Or,... (hint: business plan idea, and IIII reserve the right to compete with you, even if you go to market before I do..."... invest in a company that makes "fake chips" to overwhelm your real chip. So, you can carry your passport and pretend to be a local, or a person less target-worthy.
This idea is OPEN-SOURCED. I declare that it is NOT to be hijacked by some patent-chasing prick who cares more for a buck than saving a life.
Hopefully, this idea will be used for good things, and therefore, I share it for GNU/GPL/CopyLeft/CreativeCommons-like/friendly implementation.
Well, I guess the person modding this to "Offtopic" is more enthusiastic about seeing GOOGLE'S search tool no be harmed by tools such as FileLight, which could steal the show if networked to specfic environments.
"I hear there's rumors on the Internets" -George W. Bush
That's what happens, folks, when you surround yourself with "like-minded" people instead of surrounding yourself with people who ARE smarter'n you... (well, maybe he knows of some "other" Internet, www.DODnet.net? www.RoveNet.net?)
Remember the girl or lady who during the debates asked that man about what kind of people he surrounds himself with?
He replied to the effect that he surrounds himself with like-minded, wholesome, honest people, or something dissembling/evasive like that.
"Internets"
I'm glad I don't have to send multiple forms to the "IRS's".
There are rumors that my will me that twice a week I will receive my "paychecks"...
HAIL TO THE CHIEF!
INHALE TO THE CHIEF!
JAIL(S) TO THE THIEF!
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It's a good thing we humans don't have multiple reproductive organs and trash chutes (yep, that trash chute/poop chute)... Double the funn, or the lock-up...
Whuzzup, Doc?
Funny, Bunny, now bend over and cough
Doc Finger(s) inserts one from each hand...to either side of the patient
(Yes, the USN had a Corpsman/Independent Duty Physician/whatever nicknamed "Doc Finger", for he ALWAYS had a "medical" excuse to get a sailor to assume the position for inspection, whether it be a cough, a cold, a headache, sore elbow... hehhe
The maker of FileLight should tweak their tool to act as a GNU site-finder-reminder. With some help from KDE, Gnome and others, it could be tied to:
--the kernel for the "core-geeks", hehehe --the GUI for the user --file logs for sysadmins or network types --browser cache for site designers or troubleshooters --tmp file for those who need it (can be done now) --Arrays, for cluster analysers
But if it is able to parse and present delimited files it would be greater still. But, file logs are not necessarily following a consistent parsing or delimiter scheme.
I like FileLight, and tho I don't use it much, other than to make sure nosy people in the Library have some eye-candy to visually snort, I think it would be even BETTER if KDE/GNOME/Xfce4 and others help hook FileLight into their GUIs.
Then, tie this into the various browsers, and make it:
--Session-aware --user-aware (so root can aggregate all of them) --frequency-sensitive --file-size-inquisit ive
and more...
For parents and places where kids (or adults, too) need to be monitored, this took would be pretty neat.
I'm gonna have to look of FileLight's PayPal icon.
(Note: there are 4 parts/acts here, separated by equal signs... I hope you find them interesting...)
OH, before if forget:
== Prologue== The stick OR bootable CDs are a GREAT way to test laptops at stores. Hell, NOW you can test a laptop for ACPI and other problems. You can TRY before you BUY, as long as a CD/DVD or USB port are installed and working... And, the best part is that as long as it's a demo rig, is not connected to a LAN, and has no wireless to inadvertently sniff the store, then the store REALLy should NOT complain. Hell, if the test satisfies the geek, or knowledgeable shopper, the store will likely seal a sale. (Or, could that be "Tux a deal"?
== ACT I == OK...
So, back to my interrupted post...
The main contention I have with the word "circumvention" is the legal aspect.
If a person finds the stick to be useful (maybe not today, due to stick or bus speed, then but maybe tomorrow, if there is a bootable, external HDD with it's own power supply... something doable as long as the disk is not damaged, and as long as it is shrouded properly...), and then plugs into, say a machine at Fry's, or a university where there is a contract that says "microsoft lends or donates or "gifts" you these computers with the understanding that all users or shoppers will only SEE or USE ms windows, and that they will not be dual-boot (I bet, however, these ms tricky-dicks haven't yet gotten around to prohibiting boot-stick OS's that are non-windows & non-Mac) capable and if a "foreign"/"excluded" OS is used, its user will be separated from the machine so there is a consistent, harmonious, anti-competitive and non-competing, windows-only 'educational' or sales environment...."
It is not inconceivable that ms, desperate to contain and asphyxiate the "Linux/Open Source Virus" will do anything--including rewriting donations documents-- to prevent the sight of Linux. Heck, back in mid-2001 I was told by a MicroCenter employee that they or bound by contract with the laptop and desktop manufacturers to NOT install onto the computers' disks ANY OS that did not ship from the factory. Even tho most Linux distros have no such licensing restrictions. He further said they are not even allowed to let the user stick in their ownd disk to test the computer before buying it, NOT EVEN with the DEMO/DISPLAY laptop!
== ACT II ==
WHEW!, so...
I go to the library, and I make SURE my Linux desktops on my laptop are visible to passersby. When people have DHCP problems, I help them log their windoze laptops onto the net, but the price is I give them a minute or two of Linux, and show them my laptop if they are adjacent to me. I so far "verbally infected (ok, informed)" 10 or 15 people about Linux. I do so at Kinko's, too. Even on the VTA (Valley Transit Authority) buses, showing my LNX sticker on the lid, reading my LXF, Linux Magazine, and other Linux books in plain view on the bus, making sure Tux is smiling back at the inquisitive. Not ALL the time, but sometimes.
At some point, I think, it will be a sad day when microsoft or some dipshit in various government agencies will, in a precipitous and draconian fashion, declare, "booting into/ont or penetration of a computing device not owned by the user, however slight, constitutes circumvention, and is a federal offense punishable by... X months in prison or jail...X months of community service... forfeiture of equipment connected to the circumvented machine and forfeiture of any computing devices or materials carried on person or adjacent to or under control of the circumvention-initiating person who is apprehended and detained...a 5-year banning of use of computers or computing devices, whether or not connecte to the 'Internets' (a jab here...'intranetS'),..."
Will it come to that? Will ms effectively "buy the law and rewrite it" just to maintain a goddam, indefensible, artificially-coopted percentage?
We need to get out of the habit of calling this circumvetion. If we don't then this usage will lend further credence to ms and furter reinforce some badly-written legislation. If Linux is to be used (as it is now and can be in the future), this notion of "hijacking a box" should be described more discretely.
Putting Linux on a box and being able to "see" the file system is not a guarantee that useful passwords will be found or enable a malicous log in. True, the "rogue" OS (even another windoze USB/stick) can ask for a DHCP address, but the MAC filter list combined with a valid login, and some OS fingerprinting could protect locked-down environments.
Now, let's take San Jose State and the MLK Library: If I or any student or visitor should use the computer with a Mandrake stick, is that circumvention, so long as it is a publicly-available desktop intended for surfing and printing? Users already are discouraged or prevented from saving personal information to the disk. When they print, it goes to another desktop (a Dell acting as a windoze-based file server, it seems) and they use a mag card and swipe it, then enter a password to retrieve their docs at the print station.
"The biggest problem we have right now is that people who should be paying for software aren't," Ballmer told an audience of technology executives at an industry conference here sponsored by market researcher Gartner.
Yeh, I'd say that is a problem. I'd also say, then you've known or now know that "what the market will bear" is baring itself for you to see, Stevie. Bear it or bare it and grin that chesire grin (and, maybe grunt), now.
Seems Stevie wouldn't know the truth if it bit him in his ass. Talk about (apparent) flip-flop. Just a few weeks ago, one of their shills said that the sales of computers with LINUX installed on them (sans windoze) was the cause or core cause of piracy or likely to increase piracy. Is this, then, Ballmerese to fall in line with the analysts' admonition that microsoft better "learn to love Linux"? It's not expensive hardware that is driving the cloning. even cheap hardware (or build-them-yourself) is not necessarily the reason for cloning.
Commoditized hardware, by definition is not "expensive", right? So, then, which people in the masses are contributing to the purchase of "expensive hardware"? What is the force behind this?
It's mainly people's addiction to windoze. That addiction has passed critical mass, and the market saturated, or supersaturated with windoze. Since people who already don't want Linux or who don't know about Linux/F/LOSS just only know windoze, then that is what they'll pirate--windoze and winwarez. Even so, it cannot be that incredible a loss for them (ms, no, but other s/ware companies... yes or maybe), as it's a small loss (for ms). Really, how many people stealing windoze will it take to hurt ms, considering the COST and PRICE of windoze and the medium by which it's delivered? How many of those people needed to hurt their bottom line can effectively USE the number of "stolen" installations (physically OR in virtual disks) and be located and identified as using but didn't pay for it?
Now, that critical mass is fizzing out, and Uncle Stevie is waving his HAND, trying to allay fears of the board and investors/analysts. All that hand-wringing angst is coming back to roost at home, for they have so wrought and rended the field that there's just very little fertile soild left in which to harvest OR grow. They ruined the topsoil, set ablaze but cemented over by rampant, unabashed greed and hammer-fisted pricing and distribution structures. They poisoned the sublayers by sowing emnity among some analysts, investors, and IT departments not afraid to shift, and high-profile enough to pierce the ms FUD veil.
His comments are probably frightening and dangerous to the hardware industry. I suspect those which are reactionary and bitter at ms' dangerously-placed comments now are going to even harder look to Linux to tie their calls into.
Ballmer's comments also could be a trial balloon to find which manufacturers are willing to splay themselves to "m's shaft" in order to dupe Congress or some legislators into allowing ms more of the hardware market. Of course, there will be some of those "share-whoreders" who'll literally RIP their clothes off to be had by ms. IF ms could consolidate more hardware and BIOS manufacturers into its warchest, they could then try to "hail mary" Linux development by choking off affordable manufacturing routes that have to exist for Linux to be installed with fewer incentives being needed to coax them in the first place--other than the sheer low cost of adopting Linux in manufacturing and IT, and soon, the office and home desktops.
Hardware is too expensive? What a proclamation. Hardware prices have been steadily falling, Stevie. What planet are you on? Or, what planet did Ballmer's container (body) come from? It must've popped out of a quantum slipstream or wormhole from an alternate universe after inputting bad trajectory coordinates and then been "populated" or occupied by
Driving those prices down will not be hard for manufacturers, as greater consolidation will continue to force smaller, or less nimbler, players out, or for them to thrive unexpectedly.
Unfortunately, and not regrettably, for microsoft, they cannot accept lowering the cost of their software. They are addicted to cash and power as junkies are to powder and temporary euphoria.
However, the AMD/Intel component of the equation must not be ignored. The equation must be balanced, and microsoft is the inequitable portion of the equation, NO matter what the claim to provide. As AMD & Intel and BIOS chip makers approach a symbiotic or near-convergence situation, computers will essentially be very mobile and OS independent or OS agnostice right in the palm of our hand. Promises will eventually be delivered, but microsoft will be on the low side of the properly balanced equation.
F/LOSS/Linux will drive the point home. It is inevitable, since the profit side of the F/LOSS equation is SERVICE-oriented, not charge-for-code oriented.
This is as it should be. Thanks to F/LOSS, maybe a new paradigm will emerge the victor for the next 20 or so years.
Existence is not necessarily based on STRAIGHT FACTS. Sometimes distorted truths or twisted lies partially belie the evidence in plain view.
The accuracy of TRUTH has been determined to suffer a truth variance. Politicians are known to spin yarn and alter the very fabric of space, time, and facts usually accepted without question. However, due to their dragging the truth so far as to rip the facts from the framework, the results are about only 10% accurate.
There is a margin of error of this report of about 4.8992.2333.285%
n: That action the result of government trampling over, on or across grown sod... (DOH!)
If worse comes to worse, the (or some alternate-earth) government would issue pagers to all their VALUED personnel in a target area and give them 4 hours to vacate before the:
Also reminds me now, of my semi-guilt of watching "Team America"... (Well, it makes me think we have a knack for making light or fun of even the most tragic... but I guess it's not as egregious as, "We-yul liv on. We'yul get past 9-eleven. Go shopping; go to the movies; take the kids to Disneyland..." BzzzT, yeh, right... )
Anyway, in two of the songs in "Team America" my mind kept hearing ethic drawls or country twangs in, respectively:
I watch so many films with subtitles that in that movie/toon I was seeing subtitles in my mind and parsing the audio in my eyes, and watching the lips to sync my mind, eyes, and ears with something that wa'd'n't on-screen...
Maybe the Tolleybon would like some Toblerones and Bon-Bons to go?
Well, in Wash'tun we need some FOLLEY-BAN to get rid of the bs over there...
This pronounciation biz...
Reminds me of a book author and former higher-up in the (I think) bush version 1 administration:
"...awl-khodda..." He kept damn saying "awl-khodda". That shit kept stalling my heart beat and I suffered thru some 35 minutes of the interview Terry Gross had on him.
- nuclear/new-clear (most normal people) - new-kee-yuh (Jimmy "the man" Carter) - nuke-yeh-lehr (strubs) - nuc'luhr (strubs) - noo-clear (as if there is an "oldclear" weapon)
- China (most normal people) - Cheena (A by a true-blue Central Viet male I heard say in his own language (didn't know English)) - Chy-ner (ugggh... there's NO DAMN "R" in dayur)
Imagine the ass-end of that car going end over end and the sub-woofs flying out the trunk. Talk about "CRY WOOF, Try not to HURry..."
Imagine the nose end be 90-degree bent to the firewall..
If only it were possible to (un)sympathetic(ally) detonate those cars from a few feet away... talk about a:
"BOOM box" heheheh....
Imagine a drive-in full of them, or a tow yard full of them, energized, rarin' and blarin' to go... How far could they be heard? Would they sound like a bad high school metal band? Would that "heavy metal" be "Death Metal"? Or, um, "Death Al-you-mini-uhm?" DOH!
The ones I can't stand are those with that long, undulating, bwooombp, bwooombp, rolling their asses up like some freeze-frame/slo-mo death probe out of Six-Million Dollar Man. Fuckers... messin' with my heart beat.
I am surprise the welds don't come loose from some of those cars. But, I like imports. And, don't forget, if "Rice burner" cars come from Asia, then American cars must be "barley burners" or something.
Now, if only you can remotely adjust their sub-woof to interfere with the driver's heart rhythm (at a red light or when he/she/it's parked) while leaving the bwooombpf intact.. and then call the cops on them... If they live, they'll truly have a:
We by opt-out/silence choose to be a nation of reactionary schizophrenics rather than proactive, calculating rationals.
What is so wrong about having such a card? The damned CORPORATIONS already have nearly or completely as much information. Employers have your mug, your SSN, cell, license PLATE, DL, blood type, dependents' SSNs, access to their medical data for your rate pooling information, and so much more, including your pay history with them, your CV/resume, your references, and insight into your mind.
I realize you may have only tapped into that sentiment of the public without necessarily agreen with it... But, Jesus H. Christ, people. I am not proposing perfection, but having the SEPARATE, carry-at-your-own-option card with the NEW, non-public, non-corporate-accessible SSN.
Maybe it doesn't matter anyway, since the current administration dicked up social (in)security solvency anyway. If the SSN is to tie us to our retirement "benefits", well, there likely won't be any, anyway. If we accept that, and can live with every new employer gaining access to our SSN and CV and other details I named above, then we should just give up on the "sanctity" of the SSN. Go ahead, use it as a password. Use the last 4, identify your state of issue. Now, you've narrowed down 7 out of 9 of the numbers needed to rob someone of their ID.
"We do not want that." Well, we don't want that, either.
I once attended a community college that insisted on having my SSN. I gave it, but then they tried to INSIST on making it part of my student ID card. I steadfastly countered and rebutted them. I told them if I lost that card and someone called in on the phone, they'd have access to MY files. I insisted they append my file to NOT release ANY information outside of my physical presence, presentation of credible ID, AND my SSN card. They said the ID card had to have a unique number. So, I INSISTED they use some number I made up on the spot, put THAT number in my file, and THAT number on the to-be-carried-on-campus ID card. For some reason, THAT demand shut them up, they complied with ME, and we both seemed happy. That was circa 1995 or 1996.
Then And NOW:
There should be a NEW SSN layer which is the number used ONLY by government and law enforcement. The EXISTING SSN can be public, since the dipshits in government allowed themselves to be WHORED to corporations that demand the SSN for banking and other services.
Since the corporations are highly corrupt anyway, it's not likely that my suggestion for a secondary identification layer which is once-and-for-all OFF LIMITS to corporations will ever take root.
The ability for a person to have some distance from hound dog collectors or from benefits thieves should be important. The existing SSN would not go away, but would be the reference for banking, renting, credit, and school. It's so abused as to be worthless to privacy. But, for employment with the government (military, emergency, law enforcement, SSA, Secret Service/FBI, etc) it SHOULD be used on THOSE employment applications.
The existing SSN would still let the IRS do it's functions, and allow states and counties to handle WIC and retirement stuff. BUT... the new ID number would NOT even be necessary to give to employers. ONLY IRS/SSA and the named assignee of the new layer number should have it. Well, and certain government agencies could ACCESS but not make frequent or regular use of it outside of law ENFORCEMENT, not simply for investigative or gold-digging operations.
I suggested this to a long-term SSA employee and made this suggestion, but the response I received was that they are so swamped with other stuff it would never likely happen, despite my counter that all it takes is adding new fields to the database and enforcing each new recipient to personally and physically obtain the new card and number. It just should be doable in under 5 years.
However, another person I talked with said so many corporations and wealthy investors who drive programs and policies have a vested interested in ALWAYS having every last numerical or title link to every person in the "system". Therefore, SSNs are screwed, and any laws claiming the sanctity and privacy of the SSN are rendered pointless.
Does anyone know their vendor, or if it's an in-house setup?
Was it an inside job of a disgruntled employee or student, or an opportunistic outsider?
At what entry point did they do it? If it was wired, then they either tapped something inside security, or had enough creds to get in.
If it were wireless, would a new fear of wireless access be resurrected? Personally, I don't trust wireless, mainly since I am somewhat ignorant of it. I do know that WEP helps, but is not perfect, if enough cracking computers or CPUs are thrown at it and the encryption. I know that DHCP should be turned off, and I know that a table of KNOWN/TRUSTED MAC addresses must be created and used.
But, with so many students coming and going, with so many employees who do or don't have wireless, and since many visiting students and others can come and go, I suspect it's inevitable that the human link is the source of the problem. But, the human link can be a complacent IT employee OR a nosy person exploiting the infrastructure, OR a sloppy sofware security mechanism.
--immigrate --join the service --die for a corrupt president (of any party) --pay taxes --lose relatives or friends to wonky gun leniency --lose relatives or friends to drug importation --pay assloads of taxes to porkbarrel political district defense and city/county construction projects
--add your item to the list
THEN said resident or citizen should be eligible to vote.
MAYBE, just maybe, conferring voting status to an immigrant permitted by Immigration would solve some influx problems. Or, it will permit voters to vote without having to pledge allegiance to some flag, or sing "My country tis of thee.. land where my fathers die... let freedom ring." When their relatives likely were never even BORN here.
Forcing immigrants to pledge is going too far, is draconian, and is oppressive. It does very little to instill pride, other than serving as a "barrier" or hurdle to make the process seem hellish, but well-fought for.
An immigrant who arrives, only to find a morass of red tape, cultural insensitivity, racism, rifts between wealthy and rich, and those two on onside of the gulf with the poor (put the thinning "middle class" here, too), is one who is not all that far from comparing the heavy-handed communist dictators from our "legally-SEE-lected" leadership which rather than taxing you by gunpoint does to buy tax code, garnishment of wages, jail time, ostracization, or other methods.
Coercion is Coercion, whether by gun or by pen, by bullet or by codified law.
A person BORN here, such as myself, only has to take an oath "to support the constitution and the president of the United States" if joining a police agency, some special area of government, or if joining the military. Yep, I know officers' oath is different from enlisteds, but they both basically coerce the same affirmation, particularly during war.
Also, why is it that TEACHERS have to take that oath? Why? Well, after 9/11 I made my own observations and made some scathing, possibly seditious or uncouth or similar remarks about the current cadge/cabal sullying the Oval Office, and the two girls at the table in the coffee shop CRINGED! I found out they were teachers before that, and my comment was that, were I a teacher, I'd tell students to use their OWN brains, read books OUTSIDE the school districts acquisition program, and to NOT believe everything coming out of Washington as being the truth; I'd explain how Natives were decimated, murdered, in cold, non-euphemistic terms.
Man, these teachers CRINGED! It then dawned on me around 2002 or 2003 when another teacher didn't hide the "Oath to the President of the United States and Defense of the US Constitution" letter she had to sign before even getting the job. THAT took my mind back to 9/2001 or 10/2001, or maybe it was early 2002 when I astounded those two teachers who probably feared me or thought I was a mole testing their oaths. They were immigrants of Asian ancestry. I think they were terrified.
But, some teachers are HOPPING EFFING MAD that their continued or new employment hinged on taking that oath. I guess it's because "they're the front line of our way of life", being around the kids and all. Well, whomever wrote that doc can, like Popeye says, "Well, BLOW me NOW", or was that "Blow me DOWN"? Metaphoricaly, ehphemistically, or acoustically, either works.
I am sure many teachers coerced into signing those docs will vote for no more BU__SH__ in our Oval Office.
If I am mistaken about the imposition of the oath doc for teachers, KINDLY tell me. But, as far as I found out by happenstance/random chance, it was foisted upon them AFTER 9/11.
As for dual-county registration, consider this: When you drive across state lines, many if not virtually all law enforcement agencies have near-time or real-time access to DL or citizen information, thanks to crimes that preceded 9/11. If a cop in Arkansas can make DL information determinations on Nevada resident, then that can work at the polls, too.
Just station a radio/computer-equipeed squad car at each voting location (if there are too many, then consolidate them). Mag-swipe each card at the car as the voter arrives. Just plug in a special swipe reader and hang it out the door on a mount like at the drive-ins, where speakers hang from the the window.
Here is how to deal with the problem, in more detail:
-Voter arrives to poll location
-ID OR DL is swiped
-Photo of voter is taken, only to be used if a dual-vote attempt is detected where dual voting is not permitted
-Name/DL/SSN are checked for previous county votes for the cycle in question
-Police officer at voting location arrests any attempting-duplicate voters, matches the photos, and books the person, pending clarification. This'll frighten other abusers. After clarification clears the suspect, the booking should be purged. If the person is undertaking a bona-fide illegal-vote attempt, let the booking stand once the other violated state forwards its polls or DL or ResID info
-Cleared voters are given a token to drop into voting machine
-Token sets up process
-Voter votes
-Token is removed and reused and token-drops are counted later and tallied against total votes to ensure 1:1
AT NO POINT should the voter identifying information be used to correlate to the vote. This ensures privacy and allows for a voter registered in one party to change his or her mind at the last minute and vote for opposing candidates without having to reregister (if that normally is the process...)
Motor-Voter is not the answer. Resident-Voter is the answer. Just because one is issued a license doesn't mean entitlement to register to vote is conferred. The person issued a Resident Card can have it as a supplement to their DL, or have them combined, if desired, but it should be a voter/resident choice. The DL need not carry any voter party affiliation information, just allow for cross-state lines checking.
And, as for no more BU__ SH__ lost-votes in the mop closet, NO candidate takes office if sufficient collusion and corruption like 2000 ever happens again. In that case, the country should be run according to rules of succession, except no one party will be allowed to dominate.
Actually let's put an end to the BU__ SH__ like this:
--Two or more candidates politick for Prez --One wins --The looser is the VP
--Alternately, each cabinet position is filled by members of SEVERAL parties
This BULLSHIT of one dominant party trying to represent the whole country MUST END. It is disingenuous, deceitful, rampantly corrupt, and insulting. Liars who spin the best lies win, and then we, the populace suffer for a liar, the liar's campaign, and the liar's party's constituents. ========= If bush wins, it'll likely be BU__ SH__, and then world will react accordingly: NEGATIVELY.
Better a new devil who has screwed us less than the same devil who knows our butts, wallets, and more.
Aside from the emotions stuff I injected below the equal signs, I think the stuff above that line could pass, if parties pull their heads out of their ASSES and stop treating our political system like it's an orgiastic bone-breaking football game!
Are there any 3-D games yet exploiting panoramic views?
It would be nice to have a FlightGear or CS/HL configurable with situational displays to simulate a cockpit or helmet display system.
This could impart a sense of "being there", but what would REALLY be cool is for there to be hookups for projectors. Imagine projecting the environs in a darkened bedroom or gaming den, having the LCDs and input devices coordinated with the projections, and letting the player have more in-depth fun.
This might not do much for FPS on ground areas, but for those in cockpits, this could feel awesome to have the projector change the horizon with each bank, roll, or pitch, and having the terrain shift when a yaw is commanded.
Of course, this might suck a LOT of juice, having the necessary projectors. Maybe a reflective tarp of kind could assist.
Even better, a ceiling, floor, and wall grid with a bunch of 'collaborative' projectors and cells/receptors could make a room seem like "being there".
If this is NOT yet patented, reserve the right to pursue this, REGARDLESS of US or International Law. I just don't have the money, yet, and someone else having the money SHALL NOT PRECLUDE me. I here and now share with others the access to this idea, gridding a bedroom or small space with consumer-game-oriented projectors and receptors, coupled with a photo-interactive tarp to make an otherwise expensive simulator quite affordable to those with small budgets.
Mary Poppins registered to vote in Defiance, Ohio. A radio luggage ad had a lady who used to say, "There's no BOATS in OHIO!", but SOMEbody's in a boatload of trouble for messing with the voting process.
It's too bad Apples own lawyers MISSED that. It's a height of folly for a lawyer to miss injected specfics that are an attempt to "minefield" a contract into oblivion.
Gotta be careful with those "version #" and "any version" clauses.
It's this kind of tricky-dick stuff that mires musicians and novelists, especially the publishing houses that CLAIM to be PROTECTING themselves when they demand the author submits to the publisher's ownership/control:
and other nouns. They are not just doing due diligene to ward off complaints or suits, you know. They are trying to hem up the author who two years into a 3-year contract starts negotiations with another publishers. If said author surrenders ALL that material, other than the manuscript itself, said author most likely is SCREWED, and even unable to present that non-selling, non-performing material to a new suitor.
Capitalism and business law at its best.
That is why, as an aspiring author and as an artist NONE of my drawings or works leave my ownership. Anybody wanting to play the game with ME is only getting a non-exclusive license for a limited period of time in which to ATTEMPT to make a buck. By no means do they acquire and blocking or obstructing rights to hem me in. If I can create drawings, then they can go make their own if they want control over drawings.
Authors, whether of software, books, drawings, or what-nots MUST become non-conformists and use everthing at their dispose, from copyright, to copyleft, to creative commons, to GPL/LGPL/ and more. SOME RIGHTS reserved is better that ALL RIGHTS surrendered.
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Or,... (hint: business plan idea, and IIII reserve the right to compete with you, even if you go to market before I do..."
This idea is OPEN-SOURCED. I declare that it is NOT to be hijacked by some patent-chasing prick who cares more for a buck than saving a life.
Hopefully, this idea will be used for good things, and therefore, I share it for GNU/GPL/CopyLeft/CreativeCommons-like/friendly implementation.
GO FOR IT!
Well, I guess the person modding this to "Offtopic" is more enthusiastic about seeing GOOGLE'S search tool no be harmed by tools such as FileLight, which could steal the show if networked to specfic environments.
"I hear there's rumors on the Internets" -George W. Bush
That's what happens, folks, when you surround yourself with "like-minded" people instead of surrounding yourself with people who ARE smarter'n you... (well, maybe he knows of some "other" Internet, www.DODnet.net? www.RoveNet.net?)
Remember the girl or lady who during the debates asked that man about what kind of people he surrounds himself with?
He replied to the effect that he surrounds himself with like-minded, wholesome, honest people, or something dissembling/evasive like that.
"Internets"
I'm glad I don't have to send multiple forms to the "IRS's".
There are rumors that my will me that twice a week I will receive my "paychecks"...
HAIL TO THE CHIEF!
INHALE TO THE CHIEF!
JAIL(S) TO THE THIEF!
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It's a good thing we humans don't have multiple reproductive organs and trash chutes (yep, that trash chute/poop chute)... Double the funn, or the lock-up...
Whuzzup, Doc?
Funny, Bunny, now bend over and cough
Doc Finger(s) inserts one from each hand...to either side of the patient
(Yes, the USN had a Corpsman/Independent Duty Physician/whatever nicknamed "Doc Finger", for he ALWAYS had a "medical" excuse to get a sailor to assume the position for inspection, whether it be a cough, a cold, a headache, sore elbow... hehhe
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The maker of FileLight should tweak their tool to act as a GNU site-finder-reminder. With some help from KDE, Gnome and others, it could be tied to:
--the kernel for the "core-geeks", hehehe
--the GUI for the user
--file logs for sysadmins or network types
--browser cache for site designers or troubleshooters
--tmp file for those who need it (can be done now)
--Arrays, for cluster analysers
But if it is able to parse and present delimited files it would be greater still. But, file logs are not necessarily following a consistent parsing or delimiter scheme.
I like FileLight, and tho I don't use it much, other than to make sure nosy people in the Library have some eye-candy to visually snort, I think it would be even BETTER if KDE/GNOME/Xfce4 and others help hook FileLight into their GUIs.
Then, tie this into the various browsers, and make it:
--Session-aware
--user-aware (so root can aggregate all of them)
--frequency-sensitive
--file-size-inquisi
and more...
For parents and places where kids (or adults, too) need to be monitored, this took would be pretty neat.
I'm gonna have to look of FileLight's PayPal icon.
for Acronym Whore...
They better change the name of the gun/emitter from Sub-Pixel Unit to something else, or it will be "stuck" with the acronym...
S.P.U.G.E.
Maybe Micro-Pixel Unit.
(Note: there are 4 parts/acts here, separated by equal signs... I hope you find them interesting...)
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OH, before if forget:
== Prologue==
The stick OR bootable CDs are a GREAT way to test laptops at stores. Hell, NOW you can test a laptop for ACPI and other problems. You can TRY before you BUY, as long as a CD/DVD or USB port are installed and working... And, the best part is that as long as it's a demo rig, is not connected to a LAN, and has no wireless to inadvertently sniff the store, then the store REALLy should NOT complain. Hell, if the test satisfies the geek, or knowledgeable shopper, the store will likely seal a sale. (Or, could that be "Tux a deal"?
== ACT I ==
OK...
So, back to my interrupted post...
The main contention I have with the word "circumvention" is the legal aspect.
If a person finds the stick to be useful (maybe not today, due to stick or bus speed, then but maybe tomorrow, if there is a bootable, external HDD with it's own power supply... something doable as long as the disk is not damaged, and as long as it is shrouded properly...), and then plugs into, say a machine at Fry's, or a university where there is a contract that says "microsoft lends or donates or "gifts" you these computers with the understanding that all users or shoppers will only SEE or USE ms windows, and that they will not be dual-boot (I bet, however, these ms tricky-dicks haven't yet gotten around to prohibiting boot-stick OS's that are non-windows & non-Mac) capable and if a "foreign"/"excluded" OS is used, its user will be separated from the machine so there is a consistent, harmonious, anti-competitive and non-competing, windows-only 'educational' or sales environment...."
It is not inconceivable that ms, desperate to contain and asphyxiate the "Linux/Open Source Virus" will do anything--including rewriting donations documents-- to prevent the sight of Linux. Heck, back in mid-2001 I was told by a MicroCenter employee that they or bound by contract with the laptop and desktop manufacturers to NOT install onto the computers' disks ANY OS that did not ship from the factory. Even tho most Linux distros have no such licensing restrictions. He further said they are not even allowed to let the user stick in their ownd disk to test the computer before buying it, NOT EVEN with the DEMO/DISPLAY laptop!
== ACT II ==
WHEW!, so...
I go to the library, and I make SURE my Linux desktops on my laptop are visible to passersby. When people have DHCP problems, I help them log their windoze laptops onto the net, but the price is I give them a minute or two of Linux, and show them my laptop if they are adjacent to me. I so far "verbally infected (ok, informed)" 10 or 15 people about Linux. I do so at Kinko's, too. Even on the VTA (Valley Transit Authority) buses, showing my LNX sticker on the lid, reading my LXF, Linux Magazine, and other Linux books in plain view on the bus, making sure Tux is smiling back at the inquisitive. Not ALL the time, but sometimes.
At some point, I think, it will be a sad day when microsoft or some dipshit in various government agencies will, in a precipitous and draconian fashion, declare, "booting into/ont or penetration of a computing device not owned by the user, however slight, constitutes circumvention, and is a federal offense punishable by... X months in prison or jail...X months of community service... forfeiture of equipment connected to the circumvented machine and forfeiture of any computing devices or materials carried on person or adjacent to or under control of the circumvention-initiating person who is apprehended and detained...a 5-year banning of use of computers or computing devices, whether or not connecte to the 'Internets' (a jab here...'intranetS'),
Will it come to that? Will ms effectively "buy the law and rewrite it" just to maintain a goddam, indefensible, artificially-coopted percentage?
Let us hope not...
== ACT III (LONGGGGG) ==
OK, explan
This is from a F/LOSS/Linux user perspective:
We need to get out of the habit of calling this circumvetion. If we don't then this usage will lend further credence to ms and furter reinforce some badly-written legislation. If Linux is to be used (as it is now and can be in the future), this notion of "hijacking a box" should be described more discretely.
Putting Linux on a box and being able to "see" the file system is not a guarantee that useful passwords will be found or enable a malicous log in. True, the "rogue" OS (even another windoze USB/stick) can ask for a DHCP address, but the MAC filter list combined with a valid login, and some OS fingerprinting could protect locked-down environments.
Now, let's take San Jose State and the MLK Library: If I or any student or visitor should use the computer with a Mandrake stick, is that circumvention, so long as it is a publicly-available desktop intended for surfing and printing? Users already are discouraged or prevented from saving personal information to the disk. When they print, it goes to another desktop (a Dell acting as a windoze-based file server, it seems) and they use a mag card and swipe it, then enter a password to retrieve their docs at the print station.
Whupps.. have a meeting... will continue...
"The biggest problem we have right now is that people who should be paying for software aren't," Ballmer told an audience of technology executives at an industry conference here sponsored by market researcher Gartner.
Yeh, I'd say that is a problem. I'd also say, then you've known or now know that "what the market will bear" is baring itself for you to see, Stevie. Bear it or bare it and grin that chesire grin (and, maybe grunt), now.
Seems Stevie wouldn't know the truth if it bit him in his ass. Talk about (apparent) flip-flop. Just a few weeks ago, one of their shills said that the sales of computers with LINUX installed on them (sans windoze) was the cause or core cause of piracy or likely to increase piracy. Is this, then, Ballmerese to fall in line with the analysts' admonition that microsoft better "learn to love Linux"? It's not expensive hardware that is driving the cloning. even cheap hardware (or build-them-yourself) is not necessarily the reason for cloning.
Commoditized hardware, by definition is not "expensive", right? So, then, which people in the masses are contributing to the purchase of "expensive hardware"? What is the force behind this?
It's mainly people's addiction to windoze. That addiction has passed critical mass, and the market saturated, or supersaturated with windoze. Since people who already don't want Linux or who don't know about Linux/F/LOSS just only know windoze, then that is what they'll pirate--windoze and winwarez. Even so, it cannot be that incredible a loss for them (ms, no, but other s/ware companies... yes or maybe), as it's a small loss (for ms). Really, how many people stealing windoze will it take to hurt ms, considering the COST and PRICE of windoze and the medium by which it's delivered? How many of those people needed to hurt their bottom line can effectively USE the number of "stolen" installations (physically OR in virtual disks) and be located and identified as using but didn't pay for it?
Now, that critical mass is fizzing out, and Uncle Stevie is waving his HAND, trying to allay fears of the board and investors/analysts. All that hand-wringing angst is coming back to roost at home, for they have so wrought and rended the field that there's just very little fertile soild left in which to harvest OR grow. They ruined the topsoil, set ablaze but cemented over by rampant, unabashed greed and hammer-fisted pricing and distribution structures. They poisoned the sublayers by sowing emnity among some analysts, investors, and IT departments not afraid to shift, and high-profile enough to pierce the ms FUD veil.
His comments are probably frightening and dangerous to the hardware industry. I suspect those which are reactionary and bitter at ms' dangerously-placed comments now are going to even harder look to Linux to tie their calls into.
Ballmer's comments also could be a trial balloon to find which manufacturers are willing to splay themselves to "m's shaft" in order to dupe Congress or some legislators into allowing ms more of the hardware market. Of course, there will be some of those "share-whoreders" who'll literally RIP their clothes off to be had by ms. IF ms could consolidate more hardware and BIOS manufacturers into its warchest, they could then try to "hail mary" Linux development by choking off affordable manufacturing routes that have to exist for Linux to be installed with fewer incentives being needed to coax them in the first place--other than the sheer low cost of adopting Linux in manufacturing and IT, and soon, the office and home desktops.
Hardware is too expensive? What a proclamation. Hardware prices have been steadily falling, Stevie. What planet are you on? Or, what planet did Ballmer's container (body) come from? It must've popped out of a quantum slipstream or wormhole from an alternate universe after inputting bad trajectory coordinates and then been "populated" or occupied by
Driving those prices down will not be hard for manufacturers, as greater consolidation will continue to force smaller, or less nimbler, players out, or for them to thrive unexpectedly.
Unfortunately, and not regrettably, for microsoft, they cannot accept lowering the cost of their software. They are addicted to cash and power as junkies are to powder and temporary euphoria.
However, the AMD/Intel component of the equation must not be ignored. The equation must be balanced, and microsoft is the inequitable portion of the equation, NO matter what the claim to provide. As AMD & Intel and BIOS chip makers approach a symbiotic or near-convergence situation, computers will essentially be very mobile and OS independent or OS agnostice right in the palm of our hand. Promises will eventually be delivered, but microsoft will be on the low side of the properly balanced equation.
F/LOSS/Linux will drive the point home. It is inevitable, since the profit side of the F/LOSS equation is SERVICE-oriented, not charge-for-code oriented.
This is as it should be. Thanks to F/LOSS, maybe a new paradigm will emerge the victor for the next 20 or so years.
Existence is not necessarily based on STRAIGHT FACTS. Sometimes distorted truths or twisted lies partially belie the evidence in plain view.
The accuracy of TRUTH has been determined to suffer a truth variance. Politicians are known to spin yarn and alter the very fabric of space, time, and facts usually accepted without question. However, due to their dragging the truth so far as to rip the facts from the framework, the results are about only 10% accurate.
There is a margin of error of this report of about 4.8992.2333.285%
This truth is NOT to be tisdorted, nor dispooted.
that if EPIC wins the case, it would be an:
EPIC VICTORY??? DOH!!!
n: That action the result of government trampling over, on or across grown sod... (DOH!)
If worse comes to worse, the (or some alternate-earth) government would issue pagers to all their VALUED personnel in a target area and give them 4 hours to vacate before the:
"Tactical-to-Practical" Anti-Grassroots Overhead Neutron-Yttrium
bomb is dropped..., ahme, LOST...ahem, regrettably prematurely-detonated after being mis-directed to populated coordinates domestic.
Talk about an A.G.O.N.Y. bomb. (I almost wrote "bong") (no, I don't drue dugs)
Also reminds me now, of my semi-guilt of watching "Team America"... (Well, it makes me think we have a knack for making light or fun of even the most tragic... but I guess it's not as egregious as, "We-yul liv on. We'yul get past 9-eleven. Go shopping; go to the movies; take the kids to Disneyland..." BzzzT, yeh, right... )
Anyway, in two of the songs in "Team America" my mind kept hearing ethic drawls or country twangs in, respectively:
"Uh-hmer-i-kuh... FHUCKK-Yeh!"
and
"FHREE-DUM eeyu-zunt fhreeh, da-yur's uh HEFTY-FHUKIN' FEE...."
I watch so many films with subtitles that in that movie/toon I was seeing subtitles in my mind and parsing the audio in my eyes, and watching the lips to sync my mind, eyes, and ears with something that wa'd'n't on-screen...
Maybe the Tolleybon would like some Toblerones and Bon-Bons to go?
Well, in Wash'tun we need some FOLLEY-BAN to get rid of the bs over there...
This pronounciation biz...
Reminds me of a book author and former higher-up in the (I think) bush version 1 administration:
"...awl-khodda..." He kept damn saying "awl-khodda". That shit kept stalling my heart beat and I suffered thru some 35 minutes of the interview Terry Gross had on him.
So, there's:
-Ayul Kay-duh ('mer'kun?)
-Al-Kuh-ay-duh ('mer'kun?)
-ohl-kyda (Brit/Aussie?)
-Awl-Khodda ('mer'kun?)
- 'merkun
- 'Merikun
- Uh-Mher'-i-kun
- nuclear/new-clear (most normal people)
- new-kee-yuh (Jimmy "the man" Carter)
- nuke-yeh-lehr (strubs)
- nuc'luhr (strubs)
- noo-clear (as if there is an "oldclear" weapon)
- China (most normal people)
- Cheena (A by a true-blue Central Viet male I heard say in his own language (didn't know English))
- Chy-ner (ugggh... there's NO DAMN "R" in dayur)
blast in the ass be a...
BLAST from the PASSED?
DOH!@!!!#@#
Imagine the ass-end of that car going end over end and the sub-woofs flying out the trunk. Talk about "CRY WOOF, Try not to HURry..."
Imagine the nose end be 90-degree bent to the firewall..
If only it were possible to (un)sympathetic(ally) detonate those cars from a few feet away... talk about a:
"BOOM box" heheheh....
Imagine a drive-in full of them, or a tow yard full of them, energized, rarin' and blarin' to go... How far could they be heard? Would they sound like a bad high school metal band? Would that "heavy metal" be "Death Metal"? Or, um, "Death Al-you-mini-uhm?" DOH!
The ones I can't stand are those with that long, undulating, bwooombp, bwooombp, rolling their asses up like some freeze-frame/slo-mo death probe out of Six-Million Dollar Man. Fuckers... messin' with my heart beat.
I am surprise the welds don't come loose from some of those cars. But, I like imports. And, don't forget, if "Rice burner" cars come from Asia, then American cars must be "barley burners" or something.
Now, if only you can remotely adjust their sub-woof to interfere with the driver's heart rhythm (at a red light or when he/she/it's parked) while leaving the bwooombpf intact.. and then call the cops on them... If they live, they'll truly have a:
"cardiac arrest" and a
"heart attack"
Well, then, there you have it.
We by opt-out/silence choose to be a nation of reactionary schizophrenics rather than proactive, calculating rationals.
What is so wrong about having such a card? The damned CORPORATIONS already have nearly or completely as much information. Employers have your mug, your SSN, cell, license PLATE, DL, blood type, dependents' SSNs, access to their medical data for your rate pooling information, and so much more, including your pay history with them, your CV/resume, your references, and insight into your mind.
I realize you may have only tapped into that sentiment of the public without necessarily agreen with it... But, Jesus H. Christ, people. I am not proposing perfection, but having the SEPARATE, carry-at-your-own-option card with the NEW, non-public, non-corporate-accessible SSN.
Maybe it doesn't matter anyway, since the current administration dicked up social (in)security solvency anyway. If the SSN is to tie us to our retirement "benefits", well, there likely won't be any, anyway. If we accept that, and can live with every new employer gaining access to our SSN and CV and other details I named above, then we should just give up on the "sanctity" of the SSN. Go ahead, use it as a password. Use the last 4, identify your state of issue. Now, you've narrowed down 7 out of 9 of the numbers needed to rob someone of their ID.
"We do not want that." Well, we don't want that, either.
I am a surgeon in a large, multi species group practice.
I once attended a community college that insisted on having my SSN. I gave it, but then they tried to INSIST on making it part of my student ID card. I steadfastly countered and rebutted them. I told them if I lost that card and someone called in on the phone, they'd have access to MY files. I insisted they append my file to NOT release ANY information outside of my physical presence, presentation of credible ID, AND my SSN card. They said the ID card had to have a unique number. So, I INSISTED they use some number I made up on the spot, put THAT number in my file, and THAT number on the to-be-carried-on-campus ID card. For some reason, THAT demand shut them up, they complied with ME, and we both seemed happy. That was circa 1995 or 1996.
Then And NOW:
There should be a NEW SSN layer which is the number used ONLY by government and law enforcement. The EXISTING SSN can be public, since the dipshits in government allowed themselves to be WHORED to corporations that demand the SSN for banking and other services.
Since the corporations are highly corrupt anyway, it's not likely that my suggestion for a secondary identification layer which is once-and-for-all OFF LIMITS to corporations will ever take root.
The ability for a person to have some distance from hound dog collectors or from benefits thieves should be important. The existing SSN would not go away, but would be the reference for banking, renting, credit, and school. It's so abused as to be worthless to privacy. But, for employment with the government (military, emergency, law enforcement, SSA, Secret Service/FBI, etc) it SHOULD be used on THOSE employment applications.
The existing SSN would still let the IRS do it's functions, and allow states and counties to handle WIC and retirement stuff. BUT... the new ID number would NOT even be necessary to give to employers. ONLY IRS/SSA and the named assignee of the new layer number should have it. Well, and certain government agencies could ACCESS but not make frequent or regular use of it outside of law ENFORCEMENT, not simply for investigative or gold-digging operations.
I suggested this to a long-term SSA employee and made this suggestion, but the response I received was that they are so swamped with other stuff it would never likely happen, despite my counter that all it takes is adding new fields to the database and enforcing each new recipient to personally and physically obtain the new card and number. It just should be doable in under 5 years.
However, another person I talked with said so many corporations and wealthy investors who drive programs and policies have a vested interested in ALWAYS having every last numerical or title link to every person in the "system". Therefore, SSNs are screwed, and any laws claiming the sanctity and privacy of the SSN are rendered pointless.
Does anyone know their vendor, or if it's an in-house setup?
Was it an inside job of a disgruntled employee or student, or an opportunistic outsider?
At what entry point did they do it? If it was wired, then they either tapped something inside security, or had enough creds to get in.
If it were wireless, would a new fear of wireless access be resurrected? Personally, I don't trust wireless, mainly since I am somewhat ignorant of it. I do know that WEP helps, but is not perfect, if enough cracking computers or CPUs are thrown at it and the encryption. I know that DHCP should be turned off, and I know that a table of KNOWN/TRUSTED MAC addresses must be created and used.
But, with so many students coming and going, with so many employees who do or don't have wireless, and since many visiting students and others can come and go, I suspect it's inevitable that the human link is the source of the problem. But, the human link can be a complacent IT employee OR a nosy person exploiting the infrastructure, OR a sloppy sofware security mechanism.
Inquiring minds want to know.
Oops... In "resident", I meant, "Citizenship".
However, if our government allows someone to:
--immigrate
--join the service
--die for a corrupt president (of any party)
--pay taxes
--lose relatives or friends to wonky gun leniency
--lose relatives or friends to drug importation
--pay assloads of taxes to porkbarrel political district defense and city/county construction projects
--add your item to the list
THEN said resident or citizen should be eligible to vote.
MAYBE, just maybe, conferring voting status to an immigrant permitted by Immigration would solve some influx problems. Or, it will permit voters to vote without having to pledge allegiance to some flag, or sing "My country tis of thee.. land where my fathers die... let freedom ring." When their relatives likely were never even BORN here.
Forcing immigrants to pledge is going too far, is draconian, and is oppressive. It does very little to instill pride, other than serving as a "barrier" or hurdle to make the process seem hellish, but well-fought for.
An immigrant who arrives, only to find a morass of red tape, cultural insensitivity, racism, rifts between wealthy and rich, and those two on onside of the gulf with the poor (put the thinning "middle class" here, too), is one who is not all that far from comparing the heavy-handed communist dictators from our "legally-SEE-lected" leadership which rather than taxing you by gunpoint does to buy tax code, garnishment of wages, jail time, ostracization, or other methods.
Coercion is Coercion, whether by gun or by pen, by bullet or by codified law.
A person BORN here, such as myself, only has to take an oath "to support the constitution and the president of the United States" if joining a police agency, some special area of government, or if joining the military. Yep, I know officers' oath is different from enlisteds, but they both basically coerce the same affirmation, particularly during war.
Also, why is it that TEACHERS have to take that oath? Why? Well, after 9/11 I made my own observations and made some scathing, possibly seditious or uncouth or similar remarks about the current cadge/cabal sullying the Oval Office, and the two girls at the table in the coffee shop CRINGED! I found out they were teachers before that, and my comment was that, were I a teacher, I'd tell students to use their OWN brains, read books OUTSIDE the school districts acquisition program, and to NOT believe everything coming out of Washington as being the truth; I'd explain how Natives were decimated, murdered, in cold, non-euphemistic terms.
Man, these teachers CRINGED! It then dawned on me around 2002 or 2003 when another teacher didn't hide the "Oath to the President of the United States and Defense of the US Constitution" letter she had to sign before even getting the job. THAT took my mind back to 9/2001 or 10/2001, or maybe it was early 2002 when I astounded those two teachers who probably feared me or thought I was a mole testing their oaths. They were immigrants of Asian ancestry. I think they were terrified.
But, some teachers are HOPPING EFFING MAD that their continued or new employment hinged on taking that oath. I guess it's because "they're the front line of our way of life", being around the kids and all. Well, whomever wrote that doc can, like Popeye says, "Well, BLOW me NOW", or was that "Blow me DOWN"? Metaphoricaly, ehphemistically, or acoustically, either works.
I am sure many teachers coerced into signing those docs will vote for no more BU__SH__ in our Oval Office.
If I am mistaken about the imposition of the oath doc for teachers, KINDLY tell me. But, as far as I found out by happenstance/random chance, it was foisted upon them AFTER 9/11.
of BU__ SH__ voting as we know it.
As for dual-county registration, consider this: When you drive across state lines, many if not virtually all law enforcement agencies have near-time or real-time access to DL or citizen information, thanks to crimes that preceded 9/11. If a cop in Arkansas can make DL information determinations on Nevada resident, then that can work at the polls, too.
Just station a radio/computer-equipeed squad car at each voting location (if there are too many, then consolidate them). Mag-swipe each card at the car as the voter arrives. Just plug in a special swipe reader and hang it out the door on a mount like at the drive-ins, where speakers hang from the the window.
Here is how to deal with the problem, in more detail:
-Voter arrives to poll location
-ID OR DL is swiped
-Photo of voter is taken, only to be used if a dual-vote attempt is detected where dual voting is not permitted
-Name/DL/SSN are checked for previous county votes for the cycle in question
-Police officer at voting location arrests any attempting-duplicate voters, matches the photos, and books the person, pending clarification. This'll frighten other abusers. After clarification clears the suspect, the booking should be purged. If the person is undertaking a bona-fide illegal-vote attempt, let the booking stand once the other violated state forwards its polls or DL or ResID info
-Cleared voters are given a token to drop into voting machine
-Token sets up process
-Voter votes
-Token is removed and reused and token-drops are counted later and tallied against total votes to ensure 1:1
AT NO POINT should the voter identifying information be used to correlate to the vote. This ensures privacy and allows for a voter registered in one party to change his or her mind at the last minute and vote for opposing candidates without having to reregister (if that normally is the process...)
Motor-Voter is not the answer. Resident-Voter is the answer. Just because one is issued a license doesn't mean entitlement to register to vote is conferred. The person issued a Resident Card can have it as a supplement to their DL, or have them combined, if desired, but it should be a voter/resident choice. The DL need not carry any voter party affiliation information, just allow for cross-state lines checking.
And, as for no more BU__ SH__ lost-votes in the mop closet, NO candidate takes office if sufficient collusion and corruption like 2000 ever happens again. In that case, the country should be run according to rules of succession, except no one party will be allowed to dominate.
Actually let's put an end to the BU__ SH__ like this:
--Two or more candidates politick for Prez
--One wins
--The looser is the VP
--Alternately, each cabinet position is filled by members of SEVERAL parties
This BULLSHIT of one dominant party trying to represent the whole country MUST END. It is disingenuous, deceitful, rampantly corrupt, and insulting. Liars who spin the best lies win, and then we, the populace suffer for a liar, the liar's campaign, and the liar's party's constituents.
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If bush wins, it'll likely be BU__ SH__, and then world will react accordingly: NEGATIVELY.
Better a new devil who has screwed us less than the same devil who knows our butts, wallets, and more.
Aside from the emotions stuff I injected below the equal signs, I think the stuff above that line could pass, if parties pull their heads out of their ASSES and stop treating our political system like it's an orgiastic bone-breaking football game!
David Syes
Are there any 3-D games yet exploiting panoramic views?
It would be nice to have a FlightGear or CS/HL configurable with situational displays to simulate a cockpit or helmet display system.
This could impart a sense of "being there", but what would REALLY be cool is for there to be hookups for projectors. Imagine projecting the environs in a darkened bedroom or gaming den, having the LCDs and input devices coordinated with the projections, and letting the player have more in-depth fun.
This might not do much for FPS on ground areas, but for those in cockpits, this could feel awesome to have the projector change the horizon with each bank, roll, or pitch, and having the terrain shift when a yaw is commanded.
Of course, this might suck a LOT of juice, having the necessary projectors. Maybe a reflective tarp of kind could assist.
Even better, a ceiling, floor, and wall grid with a bunch of 'collaborative' projectors and cells/receptors could make a room seem like "being there".
If this is NOT yet patented, reserve the right to pursue this, REGARDLESS of US or International Law. I just don't have the money, yet, and someone else having the money SHALL NOT PRECLUDE me. I here and now share with others the access to this idea, gridding a bedroom or small space with consumer-game-oriented projectors and receptors, coupled with a photo-interactive tarp to make an otherwise expensive simulator quite affordable to those with small budgets.
David Syes
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1 963&e=12&u=/ap/20041019/ap_on_el_pr/registration_s cam
Mary Poppins registered to vote in Defiance, Ohio. A radio luggage ad had a lady who used to say, "There's no BOATS in OHIO!", but SOMEbody's in a boatload of trouble for messing with the voting process.
with GROKlaw, but her peers and seniors are still mostly practicing...
CROCKlaw
DOH!!!!
Subterfuge
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Trickery-dickery
It's too bad Apples own lawyers MISSED that. It's a height of folly for a lawyer to miss injected specfics that are an attempt to "minefield" a contract into oblivion.
Gotta be careful with those "version #" and "any version" clauses.
It's this kind of tricky-dick stuff that mires musicians and novelists, especially the publishing houses that CLAIM to be PROTECTING themselves when they demand the author submits to the publisher's ownership/control:
--all drafts,
--sketches
--blueprints
--models
--di
--plans
--audio/visual recordings
--notes
and other nouns. They are not just doing due diligene to ward off complaints or suits, you know. They are trying to hem up the author who two years into a 3-year contract starts negotiations with another publishers. If said author surrenders ALL that material, other than the manuscript itself, said author most likely is SCREWED, and even unable to present that non-selling, non-performing material to a new suitor.
Capitalism and business law at its best.
That is why, as an aspiring author and as an artist NONE of my drawings or works leave my ownership. Anybody wanting to play the game with ME is only getting a non-exclusive license for a limited period of time in which to ATTEMPT to make a buck. By no means do they acquire and blocking or obstructing rights to hem me in. If I can create drawings, then they can go make their own if they want control over drawings.
Authors, whether of software, books, drawings, or what-nots MUST become non-conformists and use everthing at their dispose, from copyright, to copyleft, to creative commons, to GPL/LGPL/ and more. SOME RIGHTS reserved is better that ALL RIGHTS surrendered.
David Syes