I sure miss the Bush Administration / Republican controlled congress because it at least paid lip service to personal freedoms.
Now lets see: *We are likely to end up with GPS in our cars *A 3400-3800 dollar tax for existing *Still likely to have some form of national ID forced on us *There is no end in sight to the invasive personal information searches for air travelers *Our financial records are going to accessible to *any* government agency that can claim some relationship to your health care no matter how obscure.
Any notion this is a free society is rapidly evaporating. I know I am going to get reams of replies about how Americans are still so much more free than X; but that is not the point! Its not about being freer than someone else or better than, its about being the freest society we can be. Frankly our government is drifting down the road of some type of neo-fascist totalitarian system. Its a long way from something you could describe that way but the seeds are being planted and the garden tended. This is very similar to how the Third Reich got its start, and no I am not saying Obama is anything like Hitler, what I am saying is that he and the current congressional majority are creating the conditions where an Hitler or a Bonaparte can find support and come to power.
I fully expect to be walking down the street in the next ten years and hearing the equivalent of "Papers please" pretty often the way things are going..
Did you read the article the thing is being threated by a fungus not native to its habitat. In other words its something MAN brought to it, that is killing it.
That really depends on the work load. The PC world seems to have left HT behind. All the dual core systems I have show up as just two procs on smp aware kernels, as does my single core p4 with HT. Most things don't seem to get much if anything out of ht. Multiple decoders without the circuit resources behind them don't do much under the typical desktop PC load.
I am certain there are applications that can see huge improvements from ht; must of the time that seconds decoders is sitting there wishing it could use the ALU.
I could if I was developing an application that was likely to be they application running on the machine. If I was doing say a database engine I could carefully plan out what to do in which threads and probably come up with my own scheme for scheduling them.
On a desktop though the OS has a much better shot at it than I do. It know about all the other processes executing, how much time they need and how many threads they are running. I don't get to know any of that as a developer of an application.
Does that mean I become a completely different person when I change jobs?
Yes, it does maybe you missed the memo but in our post-post-modern-neuveux-neocapital-socialist system you are entirely defined by what you do and how much you make.
ost European nations when most European nations were long established sea going nations capable of raping, pillaging and controlling the Americas long before the USA even existed
Actually I think the existence of our USA proves the European powers were in fact not capable of controlling the Americas. It took Americans to do that USA USA **USA*** WOOT!~
I really don't know why this concept is so hard for people. My mother told me once when I was very young something very simple. "If you don't want someone to read it don't write it down." was what she said.
You know she was right. Its completely fool prof, nobody can find your not so well hidden diary, nobody can guess your cipher key that is weaker than you imagined, nobody can crack you later found to be flawed cipher, nobody can reproduce it in the clear accidentally or otherwise.
If its truly private it does not belong on the Network at all Facebook or anyplace else encrypted or not.
There does seem to be some evidence to support the idea that human immune response is impacted in a significant way by attitude. If you make the patient happy and give them the expectation they are going to get well then instances of opportunistic infection seem to decrease somewhat and secondary aliments that would be expected to heal on their own seem to do so faster.
I understand what your saying but just like the guy who said I can earn 5K in a month so it would be stupid for me to knock over the Apple store misses is he is not stupid to begin with.
You and I know its a fools game because we know something about how cellular phones work, how expensive electronics are serialized and some of the ways that can be tracked. We are not out doing smash-and-grabs on our Saturday nights because we see the problems with it and have other opportunities and I hope maybe we are just better people to with higher ethical and moral standards.
I can see how a robbery would be appealing if you lacked the intelligence, education, or a combination of both to spot the problems I listed above as well as the others there obviously are. Now imagine at the same time were not likely to find yourself in a career where you can earn anything even close to 5k in a month at any point in the future; perhaps you already have a criminal record that will prevent you from being eligible for such a job.
Now I suspect I could plan and execute such a crime and get away with it. The trouble is as other have pointed out I can earn more doing honest work with less risk for the amount of time and engergy that would need to go in. This is the failure of most criminals they don't do it right, either because they don't know how or are lazy. These guys clearly choreographed. Simple though the crime may be there was some planning that went into this break in, If you can't see that than you need to look harder.
These guys all knew where they were going and when to move. I bet they have a plan for unloading this stuff that they cooked up before they stole it too. I sure would, have disposition in mind beforehand. I mean sitting on this stuff for any amount to time would be dumb. It ties you to the crime and it allows time for the authorities to circulate the serial numbers, tell the cellular carriers about the ESN codes of the stolen phones etc etc. These things could make it hard to sell this stuff at all, if to much time passes.
A smash-and-grab is not the most complex crime to execute to be sure; but this one was well choreographed. They knew just how to hit the plate glass to bring it down fast so they could all run it without even slowing down and they know which team members were going to grab what.
There is not any stumbling; no pointing, signaling or anything to suggest that any part of it was being made up as they went along. It was all premeditated and it seems everything went according to plan. These guys stike me as having covered their bases more than most criminals do. I mean hell it was not long ago I read an article about a man who knocked over the Big and Tall store in the middle of the day and then tried to escape on a city bus. Gee who thinks would suspected that was not going to work out well for him.
I don't know what these guys plan to do to get around the serial numbers, but I bet they already have a plan for fencing the goods, and I'd guess its about as sound as any criminal enterprise can be.
I don't yet have any children of my own but I agree with basic philosophy on parenting. My parents pretty much raised me that way and I'd like to think I turned out all right. I would partner permitting of course want the same for my children and would be EXACTLY like my parents were; you know that thing every teenager always says they would never do.
I am not sure about the computer supervision though. At least during that vulnerable time when you want to be instilling your values I think you do want to look over your kids shoulder; same with TV. I doubt you need any software or anything to do it though. Give them their own machine without network access so they can use the software you give them hack on it whatever; and put the devices where external media will be consumed someplace communal within the home. Like the family room that is in view of the kitchen a rec room where you can set up a desk for yourself to do some paper work or something like that. You probably don't need to be standing over their shoulder literally just being in the room where you look up every now and then would be mostly sufficient.
I don't know about the IPHONE but I would hope it can support IMAP over SSL or TLS. SeaMonkey mail can as can Thunderbird and several other popular mail clients use TLS. I am the Exchange admin at my organization and I allow 993 and 143 through the firewall. They look like perfectly normal SSL and TLS setups to me. No major snafus like passwords in clear text or anything like that. I have never read or seen anything reported to suggest there are problems with there.
The other Linux users myself included are quite happy to use our mail via secured IMAP.
The poor - "Its the man keeping me down" and "I just get mixed up with the wrong crowd" are both popular.
The middle class - will usually invent some sort of obscure social justice or environmentalist excuse like the one we see here. Generally very little actual thought goes into developing this excuse; and its all over some snake oil that was sold to them by someone else with a grander agenda. In rare cases its an actual problem in that what they say is happening actually is and there are some known negative consequences. In these instances they are just opposed to whatever it is, and don't have any sort of alternative solution; unless involves depopulation on a massive scale and most of use learning to be content with tree bark and wild berries for dinner.
The rich - most of the time won't have any excuse of their own per say but will pay an attorney to invent some exotic legal excuse the rest of use can't really understand even when we try. Most of the time the only thing legal about said excuse is the linguistic style its presented in; still it will be excepted more often than not because few others are really interested and still fewer have the resources or wherewithal to argue the matter.
The political - will find away to blame successful noncriminal members of the middle class. They will go with social justice tack as well but it will be slightly more reasoned than the middle class criminal's excuse. Generally not only will the excuse succeed in getting them off the hook for their crime but will also enable them to pass some sort of self serving public policy.
OSS existed both in free and non-free forms. The non-free implementation was missing some featured and supported few cards. OSS was very limited where mixing of multiple audio sources was concerned.
So if you wanted sound effects while you listening to music OSS probably was not enough for you. These is where the sound daemons came into play. They acted as a single OSS client and did all the mixing operations for other software to connect with.
ALSA - provided an architecture to handle modern multi channel boards and do mixing. It also improved the abstraction of particular drivers; so it was easier to add support for new cards. The libraries make it much easier to write clients for as well.
OSS emulation is popular because there is still a great deal of OSS client software around and hey you get most of the ALSA benifents of multi-client support and functional drivers for just about every card under the sun even while using OSS emulation so there is no good reason no to use.
Sound is a solved problem if you are still having problem with sound on your linux desktop then you must:
1.You have some very exotic hardware or needs. There are still some gaps in the super low latency realm for people trying to do sound engineering and such.
3.You are using really and I mean really cheap hardware that is missing important features and was doing way to much in software on that other platform. Drop $20 and get a new audio card, or get a motherboard with a chip set form a company whose name you can at least pronounce, if you want to use onboard audio.
3.You are using a really old distribution
4.You are using a really poor distribution
5.You failed to read the documentation and have badly mis-configured your system.
Not but you need some basis if you are going to make such an adjustment. There are ways to determine the rate of sampling error for instance and then use that. In this case that might be to much effort or get you into legally murky waters so what an honest researcher would write something like this:
In my sample of XXXX, YY responded that they sometimes used p2p software in an illegal fashion. Based on this the number of extra legal file sharers in the total population would be ZZZZZZ. I would not expect a person who does not use p2p in an illegal way to respond to my survey in the affirmative while it is easier to image someone who does would respond in the negative; therefor the number may actually be greater than ZZZZZZ.
--- Do so would present the numbers as clearly as they can actually be known; states its assumptions and bias in a consice way.
Simply ensuring your dns is not compromised is not enough. Just because you have correct DNS information does not ensure you know who your talking with, yes you have the right, IP,MX,TXT or whatever record but my evil router up stream can still NAT or route your traffic address to that IP to my evil spoofing web server.
I am not suggesting that your point is without merit or that the best solution to long space deployments might not be to create artificial gravity as as you correctly point out it could kill a whole flock of birds with one stone but there are other considerations.
Physicists still don't entirely understand the force of gravity. It might be that simulating the macro effects of it with acceleration does not solve some problems on the micro and smaller scales.
Energy in space is generally at a premium, yes you can get a good deal of power from solar but you need that for other things. If an artificial gravity solution is to expensive in those terms the other options might not be so brain dead.
What happens when if artificial gravity fails. If operation of other equipment is totally dependent on it; can you get it restarted? You might need to be able to say transfer propellant in order to accelerate something.
Not that any bank is paying interest worth much these days but you'd have to be a dolt to take the 12mo cycle. Why would you not want to get that 2mo salary spread into the first 10 so you could collect the interest on it sooner.
How hard is it really to figure out what your salary would be if you had taken it over 12mo and plan your spending and expenses accordingly while you make a few extra bones in interest?
Its simple division most adults should be able to do in their heads!
Somewhere long about middle school for me the school year started getting longer and longer. Guess what with a few rare exceptions teachers don't know how to use the extra time effectively. They either slow down everything, which is good for some students I guess, and bore everyone else to half to death or they sprinkle in the occasional movie day.
Get a clue the school year was much to long when I was in school and I have been out for quite some time. What would be useful is if our society was more open to ( at least teenage ) kids trailing their parents around more often. No I don't think more internships are the answer either; for every good internship, ten others amount to stuffing paper into envelopes and getting the coffee. I think kids should come to work or work around the house with their parents more so they can see what "work" is and how it actually gets done. That might prove useful experience for them.
One thing cities might consider is I generally avoid going places where I have to pay to park. Its often a hassle and an unneeded expense. I might gp shopping or go see a movie downtown and even stay for lunch but they make it such a PITA that I say "F downtown, I can just go to my suburban Mall instead."
Frankly downtown sucks because the city makes it suck and its no wonder as a result Cleveland has to bend over backwards to attract a Wall-Mart. Free parking during the week and some downtown business might have a fighting chance for my dollar but otherwise no sale.
I don't normally apologize for M$, but to be fair. They are not knowingly selling a defective product. They don't know any given XBOX has problems when they ship it. I have heard few stories of dead on arrival units.
What they are doing is selling a highly failure prone product and replacing them at their own cost, virtually no questions asked.
I am a Christan, but not the superstitious type. I hit the gas station one morning and my total came to $6.66 (no fuel just some motor oil and a coffee or something). The girl at the counter actually asked, Are you sure you don't want something else? I said why? She said, well your total is $6.66 that can't be good. I said, that is silly what could possibly happen?
Well let me tell you I had the worst luck the entire rest of the day. I don't think one thing went right, it was crazy. I will never never spend exactly $6.66 again anywhere. Its worth investing in a pack of gum or something I don't really want just not to take the chance.
For the most part he probably could do that; but a well enough designed root kit could possibly replace the operating system interfaces libcap uses and not report its own traffic. That is certainly not your run of the mill botnet software or malware but stuff that can do that sorta thing does exist.
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I sure miss the Bush Administration / Republican controlled congress because it at least paid lip service to personal freedoms.
Now lets see:
*We are likely to end up with GPS in our cars
*A 3400-3800 dollar tax for existing
*Still likely to have some form of national ID forced on us
*There is no end in sight to the invasive personal information searches for air travelers
*Our financial records are going to accessible to *any* government agency that can claim some relationship to your health care no matter how obscure.
Any notion this is a free society is rapidly evaporating. I know I am going to get reams of replies about how Americans are still so much more free than X; but that is not the point! Its not about being freer than someone else or better than, its about being the freest society we can be. Frankly our government is drifting down the road of some type of neo-fascist totalitarian system. Its a long way from something you could describe that way but the seeds are being planted and the garden tended. This is very similar to how the Third Reich got its start, and no I am not saying Obama is anything like Hitler, what I am saying is that he and the current congressional majority are creating the conditions where an Hitler or a Bonaparte can find support and come to power.
I fully expect to be walking down the street in the next ten years and hearing the equivalent of "Papers please" pretty often the way things are going..
Did you read the article the thing is being threated by a fungus not native to its habitat. In other words its something MAN brought to it, that is killing it.
That really depends on the work load. The PC world seems to have left HT behind. All the dual core systems I have show up as just two procs on smp aware kernels, as does my single core p4 with HT. Most things don't seem to get much if anything out of ht. Multiple decoders without the circuit resources behind them don't do much under the typical desktop PC load.
I am certain there are applications that can see huge improvements from ht; must of the time that seconds decoders is sitting there wishing it could use the ALU.
I could if I was developing an application that was likely to be they application running on the machine. If I was doing say a database engine I could carefully plan out what to do in which threads and probably come up with my own scheme for scheduling them.
On a desktop though the OS has a much better shot at it than I do. It know about all the other processes executing, how much time they need and how many threads they are running. I don't get to know any of that as a developer of an application.
Does that mean I become a completely different person when I change jobs?
Yes, it does maybe you missed the memo but in our post-post-modern-neuveux-neocapital-socialist system you are entirely defined by what you do and how much you make.
Well I was with you right up until the end there!
ost European nations when most European nations were long established sea going nations capable of raping, pillaging and controlling the Americas long before the USA even existed
Actually I think the existence of our USA proves the European powers were in fact not capable of controlling the Americas. It took Americans to do that USA USA **USA*** WOOT!~
Nah, you just pad the other 3.999GB with zeros.
I really don't know why this concept is so hard for people. My mother told me once when I was very young something very simple. "If you don't want someone to read it don't write it down." was what she said.
You know she was right. Its completely fool prof, nobody can find your not so well hidden diary, nobody can guess your cipher key that is weaker than you imagined, nobody can crack you later found to be flawed cipher, nobody can reproduce it in the clear accidentally or otherwise.
If its truly private it does not belong on the Network at all Facebook or anyplace else encrypted or not.
There does seem to be some evidence to support the idea that human immune response is impacted in a significant way by attitude. If you make the patient happy and give them the expectation they are going to get well then instances of opportunistic infection seem to decrease somewhat and secondary aliments that would be expected to heal on their own seem to do so faster.
I understand what your saying but just like the guy who said I can earn 5K in a month so it would be stupid for me to knock over the Apple store misses is he is not stupid to begin with.
You and I know its a fools game because we know something about how cellular phones work, how expensive electronics are serialized and some of the ways that can be tracked. We are not out doing smash-and-grabs on our Saturday nights because we see the problems with it and have other opportunities and I hope maybe we are just better people to with higher ethical and moral standards.
I can see how a robbery would be appealing if you lacked the intelligence, education, or a combination of both to spot the problems I listed above as well as the others there obviously are. Now imagine at the same time were not likely to find yourself in a career where you can earn anything even close to 5k in a month at any point in the future; perhaps you already have a criminal record that will prevent you from being eligible for such a job.
Now I suspect I could plan and execute such a crime and get away with it. The trouble is as other have pointed out I can earn more doing honest work with less risk for the amount of time and engergy that would need to go in. This is the failure of most criminals they don't do it right, either because they don't know how or are lazy. These guys clearly choreographed. Simple though the crime may be there was some planning that went into this break in, If you can't see that than you need to look harder.
These guys all knew where they were going and when to move. I bet they have a plan for unloading this stuff that they cooked up before they stole it too. I sure would, have disposition in mind beforehand. I mean sitting on this stuff for any amount to time would be dumb. It ties you to the crime and it allows time for the authorities to circulate the serial numbers, tell the cellular carriers about the ESN codes of the stolen phones etc etc. These things could make it hard to sell this stuff at all, if to much time passes.
A smash-and-grab is not the most complex crime to execute to be sure; but this one was well choreographed. They knew just how to hit the plate glass to bring it down fast so they could all run it without even slowing down and they know which team members were going to grab what.
There is not any stumbling; no pointing, signaling or anything to suggest that any part of it was being made up as they went along. It was all premeditated and it seems everything went according to plan. These guys stike me as having covered their bases more than most criminals do. I mean hell it was not long ago I read an article about a man who knocked over the Big and Tall store in the middle of the day and then tried to escape on a city bus. Gee who thinks would suspected that was not going to work out well for him.
I don't know what these guys plan to do to get around the serial numbers, but I bet they already have a plan for fencing the goods, and I'd guess its about as sound as any criminal enterprise can be.
I don't yet have any children of my own but I agree with basic philosophy on parenting. My parents pretty much raised me that way and I'd like to think I turned out all right. I would partner permitting of course want the same for my children and would be EXACTLY like my parents were; you know that thing every teenager always says they would never do.
I am not sure about the computer supervision though. At least during that vulnerable time when you want to be instilling your values I think you do want to look over your kids shoulder; same with TV. I doubt you need any software or anything to do it though. Give them their own machine without network access so they can use the software you give them hack on it whatever; and put the devices where external media will be consumed someplace communal within the home. Like the family room that is in view of the kitchen a rec room where you can set up a desk for yourself to do some paper work or something like that. You probably don't need to be standing over their shoulder literally just being in the room where you look up every now and then would be mostly sufficient.
I don't know about the IPHONE but I would hope it can support IMAP over SSL or TLS. SeaMonkey mail can as can Thunderbird and several other popular mail clients use TLS. I am the Exchange admin at my organization and I allow 993 and 143 through the firewall. They look like perfectly normal SSL and TLS setups to me. No major snafus like passwords in clear text or anything like that. I have never read or seen anything reported to suggest there are problems with there.
The other Linux users myself included are quite happy to use our mail via secured IMAP.
Why don't you think IMAP on Exchange is secure?
Different classes will justify crime differently:
The poor - "Its the man keeping me down" and "I just get mixed up with the wrong crowd" are both popular.
The middle class - will usually invent some sort of obscure social justice or environmentalist excuse like the one we see here. Generally very little actual thought goes into developing this excuse; and its all over some snake oil that was sold to them by someone else with a grander agenda. In rare cases its an actual problem in that what they say is happening actually is and there are some known negative consequences. In these instances they are just opposed to whatever it is, and don't have any sort of alternative solution; unless involves depopulation on a massive scale and most of use learning to be content with tree bark and wild berries for dinner.
The rich - most of the time won't have any excuse of their own per say but will pay an attorney to invent some exotic legal excuse the rest of use can't really understand even when we try. Most of the time the only thing legal about said excuse is the linguistic style its presented in; still it will be excepted more often than not because few others are really interested and still fewer have the resources or wherewithal to argue the matter.
The political - will find away to blame successful noncriminal members of the middle class. They will go with social justice tack as well but it will be slightly more reasoned than the middle class criminal's excuse. Generally not only will the excuse succeed in getting them off the hook for their crime but will also enable them to pass some sort of self serving public policy.
Totally wrong, you must be new here.
OSS existed both in free and non-free forms. The non-free implementation was missing some featured and supported few cards. OSS was very limited where mixing of multiple audio sources was concerned.
So if you wanted sound effects while you listening to music OSS probably was not enough for you. These is where the sound daemons came into play. They acted as a single OSS client and did all the mixing operations for other software to connect with.
ALSA - provided an architecture to handle modern multi channel boards and do mixing. It also improved the abstraction of particular drivers; so it was easier to add support for new cards. The libraries make it much easier to write clients for as well.
OSS emulation is popular because there is still a great deal of OSS client software around and hey you get most of the ALSA benifents of multi-client support and functional drivers for just about every card under the sun even while using OSS emulation so there is no good reason no to use.
Sound is a solved problem if you are still having problem with sound on your linux desktop then you must:
1.You have some very exotic hardware or needs. There are still some gaps in the super low latency realm for people trying to do sound engineering and such.
3.You are using really and I mean really cheap hardware that is missing important features and was doing way to much in software on that other platform. Drop $20 and get a new audio card, or get a motherboard with a chip set form a company whose name you can at least pronounce, if you want to use onboard audio.
3.You are using a really old distribution
4.You are using a really poor distribution
5.You failed to read the documentation and have badly mis-configured your system.
Not but you need some basis if you are going to make such an adjustment. There are ways to determine the rate of sampling error for instance and then use that. In this case that might be to much effort or get you into legally murky waters so what an honest researcher would write something like this:
In my sample of XXXX, YY responded that they sometimes used p2p software in an illegal fashion. Based on this the number of extra legal file sharers in the total population would be ZZZZZZ. I would not expect a person who does not use p2p in an illegal way to respond to my survey in the affirmative while it is easier to image someone who does would respond in the negative; therefor the number may actually be greater than ZZZZZZ.
---
Do so would present the numbers as clearly as they can actually be known; states its assumptions and bias in a consice way.
Simply ensuring your dns is not compromised is not enough. Just because you have correct DNS information does not ensure you know who your talking with, yes you have the right, IP,MX,TXT or whatever record but my evil router up stream can still NAT or route your traffic address to that IP to my evil spoofing web server.
I am not suggesting that your point is without merit or that the best solution to long space deployments might not be to create artificial gravity as as you correctly point out it could kill a whole flock of birds with one stone but there are other considerations.
Physicists still don't entirely understand the force of gravity. It might be that simulating the macro effects of it with acceleration does not solve some problems on the micro and smaller scales.
Energy in space is generally at a premium, yes you can get a good deal of power from solar but you need that for other things. If an artificial gravity solution is to expensive in those terms the other options might not be so brain dead.
What happens when if artificial gravity fails. If operation of other equipment is totally dependent on it; can you get it restarted? You might need to be able to say transfer propellant in order to accelerate something.
Not that any bank is paying interest worth much these days but you'd have to be a dolt to take the 12mo cycle. Why would you not want to get that 2mo salary spread into the first 10 so you could collect the interest on it sooner.
How hard is it really to figure out what your salary would be if you had taken it over 12mo and plan your spending and expenses accordingly while you make a few extra bones in interest?
Its simple division most adults should be able to do in their heads!
Somewhere long about middle school for me the school year started getting longer and longer. Guess what with a few rare exceptions teachers don't know how to use the extra time effectively. They either slow down everything, which is good for some students I guess, and bore everyone else to half to death or they sprinkle in the occasional movie day.
Get a clue the school year was much to long when I was in school and I have been out for quite some time. What would be useful is if our society was more open to ( at least teenage ) kids trailing their parents around more often. No I don't think more internships are the answer either; for every good internship, ten others amount to stuffing paper into envelopes and getting the coffee. I think kids should come to work or work around the house with their parents more so they can see what "work" is and how it actually gets done. That might prove useful experience for them.
One thing cities might consider is I generally avoid going places where I have to pay to park. Its often a hassle and an unneeded expense. I might gp shopping or go see a movie downtown and even stay for lunch but they make it such a PITA that I say "F downtown, I can just go to my suburban Mall instead."
Frankly downtown sucks because the city makes it suck and its no wonder as a result Cleveland has to bend over backwards to attract a Wall-Mart. Free parking during the week and some downtown business might have a fighting chance for my dollar but otherwise no sale.
I don't normally apologize for M$, but to be fair. They are not knowingly selling a defective product. They don't know any given XBOX has problems when they ship it. I have heard few stories of dead on arrival units.
What they are doing is selling a highly failure prone product and replacing them at their own cost, virtually no questions asked.
I can't wait until it reaches the limit on the MACS it can learn and just starts forwarding. :-)
I am a Christan, but not the superstitious type. I hit the gas station one morning and my total came to $6.66 (no fuel just some motor oil and a coffee or something). The girl at the counter actually asked, Are you sure you don't want something else? I said why? She said, well your total is $6.66 that can't be good. I said, that is silly what could possibly happen?
Well let me tell you I had the worst luck the entire rest of the day. I don't think one thing went right, it was crazy. I will never never spend exactly $6.66 again anywhere. Its worth investing in a pack of gum or something I don't really want just not to take the chance.
For the most part he probably could do that; but a well enough designed root kit could possibly replace the operating system interfaces libcap uses and not report its own traffic. That is certainly not your run of the mill botnet software or malware but stuff that can do that sorta thing does exist.