Shooting Skeet(sp?). I used to do this for hours on end. Not because I was training to go hunt, not because i was training to kill, but because it was funn as hell.
For that matter, why does target pracitce imply training for anything other than shooting targets.
Think about the pure joy you get out of coding, hacking, overclocking, building muscle cars...whatever. There are people who like to purchace guns, modify them, and shoot them. Is the guy who owns a modified semi-automatic rifle any different from the guy with a nitrous-oxide kit on his Chevy, or the guy with 15 case fans and a 550 watt power supply?
The US Military is in the process of phasing out Motorola base stations. Frequently, the cabinets end up in DRMO (military junkyard). Every quarter or so, DRMO has an auction where you can bid on lots of equipment. There will be a 10~15 peices of equipment in a lot and the bidding is usually low. Several friends and I banded together and purchaced 3 HP1000's. These came in a 6-foot-high, wheel-mounted rack with front and rear doors. The rear door came with 6 120mm 120 volt fans installed...Very cool. The price was about $25 each.
Anyway, call your local militar base and ask for DRMO. Find out when the next auction takes place.
Remember, you paid for it (with tax dollars), so you should at least check it out.
As a comrade in the gateway buisness, I know full well how hard it can be to work with a customer. Especially a customer who thinks that the world revolves around them. If I sat down long enough to write down all the bad things I have been called, a large portion of my week would be shot. Knucklefuck was my personal fav, but anyway.
Don't sweat it too much. One good thing about our job is we don't have to put up with the assholes we are currently working with. We can easily find a job with a completely new set of assholes.
On a side note, if you are in the process of doing your job and a customer is hovering over you, that qualifies as harasment. My current contract obligates me to hourly updates for priority customers. Anything more than that, and I cut them off. I would rather be elbows deep in a 7507 than in a meeting describing what I'll be doing when I am elbows deep.
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You can order research-grade uranium....U-238 I think. 10% or so is U-235 (weapons grade). You need to take 10~20 lbs of U-235 to make a bomb. The thing is to get it to come together into a critical mass without blowing it apart. A very tricky thing indeed.
BTW, for more info on how we (the USA) do it, look for info on the B61 tactical nuke...aka "dial a nuke".
For some really good drama concerning the construction of a nuke, read "The sum of all fears" by Tom Clancey.
Why do you think that is better? In US, we use Miles/Gallon to calc fuel effeciency. The EU standard of Litres/100KM kinda threw me at first too. But, 100KM is about, what, 65 maybe 70 miles? And 3 litres is slightly more than a gallon. That gives your VW about 60MPG, maybe 65MPG at most.
What really chaps my ass though is this: In US, I paid, at most, about $1.25/gallon. Here in Italy, I pay around 2300 Lira/Litre...or about $3.00/gallon. The really funny thing is that during the "Summer 2000 Gasoline Crisis" in the US, my price never went up...at all!
So, does this mean that the CEO of Northpoint can lease a single DSL line from PacBell (or whoever) and provide a "rolling DSL" to his customers? Can you imagine rolling the connection across 1000+ customers?
If somebody breaks into my system and leaves no trace but a little note saying "gotcha!" then I'm impressed; they've done me a service and done something cool.
I would have to disagree here. If someone finds a weakness in your system, and exploits it, then you can never be sure what was done to your box. This means at least an hour of down-time while you rebuild from scratch or restore from yesterday's backup. If a "h/cracker" wants to be a good netizen, then (s)he should play with their own boxen, locate a weakness, and post it to a well-known bug-tracking service.
Once your box is comprimised, the intruder is guilty of breaking and entering. There is a law for that.
If your box is tampered with...even if it is just a note...that is vandalism. There is also a law for that.
If your box is damaged, that is arson. There is definately a law for that.
I don't but it. Even on a secure site, I can cut and paste. Even If they made the source into a *.jpeg, It would still live in my cache for a while.
I have a feeling that this program would require a trip to a "MS Field Office", or maybe they send a CD with a propritary viewer. The Field Office could do body cavity searches b4 and after viewing the code. The propritary viewer would probably have to be designed to catch virtually every screen-capture hotkey know to man. Actually, I could just set up my own hotkey sequence. Even if they were truly clever, a digital camera could be used to catch the screen.
Personally, I think that it is kinda cool that in the midst of all the RIAA lawsuit fiasco, someone is actually working on a technical solution. I have nothing agianst Napster, warez, serialz, cardz, etc...but I do acknowledge that they are mainly used for theft.
Instead of fighting hackers with the law, these people are fighting hackers with hackers. At least the game will get a lot more interesting than the "My government can beat up your server" game that we are playing now.
Once upon a time, we sent mail via telegraph, messenger, smoke signals, etc... Now almost everyone would shudder at the thought of sending anything more than "Hi, wish you were here." in the open via mail. People understand that things like:
1. Confirmation of product orders
2. Notifications of important events
3. Upcoming job changes
need to be kept private. If I want my mom to know that my wife is pregnant, I should have the right to tell her and noone else. If I order a large, black, metal-studded dildo for myself, only I should be able to see the confirmation.
Call me an optimist, but I belive that people will eventually see that privacy is a right. If you are in your own home, on the street, at work, or in legal trouble you have the right to a private conversation.
Also, why has noone pointed out that our government encrypts almost everything? I work for a government agency and nothing at all comes into or out of my office without encryption. If our government has the right to demand that information be kept secret from its citizens and enemies, don't we have the right to pprivacy from our government and out enemies?
Personally, I think it's cool when a buddy tells me about something that I would have othewise ignored. After all, if it weren't for a guy named Tim, I'd probably be typing this from a winders box.
Tim, like Jon, was mostly a blowhard. But sometimes he said something worth noting.
What is not cool is the multitude of people, like yourself, who insist on perusing a JK article and then posting "JK sucks balls and blows this shit at us".
I'm not saying you are a bad guy, fluxrad, but if you don't dig the Kat, just turn him off. Don't chip in and lower the signal/noise ratio that seems to be getting closer and closer to the critical mass.
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I'm gonna go out on a limb and agree with you here. S2 is good. It had me rivited for a while...Untill the "pig thing".
Suposedly a fire had driven wildlife to the camp. That I'll buy. But did you see the fricking pig? It was a demesticated american pig. The thing wasn't even fully grown, just a piglet. Say, whatever hapened to "Babe". The sequal must not have done too well. My point is, NOONE could have watched that episode and still held the belief that anything that happens there is real.
OK, maybe some people have never seen a wild boar.
Now when I watch the show, I'm completely turned off by the facade of reality. Last night (I'm in europe) when the accident occoured, I didn't belive it at all. It may or may not have happened, but I don't think it did. Just too damn convenient...
Do you think you'd get away with it? I realize that our government doesn't kill their internal enemies anymore (yeah, right), but if your bird bumped into their bird you would be held responsible.
Do what I do. Take a polaroid of one of your pens sticking halfway outta your ass. Covertly let your coworkers learn about it. Just don't tell them WHICH pen it is. Also works great for food items kept in the community fridge.
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Thank you Tommy Lee Jones.....
I've been wasting 2 yeard on D.Net:)
Shooting Skeet(sp?). I used to do this for hours on end. Not because I was training to go hunt, not because i was training to kill, but because it was funn as hell.
For that matter, why does target pracitce imply training for anything other than shooting targets.
Think about the pure joy you get out of coding, hacking, overclocking, building muscle cars...whatever. There are people who like to purchace guns, modify them, and shoot them. Is the guy who owns a modified semi-automatic rifle any different from the guy with a nitrous-oxide kit on his Chevy, or the guy with 15 case fans and a 550 watt power supply?
The US Military is in the process of phasing out Motorola base stations. Frequently, the cabinets end up in DRMO (military junkyard). Every quarter or so, DRMO has an auction where you can bid on lots of equipment. There will be a 10~15 peices of equipment in a lot and the bidding is usually low. Several friends and I banded together and purchaced 3 HP1000's. These came in a 6-foot-high, wheel-mounted rack with front and rear doors. The rear door came with 6 120mm 120 volt fans installed...Very cool. The price was about $25 each.
Anyway, call your local militar base and ask for DRMO. Find out when the next auction takes place.
Remember, you paid for it (with tax dollars), so you should at least check it out.
As a comrade in the gateway buisness, I know full well how hard it can be to work with a customer. Especially a customer who thinks that the world revolves around them. If I sat down long enough to write down all the bad things I have been called, a large portion of my week would be shot. Knucklefuck was my personal fav, but anyway.
Don't sweat it too much. One good thing about our job is we don't have to put up with the assholes we are currently working with. We can easily find a job with a completely new set of assholes.
On a side note, if you are in the process of doing your job and a customer is hovering over you, that qualifies as harasment. My current contract obligates me to hourly updates for priority customers. Anything more than that, and I cut them off. I would rather be elbows deep in a 7507 than in a meeting describing what I'll be doing when I am elbows deep.
Maybe they are? Bwahahahahahaha
The difference probably lies in the quantity of mind-altering substances involved.
You can order research-grade uranium....U-238 I think. 10% or so is U-235 (weapons grade). You need to take 10~20 lbs of U-235 to make a bomb. The thing is to get it to come together into a critical mass without blowing it apart. A very tricky thing indeed.
BTW, for more info on how we (the USA) do it, look for info on the B61 tactical nuke...aka "dial a nuke".
For some really good drama concerning the construction of a nuke, read "The sum of all fears" by Tom Clancey.
How long till all the geeks admit "hacker" is the same thing as a "cracker"?
Why do you think that is better? In US, we use Miles/Gallon to calc fuel effeciency. The EU standard of Litres/100KM kinda threw me at first too. But, 100KM is about, what, 65 maybe 70 miles? And 3 litres is slightly more than a gallon. That gives your VW about 60MPG, maybe 65MPG at most.
What really chaps my ass though is this: In US, I paid, at most, about $1.25/gallon. Here in Italy, I pay around 2300 Lira/Litre...or about $3.00/gallon. The really funny thing is that during the "Summer 2000 Gasoline Crisis" in the US, my price never went up...at all!
So, What is the difference?
That would definately help fight the munchies:)
How about something like this?
www.notslashdot.org
How about one that is actually useful to linux people...
www.blendedplanet.com
kinda almost makes up for BlenderMania going down a few days ago...
So, does this mean that the CEO of Northpoint can lease a single DSL line from PacBell (or whoever) and provide a "rolling DSL" to his customers? Can you imagine rolling the connection across 1000+ customers?
If somebody breaks into my system and leaves no trace but a little note saying "gotcha!" then I'm impressed; they've done me a service and done something cool.
I would have to disagree here. If someone finds a weakness in your system, and exploits it, then you can never be sure what was done to your box. This means at least an hour of down-time while you rebuild from scratch or restore from yesterday's backup. If a "h/cracker" wants to be a good netizen, then (s)he should play with their own boxen, locate a weakness, and post it to a well-known bug-tracking service.
Once your box is comprimised, the intruder is guilty of breaking and entering. There is a law for that.
If your box is tampered with...even if it is just a note...that is vandalism. There is also a law for that.
If your box is damaged, that is arson. There is definately a law for that.
Please tell me why we need h/cracking laws agian?
Acutally, mister grammar nazzi, it would be '16-year-old'.
I honostly thought all these guys would have gotten bored years ago. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I don't but it. Even on a secure site, I can cut and paste. Even If they made the source into a *.jpeg, It would still live in my cache for a while.
I have a feeling that this program would require a trip to a "MS Field Office", or maybe they send a CD with a propritary viewer. The Field Office could do body cavity searches b4 and after viewing the code. The propritary viewer would probably have to be designed to catch virtually every screen-capture hotkey know to man. Actually, I could just set up my own hotkey sequence. Even if they were truly clever, a digital camera could be used to catch the screen.
Personally, I think that it is kinda cool that in the midst of all the RIAA lawsuit fiasco, someone is actually working on a technical solution. I have nothing agianst Napster, warez, serialz, cardz, etc...but I do acknowledge that they are mainly used for theft.
Instead of fighting hackers with the law, these people are fighting hackers with hackers. At least the game will get a lot more interesting than the "My government can beat up your server" game that we are playing now.
Once upon a time, we sent mail via telegraph, messenger, smoke signals, etc... Now almost everyone would shudder at the thought of sending anything more than "Hi, wish you were here." in the open via mail. People understand that things like:
1. Confirmation of product orders
2. Notifications of important events
3. Upcoming job changes
need to be kept private. If I want my mom to know that my wife is pregnant, I should have the right to tell her and noone else. If I order a large, black, metal-studded dildo for myself, only I should be able to see the confirmation.
Call me an optimist, but I belive that people will eventually see that privacy is a right. If you are in your own home, on the street, at work, or in legal trouble you have the right to a private conversation.
Also, why has noone pointed out that our government encrypts almost everything? I work for a government agency and nothing at all comes into or out of my office without encryption. If our government has the right to demand that information be kept secret from its citizens and enemies, don't we have the right to pprivacy from our government and out enemies?
But the trick of flight is so simple...Just fall down, and miss the ground...
Personally, I think it's cool when a buddy tells me about something that I would have othewise ignored. After all, if it weren't for a guy named Tim, I'd probably be typing this from a winders box.
Tim, like Jon, was mostly a blowhard. But sometimes he said something worth noting.
What is not cool is the multitude of people, like yourself, who insist on perusing a JK article and then posting "JK sucks balls and blows this shit at us".
I'm not saying you are a bad guy, fluxrad, but if you don't dig the Kat, just turn him off. Don't chip in and lower the signal/noise ratio that seems to be getting closer and closer to the critical mass.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and agree with you here. S2 is good. It had me rivited for a while...Untill the "pig thing".
Suposedly a fire had driven wildlife to the camp. That I'll buy. But did you see the fricking pig? It was a demesticated american pig. The thing wasn't even fully grown, just a piglet. Say, whatever hapened to "Babe". The sequal must not have done too well. My point is, NOONE could have watched that episode and still held the belief that anything that happens there is real.
OK, maybe some people have never seen a wild boar.
Now when I watch the show, I'm completely turned off by the facade of reality. Last night (I'm in europe) when the accident occoured, I didn't belive it at all. It may or may not have happened, but I don't think it did. Just too damn convenient...
Do you think you'd get away with it? I realize that our government doesn't kill their internal enemies anymore (yeah, right), but if your bird bumped into their bird you would be held responsible.
Do what I do. Take a polaroid of one of your pens sticking halfway outta your ass. Covertly let your coworkers learn about it. Just don't tell them WHICH pen it is. Also works great for food items kept in the community fridge.