The only way politicians would STOP treating the US as their own private empire and start listening to the people (whom they work for) is if the Justice (ha!) Department investigated ALL instances of voter fraud and charged ALL involved parties with TREASON. Of course all of the charges wouldn't stick, but I'm sure it would make most people sing!.
Find the ring leaders and, regardless if it includes the President of the US, publicly execute them for High Treason. They've shamlessly destroyed what this country was based on for their own personal gain. Execute them all.
You're right, I screwed up copying and pasting and didn't proofread well enough.
I just hope this guy isn't full of it and the drive isn't vaporware, or some kind of scam.
An old boss of mine did that after he got disgusted with a gas heating bill. He decided he would turn the heat OFF, but he lived in an apartment building, so he could get away with that.
Apparently, the building wasn't insulated well at all. He dropped some ice cream on the kitchen floor and, instead of picking it up right away, he figured he'd wait until it melted and then clean it up. Anyways, the next day he went to clean it up and it was STILL frozen solid on his floor!
I'd hate to see what his place looked like after he described that incident.
Unfortuately, it doesn't support NTLM authentication (unless there's a plugin out there that I haven't seen), so it no worky through my Caching Web Proxy here at work.:(
Until it does, I'm stuck with IE at work.:~(
Unfortunately, even if the other countries did band together against some screwed up US policy, the US Government would try their best to justify it in their own minds and ignore the rest of the world.
The only real way to change this country is to get rid of the pseudo royal class career politicians and go back to farmers! But how can we do that when we're only given two choices every four years?
American politics is a self serving, self perpetuating beast that won't let anyone else get anywhere near close enough to competing with their two main parties, Republicans and Democrats.
"Well' you're plenty fucking stupid, I'll give you that. Do you have any idea why they call him Franky Four Fingers, Doug?"
"Well, because he makes stupid bets with dangerous people. And when he doesn't pay up, they give him the chop, Doug. And I'm not talking about his fucking foreskin either."
The problems is he doesn't care if it's reasonable or not, it's his way or he's going to stomp his feel and cry until he gets his way.
Eventually he'll stop introducing these bills and start pinning on a little piece of his bill as riders to other legitimate bills, getting his way a little at a time.:(
This has been reported many times over the past few years.
Some of the interesting facts regarding this is that the Japanese discovered the Jet stream during the war, using it to distribute the balloons to the US.
Another interesting fact is that the US traced where exactly the balloons were being launched from by small samples of dirt that had contaminated the payloads. The US used pre-war mineralogical surveys to find the exact beach they were being lauched from, and eventually took care of it, so to speak.
AutoPatcherXP is an excellent collection of patches and updates that I've included on CD (along with some other tools) for our user's home computers. It contains about 300Megs of updates/patches/apps and is relatively up to date with all of the critical patches.
After running AutoPatcher, only a few critical updates are needed off of windowsupdate's site. Unfortunately, MS04-011 is one of the critical patches NOT included with AutoPatcher.:(
Lets see you say this when someone hacks your network through privilige escalation, downloads the SAM file off of your Windows Domain Controllers and cracks everyone's passwords?
Firewalls and managed AV servers are a good start (as well as AV running on your web proxy), but what good does that do against the threat from within?
How many people actually take the time to disable unused protocols on their networked printers? I always love the reply "What's a hacker going to do to my printer? Not let me print?". They've never had anyone hack into a printer and change it's IP address to that of your router!
You MUST try to be proactive! Use port security, port protect, dynamic VLANS. Use whatever is at your disposal to secure your network against ALL threats, known and unknown.
There's an old line saying the only way they'll be able to enforce all of these laws is to make a police state.
Regarding the seizure of equipment, though. Why on Earth would they bother taking all of that equipment off-line to conduct their investigation? Whenever I deal with Federal level investigators, they always make an image of the hard drive and work off of that. They NEVER work off of the hard drives, themselves.
If it was just a "hacking incident", then they should be able to accomplish everything they want by working off of those images.
By golly you're right!
But maybe, when the planets rotate, it will pull Mars closer to the Earth? Then it wouldn't be so difficult to send probes there?
But how would they keep the planets from colliding? Would you want to be the person to cut insanely high tension lan cables?;)
Titan or not, Disney hasn't had much luck lately trying to control how their media is distributed and what hardware is allowed to view it.
Just take a look at its track record with Divx and the "disposable DVD's". Yet they still refuse to acknowledge that people (their consumers) want to play movies/music in whatever hardware they have. They don't want to jump through the studio's hoops just to watch a movie or listen to a piece of music.
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I live in Lockport, NY and I can attest, it isn't.
The only way politicians would STOP treating the US as their own private empire and start listening to the people (whom they work for) is if the Justice (ha!) Department investigated ALL instances of voter fraud and charged ALL involved parties with TREASON. Of course all of the charges wouldn't stick, but I'm sure it would make most people sing!.
Find the ring leaders and, regardless if it includes the President of the US, publicly execute them for High Treason. They've shamlessly destroyed what this country was based on for their own personal gain. Execute them all.
You're right, I screwed up copying and pasting and didn't proofread well enough.
I just hope this guy isn't full of it and the drive isn't vaporware, or some kind of scam.
An old boss of mine did that after he got disgusted with a gas heating bill. He decided he would turn the heat OFF, but he lived in an apartment building, so he could get away with that.
Apparently, the building wasn't insulated well at all. He dropped some ice cream on the kitchen floor and, instead of picking it up right away, he figured he'd wait until it melted and then clean it up. Anyways, the next day he went to clean it up and it was STILL frozen solid on his floor!
I'd hate to see what his place looked like after he described that incident.
If things go right I might be showing her my "O" face.
You know.... Oh... Oh... Oh!
How about a bigger monitor???
Are there any bushies out there who can defend this and tell me why I shouldn't be having a fit?
no, but thankfully I'm not a "bushie".
Scratch that. I see that it just wasn't mentioned in the release notes, but the functionality is supposedly there.
Time to play!!!
Unfortuately, it doesn't support NTLM authentication (unless there's a plugin out there that I haven't seen), so it no worky through my Caching Web Proxy here at work. :( :~(
Until it does, I'm stuck with IE at work.
Unfortunately, even if the other countries did band together against some screwed up US policy, the US Government would try their best to justify it in their own minds and ignore the rest of the world.
The only real way to change this country is to get rid of the pseudo royal class career politicians and go back to farmers! But how can we do that when we're only given two choices every four years?
American politics is a self serving, self perpetuating beast that won't let anyone else get anywhere near close enough to competing with their two main parties, Republicans and Democrats.
Nah, God was on vacation playing Skeeball in Jersey.
"Well' you're plenty fucking stupid, I'll give you that. Do you have any idea why they call him Franky Four Fingers, Doug?"
"Well, because he makes stupid bets with dangerous people. And when he doesn't pay up, they give him the chop, Doug. And I'm not talking about his fucking foreskin either."
"positions on corporate boards that require little if any actual work"
How is that different then when they're in office???
The problems is he doesn't care if it's reasonable or not, it's his way or he's going to stomp his feel and cry until he gets his way. :(
Eventually he'll stop introducing these bills and start pinning on a little piece of his bill as riders to other legitimate bills, getting his way a little at a time.
ahh, I thought it was just some dirt that got in the payload. Didn't think about the ballast, which makes more sense.
This has been reported many times over the past few years.
Some of the interesting facts regarding this is that the Japanese discovered the Jet stream during the war, using it to distribute the balloons to the US.
Another interesting fact is that the US traced where exactly the balloons were being launched from by small samples of dirt that had contaminated the payloads. The US used pre-war mineralogical surveys to find the exact beach they were being lauched from, and eventually took care of it, so to speak.
AutoPatcherXP is an excellent collection of patches and updates that I've included on CD (along with some other tools) for our user's home computers. It contains about 300Megs of updates/patches/apps and is relatively up to date with all of the critical patches. :(
After running AutoPatcher, only a few critical updates are needed off of windowsupdate's site. Unfortunately, MS04-011 is one of the critical patches NOT included with AutoPatcher.
Lets see you say this when someone hacks your network through privilige escalation, downloads the SAM file off of your Windows Domain Controllers and cracks everyone's passwords?
Firewalls and managed AV servers are a good start (as well as AV running on your web proxy), but what good does that do against the threat from within?
How many people actually take the time to disable unused protocols on their networked printers? I always love the reply "What's a hacker going to do to my printer? Not let me print?". They've never had anyone hack into a printer and change it's IP address to that of your router!
You MUST try to be proactive! Use port security, port protect, dynamic VLANS. Use whatever is at your disposal to secure your network against ALL threats, known and unknown.
The power of the Slashdot Effect!
There's an old line saying the only way they'll be able to enforce all of these laws is to make a police state.
Regarding the seizure of equipment, though. Why on Earth would they bother taking all of that equipment off-line to conduct their investigation? Whenever I deal with Federal level investigators, they always make an image of the hard drive and work off of that. They NEVER work off of the hard drives, themselves.
If it was just a "hacking incident", then they should be able to accomplish everything they want by working off of those images.
Apparently, they run VxWorks
By golly you're right! ;)
But maybe, when the planets rotate, it will pull Mars closer to the Earth? Then it wouldn't be so difficult to send probes there?
But how would they keep the planets from colliding? Would you want to be the person to cut insanely high tension lan cables?
Titan or not, Disney hasn't had much luck lately trying to control how their media is distributed and what hardware is allowed to view it.
Just take a look at its track record with Divx and the "disposable DVD's". Yet they still refuse to acknowledge that people (their consumers) want to play movies/music in whatever hardware they have. They don't want to jump through the studio's hoops just to watch a movie or listen to a piece of music.
I'd rather imagine a beowulf cluster of these. ;)
Only in spirit. ;)