His defense of Israel is so vigorous I find myself wondering - is the reviewer himself on the Mossad's payroll? Was he sent here to cultivate sympathy for Israel amongst the world's intellectual elite (slashdot)?
For the longest time, there were claims that every Check Point FireWall-1 had a backdoor which the Mosad could tap into. Some years ago, the NSA even sent out a memo denying that fact, as it was getting in the way of firewall deployments at the agency.
They sent out a memo? Well consider that one debunked.
Not a chance. They'd never be able to use the excuse "some anonymous person slipped in this provision at the last hour and I didn't want to not vote for the bill just because of this" again...
what guidelines will they be using to determine what is child porn and what is not?
Some of the recent "child model" busts seem to be pushing the limit of what can be called "child porn". It's almost as if they're widening the definition of child porn so they'll have more people to bust.
I'm assuming there's some sort of profit motive behind all this virus writing... is it to generate crappy run-of-network traffic for ad revenue? Identity theft? Extorting money from online businesses by threatening to turn your bot network on them? What?
"Autopsies performed on the remains of mummies show that they had cocaine alkaloids in their system, which means that the ancient Egyptians traveled to South America"
I've always suspected that was complete hogwash. I would appreciate it if someone would shed some light on THAT mummy mystery.
if we discover a dark comet too late for the standard "shoot a nuke" at it solution to work, I propose we build a warp field around it and jump it THROUGH the planet... this idea is 100% original.
Just for the record, Kasparov only lost to Deep Blue because both times (including the rematch) he was trying to play "computer chess" instead of his own game of chess.
I'd like to see another rematch, now that Kasparov knows there isn't such a thing as "computer chess" anymore.
I've got sources inside US intel that tell me these are botched attempts by Syrian intelligence to tap these undersea lines.
The chair is against the wall.
John has a long mustache. That is all.
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I haven't read Zoe's Tale, but I have read Old Man's War (which I think was the first) and the Last Colony.
These are good scifi books in their own right, but they ask some tough questions about government accountability and the need for secrecy in the name of security.
I wish he had never introduced the ability for the BrainPal to snoop on other BrainPal's, though. For Scalzi, it's a great piece of plot convenience, but I always feel like he's cheating when he uses it.
Wake the fuck up. We live in a country where your purchases of cold medicine are tracked and recorded, where YOU are called a dead-beat by the very same credit card companies you are helping to "bail out", and where we have the highest per-capita rate of imprisonment on the planet.
Free to work ourselves into an early grave, consume as much as possible, and pay taxes the entire way. Not too free beyond that.
I believe that mind control devices are real and are being used by American intelligence and law enforcement.
How do I know? The Village Voice quoted an FBI official during the siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco in 1994 as saying that they were planning to use a device on Koresh that would make him think he was talking to God.
I've always found the Village Voice to be pretty responsible... I think the official let this slip, and we haven't heard about it since because we weren't supposed to have ever heard about it at all.
Is there a way to run anything other than tivo's software on my series 3 tivo? I'd like to give this a shot, because I'm tired of paying tivo monthly, and no way I'm buying the lifetime deal when I'm expecting tivo to go under any day now.
Also, is it possible to get cablecard decoders from Time Warner that don't cut out 10% of the time on certain channels?
I didn't buy it because of Digg or Fark; I bought it because it is an intriguing, abstract work of art. I wouldn't expect a bunch of left-brained nerd-types to appreciate the kind of profound artistic statement expressed by this work.
Of course, this has reminded me why art is expensive - the hoi polloi are best kept away.
When I was in elementary school, the local police came to school one day to fingerprint all of us "in case we ever got kidnapped" (this would have been around 1984 or so - I remember the TV movie "Adam" had recently come out so parents were in an uproar about us getting abducted).
Not realizing how ridiculous this was at the time or the significance of it, I allowed myself to be inked and fingerprinted.
What are the odds that those fingerprints have made their way into the FBI database?
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Uhm, isn't it "more fair" and not "fairer"?
His defense of Israel is so vigorous I find myself wondering - is the reviewer himself on the Mossad's payroll? Was he sent here to cultivate sympathy for Israel amongst the world's intellectual elite (slashdot)?
For the longest time, there were claims that every Check Point FireWall-1 had a backdoor which the Mosad could tap into. Some years ago, the NSA even sent out a memo denying that fact, as it was getting in the way of firewall deployments at the agency.
They sent out a memo? Well consider that one debunked.
Not a chance. They'd never be able to use the excuse "some anonymous person slipped in this provision at the last hour and I didn't want to not vote for the bill just because of this" again...
Ok, I'm far from an expert on SQL, but if NULL doesn't represent "unknown" in SQL, then why does
select 1 from dual where 1 not in (2,3,NULL);
return an empty set?
Here is my problem with the p2p babysitting -
what guidelines will they be using to determine what is child porn and what is not?
Some of the recent "child model" busts seem to be pushing the limit of what can be called "child porn". It's almost as if they're widening the definition of child porn so they'll have more people to bust.
I'm assuming there's some sort of profit motive behind all this virus writing... is it to generate crappy run-of-network traffic for ad revenue? Identity theft? Extorting money from online businesses by threatening to turn your bot network on them? What?
Every once in a while, I'll hear someone say -
"Autopsies performed on the remains of mummies show that they had cocaine alkaloids in their system, which means that the ancient Egyptians traveled to South America"
I've always suspected that was complete hogwash. I would appreciate it if someone would shed some light on THAT mummy mystery.
if we discover a dark comet too late for the standard "shoot a nuke" at it solution to work, I propose we build a warp field around it and jump it THROUGH the planet... this idea is 100% original.
was friggin great.
hey remember destro? why was his head silver?
Just for the record, Kasparov only lost to Deep Blue because both times (including the rematch) he was trying to play "computer chess" instead of his own game of chess.
I'd like to see another rematch, now that Kasparov knows there isn't such a thing as "computer chess" anymore.
... "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" and infused it with nanotech, but that's just me.
Can we please, please go back to the Win32 API? It was such a joy to use, and I've got a Visual Studio 6 license laying around here somewhere.
Is there any doubt left that the corporate aristocracy in this country is rotten to its core?
I've got sources inside US intel that tell me these are botched attempts by Syrian intelligence to tap these undersea lines.
The chair is against the wall.
John has a long mustache. That is all.
I haven't read Zoe's Tale, but I have read Old Man's War (which I think was the first) and the Last Colony.
These are good scifi books in their own right, but they ask some tough questions about government accountability and the need for secrecy in the name of security.
I wish he had never introduced the ability for the BrainPal to snoop on other BrainPal's, though. For Scalzi, it's a great piece of plot convenience, but I always feel like he's cheating when he uses it.
I remember that - it didn't work very well at all, but the principle that it was based on was similar.
Wake the fuck up. We live in a country where your purchases of cold medicine are tracked and recorded, where YOU are called a dead-beat by the very same credit card companies you are helping to "bail out", and where we have the highest per-capita rate of imprisonment on the planet.
Free to work ourselves into an early grave, consume as much as possible, and pay taxes the entire way. Not too free beyond that.
I believe that mind control devices are real and are being used by American intelligence and law enforcement.
How do I know? The Village Voice quoted an FBI official during the siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco in 1994 as saying that they were planning to use a device on Koresh that would make him think he was talking to God.
I've always found the Village Voice to be pretty responsible... I think the official let this slip, and we haven't heard about it since because we weren't supposed to have ever heard about it at all.
"Attack of The Eye Creatures" and the TV premiere of the ninja show "The Master".
I know Joel got off the ship by stranding Mike, but did Mike ever make it off the satellite of love?
Is there a way to run anything other than tivo's software on my series 3 tivo? I'd like to give this a shot, because I'm tired of paying tivo monthly, and no way I'm buying the lifetime deal when I'm expecting tivo to go under any day now.
Also, is it possible to get cablecard decoders from Time Warner that don't cut out 10% of the time on certain channels?
I didn't buy it because of Digg or Fark; I bought it because it is an intriguing, abstract work of art. I wouldn't expect a bunch of left-brained nerd-types to appreciate the kind of profound artistic statement expressed by this work.
Of course, this has reminded me why art is expensive - the hoi polloi are best kept away.
I always took that to mean that Sith traveled in pairs, not that there were only two in the world, but I don't know.
I can't believe some Star Wars zealot hasn't beat us over the head with the canonical Star Wars answer yet.
Maybe after he became a Sith? Can Sith have padawan learners?
When I was in elementary school, the local police came to school one day to fingerprint all of us "in case we ever got kidnapped" (this would have been around 1984 or so - I remember the TV movie "Adam" had recently come out so parents were in an uproar about us getting abducted).
Not realizing how ridiculous this was at the time or the significance of it, I allowed myself to be inked and fingerprinted.
What are the odds that those fingerprints have made their way into the FBI database?