How the hell will that work?
Policeman: "Hey, you! What are you doing?"
ManOnStreet: "I'm out for a walk."
Policeman: "At 3am?"
ManOnStreet: "Yes, I just finished a shift at the call centre where I work."
Policeman: "Can I see your identification sir?"
ManOnStreet: "I don't have it with me."
Scenario 1:
Policeman: "Oh well...here's a producer, if you don't bring it to the station within 3 days then....there's not really a lot we can do, but...err...you better do it."
Scenario 2:
Policman: "Oh well...you shall just have to accompany me to the station sir, until we can establish who you are."
Scenario 3:
Policeman pulls out gun and summarily executes non card-carrying citizen.
Blunkett is an ignorant fool. If I ever meet him, I'm going to kick him so hard in the balls his eyesight will come back.
Should of course be: 'in order to make it "shrink"'.
Because the target audience isn't thick??
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However I found it a bit odd that the authors tell you to use a heat gun and heat-shrink tubing, but do not list these items in the tools section.
Because the kind of people reading Hardware Hacking will probably extrapolate that "heat-shrink" requires you to apply "heat" to it in order to make it "heat", using some kind of "heating" apparatus.
But you're right, it is a pretty big leap to expect people to grasp what the "heat gun" does...
So what? *You* don't have to trust him. Someone trusts him enough to give him money to do something he likes doing, *despite* the fact that he was a criminal.
I don't know whether or not he served his full sentence, but isn't the point of incarceration, especially in this case, re-habilitation? I can't reasonably believe that it was to protect society from him. He was a criminal, he's done his time, and now people are offering him money to talk about what he did, what's the big deal? There are hundreds of books (in the UK at least) "written" by convicted murderers, gangland thugs, loansharks etc. all telling their story..if people want to hear his story then I see nothing wrong with him telling it.
Wouldn't you rather he was making money talking about past crimes than make money by committing crimes now?
Weeee! Song Doo - starring tux, megaman, gene simmons and a sheep Britney Boob, Fluctuation Explanation
Alternatively you could try learning something new that you could use at work....might impress them instead of fannying about doing nothing...;o)
Crap. For a start you're making a blanket statement that criminals don't change. He's not making a profit from his crimes, he's making a profit from the skills which he used to commit crimes.
Just like teaching people to hit stuff with a hammer. Just because I may have been caught hitting someone else's stuff in the past, why can't I tell people how to hit their own stuff with hammers? Or how they can stop Bad People hitting their stuff?
My boss went to the RSA conference in SF last year and Mitnick was talking specifically about social engineering and other meat-space problems like dumpster-diving.
As I understand it, he's making a career of the things he did back then, because guess what? People are still the weakest link...
Or better, if you want to vote for one party, you go to the east coast, and the other, you go to the west coast.Scientists(tm) then measure the change in displacement of the continent at each side. Simple!
Friend of mine has been getting a lot of attention from guys on her course who she doesn't fancy. She said "Why is it only the geeks that fancy me?" OOF!
*Another* friend of mine does the same thing, she'll see nothing wrong with saying, "why can't more guys be like you?" WHAT AM I? CHOPPED LIVER?! I'M A GUY LIKE ME!!!
Men are good for lots of things:
- lifting up bonnets, taking sharp intakes of breath and muttering with arms folded.
- navigating unfamiliar terrain without stopping for directions, and in only twice the time a woman would
- weeing really really high against walls
- throwing.
- disposing of 2 day old takeaway food
Those are just a few of the things we're good fer, now quit yer yapping and get back in the kitchen:o)
I just read the BBC article and they're talking about the floods a couple/few years back. The main cause of flooding in recent years has been down to heavy rainfall on already saturated ground. I really can't see why this has anything to do with Global Warming.
Here is a link about flooding in the Tonbridge region. The river Medway (which starts off as the Eden in my home-town) has been flooding for a long long time, as I learnt in Geography lessons:o) with the first recorded major flooding in the 1800s.
Can anyone who's read the report (slashdotted now) shed any light on why this is being attributed to GW?
No, they aren't...I can remember 7 or 8 years back when it wasn't uncommon to see hose-pipe bans, and although it got close last year, there wasn't one, or the year before IIRC. Earlier this *month* there were flurries of snow still, yet I can remember Aprils past when it was really hot.I remember when I was about 5(17 years ago) there was 8-10 inches of snow in december, and January last year there was about 2-3 inches in the same area. Global warming? Maybe, but in the intervening years snowfall, varied between none at all and not very much ( to the best of my recollection).
Notice if you will that my counter argument relies on nothing more than my own memories, which are meaningless, even if they are factually correct. Global temperature change is a tad more complicated than measuring local temperature changes and averaging them. I don't pretend to know a great deal about the subject, but I do know that there's no point swapping stories back and forth about summers past and trying to compare them to the present.
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How the hell will that work?
Policeman: "Hey, you! What are you doing?"
ManOnStreet: "I'm out for a walk."
Policeman: "At 3am?"
ManOnStreet: "Yes, I just finished a shift at the call centre where I work."
Policeman: "Can I see your identification sir?"
ManOnStreet: "I don't have it with me."
Scenario 1: Policeman: "Oh well...here's a producer, if you don't bring it to the station within 3 days then....there's not really a lot we can do, but...err...you better do it."
Scenario 2: Policman: "Oh well...you shall just have to accompany me to the station sir, until we can establish who you are."
Scenario 3: Policeman pulls out gun and summarily executes non card-carrying citizen.
Blunkett is an ignorant fool. If I ever meet him, I'm going to kick him so hard in the balls his eyesight will come back.
You don't mean Bubba Smith...you mean Michael Winslow.
Oh what an institution!
'in order to make it "heat"'
Should of course be: 'in order to make it "shrink"'.
But you're right, it is a pretty big leap to expect people to grasp what the "heat gun" does...
Reminds me of when I asked my brother "WTF is a Super Saiyan?"
:o)
Now, as then, I think it's just best not to ask
So what? *You* don't have to trust him. Someone trusts him enough to give him money to do something he likes doing, *despite* the fact that he was a criminal.
I don't know whether or not he served his full sentence, but isn't the point of incarceration, especially in this case, re-habilitation? I can't reasonably believe that it was to protect society from him. He was a criminal, he's done his time, and now people are offering him money to talk about what he did, what's the big deal? There are hundreds of books (in the UK at least) "written" by convicted murderers, gangland thugs, loansharks etc. all telling their story..if people want to hear his story then I see nothing wrong with him telling it.
Wouldn't you rather he was making money talking about past crimes than make money by committing crimes now?
I too know your pain. Try some of these:
;o)
Weeee!
Song Doo - starring tux, megaman, gene simmons and a sheep
Britney Boob, Fluctuation Explanation
Alternatively you could try learning something new that you could use at work....might impress them instead of fannying about doing nothing...
Crap. For a start you're making a blanket statement that criminals don't change. He's not making a profit from his crimes, he's making a profit from the skills which he used to commit crimes.
Just like teaching people to hit stuff with a hammer. Just because I may have been caught hitting someone else's stuff in the past, why can't I tell people how to hit their own stuff with hammers? Or how they can stop Bad People hitting their stuff?
My boss went to the RSA conference in SF last year and Mitnick was talking specifically about social engineering and other meat-space problems like dumpster-diving.
As I understand it, he's making a career of the things he did back then, because guess what? People are still the weakest link...
What if you point upwards toward the Sun and say "hey look, Courtney Love!" so that they get spots in their eyes?
...just a complex arrangement of mirrors.
Home made missiles may not be as expensive...
Kiss Mighty Fine MicroSoft?
Or better, if you want to vote for one party, you go to the east coast, and the other, you go to the west coast.Scientists(tm) then measure the change in displacement of the continent at each side. Simple!
Friend of mine has been getting a lot of attention from guys on her course who she doesn't fancy. She said "Why is it only the geeks that fancy me?" OOF!
*Another* friend of mine does the same thing, she'll see nothing wrong with saying, "why can't more guys be like you?" WHAT AM I? CHOPPED LIVER?! I'M A GUY LIKE ME!!!
...puts a humorous slant on the needless idiocy and barbarism of the bible, here, but only just.
...like a man needs a bicycle.
:o)
Men are good for lots of things:
- lifting up bonnets, taking sharp intakes of breath and muttering with arms folded.
- navigating unfamiliar terrain without stopping for directions, and in only twice the time a woman would
- weeing really really high against walls
- throwing.
- disposing of 2 day old takeaway food
Those are just a few of the things we're good fer, now quit yer yapping and get back in the kitchen
...trapped in a man's body.
I just read the BBC article and they're talking about the floods a couple/few years back. The main cause of flooding in recent years has been down to heavy rainfall on already saturated ground. I really can't see why this has anything to do with Global Warming.
:o) with the first recorded major flooding in the 1800s.
Here is a link about flooding in the Tonbridge region. The river Medway (which starts off as the Eden in my home-town) has been flooding for a long long time, as I learnt in Geography lessons
Can anyone who's read the report (slashdotted now) shed any light on why this is being attributed to GW?
No, they aren't...I can remember 7 or 8 years back when it wasn't uncommon to see hose-pipe bans, and although it got close last year, there wasn't one, or the year before IIRC. Earlier this *month* there were flurries of snow still, yet I can remember Aprils past when it was really hot.I remember when I was about 5(17 years ago) there was 8-10 inches of snow in december, and January last year there was about 2-3 inches in the same area. Global warming? Maybe, but in the intervening years snowfall, varied between none at all and not very much ( to the best of my recollection).
Notice if you will that my counter argument relies on nothing more than my own memories, which are meaningless, even if they are factually correct. Global temperature change is a tad more complicated than measuring local temperature changes and averaging them. I don't pretend to know a great deal about the subject, but I do know that there's no point swapping stories back and forth about summers past and trying to compare them to the present.
Perhaps a more tempered scepticism can be found here.
Erogenous eh? Must be BSD...
Maybe if they sold the lunatics weapons at a more reasonable price they wouldn't hold such grudges...
Certainly fits the double-initial convention...
e.g. Lois Lane, Lex Luthor, Reed Richards, Bruce Banner, Dr. Steven Strange,Peter Parker, Dr. Otto Octavius, Scott Summers, Warren Worthington,Matt Murdock etc. ad infitum...
But what of his super-hero genitals?