Here's a suggestion, if you want to know where the tunnels under your campus go be prepared to answer a few questions by men in black suits. If you want to learn about how to cultivate anthrax then be prepared to answer a few questions by men in black suits. If you want to know about building suitcase nukes then be prepared to answer a few questions by men in black suits. That's the way it should and needs to be.
If i want to know about tunnels i ask and i get help from the government and usually an escort (i like to go and visit old cold war sites like bunkers Etc.)If i ask about anthrax and suitcase nukes i expect to be watched and arrested (if i am doing something wrong)not to have irrelevent questions asked of me in either case.
If this kid is the next Mcveigh then he won't try anything now that there is intrest in him (instead he will wait)what they should have done is observed him and see what he did with the information who he met Etc. They way the FBI went about this was a total waste of time regardless of his intentions and would do nothing to stop an attack in the long run.
I don't think that the problem is that they where following up on this, that is right and proper it is how they where following up on this by asking irrelevant questions about his hair and to what organizations he belonged to (why yes I belong to al-qaida as it happens) The complaint that can be made is not about them doing there job but how there doing it.
but the 1/2 hour wasted is a pain. Microsoft has forced me to pirate a copy of their software to use valid licenses.
Invoice them for it especially if it was during work time When it comes to Automatic registration a fix that microsoft brought out not long after SP1 broke the automatic regitration so that you could use it as many times as you want. unfortunaltey the fixed the fix and i lost the broken fix.
Maybe there should be a per PC sold charge that you get charged regardless whether you install Windows or not
What an even handed and fair idea after all no uses PC's for anything other than windows. Why don't we extend that idea to Mac's?
this seem only fair since providing service to pirates will only encourage piracy and shrink their market share.
Piracy is what has grown Microsoft's market share I know of almost no one here in the UK who's first copy of windows wasn't pirated.
On the other hand since you get value out of not being bombarded with viruses and virus spawned spam you of course are happy to pay this small fee even if you install Linux.
Twisting that theory around shouldn't windows users pay a little extra to Linux users for not being bombarded with viruses and virus spawned spam as after all it's windows that causes most of the problems.
Reducing the rate 10 points to 44 percent by 2006 could create 1.1 million new jobs, increase economic growth by US$170 billion, and generate another US$15 billion in tax revenues.
Will you really need 1.1 million people to copy all those extra CD's? I don't think so those 1.1 million won't be programmers etc either as the software is already here (otherwise they couldn't pirate it) so where are these 1.1 million jobs going to come from. Your correct it could increase MS's profits by US$170 billion but little of that will return to the American economy, and if the amount of pirated software is reduced by 10 percent the use of rival OS's will go up by about 10% .
Hell, who wouldn't believe the company line how they're doing 'for the good of humanity'.
Well most of the UK wouldn't because we know it only benefits the friends of Blair like Monsanto Etc. Also we have had a lot of counter argument about the potential harm it can do.
In Saskatchewan (Canada), there are farmers whose field have been spoiled by bio-tech seeds that travel quite far (spoiled because they cant sell to European non-GMO countries) from other farms and who are getting sued by the large corporations for illegally using their products.
Surely they can sue them for loss of earnings and contamination especially if the big companies think they can sue them for theft of seed that was carried naturally.
I could sell spoiled herrings if I like. If someone is willing to pay me for those, it's not of anybody else's business, as far as we are not breaking the law. Actually all fod shouled be labelled up with a use by or similer date and can't be sold after this time or even given away free (you could give them away as a private individual but not sell them)
This whitelist will be automatically added to Blacklists. This sounds like microsoft are saying give us some money and we will let you spam to your hearts content.
And how many people do you know that care about video editing?
Well my dad for one and my sister, mother, and a lot of friends.Are so many Joe Sixpacks going to rush to
Best Buy just so they can get one of these super-fast machines so they can edit their home videos faster?
I think home editing is one of the few things that would encourage Joe sixpack to get the latest Desktop after all that is what is driving most of those home users who get powerful machines but aren't a gamer or professional user (by that mean someone who needs the power for there job)
Lastly, why would an OS need all this power? The OS isn't supposed to gobble up all the machine's resources, because then you can't run these power-hungry apps
Good question bad/lazy programming? A deal with the hardware manufactures to force upgrades? MS hates the homes user? They equate resource use to market share? (Windows OS is on 90% of the worlds computers. Um no it just uses 90% of the world computing resources to run clippy)
someone just did this joke a couple of articles ago. False memes that never die just make people look ignorant.
Yawn! yes we know it's not true yes we know that it is repeated a lot, not having a sense of humour or complaining about those that do just makes you look sad and lonely throwing in references to memes (the word of the day on/.) makes you look like a sheep.
I'm usually all for poking fun at the prejudice guy but I'm not seeing it. 500gs on a stadium when the seniors can't read... that sounds stoopid to me.
Sort of an education catch 22 those at the top are stupid ensuring that those below become stupid, because of stupid decisions in there education. This ensurs the next generation are well an truly screwed education wise.
Finally why o why Astroturf it has to be the nastiest surface to play on and it isn't even low maintenance and presumambly this is for American Football there are going to be some nasty carpet burns on that pitch
This was 20 years or so ago and the operator said it wasn't my voice when they had me repeat a series of words on the phone to her. None the less I got a 10 day suspension from school and my parents were called to come and get me.
I think all education centers operate on the quilty until proven inocent idea
1. Stick with what you know.
A lot of people suggested stealing a phone but that would have gotten him cought FASTER. Instead he used the phone he already owned.
He knew how to spoof caller ID so he is better off doing that instead.
Yes he made phone calls IN CLASS. My guess on the matter is that this isn't an unusual activity amoung his peers and he had quite a bit of practace calling friends during class. So he probably mastered this little skill long before trying anything.
He probably tested the caller ID hack extensively and perfected that as well before making his first fake bomb threat.
2. People learn. DO NOT do it a second time.
He got cought simply becouse he gave the police enough chances to catch up.
The first time you'll catch em off guard.
You might get a second swing if it's too complex for them to figure it out first time.
Third time is dumb luck.
Forth and your really out on a limb.
Actually that idea works pretty well with getting away with anything. A Training book from WW2 about attack airfields stated that on your first (strafeing) run the Anti aircraft defences will be supprised on the second run they will be ready for you and by the third they have had some practise, the conclusion don't make more than one run.
His comment: ``Once everyone has found Christ, then a multicultural society can work.''
Do you think jesus will make my graphics card work (once i find him presumably he has a very booked out schedule), or is hardware the goat legged red dude's department?
The title as "researchers are to cilmb arafat to seek noahs ark" and wondered why he never noticed a boat on him and would he object to a team of people climbing over him.
I'd rather they collect hair samples from it. A little monkey, a little giraffe here and there, etc... How does it compare genetically to the animals we have now? If this were indeed the ark then there would be some sort of definitive proof of paternity for every single sample found. Excluding those of the animals which were sacrificed or eaten of course.;-)
It could even show if there was some evolution wouldn't that be ironic, finding Noahs ark and using it to prove evolution.
If Catholicism had, had it's way the earth would still be flat at the centre of the universe women would still be considered evil and impure for bleeding once a month. Anyone who says science and religion are not mutually exclusive doesn't understand either one fully.
I don't know which is the bigger scam - attempting to "photograph" this Ark, or the "fact" that is actually exists
I don't think they are stateing that the object they want to look at is the ark as fact. mereley that they belive it is and are going to photgraph it, which is where it all gets a bit fuzzy they don't even plan to bring any back for carbon dateing and other tests.
If ratified, no new domestic laws would be have to be passed to bring the U.S. into line with the treaty, according to the Justice Department. Steinhardt was sceptical. "The treaty is already being used as a pretext in some developing nation to pass some pretty draconian laws," he said. "I wouldn't be surprised to see it used in the U.S. that way."
for those of you wondering why the American government (bush) badly wants this ratified there your answer also this can be turned 180 degrees and America can use this to observes those who have broken US law but not another nations. It simply works both ways and I don't think they'd mind if the occasional person gets the rights violated in return for there own use of the system.
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If i want to know about tunnels i ask and i get help from the government and usually an escort (i like to go and visit old cold war sites like bunkers Etc.)If i ask about anthrax and suitcase nukes i expect to be watched and arrested (if i am doing something wrong)not to have irrelevent questions asked of me in either case.
If this kid is the next Mcveigh then he won't try anything now that there is intrest in him (instead he will wait)what they should have done is observed him and see what he did with the information who he met Etc. They way the FBI went about this was a total waste of time regardless of his intentions and would do nothing to stop an attack in the long run.
I don't think that the problem is that they where following up on this, that is right and proper it is how they where following up on this by asking irrelevant questions about his hair and to what organizations he belonged to (why yes I belong to al-qaida as it happens) The complaint that can be made is not about them doing there job but how there doing it.
There can be only one. (exept for sean connery whos allowed to come despite having his chopped of)
Invoice them for it especially if it was during work time When it comes to Automatic registration a fix that microsoft brought out not long after SP1 broke the automatic regitration so that you could use it as many times as you want. unfortunaltey the fixed the fix and i lost the broken fix.
What an even handed and fair idea after all no uses PC's for anything other than windows. Why don't we extend that idea to Mac's?
this seem only fair since providing service to pirates will only encourage piracy and shrink their market share.
Piracy is what has grown Microsoft's market share I know of almost no one here in the UK who's first copy of windows wasn't pirated.
On the other hand since you get value out of not being bombarded with viruses and virus spawned spam you of course are happy to pay this small fee even if you install Linux.
Twisting that theory around shouldn't windows users pay a little extra to Linux users for not being bombarded with viruses and virus spawned spam as after all it's windows that causes most of the problems.
Will you really need 1.1 million people to copy all those extra CD's? I don't think so those 1.1 million won't be programmers etc either as the software is already here (otherwise they couldn't pirate it) so where are these 1.1 million jobs going to come from. Your correct it could increase MS's profits by US$170 billion but little of that will return to the American economy, and if the amount of pirated software is reduced by 10 percent the use of rival OS's will go up by about 10% .
If you can Patent an apple tree could i breed a new variaty of cattle and patent the livestock?
Well most of the UK wouldn't because we know it only benefits the friends of Blair like Monsanto Etc. Also we have had a lot of counter argument about the potential harm it can do.
In Saskatchewan (Canada), there are farmers whose field have been spoiled by bio-tech seeds that travel quite far (spoiled because they cant sell to European non-GMO countries) from other farms and who are getting sued by the large corporations for illegally using their products.
Surely they can sue them for loss of earnings and contamination especially if the big companies think they can sue them for theft of seed that was carried naturally.
I could sell spoiled herrings if I like. If someone is willing to pay me for those, it's not of anybody else's business, as far as we are not breaking the law. Actually all fod shouled be labelled up with a use by or similer date and can't be sold after this time or even given away free (you could give them away as a private individual but not sell them)
can i use this "whitelist" as a "blacklist" it seems a handy thing to have a list of self confessed spammers
This whitelist will be automatically added to Blacklists. This sounds like microsoft are saying give us some money and we will let you spam to your hearts content.
Well my dad for one and my sister, mother, and a lot of friends.Are so many Joe Sixpacks going to rush to
Best Buy just so they can get one of these super-fast machines so they can edit their home videos faster?
I think home editing is one of the few things that would encourage Joe sixpack to get the latest Desktop after all that is what is driving most of those home users who get powerful machines but aren't a gamer or professional user (by that mean someone who needs the power for there job)
Lastly, why would an OS need all this power? The OS isn't supposed to gobble up all the machine's resources, because then you can't run these power-hungry apps
Good question bad/lazy programming? A deal with the hardware manufactures to force upgrades? MS hates the homes user? They equate resource use to market share? (Windows OS is on 90% of the worlds computers. Um no it just uses 90% of the world computing resources to run clippy)
Usually games sites are filtered out at work but it lets me into to that site i guess it doesn't count as a game
That sounded like an assumption. Consistent sloppy spelling and hand writing is usually a sign of dyslexia.
Yawn! yes we know it's not true yes we know that it is repeated a lot, not having a sense of humour or complaining about those that do just makes you look sad and lonely throwing in references to memes (the word of the day on /.) makes you look like a sheep.
Sort of an education catch 22 those at the top are stupid ensuring that those below become stupid, because of stupid decisions in there education. This ensurs the next generation are well an truly screwed education wise.
Finally why o why Astroturf it has to be the nastiest surface to play on and it isn't even low maintenance and presumambly this is for American Football there are going to be some nasty carpet burns on that pitch
I think all education centers operate on the quilty until proven inocent idea
2. People learn. DO NOT do it a second time. He got cought simply becouse he gave the police enough chances to catch up. The first time you'll catch em off guard. You might get a second swing if it's too complex for them to figure it out first time. Third time is dumb luck. Forth and your really out on a limb.
Actually that idea works pretty well with getting away with anything. A Training book from WW2 about attack airfields stated that on your first (strafeing) run the Anti aircraft defences will be supprised on the second run they will be ready for you and by the third they have had some practise, the conclusion don't make more than one run.
Couldn't resist. 1 Phone bomb threats to school 2 Stop before police get really intrested and ask the right questions 2 ????? 3 Perfect crime
If only that worked reall bigies like Bank robbery
Do you think jesus will make my graphics card work (once i find him presumably he has a very booked out schedule), or is hardware the goat legged red dude's department?
The title as "researchers are to cilmb arafat to seek noahs ark" and wondered why he never noticed a boat on him and would he object to a team of people climbing over him.
It could even show if there was some evolution wouldn't that be ironic, finding Noahs ark and using it to prove evolution.
If Catholicism had, had it's way the earth would still be flat at the centre of the universe women would still be considered evil and impure for bleeding once a month. Anyone who says science and religion are not mutually exclusive doesn't understand either one fully.
I don't think they are stateing that the object they want to look at is the ark as fact. mereley that they belive it is and are going to photgraph it, which is where it all gets a bit fuzzy they don't even plan to bring any back for carbon dateing and other tests.
for those of you wondering why the American government (bush) badly wants this ratified there your answer also this can be turned 180 degrees and America can use this to observes those who have broken US law but not another nations. It simply works both ways and I don't think they'd mind if the occasional person gets the rights violated in return for there own use of the system.