I was just on a cruise, on Celebrity, to Alaska. When not in port, they had a cell satellite gateway activated. For $2.49 per minute voice, $.02 per kilobyte data, and $.75 per SMS message they would relay from satellite to your cell. We turned ours off, as we use chatty Blackberries that would have racked up massive data charges.
That being said.. If this guy can't be bothered to confirm that his equipment isn't using wireless, be it GPRS or WiFi, too fscking bad. My wife left her BB on accidentally overnight, so I'm sure we're going to be seeing some charges for data filter through. Me, I just put my blackberry in "wireless off" (aka airplane mode) whenever we weren't in port. Since our cruise was Alaska, we were on our home network in port. I still used it to keep track of my schedule, but didn't use the wireless features when we were at sea.
I have a pocket for my phone in my Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie. This protects me from unwanted charges, plus it keeps the black helicopters from being able to track my phone.
I normally hate calling for more laws but there should be more severe penalties for this kind of error. Otherwise... it will keep happening.
Glen: Outsiders have kidnapped some of our property. We must respond with our deadliest weapon. Jane: [Sinister] The lawyers.
You won't have to worry about that. Banks are suing TJ Haxx to collect on their out of pocket costs in replacing all those cards. Laws would simply result in fines paid to the FTC. Lawsuits will hit the bottom line. Lawsuits = fear, and fear = action.
When your newborn third child drops their pacifier onto the ground, "Fido, fetch". Then you wipe the worst of the dog slobber off the pacifier and stick it back into their mouth. You have observed that dog germs and dirt didn't hurt numbers 1 and 2.
My now 21 month old son dropped his pacifier on the garage floor. He picked it up, and said "dirty," while handing it to me. I gave it a cursory look, brushed the dirt off, and tried to put it back in his mouth. He pulled it out, looked at it, and more insistently said "DIRTY." I looked at it, looked at him, and just stuffed it in my pocket.
Back to the original point, we ARE breeding super bugs with anti-bacterial everything. We did it with penicillin, and we're doing it with anti-bacterial chemicals. I go out of my way to purchase store-brand soaps that don't have chemical anti-bacterial agents.
Not only that, but when you're camping, the sanitizer gel makes for a good fire starting paste.
Feh. Alkaloids are dissolved by alcohol. You can add caffeine to your hand sanitizer, and now you have a transdermal caffeine delivery mechanism. Or you could just buy it from a SourceForge company.
Look, I know he's Slashdot's favorite whipping boy, but would it be possible to leave Ballmer out of just one discussion!?
Nope. Not Ballmer. My money's on Karl Rove. This rock of kryptonite dissappears and he resigns? Well, isn't that con-VEEEEEEEEEEEn-ient? His reason of "spending more time with my family" rings completely hollow, as one has to have a soul to enjoy family, and according to Wikipedia, Rove sold his in a deal to get a SECOND term for GWB. More likely, he's going to be using it in a plot to taint consumer products to cause tree huggers, gays, strict constitutionalists, and other riff raff to keel over. My spidey senses tell me so.
a lot of the rest of us has seen it all before and might be a little numb to it.
Two words: FUCK THAT.
I don't care if Judge Wapner (one of the soundest legal minds around) is running the country. If something illegal is going down, it needs to get out. It doesn't matter how many times I've seen it. My outrage is still the same.
While this will certainly suck for Mr. Tamm, as far as the original goal, to increase scrutiny of the program, this will only serve to make the light being shone upon the program that much brighter.
Judge: And what is the defendant charged with? Prosecutor: Exposing a secret program. Judge: And was this program legal? Prosecutor: Uhh, that's a gray area. Judge: And did the defendant attempt to notify proper authorities? Prosecutor: Uhh, that information is classified.
Yeah, this is going to be a really successful prosecution.
A new standard is needed because the "standard kilogram" held in France has been slowly losing mass, about 50 micrograms in the last 100 years, compared to other reference masses. It's not known how this has occurred.
I've been stealing it. At $41,345.86 per kilogram, it's a lot more rewarding than stealing copper from electrical lines (and a lot less dangerous!) or stealing manhole covers. Sadly though, my 50g theft has only netted me 0.004 cents, but I'm in it for the long haul, baby!
The term you're reaching for has already been coined. It's called deniable encryption. TrueCrypt, among others, incorporates it. Essentially, you have an encrypted volume within an encrypted volume. Because the encryption doesn't have a signature (the header you refer to), no one ever knows its there. This is useful for defending against so-called "rubber hose" cryptography, where the key is extracted under duress. If the volume is not known, the volume can't be decrypted.
The technique is you create an encrypted volume, throw a few files that would plausibly be encrypted down (some pr0n, Ace of Base MP3's, episodes of Gilmore Girls, or whatever else you'd be embarrassed about having found), and then create another, hidden, volume in the unused space on the original encrypted volume. That way, when your love of Milli Vanilli's music is discovered by handing over the key to your root volume, they'll think that's all you're trying to hide. Or rather, they won't be able to find all that other stuff they think you're hiding, which is the important part.
That's not what the IRS has to say, and they're the authority (in the US) on what is and is not a religion. Now, that might have something to do with 2,500 (yes, that's two thousand five hundred) lawsuits filed by CoS against the IRS. It might also have something to do with CoS paying for private investigators to dig up dirt on IRS officials. It would be nice to be able to answer these questions, but the IRS has refused to officially release any documentation regarding the agreement with the CoS over tax status.
Now, surprise surprise, when people have tried to use this as a basis to deduct their religious donations (a couple tried to deduct 55% of payment to a school on behalf of their kids--That portion deemed for "religious education"), they were given the legal smackdown. In this case, interestingly enough, the appellate judge said, essentially, if you don't think this is fair, sue. Quoth Judge Silverman:
"If the IRS does, in fact, give preferential treatment to members of the Church of Scientology--allowing them a special right to claim deductions that are contrary to law and disallowed to everybody else--then the proper course of action is a lawsuit to put a stop to that policy. The remedy is not to require the IRS to let others claim the improper deduction, too."
It appears correctly spelt on this page, what, about a billion times already? And you still can't spell it?
"Free Speach" has a long and storied history on the intarwebs. It is typically used by spammers (remember when spammers were USA citizens, be they scummy lawyers (well, scummier than most) or chickenboners) to defend their right to spam.
Or maybe it was just sarcasm doing a mach 2.5 flyby over your head. (shrug)
While I dug the Radio Shack ones, and my runner up was the previously mentioned 200 in 1, for sheer fun, my favorite was the Gakken EX 150 system. Everything was inside little blocks that you fit together. The manual was not something I would call stand-alone though, nor should it be. If you want to learn more, you start digging into Forrest M. Mims' books. You can't expect a toy manual, regardless of level of detail, to explan PNP versus NPN.
Seeing this post took me back to the many mis-spent hours of my youth, tinkering with electronics and magnets. If my son, when he's ten, asks for an oil furnace transformer, you can bet I'll be asking what he's planning on building (I was building a jacob's ladder).
When I gave my notice at Initech, they found out I was going to Intertrode. A few days later, Bill Lundberg and Dom walked me out of the building and said they were suing me! Fortunately, there was some sort of disaster at Initech after I left, and since they kept their thumbs up their asses and had no backups, they had no case.
Am I alone for thinking that 15 months in prison, three years of probation, and $20k in restitution is just a LITTLE high for MAC spoofing to score some free wifi? Even if it was taken to the level of interfering with the signal, 2.4G is unlicensed. As any aspiring hacker should know, a properly configured microwave will cause wifi (and 2.4G phones and baby monitors) many problems. Unless he was pulling some seriously bad juju, this is Mitnick-esque "damages".
Politicians are seeking ways to utilize this new power source. Top RNC officials were quoted as saying, "With the ability to spin this fast, we may have the means necessary to win the Iraq war by rapidly spinning disinformation." Democratic officials were equally hopeful, offering a cautious, "We'll be able to flip-flop on issues MUCH more quickly now."
without being much more invasive than current carriers
Considering the rapacious terms of service for most carriers (think: "All your base are belong to us") combined with the generous "data sharing" of CPNI, I think the only thing possible that would be considered more invasive would be a full-on cavity search.
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I was just on a cruise, on Celebrity, to Alaska. When not in port, they had a cell satellite gateway activated. For $2.49 per minute voice, $.02 per kilobyte data, and $.75 per SMS message they would relay from satellite to your cell. We turned ours off, as we use chatty Blackberries that would have racked up massive data charges.
That being said.. If this guy can't be bothered to confirm that his equipment isn't using wireless, be it GPRS or WiFi, too fscking bad. My wife left her BB on accidentally overnight, so I'm sure we're going to be seeing some charges for data filter through. Me, I just put my blackberry in "wireless off" (aka airplane mode) whenever we weren't in port. Since our cruise was Alaska, we were on our home network in port. I still used it to keep track of my schedule, but didn't use the wireless features when we were at sea.
I have a pocket for my phone in my Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie. This protects me from unwanted charges, plus it keeps the black helicopters from being able to track my phone.
When your newborn third child drops their pacifier onto the ground, "Fido, fetch". Then you wipe the worst of the dog slobber off the pacifier and stick it back into their mouth. You have observed that dog germs and dirt didn't hurt numbers 1 and 2.
My now 21 month old son dropped his pacifier on the garage floor. He picked it up, and said "dirty," while handing it to me. I gave it a cursory look, brushed the dirt off, and tried to put it back in his mouth. He pulled it out, looked at it, and more insistently said "DIRTY." I looked at it, looked at him, and just stuffed it in my pocket.
Back to the original point, we ARE breeding super bugs with anti-bacterial everything. We did it with penicillin, and we're doing it with anti-bacterial chemicals. I go out of my way to purchase store-brand soaps that don't have chemical anti-bacterial agents.
Not only that, but when you're camping, the sanitizer gel makes for a good fire starting paste.
Feh. Alkaloids are dissolved by alcohol. You can add caffeine to your hand sanitizer, and now you have a transdermal caffeine delivery mechanism. Or you could just buy it from a SourceForge company.
Look, I know he's Slashdot's favorite whipping boy, but would it be possible to leave Ballmer out of just one discussion!?
Nope. Not Ballmer. My money's on Karl Rove. This rock of kryptonite dissappears and he resigns? Well, isn't that con-VEEEEEEEEEEEn-ient? His reason of "spending more time with my family" rings completely hollow, as one has to have a soul to enjoy family, and according to Wikipedia, Rove sold his in a deal to get a SECOND term for GWB. More likely, he's going to be using it in a plot to taint consumer products to cause tree huggers, gays, strict constitutionalists, and other riff raff to keel over. My spidey senses tell me so.
a lot of the rest of us has seen it all before and might be a little numb to it.
Two words: FUCK THAT.
I don't care if Judge Wapner (one of the soundest legal minds around) is running the country. If something illegal is going down, it needs to get out. It doesn't matter how many times I've seen it. My outrage is still the same.
While this will certainly suck for Mr. Tamm, as far as the original goal, to increase scrutiny of the program, this will only serve to make the light being shone upon the program that much brighter.
Judge: And what is the defendant charged with?
Prosecutor: Exposing a secret program.
Judge: And was this program legal?
Prosecutor: Uhh, that's a gray area.
Judge: And did the defendant attempt to notify proper authorities?
Prosecutor: Uhh, that information is classified.
Yeah, this is going to be a really successful prosecution.
A new standard is needed because the "standard kilogram" held in France has been slowly losing mass, about 50 micrograms in the last 100 years, compared to other reference masses. It's not known how this has occurred.
I've been stealing it. At $41,345.86 per kilogram, it's a lot more rewarding than stealing copper from electrical lines (and a lot less dangerous!) or stealing manhole covers. Sadly though, my 50g theft has only netted me 0.004 cents, but I'm in it for the long haul, baby!
There may be a Space Slug in there!
The term you're reaching for has already been coined. It's called deniable encryption. TrueCrypt, among others, incorporates it. Essentially, you have an encrypted volume within an encrypted volume. Because the encryption doesn't have a signature (the header you refer to), no one ever knows its there. This is useful for defending against so-called "rubber hose" cryptography, where the key is extracted under duress. If the volume is not known, the volume can't be decrypted.
The technique is you create an encrypted volume, throw a few files that would plausibly be encrypted down (some pr0n, Ace of Base MP3's, episodes of Gilmore Girls, or whatever else you'd be embarrassed about having found), and then create another, hidden, volume in the unused space on the original encrypted volume. That way, when your love of Milli Vanilli's music is discovered by handing over the key to your root volume, they'll think that's all you're trying to hide. Or rather, they won't be able to find all that other stuff they think you're hiding, which is the important part.
I'm just hoping it's not black, for the sake of the tinfoil-hat crowd...
Only the mind control ray helicopters are black. Sheesh, I thought everyone knew this already!
Vonnegut wrote about Ice-nine in Cat's Cradle.
Oh, that was fictional??
That's not what the IRS has to say, and they're the authority (in the US) on what is and is not a religion. Now, that might have something to do with 2,500 (yes, that's two thousand five hundred) lawsuits filed by CoS against the IRS. It might also have something to do with CoS paying for private investigators to dig up dirt on IRS officials. It would be nice to be able to answer these questions, but the IRS has refused to officially release any documentation regarding the agreement with the CoS over tax status.
Now, surprise surprise, when people have tried to use this as a basis to deduct their religious donations (a couple tried to deduct 55% of payment to a school on behalf of their kids--That portion deemed for "religious education"), they were given the legal smackdown. In this case, interestingly enough, the appellate judge said, essentially, if you don't think this is fair, sue. Quoth Judge Silverman:
It appears correctly spelt on this page, what, about a billion times already? And you still can't spell it?
"Free Speach" has a long and storied history on the intarwebs. It is typically used by spammers (remember when spammers were USA citizens, be they scummy lawyers (well, scummier than most) or chickenboners) to defend their right to spam.
Or maybe it was just sarcasm doing a mach 2.5 flyby over your head. (shrug)
Sat TV, collage courses, gyms, all the comoforts of home.
Unless, of course, your home includes a PS2 or PS3, which have been banned from UK prisons due to their WiFi capabilities
Forget being just delicious! Just imagine being able to light your burps!
While I dug the Radio Shack ones, and my runner up was the previously mentioned 200 in 1, for sheer fun, my favorite was the Gakken EX 150 system. Everything was inside little blocks that you fit together. The manual was not something I would call stand-alone though, nor should it be. If you want to learn more, you start digging into Forrest M. Mims' books. You can't expect a toy manual, regardless of level of detail, to explan PNP versus NPN.
Seeing this post took me back to the many mis-spent hours of my youth, tinkering with electronics and magnets. If my son, when he's ten, asks for an oil furnace transformer, you can bet I'll be asking what he's planning on building (I was building a jacob's ladder).
When I gave my notice at Initech, they found out I was going to Intertrode. A few days later, Bill Lundberg and Dom walked me out of the building and said they were suing me! Fortunately, there was some sort of disaster at Initech after I left, and since they kept their thumbs up their asses and had no backups, they had no case.
Am I alone for thinking that 15 months in prison, three years of probation, and $20k in restitution is just a LITTLE high for MAC spoofing to score some free wifi? Even if it was taken to the level of interfering with the signal, 2.4G is unlicensed. As any aspiring hacker should know, a properly configured microwave will cause wifi (and 2.4G phones and baby monitors) many problems. Unless he was pulling some seriously bad juju, this is Mitnick-esque "damages".
God put magnets in hard drives. Those little magnets are more than strong enough to wipe the mag stripe.
Politicians are seeking ways to utilize this new power source. Top RNC officials were quoted as saying, "With the ability to spin this fast, we may have the means necessary to win the Iraq war by rapidly spinning disinformation." Democratic officials were equally hopeful, offering a cautious, "We'll be able to flip-flop on issues MUCH more quickly now."
In my day, we didn't need no high falutin' so-called "graphics" for pr0n. We had ASCII line art, and we LIKED IT!
No broker will allow you to short a pink sheet stock, which the overwhelming majority of pump and dump spam deals with.
without being much more invasive than current carriers
Considering the rapacious terms of service for most carriers (think: "All your base are belong to us") combined with the generous "data sharing" of CPNI, I think the only thing possible that would be considered more invasive would be a full-on cavity search.
Flogging and Haggard in the same sentence? If we can get "crystal meth" in, we'll hit the trifecta!