"Stardate 2322.1, Captain's log, Stereo A, Linux commanding. After three years, I have completed my first assignment as master of this vessel, cataloging gaseous planetary anomalies in Alpha Quadrant. We're continuing our mission under full gravitational power. I'm pleased to report that ship and programming have functioned well."
*starts a cronjob*
*rumble...rattle-rattle-RATTLE-RATTLE..*
ALERT! ALERT!
"Sir, we're getting a massive energy reading, dead ahead!"
Obviously whoever modded it down has never lived in the North Woods. Upstate NY has got blackflies, which are just as bad as mosquitoes. The mosquitoes in AK will kill you by sucking out your blood, but blackflies will kill you by driving you to blow your brains out for relief.
1. Create a fake Google profile. Be sure to use several Tor proxies to make sure you can't be traced back, and LOG OUT OF YOUR CURRENT GOOGLE PROFILE!!! Make sure you continue to use Tor for the entire operation. 2. Go to maps.google.com 3. Click My Maps 4. Create new map, make it public. 5. Title: Chicago IP Surveillance Camera locations 6. Description: This map is to pinpoint the location of all video cameras being used in the city of Chicago. If you know of a camera that's being used to watch a public area, add the address to this map, along with a brief description of where it is, what its watching and what it looks like. 7. Click "collaborate" 8. Select "allow anyone to edit this map" 9. Publish the map
Done. Now just sit back and let John Q Public fill in all the little details.
You can also use Wikimapia, which is now moderated.
I'll be able to watch you come and go, I'll know when you're at home and when you're away, I'll sometimes catch glimpses of what you're doing through the windows, I can watch you in your sweaty glory...
Yes, but you have man-eating grizzly bears, crazy maverick lipstick pigs, 10 months of winter and 2 months of cold weather. None of the criminals are desperate enough to live there.
The project was cancelled by the Reagan administration the day the facility was finished.
Reagan had a total hard-on for the destruction of ANYTHING that looked even remotely green. Barely a week after he was in office, he wiped out the entire solar initiative-including the panels on the roof-turned up the thermostat and eliminated ALL price controls on domestic oil, which set us up for the biggest oil glut the world had ever seen. Executive order 12881
The popular phrase for such folks, is "They couldn't be more X if they tried!" Well, Reagan was anti-green, and he was bloody well proud of it, making it a specific point to expend as much effort as possible to BE anti-green. The phrase "Nuke the whales" wasn't just a song by the Fleshapoids in his world-view.
Perhaps not all of the botnets are owned by such groups, but not that many are going to be willing to play a real-world version of Minesweeper. At least not for long, anyway.
When I was living in NY, I worked with a fellow who had his well pointed out by a local Dowser. It cost him $300 in 1990.
And for $300, he would tell you exactly where you should dig, precisely how far you should dig, how much water you were going to get (GPM), how long it would last, whether it was subject to drought or could be relied upon during dry spells. He could also eliminate sources with salt, sulfur, iron, calcium and anything else you don't want in your water. He'd take a wire flag and write the instructions for the driller on the flag, then stick it precisely where they were supposed to drill.
The catch?
The Dowser gave his guarantee in writing, with a quadruple your money back if anything was less than what he promised. Goes dry? Not enough flow? Muddy, salty, iron, sulfur? He'll pay you $1200.
When I heard the story from my co-worker, the old fellow hadn't needed to pay anyone back in the 20 years he'd been doing it. Dunno if he's still alive now, though.
And I'm not sure he'd want to try this out with explosives if he still is.
#28: My pet monster will be kept in a secure cage from which it cannot escape and into which I could not accidentally stumble.
Although, #48 works just as well...
#48 I will treat any beast which I control through magic or technology with respect and kindness. Thus if the control is ever broken, it will not immediately come after me for revenge.
Because they're not going to try and make this into a law on its own? It'd never survive as a stand-alone bill.
No, they're going to stuff it into the "Protection of Children Act", right inbetween the "Free Scholarship for African Americans" rider and the "Protection of Elderly Widows Insurance Policy" rider.
Rapidshare, Megaupload and the others are not searchable. You need to know the URL for the content.
Torrent trackers are, and that's been the whole point of torrent trackers from the get-go.
Switching over to services like Rapidshare and the others is like going back to 1990 when FSP became the "in thing" The problem with that, is that you had to log into IRC and haggle back and forth with God-only-knows-who-they-are-and-what-they're-pushing creepazoids until you found something they wanted.
Assuming you had something to trade in the first place, that is. Charity was very rare, and in order to get the "good stuff", you either had to pony up something really awesome, or be Creepazoid's bitch and let them have access to your system.
Sure, you can post the link for RS/MU on some random board, but now you're just switching from IRC to a static medium, and you have just as much if not MORE elitism, and even tighter access controls.
Going back 18 years is not going to impress anyone.
...is that everyone seems to think that Ahmenidjad and/or the Holy Council are mad/insane/stupid.
Far from it.
Just look at what happened with North Korea? We were treating them like crap right up until 0500 UTC on October 9, 2006. Now all of a sudden we start treating them with respect and giving them a better seat at the bargaining table.
Iran is not stupid. They know that all they have to do is detonate one. Just one.
And then everyone is going to be treating them with a heck of a lot more respect than they're getting right now.
That, and Israel will suddenly have a VERY good reason to not try and use their weapons. Israel may have lots of nukes, but the other guy only needs ONE to make you really, really regret using yours.
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You can tell the modders on this one weren't military. They modded it "funny" when it should have been modded "insightful".
"Stardate 2322.1, Captain's log, Stereo A, Linux commanding. After three years, I have completed my first assignment as master of this vessel, cataloging gaseous planetary anomalies in Alpha Quadrant. We're continuing our mission under full gravitational power. I'm pleased to report that ship and programming have functioned well."
*starts a cronjob*
*rumble...rattle-rattle-RATTLE-RATTLE..*
ALERT! ALERT!
"Sir, we're getting a massive energy reading, dead ahead!"
"On screen!" ...
"My...God! Shields! SHIELDS!
You could always send them to Google by saying, Just fucking google it
Or you could use this one?
1. Install windmills at the recharge stations.
2. Place compressors inside the turbine housing instead of electrical generators.
3. Install large storage tanks at the recharge station.
4. Let windmill run for a few days to build up a decent head and some reserve, then use electric compressors to compensate for low-production days.
You can even price compressed air based on production? On calm days, it's more expensive, on windy days it's cheaper.
This got modded troll???
Obviously whoever modded it down has never lived in the North Woods. Upstate NY has got blackflies, which are just as bad as mosquitoes. The mosquitoes in AK will kill you by sucking out your blood, but blackflies will kill you by driving you to blow your brains out for relief.
How to find them all?
Easy.
1. Create a fake Google profile. Be sure to use several Tor proxies to make sure you can't be traced back, and LOG OUT OF YOUR CURRENT GOOGLE PROFILE!!! Make sure you continue to use Tor for the entire operation.
2. Go to maps.google.com
3. Click My Maps
4. Create new map, make it public.
5. Title: Chicago IP Surveillance Camera locations
6. Description: This map is to pinpoint the location of all video cameras being used in the city of Chicago. If you know of a camera that's being used to watch a public area, add the address to this map, along with a brief description of where it is, what its watching and what it looks like.
7. Click "collaborate"
8. Select "allow anyone to edit this map"
9. Publish the map
Done. Now just sit back and let John Q Public fill in all the little details.
You can also use Wikimapia, which is now moderated.
I'll be able to watch you come and go, I'll know when you're at home and when you're away, I'll sometimes catch glimpses of what you're doing through the windows, I can watch you in your sweaty glory...
Santa?!?
Point being, we have very little violent crime.
Yes, but you have man-eating grizzly bears, crazy maverick lipstick pigs, 10 months of winter and 2 months of cold weather. None of the criminals are desperate enough to live there.
The project was cancelled by the Reagan administration the day the facility was finished.
Reagan had a total hard-on for the destruction of ANYTHING that looked even remotely green. Barely a week after he was in office, he wiped out the entire solar initiative-including the panels on the roof-turned up the thermostat and eliminated ALL price controls on domestic oil, which set us up for the biggest oil glut the world had ever seen. Executive order 12881
The popular phrase for such folks, is "They couldn't be more X if they tried!" Well, Reagan was anti-green, and he was bloody well proud of it, making it a specific point to expend as much effort as possible to BE anti-green. The phrase "Nuke the whales" wasn't just a song by the Fleshapoids in his world-view.
There's an extremely important flaw in your theory?
The owners of those botnets have no problems with putting a bullet in people's heads.
Perhaps not all of the botnets are owned by such groups, but not that many are going to be willing to play a real-world version of Minesweeper. At least not for long, anyway.
...to Fiorina "Fury" 161.
I hear they've got a good place to wait, there...
When I was living in NY, I worked with a fellow who had his well pointed out by a local Dowser. It cost him $300 in 1990.
And for $300, he would tell you exactly where you should dig, precisely how far you should dig, how much water you were going to get (GPM), how long it would last, whether it was subject to drought or could be relied upon during dry spells. He could also eliminate sources with salt, sulfur, iron, calcium and anything else you don't want in your water. He'd take a wire flag and write the instructions for the driller on the flag, then stick it precisely where they were supposed to drill.
The catch?
The Dowser gave his guarantee in writing, with a quadruple your money back if anything was less than what he promised. Goes dry? Not enough flow? Muddy, salty, iron, sulfur? He'll pay you $1200.
When I heard the story from my co-worker, the old fellow hadn't needed to pay anyone back in the 20 years he'd been doing it. Dunno if he's still alive now, though.
And I'm not sure he'd want to try this out with explosives if he still is.
#28: My pet monster will be kept in a secure cage from which it cannot escape and into which I could not accidentally stumble.
Although, #48 works just as well...
#48 I will treat any beast which I control through magic or technology with respect and kindness. Thus if the control is ever broken, it will not immediately come after me for revenge.
I'm quoting you on this in my journal.
I've got a few friends who'll appreciate this.
I can't be the only one who thinks that door-to-door Rickrolling would be cool...
...is that Psystar is still around.
All the previous predictions were that Apple would sue them into a hole so deep, the Salvation Army would be sending them their beans with a shotgun.
Yet here they are, still going strong, apparently?
Good for them.
Okay, seriously, we are on totally different wavelengths here.
Somehow, I don't think anyone buying such a device will consider it's use "rape"...
Totally off-topic here, but I just noticed your sig.
LOL! Total win.
I'd keep losing sleep over this if I were you.
Because they're not going to try and make this into a law on its own? It'd never survive as a stand-alone bill.
No, they're going to stuff it into the "Protection of Children Act", right inbetween the "Free Scholarship for African Americans" rider and the "Protection of Elderly Widows Insurance Policy" rider.
Good luck trying to kill it.
Now Melvin Ferd, the C.H.U.D. and the Turtles will have free, on-site power now!
And who knows? Maybe even real jobs.
Rapidshare, Megaupload and the others are not searchable. You need to know the URL for the content.
Torrent trackers are, and that's been the whole point of torrent trackers from the get-go.
Switching over to services like Rapidshare and the others is like going back to 1990 when FSP became the "in thing" The problem with that, is that you had to log into IRC and haggle back and forth with God-only-knows-who-they-are-and-what-they're-pushing creepazoids until you found something they wanted.
Assuming you had something to trade in the first place, that is. Charity was very rare, and in order to get the "good stuff", you either had to pony up something really awesome, or be Creepazoid's bitch and let them have access to your system.
Sure, you can post the link for RS/MU on some random board, but now you're just switching from IRC to a static medium, and you have just as much if not MORE elitism, and even tighter access controls.
Going back 18 years is not going to impress anyone.
I think we're all going to drown in Rupert's crocodile tears.
...is that the Republicans-and probably more than a few Democrats-are going to blame Obama and his administration for something THEY ruined.
1. Dig up George Orwell from his grave.
2. Hook him up to a generator.
3. Watch him spin! (Wheeee!)
4. Profit!
...is that everyone seems to think that Ahmenidjad and/or the Holy Council are mad/insane/stupid.
Far from it.
Just look at what happened with North Korea? We were treating them like crap right up until 0500 UTC on October 9, 2006. Now all of a sudden we start treating them with respect and giving them a better seat at the bargaining table.
Iran is not stupid. They know that all they have to do is detonate one. Just one.
And then everyone is going to be treating them with a heck of a lot more respect than they're getting right now.
That, and Israel will suddenly have a VERY good reason to not try and use their weapons. Israel may have lots of nukes, but the other guy only needs ONE to make you really, really regret using yours.