Dude, I would, but they took away my gun, then they took away my vote. But they did give me this nice "re-elect Bush in 08" tee-shirt and suggest I wear it at least once a week.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, there is a loophole! Unfortunately, the law applies to retailers only! People can go to a CD swap meet or a flea-market and freely buy and sell CDs directly with other people; a process known as "person to person" in the parlance of the common folk; all (and I can't state this emphatically enough) without the benefit of oversight by the Recording and Music Industry, and the benevolent guidance of our friends therein! Intolerable! CD shows are wild-west open-air bizarres where rogue CD and DVD owners snicker at the laws and exchange used entertainment media as if they owned it! This outrageous behavior must be brought under control!
I did, ladies and gentlemen, mention the "person to person" aspect. May I remind my esteemed colleagues about the known threat to our families, our schools, our re-election financing, and our very way of life by the criminals, perverts, and terrorists that use these so-called "P2P" computer programs to exchange copyrighted material, 93% of which is pornography, over the computerized internet tube. Hooligans, drug-users one and all, and of the same ilk as these CD swappers!
I say it's high time we closed this loophole, and bring peace, justice, and accountability to these havens of immorality. The lash of reason must be brought to bear, and the firm hand of democracy must crush this evil trend before it destroys all that we have labored so hard to impose.
As a computer hardware and software provider who performs computer and network security diagnostics and technical support, I will soon be free to monitor and interact with *anyones* network connection, service, or computer. Legally.
What would help me is a chart of the laws, who sponsored them, who voted for them and who voted against them. Granted, the "voted for" and "voted against" columns are rendered useless by porcine pork politics and the absurd nature of the American legislative process. All legislation receives the benefit of "earmarking". A truely bad bill may become law, not for it's primary purpose, but because of the attendant special interest amendments and good-ol-boy reach-arounds. How strange that HRBF George feels that the line item veto is a vital tool to combat ineffective laws, yet no-one believes that the Congress should be endowed with complementary powers, as in a line item vote. Legislators have the time to meet with the money (campaign contributors, special interests), construct loopholes, graft them onto other laws, and schmooze their compatriots, but do they actually have the time, as a body, to research and vote on each and every issue? Not likely.
Still, knowing who sponsored the bills would be useful (yea, I could look it up myself, but I'm a complainer, not a doer).
Play the.au files backwards, and you distinctly hear "Turn me in, Glickman". An obvious reference to our glorious leader, MPAA pres. Dan "I'd love to turn you on to your new cell-mate" Glickman.
If I sit on the train and scan through Penthouse, people will think I'm an crude, insensitive, misogynistic lout. If I do the same thing with the Penthouse hidden inside a copy of Roll Call, people know I'm a crude, insensitive, misogynistic and powerful lout, and they'll fear and respect me.
Newspapers are good for concealing the bottle of booze
Paper needs dead trees - lots of 'em. Extensive tree cutting decreases the ability of the ecosphere to scrub CO2. It employees unionized workers who use fossil-fuel powered tools, contributing to CO2 levels. Used paper either takes up landfill space or requires recycling, both of which employ more unionized workers using dead-dino juice. I could go on and on, but as you can see, there's nothing but upside as far as the eye can see.
The petro-fuel and paper-based media organizations have got the "campaign contribution" process down to an art form. These "new-media" internet companies just do not understand how to grease the wheels of justice. ("justice". Ha! I love that one)
Newspapers make good fans for the underprivileged women in church on a hot Sunday morning.
Exactly which end of the mouse are you going to wipe your a** with?
The default "search" box only allows 16 characters. For more than 16 chars, you have to use the "Advanced search". I guess that means, for the brainiac network, use of 17 characters makes you "advanced". Woohoo.
Of course, we should never get that far in the first place. The fact that a healthy adult can be made to feel so isolated as to not seek help for their violent delusions until it's too late is the real problem.
While I can agree with most of this, I need to take exception to the "made to feel" bit. Noone can make me, or anyone else, "feel" anything. To imply otherwise is to absolve the person doing the "feeling" of his or her personal responsibility, and to infer the role of victim. But I understand the terminology, and how easy it is to slip into that kind of thinking. I also don't mean to discount the abilities of controlling people, as I know some of them (including myself at times) who can be duplicitous, slick, conniving bastards.
Just where is the Great Flaming Asteroid of Doom when you really need it?
On the other hand, maybe the current "high" in sunspot activities will lead to a dramatic solar flare ("sun burps"), with the resultant high velocity expulsion of partially digested, beryllium-infused, greenish-tinted solar matter ("sun vomit"). This material and the associated cosmic rays will engulf the international space station and cause strange genetic mutations to the inhabitants. When they return to earth they will each have unexplained "super" powers:
Simonyi will develop a strange way of computer programming that makes the lines of source code much, much, much longer so that they slide out the right edge of the monitor and go on forever and make life more difficult for other programmers.
I wonder if that Cisco has been patched...
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· Score: 3, Interesting
NOTE: Some of the listed problems indicate a "Cisco 3200 Catalyst", which may not be the same as the orbiting "Cisco 3200 Mobile Access Router". IANACG (I am not a Cisco geek).
Those pesky cell phones - causing all that interference with those poor, sensitive,....um... cell phones. Even when the "bad" cell phone is in a metal tube, 35000 feet up in the air, and miles away, it can still cause devastating consequences for ground-based cell phones. Just think of the tragedy if those same "bad" cell phones were actually being used down on the ground. Wow. Good thing that'll never happen.
They say ignorance is bliss. My government is a very happy government. Giddy, in fact.
Ok, so figure the equipment is half the $100,000. That leaves $50,000 for the folks on the "overnight" shift. That's $6250/hour. Let's say there's 10 workers. I imagine any more than that and they'ld be walking on each other. That comes to $625/hr each. I'm guessing the mechanics make about 10% of that, with benefits, which leaves a pretty significant wad of cash for someone.
Just think, shutting down the "brains" of the king and queens of america. As the article states:
"...inhibition is more direct than excitation, because you can shut down neural circuits..."
Cool. We can turn off their brains. Turn them into mindless robots that pass the laws we want. They don't even have to be reasonable, or logical, or compassionate, just reactive religious zealots or irresponsible twits. Oh, wait. Somebody's already done it. damn.
Yea, all the whiney stuff about losing our tech edge... really man, get over it. How about something that really counts, like high scores on Grand Theft Auto? We rule dude. When it comes to whacking cops and hos and stealin stuff, we are like so totally NUMBER ONE! We are the numero uno video game nation! The USA is also top of the heap in pizza, and drinks with cool names like "cocaine", and shopping malls. And stuff like SUVs and MP3 players. You Euro-smack talkers ever look and see where your iPod comes from? Silicone valley usa, dude. And where do you think Star Wars came from? France? Sheesh. They're not even allowed to use cameras anymore. Where else can you see American Idle or a Billy Ray Cirrhosis show? Huh? Not London hon. No way. Cause we are just too bitchin.
There was this slashdot thread about proposed legislation in Illinois preventing computers at public libraries and schools from accessing "social networking" sites. Can the USPTO's "community rating system" be seen as a social network? Does the USPTO function similiar to a "public library", i.e. a repository of information accessable to the public?
I like this quote from David Kappos at IBM: "For the first time in history, it allows the patent-office examiners to open up their cubicles and get access to a whole world of technical experts". Does that mean that the USPTO has been ignoring technical experts? And what is their source of information? National Geograpic? Rob Brezny? Da bones? Magic 8-Ball?
Of course there should be skepticism, because it sounds like GE pulled some amazing innovation of out their subsidiaryhole just in time to fend off legislation.
The timing does seem rather "fortuitous" doesn't it? The combination of CFs and new LED technology must give the tungsten twirlers a few restless nights. I wonder what the automobile industry could pull out of it's collective chocolate canal (other than it's own cranial cavity) if legislation against the internal combustion engine were to suddenly appear and become law? Of course such an idea is preposterous in the extreme, we lack the backbone for radical lifestyle surgery, especially when it would make our lives less comfy. [yea I know... troll....]
...legislation that talks journey rather than destination is misguided...
Whereas in life, just the opposite is true (IMHO, and IANAPRI: i am not a priest, rabi, or imam).
I've changed two whole bulbs
I recently had one go bad. I had bought it when CFs first became available (a couple years ago?). I recall being really pissed - I thought it was supposed to last forever.
I'll bet your Tb disc array/raid is using those pesky rotating magnetic storage devices. Without a backup? I sense a big "doh!" moment sometime in the next 2-4 years. And yes, you will be able to return the drive to the manufacturer and say "it failed before the 5 years was up!", and get a replacement -- a blank replacement.
Gee, now that my marriage is going down the tubes, what can I say that will express what I'm truely feeling for my soon-to-be-ex? What heartfelt emotion can I enscribe on the side of a chunk of metal headed for deep space that conveys how I feel? What trite, candy-heart message would I use?
Wish you were here.
Be someone else's.
Never did love you.
If you can read this, I'm happy.
You got my cars, my house, my bank accounts, my 401k, and my cat. But I got a crayon.
Originally built for military and civilian use, IHI's Dynajet 2.6 KW microturbine genset is selling commercially in Japan is 1.2 million Yen (about $9000) "for use in Japan only" (kerosene fuel). There are no plans for export. They don't have a natural gas version. Very little information is available, though I do have a 2-page product description and spec sheet (*available). The unit measures 30"x10"x11" and weighs 140 lb.
[The contact at IHI prefers not to be listed.]
Last year, about 90,000 small power generators were sold in Japan. Japanese manufacturers are now working hard to expand their sales and add new models to their product lines. IHI Aerospace, for example, has released a portable model, the Dynajet 2.6, driven by a microgas turbine. Fueled by kerosene, which is easier to store than gasoline, the generator retails for ¥1.2-1.3 million ($10,100-10,900). It is the lightest gas turbine-driven model on the market. The company is also developing a cogeneration system that utilizes waste heat from gas turbines.
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Dude, I would, but they took away my gun, then they took away my vote. But they did give me this nice "re-elect Bush in 08" tee-shirt and suggest I wear it at least once a week.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, there is a loophole! Unfortunately, the law applies to retailers only! People can go to a CD swap meet or a flea-market and freely buy and sell CDs directly with other people; a process known as "person to person" in the parlance of the common folk; all (and I can't state this emphatically enough) without the benefit of oversight by the Recording and Music Industry, and the benevolent guidance of our friends therein! Intolerable! CD shows are wild-west open-air bizarres where rogue CD and DVD owners snicker at the laws and exchange used entertainment media as if they owned it! This outrageous behavior must be brought under control!
I did, ladies and gentlemen, mention the "person to person" aspect. May I remind my esteemed colleagues about the known threat to our families, our schools, our re-election financing, and our very way of life by the criminals, perverts, and terrorists that use these so-called "P2P" computer programs to exchange copyrighted material, 93% of which is pornography, over the computerized internet tube. Hooligans, drug-users one and all, and of the same ilk as these CD swappers!
I say it's high time we closed this loophole, and bring peace, justice, and accountability to these havens of immorality. The lash of reason must be brought to bear, and the firm hand of democracy must crush this evil trend before it destroys all that we have labored so hard to impose.
Stand back baby, I'm a Nessus monkey with a long list of a**holes, a can 'o nmap, a fully loaded Metasploit, and I ain't afraid to use 'em.
Still, knowing who sponsored the bills would be useful (yea, I could look it up myself, but I'm a complainer, not a doer).
Play the .au files backwards, and you distinctly hear "Turn me in, Glickman". An obvious reference to our glorious leader, MPAA pres. Dan "I'd love to turn you on to your new cell-mate" Glickman.
The default "search" box only allows 16 characters. For more than 16 chars, you have to use the "Advanced search". I guess that means, for the brainiac network, use of 17 characters makes you "advanced". Woohoo.
chal-ko-gen'-ide ?
chal-cog'-en-ide ?
sh-alko'-gen-ide ?
fawstuh-grhants-dhaling ?
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), 'This Is My Story,' 1937
On the other hand, maybe the current "high" in sunspot activities will lead to a dramatic solar flare ("sun burps"), with the resultant high velocity expulsion of partially digested, beryllium-infused, greenish-tinted solar matter ("sun vomit"). This material and the associated cosmic rays will engulf the international space station and cause strange genetic mutations to the inhabitants. When they return to earth they will each have unexplained "super" powers:
For this configuration exploit, this SNMP vulnerability, this IP sequence generation problem, this ICMP vuln, this H.323 problem, and this buffer overflow.
NOTE: Some of the listed problems indicate a "Cisco 3200 Catalyst", which may not be the same as the orbiting "Cisco 3200 Mobile Access Router". IANACG (I am not a Cisco geek).
They say ignorance is bliss. My government is a very happy government. Giddy, in fact.
Ok, so figure the equipment is half the $100,000. That leaves $50,000 for the folks on the "overnight" shift. That's $6250/hour. Let's say there's 10 workers. I imagine any more than that and they'ld be walking on each other. That comes to $625/hr each. I'm guessing the mechanics make about 10% of that, with benefits, which leaves a pretty significant wad of cash for someone.
The Flaming Space Toilets
Yea, all the whiney stuff about losing our tech edge... really man, get over it. How about something that really counts, like high scores on Grand Theft Auto? We rule dude. When it comes to whacking cops and hos and stealin stuff, we are like so totally NUMBER ONE! We are the numero uno video game nation! The USA is also top of the heap in pizza, and drinks with cool names like "cocaine", and shopping malls. And stuff like SUVs and MP3 players. You Euro-smack talkers ever look and see where your iPod comes from? Silicone valley usa, dude. And where do you think Star Wars came from? France? Sheesh. They're not even allowed to use cameras anymore. Where else can you see American Idle or a Billy Ray Cirrhosis show? Huh? Not London hon. No way. Cause we are just too bitchin.
I like this quote from David Kappos at IBM: "For the first time in history, it allows the patent-office examiners to open up their cubicles and get access to a whole world of technical experts". Does that mean that the USPTO has been ignoring technical experts? And what is their source of information? National Geograpic? Rob Brezny? Da bones? Magic 8-Ball?
Existing Tool Configurations
Evaluatable Textual Controlfiles
Edit this crap!
Eponymical Telemandering Collections
Enamled Tooth Caps
All this talk of "religions" and "God" and "angels" and "Satan" and "billgates" has made me very thirsty. Bartender!! A round of drinks for everyone!.
I'll bet your Tb disc array/raid is using those pesky rotating magnetic storage devices. Without a backup? I sense a big "doh!" moment sometime in the next 2-4 years. And yes, you will be able to return the drive to the manufacturer and say "it failed before the 5 years was up!", and get a replacement -- a blank replacement.
Product PDF :: http://www.ihi.co.jp/ihi/file/technologygihou2/100 04_6.pdf
which mentions this interesting phrase:
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