Staff? Is that like "people"?
Any decent operation could set up a small shell script to take geographic coordinates from their whole customer base and keep them in a database by number/subscriber/account as an index. With a decent warrant they could also use the remote activation features of most phones to gather this data discretely.
Once that information is in a DB those PIs can just look it up if they have the right access/connections.
24 isn't a fantasy, it is the NSA showing off last year's technology. If Jack Bauer can do it, so can the Chinese.
I grow these chiles and have eaten a pretty good specimen right off the bush.
First bite is easy... Then comes the PAIN. Don't think I'm exaggerating, these things hurt A LOT! Don't try this at home (if you can munch down a habanero without much difficulty you're still going to hurt).
Once you're through that mouth watering painful part you take another bite and you get the same damn thing again. Once you hit a quarter of the pepper eaten you plateau and can get a good munch going. The flavour of the pepper is surprisingly fruity and light. Very much like a well grown Scotch Bonnet. After 2/3rds you're screwed again, and need a good reason to carry on eating the thing.
£10 was enough reason for me =)
We cook with them a lot. If you want to taste them in a friendly way, try Mr Naga chile pickle.
But we are geeks. Lots of people (my wife included) are still using the OS that came with their netbooks (we have an EEE 4G each, mine has Arch on it, hers is still that AWFUL Xandros mess).
But for those people who wanted to change it but couldn't, the device is probably still resting in a drawer somewhere.
so you're one of the guys screwing up communications on the amateur bands
No, I no longer use the CB, as stated.
just for your fun
How many responders to your CQDX do you expect per session? I used to arrange to meet a person/some people on a channel, not cast around in the hope that someone would be there. DXers on the other hand were often there for their pleasure alone.
Would you corrupt others' Internet communications as readily?
I hope running an HTTP server and BitTorrent on my home connection doesn't interrupt other subscribers' internets, that would be SO terrible. You'd think that ISPs would make that kind of behaviour against their TOS. Wait, they do! And then they have the effrontery to not come round to my house and cut my hands off for breaking their Terms. Seems like they don't really care because those oranges aren't really as apply as you seem to think.
In answer to your n.b. - Kids without the money for top ups, phone equipment, understanding parents, internet, local friends or the ones with disabilities are slightly more important than some old guys sitting in their basements trying to get a postcard from halfway round the world from someone they can barely hear.
For some people their whole social circle revolves around something you dislike and which is about as illegal as jaywalking.
I used to communicate with a friend of mine who was profoundly deaf through the CB using RTTY. Channel 7 actually. We used to have people moaning like hell that the signal was bleeding over onto 6 and 8. Once they knew what we were doing and why, we set a few of them up with their own plug in board for their C= or BBC. Personally I used a Dragon 32, but I was a masochist. These people are still friends now. How many DXers from your global comms have you had round to tea in the last five years?
I have no interest in taking a Ham test. I had my fun 20 years ago. Never heard of anyone getting busted by the DTI though, not then nor since.
Anyhow, this isn't my fight any more. Good luck educating the kids who are ruining your life.
In the UK we were using CB radios illegally for years.
The government set rules that laid out the only legal channels (40 of them) and no shop was allowed to sell rigs that could receive/transmit on other channels.
These 40 shitty channels were chosen to not fit with CBs sold anywhere else in the world.
My first CB (20 years ago?) had 200 channels. Only 40 of them were legal, 40 more of them are now legal (the mid-band 40 that other countries use was added to the legal 40 giving 80 legal channels).
So many people in my City alone had illegal rigs that the law was never enforced. I knew (and know) of nobody who was ever prosecuted for not having the £££ Ham Radio licence that permitted broadcast on those frequencies.
I still have about 5 highly illegal rigs although I haven't used a CB in many years.
If someone were to start the fire and Skype/FreeGSM/Mesh internet handsets were to be available to you and me, then someone somewhere (China? Russia?) would see it as profitable to make them available for £50. People I know are buying '3' handsets because the data plan is compatible with an always on Skype connection. £70 and they get a shit phone but free Skype. It doesn't take a huge leap of imagination to see that people would pay for something even if it wasn't legal and then to see that there would be so many people at it that the government would have to make it legal or hire more police.
You're right, but never let the truth stand in the way of a good old Slashbot whine.
Sony deserves the moan though. Surely as time passes and parts get cheaper because they are still buying them in quantity the costs lower themselves. Sony (the arseholes) shouldn't need to keep taking parts out of their boxen and then selling them for the same price.
DRM and this. Remind me why we bother with Sony at all?
I've heard of no councils that have reduced bin collection to every 2 weeks - only certain 'luxury pickups' like garden waste (leaves, hedge trimmings etc.) and certain recycling pickups; so definite citation needed here
Our bins (somewhere up north) alternate black one week, garden/bottles/cardboard the next. This is the standard for most of the City.
Normally I wouldn't, but it's in keeping with the thread...
But who cares about Canada anyway.
Hey! Canada's not a joke, Eh!
Fixed that for you.
Fixed that fix for you, Eh never starts the sentence up here, it ends it. For starting we use "Hey" just like you do down south of the line. Oh and get off my lawn!
Fixed that for you. You know where you're from, but remember where you are posting also.
If Asus had used a decent distro it would maybe have still been installed on some of those netbooks.
I bought two EEE 4Gs, 701, just to support them in this endeavour.
As someone who uses Linux exclusively (Gentoo/Arch/openSUSE) I have to say that Xandros is crap. I believe that the choice of Xandros for those netbooks did Linux in general no favours at all.
So on top of knowing the contents of your email, the names of people you talk to, your voice print, your credit card details, your bank numbers, your search history and your reading preferences, where you live, your IP address, photos of you, your friends family and pets, and how technologically inclined you are... Now you want them to know what kind of music you like too!
Wait, that came out wrong, I was just watching that horse running off down my garden and thinking about a door that I could do to go and lock.
It isn't about them doing something wrong per se, it is about them being so far reaching in their ability to data mine each and every person that uses their services.
Think what would happen if Microsoft bought them out because they got bored of playing internet billionaires? Or if the government decided that they were a threat to security and absorbed them into itself for our protection. Some thoughts just aren't pretty and that is why some people tag "fuckgoogle".
What's worse is that if you don't voluntarily hand over all this information you are in the minority (or soon will be) and that itself will mark you as a person of interest.
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Staff? Is that like "people"?
Any decent operation could set up a small shell script to take geographic coordinates from their whole customer base and keep them in a database by number/subscriber/account as an index. With a decent warrant they could also use the remote activation features of most phones to gather this data discretely.
Once that information is in a DB those PIs can just look it up if they have the right access/connections.
24 isn't a fantasy, it is the NSA showing off last year's technology. If Jack Bauer can do it, so can the Chinese.
I grow these chiles and have eaten a pretty good specimen right off the bush.
... Then comes the PAIN. Don't think I'm exaggerating, these things hurt A LOT! Don't try this at home (if you can munch down a habanero without much difficulty you're still going to hurt).
First bite is easy
Once you're through that mouth watering painful part you take another bite and you get the same damn thing again. Once you hit a quarter of the pepper eaten you plateau and can get a good munch going. The flavour of the pepper is surprisingly fruity and light. Very much like a well grown Scotch Bonnet. After 2/3rds you're screwed again, and need a good reason to carry on eating the thing.
£10 was enough reason for me =)
We cook with them a lot. If you want to taste them in a friendly way, try Mr Naga chile pickle.
But if we're senile and insensitive, what difference does it make?
I'm already insensitive, you clod!
T22 (ThinkPad P3/900) running Arch here.
But we are geeks. Lots of people (my wife included) are still using the OS that came with their netbooks (we have an EEE 4G each, mine has Arch on it, hers is still that AWFUL Xandros mess).
But for those people who wanted to change it but couldn't, the device is probably still resting in a drawer somewhere.
Maybetheir"h"keyisbroken,likemyspacebar.
You're on Slashdot, so you probably already know this.
Others might not so I'll post this linky and mention that it IS available on several torrent sites (and so is part 2).
Show them to your kids before they get to see the crap one that Lucas messed up.
Over here in the UK we often pour acid on our chips, and like it!
Doesn't matter much because that's only a tenth of what we'll ever need (in theory).
Only because they were hypocrites* over P2P.
I used to buy their music before they got all Sony-ish over Napster.
Now, I couldn't care any less if I tried to about their music or views.
* Lars Ulrich Pirates His Own Album.
So we will never have a decent diagram of the plot then?
Don't be silly, hunter2 hasn't worked for ages!
so you're one of the guys screwing up communications on the amateur bands
No, I no longer use the CB, as stated.
just for your fun
How many responders to your CQDX do you expect per session? I used to arrange to meet a person/some people on a channel, not cast around in the hope that someone would be there. DXers on the other hand were often there for their pleasure alone.
Would you corrupt others' Internet communications as readily?
I hope running an HTTP server and BitTorrent on my home connection doesn't interrupt other subscribers' internets, that would be SO terrible. You'd think that ISPs would make that kind of behaviour against their TOS. Wait, they do! And then they have the effrontery to not come round to my house and cut my hands off for breaking their Terms. Seems like they don't really care because those oranges aren't really as apply as you seem to think.
In answer to your n.b. - Kids without the money for top ups, phone equipment, understanding parents, internet, local friends or the ones with disabilities are slightly more important than some old guys sitting in their basements trying to get a postcard from halfway round the world from someone they can barely hear.
For some people their whole social circle revolves around something you dislike and which is about as illegal as jaywalking.
I used to communicate with a friend of mine who was profoundly deaf through the CB using RTTY. Channel 7 actually. We used to have people moaning like hell that the signal was bleeding over onto 6 and 8. Once they knew what we were doing and why, we set a few of them up with their own plug in board for their C= or BBC. Personally I used a Dragon 32, but I was a masochist. These people are still friends now. How many DXers from your global comms have you had round to tea in the last five years?
I have no interest in taking a Ham test. I had my fun 20 years ago. Never heard of anyone getting busted by the DTI though, not then nor since.
Anyhow, this isn't my fight any more. Good luck educating the kids who are ruining your life.
You're looking for Facebook Purity.
Requires Greasemonkey.
In the UK we were using CB radios illegally for years.
The government set rules that laid out the only legal channels (40 of them) and no shop was allowed to sell rigs that could receive/transmit on other channels.
These 40 shitty channels were chosen to not fit with CBs sold anywhere else in the world.
My first CB (20 years ago?) had 200 channels. Only 40 of them were legal, 40 more of them are now legal (the mid-band 40 that other countries use was added to the legal 40 giving 80 legal channels).
So many people in my City alone had illegal rigs that the law was never enforced. I knew (and know) of nobody who was ever prosecuted for not having the £££ Ham Radio licence that permitted broadcast on those frequencies.
I still have about 5 highly illegal rigs although I haven't used a CB in many years.
If someone were to start the fire and Skype/FreeGSM/Mesh internet handsets were to be available to you and me, then someone somewhere (China? Russia?) would see it as profitable to make them available for £50. People I know are buying '3' handsets because the data plan is compatible with an always on Skype connection. £70 and they get a shit phone but free Skype. It doesn't take a huge leap of imagination to see that people would pay for something even if it wasn't legal and then to see that there would be so many people at it that the government would have to make it legal or hire more police.
Is Mafia Wars one of those annoying applications that comes up every five seconds if you know more than three morons?
I started running FB Purity* and now I don't get to see all those games and things any more.
*Requires Greasemonkey
I'm not affiliated with Greasemonkey or FB Purity
And how are you supposed to know if it has actually changed colour?
You're right, but never let the truth stand in the way of a good old Slashbot whine.
Sony deserves the moan though. Surely as time passes and parts get cheaper because they are still buying them in quantity the costs lower themselves. Sony (the arseholes) shouldn't need to keep taking parts out of their boxen and then selling them for the same price.
DRM and this. Remind me why we bother with Sony at all?
I thought that was called consumer choice?
Too many corporations/monopolies buying laws take it away from us these days.
Unless you can accurately predict how the datastream will be compressed.
... Oh who cares? It's still a proprietary protocol.
Sounds like a job for
!opensource
I've heard of no councils that have reduced bin collection to every 2 weeks - only certain 'luxury pickups' like garden waste (leaves, hedge trimmings etc.) and certain recycling pickups; so definite citation needed here
Our bins (somewhere up north) alternate black one week, garden/bottles/cardboard the next. This is the standard for most of the City.
But who cares about Canada anyway.
Hey! Canada's not a joke, Eh!
Fixed that for you.
Fixed that fix for you, Eh never starts the sentence up here, it ends it. For starting we use "Hey" just like you do down south of the line. Oh and get off my lawn!
Fixed that for you. You know where you're from, but remember where you are posting also.
There, fixed that for you.
Forget the racists, I'm just shocked as shit that nobody has mentioned George Bush yet (unless it was below reading threshold).
Yeah, but "lemon party" is only 31,615 bytes. Who needs balloons?
If Asus had used a decent distro it would maybe have still been installed on some of those netbooks.
I bought two EEE 4Gs, 701, just to support them in this endeavour.
As someone who uses Linux exclusively (Gentoo/Arch/openSUSE) I have to say that Xandros is crap. I believe that the choice of Xandros for those netbooks did Linux in general no favours at all.
So on top of knowing the contents of your email, the names of people you talk to, your voice print, your credit card details, your bank numbers, your search history and your reading preferences, where you live, your IP address, photos of you, your friends family and pets, and how technologically inclined you are ... Now you want them to know what kind of music you like too!
Wait, that came out wrong, I was just watching that horse running off down my garden and thinking about a door that I could do to go and lock.
It isn't about them doing something wrong per se, it is about them being so far reaching in their ability to data mine each and every person that uses their services.
Think what would happen if Microsoft bought them out because they got bored of playing internet billionaires? Or if the government decided that they were a threat to security and absorbed them into itself for our protection. Some thoughts just aren't pretty and that is why some people tag "fuckgoogle".
What's worse is that if you don't voluntarily hand over all this information you are in the minority (or soon will be) and that itself will mark you as a person of interest.