Yup, and come the revolution they will be first in front of the wall.
What I don't get is the almost PETA rabidness of some who have posted above blaming this person. Do society a favor and see if you can win a Darwin Award with your inherent stupidity.
As an artist in my own right, I have no clue how long it took him to find all these reed's, dry, carve and seal them into musical instruments that could then be used to convey the proper sound for a piece of music composed in the time of Herod or before. What I do know is that they will not do that to me for free. There would be a payback that would make the front page.
This is the same stupidity that has been harassing the Gibson Guitar people for the last decade, but they did know about the import restrictions on Rosewood, and had the permits, but some ass hole didn't get the fucking memo. Repeatedly.
I face much the same thing when I have to fly because I am a television broadcast engineer, who often has to pack up his tools and go someplace to resuscitate a tv station or their transmitter. I can't take my tools, several thousand dollars worth, with me to the job via anyplace that takes me past a TSA checkpoint, so now the stations who need my talents have to send their corporate airplanes to come and get me and bring me home. Or I have to drive, which could be a 5 or 6 day each way trip to some of the places I have been since I retired 11 years ago. That is bull shit, the finest stuff, which if applied to an Iowa cornfield and matched by 30+ inches of rain, will grow 220 bushels to the acre.
So when do we take our country back folks? Seriously, I'd like to see it on my watch, but since I'm on my 80th circuit around this star, there might not be much time left for me to watch.
So sign me "Seething mad at the magnitude of the idiocy, Gene"
Most of the above post is true, Apple designs and build some nice servers in a pizza box format, and they are used extensively in the digital broadcast environment to serve up your favorite tv programs. But if you want to keep on using them, you either replace all the fans in them at 6 month intervals with even noisier, higher speed ball bearing versions or keep 50% spare stocks on hand. So we are now, and have been for 3 or 4 years, building our own in-house. And generally speaking, they Just Work(TM) for however long it takes a hard drive to die once spun up & virtually never again stopped.
Yes, it was small. But in terms of secure comm, I'd bet that his (PZ's) last release before they busted him, PGP-2.6.2, is probably more secure than any release he has made since.
But really, I think as far as the American Public is concerned, the horse is out of the burning barn now and the NSA as we know it, is likely not to exist 2 years from now.
Just how long do you think RSA will last when its known they sold out? They are supposedly in the business of selling security, and they just sold the family jewels for a measly 10 Mil? If the lawsuits don't finish them, the lack of future business will because no one will renew a contract or license with a company that betrayed the public trust.
And just how long will it be till Boeing files for both civil and punitive damages over the statement Brazil made yesterday when the suddenly gave a 4.5 Billion dollar contract for more modern fighter jets that Boeing was, and so was SAAB, convinced they had locked up 4 days ago.
There are legal teams working for Boeing, eager to prove their worth, plotting the lawsuit for truly staggering amounts of money as I sit here typing this. Amounts of money that will only be printable by the fed because this government could not pay it in 20 years.
The overall effect on our ability to do business internationally will amount to Trillions of dollars of losses in the next few years. The business people will settle for nothing less than being "made whole", and their definition of "whole" is being able to do business without a whole damned battalion of these 3 letter agencies snooping into how much tp they use in the company cafeteria. Or turning on the cameras and mics in laptops & cell phones so they can watch and listen to stuff that is absolutely none of their damned business.
I love my country, but I do not love, nor do I trust my government, they have NOT been by the people, for the people in 65 of my damned near 80 years. Ben Franklin had a clue but probably went to his grave without knowing just how correct he was. Ike tried to warn us too.
Wikipedia is editable by anyone. And no one has come through dd-wrt here that I didn't give them the password to do so. No one. I used to watch the logs while the NK and CN folks hammered on it for hours at a time, but that got boring although I did occasionally cost someone their net account if they were being a big enough pest to DDOS me. Those sorts of attacks have actually decreased, I think they've some sort of a fingerprinting thing now that tells them if its a vulnerable target, so they don't waste a lot of time doing dictionary attacks like they did 5 years ago. The proof is in the results.
I once bought a Siemans router back in my greenhorn days, lasted about 15 minutes before somebody bricked it. I made circuit city eat that one. I had an old slow wintel box with 2 net cards in it that I ran the X86 version of dd-wrt on for 4 or 5 years, stripped, headless, booted from a CF card switched read only. It Just Worked(TM). And this much lower power consumption Buffalo NetFinity with the real dd-wrt reflashed into it has now been standing guard for about 2 years.
So all I can say is, let the results be the proof you need.
Sorry, I don't buy this for more than 10 milliseconds. D-Link customer in Mumbai has an attitude that the customer is a dummy, and when he calls in to get some help with a real problem, he either gets the brushoff, or they ask for the seriel number and suddenly discover the device I bought new from Wally's (I'm out in the puckerbrush, Wally's is as hi-tech as can be driven to locally) a week ago was sold, then returned as defective over a year ago by another dealer , and has been marked as having been destroyed in their records. So I asked for an email confirming it, took the router and the email back to Wally's, got a 100% refund and mail ordered a Buffalo Netfinity that I had to reflash with a real dd-wrt image since their branding covered a menu item I had to have access to.
The next D-Link product that crosses my threshold will be after I hear reliable reports that hell has frozen over a year ago and pigs are using it for an airport runway. IMO its dd-wrt all the way down.
If you do not need a scope, then you do not do any real electronics.
I would say that's just a bit over-broad. For most digital work these days, you really just need a logic analyzer.
Having said that, if you are doing just about anything but "pure" digital work, do do pretty much need a scope.
I don 't think its a bit over-broad. I've had a scope probe in one hand since about 1950, and while you guys with the logic analysers will eventually find the problem IF you know what the signatures are telling you, some old fart like me with a scope probe in one or both hands, will find the problem and have it fixed while you are still consulting the schematic and hooking up your 16 channel logic analyser.
If you do not understand ALL the physics behind how all this stuff works, you are just a wannabe. Out in the real world, we are checking electrolytic caps for ESR first, then cracked "cold" solder joints or corroded IC pins. When you think you are good enough, go sit for a C.E.T. test, pass it with a 99% correct score, and then spend the next 40 years convincing the folks who write the checks that you can indeed walk on water. BTDT, still doing it occasionally at 79.
I have to clue what that test writer is smoking, but its got to be great stuff. But the people who actually approved this shit have got to be full blown crackheads. There simply is no other explanation that can begin to explain this level of abject stupidity.
Here I am, now 79 years old. I went through the so-called educational system back in the 1940's, and was once tested by the Iowa test as having an IQ roughly equ to 147 on the S/B scale. I am also the only one scoring over 40 on the 100 question AFQT I took in the middle of the Korean war, scored a 98 on that, next best was 39 in a group of 136 boys that day.
I have made my livelyhood for about 60 years now in electronics, making stuff work again when it quits, although I have now been retired from the Chief Engineers chair at the local CBS affiliate, a position I held since 1984, for a bit over 10 years, but just yesterday I had to go put our local daytime AM broadcaster back on the air.
But I don't blame my 8th grade education, having quit school and going to work fixing televisions in 1949, on my poor math education. I did get decent scores on the math they taught, but there was little to almost zip underlying theory, and I did not actually learn a usable amount of algebra, and am still poor at calculus to this day. My math teacher, the best one ever, was when in the early 70's, I bought a TI SR-51 calculator. Strictly enforcing the algebraic rules, it taught me more useful math of the stuff I needed every day, in a month than I learned in 8 years of schooling. When it gave you the answer, if it wasn't correct, it was off by so far that you _knew_ you had screwed up stating the problem to it.
I never did grok the RPN calculator craze, and while I had one for several years, I considered it a crutch for those who didn't ever understand the rules of math in the first place. It did NOT help me to solve the problems I encountered in every day repair, and occasionally redesign work, some of which was in digital stuff, done by high priced design people that never were in the same room with a book of recommended practices. Or mechanical, designed by people whose hands don't fit the tools. Mine has always fit the tools well.
I realize I am just one voice in the wilderness, asking when in the hell are the parents going to demand that their children actually get a good, 100% usable education from the socialist indoctrination centers our schools have become in the last 100 years?
But the reality is that there is so damned much federal money in the schools and they demand that the school boards do it their way if they want the money for that new school to replace the one the feds built in 1927. Said another way, if you want your kids to get a decent education, it will involve higher taxes to do it because you are not going to get that good education when there is a single penny of federal money in it.
The choice really is that when its boiled down to its essence.
This isn't it, not by a hell of a long row of apple trees. I was tempted to run for the local school board, but several conversations with other retired members of several boards, I learned they are so ham-strung by the need for federal money just to heat the buildings that most, still in good enough health & sound minds, simply gave it up and never ran for such a thankless job again. Their thoughts, like mine, are just that lonely voice crying out in the wilderness of mediocrity we have today, as exemplified by this example test's idiocy.
So, no cheers from Almost Retired this time folks. But it really is you and I, who will have to "foot the bill" who will have to fix it. And be aware, the feds will use every hammer they have to flatten you when you do.
Nor do I, and I've been watching the slow intersection of the excrement with the air moving device for 79 years now. You see a splatter on the walls occasionally, but the build up is so slow its not noticed.
I am proud of my country and what we have done, I have even had a walk on part in it now & then, but I'm scared shitless of my government and have been since the mid '60's.
Here is another Brother fan. I was always an Epson person until my C82 finally burned up its head. Then out on a job I needed a printer so bought a C89, 5 or 6 color. One nozzle plugged before I even loaded it in the truck to come home 6 or 7 weeks later. I had been doing wedding prints on the C82, but the C89 flat could not be tuned to do color anywhere near as well as the C82 did. Bought an Epson NX515 MFC, which allowed me to toss an old epson scanner that had always had a vertical line artifact. Then I shut amanda down, which was exersizeing it nightly as I was switching distro's so I was running the same thing on 3 of the 4 machines here. Took 6 weeks or so to get everything working so I could restart amanda. First amanda report might have had 50 dots of ink on the paper. So I was reduced to using it as a scanner, but even that is problematic because the glass is tilted and you cannot, short of gluing it to the glass, lay a sheet to scan on it and have it straight when you scan. As a scanner its quite decent, so its still hooked up & turned off.
In the meantime, the xerox 1650ro I had been using on an old computer started shattering its film ribbons, and no new ribbons can be had, so I bought a Brother HL-2140 B&W laser, hooked the ser-port on the old machine to a usb translater and wrote a script to intercept the data and cross-feed it to cups, then send the cups output back down the same 15 meter usb cable to the hub the 232 adapter is plugged into where it hits that printer and spits out my assembly listings at 19 PPM. 4 or 5 reams of paper, and a toner cart later, it still Just Works(TM).
So when the NX515 died, I bought a Brother HL3170CDW. Old firmware, and Brothers firmware needed a windows machine to reburn it. Next door neighbor's win7 lappy couldn't find the printer. Hauled printer 30 miles up the interstate to Staples where I had bought it. But they weren't interested enough to install brother installer on one of their windows machines, screw you attitude. Hauled it over to my old employers (I am retired for over a decade now) where Jim had an XP machine that found it instantly. Installed the cd I'd burnt, and the upgrade went flawlessly.
Got back home & hooked up to cups, tried duplex. Binding ditch on wrong side of the page! Turned the option off both in the printer and in cups. A couple months later I needed to do duplex again, turn it on, and the binding ditch was gone! So I haven't putzed with that since. Trying to print some color, it looks like its sharpness is severely diffraction compromised, but using gimp, I can apply a fairly large amount of unsharp mask and make it usable, but the color saturation isn't quite there, nor is the contrast, but I'm still tinkering with that. Normal text output, and stuff in color from firefox is quite usable.
Would I buy another? Probably, since its now down to about $270, where I paid $399 last spring. Can I print wedding photos with it? Maybe, with enough putzing in gimp. The reds aren't as bad as HP's orange but not exectly spot on, but gimp has the corrections needed, I just have to find them.
I've used the starter black in 400 pages, but due to the size of its cartridges, 2200 pages of black is the rating, at $85 a pop. So its not the cheapest. It refused to feed one page so far, it had a dinged corner.
So yes, I'd buy another unless I was able to find one of the kyocera's at a good price. No clue how its reds are, but that seems to be the Achilles heel of doing decent color. IMO the only red that was truly red, was the red for the C82.
"I wouldn't have given the prize to Malala either."
She is, IMNSHO, far more deserving than a nearly nameless group of people who will try to do the job, but miss half of them, and will be forgotten by the time the next GP races results are posted.
"She can get it when she turns 18 or 21.
By whose rules? OTOH, that might serve as a mild life insurance policy they'll want to get a large piece of before the taliban kills her.
"Her actions have already made her more than deserving, but she is a big enough celebrity as it is. She should finish what is left of her childhood."
I agree with the latter sentiment, but this girl has no childhood left in her future. She has been forced to grow up 10 years worth of maturity in the last year, and you cannot turn that around now or ever. If she goes home, the taliban will just try to kill her again until they succeed.
But, if she goes home with the prize, and the money, then they will let her live as long as there is money to be milked, and she will probably use the money to grease palms to gain access to the local radio and continue to be a PITA to the taliban, so they'll take her money till it runs out, and the dirty, smelly end of the GI tract that is Karachi's powers that be will do nothing when she is killed for real the next time.
I admire the girls understanding of the situation, greatly, but I can't stand guard 24/7/365 for another 75 years to keep her from being killed, and neither can the lot of you, without first doing something about the taliban.
Which makes me ask the question: Is there a connection between her, and our putting the collar on one of their top people in Pakistan earlier today?
Good question that, but I am not a fly on the wall. Future news story, video at 22:30...
No Cheers on this one, I just don't see that much length to her future.
But first, before you can do that, they must have a _working_ Customer Service dept. One that puts you talking to a human, not listening to elevator music tapes that are 10 years past their use by date, and do it after not more than one menu redirect. VZ hasn't had one of those in 8 to 10 damned years. Sorry ladies but s_____w'em, and the camel that rode in on them.
Chuckle, gives me a good excuse to relate why I jumped ship to the local cable provider 3 or 4 years ago.
I had a damned slow (80kb/sec) adsl, and my phone on VZ copper for years. Late December, the phone goes out, but the net remains, which I guess it can when only one side of the copper opens up and the other side, due to 50 yo paper insulated cable being soaking wet, might as well be ground.
Call VZ on my cell phone, they promise they'd get to it in about 4 days. Really? Week later I call again, and told maybe 10 days.
I call the PUC & filed a complaint, 3 days later they come out, make snide remarks about me calling in the PUC, claimed they had enough problems, found another so-so pair in the cable & moved me. Bad hum and I can hear the neighbors. Phone rings half-heartedly at all hours of the day/night.
I should mention that typical wait time to talk to a human started out at about 10 minutes and got progressively worse, till the last time, in late April, they didn't even transfer twice, and I timed the last time they started the elevator music & I gave up after 47 minutes and called the PUC again, but since I hadn't talked to VZ long enough to get the persons name, which our PUC requires you do, that was the end of it.
Between then, late Dec 2008 and April 30 2009, I actually had a working phone 17 days. And no pro-rate adjustments were ever made to the duns I was getting. I called Shentel, who had bought the local cable tv system 2 years back, got a 5x faster net connection and the same free to the lower 48 I had with VZ, for about 5 bucks a month less. All installed and working great in 4 days most of which was waiting for the modem to arrive. Outages have been 99% power related, two weeks once when the 112 mph direcho came thru in 2010, clearing out lots of trees including 3 of mine, 40 yo jack pines, one of which wound up on the next door neighbor's roof. Anything that looked like a wire or something to hold up a wire had to be built back up from scratch. Not Shentels fault IOW.
AFAIAC, VZ still owes me about $300 for services billed and not delivered. If I owned any stock, I'd sell, because its only going to get worse. With their managements attitude it can't help but implode at some point.
Too bad you're so damndably PC, obviously a product of the so-called schooling system as it exists today. You wouldn't know the truth if it bit you in the ass. Back up your birthdate about 80 years and live through those times when we had a real country to be proud of before you go throwing the word insane around.
Here a virtual towel to go & wipe the amniotic fluid from behind your ears.
Bush gets that blame only because he was POTUS then(Katrina time). The problems date back to the inception of the program, it was nothing but a key to the back door of the treasury from the GITGO.
I've tried to read through this thread, and 2 things impress the hell out of me.
1. The number of posts which are nothing more than duplicates, more than 10 of each scattered through the thread, stop it slashdot!
2. The number of folks who are apologists for FEMA's past performances. This is the same runaway agency that has freshly constructed around 200 so called 'camps' which can contain, behind tall human proof fences, several thousand people per 'camp'.
This is the same runaway agency that authorized LE to shoot to kill, anyone in N.O. who armed themselves against the looters, people who were doing the only thing they knew how to do to survive when there was little food and NO potable water. With no help from FEMA other than confiscating weapons, they interfered with the survival of some of those who had the foresight to prepare themselves and survive, while dooming to a neglected or drowning death, a considerable number of folks in the many hospitals and care homes. They blocked the roads leaving, preventing the many who had their own transportation from getting the hell of of Dodge. That damned sure doesn't fit this old farts definition of a relief agency, but it sure reminds me of Hitler's Gestapo, rounding up the Jews.
This is the same agency that left nearly 100k folks locked in the superdome with no food, water, or sanitation. For several days .
If anything, Katrina taught me that FEMA , under the ultimate direction of Bush 2, has well exceeded the level of uselessness usually attributed to the teats on a board hog.
It is decade's past time to cut our loses with FEMA, it has turned into an agency with a black budget that will never be audited, and whose sole directive is to survive by sucking the public money trough dry. Other than helping to arrange overpriced loans after Sandy, they have done so little to earn their keep that any corporations board of directors would have pulled the plug on them 20 or more years back.
However, I do think we need an agency to give instant aid in situations such as Katrina, Sandy, and now this unprecedented 500 year flooding. But FEMA is not that agency when they refuse to make use of today's technology. As presently operated, it isn't capable of doing useful work when needed. Stop the bleeding. If done quickly enough, the patient, us, might even survive.
That, and fraudulent claims made using a valid SS number. Its a huge, not well hidden side of the medical industry now.
As for the untested security inherent in exposing this stuff to the net, security people will tell you, repeatedly, that a breech of security WILL happen, when there is money to be made by exploiting it, it WILL be done. Even RSA probably has less than 2 years of usefulness left according to one announcement here in the last couple days that its possible the two factor system will be cracked in 5 years or less.
Hell, just that announcement alone will triple the number of people working on breaking it, so 5 years is likely to be an extremely optimistic view of its remaining effectiveness, which is why I wrote the 2 above.
When its been broken, then the system is wide open & will have no choice but to go back to cash & carry instead of this mandated to be administered fraudulently NHC system the ACA has become in record time.
Security, I'm sure all can understand is like pouring concrete. The question has never been "will it crack" but when, because its a 100% sure bet that it will.
Let anyone who thinks its secure go right ahead & sign up, but please do not be surprised when an audit of services rendered to that SS# disclose that 2 years ago, you had both hips replaced, and last year a knee. Done in the middle of the night I guess because as far as you know, those joints are, like mine at 78YO, not in too good a shape, complaining mightily at times but are damned sure OEM so far.
And the only way you'll ever slow that sort of fraud down is to bring back short ropes & some of Willie Nelson's tall oak trees. IMO there must be a penalty for actions that harm another, strong enough to either deter, or prevent a recurrence if judged guilty by your peers.
Cheers, Gene -- A pen in the hand of this President is more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law abiding citizens.
Having this done by a group of volunteers is nice & all that.
BUT!
These folks need to travel and smooze with others, both for the publicity, and to keep the ideas about how to do something fresh. Who knows, maybe one of them will put in that killer feature we've all been waiting for?
So when you are done downloading it, take the time to donate, so maybe the 5.0 release can afford a bigger cake. The one I saw in the pix was about 5% of the size of the one it would take to feed all the volunteers a celebratory piece of cake, maybe even with a scoop of ice cream on top. IMNSHO, speaking as a retired person living on SS, I dropped the card to say thanks. Surely the working folks who will make better use of this than I ever will, can better afford to pull out the card?
I would firmly suggest that others do the same if we want to see a 5.0 or higher release. Nothing kills a volunteer operation quicker than not being able to pay the bills.
"and engineer"? When did they quit teaching proper English in American schools?
There are places this is true, like in Texas, and its likely a major reason the DFW area has not had a recent NAB show. Seems some idiot trying to make points was collecting business cards & sent quite a few to the attention of the local DA. My best guess is that out of the 50,000 'engineers' at the last confab they held in Dallas, less than half had a degree from any 'accredited' school, including me. I personally have a GED and a degree from the University of Hard Knocks. But I've also had a 1st Phone since '62, directly involved with the design & fabrication of equipment for use in the broadcast industry in my first gig as a broadcast engineer. I was the troubleshooter you called when the factory folks can't fix it, a C.E.T. since 1972, had the Chief Engineers title plate on the office door all except 2 years since 1977, finally retired at about 67 back in 2002. In that time frame I wrote 2 programs which became daily must works at 2 different facilities, used continuously for a decade and change at both places.
Engineers create solutions to problems. Even after I retired, I was sent to other facilities that were in technical trouble, and in a month or so things that hadn't worked right in years were back doing their job. That sort of reputation travels by word of mouth, so I didn't have to advertise, the people I worked for did it for me. And I didn't ask for raises, they just happened. I retired at a salary that was about 40% more than the average salary in that market bracket. And my phone continues to ring occasionally.
In the CE's capacity, I have hired quite a few, and fired 1 or 2. The poster above using the superwiz handle, would not have been one of them. For all his bragging, his hands will not 'fit the tools'. Mine have, and bear the scars.
Yeah, be sure to watch your balance, that's an awfully tall stool you are claiming as a throne, and its a long way to fall should you slip.
FWIW, lack of formal school does not=lack of education. I am now 78, have a G.E.D. and have been retired for a decade plus, but my phone still rings occasionally with work. In a sense, its a good feeling.
Why? If you are so highly educated, go sit, cold, for the C.E.T. exam and pass it at the journeyman level. I am one, and could probably locate something in the $70k/year range within a week if I wanted to actually go back to work. Fortunately for me, I have too many hobbies to be managed, that leave no time for work.
How did I get there? Easy, my early schooling taught me 2 things. One being able to read at 450-500 per because I was taught phonics back then, and two, that learning things was great fun.
One thing that I have also noticed, a large percentage of those people with a sheepskin on the wall, are folks who then quit learning because they knew it all. Which are you?
One three word phrase applies here, "screw you ICANN" .
Whois is the common users way of being able to throw an all encompassing blanket over the internet bad guys. But it sounds as if you want to lock that info up and hold it for ransom, available ONLY to the elites will to grease your palms for that info.
In fact, screw you is considerably too polite, there are better ways to address such, but I won't further insult the non-profane here.
So, Go to hell ICANN will have to do. But unfortunately I am not Bobby Byrd, who could tell a fellow senator to go to hell in such flowery language that the fellow senator looked forward to the trip.
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Yup, and come the revolution they will be first in front of the wall.
What I don't get is the almost PETA rabidness of some who have posted above blaming this person. Do society a favor and see if you can win a Darwin Award with your inherent stupidity.
As an artist in my own right, I have no clue how long it took him to find all these reed's, dry, carve and seal them into musical instruments that could then be used to convey the proper sound for a piece of music composed in the time of Herod or before. What I do know is that they will not do that to me for free. There would be a payback that would make the front page.
This is the same stupidity that has been harassing the Gibson Guitar people for the last decade, but they did know about the import restrictions on Rosewood, and had the permits, but some ass hole didn't get the fucking memo. Repeatedly.
I face much the same thing when I have to fly because I am a television broadcast engineer, who often has to pack up his tools and go someplace to resuscitate a tv station or their transmitter. I can't take my tools, several thousand dollars worth, with me to the job via anyplace that takes me past a TSA checkpoint, so now the stations who need my talents have to send their corporate airplanes to come and get me and bring me home. Or I have to drive, which could be a 5 or 6 day each way trip to some of the places I have been since I retired 11 years ago. That is bull shit, the finest stuff, which if applied to an Iowa cornfield and matched by 30+ inches of rain, will grow 220 bushels to the acre.
So when do we take our country back folks? Seriously, I'd like to see it on my watch, but since I'm on my 80th circuit around this star, there might not be much time left for me to watch.
So sign me "Seething mad at the magnitude of the idiocy, Gene"
Most of the above post is true, Apple designs and build some nice servers in a pizza box format, and they are used extensively in the digital broadcast environment to serve up your favorite tv programs. But if you want to keep on using them, you either replace all the fans in them at 6 month intervals with even noisier, higher speed ball bearing versions or keep 50% spare stocks on hand. So we are now, and have been for 3 or 4 years, building our own in-house. And generally speaking, they Just Work(TM) for however long it takes a hard drive to die once spun up & virtually never again stopped.
Yes, it was small. But in terms of secure comm, I'd bet that his (PZ's) last release before they busted him, PGP-2.6.2, is probably more secure than any release he has made since.
But really, I think as far as the American Public is concerned, the horse is out of the burning barn now and the NSA as we know it, is likely not to exist 2 years from now.
Just how long do you think RSA will last when its known they sold out? They are supposedly in the business of selling security, and they just sold the family jewels for a measly 10 Mil? If the lawsuits don't finish them, the lack of future business will because no one will renew a contract or license with a company that betrayed the public trust.
And just how long will it be till Boeing files for both civil and punitive damages over the statement Brazil made yesterday when the suddenly gave a 4.5 Billion dollar contract for more modern fighter jets that Boeing was, and so was SAAB, convinced they had locked up 4 days ago.
There are legal teams working for Boeing, eager to prove their worth, plotting the lawsuit for truly staggering amounts of money as I sit here typing this. Amounts of money that will only be printable by the fed because this government could not pay it in 20 years.
The overall effect on our ability to do business internationally will amount to Trillions of dollars of losses in the next few years. The business people will settle for nothing less than being "made whole", and their definition of "whole" is being able to do business without a whole damned battalion of these 3 letter agencies snooping into how much tp they use in the company cafeteria. Or turning on the cameras and mics in laptops & cell phones so they can watch and listen to stuff that is absolutely none of their damned business.
I love my country, but I do not love, nor do I trust my government, they have NOT been by the people, for the people in 65 of my damned near 80 years. Ben Franklin had a clue but probably went to his grave without knowing just how correct he was. Ike tried to warn us too.
This is, for the coder in this situation, also damned good advice. GTFO soonest if you don't want to be chained to the oars in a sinking ship.
+1000 to all of the above.
Wikipedia is editable by anyone. And no one has come through dd-wrt here that I didn't give them the password to do so. No one. I used to watch the logs while the NK and CN folks hammered on it for hours at a time, but that got boring although I did occasionally cost someone their net account if they were being a big enough pest to DDOS me. Those sorts of attacks have actually decreased, I think they've some sort of a fingerprinting thing now that tells them if its a vulnerable target, so they don't waste a lot of time doing dictionary attacks like they did 5 years ago. The proof is in the results.
I once bought a Siemans router back in my greenhorn days, lasted about 15 minutes before somebody bricked it. I made circuit city eat that one. I had an old slow wintel box with 2 net cards in it that I ran the X86 version of dd-wrt on for 4 or 5 years, stripped, headless, booted from a CF card switched read only. It Just Worked(TM). And this much lower power consumption Buffalo NetFinity with the real dd-wrt reflashed into it has now been standing guard for about 2 years.
So all I can say is, let the results be the proof you need.
Cheers, Gene
Sorry, I don't buy this for more than 10 milliseconds. D-Link customer in Mumbai has an attitude that the customer is a dummy, and when he calls in to get some help with a real problem, he either gets the brushoff, or they ask for the seriel number and suddenly discover the device I bought new from Wally's (I'm out in the puckerbrush, Wally's is as hi-tech as can be driven to locally) a week ago was sold, then returned as defective over a year ago by another dealer , and has been marked as having been destroyed in their records. So I asked for an email confirming it, took the router and the email back to Wally's, got a 100% refund and mail ordered a Buffalo Netfinity that I had to reflash with a real dd-wrt image since their branding covered a menu item I had to have access to.
The next D-Link product that crosses my threshold will be after I hear reliable reports that hell has frozen over a year ago and pigs are using it for an airport runway. IMO its dd-wrt all the way down.
If you do not need a scope, then you do not do any real electronics.
I would say that's just a bit over-broad. For most digital work these days, you really just need a logic analyzer.
Having said that, if you are doing just about anything but "pure" digital work, do do pretty much need a scope.
I don 't think its a bit over-broad. I've had a scope probe in one hand since about 1950, and while you guys with the logic analysers will eventually find the problem IF you know what the signatures are telling you, some old fart like me with a scope probe in one or both hands, will find the problem and have it fixed while you are still consulting the schematic and hooking up your 16 channel logic analyser.
If you do not understand ALL the physics behind how all this stuff works, you are just a wannabe. Out in the real world, we are checking electrolytic caps for ESR first, then cracked "cold" solder joints or corroded IC pins. When you think you are good enough, go sit for a C.E.T. test, pass it with a 99% correct score, and then spend the next 40 years convincing the folks who write the checks that you can indeed walk on water. BTDT, still doing it occasionally at 79.
I have to clue what that test writer is smoking, but its got to be great stuff. But the people who actually approved this shit have got to be full blown crackheads. There simply is no other explanation that can begin to explain this level of abject stupidity.
Here I am, now 79 years old. I went through the so-called educational system back in the 1940's, and was once tested by the Iowa test as having an IQ roughly equ to 147 on the S/B scale. I am also the only one scoring over 40 on the 100 question AFQT I took in the middle of the Korean war, scored a 98 on that, next best was 39 in a group of 136 boys that day.
I have made my livelyhood for about 60 years now in electronics, making stuff work again when it quits, although I have now been retired from the Chief Engineers chair at the local CBS affiliate, a position I held since 1984, for a bit over 10 years, but just yesterday I had to go put our local daytime AM broadcaster back on the air.
But I don't blame my 8th grade education, having quit school and going to work fixing televisions in 1949, on my poor math education. I did get decent scores on the math they taught, but there was little to almost zip underlying theory, and I did not actually learn a usable amount of algebra, and am still poor at calculus to this day. My math teacher, the best one ever, was when in the early 70's, I bought a TI SR-51 calculator. Strictly enforcing the algebraic rules, it taught me more useful math of the stuff I needed every day, in a month than I learned in 8 years of schooling. When it gave you the answer, if it wasn't correct, it was off by so far that you _knew_ you had screwed up stating the problem to it.
I never did grok the RPN calculator craze, and while I had one for several years, I considered it a crutch for those who didn't ever understand the rules of math in the first place. It did NOT help me to solve the problems I encountered in every day repair, and occasionally redesign work, some of which was in digital stuff, done by high priced design people that never were in the same room with a book of recommended practices. Or mechanical, designed by people whose hands don't fit the tools. Mine has always fit the tools well.
I realize I am just one voice in the wilderness, asking when in the hell are the parents going to demand that their children actually get a good, 100% usable education from the socialist indoctrination centers our schools have become in the last 100 years?
But the reality is that there is so damned much federal money in the schools and they demand that the school boards do it their way if they want the money for that new school to replace the one the feds built in 1927. Said another way, if you want your kids to get a decent education, it will involve higher taxes to do it because you are not going to get that good education when there is a single penny of federal money in it.
The choice really is that when its boiled down to its essence.
This isn't it, not by a hell of a long row of apple trees. I was tempted to run for the local school board, but several conversations with other retired members of several boards, I learned they are so ham-strung by the need for federal money just to heat the buildings that most, still in good enough health & sound minds, simply gave it up and never ran for such a thankless job again. Their thoughts, like mine, are just that lonely voice crying out in the wilderness of mediocrity we have today, as exemplified by this example test's idiocy.
So, no cheers from Almost Retired this time folks. But it really is you and I, who will have to "foot the bill" who will have to fix it. And be aware, the feds will use every hammer they have to flatten you when you do.
Nor do I, and I've been watching the slow intersection of the excrement with the air moving device for 79 years now. You see a splatter on the walls occasionally, but the build up is so slow its not noticed.
I am proud of my country and what we have done, I have even had a walk on part in it now & then, but I'm scared shitless of my government and have been since the mid '60's.
Here is another Brother fan. I was always an Epson person until my C82 finally burned up its head. Then out on a job I needed a printer so bought a C89, 5 or 6 color. One nozzle plugged before I even loaded it in the truck to come home 6 or 7 weeks later. I had been doing wedding prints on the C82, but the C89 flat could not be tuned to do color anywhere near as well as the C82 did. Bought an Epson NX515 MFC, which allowed me to toss an old epson scanner that had always had a vertical line artifact. Then I shut amanda down, which was exersizeing it nightly as I was switching distro's so I was running the same thing on 3 of the 4 machines here. Took 6 weeks or so to get everything working so I could restart amanda. First amanda report might have had 50 dots of ink on the paper. So I was reduced to using it as a scanner, but even that is problematic because the glass is tilted and you cannot, short of gluing it to the glass, lay a sheet to scan on it and have it straight when you scan. As a scanner its quite decent, so its still hooked up & turned off.
In the meantime, the xerox 1650ro I had been using on an old computer started shattering its film ribbons, and no new ribbons can be had, so I bought a Brother HL-2140 B&W laser, hooked the ser-port on the old machine to a usb translater and wrote a script to intercept the data and cross-feed it to cups, then send the cups output back down the same 15 meter usb cable to the hub the 232 adapter is plugged into where it hits that printer and spits out my assembly listings at 19 PPM. 4 or 5 reams of paper, and a toner cart later, it still Just Works(TM).
So when the NX515 died, I bought a Brother HL3170CDW. Old firmware, and Brothers firmware needed a windows machine to reburn it.
Next door neighbor's win7 lappy couldn't find the printer. Hauled printer 30 miles up the interstate to Staples where I had bought it. But they weren't interested enough to install brother installer on one of their windows machines, screw you attitude. Hauled it over to my old employers (I am retired for over a decade now) where Jim had an XP machine that found it instantly. Installed the cd I'd burnt, and the upgrade went flawlessly.
Got back home & hooked up to cups, tried duplex. Binding ditch on wrong side of the page! Turned the option off both in the printer and in cups. A couple months later I needed to do duplex again, turn it on, and the binding ditch was gone! So I haven't putzed with that since.
Trying to print some color, it looks like its sharpness is severely diffraction compromised, but using gimp, I can apply a fairly large amount of unsharp mask and make it usable, but the color saturation isn't quite there, nor is the contrast, but I'm still tinkering with that. Normal text output, and stuff in color from firefox is quite usable.
Would I buy another? Probably, since its now down to about $270, where I paid $399 last spring. Can I print wedding photos with it? Maybe, with enough putzing in gimp. The reds aren't as bad as HP's orange but not exectly spot on, but gimp has the corrections needed, I just have to find them.
I've used the starter black in 400 pages, but due to the size of its cartridges, 2200 pages of black is the rating, at $85 a pop. So its not the cheapest. It refused to feed one page so far, it had a dinged corner.
So yes, I'd buy another unless I was able to find one of the kyocera's at a good price. No clue how its reds are, but that seems to be the Achilles heel of doing decent color. IMO the only red that was truly red, was the red for the C82.
"I wouldn't have given the prize to Malala either."
She is, IMNSHO, far more deserving than a nearly nameless group of people who will try to do the job, but miss half of them, and will be forgotten by the time the next GP races results are posted.
"She can get it when she turns 18 or 21.
By whose rules? OTOH, that might serve as a mild life insurance policy they'll want to get a large piece of before the taliban kills her.
"Her actions have already made her more than deserving, but she is a big enough celebrity as it is. She should finish what is left of her childhood."
I agree with the latter sentiment, but this girl has no childhood left in her future. She has been forced to grow up 10 years worth of maturity in the last year, and you cannot turn that around now or ever. If she goes home, the taliban will just try to kill her again until they succeed.
But, if she goes home with the prize, and the money, then they will let her live as long as there is money to be milked, and she will probably use the money to grease palms to gain access to the local radio and continue to be a PITA to the taliban, so they'll take her money till it runs out, and the dirty, smelly end of the GI tract that is Karachi's powers that be will do nothing when she is killed for real the next time.
I admire the girls understanding of the situation, greatly, but I can't stand guard 24/7/365 for another 75 years to keep her from being killed, and neither can the lot of you, without first doing something about the taliban.
Which makes me ask the question: Is there a connection between her, and our putting the collar on one of their top people in Pakistan earlier today?
Good question that, but I am not a fly on the wall. Future news story, video at 22:30...
No Cheers on this one, I just don't see that much length to her future.
Gene
But first, before you can do that, they must have a _working_ Customer Service dept. One that puts you talking to a human, not listening to elevator music tapes that are 10 years past their use by date, and do it after not more than one menu redirect. VZ hasn't had one of those in 8 to 10 damned years. Sorry ladies but s_____w'em, and the camel that rode in on them.
Chuckle, gives me a good excuse to relate why I jumped ship to the local cable provider 3 or 4 years ago.
I had a damned slow (80kb/sec) adsl, and my phone on VZ copper for years.
Late December, the phone goes out, but the net remains, which I guess it can when only one side of the copper opens up and the other side, due to 50 yo paper insulated cable being soaking wet, might as well be ground.
Call VZ on my cell phone, they promise they'd get to it in about 4 days. Really? Week later I call again, and told maybe 10 days.
I call the PUC & filed a complaint, 3 days later they come out, make snide remarks about me calling in the PUC, claimed they had enough problems, found another so-so pair in the cable & moved me. Bad hum and I can hear the neighbors. Phone rings half-heartedly at all hours of the day/night.
I should mention that typical wait time to talk to a human started out at about 10 minutes and got progressively worse, till the last time, in late April, they didn't even transfer twice, and I timed the last time they started the elevator music & I gave up after 47 minutes and called the PUC again, but since I hadn't talked to VZ long enough to get the persons name, which our PUC requires you do, that was the end of it.
Between then, late Dec 2008 and April 30 2009, I actually had a working phone 17 days. And no pro-rate adjustments were ever made to the duns I was getting. I called Shentel, who had bought the local cable tv system 2 years back, got a 5x faster net connection and the same free to the lower 48 I had with VZ, for about 5 bucks a month less. All installed and working great in 4 days most of which was waiting for the modem to arrive. Outages have been 99% power related, two weeks once when the 112 mph direcho came thru in 2010, clearing out lots of trees including 3 of mine, 40 yo jack pines, one of which wound up on the next door neighbor's roof. Anything that looked like a wire or something to hold up a wire had to be built back up from scratch. Not Shentels fault IOW.
AFAIAC, VZ still owes me about $300 for services billed and not delivered. If I owned any stock, I'd sell, because its only going to get worse. With their managements attitude it can't help but implode at some point.
Cheers as usual, Gene.
Too bad you're so damndably PC, obviously a product of the so-called schooling system as it exists today. You wouldn't know the truth if it bit you in the ass. Back up your birthdate about 80 years and live through those times when we had a real country to be proud of before you go throwing the word insane around.
Here a virtual towel to go & wipe the amniotic fluid from behind your ears.
Bush gets that blame only because he was POTUS then(Katrina time). The problems date back to the inception of the program, it was nothing but a key to the back door of the treasury from the GITGO.
I've tried to read through this thread, and 2 things impress the hell out of me.
1. The number of posts which are nothing more than duplicates, more than 10 of each scattered through the thread, stop it slashdot!
2. The number of folks who are apologists for FEMA's past performances. This is the same runaway agency that has freshly constructed around 200 so called 'camps' which can contain, behind tall human proof fences, several thousand people per 'camp'.
This is the same runaway agency that authorized LE to shoot to kill, anyone in N.O. who armed themselves against the looters, people who were doing the only thing they knew how to do to survive when there was little food and NO potable water. With no help from FEMA other than confiscating weapons, they interfered with the survival of some of those who had the foresight to prepare themselves and survive, while dooming to a neglected or drowning death, a considerable number of folks in the many hospitals and care homes. They blocked the roads leaving, preventing the many who had their own transportation from getting the hell of of Dodge. That damned sure doesn't fit this old farts definition of a relief agency, but it sure reminds me of Hitler's Gestapo, rounding up the Jews.
This is the same agency that left nearly 100k folks locked in the superdome with no food, water, or sanitation. For several days .
If anything, Katrina taught me that FEMA , under the ultimate direction of Bush 2, has well exceeded the level of uselessness usually attributed to the teats on a board hog.
It is decade's past time to cut our loses with FEMA, it has turned into an agency with a black budget that will never be audited, and whose sole directive is to survive by sucking the public money trough dry. Other than helping to arrange overpriced loans after Sandy, they have done so little to earn their keep that any corporations board of directors would have pulled the plug on them 20 or more years back.
However, I do think we need an agency to give instant aid in situations such as Katrina, Sandy, and now this unprecedented 500 year flooding. But FEMA is not that agency when they refuse to make use of today's technology. As presently operated, it isn't capable of doing useful work when needed. Stop the bleeding. If done quickly enough, the patient, us, might even survive.
That, and fraudulent claims made using a valid SS number. Its a huge, not well hidden side of the medical industry now.
As for the untested security inherent in exposing this stuff to the net, security people will tell you, repeatedly, that a breech of security WILL happen, when there is money to be made by exploiting it, it WILL be done. Even RSA probably has less than 2 years of usefulness left according to one announcement here in the last couple days that its possible the two factor system will be cracked in 5 years or less.
Hell, just that announcement alone will triple the number of people working on breaking it, so 5 years is likely to be an extremely optimistic view of its remaining effectiveness, which is why I wrote the 2 above.
When its been broken, then the system is wide open & will have no choice but to go back to cash & carry instead of this mandated to be administered fraudulently NHC system the ACA has become in record time.
Security, I'm sure all can understand is like pouring concrete. The question has never been "will it crack" but when, because its a 100% sure bet that it will.
Let anyone who thinks its secure go right ahead & sign up, but please do not be surprised when an audit of services rendered to that SS# disclose that 2 years ago, you had both hips replaced, and last year a knee. Done in the middle of the night I guess because as far as you know, those joints are, like mine at 78YO, not in too good a shape, complaining mightily at times but are damned sure OEM so far.
And the only way you'll ever slow that sort of fraud down is to bring back short ropes & some of Willie Nelson's tall oak trees. IMO there must be a penalty for actions that harm another, strong enough to either deter, or prevent a recurrence if judged guilty by your peers.
Cheers, Gene
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A pen in the hand of this President is more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law abiding citizens.
Having this done by a group of volunteers is nice & all that.
BUT!
These folks need to travel and smooze with others, both for the publicity, and to keep the ideas about how to do something fresh. Who knows, maybe one of them will put in that killer feature we've all been waiting for?
So when you are done downloading it, take the time to donate, so maybe the 5.0 release can afford a bigger cake. The one I saw in the pix was about 5% of the size of the one it would take to feed all the volunteers a celebratory piece of cake, maybe even with a scoop of ice cream on top. IMNSHO, speaking as a retired person living on SS, I dropped the card to say thanks. Surely the working folks who will make better use of this than I ever will, can better afford to pull out the card?
I would firmly suggest that others do the same if we want to see a 5.0 or higher release. Nothing kills a volunteer operation quicker than not being able to pay the bills.
Cheers, Gene
"and engineer"? When did they quit teaching proper English in American schools?
There are places this is true, like in Texas, and its likely a major reason the DFW area has not had a recent NAB show. Seems some idiot trying to make points was collecting business cards & sent quite a few to the attention of the local DA. My best guess is that out of the 50,000 'engineers' at the last confab they held in Dallas, less than half had a degree from any 'accredited' school, including me. I personally have a GED and a degree from the University of Hard Knocks. But I've also had a 1st Phone since '62, directly involved with the design & fabrication of equipment for use in the broadcast industry in my first gig as a broadcast engineer. I was the troubleshooter you called when the factory folks can't fix it, a C.E.T. since 1972, had the Chief Engineers title plate on the office door all except 2 years since 1977, finally retired at about 67 back in 2002. In that time frame I wrote 2 programs which became daily must works at 2 different facilities, used continuously for a decade and change at both places.
Engineers create solutions to problems. Even after I retired, I was sent to other facilities that were in technical trouble, and in a month or so things that hadn't worked right in years were back doing their job. That sort of reputation travels by word of mouth, so I didn't have to advertise, the people I worked for did it for me. And I didn't ask for raises, they just happened. I retired at a salary that was about 40% more than the average salary in that market bracket. And my phone continues to ring occasionally.
In the CE's capacity, I have hired quite a few, and fired 1 or 2. The poster above using the superwiz handle, would not have been one of them. For all his bragging, his hands will not 'fit the tools'. Mine have, and bear the scars.
FWIW, I do like your sig, its dead on.
Cheers, Gene
The typu was 100% intended.
Yup, I was told to upgrade my xp on my lappy, so I did. Its running mint 14 now, way faster than it ever was with windoze.
I paid the microsoft tax when I bought that laptop, once was more than was sensible.
Fur cryin in your beer, don't give them any more ideas.
Yeah, be sure to watch your balance, that's an awfully tall stool you are claiming as a throne, and its a long way to fall should you slip.
FWIW, lack of formal school does not=lack of education. I am now 78, have a G.E.D. and have been retired for a decade plus, but my phone still rings occasionally with work. In a sense, its a good feeling.
Why? If you are so highly educated, go sit, cold, for the C.E.T. exam and pass it at the journeyman level. I am one, and could probably locate something in the $70k/year range within a week if I wanted to actually go back to work. Fortunately for me, I have too many hobbies to be managed, that leave no time for work.
How did I get there? Easy, my early schooling taught me 2 things. One being able to read at 450-500 per because I was taught phonics back then, and two, that learning things was great fun.
One thing that I have also noticed, a large percentage of those people with a sheepskin on the wall, are folks who then quit learning because they knew it all. Which are you?
Cheers, Gene
One three word phrase applies here, "screw you ICANN" .
Whois is the common users way of being able to throw an all encompassing blanket over the internet bad guys. But it sounds as if you want to lock that info up and hold it for ransom, available ONLY to the elites will to grease your palms for that info.
In fact, screw you is considerably too polite, there are better ways to address such, but I won't further insult the non-profane here.
So, Go to hell ICANN will have to do. But unfortunately I am not Bobby Byrd, who could tell a fellow senator to go to hell in such flowery language that the fellow senator looked forward to the trip.
No Cheers on this one, Gene