Rickover might have been, as you say, "a dick", but you can't pussy around and namby pamby some degreed officer just because he's handsome, or looks like the grade-A, good ole 'Merkun jock. I am sure if we did NOT have Rickover screenout out sub-par officers, we'd have nuke boat drivers the likes of the current president the US is saddled with. Who'd you rather have with the power to end the world (we'll at least driving the boat): Someone Rickover screened, or someone else who would accept less?
WHen I was barely 22, I went to Waldenbooks or some store in some valley location in San Diego, near the zoo, and I spent some $20 of my own measly E-3's pay and bought the book on Rickover. I still have it today. He was indeed brutal, and in many ways ingenious, and he built a team that probably is the standard for even today's officers. Granted, very, very many people who KNEW Rickover hated him. But, buess what? A sub was, named after him, iirc, while he was alive. And that is RARE. Even Carter has one named after him. They deserved it, but the bird farms (CVNs...) namings leave more to be desired... (alluded to in para 1).
Slash image word: "praise"...
see www.otanashide.com for stuff I did as a teen, and my skewed view on navies and power projection
"a rechargeable contactless smart card used as a fare card on train lines in Japan. Launched in November 2001,..."
"Technology The card incorporates contactless radio frequency identification RFID technology developed by Sony, called FeliCa. The same technology is also deployed in the Edy electronic cash cards used in Japan, the Octopus card in Hong Kong, and the ezlink Card in Singapore."
"Pockets in Japan, however, are getting lighter with the growing use of integrated-circuit smart cards. The size of a credit card, they are packed with thin antennas and an encrypted integrated chip that can be used thousands of times to pay for train fares, meals at restaurants and snacks at convenience stores. In less than two years, nearly seven million people in Japan have started using one of two types of cards, both based on technology developed by Sony.
So far, the main client for the cards is JR East, the largest railway company in Japan. Nearly six million train and bus commuters have started using the first of the two types, known as Suica cards, since they were introduced 18 months ago."
For those interested in similar devices (well, actually key fob) in the US, read 5-Peter Davidson's post about "Speedpass"
I am probably one of the most HARDCORE, anti-ms mofos to plow and ply slashdot with my opinions, so don't think for one second I'm being a grandstander or troll here. I RARELY EVER come out and support msoft, much less have anything *nice* to say about them, and I irreverently display lack of gratitude for them if/when I can. But while I'm hesitant (well, at this very instant) to call McAfee and Symantec "parasites" (tho, clinically it's maybe the best word), like you said, it IS ms' responsibility to fix these holes.
The writing may not have been on the wall in colored ink, and even if it was written in magic decoder ink, any fool at McAfee or Symantec, or even that place called wall street had to realize the A/V business plan was based on flaws (too open/underprotected system internals) of another party (msoft) that HAVE to be fixed. They're only bitching now because until now, other than msoft, nobody else could have the sheer resources (devs and dollars) to start plugging these holes that only a handful of a/v companies could even attempt. Once vista is regarded as highly stable, then the stocks will plummnet for McAfee and Symantec, the natural response to a company that becomes redundant.
McAfee and Symantec had better start re-writing their business models, and FAST. They'd better start basing them on non-parasytic expectations, or they'd better whip out a crystal ball to show vista will INDEED be so riddled with holes that they are not redundant. Or, they can come up with their own Linux distros and become PRO LINUX somehow. Or, go into real estate with any cash they never donated or burned up. After all, Kaspersky and others precociously already have legit and hard-fought places in Linuxland and don't need McAfee and Symantec becoming leaches there (by writing virii for Linux in the background or via "digital mercenaries").
Nothing and NO ONE lasts forever. It's just that ms was lucky in their beginning (gates' family's money, IBM's, DR-DOS', and Lotus' mis-steps, and ms underhanded, egregious, blatantly illegal strong-arm tacticts in plastering virtually every manufactured computer with windoze under threat of assisting in piracy, and by kicking-back bilions of marketing dollars to anyone who'd supplicate to or suck from ms' many digital nipples), but due to ms' early immaturity, regular sloppiness and trademark lack of foresight (really, they RESPOND more than INNOVATE--keyboards, mice, consoles, real estate, games, web portals, databases, browsers, mp3 players....), the McAfees and Symantecs got lucky. Not much more, not much less. Just lucky. Now, their luck is rightfully (or, is "predictably" better?) running out.
BUT, the story's main thread is redundant or pointless, as I recently read that the EU ruled that msoft HAS to allow 3rd party hooks into vista, something ms was keen/intent on NOT permitting. But, poor, whiny a/v cottage industry won't accept that ms has a DUTY to fix their shit first and foremost (as much as I DON'T want ms steamrolling Linux, tho), even if the A/V industry has to whither and die because of it. If ms' did the os right or responsively on a daily basis, from day one, then the a/v industry might not have had a toehold anyway. Go and rewrite your biz plan and try again, A/V's.
"And, now in a display of brute strength, the creature will throw himself against the transparency..."
(Come to think of it, the sound of Pike hitting the transparency might make a good b/g sound. Possibly Daystrom's M-5 in Engineering... But, when your co-workers and boss grapple over process or code or whatever, you should whip out the Kirk-vs-someone fighting match track:
An old co-worker of mine at Lockheed years ago whistled this when his colleagues and their boss argued in the shipping-receiving area. Only he and I knew what the whistling tune matched, so it was a great inside joke.
BUt, this thing could be a security risk. Since it records bacground sounds, who's to say the streams aren't separated before being blended? The streams, even if blended, could be a few packets at a time "sent back home" to a place unknown. And, who knows who could be behind this. Simple entrepreneurs? "Petty scammers"?, or...
Employers would be better off buying desk-top waterfalls and soothing Asian or Indian meditative devices and write them off as ergonomics and workplace stress-reduction devices.
I want to block out my co-workers by using a soothing, rich, acoustmatic blend of Buddhist chants, tuvan throat singing, Aborigine chants, and the sound of Scotty's engines under heavy strain... (Stream in some Dorje Ling, Varuna Ghat, and "Three Variations on Plum Blossom"...)
Maybe that could be a new KDE start-up sound? Quick, KDE! Get it before it shows up in vista!
I would suspect no. See, I'm going to be cynical or suspicious and suggest that somehow the RIAA and DVD consortium and other entities, including politicians, see this as another revenues-generating scam, er, umm, scheme. They'll simiply include a line in the law stating that Anti-Broadcast Streams-Firewalled Systems, whether at home or at work (except in government facilities) are no proof of inability of the computer to receive streams.
See, if they DO exempt your good idea, it'll be circumvented by some enterprising person or persons who'll build fake firewalls and even supply credible-looking fake firewall logs. Or, they'll create re-routes to get the streams to the streams-addicted for cheaper than the 5.55 Euros, maybe even a neighborhood bulk plan (until word gets out and the whole neighborhood goes into the dark...)
With some 50 or 100 million computers in Europe, (or, imagine if/when this catches on in the US (or, are going to get hit with a fee when buying TV-tuner cards?), then watch the reaction) it might be a matter of time that this is politically or, well, governmentally supported. Just do the math. But, the money will just mostly go to the entertainment power mongers, not the alcoholics and substance abusers in recovery, not the victims of TV-inspired attacks of various sorts, not to the local schools which find TV is sucking away the kids' ability to retain classroom lectures...
Actually, the German government probably should just charge a one-time fee to the manufacturer's sold hardware based on tuner ID of the video card. Maybe such cards could have in-built NIC with a MAC and then assess a fee based on streams actually delivered TO the card, not POTENTIALLY deliverable to the card. Maybe that makes too much sense? (Or, the vid-card MACs could just be software-re-written....)
"how many drunk pub patrons upon being asked for their fingerprints will pull down their pants and shout "Fingerprint this?"",
I suspect that there will be a new cottage industry of making tight-fitting latex "tipsies' tip tips". Maybe the investigators will got "apeshit", "tits-up", or simply cock-up their investigations laughing themselves to death?
"The US on the other has one thing going for it: constitutional protections, and associated with that, pretty good transparency. Whenever there's a new law project that might touch constitutional protections, there's usually some people that will notice, and there's quite a bit more public debate about it."
Some do notice, but apparently not enough. Just two examples of the effectiveness of "The US on the other has one thing going for it: constitutional protections, and associated with that, pretty good transparency. Whenever there's a new law project that might touch constitutional protections, there's usually some people that will notice, and there's quite a bit more public debate about it."
I won't even yet go into how rotted roofs in Houston (unrepaired because a certain governer would not release or mark funds for repairs of run down police stations) led to destruction of crime scene evidence that led to uncounted illegal or erroneous convictions of people, this under the watch of then gov geo bush. Or, how with zeal and zest he signed off on the executions orders for people because he has complete faith and trust in the judicial system.
-- RSA secure ID/one-time number generator -- Pointsec
for laptops or certain mobile devices. If Pointsec or similar products don't/didn't cost a ton in licensing, then even sensitive desktops' hard drives could be encrypted and protected to prevent sleuths from easily accessing the content on the hardware (tho, MITM/packet sniffing might work until detected, monitored and the unauthorized perps apprehended...)
I've worked at a couple places where Pointsec was the preference. See:
(This answers a question which only a few days ago popped into my head...)
"The numbers don't lie - 60% of information theft results from lost or stolen equipment; only 25% from network intrusion. In short, every laptop, PC, PDA or smart phone is a potential weak point - unless you have Pointsec encryption software" http://www.pointsec.com/
Well, don't some holes close up from overstacked detritus near the opening? Or is something pushing up from the bottom or inside? (I don't know if "holey moley" or "holy shit" applies here...)
Actually, it appears to be advertised as ideal for use on a plane. I neglected to mention to click on the hyperlinks directly beneath the VM still image.
Somebody please mark this A/C 5 Funny. Really, I think it's funny. I'm not sure if s/he's meaning to be funny or is just bitter and resentful, but it kinda made my day!
Especially, with the Slash image word being: "healthy"...
OK, I'll probably get hit with "offtopic"/"troll" by someone out there, but...
WOW, timely comments. I'm not a regular reader of MotherJones, but I was in Borders and thought I'd read this particular issue. One article is:
"Just Try VOting Here; The 11 Worst Places to Vote (and then some)"
Seems we need even MORE external observers to expose the jokery of the US federal/presidential voting process. Underscores why I think national elections are so rigged and so thoroughly corrupt it's not worth my tim. Unfortunately, that's exactly the result the powerplayers expect.
"Windows boxen have plenty of holes that allow them to be thoroughly fucked..."
Fucked by firmware and software... and not by hardware (unless you count bad, lazy and malicious programmers as "hardware",heheh. Yep, seems windoze is a leaky object of lust...
"...but any label now carries so much stupid baggage that I try to avoid any one of them."
I feel exactly the same way.
"Constrict the ability of lobbies to buy our government policies, criticize your elected officials with reasoned arguments,"...
But, then the corporations, shield/crest/dagger/sword-carrying old-boy network of family and old money would lose their grip around our necks
"Balance the f'ing budget"
IF the budget ever is and remains balanced, all sorts of public services might go away, or worse, officials might micromanage the poor to death to their ultimate "soylent green-like" extermination (I'm reaching a bit on that one...)
"Try to be deft enough at foreign policy that you do not get most of the rest of the world pissed off at you."
But then the US military, like many, and like football teams, are not content to train; they have the primal urge to kick ass, break some bones, and make up their own missions or prohibit instant replay, so to speak. Actually, worse, the governments are like team owners, rigging whom they'll line up with, and which they crush then the troops/players get restless. Except, football tends to be played by seasons, and militaries as governmental swords tend to act at the whims of the governments, I think.
Worse, those with imperialistic, manifest-destinist agenda do not really give a damn about pissing off people. Look how bush and company (including blair and cohorts) perpetually pretend as if terrorists have no legitimate grievances. Hell, when you invade lands (let's just look at the Middle East of the 1910's thru 1950's), divvy them up as spoils of war, prop up brutal regimes, give them promisies of massive oil-buying customer bases, and then kill off any sects or secular threats and expect their parentless kids to not complain, then there sure will be problems. By comparison, suppose the bad guys in US cities began wiretapping, exposing, and causing indictments of thousands of police chiefs, tens of thousands of bad and otherwise "good" cops, and undermining "relative order", then the police would feel oppressed and demand exemption from exposure. Not a good analogy, but...
"When striking at your enemy, prefer a swift lance in the right place versus an avalanche in the general area."
But, the lockheeds, boeings, and such would have less shot up or shot down hardware to replace via tax payers' money; ammo makers would have less bombs and rockets and bullets to assemble, meaning layoffs, and a general "demasculinization" of the US ass-kicking regime. Just look at how (militarily) the US plays China off against Taiwan, Korea and Japan. An Asian superpower in the form of a non-warring, non-first-strike China does NOT fit in the privileged/anglo mentality of the US and its western allies. Of course, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan (and, throw in Israel) love the billions of dollars and high-tech gizmos and the R&D access, so they are not comfy seeking to hang up their armor and gauntlets when there remains a sense of right to wage war, plan for it, research and practice and seek it out. The money and power behind war-planning and war-making are just too tempting, despite being "god-fearing". (Just a note: South Korea is not yet yielding to rice in her attempts to push SK to apply full sanctions against the North. In a nutshell, NK/SK are a huge split, dysfunctional family, and they BOTH resent the US meddling in an internal affair, but the US leadership won't fucking learn that they are playing with fire but as yet haven't been burned. But, the implication and much evidence points to the South paying off the North to NOT start a war. SK wants to be a major economic powerhouse, and if the North lobbed 500,000 shells an hour for 3 or 4 hours into the South, the whole region would be ruined, and SK would never realize the dream of surpassing Japan, which Japan doesn't want, which means the US is in cat-mating-dance like trance, injecting western/anglo interests into a wholly Asian quagmire that can work itself o
"From the story: 'From September 21 to 30, the average area of the ozone hole was the largest ever observed, at 10.6 million square miles,' said Paul Newman, atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md."
Well, let's just make sure THIS Paul Newman doesn't take up race car driving for a hobby... (tires, oil, exhaust emissions...) But, this one can stick to salad oil if he wants...., hehehe
I felt you were trying to subtley cast in in a negative light.
Obviously, we (well, many of us) know about tweak-ui, and yet, if these features are so nice to have, then why aren't they given top-level discussion.
Obviously, we (well, many of us) know that I wasn't asking for windows to act/enable features *exactly* as done in KDE/Gnome, but rather asking if the end result is achievable.
"Your questions are phrased in a "Do you still beat your wife" manner,"...
That was below the belt, and wasn't really called for.
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Rickover might have been, as you say, "a dick", but you can't pussy around and namby pamby some degreed officer just because he's handsome, or looks like the grade-A, good ole 'Merkun jock. I am sure if we did NOT have Rickover screenout out sub-par officers, we'd have nuke boat drivers the likes of the current president the US is saddled with. Who'd you rather have with the power to end the world (we'll at least driving the boat): Someone Rickover screened, or someone else who would accept less?
WHen I was barely 22, I went to Waldenbooks or some store in some valley location in San Diego, near the zoo, and I spent some $20 of my own measly E-3's pay and bought the book on Rickover. I still have it today. He was indeed brutal, and in many ways ingenious, and he built a team that probably is the standard for even today's officers. Granted, very, very many people who KNEW Rickover hated him. But, buess what? A sub was, named after him, iirc, while he was alive. And that is RARE. Even Carter has one named after him. They deserved it, but the bird farms (CVNs...) namings leave more to be desired... (alluded to in para 1).
Slash image word: "praise"...
see www.otanashide.com for stuff I did as a teen, and my skewed view on navies and power projection
Speaking of past and future predictions, how about we all step back in time a bit down digital memory lane...
a tion-gets-facial-scan-payment-systems/
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Tokyo train station gets facial scan payment systems
http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/tokyo-train-st
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RFID subway pass? Sure, New York says
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6033364.html
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Radio-Frequenci ID: Asian Impediments
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oc
(page was ALL jacked up in my Konqueror browser....)
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Suica
http://www.answers.com/topic/suica
Suica stands for "Super Urban Intelligent CArd"
"a rechargeable contactless smart card used as a fare card on train lines in Japan. Launched in November 2001,..."
"Technology
The card incorporates contactless radio frequency identification RFID technology developed by Sony, called FeliCa. The same technology is also deployed in the Edy electronic cash cards used in Japan, the Octopus card in Hong Kong, and the ezlink Card in Singapore."
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RFID in Japan
http://ubiks.net/local/blog/jmt/archives3/2005/02
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RFID Cards Big in Tokyo
http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/2003/03/15/rfid_
"Pockets in Japan, however, are getting lighter with the growing use of integrated-circuit smart cards. The size of a credit card, they are packed with thin antennas and an encrypted integrated chip that can be used thousands of times to pay for train fares, meals at restaurants and snacks at convenience stores. In less than two years, nearly seven million people in Japan have started using one of two types of cards, both based on technology developed by Sony.
So far, the main client for the cards is JR East, the largest railway company in Japan. Nearly six million train and bus commuters have started using the first of the two types, known as Suica cards, since they were introduced 18 months ago."
For those interested in similar devices (well, actually key fob) in the US, read 5-Peter Davidson's post about "Speedpass"
BUT, be sure to read # 7- "SUICA IS NOT RFID"
http://www.eurotechnology.com/store/suica/
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heheh, slash image word: "rescuing"...
Well, not if they do chicken RIGHT!
They could just GRILL the goose the SPLAYS the golden eggs... (then, pull them both out of the oil in the nick of time...)
(slash image word: "snuffs", hmmm)
kill the 'Linux Revolution'?"
Then I thought, "That would be one very CUNNING STUNT man..."
(please refrain from Spoonerism...hehhe)
I am probably one of the most HARDCORE, anti-ms mofos to plow and ply slashdot with my opinions, so don't think for one second I'm being a grandstander or troll here. I RARELY EVER come out and support msoft, much less have anything *nice* to say about them, and I irreverently display lack of gratitude for them if/when I can. But while I'm hesitant (well, at this very instant) to call McAfee and Symantec "parasites" (tho, clinically it's maybe the best word), like you said, it IS ms' responsibility to fix these holes.
The writing may not have been on the wall in colored ink, and even if it was written in magic decoder ink, any fool at McAfee or Symantec, or even that place called wall street had to realize the A/V business plan was based on flaws (too open/underprotected system internals) of another party (msoft) that HAVE to be fixed. They're only bitching now because until now, other than msoft, nobody else could have the sheer resources (devs and dollars) to start plugging these holes that only a handful of a/v companies could even attempt. Once vista is regarded as highly stable, then the stocks will plummnet for McAfee and Symantec, the natural response to a company that becomes redundant.
McAfee and Symantec had better start re-writing their business models, and FAST. They'd better start basing them on non-parasytic expectations, or they'd better whip out a crystal ball to show vista will INDEED be so riddled with holes that they are not redundant. Or, they can come up with their own Linux distros and become PRO LINUX somehow. Or, go into real estate with any cash they never donated or burned up. After all, Kaspersky and others precociously already have legit and hard-fought places in Linuxland and don't need McAfee and Symantec becoming leaches there (by writing virii for Linux in the background or via "digital mercenaries").
Nothing and NO ONE lasts forever. It's just that ms was lucky in their beginning (gates' family's money, IBM's, DR-DOS', and Lotus' mis-steps, and ms underhanded, egregious, blatantly illegal strong-arm tacticts in plastering virtually every manufactured computer with windoze under threat of assisting in piracy, and by kicking-back bilions of marketing dollars to anyone who'd supplicate to or suck from ms' many digital nipples), but due to ms' early immaturity, regular sloppiness and trademark lack of foresight (really, they RESPOND more than INNOVATE--keyboards, mice, consoles, real estate, games, web portals, databases, browsers, mp3 players....), the McAfees and Symantecs got lucky. Not much more, not much less. Just lucky. Now, their luck is rightfully (or, is "predictably" better?) running out.
BUT, the story's main thread is redundant or pointless, as I recently read that the EU ruled that msoft HAS to allow 3rd party hooks into vista, something ms was keen/intent on NOT permitting. But, poor, whiny a/v cottage industry won't accept that ms has a DUTY to fix their shit first and foremost (as much as I DON'T want ms steamrolling Linux, tho), even if the A/V industry has to whither and die because of it. If ms' did the os right or responsively on a daily basis, from day one, then the a/v industry might not have had a toehold anyway. Go and rewrite your biz plan and try again, A/V's.
Egg-zeh-lent...
"And, now in a display of brute strength, the creature will throw himself against the transparency..."
(Come to think of it, the sound of Pike hitting the transparency might make a good b/g sound. Possibly Daystrom's M-5 in Engineering... But, when your co-workers and boss grapple over process or code or whatever, you should whip out the Kirk-vs-someone fighting match track:
duh-tuh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duuuh --duuuh-duuuh-duuuh-duuuh
duh-tuh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duuuh --deewh-deewh-doooh-doooh
An old co-worker of mine at Lockheed years ago whistled this when his colleagues and their boss argued in the shipping-receiving area. Only he and I knew what the whistling tune matched, so it was a great inside joke.
BUt, this thing could be a security risk. Since it records bacground sounds, who's to say the streams aren't separated before being blended? The streams, even if blended, could be a few packets at a time "sent back home" to a place unknown. And, who knows who could be behind this. Simple entrepreneurs? "Petty scammers"?, or...
Employers would be better off buying desk-top waterfalls and soothing Asian or Indian meditative devices and write them off as ergonomics and workplace stress-reduction devices.
I want to block out my co-workers by using a soothing, rich, acoustmatic blend of Buddhist chants, tuvan throat singing, Aborigine chants, and the sound of Scotty's engines under heavy strain... (Stream in some Dorje Ling, Varuna Ghat, and "Three Variations on Plum Blossom"...)
n g&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8e =UTF-8&q=tuvan+throat+signing+origin&btnG=Search
Maybe that could be a new KDE start-up sound? Quick, KDE! Get it before it shows up in vista!
http://www.google.com/search?q=tuvan+throat+singi
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&o
Nothing to hear here, don't listen along...
I would suspect no. See, I'm going to be cynical or suspicious and suggest that somehow the RIAA and DVD consortium and other entities, including politicians, see this as another revenues-generating scam, er, umm, scheme. They'll simiply include a line in the law stating that Anti-Broadcast Streams-Firewalled Systems, whether at home or at work (except in government facilities) are no proof of inability of the computer to receive streams.
See, if they DO exempt your good idea, it'll be circumvented by some enterprising person or persons who'll build fake firewalls and even supply credible-looking fake firewall logs. Or, they'll create re-routes to get the streams to the streams-addicted for cheaper than the 5.55 Euros, maybe even a neighborhood bulk plan (until word gets out and the whole neighborhood goes into the dark...)
With some 50 or 100 million computers in Europe, (or, imagine if/when this catches on in the US (or, are going to get hit with a fee when buying TV-tuner cards?), then watch the reaction) it might be a matter of time that this is politically or, well, governmentally supported. Just do the math. But, the money will just mostly go to the entertainment power mongers, not the alcoholics and substance abusers in recovery, not the victims of TV-inspired attacks of various sorts, not to the local schools which find TV is sucking away the kids' ability to retain classroom lectures...
Actually, the German government probably should just charge a one-time fee to the manufacturer's sold hardware based on tuner ID of the video card. Maybe such cards could have in-built NIC with a MAC and then assess a fee based on streams actually delivered TO the card, not POTENTIALLY deliverable to the card. Maybe that makes too much sense? (Or, the vid-card MACs could just be software-re-written....)
And in response to your and the A/C comment of
"how many drunk pub patrons upon being asked for their fingerprints will pull down their pants and shout "Fingerprint this?"",
I suspect that there will be a new cottage industry of making tight-fitting latex "tipsies' tip tips". Maybe the investigators will got "apeshit", "tits-up", or simply cock-up their investigations laughing themselves to death?
Slash image word: "penguin"
"The US on the other has one thing going for it: constitutional protections, and associated with that, pretty good transparency. Whenever there's a new law project that might touch constitutional protections, there's usually some people that will notice, and there's quite a bit more public debate about it."
u st_try_voting_here.html
Some do notice, but apparently not enough. Just two examples of the effectiveness of "The US on the other has one thing going for it: constitutional protections, and associated with that, pretty good transparency. Whenever there's a new law project that might touch constitutional protections, there's usually some people that will notice, and there's quite a bit more public debate about it."
Just Try Voting Here: 11 of America's worst places to cast a ballot (or try)
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2006/09/j
Lie by Lie: Chronicle of a War Foretold: August 1990 to March 2003
http://www.motherjones.com/bush_war_timeline/
I won't even yet go into how rotted roofs in Houston (unrepaired because a certain governer would not release or mark funds for repairs of run down police stations) led to destruction of crime scene evidence that led to uncounted illegal or erroneous convictions of people, this under the watch of then gov geo bush. Or, how with zeal and zest he signed off on the executions orders for people because he has complete faith and trust in the judicial system.
Funny Slash image word: "canons"
"...Bradburn noted the system had a 'psychological effect' on offenders."
I'll say....
How about a combination of:
/one-time number generator
4 media
h ow_full.php?id=5153
-- RSA secure ID
-- Pointsec
for laptops or certain mobile devices. If Pointsec or similar products don't/didn't cost a ton in licensing, then even sensitive desktops' hard drives could be encrypted and protected to prevent sleuths from easily accessing the content on the hardware (tho, MITM/packet sniffing might work until detected, monitored and the unauthorized perps apprehended...)
I've worked at a couple places where Pointsec was the preference. See:
Pointsec for Removable Media
http://www.eurokom.ie/servMainSite?inner=pointsec
Pointsec Unveils New Version Of Encryption Software For Linux
http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_s
(This answers a question which only a few days ago popped into my head...)
"The numbers don't lie - 60% of information theft results from lost or stolen equipment; only 25% from network intrusion. In short, every laptop, PC, PDA or smart phone is a potential weak point - unless you have Pointsec encryption software"
http://www.pointsec.com/
Well, don't some holes close up from overstacked detritus near the opening? Or is something pushing up from the bottom or inside? (I don't know if "holey moley" or "holy shit" applies here...)
I wonder if the gamers would like some Alien Jerky to eat while playing on their Alienware boxen?
http://alienfreshjerky.com/cgi/freshjerky.php
Would give a new meaning to "jerkin' off your time" at a lan party!
And, an Alien Jerky restaurant:
http://www.lazygranch.com/a51misc1.htm
(at bottom of site's page)
HEHEHE SLASH word IMAGE!: "military".... doh...
http://www.flybook.co.jp/products/vm_3.html
Actually, it appears to be advertised as ideal for use on a plane. I neglected to mention to click on the hyperlinks directly beneath the VM still image.
Check out this laptop, the VM series:
http://www.flybook.co.jp/
If you don't have flash, the picture at:
http://www.flybook.co.jp/products/vm_1.html
is still pretty explanatory. THIS laptop would be NICE on an airplane, I think...
Somebody please mark this A/C 5 Funny. Really, I think it's funny. I'm not sure if s/he's meaning to be funny or is just bitter and resentful, but it kinda made my day!
Especially, with the Slash image word being: "healthy"...
Mod up!
For some reason I was thinking:
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Super Etendart
as in:
Dassault Super Etendart:
"Honey, I got you a super entry dart...
It's long and has super appendages..."
(Oh, sorry, eggs-skews mah French...)
http://www.planepictures.net/netshow.php?id=40527
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?airc
and they come with a lot of high-octane fuel, and have an afterburner...for extra boost...
OK, I'll probably get hit with "offtopic"/"troll" by someone out there, but...
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WOW, timely comments. I'm not a regular reader of MotherJones, but I was in Borders and thought I'd read this particular issue. One article is:
"Just Try VOting Here; The 11 Worst Places to Vote (and then some)"
Seems we need even MORE external observers to expose the jokery of the US federal/presidential voting process. Underscores why I think national elections are so rigged and so thoroughly corrupt it's not worth my tim. Unfortunately, that's exactly the result the powerplayers expect.
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2006/09/j
On another topic, for those who might be interested:
Chronicle of a War Foretold
http://www.motherjones.com/bush_war_timeline/
hehe, Slash image word: aspire (makes me think of Cyndi Lauper... "I couldn't aSPIRE to anything HIgher..."
"Windows boxen have plenty of holes that allow them to be thoroughly fucked..."
Fucked by firmware and software... and not by hardware (unless you count bad, lazy and malicious programmers as "hardware",heheh. Yep, seems windoze is a leaky object of lust...
"...but any label now carries so much stupid baggage that I try to avoid any one of them."
I feel exactly the same way.
"Constrict the ability of lobbies to buy our government policies, criticize your elected officials with reasoned arguments,"...
But, then the corporations, shield/crest/dagger/sword-carrying old-boy network of family and old money would lose their grip around our necks
"Balance the f'ing budget"
IF the budget ever is and remains balanced, all sorts of public services might go away, or worse, officials might micromanage the poor to death to their ultimate "soylent green-like" extermination (I'm reaching a bit on that one...)
"Try to be deft enough at foreign policy that you do not get most of the rest of the world pissed off at you."
But then the US military, like many, and like football teams, are not content to train; they have the primal urge to kick ass, break some bones, and make up their own missions or prohibit instant replay, so to speak. Actually, worse, the governments are like team owners, rigging whom they'll line up with, and which they crush then the troops/players get restless. Except, football tends to be played by seasons, and militaries as governmental swords tend to act at the whims of the governments, I think.
Worse, those with imperialistic, manifest-destinist agenda do not really give a damn about pissing off people. Look how bush and company (including blair and cohorts) perpetually pretend as if terrorists have no legitimate grievances. Hell, when you invade lands (let's just look at the Middle East of the 1910's thru 1950's), divvy them up as spoils of war, prop up brutal regimes, give them promisies of massive oil-buying customer bases, and then kill off any sects or secular threats and expect their parentless kids to not complain, then there sure will be problems. By comparison, suppose the bad guys in US cities began wiretapping, exposing, and causing indictments of thousands of police chiefs, tens of thousands of bad and otherwise "good" cops, and undermining "relative order", then the police would feel oppressed and demand exemption from exposure. Not a good analogy, but...
"When striking at your enemy, prefer a swift lance in the right place versus an avalanche in the general area."
But, the lockheeds, boeings, and such would have less shot up or shot down hardware to replace via tax payers' money; ammo makers would have less bombs and rockets and bullets to assemble, meaning layoffs, and a general "demasculinization" of the US ass-kicking regime. Just look at how (militarily) the US plays China off against Taiwan, Korea and Japan. An Asian superpower in the form of a non-warring, non-first-strike China does NOT fit in the privileged/anglo mentality of the US and its western allies. Of course, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan (and, throw in Israel) love the billions of dollars and high-tech gizmos and the R&D access, so they are not comfy seeking to hang up their armor and gauntlets when there remains a sense of right to wage war, plan for it, research and practice and seek it out. The money and power behind war-planning and war-making are just too tempting, despite being "god-fearing". (Just a note: South Korea is not yet yielding to rice in her attempts to push SK to apply full sanctions against the North. In a nutshell, NK/SK are a huge split, dysfunctional family, and they BOTH resent the US meddling in an internal affair, but the US leadership won't fucking learn that they are playing with fire but as yet haven't been burned. But, the implication and much evidence points to the South paying off the North to NOT start a war. SK wants to be a major economic powerhouse, and if the North lobbed 500,000 shells an hour for 3 or 4 hours into the South, the whole region would be ruined, and SK would never realize the dream of surpassing Japan, which Japan doesn't want, which means the US is in cat-mating-dance like trance, injecting western/anglo interests into a wholly Asian quagmire that can work itself o
"From the story: 'From September 21 to 30, the average area of the ozone hole was the largest ever observed, at 10.6 million square miles,' said Paul Newman, atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md."
Well, let's just make sure THIS Paul Newman doesn't take up race car driving for a hobby... (tires, oil, exhaust emissions...) But, this one can stick to salad oil if he wants...., hehehe
"This is an example of faulty logic."
I felt you were trying to subtley cast in in a negative light.
Obviously, we (well, many of us) know about tweak-ui, and yet, if these features are so nice to have, then why aren't they given top-level discussion.
Obviously, we (well, many of us) know that I wasn't asking for windows to act/enable features *exactly* as done in KDE/Gnome, but rather asking if the end result is achievable.
"Your questions are phrased in a "Do you still beat your wife" manner,"...
That was below the belt, and wasn't really called for.
But, thanks