>>For corporate servers, I agree, the idea of a no-image-attachments policy makes a lot of sense. For personal use, it's not going to happen, nor should it.
My business would come to and end. We're constantly swapping images back and forth in order to perform our jobs. Yeah, we could use crappy eRooms for that sort of thing, but now we have to worry about adding accounts to every potential employee of every potential supplier. What a friggin' nightmare. As it is we're already forced to use encrypted ZIPs for certain file types. The filter looks into regular zip files and rejects things such as Access databases.
Hey, I'm wealthy! It's just too bad I don't live in Somalia where the relative differences would show. But then, I guess I'd still be jealous of the riches of the warlords. Sadly and in all seriousness, it sometimes rears its head in the United States -- I don't have to go far to be considered "some rich dude" although by my neighborhood standards I'm "the young poor guy with the immigrant wife."
On the other hand, with the housing market in my part of the country, maybe I have no equity and I'm poor again. It doesn't take a lot of movement to end up on one side of the fence or another.
If you have a mortgage, then chances are as an American you have no net assets. I do very, very, well for myself, but I'm in net debt. I don't carry any credit card balances, but my car loan and mortgage alone wipe out my net worth.
>>it kinda makes you think what exactly are they doing with this money anyways?
But surely it's not hidden in a mattress anywhere. It's out in the economy, making the economy work. The money *is* changing hands. Sure, it's making Rich Bastard wealthier, but it's making us wealthier, too. Maybe it's in a treasury bill, giving our government a loan and working capital to buy things and pay salaries. Or in a stock, which gives a company working capital to buy things and pay salaries.
What would happen to to the US government if all of its bonds and bills were suddenly called in and no one else bought? For that matter, what happens to a company? That money *has* to be there for our economy to work.
(My Series 1 didn't have encrypted video, either).
I retired my Series 1 early this year for the same reasons that you mention -- it was getting slow and didn't do everything else that I wanted it to do. So I built my MythTV box where it lives in its closet happily. For front ends, I use Xboxes. For non-HDTV, they're perfect. You can either install Xebian and the MythTV front end (sloooow) or just use XBMC with the XBMXMythTV script. Works well for my purposes.
Given that, I miss some features from my Tivo. Program ratings and suggestions come to mind, but as it is, I have too much of a backlog so its not a deal killer. The Tivo interface was spectacular, and I find myself fiddling with the XBMC remote control configuration and skins in order to bring back some of that Tivo elegance.
I check my work email even when I'm a longer vacation, because otherwise I'll reach my Exchange server limit and then bounce something that I'll regret having missed. Most of it on vacation is non-relevant, so mostly it's just a matter of cleaning up. (In July while on vacation, though, checking my email gave me the chance to get a ridiculously expensive grill for a song. I won't go into details; I'm just thrilled that I wasn't incommunicado).
For phone, I actually don't mind staying in touch because I request an international roaming phone from work... meaning I always have free cellular while in Mexico as long as I'm willing to talk business when necessary. Most people are very conscientious that we're on vacation, so it's really very little interruption.
Finally, we don't get nearly enough days, but (1) we can "buy" up to two extra weeks, and (2) overtime pay is rare but we're pretty good about comp. time. No, really, we are. I work for a fantastic company, despite the others' grumbling about OT pay (count your blessings and all that).
TRS-80 MC10 C=128 (Apples suck, dude!) Apple Macintosh SE (well, it's not a ][e) Amiga 500 Mac Colour Classic Quadra 630 Unremembered Windows laptop #1 (Win95) Performa 6400 Acer (I think) Windows laptop #2 (Win98) PowerBook G4 Graphite iMac HP something or another that everyone in the company received free (it was big news then) Power Mac G4 Quicksilver -- still have, about to sell Homemade something or another #1 -- still have, for sale if I get home Tivo from Sony -- I telnet'd in, so that counts, right? PowerBook 5300 with non-burnt batteries (handmedown) PowerBook Aluminum Homemade super thing #2 -- still have, my MythTV box and NAS server and ssh gateway 3 XBoxes -- still have, they count, right? They run Xebian and mythfrontend iMac 17" Core Duo -- still have, it's almost new. iMac 24" Core 2 Duo -- well, I haven't seen it yet, but I know FedEx delivered it.
Holy crap! Now I know why I'm broke all the time and have a boring car and haven't given my wife a boob job yet. Can't ever let her see this list... I *did* tell her the two iMacs were the last computers we'd ever need.
If I'm looking for something I know I want in Wikipedia, well, I just type "wikipedia dinosaurs" (or whatever) into the Google search box. First result usually takes me to the Wikipedia page I want.
Just tried my Mastercard, and then I stopped. It looks like payments are now being outsourced to some place called www.e-centru.com, which is in Moldova. I don't remember ever being redirected to another payment site in the past, although it's showing that I last recharged my account on March 17th, 2005 (I don't buy a lot of music [or pirate it for that matter]). Anyone else ever been directed to this company to accept payments? It *is* showing just Mastercard as an option.
Well... here goes. That's what fraud protection is good for.
Well, it worked. Now I've got to figure out $25.25 worth of music that I want. I wish they had audiobooks.
That's not offtopic completely! From the parent post:
>>There's some kind of rule regarding security policy which states that if security is so tight as to be an obstacle to normal work, legitimate users will attempt to circumvent the security measures just so they can do their work at a reasonable level of efficiency (ie. without undue irritation).
Remember... this is a default judgement. If you're sued for anything and don't show up, you lose by default. There's nothing to do with the competence of the judge or the court, the merits of the case, or anything. If I sue you for moderating me down and ask for emotional damage compensation, you'd better show up to defend yourself or I'm going to win by default. If you're got a super low user id, I may ask the court to hand over your account to me.
Neat trick! I didn't know it would select the right input automatically. I have dual 500's, one set for two cable channels, and the other for one cable and one SVHS (DirecTV in my case, too, also set for lower priority). So, only four input sources. Sounds like I could use the second card for a total of three sources (two simultaneously). Not that I've ever had need to record from five sources at once...
I also have an HD card that I was going to sell on eBay... now I'm thinking of reinstalling it. It works beautifully for the six QAM channels I get, but only on the PC with the high-def. I use Xboxes for front ends, and they don't handle the HD. I guess I could downsample; that'd still be better quality than the analogue cable, maybe better than the DirecTV signal since there's no analogue conversion.
Jeesh, there's a lot of overreaction going on here. If you've got good qualifications, it's not like the employer's going to say, "gee, he's only got a 400 FICO score; let's throw him into the trash pile." There's a whole lot more to a credit report than just today's FICO score. If you were unemployed, then your score will drop as you rack up credit to survive. That will show up in your credit history. If you've done it responsibly, the new boss will see that, despite the score. If you've got shit-loads of defaults, though, at the same time you were working and getting paid, then maybe there's something about you that merits further questioning, don't you think?
We all have things that get outside of our control. FICO scores represent you TODAY. But your credit history represents you up to SEVEN YEARS (10 for bankruptcy) ago, so yeah, it tells about YOU and not necessarily only today's bad luck.
Case in point (anecdotal "evidence"): I had two charge offs when I secured my first mortgage, and my FICO was lower than normal as a result. But a HUMAN BEING looked at my entire credit history rather than just "today's score" and could see the path that I was taking.
Do we ALSO need a law to indicate that it's illegal to remove my own property from the car and then destroy that property if I'm in an accident? Imagining that it's my fault, that is. It's not evidence of a crime, unless I intentionally caused the accident.
Are police just entitled to come along and remove it from my car without my permission now? Do they have to ask?
for example, you don't pay for most or even any of your games (a popular strategy in developing countries, and unfortunately used much more frequently than you might think even in the developed world!)
This makes me wonder if there are any legitimate, license sharing solutions for gaming stores such as this. Let's say you have 30 stations, but you know that maybe only a maximum of six stations are ever going to play Starcraft (yeah, I'm old school), so you buy six copies of Starcraft with the intention of installing Starcraft on all 30 computers. You need the disc to play the game, so really, only six instances can be running at any one time. Except you only have six licenses, and you can't put all six licenses into all copies. Worse, you have to hand out the disc to someone who may scratch the hell out of it. Sure, there's Deamon Tools to get around that, but now you are at risk of looking like a pirate if you have disk images on all 30 computers but only six original disks and licenses.
"Professional" applications often have network license management built into them. At my company, for example, we have Application X installed in an entire department, but we can only run five instances at a time. Once someone quits the app on their tube, someone else can open it at theirs.
If you build something universal like this for games, you could make a fortune. And don't patent it; I've just given prior art.
I'd like to see this in an iMac. Yeah, I know -- "consumer model." How about a more expensive iMac Pro?
I've had a 17" Intel iMac for just over a month now -- it was bought to replace my homemade Windows PC. I also have plans to replace my "main" QuickSilver with a 20" iMac as soon as I have cash-in-hand, but I may wait things out. I'm usually against the all-in-one solutions, but this iMac really has impressed the hell out of me with its elegance and simplicity. That's no laughing matter, either. My Quicksilver is a bundle of wires -- keyboard, mouse, USB hub, the round thing that gives me audio-in-over-USB (pre-"digital audio" PowerMac), monitor cable, power to the Mac, power to the monitor, speaker wires, power to the speakers. Sheesh. I do like the expandability of my PowerMac, but all I ever really install are hard drives. I don't even do that anymore, because I've set up a homemade Myth box dual purposed as a NAT with 600GB of RAID1 storage so I can work on any computer in the house.
So, yeah, I do want a Pro machine's power, and am willing to pay for a Pro machine's power, but I really want the all-in-one-ness of the flat panel iMac.
Really, though, we still have the right to travel anywhere we want, and that's not being denied. It's just that if you want to travel with others you have to submit to the group will, which in this case is whatever the US government says. You're still free to go via other means, though.
I've never had a two hour wait at the airport. Well, I did right after 9/11 because everyone said, "show up two hours early" and I did so, resulting in a boring, two hour wait at the gate. Now granted I never use Washington D.C. or NYC or LAX or those other "important" airports, but I regularly fly into and out of Detroit, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, and Chicago. The most I've ever stood in line at security is 15 minutes. Oh, yeah, I'm not stupid, either: I avoid Christmas and Thanksgiving travel -- isn't that and obvious strategy if you can stick to it?
I'm not arguing with the inconvenience, though. Sometimes you take off your shoes, sometimes metal detectors detect my wedding ring, and other times I get by without emptying my pockets. Can't take a lighter and cigar cutter (not even checked).
My first gen Intel iMac is rock solid. Admittedly, I bought it refurbished directly from Apple, so it may be that refurbs are given that extra human touch. It's also equally likely that it was just a returned unit, reboxed, and sold. I dunno. Also admittedly I added an extra gig of RAM to the stock 512 MB. Also my final admission is that I really was worried about the quality of my iMac until I added the extra RAM. It would sometimes have a kernel panic; it would sometimes have an interminable spinning beachball; it'd refuse to launch apps (like Terminal for issuing reboot); it'd refuse to shutdown or reboot. I really, truly, though I'd bought a lemon until I added the memory. In most cases the apps I use are becoming native, but all the Adobe and MS stuff still counts on Rosetta.
I can't stress this enough: Rosetta (the PPC instruction emulator for the two of you who don't know that yet) needs more memory than you're used to needing on a Mac.
Touche, but in my original post, I did indicate that I don't have a need to surf anonymously. For the purposes of argument, though, I'm in the USA, which usually (and in my case) means "at-will employment" -- no contract. Actually our policies are pretty liberal; we're allowed to use the internet per policy for personal use as long at it's not abusive and as long as it's not for another business. I just surf when I have time, at lunch, and I'm fairly certain I'm not abusive. I really only worry when the proxy comes back to tell me that something's blocked for x reason.
Despite years of fiddling with my own home networks and hearing about ssh tunnelling, I'd never set up an ssh tunnel and never "got" the reasons for it. That's changed recently, and now I'm a convert. I know this is basic crap among most of the/. crowd, but here's how I can anonymously surf at work:
I have Proxomitron at work to get through the firewall. It acts as a local proxy server, and works with our something-Point firewall. It seems like only ports 80 and 23 are open. No port 22 for ssh, and no ports for email.
Using puTTY configured to look at the local proxy server, I establish the appropriate ssh tunnels to my Linux box at home. I don't know why this works, so any explanation would be cool. I'm using port 22 via the Proxomitron local http proxy over the corporate http proxy to my plain vanilla Linux box. Fscking mystery to my how it works, but it does. Setting up puTTY to work directly with the company firewall doesn't work, and I have no idea why. Proxomitron is required.
Of course now with all the right tunnels, I can use FireFox on my Linux box or even Safari on my Mac (if I leave it on) via VNC, and I have instant anonymous surfing. Yeah, I know I'm using a helluvalot of bandwidth, and I generally don't need or do any anonymous surfing anyway.
So, what's my traffic look like to my company IT boys for my interesting setup? I'm assuming that my secure ssh connection doesn't let anyone know what I'm doing over ssh; that's the point. But yet I have this traffic flowing out of Port 80 to Port 22 somehow, and it's either little tiny bursts when I'm working in bash, or it's a bandwidth hog if I'm using SAMBA or VNC over the connection.
----- The whole initial point of the excercise was to talk to my MythTV box while on the road. All I wanted to do was ssh in to check my RAID status. I also had all kinds of ports open on my router so I could http into MythWeb, and Webmin, and MythStream, and SMB, and the router itself, and ftp, and generally a big mess. Now all I need is my single ssh port, and I'm good for everything without all of those open doors. At work I use puTTY, at the hotel I've got my iMac (remind myself to look for an ssh tunnel control panel so I don't have to keep using the shell).
Even with ssh, I'm subject to brute force attack, right? Wasn't there something like a magic knock I can setup so that I ping a certain sequence of ports in the right order, my ssh port opens up, otherwise being closed? Probably won't work for me, as I have a proprietary hardware router...
I have an iPod shuffle, so this thing won't do me any good. My wife's iPod is a 2G or 3G -- I can't remember which -- so it'd probably work. But I'm the one that drives my car. I use a cassette adapter, 'cos FM modulators frankly suck. I don't know what car I'll ever replace my 01 Continental with, though -- no more V8's and no more cassettes! Really, though, all I ever need is the aux. input and I'd be happy.
Look, by having the iPod interface on the car stereo, you're just treating the iPod like an external hard disk. Then what the hell do you need the iPod for? Just make it work with with a SATA hard drive or something, or just a plain vanilla USB thumb drive.
Yeah, yeah, the iPod's probably providing the analogue signal and the stereo's only controlling the iPod, but it's not too much to re-purpose the CD player's DA circuitry to eliminate the third party.
No one in their right mind, who doesn't have a FICO in the 400s, uses a debit card. No anonymity and it's YOUR money that's gone temporarily if there's an error. Credit cards don't have anonymity, but if there's a screw-up, you've got anywhere from 10 to 40 days to fix it before you every have to consider shelling out a cent. Plus, if there's a royal fuck up, you don't end up bouncing your mortage payment and every other bill that month. Let the CC company float that cash and take the brunt of the errors. Wow, I was thinking to myself (and wasn't going to respond), "what a paranoid load of bullshit." But, uh, I never, ever, ever use my debit card for precisely the reasons you mention. I can't remember ever using my card for anything but taking little bits of cash out of an ATM machine in foreign countries, where cash is more convenient than credit card fraud (::cough::::cough:: Mexico, Arizona::cough::).
Hell, even though I don't ever use my Discover card, I make an exception at Sam's because they won't take real credit cards, and I can pay Discover the next day online.
Sorry for the typo. Obviously that should be "observers." As to the point you make, it's only the PRD party (Lopez Obrador's party) that makes these claims. So far he's not presented evidence; he's only riled the people. Most of my cites are the Mexican television press (Formula, definitely not populist), but let's see what Google news can give me (the most neutral I can be, I think):
My search is simply "mexico international observers election" without the quotes... top hits are cited:
But the Democratic Revolution Party has so far failed to produce solid evidence. Indeed, the election was endorsed by international observers and the other political parties.
Legitimate electionThe PRD is on a precarious path. Two peaceful, protest rallies in Mexico City have been impressive; a third is set for July 30. Yet, the Reforma poll shows AMLO losing voters from his election-day total. If TRIFE rules against him, will the PRD carry on with an everlasting resistance movement? Is the PRD willing to squander its rise to Mexico's second political party on fraud charges that Mexican citizens and international observers consider spurious?
"Mexico needs to review the votes in order to move beyond the paranoid style of its current politics - especially now that López Obrador seems intent on destroying the country with the hope of governing it someday. Instead of keeping a cool head, he is butting it against everything he can: President Vicente Fox, the Federal Electoral Institute, the media, international observers and all those who believe that although irregularities might have occurred, massive fraud did not."
The "leftist" leader's attitude surprised most political analysts and observers, who considered the electoral process and the final count transparent and above suspicion.
... and...
International observers described Mexico's electoral procedures and the work of the independent IFE as exemplary.
These are the top Google News hits, cited for my ability to get them fast and provide the cites here. There's a pattern in all of the press, though. The losers are the only ones claiming fraud and massive irregularities. Any of the non-leftist, legitimate press around the world recognizes the fairness and transparency of the elections. And when I say leftist, I don't mean USA Democratic Party leftist. I'm talking populist, do-what-it-takes-to-get-power-and-keep-it leftist. Evil leftist. The most left-of-the-left. So far left that if these people got power, they'd wrap around and end up being so far to the right that we'd all confuse "right" with conservatism.
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>>For corporate servers, I agree, the idea of a no-image-attachments policy makes a lot of sense. For personal use, it's not going to happen, nor should it.
My business would come to and end. We're constantly swapping images back and forth in order to perform our jobs. Yeah, we could use crappy eRooms for that sort of thing, but now we have to worry about adding accounts to every potential employee of every potential supplier. What a friggin' nightmare. As it is we're already forced to use encrypted ZIPs for certain file types. The filter looks into regular zip files and rejects things such as Access databases.
D'oh! You're both right, of course.
Hey, I'm wealthy! It's just too bad I don't live in Somalia where the relative differences would show. But then, I guess I'd still be jealous of the riches of the warlords. Sadly and in all seriousness, it sometimes rears its head in the United States -- I don't have to go far to be considered "some rich dude" although by my neighborhood standards I'm "the young poor guy with the immigrant wife."
On the other hand, with the housing market in my part of the country, maybe I have no equity and I'm poor again. It doesn't take a lot of movement to end up on one side of the fence or another.
If you have a mortgage, then chances are as an American you have no net assets. I do very, very, well for myself, but I'm in net debt. I don't carry any credit card balances, but my car loan and mortgage alone wipe out my net worth.
>>it kinda makes you think what exactly are they doing with this money anyways?
But surely it's not hidden in a mattress anywhere. It's out in the economy, making the economy work. The money *is* changing hands. Sure, it's making Rich Bastard wealthier, but it's making us wealthier, too. Maybe it's in a treasury bill, giving our government a loan and working capital to buy things and pay salaries. Or in a stock, which gives a company working capital to buy things and pay salaries.
What would happen to to the US government if all of its bonds and bills were suddenly called in and no one else bought? For that matter, what happens to a company? That money *has* to be there for our economy to work.
(My Series 1 didn't have encrypted video, either).
I retired my Series 1 early this year for the same reasons that you mention -- it was getting slow and didn't do everything else that I wanted it to do. So I built my MythTV box where it lives in its closet happily. For front ends, I use Xboxes. For non-HDTV, they're perfect. You can either install Xebian and the MythTV front end (sloooow) or just use XBMC with the XBMXMythTV script. Works well for my purposes.
Given that, I miss some features from my Tivo. Program ratings and suggestions come to mind, but as it is, I have too much of a backlog so its not a deal killer. The Tivo interface was spectacular, and I find myself fiddling with the XBMC remote control configuration and skins in order to bring back some of that Tivo elegance.
I check my work email even when I'm a longer vacation, because otherwise I'll reach my Exchange server limit and then bounce something that I'll regret having missed. Most of it on vacation is non-relevant, so mostly it's just a matter of cleaning up. (In July while on vacation, though, checking my email gave me the chance to get a ridiculously expensive grill for a song. I won't go into details; I'm just thrilled that I wasn't incommunicado).
For phone, I actually don't mind staying in touch because I request an international roaming phone from work... meaning I always have free cellular while in Mexico as long as I'm willing to talk business when necessary. Most people are very conscientious that we're on vacation, so it's really very little interruption.
Finally, we don't get nearly enough days, but (1) we can "buy" up to two extra weeks, and (2) overtime pay is rare but we're pretty good about comp. time. No, really, we are. I work for a fantastic company, despite the others' grumbling about OT pay (count your blessings and all that).
My List:
TRS-80 MC10
C=128 (Apples suck, dude!)
Apple Macintosh SE (well, it's not a ][e)
Amiga 500
Mac Colour Classic
Quadra 630
Unremembered Windows laptop #1 (Win95)
Performa 6400
Acer (I think) Windows laptop #2 (Win98)
PowerBook G4
Graphite iMac
HP something or another that everyone in the company received free (it was big news then)
Power Mac G4 Quicksilver -- still have, about to sell
Homemade something or another #1 -- still have, for sale if I get home
Tivo from Sony -- I telnet'd in, so that counts, right?
PowerBook 5300 with non-burnt batteries (handmedown)
PowerBook Aluminum
Homemade super thing #2 -- still have, my MythTV box and NAS server and ssh gateway
3 XBoxes -- still have, they count, right? They run Xebian and mythfrontend
iMac 17" Core Duo -- still have, it's almost new.
iMac 24" Core 2 Duo -- well, I haven't seen it yet, but I know FedEx delivered it.
Holy crap! Now I know why I'm broke all the time and have a boring car and haven't given my wife a boob job yet. Can't ever let her see this list... I *did* tell her the two iMacs were the last computers we'd ever need.
If I'm looking for something I know I want in Wikipedia, well, I just type "wikipedia dinosaurs" (or whatever) into the Google search box. First result usually takes me to the Wikipedia page I want.
Just tried my Mastercard, and then I stopped. It looks like payments are now being outsourced to some place called www.e-centru.com, which is in Moldova. I don't remember ever being redirected to another payment site in the past, although it's showing that I last recharged my account on March 17th, 2005 (I don't buy a lot of music [or pirate it for that matter]). Anyone else ever been directed to this company to accept payments? It *is* showing just Mastercard as an option.
Well... here goes. That's what fraud protection is good for.
Well, it worked. Now I've got to figure out $25.25 worth of music that I want. I wish they had audiobooks.
That's not offtopic completely! From the parent post:
>>There's some kind of rule regarding security policy which states that if security is so tight as to be an obstacle to normal work, legitimate users will attempt to circumvent the security measures just so they can do their work at a reasonable level of efficiency (ie. without undue irritation).
That reminds me, how do I get around XP GPO's when on an NT domain? I've got root while not on the domain.
Remember... this is a default judgement. If you're sued for anything and don't show up, you lose by default. There's nothing to do with the competence of the judge or the court, the merits of the case, or anything. If I sue you for moderating me down and ask for emotional damage compensation, you'd better show up to defend yourself or I'm going to win by default. If you're got a super low user id, I may ask the court to hand over your account to me.
Neat trick! I didn't know it would select the right input automatically. I have dual 500's, one set for two cable channels, and the other for one cable and one SVHS (DirecTV in my case, too, also set for lower priority). So, only four input sources. Sounds like I could use the second card for a total of three sources (two simultaneously). Not that I've ever had need to record from five sources at once...
I also have an HD card that I was going to sell on eBay... now I'm thinking of reinstalling it. It works beautifully for the six QAM channels I get, but only on the PC with the high-def. I use Xboxes for front ends, and they don't handle the HD. I guess I could downsample; that'd still be better quality than the analogue cable, maybe better than the DirecTV signal since there's no analogue conversion.
It's very daunting, so I use Knoppmyth Myself. Yeah, there's still a learning curve, but there's plenty of support. Yeah: me gets my old Tivo.
Jeesh, there's a lot of overreaction going on here. If you've got good qualifications, it's not like the employer's going to say, "gee, he's only got a 400 FICO score; let's throw him into the trash pile." There's a whole lot more to a credit report than just today's FICO score. If you were unemployed, then your score will drop as you rack up credit to survive. That will show up in your credit history. If you've done it responsibly, the new boss will see that, despite the score. If you've got shit-loads of defaults, though, at the same time you were working and getting paid, then maybe there's something about you that merits further questioning, don't you think?
We all have things that get outside of our control. FICO scores represent you TODAY. But your credit history represents you up to SEVEN YEARS (10 for bankruptcy) ago, so yeah, it tells about YOU and not necessarily only today's bad luck.
Case in point (anecdotal "evidence"): I had two charge offs when I secured my first mortgage, and my FICO was lower than normal as a result. But a HUMAN BEING looked at my entire credit history rather than just "today's score" and could see the path that I was taking.
Do we ALSO need a law to indicate that it's illegal to remove my own property from the car and then destroy that property if I'm in an accident? Imagining that it's my fault, that is. It's not evidence of a crime, unless I intentionally caused the accident.
Are police just entitled to come along and remove it from my car without my permission now? Do they have to ask?
This makes me wonder if there are any legitimate, license sharing solutions for gaming stores such as this. Let's say you have 30 stations, but you know that maybe only a maximum of six stations are ever going to play Starcraft (yeah, I'm old school), so you buy six copies of Starcraft with the intention of installing Starcraft on all 30 computers. You need the disc to play the game, so really, only six instances can be running at any one time. Except you only have six licenses, and you can't put all six licenses into all copies. Worse, you have to hand out the disc to someone who may scratch the hell out of it. Sure, there's Deamon Tools to get around that, but now you are at risk of looking like a pirate if you have disk images on all 30 computers but only six original disks and licenses.
"Professional" applications often have network license management built into them. At my company, for example, we have Application X installed in an entire department, but we can only run five instances at a time. Once someone quits the app on their tube, someone else can open it at theirs.
If you build something universal like this for games, you could make a fortune. And don't patent it; I've just given prior art.
I'd like to see this in an iMac. Yeah, I know -- "consumer model." How about a more expensive iMac Pro?
I've had a 17" Intel iMac for just over a month now -- it was bought to replace my homemade Windows PC. I also have plans to replace my "main" QuickSilver with a 20" iMac as soon as I have cash-in-hand, but I may wait things out. I'm usually against the all-in-one solutions, but this iMac really has impressed the hell out of me with its elegance and simplicity. That's no laughing matter, either. My Quicksilver is a bundle of wires -- keyboard, mouse, USB hub, the round thing that gives me audio-in-over-USB (pre-"digital audio" PowerMac), monitor cable, power to the Mac, power to the monitor, speaker wires, power to the speakers. Sheesh. I do like the expandability of my PowerMac, but all I ever really install are hard drives. I don't even do that anymore, because I've set up a homemade Myth box dual purposed as a NAT with 600GB of RAID1 storage so I can work on any computer in the house.
So, yeah, I do want a Pro machine's power, and am willing to pay for a Pro machine's power, but I really want the all-in-one-ness of the flat panel iMac.
Really, though, we still have the right to travel anywhere we want, and that's not being denied. It's just that if you want to travel with others you have to submit to the group will, which in this case is whatever the US government says. You're still free to go via other means, though.
I've never had a two hour wait at the airport. Well, I did right after 9/11 because everyone said, "show up two hours early" and I did so, resulting in a boring, two hour wait at the gate. Now granted I never use Washington D.C. or NYC or LAX or those other "important" airports, but I regularly fly into and out of Detroit, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, and Chicago. The most I've ever stood in line at security is 15 minutes. Oh, yeah, I'm not stupid, either: I avoid Christmas and Thanksgiving travel -- isn't that and obvious strategy if you can stick to it?
I'm not arguing with the inconvenience, though. Sometimes you take off your shoes, sometimes metal detectors detect my wedding ring, and other times I get by without emptying my pockets. Can't take a lighter and cigar cutter (not even checked).
My first gen Intel iMac is rock solid. Admittedly, I bought it refurbished directly from Apple, so it may be that refurbs are given that extra human touch. It's also equally likely that it was just a returned unit, reboxed, and sold. I dunno. Also admittedly I added an extra gig of RAM to the stock 512 MB. Also my final admission is that I really was worried about the quality of my iMac until I added the extra RAM. It would sometimes have a kernel panic; it would sometimes have an interminable spinning beachball; it'd refuse to launch apps (like Terminal for issuing reboot); it'd refuse to shutdown or reboot. I really, truly, though I'd bought a lemon until I added the memory. In most cases the apps I use are becoming native, but all the Adobe and MS stuff still counts on Rosetta.
I can't stress this enough: Rosetta (the PPC instruction emulator for the two of you who don't know that yet) needs more memory than you're used to needing on a Mac.
Touche, but in my original post, I did indicate that I don't have a need to surf anonymously. For the purposes of argument, though, I'm in the USA, which usually (and in my case) means "at-will employment" -- no contract. Actually our policies are pretty liberal; we're allowed to use the internet per policy for personal use as long at it's not abusive and as long as it's not for another business. I just surf when I have time, at lunch, and I'm fairly certain I'm not abusive. I really only worry when the proxy comes back to tell me that something's blocked for x reason.
Despite years of fiddling with my own home networks and hearing about ssh tunnelling, I'd never set up an ssh tunnel and never "got" the reasons for it. That's changed recently, and now I'm a convert. I know this is basic crap among most of the /. crowd, but here's how I can anonymously surf at work:
I have Proxomitron at work to get through the firewall. It acts as a local proxy server, and works with our something-Point firewall. It seems like only ports 80 and 23 are open. No port 22 for ssh, and no ports for email.
Using puTTY configured to look at the local proxy server, I establish the appropriate ssh tunnels to my Linux box at home. I don't know why this works, so any explanation would be cool. I'm using port 22 via the Proxomitron local http proxy over the corporate http proxy to my plain vanilla Linux box. Fscking mystery to my how it works, but it does. Setting up puTTY to work directly with the company firewall doesn't work, and I have no idea why. Proxomitron is required.
Of course now with all the right tunnels, I can use FireFox on my Linux box or even Safari on my Mac (if I leave it on) via VNC, and I have instant anonymous surfing. Yeah, I know I'm using a helluvalot of bandwidth, and I generally don't need or do any anonymous surfing anyway.
So, what's my traffic look like to my company IT boys for my interesting setup? I'm assuming that my secure ssh connection doesn't let anyone know what I'm doing over ssh; that's the point. But yet I have this traffic flowing out of Port 80 to Port 22 somehow, and it's either little tiny bursts when I'm working in bash, or it's a bandwidth hog if I'm using SAMBA or VNC over the connection.
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The whole initial point of the excercise was to talk to my MythTV box while on the road. All I wanted to do was ssh in to check my RAID status. I also had all kinds of ports open on my router so I could http into MythWeb, and Webmin, and MythStream, and SMB, and the router itself, and ftp, and generally a big mess. Now all I need is my single ssh port, and I'm good for everything without all of those open doors. At work I use puTTY, at the hotel I've got my iMac (remind myself to look for an ssh tunnel control panel so I don't have to keep using the shell).
Even with ssh, I'm subject to brute force attack, right? Wasn't there something like a magic knock I can setup so that I ping a certain sequence of ports in the right order, my ssh port opens up, otherwise being closed? Probably won't work for me, as I have a proprietary hardware router...
I have an iPod shuffle, so this thing won't do me any good. My wife's iPod is a 2G or 3G -- I can't remember which -- so it'd probably work. But I'm the one that drives my car. I use a cassette adapter, 'cos FM modulators frankly suck. I don't know what car I'll ever replace my 01 Continental with, though -- no more V8's and no more cassettes! Really, though, all I ever need is the aux. input and I'd be happy.
Look, by having the iPod interface on the car stereo, you're just treating the iPod like an external hard disk. Then what the hell do you need the iPod for? Just make it work with with a SATA hard drive or something, or just a plain vanilla USB thumb drive.
Yeah, yeah, the iPod's probably providing the analogue signal and the stereo's only controlling the iPod, but it's not too much to re-purpose the CD player's DA circuitry to eliminate the third party.
My search is simply "mexico international observers election" without the quotes... top hits are cited:
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/07/24/Worldandnation/
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/o
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/mexicovotes/2006/0
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_2
These are the top Google News hits, cited for my ability to get them fast and provide the cites here. There's a pattern in all of the press, though. The losers are the only ones claiming fraud and massive irregularities. Any of the non-leftist, legitimate press around the world recognizes the fairness and transparency of the elections. And when I say leftist, I don't mean USA Democratic Party leftist. I'm talking populist, do-what-it-takes-to-get-power-and-keep-it leftist. Evil leftist. The most left-of-the-left. So far left that if these people got power, they'd wrap around and end up being so far to the right that we'd all confuse "right" with conservatism.