You're also underestimating how sick and tired the average person is of Viruses, Pop-Up's, Malware, Spyware etc etc. I was @ Circuit City a coupla days ago and some lady was begging the guy to help her with popups and the sales guy was thats the sites 'revenue stream', you're not supposed to be able to stop them. I told them all about this nifty lil thing that they could get for free called Mozilla FireFox thats just like IE but doesnt crap out with pop ups and malware. Had around 8 people around the counter write down the name of this technological 'wonder' and thank me;)
Actually outsourcing is going on with this. Have a couple of friends from Pakistan that were hired to do work (with a significant amount of hazard pay thrown in) on setting up the cellular phone infrastructure in Northern Iraq.
1949: Syria
CIA backs military coup against the elected government of Syria, establishing Colonel Za'im's military dictatorship.
953-1979: Iran.
CIA organizes a coup (Operation Ajax) in Iran overthrowing Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, who nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. The coup installs the Shah's dictatorship and introduces one of the more totalitarian regimes of the third world......................
The support of the Shah helped polarize much of Iranian society against the West
1954-1975: Vietnam:
According to the DRV some 1 million Vietnamese combatants and 2-4,000,000 Vietnamese civillians were killed in the war (estimated anywhere between 10-20% of the population, or proportionately 27 million Americans), over half the casualties inflicted in South Vietnam.
1963-1979: Iraq
The CIA stages a coup supporting the Baath Party, ushering in a wave of bloodbaths against lists of leftists and communists provided by the CIA, as well as slaughter of the Kurds, and deportations of hundreds of thousands of Kurds, Turkomans, and Shi'ites - all with solid US backing.
The CIA backs another coup in 1968 putting Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr into power, leading directly to the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein in 1979.
You could look up a ton more, these are just the ones relevant to the current situation / nam. Point being there has always been atrocities comitted by america and I believe by any(one) country with a large amount of power.
The only real differences being the american government is MUCH better at spinning it then others (e.g. the insane amount of people that believed that Saddam was responsible for 9/11). Also the 'spin' works on other countries (obviously lacking power) that currently see america for what it is. And no i'm not slamming america per se, most superpowers have historically been bad to others
A bit offtopic, but maybe you could enlighten me, why western agriculture costs are so much higher then the third world. Case in point the US, more technology (genetically modified seeds / pesticides / machinary to replace people) , lots more land yet can't compete with Africa? Is agriculture actually that labour intensive as to negate all those advantages??:|
How about not only orgazining the online community to do this (I'm sure we can all plong down a 100-200 bucks for something we can return the next day) and then also 'inform' people coming to stores about what the RIAA is doing etc. Like most strikes have picketing why not combine the two. If we can make a significant dent on say the highest annual day they sold cd's last year would at least make it to the news. Heck, 10K slashdotters * 200 bucks = 2 million. Fully Refundable;)
Trump? Gates? George Soros? Warren Buffet? The Ikea owner
Just saying there's a bunch of people that wouldnt blink while pissing away a couple of billion dollars if they see any advantage to it.
Quick q, would you accept something like that about somebody else? Probably not, regardless of being an impressionable gung-ho adolescent or whatever? Then your bro gets nicked by the US saviours and then you see pics of the whole Abu Ghuraib stuff. Hmm, perhaps bin laden suddenly doesnt seem so wrong to you? Oh yeah, add in a dash of history about Saddam being damn evil and being loved by Americans till like a decade ago when the med's all went away after his fallout with America? Multiple that with Afghanistan, Iran n whoever else has been fucked with even the slightest. And i'm not saying you or I would go down that road but consider the amount of people , its statistically impossible that the amount of people seeing America as evil now versus 2-3 years ago hasnt gone up by a significant amount. My point being people are fucked up everywhere and the more reason you give em to vent at you, well bully for you / be prepped for flying shit;)
Hmm, Islamic point of view, the only thing that is unforgivable is monotheism or atheism for that matter. Kinda like telling ur parents that they aren't really ur parents?. Hurts them??
But beyond that / lotsa stuff you're supposed to do to help you be good but not really the raison d'etre, the only real differentiating factor between people is their righteousness (and by that I mean the good they do wrt others. Quote from the Prophet Mohammad below
All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority over a white - except by piety and good action
Sorry if that sounded preachy, didnt mean it to, just wanted to point out that its not so much of a threat
Yes perspective helps but thats kinda like comparing yourself with the kid that got straight F's instead of the one with straight A's. Restrictive governments should be looked as something to prevent us sliding into rather then beating our chests n saying we're so damn cool cuz we're better then them
No offense but lumping in Islam with Nazism is to put it mildy unfair AND offensive. At the one end you're saying dont be caught unaware and on the other spreading ignorance? As you rightly said there are evil people and stupid people, and that's true of Arabia as well as America......
Ease of Use being a major issue. I'm not that good of a geek, love Knoppix and would love a DVD version but bugger if I'd actually go through 'creating' my own distro via whatever frameworks. From what I know thats what the average user is like. Recently recommended Knoppix to a winxp friend to check 'that' linux thing, who well would be even less inclined to do anything besides
step 1) download
step 2) burn
step 3) use
thats pretty much all the steps 90% users will do
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In any case, if you think a framework works thats cool but a standard 'default' perhaps created with the framework itself would be the best way to go (obviously imho;))
At the moment probably true but looking at it from a story telling perspective not necessarily. Enterprise sucks horribly but could've been something completely different and a hell of a lot better. Say depicting the baby steps humanity took to become a space faring people. Lots of stories to tell.
Star Trek Nemesis sucked. Star Trek II Redux? B4 *gag*. Could've had a genuine crisis in the Romulan empire with the whole Spock arc tied in / perhaps a couple of comeo's, Tasha Yar's daughter, No weird Remans and obviously no Before/After:). Similarly the Starfleet academy idea could work (Pensacola anyone;) hehe). Lots of things to work with that don't have to be about dudes in a ship but about the bigger picture.
Sorry about the rambling:-D
Get some investors together and try it. I was thinking of the same thing recently (looking for a new car:-D) and if the new 'platform' was reasonably competitive and obviously cheap parts and plug and play ;) parts etc should be a massive success.
A relevant (a bit old though) article that I read by bill joy . He calls the threat by self-multiplying nano-tech etc Knowledge of Mass Destruction:). But still the bottom line about looking before we leap still holds pretty damn true. "It's unfortunate that the Pugwash meetings started only well after the nuclear genie was out of the bottle - roughly 15 years too late. We are also getting a belated start on seriously addressing the issues around 21st-century technologies - the prevention of knowledge-enabled mass destruction - and further delay seems unacceptable."
No, the point I was asking was how does the access point know the laptop is the right one (if the key is compromised). Was wondering if there was a 2nd layer thing like certificates (someone else up there suggested ssh but obviously can't use that for win2k machines).
Quick question about how this would work. Most VPN solutions that i've seen (and yes i havent see NUTHIN:-D) are end to end and provide a simple network connection where I can hook up a pc or an access point etc. Now if the access point connection is promised even though the next link is encrypted it won't do anything for security. I mean if the client was authenticated with the vpn end point via a certificate or password or SOMETHING , it might make sense. and I wanna know how , not thread crapping. Thanks a bunch
:) Same password thing. The lady (a CA) in charge of managing finances for the small dot com I worked at loved the damn thing and nearly had a coronary when I was running ad aware on the various systems there.
Which would probably be the right way to go about it.
Default Setting = Automagically switch phone to vibrate if certain frequency is 'being' received (transmitted in theaters etc)
Default Setting can be overriden but the unwashed masses won't really do that so not much of a concern for big bro turning off ur cell phone and will functionally work without making people that really need to field a call miss them
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You're also underestimating how sick and tired the average person is of Viruses, Pop-Up's, Malware, Spyware etc etc. I was @ Circuit City a coupla days ago and some lady was begging the guy to help her with popups and the sales guy was thats the sites 'revenue stream', you're not supposed to be able to stop them. I told them all about this nifty lil thing that they could get for free called Mozilla FireFox thats just like IE but doesnt crap out with pop ups and malware. Had around 8 people around the counter write down the name of this technological 'wonder' and thank me ;)
So thats why I've been getting so many Welfare checks lately :-D
No they didnt. They cheated!!! Damn Color Nuts, the world used to be all nice n beige.......... ;)
Actually outsourcing is going on with this. Have a couple of friends from Pakistan that were hired to do work (with a significant amount of hazard pay thrown in) on setting up the cellular phone infrastructure in Northern Iraq.
1949: Syria CIA backs military coup against the elected government of Syria, establishing Colonel Za'im's military dictatorship. 953-1979: Iran. CIA organizes a coup (Operation Ajax) in Iran overthrowing Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, who nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. The coup installs the Shah's dictatorship and introduces one of the more totalitarian regimes of the third world. .....................
The support of the Shah helped polarize much of Iranian society against the West
1954-1975: Vietnam: According to the DRV some 1 million Vietnamese combatants and 2-4,000,000 Vietnamese civillians were killed in the war (estimated anywhere between 10-20% of the population, or proportionately 27 million Americans), over half the casualties inflicted in South Vietnam.
1963-1979: Iraq The CIA stages a coup supporting the Baath Party, ushering in a wave of bloodbaths against lists of leftists and communists provided by the CIA, as well as slaughter of the Kurds, and deportations of hundreds of thousands of Kurds, Turkomans, and Shi'ites - all with solid US backing. The CIA backs another coup in 1968 putting Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr into power, leading directly to the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein in 1979.
You could look up a ton more, these are just the ones relevant to the current situation / nam. Point being there has always been atrocities comitted by america and I believe by any(one) country with a large amount of power.
The only real differences being the american government is MUCH better at spinning it then others (e.g. the insane amount of people that believed that Saddam was responsible for 9/11). Also the 'spin' works on other countries (obviously lacking power) that currently see america for what it is. And no i'm not slamming america per se, most superpowers have historically been bad to others
A bit offtopic, but maybe you could enlighten me, why western agriculture costs are so much higher then the third world. Case in point the US, more technology (genetically modified seeds / pesticides / machinary to replace people) , lots more land yet can't compete with Africa? Is agriculture actually that labour intensive as to negate all those advantages?? :|
How about not only orgazining the online community to do this (I'm sure we can all plong down a 100-200 bucks for something we can return the next day) and then also 'inform' people coming to stores about what the RIAA is doing etc. ;)
Like most strikes have picketing why not combine the two. If we can make a significant dent on say the highest annual day they sold cd's last year would at least make it to the news. Heck, 10K slashdotters * 200 bucks = 2 million. Fully Refundable
Trump? Gates? George Soros? Warren Buffet? The Ikea owner Just saying there's a bunch of people that wouldnt blink while pissing away a couple of billion dollars if they see any advantage to it.
Quick q, would you accept something like that about somebody else? Probably not, regardless of being an impressionable gung-ho adolescent or whatever? Then your bro gets nicked by the US saviours and then you see pics of the whole Abu Ghuraib stuff. Hmm, perhaps bin laden suddenly doesnt seem so wrong to you? Oh yeah, add in a dash of history about Saddam being damn evil and being loved by Americans till like a decade ago when the med's all went away after his fallout with America? Multiple that with Afghanistan, Iran n whoever else has been fucked with even the slightest. And i'm not saying you or I would go down that road but consider the amount of people , its statistically impossible that the amount of people seeing America as evil now versus 2-3 years ago hasnt gone up by a significant amount. My point being people are fucked up everywhere and the more reason you give em to vent at you, well bully for you / be prepped for flying shit ;)
Problem being if your worm killer , kills windows box and you're sued for damages, so nopes not gonna happen, at least legally.
Hmm, Islamic point of view, the only thing that is unforgivable is monotheism or atheism for that matter. Kinda like telling ur parents that they aren't really ur parents?. Hurts them??
But beyond that / lotsa stuff you're supposed to do to help you be good but not really the raison d'etre, the only real differentiating factor between people is their righteousness (and by that I mean the good they do wrt others. Quote from the Prophet Mohammad below All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority over a white - except by piety and good action Sorry if that sounded preachy, didnt mean it to, just wanted to point out that its not so much of a threat
Yes perspective helps but thats kinda like comparing yourself with the kid that got straight F's instead of the one with straight A's. Restrictive governments should be looked as something to prevent us sliding into rather then beating our chests n saying we're so damn cool cuz we're better then them
No offense but lumping in Islam with Nazism is to put it mildy unfair AND offensive. At the one end you're saying dont be caught unaware and on the other spreading ignorance? As you rightly said there are evil people and stupid people, and that's true of Arabia as well as America......
Ease of Use being a major issue. I'm not that good of a geek, love Knoppix and would love a DVD version but bugger if I'd actually go through 'creating' my own distro via whatever frameworks. From what I know thats what the average user is like. Recently recommended Knoppix to a winxp friend to check 'that' linux thing, who well would be even less inclined to do anything besides step 1) download step 2) burn step 3) use thats pretty much all the steps 90% users will do ---- In any case, if you think a framework works thats cool but a standard 'default' perhaps created with the framework itself would be the best way to go (obviously imho ;))
At the moment probably true but looking at it from a story telling perspective not necessarily. Enterprise sucks horribly but could've been something completely different and a hell of a lot better. Say depicting the baby steps humanity took to become a space faring people. Lots of stories to tell. Star Trek Nemesis sucked. Star Trek II Redux? B4 *gag*. Could've had a genuine crisis in the Romulan empire with the whole Spock arc tied in / perhaps a couple of comeo's, Tasha Yar's daughter, No weird Remans and obviously no Before/After :). Similarly the Starfleet academy idea could work (Pensacola anyone ;) hehe). Lots of things to work with that don't have to be about dudes in a ship but about the bigger picture.
Sorry about the rambling :-D
Get some investors together and try it. I was thinking of the same thing recently (looking for a new car :-D) and if the new 'platform' was reasonably competitive and obviously cheap parts and plug and play ;) parts etc should be a massive success.
Considering we're both on slashdot on a weekend, I somehow think we're already there ;)
A relevant (a bit old though) article that I read by bill joy . He calls the threat by self-multiplying nano-tech etc Knowledge of Mass Destruction :). But still the bottom line about looking before we leap still holds pretty damn true.
"It's unfortunate that the Pugwash meetings started only well after the nuclear genie was out of the bottle - roughly 15 years too late. We are also getting a belated start on seriously addressing the issues around 21st-century technologies - the prevention of knowledge-enabled mass destruction - and further delay seems unacceptable."
No, the point I was asking was how does the access point know the laptop is the right one (if the key is compromised). Was wondering if there was a 2nd layer thing like certificates (someone else up there suggested ssh but obviously can't use that for win2k machines).
Quick question about how this would work. Most VPN solutions that i've seen (and yes i havent see NUTHIN :-D) are end to end and provide a simple network connection where I can hook up a pc or an access point etc. Now if the access point connection is promised even though the next link is encrypted it won't do anything for security. I mean if the client was authenticated with the vpn end point via a certificate or password or SOMETHING , it might make sense. and I wanna know how , not thread crapping. Thanks a bunch
Wow and here I am a 25 yo and single :'( (n no don't on trolling , just wow :))
:) Same password thing. The lady (a CA) in charge of managing finances for the small dot com I worked at loved the damn thing and nearly had a coronary when I was running ad aware on the various systems there.
Chics? Catwalk? Victoria's Secret? Lingerie? Model? *Short Circuit* PZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT
Which would probably be the right way to go about it. Default Setting = Automagically switch phone to vibrate if certain frequency is 'being' received (transmitted in theaters etc) Default Setting can be overriden but the unwashed masses won't really do that so not much of a concern for big bro turning off ur cell phone and will functionally work without making people that really need to field a call miss them
EMPLOYMENT
1990 1995 2000 2001 2002
Employed (mil)
125.8 132.3 142.6 143.7 144.9
Unemployed (mil)
7.0 7.4 5.7 6.8 8.4
Unemployment rate (percent)
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