I had the password option working propertly with my last employer, on the original VNC. It's not present on the Windows version however. Just take the file produced by vncpassword and point the client at it.
I like the password option, because if you can see my VNC servers, you've already cracked either my firewall or ssh forwarding. The games over at that point regardless.
Also, if you are running localhost servers, by definition you can already see the password file. And as it's in your homedir, any other NFS mounts can use it, so it's good for jumping around a properly configured LAN.
Proud to be a VNC user since back when VNC was the only VNC
You said that Saddam was no threat. I seem to remember that another Brit believed that before, made a deal, and proclaimed "peace for our time."
Not in any way relevant. Saddam was not a threat, case closed. Others are threats.
Non-combatant deaths *would* have happened in the states. Training accidents, traffic accidents, domestic violence, victims of violent crime
Your kidding, right? By your logic, Hitler was an alright guy, the Jewish people would have died anyway.
That may be, but the American taxpayers, and American Oil companies will not be taking those oil fields as the spoils of war, no matter what you think.
They just did!! The spoils of war were divied up before "major combat operations" were over. Contracts were assigned in secret without oversight. The profits are staggering. Just what the US needed to jump-start the economy. Just because it's not been on your news, doesn't mean that it didn't happen! Especially when your news is provided by the very same commercial entities that are profiting!!
we'd do what ever we wanted and nuke anyone who stood in our way. That's not the kind of thing that Americans do.
Not true. You are basing your view of America on your exposure to your education and Hollywood. Both were very much flag-waving and not connected to the truth. Fact is that the US has done more than it's fair share of dodgy things around the world. You created Al-Quada for pete sake! And there's the School of the Americas, responible for training the majority of South American terrorists and genocidal despots. Saddam was sold biological WMD by Rumsfeld. I could go on and on about things that prove that the US is not the "good guy"*.
*I could just as easily do the same for my own country. Historians always state that it is the victor that writes the history books. Who will ever write that they were the bad guys? Don't take it personally, but as I said, the US has had way more than it's fair share of dodgy dealings. And that's not even touching on the democratic governments brought down by the CIA to be replaced with dictators.
The US has the silly belief that they are in some way benefitial to the rest of the world. This is created by endless patriotism (some may say propaganda) on television. Every time you see a story about food aid, you see the US flag on sacks of wheat. Every time you hear of UN peacekeepers being deployed, you get US Marines. This has given the US population a very high opinion of itself, which is dangerous as that goes hand in hand with the belief that you can do no wrong. You said yourself: "That's not the kind of thing that Americans do.". Why do you believe that? Are you genetically different from everyone else on the planet, so much so that you are always doing the right thing? Tell that to the Saudi population who have been under the rule of a brutal dictatorship, which can only exist with US help. It is the support of this government that drove most of the 9-11 attackers (mostly Saudi's, remember?) to commit that attocity. Every time Bush says it is "because they hate freedom", he is lying to you in a way that will incite you, as freedom is central to the American Way. They don't hate freedom. They hate the things that your government has done, does and continues to do with zero awareness of this amoung the US population.*
* Many analysts believe that the war in Iraq has a lot to do with this. The US keeps a large battalian of troops in the Middle East, currently stationed in Saudi Arabia. Bin Laden's personal beef with the US is the removal of these. With Iraq under new leadership, these can be moved into Iraq, out of Saudi; which was exactly the aim of the 9-11 attacks!
America doesn't bring democracy. It brings stable trading partners. The politics is irrelevant if you are willing to do business. This is where the axim that the US has never gone to war with a country that has McDonalds resteraunts. Think about it. I've eaten a big mac in China, but not North Ko
This argument makes little sense to me. In this case, let's assume that your premise is bang on. Where's the money? Who is getting the big money from Iraqi oil? We're not getting rich on this deal.
Who's getting the big money? Why, the people who bankrolled the Bush administrations election campaign. They are his investors.
What, did you thing the spoils would go to the US taxpayer? Ha!! The money is coming out of YOUR taxes and going into the coffers of the companies that paid for Bush's election campaign. Campaign contrabutions are legitimised bribery. Fact: Every US election for the past 30 years has been won by the side that spent the most money.
Besides, it's not all about profit. Access is a huge part of it, Saddam was sitting on the worlds second largest reserves, while the rest of the world is literally running out. War is, and always has been, about access to resources.
What we invest in infrastructure and rebuilding and securing that nation will *never* be repaid - under any circumstances.
You are kidding, right? Oil. Black gold. Texas tea? Second largest reserves in the world?
If that's not the case, could you explain to my soldier friends why they were guarding oil facilities instead of populated areas in the early days of the war?
You are right though, YOU will never get it back. It's in Harliburtons accounts now.
WRT "western media is barely touching on it" - It seems clear to me that the western media (in general) has no love for GW Bush. Don't you think that they would love to show the Iraq war as a disaster to get the scoop?
They aren't. There are daily attacks on troops and convoys, innocents dying every day. Bombs in cafes, schools, police stations. The media didn't even want to show the troops coffins coming home until they were forced into it via a blogger who got access to them via a FOI request. The war is an unmitigated disaster on just about every level. People don't want to see that; it's bad for ratings. And regardless of your politics, you cannot argue that the number one bottom line in media is readership/circulation/viewers and the reason for the existance of the media outlet; profit. I'm not saying there is some huge cover-up or conspircy, just that it's not in the medias interests to report this kind of stuff. Stay tuned for the next big story; We'll be back after these important messages. There is a really good book on the subject of how news media has changed called "How to watch TV News", very interesting reading.
Abortion? Roe v. Wade was a bad compromise. The concept of viability as a test was always a slippery slope.
I'm not touching that topic with a bargepole. You may have noticed that I haven't mentioned where I stand on that issue. It is not relevant to the fact that people who vote for Bush are going to burn in hell for their crimes against humanity. 2000 may have been a mistake, but a vote this time round is a black mark on your character. The war in Iraq was not neccessary or justified. The abortion debate will go on regardless.
agree that we need to think about the needs of other people, but how many of those people would have been killed by Saddam and his minions?
A couple hundred perhaps? He was under very close scrutiny from the west, and knew it. All he was capable of was small scale murder and torture. You know, the things we've been going to the prisoners as well. So, we replaced a man we created, supported, armed and financed, on the premise of stopping him doing things that we do anyway. Nice. WMD? Who do you think invented them? Ah, but we are the good guys right? So our leaders keep telling us, while they rape the world for their own interests. Can you think of a period in history where the dominant super-power believed that they weren't justified, if not required, to do whatever they are doing?
How many of the non-combatant deaths would have happened stateside?
Black versus white? What? I don't get it. Seems like a red herring to me.
Just saying that it's easier to accept casualties when the victims are far away and different from you. It's hard to identify with their problems. And that the US has a huge history of racism, which is currently focusing on Arabs right now.
"war is killing" therefore abortion is irrelevant - whatever helps *you* sleep at night
An unfortunate by-product of modern democracy. The system really stands very little chance about representing the people, with people being forced to accept huge divides based on things that are important to them. You obviously have a considered opinion on the matter of abortions, and I think it's a shame that you have to vote for the likes of G.W.Bush in order to make your opinion heard. I don't know Kerry's stance on the issue, but I'm guessing from your sentiment that he is pro-choice.
I've got friends who are or recently have been in Iraq
Likewise.
and they tell me that almost every Iraqi they've met has been thrilled to have the US there.
Then they are either lying or didn't get out much. Yes, the vast majority of Iraqi's are happy that Saddam has gone and most will freely admit that. The fact of the matter is that the people do not agree with how it was done. The US doesn't even control parts of Iraq at the moment, the situation is a military disaster. Western media is barely touching on it, and I'd imagine the US media would be a little pre-disposed with the election right now. Things are bleak in Iraq. Head on over to BBC News to see fair coverage of what's going on. Daily attacks. Pictures of kids dancing around buring military vehicles. It's a soldiers worst nightmare, Vietnam all over again, where you can't tell the innocent from the enemy.
And get this; one side-effect of modern medicine is that many more solidiers survive battlefield injurires and are returning home having lost body parts in-country. These numbers never make it on to the news. This site is just one I pulled from a google for "number of injured in iraq" claims:
Estimates on the number of US soldiers, sailors and Marines medically evacuated from Iraq by the end of 2003 because of battlefield wounds, illness or other reasons range from 11,000 to 22,000
Many Iraqis are glad that a mass muderer and capricious dictator no longer rules their country with an iron fist.
Absolutely. The number in my sig pertains to the number of non-combatant deaths, that's women and children to you and me. The site lists them all. Take a look. Then consider the dead collalition forces, around 4000 IIRC, but don't quote me on that! Then consider the number of dead Iraqi's who were either in the Army or took arms against the invasion. Then there are the terrorists who are thriving on the anti-US sentiment there. We're over 20,000 dead I'd reckon. In contrast, 9.11 claimed the lives of what, 3500 people and look at the outrage. We're back to my point on other peoples having less of a value of life in your eyes.
Ask yourself this...was it worth it? To remove a man that presented no threat, while as I type there are other men just like him doing the same things. Right now. Do something about them. Ah, no oil. And that's what it comes down to. The profits made by those close to the administration have been phenomenal. It is well documented that the invasion of Iraq was in planning prior to 9.11.
Frankly, I don't see how anyone can vote for Bush after the lies, mis-direction and outright failure of winning the peace in Iraq. Winning wars is easy, winning the peace isn't. The response to the invasion is as predicatable as it is tragic.
And so what about your opinion on abortion? Is Bush going to actually change anything? Abortion is a hot-potato
A vote for Bush reduces the number of federally funded abortions, and therefore lives are saved.
It's all in your perspective.:)
True. It's a touch choice. Kill black people or kill white people. America's leaning on the whole "colour of skin" thing has been very clear for several hundred years. As long as it's "Johny Foreigner" (an old English WW2 phase), then it's OK to kill. Hell, it's not even killing, it's "collateral damage". Glad y'all cleared that one up.;-)
By the way, Jesus ain't going to appeciate your "forget the war, his abortion stance is OK by me" excuse. You are still a murderer if you vote for Bush, straw men arguments be-damned. But hey, whatever makes you sleep well at night!! Just remember, the fear and anger you felt on 9.11 is the same fear and anger you are inflicting on the Iraqi people. And you wonder why they didn't welcome you with open arms?
This war is going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better. Every US citizen should hang their head in shame, or in the case of Bush supporters, do us all a favor and DON'T BREED!!;-)
That's all there is to it. The US is a heavily racist country that uses extensive propaganda to keep it's population in check. Sounds a little like China to me!
Use the XBox solution described elsewhere in this thread. It's designed for TV output, in fact running other OS'es such as Linux can be a pain because of the overscan.
Scaling is handled very well, and you can change the aspect ration if the source is set up wrong.
Finally, I've always been pained with underpowered decompressors, using laptops with TV-outs up til now. The XBox has coped with everything I've thrown at it.
No. Straw man argument. Hussein was no more of a threat than a bunch of other manical despots (some we call "allies") who ALREADY have nuclear weapons. Doesn't justify killing 15,000+ innocent civilians, 1,000+ US/UK troops and god know how many Iraqi males. All for a lie.
And just to piss you off, how about this way. One Iraq = 10 NYC towers, if you are counting innocent deaths.
Yeah, but with quicktime you can't view full screen without paying for the "Professional" version. And you can't use the codecs in any other player. The files don't play on my XBox Media Centre. Quicktime has no place in my home!!
Yes. It's like breast cancer; as it only concerns a females sexual organs, it gets a hell of a lot of research. Which is all good, I mean who cares about male prostate cancer which is more deadly and more common than either of the trendy cancers? Everyone loves titties!!
have to deal with IT professionals who, like yourself, are poorly informed (I won't go so far as to say clueless) as to what's really going on
Methinks you are the one who is clueless. The NSA is one of the most aggressive security agencies in the world. I'm sure their own private networks are very secure and not connected to the public internet in any way. It is common practice in these kind of places for people with clearance to have two PCs on their desk, one for each network.
Remember, we are talking about the country that trained just about every prominent South American terrorist as well as the likes of Al-Qaida. I hardly think having a few "security personel" (i.e. hackers) who's remit is not to defend, but consider attacks, is beyond their capability. The NSA already has all the cool toys for listening into telephones, cellphones, radios, faxes. You think they may have forgotten about TCP/IP?
They have had systems such as Echelon for years without the publics knowledge. Are you seriously telling me you don't believe that NSA has any interest in getting electronic inteligence from hacked computers? Not even from (shudder) terrorists?
I'd bet all my money that they already have a version of BackOrifice of their own, active and deployed right now.
What the hell is the point defending things, preventing information falling into the hands of terrorists etc if you are destroying the very way of life you are trying to protect.
The only thing the Bush party is trying to protect is it's investors.
So? I'm sure the NSA and GCHQ have their own highly trained crackers. What exactly is the point of this article? It kinda points out the obvious, something that has been true for many years. Electronic warfare has existed since the invention of the radio jammer. The extension to this onto the net is inevitable.
The question is, should we invade? Do the have any oil?
I think the only delusion here is yours, in thinking that people who voice any strong opinions in public shouldn't be questioned.
Absolutely not, a free society demands questioning. However, it shouldn't be a cloak and dagger witchhunt. With Lennon, the powers that be fought to keep him out of the US, such as giving him a lot of visa trouble, simply because he spoke out against them. How does that fit into your freedom utopia? These files exist because they were seeking something contraversial to use against him! Which is what politics seemes to have decended into nowadays. Rather than discuss the issue at hand, attention seems to move towards "getting the dirt".
Don't get me wrong, I love what the USA stands for. Unfortunately, it doesn't stand for that anymore.
It's that attitude that turned me off from the anti-Iraq War movement almost immediately
WTF? It's not a movement!! If you disagree, you disagree. You don't need to jump on a bandwagon!! You don't have to like people that share your opinion!!
Jeez, I feel like Brian shouting "you are all indivudual!" here...
It's been that way for a while. The last few laptops I've had didn't come with a restore CD; there was a restore partition on the drive. This is to prevent you selling on the computer while keeping the software to yourself.
Of course, as another reply says, this is no use when the hard-drive dies. It's also kind of daft when you buy a second-hand drive from eBay and it has this partition on it. This happened to me and the laptop couldn't even delete the partition. Had to hook it up to a desktop PC to fdisk it back to empty. I want my.5 gig back!!
John Kerry's changing positions on Iraq in his own words [kerryoniraq.com].
Yeah, 'cos politicians who stick to their guns out of principle, even when they are wrong, are the SHIZNIT!!
I've never gotten the whole "flip-flop" thing. Politicians reflect the desires of the people, in an ideal world. If the desires of the people change, well, it's pretty obvious that those in charge should change as well.
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I like the password option, because if you can see my VNC servers, you've already cracked either my firewall or ssh forwarding. The games over at that point regardless.
Also, if you are running localhost servers, by definition you can already see the password file. And as it's in your homedir, any other NFS mounts can use it, so it's good for jumping around a properly configured LAN.
Proud to be a VNC user since back when VNC was the only VNC
Not in any way relevant. Saddam was not a threat, case closed. Others are threats.
Non-combatant deaths *would* have happened in the states. Training accidents, traffic accidents, domestic violence, victims of violent crime
Your kidding, right? By your logic, Hitler was an alright guy, the Jewish people would have died anyway.
That may be, but the American taxpayers, and American Oil companies will not be taking those oil fields as the spoils of war, no matter what you think.
They just did!! The spoils of war were divied up before "major combat operations" were over. Contracts were assigned in secret without oversight. The profits are staggering. Just what the US needed to jump-start the economy. Just because it's not been on your news, doesn't mean that it didn't happen! Especially when your news is provided by the very same commercial entities that are profiting!!
we'd do what ever we wanted and nuke anyone who stood in our way. That's not the kind of thing that Americans do.
Not true. You are basing your view of America on your exposure to your education and Hollywood. Both were very much flag-waving and not connected to the truth. Fact is that the US has done more than it's fair share of dodgy things around the world. You created Al-Quada for pete sake! And there's the School of the Americas, responible for training the majority of South American terrorists and genocidal despots. Saddam was sold biological WMD by Rumsfeld. I could go on and on about things that prove that the US is not the "good guy"*.
*I could just as easily do the same for my own country. Historians always state that it is the victor that writes the history books. Who will ever write that they were the bad guys? Don't take it personally, but as I said, the US has had way more than it's fair share of dodgy dealings. And that's not even touching on the democratic governments brought down by the CIA to be replaced with dictators.
The US has the silly belief that they are in some way benefitial to the rest of the world. This is created by endless patriotism (some may say propaganda) on television. Every time you see a story about food aid, you see the US flag on sacks of wheat. Every time you hear of UN peacekeepers being deployed, you get US Marines. This has given the US population a very high opinion of itself, which is dangerous as that goes hand in hand with the belief that you can do no wrong. You said yourself: "That's not the kind of thing that Americans do.". Why do you believe that? Are you genetically different from everyone else on the planet, so much so that you are always doing the right thing? Tell that to the Saudi population who have been under the rule of a brutal dictatorship, which can only exist with US help. It is the support of this government that drove most of the 9-11 attackers (mostly Saudi's, remember?) to commit that attocity. Every time Bush says it is "because they hate freedom", he is lying to you in a way that will incite you, as freedom is central to the American Way. They don't hate freedom. They hate the things that your government has done, does and continues to do with zero awareness of this amoung the US population.*
* Many analysts believe that the war in Iraq has a lot to do with this. The US keeps a large battalian of troops in the Middle East, currently stationed in Saudi Arabia. Bin Laden's personal beef with the US is the removal of these. With Iraq under new leadership, these can be moved into Iraq, out of Saudi; which was exactly the aim of the 9-11 attacks!
America doesn't bring democracy. It brings stable trading partners. The politics is irrelevant if you are willing to do business. This is where the axim that the US has never gone to war with a country that has McDonalds resteraunts. Think about it. I've eaten a big mac in China, but not North Ko
Who's getting the big money? Why, the people who bankrolled the Bush administrations election campaign. They are his investors.
What, did you thing the spoils would go to the US taxpayer? Ha!! The money is coming out of YOUR taxes and going into the coffers of the companies that paid for Bush's election campaign. Campaign contrabutions are legitimised bribery. Fact: Every US election for the past 30 years has been won by the side that spent the most money.
Besides, it's not all about profit. Access is a huge part of it, Saddam was sitting on the worlds second largest reserves, while the rest of the world is literally running out. War is, and always has been, about access to resources.
What we invest in infrastructure and rebuilding and securing that nation will *never* be repaid - under any circumstances.
You are kidding, right? Oil. Black gold. Texas tea? Second largest reserves in the world?
If that's not the case, could you explain to my soldier friends why they were guarding oil facilities instead of populated areas in the early days of the war?
You are right though, YOU will never get it back. It's in Harliburtons accounts now.
WRT "western media is barely touching on it" - It seems clear to me that the western media (in general) has no love for GW Bush. Don't you think that they would love to show the Iraq war as a disaster to get the scoop?
They aren't. There are daily attacks on troops and convoys, innocents dying every day. Bombs in cafes, schools, police stations. The media didn't even want to show the troops coffins coming home until they were forced into it via a blogger who got access to them via a FOI request. The war is an unmitigated disaster on just about every level. People don't want to see that; it's bad for ratings. And regardless of your politics, you cannot argue that the number one bottom line in media is readership/circulation/viewers and the reason for the existance of the media outlet; profit. I'm not saying there is some huge cover-up or conspircy, just that it's not in the medias interests to report this kind of stuff. Stay tuned for the next big story; We'll be back after these important messages. There is a really good book on the subject of how news media has changed called "How to watch TV News", very interesting reading.
Abortion? Roe v. Wade was a bad compromise. The concept of viability as a test was always a slippery slope.
I'm not touching that topic with a bargepole. You may have noticed that I haven't mentioned where I stand on that issue. It is not relevant to the fact that people who vote for Bush are going to burn in hell for their crimes against humanity. 2000 may have been a mistake, but a vote this time round is a black mark on your character. The war in Iraq was not neccessary or justified. The abortion debate will go on regardless.
agree that we need to think about the needs of other people, but how many of those people would have been killed by Saddam and his minions?
A couple hundred perhaps? He was under very close scrutiny from the west, and knew it. All he was capable of was small scale murder and torture. You know, the things we've been going to the prisoners as well. So, we replaced a man we created, supported, armed and financed, on the premise of stopping him doing things that we do anyway. Nice. WMD? Who do you think invented them? Ah, but we are the good guys right? So our leaders keep telling us, while they rape the world for their own interests. Can you think of a period in history where the dominant super-power believed that they weren't justified, if not required, to do whatever they are doing?
How many of the non-combatant deaths would have happened stateside?
None. Saddams regime has zero connections
Just saying that it's easier to accept casualties when the victims are far away and different from you. It's hard to identify with their problems. And that the US has a huge history of racism, which is currently focusing on Arabs right now.
"war is killing" therefore abortion is irrelevant - whatever helps *you* sleep at night
An unfortunate by-product of modern democracy. The system really stands very little chance about representing the people, with people being forced to accept huge divides based on things that are important to them. You obviously have a considered opinion on the matter of abortions, and I think it's a shame that you have to vote for the likes of G.W.Bush in order to make your opinion heard. I don't know Kerry's stance on the issue, but I'm guessing from your sentiment that he is pro-choice.
I've got friends who are or recently have been in Iraq
Likewise.
and they tell me that almost every Iraqi they've met has been thrilled to have the US there.
Then they are either lying or didn't get out much. Yes, the vast majority of Iraqi's are happy that Saddam has gone and most will freely admit that. The fact of the matter is that the people do not agree with how it was done. The US doesn't even control parts of Iraq at the moment, the situation is a military disaster. Western media is barely touching on it, and I'd imagine the US media would be a little pre-disposed with the election right now. Things are bleak in Iraq. Head on over to BBC News to see fair coverage of what's going on. Daily attacks. Pictures of kids dancing around buring military vehicles. It's a soldiers worst nightmare, Vietnam all over again, where you can't tell the innocent from the enemy.
And get this; one side-effect of modern medicine is that many more solidiers survive battlefield injurires and are returning home having lost body parts in-country. These numbers never make it on to the news. This site is just one I pulled from a google for "number of injured in iraq" claims:
Many Iraqis are glad that a mass muderer and capricious dictator no longer rules their country with an iron fist.
Absolutely. The number in my sig pertains to the number of non-combatant deaths, that's women and children to you and me. The site lists them all. Take a look. Then consider the dead collalition forces, around 4000 IIRC, but don't quote me on that! Then consider the number of dead Iraqi's who were either in the Army or took arms against the invasion. Then there are the terrorists who are thriving on the anti-US sentiment there. We're over 20,000 dead I'd reckon. In contrast, 9.11 claimed the lives of what, 3500 people and look at the outrage. We're back to my point on other peoples having less of a value of life in your eyes.
Ask yourself this...was it worth it? To remove a man that presented no threat, while as I type there are other men just like him doing the same things. Right now. Do something about them. Ah, no oil. And that's what it comes down to. The profits made by those close to the administration have been phenomenal. It is well documented that the invasion of Iraq was in planning prior to 9.11.
Frankly, I don't see how anyone can vote for Bush after the lies, mis-direction and outright failure of winning the peace in Iraq. Winning wars is easy, winning the peace isn't. The response to the invasion is as predicatable as it is tragic.
And so what about your opinion on abortion? Is Bush going to actually change anything? Abortion is a hot-potato
It's all in your perspective. :)
True. It's a touch choice. Kill black people or kill white people. America's leaning on the whole "colour of skin" thing has been very clear for several hundred years. As long as it's "Johny Foreigner" (an old English WW2 phase), then it's OK to kill. Hell, it's not even killing, it's "collateral damage". Glad y'all cleared that one up. ;-)
By the way, Jesus ain't going to appeciate your "forget the war, his abortion stance is OK by me" excuse. You are still a murderer if you vote for Bush, straw men arguments be-damned. But hey, whatever makes you sleep well at night!! Just remember, the fear and anger you felt on 9.11 is the same fear and anger you are inflicting on the Iraqi people. And you wonder why they didn't welcome you with open arms?
This war is going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better. Every US citizen should hang their head in shame, or in the case of Bush supporters, do us all a favor and DON'T BREED!! ;-)
Not a Fox News watcher then, are ya bud?
Scaling is handled very well, and you can change the aspect ration if the source is set up wrong.
Finally, I've always been pained with underpowered decompressors, using laptops with TV-outs up til now. The XBox has coped with everything I've thrown at it.
Shhh!! We have always been at war with Iraq. We have have never been at war with Saudi Arabia. You'll give the game away!
And just to piss you off, how about this way. One Iraq = 10 NYC towers, if you are counting innocent deaths.
All in the name of profit. Fuck you!! :-)
In Soviet America, the government is the media!! (Fox)
"One shareholder, one vote."
Yeah, but with quicktime you can't view full screen without paying for the "Professional" version. And you can't use the codecs in any other player. The files don't play on my XBox Media Centre. Quicktime has no place in my home!!
9/11 worked out alright for the Project for a New American Century...
Yes. It's like breast cancer; as it only concerns a females sexual organs, it gets a hell of a lot of research. Which is all good, I mean who cares about male prostate cancer which is more deadly and more common than either of the trendy cancers? Everyone loves titties!!
Methinks you are the one who is clueless. The NSA is one of the most aggressive security agencies in the world. I'm sure their own private networks are very secure and not connected to the public internet in any way. It is common practice in these kind of places for people with clearance to have two PCs on their desk, one for each network.
Remember, we are talking about the country that trained just about every prominent South American terrorist as well as the likes of Al-Qaida. I hardly think having a few "security personel" (i.e. hackers) who's remit is not to defend, but consider attacks, is beyond their capability. The NSA already has all the cool toys for listening into telephones, cellphones, radios, faxes. You think they may have forgotten about TCP/IP?
They have had systems such as Echelon for years without the publics knowledge. Are you seriously telling me you don't believe that NSA has any interest in getting electronic inteligence from hacked computers? Not even from (shudder) terrorists?
I'd bet all my money that they already have a version of BackOrifice of their own, active and deployed right now.
The only thing the Bush party is trying to protect is it's investors.
So? I'm sure the NSA and GCHQ have their own highly trained crackers. What exactly is the point of this article? It kinda points out the obvious, something that has been true for many years. Electronic warfare has existed since the invention of the radio jammer. The extension to this onto the net is inevitable.
The question is, should we invade? Do the have any oil?
Absolutely not, a free society demands questioning. However, it shouldn't be a cloak and dagger witchhunt. With Lennon, the powers that be fought to keep him out of the US, such as giving him a lot of visa trouble, simply because he spoke out against them. How does that fit into your freedom utopia? These files exist because they were seeking something contraversial to use against him! Which is what politics seemes to have decended into nowadays. Rather than discuss the issue at hand, attention seems to move towards "getting the dirt".
Don't get me wrong, I love what the USA stands for. Unfortunately, it doesn't stand for that anymore.
Ah, the land of the free.
The US delusion is almost comical, especially now as you approach totalitairism. Step in line, patriots!!
WTF? It's not a movement!! If you disagree, you disagree. You don't need to jump on a bandwagon!! You don't have to like people that share your opinion!!
Jeez, I feel like Brian shouting "you are all indivudual!" here...
Of course, as another reply says, this is no use when the hard-drive dies. It's also kind of daft when you buy a second-hand drive from eBay and it has this partition on it. This happened to me and the laptop couldn't even delete the partition. Had to hook it up to a desktop PC to fdisk it back to empty. I want my .5 gig back!!
Sounds like just about every one of them nowadays... :-(
Yeah, 'cos politicians who stick to their guns out of principle, even when they are wrong, are the SHIZNIT!!
I've never gotten the whole "flip-flop" thing. Politicians reflect the desires of the people, in an ideal world. If the desires of the people change, well, it's pretty obvious that those in charge should change as well.