I will call many of those countries DINOs aka Democracies In Name Only since most people seem to equate "Democracy" to a government based on modern "Republicanism" which in not a Republic per se but something unique to the some movements in Europe and was a strong driver of the American revolutionaries. DINOs do not honor immutable individual rights but do feebly proclaim human civil rights which varies with the governments whim.
The best I've seen yet is snail mail. You send a stamped self addressed envelope to the board maintainer and they mail a password back. You use the login name you supplied to them and log on.
I dumped them for their dementia and disrespect. I've been using an LXDE spin of Fedora without issue. It's cranky but less so than the sputum that is Guhnome.
I remember when it was good as I remember when Ubuntu was the most usable I remember.
LXDE is slowly changing but not throwing users under the bus chasing after fantasies.
Even if there are not areas it's like any other food or drug. We will have it and entrepreneurs whether legal or illegal will make it available. Since it's not illegal there is a good chance it won't be adulterated with poisons.
Coffee in Hawaii is already threatened by pests and it will reach 60/lb by 2013 though it may now shoot up higher.
If it goes high enough it will be economical to build greenhouses for it.
This sort of screed is just FUD trying to frighten children into *believing*.
If they're known and can be worked around they do not but if you need just a couple minutes to respond they can. I prefer technological solutions but physical can be lower maintenance in the long term so a mixture is a good compromise.
Since you've mentioned jobs, home fortification is a booming topic on the survival forums. It's usually just a dull roar but it's perked up quite a bit as of today. However not a one of them seems to get that encouraging the economy would keep them safer. It would sure as hell be cheaper than some of the farting blowhards solutions.
I do not believe a fortified home is much good for any protracted time. One that is intended to do more than slow down an assault is too expensive. I'd prefer a distributed alert architecture among a neighborhood where all home owners work together. I've seen that done in a ghetto with telephones in the 1990s and in a rural area with bells, telephones and internet from when I was little to now. In both cases I've been impressed with how well it worked.
Now if it gets so bad we end up with pastoral barbarians then I am going to fort up my villiage.;)
Always execute the indispensable person. The owner(s) are fools if the that person makes them the wagged tail. It will pay more in the long run to flush them.
You do it this way. You give Bob an agenda and you send him off the most distant and obscure places to 'evaluate software' preferably somewhere he can play on the company dime using the very generous per diem you will give him. Make sure he does not have time to spend in house while you rip the system apart by hiring a team of energetic 20 somethings you'll discard with pockets full of cash at the end of the project. If Bob has a multiple moral indiscretions or is arrested that is just cake. Once you've had your Bobectomy you set up that system with a broader hierarchy where no one person will ever have such control again and take reasonable precautions to ensure it is well documented and also as secure as needed for the data contained in it.
Well it worked at one place I was 'abused' at 20 something.;) Pockets full of cash baby.:)
It seems Porter Industries has hired someone to pump up their image. I don't know about them and went to look. They've gamed several search engines. Do you have a link to the article or some more information that would find the right information in a search?
I need a sarcasm font. The last two words should have been the clue needed to see that I was being sarcastic.
You can if you were to read up on it find out building techniques that give police or other JBTs fits. Some will be in court cases others in police training manuals. That will also show what data they look up on a property before executing the warrant.
It is illegal in some jurisdictions to build fortified homes. Many of the techniques listed would fall under that category. This is for the protection of the police and safety workers of course.
It already is solar powered. It is organic material created using solar energy that has been further processed over time to be hydrocarbons. All of the energy in this solar system comes from solar. All of the matter in this solar system except hydrogen and maybe some helium comes from stellar processes. Solar cannot be directly used for much on the surface of the earth or close to it which is an airplanes ceiling. We need a storage solution that does not have the costs that coal, oil, gas, solar, wind or other unsustainables have and to charge that storage medium with orbital solar power collectors or the less odorous solar collection technologies or something that will be developed.
I am also solar powered it's just concentrated by other life forms for me.
I sold some old Commodore parts I'd had thought I lost but had stored with a friend, got steady income from it for a couple years. I was higher priced than most but I tested and guaranteed it.
If you have a stand alone ram tester and can do a printout it's good, I had one for Commodore ram chips but sold it to someone in Germany. I would include a print out for the chips. I also had a socketed commodore motherboard and would run tests on the chips I'd sell, good tools that gave a print out.
I buy and resell certain cast iron cookware, I list it at a high price on ebay and when some cooking guru blathers about cast iron I make a good profit. There are other bizarre collectibles I buy. Some go to websites dedicated to niche items, others go to ebay/amazon.
It's trivial to list thousands of items on either, they have the tools and they want you to list stuff so you sell stuff. There are also many other websites dedicated to certain categories of parts, collectibles and such and there's the up coming juggernaut, Etsy for handmade and other items.
Yes you could put a ring on them and sell them on Etsy as a geek kubotan.
The current administration needs to at least follow up on this. To me it is akin to some empire builder in government running amok. They at least need smacked in the nose though that little punishment would not be satisfying to me if it were done publicly you'd know who they are. If not then congress should weigh in.
It means that the Greek government can't print the smart ones poorer. Quadruple the currency and you've reduced the worth of the paper you're holding by 75%. The US dollar is a fine example of this they have however diluted it over such a long time it was not as noticeable.
When you say the US? Who? Who would direct that? Customs drones don't do anything outside the law unless directed to unless they want to go to jail or be fired.
If this administration does not have control of the levers of government who ordered that?
They make that as complex and undecipherable as possible. I want it capped at a maximum amount preferably with a warning and a request to authorize more. I would really like them to translate that in to a language spoken casually somewhere on the planet. I get the features I need at my current service and I don't have to play Russian roulette with my finances. So far the service I use works without issue.
Try keeping stray RF/ESD/etc out of TOSLINK transceivers, even Toshiba brand is crap. Yes it's plastic fiber but this crap can't do 1 mbaud. It struggles at 125k baud. So for our unfortunate application we had to redesign the item with shielding. The original receiver/transmitter pair were shielded but they cost reduced them. I can't see how they can transmit audio much less other data. The other problem with plastic is it will transmit RF/ESD into the transceivers if it's not exactly perfect and moisture free.
We had better luck with glass fiber except when the outer protective sheath was moisture laden plastic.
It had to be said. That is what it would come to should that echoing of xenophobia prevail. Then would come the refusal to acknowledge foreign IP and perhaps though not likely a refutation of global standards.
What should happen is Huawei gets slapped so hard a politburro (sic) members teeth falls out. Every nation should have a rational policy about software and and hardware disclosure along with internal testing that is economical and prudent yet still allow a global economy.
It does not matter one whit if they're releasing everything including the ASIC code, masks, etc.
Don't let foreign assholes make your critical infrastructure. Period. Don't ship anything out of country. Don't rely on the companies in your country not to be idiots. If it is going into critical infrastructure you'd best have control of it.
Yea, it will put a screeching halt to the wonderful progress we've had and that is unfortunate but China and others seem to want to slit our throats so we should slit their profits.
Thank you. You'd have hair pricking up on some of the designs out there. Phillips seems to be one of the worst at catastrophic meltdowns yet their designs were capable of withstanding it. The only one I saw that was better was Admiral when it was designed by rocket engineers till sometime in the 70s when it as a company went bloof. I actually worked at a place that had 1970s era parts to repair them. They were the first of any who had a switching power supply...in the 1970s. Theirs had a tendency to cause a catastrophic failure of the high voltage tripler at around the 20 year mark. They used wood over a 1/2" water and flame proof laminate that contained the detonation that could and did damage the metal frame structure of that eras construction.;)
Bad designs? Zenith slapping their brand name on Goldstar guts and Goldstar using paper laminate PCBs instead of FR4 or equal. Fun times. The paper tended to degrade in the epoxy and I'd find the board shattered from the vibrations of normal use or the weight of the parts, never could tell.
It's no longer a viable career but it has it's stories. I worked in it from 1985 to 1997.
There is specialty MDO, you would find it in consumer electronics an age ago. I've had that crap put OUT a huge bonfire started with diesel fuel. It was the cabinet for a 70s era zenith TV. It burned blue and then green and then a white noxious fog came out and killed the fire.
I was impressed. Phillips Magnavox brand avoided serious lawsuits due to a misdesign that caused a vaporized metal plasma torch that would burn a hole through such material but did not catch the house on fire. It did damage the carpet.
In both cases it was a mix of veneer, laminate and particle board.
The MSDS on a cursory search says some have a flammability that is damn near nill. You have to have open flame and 400F for some products. This does vary by manufacturer so choose one that is better than Lowe's low end stuff.
Several proclaim they can be laser cut as they use inflammable adhesives McCathay is one but I'm sure there are others. So pick ones that can be laser cut and has a favorable MSDS and you should be ok.
Very good whiskey and an utter disrespect of the conspiriakii crowd. Most of their stuff reads almost like that though I seem to have failed to recover and expose the mockery in the last sentence. At least the offtopic modder read it.;)
Lock everything down except WoW. They can do all the other crap on the Linux machines. Give them not only a restrictive account but restrict what they can run to as limited use as possible. Just start fully restricted and then allow enough Wow runs correctly.
Prevent browser, email, etc use since that is a game machine and not an internet whore. Remove all browser plugins, remove the browser, remove all email clients, make any non-removable browser unusable on the internet by a firewall block or any more effective block. Block any out going ports and incoming ports except those needed by Wow.
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I will call many of those countries DINOs aka Democracies In Name Only since most people seem to equate "Democracy" to a government based on modern "Republicanism" which in not a Republic per se but something unique to the some movements in Europe and was a strong driver of the American revolutionaries.
DINOs do not honor immutable individual rights but do feebly proclaim human civil rights which varies with the governments whim.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republicanism
The best I've seen yet is snail mail. You send a stamped self addressed envelope to the board maintainer and they mail a password back. You use the login name you supplied to them and log on.
It is the most spam free board you can imagine.
Oh that was on a Fidonet BBS. ;)
I dumped them for their dementia and disrespect. I've been using an LXDE spin of Fedora without issue. It's cranky but less so than the sputum that is Guhnome.
I remember when it was good as I remember when Ubuntu was the most usable I remember.
LXDE is slowly changing but not throwing users under the bus chasing after fantasies.
Even if there are not areas it's like any other food or drug. We will have it and entrepreneurs whether legal or illegal will make it available. Since it's not illegal there is a good chance it won't be adulterated with poisons.
Coffee in Hawaii is already threatened by pests and it will reach 60/lb by 2013 though it may now shoot up higher.
If it goes high enough it will be economical to build greenhouses for it.
This sort of screed is just FUD trying to frighten children into *believing*.
If they're known and can be worked around they do not but if you need just a couple minutes to respond they can. I prefer technological solutions but physical can be lower maintenance in the long term so a mixture is a good compromise.
Since you've mentioned jobs, home fortification is a booming topic on the survival forums. It's usually just a dull roar but it's perked up quite a bit as of today. However not a one of them seems to get that encouraging the economy would keep them safer. It would sure as hell be cheaper than some of the farting blowhards solutions.
I do not believe a fortified home is much good for any protracted time. One that is intended to do more than slow down an assault is too expensive. I'd prefer a distributed alert architecture among a neighborhood where all home owners work together. I've seen that done in a ghetto with telephones in the 1990s and in a rural area with bells, telephones and internet from when I was little to now. In both cases I've been impressed with how well it worked.
Now if it gets so bad we end up with pastoral barbarians then I am going to fort up my villiage. ;)
Always execute the indispensable person. The owner(s) are fools if the that person makes them the wagged tail. It will pay more in the long run to flush them.
You do it this way. You give Bob an agenda and you send him off the most distant and obscure places to 'evaluate software' preferably somewhere he can play on the company dime using the very generous per diem you will give him. Make sure he does not have time to spend in house while you rip the system apart by hiring a team of energetic 20 somethings you'll discard with pockets full of cash at the end of the project. If Bob has a multiple moral indiscretions or is arrested that is just cake. Once you've had your Bobectomy you set up that system with a broader hierarchy where no one person will ever have such control again and take reasonable precautions to ensure it is well documented and also as secure as needed for the data contained in it.
Well it worked at one place I was 'abused' at 20 something. ;) Pockets full of cash baby. :)
It seems Porter Industries has hired someone to pump up their image. I don't know about them and went to look. They've gamed several search engines. Do you have a link to the article or some more information that would find the right information in a search?
ADP payroll systems is forcing the use of an ancient version of java and they refuse to fix their broken app.
http://www.adp.com/
Example there are plenty more.
http://ww2.valdosta.edu/helpdesk/news/042611a.shtml
Some payroll system.
I need a sarcasm font. The last two words should have been the clue needed to see that I was being sarcastic.
You can if you were to read up on it find out building techniques that give police or other JBTs fits. Some will be in court cases others in police training manuals. That will also show what data they look up on a property before executing the warrant.
It is illegal in some jurisdictions to build fortified homes. Many of the techniques listed would fall under that category. This is for the protection of the police and safety workers of course.
It already is solar powered. It is organic material created using solar energy that has been further processed over time to be hydrocarbons. All of the energy in this solar system comes from solar. All of the matter in this solar system except hydrogen and maybe some helium comes from stellar processes. Solar cannot be directly used for much on the surface of the earth or close to it which is an airplanes ceiling. We need a storage solution that does not have the costs that coal, oil, gas, solar, wind or other unsustainables have and to charge that storage medium with orbital solar power collectors or the less odorous solar collection technologies or something that will be developed.
I am also solar powered it's just concentrated by other life forms for me.
I sold some old Commodore parts I'd had thought I lost but had stored with a friend, got steady income from it for a couple years. I was higher priced than most but I tested and guaranteed it.
If you have a stand alone ram tester and can do a printout it's good, I had one for Commodore ram chips but sold it to someone in Germany. I would include a print out for the chips. I also had a socketed commodore motherboard and would run tests on the chips I'd sell, good tools that gave a print out.
I buy and resell certain cast iron cookware, I list it at a high price on ebay and when some cooking guru blathers about cast iron I make a good profit. There are other bizarre collectibles I buy. Some go to websites dedicated to niche items, others go to ebay/amazon.
It's trivial to list thousands of items on either, they have the tools and they want you to list stuff so you sell stuff. There are also many other websites dedicated to certain categories of parts, collectibles and such and there's the up coming juggernaut, Etsy for handmade and other items.
Yes you could put a ring on them and sell them on Etsy as a geek kubotan.
The current administration needs to at least follow up on this. To me it is akin to some empire builder in government running amok. They at least need smacked in the nose though that little punishment would not be satisfying to me if it were done publicly you'd know who they are. If not then congress should weigh in.
It means that the Greek government can't print the smart ones poorer. Quadruple the currency and you've reduced the worth of the paper you're holding by 75%. The US dollar is a fine example of this they have however diluted it over such a long time it was not as noticeable.
"Fiat currencies always trend down."
http://budwood.hubpages.com/hub/US-Dollar-Purchasing-Power
Gold, while not a good investment is a hedge against such inflation.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/survivalbros/5160598974/
When you say the US? Who? Who would direct that? Customs drones don't do anything outside the law unless directed to unless they want to go to jail or be fired.
If this administration does not have control of the levers of government who ordered that?
They make that as complex and undecipherable as possible. I want it capped at a maximum amount preferably with a warning and a request to authorize more. I would really like them to translate that in to a language spoken casually somewhere on the planet.
I get the features I need at my current service and I don't have to play Russian roulette with my finances. So far the service I use works without issue.
Try keeping stray RF/ESD/etc out of TOSLINK transceivers, even Toshiba brand is crap. Yes it's plastic fiber but this crap can't do 1 mbaud. It struggles at 125k baud. So for our unfortunate application we had to redesign the item with shielding. The original receiver/transmitter pair were shielded but they cost reduced them. I can't see how they can transmit audio much less other data.
The other problem with plastic is it will transmit RF/ESD into the transceivers if it's not exactly perfect and moisture free.
We had better luck with glass fiber except when the outer protective sheath was moisture laden plastic.
It's a niche communication product.
It had to be said. That is what it would come to should that echoing of xenophobia prevail. Then would come the refusal to acknowledge foreign IP and perhaps though not likely a refutation of global standards.
What should happen is Huawei gets slapped so hard a politburro (sic) members teeth falls out. Every nation should have a rational policy about software and and hardware disclosure along with internal testing that is economical and prudent yet still allow a global economy.
It does not matter one whit if they're releasing everything including the ASIC code, masks, etc.
Don't let foreign assholes make your critical infrastructure. Period. Don't ship anything out of country. Don't rely on the companies in your country not to be idiots. If it is going into critical infrastructure you'd best have control of it.
Yea, it will put a screeching halt to the wonderful progress we've had and that is unfortunate but China and others seem to want to slit our throats so we should slit their profits.
Thank you. You'd have hair pricking up on some of the designs out there. Phillips seems to be one of the worst at catastrophic meltdowns yet their designs were capable of withstanding it. The only one I saw that was better was Admiral when it was designed by rocket engineers till sometime in the 70s when it as a company went bloof. I actually worked at a place that had 1970s era parts to repair them. They were the first of any who had a switching power supply...in the 1970s. Theirs had a tendency to cause a catastrophic failure of the high voltage tripler at around the 20 year mark. They used wood over a 1/2" water and flame proof laminate that contained the detonation that could and did damage the metal frame structure of that eras construction. ;)
Bad designs? Zenith slapping their brand name on Goldstar guts and Goldstar using paper laminate PCBs instead of FR4 or equal. Fun times. The paper tended to degrade in the epoxy and I'd find the board shattered from the vibrations of normal use or the weight of the parts, never could tell.
It's no longer a viable career but it has it's stories. I worked in it from 1985 to 1997.
There is specialty MDO, you would find it in consumer electronics an age ago. I've had that crap put OUT a huge bonfire started with diesel fuel. It was the cabinet for a 70s era zenith TV. It burned blue and then green and then a white noxious fog came out and killed the fire.
I was impressed. Phillips Magnavox brand avoided serious lawsuits due to a misdesign that caused a vaporized metal plasma torch that would burn a hole through such material but did not catch the house on fire. It did damage the carpet.
In both cases it was a mix of veneer, laminate and particle board.
The MSDS on a cursory search says some have a flammability that is damn near nill. You have to have open flame and 400F for some products. This does vary by manufacturer so choose one that is better than Lowe's low end stuff.
Several proclaim they can be laser cut as they use inflammable adhesives McCathay is one but I'm sure there are others. So pick ones that can be laser cut and has a favorable MSDS and you should be ok.
Very good whiskey and an utter disrespect of the conspiriakii crowd. Most of their stuff reads almost like that though I seem to have failed to recover and expose the mockery in the last sentence. At least the offtopic modder read it. ;)
Color me ignorant but where would I find or subscribe to a list of such trade restrictions?
Lock everything down except WoW. They can do all the other crap on the Linux machines. Give them not only a restrictive account but restrict what they can run to as limited use as possible. Just start fully restricted and then allow enough Wow runs correctly.
Prevent browser, email, etc use since that is a game machine and not an internet whore. Remove all browser plugins, remove the browser, remove all email clients, make any non-removable browser unusable on the internet by a firewall block or any more effective block. Block any out going ports and incoming ports except those needed by Wow.
Look for dubious MS practices and thwart them.
http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/security/3236713/microsoft-releases-tool-to-block-dll-hijacking-attacks/ I think win7 has something to prevent this now...after 12 years of it.
Read this but note that I'm an XP person and can't judge quality of it, I am working on that. It seems ok and is what I'd do to XP.
http://www.winfrastructure.net/article.aspx?BlogEntry=Quick-steps-to-Windows-7-OS-hardening
Read the references and adapt them to your system.
http://www.nsa.gov/ia/mitigation_guidance/security_configuration_guides/operating_systems.shtml#microsoft