Maybe Dubya will find some presently illegal immigrants, offer them the princely sum of $6,000 per year as part of his new guest worker visa program, and use them for a moon mission? I mean, as long as he offered the job to Americans first*, it will all be nice and legal.
* That is to say, Americans who were willing to have their gonads removed with a rusty scalpel as part of a Fox TV special.
Funny, I would have thought those placing OSDN personals would be more interested in either contract dating (ie, $300 for the evening), or perhaps a fictional outsourcing.
I got an impression that it was exactly OnStar technology
Minor quibble. Same technology, but not the same company. It was Tele Aid (from ATX, used by Mercedes Benz), not OnStar, that was involved in this case. This is covered by Kevin Poulsen in this SecurityFocus article.
I wonder if the Feds will mandate that future versions of this system have the capability to spy on the customer and still work as provided?
They can't. Or at least, they can't just yet. 1994's CALEA did just that for telephone systems, but, as was pointed out in the majority opinion, current law doesn't allow the FBI to mandate it.
What would have happened if the suspect had a flat tire and tried to use his roadside assistance? Gig might have been up pretty quickly.
When FBI agents remotely activated the system and were listening in, passengers in the vehicle could not tell that their conversations were being monitored. After "vehicle recovery mode" was disabled, the court said, passengers were notified by the radio displaying an alert and, if the radio was not on, the system beeping.
One can only wonder WHAT the poor CSR had to say about it once the customer called and asked, "WTF is with the message on my radio?!"
If the car breaks down, the FBI or whoever was listening could repsond!
Actually, in the majority opinion, they addressed that: "The FBI, however well-intentioned, is not in the business of providing emergency road services and might well have better things to do when listening in than respond with such services to the electronic signal sent over the line."
I've had my tickets for Trilogy Tuesday for a month now. If ROTK is good, I might consider seeing it again, though I doubt they'd give me back my $25 for the trilogy ticket and let me use a freebie.:)
Why is it that everything that is data is related to either/or x libraries of congress or y encyclopedia brittanicas, as if either of those is actually an approachable figure. I want to lobby for a new measure, such as x two hour porn dvd's or y illegally downloaded songs.
Mark Rasch probably isn't terribly concerned about backlash. He's a former US Attorney who rose to prominence through his prosecution of Kevin Mitnick. While now in private practice, I'm sure he has friends who would be willing to overlook minor transgressions on his part that would bring imposing visitors were anyone else to commit them.
Personally, it sounds like Darwin in action to me. People that have more money than sense buy a toy, fall off, and potentially relieve the gene pool of the affliction.
Unfortunately, Mr. Ryan happens to be my representative. When he voted against the FTC's creation of the list, passed by an overwhelming majority, I wrote a letter asking why he voted against something that people so overwhelmingly support. I received a letter back, indicating that he shared my concerns about the creation of a DNC list, and passed it off to ignorance.
When I wrote again concerning the DMCRA, I received a totally clueful response that indicated not only was he aware of the DMCRA, but several other pieces of legislation, and that he felt the industry had too much clout and needed to be reigned in. This filled me with warm fuzzies.
Seeing another vote against the DNC, this time with FCC flavor, pissed me off. So pissed was I that I immediately phoned his Washington office to see if I could schedule some face time with him when he's back in the district. I was told that certainly this is possible, and to contact the local office to schedule some time. I'll be calling tomorrow, as they had already closed up for the day when I did call.
Since the offered protection, aka monitoring services and then caused damage to your systems you could make a case that a protection racket is being run.
Not bloody likely. It's like signing up for a massage, and complaining that you signed up for a massage when a heavyweight boxer shows up to pound the crap out of you.
Even though it's not stated in the article, the author is apparently employed by a web hosting firm, based on the ip space walking comment. If their TOS with their customers doesn't limit what they're allowed to do or have done on their behalf to their servers, shame on them. IFF they do have limits to what customers are allowed to do, then they might have a claim. If not, well, firewall 'em and tell 'em to fuck off (as they have done), and let legal know the TOS needs to change.
It was only yesterday -- the Senate voted to roll back the FCC media consolidation ruling, based to some extent on the MoveOn petition.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc. After that therefore because of that. It's a common fallacy of logic, along with being the root of much of athletes' superstition (not shaving until a baseball pitcher loses, etc). Simply because Congress finally got something right doesn't mean you, MoveOn, or any one action in particular had anything at all to do with it.
Personally, I think it was because Clearchannel simply was late in mailing out their bribe^Wdonations, but that's just me.
Morton becomes Morton Thiokol, Inc. when it merges with Thiokol Corporation. Among Thiokol's businesses are:
Dynachem Corporation, a Tustin, California, electronic materials manufacturer credited for developing dry film photoresists processable in water-based systems. Ventron Corporation, a Danvers, Massachusetts, manufacturer providing 90 percent of the free world's requirement for sodium borohydride. Carstab, a Cincinnati, Ohio, manufacturer of stabilizers for PVC. liquid polysulfide polymer (LP(R)) used as a sealant for insulating glass, secondary containment and other applications solid rocket propulsion systems (Thiokol was an industry leader, starting with NASA's Scout launch vehicles and the Air Force Discoverer programs in the 1950s) automotive airbags (Thiokol began development in 1968.)
Will the REAL Robert X. Cringely please stand up?
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You're closer to the truth than I think you knew.. I dare you to ask PBS and Infoworld who Robert X. Cringely is. From an old wired article:
Unfortunately, in 1995, as PBS was editing Triumph of the Nerds, InfoWorld fired [Mark] Stephens [who had written the Cringely column for years--ed] - which was sort of like firing Mary Ann Evans from being George Eliot. InfoWorld thought that it ought to have exclusive dibs on the Cringely name. (In a spooky twist, if anyone really owns the rights to the Cringely name, it is probably Cringely's girlfriend's father, who put an imaginary "Al Cringely" scapegoat on his PR firm's masthead decades ago. The surname was eventually imported by InfoWorld.) Cringely still feels the betrayal deeply - first because, as he sees it, InfoWorld dismissed him without warning, and second, because they accused him of trademark infringement for continuing to use the name that he had done so much to build. "InfoWorld sued me," he says, still sounding incredulous. The case was settled out of court; InfoWorld kept the trademark, and today, another scribe's Cringely column appears in its pages every week. But the company was ordered to pay Cringely's court costs, and he was given license to use the coveted name professionally - "As long as he doesn't use it in computer publications," InfoWorld's editor, Sandy Reed, who fired him, clarifies. "PBS we don't compete with."The lowly Cringely, as ever, somehow came out on top.
I want to write little apps for it but the dev environment kept crashing.
Which environment was that? I have yet to have a problem with the latest iteration of Pocket PC with the mobile framework. Admittedly, I haven't exercised it terribly much, but being able to code in the same environment I do most of my other coding in is quite nice, down to even using the same language set, C#, VB.NET, or any other language that complies to IL.
I've done other mobile development before, including The Symbol Palm scanners and another Symbol device that essentially was a 386 running a stripped down version of DOS, and even some WML site development. By far, the easiest platform to develop for has been the Pocket PC with the compact framework.
I work at the operations center for a large bank. I never even noticed a glitch, other than of course the overhead lights going to 1/4 power, typical of a normal outage. There are benefits to working at a facility designed to be able to go over a week off the grid.:)
So if you program naked, are your intro or extroverted?
That depends. If you program naked at home, you could be either. If you program naked at work, either you're an extrovert or you're trying to get fired.
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Maybe Dubya will find some presently illegal immigrants, offer them the princely sum of $6,000 per year as part of his new guest worker visa program, and use them for a moon mission? I mean, as long as he offered the job to Americans first*, it will all be nice and legal.
* That is to say, Americans who were willing to have their gonads removed with a rusty scalpel as part of a Fox TV special.
Funny, I would have thought those placing OSDN personals would be more interested in either contract dating (ie, $300 for the evening), or perhaps a fictional outsourcing.
I got an impression that it was exactly OnStar technology
Minor quibble. Same technology, but not the same company. It was Tele Aid (from ATX, used by Mercedes Benz), not OnStar, that was involved in this case. This is covered by Kevin Poulsen in this SecurityFocus article.
They can't. Or at least, they can't just yet. 1994's CALEA did just that for telephone systems, but, as was pointed out in the majority opinion, current law doesn't allow the FBI to mandate it.
What would have happened if the suspect had a flat tire and tried to use his roadside assistance? Gig might have been up pretty quickly.
Declan McCullagh posted an article about this. In it, he says:One can only wonder WHAT the poor CSR had to say about it once the customer called and asked, "WTF is with the message on my radio?!"
If the car breaks down, the FBI or whoever was listening could repsond!
Actually, in the majority opinion, they addressed that: "The FBI, however well-intentioned, is not in the business of providing emergency
road services and might well have better things to do when listening in than respond with such services to the electronic signal sent over the line."
I've had my tickets for Trilogy Tuesday for a month now. If ROTK is good, I might consider seeing it again, though I doubt they'd give me back my $25 for the trilogy ticket and let me use a freebie. :)
As long as we say that Gator, and not Claria, is spyware, we won't be sued?
Please then, allow me to be one of the first to say.. Claria is spyware.
I think that regardless of what we choose, goatse.cx should be stricken from the list immediately!
Why is it that everything that is data is related to either/or x libraries of congress or y encyclopedia brittanicas, as if either of those is actually an approachable figure. I want to lobby for a new measure, such as x two hour porn dvd's or y illegally downloaded songs.
Oh wait.. That's how they're foisting this on us in the first place..
Mark Rasch has got some balls!
Mark Rasch probably isn't terribly concerned about backlash. He's a former US Attorney who rose to prominence through his prosecution of Kevin Mitnick. While now in private practice, I'm sure he has friends who would be willing to overlook minor transgressions on his part that would bring imposing visitors were anyone else to commit them.
Personally, it sounds like Darwin in action to me. People that have more money than sense buy a toy, fall off, and potentially relieve the gene pool of the affliction.
Tim Ryan, D-Ohio - 202-225-5261
Unfortunately, Mr. Ryan happens to be my representative. When he voted against the FTC's creation of the list, passed by an overwhelming majority, I wrote a letter asking why he voted against something that people so overwhelmingly support. I received a letter back, indicating that he shared my concerns about the creation of a DNC list, and passed it off to ignorance.
When I wrote again concerning the DMCRA, I received a totally clueful response that indicated not only was he aware of the DMCRA, but several other pieces of legislation, and that he felt the industry had too much clout and needed to be reigned in. This filled me with warm fuzzies.
Seeing another vote against the DNC, this time with FCC flavor, pissed me off. So pissed was I that I immediately phoned his Washington office to see if I could schedule some face time with him when he's back in the district. I was told that certainly this is possible, and to contact the local office to schedule some time. I'll be calling tomorrow, as they had already closed up for the day when I did call.
Since the offered protection, aka monitoring services and then caused damage to your systems you could make a case that a protection racket is being run.
Not bloody likely. It's like signing up for a massage, and complaining that you signed up for a massage when a heavyweight boxer shows up to pound the crap out of you.
Even though it's not stated in the article, the author is apparently employed by a web hosting firm, based on the ip space walking comment. If their TOS with their customers doesn't limit what they're allowed to do or have done on their behalf to their servers, shame on them. IFF they do have limits to what customers are allowed to do, then they might have a claim. If not, well, firewall 'em and tell 'em to fuck off (as they have done), and let legal know the TOS needs to change.
ICANN gets another three years to run dns. Way to go Department of Commerce! I hope this clears up any impression that ICANN's efficacy matters one whit.
It was only yesterday -- the Senate voted to roll back the FCC media consolidation ruling, based to some extent on the MoveOn petition.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc. After that therefore because of that. It's a common fallacy of logic, along with being the root of much of athletes' superstition (not shaving until a baseball pitcher loses, etc). Simply because Congress finally got something right doesn't mean you, MoveOn, or any one action in particular had anything at all to do with it.
Personally, I think it was because Clearchannel simply was late in mailing out their bribe^Wdonations, but that's just me.
I want to write little apps for it but the dev environment kept crashing.
Which environment was that? I have yet to have a problem with the latest iteration of Pocket PC with the mobile framework. Admittedly, I haven't exercised it terribly much, but being able to code in the same environment I do most of my other coding in is quite nice, down to even using the same language set, C#, VB.NET, or any other language that complies to IL.
I've done other mobile development before, including The Symbol Palm scanners and another Symbol device that essentially was a 386 running a stripped down version of DOS, and even some WML site development. By far, the easiest platform to develop for has been the Pocket PC with the compact framework.
Try going to the mall, go to the games stores and talk to a few female clerks. You'll find the type I mean without that much trouble.
/. pickup strategy. Any female into computer games is halfway home to stealing the average geek's heart!
Hmmm. I'm seeing a new
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of 81Ghz machines??
Yeah, but good luck with Daikatana II! For that, you'll need at least a dual CPU configuration of these.
Is there a Springfield in Ohio?
Why yes, there is!
I work at the operations center for a large bank. I never even noticed a glitch, other than of course the overhead lights going to 1/4 power, typical of a normal outage. There are benefits to working at a facility designed to be able to go over a week off the grid. :)
So if you program naked, are your intro or extroverted?
That depends. If you program naked at home, you could be either. If you program naked at work, either you're an extrovert or you're trying to get fired.