Decent but I wouldn't have nominated it for a Hugo
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I got the trilogy, one of the random books sent by the sci fi bookclub. It was decent and it reminded me of the old sci fi. You know the early Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein. They were small books, a quick read. A good concept, fun action. Having recently re-read the early Asimov empire novels it reminded me quite a bit of that.
With that said, how it got a Hugo nomination I have no idea. It must have been a bad year for Sci Fi. Then again overall most of the Hugo nominations for 08 weren't as good as novels in previous years. When I gave this trilogy to a friend to read it was a 'here's a trilogy when you're bored'.
I found that having the typical FORM action lead to a bad page and dynamically changing the destination with onSubmit via javascript kills all auto-signup bots.
Since the sites that I do this on require javascript for other purposes then it's not a problem. I'm sure more bots will be better javascript enabled with so many sites going ajax but for now it's an easy helper.
The only advantage I see by cutting a cable is to stop people talking - so who benefits by stopping communications?
What if it's a way to stop terrorism? There is increased chatter, speculation that the final pieces are being planned over the 'net. So the quick and dirty method to stop it is to just turn it off. Only thing I could think of offhand...
If you're in the US and you provide the last link then YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE. Welcome to the wonderful world of CALEA. By providing wifi you're at fault, plain and simple. It's one of the legal hassles of anyone providing wifi.
Having helped similar problems like this I can give a few case studies. The best I can say you WILL be responsible until they figure out it wasn't you. But you may very well have months of sleepless nights.
I had RIAA send a notice about one of my client IPs putting a pre-release CD up on IRC. They sent the scary legal pre-format letter spelling out doom and gloom. The client was found to have a trojan allowing the system to upload the info. All steps were documented, screenshots, and sent back to lawyer. No further contact so it must have been enough for them. Overall I found this more amusing than anything.
I know someone who was investigated for child porn. He had an unsecured wifi unit living along a busy road. The police swooped in and took all the computers in his home. They grilled him on "having found some child porn videos on one computer". He kept asking for outside experts to verify their claims. After a few months they finally returned all the equipment, said they were incorrect on having found anything, and agreed it must have been the open wifi. In the meantime he had months of utter stress from being lied to by police.
Guilty until proven innocent is what you should expect.
Jack McDevitt had a similar idea in one of his books. The protagonist is a historian's assistant. One of the ideas was to use faster than light travel to intercept old radio and video broadcasts to recover some history. I believer it was mentioned in Seeker but I may be wrong. The characters got sidetracked by something else so never got past the idea stage.
Most places that require permits, they aren't needed for repairs, or minor replacements. Changing out a few pipes would usually fall under repairs and not require a permit - if you bother with them.
Permits are just another form of taxes. They offend my libertarian leaning ideals. Further, if a homeowner is doing work in their own home a permit is usually pretty worthless. You'd like to think it'd stop bad practices, an inspector red tagging a job done incorrectly. I can speak with certainty that this isn't usually the case in the plumbing field.
Remember that most of the time, at least in smaller governments, the inspectors get all or nearly all of the permit fee. The inspector wants you to get a permit so they can keep making money.
Funnily enough local governments also dislike permits. The local township hall had some plumbing work done that technically required a permit and was asked if they wanted a permit pulled. It would have been a state inspector - they declined. The point person for the work? The township building inspector.
The bailout has hit over 7 trillion. Yes, trillion. The 700 billion was just one packaged deal. Adjusting the figure by 10 times and you're talking about some real money. More than enough to pay off a chunk of bills to banks, buy insurance for health care, buy a new car from the big 3. If the government is insisting on buying their way out of a problem the top down approach doesn't seem the best idea of spending tax payer money.
It's when the system is broken that makes it very discouraging.
It seems all too common for someone to get a 'hurt back', get disability, and do cash jobs under the table. Or how about unemployment when an ex employee up and quits on their own free will. An ex employee quit years ago with no notice. Years late the company got notice of an unemployment claim so it said to send him back, there's a job waiting. However since he'd moved to another state he still got his unemployment.
A calorie by calorie study of junk food versus 'good food' was done, finding junk food is indeed cheaper. It also found that junk food will remain cheap while healthy food costs keep rising. I'd consider it one of the reasons for America's obesity rate.
The repercussions of the Bush admin will last for years, if not decades. There's plenty of fodder to pick on for a long time! Obama will inherit big bailouts, the FED giving out trillions in loans secretly, warrant less wiretaps (Obama did vote for that one), two wars, and whole lot more.
Bush hasn't followed the Presidential Records Act and "lost" more than 10 million emails. without getting into trouble. With this kind of precedent why should any future president give a damn?
If the bible is accurately predicting the future then there is no such thing as free will. The pre-determined future requires man to have no tabla rosa, our fate is given to us at birth. (Actually given to us at the time of the predictions being first given)
Therefore why bother with healthful teachings - it's not nurture, it's nature all the way. You are who you are programmed to be, unable to change destiny one iota or the carefully scripted outcome would fall apart.
Sounds depressing to me, I think I'll find some hedonistic pleasures to cheer up. But that's alright, that must be all part of the plan.
He used the flying crowbars in the Footfall novel. Now there's a blockbuster movie waiting to happen, I'm surprised it's never made it to the big screen.
I heard a yahoo radio ad yesterday. It was promoting Yahoo's safer search results compared to Google because they've teamed with McAfee anti virus and spam.
I was slightly surprised as I can't recall the last time I heard the "Yahooooo". Let alone hear anyone suggest that McAfee is good.
Oh the heady days of the early 90s. For the friends in other schools who didn't MUD on the same server, or just weren't mudders, I'd use finger and who to hunt them down if they were online. Then ytalk to group chat.
Now for my personal favorite trick :
Netpipes. Easiest way around any firewall and logging out there is to faucet a port on another server that is reachable and hose to where you want it to go.
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Don't forget all the other hardware games that are around. There's the skateboard, surf, ski games, boxing, sword fighting, etc. The best physical games I've seen would be the the motion capture ones better. The shooters that makes you crouch to reload, lean to avoid shots or look around corners are really fun. It's also a level of realism with the moving to change the view. I can say that after a few bucks I've had a good crunching routine from having to reload a lot.
Qwest lost pentagon contracts for refusing to illegal wiretap when it was asked to in February 2001. The 9/11 attacks are a strawman argument for the executive branch grabbing as much power as they can.
As to impeachment, Pelosi has said impeachment is off the table for quite awhile. Kucinich has tried to start impeachment hearings but they got killed in subcommittees. The two parties may bicker at some level but they wouldn't actually want to oh, follow the law or anything when it comes to trampling personal liberties.
Back in the early 90s a bunch of friends started a MUD. After MMOs basically destroyed the text gaming world, nowadays we use it for a glorified chat room, IM system. Oh and we occasionally play a few games of cards or such. The latest MUD drivers support SSH. You could pitch it to management as a 'less graphically intensive, secure, and private second life experience'
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You're right. Now that you can build a cruise missile for 5 grand I'd be more worried about that than some Astronaut Farmer making an ICBM.
I got the trilogy, one of the random books sent by the sci fi bookclub. It was decent and it reminded me of the old sci fi. You know the early Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein. They were small books, a quick read. A good concept, fun action. Having recently re-read the early Asimov empire novels it reminded me quite a bit of that.
With that said, how it got a Hugo nomination I have no idea. It must have been a bad year for Sci Fi. Then again overall most of the Hugo nominations for 08 weren't as good as novels in previous years. When I gave this trilogy to a friend to read it was a 'here's a trilogy when you're bored'.
I found that having the typical FORM action lead to a bad page and dynamically changing the destination with onSubmit via javascript kills all auto-signup bots.
Since the sites that I do this on require javascript for other purposes then it's not a problem. I'm sure more bots will be better javascript enabled with so many sites going ajax but for now it's an easy helper.
The only advantage I see by cutting a cable is to stop people talking - so who benefits by stopping communications?
What if it's a way to stop terrorism? There is increased chatter, speculation that the final pieces are being planned over the 'net. So the quick and dirty method to stop it is to just turn it off. Only thing I could think of offhand...
If you're in the US and you provide the last link then YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE. Welcome to the wonderful world of CALEA. By providing wifi you're at fault, plain and simple. It's one of the legal hassles of anyone providing wifi.
Having helped similar problems like this I can give a few case studies. The best I can say you WILL be responsible until they figure out it wasn't you. But you may very well have months of sleepless nights.
I had RIAA send a notice about one of my client IPs putting a pre-release CD up on IRC. They sent the scary legal pre-format letter spelling out doom and gloom. The client was found to have a trojan allowing the system to upload the info. All steps were documented, screenshots, and sent back to lawyer. No further contact so it must have been enough for them. Overall I found this more amusing than anything.
I know someone who was investigated for child porn. He had an unsecured wifi unit living along a busy road. The police swooped in and took all the computers in his home. They grilled him on "having found some child porn videos on one computer". He kept asking for outside experts to verify their claims. After a few months they finally returned all the equipment, said they were incorrect on having found anything, and agreed it must have been the open wifi. In the meantime he had months of utter stress from being lied to by police.
Guilty until proven innocent is what you should expect.
Telstra was simply overdoing it. In the US you can ask for 700 billion with only 3 pages.
Jack McDevitt had a similar idea in one of his books. The protagonist is a historian's assistant. One of the ideas was to use faster than light travel to intercept old radio and video broadcasts to recover some history. I believer it was mentioned in Seeker but I may be wrong. The characters got sidetracked by something else so never got past the idea stage.
Most places that require permits, they aren't needed for repairs, or minor replacements. Changing out a few pipes would usually fall under repairs and not require a permit - if you bother with them.
Permits are just another form of taxes. They offend my libertarian leaning ideals. Further, if a homeowner is doing work in their own home a permit is usually pretty worthless. You'd like to think it'd stop bad practices, an inspector red tagging a job done incorrectly. I can speak with certainty that this isn't usually the case in the plumbing field.
Remember that most of the time, at least in smaller governments, the inspectors get all or nearly all of the permit fee. The inspector wants you to get a permit so they can keep making money.
Funnily enough local governments also dislike permits. The local township hall had some plumbing work done that technically required a permit and was asked if they wanted a permit pulled. It would have been a state inspector - they declined. The point person for the work? The township building inspector.
The bailout has hit over 7 trillion. Yes, trillion. The 700 billion was just one packaged deal. Adjusting the figure by 10 times and you're talking about some real money. More than enough to pay off a chunk of bills to banks, buy insurance for health care, buy a new car from the big 3. If the government is insisting on buying their way out of a problem the top down approach doesn't seem the best idea of spending tax payer money.
Don't forget poppa Bush pardoning the Iran 6 before they had even been charged.
It's when the system is broken that makes it very discouraging.
It seems all too common for someone to get a 'hurt back', get disability, and do cash jobs under the table. Or how about unemployment when an ex employee up and quits on their own free will. An ex employee quit years ago with no notice. Years late the company got notice of an unemployment claim so it said to send him back, there's a job waiting. However since he'd moved to another state he still got his unemployment.
A calorie by calorie study of junk food versus 'good food' was done, finding junk food is indeed cheaper. It also found that junk food will remain cheap while healthy food costs keep rising. I'd consider it one of the reasons for America's obesity rate.
The repercussions of the Bush admin will last for years, if not decades. There's plenty of fodder to pick on for a long time! Obama will inherit big bailouts, the FED giving out trillions in loans secretly, warrant less wiretaps (Obama did vote for that one), two wars, and whole lot more.
Bush hasn't followed the Presidential Records Act and "lost" more than 10 million emails. without getting into trouble. With this kind of precedent why should any future president give a damn?
Oh hey, you watched this past season of Weeds too?
If the bible is accurately predicting the future then there is no such thing as free will. The pre-determined future requires man to have no tabla rosa, our fate is given to us at birth. (Actually given to us at the time of the predictions being first given)
Therefore why bother with healthful teachings - it's not nurture, it's nature all the way. You are who you are programmed to be, unable to change destiny one iota or the carefully scripted outcome would fall apart.
Sounds depressing to me, I think I'll find some hedonistic pleasures to cheer up. But that's alright, that must be all part of the plan.
He used the flying crowbars in the Footfall novel. Now there's a blockbuster movie waiting to happen, I'm surprised it's never made it to the big screen.
I can only hope that 'pillow-friend' is a player class in the MMORPG.
The major telcos aren't turning over individual content. It's better than that - they just pipe everything through the NSA. Investigations with warrants, how so 20th century.
I heard a yahoo radio ad yesterday. It was promoting Yahoo's safer search results compared to Google because they've teamed with McAfee anti virus and spam.
I was slightly surprised as I can't recall the last time I heard the "Yahooooo". Let alone hear anyone suggest that McAfee is good.
Oh the heady days of the early 90s. For the friends in other schools who didn't MUD on the same server, or just weren't mudders, I'd use finger and who to hunt them down if they were online. Then ytalk to group chat.
Now for my personal favorite trick : Netpipes. Easiest way around any firewall and logging out there is to faucet a port on another server that is reachable and hose to where you want it to go.
Don't forget all the other hardware games that are around. There's the skateboard, surf, ski games, boxing, sword fighting, etc. The best physical games I've seen would be the the motion capture ones better. The shooters that makes you crouch to reload, lean to avoid shots or look around corners are really fun. It's also a level of realism with the moving to change the view. I can say that after a few bucks I've had a good crunching routine from having to reload a lot.
Qwest lost pentagon contracts for refusing to illegal wiretap when it was asked to in February 2001 . The 9/11 attacks are a strawman argument for the executive branch grabbing as much power as they can.
As to impeachment, Pelosi has said impeachment is off the table for quite awhile. Kucinich has tried to start impeachment hearings but they got killed in subcommittees. The two parties may bicker at some level but they wouldn't actually want to oh, follow the law or anything when it comes to trampling personal liberties.
Back in the early 90s a bunch of friends started a MUD. After MMOs basically destroyed the text gaming world, nowadays we use it for a glorified chat room, IM system. Oh and we occasionally play a few games of cards or such. The latest MUD drivers support SSH. You could pitch it to management as a 'less graphically intensive, secure, and private second life experience'
PHP is one of them. Although figuring out to exclude a !== in a search box may be harder than just knowing a few strange comparisons.