WHos' gonna step up to write the applet that shows:
- you your host file - what it is blocking - the known universe of competitors who are still in business (based on another file) - how to disable the host file so you can bypass ms' crackware sites - how to disable it or if you're not admin/local admin, inform your IT department
?
Or, does such a thing exist in some anti-virus software?
It could be that the host file some day will be accessible to a few "ms-anointed" sites that either fit in with ms' view, pay ms the requisite amount, or are homeland security. Wait-- dhls can just go the the ISP and track your hops via some special crumbs, right?
You know what this brings to mind? My block lists. In firestarter and Konqueror, Mozilla and Opera, I BAN the hell out of doubleshit! I also ban eqn, eqv, ad, point and some 150 or 200 subdomains.
But, it seems, though, double-dick caught on to people banning their asses, so what I have *I* noticed (don't know how long this/the following has been the case) is that our ***ISP's*** are hosting double click. That means that now, if you ban EVERY address spewing doubleshit, you're blocking your own ISP. It's pissing me off that Comcast **seems** to be hosting or handling doubleclick to make SURE something about your/my surfing habits WILL end up in doubledick's database.
This also, I guess could be similar to what ms **might** be doing. Has anyone traced their cookies, the bots, and the 1 pixel code crumbs, broken them open, and found their "home base"? I wouldn't be surprised if nowadays or in the past 6 years that the ms hosts file usage enables them to command your machine to randomly and in small bytes periodically send them some information about your activities, hardware, software, things your machine talks to on your LAN...
This could be the NEXT total information awareness arsenal piece: Wanna surf, doubledick (probably a federalized activity/government-funded entity by now) will get information. All your ISP has to do to assuage any "guilt" they may have is say what yahoo and others say: "WE COLLECT PRIVACY INFORMATION..." and create an umpteen-long document to deter rejection or complaint by MOST users.
I wish I could make heads or tails about what Ethereal finds, though. I wish I could find out enough about connections that try to come to my machine. Etherape helps, too, but I HATE doubledick with a passion. I block them and a slew of others, even though it nearly doubles or triples some page load.
and enjoy... THIS is a real-world use of non-human implants...)
"We have the technology... The waiting list... The Patents... We can PRE-build her..." could be the "Gaumard Scientific Co. Inc." opener for their marketing and training products...
But, I wonder if she can respond (Kill Bill-Style) to any male nurses humping her...
I wonder if they can add complications such as put the doll in a coma, or a series of convulsions, or program it to give out Exorcist-like wails and moans. If she hurls up a noxious, caustic, corrosive pea green soup-like fluid, I wonder how the students will react.
Now, if they make one of Kess' mother, having delivery occur while the mother is wrist-strapped to an overhead rod as the infant emerges from her back.
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I guess some guys may proclaim: "Now THAT'S a REAL Doll...", but then ask, "How many serial ports or USB ports does she come with? How much range of motion in her joints? How many decibels in her piezo throat? Will she make coffee?...."
Others might ask, "Does RealDoll.com have plans to replicate bleeding and moaning mannequins?" (In the interests of equal opportunity, the male dolls should moan and bleed, too... The sky's the limit; only your lack of imagination is in the way...)
Give it a few year and we'll have people ordering robot love like in the movies and films...
Probably these won't work for the carpool lane, though. Well, unless you program it to drive, and YOU are the passenger... well, if your state allows a non-sentient driver behind the wheel of a vehicle on public roadways...
Hmm. better spoil my own joke with this disclaimer:
For anyone thinking of being a lawsuit-happy prick, the "Fraud Squad" is a pun on "Mod Squad", the 1960's show with Burr as a PI or something rolling round in a wheelchair with is team of assistants helping him solve crime. "Fraud Squad" is NOT to be taken as an assertion of Geek Squad. Besides, even a 4th-grader can tell Fraud and Mod rhyme whereas as Geek doesn't rhyme with either word...
Now, go, find some else to sue. Besides I think Parody Law comes into play here...
THAT's a lot of hair removal to power that train... It'll stink all the way down the line. Like a rolling hair dryer with a head stuck in it, ignored by the attendant yacking with another customer whose hair is ALSO about to let catch fire...
But, I suppose an electrolysis-driven train speeding like a Shinkansen would be ummm... a "hair-raising" experience....
So, what's gonna be that, umm... "train's gender"? (pun intended)
Hell, why wait that long. If you set up a saturation attack from multiple quadrants, it's just a matter of time before a tank's swiveling/slewing reactive armor can't cope, and might even break down. It's just a matter of time before the close-in defense gun either jams, overheats, or expends its ammo.
How to speed this up? Well, launch a wave attack. Only SOME of the rounds need to be live shots. The rest, if convincing enough to trigger the perimeter alert/defense system, will keep the tank crew on edge until they make a fatal or mission-fatal mistake.
Some of the "vampire" rounds could deposit acid or sand or some corrosive or jamming agent to gunk up seals, gaskets and even cooling systems, causing slower slewing, seal failure, and even false alarms (get sand in the lensing system and maybe you can force the crew to come out to clean it...)
But, why bother with all that? Just bring your OWN super generator and microwave guns and cook the people IN the tank. If you can penetrate the armor with microwaves, then you'll cook the crew and maybe end up with a perfectly operable tank... But,for airplanes... they'll crash if not on autopilot...or if a/p fails...
This is NOT a how-to on attacking US technology... It's universally applicable to ANY ground vehicles, maybe even including ET's tanks... But, more likely, this'll make useful fodder for sci-fi scripts....
there in one place too long... They're comin' to get you..." (especially hollywierd... I read about them, how they shuffle millions of dollars around between investors, producers and more, and then the taxable money or profits just go "poof", vanish, vaporized...)
heheh...
Seriously, I kind of HOPE they IRS and state tax organs would just have DIRECT access to payroll information. I'm fucking TIRED of filling out forms for shit they already know.
I realize that by filing and signing, I'm "participating" in an honesty/honor system that purportedly wants to "respect" tax payers. But, the retired IRS types probably are the ones delaying the direct filings that would SAVE US money and COST THEM money their cronies let them earn.
Why the hell is it that so many things are difficult to file? I could file in the IRS office for two non consecutive years, but not the intervening year because I had dividends or stocks back then. Hell, it was a late filing, and nobody came after me, and I got my two checks from before and after, so if no red flags were attached to my name, and it was a late filing with no IRS penalties associated, then WHY not go ahead and process that one, too, with the caveat that there better be no surprises?
But, most 'merkuns would go ballistic if they sensed the government prying into their personal matters. Hell, the government knows A LOT, they just don't have the human labor to knock on every door, assess or inspect every home, and determine if the amenities and furniture and junk in them exceed the mapped level of income filed from previous years.
In some ways, earning LESS money, and having NOT stocks, 401k, IRA, etc, makes things EASIER. I HATE paperwork, unless **I'M** generating drawings or notes I can manage.
I'm STILL waiting for the government to allow Linux-users to file directly online WITHOUT using special technology other than a secure browser (or has that been made possible yet?).
I'm STILL waiting for the government to allow and encourage automated filing. Every pay stub, you'd get a little snipped or a login code to look up the period's or quarter's deductions against your projected dues and if all stays on track, you WON'T have to file... OR sign on any dotted line. That could eliminate a LOT of under the table payments, particularly since states (most? all?) require employers to report new hires, terms, layoffs, furloughs, injuries, and all related payments and claims in x number of days.
Between states and IRS, they know there is a FUCKLOAD of underreporting, erroneous filings, self-prejudicial/harming filings, and more.
BUT, if the government would take a smaller cut and try to live within reasonable means instead of treating the tax-paying public (the honest payers who carry the dishonest ones and the wealthy ones who play games) as an endless pool of revenues, there MIGHT be less cheating.
Sometimes I feel they government ought to quit the charade: Counterfeit money is not much different than government-approved paper. The difference is that we place implicit TRUST in the paper. The government prints ALL kinds of currency and ships it overseas, buries some in safes and bunkers, and spends like there's no tomorrow and manages a mind-boggling array of stats and uses mechanisms to play near-god with the cash flow, yet it STILL forces US, the EARNER to play party with this nutty system that punishes us for not working or not earning a lot, punishes us for earning too much (whether or NOT we pay the right taxes), and lets the crafty play games with the system.
It would be NICE if it were ok to TWICE in your lifetime print your OWN (traceable) emergency money without having to go to a fucking heartless bank that wants your mortgage in exchange for ripoff loans. (When you NEED the money, it's HARD to get; when you DON'T need it, and your credit is A+, it's "Oh, how much do you want/need? Just sign here? See you and Santorini's for a martini?"
Anyway, as long as the money is trackable, the government cou
Don't forget about "Total Information Awareness" or whatever the czars upstairs call it.
Once they get their hands on this information, they WON'T be willing to just "peak just this once..." They'll set up the backbone to do a "sneak and peek/peak/pique" on EVERY transaction. So, foreigner or domestic person, you're up for scrutiny.
I think this is, though, just one more tool for the crazies above the IRS to track down "terrists" and other "nefarios", NOT just in the US, but even in other countries. Can you IMAGINE how useful this will be if the US (or any) gov't could track down hapless or even cautious scofflaws and terrists who thought they had "complete anonymity" via getting proxies to do their purchasing?
But, even corporations getting backdoor information via the government (remember Lockheed or I guess it was Boeing receiving illegally obtained info about AirBus' plans and problems, which enabled Boeing to seize contracts that Airbus was going after, and cost AirBus?... segue: Karma on that will be a bitch...) will be able to track down and "sneak and peek" ANY scholar, official, cave-dweller with a computer, and those in between and elsewhere....
Maybe in 30 years the IRS will be the GRS: Global Revenue Service.... (What's that loud sucking and gurgling sound?...)
"3) Extreme Bug-eyed alien tamer. Unfriendly invaders might think twice before tangling with a species capable of focusing better than 100 Gigawatts of energy at inbound bogies."
I'd dare venture to say that ANY "Bug-eyed alien" capable of getting here (by intent not by accident) in the first place is likely to be packing some seriously humbling firepower, too.
If we DARE send a shot across it's bow, we'd better be ready to have the Ring of Fire ignited or loosened. They don't EVEN have to crack the core... just zap a few plates here and there, uncork a few fickle/hesitant volcanoes, and release some toxins into the water supply here and there (not poison the 74% water, but just key population centers to kill off economy and start a slow death spiral of organization...)
And, since we'd likely NEVER know the "bug-eyed alien"'s base, no sensible communications or retaliation plans could be formulated.
Contemptable Humans (the subset of them just dangerous enough to make us ALL a subject to wholesale obliteration)... sheesh...
But, IFFF I had a huge-assed laser... I MIGHT just transmit "Come and GET us....Hit our "reset" button" cuz if you DON'T slow us down or stop certain people here, they'll be a galactic pain in your ass or the asses of life unwilling to "play ball" Earth's (certain governments') way...But, if you DON'T believe in planet-scale genocide, the do an immolation hit-and-run on the major governments, then set up a "this is why we zapped their asses" telecourse, and then keep your word not to do it again as long as Earthlings stay in their small vacuum of space... until we "grow up"....
Damn... there you go... gettin' all frickin' serious... taking wind out of the sails of all these dirty, myopic politicians...
Actually, I agree with what you've written. And, a LOT of people conveniently forget that the various US intel agencies WARNED congress, state, and everyone who needed to know, that Belfast, Tel Aviv, Sri Lanka and similar were coming to the US. Not a matter of if, but WHEN. They predicted about 20-30 years or so. They said that about 20 years before 9/11...
You're RIGHT. When you build up dickheads and dictators, run schools teaching people how to torture, build bombs, how to gas and manipulate, and more, you're ONLY BUILDING BAD KARMA.
It's time for humans to be humbled... at least ALL of the universally corrupt ones...
Personally, I find it disgusting to say, "take the war to the enemy", when it's OUR practices that piss off SOOOOOO many people around the world, then we have our ass-kissing media and rabid leadership lying to us, telling the non-literate, non-travelled 'merkuns the world loves us and our ideals...
Hell, they DID feel sorry for us-- on a HUMAN level, the tragedy and such. But, on the vengeance, jealousy, or karma level, I bet 99% of them said, "BOUT TIME! BE HUMBLED", except here, humility is outpaced by power and shiny toys and people willing to gloss over their OWN shitty policy in order to justify using weaps, influencing others, and refusing to be humbled or be second in anything.
I really wish some ETs would come here and straighten our asses out... Unfortunately, if they exist, they probably figure we're not worth the diversion other than for distant entertainment...
(Shit, where are my sedatives? Better go get some tea and cookies...)
Maybe they plan on playing La-zeh-pendence day on somebody's Capitol building? A quick fly-by and a laserlight show in RWB colors might look pretty spectacular... but the plane and its lasing gas better not get hit...
Hmm. If all that gas is hit, would the plane explode, freeze up, or turn molten then fall like solid iron?
I suppose a contingency plan for these laser planes would be to fry hijacked planes. Maybe lase off part of the wing, or an engine, or even knock out some windows port to starboard to depressurize the cabin and make it land (if they get up close...)
Hell, the plane can fly only so high. If IIII were a dictator or ruler of some land and had a VALID reason to launch a missile and some country decided to exert preeminence over ME, and I had MY airspace to cover and delouse I'd think about Black Sunday... the movie in which a news blimp had it's gondola replaced with millions of fleshette needles aimed to take out the SuperBowl patrons.
In my case, had I the money, I'd set up batteries of these things. I might not be able to hit the bastard pointing the laser, but I'd sure aim it at recon planes that even hovered 15 miles outside my borders (assuming my borders coverage didn't directly harm or piss off a border-adjacent country...)
There've GOT to be better things to do with all this frickin' money instead of propping up retired officers, senators, czars and others who thrive on "preparedness for war" when they'd be better off (and we, the CITIZENS of the world not in uniform nor carrying hated or urges to "go and fucking kick some ass") improving trade, dialogue, and doing something about drug problems, hunger, disease, joblessness, and more...
Oh, I forgot, defense is just "part" of the tapestry of things going on...
(hunts for tritium and valium pills)
Hmm, the pills didn't work....
Nope, I'd make high-EMP, low-ground-effect nukes and send them in the likely direction of the spy and laser planes... they'd better have hydraulic and optical backups for those supposedly "hardened" electronics. Maybe the absolute, cold, ruthless fear of being at war should be adapted to DEfusing rather than EFFUsing war... Deranged boys and their toys? Fully? Maybe not. To an extent? Yes...
"Search and Rescu my ASS"... just another privileged "cover name" for some project...
well, to deal with THAT bullshit, set up something like those Sharper Image-sold passive dusting machines. In this application, though, since the people launching these invasive little bastards, you need to spike your entire home and ventilation with undulating or coalescing waves that hopefully will destroy these critters.
Maybe the Vector control UV boxes can help. But, hopefully, once one is caught in the wild, its specs (frequency, ability to evade magnets, jamming avoidance) will be released.
In the mean time, your house or government building needs a deflector shield of some kind.
Ahh... you set up an airlock or foyer with enough energy to fry or confuse these critters. you'll have to disrobe and subject your items to intense EM waves, and you have your hair scanned for metallic stuff that is not of your own DNA....
Then you NAIL them with Electromagnetic Black Flag...
If the video/motion picture industry wants to fuck itself out of existence and kill tens of thousands of union and non union jobs, let them go RIGHT AHEAD.
Movies and special effects have done pretty much TWO major things:
- dazzle the hell out of unimaginative people - ruin the experience of READING
Movie forces often tend to undermine or rewrite the original content: the script, the book, or the comic, and force it into a bullshit 90-minutes to 112 minutes format. IFFFF I'm going to watch adapted (and in a lot of cases, original AND YET SURPRISINGLY interesting) content, I'd rather a miniseries or a well-thought out series. But, since I killed (sold) my TVs in 2002 and haven't bought one since, I either buy DVDs or READ a LOT. No, let's restate that...to say:
"But, since I killed (sold) my TVs in 2002 and haven't bought one since, I either READ a LOT or buy import DVDs."
I'm just nonplussed by much of the crap spewing out of the US domestic scene. And, I'm tired of local distributors emblazoning 6 or 7 layers of "we got it", "we own it", "we discovered THEM" bullshit in the opening credits. What ever happened to "FILM", instead of (what I disparagingly denigrate as) "movies". To me, "film" should be used to describe something artsy, or original, or thought-provoking, "or novel", or "non-bullshit masses-entrapping glitzy fx-laden waste of film."
Fortunately, DRM hasn't got a grip on PAPER. Unfortunately, when everything paper is 80% converted to digital, the libraries might be too packed. I fear that SOMEday, the DRM and film and content industry will try to buy up -- piece by piece -- the paperback and paper books resells channels JUST to constrict the flow and availability of paper, JUST to force people to accept digital content.
The day I get around to finishing MY books/fiction attempts, I will release it WITHOUT DRM. There will be NO DRM fingerprints on my works. That may doom me from EVER getting a large backer to making anything more than a paper product out of it, but I'm willing to live with that. It' means I have ONE LESS BULLSHIT layer between the readers and myself -- other than the illegal duplicators who aren't going away anyway.
People, go get a book. Find an author who controls his or her distribution and reward the author who is less into rewarding those who rig up so many channels that the author is screwed or manipulated just as are many musicians. Reward independents who have more independence.
Maybe DRME should be co opted and turned into "D*ckhead Revenue Model Eraser"... Or, something along those lines...
In the end, people buying well-thought out films would choke off the production of money-moving/money-laundering pieces of shit. But, since people are buying the stuff, I suppose it'll take a more enlightened populace.
Instead of DRM/content moguls trying to RESTRICT access to films and movies, they should be ENFORCING QUALITY CREATION and PRODUCTION. I am still angry that I bought a VHS a few years ago. On the artwork, they showed an F-16, an M-1 Abrams tank, and some soldiers in NEW gear. The movie was about an out-of-control tank. Once I watched it, though, I found myself looking at the inside of a tank that was as roomy as the interior of a half-sized garage, virtually nothing but a chair and a joystick on it and it looked like a wooden stage. If this were MY planet, I'd round up those involved and...
Well, since I'd opened and played it and it wasn't defective, I couldn't get my money back. The movie was so shitty I wanted to commit seppuku. Or so I felt.
If the hollywierd types want to EARN money, they'd BETTER fucking start enforcing the concept of quality. That is, I hope smarter younger generations refuse to spend a dime on bullshit and demand more creativity, originality, and less blatant escapism. Oh, wait, these are HUMANS I'm talking about...
I almost fell for the dubiously-worded opening, too.
"Redhat.com has a banner and press release that states that it will be Red Hat that will buy JBoss and not Oracle as previously thought."
Then, I read it 2 or 3 more times. The clue is this:
"... it will be **Red Hat** that will buy JBoss and not **Oracle (buying JBoss)** as previously thought."
This sentence is almost as faultily or haplessly worded as this one:
"We have bicycles for boys with adjustable seats."
Well, HELL, where are the seats (normally expected to be) adjustable/adjusted? Boys rumps/rears, or bicycle seats? Obviously the bicycle seats...
So, by critically analyzing that sentence, ANYone who earned (not GOT) an "A" letter grade in 4th-grade English SHOULD have correctly read that sentence. But, still, it almost got me. Until the second piece kicked in: Current Events:
Does ANYone really think RH has the market cap or actual power to buy Oracle? Would Larry REALLY let THAT happen? Hell, he'd probably quickly sell it off in pieces to his closest friends and advisers/advisors with a clause that allows him to rejoin them once the dark clouds have passed on by...
Ruthless corporate exploitation of "cheap labor" could also seem to make "current US-style capitalism" seem like "communism in capitalist clothes".
What I mean is this: in the old day, much of US production was IN the US. Little made for use HERE was manufactured outside, until we got Mego and Hasbro products cheaply made in Taiwan, or Hong Kong, or a FEW other places. Even b4 the 70's, it seems LITTLE was made outside the US to be shipped back here.
Now, with "globalization" (nothing new, it's just more pervasive and practiced by MORE than JUST the USA..) of the kind we've seen in the past 8 or 15 years, the US (and other) corporations shareholders and market managers DEMAND that profits go up, costs go down, and markets be expanded. With everyone doing this, serious collisions will happen. Now, if the US leadership is corrupted by power and money, then it's quite obvious that for military and procurement reasons, they and the associated industry forces will constantly HARP on China being a grave threat to US interests outside the USA, yet, for MONEY (sell granny for a fucking buck or two) purposes, China is our MFN trading partner. When hiccups are needed for entropy stimulation, we make or incite enemies to stimulate more military and other growth. But, so long as there are no actual wars between the big countries and ideologies to ruin the markets, then it's OK for the US government to remain corrupt (well, EVERY government is corrupt in some way or another) and just let US businesses set up shop and profit in "Communist Regimes".
To me, political names, slandering, and ideological sparring is just disgusting and stupid. At the end of the day, it's NOT the average citizen or taxpayer who is angling to kick some ass. It's the game-makers, the brinkmanship hard-up politicos who want THEIR ideas foisted upon others at almost ANY cost...
So, in the end, if we can all agree on something, maybe to be nasty or maybe to pull open some eyelids, there are ways life in in the US can be equated to the best and worst aspects of almost any form of government.
Too bad there aren't any powerful ETs to come along and ask the PEOPLE what it is the hell they want. If we got our wishes, every major government on Earth would be rebuilt... until some petty assholes angling for money and power sneak back into the system and screw it all up again...
(Pops pills and downs 3-in-1 coffee packs to calm down...)
"If you value your National, Corporate, or Personal Security, you WILL get of off ms windoze (the USA's backdoor into your nation, corporation, or home) and use something the USA cannot demand the overseas backdoor encryption access to (ostensibly in the name of hunting criminals...)"
Now, for China, Australia, Japan, Korea... ANY place where there IS or CAN be potential for the US to "wage battlespace war" on these people, they MUST, as a right to national sovereignty and dignity and national, corporate and personal responsibility and duty ditch ms' warez.
But, with me, the patriotism or nationality card won't fly here. I specifically use Linux as my daily box because I despise ms tactics at trying to hem me in. I couldn't wrap my brain around Mac, tho it was nice in a lot of ways to use, and I missed being able to customize the hell out of my old win 3.x desktop with Killer Windows Utilities before the tyrannical, hegemony-minded, lockdown assholes in Redmond came along and screwed all that up for a few years...
But, when there WAS NO Linux around, and win 3x was there, it WAS nice to have a GUI. But, then it was the only game in town. Being the person I am, sort of an underdog, I DESPISE any country, company, or government trying to tell the WHOLE WORLD what to use, do or not use or not do. Being the Linux and Open Source combo seems to be an "equalizer" of sorts, I firmly support THAT ANY day of the week over something that can be controlled by ONE country when that something is used all over the world.
Now, it is GOOD to have the world have choices. If it kills ms, so be it. Fair's fair, and they SURE as hell didn't get so big by being fair or honest or OPEN. Greed and selfishness executed with a vicious or insidious edge and extortion or blackmail of hardware makers is plenty of reason to see a person, company or even country's aims fall apart.
And, as far as IIII am concerned, ANY human forays beyond the moon MUST be an EARTH venture, not a NATIONAL venture. To me, Earth is MORE than about just one country or government. I for one hope there is NEVER manifest destiny, "expansionism" or any of the destructive shit of the human past getting out there. If it does, then humans deserve for a superior species to smack our asses (specifically the governments and policy makers') asses back to the big blue marble and set up a barrier to keep our asses contained until we MATURE.
(Pops Valium, lithium, and sundry of other pills and potions...)
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WHos' gonna step up to write the applet that shows:
- you your host file
- what it is blocking
- the known universe of competitors who are still in business (based on another file)
- how to disable the host file so you can bypass ms' crackware sites
- how to disable it or if you're not admin/local admin, inform your IT department
?
Or, does such a thing exist in some anti-virus software?
It could be that the host file some day will be accessible to a few "ms-anointed" sites that either fit in with ms' view, pay ms the requisite amount, or are homeland security. Wait-- dhls can just go the the ISP and track your hops via some special crumbs, right?
You know what this brings to mind? My block lists. In firestarter and Konqueror, Mozilla and Opera, I BAN the hell out of doubleshit! I also ban eqn, eqv, ad, point and some 150 or 200 subdomains.
But, it seems, though, double-dick caught on to people banning their asses, so what I have *I* noticed (don't know how long this/the following has been the case) is that our ***ISP's*** are hosting double click. That means that now, if you ban EVERY address spewing doubleshit, you're blocking your own ISP. It's pissing me off that Comcast **seems** to be hosting or handling doubleclick to make SURE something about your/my surfing habits WILL end up in doubledick's database.
This also, I guess could be similar to what ms **might** be doing. Has anyone traced their cookies, the bots, and the 1 pixel code crumbs, broken them open, and found their "home base"? I wouldn't be surprised if nowadays or in the past 6 years that the ms hosts file usage enables them to command your machine to randomly and in small bytes periodically send them some information about your activities, hardware, software, things your machine talks to on your LAN...
This could be the NEXT total information awareness arsenal piece: Wanna surf, doubledick (probably a federalized activity/government-funded entity by now) will get information. All your ISP has to do to assuage any "guilt" they may have is say what yahoo and others say: "WE COLLECT PRIVACY INFORMATION..." and create an umpteen-long document to deter rejection or complaint by MOST users.
I wish I could make heads or tails about what Ethereal finds, though. I wish I could find out enough about connections that try to come to my machine. Etherape helps, too, but I HATE doubledick with a passion. I block them and a slew of others, even though it nearly doubles or triples some page load.
Hmmm, interesting: image word/word image: "suffers"
"Hold on, we have a chmod 777 here..."
b ot_x.htm
(See: "code 777" reference at:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-04-15-ro
and enjoy... THIS is a real-world use of non-human implants...)
"We have the technology... The waiting list... The Patents... We can PRE-build her..." could be the "Gaumard Scientific Co. Inc." opener for their marketing and training products...
But, I wonder if she can respond (Kill Bill-Style) to any male nurses humping her...
DOH! word image: "native"
Talk about giving birth to good ideas...
b ot_x.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-04-15-ro
I wonder if they can add complications such as put the doll in a coma, or a series of convulsions, or program it to give out Exorcist-like wails and moans. If she hurls up a noxious, caustic, corrosive pea green soup-like fluid, I wonder how the students will react.
Now, if they make one of Kess' mother, having delivery occur while the mother is wrist-strapped to an overhead rod as the infant emerges from her back.
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I guess some guys may proclaim: "Now THAT'S a REAL Doll...", but then ask, "How many serial ports or USB ports does she come with? How much range of motion in her joints? How many decibels in her piezo throat? Will she make coffee?...."
Others might ask, "Does RealDoll.com have plans to replicate bleeding and moaning mannequins?" (In the interests of equal opportunity, the male dolls should moan and bleed, too... The sky's the limit; only your lack of imagination is in the way...)
Give it a few year and we'll have people ordering robot love like in the movies and films...
Probably these won't work for the carpool lane, though. Well, unless you program it to drive, and YOU are the passenger... well, if your state allows a non-sentient driver behind the wheel of a vehicle on public roadways...
Yehh, and "Police Story", "Mannix" and "Police Woman"... heheh
heheh... image word: viceroy...
YOKU DEKIMASHITA!
(Congratulations!)
You correctly QUICKLY modded into Ironside from Mod Squad.
AND, you're "dating" yourself, too...
hehehe...
Now, I myself will scurry away and play somewhere, hehehe
Cheers!
(WHEW! that should REALLY reduce any chances of a lawsuit, hehehe...)
Hmm. better spoil my own joke with this disclaimer:
For anyone thinking of being a lawsuit-happy prick, the "Fraud Squad" is a pun on "Mod Squad", the 1960's show with Burr as a PI or something rolling round in a wheelchair with is team of assistants helping him solve crime. "Fraud Squad" is NOT to be taken as an assertion of Geek Squad. Besides, even a 4th-grader can tell Fraud and Mod rhyme whereas as Geek doesn't rhyme with either word...
Now, go, find some else to sue. Besides I think Parody Law comes into play here...
"Fraud Squad"
Hmmm. I'm thinking "hair removal"...
THAT's a lot of hair removal to power that train... It'll stink all the way down the line. Like a rolling hair dryer with a head stuck in it, ignored by the attendant yacking with another customer whose hair is ALSO about to let catch fire...
But, I suppose an electrolysis-driven train speeding like a Shinkansen would be ummm... a "hair-raising" experience....
So, what's gonna be that, umm... "train's gender"? (pun intended)
Hmmm... image word: "petting"
to post?
... But, more likely, this'll make useful fodder for sci-fi scripts....
Hell, why wait that long. If you set up a saturation attack from multiple quadrants, it's just a matter of time before a tank's swiveling/slewing reactive armor can't cope, and might even break down. It's just a matter of time before the close-in defense gun either jams, overheats, or expends its ammo.
How to speed this up? Well, launch a wave attack. Only SOME of the rounds need to be live shots. The rest, if convincing enough to trigger the perimeter alert/defense system, will keep the tank crew on edge until they make a fatal or mission-fatal mistake.
Some of the "vampire" rounds could deposit acid or sand or some corrosive or jamming agent to gunk up seals, gaskets and even cooling systems, causing slower slewing, seal failure, and even false alarms (get sand in the lensing system and maybe you can force the crew to come out to clean it...)
But, why bother with all that? Just bring your OWN super generator and microwave guns and cook the people IN the tank. If you can penetrate the armor with microwaves, then you'll cook the crew and maybe end up with a perfectly operable tank... But,for airplanes... they'll crash if not on autopilot...or if a/p fails...
This is NOT a how-to on attacking US technology... It's universally applicable to ANY ground vehicles, maybe even including ET's tanks
there in one place too long... They're comin' to get you..." (especially hollywierd... I read about them, how they shuffle millions of dollars around between investors, producers and more, and then the taxable money or profits just go "poof", vanish, vaporized...)
heheh...
Seriously, I kind of HOPE they IRS and state tax organs would just have DIRECT access to payroll information. I'm fucking TIRED of filling out forms for shit they already know.
I realize that by filing and signing, I'm "participating" in an honesty/honor system that purportedly wants to "respect" tax payers. But, the retired IRS types probably are the ones delaying the direct filings that would SAVE US money and COST THEM money their cronies let them earn.
Why the hell is it that so many things are difficult to file? I could file in the IRS office for two non consecutive years, but not the intervening year because I had dividends or stocks back then. Hell, it was a late filing, and nobody came after me, and I got my two checks from before and after, so if no red flags were attached to my name, and it was a late filing with no IRS penalties associated, then WHY not go ahead and process that one, too, with the caveat that there better be no surprises?
But, most 'merkuns would go ballistic if they sensed the government prying into their personal matters. Hell, the government knows A LOT, they just don't have the human labor to knock on every door, assess or inspect every home, and determine if the amenities and furniture and junk in them exceed the mapped level of income filed from previous years.
In some ways, earning LESS money, and having NOT stocks, 401k, IRA, etc, makes things EASIER. I HATE paperwork, unless **I'M** generating drawings or notes I can manage.
I'm STILL waiting for the government to allow Linux-users to file directly online WITHOUT using special technology other than a secure browser (or has that been made possible yet?).
I'm STILL waiting for the government to allow and encourage automated filing. Every pay stub, you'd get a little snipped or a login code to look up the period's or quarter's deductions against your projected dues and if all stays on track, you WON'T have to file... OR sign on any dotted line. That could eliminate a LOT of under the table payments, particularly since states (most? all?) require employers to report new hires, terms, layoffs, furloughs, injuries, and all related payments and claims in x number of days.
Between states and IRS, they know there is a FUCKLOAD of underreporting, erroneous filings, self-prejudicial/harming filings, and more.
BUT, if the government would take a smaller cut and try to live within reasonable means instead of treating the tax-paying public (the honest payers who carry the dishonest ones and the wealthy ones who play games) as an endless pool of revenues, there MIGHT be less cheating.
Sometimes I feel they government ought to quit the charade: Counterfeit money is not much different than government-approved paper. The difference is that we place implicit TRUST in the paper. The government prints ALL kinds of currency and ships it overseas, buries some in safes and bunkers, and spends like there's no tomorrow and manages a mind-boggling array of stats and uses mechanisms to play near-god with the cash flow, yet it STILL forces US, the EARNER to play party with this nutty system that punishes us for not working or not earning a lot, punishes us for earning too much (whether or NOT we pay the right taxes), and lets the crafty play games with the system.
It would be NICE if it were ok to TWICE in your lifetime print your OWN (traceable) emergency money without having to go to a fucking heartless bank that wants your mortgage in exchange for ripoff loans. (When you NEED the money, it's HARD to get; when you DON'T need it, and your credit is A+, it's "Oh, how much do you want/need? Just sign here? See you and Santorini's for a martini?"
Anyway, as long as the money is trackable, the government cou
Don't forget about "Total Information Awareness" or whatever the czars upstairs call it.
Once they get their hands on this information, they WON'T be willing to just "peak just this once..." They'll set up the backbone to do a "sneak and peek/peak/pique" on EVERY transaction. So, foreigner or domestic person, you're up for scrutiny.
I think this is, though, just one more tool for the crazies above the IRS to track down "terrists" and other "nefarios", NOT just in the US, but even in other countries. Can you IMAGINE how useful this will be if the US (or any) gov't could track down hapless or even cautious scofflaws and terrists who thought they had "complete anonymity" via getting proxies to do their purchasing?
But, even corporations getting backdoor information via the government (remember Lockheed or I guess it was Boeing receiving illegally obtained info about AirBus' plans and problems, which enabled Boeing to seize contracts that Airbus was going after, and cost AirBus?... segue: Karma on that will be a bitch...) will be able to track down and "sneak and peek" ANY scholar, official, cave-dweller with a computer, and those in between and elsewhere....
Maybe in 30 years the IRS will be the GRS: Global Revenue Service.... (What's that loud sucking and gurgling sound?...)
Huhhh???
"3) Extreme Bug-eyed alien tamer. Unfriendly invaders might think twice before tangling with a species capable of focusing better than 100 Gigawatts of energy at inbound bogies."
I'd dare venture to say that ANY "Bug-eyed alien" capable of getting here (by intent not by accident) in the first place is likely to be packing some seriously humbling firepower, too.
If we DARE send a shot across it's bow, we'd better be ready to have the Ring of Fire ignited or loosened. They don't EVEN have to crack the core... just zap a few plates here and there, uncork a few fickle/hesitant volcanoes, and release some toxins into the water supply here and there (not poison the 74% water, but just key population centers to kill off economy and start a slow death spiral of organization...)
And, since we'd likely NEVER know the "bug-eyed alien"'s base, no sensible communications or retaliation plans could be formulated.
Contemptable Humans (the subset of them just dangerous enough to make us ALL a subject to wholesale obliteration)... sheesh...
But, IFFF I had a huge-assed laser... I MIGHT just transmit "Come and GET us....Hit our "reset" button" cuz if you DON'T slow us down or stop certain people here, they'll be a galactic pain in your ass or the asses of life unwilling to "play ball" Earth's (certain governments') way...But, if you DON'T believe in planet-scale genocide, the do an immolation hit-and-run on the major governments, then set up a "this is why we zapped their asses" telecourse, and then keep your word not to do it again as long as Earthlings stay in their small vacuum of space... until we "grow up"....
Damn... there you go... gettin' all frickin' serious... taking wind out of the sails of all these dirty, myopic politicians...
Actually, I agree with what you've written. And, a LOT of people conveniently forget that the various US intel agencies WARNED congress, state, and everyone who needed to know, that Belfast, Tel Aviv, Sri Lanka and similar were coming to the US. Not a matter of if, but WHEN. They predicted about 20-30 years or so. They said that about 20 years before 9/11...
You're RIGHT. When you build up dickheads and dictators, run schools teaching people how to torture, build bombs, how to gas and manipulate, and more, you're ONLY BUILDING BAD KARMA.
It's time for humans to be humbled... at least ALL of the universally corrupt ones...
Personally, I find it disgusting to say, "take the war to the enemy", when it's OUR practices that piss off SOOOOOO many people around the world, then we have our ass-kissing media and rabid leadership lying to us, telling the non-literate, non-travelled 'merkuns the world loves us and our ideals...
Hell, they DID feel sorry for us-- on a HUMAN level, the tragedy and such. But, on the vengeance, jealousy, or karma level, I bet 99% of them said, "BOUT TIME! BE HUMBLED", except here, humility is outpaced by power and shiny toys and people willing to gloss over their OWN shitty policy in order to justify using weaps, influencing others, and refusing to be humbled or be second in anything.
I really wish some ETs would come here and straighten our asses out... Unfortunately, if they exist, they probably figure we're not worth the diversion other than for distant entertainment...
(Shit, where are my sedatives? Better go get some tea and cookies...)
PRICELESS...
Maybe they plan on playing La-zeh-pendence day on somebody's Capitol building? A quick fly-by and a laserlight show in RWB colors might look pretty spectacular... but the plane and its lasing gas better not get hit...
Hmm. If all that gas is hit, would the plane explode, freeze up, or turn molten then fall like solid iron?
I suppose a contingency plan for these laser planes would be to fry hijacked planes. Maybe lase off part of the wing, or an engine, or even knock out some windows port to starboard to depressurize the cabin and make it land (if they get up close...)
Hell, the plane can fly only so high. If IIII were a dictator or ruler of some land and had a VALID reason to launch a missile and some country decided to exert preeminence over ME, and I had MY airspace to cover and delouse I'd think about Black Sunday... the movie in which a news blimp had it's gondola replaced with millions of fleshette needles aimed to take out the SuperBowl patrons.
In my case, had I the money, I'd set up batteries of these things. I might not be able to hit the bastard pointing the laser, but I'd sure aim it at recon planes that even hovered 15 miles outside my borders (assuming my borders coverage didn't directly harm or piss off a border-adjacent country...)
There've GOT to be better things to do with all this frickin' money instead of propping up retired officers, senators, czars and others who thrive on "preparedness for war" when they'd be better off (and we, the CITIZENS of the world not in uniform nor carrying hated or urges to "go and fucking kick some ass") improving trade, dialogue, and doing something about drug problems, hunger, disease, joblessness, and more...
Oh, I forgot, defense is just "part" of the tapestry of things going on...
(hunts for tritium and valium pills)
Hmm, the pills didn't work....
Nope, I'd make high-EMP, low-ground-effect nukes and send them in the likely direction of the spy and laser planes... they'd better have hydraulic and optical backups for those supposedly "hardened" electronics. Maybe the absolute, cold, ruthless fear of being at war should be adapted to DEfusing rather than EFFUsing war... Deranged boys and their toys? Fully? Maybe not. To an extent? Yes...
Those boys need RealDolls
t want that snake pokin' in your ass, filling you up, either. Butt, I suppose that occurrence will depend upon the whims of the operator...
"Search and Rescu my ASS"... just another privileged "cover name" for some project...
well, to deal with THAT bullshit, set up something like those Sharper Image-sold passive dusting machines. In this application, though, since the people launching these invasive little bastards, you need to spike your entire home and ventilation with undulating or coalescing waves that hopefully will destroy these critters.
Maybe the Vector control UV boxes can help. But, hopefully, once one is caught in the wild, its specs (frequency, ability to evade magnets, jamming avoidance) will be released.
In the mean time, your house or government building needs a deflector shield of some kind.
Ahh... you set up an airlock or foyer with enough energy to fry or confuse these critters. you'll have to disrobe and subject your items to intense EM waves, and you have your hair scanned for metallic stuff that is not of your own DNA....
Then you NAIL them with Electromagnetic Black Flag...
Hmmm... image word: "impact"
If the video/motion picture industry wants to fuck itself out of existence and kill tens of thousands of union and non union jobs, let them go RIGHT AHEAD.
Movies and special effects have done pretty much TWO major things:
- dazzle the hell out of unimaginative people
- ruin the experience of READING
Movie forces often tend to undermine or rewrite the original content: the script, the book, or the comic, and force it into a bullshit 90-minutes to 112 minutes format. IFFFF I'm going to watch adapted (and in a lot of cases, original AND YET SURPRISINGLY interesting) content, I'd rather a miniseries or a well-thought out series. But, since I killed (sold) my TVs in 2002 and haven't bought one since, I either buy DVDs or READ a LOT. No, let's restate that...to say:
"But, since I killed (sold) my TVs in 2002 and haven't bought one since, I either READ a LOT or buy import DVDs."
I'm just nonplussed by much of the crap spewing out of the US domestic scene. And, I'm tired of local distributors emblazoning 6 or 7 layers of "we got it", "we own it", "we discovered THEM" bullshit in the opening credits. What ever happened to "FILM", instead of (what I disparagingly denigrate as) "movies". To me, "film" should be used to describe something artsy, or original, or thought-provoking, "or novel", or "non-bullshit masses-entrapping glitzy fx-laden waste of film."
Fortunately, DRM hasn't got a grip on PAPER. Unfortunately, when everything paper is 80% converted to digital, the libraries might be too packed. I fear that SOMEday, the DRM and film and content industry will try to buy up -- piece by piece -- the paperback and paper books resells channels JUST to constrict the flow and availability of paper, JUST to force people to accept digital content.
The day I get around to finishing MY books/fiction attempts, I will release it WITHOUT DRM. There will be NO DRM fingerprints on my works. That may doom me from EVER getting a large backer to making anything more than a paper product out of it, but I'm willing to live with that. It' means I have ONE LESS BULLSHIT layer between the readers and myself -- other than the illegal duplicators who aren't going away anyway.
People, go get a book. Find an author who controls his or her distribution and reward the author who is less into rewarding those who rig up so many channels that the author is screwed or manipulated just as are many musicians. Reward independents who have more independence.
Maybe DRME should be co opted and turned into "D*ckhead Revenue Model Eraser"... Or, something along those lines...
In the end, people buying well-thought out films would choke off the production of money-moving/money-laundering pieces of shit. But, since people are buying the stuff, I suppose it'll take a more enlightened populace.
Instead of DRM/content moguls trying to RESTRICT access to films and movies, they should be ENFORCING QUALITY CREATION and PRODUCTION. I am still angry that I bought a VHS a few years ago. On the artwork, they showed an F-16, an M-1 Abrams tank, and some soldiers in NEW gear. The movie was about an out-of-control tank. Once I watched it, though, I found myself looking at the inside of a tank that was as roomy as the interior of a half-sized garage, virtually nothing but a chair and a joystick on it and it looked like a wooden stage. If this were MY planet, I'd round up those involved and...
Well, since I'd opened and played it and it wasn't defective, I couldn't get my money back. The movie was so shitty I wanted to commit seppuku. Or so I felt.
If the hollywierd types want to EARN money, they'd BETTER fucking start enforcing the concept of quality. That is, I hope smarter younger generations refuse to spend a dime on bullshit and demand more creativity, originality, and less blatant escapism. Oh, wait, these are HUMANS I'm talking about...
Hmmm... the / intro says:
"unwarranted hackers or virus attacks..."
Are there such things as "warranted hackers or virus attacks"?
Piroca and others might want to view this site:
k entei
s e_name
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/reference/kanji_
Kanji kentei means, basically, "Japanese Aptitude Test".
I stumbled upon it today, serendipitously...
It is a very informative site.
Japanese Name:
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/reference/japane
It has a TON of information, and I at first wondered how it fits into "astronomy", but I forgot my question after becoming absorbed by the site...
Enjoy!
I almost fell for the dubiously-worded opening, too.
"Redhat.com has a banner and press release that states that it will be Red Hat that will buy JBoss and not Oracle as previously thought."
Then, I read it 2 or 3 more times. The clue is this:
"... it will be **Red Hat** that will buy JBoss and not **Oracle (buying JBoss)** as previously thought."
This sentence is almost as faultily or haplessly worded as this one:
"We have bicycles for boys with adjustable seats."
Well, HELL, where are the seats (normally expected to be) adjustable/adjusted? Boys rumps/rears, or bicycle seats? Obviously the bicycle seats...
So, by critically analyzing that sentence, ANYone who earned (not GOT) an "A" letter grade in 4th-grade English SHOULD have correctly read that sentence. But, still, it almost got me. Until the second piece kicked in: Current Events:
Does ANYone really think RH has the market cap or actual power to buy Oracle? Would Larry REALLY let THAT happen? Hell, he'd probably quickly sell it off in pieces to his closest friends and advisers/advisors with a clause that allows him to rejoin them once the dark clouds have passed on by...
Interesting: Image Word is "realists"...
When they get this thing under their control, maybe they can rename the company...
But, the rest of us who don't buy into it or who buy back out... well, we'll be the CharleTONS!
(ba-dum(b)oom!!!)
Ruthless corporate exploitation of "cheap labor" could also seem to make "current US-style capitalism" seem like "communism in capitalist clothes".
What I mean is this: in the old day, much of US production was IN the US. Little made for use HERE was manufactured outside, until we got Mego and Hasbro products cheaply made in Taiwan, or Hong Kong, or a FEW other places. Even b4 the 70's, it seems LITTLE was made outside the US to be shipped back here.
Now, with "globalization" (nothing new, it's just more pervasive and practiced by MORE than JUST the USA..) of the kind we've seen in the past 8 or 15 years, the US (and other) corporations shareholders and market managers DEMAND that profits go up, costs go down, and markets be expanded. With everyone doing this, serious collisions will happen. Now, if the US leadership is corrupted by power and money, then it's quite obvious that for military and procurement reasons, they and the associated industry forces will constantly HARP on China being a grave threat to US interests outside the USA, yet, for MONEY (sell granny for a fucking buck or two) purposes, China is our MFN trading partner. When hiccups are needed for entropy stimulation, we make or incite enemies to stimulate more military and other growth. But, so long as there are no actual wars between the big countries and ideologies to ruin the markets, then it's OK for the US government to remain corrupt (well, EVERY government is corrupt in some way or another) and just let US businesses set up shop and profit in "Communist Regimes".
To me, political names, slandering, and ideological sparring is just disgusting and stupid. At the end of the day, it's NOT the average citizen or taxpayer who is angling to kick some ass. It's the game-makers, the brinkmanship hard-up politicos who want THEIR ideas foisted upon others at almost ANY cost...
So, in the end, if we can all agree on something, maybe to be nasty or maybe to pull open some eyelids, there are ways life in in the US can be equated to the best and worst aspects of almost any form of government.
Too bad there aren't any powerful ETs to come along and ask the PEOPLE what it is the hell they want. If we got our wishes, every major government on Earth would be rebuilt... until some petty assholes angling for money and power sneak back into the system and screw it all up again...
(Pops pills and downs 3-in-1 coffee packs to calm down...)
"If you value your National, Corporate, or Personal Security, you WILL get of off ms windoze (the USA's backdoor into your nation, corporation, or home) and use something the USA cannot demand the overseas backdoor encryption access to (ostensibly in the name of hunting criminals...)"
Now, for China, Australia, Japan, Korea... ANY place where there IS or CAN be potential for the US to "wage battlespace war" on these people, they MUST, as a right to national sovereignty and dignity and national, corporate and personal responsibility and duty ditch ms' warez.
But, with me, the patriotism or nationality card won't fly here. I specifically use Linux as my daily box because I despise ms tactics at trying to hem me in. I couldn't wrap my brain around Mac, tho it was nice in a lot of ways to use, and I missed being able to customize the hell out of my old win 3.x desktop with Killer Windows Utilities before the tyrannical, hegemony-minded, lockdown assholes in Redmond came along and screwed all that up for a few years...
But, when there WAS NO Linux around, and win 3x was there, it WAS nice to have a GUI. But, then it was the only game in town. Being the person I am, sort of an underdog, I DESPISE any country, company, or government trying to tell the WHOLE WORLD what to use, do or not use or not do. Being the Linux and Open Source combo seems to be an "equalizer" of sorts, I firmly support THAT ANY day of the week over something that can be controlled by ONE country when that something is used all over the world.
Now, it is GOOD to have the world have choices. If it kills ms, so be it. Fair's fair, and they SURE as hell didn't get so big by being fair or honest or OPEN. Greed and selfishness executed with a vicious or insidious edge and extortion or blackmail of hardware makers is plenty of reason to see a person, company or even country's aims fall apart.
And, as far as IIII am concerned, ANY human forays beyond the moon MUST be an EARTH venture, not a NATIONAL venture. To me, Earth is MORE than about just one country or government. I for one hope there is NEVER manifest destiny, "expansionism" or any of the destructive shit of the human past getting out there. If it does, then humans deserve for a superior species to smack our asses (specifically the governments and policy makers') asses back to the big blue marble and set up a barrier to keep our asses contained until we MATURE.
(Pops Valium, lithium, and sundry of other pills and potions...)