One, I don't want to be someone else's idea of a consumer, and more importantly I don't want anyone else tell me what I need, "down to the very last atom".
Wal-Mart, Target, and the rest of the big box discounters are already doing it
They may try but just as most people have to ability to, I exercise my freewill and don't buy into their advertizing. For instance, I am a member of two coops where I do a lot of grocery shopping. These coops support not just organics and fair trade but also local businesses and farmers.
just try to buy a computer built out of components from the United States anymore.
Admittedly it is a big box but within a few miles of where I am I can go into a store and pick up all of the parts I need to build my own pc. Having said that, I'll admit that today it's cheaper to buy a compleated computer than it is to build one yourself, unless you have specific hardware requirements, whereas yesteryear it was cheaper to build one. That's how some of the big corporations got started. Take Dell, after he built his own computer Micheal Dell started building computers for others while he was a college student. The Woz, Steve Wozniak, was an engineer working for HP when he came up with and built the Apple computer. He and his friend Steve Jobs, the Two Steves, then started building the Apple in his garage. Thus was Apple Computer Inc, now Apple Inc, born.
Also, I don't know much about your disability- but it seems to me that none of the technology Marshall Brain talks about is very far away- have you looked into the current state of cyber implants yet?
My disability is a Traumatic Brain Injury, TBI. As my memory is bad, having been destroyed because of the injury, I don't recall what or who the Marshall Brain is. I have however done some research into and have an interest in part because of my TBI, in neurogenesis. However not lately. Actually I've been hoping maybe stemcell research can help. Provided I were given all the possible ramifications, likelyhood of success, possible side effects and such, I'd be willing to a test subject for stemcell or transplantation research.
In common usage, hacker means what it means to commoners. This is not necessarily the same as the meaning to an elite club of people who use the term their own way.
Ah but in the case of "hacker" it was an elite club of people who put the idea of what hackers are into the public. Through the '70s up to the early '80s a hacker was someone who hacked, came up with a nifty trick, hardware and or software. The first tyme "hacker" was used in a negative manner was in the early '80s by a reporter, who at one tyme were called hacks or hackers too. After that more and more reporters described computer vandals as hackers, and eventually the public got the impression that hackers were vandals if not criminials. I realize the meaning of words evolve, but it really galls me to see the meaning of "hack" and "hacker" being twisted from something such as exploring or someone positive like an explorer to something, someone, bad like a criminal or vandal. Sure, a hacker may do something bad, but that's not the intension, and they may try to find a solution.
Or to put it another way, when was the last time to heard anyone in Europe refer to themselves directly as European rather than French, or Spanish, or Brittish or Irish? Likewise, when was the last time you heard a Canadian self identify as an American?
But not all in France call themselves French, or in Spain Spanish. For instance in the French province of Brittany, some call themself Breton. In southern France and northern Spain there's the Basques. Spain has the Catalans as well as several othe ethnic groups, some of whom like the Basques are fighting for autotonomy if not independence from Spain. One such group is the Basques ETA, Euskadi Ta Askatasuna fighting for "Basque Homeland and Freedom". Recall it was the ETA who was blamed for the Madrid train bombings by the then Spanish Premier, when it was really al Quada affiliated terrorists. The same can be said of some in Great Britian, the Irish in Northern Ireland, Welsh in Wales, Cornish in Cornwall, Scots in Scotland, and Celts spread throughout not just the British Isles but western Europe down to Spain.
Yeah, I remember Reagan. Many say he was conservative, meaning he supported small government (which is really liberal), but he really expanded government. And the fake "War on Drugs". He had a mixed bag on regulations, he cut some but came up with others. Between him and Bush Sr, they created the biggest national deficit the USA had known up to that tyme. But by the end of Clinton's terms in office, the deficit was transformed into the USA's biggest budget surplus. However it wasn't because of Clinton but because the economy boomed through the '90s increasing tax collection. Bush Jr turned back around and we have the biggest deficit again, though this one is much bigger than Reagan and Bush Sr's.
If anything moves, the liberals tax it. It it keeps moving, the liberals regulate it. And when it finally stops moving, they subsidize it!
They aren't real liberals. They might be so called neoliberals but really they lean more towards socialism and want to expand government. The only difference between today's censervatives and liberals is what part of government they expand and what part they shrink. The conservatives want to expand the military as well as shrink welfare programs for the poor. The so called liberals today want to expand welfare and shrink the military. I won't say all of them but some also want social health insurance. They both act tough on drugs.
Yeah, I thought of getting a shredder. My brother in law suggested that if I get one to make sure it crosscuts. It would make less work using one but it almost seems ovekill. Not the shredding but the cost and considering how much use it would see which isn't much. Other than credit card offers I wouldn't really use one. All other financial records, bank and credit card statements and such, I get I file and I don't have anything else I'm particularly concerned about. As for those credit card offers, I may followup on opting out.
Unfortunately, many of the current actually-qualified security researchers have some sort of black-hatting in their background, which, to my mind, makes them suspect in the first place.
Would you automatically disqualify Kevin Metnick just because he was a "blackhat hacker"?
When something doesn't quite work, don't be tempted to strip the training filename off a URL in the address bar, as that's been proven in the US courts as _hacking_.
I use, delete the last file or directory from website, all the tyme if I get a 404, File Not Found, message. It makes it easier to find the file if it is still on the server, but the addie has changed, than going to the front page. It's the same suggestion I've been given by professors. If the webmaster or whomever doesn't want people to have accss to a directory all they have to do is block it. As for hacking, if it is to steal or maliciously cause harm it IS NOT HACKING, nor is the person a hacker. They may be a cracker or a script kiddie but they are not a hacker if they don't live up to the hacker ethnic!
All those offers you get are supposed to have a section saying something like:
You can choose to stop receiving prescreened offers of credit from this and other companies by calling [insert toll-free number].
That toll-free number gets you the place behind that web site.
I haven't seen it but then again I don't read any of the material. I just set them aside for later, then I'll either use a maker to blackout name, address, and such then rip it up or I'll burn them.
Capitalists are capitalists and the corporate aristocracy is the corporate aristocracy, equating them is just twisting meanings. They are totally different animals.
The real problem with communism is that it was tried too early- before we had alternate forms of labor other than human, and before we had the ability to categorize each consumer's wants and needs down to the very last atom.
One, I don't want to be someone else's idea of a consumer, and more importantly I don't want anyone else tell me what I need, "down to the very last atom".
We don't need to be wasting human effort with jobs better done by machines anymore. And if we let capitalism rule the transition to robotic labor, well, we will deserve what we get.
If you have a machine do the job of humans you take something away from the human. Me, I prefer to work and not sit around all day doing nothing accept read/. and/or watch tv, which is pretty much what I do as I have a disability. If not working I rather be taking classes and or volunteering. I want to have some meaning in my life and not just be a consumer. Life is for living.
For the second half... WTF does having, or not having, your credit card # on file apply to this?? It seems a bit spurious to the conversation at hand, and I'll treat it as such.:-P
That one is easy, the person whose credit card number is on file is at risk of having the number stolen and then having the card maxed out. If it were me I'd definitely would want you to do something or you'd loose me as a customer as well as maybe be slapped with a lawsuit.
there's no excuse to let security issues just sit unnoticed.
Sure there is, if they're going to treat you like scum when you try to help them, let them suffer the consequences. If they don't appreciate it when someone points out a problem let them face the pbulic and their customers or clients when a cracker or script kiddie exploits the vulnerability. You shouldn't have to hide just because you try to help someone.!!!
Thanks, I didn't know that. I may go ahead and optout as I don't like getting all the offers I get and I'm concerned about throwing them away as someone else may be able to use them for id theft.
As much of a critic as I am of this administration, the individuals cited in this article are persons with clearance who are being investigated as part of the process of revoking clearance at the very minimum.
Can you show me where it says anything about clearance? I've read, reread, and searched for "clear" but haven't found it. Nor have I found "revok".
Frankly, I wouldn't expect the inquiries made by the government for this reason to even show up on a credit report. It only takes a few minutes to request your credit report from any one of several sources, and the big credit reporting agencies even offer monitoring services to warn you if someone makes an inquiry that will affect your score. Logging them on the credit report would tip off the suspect that something is up.
Yea, it's true it only takes a few minutes to get a credit report however as you say most of the tyme requests are preliminary, such as when a credit card company sends you a "preapproved" credit card. The only tyme they can get a full report is if you approve. I also know about those monitoring services, years ago I signed up for one. However as my score was bad, I had some claims for unpaid medical bills, I didn't think is was appropriate to continue paying the monthy fee to keep the service. Now though I'm thinking of monitoring my credit again as I hope to buy the building I live in now and get a morgage for it sometime this year, early next year at the lastest. And I want the best score I can get so the interest on the loan will be lower.
Falcon
BTW, ever read those preapproved credit card offers? Somewhere in small type you'll find it says it preapproved from a preliminary credit report but they can still withdraw the offer if they don't like your full credit report.
All you say may be true however nowhere in the article does it say the admin is only issuing these security letters for those work or have applied for security or classified employment. The word root "class" doesn't even appear in the article and the only places "security" appears is where they mention the National Security Letters and the National Security Act.
So returning Elián González to his father who had legal custody was wrong? BS, just because people don't like Castro or how Cuba is run doesn't give them the right to kidnap a child and keep him away from his father. On the other hand maybe someone should of been fried for the Brqanch Davidian fiasco, and not the ones who actually did fry but the ones responsible for frying them. And let us not forget Ruby Ridge either.
Clearly you don't understand what the word "liberal" means. I mean, Castro is very left wing: do you think he never spys on his subjects?
Hardly anyone uses the right mneaning for "liberal" today. A Liberal used to be someone who stood for Liberty and Small government. They stressed the "importance of human rationality, individual property rights, natural rights, constitutional limitations of government, the protection of civil liberties, an economic policy with heavy emphasis on free markets". Today's liberals or neoliberals seem more like socialists with bigger government, bigger public ie government programs, and penalizing businesses.
A government can arrest you, imprison you, and even kill you. Governments all around the world are waging wars, rounding people up, and torturing them. What business can do that?
Actually, they have more power than the government. When you apply for a car, they run your credit report. You apply for an apartment, they run a credit report. You apply for a job, they run a credit report. All of these companies that are running credit reports can use them against you. The Gov't can't.
Two problems with this, one businesses can legally only get your credit report if you allow it. Two everytime someone requests your report that requests gets listed on the report. Conceivable your credit score, FICO, can be damaged with the government listed. Besides the score is negatively impacted for each request listed, each request lowers the score. That's a good reason people should not apply for credit or allow others to request your report if you're going to apply for a morgage, the more requests and the lower the score the higher the interest on the morgage will be, that is if it's not approved. It may also look bad to a creditor or potential employer if there's a government request on the report as well, afterall why would the government request it if there was nothing wrong?.
You can type. You typed this message. That's all that is needed. My poetry is all typed- I've got dysgraphia and nobody could ever read my handwriting.
There's a big difference between typing something on a board or chatroom, and writing an article, essay, poem, or short stories. I don't recall ever hearing of dysgraphia, but my handwriting is attrocious too. However I used to make sure I always had paper and pen because I didn't know when something would popup in my mind that I wanted to write down before I forgot it. Almost all of my poems I wrote that way, even those I turned in for class assignments some of which I wrote after stopping my bike to write it down, I took creative writing. First thing was get it on paper, then type it or write again using better penmanship. I even tried learning calligraphy to improve my penmanship.
Ah, I just googled "dysgraphia" and see it's neurological disorder characterized by writing disabilities, and not just penmanship, but also includes things like improper word usage. Myself, I have neurological problems as well. I am a survivor of a Traumatic Brain Injury, TBI. Actually when I was going to my writing groups, I was in two groups, after my accident that caused the TBI some in them suggested I write about the accident. I tried to but each tyme I did I'd just get so angry I couldn't write.
If it wasn't for the fake need to make a profit, the false scarcity of food, clothing, and shelter that can now be rectified with robotic building and fabrication machines, there'd be no need to say no to any project. "cost too much money to bring to market" wouldn't even be a factor.
I'm having trouble reconciling what you've written so far in this thread and you sig line, "In the 1980s capitalism triumphed over communism, In the 1990s it triumphed over democracy." Communism lost but you want to go back it seems and try all over again. Oh, and as far as capitalism having triumphed over democracy, it wasn't capitalism it was the Corporate Aristocracy.
I have a friend who is the president of a photography club in CT. He's been arrested twice for refusing to turn over his rolls of film - with pictures of local WPA bridges & Buildings.
Unfortunately stuff like this is getting to be more and more common in the new police state of the USA. People can and do fight it but most don't want the inconvenience of being arrested so they'll just hand over their film docilely. For those who want to fight this there's a pdf handbook that can be downloaded, Legal Rights of Photographers. It goes into detail explaining what a photographer should do if approached by law enforcement. Actually I think, I don't recall for sure, I may of first heard of it here when someone else posted a link to it a few years back in another thread. It was either here or Photo.net.
I'm puzzled about something here. According to this there were two users logged into Yahoo! on the same computer at the same tyme. Yet neither I nor anyone else I know has been able to do this,
Run two different browsers (Firefox and Opera for example) and you're done. It's not a very mighty hack.
Of course also tell the boy to stop surfing porn and warez sites. You're not going to convince me that he didn't search out porn in the first place (probably not kiddie though).
If you read the ABC article you'll see he admits to visiting adult erotic websites, websites a friend gave him.
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One, I don't want to be someone else's idea of a consumer, and more importantly I don't want anyone else tell me what I need, "down to the very last atom".
Wal-Mart, Target, and the rest of the big box discounters are already doing it
They may try but just as most people have to ability to, I exercise my freewill and don't buy into their advertizing. For instance, I am a member of two coops where I do a lot of grocery shopping. These coops support not just organics and fair trade but also local businesses and farmers.
just try to buy a computer built out of components from the United States anymore.
Admittedly it is a big box but within a few miles of where I am I can go into a store and pick up all of the parts I need to build my own pc. Having said that, I'll admit that today it's cheaper to buy a compleated computer than it is to build one yourself, unless you have specific hardware requirements, whereas yesteryear it was cheaper to build one. That's how some of the big corporations got started. Take Dell, after he built his own computer Micheal Dell started building computers for others while he was a college student. The Woz, Steve Wozniak, was an engineer working for HP when he came up with and built the Apple computer. He and his friend Steve Jobs, the Two Steves, then started building the Apple in his garage. Thus was Apple Computer Inc, now Apple Inc, born.
Also, I don't know much about your disability- but it seems to me that none of the technology Marshall Brain talks about is very far away- have you looked into the current state of cyber implants yet?
My disability is a Traumatic Brain Injury, TBI. As my memory is bad, having been destroyed because of the injury, I don't recall what or who the Marshall Brain is. I have however done some research into and have an interest in part because of my TBI, in neurogenesis. However not lately. Actually I've been hoping maybe stemcell research can help. Provided I were given all the possible ramifications, likelyhood of success, possible side effects and such, I'd be willing to a test subject for stemcell or transplantation research.
FalconIn common usage, hacker means what it means to commoners. This is not necessarily the same as the meaning to an elite club of people who use the term their own way.
Ah but in the case of "hacker" it was an elite club of people who put the idea of what hackers are into the public. Through the '70s up to the early '80s a hacker was someone who hacked, came up with a nifty trick, hardware and or software. The first tyme "hacker" was used in a negative manner was in the early '80s by a reporter, who at one tyme were called hacks or hackers too. After that more and more reporters described computer vandals as hackers, and eventually the public got the impression that hackers were vandals if not criminials. I realize the meaning of words evolve, but it really galls me to see the meaning of "hack" and "hacker" being twisted from something such as exploring or someone positive like an explorer to something, someone, bad like a criminal or vandal. Sure, a hacker may do something bad, but that's not the intension, and they may try to find a solution.
FalconOr to put it another way, when was the last time to heard anyone in Europe refer to themselves directly as European rather than French, or Spanish, or Brittish or Irish? Likewise, when was the last time you heard a Canadian self identify as an American?
But not all in France call themselves French, or in Spain Spanish. For instance in the French province of Brittany, some call themself Breton. In southern France and northern Spain there's the Basques. Spain has the Catalans as well as several othe ethnic groups, some of whom like the Basques are fighting for autotonomy if not independence from Spain. One such group is the Basques ETA, Euskadi Ta Askatasuna fighting for "Basque Homeland and Freedom". Recall it was the ETA who was blamed for the Madrid train bombings by the then Spanish Premier, when it was really al Quada affiliated terrorists. The same can be said of some in Great Britian, the Irish in Northern Ireland, Welsh in Wales, Cornish in Cornwall, Scots in Scotland, and Celts spread throughout not just the British Isles but western Europe down to Spain.
FalconYeah, I remember Reagan. Many say he was conservative, meaning he supported small government (which is really liberal), but he really expanded government. And the fake "War on Drugs". He had a mixed bag on regulations, he cut some but came up with others. Between him and Bush Sr, they created the biggest national deficit the USA had known up to that tyme. But by the end of Clinton's terms in office, the deficit was transformed into the USA's biggest budget surplus. However it wasn't because of Clinton but because the economy boomed through the '90s increasing tax collection. Bush Jr turned back around and we have the biggest deficit again, though this one is much bigger than Reagan and Bush Sr's.
If anything moves, the liberals tax it. It it keeps moving, the liberals regulate it. And when it finally stops moving, they subsidize it!
They aren't real liberals. They might be so called neoliberals but really they lean more towards socialism and want to expand government. The only difference between today's censervatives and liberals is what part of government they expand and what part they shrink. The conservatives want to expand the military as well as shrink welfare programs for the poor. The so called liberals today want to expand welfare and shrink the military. I won't say all of them but some also want social health insurance. They both act tough on drugs.
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Yeah, I thought of getting a shredder. My brother in law suggested that if I get one to make sure it crosscuts. It would make less work using one but it almost seems ovekill. Not the shredding but the cost and considering how much use it would see which isn't much. Other than credit card offers I wouldn't really use one. All other financial records, bank and credit card statements and such, I get I file and I don't have anything else I'm particularly concerned about. As for those credit card offers, I may followup on opting out.
FalconUnfortunately, many of the current actually-qualified security researchers have some sort of black-hatting in their background, which, to my mind, makes them suspect in the first place.
Would you automatically disqualify Kevin Metnick just because he was a "blackhat hacker"?
FalconWhen something doesn't quite work, don't be tempted to strip the training filename off a URL in the address bar, as that's been proven in the US courts as _hacking_.
I use, delete the last file or directory from website, all the tyme if I get a 404, File Not Found, message. It makes it easier to find the file if it is still on the server, but the addie has changed, than going to the front page. It's the same suggestion I've been given by professors. If the webmaster or whomever doesn't want people to have accss to a directory all they have to do is block it. As for hacking, if it is to steal or maliciously cause harm it IS NOT HACKING, nor is the person a hacker. They may be a cracker or a script kiddie but they are not a hacker if they don't live up to the hacker ethnic!
FalconAll those offers you get are supposed to have a section saying something like:
You can choose to stop receiving prescreened offers of credit from this and other companies by calling [insert toll-free number].
That toll-free number gets you the place behind that web site.
I haven't seen it but then again I don't read any of the material. I just set them aside for later, then I'll either use a maker to blackout name, address, and such then rip it up or I'll burn them.
FalconCapitalists are capitalists and the corporate aristocracy is the corporate aristocracy, equating them is just twisting meanings. They are totally different animals.
The real problem with communism is that it was tried too early- before we had alternate forms of labor other than human, and before we had the ability to categorize each consumer's wants and needs down to the very last atom.
One, I don't want to be someone else's idea of a consumer, and more importantly I don't want anyone else tell me what I need, "down to the very last atom".
We don't need to be wasting human effort with jobs better done by machines anymore. And if we let capitalism rule the transition to robotic labor, well, we will deserve what we get.
If you have a machine do the job of humans you take something away from the human. Me, I prefer to work and not sit around all day doing nothing accept read /. and/or watch tv, which is pretty much what I do as I have a disability. If not working I rather be taking classes and or volunteering. I want to have some meaning in my life and not just be a consumer. Life is for living.
FalconFor the second half ... WTF does having, or not having, your credit card # on file apply to this?? It seems a bit spurious to the conversation at hand, and I'll treat it as such. :-P
That one is easy, the person whose credit card number is on file is at risk of having the number stolen and then having the card maxed out. If it were me I'd definitely would want you to do something or you'd loose me as a customer as well as maybe be slapped with a lawsuit.
Falconthere's no excuse to let security issues just sit unnoticed.
Sure there is, if they're going to treat you like scum when you try to help them, let them suffer the consequences. If they don't appreciate it when someone points out a problem let them face the pbulic and their customers or clients when a cracker or script kiddie exploits the vulnerability. You shouldn't have to hide just because you try to help someone.!!!
FalconYou can exclude yourself from the pre-screen lists at www.optoutprescreen.com/
Thanks, I didn't know that. I may go ahead and optout as I don't like getting all the offers I get and I'm concerned about throwing them away as someone else may be able to use them for id theft.
FalconAs much of a critic as I am of this administration, the individuals cited in this article are persons with clearance who are being investigated as part of the process of revoking clearance at the very minimum.
Can you show me where it says anything about clearance? I've read, reread, and searched for "clear" but haven't found it. Nor have I found "revok".
FalconFrankly, I wouldn't expect the inquiries made by the government for this reason to even show up on a credit report. It only takes a few minutes to request your credit report from any one of several sources, and the big credit reporting agencies even offer monitoring services to warn you if someone makes an inquiry that will affect your score. Logging them on the credit report would tip off the suspect that something is up.
Yea, it's true it only takes a few minutes to get a credit report however as you say most of the tyme requests are preliminary, such as when a credit card company sends you a "preapproved" credit card. The only tyme they can get a full report is if you approve. I also know about those monitoring services, years ago I signed up for one. However as my score was bad, I had some claims for unpaid medical bills, I didn't think is was appropriate to continue paying the monthy fee to keep the service. Now though I'm thinking of monitoring my credit again as I hope to buy the building I live in now and get a morgage for it sometime this year, early next year at the lastest. And I want the best score I can get so the interest on the loan will be lower.
Falcon
BTW, ever read those preapproved credit card offers? Somewhere in small type you'll find it says it preapproved from a preliminary credit report but they can still withdraw the offer if they don't like your full credit report.
All you say may be true however nowhere in the article does it say the admin is only issuing these security letters for those work or have applied for security or classified employment. The word root "class" doesn't even appear in the article and the only places "security" appears is where they mention the National Security Letters and the National Security Act.
FalconSo returning Elián González to his father who had legal custody was wrong? BS, just because people don't like Castro or how Cuba is run doesn't give them the right to kidnap a child and keep him away from his father. On the other hand maybe someone should of been fried for the Brqanch Davidian fiasco, and not the ones who actually did fry but the ones responsible for frying them. And let us not forget Ruby Ridge either.
FalconClearly you don't understand what the word "liberal" means. I mean, Castro is very left wing: do you think he never spys on his subjects?
Hardly anyone uses the right mneaning for "liberal" today. A Liberal used to be someone who stood for Liberty and Small government. They stressed the "importance of human rationality, individual property rights, natural rights, constitutional limitations of government, the protection of civil liberties, an economic policy with heavy emphasis on free markets". Today's liberals or neoliberals seem more like socialists with bigger government, bigger public ie government programs, and penalizing businesses.
FalconCare to provide an example of Coca Cola rounding someone up and torturing him or her?
They don't have to, they pay government, the military, and paramilitary organizations to do the dirty work. As in Colombia, Coke sued over death squad claims. How about the Campaign to Hold Coca-Cola Accountable in India. Google has a directory of more unethical things Coka Cola has been accused of.
FalconA government can arrest you, imprison you, and even kill you. Governments all around the world are waging wars, rounding people up, and torturing them. What business can do that?
You mean like the government contractor Blackwater? Or Coca Cola? Or Exxon?
FalconActually, they have more power than the government. When you apply for a car, they run your credit report. You apply for an apartment, they run a credit report. You apply for a job, they run a credit report. All of these companies that are running credit reports can use them against you. The Gov't can't.
Two problems with this, one businesses can legally only get your credit report if you allow it. Two everytime someone requests your report that requests gets listed on the report. Conceivable your credit score, FICO, can be damaged with the government listed. Besides the score is negatively impacted for each request listed, each request lowers the score. That's a good reason people should not apply for credit or allow others to request your report if you're going to apply for a morgage, the more requests and the lower the score the higher the interest on the morgage will be, that is if it's not approved. It may also look bad to a creditor or potential employer if there's a government request on the report as well, afterall why would the government request it if there was nothing wrong?.
FalconYou can type. You typed this message. That's all that is needed. My poetry is all typed- I've got dysgraphia and nobody could ever read my handwriting.
There's a big difference between typing something on a board or chatroom, and writing an article, essay, poem, or short stories. I don't recall ever hearing of dysgraphia, but my handwriting is attrocious too. However I used to make sure I always had paper and pen because I didn't know when something would popup in my mind that I wanted to write down before I forgot it. Almost all of my poems I wrote that way, even those I turned in for class assignments some of which I wrote after stopping my bike to write it down, I took creative writing. First thing was get it on paper, then type it or write again using better penmanship. I even tried learning calligraphy to improve my penmanship.
Ah, I just googled "dysgraphia" and see it's neurological disorder characterized by writing disabilities, and not just penmanship, but also includes things like improper word usage. Myself, I have neurological problems as well. I am a survivor of a Traumatic Brain Injury, TBI. Actually when I was going to my writing groups, I was in two groups, after my accident that caused the TBI some in them suggested I write about the accident. I tried to but each tyme I did I'd just get so angry I couldn't write.
If it wasn't for the fake need to make a profit, the false scarcity of food, clothing, and shelter that can now be rectified with robotic building and fabrication machines, there'd be no need to say no to any project. "cost too much money to bring to market" wouldn't even be a factor.
I'm having trouble reconciling what you've written so far in this thread and you sig line, "In the 1980s capitalism triumphed over communism, In the 1990s it triumphed over democracy." Communism lost but you want to go back it seems and try all over again. Oh, and as far as capitalism having triumphed over democracy, it wasn't capitalism it was the Corporate Aristocracy.
FalconI have a friend who is the president of a photography club in CT. He's been arrested twice for refusing to turn over his rolls of film - with pictures of local WPA bridges & Buildings.
Unfortunately stuff like this is getting to be more and more common in the new police state of the USA. People can and do fight it but most don't want the inconvenience of being arrested so they'll just hand over their film docilely. For those who want to fight this there's a pdf handbook that can be downloaded, Legal Rights of Photographers. It goes into detail explaining what a photographer should do if approached by law enforcement. Actually I think, I don't recall for sure, I may of first heard of it here when someone else posted a link to it a few years back in another thread. It was either here or Photo.net.
FalconNo, I've been a member for several years.
FalconI'm puzzled about something here. According to this there were two users logged into Yahoo! on the same computer at the same tyme. Yet neither I nor anyone else I know has been able to do this,
Run two different browsers (Firefox and Opera for example) and you're done. It's not a very mighty hack.
Uhm, I hadn't thought of that. Thanks.
FalconOf course also tell the boy to stop surfing porn and warez sites. You're not going to convince me that he didn't search out porn in the first place (probably not kiddie though).
If you read the ABC article you'll see he admits to visiting adult erotic websites, websites a friend gave him.
Falcon