So, if an entity wants to deny a person this form of biometrics, simply blast the ear and reduce or remove its ability to function as a biometric mechanism.
I guess if the eargoo is only intermittently useful, one could say the security efficacy could wax and wane...
(This might seem a bit weird or off-topic, but gnawing on my mind for a year or so has been something about life and death, and the role it plays in various levels of our environment....)
All corporeal, self-ambulatory and non-ambulatory (animal & plant) life has a beginning and end, as far as we know. We emerge from a womb (vaginal or C-section, but not tubes or vinculums-- yet), plants from branches/stems or the ground or rock walls/soil/sea beds. Butt, feces eMERGE from us, and there IS life in there. It's just discarded, unwanted, and condemned to the depths (and thus, death) rather expediently if flushed, or reused as fertilizer.
Since we do tend to ignore humans, and tend to count them most valuably as vessels of knowledge, but more often as tax sources, revenue drains, and fodder for sending to war or justifying war, but ultimately find many humans a nuissance and sometimes not worth the skin they occupy, then why not declare SHIT as a form of life? It not only makes scents, and SOME sense, it might make cents, too.
And was modded "insightful", yet some JACKASS can come along and dropkick my ass and not get taken in hand for doing so. Yet, once-a-fucking-gain we have another example of failed/ailed collective memory not weeding out hit-and-run moderators who are NOT called on their activities. If a person is going to moderate, slashdot damned well ought to compel the moderator to browse and copy/paste from a target and run a wording scan to make sure moderators don't get to hide anonymously in the moderation process (hiding as in not being identified as one adding to or, more importantly, taking FROM someone's score/comment/position) and jacking around with people.
Though i provided the link to my comment, i'll post it here:
"Seems to me that ms wants to suckle money from the Stimulus Package by giving false hope to tens of thousands of people who already have enormous competition from hundreds of thousands of already- ms-certified techhies out there who DO NOT need the extra competition, but who will suffer from the lower pay expectations of the newcomers.
Sounds like a quasi reach-around. People wanting to get into tech jobs can already go to local city/county/state offered programs. But, in making this "levitate/satiate/simulate Amerca" pitch of theirs, they probably hope someone in the Obama administration is green (or dumb) enough to say, "Hey, lets give ms some of that money and let them decide how to dole out the vouchers...." Only thing is is that ms as SURELy would love to get the money, and put the vouchers down to the lowers dollar amount they can get away with."
Now, how MUCH different is my position THEN with today's, and why should a fairly consistent opinion moderated as insightful or somesuch be the opposite today by a solitary person?
Dicked up moderation code allowing unaccountable moderators and/or dicked-up hit-and-run moderators to just psycho-cyber-bully people in a supposedly near-fair (yeh, it's known it's imperfect...) system.
Too bad the "community" here is lacking on collectively telling bullies to f-o.
Because it's her own state's most famous industry. Obviously, people in such positions don't do this out of selfLESSness.
What the hell will some 35,000 vouchers for msoft training do for these people? The ONLY immediate TWO advantages they have that comes to mind:
-- trainable monkeys, as in likely not yet corrupted with their own ways of doing things for a very long time -- entry-level pay
The disadvantages to/for existing, qualified cert holders:
-- insulting influx of competion, further invalidating prior certs and attendant costs -- perception as being too expensive or too stuck in old ways -- terrible economy for attained income level expections
I dare say that ms is:
-- just doing "make-work", and threatening the very people who already DO NOT NEED more, unjustified competition. Giving out 35,000 training vouchers is likely to ultimately prove to be a boondogle of taxpayer money (unless msoft wants to foot the bill and get the money back when these "trainees" buy ms training materials AFTER successful graduation...AND NOT ONE DAY BEFORE!)
-- facilitating a governer looking as if doing good when in THIS economy, it's likley just giving false hope to MANY people who'll get hired because HR can punch a ticket for a qualfied person; Accounting can sign off on lower pay; IT can chime in with HR on having obtained a qualified person
OFF-TOPIC-modding cretinous SOB... how DARE you challenge me! Or the references to which i made reference. Did you do it because i insulted your sensibilities and affection toward SUN's man, or simply because you COULD? You are yet just another sad example of how the screwed up/. scoring system lets a SINGLE/SOLITARY person shaft someone down into oblivion when the system should actively corral others to weigh in to handicap people such as you, who mod someone without providing an meaningful explanation. Adverse moderation should not be allowed an anonymous comfort zone.
So much for assassination via this method... But, then, in controlled environments, it's easier to trick the targets to enter an elevator and magnet-fry them there. Otherwise, use dart guns.
Reminds me of when, in ~ 1976/77 when I was in the 4th or 5th grade. I asked the nun what would happen if someone one put a person in a room surrounded by huge or powerful magnets. She said, "Nothing." I disagreed with her. I guess i was diametrically opposed to her response, but i suppose she didn't want me growing up being diabolical...
Why don't they get sweet and do deep pack-it inspection, stripping off headers and tails layer by layer? If they seductively conjugate (the details) better, they might get better symmetries. If they adjust the TTL to give better throughput, they might have a lasting, enjoyable union of data sexts... Maybe they should start sexting each other...
It's funny to me that the product/service acronym is MXM because jussssst b4 is saw that, i saw the slashdot dating notice:
Slashdot Dating Other Slashdot Users are Nearby Meet and date on Geek 2 Geek www.Gk2gk.com
So, my mind quickly saw G2G 4 M4M... lol.... THAT's why/. is so... pent upp, hehehe... some guys need to get out more often... hang out in corn fields in Iowa... keep an eye out for the errant/itenerant Klingon that might arrive fleeing from the Xindi or the Orion Syndicate...
With the holodeck safeties turned off? If he starts a pirouette, he'll probably set up centrepital or centrifugal forces and throw his data rings into hoolahoops... hehehe
That's like a toll booth worker saying, "I won't move the barricade unless you pay" so, please, please, please pay the $5.95 toll, even though you find it too burdensome..."
Imagine the Enterprise master computer data core or LCDR Data filled with mini disks or mini hard drives. The Enterprise would weigh maybe twice as much, given the mechanical and quantum issues related to inertia. Yeh, they've got the artificial gravity thing down, but imagine those platters whirring under warp 5 going to zero, or emergency-jumping from 2 to 7. As for Data, he'd have a helluva time running and jumping and crashing himself if he landed wrong.
But, in OUR world, maybe SSDs offer some technical challenges for which ms is not yet ready to foot the bill, only to have SUN, IBM, and Linux/OpenSource/BSD/et al catch up on engineering around and not along what ms is likely to spend money on...
How are they going to prove the "unemployed" didn't falsify information? Unless these software offerors check with DUNS/Dun & Bradstreet or some other source, they have to spend a lot of effort making sure the "company" is not the friend of a scammer.
ProgeCAD, is kinda interesting. It has a layer management system that is different from but kinda similar to ACAD. I tried it last year, but then it timed out on me. It's free for academic use, otherwise, starts about $250 depending on the version, IIRC. It's one of those that seems to be an ACAD knock-off, but kinda updated or less crufted than ACAD 2007/2008 maybe due to a cleaner, newer codebase (as opposed to, say, accumulating decades of in-fighting over code functions, (my ACAD course instructor in 07 said ACAD))
Their prices are pretty good, and if you're not needing the overkill of ACAD and not working with clients who DEMAND ACAD, and who live with DXF/ACIS formats that contain the info, then why get addicted to a product that costs a fortune to use legitimately. You have rake in some serious dough to justify paying $4k+ on software which can take years to get proficient with. ViaCAD is GREAT for me for lofting/surfacing & solids-making.
Right now, the ship design industry (maybe, based on the economy now, compared to last year) is short on designers/drafters who are GOOD at CAD. If you're designing real or model boats for sale as kits (or ships & boats to be built) check out the combination of delftship and Punch ViaCAD...
Hmmm, if they say you must be verifiably unemployed, they have to check with the (or each) state's unemployment benefits division. It could take weeks for people to get counted, and in that time, people might game the system with fake information.
For those who are honest, though, they might be starting up their own company, but then the software companies giving away software to the "unemployed" will have to "look the other way", since in some states the mere ACT of operating as a business means you're in business. That is, incorporating, signing documents, opening business bank accounts, advertising on web sites and issuing business cards, and the like. So, if the STATE says the person is in business (income absence need not verify that you are not employed, it just means you don't have cash flow...), then the can of worms opened up is caused by companies turning a blind eye.
If they are GOING to turn a blind eye, why not just offer the software for all, but then continue to key-code it and grant continued functionality/accessibility only to those who prove they are meeting the spirit of the contract.
WARNING: these companies *might* compel the student/unemployed to furnish their SSN. THAT would be a bad move. Thus, these start-up types might need to get an EIN (Employer Identification Number), which further murks their employment status, depending on the state. IIRC, Calif will let you draw unemployment if you are not actually earning income/cashflow while in start-up phase, but, don't try to game the system. If you are a student, make sure your school uses student ID numbers not made up of parts of your SSN. If you are a non-student, you may want to initially contact your EDD/UI division and pre-arrange some proxy/substitute ID that binds the state protect your SSN, even though this is a 3rd party event tangential to obtaining for free some product/service not offered by the state.
It might be interesting if one or more enterprising unemployed or part-timing students band together and create competing training centers. If they already KNOW the material/product, they could create their own course that only lacks creds/authorization/blessing of the software company. Then, OTOH, i suppose they'll have already writtn (or will soon) a clause barring such competitive-purposes acquisition of their products.
HAHA... this reminds me of the circa 1997/98 near-bust (or was it an actual bust?) of a famous sports player who got caught up in a Mountain View Police raid on a "massage parlor". His plea to the cops to not be cited or charged was that he wasn't there having sex; he was getting "deep tissue therapy"....
In hind site, umm, hind SIGHT, ummm, hell, RETROspect, this may have been a form of "deep PACK IT" inspection. If things were non-condomnable, it might have ended up as a 32-bit insemination, vice inscription....
AND, 32-bit inscription me of CNET Radio, in 99 or 2000 when Desmond Crisis (IIRC) got a call from a lady who had problems with technology. She said something like, "The instructions told me i need a system capable of 32-bit inscription..." Desmond said, "No, Mary, that's 32-bit enCRYPtion. 32-bit inSCRIPtion would be, 'The Lord is my Shepherd'", LOL
Wow, amazing how all this ties into vices (sex, sportsballers & cops) & biblical things and radio....
If it is the will of the gods. If no, then maybe he will not be added but blocked from Heaven.... If he makes it to Heaven, then maybe we'll know the money IS the root of (almost) all evil...
Sun, to preempt Red Hat? Out of some far-reaching(?) strategy, ms could stab at the industry by taking over Sun for Unix/Linux/Open Source opportunities, if nothing else, just to muddy up the waters. Just a scary thought...
Now, what have you to say about retaliation and knowing what they are doing? Did you THINK that i was just pulling those comments of mine out of my ass? You DO know the reason for the statement "Do not assume", do you not?
"The 41-year-old software engineer said they also confiscated numerous personal files and documents relating to a pending lawsuit he has against the department alleging harassment -- which he says makes it obvious the raid was an act of retaliation." A local publication quotes Pataky saying, "We have heard internally from our police sources that they purposefully did this to stop me... They took my cable modem and wireless router. Anyone worth their salt knows nothing is stored in the cable modem." "
Now THIS is a REAL case for the FBI to investigate, and if the FBI finds evidence of retaliation, then heads in PD should roll, retirement packages should be rescinded, and blacklisting from being cops in another city should be initiated for all those involved, if that blogger was telling the truth about the retaliation through raid and confiscation.
s Bush at the heart of this? Wasn't he, as a favor to his daddy, appointed to a position for which he had ZERO qualifications for the job? I bet we are still paying on the BCCI thing. Wasn't it something like $5,000 for every (working?) man and woman (and if not working people, then every child, too) to pay this thing off?
I wouldn't mind getting a one-time $25,000 0-tax check from Uncle Sam in exchange for, say, SSI. Or, a deep reduction in the interest rate or the principle in my now-worthless school loan on which i am still paying and won't finish paying on without winning a lottery, or unless i live on $5.00 per day while diverting all net income to attack the debt load (or, create products to let me earn income that overcomes the level of taxes i can expect....)....
-- be punitive -- scare other colos -- dissuade this current target from going back into operation without screening clients
It's probably the greatest fear of every rental property manager/at-home landlord, that renters/tenants would conduct illegal activities on the premises, then subject every occupant to subpoena and total confiscation of every electronic and paper file, loss of hardware, and invasion of privacy, and stultefying disruption of business, schooling and other activities.
But, really, FBI, why not just run a deep scan using your own cracking tools? You could be on and off the property. We pay MORE than enough tax dollars that you guys & girls could arrive and spend 3 or 4 hours collecting what you need via data and paper scanners. Once you get stuff into a property room and all tagged, what is the likelihood of expedient recovery by the original owner? What if you guys REALLY find NOTHING, and there is some internal intertia to not look stupid, which might induce a decision to delay for as long as possible the return of confiscated stuff.
Hell, if i'm under suspicion, i'd GLADLY let you scan in exchange for not hauling my shit off. And, since you guys have the technical means to record virtually every electronic transaction or all traffic long before you descend upon your targets, they may never even be aware of being a person of interest. Even if they are guilt of SOMEthing, do you need to shut down every single aspect of their lives to prosecute a subpoena-limited scope of crime? You may as well seize their account balances AND take their debit cards and garnish their wages to prevent repurchase of new hardware onto which recovery tapes NOT at the target address will go. Then what, cat and mouse? Get the target to self-incriminate by demanding to know every last data archive location?
We need a more civilized form of crime prosecution that does not add insult to injury before the "suspect" even goes to jail. Oh, and for those who wish to slam me, yes, i am aware that by the time the new footage shows boxes being carried to the evidence van while the cuffed suspect is led to the warm mobile chariot seat is *likely* long under surveillance *AND* is guilty as hell even without a trial date come and gone, there STILL are times when law enforcement just goes in and scoops up EVERYthing as if to shut down someone. Many times, judges allow the suspect who is not a flight risk to post bail or be out on OR if tagged/collared. In the meantime, it is a MEAN time to be at an upsidedown-turned home, lacking all gear, and feeling watched. Yep, the pirates of nation-crumbling data and apps, kiddie-porn peddlers, stock options inside traders, illegal gambling and secrets thieves SHOULD be watched, but some crimes that are prosecuted (pursued before prosecution as well as punished by jury/judge) are done so at the behest of some foul-play-crying corporation having a hosed up business model.
Slashdot Mirror
since it would be a long train and a long row to hoe.
So, if an entity wants to deny a person this form of biometrics, simply blast the ear and reduce or remove its ability to function as a biometric mechanism.
I guess if the eargoo is only intermittently useful, one could say the security efficacy could wax and wane...
SHIT, if feces were declared a form of life.
(This might seem a bit weird or off-topic, but gnawing on my mind for a year or so has been something about life and death, and the role it plays in various levels of our environment....)
All corporeal, self-ambulatory and non-ambulatory (animal & plant) life has a beginning and end, as far as we know. We emerge from a womb (vaginal or C-section, but not tubes or vinculums-- yet), plants from branches/stems or the ground or rock walls/soil/sea beds. Butt, feces eMERGE from us, and there IS life in there. It's just discarded, unwanted, and condemned to the depths (and thus, death) rather expediently if flushed, or reused as fertilizer.
Since we do tend to ignore humans, and tend to count them most valuably as vessels of knowledge, but more often as tax sources, revenue drains, and fodder for sending to war or justifying war, but ultimately find many humans a nuissance and sometimes not worth the skin they occupy, then why not declare SHIT as a form of life? It not only makes scents, and SOME sense, it might make cents, too.
Flamebait my ass. In a previous article
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/23/220227
about microsoft supposedly wanting to "elevate America", i commented with:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1138175&cid=26965183
And was modded "insightful", yet some JACKASS can come along and dropkick my ass and not get taken in hand for doing so. Yet, once-a-fucking-gain we have another example of failed/ailed collective memory not weeding out hit-and-run moderators who are NOT called on their activities. If a person is going to moderate, slashdot damned well ought to compel the moderator to browse and copy/paste from a target and run a wording scan to make sure moderators don't get to hide anonymously in the moderation process (hiding as in not being identified as one adding to or, more importantly, taking FROM someone's score/comment/position) and jacking around with people.
Though i provided the link to my comment, i'll post it here:
"Seems to me that ms wants to suckle money from the Stimulus Package by giving false hope to tens of thousands of people who already have enormous competition from hundreds of thousands of already- ms-certified techhies out there who DO NOT need the extra competition, but who will suffer from the lower pay expectations of the newcomers.
Sounds like a quasi reach-around. People wanting to get into tech jobs can already go to local city/county/state offered programs. But, in making this "levitate/satiate/simulate Amerca" pitch of theirs, they probably hope someone in the Obama administration is green (or dumb) enough to say, "Hey, lets give ms some of that money and let them decide how to dole out the vouchers...." Only thing is is that ms as SURELy would love to get the money, and put the vouchers down to the lowers dollar amount they can get away with."
Now, how MUCH different is my position THEN with today's, and why should a fairly consistent opinion moderated as insightful or somesuch be the opposite today by a solitary person?
Dicked up moderation code allowing unaccountable moderators and/or dicked-up hit-and-run moderators to just psycho-cyber-bully people in a supposedly near-fair (yeh, it's known it's imperfect...) system.
Too bad the "community" here is lacking on collectively telling bullies to f-o.
Because it's her own state's most famous industry. Obviously, people in such positions don't do this out of selfLESSness.
What the hell will some 35,000 vouchers for msoft training do for these people? The ONLY immediate TWO advantages they have that comes to mind:
-- trainable monkeys, as in likely not yet corrupted with their own ways of doing things for a very long time
-- entry-level pay
The disadvantages to/for existing, qualified cert holders:
-- insulting influx of competion, further invalidating prior certs and attendant costs
-- perception as being too expensive or too stuck in old ways
-- terrible economy for attained income level expections
I dare say that ms is:
-- just doing "make-work", and threatening the very people who already DO NOT NEED more, unjustified competition. Giving out 35,000 training vouchers is likely to ultimately prove to be a boondogle of taxpayer money (unless msoft wants to foot the bill and get the money back when these "trainees" buy ms training materials AFTER successful graduation...AND NOT ONE DAY BEFORE!)
-- facilitating a governer looking as if doing good when in THIS economy, it's likley just giving false hope to MANY people who'll get hired because HR can punch a ticket for a qualfied person; Accounting can sign off on lower pay; IT can chime in with HR on having obtained a qualified person
Just my off-the-cuff assertions.
OFF-TOPIC-modding cretinous SOB... how DARE you challenge me! Or the references to which i made reference. Did you do it because i insulted your sensibilities and affection toward SUN's man, or simply because you COULD? You are yet just another sad example of how the screwed up /. scoring system lets a SINGLE/SOLITARY person shaft someone down into oblivion when the system should actively corral others to weigh in to handicap people such as you, who mod someone without providing an meaningful explanation. Adverse moderation should not be allowed an anonymous comfort zone.
Flaunt vs flaut... there is a difference.
http://grammartips.homestead.com/pairs3.html
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/flaunt.html
Too bad his publicist/administrative assistant (or, he himself) missed the difference in the words.
(No, i am not bragging nor showing off, nor being pedant. I am just pointing it out...)
Then, that rider will regret not having a personal maglift...
So much for assassination via this method... But, then, in controlled environments, it's easier to trick the targets to enter an elevator and magnet-fry them there. Otherwise, use dart guns.
Reminds me of when, in ~ 1976/77 when I was in the 4th or 5th grade. I asked the nun what would happen if someone one put a person in a room surrounded by huge or powerful magnets. She said, "Nothing." I disagreed with her. I guess i was diametrically opposed to her response, but i suppose she didn't want me growing up being diabolical...
This is not so scary: we now have zombies that gnibble instead of naw... But, will they goo "huuh huhhh", or "RAHRRR"?
Why don't they get sweet and do deep pack-it inspection, stripping off headers and tails layer by layer? If they seductively conjugate (the details) better, they might get better symmetries. If they adjust the TTL to give better throughput, they might have a lasting, enjoyable union of data sexts... Maybe they should start sexting each other...
It's funny to me that the product/service acronym is MXM because jussssst b4 is saw that, i saw the slashdot dating notice:
Slashdot Dating
Other Slashdot Users are Nearby Meet and date on Geek 2 Geek
www.Gk2gk.com
So, my mind quickly saw G2G 4 M4M... lol.... THAT's why /. is so... pent upp, hehehe... some guys need to get out more often... hang out in corn fields in Iowa... keep an eye out for the errant/itenerant Klingon that might arrive fleeing from the Xindi or the Orion Syndicate...
With the holodeck safeties turned off? If he starts a pirouette, he'll probably set up centrepital or centrifugal forces and throw his data rings into hoolahoops... hehehe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N96DWI5wuB4
path?
That's like a toll booth worker saying, "I won't move the barricade unless you pay" so, please, please, please pay the $5.95 toll, even though you find it too burdensome..."
Imagine the Enterprise master computer data core or LCDR Data filled with mini disks or mini hard drives. The Enterprise would weigh maybe twice as much, given the mechanical and quantum issues related to inertia. Yeh, they've got the artificial gravity thing down, but imagine those platters whirring under warp 5 going to zero, or emergency-jumping from 2 to 7. As for Data, he'd have a helluva time running and jumping and crashing himself if he landed wrong.
But, in OUR world, maybe SSDs offer some technical challenges for which ms is not yet ready to foot the bill, only to have SUN, IBM, and Linux/OpenSource/BSD/et al catch up on engineering around and not along what ms is likely to spend money on...
How are they going to prove the "unemployed" didn't falsify information? Unless these software offerors check with DUNS/Dun & Bradstreet or some other source, they have to spend a lot of effort making sure the "company" is not the friend of a scammer.
http://www.bricsys.com/en_INTL/bricscad/features.jsp
http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/
http://www.touchcad.com/tc3features.html
http://www.touchcad.com/tc3news351.html
See 3/4 of the way down on this for OpenGL rendering
http://www.touchcad.com/tc3news35.html
Possibly dated review:
http://software.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=599221
This one:
ProgeCAD, is kinda interesting. It has a layer management system that is different from but kinda similar to ACAD. I tried it last year, but then it timed out on me. It's free for academic use, otherwise, starts about $250 depending on the version, IIRC. It's one of those that seems to be an ACAD knock-off, but kinda updated or less crufted than ACAD 2007/2008 maybe due to a cleaner, newer codebase (as opposed to, say, accumulating decades of in-fighting over code functions, (my ACAD course instructor in 07 said ACAD))
http://www.progecad.co.uk/Downloads/
Also, consider ViaCAD
http://www.punchcad.com/products/viacad2d3d.htm
Their prices are pretty good, and if you're not needing the overkill of ACAD and not working with clients who DEMAND ACAD, and who live with DXF/ACIS formats that contain the info, then why get addicted to a product that costs a fortune to use legitimately. You have rake in some serious dough to justify paying $4k+ on software which can take years to get proficient with. ViaCAD is GREAT for me for lofting/surfacing & solids-making.
Right now, the ship design industry (maybe, based on the economy now, compared to last year) is short on designers/drafters who are GOOD at CAD. If you're designing real or model boats for sale as kits (or ships & boats to be built) check out the combination of delftship and Punch ViaCAD...
Also, see boatdesign.net
http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/design-software/
and...
http://www.polycad.co.uk/links.htm
GOOD LUCK!
Hmmm, if they say you must be verifiably unemployed, they have to check with the (or each) state's unemployment benefits division. It could take weeks for people to get counted, and in that time, people might game the system with fake information.
For those who are honest, though, they might be starting up their own company, but then the software companies giving away software to the "unemployed" will have to "look the other way", since in some states the mere ACT of operating as a business means you're in business. That is, incorporating, signing documents, opening business bank accounts, advertising on web sites and issuing business cards, and the like. So, if the STATE says the person is in business (income absence need not verify that you are not employed, it just means you don't have cash flow...), then the can of worms opened up is caused by companies turning a blind eye.
If they are GOING to turn a blind eye, why not just offer the software for all, but then continue to key-code it and grant continued functionality/accessibility only to those who prove they are meeting the spirit of the contract.
WARNING: these companies *might* compel the student/unemployed to furnish their SSN. THAT would be a bad move. Thus, these start-up types might need to get an EIN (Employer Identification Number), which further murks their employment status, depending on the state. IIRC, Calif will let you draw unemployment if you are not actually earning income/cashflow while in start-up phase, but, don't try to game the system. If you are a student, make sure your school uses student ID numbers not made up of parts of your SSN. If you are a non-student, you may want to initially contact your EDD/UI division and pre-arrange some proxy/substitute ID that binds the state protect your SSN, even though this is a 3rd party event tangential to obtaining for free some product/service not offered by the state.
It might be interesting if one or more enterprising unemployed or part-timing students band together and create competing training centers. If they already KNOW the material/product, they could create their own course that only lacks creds/authorization/blessing of the software company. Then, OTOH, i suppose they'll have already writtn (or will soon) a clause barring such competitive-purposes acquisition of their products.
HAHA... this reminds me of the circa 1997/98 near-bust (or was it an actual bust?) of a famous sports player who got caught up in a Mountain View Police raid on a "massage parlor". His plea to the cops to not be cited or charged was that he wasn't there having sex; he was getting "deep tissue therapy"....
In hind site, umm, hind SIGHT, ummm, hell, RETROspect, this may have been a form of "deep PACK IT" inspection. If things were non-condomnable, it might have ended up as a 32-bit insemination, vice inscription....
AND, 32-bit inscription me of CNET Radio, in 99 or 2000 when Desmond Crisis (IIRC) got a call from a lady who had problems with technology. She said something like, "The instructions told me i need a system capable of 32-bit inscription..." Desmond said, "No, Mary, that's 32-bit enCRYPtion. 32-bit inSCRIPtion would be, 'The Lord is my Shepherd'", LOL
Wow, amazing how all this ties into vices (sex, sportsballers & cops) & biblical things and radio....
If it is the will of the gods. If no, then maybe he will not be added but blocked from Heaven.... If he makes it to Heaven, then maybe we'll know the money IS the root of (almost) all evil...
Sun, to preempt Red Hat? Out of some far-reaching(?) strategy, ms could stab at the industry by taking over Sun for Unix/Linux/Open Source opportunities, if nothing else, just to muddy up the waters. Just a scary thought...
Sunset, or is Sun NOT set?
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/04/1515239&art_pos=9
Now, what have you to say about retaliation and knowing what they are doing? Did you THINK that i was just pulling those comments of mine out of my ass? You DO know the reason for the statement "Do not assume", do you not?
"The 41-year-old software engineer said they also confiscated numerous personal files and documents relating to a pending lawsuit he has against the department alleging harassment -- which he says makes it obvious the raid was an act of retaliation." A local publication quotes Pataky saying, "We have heard internally from our police sources that they purposefully did this to stop me... They took my cable modem and wireless router. Anyone worth their salt knows nothing is stored in the cable modem." "
Now THIS is a REAL case for the FBI to investigate, and if the FBI finds evidence of retaliation, then heads in PD should roll, retirement packages should be rescinded, and blacklisting from being cops in another city should be initiated for all those involved, if that blogger was telling the truth about the retaliation through raid and confiscation.
s Bush at the heart of this? Wasn't he, as a favor to his daddy, appointed to a position for which he had ZERO qualifications for the job? I bet we are still paying on the BCCI thing. Wasn't it something like $5,000 for every (working?) man and woman (and if not working people, then every child, too) to pay this thing off?
I wouldn't mind getting a one-time $25,000 0-tax check from Uncle Sam in exchange for, say, SSI. Or, a deep reduction in the interest rate or the principle in my now-worthless school loan on which i am still paying and won't finish paying on without winning a lottery, or unless i live on $5.00 per day while diverting all net income to attack the debt load (or, create products to let me earn income that overcomes the level of taxes i can expect....)....
the act of taking every single server is to:
-- be punitive
-- scare other colos
-- dissuade this current target from going back into operation without screening clients
It's probably the greatest fear of every rental property manager/at-home landlord, that renters/tenants would conduct illegal activities on the premises, then subject every occupant to subpoena and total confiscation of every electronic and paper file, loss of hardware, and invasion of privacy, and stultefying disruption of business, schooling and other activities.
But, really, FBI, why not just run a deep scan using your own cracking tools? You could be on and off the property. We pay MORE than enough tax dollars that you guys & girls could arrive and spend 3 or 4 hours collecting what you need via data and paper scanners. Once you get stuff into a property room and all tagged, what is the likelihood of expedient recovery by the original owner? What if you guys REALLY find NOTHING, and there is some internal intertia to not look stupid, which might induce a decision to delay for as long as possible the return of confiscated stuff.
Hell, if i'm under suspicion, i'd GLADLY let you scan in exchange for not hauling my shit off. And, since you guys have the technical means to record virtually every electronic transaction or all traffic long before you descend upon your targets, they may never even be aware of being a person of interest. Even if they are guilt of SOMEthing, do you need to shut down every single aspect of their lives to prosecute a subpoena-limited scope of crime? You may as well seize their account balances AND take their debit cards and garnish their wages to prevent repurchase of new hardware onto which recovery tapes NOT at the target address will go. Then what, cat and mouse? Get the target to self-incriminate by demanding to know every last data archive location?
We need a more civilized form of crime prosecution that does not add insult to injury before the "suspect" even goes to jail. Oh, and for those who wish to slam me, yes, i am aware that by the time the new footage shows boxes being carried to the evidence van while the cuffed suspect is led to the warm mobile chariot seat is *likely* long under surveillance *AND* is guilty as hell even without a trial date come and gone, there STILL are times when law enforcement just goes in and scoops up EVERYthing as if to shut down someone. Many times, judges allow the suspect who is not a flight risk to post bail or be out on OR if tagged/collared. In the meantime, it is a MEAN time to be at an upsidedown-turned home, lacking all gear, and feeling watched. Yep, the pirates of nation-crumbling data and apps, kiddie-porn peddlers, stock options inside traders, illegal gambling and secrets thieves SHOULD be watched, but some crimes that are prosecuted (pursued before prosecution as well as punished by jury/judge) are done so at the behest of some foul-play-crying corporation having a hosed up business model.