I fail to understand why government systems like this are connected to the internet. The military industrial complex and FAA and other critical government systems should be tied into a seperate network. This harks back to the story about classified info for the Joint Strike Fighter getting stolen from an internet attack. WTF!? I can't believe how inept....I take that back, I can believe how inept these guys are. This has to stop. There is no need for these systems to be connected to yahoo and myspace for crying out loud.
Wow! $100 for a tank? I've got a 20 gallon tank and it takes less than 40 dollars to fill. 20 miles round trip and then a lot of running around so I go through maybe a tank a week. That comes to about $2000 a year. And I drive more than most people. I can't see how you were driving that many miles and replaced the car with a bike. You must be Lance Armstrong. I could bike the 10 miles to work...I might live a week or two before I became an interesting item in the paper. I like getting to work in 15 minutes though. I get to walk about half a mile from the parking lot for exercise.
I have 2 cars and a truck. A daily driver, a 4x4 pickup with offroad tires, and a street-strip hot rod. One for work, one for heavy work, and one for play.:)
Most Urban areas in the US are cesspools of crime and poverty. The only areas downtown that are nice are "very" expensive. The suburbs tend to be good and not so expensive. Golf course communities are popular too. Rural tends to be poorer than the suburbs but not as bad as city ghettos. Of course there are exceptions to all of this. It's kind of crazy. I've seen a million dollar house with 40 acres and a lake and then there are some double-wides just down the street. Mostly everyone has a car. I can't even imagine life without one. I lived in Germany for 3 years when I was in the Air Force and the bus and rail systems were wonderful. But thats what? 85 million people in a country not much bigger than Oregon? Here we've got people scattered all over creation. I remember riding across route 50 in Germany going from Wiesbaden to Hahn Air Force Base. It was bizarre not seeing a house for miles. Farm land all around...no farm houses. No rural communities really. Small towns, small cities and then big cities. People seemed to come in clumps making public transportation easier. Then there is the crime. I never, ever, felt unsafe on a bus or train in Germany. Here I pack heat every time I go to Atlanta. And that's in my car!
There are maybe 3 or 4 movies a year that I find worth watching. Over 90 percent of what comes out of Hollywood isn't even worth the bandwidth necessary to pirate it from a torrent, much less pay 20 bucks for a DVD.
Under the DMCA couldn't musical instruments be considered circumvention tools? I mean...people could actually play their own music! What a disaster. Imagine street musicians stealing money from the mouths of the poor corporate exec's children.
actually she was caught on a legal wiretap and should have been prosecuted but was instead blackmailed into supporting illegal wiretapping. If this wiretap had been illegal we'd most likely never have heard about it.
This is why the warrantless wiretap program should be done away with. When you operate in secret the things found will be used to blackmail. Instead of being used to further the goals of justice it's used to further the goals of those in power.
I'm constantly getting upgrade requests from Ubuntu repositories. I don't really worry about it despite the fact that I don't check the source code. I know it's possible to get malware even if it's not likely. But...I'm not breaking the law. If I was I'd be running linux from scratch and compiling all my own software. Then I'd have virtually nothing on the computer but the bare minimum to do the business in question. Everything would be encrypted. The number of security risks you run should be calculated on how much you have to lose.
Having said that. I'm glad they got the asshole. He deserves what he got.
Anyone engaged in criminal activity should be the most paranoid about computer security. I mean, come on! If you're breaking the law you have to know the cops are looking for you. Take a few precautions! Dumb ass crooks. He should have been running the most locked down computer setup possible. Hell...I bet he was running Windose. Stoopid!
I can't even think why I would care. I've never bought a book off of Amazon. I like sitting at Barnes and Nobles and browsing through books and choosing one. I guess I'm just old fashioned.
Bullshit. I screamed about the bailouts when Bush started this crap. I'm screaming now. Of course you may be right. My guy was Ron Paul and he didn't make the cut so technically my guy has never been in power. Too bad. He's abut the only Senator that really believes in the Constitution.
Anything Obama does can always be rationalized away by saying Bush was worse. This is why our rulers let us have two parties instead of just one. The smoke and mirrors keep us divided so we can delude ourselves that if only the democrats/republicans were in charge things would be different. Change we cry! But there will be no real change. There is only one party in Washington. The money party.
It might have had help failing. It strikes me that this could have been a perfect opportunity to test some of that "star wars" equipment that's in orbit.
I wonder how many boxed copies of Windoze they actually do sell. I know most people have it imposed on them when they buy a peecee and I've seen lot's of upgraded computers running a pirated copy of XP. I've seen all those boxes of licensed copies of windoze at Office Depot but I don't think I've ever seen anyone buy one. Someone must I suppose.
I've seen this. My Asus M2R32-MVP mobo was giving me problems until I read where another guy got his working by upping the ram voltage. I pumped mine up a notch and all the glitches went away.
As these systems get more and more sophisticated the problems get harder to find.
You offer many vaild points. The perception remains however that companies that charge 30 bucks for a shitty movie are practically thieves themselves. No one really feels guilty for stealing from thieves.
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I fail to understand why government systems like this are connected to the internet. The military industrial complex and FAA and other critical government systems should be tied into a seperate network. This harks back to the story about classified info for the Joint Strike Fighter getting stolen from an internet attack. WTF!? I can't believe how inept....I take that back, I can believe how inept these guys are. This has to stop. There is no need for these systems to be connected to yahoo and myspace for crying out loud.
Wow! $100 for a tank? I've got a 20 gallon tank and it takes less than 40 dollars to fill. 20 miles round trip and then a lot of running around so I go through maybe a tank a week. That comes to about $2000 a year. And I drive more than most people. I can't see how you were driving that many miles and replaced the car with a bike. You must be Lance Armstrong. I could bike the 10 miles to work...I might live a week or two before I became an interesting item in the paper. I like getting to work in 15 minutes though. I get to walk about half a mile from the parking lot for exercise.
I have 2 cars and a truck. A daily driver, a 4x4 pickup with offroad tires, and a street-strip hot rod. One for work, one for heavy work, and one for play. :)
Roads? You mean those things buses run on?
Most Urban areas in the US are cesspools of crime and poverty. The only areas downtown that are nice are "very" expensive. The suburbs tend to be good and not so expensive. Golf course communities are popular too. Rural tends to be poorer than the suburbs but not as bad as city ghettos. Of course there are exceptions to all of this. It's kind of crazy. I've seen a million dollar house with 40 acres and a lake and then there are some double-wides just down the street. Mostly everyone has a car. I can't even imagine life without one. I lived in Germany for 3 years when I was in the Air Force and the bus and rail systems were wonderful. But thats what? 85 million people in a country not much bigger than Oregon? Here we've got people scattered all over creation. I remember riding across route 50 in Germany going from Wiesbaden to Hahn Air Force Base. It was bizarre not seeing a house for miles. Farm land all around...no farm houses. No rural communities really. Small towns, small cities and then big cities. People seemed to come in clumps making public transportation easier. Then there is the crime. I never, ever, felt unsafe on a bus or train in Germany. Here I pack heat every time I go to Atlanta. And that's in my car!
There are maybe 3 or 4 movies a year that I find worth watching. Over 90 percent of what comes out of Hollywood isn't even worth the bandwidth necessary to pirate it from a torrent, much less pay 20 bucks for a DVD.
Under the DMCA couldn't musical instruments be considered circumvention tools? I mean...people could actually play their own music! What a disaster. Imagine street musicians stealing money from the mouths of the poor corporate exec's children.
FISA google it.
I think this adds proof to my theory that there is really only one party in Washington. The money party.
actually she was caught on a legal wiretap and should have been prosecuted but was instead blackmailed into supporting illegal wiretapping. If this wiretap had been illegal we'd most likely never have heard about it.
This is why the warrantless wiretap program should be done away with. When you operate in secret the things found will be used to blackmail. Instead of being used to further the goals of justice it's used to further the goals of those in power.
Careful now. Starting to sound like an anarchist.
I'm constantly getting upgrade requests from Ubuntu repositories. I don't really worry about it despite the fact that I don't check the source code. I know it's possible to get malware even if it's not likely. But...I'm not breaking the law. If I was I'd be running linux from scratch and compiling all my own software. Then I'd have virtually nothing on the computer but the bare minimum to do the business in question. Everything would be encrypted. The number of security risks you run should be calculated on how much you have to lose. Having said that. I'm glad they got the asshole. He deserves what he got.
Anyone engaged in criminal activity should be the most paranoid about computer security. I mean, come on! If you're breaking the law you have to know the cops are looking for you. Take a few precautions! Dumb ass crooks. He should have been running the most locked down computer setup possible. Hell...I bet he was running Windose. Stoopid!
Flamebait? damn! hehe... I offended someone without trying. That's pretty good.
I can't even think why I would care. I've never bought a book off of Amazon. I like sitting at Barnes and Nobles and browsing through books and choosing one. I guess I'm just old fashioned.
Bullshit. I screamed about the bailouts when Bush started this crap. I'm screaming now. Of course you may be right. My guy was Ron Paul and he didn't make the cut so technically my guy has never been in power. Too bad. He's abut the only Senator that really believes in the Constitution.
Anything Obama does can always be rationalized away by saying Bush was worse. This is why our rulers let us have two parties instead of just one. The smoke and mirrors keep us divided so we can delude ourselves that if only the democrats/republicans were in charge things would be different. Change we cry! But there will be no real change. There is only one party in Washington. The money party.
It might have had help failing. It strikes me that this could have been a perfect opportunity to test some of that "star wars" equipment that's in orbit.
Hell we were on win2000 pro up until about 3 years ago.
I wonder how many boxed copies of Windoze they actually do sell. I know most people have it imposed on them when they buy a peecee and I've seen lot's of upgraded computers running a pirated copy of XP. I've seen all those boxes of licensed copies of windoze at Office Depot but I don't think I've ever seen anyone buy one. Someone must I suppose.
I've seen this. My Asus M2R32-MVP mobo was giving me problems until I read where another guy got his working by upping the ram voltage. I pumped mine up a notch and all the glitches went away. As these systems get more and more sophisticated the problems get harder to find.
Gravity doesn't exist. The earth sucks...that's what holds us down.
You offer many vaild points. The perception remains however that companies that charge 30 bucks for a shitty movie are practically thieves themselves. No one really feels guilty for stealing from thieves.
I can see your point. The guy had big brass balls.