take the headphones OFF and look around, meeting the eyes of people around you. Awareness is the key. A mugger wants an unaware victim and generally passes on someone who seems aware of them from the start. If the eye-to-eye contact is seen as a challenge you were likely to be a target anyways and now you at least have some warning...
Incredible ratings ?? HOW do they know ?!?! They have no real way to measure who is really watching only the digital systems have that ability and most people do NOT have digital, and the neilsen system is WHOLLY artificial, representing NOTHING like the real world...
Because the NETWORKS are pushing it HARD and forcing airtime, it MUST be popular. That kind of logic is what Clear Channel uses to determine the #1 record. Issue a play list, play the song you want more than any other, then tout it as the most popular based on airtime and push sales...
Speaking of Nascar and Reality shows...OMG they combined them into a Nascar Reality show...we have sunk lower than I thought possible. Nascar, if the drivers keep practicing and soon they will add right turns too...
can you say commuter trains:) Imagine if you brakes were linked to the guy in fornt of you, no more guessing when he was gonna slow, the whole 'train' would know in milliseconds, merging into a train would be a simple matter of every car giving up say 3 or 4 inches quietlyand efficiently. I can also see a hacker just having a field day issing slowdowns to entire trains of commuters or better yet giveing instructions to leave the freeway or to pull into the next MCDonald's:) One step farther than hijacking rds radio:)
memory and can recall the days in which they were UNDISPUTED KING OF ALL THINGS COMPUTER. They'd like to go back to that I think...Not that they would be any better than M$ as monopolists.
effective I'd think, soon the individual troops will be so TOTALLY dependent on heads up display and computer guidance and computer assisted weapon targetting that a local emp blast will leave helpless blind soldiers wielding their only remaining weapon, the officers'.45 and the knife/hatchet we just payed 57 million dollars to develop, look a lot like an indian hatchet:)
I do work for a group of SCA folks and I get all kinds of barter from them. Some really cool period or home-made clothes, butchered and dressed live stock (hams/chickens/quail/turkey/venison) eggs, butter etc. I've always wondered how to report some of it ? As the market value of my time, the super-market value of the items ? or like I did for most of it, unless it involved a big ticket purchase item on my business license I just did not report it. The further off the traditional lifestyle pattern you get, the odder the barter options become:)
every one else can't as well. I 'trust' an entity will an obvious reason for their behavior, ie profit, much more than I trust a so called altruistic entity, fanatics are SCARY.
Not to say that there is not cause for concern or need for extreme watchfullness but a stable net profits everyone, reducing spam to a manageable level in which a bulk nugget might even catch the light is profitable to everyone concerned, even the legit bulk mailers. I think the answer is to build an authenticated mail infrastucture at the tier-1 peering level, working with the DNS managers, and system and provide link points to the existing system...You could receive authenticated mail from a validated sender, marked as such, and continue to receive un-authenticated mail should you choose to. Gradually legitimate sources will migrate to the authenticated side, if it is worth snot that is, and the 'evil' spammers will be left dishing traffic that can be ignored or dealt with as user/provider see's fit. Much like they have done with news feeds today. The key issue I think if a wild user land style net is to survive, is to both let and force the businessess to assume much of the burden of the infrastructure and deal with the costs behind the scene. IE the big banks and VISA to make and provide a financial network, and allow vendors to establish a presence at their expense. Their motives are crystal clear, they are federally regulated on the use and disclosure of information, and they have a relatively good track record on security. I'd trust a bank or a casino to manage security and money long before I'd trust the government or another private interest. The thought of the UN managing somthing like that scares me silly, they'd decide it was in our best interest and for humanity as a whole to be 'gattica' marked or somthing equally pernicious. Oh well Cheers all and TGIF:)
Salute to the Flames, MY HATS OFF AND HEART STILL WITH THE SHARKS, way to go guys, next season !!! 5 year season ticket holder and true believer
I think that was the 'real' heart of case. Farmer Cannuck claimed it blew onto his property and then spread, Corporate Monsanto claimed the volume of growth FAR exceeded what could be reasonably explained as 'normal' spread, the court apparently supported Monsanto. If this ruling holds, I would declare my farm a gene-mod free, wholly organic zone and then be ready to file as soon as a single grain was discovered. Funny but the US has been fed gene mod corn, and Bovine Growth Hormone for nearly a dozen years now, the FDA, in its infinite wisdom, decided it was so safe the consuming public did not even have to be notified. I recall seeing a small dairy concern being sued and losing, or settling for advertising GBH free on their product. Coincidence that 10 year old girls have C cup's now ? I think not...
that really drives the US, especially under the republican governing model. Every state has only 2 Senators, regardless of the number of representatives, though the number of electoral college members would seriously affect things, not to mention the time difference would play havoc with network election coverage:) California and Texas produce almost as much as England does economically, relatively speaking, so perhaps things would not be as off-kilter as you think. I personally would rather see the English monarchy adopt a serious bill of rights and then welcome the colonies back after a brief family spat between cousins. *dons protective flame suit*
BTW how many of those 56 million are now technically 'freely' associated Scotsmen ? Wow that sounds odd, a Scot freely doing anything with an Englishman beside bashing each other with huge pointy objects...
should NOW suddenly be different than ALL OF RECORDED HUMAN HISTORY ??? We have been plagued by wars, persecution, violence done upon ourselves in the name of Justice, Revenge, Country, Honor, and every other abstract concept up to and in my opinion including religion, not to mention the 'real' reasons for a war: food, and living space. Do you think that Americans today are any different than the Greeks or Romans, the Mongols, or the Spanish Inquisition ? So circus is now on TV. The Middle east has been at for 2500 years now ? Asia has seen millions put down in one so-called 'wave' of barbarians or another, and we have not even touched on the sweeping plagues...or the more 'recent' humanitarian causes taken up by humans, for humans, or is it TO humans. Stalin, Hitler, Franco...
imbalance listed as primary source, you stated it was your young daughter so I assume it was not accidental damage ? I've dealt with 2 types in varying degrees. Chemical imbalances can be dealt with providing they are not too acute, at which point the individual(s) lose the ability to rationally judge the state they are in to determine the need for medicine. Organic damage is often more black and white, but not always, and rarely is there a realistic treament plan or hope from recovery with inherent organic damage:( I can only imagine the added complications coming with an young child unable to communicate effectively to start with.
Many people lead relatively normal lives with this condition provided they have some rational balance to measure against, a close family member who is aware and educated to watch for disassociative signs or developing patterns. It can be a terribly tragic situation for family members and friends, God bless and I wish you the best of luck.
at your chosen profession, less than 5 years ?. I tend to agree with the originator, often transforming an enjoyable hobby into a job sucks the enjoyable part out and it becomes work. I very much enjoy the hardware system design and testing I do, but it has seriously impacted the 'hacker' time I used to spend 'playing' with stuff at home. On the flip side I have access to some incredible hardware, my internal lan is fully fiber at 2GB speed running on emulex-9K cards to a 4 port fabric switch. When I get to my rig at home I just want it to work, and I don't want to mess with it generally, which was the exact skill set that landed me the job in the first place....
or who gives it, I am still not paying a dime for email...plain and simple. I have a work address, 98% of what I get thru my other addresses is garbage spam anyways so I will just do without if it comes to cost. I don't think I am alone in that state of mind, nor do I see how they think they are going to make money...
First note to anyone setting up commercial installations is ONLY KEEP WHAT YOU ABSOLUTELY NEED, actively/dev/null everything else. Records have a way of getting outed in court, refer to Netscape/M$/MCI cases.
I helped set up local public library systems and we ensured that no personal information was kept regarding book history, or check out history beyond the confirmation of return. We do track how many times and for what duration a book is out, but not who had it beyond the most current user, assuming the book is in fact out, if it is checked-in there is no user associated data kept. If the FBI under the guise of keeping us free from terrorism wants to know, we can tell them that the anarchist's cookbook gets LOTS of out time, and who currently has it but not what that person had prior or any sort of user history for a particiular subject, just the bare data that is required to maintain a good inventory of books and cut loose the dead weight that doesn't get used...
99% of the home routers use IIS as the core 'web' management system so M$ doesn't need to make them any more, they can use the existing backdoors in their IIS system. Many HOME models' web interface can't even be patched so while firmware code can be updated, as far as I know, most reputable companies advise 'DISABLING' the web management and attaching/managing via local port. Heck even some entry level CISCO products have the same problem. Check for aluminum plating on that tin foli hat pls...
The US likes to be the BIG Kid on the block and lean on anyone they choose. While we in the US seem to be apathetic about our government messing in the 3rd world:( I think that there are enough related people that should the American Brainchild GWBush start messing with European powers militarily, things would go south quickly. That leaves only economic 'influence' to wielded like a big club. If the EU survives, grows and becomes a cohesive ecomonic force, there goes the one remaining weapon the small minded politco's in Washington don't have to use/abuse...
industry standard parts ? HP's high end servers make that claim as well but FAIL to live up to it. They've even taken to using POWER CORDS that are square vs the standard type, though they are the same load rating. HP server memory is horrendously OVERPRICED and different for each bloody model. HP controllers are unique and system rom coded, and to my knowledge their U320 SCSI drives are wired differently on 2 or 3 channels just to ensure you are required to replace HP with over-priced HP. I'd hesitate to buy a 'gaming' machine from someone who branded other people parts as there own vs using off the shelf components. The HP replacement components are often not EVEN THE SAME manufacturer as the original but this 'months' reseller of choice. Things change and upgrade so fast and it is NOT in HP's best interest to allow you to upgrade the parts, they want to sell you a whole new system.
Maybe 'feelings' is the incorrect term, but there are numerous potential liability issues involved in providing customer data to 3rd parties, especially when litigation is involved. Comcast was provided with ip/user information and requested to notify their customers of potential infringments/violations. Verizon, on the other hand, was given what turned out to be MANY incorrectly filed ADMINISTRATIVELY issued court writs from another district demanding user information. I have to agree with you on the corporate feelings issue, I am not convinced that corporate board members/directors are human anymore, much less have feelings of connectivity or responsiblity to the rest of the living organisms on the planet.
Part of the reason that Comcast is playing ball is that they were ASKED, vs. VERIZON who was given a 'writ' and a demand for customer info. Comcast has been asked to notify SPECIFIC customers of violations or potential violations. Honestly I think that is the way the system is SUPOSSED to work, and if you ARE trading in illegagl copies you SHOULD get busted. If you own a copy of the source material, then they should be going after the people who downloaded it without proper legal right.
agreed, but you gotta admit the student discounts and giving stuff "for free" with the intent of hooking you into their file format is both genius marketing and insidiously immoral. Look what giving away IE did to the market, set browsers back 10 years if not more security wise but worked commercially like a dream. As a support person until the Linux/Unix desktop gets a little more (L)user proof I'd just as soon not see it everywhere. The folks in our business, nominally design engineers who do use it as a desktop are constantly needing assistance because they won't treat their machines like a server vs a desktop computer and comeback with corruption all the time. As for back end, the servers needing the most support turn out to be High-End clusters of 6-8 cpu's/4-8gb memory running Win2k AS, supposedly the most robust and stable, they require constant nursing and a pristine network environment, one that I've read about but never actually seen in the real world.
now our congress-aliens can sit in the park, with 10 security agents of course and work remotely, that is if they can in fact operate a computer. What is gonna be even more fun is when the RIAA sue's someone using one of those IP's for music pirating:) That might be the ONLY to get congress out of the RIAA's back-pocket, have them bite the hand that is force feeding them like barn raised veal...
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take the headphones OFF and look around, meeting the eyes of people around you. Awareness is the key. A mugger wants an unaware victim and generally passes on someone who seems aware of them from the start. If the eye-to-eye contact is seen as a challenge you were likely to be a target anyways and now you at least have some warning...
Wasn't it Gene Simmons, the guitarist from Kiss, and not a bad actor, who played the villian with the gene-coded smart bullets that tracked targets ?
Incredible ratings ?? HOW do they know ?!?! They have no real way to measure who is really watching only the digital systems have that ability and most people do NOT have digital, and the neilsen system is WHOLLY artificial, representing NOTHING like the real world...
but Hi mom ?!?! How about just off-setting the street addresses on a random block :) Would love to see them try and reconcile the 2 views :)
Because the NETWORKS are pushing it HARD and forcing airtime, it MUST be popular. That kind of logic is what Clear Channel uses to determine the #1 record. Issue a play list, play the song you want more than any other, then tout it as the most popular based on airtime and push sales...
Speaking of Nascar and Reality shows...OMG they combined them into a Nascar Reality show...we have sunk lower than I thought possible. Nascar, if the drivers keep practicing and soon they will add right turns too...
can you say commuter trains :) Imagine if you brakes were linked to the guy in fornt of you, no more guessing when he was gonna slow, the whole 'train' would know in milliseconds, merging into a train would be a simple matter of every car giving up say 3 or 4 inches quietlyand efficiently. I can also see a hacker just having a field day issing slowdowns to entire trains of commuters or better yet giveing instructions to leave the freeway or to pull into the next MCDonald's :) One step farther than hijacking rds radio :)
memory and can recall the days in which they were UNDISPUTED KING OF ALL THINGS COMPUTER. They'd like to go back to that I think...Not that they would be any better than M$ as monopolists.
effective I'd think, soon the individual troops will be so TOTALLY dependent on heads up display and computer guidance and computer assisted weapon targetting that a local emp blast will leave helpless blind soldiers wielding their only remaining weapon, the officers' .45 and the knife/hatchet we just payed 57 million dollars to develop, look a lot like an indian hatchet :)
I do work for a group of SCA folks and I get all kinds of barter from them. Some really cool period or home-made clothes, butchered and dressed live stock (hams/chickens/quail/turkey/venison) eggs, butter etc. I've always wondered how to report some of it ? As the market value of my time, the super-market value of the items ? or like I did for most of it, unless it involved a big ticket purchase item on my business license I just did not report it. :)
The further off the traditional lifestyle pattern you get, the odder the barter options become
Not to say that there is not cause for concern or need for extreme watchfullness but a stable net profits everyone, reducing spam to a manageable level in which a bulk nugget might even catch the light is profitable to everyone concerned, even the legit bulk mailers. I think the answer is to build an authenticated mail infrastucture at the tier-1 peering level, working with the DNS managers, and system and provide link points to the existing system...You could receive authenticated mail from a validated sender, marked as such, and continue to receive un-authenticated mail should you choose to. Gradually legitimate sources will migrate to the authenticated side, if it is worth snot that is, and the 'evil' spammers will be left dishing traffic that can be ignored or dealt with as user/provider see's fit. Much like they have done with news feeds today. The key issue I think if a wild user land style net is to survive, is to both let and force the businessess to assume much of the burden of the infrastructure and deal with the costs behind the scene. IE the big banks and VISA to make and provide a financial network, and allow vendors to establish a presence at their expense. Their motives are crystal clear, they are federally regulated on the use and disclosure of information, and they have a relatively good track record on security. I'd trust a bank or a casino to manage security and money long before I'd trust the government or another private interest. The thought of the UN managing somthing like that scares me silly, they'd decide it was in our best interest and for humanity as a whole to be 'gattica' marked or somthing equally pernicious. Oh well Cheers all and TGIF :)
Salute to the Flames, MY HATS OFF AND HEART STILL WITH THE SHARKS, way to go guys, next season !!!
5 year season ticket holder and true believer
I think that was the 'real' heart of case. Farmer Cannuck claimed it blew onto his property and then spread, Corporate Monsanto claimed the volume of growth FAR exceeded what could be reasonably explained as 'normal' spread, the court apparently supported Monsanto. If this ruling holds, I would declare my farm a gene-mod free, wholly organic zone and then be ready to file as soon as a single grain was discovered. Funny but the US has been fed gene mod corn, and Bovine Growth Hormone for nearly a dozen years now, the FDA, in its infinite wisdom, decided it was so safe the consuming public did not even have to be notified. I recall seeing a small dairy concern being sued and losing, or settling for advertising GBH free on their product. Coincidence that 10 year old girls have C cup's now ? I think not...
that really drives the US, especially under the republican governing model. Every state has only 2 Senators, regardless of the number of representatives, though the number of electoral college members would seriously affect things, not to mention the time difference would play havoc with network election coverage :) California and Texas produce almost as much as England does economically, relatively speaking, so perhaps things would not be as off-kilter as you think. I personally would rather see the English monarchy adopt a serious bill of rights and then welcome the colonies back after a brief family spat between cousins. *dons protective flame suit*
BTW how many of those 56 million are now technically 'freely' associated Scotsmen ? Wow that sounds odd, a Scot freely doing anything with an Englishman beside bashing each other with huge pointy objects...
should NOW suddenly be different than ALL OF RECORDED HUMAN HISTORY ??? We have been plagued by wars, persecution, violence done upon ourselves in the name of Justice, Revenge, Country, Honor, and every other abstract concept up to and in my opinion including religion, not to mention the 'real' reasons for a war: food, and living space. Do you think that Americans today are any different than the Greeks or Romans, the Mongols, or the Spanish Inquisition ? So circus is now on TV. The Middle east has been at for 2500 years now ? Asia has seen millions put down in one so-called 'wave' of barbarians or another, and we have not even touched on the sweeping plagues...or the more 'recent' humanitarian causes taken up by humans, for humans, or is it TO humans. Stalin, Hitler, Franco...
I can only imagine the added complications coming with an young child unable to communicate effectively to start with.
Many people lead relatively normal lives with this condition provided they have some rational balance to measure against, a close family member who is aware and educated to watch for disassociative signs or developing patterns. It can be a terribly tragic situation for family members and friends, God bless and I wish you the best of luck.
at your chosen profession, less than 5 years ?. I tend to agree with the originator, often transforming an enjoyable hobby into a job sucks the enjoyable part out and it becomes work. I very much enjoy the hardware system design and testing I do, but it has seriously impacted the 'hacker' time I used to spend 'playing' with stuff at home. On the flip side I have access to some incredible hardware, my internal lan is fully fiber at 2GB speed running on emulex-9K cards to a 4 port fabric switch.
When I get to my rig at home I just want it to work, and I don't want to mess with it generally, which was the exact skill set that landed me the job in the first place....
or who gives it, I am still not paying a dime for email...plain and simple. I have a work address, 98% of what I get thru my other addresses is garbage spam anyways so I will just do without if it comes to cost. I don't think I am alone in that state of mind, nor do I see how they think they are going to make money...
BUMP...the above about logging is SO TRUE...
/dev/null everything else. Records have a way of getting outed in court, refer to Netscape/M$/MCI cases.
First note to anyone setting up commercial installations is ONLY KEEP WHAT YOU ABSOLUTELY NEED, actively
I helped set up local public library systems and we ensured that no personal information was kept regarding book history, or check out history beyond the confirmation of return. We do track how many times and for what duration a book is out, but not who had it beyond the most current user, assuming the book is in fact out, if it is checked-in there is no user associated data kept. If the FBI under the guise of keeping us free from terrorism wants to know, we can tell them that the anarchist's cookbook gets LOTS of out time, and who currently has it but not what that person had prior or any sort of user history for a particiular subject, just the bare data that is required to maintain a good inventory of books and cut loose the dead weight that doesn't get used...
no they are called BOT dots after the gentleman who came up with the idea...
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http://www.womanmotorist.com/index.php/news/mai
http://www.sae.org/automag/techbriefs_05-00/04.
sorry about the crappy html, can't seem to post a link correctly through the work firewall...
99% of the home routers use IIS as the core 'web' management system so M$ doesn't need to make them any more, they can use the existing backdoors in their IIS system. Many HOME models' web interface can't even be patched so while firmware code can be updated, as far as I know, most reputable companies advise 'DISABLING' the web management and attaching/managing via local port. Heck even some entry level CISCO products have the same problem. Check for aluminum plating on that tin foli hat pls...
Move along, nothing to smell here
The US likes to be the BIG Kid on the block and lean on anyone they choose. While we in the US seem to be apathetic about our government messing in the 3rd world :( I think that there are enough related people that should the American Brainchild GWBush start messing with European powers militarily, things would go south quickly. That leaves only economic 'influence' to wielded like a big club. If the EU survives, grows and becomes a cohesive ecomonic force, there goes the one remaining weapon the small minded politco's in Washington don't have to use/abuse...
industry standard parts ? HP's high end servers make that claim as well but FAIL to live up to it.
They've even taken to using POWER CORDS that are square vs the standard type, though they are the same load rating. HP server memory is horrendously OVERPRICED and different for each bloody model. HP controllers are unique and system rom coded, and to my knowledge their U320 SCSI drives are wired differently on 2 or 3 channels just to ensure you are required to replace HP with over-priced HP. I'd hesitate to buy a 'gaming' machine from someone who branded other people parts as there own vs using off the shelf components. The HP replacement components are often not EVEN THE SAME manufacturer as the original but this 'months' reseller of choice. Things change and upgrade so fast and it is NOT in HP's best interest to allow you to upgrade the parts, they want to sell you a whole new system.
Maybe 'feelings' is the incorrect term, but there are numerous potential liability issues involved in providing customer data to 3rd parties, especially when litigation is involved. Comcast was provided with ip/user information and requested to notify their customers of potential infringments/violations. Verizon, on the other hand, was given what turned out to be MANY incorrectly filed ADMINISTRATIVELY issued court writs from another district demanding user information. I have to agree with you on the corporate feelings issue, I am not convinced that corporate board members/directors are human anymore, much less have feelings of connectivity or responsiblity to the rest of the living organisms on the planet.
Part of the reason that Comcast is playing ball is that they were ASKED, vs. VERIZON who was given a 'writ' and a demand for customer info. Comcast has been asked to notify SPECIFIC customers of violations or potential violations. Honestly I think that is the way the system is SUPOSSED to work, and if you ARE trading in illegagl copies you SHOULD get busted. If you own a copy of the source material, then they should be going after the people who downloaded it without proper legal right.
agreed, but you gotta admit the student discounts and giving stuff "for free" with the intent of hooking you into their file format is both genius marketing and insidiously immoral. Look what giving away IE did to the market, set browsers back 10 years if not more security wise but worked commercially like a dream. As a support person until the Linux/Unix desktop gets a little more (L)user proof I'd just as soon not see it everywhere. The folks in our business, nominally design engineers who do use it as a desktop are constantly needing assistance because they won't treat their machines like a server vs a desktop computer and comeback with corruption all the time. As for back end, the servers needing the most support turn out to be High-End clusters of 6-8 cpu's/4-8gb memory running Win2k AS, supposedly the most robust and stable, they require constant nursing and a pristine network environment, one that I've read about but never actually seen in the real world.
now our congress-aliens can sit in the park, with 10 security agents of course and work remotely, that is if they can in fact operate a computer. What is gonna be even more fun is when the RIAA sue's someone using one of those IP's for music pirating :) That might be the ONLY to get congress out of the RIAA's back-pocket, have them bite the hand that is force feeding them like barn raised veal...