The anarchists Cookbook was published by a covert government organization and was intended to cause physical harm to any who tried to execute the plans included in it. Anyone with a rudimentary education in chemistry, mechanical engineering, and explosives can easily see this.
I don't know about the conspiracy part but I can tell you for a fact, as a US Govt. trained bomb tech, that some of the stuff will work, some will not work at all and some will work while you are mixing/building.
Many of us (in the bomb disposal community) assumed it was written by someone who either didn't know what he was doing and hadn't actually tried everything in the book or it was written by someone who thought it would be fun to help stupid people remove themselves from the gene pool.
If you try enough of the recipees in the Anarchist's Cookbook and you don't give up after trying the ones that don't work, you will eventually maime or kill yourself if you follow the directions as they are written.
RIAA's legal action is effectively a gag order. It says, "You can't say anything because it may be against OUR interest". Thats DEFINITELY a FREE SPEECH issue.
No it isn't. It is a contract issue. Why doesn't anyone understand that "free speech" only applies to the government not being able to censor speech. If you write an article critical of the government and the newspaper decides to publish it, the government can not come in and tell the paper to remove it. That is free speech. If you write an artle critical of the govennment, newspaper, your dog... whatever and the newspaper refuses to publish it--thats business--you can always try to buy ad space but it is not a "free speech" issue.
If you sign a contract (legal settlement) and agree to do or not do something then it is something that you agreed to in a contract in exchange for some consideration and has nothing to do with free speech.
From looking at the web page, It looks like the software has to be installed to work. So what Happens if you decide not to install it? The CD probably works just fine but you miss out on all the "bonus" items like the built in CD player (in case you don't have one, I guess) and links to tour dates, chats, and other value added stuff that will convince about 98% of people to install the software to get something free.
My guess is if you don't install the software you can still use the CD just fine but the web page does not even seem to mention this possibility (after a breif look). I'm sure they can't imagine anyone not wanting to install this software.
It detected me and I'm not even running any ad blocking software on this (work) computer. The proxy here blocks some things like video files but not pop-ups.
I manually closed the pop-up after it opened (habit) now it is impossible for me to go back to that page without getting redirected to their F-U page.
The way I see it--no big loss. Poor coding that will eventually (maybe today) be rendered useless by pop-up blocker/anti pop-up blocking website blocker blocking software.
but which would you prefer?
glide the plane, under control, into a field or parking lot; or
descend at a relatively high speed, possibly smashing into the middle of a freeway, the edge of a tall building, a cliff slope, tree tops, water, etc.?
It is quite obvious you are not a pilot. (I am)
The good thing about these systems is you get the choice. The parachute is not easy to activate (it takes a concious effort)and most pilots would prefer to glide to a landingif they could. The parachute is designed to be used ONLY when gliding to a safe landing is impossible.
Pulling the parachute destroys the plane beyond repair so this is truly a last chance to live type system.
The plane in this story could not have landed with survivors without the parachute.
E.g. 2: I build a luxury apartment block next to an airport. I can't sue the airport to reduce noise just because I can't sell my apartments.
OK, this is slightly off topic but I just had to reply to this because it is BEING DONE ALL THE TIME. The problem isn't that they don't sell, it's that they do. This results in stupid actions like noise abatement procedures that are not exactly the same as what would be considered safe procedures, $5000 landing fees imposed by the local government and a multitude of other idiocy.
A developer gets some cheap farmland next to an airport that has been there for 50 years or more, builds houses and the airport ends up being shut down because of the noise complaints. I guess if I have an emergency I'll just land in your living room.
I wish I could mod the first post moderation +1 funny.
I am guessing the first post was moderated redundant because of the redundant wording of "new news".
And here I am with no mod points!
Goldeneye method of getting rid of mines would be far easier; you know, there's a mine on the ground, you don't know where it is, so throw a grenade/remote mine/etc in its vicinity and it will blow up with the ensuing blast.
This used to work but this design flaw was fixed years ago. Many mines now require sustained pressure that lasts much longer than the fraction of a second the blast overpressure is present from a nearby explosion.
I'm not assuming it. I was watching TV late one night in Maryland, and an official spokesperson from the the Department of Defense came on Channel 20 at about 3AM. She announced that chemical weapons would be destroyed in a series of explosions over the next few days, at no risk to the public...
Yes, there are chemical munitions. I used to destroy them at Edgewood Arsenal in MD by detonation. Don't assume any of these are actually useful for anything. The chemicals are highly corrosive and most of the munitions are leaking. Weaponized US chemical munitions are packaged in absorbant filled air tight containers awaiting disposal.
All of these would be gone today if it were not for the local population complaining about the "sound of freedom". Yes, it is a very loud noise but the chemicals are completely consumed in the fireball and is much better for the environment than storage.
By the way--there are many controls and safety measures to prevent and detect leaks of these stored munitions. The public is not in danger.
Fine - then why not develop mine technology which only has a certain limit of usability- ie an explosive that degrades completely to harmless soil nutrients after a few months- along with most of the casing etc...Then you are no longer creating a permenant hazard.
Degrading explosives is a "bad thing" (read unstable).
The US does have time limited mines but they detonate when their time is up, not rot.
Or one very much like it. It was mounted on a light "armored" vehicle (M113).
It had a system that would help it lock on to the mine to insure a direct hit.
This would have been out years ago if someone didn't point it at an F-16 that just happened to be flying over. It locked on and started tracking and that's when all hell broke lose. The pilot detected a missile lock and panicked because he knew he was flying over a missile range where training drones were often shot down. The pilot took evasive action which rattled a few windows off post and called range control to shut everything down.
Of course, no air defense training was scheduled that day (just a land mine project)so a major investigation was launched.
The incident went all the way to the Commanding General.
The contractor said they could lock the elevation control on the next version would not be able to be pointed up at aircraft. Someone mentioned they could just raise the front of the vehicle by driving it up a hill. Every solution the contractor came up with was able to be circumvented in some way so the last I heard up until now was that this project was back to the drawing board.
A few (several) years ago there was an experiment with placing cameras along rural highways in Pennsylvania to catch speeders. Within two weeks nearly all of them were destroyed, shot full of holes , or just plain gone. The local news coverage did a great job of explaining exactly how they worked and the general areas they were located. It didn't take long to decide that something like this won't last in an unpopulated area. The cameras in DC may last a little longer with so many witnesses around and some city folks aren't as "passionate" about their rights as some good ol' boys from PA with a 12 pack and a hunting rifle.
PGP actually is compatable with XP. Well... compatabile enough anyway. I had a relative install 6.5.8ckt on XP WITHOUT the e-mail plugins and without PGP Net and it works fine. It is very easy to click on the tray icon and encrypt or decrypt the "current window". From what I understand, 6.5.8ckt works better with XP than any other PGP version. I undersatnd the plugins and possibly PGP Net causes issues in XP.
It should be fairly obvious to the FTC what is a scam and what is not. The pyramid schemes and the cancer cures would be likely targets. For the others they would hunt down the scammers when the FTC gets complaints that several people sent you $1 million dollars but you never sent the CD. (Maybe it would just take one complaint)
Your spam would not fit in the "too good to be true category" (or just plain illegal) and thus you would not likely be hunted down by the FTC without fraud complaints.
You may have some competition in that market that would make your spam a waste of time though. For example, I would gladly sell a CD with twice as many addresses as yours for half the price.:-)
"get rich fast by ripping off the USA government" could cause you some trouble--something about encouraging someone or providing them with the means to commit a crime. IANAL but I'll bet the FTC could figure it out.
If you can manage to track the spammers down in another country...
Anyway, this is mostly about scam spam. This wont even effect the "buy a million addresses on a CD" spam as long as they are actually selling that product.
This just cracks down on something that was already illegal--it really doesn't have anything to do with spam.
Sharp found out they were being targeted by the same/. hackers that brought down the entire internet in Nigeria just last week. For their own protection they decided to allow access only to Microsoft browsers to eliminate the "bad element" that openly opposes Bill's legitimate right to control the world and stupidly refuses to use MS products. So far it has worked. A few have discovered they can circumvent Sharp's security by turning off javascript but then got bored and returned to/. to tell stories of their adventures.
"I wanted to look at your page to see where I could buy a Zaurus, then I found out you don't do business with "my type."
It seems rather silly to ban someone from looking at your site just because they don't use MSIE. If I disable javascript so you don't know that I am using the "wrong" browser, Netscape seems perfectly able to display your page.
I may consider coming back or buying Sharp products in the future when you fix your web site but I am concerned this serious lack of judgement in the design of your web site may reflect on the design of your other products. This certainly concerns me enough to avoid any impulse purchases of your products in the future."
If they get enough notes like this maybe they will do something about it. You can whine all you want to but when you let a business know you came ready to spend money and had a door slammed in your face, they do notice. And think, I almost bought one of these things without knowing anything about it. I meant what I said in my note to them. Any future purchases of Sharp products for myself or my company will receive very serious scrutiny.
I saw a story on the local news about this product and it does work indoors. They have their own PCS network that works with the GPS to track the location even without a clear view of the sky. If you dig into the web site far enough the information is there as well. This thing is actually a 2-way device like a cell phone. We all know it doesn't take GPS to find the location of a transmitter. If your phone will work there, this thing can be located.
As I have stressed to others in other threads, PLEASE do some research before deciding what rights you do or do not posses. How can you defend your rights if you don't even know what they are?
If you don't know your rights, you don't have any.
Microsoft isn't in the PC hardware business, and it's unlikely that the patents will change its technical strategy. But they do add significantly to its bargaining position with hardware vendors, giving Redmond important new leverage. Rival APIs, principally OpenGL, are kept alive through the support of graphics hardware vendors. And for a hardware partner, avoiding a lawsuit, or gaining a contract to work on future versions of Xbox, may well outweigh the advantages from continuing to support OpenGL.
I guess Microsoft trying to crush open source isn't just paranoia after all.
(Assuming, they aren't all tech-support, technicians and have other customers...
The spelling at least suggest they have no secretary and spell checker (look who's talking:) ) )
Have you ever been to South Korea? Someone could have a full time job just correcting the English spellings on street signs.
I don't think the English translation means much as an evaluation of the company.
Remember an article about cable traffic being monitored by the US government?
VPN might make this more difficult so using VPN may be considered an act of terrorism.
Right now this just a business trying to squeeze more money out of customers but I wouldn't be suprised if this leads to not being able to have encrypted communication without paying a premium. Those willing to pay could be put in two groups: obvious business users and the people we don't know what the hell they are doing but are now defined in a smaller group that can be more closely monitored.
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I don't know about the conspiracy part but I can tell you for a fact, as a US Govt. trained bomb tech, that some of the stuff will work, some will not work at all and some will work while you are mixing/building.
Many of us (in the bomb disposal community) assumed it was written by someone who either didn't know what he was doing and hadn't actually tried everything in the book or it was written by someone who thought it would be fun to help stupid people remove themselves from the gene pool.
If you try enough of the recipees in the Anarchist's Cookbook and you don't give up after trying the ones that don't work, you will eventually maime or kill yourself if you follow the directions as they are written.
My advice is to not try any of it.
IAARLBT
(I am a real live bomb tech)
No it isn't. It is a contract issue. Why doesn't anyone understand that "free speech" only applies to the government not being able to censor speech. If you write an article critical of the government and the newspaper decides to publish it, the government can not come in and tell the paper to remove it. That is free speech. If you write an artle critical of the govennment, newspaper, your dog... whatever and the newspaper refuses to publish it--thats business--you can always try to buy ad space but it is not a "free speech" issue.
If you sign a contract (legal settlement) and agree to do or not do something then it is something that you agreed to in a contract in exchange for some consideration and has nothing to do with free speech.
To whom it may concern: Bite me. Herman
My guess is if you don't install the software you can still use the CD just fine but the web page does not even seem to mention this possibility (after a breif look). I'm sure they can't imagine anyone not wanting to install this software.
I manually closed the pop-up after it opened (habit) now it is impossible for me to go back to that page without getting redirected to their F-U page.
The way I see it--no big loss. Poor coding that will eventually (maybe today) be rendered useless by pop-up blocker/anti pop-up blocking website blocker blocking software.
It is quite obvious you are not a pilot. (I am)
The good thing about these systems is you get the choice. The parachute is not easy to activate (it takes a concious effort)and most pilots would prefer to glide to a landingif they could. The parachute is designed to be used ONLY when gliding to a safe landing is impossible. Pulling the parachute destroys the plane beyond repair so this is truly a last chance to live type system.
The plane in this story could not have landed with survivors without the parachute.
OK, this is slightly off topic but I just had to reply to this because it is BEING DONE ALL THE TIME. The problem isn't that they don't sell, it's that they do. This results in stupid actions like noise abatement procedures that are not exactly the same as what would be considered safe procedures, $5000 landing fees imposed by the local government and a multitude of other idiocy.
A developer gets some cheap farmland next to an airport that has been there for 50 years or more, builds houses and the airport ends up being shut down because of the noise complaints. I guess if I have an emergency I'll just land in your living room.
I wish I could mod the first post moderation +1 funny. I am guessing the first post was moderated redundant because of the redundant wording of "new news". And here I am with no mod points!
Waukegan?
This used to work but this design flaw was fixed years ago. Many mines now require sustained pressure that lasts much longer than the fraction of a second the blast overpressure is present from a nearby explosion.
Yes, there are chemical munitions. I used to destroy them at Edgewood Arsenal in MD by detonation. Don't assume any of these are actually useful for anything. The chemicals are highly corrosive and most of the munitions are leaking. Weaponized US chemical munitions are packaged in absorbant filled air tight containers awaiting disposal.
All of these would be gone today if it were not for the local population complaining about the "sound of freedom". Yes, it is a very loud noise but the chemicals are completely consumed in the fireball and is much better for the environment than storage.
By the way--there are many controls and safety measures to prevent and detect leaks of these stored munitions. The public is not in danger.
Degrading explosives is a "bad thing" (read unstable).
The US does have time limited mines but they detonate when their time is up, not rot.
It had a system that would help it lock on to the mine to insure a direct hit.
This would have been out years ago if someone didn't point it at an F-16 that just happened to be flying over. It locked on and started tracking and that's when all hell broke lose. The pilot detected a missile lock and panicked because he knew he was flying over a missile range where training drones were often shot down. The pilot took evasive action which rattled a few windows off post and called range control to shut everything down.
Of course, no air defense training was scheduled that day (just a land mine project)so a major investigation was launched. The incident went all the way to the Commanding General.
The contractor said they could lock the elevation control on the next version would not be able to be pointed up at aircraft. Someone mentioned they could just raise the front of the vehicle by driving it up a hill. Every solution the contractor came up with was able to be circumvented in some way so the last I heard up until now was that this project was back to the drawing board.
A few (several) years ago there was an experiment with placing cameras along rural highways in Pennsylvania to catch speeders. Within two weeks nearly all of them were destroyed, shot full of holes , or just plain gone.
The local news coverage did a great job of explaining exactly how they worked and the general areas they were located.
It didn't take long to decide that something like this won't last in an unpopulated area.
The cameras in DC may last a little longer with so many witnesses around and some city folks aren't as "passionate" about their rights as some good ol' boys from PA with a 12 pack and a hunting rifle.
PGP actually is compatable with XP. Well... compatabile enough anyway. I had a relative install 6.5.8ckt on XP WITHOUT the e-mail plugins and without PGP Net and it works fine.
It is very easy to click on the tray icon and encrypt or decrypt the "current window".
From what I understand, 6.5.8ckt works better with XP than any other PGP version. I undersatnd the plugins and possibly PGP Net causes issues in XP.
It should be fairly obvious to the FTC what is a scam and what is not. The pyramid schemes and the cancer cures would be likely targets.
:-)
For the others they would hunt down the scammers when the FTC gets complaints that several people sent you $1 million dollars but you never sent the CD. (Maybe it would just take one complaint)
Your spam would not fit in the "too good to be true category" (or just plain illegal) and thus you would not likely be hunted down by the FTC without fraud complaints.
You may have some competition in that market that would make your spam a waste of time though. For example, I would gladly sell a CD with twice as many addresses as yours for half the price.
"get rich fast by ripping off the USA government" could cause you some trouble--something about encouraging someone or providing them with the means to commit a crime. IANAL but I'll bet the FTC could figure it out.
If you can manage to track the spammers down in another country...
Anyway, this is mostly about scam spam. This wont even effect the "buy a million addresses on a CD" spam as long as they are actually selling that product.
This just cracks down on something that was already illegal--it really doesn't have anything to do with spam.
Sharp found out they were being targeted by the same /. hackers that brought down the entire internet in Nigeria just last week. /. to tell stories of their adventures.
For their own protection they decided to allow access only to Microsoft browsers to eliminate the "bad element" that openly opposes Bill's legitimate right to control the world and stupidly refuses to use MS products.
So far it has worked. A few have discovered they can circumvent Sharp's security by turning off javascript but then got bored and returned to
I told them why it sucks:
"I wanted to look at your page to see where I could buy a Zaurus, then I found out you don't do business with "my type."
It seems rather silly to ban someone from looking at your site just because they don't use MSIE. If I disable javascript so you don't know that I am using the "wrong" browser, Netscape seems perfectly able to display your page.
I may consider coming back or buying Sharp products in the future when you fix your web site but I am concerned this serious lack of judgement in the design of your web site may reflect on the design of your other products. This certainly concerns me enough to avoid any impulse purchases of your products in the future."
If they get enough notes like this maybe they will do something about it. You can whine all you want to but when you let a business know you came ready to spend money and had a door slammed in your face, they do notice.
And think, I almost bought one of these things without knowing anything about it. I meant what I said in my note to them. Any future purchases of Sharp products for myself or my company will receive very serious scrutiny.
I saw a story on the local news about this product and it does work indoors. They have their own PCS network that works with the GPS to track the location even without a clear view of the sky. If you dig into the web site far enough the information is there as well.
This thing is actually a 2-way device like a cell phone. We all know it doesn't take GPS to find the location of a transmitter. If your phone will work there, this thing can be located.
If you don't know your rights, you don't have any.
The last paragraph sums it up:
Microsoft isn't in the PC hardware business, and it's unlikely that the patents will change its technical strategy. But they do add significantly to its bargaining position with hardware vendors, giving Redmond important new leverage. Rival APIs, principally OpenGL, are kept alive through the support of graphics hardware vendors. And for a hardware partner, avoiding a lawsuit, or gaining a contract to work on future versions of Xbox, may well outweigh the advantages from continuing to support OpenGL.
I guess Microsoft trying to crush open source isn't just paranoia after all.
(Assuming, they aren't all tech-support, technicians and have other customers... The spelling at least suggest they have no secretary and spell checker (look who's talking :) ) )
Have you ever been to South Korea? Someone could have a full time job just correcting the English spellings on street signs.
I don't think the English translation means much as an evaluation of the company.
Remember an article about cable traffic being monitored by the US government?
VPN might make this more difficult so using VPN may be considered an act of terrorism.
Right now this just a business trying to squeeze more money out of customers but I wouldn't be suprised if this leads to not being able to have encrypted communication without paying a premium. Those willing to pay could be put in two groups: obvious business users and the people we don't know what the hell they are doing but are now defined in a smaller group that can be more closely monitored.
But only if it had a Johnboy & Billy channel.
I can't listen to that anymore now that I moved up north.