Why not just budget $10 trillion on telekenesys training and just move those screws with their brains or will power. Maybe the Church of Cosmology or Cosmetology can help?
won't that suit interfere with the "sexperiments" sometimes carried out?
The helmet cannot be Space Balls big or they might smash them together at that moment of truth...
In the (near-vacuum) of space (pretty much) no one can hear you scream (unless your microphone is on or you scream your last gasping breath against their naked ear...), but maybe they can feel your thing...
Minimal... anti-script image...
Yeh, minimalist space suit... Explore space in your birthday suit and it might become your deathday suit.
Hmmm, I somehow thing that's what happens when cooing cocoon politicians become presidents... and, since secretes is my image word, maybe some of their secretions need to be secreted away...
I may be mistaken, but I find it lamentable that ms has/had chosen to make it impossible for users (well, at least of corporate set-up boxes) to delete their history, cache, and cookies.
So, in workplaces where most employees leave for lunch, whether or not a machine is locked at the keyboard is pointless if a thief has access to steal the machine.
Internally, one only need distract an employee, peruse their cache, then walk away.
I suppose employees could set the browser to delete cookies and clear the cache after x amount of time, but (proxy) loggers will have gotten then information before an employee can purge it-- assuming the IT department is "on the ball".
Maybe this serves to warn employees to suffer and simply try not to surf for almost ANYthing from work. Why? Well, why let your employer daily glimpse into your personal life? You might be entrepreneurial, and your before-work, lunchtime, and after-hours habits will reveal your interests.
Also, lock your keyboard so no one can use your machine to surf questionable sites and implicate you intentionally or carelessly in non-blocked but company-disliked sites. It's happened to others, and can happen to you...
I used to use my root account to lock my user account's/home/myusername/.kde/share/http/
path so the even ***I*** could not edit the cookie folder on a whim. That is, unless I logged into root via the console. After a while, the system seemed to degrade, or maybe it was only that user account. I'd actually gotten accustomed to really shitty page refreshes, site visits and so on.
But, I like to believe I have a malevolent opposition to most cookies. Now, I use Konqueror AND Firestarter blocking lists to keep cookies at bay. I also tend, now, to got to the/var/tmp/kdecache-username/http folder and selectively delete cookies.
Recently, I read about Web Beacons and then realized I'd used to be concerned about them, but got sloppy or lazy. It seems that web beacons are 1x1 pixels/buttons that alert a sender of Http traffic/e-mail that a page or a message was viewed. Purportedly, it doesn't do anything else, but to me, a "beacon" can beacon to another beacon, and eventually, a crude form of tracker or even a keystroker could be in play.
Am I paranoid? I don't think so. But, I still delete cookies, wholesale by lopping off the/http folder and issuing makedir http. KDE (I suppose it's KDE) recreates the single-letter folders, less w and a few others as they are needed. I look for and purge x10 stuff, doubleclick bullshit, and more.
The problem I see, by us talking openly about this is that assholes in some cartel or lobbyist group will try to make it illegal to tamper with cookies since some laws require some businesses to "Know Thy Customer", or between mshaft, marketers, and others, we'll all be collectively screened and denied access to sites that actually need the ad revenues.
Well, I don't mind some sites sending me a cookie. I just delete the bitch before I move on to another site. It's not just that you need to delete the cookies when closing the browser, or making sure the settings are set for "Make cookies session cookies". No, one cookie could be a beacon or bot or crawler, and by the time you shut down the browser, the b, b, or c has already done its job of relaying your movements, queries, and so on.
If the bot-fiends pull a fast one and secret the cookies and bots and beacons and crawlers to places too difficult to cleans, then we need the Open Source and even Closed Source/proprietary browsers to log each and every action the browser and the subsystems calls sent so the user can malevolently hunt down and KILL those bbbcc's before moving on to another site or page within a site.
I am sick and TIRED of hearing apologists or site admins say "We need the cookie to make sure you are who you claim to be, and to make sure you get the pages you asked for." Well, goddammit, set up session numerics that are in the BROWSER URL line, but don't sequester or secret them to my machine in some encrypted manner that obfuscates what you're UP TO. The only encrypted cookies I expect are from BANKS or merchants with whom I make a transaction or purchase. Any OTHER cookies are my own damn fault if I don't delete during or after a session. If someone steals my machine, or keystrokes it, they'll find out anyway if I don't delete the browser history, the/var/tmp/, the user account and more.
I guess the next step will be for us all to have Read Only surfing machines to force cookies back where they (or almost all of them) belong: on the SITE SERVER, not the visiting client.
If your site is good enough, people will come back again and again, until something else dominates their attention, which will almost ALWAYS be the case, with the exception of, say, the major portals of news and email.
Oh, yeh, I realize that encrypted cookies might reduce the in-transit risk posed by MITM attacks, but many sites don't rise to the level of secrecy that demands encrypted cookies.
NO alcohol. I haven't touched a drop in maybe two weeks. Could be that Ampex Stereo Head Cleaner I swallowed around the age of 3 or so:
Xylene Aerosol Detergent Carbon Tetrachloride.
about 4 ounces worth, I think...
And lived...
Now THAT is cellular manipulation at work. That combined with falling on my head while having my diaper changed. And, probably having ADD, ATD, and a whole soup of other acronyms caused by chemicalized, industrialized, and rampantly ass-kicker of a nation...
Don't riot while erect: the pooled blood will increase males' risk of receiving split-penis soup.
Seriously, I think all this weaponry R&D, burning up cash that could feed hungry and shelter homeless the world over, is a bunch of bad karma waiting to roost. And that rooster will be cock'n-our-doodlin-due.
Just because we can MAKE the shit doesn't mean we should test, deploy and sell the shit.
Amazing, a so-called enlightened planet, full of murderous, maniacal marauders who enhance lethality rather than remove the fundamental root causes:
-- mass, organized religion, -- abuse of the name of God (the absentee landlord he/she/it is) -- greed, -- politics, -- ambivalence, -- wealthy-vs-no-wealthy -- territorialism -- manifest destiny
and on and on and on
It's like a song I heard almost 20 years ago:
"I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours, but I think that God's got a sick sense of humor, and when I die, I expect to find him laughing..."
How many thousands of years does "God' need to watch this shit go on? We're acting like a bunch of defects, so why not just come on down/up/over here and "get it over with"? Hit the recycle button on our asses. No, wait, recycle the assholes on several/most continents, across all of time, directly responsible for the past thousands of years of abuse of humanity....
Nah, I guess that would not be so much fun as compared to watching this bucket careen around perilous cliffs but somehow not skidding over the edge... Amazing!
Barium (that's all there is left to do after the fallen don't disperse)
Pb LED (Dead as Lead LED(D) (Light Emitting Dead and Dying)
Americium (to add insult to injury..)
And a little bit of rubarb an cilantro...
At Ken-tuh-kee-Fryed-Cheekohn- Wee-due-CHEEKOHN ryte.
Talk about creating Mutts out of people, ray-gun style. Gene-Mutts (pron: jinnuh-muttz) in the makin.
But, in the Fed case, it'll be:
Laser Fried Citizens/Civilians/Cuckoo-Chickenshits will yield to:
LFC, (or, LFC4, mil-std 14334-324-J2Z-3344) strictly for marketing purposes, mind you... then friendly governments will allow the importation of LFC on every street corner.
BTW, don't eat Church's and KFC after surviving the flu. You'll be cuckoo, and NOT flying over any nest...I once ate that (tasty but) greasy shit after craving it after recovering a flu, and I almost relapsed into Phlegm-Flu-2)
Lardy, Lardy... Operate tis sucker on da freeway and you'll have "Greezed Lightnin'".
But, your's better be omni-directional or at least face aft so you can eliminate witnesses. You don't have to worry 'bout "tyin' up loose eeyuns", because you'll sear those ends together.
With all the oozing on the road, you'll have a lot of SEERIOUS, SEROUS (and if the radio is on) SIRIUS micro-wave action going on...
Don't let this shit get aloose. He's probably been ITCHIN for decades to have a full-fledged jamboree (or, jam-puree) with the Blue Star Ointment gun a la Halo/Unreal Tournament. I wonder if that thing shoots red, white and blue, or just RoyGBiv...
Anyone remember the Blue Star Ointment commercial that aired (or still airs) in Tejas? I recall it as the fastest commercials I've ever seen on TV. It goes like this, at 1960's product pitch:
"Blue Start Ointment. Stops Ringworm. Tether. Psoriasis. Stops Itching FAST! Blue Star Ointment."
That damned commercial STILL is stuck in my head, and I only saw it about 10-years while growing up.
"How wide-focus is this?"
Well, let's see... beeug enough for one HAYUHL of a fokus grupe.
"Could some sort of protection be made against this?"
Mirrors? Gladiator Shields? Unfurlable, reflective shields? Quick, hide yours lest the govt arrest your for an unlawful assembly you were ABOUT to commit...
"So Iraq has become the population-control guinea pig."
Well, if the Iraqis and the rest of the world are smart, they better start racking and wracking their brains and globally gang up against mono-nation tyranny... or whatever a good phrase would be...
If we as a nation keep this shit up, we'll be well on our way to be (as my mom used to warn us when we as kids got uppity or cranky) "cruisin' for a bruisin'"...
"Wait, isn't that terrorism? Using this thing could increase terrorism? Fucking wonderful."
Nah... See, when THEY fuck WITH or (fuck BACK with) the US, it's terrorism. When the US FUCKS with people, it's "'perserhvin' arh' hway uv lyfe', to look out for the cheerin', and the sheep, an' an' an' spredin' Dimockeracy to the peepholes of di' werld..."
Fry enough insurrectin' Tex-suns, and they'll quickly go from being the Lone Star State to the Bone-Tar State
Now, this is some SERE-EE-YOUS SHIT! Talk about literally "thinkin' outside the box", crispy critters microwaved on the sidewalk. At least if they contained them to a box, the muni street cleaners will use less water washing away guts and eyeballs.
Maybe THIS is the RETIN-AXE Kirk was allergic to. Riot Control Phasic-Lasic. The benefit the government gets is that if your EYE fails in some Eye-Denti-Fier, it could mean you escaped an unlawful assembly...
As for "Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust", a little tale...
Sort of borrowing from "Return of the Living Dead", modified for the National Guard on Anti-Riot Duty...
Senator: We can't have any witnesses...
Colonel: Don't worry, Senator. Mah boys adjusted the ryostat on the gizmat. All those bleedin' hear liberals will be toast! All that will be left is a pile of bleeding, smoking hearts.
Senator: Well, why is THAT?
Colonel: 'Cuz the heart is just one big TOUGH MUSCLE.
Senator: No, Colonel, we can't have the hearts laying around...
Colonel: Well, we'll TURN UP the rhee-oh-stat s'more and all there'll be is a wafting pile of ashes.
Senator: Colonel, you don't understand the gravity of the situation... We can't even have the ASHES lying around...
Colonel: No worry, Senator. We'll just keep CRANKIN' it up higher an BURN up the ASHES, too.
Really, now, the right to assemble FREELY is yielding to the possibility of DIS-assembling FREELY, if some "what does this dial do?" troopers make some hasty field adjustment to their new star-sap-angled microwave muskets. Eradicating homegrown ingrates from Musket to Busket, one at a time..." (Borrowed "busket" from "Suicide Kings")
I can just hear some new Marine jokes:
General: Now, Capn', without your usual flare and florid wisecracks, how'd you disperse that crowd so effectively?
Captain: Well, sir, we Pursed 'em then we burst them. We cooked their asses to Kingdom Come, but when Gawd comes to sort 'em out... Well sir, that's Judgement for another day, SIR!
This Evan Brown suffered under the arcane, lame-ass intellectual property laws of Texas. California has some similar, and virtually ALL of them are written or perpetuated by a sleazy combination of some attorneys and some judges at the behest of high-tech.
I worked for a mortgage company for about 11 months before we got gobbled up and laid off by a mega-corp out of La Jolla. But prior to the merger/acquisition, the original counsel for the company that hired me had some boilerplate mumbo jumbo that spelt doom in some cases for me. See, they were using Open Source technology and building proprietary products, and I told them they in no way shape or form could develop financial stuff, wrap it up in legalese and then claim that NO one can use it, particularly when the Linux devs there were using their own brains in conjunction with loads of examples from school and from a number of "How-To..." books written to teach the growing or experienced developer. I told the counsel that there is NO way the company can legally lay claim to the work of authors who say THIS IS MY IDEA AND YOU CAN USE IT... and then abuse that author's generosity.
Needless to say, I was out of steady work for over 2.5 years and of course I signed the effing NDA/Disclosure Agreement, 'cause I needed a paycheck.
The other problem I had was that even though I worked in both halves of the operation (part mortgage, part software development, where I did data entry, IT desktop support, report writing, charting and occasional data sanitation based on immediate dev hacks that needed user feedback...), I immediately saw that my database and ad-hoc report-writing skills were going to be imperilled.
See, I once purchased a home, bought books about buyers mistakes, strategies, etc, and and I've seen the various real estate forms. I bought my first home without a lawyer or agent. That stuff intrigued me, so I decided one day I'd database forms and rates and such, and it so happened to be what the employer was doing. But, it's not rocket science. That didn't really bother them. They didn't want me doing stuff related to the rate shop engine. I told them I was for over a year doing something with Lotus Approach, a missile launch/intercept interface. It, to me, was a database way (vs algorithm/math degree/gee-whiz way) of applying the various limits of speed, range/distance, altitude of the launched missile vs the target position then, now and projected. I wanted to scare them into knowing that what they're (were, now, since the devs were all fired or laid off) doing is not new to the mortgage industry, and that any sophisticate database or query work requires math or a slew of searchable data from which inferences can be made or deduced.
Boy, they didn't like that, but they didn't fire me...
Goddam california labor law.. Giveth then taketh away from the law-illiterate but application-capable doe-in-the-headlights employee. All in the name of protecting (mostly) big business...
I have an idea: Maybe Dvorak is trolling and if so, he is trolling for a reason. This could be a trial balloon for the special interest groups out to find out just how big a battle there will be if they try to strike down as illegal, illegitimate and without worthy foundation or precedent anything resembling Creative Commons.
Dvorak may himself be happy with current copyright law as it stands, but I worry about myself or others whose current or eventual creations get snapped up by mega-corporations, tycoons, elitists and other wealthy types who think that to shut down someone or raise the price of art they just need buy the last few legitimate copies and then keep them in exclusivist galleries or the like.
Well, I am not inclined to let my works escape my grasp-- alive or dead. I intend to wield heavy control over my creations -- well beyond Congress or some pea-brained official or some selfish elitist-- even from the grave.
See, with Creative Commons, I feel that I can just foist pieces of my works into the Public Domain and give it a super-copyright by making sure that if it is properly and INSTANTLY in public domain, no one individual can snap up and preclude my work from being used fairly by ALL who abide by some riders that I can write without needing a lawyer.
In fact, if more high school and college students would pay attention to rules of English (or their own native language if it is in what their laws are written) and DEMAND that their public officials remove the bullshit legalese and other clubby/cottage-industry-protecting mumbo-jumbo there is in contracts and just use language that is acceptable to and understood by the common denominator in the masses (not jurists and court officials and the various lobbyists...), then maybe, just maybe, countries (particularly the US, but increasingly so the "developing world") would make it illegal to produce more lawyers than are good for society.
Getting back on track... If I decide my works (writings, drawings, art, scribbles, doodles and such other than actual software which might be better served by directly GPL'ing or GNU'ing them) are to never fall into the hands of publication bureaus, printers and such who'd try to make sure to profit while paying me the absolute minimum they can get away with-- and drag me over the coals over the years, then that is my right. If I decide that Creative Commons is good for me, despite what Dvorak and others might feel, then I have the final word, the right, and the resolve to beat them back by any means (well, let's try to stay within the framework of the law, unless my utter destruction is at hand or in their hands directly, in which case remaining inside the framework of the law is as dangerous as asking a burglar to turn around so you can fell him while he's facing you...) necessary to preserve not only MY right, but to make sure the "rights of individuals" trumps the desires and machinations of the greedy.
Creative Commons **helps** me achieve a little bit more than the standard (or lawyer-enhanced) copyright laws or contracts might. I can immediately place works into the Public Domain to preemptively strike at and obstruct the otherwise exploitative and ruthless segments of the publishing world which has a greater sifting and shaking machine than the average person can even or ever hope to cope with.
Dvorak, you go right ahead and rely upon Copyright Law as it is. Maybe YOU are content to let the 75-year bit work for you. Then, maybe you'll turn in your grave if by accident one of your children or relatives mistakenly turns over works which rake in a bounty for then one who manipulates them out of the works. By doctoring my works with "Creative Commons, Instant and Irrevocable Immersion Into Public Domain All My Works I Declare to be Original and With the Exception of Well-Known/Provable Works Having Copyright/Ownership Established" (or, something to that effect), you can possibly avoid some BS in probabe, I can make sure your (I hope) that employers, elitists, and (othe
Oops. Then I guess you'll have to "take up the rear", or in USN Boatswain's UNREP parlance.... "up behind"...
I guess I didn't ummm, analyze my "half-ass" thoughts on that one...
I that case, though, it sucks to be the point man (tends to get it between the eyes) or the man taking up the rear (takes in in equally crippling places...).
"Imagine for a minute that you are a solder driving a wheeled tanker hauling 5000 gallons of diesel when an RPG strikes the tank. You're either dead or badly burned."
Would that solder be hot or unplugged? Either way, solder or soldier, either will be badly burned.
One thing they can try with the truck, since DARPA is in the giving mood, is to divided the tanker into modules that have a safety factor calculated to eject the segment that is just about to be hit by the RPG, this way, the contain can be ejected to the side, hopefully away from the convoy, and the RPG just slams into dirt and hits no module in the tanker.
But, that assumes there will be longer tanker trailers to allow another margin of safety to let the missile pass without scraping any tanks outside the "window".
But, less expensive might be some tethered ROV that flank the convoy, or act as aerial point-men, seeking out heat signatures of shooters. But, then there is a chance the shooters will see the RPV and shoot it down before it registers signatures (that depends on the data processing rate of the seeker gadgetry, and whether or not nested or accompanying or networked RPVs can receive hand-off data before the sighting/transmitting RPV is knocked down.
What doesn't seem to be apparent to some is that HP employs some 9,000 in the SF Bay Area.
TFA, by Teresa Poletti, Mercury News July 15,2005|Friday:
"On Thursday, Cindy Shaw, an analyst at Moore & Cabot, issued a report citing a Silicon Valley insider who said HP may announce a management reorganization as early as Monday that could include widely expected layoffs. Shaw's report was the first to predict job cuts could be as high as 25,000. HP employs 9,000 in the Bay Area and 150,000 people worldwide....
But analysts believe Hurd needs to cut more for the company to be competitive."
Well, imagine what could happen to the Silicon Valley real estate market if, say, 5,000 or 2,000, or even 500 of those homes, homes which could be county-value-assed at over $450,000 and and FMV/market-appraisable at $650,000 or higher suddenly go on the market in the next 4 months when the style-of-living wipes out much of the severance checks or goes to buying up 100 lottery tickets per week, filling up the Porshes that end up being towed after the BMW and the high-and-dry trailer-lodged boat.
People will be scrambling to sell them before school resumes for many of the students, hoping to appease the buyers who may be parents. Right now, in San Jose, HUNDREDS of townhomes and condos are under construction, building going on as if the bubble is still here. If other large employers based here follow HP's move (by choice or necessity), I wouldn't be surprised to see many more existing homes in the Valley to compete with unfinished residential units.
How many of us on/. can even afford the median value home here?
Worse, this layoff could have silent, delayed but eventually painful trickle-down repercussions:
-Vendors' orders owed to HP not fulfilled -Vendors' orders owed BY HP not fulfilled -Vendors have to lay off due to payments delays -OEMs and others cancel orders due to web of other orders breaking down -County/state payroll taxes dropping due to laid off workers -Unemployment counts going up
(Watch for the dry dipsticks in DC fail to count the HP Layoffs, or to report them as a tiny but negligible "blip" on the radar, as if the humans are "discountable"...)
And, we've been told "We're at the bottom of the 'V', and we're going to pull up hard and fast..."
Sure, I've never seen a rollercoaster that slammed into a vertex without shattering its passengers or without jumping the tracks and scaring the hell out of the patrons in the line waiting for that ride...
They *could* have described the bottom as a "mild, shallow, but long 'V' that we have to traverse for some time, but we'll come out of it in OK shape...".
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Why not just budget $10 trillion on telekenesys training and just move those screws with their brains or will power. Maybe the Church of Cosmology or Cosmetology can help?
Bureaus and Drawers
won't that suit interfere with the "sexperiments" sometimes carried out?
The helmet cannot be Space Balls big or they might smash them together at that moment of truth...
In the (near-vacuum) of space (pretty much) no one can hear you scream (unless your microphone is on or you scream your last gasping breath against their naked ear...), but maybe they can feel your thing...
Minimal... anti-script image...
Yeh, minimalist space suit... Explore space in your birthday suit and it might become your deathday suit.
HP needs *LINUX* to survive, or does HP *NEED* Linux for *HP* to survive?
How funny... "buddies is my anti-script image word...
Hmmm, I somehow thing that's what happens when cooing cocoon politicians become presidents... and, since secretes is my image word, maybe some of their secretions need to be secreted away...
Butterflies are specious...
... I guess dictionary word attacks won't work on anti-script word images...)
(Impudent
Maybe software-based image grabbers/readers will defeat these protections, morphing into an allusive, specious attack...
Not to be blunt or insensitive, but have you a sense of humour?
Try, if you haven't, seeing "Return of the Living Dead" and some of the missing pieces will fall into place.
And, if you haven't yet, catch up on some wry/weird jarhead jargon and singalongs...
I may be mistaken, but I find it lamentable that ms has/had chosen to make it impossible for users (well, at least of corporate set-up boxes) to delete their history, cache, and cookies.
So, in workplaces where most employees leave for lunch, whether or not a machine is locked at the keyboard is pointless if a thief has access to steal the machine.
Internally, one only need distract an employee, peruse their cache, then walk away.
I suppose employees could set the browser to delete cookies and clear the cache after x amount of time, but (proxy) loggers will have gotten then information before an employee can purge it-- assuming the IT department is "on the ball".
Maybe this serves to warn employees to suffer and simply try not to surf for almost ANYthing from work. Why? Well, why let your employer daily glimpse into your personal life? You might be entrepreneurial, and your before-work, lunchtime, and after-hours habits will reveal your interests.
Also, lock your keyboard so no one can use your machine to surf questionable sites and implicate you intentionally or carelessly in non-blocked but company-disliked sites. It's happened to others, and can happen to you...
I used to use my root account to lock my user account's /home/myusername/.kde/share/http/
/var/tmp/kdecache-username/http folder and selectively delete cookies.
/http folder and issuing makedir http. KDE (I suppose it's KDE) recreates the single-letter folders, less w and a few others as they are needed. I look for and purge x10 stuff, doubleclick bullshit, and more.
/var/tmp/, the user account and more.
path so the even ***I*** could not edit the cookie folder on a whim. That is, unless I logged into root via the console. After a while, the system seemed to degrade, or maybe it was only that user account. I'd actually gotten accustomed to really shitty page refreshes, site visits and so on.
But, I like to believe I have a malevolent opposition to most cookies. Now, I use Konqueror AND Firestarter blocking lists to keep cookies at bay. I also tend, now, to got to the
Recently, I read about Web Beacons and then realized I'd used to be concerned about them, but got sloppy or lazy. It seems that web beacons are 1x1 pixels/buttons that alert a sender of Http traffic/e-mail that a page or a message was viewed. Purportedly, it doesn't do anything else, but to me, a "beacon" can beacon to another beacon, and eventually, a crude form of tracker or even a keystroker could be in play.
Am I paranoid? I don't think so. But, I still delete cookies, wholesale by lopping off the
The problem I see, by us talking openly about this is that assholes in some cartel or lobbyist group will try to make it illegal to tamper with cookies since some laws require some businesses to "Know Thy Customer", or between mshaft, marketers, and others, we'll all be collectively screened and denied access to sites that actually need the ad revenues.
Well, I don't mind some sites sending me a cookie. I just delete the bitch before I move on to another site. It's not just that you need to delete the cookies when closing the browser, or making sure the settings are set for "Make cookies session cookies". No, one cookie could be a beacon or bot or crawler, and by the time you shut down the browser, the b, b, or c has already done its job of relaying your movements, queries, and so on.
If the bot-fiends pull a fast one and secret the cookies and bots and beacons and crawlers to places too difficult to cleans, then we need the Open Source and even Closed Source/proprietary browsers to log each and every action the browser and the subsystems calls sent so the user can malevolently hunt down and KILL those bbbcc's before moving on to another site or page within a site.
I am sick and TIRED of hearing apologists or site admins say "We need the cookie to make sure you are who you claim to be, and to make sure you get the pages you asked for." Well, goddammit, set up session numerics that are in the BROWSER URL line, but don't sequester or secret them to my machine in some encrypted manner that obfuscates what you're UP TO. The only encrypted cookies I expect are from BANKS or merchants with whom I make a transaction or purchase. Any OTHER cookies are my own damn fault if I don't delete during or after a session. If someone steals my machine, or keystrokes it, they'll find out anyway if I don't delete the browser history, the
I guess the next step will be for us all to have Read Only surfing machines to force cookies back where they (or almost all of them) belong: on the SITE SERVER, not the visiting client.
If your site is good enough, people will come back again and again, until something else dominates their attention, which will almost ALWAYS be the case, with the exception of, say, the major portals of news and email.
Oh, yeh, I realize that encrypted cookies might reduce the in-transit risk posed by MITM attacks, but many sites don't rise to the level of secrecy that demands encrypted cookies.
Wow, another dictionary word anti-script image.
NO alcohol. I haven't touched a drop in maybe two weeks.
Could be that Ampex Stereo Head Cleaner I swallowed around the age of 3 or so:
Xylene
Aerosol Detergent
Carbon Tetrachloride.
about 4 ounces worth, I think...
And lived...
Now THAT is cellular manipulation at work. That combined with falling on my head while having my diaper changed. And, probably having ADD, ATD, and a whole soup of other acronyms caused by chemicalized, industrialized, and rampantly ass-kicker of a nation...
Moral of this story?
Don't riot while erect: the pooled blood will increase males' risk of receiving split-penis soup.
Seriously, I think all this weaponry R&D, burning up cash that could feed hungry and shelter homeless the world over, is a bunch of bad karma waiting to roost. And that rooster will be cock'n-our-doodlin-due.
Just because we can MAKE the shit doesn't mean we should test, deploy and sell the shit.
Amazing, a so-called enlightened planet, full of murderous, maniacal marauders who enhance lethality rather than remove the fundamental root causes:
-- mass, organized religion,
-- abuse of the name of God (the absentee landlord he/she/it is)
-- greed,
-- politics,
-- ambivalence,
-- wealthy-vs-no-wealthy
-- territorialism
-- manifest destiny
and on and on and on
It's like a song I heard almost 20 years ago:
"I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours, but I think that God's got a sick sense of humor, and when I die, I expect to find him laughing..."
How many thousands of years does "God' need to watch this shit go on? We're acting like a bunch of defects, so why not just come on down/up/over here and "get it over with"? Hit the recycle button on our asses. No, wait, recycle the assholes on several/most continents, across all of time, directly responsible for the past thousands of years of abuse of humanity....
Nah, I guess that would not be so much fun as compared to watching this bucket careen around perilous cliffs but somehow not skidding over the edge... Amazing!
Seekrekt spices and erbs...
Let's see, argon, (you are gone...)
Selenium (you get see-linder and slinder)
Carbon (carbonacious crispy critters)
C3PO (carbonacious crispy critters PISSED OFF)
Hafnium (your life expectancy is less than half)
Barium (that's all there is left to do after the fallen don't disperse)
Pb LED (Dead as Lead LED(D) (Light Emitting Dead and Dying)
Americium (to add insult to injury..)
And a little bit of rubarb an cilantro...
At Ken-tuh-kee-Fryed-Cheekohn- Wee-due-CHEEKOHN ryte.
Talk about creating Mutts out of people, ray-gun style. Gene-Mutts (pron: jinnuh-muttz) in the makin.
But, in the Fed case, it'll be:
Laser Fried Citizens/Civilians/Cuckoo-Chickenshits will yield to:
LFC, (or, LFC4, mil-std 14334-324-J2Z-3344) strictly for marketing purposes, mind you... then friendly governments will allow the importation of LFC on every street corner.
BTW, don't eat Church's and KFC after surviving the flu. You'll be cuckoo, and NOT flying over any nest...I once ate that (tasty but) greasy shit after craving it after recovering a flu, and I almost relapsed into Phlegm-Flu-2)
Lardy, Lardy... Operate tis sucker on da freeway and you'll have "Greezed Lightnin'".
But, your's better be omni-directional or at least face aft so you can eliminate witnesses. You don't have to worry 'bout "tyin' up loose eeyuns", because you'll sear those ends together.
With all the oozing on the road, you'll have a lot of SEERIOUS, SEROUS (and if the radio is on) SIRIUS micro-wave action going on...
Dih-mocker-assy is hard at werk...
Don't let this shit get aloose. He's probably been ITCHIN for decades to have a full-fledged jamboree (or, jam-puree) with the Blue Star Ointment gun a la Halo/Unreal Tournament. I wonder if that thing shoots red, white and blue, or just RoyGBiv...
Anyone remember the Blue Star Ointment commercial that aired (or still airs) in Tejas? I recall it as the fastest commercials I've ever seen on TV. It goes like this, at 1960's product pitch:
"Blue Start Ointment. Stops Ringworm. Tether. Psoriasis. Stops Itching FAST! Blue Star Ointment."
That damned commercial STILL is stuck in my head, and I only saw it about 10-years while growing up.
"How wide-focus is this?"
Well, let's see... beeug enough for one HAYUHL of a fokus grupe.
"Could some sort of protection be made against this?"
Mirrors? Gladiator Shields? Unfurlable, reflective shields? Quick, hide yours lest the govt arrest your for an unlawful assembly you were ABOUT to commit...
"So Iraq has become the population-control guinea pig."
Well, if the Iraqis and the rest of the world are smart, they better start racking and wracking their brains and globally gang up against mono-nation tyranny... or whatever a good phrase would be...
If we as a nation keep this shit up, we'll be well on our way to be (as my mom used to warn us when we as kids got uppity or cranky) "cruisin' for a bruisin'"...
"Wait, isn't that terrorism? Using this thing could increase terrorism? Fucking wonderful."
Nah... See, when THEY fuck WITH or (fuck BACK with) the US, it's terrorism. When the US FUCKS with people, it's "'perserhvin' arh' hway uv lyfe', to look out for the cheerin', and the sheep, an' an' an' spredin' Dimockeracy to the peepholes of di' werld..."
Fry enough insurrectin' Tex-suns, and they'll
quickly go from being the Lone Star State to the Bone-Tar State
(Oh shit, I'm crusin' for a brusin'...)
They better quickly get UNtrapped... cuz this aint the rapture they had in mind...
Now, this is some SERE-EE-YOUS SHIT! Talk about literally "thinkin' outside the box", crispy critters microwaved on the sidewalk. At least if they contained them to a box, the muni street cleaners will use less water washing away guts and eyeballs.
Maybe THIS is the RETIN-AXE Kirk was allergic to. Riot Control Phasic-Lasic. The benefit the government gets is that if your EYE fails in some Eye-Denti-Fier, it could mean you escaped an unlawful assembly...
As for "Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust", a little tale...
Sort of borrowing from "Return of the Living Dead", modified for the National Guard on Anti-Riot Duty...
Senator: We can't have any witnesses...
Colonel: Don't worry, Senator. Mah boys adjusted the ryostat on the gizmat. All those bleedin' hear liberals will be toast! All that will be left is a pile of bleeding, smoking hearts.
Senator: Well, why is THAT?
Colonel: 'Cuz the heart is just one big TOUGH MUSCLE.
Senator: No, Colonel, we can't have the hearts laying around...
Colonel: Well, we'll TURN UP the rhee-oh-stat s'more and all there'll be is a wafting pile of ashes.
Senator: Colonel, you don't understand the gravity of the situation... We can't even have the ASHES lying around...
Colonel: No worry, Senator. We'll just keep CRANKIN' it up higher an BURN up the ASHES, too.
Really, now, the right to assemble FREELY is yielding to the possibility of DIS-assembling FREELY, if some "what does this dial do?" troopers make some hasty field adjustment to their new star-sap-angled microwave muskets. Eradicating homegrown ingrates from Musket to Busket, one at a time..." (Borrowed "busket" from "Suicide Kings")
I can just hear some new Marine jokes:
General: Now, Capn', without your usual flare and florid wisecracks, how'd you disperse that crowd so effectively?
Captain: Well, sir, we Pursed 'em then we burst them. We cooked their asses to Kingdom Come, but when Gawd comes to sort 'em out... Well sir, that's Judgement for another day, SIR!
I'll bet you make Frigidaire STOCK (stalk) rise on a hot day in Tejas...
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wow, an anti-script image that actually spells a word.. "BLADES"
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Dear Sirs/Ma'ams,
If your intriguing invention can Riverdance, I will buy 15.
If it can somersault, I will buy 20.
If it can RiverSault, I will buy:
25 for Riverdance and
15 for Bronski Beat, so they can "Hit that PERFEC, Hit that PERFEC, Hit that PERFEC BEAT BOY", and
4 to run circles, gyrate, and shake firesticks
Additionally, I would like you to program them for:
RiverBronskiSault mode but you must provide replacement shoes and upgrade their shock absorption.
Do the shoes come in silver only? Please don't send me the Model "T".
I have a Pergo floor. Do you offer Riverdance Damage Insurance?
Finally, can you program them to do:
"WHyyy-Emmm-seee-ayye" ("Y-M-C-A")?
Please respond withing 25,000,000 usec.
To flash her with your firmware, or do you want to upload your hardware into her software?
If her radius is "2" will your "D" be "2"...
THIS should be required reading for ALL programmers, especially the younger ones:
http://www.unixguru.com/
This Evan Brown suffered under the arcane, lame-ass intellectual property laws of Texas. California has some similar, and virtually ALL of them are written or perpetuated by a sleazy combination of some attorneys and some judges at the behest of high-tech.
I worked for a mortgage company for about 11 months before we got gobbled up and laid off by a mega-corp out of La Jolla. But prior to the merger/acquisition, the original counsel for the company that hired me had some boilerplate mumbo jumbo that spelt doom in some cases for me. See, they were using Open Source technology and building proprietary products, and I told them they in no way shape or form could develop financial stuff, wrap it up in legalese and then claim that NO one can use it, particularly when the Linux devs there were using their own brains in conjunction with loads of examples from school and from a number of "How-To..." books written to teach the growing or experienced developer. I told the counsel that there is NO way the company can legally lay claim to the work of authors who say THIS IS MY IDEA AND YOU CAN USE IT... and then abuse that author's generosity.
Needless to say, I was out of steady work for over 2.5 years and of course I signed the effing NDA/Disclosure Agreement, 'cause I needed a paycheck.
The other problem I had was that even though I worked in both halves of the operation (part mortgage, part software development, where I did data entry, IT desktop support, report writing, charting and occasional data sanitation based on immediate dev hacks that needed user feedback...), I immediately saw that my database and ad-hoc report-writing skills were going to be imperilled.
See, I once purchased a home, bought books about buyers mistakes, strategies, etc, and and I've seen the various real estate forms. I bought my first home without a lawyer or agent. That stuff intrigued me, so I decided one day I'd database forms and rates and such, and it so happened to be what the employer was doing. But, it's not rocket science. That didn't really bother them. They didn't want me doing stuff related to the rate shop engine. I told them I was for over a year doing something with Lotus Approach, a missile launch/intercept interface. It, to me, was a database way (vs algorithm/math degree/gee-whiz way) of applying the various limits of speed, range/distance, altitude of the launched missile vs the target position then, now and projected. I wanted to scare them into knowing that what they're (were, now, since the devs were all fired or laid off) doing is not new to the mortgage industry, and that any sophisticate database or query work requires math or a slew of searchable data from which inferences can be made or deduced.
Boy, they didn't like that, but they didn't fire me...
Goddam california labor law.. Giveth then taketh away from the law-illiterate but application-capable doe-in-the-headlights employee. All in the name of protecting (mostly) big business...
At least that's MY take on things.
I have an idea: Maybe Dvorak is trolling and if so, he is trolling for a reason. This could be a trial balloon for the special interest groups out to find out just how big a battle there will be if they try to strike down as illegal, illegitimate and without worthy foundation or precedent anything resembling Creative Commons.
Dvorak may himself be happy with current copyright law as it stands, but I worry about myself or others whose current or eventual creations get snapped up by mega-corporations, tycoons, elitists and other wealthy types who think that to shut down someone or raise the price of art they just need buy the last few legitimate copies and then keep them in exclusivist galleries or the like.
Well, I am not inclined to let my works escape my grasp-- alive or dead. I intend to wield heavy control over my creations -- well beyond Congress or some pea-brained official or some selfish elitist-- even from the grave.
See, with Creative Commons, I feel that I can just foist pieces of my works into the Public Domain and give it a super-copyright by making sure that if it is properly and INSTANTLY in public domain, no one individual can snap up and preclude my work from being used fairly by ALL who abide by some riders that I can write without needing a lawyer.
In fact, if more high school and college students would pay attention to rules of English (or their own native language if it is in what their laws are written) and DEMAND that their public officials remove the bullshit legalese and other clubby/cottage-industry-protecting mumbo-jumbo there is in contracts and just use language that is acceptable to and understood by the common denominator in the masses (not jurists and court officials and the various lobbyists...), then maybe, just maybe, countries (particularly the US, but increasingly so the "developing world") would make it illegal to produce more lawyers than are good for society.
Getting back on track... If I decide my works (writings, drawings, art, scribbles, doodles and such other than actual software which might be better served by directly GPL'ing or GNU'ing them) are to never fall into the hands of publication bureaus, printers and such who'd try to make sure to profit while paying me the absolute minimum they can get away with-- and drag me over the coals over the years, then that is my right. If I decide that Creative Commons is good for me, despite what Dvorak and others might feel, then I have the final word, the right, and the resolve to beat them back by any means (well, let's try to stay within the framework of the law, unless my utter destruction is at hand or in their hands directly, in which case remaining inside the framework of the law is as dangerous as asking a burglar to turn around so you can fell him while he's facing you...) necessary to preserve not only MY right, but to make sure the "rights of individuals" trumps the desires and machinations of the greedy.
Creative Commons **helps** me achieve a little bit more than the standard (or lawyer-enhanced) copyright laws or contracts might. I can immediately place works into the Public Domain to preemptively strike at and obstruct the otherwise exploitative and ruthless segments of the publishing world which has a greater sifting and shaking machine than the average person can even or ever hope to cope with.
Dvorak, you go right ahead and rely upon Copyright Law as it is. Maybe YOU are content to let the 75-year bit work for you. Then, maybe you'll turn in your grave if by accident one of your children or relatives mistakenly turns over works which rake in a bounty for then one who manipulates them out of the works. By doctoring my works with "Creative Commons, Instant and Irrevocable Immersion Into Public Domain All My Works I Declare to be Original and With the Exception of Well-Known/Provable Works Having Copyright/Ownership Established" (or, something to that effect), you can possibly avoid some BS in probabe, I can make sure your (I hope) that employers, elitists, and (othe
Oops. Then I guess you'll have to "take up the rear", or in USN Boatswain's UNREP parlance.... "up behind"...
I guess I didn't ummm, analyze my "half-ass" thoughts on that one...
I that case, though, it sucks to be the point man (tends to get it between the eyes) or the man taking up the rear (takes in in equally crippling places...).
"Imagine for a minute that you are a solder driving a wheeled tanker hauling 5000 gallons of diesel when an RPG strikes the tank. You're either dead or badly burned."
Would that solder be hot or unplugged? Either way, solder or soldier, either will be badly burned.
One thing they can try with the truck, since DARPA is in the giving mood, is to divided the tanker into modules that have a safety factor calculated to eject the segment that is just about to be hit by the RPG, this way, the contain can be ejected to the side, hopefully away from the convoy, and the RPG just slams into dirt and hits no module in the tanker.
But, that assumes there will be longer tanker trailers to allow another margin of safety to let the missile pass without scraping any tanks outside the "window".
But, less expensive might be some tethered ROV that flank the convoy, or act as aerial point-men, seeking out heat signatures of shooters. But, then there is a chance the shooters will see the RPV and shoot it down before it registers signatures (that depends on the data processing rate of the seeker gadgetry, and whether or not nested or accompanying or networked RPVs can receive hand-off data before the sighting/transmitting RPV is knocked down.
Meanwhile
http://www.simplekde.org/node/11
returns:
Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (11)
and
http://www.simplekde.org/node/6
returns:
Too many connections
Did slash users burn up their CPUs? Maybe KDE pages KroKed?
That's one SERIOUS DDOS or umm, "Slash attack"...
Maybe those customized T-shirts can ask that question...
"Know how to de-dupe your CMS? Get MySQL?"
(C) 2005-07-18-17:26 Copyright David Syes
Abuse this and MAKE ME RICH! I Really, really need some money... BIG money. Legally obtainable...
how long?
...
/. can even afford the median value home here?
What doesn't seem to be apparent to some is that HP employs some 9,000 in the SF Bay Area.
TFA, by Teresa Poletti, Mercury News July 15,2005|Friday:
"On Thursday, Cindy Shaw, an analyst at Moore & Cabot, issued a report citing a Silicon Valley insider who said HP may announce a management reorganization as early as Monday that could include widely expected layoffs. Shaw's report was the first to predict job cuts could be as high as 25,000. HP employs 9,000 in the Bay Area and 150,000 people worldwide.
But analysts believe Hurd needs to cut more for the company to be competitive."
Well, imagine what could happen to the Silicon Valley real estate market if, say, 5,000 or 2,000, or even 500 of those homes, homes which could be county-value-assed at over $450,000 and and FMV/market-appraisable at $650,000 or higher suddenly go on the market in the next 4 months when the style-of-living wipes out much of the severance checks or goes to buying up 100 lottery tickets per week, filling up the Porshes that end up being towed after the BMW and the high-and-dry trailer-lodged boat.
People will be scrambling to sell them before school resumes for many of the students, hoping to appease the buyers who may be parents. Right now, in San Jose, HUNDREDS of townhomes and condos are under construction, building going on as if the bubble is still here. If other large employers based here follow HP's move (by choice or necessity), I wouldn't be surprised to see many more existing homes in the Valley to compete with unfinished residential units.
How many of us on
Worse, this layoff could have silent, delayed but eventually painful trickle-down repercussions:
-Vendors' orders owed to HP not fulfilled
-Vendors' orders owed BY HP not fulfilled
-Vendors have to lay off due to payments delays
-OEMs and others cancel orders due to web of other orders breaking down
-County/state payroll taxes dropping due to laid off workers
-Unemployment counts going up
(Watch for the dry dipsticks in DC fail to count the HP Layoffs, or to report them as a tiny but negligible "blip" on the radar, as if the humans are "discountable"...)
And, we've been told "We're at the bottom of the 'V', and we're going to pull up hard and fast..."
Sure, I've never seen a rollercoaster that slammed into a vertex without shattering its passengers or without jumping the tracks and scaring the hell out of the patrons in the line waiting for that ride...
They *could* have described the bottom as a "mild, shallow, but long 'V' that we have to traverse for some time, but we'll come out of it in OK shape...".