...well? Please to release the info and name the bank and name the program. You are FOR crooks or AGAINST crooks, and releasing the info of this backdoor is a good thing to do. If it's really there, it most likely is *illegal* so any sort of nondisclosure noise is null and void, AFAIK. You DON'T have to cover up illegalities, in fact you are supposed to report them. This bank and it's bogus officers and "bosses" needs to see the light of day in a fed courtroom.
--this is for the guy who submitted the questions, it's different in a lot of ways from the techie answers he's getting, but perhaps it's useful to him
--biggest problem I am seeing here is lack of understanding of what to DO with IT skills. companies are in the widget business. They USE "IT" skills to make and sell widgets. The PRIMARY goal is to make and sell widgets, all the IT skills are to be used as TOOLS to make and sell the widgets. Just IT in and of itself is only a market that sells the tools or builds the tools, but it's NOT the primary end market. The thinking should focus first on identifying a niche in the widget market that needs to be filled and isn't adequately yet.
Now the problem is there's a sort of depressed widget market. Along with IT, widget making is being outsourced, mostly to china and some other asian nations.
OK, now this is a double problem, short thinking bean counters and owners/managers only want their loot now, they could care less about eventually losing their customers, as they DON'T CARE that every outsourced job is also an outsourced consumer. They get their loot now, later on their plan is to live on that loot, they are fully prepared to drive by you huddled on the sidewalk begging, just like they do in any other technofuedal 2nd world nation now.
THINK on that aspect of society and the job market right now before you proceed.
Don't expect any of them to be loyal to you, so don't work for them. You'll just keep getting screwed, over and over again. if this wasn't true you'd still be employed, yes?
The only person who will be loyal to you is YOU, and only YOU will keep yourself employed.
Figure out a widget niche, then use your OWN IT technical skills for your OWN business model. You need your own business, and I DON'T mean just consulting for someone else's business.
Here's an analogy, it's rough (crappy really) but it might get this concept across.
Joe is a car/truck mechanic, over the years he's learned how to work on a lot of cars.
Joe worked for years for belchfire motors, but they gradually switched to using foreign parts and foreigners in general, eventually moving their factories and finally even outsourcing any repairs. His job got to be less and less hours until finally one day he got his last check, then was unemployed, despite being this great mechanic.
He then went around applying for mechanic jobs, but all over it was the same scene, mechanics not needed unless you today have this exact single thing we need and once that's finished good bye, see ya later.
He picks up a day here, a week, there, but it's rank and not really steady.
He's still a good mechanic.
He thinks, "hmm, what was I working on again?" "oh ya, I was a mechanic to make cars and trucks work"
He thinks again, "what do people use cars and trucks for to make a living with, something besides generic transportation?"
"Well, taxicabs, delivery, construction specialised truck-tools, etc".
So he gets a brainstorm, he goes into the commercial application vehicle business, he notices locally there's an unfilled niche, there's no light duty delivery service. He gets a fleet of small trucks, hires drivers, and uses his previous mechanical skills to keep the trucks running so he stays profitable. He starts with one truck, builds from there. he knocks on doors, gets contracts. he fixes his own truck at night if it needs it, and does deliveries during the day, always stopping at some new place to pitch his business. He's relentless.
He's not getting paid as a mechanic per se anymore, but he's still using his mechanic skills to "make money", but this time he's the boss and can make better decisions, like, he knows such and such a truck has a better track record for not breaking as often. Done, that's what gets decided. Other companies have the bean counters decide on the cheapest truck, so they suffer breakdowns later on but blame anyone but themselves. He knows that aftermarket part A is better than OEM part B, so he uses that part if needed. He knows that preventative maintenance is a good idea, so instead of running his vehicles x-thousand miles from tune ups and oil changes like his competition, he runs them in sooner-yes, higher short term cost, better long term average cost, it's cheaper in the long run to do it intelligently.
and etc.
Hope this helps, think one step higher in "business" mode rather than concentrating on "tech" mode, as being self employed is what's going to count in the future, not the overly niched skill set. use your skills to do business for yourself, don't make the money for other people. If they can afford to pay you x thousand, they are making x + thousand, might as well get the whole amount.
The handwriting is on the wall as to the two class global society coming, best you can do is to stave off the timing, get as self employed as possible, in at least two different areas, and for sure (this one is my really only serious detailed recommendation), make sure you move rural and own property outright that has it's own water, garden area and woodlot. Commute if you have to now or tellecommute, but DON'T stay major urban bound in a piped in reality apartment or house.
Look around, the %^&t is getting bad out there.
All the tech in the world won't eliminate the basics of being a carbon based lifeform. In times of economic or social crisis or depression, having the ability on site to feed, water and heat yourself and family will be more valuable than any number of high tech gizmos. Don't think in terms of just representative wealth in the form of money, think of what the basics are you use that "money" for, and get ahold of them now while still possible and affordable.
I listened to the stories from my grandmothers and great aunts about the great depression, it was no joke, there's no guarantee it won't happen again. People in the city who lost their jobs lost a LOT, those in the rural areas might have been poor but at least they had food and water and a place to sleep. Cover your basic human needs, proceed from there. It's real insurance, a great adjunct to that piece of paper in the file cabinet.
And anyone who don't think it can happenm, here's some clues.
Large corporations get a tax break to relocate outside the US. They are doing so. This is a bad idea and is part of the great economic snakeoil salesmen's spiel. Check the daily headlines, you aren't seeing "xyz corp anounces a new plant and hiring thousands" you are seeing "xyz corp announces layoffs". this is across the board, every sector you can point at practically. This is single major clue # 1.
The government cooks the books on unemployment to avoid panic, we are over double digits now, it's not the 5-6% they spout on teevee, it's double that. It's 10 to 12%, they DON'T count people who have exhausted unemployment benefits or who have been out of work past a few months.
Look at the major US banks derivatives exposure.(scary)
Look at the fortune 500 (and government) pension exposure(ditto, scary)
Look at where the major insurance carriers have their eggs piled now(nothing that's making any money beyond theoretical poker chip bond money. bonds can only be paid if people are working. bonds can default same as anything, and government printing press money won't help if the work itself defaults.)
Look at projected energy demands and what is related to what and where it comes from(we have a certain amount of cheap to extract by the BTU energy, hint, we don't own much of it anymore)
Look at which nations are going to be needing how much energy and when, timewise (china, 1.5 to 2 billion people, ramping up manufacturing and all those people demanding jobs and to become sort of kinda middle class, at least to have some bones thrown to them, projected crisis level roughly 2010)
Do that, you'll get reality religion and get self employed and move rural most likely. Most guys won't, the concept of "not having" and "$%^&* this is bad" hasn't been hammered in yet so it's "not possible". Latest release of quake and who won the ball game is still tops. Don't go there.
--make it yourself or shop around better. to make it your self you need 3 or 4 nine volt batteries, a couple of pieces of wire, some.999 pure etc silver wire, and some alligator clips. It's just not that hard to do, or get a kit, many out there. I agree, 50$ for a bottle of cs is outrageous, like I said in my original post, a lot of people are just not conviced anything might *even* work unless they drop large sums of cash on it. That's a human condition beyond my understanding, but there ya go, a lot of people are afraid to learn to do new things. I honestly don't know why this is.
And I'll repeat, I am against quackery myself, but I don't limit myself to this "either/or" argument. I'd say there's just as much or more quackery in the high priced "official" medical field as any place outside that field. It's human nature in business, yep! Humans will lie to make a buck! One guy working out of his garage might lie (make millions from your computer by enlarging the size of your mortgage's penis from nigeria, etc), and maybe a multi billion dollar corporation might lie(please buy globalworldron's stock, it's the path to riches!), it just happens. Best you can do is accumulate your own knowledge, take the high extreme ends off the argument, then average it out, go from there. IMO
Oh,picky point, the 2$ penicillin price, add in doc office visit for the prescription,plus lost work time for the visit, brings it right back up to that 50 buck figure or a lot more.
--do these vendors offer a warranty for damage, and is there a return policy for "dissatisfaction"?
If you can get both of those, try it out! Don't like it, take it back, if their stuff fries your stuff next storm comes by, get new stuff.
I can't get to the page, so I'll ass-ume that this runs on the neutral leg. Only thing like that I ever tried before was using the neutral as an antenna, it works so-so, tried it both on TV and for shortwave.
With that said, if you already have the wired gear and router, cable, etc, just go ahead and run the cables, do a neat job.Usually just prying the base molding off carefully will eliminate a lot of holes. Use a nailset, find the finish nails, smack em in below the wood, then a careful prybar and peeling action, use a razor knife on the paint bead first if needed. Tuck the cable down there, you might have to trim the drywall a little,but this is no big deal, the cut part is under the molding,then replace molding, touch up the paint. Add in nice neat wall outlets. done, looks fine now, you'll have your hard wired network.
alt--just take up the wall to wall carpet if you have it. It'll just pull out from the wall-maybe, just depends on the molding if present and how tight the fit is, and etc. They'll be a space near the nailer strips, where there isn't any foam padding, or you can cut it a smidgen to clear the cable, replace the carpet then. You can rent a carpet kicker for around 6$ a day from most U B rentinit places, and that's easy to do as well.
HAHAHAHAHAHAH! thanks man, if you're gonna troll, make it funny!
ya, it MUST work, haven't had any vampires attack since I been using it!
Wait, isn't silver for werewolves, as in silver bullets? Either way, none of them critters around here either! Garlic* for vampires.
*garlic appears to have natural antibiotic properties they are finding out, as does orgegano oil. Why they work, I don't know. How effective, I don't know, I like both those things though and they are part of my diet.
--hmm, seems I made a point about not scarfing down gallons of it in the original post. I use it externally, and as a mouthwash/rinse with some salt stirred in. works great for me for that purpose as well. Took care of a tooth infection deal I had when the 40$ prescription stuff didn't phase it. I think I tried swallowing some straight twice or thrice but not beyond that, just for the taste and to feel it. zip, tastes like water.. If faced with like a biowarfare attack scenario, with nothing else, I plan on trying it should I get infected. Not counting on uncle sugar to have remedies for warsaw pact turbocharged and blended biowarfare cooties. I look at it as a "whut the heck" deal in a case like that, similar to these people now who are being treated by being basically stared at.
Like, cut me some slack that the shots for civvie smallpox will be effective against weaponised.
With that said, let the people with advanced SA rot, rather have them rot away then perhaps turn blue colored, right? Me, I still got a big chunk gone in my leg from the stuff, had I known about CS back then I SURELY would have tried it on it, heck, tried everything else they had at the time, I mean everything.
And why do they use silver in drinking water filters and some of the newer better quality swimming pool water filters?
Don't know, not a chemist, maybe someone noted it worked. Maybe size of dose has something to do with it, and size of particle suspended. No idea. will say it works better on external infections than anything I ever saw or used. And fast too, and seems to help with scarring problems. Of course at 2 cents a gallon to make it, I can't see any big companies falling over themselves to "prescribe" it or "recommend it" to doctors. I sorta have they impression they dig on the 40$ a pill stuff more, just a hunch, but something I've noticed the past several decades.
And would they stoop to an "anti missile" propoganda defense on the ole intarweb? Naw, why would they do that to protect their 200 billion business, generally speaking?
Internally, no idea. I think taking large doses of anything is usually a bad idea, just because something is sold from the pharmco and is manufactured by some large konzern doesn't mean it is either safe, nor even effective. Was just reading about lariam for instance. Gee, gimme some of that stuff-not!
Remember , always trust official doctors and government spokes persons, they never tell whoppers, like about agent orange and dioxin (safe as mother's milk) or gulf war syndrome (it's all in your head) or thalidomide (here, take this for motion sickness, it's safe), or lately the lariam for malaria.
Sure, they never lie about anything, they got 100% verified track record of being scrupulously honest. They've never lied to protect big business profits, never. (anthrax shots in the military)
I'm only relating my anecdotal, to each their own. I avoid quack stuff too, just I don't pick and choose one "side" or the other, that's just denying yourself data, and it falls into the lame category.
--long time ago I had an SA infection, it is TRULY sucky, incredibly hard to get rid of. took me six months or so to beat it. At the time I was put on erythomycin (sp).
With that said, past few years been using colloidal silver on external wounds/infections, works quite well. I was skeptical at first until I tried it. Still using it when needed. Much better than any store bought/prescription antibio cream I ever tried. The only bummer is, it's very inexpensive. You can make it yourself easily or buy it cheaply pre-made, variety of places. People have this ingrained almost religious belief that stuff has to cost a lot of money and come from the medical deity to be effective. (Almost like the almost religious belief that software has to come from an expensive closed source place to be any good). You don't get that "full" satisfaction of paying mucho dinero for it so you know it'll work, like big pharmco products.
Yes, I know there are some issues with taking it orally by the 55 gallon drum, I'm not recommending that at all, but for some reason those silver particles will sure kill the cooties. No idea if effective or not on SA, but given that the medcos are stumped, well????
Not to be construed as medical advice, closed track, illegal where void and like that there.
--you do it yourself when you are in the channel, save the session-the conversation- to a logfile of your choice on your machine, or the OP does and you can get it from them. Try it out, go to an irc channel someplace on some subject that interests you then search your client IRC program you have running for whichever menu button you mash or command to type to save the session to file. The few different ones I've used all seem to have that function. I'm not an irc guru, but they are there. Perhaps one of the olden tymes unix guys here who've used irc for like forever can be more specific on the saving and tweaking part. The log files are a shade clunky but readable, you might want to cut and paste a lot to turn it into a normal easier to read html page, not sure if there's an automatic way to do that, but it's doable that way at least and not that hard unless it's a humongous log file, then it's just tedious..
Here's an example of where the logging function is found in x-chat, the client I use under linux, the path is > Settings > Setup > Options, you'll see the logging function then.
Now licensing ya got me, ask permission if it's not yours is the best bet. I can't see folks getting real anal over it, either, but ya never know. Probably just depends what you intend to do with it, share it around, they'll probably say have at it, try to develop a commercial product and sell it, you need more serious advice and a contract I guess. Like "yo, zeke, mind if I take this logfile and tweak it and come up with a nice page of trivial pursuit questions?" "Sure man goferit, send me the url when you finished I want a copy" "thanks" "swell". Beyond that your gonna need a contract of some sort. Cash changes reality. Asking permission is always the safest bet, IMO.
--I play trivial pursuit once a week on irc with some friends. We do it ad hoc round robin style, and the good part is, you come up with your own questions. It's your "turn" as long as you stump people, whenever someone gets the answer, it's their turn, and so on. Seems to work great. You start a session by locking in the theme of the questions. Everyone gets a chance to both share knowledge they have, and also to learn from the others.
I guess if you wanted to get it in some sort of doc form you could use a session log and tweak it.
--you offer it in different thresholds, and that's about it. Free to hobbyists, support for the payers. Software is worth paying for once it actually works as advertised for the customer, that's the pain threshold, that is usually classed as alpha or beta or full release-stable. Stable that is sold should come with the ability to actually get ahold of a human being in a timely manner for any troubleshooting questions or contracted/requested work on a feature enhancement, etc. Those with their cash transferred to you get their feature enhancements and problems bumped to the top of the line obviously. And the docs NEED to be written (the final draft) by an english major, someone who's task is to stand over the engineers once the coding is finished and it's time to finalize the man pages and docs with a clue by four until everyone is satisfied the docs are understandable and thorough and accurate. A small paragraph where every other word is an acronym is *not* a working doc to anyone except a coder. I've seen that phenomenon way too often with linux programs. Assume people who might be interested in purchasing the full release are not "all" coders, proceed from that point.
I know I pay for software for BOTH the convenience of having it on a quality made cd and ALSO because I then have a working dead trees manual that doesn't require me burning out my printer. I like the convenience of owning the cd, I like most of the time reading docs from a book, not on a screen. Some do, some don't care, that's just my "paying customiser" opinion. Free is free, a lot of people enjoy downloading constantly and compiling and whatnot, a lot more want the thing to work and be right there and easy to install (or reinstall) and have a reference manual. That's the part worth paying for, and keep the costs reasonable enough. This is like the clueless music/movie sellers. Instead of selling zillions of 5$ cd's, which they could, they make less money trying to sell 20$ cd's. Clue-less morons. It's called getting greedy, only works for a short time, then people do something else, yes?
Another thought, your program must be useful and functional to a degree at least two steps above whatever else is out there. Not one step, at least two steps better, or don't try to sell it.
Now that that's out of the way, I think it's better to just make your money admining linux in the commercial arena, then work on your custom coding and app development the same as almost everyone else is, spare time or allocated free time at your employers. The basic concept of "sharing" needs to be drilled into the bean counters heads as the long haul way to cut costs and get "more", but sharing only works if it's two ways. Everyone benfits by shared code, so the company can concentrate on building and selling their widgets. By using open source as the BASE of a company's IT, they save money. By finally bingoing that a little across the board sharing is what's allowing them to save money, perhaps they will cut some slack and allow a little company time to be used for your interesting app. That's the difference between leeching and sharing. Leeching-only as a concept is just not cool, either short term or long term. Your company benefits from open source in general, and they get first dibs on the product, useful for their business, and score brownie points as being a "friendly" and ethical company in the gestalt of society as it were. They develop a "good rep". With todays business climate, public perception is important. People are skeptical of businesses now, with dang good reason-a lot of them are shall we say less than forthright with their numbers and pretty dismal in the ethics department.
If there's no way to do this and you absolutely need to make your money off of your new application, then it must be customizable to a degree that large companies would pay for the application, it has to have a bona fide usefullness that is unique, perhaps security? That part I don't know, too many variables and wildcards. Usually in software there's the full release, then "release lite" to the non paying hobbyist public, that seems to be what is working now for some people. You offer the customized features for a customized premium in cash.
--here's just one possible way to deal with this, I'll put in a plug for a worthwhile project here that's been covered on slashdot already, eliminate the middleman completely, use something like streamerp2p*, distribute your own works or other open source/free works. Just step around the problem, use internet aikido. Get your entertainment work out to people, maybe they'll buy your cd then or go to your concert? Just a thought, but eliminating the middlemen of the recording industry and broadcast industry will reduce costs, and help gain notice for a lot more musicians. and it's a slick concept, too.
*they need help from linux coders to help make this happen on open source os.
--computerised voting is the last straw on any sort of honest voting. Once you have this in by law, that's it, kiss any sort of honesty goodbye. It's not needed. Punch out chads aren't needed. Paper ballots, fill in the circle, works just great. Ya, takes some time to count, but human eyeballs are plenty "open source". All this latest touch screen voting did was make it ridiculously easy to stuff the ballot box by *someone*, or to alter the results, or to lose them, or whatever. No "poll watcher" can count anything-you rely on what the machine tells you. And if the stuffing is occurring INSIDE the governmental command and control structure, well, you can see where that's headed. Votes were difficult in the past, granted, some fraud occurred, this new tech mandates the possibility oif universal fraud. Gee, wonder why the arkansas mafia/skull and bones axis of political crooks would both advocate this sort of voting?
I got my "I voted" sticker right here from the latest election. It's a picture of the computer touch screen pointing at itself saying "I voted". Well, that's exactly what's happening, some computer is voting, you surely aren't.
--well, now ya got me I admit I do not know. Seems to me though that an actual federal law would supercede or nullify those specific provisions of a contract that might be in conflict with said law. For an extreme instance, may you actually buy and sell humans legally into and out of slavery, even if its voluntary with all parties concerned? Would a private contract void the laws against slavery? I don't think so probably.
I'll wait for a knowledgable HAM (yourself?) or dedicated googler to interject here, but I am 90+% sure the fed law supercedes all else in the matter of the antennas, but will put it at a "maybe" now. If this isn't the case, I sit at keyboard corrected and will file it away in the bio-hdd. Need to see the statute and case law on it I guess, but I don't feel like looking for it as it doesn't concern me all that much. I'm playing with the tiny linux distro thread right now, have this olden tyme laptop with zilch on it but a corrupt winderz system...hmmm. only a flop drive... hmmm....anyway..
As to me with the antenna, never been inside a home owners association,I know too many people who were happy as clams to buy into one, then some time the road they found they really wanted to do something they hadn't initially considered -like this referenced antenna install- only to be rebuffed, and they had "buyers remorse" then. For a look at it semi almost humorously, they found out that by golly they are actual humans too and golly gee two they now are the "riff raff" they didn't want to associate with to "keep property values up" or some such. To those who can live with it, swell! Their choice, My ideal choice would be 180 degrees opposite, ie, zero restrictions. If I want an antenna, installed. New chicken coop, built, etc. Buy a boat, want to park it in the driveway, done. Stop working for someone, lose your job say, get an idea then, start your own business, buy a business truck and want the logo on it, accomplished. Your regular car breaks something, you buy the part, weekend comes, you go to install it, you can do it outwardly again in the driveway. You decide you wish to install some landscaping trees and shrubs, you pick your choice and plant them, without worrying they are the politically correct species. Get tired of small dish tv want to get back into K band dish, go find a used one and put it up. Hmm, get interested in solar PV, want to add a few panels to the roof and play with it, install, done. And etc, etc, etc. Most home owner associations I am aware of restrict the above, just for very general conversational examples. Of course, some probably don't and given the size of slashdot a wag will troll in here with the obligatory exception to the rule, but I am most generally speaking now. To each their own, as a life long geek and eccentric, cookie cutter existence is just not my style, but that is just my choice, it's neither correct nor incorrect for anyone but me.
--was living in florida for a short time frame in the 70's. Some guy there (st pete beach) had a GREAT mod, he took an airplane, took the wings off, added two pontoons to it, had this nice catamaran. It was some flavor large commercial plane, but no idea the make/model. It was just too dang slick.
--your home owners association has no say on whether or not you can put a ham tower up. Get a ham license, then put up your "ham tower" get it? heh... It's illegal for them by federal law to restrict you. The state can't, the county can't, a city can't, and the home owners association can't. If they try, seems to me you can sue them, maybe they will pay off your mortgage by settling out of court?Perhaps even the feds might arrest them?
Don't know, don't care, good luck on your antenna*, And next time (friendly advice, not trolling or flaming)think twice before moving into such a restricted area, freedom-loss is nothing to actually pay cash for, lotsa other "living" opportunities out there.
* I needed an antenna,hmm... went out back, dug hole, installed three section tower, ran cable, done....
--suppressing hate propoganda? ya. Whatever they choose to classify as propoganda. They-europaen union government- have blinders on and are Hypocrites, I'll REPEAT IT. HYPOCRITES. They are almost completely silent on communist lead mass murder, it's perfectly legal to have communist symbols,flags, websites, etc in europe, despite the fact it's a proven historical reality that the communist-named totalitarian regimes and system as applied was and still is just as murderous and propoganda filled as the national socialist totalitarian regime. That's hypocrisy, I fully understand the definition. They support the propoganda of IGNORING it and acting like somehow the next time it's tried on a mass scale it'sgoing to be any different. That's the hypocrisy, their classing the "normalcy" of current communism as somehow 'cool", when it's a total lie and just as dangerous(more really) as some kid putting up an aryan website someplace. Here's a story from a existing communist named and ruled "people's republic" currently in existence, vietnam
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2418791. st m
"Friday, 8 November, 2002, 14:14 GMT Vietnam jails internet dissident A Vietnamese woman surfs the Communist Party of Vietnam web site Vietnam has cracked down on internet use A Vietnamese dissident has been jailed for four years for publishing criticism of the Communist government on the internet.
Le Chi Quang, a 32-year-old lawyer, was convicted of "acts of propaganda" against the state during the one-day trial in Hanoi, a court official said."
there's more at the link.
Communists are equal opportunity haters, they'll just demonize and murder anyone, doesn't matter what religion you are, if it isn't the communist religion. The europaen union, having in large part quite a bit of overt communists and covert supporters, goes WAY out of their way to not demonize THEMSELVES for this hypocrisy. They would have to in effect ban themselves following their rules, but they don't. They have an agenda, communist rule, they couch it in terms of "socialism" and "green". There's a term I didn't invent but which fits those currently "embtacing" communism, it's called "useful idiot". Those "useful idiots" are the second wave mass murdered once a communist named and lead regime takes over anyplace.
The proposed europaen laws are hypocritical. That doesn't make me a defender of nazi's, not even close.
As to being a Libertarian,I am an independent, strict constitutionalist. I have several problems with some of their hypocrisy as well, and as it relates to being a US citizen, the disaster we are seeing unfold with "open borders" and "free trade" with known enemies who have threatened you is not my idea of a swell position to take. The d's , r's and L's are all in agreement on open borders and free trade globalism, which I think is a "bad idea". If a person "did business'with the small gang down the street, people would say that's a bad idea. Make a bad gang and entire nation, with a lot of fatcats snarfing down profits, all of a sudden they aren't a 'gang" anymore. Hypocrites. size of org doesn't matter, lying murders shopuldn't be supported, D's R's and L's support them by deed and word (generally speaking, there's a handful in the leadership in all three of those parties who have a clue and know what's going on).
If nazi germany still existed I would be against trade with them, just like now I am against trade with mainland china. I see zero difference between those two regimes, this puts me at odds with the bulk of the capital L leadership who think money has no conscious, whereas I see money as being owned by men so the two are always connected. I have never anthromorphisized money into being a living "thing", it's nothing without being used by humans.
I will say though, given the top three major parties, D's, R's, or L's, that L's come closer to what my personal ideal would be, but still not there yet, but that is my opinion as it relates to ME, not you or anyone else, and as opinion is neither right nor wrong. I agree with them on just ending prohibition as being totally stupid and destructive, the cure is worse than the disease, it's lame. I don't want to go down the whole list of issues, but if I had to pick the lesser of 3 evils over top two evils-only, I guess I'd pick them, but actually a party like Americafirst party or Constitutional party are much closer to my way of thinking than the capital L's.
And as to being "popular", and who gets what ass kicked, well duh, here's a clue, windows OS is the most "popular" and has kicked the most ass, but that doesn't mean it's the "best".
The D and R parties are the most "popular", under their leadership we have debt for the next 2 generations, the patriot act, the national helath powers emergency act-which is MUCH WORSE than the patriot act- a stagnating economy, threats of global war, the nations nuts and bolts infrastructure is several trillion in repairs arrears, and we lost national security to a large degree, exporting it to china for short term profits, and we are enjoying a tax level that is better than 50% for most people now who actually work for a living, taking all taxes together, with no sign of it ever going back down to say 10%,and we are being second worlded domestically, the middle class is being systematically destroyed, industry by industry, and yes, the sheeps keep voting for their own destruction. Too bad, not my call, their decision to make as sheeps.
They suck, it's their fault. D's and R's fault. A vote for them is a vote for the same way of doing things that lead us to those problems we have now.
They suck. They are still "popular" and still "kick ass' at the polls, but they are microsoft-ish popular and microsoft-ish sucky. Not really anything to brag about or to be proud of. Inertia, generational long brainwashing and manipulation of government shouldn't be anything anyone honest should be proud of, or support, IMO again.
--without me coming up with all the links myself here, to answer your questions, one of the best places for "prior knowledge" as regards government is to be found at infowars.com. Entire section there entitled prior knowledge. a variety of links/articles that name names and etc. Plenty. There are fbi agents (who informed higher up and in turn higher ups), past official's including david schippers, who was rebuffed from giving evidence,(look for transcript) there's even the number #2 guy at the monterrey defense language institute who two weeks before retirement came forward to state thusly, risking his entire retirement/career, etc. Heavy duty steps to take. Hmm, a few of the 'terrorists" trained at us bases, there's some more to chew on. The civilian flight school where another one trained, the owner tried over and over to get anyone to talk to him or to take him serious details like "yo, got me a mohaamed guy here only interested in learning to steer jumbo jets, not interested in taking off or landing", rang alarm bells for the guy, read his story and what he was told.
One or two or three or four-sure, info over load, coincidence, ALL of them? Nope, done on purpose is the only logical conclusion, orders from the stratosphere.
The only reason more people don't freak out is these stories all ran for one minute one day then got buried, and they never see them all put together ina related timeline. Well,to be fair there's two reasons. This logical conclusion is scary beyond belief, so most folks contemplating it choose not to believe it, an example of cognizant dissonance, IMO.
YMMV, but check the link out. Me, this is germany 1935 or so, nearest parallel in recent history I see. "Spooky", pun intended.
"They already exist. Financial institutions already are required to run their databases against the Office of Foriegn Asset Control's list of Specially Designated Nationals and groups, using soundex to look for aliases."
Uhh, that's cool. really. You do this all the time huh, and it's all on the up and up? cool. would you please to reveal the actual for-real names and addys of the people who knew about 9-11 ahead of time enough to put in all those "put options"? Ya know, one of those stories the mass media just seems to love to forget about and act like it never happened. The "magic bullet" of 9-11. Whoops, so sorry, I forgot we are supposed to forget that little detail. Oh what's that you say? Oh, the owner of the brokerage where the bulk of the puts were placed is the ex-#2 guy at the CIA? wow, whut_a_coincidence, I'm sure. Oh ya, excuse me, I thought we were looking for the al queda "terrorists" financiers and assorted hangers on. Connected fatcat western white guys in suits with titles don't count, do they? In fact, letting the cat outta the bag that they had a hand in it for a seriously dangerous political agenda, but got a little greedy and they thought they could slide by and skim a little off the top might be considered a "bad idea", correct? OK-We'll just forget about it then, it's just an embarrasing little incident. Nothing to see here now, move along.....
a secret governmental org developing an "innocent" application that can act as spyware...hmmm..whut a concept,.hmmm. now what was the story on (insert name of a certain chat program developed in middle east) again? Oh ya, a group of unemployed stoontz invented it and served it up to millions for *free* for years, gratis, uh huh. yep.
--I'm actually more interested the next step up. fully aware of mom and pop telco and broadband isp's costs and needs, I'm more talking about this alleged bandwith cost. And you are talking about new startups, I am more talking about the older long ago established providers. and the reason I am is that they DID make money and WERE granted monopolies long ago, when the plauying fieeld was level and perhaps company B *might* have done a better job. but, no way to tell now, is there? All we have is their word they did the best job and the costs are reasonable. Duh, if there's one car company that's what cars costs, let's just have one car company established by law. With the established local telcos and cable providers, this is the case, it's *illegal* to do "new" AFAIK.
Yes, it's tricky, 10 water delivery utilities, each with their own pipes? ya, silly, I see your point with data pipes as well, I just have a "suspicion" that a big part of the cost is inflated way beyond normal, similar to how the cal electric bill was artificially inflated. And I'm really asking, because I DON'T know. maybe a better idea is to have RAW DATA PIPE being put up for bid by local areas, then installed, then a SEPARATE arrangement so that various providers could provide connectivity and bandwith? The pipe becomes "commons" just like the road structures are mostly. That's just a wild card there.
I see the refrain "well then, just you go get your own T-1". OK, swell,why is it they go around the country from 400$ to 2000$? Uhhh, why is this again??? I _don't_know, jiss asking. And just saying "supply and denmand"is not an answer, I want(would like) a bit more meat of an answer than that. Is there actualy a reason for such a large discrepancy? And who provides the larger pipes so that whomever local can supply you with a T-1, and what do they cost and is that a realistic price to pay as opposed to install cost? There's NO way to really tell for joe average consumer way down the food chain here. Oil-we sorta got an idea at least what a barrel goes for, wheat, it's easy to see what joe wheat farmer gets as opposed to a loaf of bread (hint, farmers get squat,middlemen snarf the profit big time)? How much does that really cost compared to what is charged?
To most people, past their immediate net-connection, there's no way to actually SEE what might be a good price or not. I have no idea how many middlemen are involved in my bandwith pricing structure. Is every step necessary, or is their redundancy and perhaps just graft? I don't know, really.
"Someone" someplace is sorta telling a whopper, all through the mid to late 90's we heard on and on and on about massive bandwith going in, huge amounts, but for the end user low level consumer, we are told now it's so very expensive that you can't do this or that, etc. What happened, all that stuff just evaporate or what? did it get ripped out of the ground? It's like 100 new interstate hiways were built, but we are told now they don't exist, that's just an old myth, and all that's available are these old two lane blacktop toll roads. Huh? Who's telling the truth, and what IS the truth, the gestalt, not just the local isp, the big picture. sorta like this --> Who GETS most of the bandwith money now? where DOES the fat pile of bucks stop? I see the statement of "data" we are supposed to believe that isps are all broke from bandwith costs, so who charges them, and who charges the next guy, and why is it expensive still after these gazillion miles of new fiber got put in? WHY is bandwith priced as it is, and is it a legit market or a controlled/obfuscated market with the details kept hidden on purpose, ie, are there more enron-esque revelations that might come forward? And last, is it TIME now to revisit cable providers local monopolies? Has it outlived it's usefulness and novelty? Might it be better to open the market back up, so at least there is a THREAT of competition, which might make the exisiting companies seek better ways to provide better services at better prices? Right now they have little incentive to do more than coast, yes? Sat tv sorta helped, but that has been adopted way more in rural areas that never had cable nor where they likely to, again, local governments "allowing" cable monopolies but not "mandating" coverage for all inside their muncipality/area-they let the cablecos pick and choose where they would go, whereas the copper pair telcos were mandated to provide service to all comers inside their area. That's a big difference in protected monopolies. I know of so many people want just a dang choice of channels, they can't even get that, pay for stuff you don't want drives the cost up. If I buy a new car I don't want ten rtadios in the thing, drives the cost up for stuff I don't want or need. Same with provided content, it's lame, and it'slame from zero competition mandated by "law". Maybe if they didn'tplug up their cables with useless stuff hardly no one wants bandwith might be cheaper, free up some cash to lay more cable/fiber to more homes? I dunno, but ya got to admit it's a thought with some merit.
Yes, I know it's sort of several questions mixed together, sorry. I think they are all legit though.
And don't get me going on the FCC and air waves bandwith and who gets what for why and how much, sheesh, there's another great rant topic. heh
--the funny part of these "laws" is the selective blinders they use. The national socialist party killed x-millions of people, granted. this is data, not opinion, it happened. Hmm, the communist party of the soviet union killed at LEAST x million times 2 people, mostly their own citizens. Data, it happened. Is it "illegal and promoting hate speech" to buy/sell hammer and sickle flags in germany now? Are pro-communist websites tolerated? Is a communist party allowed to operate and run candidates?
See? Pure hypocrisy and triple speak. There's an agenda here, should be easy to see and pick up on.
Right now nations around the world are bending over backwards to enrich and justify the existence of the mainland chinese communist party, who rule in every feudal sense of the word-a technofuedalism but still feudal-over 1.5 billion people, and have murdered at least 50 million if not more than 100 million of their own citizens-and it's NOT past history-they are still there, same communist party. Unapproved religion? too bad, re education camp or a bullet to the head. Some fatcat needs a kidney, pop, some prisoner provides it. Have one too many kids? No problem, they'll strangle or drownd them on the spot after birth. real nice guys they are... but that's OK, we can get cheap gadgets from them...
Does germany or the rest of the europaen union classify communist china as just as e-vile as the national socialist party of germany was? No? Why not, don't those millions murdered count the same?
More plutocratic triple speak hypocrisy.
The US government can have an official spokesgoon stand up and claim "they had no prior knowledge of al queda threats against US buildings or using airplanes as weapons and etc". Well, that's a total lie, literally dozens of "official" cops and bureaucrats knew full well about it, fbi agents reporting it got told to shut up, etc.
Governments lie, they demonize whom they wish to demonize, create a class of "less than humans" so they can go kill them and steal from them. It can be an official government, or a 'government" of assorted people united in whatever particular whacky stupid "cause" they come up with-that part doesn't matter, it just "happens" and the default is always this "hate" is almost universally based on fabrications for the most part, and they grant themselves selective memory all the time. They only remember what is "convenient" for them..
In the US, it's close, REAL close now to being "hate speech" to point this out, give it some time, you'll see it happen, you'll be a "terrorist" if you say out loud the government lies or exaggerates, it will be construed as hate speech, ie, "illegal", and when governments do it, it's called "policy" and is legitimate. It's all over now, welcome to the NWO. It's incrementalism, not all the way here yet, but close. EU's hate speech rulings are part of the puzzle, that's all, just one more slow chipping away. Big push for biometrics now, soon they'll say you were actually "thinking bad thoughts" and that will be a crime, no audible speech or publishing necessary. Just watch it happen, then you'll see why starting down that "hate speech" road is such a bad idea.
--see another niche for this, diskless laptop, has dual hot swap batts, auto shifting and sleep cycle if both get too low.
Also, the ram on the card and "in the way" down on the mobo is a valid complaint engineering-wise, a better design would have it fit in a regular drive bay, then just run it's own cable with pci edge to an available slot.
Another thought, take yet another drive bay and have an internal UPS that is dedicated to this drive (or your normal ram somehow). How much juice does it really take to keep ram turned on and not lose data? I honestly don't know, is it a huge amount? Would a regular normal size l-ion laptop bat keep it on for like days or hours or minutes or what? Seems like a nice thing to have for desktops anyway, again, have it reside in a drive bay.
If it's not invented will whomever snags the idea plz send me some cash? My "new" box is a 200.... thankew....
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...well? Please to release the info and name the bank and name the program. You are FOR crooks or AGAINST crooks, and releasing the info of this backdoor is a good thing to do. If it's really there, it most likely is *illegal* so any sort of nondisclosure noise is null and void, AFAIK. You DON'T have to cover up illegalities, in fact you are supposed to report them. This bank and it's bogus officers and "bosses" needs to see the light of day in a fed courtroom.
--this is for the guy who submitted the questions, it's different in a lot of ways from the techie answers he's getting, but perhaps it's useful to him
--biggest problem I am seeing here is lack of understanding of what to DO with IT skills. companies are in the widget business. They USE "IT" skills to make and sell widgets. The PRIMARY goal is to make and sell widgets, all the IT skills are to be used as TOOLS to make and sell the widgets. Just IT in and of itself is only a market that sells the tools or builds the tools, but it's NOT the primary end market. The thinking should focus first on identifying a niche in the widget market that needs to be filled and isn't adequately yet.
Now the problem is there's a sort of depressed widget market. Along with IT, widget making is being outsourced, mostly to china and some other asian nations.
OK, now this is a double problem, short thinking bean counters and owners/managers only want their loot now, they could care less about eventually losing their customers, as they DON'T CARE that every outsourced job is also an outsourced consumer. They get their loot now, later on their plan is to live on that loot, they are fully prepared to drive by you huddled on the sidewalk begging, just like they do in any other technofuedal 2nd world nation now.
THINK on that aspect of society and the job market right now before you proceed.
Don't expect any of them to be loyal to you, so don't work for them. You'll just keep getting screwed, over and over again. if this wasn't true you'd still be employed, yes?
The only person who will be loyal to you is YOU, and only YOU will keep yourself employed.
Figure out a widget niche, then use your OWN IT technical skills for your OWN business model. You need your own business, and I DON'T mean just consulting for someone else's business.
Here's an analogy, it's rough (crappy really) but it might get this concept across.
Joe is a car/truck mechanic, over the years he's learned how to work on a lot of cars.
Joe worked for years for belchfire motors, but they gradually switched to using foreign parts and foreigners in general, eventually moving their factories and finally even outsourcing any repairs. His job got to be less and less hours until finally one day he got his last check, then was unemployed, despite being this great mechanic.
He then went around applying for mechanic jobs, but all over it was the same scene, mechanics not needed unless you today have this exact single thing we need and once that's finished good bye, see ya later.
He picks up a day here, a week, there, but it's rank and not really steady.
He's still a good mechanic.
He thinks, "hmm, what was I working on again?" "oh ya, I was a mechanic to make cars and trucks work"
He thinks again, "what do people use cars and trucks for to make a living with, something besides generic transportation?"
"Well, taxicabs, delivery, construction specialised truck-tools, etc".
So he gets a brainstorm, he goes into the commercial application vehicle business, he notices locally there's an unfilled niche, there's no light duty delivery service. He gets a fleet of small trucks, hires drivers, and uses his previous mechanical skills to keep the trucks running so he stays profitable. He starts with one truck, builds from there. he knocks on doors, gets contracts. he fixes his own truck at night if it needs it, and does deliveries during the day, always stopping at some new place to pitch his business. He's relentless.
He's not getting paid as a mechanic per se anymore, but he's still using his mechanic skills to "make money", but this time he's the boss and can make better decisions, like, he knows such and such a truck has a better track record for not breaking as often. Done, that's what gets decided. Other companies have the bean counters decide on the cheapest truck, so they suffer breakdowns later on but blame anyone but themselves. He knows that aftermarket part A is better than OEM part B, so he uses that part if needed. He knows that preventative maintenance is a good idea, so instead of running his vehicles x-thousand miles from tune ups and oil changes like his competition, he runs them in sooner-yes, higher short term cost, better long term average cost, it's cheaper in the long run to do it intelligently.
and etc.
Hope this helps, think one step higher in "business" mode rather than concentrating on "tech" mode, as being self employed is what's going to count in the future, not the overly niched skill set. use your skills to do business for yourself, don't make the money for other people. If they can afford to pay you x thousand, they are making x + thousand, might as well get the whole amount.
The handwriting is on the wall as to the two class global society coming, best you can do is to stave off the timing, get as self employed as possible, in at least two different areas, and for sure (this one is my really only serious detailed recommendation), make sure you move rural and own property outright that has it's own water, garden area and woodlot. Commute if you have to now or tellecommute, but DON'T stay major urban bound in a piped in reality apartment or house.
Look around, the %^&t is getting bad out there.
All the tech in the world won't eliminate the basics of being a carbon based lifeform. In times of economic or social crisis or depression, having the ability on site to feed, water and heat yourself and family will be more valuable than any number of high tech gizmos. Don't think in terms of just representative wealth in the form of money, think of what the basics are you use that "money" for, and get ahold of them now while still possible and affordable.
I listened to the stories from my grandmothers and great aunts about the great depression, it was no joke, there's no guarantee it won't happen again. People in the city who lost their jobs lost a LOT, those in the rural areas might have been poor but at least they had food and water and a place to sleep. Cover your basic human needs, proceed from there. It's real insurance, a great adjunct to that piece of paper in the file cabinet.
And anyone who don't think it can happenm, here's some clues.
Large corporations get a tax break to relocate outside the US. They are doing so. This is a bad idea and is part of the great economic snakeoil salesmen's spiel. Check the daily headlines, you aren't seeing "xyz corp anounces a new plant and hiring thousands" you are seeing "xyz corp announces layoffs". this is across the board, every sector you can point at practically. This is single major clue # 1.
The government cooks the books on unemployment to avoid panic, we are over double digits now, it's not the 5-6% they spout on teevee, it's double that. It's 10 to 12%, they DON'T count people who have exhausted unemployment benefits or who have been out of work past a few months.
Look at the major US banks derivatives exposure.(scary)
Look at the fortune 500 (and government) pension exposure(ditto, scary)
Look at where the major insurance carriers have their eggs piled now(nothing that's making any money beyond theoretical poker chip bond money. bonds can only be paid if people are working. bonds can default same as anything, and government printing press money won't help if the work itself defaults.)
Look at projected energy demands and what is related to what and where it comes from(we have a certain amount of cheap to extract by the BTU energy, hint, we don't own much of it anymore)
Look at which nations are going to be needing how much energy and when, timewise (china, 1.5 to 2 billion people, ramping up manufacturing and all those people demanding jobs and to become sort of kinda middle class, at least to have some bones thrown to them, projected crisis level roughly 2010)
Do that, you'll get reality religion and get self employed and move rural most likely. Most guys won't, the concept of "not having" and "$%^&* this is bad" hasn't been hammered in yet so it's "not possible". Latest release of quake and who won the ball game is still tops. Don't go there.
good luck and better skill
--make it yourself or shop around better. to make it your self you need 3 or 4 nine volt batteries, a couple of pieces of wire, some .999 pure etc silver wire, and some alligator clips. It's just not that hard to do, or get a kit, many out there. I agree, 50$ for a bottle of cs is outrageous, like I said in my original post, a lot of people are just not conviced anything might *even* work unless they drop large sums of cash on it. That's a human condition beyond my understanding, but there ya go, a lot of people are afraid to learn to do new things. I honestly don't know why this is.
And I'll repeat, I am against quackery myself, but I don't limit myself to this "either/or" argument. I'd say there's just as much or more quackery in the high priced "official" medical field as any place outside that field. It's human nature in business, yep! Humans will lie to make a buck! One guy working out of his garage might lie (make millions from your computer by enlarging the size of your mortgage's penis from nigeria, etc), and maybe a multi billion dollar corporation might lie(please buy globalworldron's stock, it's the path to riches!), it just happens. Best you can do is accumulate your own knowledge, take the high extreme ends off the argument, then average it out, go from there. IMO
Oh,picky point, the 2$ penicillin price, add in doc office visit for the prescription,plus lost work time for the visit, brings it right back up to that 50 buck figure or a lot more.
--do these vendors offer a warranty for damage, and is there a return policy for "dissatisfaction"?
If you can get both of those, try it out! Don't like it, take it back, if their stuff fries your stuff next storm comes by, get new stuff.
I can't get to the page, so I'll ass-ume that this runs on the neutral leg. Only thing like that I ever tried before was using the neutral as an antenna, it works so-so, tried it both on TV and for shortwave.
With that said, if you already have the wired gear and router, cable, etc, just go ahead and run the cables, do a neat job.Usually just prying the base molding off carefully will eliminate a lot of holes. Use a nailset, find the finish nails, smack em in below the wood, then a careful prybar and peeling action, use a razor knife on the paint bead first if needed. Tuck the cable down there, you might have to trim the drywall a little,but this is no big deal, the cut part is under the molding,then replace molding, touch up the paint. Add in nice neat wall outlets. done, looks fine now, you'll have your hard wired network.
alt--just take up the wall to wall carpet if you have it. It'll just pull out from the wall-maybe, just depends on the molding if present and how tight the fit is, and etc. They'll be a space near the nailer strips, where there isn't any foam padding, or you can cut it a smidgen to clear the cable, replace the carpet then. You can rent a carpet kicker for around 6$ a day from most U B rentinit places, and that's easy to do as well.
HAHAHAHAHAHAH! thanks man, if you're gonna troll, make it funny!
ya, it MUST work, haven't had any vampires attack since I been using it!
Wait, isn't silver for werewolves, as in silver bullets? Either way, none of them critters around here either! Garlic* for vampires.
*garlic appears to have natural antibiotic properties they are finding out, as does orgegano oil. Why they work, I don't know. How effective, I don't know, I like both those things though and they are part of my diet.
--hmm, seems I made a point about not scarfing down gallons of it in the original post. I use it externally, and as a mouthwash/rinse with some salt stirred in. works great for me for that purpose as well. Took care of a tooth infection deal I had when the 40$ prescription stuff didn't phase it. I think I tried swallowing some straight twice or thrice but not beyond that, just for the taste and to feel it. zip, tastes like water.. If faced with like a biowarfare attack scenario, with nothing else, I plan on trying it should I get infected. Not counting on uncle sugar to have remedies for warsaw pact turbocharged and blended biowarfare cooties. I look at it as a "whut the heck" deal in a case like that, similar to these people now who are being treated by being basically stared at.
Like, cut me some slack that the shots for civvie smallpox will be effective against weaponised.
With that said, let the people with advanced SA rot, rather have them rot away then perhaps turn blue colored, right? Me, I still got a big chunk gone in my leg from the stuff, had I known about CS back then I SURELY would have tried it on it, heck, tried everything else they had at the time, I mean everything.
And why do they use silver in drinking water filters and some of the newer better quality swimming pool water filters?
Don't know, not a chemist, maybe someone noted it worked. Maybe size of dose has something to do with it, and size of particle suspended. No idea. will say it works better on external infections than anything I ever saw or used. And fast too, and seems to help with scarring problems. Of course at 2 cents a gallon to make it, I can't see any big companies falling over themselves to "prescribe" it or "recommend it" to doctors. I sorta have they impression they dig on the 40$ a pill stuff more, just a hunch, but something I've noticed the past several decades.
And would they stoop to an "anti missile" propoganda defense on the ole intarweb? Naw, why would they do that to protect their 200 billion business, generally speaking?
Internally, no idea. I think taking large doses of anything is usually a bad idea, just because something is sold from the pharmco and is manufactured by some large konzern doesn't mean it is either safe, nor even effective. Was just reading about lariam for instance. Gee, gimme some of that stuff-not!
Remember , always trust official doctors and government spokes persons, they never tell whoppers, like about agent orange and dioxin (safe as mother's milk) or gulf war syndrome (it's all in your head) or thalidomide (here, take this for motion sickness, it's safe), or lately the lariam for malaria.
Sure, they never lie about anything, they got 100% verified track record of being scrupulously honest. They've never lied to protect big business profits, never. (anthrax shots in the military)
I'm only relating my anecdotal, to each their own. I avoid quack stuff too, just I don't pick and choose one "side" or the other, that's just denying yourself data, and it falls into the lame category.
--long time ago I had an SA infection, it is TRULY sucky, incredibly hard to get rid of. took me six months or so to beat it. At the time I was put on erythomycin (sp).
With that said, past few years been using colloidal silver on external wounds/infections, works quite well. I was skeptical at first until I tried it. Still using it when needed. Much better than any store bought/prescription antibio cream I ever tried. The only bummer is, it's very inexpensive. You can make it yourself easily or buy it cheaply pre-made, variety of places. People have this ingrained almost religious belief that stuff has to cost a lot of money and come from the medical deity to be effective. (Almost like the almost religious belief that software has to come from an expensive closed source place to be any good). You don't get that "full" satisfaction of paying mucho dinero for it so you know it'll work, like big pharmco products.
Yes, I know there are some issues with taking it orally by the 55 gallon drum, I'm not recommending that at all, but for some reason those silver particles will sure kill the cooties. No idea if effective or not on SA, but given that the medcos are stumped, well????
Not to be construed as medical advice, closed track, illegal where void and like that there.
/me stares at ibm365 here,my desktop /me remembers it has two drives, an ibm and a fujitsu /me remembers other slashdot threads about drives /me sighs
--you do it yourself when you are in the channel, save the session-the conversation- to a logfile of your choice on your machine, or the OP does and you can get it from them. Try it out, go to an irc channel someplace on some subject that interests you then search your client IRC program you have running for whichever menu button you mash or command to type to save the session to file. The few different ones I've used all seem to have that function. I'm not an irc guru, but they are there. Perhaps one of the olden tymes unix guys here who've used irc for like forever can be more specific on the saving and tweaking part. The log files are a shade clunky but readable, you might want to cut and paste a lot to turn it into a normal easier to read html page, not sure if there's an automatic way to do that, but it's doable that way at least and not that hard unless it's a humongous log file, then it's just tedious..
Here's an example of where the logging function is found in x-chat, the client I use under linux, the path is > Settings > Setup > Options, you'll see the logging function then.
Now licensing ya got me, ask permission if it's not yours is the best bet. I can't see folks getting real anal over it, either, but ya never know. Probably just depends what you intend to do with it, share it around, they'll probably say have at it, try to develop a commercial product and sell it, you need more serious advice and a contract I guess. Like "yo, zeke, mind if I take this logfile and tweak it and come up with a nice page of trivial pursuit questions?" "Sure man goferit, send me the url when you finished I want a copy" "thanks" "swell". Beyond that your gonna need a contract of some sort. Cash changes reality. Asking permission is always the safest bet, IMO.
--I play trivial pursuit once a week on irc with some friends. We do it ad hoc round robin style, and the good part is, you come up with your own questions. It's your "turn" as long as you stump people, whenever someone gets the answer, it's their turn, and so on. Seems to work great. You start a session by locking in the theme of the questions. Everyone gets a chance to both share knowledge they have, and also to learn from the others.
I guess if you wanted to get it in some sort of doc form you could use a session log and tweak it.
--you offer it in different thresholds, and that's about it. Free to hobbyists, support for the payers. Software is worth paying for once it actually works as advertised for the customer, that's the pain threshold, that is usually classed as alpha or beta or full release-stable. Stable that is sold should come with the ability to actually get ahold of a human being in a timely manner for any troubleshooting questions or contracted/requested work on a feature enhancement, etc. Those with their cash transferred to you get their feature enhancements and problems bumped to the top of the line obviously. And the docs NEED to be written (the final draft) by an english major, someone who's task is to stand over the engineers once the coding is finished and it's time to finalize the man pages and docs with a clue by four until everyone is satisfied the docs are understandable and thorough and accurate. A small paragraph where every other word is an acronym is *not* a working doc to anyone except a coder. I've seen that phenomenon way too often with linux programs. Assume people who might be interested in purchasing the full release are not "all" coders, proceed from that point.
I know I pay for software for BOTH the convenience of having it on a quality made cd and ALSO because I then have a working dead trees manual that doesn't require me burning out my printer. I like the convenience of owning the cd, I like most of the time reading docs from a book, not on a screen. Some do, some don't care, that's just my "paying customiser" opinion. Free is free, a lot of people enjoy downloading constantly and compiling and whatnot, a lot more want the thing to work and be right there and easy to install (or reinstall) and have a reference manual. That's the part worth paying for, and keep the costs reasonable enough. This is like the clueless music/movie sellers. Instead of selling zillions of 5$ cd's, which they could, they make less money trying to sell 20$ cd's. Clue-less morons. It's called getting greedy, only works for a short time, then people do something else, yes?
Another thought, your program must be useful and functional to a degree at least two steps above whatever else is out there. Not one step, at least two steps better, or don't try to sell it.
Now that that's out of the way, I think it's better to just make your money admining linux in the commercial arena, then work on your custom coding and app development the same as almost everyone else is, spare time or allocated free time at your employers. The basic concept of "sharing" needs to be drilled into the bean counters heads as the long haul way to cut costs and get "more", but sharing only works if it's two ways. Everyone benfits by shared code, so the company can concentrate on building and selling their widgets. By using open source as the BASE of a company's IT, they save money. By finally bingoing that a little across the board sharing is what's allowing them to save money, perhaps they will cut some slack and allow a little company time to be used for your interesting app. That's the difference between leeching and sharing. Leeching-only as a concept is just not cool, either short term or long term. Your company benefits from open source in general, and they get first dibs on the product, useful for their business, and score brownie points as being a "friendly" and ethical company in the gestalt of society as it were. They develop a "good rep". With todays business climate, public perception is important. People are skeptical of businesses now, with dang good reason-a lot of them are shall we say less than forthright with their numbers and pretty dismal in the ethics department.
If there's no way to do this and you absolutely need to make your money off of your new application, then it must be customizable to a degree that large companies would pay for the application, it has to have a bona fide usefullness that is unique, perhaps security? That part I don't know, too many variables and wildcards. Usually in software there's the full release, then "release lite" to the non paying hobbyist public, that seems to be what is working now for some people. You offer the customized features for a customized premium in cash.
--here's a great site. refdesk.com. Matt Drudge's father runs this site,AFAIK, a boatload of data links.
*they need help from linux coders to help make this happen on open source os.
--computerised voting is the last straw on any sort of honest voting. Once you have this in by law, that's it, kiss any sort of honesty goodbye. It's not needed. Punch out chads aren't needed. Paper ballots, fill in the circle, works just great. Ya, takes some time to count, but human eyeballs are plenty "open source". All this latest touch screen voting did was make it ridiculously easy to stuff the ballot box by *someone*, or to alter the results, or to lose them, or whatever. No "poll watcher" can count anything-you rely on what the machine tells you. And if the stuffing is occurring INSIDE the governmental command and control structure, well, you can see where that's headed. Votes were difficult in the past, granted, some fraud occurred, this new tech mandates the possibility oif universal fraud. Gee, wonder why the arkansas mafia/skull and bones axis of political crooks would both advocate this sort of voting?
I got my "I voted" sticker right here from the latest election. It's a picture of the computer touch screen pointing at itself saying "I voted". Well, that's exactly what's happening, some computer is voting, you surely aren't.
--this is cool beans man, thanks for your post, and good on you with the armored laptops, I 'll have to keep me peepers open for one, I like the idea.
--well, now ya got me I admit I do not know. Seems to me though that an actual federal law would supercede or nullify those specific provisions of a contract that might be in conflict with said law. For an extreme instance, may you actually buy and sell humans legally into and out of slavery, even if its voluntary with all parties concerned? Would a private contract void the laws against slavery? I don't think so probably.
I'll wait for a knowledgable HAM (yourself?) or dedicated googler to interject here, but I am 90+% sure the fed law supercedes all else in the matter of the antennas, but will put it at a "maybe" now. If this isn't the case, I sit at keyboard corrected and will file it away in the bio-hdd. Need to see the statute and case law on it I guess, but I don't feel like looking for it as it doesn't concern me all that much. I'm playing with the tiny linux distro thread right now, have this olden tyme laptop with zilch on it but a corrupt winderz system...hmmm. only a flop drive... hmmm....anyway..
As to me with the antenna, never been inside a home owners association,I know too many people who were happy as clams to buy into one, then some time the road they found they really wanted to do something they hadn't initially considered -like this referenced antenna install- only to be rebuffed, and they had "buyers remorse" then. For a look at it semi almost humorously, they found out that by golly they are actual humans too and golly gee two they now are the "riff raff" they didn't want to associate with to "keep property values up" or some such. To those who can live with it, swell! Their choice, My ideal choice would be 180 degrees opposite, ie, zero restrictions. If I want an antenna, installed. New chicken coop, built, etc. Buy a boat, want to park it in the driveway, done. Stop working for someone, lose your job say, get an idea then, start your own business, buy a business truck and want the logo on it, accomplished. Your regular car breaks something, you buy the part, weekend comes, you go to install it, you can do it outwardly again in the driveway. You decide you wish to install some landscaping trees and shrubs, you pick your choice and plant them, without worrying they are the politically correct species. Get tired of small dish tv want to get back into K band dish, go find a used one and put it up. Hmm, get interested in solar PV, want to add a few panels to the roof and play with it, install, done. And etc, etc, etc. Most home owner associations I am aware of restrict the above, just for very general conversational examples. Of course, some probably don't and given the size of slashdot a wag will troll in here with the obligatory exception to the rule, but I am most generally speaking now. To each their own, as a life long geek and eccentric, cookie cutter existence is just not my style, but that is just my choice, it's neither correct nor incorrect for anyone but me.
--was living in florida for a short time frame in the 70's. Some guy there (st pete beach) had a GREAT mod, he took an airplane, took the wings off, added two pontoons to it, had this nice catamaran. It was some flavor large commercial plane, but no idea the make/model. It was just too dang slick.
--your home owners association has no say on whether or not you can put a ham tower up. Get a ham license, then put up your "ham tower" get it? heh... It's illegal for them by federal law to restrict you. The state can't, the county can't, a city can't, and the home owners association can't. If they try, seems to me you can sue them, maybe they will pay off your mortgage by settling out of court?Perhaps even the feds might arrest them?
Don't know, don't care, good luck on your antenna*, And next time (friendly advice, not trolling or flaming)think twice before moving into such a restricted area, freedom-loss is nothing to actually pay cash for, lotsa other "living" opportunities out there.
* I needed an antenna,hmm... went out back, dug hole, installed three section tower, ran cable, done....
--suppressing hate propoganda? ya. Whatever they choose to classify as propoganda. They-europaen union government- have blinders on and are Hypocrites, I'll REPEAT IT. HYPOCRITES. They are almost completely silent on communist lead mass murder, it's perfectly legal to have communist symbols ,flags, websites, etc in europe, despite the fact it's a proven historical reality that the communist-named totalitarian regimes and system as applied was and still is just as murderous and propoganda filled as the national socialist totalitarian regime. That's hypocrisy, I fully understand the definition. They support the propoganda of IGNORING it and acting like somehow the next time it's tried on a mass scale it'sgoing to be any different. That's the hypocrisy, their classing the "normalcy" of current communism as somehow 'cool", when it's a total lie and just as dangerous(more really) as some kid putting up an aryan website someplace. Here's a story from a existing communist named and ruled "people's republic" currently in existence, vietnam
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2418791
"Friday, 8 November, 2002, 14:14 GMT
Vietnam jails internet dissident
A Vietnamese woman surfs the Communist Party of Vietnam web site
Vietnam has cracked down on internet use
A Vietnamese dissident has been jailed for four years for publishing criticism of the Communist government on the internet.
Le Chi Quang, a 32-year-old lawyer, was convicted of "acts of propaganda" against the state during the one-day trial in Hanoi, a court official said."
there's more at the link.
Communists are equal opportunity haters, they'll just demonize and murder anyone, doesn't matter what religion you are, if it isn't the communist religion. The europaen union, having in large part quite a bit of overt communists and covert supporters, goes WAY out of their way to not demonize THEMSELVES for this hypocrisy. They would have to in effect ban themselves following their rules, but they don't. They have an agenda, communist rule, they couch it in terms of "socialism" and "green". There's a term I didn't invent but which fits those currently "embtacing" communism, it's called "useful idiot". Those "useful idiots" are the second wave mass murdered once a communist named and lead regime takes over anyplace.
The proposed europaen laws are hypocritical. That doesn't make me a defender of nazi's, not even close.
As to being a Libertarian,I am an independent, strict constitutionalist. I have several problems with some of their hypocrisy as well, and as it relates to being a US citizen, the disaster we are seeing unfold with "open borders" and "free trade" with known enemies who have threatened you is not my idea of a swell position to take. The d's , r's and L's are all in agreement on open borders and free trade globalism, which I think is a "bad idea". If a person "did business'with the small gang down the street, people would say that's a bad idea. Make a bad gang and entire nation, with a lot of fatcats snarfing down profits, all of a sudden they aren't a 'gang" anymore. Hypocrites. size of org doesn't matter, lying murders shopuldn't be supported, D's R's and L's support them by deed and word (generally speaking, there's a handful in the leadership in all three of those parties who have a clue and know what's going on).
If nazi germany still existed I would be against trade with them, just like now I am against trade with mainland china. I see zero difference between those two regimes, this puts me at odds with the bulk of the capital L leadership who think money has no conscious, whereas I see money as being owned by men so the two are always connected. I have never anthromorphisized money into being a living "thing", it's nothing without being used by humans.
I will say though, given the top three major parties, D's, R's, or L's, that L's come closer to what my personal ideal would be, but still not there yet, but that is my opinion as it relates to ME, not you or anyone else, and as opinion is neither right nor wrong. I agree with them on just ending prohibition as being totally stupid and destructive, the cure is worse than the disease, it's lame. I don't want to go down the whole list of issues, but if I had to pick the lesser of 3 evils over top two evils-only, I guess I'd pick them, but actually a party like Americafirst party or Constitutional party are much closer to my way of thinking than the capital L's.
And as to being "popular", and who gets what ass kicked, well duh, here's a clue, windows OS is the most "popular" and has kicked the most ass, but that doesn't mean it's the "best".
The D and R parties are the most "popular", under their leadership we have debt for the next 2 generations, the patriot act, the national helath powers emergency act-which is MUCH WORSE than the patriot act- a stagnating economy, threats of global war, the nations nuts and bolts infrastructure is several trillion in repairs arrears, and we lost national security to a large degree, exporting it to china for short term profits, and we are enjoying a tax level that is better than 50% for most people now who actually work for a living, taking all taxes together, with no sign of it ever going back down to say 10%,and we are being second worlded domestically, the middle class is being systematically destroyed, industry by industry, and yes, the sheeps keep voting for their own destruction. Too bad, not my call, their decision to make as sheeps.
They suck, it's their fault. D's and R's fault. A vote for them is a vote for the same way of doing things that lead us to those problems we have now.
They suck. They are still "popular" and still "kick ass' at the polls, but they are microsoft-ish popular and microsoft-ish sucky. Not really anything to brag about or to be proud of. Inertia, generational long brainwashing and manipulation of government shouldn't be anything anyone honest should be proud of, or support, IMO again.
YMMV
--without me coming up with all the links myself here, to answer your questions, one of the best places for "prior knowledge" as regards government is to be found at infowars.com. Entire section there entitled prior knowledge. a variety of links/articles that name names and etc. Plenty. There are fbi agents (who informed higher up and in turn higher ups), past official's including david schippers, who was rebuffed from giving evidence,(look for transcript) there's even the number #2 guy at the monterrey defense language institute who two weeks before retirement came forward to state thusly, risking his entire retirement/career, etc. Heavy duty steps to take. Hmm, a few of the 'terrorists" trained at us bases, there's some more to chew on. The civilian flight school where another one trained, the owner tried over and over to get anyone to talk to him or to take him serious details like "yo, got me a mohaamed guy here only interested in learning to steer jumbo jets, not interested in taking off or landing", rang alarm bells for the guy, read his story and what he was told.
One or two or three or four-sure, info over load, coincidence, ALL of them? Nope, done on purpose is the only logical conclusion, orders from the stratosphere.
The only reason more people don't freak out is these stories all ran for one minute one day then got buried, and they never see them all put together ina related timeline. Well,to be fair there's two reasons. This logical conclusion is scary beyond belief, so most folks contemplating it choose not to believe it, an example of cognizant dissonance, IMO.
YMMV, but check the link out. Me, this is germany 1935 or so, nearest parallel in recent history I see. "Spooky", pun intended.
"They already exist. Financial institutions already are required to run their databases against the Office of Foriegn Asset Control's list of Specially Designated Nationals and groups, using soundex to look for aliases."
Uhh, that's cool. really. You do this all the time huh, and it's all on the up and up? cool. would you please to reveal the actual for-real names and addys of the people who knew about 9-11 ahead of time enough to put in all those "put options"? Ya know, one of those stories the mass media just seems to love to forget about and act like it never happened. The "magic bullet" of 9-11. Whoops, so sorry, I forgot we are supposed to forget that little detail. Oh what's that you say? Oh, the owner of the brokerage where the bulk of the puts were placed is the ex-#2 guy at the CIA? wow, whut_a_coincidence, I'm sure. Oh ya, excuse me, I thought we were looking for the al queda "terrorists" financiers and assorted hangers on. Connected fatcat western white guys in suits with titles don't count, do they? In fact, letting the cat outta the bag that they had a hand in it for a seriously dangerous political agenda, but got a little greedy and they thought they could slide by and skim a little off the top might be considered a "bad idea", correct? OK-We'll just forget about it then, it's just an embarrasing little incident. Nothing to see here now, move along.....
a secret governmental org developing an "innocent" application that can act as spyware...hmmm..whut a concept,.hmmm. now what was the story on (insert name of a certain chat program developed in middle east) again? Oh ya, a group of unemployed stoontz invented it and served it up to millions for *free* for years, gratis, uh huh. yep.
--I'm actually more interested the next step up. fully aware of mom and pop telco and broadband isp's costs and needs, I'm more talking about this alleged bandwith cost. And you are talking about new startups, I am more talking about the older long ago established providers. and the reason I am is that they DID make money and WERE granted monopolies long ago, when the plauying fieeld was level and perhaps company B *might* have done a better job. but, no way to tell now, is there? All we have is their word they did the best job and the costs are reasonable. Duh, if there's one car company that's what cars costs, let's just have one car company established by law. With the established local telcos and cable providers, this is the case, it's *illegal* to do "new" AFAIK.
Yes, it's tricky, 10 water delivery utilities, each with their own pipes? ya, silly, I see your point with data pipes as well, I just have a "suspicion" that a big part of the cost is inflated way beyond normal, similar to how the cal electric bill was artificially inflated. And I'm really asking, because I DON'T know. maybe a better idea is to have RAW DATA PIPE being put up for bid by local areas, then installed, then a SEPARATE arrangement so that various providers could provide connectivity and bandwith? The pipe becomes "commons" just like the road structures are mostly. That's just a wild card there.
I see the refrain "well then, just you go get your own T-1". OK, swell,why is it they go around the country from 400$ to 2000$? Uhhh, why is this again??? I _don't_know, jiss asking. And just saying "supply and denmand"is not an answer, I want(would like) a bit more meat of an answer than that. Is there actualy a reason for such a large discrepancy? And who provides the larger pipes so that whomever local can supply you with a T-1, and what do they cost and is that a realistic price to pay as opposed to install cost? There's NO way to really tell for joe average consumer way down the food chain here. Oil-we sorta got an idea at least what a barrel goes for, wheat, it's easy to see what joe wheat farmer gets as opposed to a loaf of bread (hint, farmers get squat,middlemen snarf the profit big time)? How much does that really cost compared to what is charged?
To most people, past their immediate net-connection, there's no way to actually SEE what might be a good price or not. I have no idea how many middlemen are involved in my bandwith pricing structure. Is every step necessary, or is their redundancy and perhaps just graft? I don't know, really.
"Someone" someplace is sorta telling a whopper, all through the mid to late 90's we heard on and on and on about massive bandwith going in, huge amounts, but for the end user low level consumer, we are told now it's so very expensive that you can't do this or that, etc. What happened, all that stuff just evaporate or what? did it get ripped out of the ground? It's like 100 new interstate hiways were built, but we are told now they don't exist, that's just an old myth, and all that's available are these old two lane blacktop toll roads. Huh? Who's telling the truth, and what IS the truth, the gestalt, not just the local isp, the big picture. sorta like this --> Who GETS most of the bandwith money now? where DOES the fat pile of bucks stop? I see the statement of "data" we are supposed to believe that isps are all broke from bandwith costs, so who charges them, and who charges the next guy, and why is it expensive still after these gazillion miles of new fiber got put in? WHY is bandwith priced as it is, and is it a legit market or a controlled/obfuscated market with the details kept hidden on purpose, ie, are there more enron-esque revelations that might come forward? And last, is it TIME now to revisit cable providers local monopolies? Has it outlived it's usefulness and novelty? Might it be better to open the market back up, so at least there is a THREAT of competition, which might make the exisiting companies seek better ways to provide better services at better prices? Right now they have little incentive to do more than coast, yes? Sat tv sorta helped, but that has been adopted way more in rural areas that never had cable nor where they likely to, again, local governments "allowing" cable monopolies but not "mandating" coverage for all inside their muncipality/area-they let the cablecos pick and choose where they would go, whereas the copper pair telcos were mandated to provide service to all comers inside their area. That's a big difference in protected monopolies. I know of so many people want just a dang choice of channels, they can't even get that, pay for stuff you don't want drives the cost up. If I buy a new car I don't want ten rtadios in the thing, drives the cost up for stuff I don't want or need. Same with provided content, it's lame, and it'slame from zero competition mandated by "law". Maybe if they didn'tplug up their cables with useless stuff hardly no one wants bandwith might be cheaper, free up some cash to lay more cable/fiber to more homes? I dunno, but ya got to admit it's a thought with some merit.
Yes, I know it's sort of several questions mixed together, sorry. I think they are all legit though.
And don't get me going on the FCC and air waves bandwith and who gets what for why and how much, sheesh, there's another great rant topic. heh
--the funny part of these "laws" is the selective blinders they use. The national socialist party killed x-millions of people, granted. this is data, not opinion, it happened. Hmm, the communist party of the soviet union killed at LEAST x million times 2 people, mostly their own citizens. Data, it happened. Is it "illegal and promoting hate speech" to buy/sell hammer and sickle flags in germany now? Are pro-communist websites tolerated? Is a communist party allowed to operate and run candidates?
See? Pure hypocrisy and triple speak. There's an agenda here, should be easy to see and pick up on.
Right now nations around the world are bending over backwards to enrich and justify the existence of the mainland chinese communist party, who rule in every feudal sense of the word-a technofuedalism but still feudal-over 1.5 billion people, and have murdered at least 50 million if not more than 100 million of their own citizens-and it's NOT past history-they are still there, same communist party. Unapproved religion? too bad, re education camp or a bullet to the head. Some fatcat needs a kidney, pop, some prisoner provides it. Have one too many kids? No problem, they'll strangle or drownd them on the spot after birth. real nice guys they are... but that's OK, we can get cheap gadgets from them...
Does germany or the rest of the europaen union classify communist china as just as e-vile as the national socialist party of germany was? No? Why not, don't those millions murdered count the same?
More plutocratic triple speak hypocrisy.
The US government can have an official spokesgoon stand up and claim "they had no prior knowledge of al queda threats against US buildings or using airplanes as weapons and etc". Well, that's a total lie, literally dozens of "official" cops and bureaucrats knew full well about it, fbi agents reporting it got told to shut up, etc.
Governments lie, they demonize whom they wish to demonize, create a class of "less than humans" so they can go kill them and steal from them. It can be an official government, or a 'government" of assorted people united in whatever particular whacky stupid "cause" they come up with-that part doesn't matter, it just "happens" and the default is always this "hate" is almost universally based on fabrications for the most part, and they grant themselves selective memory all the time. They only remember what is "convenient" for them..
In the US, it's close, REAL close now to being "hate speech" to point this out, give it some time, you'll see it happen, you'll be a "terrorist" if you say out loud the government lies or exaggerates, it will be construed as hate speech, ie, "illegal", and when governments do it, it's called "policy" and is legitimate. It's all over now, welcome to the NWO. It's incrementalism, not all the way here yet, but close. EU's hate speech rulings are part of the puzzle, that's all, just one more slow chipping away. Big push for biometrics now, soon they'll say you were actually "thinking bad thoughts" and that will be a crime, no audible speech or publishing necessary. Just watch it happen, then you'll see why starting down that "hate speech" road is such a bad idea.
--see another niche for this, diskless laptop, has dual hot swap batts, auto shifting and sleep cycle if both get too low.
Also, the ram on the card and "in the way" down on the mobo is a valid complaint engineering-wise, a better design would have it fit in a regular drive bay, then just run it's own cable with pci edge to an available slot.
Another thought, take yet another drive bay and have an internal UPS that is dedicated to this drive (or your normal ram somehow). How much juice does it really take to keep ram turned on and not lose data? I honestly don't know, is it a huge amount? Would a regular normal size l-ion laptop bat keep it on for like days or hours or minutes or what? Seems like a nice thing to have for desktops anyway, again, have it reside in a drive bay.
If it's not invented will whomever snags the idea plz send me some cash? My "new" box is a 200.... thankew....
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