Does Bluesecurity have a linux or mac client yet? Spammer is an idiot. 1) he raises awareness of what bluesecurity does. 2) he makes it look like BS works -- why else would he waste resources he could be using to spam or extort people, it must be hurting him. Effectively, this is great for PR Bluesecurity -- how much would a worldwide advertising campaign have cost?
I doubt even a payoff is needed. Chances are, at least one person working for the RIAA or a music label has a kid in college. Kid comes home for vacation and says "mom/dad -- you wouldn't believe how much music is being shared on our lan!" Or just read the post near the top of this discussion in which some college kid explains how much high bitrate stuff is available on campus at high speed transfer rates. Don't get me wrong, I think the RIAA et al. are bad -- but I chuckle a bit at all the tinfoilhatter suggestions floating around like illegaly breaking into Unis' computer systems and such. Why take the risk when the evidence can be had for free?
I suppose I should qualify this joke lest I dissapear to Gitmo or whatever. That punishment would of course be appropriate only after a treason trial if it was demonstrated that Bush has actively undermined fundemental American freedoms, ones he swore to protect, such as the right to privacy unless an appropriate warrant is issued by a competent court.
I could see "totally sweet". I once went to the Ueno Castle, and there was a Ninja House exhibit. The Ninjas were women in Lavender Ninja outfits. I'd say totally sweet.
http://www.iganinja.jp/english/menu.html
You'll have to scour google for decent pictures though. Here's a start.
I don't watch TV so I can't personally vouch for Fox news. But you are right about correlations and causation -- they are not the same. What is clear in this study however, is that Fox viewers are wrong a lot. Whether that is because Fox is a lousy news source, or because its viewers are statistically less adept at processing information, or they will doggedly believe what they want evidence to the contrary be damned, is hard to pin down. At the same time, the reasons don't matter in some respects.
For example, European and "world" public opinion polls showed most people opposed US invasion. 35% of Fox viewers believed world public opinion was in favor of war, 5% for the NPR/PBS group. Bad reporting or self-deception -- does it matter? If I heard "X" about world public opinion from a Fox viewer on that issue, there was a 1 in 3 chance he was wrong. When considering whether a person's argument are believable at first blush, the reliability of their cohorts and sources is valuable information -- not a litmus test obviously because because many Fox viewers got things right. But because so many get things wrong (for whatever reason), it is definitely worth consideration.
If you look toward the end of the study, they did attempt to look at differences that may be due to political bias. However, there were differences within political groups. Bush supporters who primarily used Fox had higher rates of misperception than those who used NPR/PBS (78% to 50% in this case). Exposure was also an issue: Republicans/Bush supporters who pay "very close attention" to the news had higher rates of misperception than those who didn't pay much attention. See the part of the report beginning at page 19 under the heading "Political Bias Not Full Explanation".
Although I agree it is possible that those who rabidly wish to be misinformed might gravitate to Fox, there is support for the notion that Fox's misleading reports have a deadly effect.
You can't do a "mv *.bat *bak" command. You need a short script, can be a one-liner:
for i in *.bat; do mv "$i" "`basename "$i".bat`.bak"; done
This would change all the bats to baks. Note the backticks around the "basename" description. Somewhat easier for me to remember is something like this:
for i in *; do mv $i `echo $i | sed -e 's/FROMtext/TOtext/'`; done
On a whim, I did "man rename". Looks like "rename" will do what you want too, but not exactly like you describe.
I worked as a car salesman for two months... at which time I was told that if I quit, they'd give me a letter of recommendation and if I didn't, they'd fire me and they wouldn't give me a recommendation. Suffice it to say, I sucked as a car salesman, took my letter and got a wage-slave job for a while before deciding on grad school.
One thing I learned during that stint however, was that 80% of commission money was earned by 20% of salespeople. I would imagine selling houses is similar -- perhaps not the same numbers, but a few people make boat loads of money, and most people starve.
Actually, on par with/. summaries, the summary sucks. Now, I'm not saying the linked site isn't somewhat at fault, having stuck headlines for other stories almost at random throughout the linked story, but I didn't notice where the article stated that MS subverted the Komoku hardware device by doing some virtual machine trick. I did see a link to that VM article, but that link appeared to be randomly inserted into the Komoku article. It was pointed out that the PCI device was for high security machines, but they are also going to be selling a software only product for low security machines, meaning they recognize that software running inside an OS can be fooled if the OS is altered.
The 2.16ghz version never had it's own column. You always had to select the 2ghz version, and then choose the processor upgrade in the customization screen. That option still exists at the same price as before the 17" came out (the upgrade is $300). Of course, for the same HD and processor as the 17", the 15" is actually $100 more than the 17".
And cheaper. A MBpro with the fastest processor (2.16ghz), 100gb 7200 rpm sata, 2gb ram: $3199. Expensive no doubt. To get the MBpro equivalantfrom Dell: $3939.
The Dell (cheapest): 1.83 ghz processor, 1 gb ram, 80gb 7200 rpm sata: $3114. The cheapest macbook pro with similar specs: $2299 (with 100gb 7200 drive -- subtract $200 for 80gb 5400 drive).
So the Apples are at $740 - $815 ($1015 w/ 80 gb, but slower HD) cheaper than the Dell machines.
Bonus w/ Apple, the machines don't look some anime mechatroid disaster, i.e., macbooks are designed to appeal to adult tastes.
I'm confident there are exactly zero slashdot readers who are unaware that "virii" isn't technically correct... I'm thinking GP was making some sort of joke that flopped.
In point of fact, most of the detainees were simply purchased by the military -- not captured as Bush has repeatedly lied. 5% were captured by the military, 86% were turned over by foreign entities in exchange for money.
Not really of special interest unless you count buying people from unscrupulous individuals with an axe to grind against someone they dislike.
Habeas Schmabeas (link to rm stream) from This American Life. The summary is in the 2006 archives. Of particular interest is the story at the end about England's foray into the same thing Bush did at Gitmo, as well as the perspective on Puritan terrorism in England.
It isn't the IRS, I don't think even the IRS is that idiotic. It' s the city. You see, WA has no income tax. To make up for that, there are a lot of taxes hidden to most people. This stupid property tax on everything for example. WA state's B&O tax is brutal too -- you get taxed on revenue. You could lose money, and owe tax to the state. Of course no body thinks that's unfair because A) most people don't own businesses so don't even know and besdes, B) all businesses are rich and have unlimited funds to pay anything. (If only B was true)
I wish WA had income tax because if the tax was out in the open and not hidden away, perhaps people would become concerned about state spending.
As a small business owner in WA state, let me add property tax -- on personal property. We're talking a property tax on pens, paper (although you can estimate the value of these, you don't have to itemize them), fax machines, staplers -- stuff we already paid full sales tax on, we have to continue paying property tax on year after year. My libertarian tendancies were permenantly cemented the day I learned of this scam.
As for "scammer small business" -- I'm doing something wrong. I got to deduct $15 for meals/entertainment expenses last year.
I say good on Bubba. Being a criminal != being immoral. To be a criminal only requires a law written to define a particular behavior as criminal. Indeed, some criminal acts are morally just. Anything that deprives our Federal Government of revenue is a just act.
One way to legally deprive the feds of money is to invest in foreign nations that have a tax treaty with the US -- e.g. Canada. Dividends paid on Canadian stocks are taxed by the Canadian gov't at 15% -- you can get a dollar for dollar credit against your US taxes this way. I'd rather pay tax to Canada than DC any day.
28.5% of your fed tax dollars goes to the military.
18.7% to pay debt, of which about 9% is related to miltary debt.
In other words, the military sops up 37.5% of the money we send to the feds. And for what? A missile defense system that won't ever protect us against a container bomb (and probably not against a missiles either). A war based on falsehoods to drive up the price of oil? (I own energy stocks and I don't mind the dividends -- but it is true, every bit of news about Iran, or hurricanes, or Nigeria, or some other type of instability makes me check my stocks with a bit of guilty glee -- you think Bush and cronies didn't know the war would punch up their dividends and cap. gains? Don't be a retard.)
Housing, nutrition, education, and income security amount to a whopping: 11.3%. It's easy to get pissed at the lazy freeloaders out there, but we should be livid at the active freeloaders, e.g., the Fucking Federal Government.
Whoa. Talk about a way to wean off slashdot -- the g3 is so slow. I know, I have a graphite se w/ the 466 g3 and firewire -- I still use it every now and then, but only to serve as wireless bridge. Anything else drives me batty.
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Does Bluesecurity have a linux or mac client yet? Spammer is an idiot. 1) he raises awareness of what bluesecurity does. 2) he makes it look like BS works -- why else would he waste resources he could be using to spam or extort people, it must be hurting him. Effectively, this is great for PR Bluesecurity -- how much would a worldwide advertising campaign have cost?
I doubt even a payoff is needed. Chances are, at least one person working for the RIAA or a music label has a kid in college. Kid comes home for vacation and says "mom/dad -- you wouldn't believe how much music is being shared on our lan!" Or just read the post near the top of this discussion in which some college kid explains how much high bitrate stuff is available on campus at high speed transfer rates. Don't get me wrong, I think the RIAA et al. are bad -- but I chuckle a bit at all the tinfoilhatter suggestions floating around like illegaly breaking into Unis' computer systems and such. Why take the risk when the evidence can be had for free?
I suppose I should qualify this joke lest I dissapear to Gitmo or whatever. That punishment would of course be appropriate only after a treason trial if it was demonstrated that Bush has actively undermined fundemental American freedoms, ones he swore to protect, such as the right to privacy unless an appropriate warrant is issued by a competent court.
Lethal injection?
I could see "totally sweet". I once went to the Ueno Castle, and there was a Ninja House exhibit. The Ninjas were women in Lavender Ninja outfits. I'd say totally sweet.
http://www.iganinja.jp/english/menu.html
You'll have to scour google for decent pictures though. Here's a start.
I don't watch TV so I can't personally vouch for Fox news. But you are right about correlations and causation -- they are not the same. What is clear in this study however, is that Fox viewers are wrong a lot. Whether that is because Fox is a lousy news source, or because its viewers are statistically less adept at processing information, or they will doggedly believe what they want evidence to the contrary be damned, is hard to pin down. At the same time, the reasons don't matter in some respects.
For example, European and "world" public opinion polls showed most people opposed US invasion. 35% of Fox viewers believed world public opinion was in favor of war, 5% for the NPR/PBS group. Bad reporting or self-deception -- does it matter? If I heard "X" about world public opinion from a Fox viewer on that issue, there was a 1 in 3 chance he was wrong. When considering whether a person's argument are believable at first blush, the reliability of their cohorts and sources is valuable information -- not a litmus test obviously because because many Fox viewers got things right. But because so many get things wrong (for whatever reason), it is definitely worth consideration.
If you look toward the end of the study, they did attempt to look at differences that may be due to political bias. However, there were differences within political groups. Bush supporters who primarily used Fox had higher rates of misperception than those who used NPR/PBS (78% to 50% in this case). Exposure was also an issue: Republicans/Bush supporters who pay "very close attention" to the news had higher rates of misperception than those who didn't pay much attention. See the part of the report beginning at page 19 under the heading "Political Bias Not Full Explanation".
t 03_rpt.pdf
Although I agree it is possible that those who rabidly wish to be misinformed might gravitate to Fox, there is support for the notion that Fox's misleading reports have a deadly effect.
Here's the link again: http://65.109.167.118/pipa/pdf/oct03/IraqMedia_Oc
Only if you pay in gold. With paper money, you'll need a little red wagon to cart it around.
Note that this should be: for i in *.bat
I'm not a guru BTW, test on junk files before using!
You can't do a "mv *.bat *bak" command. You need a short script, can be a one-liner:
.bat`.bak"; done
for i in *.bat; do mv "$i" "`basename "$i"
This would change all the bats to baks. Note the backticks around the "basename" description. Somewhat easier for me to remember is something like this:
for i in *; do mv $i `echo $i | sed -e 's/FROMtext/TOtext/'`; done
On a whim, I did "man rename". Looks like "rename" will do what you want too, but not exactly like you describe.
rename 's/\.bat/\.bak/' *.bat
Note the escaped periods.
I worked as a car salesman for two months ... at which time I was told that if I quit, they'd give me a letter of recommendation and if I didn't, they'd fire me and they wouldn't give me a recommendation. Suffice it to say, I sucked as a car salesman, took my letter and got a wage-slave job for a while before deciding on grad school.
One thing I learned during that stint however, was that 80% of commission money was earned by 20% of salespeople. I would imagine selling houses is similar -- perhaps not the same numbers, but a few people make boat loads of money, and most people starve.
Actually, on par with /. summaries, the summary sucks. Now, I'm not saying the linked site isn't somewhat at fault, having stuck headlines for other stories almost at random throughout the linked story, but I didn't notice where the article stated that MS subverted the Komoku hardware device by doing some virtual machine trick. I did see a link to that VM article, but that link appeared to be randomly inserted into the Komoku article. It was pointed out that the PCI device was for high security machines, but they are also going to be selling a software only product for low security machines, meaning they recognize that software running inside an OS can be fooled if the OS is altered.
The 2.16ghz version never had it's own column. You always had to select the 2ghz version, and then choose the processor upgrade in the customization screen. That option still exists at the same price as before the 17" came out (the upgrade is $300). Of course, for the same HD and processor as the 17", the 15" is actually $100 more than the 17".
And cheaper. A MBpro with the fastest processor (2.16ghz), 100gb 7200 rpm sata, 2gb ram: $3199. Expensive no doubt. To get the MBpro equivalantfrom Dell: $3939.
The Dell (cheapest): 1.83 ghz processor, 1 gb ram, 80gb 7200 rpm sata: $3114. The cheapest macbook pro with similar specs: $2299 (with 100gb 7200 drive -- subtract $200 for 80gb 5400 drive).
So the Apples are at $740 - $815 ($1015 w/ 80 gb, but slower HD) cheaper than the Dell machines.
Bonus w/ Apple, the machines don't look some anime mechatroid disaster, i.e., macbooks are designed to appeal to adult tastes.
I'm confident there are exactly zero slashdot readers who are unaware that "virii" isn't technically correct ... I'm thinking GP was making some sort of joke that flopped.
In point of fact, most of the detainees were simply purchased by the military -- not captured as Bush has repeatedly lied. 5% were captured by the military, 86% were turned over by foreign entities in exchange for money.
Why not get the facts (you'll have to look at the PDF) from someone who is in't a bald faced liar.
Oops, the Puritan Terrorism segment is about 32:20 minutes into the show ~ "Sept 11, 1660".
Not really of special interest unless you count buying people from unscrupulous individuals with an axe to grind against someone they dislike.
Habeas Schmabeas (link to rm stream) from This American Life. The summary is in the 2006 archives. Of particular interest is the story at the end about England's foray into the same thing Bush did at Gitmo, as well as the perspective on Puritan terrorism in England.
It isn't the IRS, I don't think even the IRS is that idiotic. It' s the city. You see, WA has no income tax. To make up for that, there are a lot of taxes hidden to most people. This stupid property tax on everything for example. WA state's B&O tax is brutal too -- you get taxed on revenue. You could lose money, and owe tax to the state. Of course no body thinks that's unfair because A) most people don't own businesses so don't even know and besdes, B) all businesses are rich and have unlimited funds to pay anything. (If only B was true)
I wish WA had income tax because if the tax was out in the open and not hidden away, perhaps people would become concerned about state spending.
As a small business owner in WA state, let me add property tax -- on personal property. We're talking a property tax on pens, paper (although you can estimate the value of these, you don't have to itemize them), fax machines, staplers -- stuff we already paid full sales tax on, we have to continue paying property tax on year after year. My libertarian tendancies were permenantly cemented the day I learned of this scam.
As for "scammer small business" -- I'm doing something wrong. I got to deduct $15 for meals/entertainment expenses last year.
I say good on Bubba. Being a criminal != being immoral. To be a criminal only requires a law written to define a particular behavior as criminal. Indeed, some criminal acts are morally just. Anything that deprives our Federal Government of revenue is a just act.
One way to legally deprive the feds of money is to invest in foreign nations that have a tax treaty with the US -- e.g. Canada. Dividends paid on Canadian stocks are taxed by the Canadian gov't at 15% -- you can get a dollar for dollar credit against your US taxes this way. I'd rather pay tax to Canada than DC any day.
(quote, paraphrased) "Whine whine whine about lazy welfare slobs".
... except with other people's lives and money?
v etaxchart/taxchart.html
How about the lazy ass politicians who wanna be rambo
http://nationalpriorities.org/auxiliary/interacti
28.5% of your fed tax dollars goes to the military.
18.7% to pay debt, of which about 9% is related to miltary debt.
In other words, the military sops up 37.5% of the money we send to the feds. And for what? A missile defense system that won't ever protect us against a container bomb (and probably not against a missiles either). A war based on falsehoods to drive up the price of oil? (I own energy stocks and I don't mind the dividends -- but it is true, every bit of news about Iran, or hurricanes, or Nigeria, or some other type of instability makes me check my stocks with a bit of guilty glee -- you think Bush and cronies didn't know the war would punch up their dividends and cap. gains? Don't be a retard.)
Housing, nutrition, education, and income security amount to a whopping: 11.3%. It's easy to get pissed at the lazy freeloaders out there, but we should be livid at the active freeloaders, e.g., the Fucking Federal Government.
You're 25 miles from an electrical outlet. You don't have a car and the bus doesn't come by for two more days. Your powerbook battery just died.
Which computer is more useful? Your shiny $2000 powerbook, or the $100 computer that can be charged with a hand crank?
Pretty obvious if you think about it.
Whoa. Talk about a way to wean off slashdot -- the g3 is so slow. I know, I have a graphite se w/ the 466 g3 and firewire -- I still use it every now and then, but only to serve as wireless bridge. Anything else drives me batty.
Ok, I'm really tired after puting in 20.5 hrs yesterday so help me out, are you joking? That's dreadful.