The NSA/FBI person sent to "work" on your phone would just replace it with one of theirs. Several years ago I worked with a guy who had worked at Ft Meade. He said they had shelves and shelves of every phone that was available worldwide in every imaginable color, ready to put into action. Of course, they probably have to make some adjustments (remotely, these days) to the switch in the central office to listen to your new phone 24/7...
"... wouldn't know which end of the main booster rocket is up if it had a big sign saying "this end up".
I remember touring Martin Marietta's Titan II facility when I was a kid and seeing painted on one of the boosters: "THIS SIDE TOWARD TARGET". I think it was a joke...
is that the system is already being deployed. NPR interviewed an expert who said that the testing is going so slowly and so badly because President Bush decided to deploy the system before it was functiona. The last test was two years ago and also failed. He (the expert, not Bush) estimated it will take twenty years to have a working system given the current testing rate.
In the US, this might construed as filing a "frivolous" return for which you can be fined quite heavily. IIRC, people have been fined for writing things like "Paid under protest" on their returns.
Duh. Here in rural right-wing rural America, people knowing that I contribute to a "liberal" candidate puts me on a lot of shit lists. In some places I could see having to move due to lack of work if you're self-employed. Not Democracy in action!
AFAIK Microsoft has a program for computers donated to schools. If it is a PII or lower, you are allowed to install either Win98 or Win2000, no questions asked. You might poke around their website a bit.
Most NAT boxes allow you to direct WAN traffic destined for a particular port to a specific LAN address. Like http port 80 can be redirected to 192.168.0.43. Usually trivial to set up.
"You think that's air you're breathing now?"
-- Morpheus
In other words, "The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time justs gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It's like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening out the pictures in the room.
-- Chrissie Hynde, singer"
In other words, "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
-- Nelson Mandela"
The 3-ware monitoring daemon will email you when a drive bites it!
I got such an email a while back: put in a new drive after hours (no hot-swap) and told it to rebuild. It was done by the time I got home.
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The NSA/FBI person sent to "work" on your phone would just replace it with one of theirs. Several years ago I worked with a guy who had worked at Ft Meade. He said they had shelves and shelves of every phone that was available worldwide in every imaginable color, ready to put into action. Of course, they probably have to make some adjustments (remotely, these days) to the switch in the central office to listen to your new phone 24/7...
"They aren't experiencing weightlessnes due to ... a few under-floor gravity generators." - "gravity generators" like, for instance, the EARTH?
You forgot the "oh, wait..." part.
From the article: "but it won't be your grandfather's moon shot". Got that right. It looks like my father's moonshot, version 2.0 beta.
So we'll be saved if we get hit by a big enough asteroid! Oh, wait... Dang.
John McPhee wrote about this project and other attempts to control natural disasters in The Control of Nature.
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
---Ernest Rutherford
"... wouldn't know which end of the main booster rocket is up if it had a big sign saying "this end up".
I remember touring Martin Marietta's Titan II facility when I was a kid and seeing painted on one of the boosters: "THIS SIDE TOWARD TARGET". I think it was a joke...
A helicopter is a collection of spare parts flying in close formation.
The only catch is that Tritium cost $$$ for very small quantities.
I always buy it in bulk. It's way cheaper.
is that the system is already being deployed. NPR interviewed an expert who said that the testing is going so slowly and so badly because President Bush decided to deploy the system before it was functiona. The last test was two years ago and also failed. He (the expert, not Bush) estimated it will take twenty years to have a working system given the current testing rate.
In the US, this might construed as filing a "frivolous" return for which you can be fined quite heavily. IIRC, people have been fined for writing things like "Paid under protest" on their returns.
Duh. Here in rural right-wing rural America, people knowing that I contribute to a "liberal" candidate puts me on a lot of shit lists. In some places I could see having to move due to lack of work if you're self-employed. Not Democracy in action!
AFAIK Microsoft has a program for computers donated to schools. If it is a PII or lower, you are allowed to install either Win98 or Win2000, no questions asked. You might poke around their website a bit.
Most NAT boxes allow you to direct WAN traffic destined for a particular port to a specific LAN address. Like http port 80 can be redirected to 192.168.0.43. Usually trivial to set up.
"You think that's air you're breathing now?" -- Morpheus In other words, "The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time justs gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It's like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening out the pictures in the room. -- Chrissie Hynde, singer" In other words, "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. -- Nelson Mandela"
Duh.
The 3-ware monitoring daemon will email you when a drive bites it! I got such an email a while back: put in a new drive after hours (no hot-swap) and told it to rebuild. It was done by the time I got home.