Their goal is obviously to disrupt communications, not to avoid being tracked. If they knew we were using their phones to track them, they could use that as an advantage to setup traps and make us confident of their whereabouts. They could always just remove the batteries or stuff the phone in a lead box or whatever. If you can't call for help it makes the decision to resist or just do whatever these psychopaths want a much simpler one.
The industry standard rock amp is still the Ampeg SVT (all tube) head. Over 60% of the bass players on the forums that I troll prefer that amp to any other. The bulk of the remaining 40% use a tube preamp with a solid state power amp. You really can't emulate tubes. They just feel that good.
When I was a kid, I wrecked my bicycle while traveling around 20 mph (top speed baby!) on a downhill stretch of pavement near Battery Russel on the Oregon Coast. Not a huge life threatening event, but at the time it seemed quite serious. I remember thinking I had stopped rolling, putting my hand out to get up, and spraining my wrist as I rolled over it. At the ripe old age of 12 I was wondering if perhaps I could figure out how to get my brain to work like that all the time so I could be a superhero.
There are different ways of working hard. I know smart people that work their head off all day at a dead end job when I know they're capable of landing a much better job, but they're too lazy to make the move. No motivation.
Nobody gives a shit if you're gay, lesbian, bi, or straight, or you cheated on your spouse, or you have debt, or you used illegal drugs, or you have a Britney Speares collection. Nobody.
"I guess my point is that the moral issues here are complex and complicated further by the technical issue. It would be nice if there was a good technical solution for this problem, but I have no idea what that might be."
That's not true. There is no excuse for leaving your network open. Every new access point comes with a CD that walks you through setting it up properly. If you got an access point before it was easy, well, it's your responsibility to learn how to use it. If you need wireless and can't be bothered to set it up yourself, you should hire someone with a clue to do it for you. If you set it up as an open network you have no right to be upset about other people using it.
You missed my point. It's the software that you're running on your computer that is requiring administrative approval and thus training you to click the "whatever" button. Obviously it can't be enough. The only way to really secure a computer is to pull the plug. We all know that. We can at least give people the tools they need to protect themselves. Whether they use them or not- that's up to them.
Idiots are suing McDs for making food that they HAVE to eat that isn't healthy. I say, take the warnings off the coffee cups. Give people a little respect. Expect them to behave responsibly and they will. Treat them like sheep and they will become sheep.
In Windows Vista, autorun is not a danger. Not any more than browsing a web site, anyhow. It asks you before it lets you do anything. Maybe rather than bashing the seemingly endless requests for administrative access, people should realize that the applications they're running shouldn't need it anyway.
I've used 2.0. It's nice. I recommend it to everyone that I build PCs for. Many of my friends use it. You're the one not being objective here. OO.o works good, but it's not as pretty or polished as the commercial alternatives.
Many gamers take their hobby a lot more seriously than you do. I don't watch TV, I rarely go out. I play computer games. A night with the guys for me is firing up Ventrilo and playing some Starcraft or something. Since gaming is one of my only recreational outlets, the money I do spend on entertainment goes to new hardware or games. With my MMO addiction I don't really have time to play all of the games that come out but my non-MMO friends that buy $55 games every week.
I wouldn't complain if games were cheaper but there are a lot of us that have no problem with the price tag on a good game, particularly if it is a multiplayer title. I've logged several hundred hours each on Team Fortress, Battlefield 2, Wolfenstein ET (free btw! yay, go id), Counterstrike, Starcraft, Warcraft I, II, III, Command & Conquer, Age of Empires... You can't rent 100 movies for $55. I have several hundred DAYS in Dark Age of Camelot and World of Warcraft.
Maybe my experience is different because I avoid any game that doesn't have cooperative teamplay. I'm not interested in playing without my friends. I don't have (or really want) a huge amount of twitch gaming talent and I play with people who are more interested in working together to beat superior firepower and skill with coordination and strategy (which is a skill in itself, I suppose).
The whole point of our system of government is to elect officials that we respect to make decisions for the country. What's the percentage of computers in the US that are trojaned right now? People are stupid. Plus, some issues are sensitive and can't be discussed publicly but still need an executive decision. It's much better to pay someone who can manage a staff that helps them make educated, smart decisions. You people that call our politicians idiots are not qualified to vote on issues. In general, they don't make uneducated decisions and you simply do not have the information that was available to them when making each choice. They may be corrupt or have a difference of opinion from you but there are some smart people in Washington.
Our system of government is pretty sweet. I don't trust you to make an educated choice in the heat of the moment. I really don't. I didn't trust Bill Clinton either, and you may not trust GWB, but I trust both of them more than I trust you. Nothing personal. They have a track record and are fairly consistent with that. Bill Clinton went with whatever he thought the public would see in a positive light, and GWB went with what he thought was right. In hindsight, they were both wrong in many cases. I personally think that GWB makes good choices given the information that he has at hand. You're free to vote for someone else. But leave the complicated issues to the people who spend most of their waking moments pondering them.
I do not think the stellar search engine is Google's best feature. It's the super functional, minimalistic yet appealing interface. You know, the one that isn't anything like Slashdot. It makes me and my computer happy.
Most of my friends that dropped out for work did so because their families were broke and broken. They were tired of wearing trash, driving trash, and being dependent on parents that weren't dependable. It had nothing to do with our useless school system. Many of them are smarter and more motivated than their diploma-carrying counterparts.
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Could someone please link directly to torrent?
5-digit Slashdot ID. Claims to know a girl. Riiiiight.
Their goal is obviously to disrupt communications, not to avoid being tracked. If they knew we were using their phones to track them, they could use that as an advantage to setup traps and make us confident of their whereabouts. They could always just remove the batteries or stuff the phone in a lead box or whatever. If you can't call for help it makes the decision to resist or just do whatever these psychopaths want a much simpler one.
Are you suggesting that women need to expose their breasts to the light more often? Interesting...
The industry standard rock amp is still the Ampeg SVT (all tube) head. Over 60% of the bass players on the forums that I troll prefer that amp to any other. The bulk of the remaining 40% use a tube preamp with a solid state power amp. You really can't emulate tubes. They just feel that good.
Are you kidding me? The poor innocent kid will be warped. Everyone knows Source is just a perversion of the true Counter Strike.
When I was a kid, I wrecked my bicycle while traveling around 20 mph (top speed baby!) on a downhill stretch of pavement near Battery Russel on the Oregon Coast. Not a huge life threatening event, but at the time it seemed quite serious. I remember thinking I had stopped rolling, putting my hand out to get up, and spraining my wrist as I rolled over it. At the ripe old age of 12 I was wondering if perhaps I could figure out how to get my brain to work like that all the time so I could be a superhero.
I'm not sure if you want every woman with a disease to be seeking your seed for the cure...
$200 killer Win98 box, or $0 to play my favorite games on a Core 2 Duo with a 24" LCD. HARD DECISION.
There are different ways of working hard. I know smart people that work their head off all day at a dead end job when I know they're capable of landing a much better job, but they're too lazy to make the move. No motivation.
Nobody gives a shit if you're gay, lesbian, bi, or straight, or you cheated on your spouse, or you have debt, or you used illegal drugs, or you have a Britney Speares collection. Nobody.
Now that's just going too far man.
Just hope she isn't into erotic adventures...
"I guess my point is that the moral issues here are complex and complicated further by the technical issue. It would be nice if there was a good technical solution for this problem, but I have no idea what that might be."
That's not true. There is no excuse for leaving your network open. Every new access point comes with a CD that walks you through setting it up properly. If you got an access point before it was easy, well, it's your responsibility to learn how to use it. If you need wireless and can't be bothered to set it up yourself, you should hire someone with a clue to do it for you. If you set it up as an open network you have no right to be upset about other people using it.
You missed my point. It's the software that you're running on your computer that is requiring administrative approval and thus training you to click the "whatever" button. Obviously it can't be enough. The only way to really secure a computer is to pull the plug. We all know that. We can at least give people the tools they need to protect themselves. Whether they use them or not- that's up to them.
Idiots are suing McDs for making food that they HAVE to eat that isn't healthy. I say, take the warnings off the coffee cups. Give people a little respect. Expect them to behave responsibly and they will. Treat them like sheep and they will become sheep.
In Windows Vista, autorun is not a danger. Not any more than browsing a web site, anyhow. It asks you before it lets you do anything. Maybe rather than bashing the seemingly endless requests for administrative access, people should realize that the applications they're running shouldn't need it anyway.
I've used 2.0. It's nice. I recommend it to everyone that I build PCs for. Many of my friends use it. You're the one not being objective here. OO.o works good, but it's not as pretty or polished as the commercial alternatives.
Many gamers take their hobby a lot more seriously than you do. I don't watch TV, I rarely go out. I play computer games. A night with the guys for me is firing up Ventrilo and playing some Starcraft or something. Since gaming is one of my only recreational outlets, the money I do spend on entertainment goes to new hardware or games. With my MMO addiction I don't really have time to play all of the games that come out but my non-MMO friends that buy $55 games every week.
I wouldn't complain if games were cheaper but there are a lot of us that have no problem with the price tag on a good game, particularly if it is a multiplayer title. I've logged several hundred hours each on Team Fortress, Battlefield 2, Wolfenstein ET (free btw! yay, go id), Counterstrike, Starcraft, Warcraft I, II, III, Command & Conquer, Age of Empires... You can't rent 100 movies for $55. I have several hundred DAYS in Dark Age of Camelot and World of Warcraft.
Maybe my experience is different because I avoid any game that doesn't have cooperative teamplay. I'm not interested in playing without my friends. I don't have (or really want) a huge amount of twitch gaming talent and I play with people who are more interested in working together to beat superior firepower and skill with coordination and strategy (which is a skill in itself, I suppose).
How much do you really think Dell pays for Microsoft Works 8.0? I doubt they pay anything for it.
It's simple. Dell computers already come bundled with a more polished suite for free. It may not be as powerful or feature complete but there it is.
"Microsoft Works 8. DOES NOT INCLUDE MS WORD [Included in Price]"
The whole point of our system of government is to elect officials that we respect to make decisions for the country. What's the percentage of computers in the US that are trojaned right now? People are stupid. Plus, some issues are sensitive and can't be discussed publicly but still need an executive decision. It's much better to pay someone who can manage a staff that helps them make educated, smart decisions. You people that call our politicians idiots are not qualified to vote on issues. In general, they don't make uneducated decisions and you simply do not have the information that was available to them when making each choice. They may be corrupt or have a difference of opinion from you but there are some smart people in Washington.
Our system of government is pretty sweet. I don't trust you to make an educated choice in the heat of the moment. I really don't. I didn't trust Bill Clinton either, and you may not trust GWB, but I trust both of them more than I trust you. Nothing personal. They have a track record and are fairly consistent with that. Bill Clinton went with whatever he thought the public would see in a positive light, and GWB went with what he thought was right. In hindsight, they were both wrong in many cases. I personally think that GWB makes good choices given the information that he has at hand. You're free to vote for someone else. But leave the complicated issues to the people who spend most of their waking moments pondering them.
1 in 5 in my line were girls. You lose! We had over 100 people, too!
How many slashdot readers do you know that CAN do a jumping jack?
I do not think the stellar search engine is Google's best feature. It's the super functional, minimalistic yet appealing interface. You know, the one that isn't anything like Slashdot. It makes me and my computer happy.
Most of my friends that dropped out for work did so because their families were broke and broken. They were tired of wearing trash, driving trash, and being dependent on parents that weren't dependable. It had nothing to do with our useless school system. Many of them are smarter and more motivated than their diploma-carrying counterparts.
yep