Which is WHY China is and SHOULD be using Linux/FLOSS. I myself have said in the past:
If you have any value of your personal, business or governmental responsibility and desire self preservation and independence then you WILL consider microsoft (lower-casing/deprecation of ms' shoddy name intended) for what it is (by default or by intent) as a secret back door to the US NSA and other nations friendly to the USA.
But, don't forget: It's not just China in on Linux-- Japan and other nations in Asia (right or wrong, personal or business) are "collaborating" (in the Asian preservation sense, not the pejorative (aka, Western racist) sense) to make their own regional Linux. TurboLinux is hot in Japan. I've seen the boxes on the shelves in Akihabara. I saw them in Users Side (but not the one in San Jose) or other stores like Laox, and a few others, but some stores there, even in JAPAN, downright refuse to sell or speak Linux. They are far up mshaft's butt (or, each others') purely (I suppose) for profit.
But, back to security, even Lotus Development was found to
These companies, and many other in the US, which create massively-deployed software that happens to have encryption capabilities MUST (read: are legally required or face jail and fines for failing to) supply the US-designated escrow company those keys, something like every quarter. I once saw some of those "men in black" wearing shades entering a building where I once worked. I quipped to a co-worker: "Who are they? NSA? Coming to pick up crypto?" The guy turned red and admonished me to not be so aloud saying that, and then went on to say that's EXACTLY who and why they were in the building.
ANY software company that ships products with crypto is definitely acting as an agent of the (pick your country) government, ostensibly so the government can track down and prosecute the bad guys. But it's gotta be and OUGHT to be frightening when mshaft's shit is de-facto on every friggin' system (93% or more, depending on the country) by default. Sometimes I think the anti-trust trials were just smoke and mirrors to distract the masses.
Can anyone translate that into strands of 1/4 inch-long pubic hair, or SPI (density in strands per cubic inch)? Maybe we can turn humans into mink or felt. Imagine the hygiene business stock if you could put this hair-densification stuff into the food and water supply. I hear Pantene helps women's hair grow FAST. I've been using it to see what would happen, and my own hair seems to be growing faster than normal. But, it could be coincidental. (I wonder if Pantene has bull sperm/semen in it like the hair clubs for bald men purportedly does. I'd read in GQ or one of those uuber-sexual mags that it did. So, I dog-eared one of my friend's magazines so his guests would probably notice it and read the article.
But, speaking of thumbnails, can anyone translate that information density into THUMBNAILS or corneas or eyeball spheres worth of information?
Well, that depends on how bald those Barbies are. Some blonds might have more genes than they have hair. Some certainly have hair longer than 7 or 9 inches. But, add up all the surface hair... That could be one helluva "helix".
Now, I wonder when gene blending will happen outside of the morphing software and bedroom. Maybe we can bring tails back...
This shit is about giving "tools" to the various cognizant propaganda and enforcement agencies "werkin hard, dyin', strugglin' to fight againts evol-dooers an' ter-rists"... (which we as a nation and we as sleepy taxpayers did by not keeping tabs on our foreign policy and elected and SElected officials), "terrists" which we created, paid, trained, funded, shuttled around, encouraged, cajoled, and then dumped when the political winds changed. And, now we reap what we sew, as the saying goes. It so disgusting that this mess exists. Much of it only got worse when the main actors found each other diverging from their scripts, I suppose...
So, if one finds a site hated for its blind support of the cabal in power, and posts a scourge of a blog, then it gets flagged and forwarded. If it is especially condescending and scathing toward the current administration, and it happens to pick up readership before being censored "a-la-ms-like-in-China", then you'll find yourself in a sling of a mess.
If a site is popular, chances are it will by choice or by law NOT censor; it will either mod it low enough to make it be missed, or it will rally opposing views to make life painful for the poster.
But, the C/T side of me wonders if this is just another wasteful, oppressive, ACLU-rankling "tool" to "whip up public support" for this sitting/occupying prez.
(Disclaimer: "No Karma Bonus" selected intentionally to suppress this view, hehehe)
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like a baby?
Susan "'had' a 19 oz baby" (boy or girl, doesn't matter).
Mary had a little lamb. I wonder if she gave birth to it.
I had a single 84 oz steak. I felt bloated as hell. Spent the night strapped to the toilet. Strange musical emanations....
Oh, wait, she "possessed" a little lamb.
But, did she make it do "evil things"?
(had, ate, possessed, owned... boy the way words can be stretch when out of context, (nevermind having heard the tune as a kid... I never liked the damned song anyway...))
OK, back to listening to the bubble-gum Roller Girl "I Keep on Rolling" song...
Not the kind of "wattage" many people would find ENDearing...
I wonder if he'd like "a thousand watts up, around, down, across, over, through, alongside, between, betwixt, before, behind, above, below, beside, beneath, abaft, and all the other perp, umm, prePOsitions his own ass.
No, I didn't need a lot of perp, ummm PREparation time to pull those perp, ummm PREPOsitions out of my own ass.
I guess this means the xbox truly CAN lead to being a HEXED box. Hopefully the hexbox never becomes a "perpetration H" of sorts.
Now THAT'S the kind of thinking I like to see. Sharper than the bare solutions I suggested. Only (or, one) problem is to make sure your key fobs don't get exposed to certain security scanners, microwave ovens (if it got mixed in your lunch bag), and the like.
This kind of device would be useful for preventing improper access to ships, stations, buildings, offices, vehicles and more.
Imagine if such a device required you do every 15 seconds enter 2 or 3 pre-designated numbers for your car's ignition system. It would allay your fears of having your vehicle commandeered by someone in a "uniform" presenting a "badge" and spouting state law and your driver's license issuance having been contingent upon your consent to search and seizure, vehicle subject to lawful commandeering by peace officers....
I suppose anyone installing and then bragging about such a device would have their license suspended or revoked and then only find out by letter or by an at-first innocent "pull-over" or when the plates are randomly run in any state you drive the car.
Imagine tho, the key fob acting as a new ID to replace the standard card ID. Most of the time, clubs and bars and other places don't even scrutinize them, making their intended use questionable at times. But, the scary thing about the fob is that without our knowledge, backdoors could be installed at clubs and bars and payment stations so that wherever you go (but don't take your cell phone to) that requires ID for entry could also disclose your location.
OTOH, a keyfob misused by the abductor or murderer of a victim could be traced if they enter the victim's pre-assigned "I've been kidnapped/I'm a potential murder victim..." THAT could be really useful for certain situations when the person with the gun demanding the money or vehicle chooses to off the victim rather than let the victim enter the code him/herself.
I'd like to order the keyfob that explodes in the hand of the mis-user. Might be called booby-trapping, but hey, just universally announce the purpose. Any fool then using a fob not his or her own (or suffers dementia, or memory loss, I suppose) will come unglued... OK, make it just hot enough to fuse their hand so they'll be identifiable by appearance and the act of wailing.
(OK, I'm going into la-la land a bit there, but the possible outcomes and uses are numerous...)
Exactly the need for the OLD SSN to exist: It's the PUBLIC key to the new number, but they DON'T get the new number. You still have to present your credentials to get paid, but the employer cannot look up or "do stuff" with the new number. They don't NEED to know if you've previously been on disability, unemployment, etc, unless they're trying to determine if you're a risk to them as a repeat claimant who can damage their "unemployment experience rating" as determined by the state/s in which the company operates.
But, to have access to the New SSN just for "looking stuff up", NO they don't deserve nor need access to it. This new SSN is to provide anti-abuse security layers, not significantly change the existing system.
Put another way, imagine you apply to a number of jobs, you open a bank account, you start a small company, rent a few cars, publish some not-so-warmly-received rants, and do other things. Now, an employer who has your SSN these days can "lend" that number to some outside agency that specializes in investigating and posing as people. Imagine the things your SSN ISN'T needed for just to exploit you. Now, imagine the things your SSN --if abused-- can get you.
The NEW SSN wouldn't be allowed to be used with credit cards, gym memberships, car rentals and other "purchases". It would be to protect your benefits from boilerplate shops that prey upon the elderly, students who don't NEED umpteen numbers of credit card debts on top of their loans and what not.
Now, imagine all the benefits and possibilities that can be had by isolating your new, shiny "private" SSN from your current, corporation-raped, OLD SSN.
To go further, the SSN should be equated to a "public key". Since it's so screwed off by the oligarchy, wealthy, and corporations, the SSN needs to be fully publicised, but...
ONLY AFTER the SSA, the banks, schools/colleges, past, present and future employers, medical and life insurers, and a whole HOST of others strip out the personal information.
THEN, the SSA needs to issue to all eligible persons a "private key", so to speak. It needs to only be a new SSN-level-II (or, SSN-ULTRA, to get all "markety"), which is used ONLY by the SSA, and possibly DMV, Department of State/INS, and agencies that are going to get it one way or another anyway.
But, corporations of all commercial and non-government kind need to be deprived of this new SSN. Its use would be for retirement benefits as tracked by the government, driver's permits/state or national IDs, and related stuff. It would only be sort of a "drop bucket" into which the SSA, for example would have read and write privileges, to administer its programs. When I or you call the SSA or some cognizant government office, we would (hopefully over a secure line or in person and not aloud in the service counter line) provide our "private SSN" to the clerk. We get our service (well, not as in the latex arm up the crack with the impregnation syringe).
When we go to get hired, the company would get to use the SSN-old/corporately-screwed-WITH/screwed-UP number and could share THAT number and a narrowly-defined (as by some part of government and some part of ACLU/privacy watchdogs...) and then those companies would have to operate from a master lookup table (they could keep their own for hire/rehire/transfer/retire purposes) that gives out a uniform set of information that is not more informative than it already is by the school and corporate abuse of the existing SSN.
I realize that SOME campuses will let you NOT put your SSN on your student ID card (I had to battle a bit with a student operating the registration desk so that my SSN would not be on my card... "Hey, what if I lose or drop this card... why SHOULD you or another student or employee on the campus have my SSN? It's NOT supposed to be a form of "ID", only for tracking BENEFITS and narrowly-defined uses....")
All it would take--if the SSA could finally fix their database problems (I listened to an NPR interview a few years back where it would cost the SSA an astronomical amount of dollars just to fix ONE of their several systems... purportedly it would take years and annually cost more than the budget they receive---JUST for ONE system...), then this new SSN-ULTRA/OVERLAY NUMBER could become a privacy reality.
While reading the article, I wondered whether ms actually "deleted" the blog, or just crippled outside access attempts. I am sure that there are archives, and if so, they would be useful for both the courts and Zhao Jing.
It would be mind-boggling that ms China or ms *pickyourplace* would just "delete" the files.
If the files are not truly deleted, and if Zhao Jing offers say, US$300 for their assistance (and to make up for his not keeping backups... even text archives would have been smart to have-- they needn't be actual page archives, unless there was a forensic reason to have them...), then microsoft should use one of their "technology innovations" (if they really have any, and I suspect that for internal reasons they DO have this capability) scripts to scrounge up Zhao Jing's files and deliver him a.tar or.zip file of them.
Having him removed from the web might be gratifying for Beijing, but if he hasn't been raided and arrested or censured in other ways, and considering that others surely have copies of his works, then denying him his own copies is just an exercise in punishment. But, then, I suppose that is an internal matter.
But this is an exercise in showing us that we need to keep backups, regardless of the material, unless your material is a jailable offence (ce vs se intentional), in which case one probably would **NOT** want to back it up. OTOH, publicly claiming to not have copies could be an attempt to dissuade heavy-handed searches. But, even here in the USA, I could claim "I have no backups" or "I never made any and therefore could not have secreted them away somewhere", but the US would have its own reasons to do a domestic "rendition" toward "finding out what it wants to find out...".
Reminds me of the Air Force officer in the old Trek episode when Kirk was trying to find the film reels from Captain Christopher's interceptor: "We are not DUMMIES, Mister. We have ways of finding out what we want to know!"...(Of course, the funny part was to follow: "What is that? A uniform of some kind?" "What, this? Just something I slipped on/into (this morning)?", which led to "charge you with espionage, sabotage..." "Did I sabotage something"..
And, it thickens with: "No, but what WOULD you have done had we not interrupted you?")
And that, my fellow slashers is what ANY government would boil it's explanations down to, Chinese, Japanese, UK, anywhere, EVEN the "good 'ole USofA"... And, in the true spirit of capitalism, a goodly number of high tech firms RIGHT here in silicon valley tailor their hardware and software "offerings" (in the name of making a buck) to enable governments of whatever nation to intercept, disrupt, interrupt, off-line-scan, archive, and many other ways manipulate data traffic in to and out of their respective borders. It's NOT just mshaft, it's your video companies, voice and IP companies, routers, switching and others. Even SOFTWARE office suite companies have been found to have embedded "language assistance" "backdoor" tools in "foreign" editions of their suites, all at the benefit of US government security services. Given time, all (or almost all) companies of any country will be compelled to not only escrow over the encryption keys, but facilitate in other ways the breaking and reading and almost-traceless manipulation of files for evidence purposes.
WHEW, I need to put a cold towel on my forehead...
Well, suppose we're genetic castoff, a la Botany Bay. If some/a/the "Guardian" of the Universe decided we're not flotsam, but just needed some protection, then it could be that the DNA and other animals dropped off were scattered.
Then, on the other hand, if we're the descendents of some crashed alien craft, then it might make sense that if it were a SMALL crashed craft, then they'd have all landed (or died) in the same place. But, if it were a LARGE craft (presumably with "escape pods") then they'd have spread out.
But, with all that technology, they'd likely have the ability to regroup, unless there was an inssurection or falling out. Even so, some cataclysm would later on have to happen to suppress all that tech, essentially setting us back as far as we are now, relative to where we COULD have been if environmental carnage and warfare (petty human political greed and so on) were not a big part of the picture.
"Cookies from the White House site are not generated simply by visiting it, according to analyses by the AP and by Richard M. Smith, a security consultant in Cambridge, Mass., who first noticed the Web bug this week.
Rather, WebTrends cookies are sometimes created when visiting other WebTrends clients. Smith said his analysis of network traffic shows such preexisting cookies have then been used when visiting the White House site."
Hmmm... Seems they were using web bugs, cookies/etc to track "something". Now, THEY'RE being investigated.
I commented that it's not just the CIA and other spook shops that track and do things, but I hadn't considered a rogue contractor doing things on its own. Then again, this could be yet another smokescreen to make "contractors" look worse than the government and deflect public attention.
Wow! Just under 45 hours 'til the end of the year; I wonder what OTHER stories we'll see before the fireworks light up...
This may be redundant, but has anyone considered that (in the vein of "renditions") cookies could be deployed to and from servers and sites NOT based on Continental US soil?
I think what is really going on here is the story is a red herring, a smoke screen. The real deal is probably something like this: You visit any sites that are owned or controlled by the various cognizant agencies; their related, tributary or ancillary sites then aggregate the disparate cookies and build a picture.
Really, Carnivore, Echelon, Echevore, Carnilon or whatever the hell they first two morphed into are not just sitting around sifting legally-obtained data. If they deliberately route your packets out of the US then scan and sift or just parse for later evaluation the data overseas then, THAT could be a far more attractive tool or technique for the black ops agencies.
Probably not much the ACLU or others could say about it. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the sluggishness from my own ISP is related to massive sifting and churning through data coming into and leaving San Francisco.
But, even if "the bad guys" surf from Afghanistan with one laptop and it receives cookies, why should they care? Rag-tag asymmetrical fighters or not, they've got **just** enough funds to toss a laptop after one use. Why be dumb (and, many of them are not dumb, but are pretty careless) and reuse a trackable, discardable device? They can go to a flea market, 2nd hand store or other place and pick them up like hammers and screwdrivers. Except here, as long as they use cash, they're blowing wind across the breadcrumbs, obfuscating or confusing the data trail.
Sheesh, just think as if you're writing a suspense thriller that HAS to enthrall or engage a perceptive, discerning audience. Think Perry Mason or something back in da day when shows were crisp and tight, and had less of the ratings-sweeps bullshit formulaic stuff in them.
The solution: Fix the screwed up foreign policies; stay out of others' business; do a little check-book diplomacy; bust a cap in the ass of companies that try too much "expand or die" in countries that only fester in hate and resentment; let the "target" countries see their mouthpieces die of natural causes and let the remaining, anxious, envious kids who grow up make the decisions to join the world market; stop FORCING foreigners to "do it our way or da highway". Nooo, I guess that would take the fun and game out of making and selling weaps; would steal or abort missions from intramural gamesmen looking for an existence-justifying/trooper-hardening/skills-honi ng military...
Can we say "fear factor"? It's not just about "frying the trooper"; it's also about trying to weld their suit shut or short the damn thing out so it's a useless boondoggle of a project. If the public perceives this as a waste, and if the troops fear it until there are live, believable demos (and each trooper in doubt undergoes and survives a "test") , then maybe we won't waste money on this.
And, yes, I know there would be ground or isolation points to protect personnel. But, given enough metallic dust, arcing and sparking in the air, frozen up or malfunctioning equipment... heck, the troopers will have to abandon their weight-hauling equipment. But, the grounds and fault isolation are only good if the system integrity is NOT degraded. Just a small, cheap sabot with discharging pellets meant NOT to kill, but to help circulate electrical discharge will scare the living shit suit-wearing hombres. Hit the leg, the tail, the "shoulder"... any part where there's wiring harness or circuitry and soon the faults will increase rapidly. It's not even necessary to destroy the suit-- just compromise it with head-high fragging. They'll malfunction, become distrusted, become erratic, and then discarded or cannibalized for parts until the campaign is pointless and the gear has to be destroyed in-situ to keep "'da enemy" from using it later on like so much other discarded stuff.
The big trick would be corralling or herding them. In urban warfare, these "mech warriors" could probably face pure hell-- as long as the US doesn't have a jump on the "intel" from the sky. That, though, is why the US' "unfair advantage" will just make the defensive side dig in even harder. Recall Vietnam. AR-15, M-16, M-14, Claymores, LVTP-7's, UH-1D's AH-1, OV-10, and more, and though 2 million Vietnamese in the north and south died, and only some "50,000" US died (give or take, depending if you go back to '58, and if you can dig out the clandestine ops casualties numbers...), the US STILL had to "withdraw" to a "better vantage point", which ended up being political in so many ways
No, you don't need to dissolve the mechwarrior in his/her suit. Just create so much FEAR that reluctance and hesitance and disarray will buy the enemy some time. NOOOOO one country deserves nor has the right to be so preeminent over another that the one assaulted has to resort to "dirty" or "asymmetrical" warfare just to stay alive on their own soil. When things get lopsided, balance MUST be restored. Like, water, electricity...
Irrationality and power projection have NO place in today's world.
Remember the US so fiendishly dropping metallic strips over powerplants in a few countries to disrupt their electrics?
Well, were IIII on the defensive and saw a "mechanized" force of wretched (pick your favorite hated nation) of infiltrators, I'd welcome them with electric eels. Air-droppped. See how fast a trooper can shed THAT metallic skin.
They better rethink this if the units are touted for allowing high-weight transport at decent speeds but are conductive. WON'T be good for moral if some super-flash or flame-throwing goo gets all over them. Even worse if they can't check the terrain for my acid bath pits. Fall into one and you're not coming out in solid form.
Even better, set up Claymore-Taser-like barriers. Who needs mines when ClayZers (Hey, I coined first usaged) will fry the trooper AND his friggin' fragged exo-scream-atorium?!
Yeh, where there's a WAY, there's a WILL, said a Marine I used to answer to.
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Which is WHY China is and SHOULD be using Linux/FLOSS. I myself have said in the past:
If you have any value of your personal, business or governmental responsibility and desire self preservation and independence then you WILL consider microsoft (lower-casing/deprecation of ms' shoddy name intended) for what it is (by default or by intent) as a secret back door to the US NSA and other nations friendly to the USA.
But, don't forget: It's not just China in on Linux-- Japan and other nations in Asia (right or wrong, personal or business) are "collaborating" (in the Asian preservation sense, not the pejorative (aka, Western racist) sense) to make their own regional Linux. TurboLinux is hot in Japan. I've seen the boxes on the shelves in Akihabara. I saw them in Users Side (but not the one in San Jose) or other stores like Laox, and a few others, but some stores there, even in JAPAN, downright refuse to sell or speak Linux. They are far up mshaft's butt (or, each others') purely (I suppose) for profit.
But, back to security, even Lotus Development was found to
See:
TP: Only NSA can listen, so that's OK
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/2/2898/1.html
Codename: Echelon: http://www.cybercitycafe.com/explore/echelon.html
But, as for mshaft:
http://www.whale.to/b/nsa3.html
These companies, and many other in the US, which create massively-deployed software that happens to have encryption capabilities MUST (read: are legally required or face jail and fines for failing to) supply the US-designated escrow company those keys, something like every quarter. I once saw some of those "men in black" wearing shades entering a building where I once worked. I quipped to a co-worker: "Who are they? NSA? Coming to pick up crypto?" The guy turned red and admonished me to not be so aloud saying that, and then went on to say that's EXACTLY who and why they were in the building.
ANY software company that ships products with crypto is definitely acting as an agent of the (pick your country) government, ostensibly so the government can track down and prosecute the bad guys. But it's gotta be and OUGHT to be frightening when mshaft's shit is de-facto on every friggin' system (93% or more, depending on the country) by default. Sometimes I think the anti-trust trials were just smoke and mirrors to distract the masses.
Can anyone translate that into strands of 1/4 inch-long pubic hair, or SPI (density in strands per cubic inch)? Maybe we can turn humans into mink or felt. Imagine the hygiene business stock if you could put this hair-densification stuff into the food and water supply. I hear Pantene helps women's hair grow FAST. I've been using it to see what would happen, and my own hair seems to be growing faster than normal. But, it could be coincidental. (I wonder if Pantene has bull sperm/semen in it like the hair clubs for bald men purportedly does. I'd read in GQ or one of those uuber-sexual mags that it did. So, I dog-eared one of my friend's magazines so his guests would probably notice it and read the article.
But, speaking of thumbnails, can anyone translate that information density into THUMBNAILS or corneas or eyeball spheres worth of information?
Next: Subspace Neural Network...
Well, that depends on how bald those Barbies are. Some blonds might have more genes than they have hair. Some certainly have hair longer than 7 or 9 inches. But, add up all the surface hair... That could be one helluva "helix".
Now, I wonder when gene blending will happen outside of the morphing software and bedroom. Maybe we can bring tails back...
"...every ten MINUTES." Imagine we'd look like the Ferengi with loads of teeth and slick heads.
Oh, for a sec I thought "translucent". But, translucent (or, even transparent) and flourescent would be quite interesting. Green/greenish ham...
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This shit is about giving "tools" to the various cognizant propaganda and enforcement agencies "werkin hard, dyin', strugglin' to fight againts evol-dooers an' ter-rists"... (which we as a nation and we as sleepy taxpayers did by not keeping tabs on our foreign policy and elected and SElected officials), "terrists" which we created, paid, trained, funded, shuttled around, encouraged, cajoled, and then dumped when the political winds changed. And, now we reap what we sew, as the saying goes. It so disgusting that this mess exists. Much of it only got worse when the main actors found each other diverging from their scripts, I suppose...
So, if one finds a site hated for its blind support of the cabal in power, and posts a scourge of a blog, then it gets flagged and forwarded. If it is especially condescending and scathing toward the current administration, and it happens to pick up readership before being censored "a-la-ms-like-in-China", then you'll find yourself in a sling of a mess.
If a site is popular, chances are it will by choice or by law NOT censor; it will either mod it low enough to make it be missed, or it will rally opposing views to make life painful for the poster.
But, the C/T side of me wonders if this is just another wasteful, oppressive, ACLU-rankling "tool" to "whip up public support" for this sitting/occupying prez.
(Disclaimer: "No Karma Bonus" selected intentionally to suppress this view, hehehe)
like a baby?
Susan "'had' a 19 oz baby" (boy or girl, doesn't matter).
Mary had a little lamb. I wonder if she gave birth to it.
I had a single 84 oz steak. I felt bloated as hell. Spent the night strapped to the toilet. Strange musical emanations....
Oh, wait, she "possessed" a little lamb.
But, did she make it do "evil things"?
(had, ate, possessed, owned... boy the way words can be stretch when out of context, (nevermind having heard the tune as a kid... I never liked the damned song anyway...))
OK, back to listening to the bubble-gum Roller Girl "I Keep on Rolling" song...
Well, what lack of humor have weeee. Or, maybe you're a burst sympathiser?
Not the kind of "wattage" many people would find ENDearing...
I wonder if he'd like "a thousand watts up, around, down, across, over, through, alongside, between, betwixt, before, behind, above, below, beside, beneath, abaft, and all the other perp, umm, prePOsitions his own ass.
No, I didn't need a lot of perp, ummm PREparation time to pull those perp, ummm PREPOsitions out of my own ass.
I guess this means the xbox truly CAN lead to being a HEXED box. Hopefully the hexbox never becomes a "perpetration H" of sorts.
burst at the seams? ONE mis-step in court and it could be game over.
News Headline: Burst BURSTS!
Now THAT'S the kind of thinking I like to see. Sharper than the bare solutions I suggested. Only (or, one) problem is to make sure your key fobs don't get exposed to certain security scanners, microwave ovens (if it got mixed in your lunch bag), and the like.
This kind of device would be useful for preventing improper access to ships, stations, buildings, offices, vehicles and more.
Imagine if such a device required you do every 15 seconds enter 2 or 3 pre-designated numbers for your car's ignition system. It would allay your fears of having your vehicle commandeered by someone in a "uniform" presenting a "badge" and spouting state law and your driver's license issuance having been contingent upon your consent to search and seizure, vehicle subject to lawful commandeering by peace officers....
I suppose anyone installing and then bragging about such a device would have their license suspended or revoked and then only find out by letter or by an at-first innocent "pull-over" or when the plates are randomly run in any state you drive the car.
Imagine tho, the key fob acting as a new ID to replace the standard card ID. Most of the time, clubs and bars and other places don't even scrutinize them, making their intended use questionable at times. But, the scary thing about the fob is that without our knowledge, backdoors could be installed at clubs and bars and payment stations so that wherever you go (but don't take your cell phone to) that requires ID for entry could also disclose your location.
OTOH, a keyfob misused by the abductor or murderer of a victim could be traced if they enter the victim's pre-assigned "I've been kidnapped/I'm a potential murder victim..." THAT could be really useful for certain situations when the person with the gun demanding the money or vehicle chooses to off the victim rather than let the victim enter the code him/herself.
I'd like to order the keyfob that explodes in the hand of the mis-user. Might be called booby-trapping, but hey, just universally announce the purpose. Any fool then using a fob not his or her own (or suffers dementia, or memory loss, I suppose) will come unglued... OK, make it just hot enough to fuse their hand so they'll be identifiable by appearance and the act of wailing.
(OK, I'm going into la-la land a bit there, but the possible outcomes and uses are numerous...)
Exactly the need for the OLD SSN to exist: It's the PUBLIC key to the new number, but they DON'T get the new number. You still have to present your credentials to get paid, but the employer cannot look up or "do stuff" with the new number. They don't NEED to know if you've previously been on disability, unemployment, etc, unless they're trying to determine if you're a risk to them as a repeat claimant who can damage their "unemployment experience rating" as determined by the state/s in which the company operates.
But, to have access to the New SSN just for "looking stuff up", NO they don't deserve nor need access to it. This new SSN is to provide anti-abuse security layers, not significantly change the existing system.
Put another way, imagine you apply to a number of jobs, you open a bank account, you start a small company, rent a few cars, publish some not-so-warmly-received rants, and do other things. Now, an employer who has your SSN these days can "lend" that number to some outside agency that specializes in investigating and posing as people. Imagine the things your SSN ISN'T needed for just to exploit you. Now, imagine the things your SSN --if abused-- can get you.
The NEW SSN wouldn't be allowed to be used with credit cards, gym memberships, car rentals and other "purchases". It would be to protect your benefits from boilerplate shops that prey upon the elderly, students who don't NEED umpteen numbers of credit card debts on top of their loans and what not.
Now, imagine all the benefits and possibilities that can be had by isolating your new, shiny "private" SSN from your current, corporation-raped, OLD SSN.
Whooa... for a sec I thought some panel WANTED the CLAIMS cloned...
To go further, the SSN should be equated to a "public key". Since it's so screwed off by the oligarchy, wealthy, and corporations, the SSN needs to be fully publicised, but...
ONLY AFTER the SSA, the banks, schools/colleges, past, present and future employers, medical and life insurers, and a whole HOST of others strip out the personal information.
THEN, the SSA needs to issue to all eligible persons a "private key", so to speak. It needs to only be a new SSN-level-II (or, SSN-ULTRA, to get all "markety"), which is used ONLY by the SSA, and possibly DMV, Department of State/INS, and agencies that are going to get it one way or another anyway.
But, corporations of all commercial and non-government kind need to be deprived of this new SSN. Its use would be for retirement benefits as tracked by the government, driver's permits/state or national IDs, and related stuff. It would only be sort of a "drop bucket" into which the SSA, for example would have read and write privileges, to administer its programs. When I or you call the SSA or some cognizant government office, we would (hopefully over a secure line or in person and not aloud in the service counter line) provide our "private SSN" to the clerk. We get our service (well, not as in the latex arm up the crack with the impregnation syringe).
When we go to get hired, the company would get to use the SSN-old/corporately-screwed-WITH/screwed-UP number and could share THAT number and a narrowly-defined (as by some part of government and some part of ACLU/privacy watchdogs...) and then those companies would have to operate from a master lookup table (they could keep their own for hire/rehire/transfer/retire purposes) that gives out a uniform set of information that is not more informative than it already is by the school and corporate abuse of the existing SSN.
I realize that SOME campuses will let you NOT put your SSN on your student ID card (I had to battle a bit with a student operating the registration desk so that my SSN would not be on my card... "Hey, what if I lose or drop this card... why SHOULD you or another student or employee on the campus have my SSN? It's NOT supposed to be a form of "ID", only for tracking BENEFITS and narrowly-defined uses....")
All it would take--if the SSA could finally fix their database problems (I listened to an NPR interview a few years back where it would cost the SSA an astronomical amount of dollars just to fix ONE of their several systems... purportedly it would take years and annually cost more than the budget they receive---JUST for ONE system...), then this new SSN-ULTRA/OVERLAY NUMBER could become a privacy reality.
Someone please help me refine this idea...
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapac ific/view/186885/1/.html
.tar or .zip file of them.
While reading the article, I wondered whether ms actually "deleted" the blog, or just crippled outside access attempts. I am sure that there are archives, and if so, they would be useful for both the courts and Zhao Jing.
It would be mind-boggling that ms China or ms *pickyourplace* would just "delete" the files.
If the files are not truly deleted, and if Zhao Jing offers say, US$300 for their assistance (and to make up for his not keeping backups... even text archives would have been smart to have-- they needn't be actual page archives, unless there was a forensic reason to have them...), then microsoft should use one of their "technology innovations" (if they really have any, and I suspect that for internal reasons they DO have this capability) scripts to scrounge up Zhao Jing's files and deliver him a
Having him removed from the web might be gratifying for Beijing, but if he hasn't been raided and arrested or censured in other ways, and considering that others surely have copies of his works, then denying him his own copies is just an exercise in punishment. But, then, I suppose that is an internal matter.
But this is an exercise in showing us that we need to keep backups, regardless of the material, unless your material is a jailable offence (ce vs se intentional), in which case one probably would **NOT** want to back it up. OTOH, publicly claiming to not have copies could be an attempt to dissuade heavy-handed searches. But, even here in the USA, I could claim "I have no backups" or "I never made any and therefore could not have secreted them away somewhere", but the US would have its own reasons to do a domestic "rendition" toward "finding out what it wants to find out...".
Reminds me of the Air Force officer in the old Trek episode when Kirk was trying to find the film reels from Captain Christopher's interceptor: "We are not DUMMIES, Mister. We have ways of finding out what we want to know!"...(Of course, the funny part was to follow: "What is that? A uniform of some kind?" "What, this? Just something I slipped on/into (this morning)?", which led to "charge you with espionage, sabotage..." "Did I sabotage something"..
And, it thickens with: "No, but what WOULD you have done had we not interrupted you?")
And that, my fellow slashers is what ANY government would boil it's explanations down to, Chinese, Japanese, UK, anywhere, EVEN the "good 'ole USofA"... And, in the true spirit of capitalism, a goodly number of high tech firms RIGHT here in silicon valley tailor their hardware and software "offerings" (in the name of making a buck) to enable governments of whatever nation to intercept, disrupt, interrupt, off-line-scan, archive, and many other ways manipulate data traffic in to and out of their respective borders. It's NOT just mshaft, it's your video companies, voice and IP companies, routers, switching and others. Even SOFTWARE office suite companies have been found to have embedded "language assistance" "backdoor" tools in "foreign" editions of their suites, all at the benefit of US government security services. Given time, all (or almost all) companies of any country will be compelled to not only escrow over the encryption keys, but facilitate in other ways the breaking and reading and almost-traceless manipulation of files for evidence purposes.
WHEW, I need to put a cold towel on my forehead...
Word Image: "encircle"
Well, suppose we're genetic castoff, a la Botany Bay. If some/a/the "Guardian" of the Universe decided we're not flotsam, but just needed some protection, then it could be that the DNA and other animals dropped off were scattered.
Then, on the other hand, if we're the descendents of some crashed alien craft, then it might make sense that if it were a SMALL crashed craft, then they'd have all landed (or died) in the same place. But, if it were a LARGE craft (presumably with "escape pods") then they'd have spread out.
But, with all that technology, they'd likely have the ability to regroup, unless there was an inssurection or falling out. Even so, some cataclysm would later on have to happen to suppress all that tech, essentially setting us back as far as we are now, relative to where we COULD have been if environmental carnage and warfare (petty human political greed and so on) were not a big part of the picture.
Actually, I think THIS one ought to be "4: Funny"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051230/ap_on_hi_te/wh ite_house_bug:
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"Cookies from the White House site are not generated simply by visiting it, according to analyses by the AP and by Richard M. Smith, a security consultant in Cambridge, Mass., who first noticed the Web bug this week.
Rather, WebTrends cookies are sometimes created when visiting other WebTrends clients. Smith said his analysis of network traffic shows such preexisting cookies have then been used when visiting the White House site."
Hmmm... Seems they were using web bugs, cookies/etc to track "something". Now, THEY'RE being investigated.
Just the other day, in my:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=172431&cid=14
I commented that it's not just the CIA and other spook shops that track and do things, but I hadn't considered a rogue contractor doing things on its own. Then again, this could be yet another smokescreen to make "contractors" look worse than the government and deflect public attention.
Wow! Just under 45 hours 'til the end of the year; I wonder what OTHER stories we'll see before the fireworks light up...
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This may be redundant, but has anyone considered that (in the vein of "renditions") cookies could be deployed to and from servers and sites NOT based on Continental US soil?
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I think what is really going on here is the story is a red herring, a smoke screen. The real deal is probably something like this: You visit any sites that are owned or controlled by the various cognizant agencies; their related, tributary or ancillary sites then aggregate the disparate cookies and build a picture.
Really, Carnivore, Echelon, Echevore, Carnilon or whatever the hell they first two morphed into are not just sitting around sifting legally-obtained data. If they deliberately route your packets out of the US then scan and sift or just parse for later evaluation the data overseas then, THAT could be a far more attractive tool or technique for the black ops agencies.
Probably not much the ACLU or others could say about it. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the sluggishness from my own ISP is related to massive sifting and churning through data coming into and leaving San Francisco.
But, even if "the bad guys" surf from Afghanistan with one laptop and it receives cookies, why should they care? Rag-tag asymmetrical fighters or not, they've got **just** enough funds to toss a laptop after one use. Why be dumb (and, many of them are not dumb, but are pretty careless) and reuse a trackable, discardable device? They can go to a flea market, 2nd hand store or other place and pick them up like hammers and screwdrivers. Except here, as long as they use cash, they're blowing wind across the breadcrumbs, obfuscating or confusing the data trail.
Sheesh, just think as if you're writing a suspense thriller that HAS to enthrall or engage a perceptive, discerning audience. Think Perry Mason or something back in da day when shows were crisp and tight, and had less of the ratings-sweeps bullshit formulaic stuff in them.
The solution: Fix the screwed up foreign policies; stay out of others' business; do a little check-book diplomacy; bust a cap in the ass of companies that try too much "expand or die" in countries that only fester in hate and resentment; let the "target" countries see their mouthpieces die of natural causes and let the remaining, anxious, envious kids who grow up make the decisions to join the world market; stop FORCING foreigners to "do it our way or da highway". Nooo, I guess that would take the fun and game out of making and selling weaps; would steal or abort missions from intramural gamesmen looking for an existence-justifying/trooper-hardening/skills-hon
Just some random thoughts...
Can we say "fear factor"? It's not just about "frying the trooper"; it's also about trying to weld their suit shut or short the damn thing out so it's a useless boondoggle of a project. If the public perceives this as a waste, and if the troops fear it until there are live, believable demos (and each trooper in doubt undergoes and survives a "test") , then maybe we won't waste money on this.
And, yes, I know there would be ground or isolation points to protect personnel. But, given enough metallic dust, arcing and sparking in the air, frozen up or malfunctioning equipment... heck, the troopers will have to abandon their weight-hauling equipment. But, the grounds and fault isolation are only good if the system integrity is NOT degraded. Just a small, cheap sabot with discharging pellets meant NOT to kill, but to help circulate electrical discharge will scare the living shit suit-wearing hombres. Hit the leg, the tail, the "shoulder"... any part where there's wiring harness or circuitry and soon the faults will increase rapidly. It's not even necessary to destroy the suit-- just compromise it with head-high fragging. They'll malfunction, become distrusted, become erratic, and then discarded or cannibalized for parts until the campaign is pointless and the gear has to be destroyed in-situ to keep "'da enemy" from using it later on like so much other discarded stuff.
The big trick would be corralling or herding them. In urban warfare, these "mech warriors" could probably face pure hell-- as long as the US doesn't have a jump on the "intel" from the sky. That, though, is why the US' "unfair advantage" will just make the defensive side dig in even harder. Recall Vietnam. AR-15, M-16, M-14, Claymores, LVTP-7's, UH-1D's AH-1, OV-10, and more, and though 2 million Vietnamese in the north and south died, and only some "50,000" US died (give or take, depending if you go back to '58, and if you can dig out the clandestine ops casualties numbers...), the US STILL had to "withdraw" to a "better vantage point", which ended up being political in so many ways
No, you don't need to dissolve the mechwarrior in his/her suit. Just create so much FEAR that reluctance and hesitance and disarray will buy the enemy some time. NOOOOO one country deserves nor has the right to be so preeminent over another that the one assaulted has to resort to "dirty" or "asymmetrical" warfare just to stay alive on their own soil. When things get lopsided, balance MUST be restored. Like, water, electricity...
Irrationality and power projection have NO place in today's world.
Well, at LEAST these vehicle crashes won't make for fatalities... I HOPE!
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Payback can be a BITCH!
Remember the US so fiendishly dropping metallic strips over powerplants in a few countries to disrupt their electrics?
Well, were IIII on the defensive and saw a "mechanized" force of wretched (pick your favorite hated nation) of infiltrators, I'd welcome them with electric eels. Air-droppped. See how fast a trooper can shed THAT metallic skin.
They better rethink this if the units are touted for allowing high-weight transport at decent speeds but are conductive. WON'T be good for moral if some super-flash or flame-throwing goo gets all over them. Even worse if they can't check the terrain for my acid bath pits. Fall into one and you're not coming out in solid form.
Even better, set up Claymore-Taser-like barriers. Who needs mines when ClayZers (Hey, I coined first usaged) will fry the trooper AND his friggin' fragged exo-scream-atorium?!
Yeh, where there's a WAY, there's a WILL, said a Marine I used to answer to.
step up to the command line and
finger Mary, finger the GIMP, then grep the GIMP and pipe the GIMP for Mary.
Tell them to touch Mary if she doesn't exist, then grep and pipe Mary for her files.
I guess a poke here and there can still be done...
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