect that is of particular concern, the enforcement of silence about investigations, which is a dangerous loss of executive accountability and itself an infringement on free speech; granted, a gag order could be issued by a judge in the past with much the same results, but a gag order was hard to get by law enforcement in the past because it was a clear violation of the 1st amendment.
Perhaps you can expand upon that? I thought it was accepted /. mantra that the patriot act has a chilling effect on free speech.
but hey, if we're wrong...
Damn.
Newbie mistake. I am SOOOO ashamed.
here it is without the spaces.
for anyone who has trouble seeing it, I set up some non-evil versions (quictime, DivX, MPG) at http://www.changestorm.com.nyud.net:8090/downloads /Ballmer.htm
100% guaranteed goatse free.
The one on the left in the background is an IBM XT or a clone; I'm not sure about the one on the right; maybe a Lisa?
I'm flogging a dead horse, as no one agrees with me; I obviously must be wrong, but.... .txt message containing only what you typed, and nothing else.
example: FROST is a messaging application for freenet similar to usenet; when you post a message you are not setting up a relational database or anything like that, it's just text.
freenet HAS legitimate uses, such as whistleblowing, the propogation of the DIEBOLD files, and posting information that you think your government wouldn't like you post.
Does it make ANY sense to take something which could be easily read in the exact same format in which it was entered (text) and subject it to conversion to XML? up until mid-2003, it wasn't; you posted a
Under the current system, the client requires 100% trust, as you have NO CLUE what is being sent out along with your message.
Exactly!
I mean WHERE is the artistry? if everyones software works the same and uses the same values, how is anyone going to become a code wizard like in days of yore?
um.
Well, actually i wasn't being sarcastic, I just encounter too many situations where XML is used in a seemingly knee-jerk reaction instead of, for instance, a simple text file.
the FREENET client FROST is a perfect example. a delimited text file would be a saner choice than using XML for structure in a application that is 100% about anonymity and security.
I hate XML.
it's a totally useless waste of enthusiasm, and used for far too many things it shouldn't be used for.
Like, for instance, anything involving security.
Of course, that is just an opinion.
Damn it, I just wasted my "+1, has a clue" mod on the previous topic.
A winner!
I would say a Magic Cookie, but that might cause problems...
email me a shipping address, I'll send you a conventional cookie of the edible variety.
Operation Sundevil. That was a fun thing, and the first instance that the government was capable of actually doing anything to make, um, "Technical Hobbyists" worry about covering their tracks.
-1 troll? could someone explain that to me?
Did anyone read the article?
Think about how they are slanting things; the article gives the impression that the vast majority of new material is being initially provided by these shadow networks.
Back in the day when I was dodging sundevils (a cookie if you get the reference), that was essentially true.
In the current picture, it's a vast overstatement; yes, there are "elite top level" groups, but they are mainly kiddies; the majority of app and game files circulating on the 'net are either done by 1 person who figured out the crack from standard deprotection tools, or from the established cracking houses like paradox, class, etc.
The wording and, um, flavor? of the article is to create a scary thing on the internet that even the relatively well informed have heard of remotely or even been a peripheral member of, much the same way the Bush administration manufactured links between 911 and Iraq, and for essentially the same reason.
It IS obvious right? if you stop and think about it? This is just a step down the path of making us accept fewer online freedoms, as a necessary aspect of the war on cyber-terrorism.
Solitaire? very secure and reliable.
Pinball is pretty good, also.
I like the VPN client/server system built into NT-Win2k. it's very reliable, and the security problems it has are fixable with a little work.
Exchange 5.5 mail server is robust and pretty secure.
We have the right to bear arms. or arm bears. I forget.
"A well-regulated force consisting of all able-bodied civilians and female members of the national guard between ages 17 to 45 being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of those same people to keep and bear Arms suitable to an infantry force shall not be infringed"
(the 2nd amendment restated using the expanded definition of what a militia is from U.S. Code, Title 10, Subtitle A, Part 1, Sec. 311)
as we also have the right to defend ourselves with no restriction on weapon used, the rest follows.
I've seen "you don't understand multitasking" one too many times.
Guess what? No one understands multitasking. It's a psychiatric concept when applied to humans, or in other words, not a hard science.
It is one of those things which is impossible to know, or predict, except within very rough guidelines, much as with the ability to play a guitar; some people can't do it, some people can be trained to do it, and some people do it better than others without doing much more than picking one up.
Good one.
Close.
Actually, it's the parents responsibility to provide their children with training and access to firearms, at the age the parents deems prudent.
Thats the way it was in the country, at least.
Is it obvious to anyone else that this person was caught a while back, and has a sealed plea bargain for lesser sentence somewhere whhich he got by agreeing to let them monitor his activities for a while?
Explains why he rolled over on himself so easily.
Odd, in mine it comes out like this:
E v e n t L o g S H A D O W 1 4 : 3 6 : 0 4 P M 1 2 / 1 4 / 2 0 0 4 Ô $ mÔ $ m LfLe bAbAy
Maybe you aren't opening the right file? I had to take out enough to get by the junk filter, but aside from some non-standard characters and spacing between letters, it's completely readable.
it's SysEvent.Evt; there are other system files there, and if you have your file extensions turned off (shudder) it's easy to click on the wrong one.
I just read the file in notepad.
Next bet?
(um, it's not EASY to read it in notepad, thats not the tool I would use by choice, as it's not formatted to be read in notepad).
I used to keep tabs on a 70 sub-office WAN network by occasional checking the event logs.
Windows does log to plain text. /.'r admitting that Win2k server is a "real server"... and wait, it's been about 0 degree's F here in N. Central KY (otherwise known as hell) for the last few days....
Finally, a
Ragnarok is coming!
Why does anyone use WinMX, Kazaa or any other spy and mal-ware software when both eMule and Shareaza are available? with source?
I guess I spend so much money on my hobby, CGI and the software for that, I just can't handle the thought of buying something when a free application does as good or better.
Some free software that is better than alternative commercial software (or has no alternative):
FREENET
Steel Panthers: World at War
Irfanview
PAF 5 (genealogy software, go to download products, ignore Marie Osmond's attempts to seduce you to the dark side)
GMAX 3D Modelling software
You can also get tons of free software with the purchase of magazines (I know, not really free); you can get the previous version or a free version of just about any graphical app when you buy digit magazine, including software that cost kilobucks as recently as a year ago.