they can mug people, shoot cops, steal cars, use the services of prostitutes and so forth - but God forbid they see some pixellated nudity and crudely simulated sexual acts.
I think it was best put as: "You can take a life, but you can't make a life".
Helloooo dude... remember why they got sacked? They acted like a pair of harpies.
In seriousness, and having read the enchange, only one of them is an utter bitch. The other offered a helpful suggestion, to be responded with an insult. Do the same to me, and I'll begin to tear you apart, but it's not as though I'd go looking for the fight. She simply gave back what she got; good for her!!
Of course, if you want to insult or wind up a collegue a) don't do in on e-mail and b) don't do it with witnesses around.
Communism is an economic model, NOTHING to do with totalitarianism and dictatorships, which is the problem here. There are several communist/socialist states where the residents have MORE rights than us.
Besides NOTHING in this article hasn't already happened in the west. Or have you been living under a rock for the last five years? Show me an ISP/webservice that hasn't bent over backwards for a government information request. Most will do it for a commercial request (e.g. RIAA), no need for the info to be related to national security.
You also mention stiff penalites for smuggling. Did the War on Drugs pass you by or something? Try to take any manner of chemicals through customs here without the right permits and you'll soon know about our penalites. Jeez, we can't even get a nail file through customs. Oh, my rights, gimmie back my rights. China has banned many of these traditional medical remedies due to dwindling resources; for example trading in tiger derived products is banned because they are an endangered species. Why not try to smuggle freshly "extracted" bald-eagle claws within the USA and see how far you get.
Don't let the truth get in the way of your blind hatred for those that are different from you.
Here's a hint; Capitalism and Communism have one thing in common: They are both systems where the elite tell the poor that things are best under their system.
You miss the point. The industries do control their respective markets, they have spent a lot of energy on getting things to this state. The only one I can think of where a newcomer has "tap danced around them" is the music industry, however if you have been following the game they are still very much in the running and are linked to all the legal services. Sure, the illegal p2p trade goes on, but that is not relevant to this argument.
NO company is going to change the planets fuel formats without the approval of the existing industries. That's just the way it is and it's down to one word: infrastructure. They have it, you don't. Imagine trying to replace DVD with a new format that wasn't available in the same shops. You wouldn't stand a chance. Likewise on fuel.
"It almost appears to me that the hand of gods [sic] is reaching down to smite the Southern Babylon."
"I'm of the opinion that Mother Nature would be doing everybody a favor by cleansing the inner city."
"It would be great if all the Whites could be evacuated and they could leave the groids/muds behind but we know that won't happen. The best we can hope for is that the best architecture stands and the casualties keep the n----r funeral homes busy."
"Let us bow our heads and pray together that half the jig population of New Orleans stayed behind to do some lootin' and this one finishes them all off. And Lord, let's hope all the faggots in the French Quarters stay as well."
"Mother Nature is a bitch and I don't have a problem with that at all. Especially when it leads to the possible culling of species detrimental to my race and country."
I could go on and on. Interesting article on the (post-Katrina) rasism here
Of course, feel free to stick your fingers in your ears and chant "la la la" while you live in the delusion that racial equality is present in the USA. The prison populations say otherwise and poverty & crime go hand in hand. How are blacks supposed to inprove their standard of living when those interviewing them a often racist hicks?
Obviously I struck a chord pointing out this racism, down to -1 flamebait withing 30 minutes of posting...truth hurts, doesn't it? Don't even get me started on how you view other countries; the hate is even more venonmous.
have been willingly fooled by colossally bad intelligence about WMDs in Iraq
Who exactly in the administration was "fooled" with respect to WMD? They knew what they were doing, it was a part of their game plan and a publically stated goal of The Project for a New American Century. WMD, genocide, freedom, liberation, democracy, whatever buzzword it took to get the public on the same side as their investors, they were willing to use it. They looked at the clouds (the inteligence) and saw whatever images they wanted you to see.
No, your subject line is ridiculous. Some of the people who died last week used to have to give up their seats for the white folks. They had to use different toilets and water fountains. This is less than 40 years ago!!
The USA is a racist country, it was built on racism. If you are suggesting for one minute that 200 years of racism and Jim Crow laws have been gotten over in 40 years then you are living in cloud-coo-coo land.
For the reference, the US has recently practiced institutional racisim against the following peoples. I've used your nicknames for them to show just how prevailent this rasism is.
"Nips"
"niggers"
"rag heads" (current "favourite" of people to despise)
"surrender monkeys" (France)
"commie bastards" (take your pick of socialist/communist nations)
"wops"
I could go on, but I can't be bothered.
Most of the above is due in a large way to how your politics works. Ever since the 50s, those in power have realised that an environment of hate and fear in the populace not only makes their job easier, but it allows them to "steer" the country in the ways that they want. Want to invade Iraq? No problem!! Just a wee stir of fear & hate cauldrin...
It's also a lot to do with national pride. From a very young age, American children are indoctinated with the knowledge that their nation is the best in the worlds and can never do anything wrong. All other nations are weak and the US should lead the world to a prosperous future. Sounds like several other countries to me; such as Germany in the 1930s. Propaganda works as well today as it did back then. Nationalism is another side of the same coin as rasism.
It wasn't just racism though; class had a lot to do with it. If they were well-off folk, they would also have been looked after. I'd rather be dead than a poor, black American.
But shortly after the storm passes, they pour in.
Since when was four days later "shortly"? They were sitting on their asses. Whatever the causes of the delays, there are improvements to be made and lessons to be learnt. However, what will ultimately happen is that the blame-game will start with no one taking responsibility, or those who do accept failings will have their organisation merged/changed "for changes sake" as opposed to any actual real improvements.
driving a bus is a skill but most people that can drive shift can do in a pinch.
Blame the lawyers. It's all about liability; if one of those buses crashed, they would be pilaged by the no-win, no-fees bozos. This decission unfortunately makes sense in the world we live in.
Instead of throwing billions at a problem that will occur again it might be best to treat the city as we treated people along the Miss.
Firstly, tell that to the people of the Netherlands. Their largest cities all lie below sea level, and they're doing just fine.
They have no choice, the country is already heavily populated for it's size and land is valuable. Moving housing would destroy needed farmland etc.
New Orleans is one of the largest seaports in the world. In fact, it's also the 4th busiest, and receives over 130 metric tons of cargo per year.
Just don't build residential areas there and you'll minimise the risks. The industrial buildings will have handled the conditions better than housing. All you need is a rail/road/bus network linking the docks with the housing on higher ground.
I have have them all natted behind a simpleton box -- but none of them has a routable IP address. I'm unlikely to change thos configurations for a game.
You don't need a routable IP for Steam, it works just fine behind NAT. You can't host a server without an open port, but that's kinda obvious.
I find the auto-update function of it quite helpful. In your situation it would be too.
Police in Malaysia are hunting for members of a violent gang who chopped off a car owner's finger to get round the vehicle's hi-tech security system.
The car, a Mercedes S-class, was protected by a fingerprint recognition system.
Accountant K Kumaran's ordeal began when he was run down by four men in a small car as he was about to get into his Mercedes in a Kuala Lumpur suburb. [continued...]
If it's rebuilt using hurricane resistant architectural technologies it'll be fine, and it'll last a long time.
How do you propose to build levies that can withstand the impact from shipping and oil rigs that break free of their moorings? Would be a very difficult engineering feat I'd imagine.
You know, your 100 percent absoloutly correct. WHY SA decided they needed credit for donations is beyond me.
Because it encourages the online community to give more. If they are donating as a group, more people will be likely to donate as they feel a part of that group. Plus, they've done it before with other campaigns. This happens all the time in charities; here in the UK we have several annual drives for various causes and a large proportion of the donations are made through groups just like this. Sure, a lot of it is patting yourself on the back, but that's human nature.
about 5% of Americans own 50% of American wealth. If elite politicians had been taxing those plutocrats properly, and using that money for infrastructure, this would have never happened.
As for immediate help, deploy the appropriate military units from the US and accept assistance from allied nations (ie Canada)
After Canada refused to help in Iraq? That would cause the politicians more loss of face than they are willing.
Honestly, the USA has turned into 60s Russia. Complete denial of anything going wrong at all times. For example, follow the reporting timeline of Junes Afgan heli crash. First it was "lost", then "crashed" and finally (begrudingly) shot down with a "lucky shot". Reminded me of the start of Brazil.
Then there is the pride. Refusal to accept outside help, e.g. the Kursk submarine disaster, which could have came out completely differently if Russia had accepted help. The UN has offered to help in New Orleans. The Canadians offered troops to restore order, they could have been deployed within 2 days I'd bet. Almost every nation on earth has asked "is there anything we can do to help?". And the official US response? "We don't need your help". Jesus fucking Christ, people are dying and they are letting pride fuck with them. Fuck pride! (as the movie says).
But hey, it's not as though Bush has lost many voters, if anything the Replublicans have had a net gain this week. Sad, but that is politics....
There must be something really scaring below the thin surface of the common US citizen (or maybe under every "first world" one), something deeply wrong with a lot of people, whose first instinct is to go arming themselves as it was not a catastrophe, but some kind of Apocalypse B Movie.
The reason is quite simple. For the past 60 years the American population has been made to fear things for the politicians gain. It's what gives them power. Bush is a case in point. Looking back, you can see that US has had an "enemy" to fear constantly since WW2. This "save us!!" attitude to politicians allows them to carry on scamming and cheating with little public oversight. So what if Harriburton got rich from Iraq, what are you, UnAmerican? Are you with the terrorists?
Combine that attitude with institutionalised racism (black people loot, white people "find"), poverty, despiration, a feeling of "they don't care about us" and easy access to firearms, you could spot this coming a mile away. There's your recipe for your Apocalypse B-movie.
It could have been avoided however with a little common sense. Oh and one last thing for all of y'all stateside:
Stop building wooden houses in areas prone to extreme weather conditions. Do you guys not have this fairy tale in kindergarden?
Once upon a time there were three little pigs and the time came for them to leave home and seek their fortunes.
Before they left, their mother told them " Whatever you do , do it the best that you can because that's the way to get along in the world.
The first little pig built his house out of straw because it was the easiest thing to do.
The second little pig built his house out of sticks. This was a little bit stronger than a straw house.
The third little pig built his house out of bricks.
One night the big bad wolf, who dearly loved to eat fat little piggies, came along and saw the first little pig in his house of straw. He said "Let me in, Let me in, little pig or I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in!"
"Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin", said the little pig.
But of course the wolf did blow the house in and ate the first little pig.
The wolf then came to the house of sticks.
"Let me in,Let me in little pig or I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in" "Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin", said the little pig. But the wolf blew that house in too, and ate the second little pig.
The wolf then came to the house of bricks.
" Let me in , let me in" cried the wolf
"Or I'll huff and I'll puff till I blow your house in"
"Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin" said the pigs.
Well, the wolf huffed and puffed but he could not blow down that brick house.
But the wolf was a sly old wolf and he climbed up on the roof to look for a way into the brick house.
The little pig saw the wolf climb up on the roof and lit a roaring fire in the fireplace and placed on it a large kettle of water.
When the wolf finally found the hole in the chimney he crawled down and KERSPLASH right into that kettle of water and that was the end of his troubles with the big bad wolf.
The next day the little pig invited his mother over . She said "You see it is just as I told you. The way to get along in the world is to do things as well as you can." Fortunately for that little pig, he learned that lesson. And he just lived happily ever after!
The day I have to start paying for anti-virus software to protect my fucking phone is the day I stop using cell phones... PERIOD.
You'd better get used to walking then. Cars will be getting virii within 5 years; the systems to enable this are already coming to market. Built in BT or USB keys, pick your infection mechanism.
As devices get more capable, there will always be someone wanting to upset the apple cart. Get used to it or become a Mormon...your choice. Would have said the same about email five years ago; before it became a virus writers wet dream? Did you say, 'the day http can deliver mallware, I'm going to stop using it?'
Trend Micro has a solution for this already(Trend Micro Mobile Security), and supports the following Mobile Devices:
* Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003/2003SE for Smartphone
* Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003/2003SE for Pocket PC Phone Edition
Then they are a bunch of scam artists. None of there platforms have any viruses. The Pocket PC one has a 'proof of concept' one that asks permissing before it 'spreads'. It's a traditional virus, not a worm, so it would need to be executed via a trojan for example. I'd quite like to see the so-called virus-signatures that this 'solution' to a non-existing problem provides.
Also, if you don't want to come across as an astroturfer, try not to make your post look like a marketing piece. Not that I'm accusing you of working for them...well actually, I am. Take your rip-off software shrilling elsewhere. Come back when there are actually real viruses out there, and maybe we'll be interested. But I for one will be remembering Tennd Micro as being a company to avoid in future, much like the 'your computer is broadcasting an IP' guys. If you were trading 100 years ago, you'd undoubtably be in the 'miracle cure' industry.
I'm selling bear repelant rocks on eBay if anyone is interested. Offer on available to coutries that don't have native bear populations...
, but there are lots of people out there that want and use these features.
Hell yeah. I'm lying in bed right, chilling on my day off, surfing the net & sending the odd email over a wifi pda/cell. It's the dogs nuts, full html browser, ssh, vnc, email, streaming media, mp3 player. I could go on for ages about the shit it could do. My laptop is now gathering dust.
The advantange of having all this in a phone is that I have all these capabilities 24/7 whereever I am. Walking home from the pub, just whip out the headphones and I have tunes to see me home. No need to remember to bring an mp3 for the off chance that I might want to listen to something. I can also drop the sd-card into a PC and transfer data. Or remote control the phone to send text messages etc while it's still in my pocket.
This is a tech site; I simply do not understand the ludite attitude to mobile phones. People get woodies over toasters running linux but balk at the idea of having a gcc port sitting on a phone? Fine, if you want to continue living like it's 80's, be my guest. But don't stand there and bitch about phones when there are hacks on the same page to get you PSP running a web browser. WTF? Just buy a fucking pda! Can do all that plus more & no need hack the firnware to do so. Christ, the developer kit for most smart phones is freely (beerly) available for download. Wanna roll your own? Fine, go ahead.
Back to the subject at hand, phone viruses. I looked into this a while back; for most systems it's snake oil. The number of viruses out there is very small and only affects a few devices. Even the Microshaft one doesn't have any yet, which is sort-of surprising: you aren't locked out in anyway, there is no user account management nor protected install utilities. Anyone can install anything they want, which sadly is exactly what a virus writer is looking for.
It will become a larger problem over time, that much is sure. Virus populations are directly proportional to the target host numbers. What I also see as a future risk is embedded software. Imagine embedded linux (etc) running on a device with network support. Undoubtedly that device will have daemon services; services that will have vunerabilities over time. When was the last time you 'apt-get upgrade'ed your TIVO?
Which means it is transparent to the logged in user, which means it is transparent to the virus/ trojan horse/ spyware.
So? A competent forensic team will never boot your computer. You could have an init script to delete dodgy data if some trigger wasn't received, or the network config changes. Drive encyption would be a speed bump to them, if they can crack the drive. Otherwise it's a dead end. Of course, the investigators will then push for your encryption keys, which they can legally do here in the uk under the RIP act.
I don't know where the article is getting its info from, but it's wrong. Computer Forensic people aren't daft; they know what they are doing. There was computer audit proceedure document that hit the net about a year ago, I think it was even posted on/.
At the time, I read through it and noted some "smart" things. They know about dead-mens switches etc; they NEVER boot up the PC. The drive gets removed and hooked up to a scanning system. The scan then looks for anything dodgy or the officer can browse it. If the software needs updated to include bookmarks/history from other sources, then I'm sure it's not all that big a deal to add this in. Even then, bookmarks & history? They are all too easy to clean and/or fake.
If you think the computer forensic expects boot up the PC and try to save your bookmarks to a floppy, you are sadly mistaken.
What worries me more is that computer evidence is so easilly fakeable yet is often seen as gospel by the courts. It would be easy to create "logs" showing bad activity from someone you don't like. If I ever get hastled from the RIAA, the court will be presented with "evidence" that shows the guys bringing the suit were paedophiles, just to show how ridiculus the idea of third-parties producing "evidence" from a remote system claiming you downloaded "X on date Y". The forensic guys have been trained and undoubtably have sworn and oath or signed a contract to be honest. Some anti-p2p company hasn't and it is also in there commercial interest to provide more of this evidence. Worrying times...
Our market research indicates that "war" has a negative connotation associated with it. We have thus implemented a rebranding process aimed at reviving interest in the 18-30 democraphic. Telephone research has shown that the images of "liberatation", "democracy" and "freedom" are far more desirable to our target market therefore we have implemented a shift towards this style of presentation in our marketing materials. Our two most recent campaigns have proven to be extremely successful, gaining widespread public support prior to their initiation. These campaigns have also benefited from the study we comissioned regarding the "fear" brand four years ago. The marketing department recommends that this approach is continued for the next three seasons as it is netting large gains for our investors.
The fucked up thing is...the above probably isn't all that far from the truth...
I'm sorry, but I have to insist you put down that crackpipe slowly. I've used my palmpilot IIIc as a remote, easy.
Palms are about the only IRDA devices that can. Laptops can't generally (I've owned at least three, had my mitts on at least 15 different models though various jobs), neither can pocket pc devices or serial IR dongles. Tried the lot. The IRDA standard is quite different from the Consumer IR standard and it is a fluke that the Palm IRDA drivers can be used to emulate it. While you can get similar tricks to work on the other devices, the range sucks, it's less than a couple of feet in most cases.
Believe me, I've tried this many times. You can build a decent Consumer IR dongle yourself, or buy one for a "media pc", but it will be incompatible with IRDA.
It's improved some over the last few years, and handhelds do seem to have a better grip on getting reliable transfers. Yes, it has it's uses, but it's not really going to take the public by storm. Transfer over BT seems way more common. I'm more of a WiFi fan myself, but that gobbles the batteries as you say.
'discovered' that 7 inches was a decent distance for ir...you could have just looked up the specs!
Well, duh, I looked up the specs as a ballpark and ran tests at different differences. Of course, this was in a factory producing 1,000's of them each week, so getting it "optimum" translated into monetry savings for my employer in needless retests. Which is what they were paying me for. The fast IR test was a special one; normally PCs are tested using loopback dongles; devices that plug into the com port for example and interface round to the IR port. So, it one action you test the com port and the IR port. However, Fast IR only works laptop-laptop (at the time, this was several years ago), so the test for that was a special one, pairing it with a known-good model. It was the bane of my bosses quotas for a long time. Not that I fixed the issue, but I did my best to allivate it.
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I think it was best put as: "You can take a life, but you can't make a life".
In seriousness, and having read the enchange, only one of them is an utter bitch. The other offered a helpful suggestion, to be responded with an insult. Do the same to me, and I'll begin to tear you apart, but it's not as though I'd go looking for the fight. She simply gave back what she got; good for her!!
Of course, if you want to insult or wind up a collegue a) don't do in on e-mail and b) don't do it with witnesses around.
Besides NOTHING in this article hasn't already happened in the west. Or have you been living under a rock for the last five years? Show me an ISP/webservice that hasn't bent over backwards for a government information request. Most will do it for a commercial request (e.g. RIAA), no need for the info to be related to national security.
You also mention stiff penalites for smuggling. Did the War on Drugs pass you by or something? Try to take any manner of chemicals through customs here without the right permits and you'll soon know about our penalites. Jeez, we can't even get a nail file through customs. Oh, my rights, gimmie back my rights. China has banned many of these traditional medical remedies due to dwindling resources; for example trading in tiger derived products is banned because they are an endangered species. Why not try to smuggle freshly "extracted" bald-eagle claws within the USA and see how far you get.
Don't let the truth get in the way of your blind hatred for those that are different from you.
Here's a hint; Capitalism and Communism have one thing in common: They are both systems where the elite tell the poor that things are best under their system.
NO company is going to change the planets fuel formats without the approval of the existing industries. That's just the way it is and it's down to one word: infrastructure. They have it, you don't. Imagine trying to replace DVD with a new format that wasn't available in the same shops. You wouldn't stand a chance. Likewise on fuel.
Yes, but it was then that it entered into US politics. There's always been an enemy at your door. Apparently... ;-)
I could go on and on. Interesting article on the (post-Katrina) rasism here
Of course, feel free to stick your fingers in your ears and chant "la la la" while you live in the delusion that racial equality is present in the USA. The prison populations say otherwise and poverty & crime go hand in hand. How are blacks supposed to inprove their standard of living when those interviewing them a often racist hicks?
Obviously I struck a chord pointing out this racism, down to -1 flamebait withing 30 minutes of posting...truth hurts, doesn't it? Don't even get me started on how you view other countries; the hate is even more venonmous.
Who exactly in the administration was "fooled" with respect to WMD? They knew what they were doing, it was a part of their game plan and a publically stated goal of The Project for a New American Century. WMD, genocide, freedom, liberation, democracy, whatever buzzword it took to get the public on the same side as their investors, they were willing to use it. They looked at the clouds (the inteligence) and saw whatever images they wanted you to see.
No, your subject line is ridiculous. Some of the people who died last week used to have to give up their seats for the white folks. They had to use different toilets and water fountains. This is less than 40 years ago!!
The USA is a racist country, it was built on racism. If you are suggesting for one minute that 200 years of racism and Jim Crow laws have been gotten over in 40 years then you are living in cloud-coo-coo land.
For the reference, the US has recently practiced institutional racisim against the following peoples. I've used your nicknames for them to show just how prevailent this rasism is.
I could go on, but I can't be bothered.
Most of the above is due in a large way to how your politics works. Ever since the 50s, those in power have realised that an environment of hate and fear in the populace not only makes their job easier, but it allows them to "steer" the country in the ways that they want. Want to invade Iraq? No problem!! Just a wee stir of fear & hate cauldrin...
It's also a lot to do with national pride. From a very young age, American children are indoctinated with the knowledge that their nation is the best in the worlds and can never do anything wrong. All other nations are weak and the US should lead the world to a prosperous future. Sounds like several other countries to me; such as Germany in the 1930s. Propaganda works as well today as it did back then. Nationalism is another side of the same coin as rasism.
It wasn't just racism though; class had a lot to do with it. If they were well-off folk, they would also have been looked after. I'd rather be dead than a poor, black American.
But shortly after the storm passes, they pour in.
Since when was four days later "shortly"? They were sitting on their asses. Whatever the causes of the delays, there are improvements to be made and lessons to be learnt. However, what will ultimately happen is that the blame-game will start with no one taking responsibility, or those who do accept failings will have their organisation merged/changed "for changes sake" as opposed to any actual real improvements.
Blame the lawyers. It's all about liability; if one of those buses crashed, they would be pilaged by the no-win, no-fees bozos. This decission unfortunately makes sense in the world we live in.
Firstly, tell that to the people of the Netherlands. Their largest cities all lie below sea level, and they're doing just fine.
They have no choice, the country is already heavily populated for it's size and land is valuable. Moving housing would destroy needed farmland etc.
New Orleans is one of the largest seaports in the world. In fact, it's also the 4th busiest, and receives over 130 metric tons of cargo per year.
Just don't build residential areas there and you'll minimise the risks. The industrial buildings will have handled the conditions better than housing. All you need is a rail/road/bus network linking the docks with the housing on higher ground.
Basic sim city stuff! ;-)
You don't need a routable IP for Steam, it works just fine behind NAT. You can't host a server without an open port, but that's kinda obvious.
I find the auto-update function of it quite helpful. In your situation it would be too.
Prior art
How do you propose to build levies that can withstand the impact from shipping and oil rigs that break free of their moorings? Would be a very difficult engineering feat I'd imagine.
I just pulled the mpeg in at 600k/s, not bad for a 5 meg file on the front page of Slashdot.
Cool video. It's a keeper. Just gotta keep reminding yourself that it's real, not SFX.
Because it encourages the online community to give more. If they are donating as a group, more people will be likely to donate as they feel a part of that group. Plus, they've done it before with other campaigns. This happens all the time in charities; here in the UK we have several annual drives for various causes and a large proportion of the donations are made through groups just like this. Sure, a lot of it is patting yourself on the back, but that's human nature.
The polititians are that 5% moran!! ;-)
After Canada refused to help in Iraq? That would cause the politicians more loss of face than they are willing.
Honestly, the USA has turned into 60s Russia. Complete denial of anything going wrong at all times. For example, follow the reporting timeline of Junes Afgan heli crash. First it was "lost", then "crashed" and finally (begrudingly) shot down with a "lucky shot". Reminded me of the start of Brazil.
Then there is the pride. Refusal to accept outside help, e.g. the Kursk submarine disaster, which could have came out completely differently if Russia had accepted help. The UN has offered to help in New Orleans. The Canadians offered troops to restore order, they could have been deployed within 2 days I'd bet. Almost every nation on earth has asked "is there anything we can do to help?". And the official US response? "We don't need your help". Jesus fucking Christ, people are dying and they are letting pride fuck with them. Fuck pride! (as the movie says).
But hey, it's not as though Bush has lost many voters, if anything the Replublicans have had a net gain this week. Sad, but that is politics....
The reason is quite simple. For the past 60 years the American population has been made to fear things for the politicians gain. It's what gives them power. Bush is a case in point. Looking back, you can see that US has had an "enemy" to fear constantly since WW2. This "save us!!" attitude to politicians allows them to carry on scamming and cheating with little public oversight. So what if Harriburton got rich from Iraq, what are you, UnAmerican? Are you with the terrorists?
Combine that attitude with institutionalised racism (black people loot, white people "find"), poverty, despiration, a feeling of "they don't care about us" and easy access to firearms, you could spot this coming a mile away. There's your recipe for your Apocalypse B-movie.
It could have been avoided however with a little common sense. Oh and one last thing for all of y'all stateside:
Stop building wooden houses in areas prone to extreme weather conditions. Do you guys not have this fairy tale in kindergarden?
You'd better get used to walking then. Cars will be getting virii within 5 years; the systems to enable this are already coming to market. Built in BT or USB keys, pick your infection mechanism.
As devices get more capable, there will always be someone wanting to upset the apple cart. Get used to it or become a Mormon...your choice. Would have said the same about email five years ago; before it became a virus writers wet dream? Did you say, 'the day http can deliver mallware, I'm going to stop using it?'
* Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003/2003SE for Smartphone
* Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003/2003SE for Pocket PC Phone Edition
Then they are a bunch of scam artists. None of there platforms have any viruses. The Pocket PC one has a 'proof of concept' one that asks permissing before it 'spreads'. It's a traditional virus, not a worm, so it would need to be executed via a trojan for example. I'd quite like to see the so-called virus-signatures that this 'solution' to a non-existing problem provides.
Also, if you don't want to come across as an astroturfer, try not to make your post look like a marketing piece. Not that I'm accusing you of working for them...well actually, I am. Take your rip-off software shrilling elsewhere. Come back when there are actually real viruses out there, and maybe we'll be interested. But I for one will be remembering Tennd Micro as being a company to avoid in future, much like the 'your computer is broadcasting an IP' guys. If you were trading 100 years ago, you'd undoubtably be in the 'miracle cure' industry.
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Hell yeah. I'm lying in bed right, chilling on my day off, surfing the net & sending the odd email over a wifi pda/cell. It's the dogs nuts, full html browser, ssh, vnc, email, streaming media, mp3 player. I could go on for ages about the shit it could do. My laptop is now gathering dust.
The advantange of having all this in a phone is that I have all these capabilities 24/7 whereever I am. Walking home from the pub, just whip out the headphones and I have tunes to see me home. No need to remember to bring an mp3 for the off chance that I might want to listen to something. I can also drop the sd-card into a PC and transfer data. Or remote control the phone to send text messages etc while it's still in my pocket.
This is a tech site; I simply do not understand the ludite attitude to mobile phones. People get woodies over toasters running linux but balk at the idea of having a gcc port sitting on a phone? Fine, if you want to continue living like it's 80's, be my guest. But don't stand there and bitch about phones when there are hacks on the same page to get you PSP running a web browser. WTF? Just buy a fucking pda! Can do all that plus more & no need hack the firnware to do so. Christ, the developer kit for most smart phones is freely (beerly) available for download. Wanna roll your own? Fine, go ahead.
Back to the subject at hand, phone viruses. I looked into this a while back; for most systems it's snake oil. The number of viruses out there is very small and only affects a few devices. Even the Microshaft one doesn't have any yet, which is sort-of surprising: you aren't locked out in anyway, there is no user account management nor protected install utilities. Anyone can install anything they want, which sadly is exactly what a virus writer is looking for.
It will become a larger problem over time, that much is sure. Virus populations are directly proportional to the target host numbers. What I also see as a future risk is embedded software. Imagine embedded linux (etc) running on a device with network support. Undoubtedly that device will have daemon services; services that will have vunerabilities over time. When was the last time you 'apt-get upgrade'ed your TIVO?
So? A competent forensic team will never boot your computer. You could have an init script to delete dodgy data if some trigger wasn't received, or the network config changes. Drive encyption would be a speed bump to them, if they can crack the drive. Otherwise it's a dead end. Of course, the investigators will then push for your encryption keys, which they can legally do here in the uk under the RIP act.
At the time, I read through it and noted some "smart" things. They know about dead-mens switches etc; they NEVER boot up the PC. The drive gets removed and hooked up to a scanning system. The scan then looks for anything dodgy or the officer can browse it. If the software needs updated to include bookmarks/history from other sources, then I'm sure it's not all that big a deal to add this in. Even then, bookmarks & history? They are all too easy to clean and/or fake.
If you think the computer forensic expects boot up the PC and try to save your bookmarks to a floppy, you are sadly mistaken.
What worries me more is that computer evidence is so easilly fakeable yet is often seen as gospel by the courts. It would be easy to create "logs" showing bad activity from someone you don't like. If I ever get hastled from the RIAA, the court will be presented with "evidence" that shows the guys bringing the suit were paedophiles, just to show how ridiculus the idea of third-parties producing "evidence" from a remote system claiming you downloaded "X on date Y". The forensic guys have been trained and undoubtably have sworn and oath or signed a contract to be honest. Some anti-p2p company hasn't and it is also in there commercial interest to provide more of this evidence. Worrying times...
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Palms are about the only IRDA devices that can. Laptops can't generally (I've owned at least three, had my mitts on at least 15 different models though various jobs), neither can pocket pc devices or serial IR dongles. Tried the lot. The IRDA standard is quite different from the Consumer IR standard and it is a fluke that the Palm IRDA drivers can be used to emulate it. While you can get similar tricks to work on the other devices, the range sucks, it's less than a couple of feet in most cases.
Believe me, I've tried this many times. You can build a decent Consumer IR dongle yourself, or buy one for a "media pc", but it will be incompatible with IRDA.
It's improved some over the last few years, and handhelds do seem to have a better grip on getting reliable transfers. Yes, it has it's uses, but it's not really going to take the public by storm. Transfer over BT seems way more common. I'm more of a WiFi fan myself, but that gobbles the batteries as you say.
'discovered' that 7 inches was a decent distance for ir...you could have just looked up the specs!
Well, duh, I looked up the specs as a ballpark and ran tests at different differences. Of course, this was in a factory producing 1,000's of them each week, so getting it "optimum" translated into monetry savings for my employer in needless retests. Which is what they were paying me for. The fast IR test was a special one; normally PCs are tested using loopback dongles; devices that plug into the com port for example and interface round to the IR port. So, it one action you test the com port and the IR port. However, Fast IR only works laptop-laptop (at the time, this was several years ago), so the test for that was a special one, pairing it with a known-good model. It was the bane of my bosses quotas for a long time. Not that I fixed the issue, but I did my best to allivate it.