AT&T does NOT deserve immunity from prosecution for activity in setting up wiretaps. By default, most computers come with ms windows on them. I suspect ms is paying AT&T -- a formerly Unix-based company-- marketing dollars to push windows. Last night, I tried to use my Linux-based computer to set up my housemate's DSL account activation, and AT&T programmers or upper management (via ineptitude? I doubt it...) decided to code their JAVA not for the most standards-adhering browsers, but for Internet Explorer. Well, the support Safari, too. I dealt with TWO technicians over 40 minutes. Both empathized with me, but were somewhat in disagreement with each other. One said the JAVA-based app wouldn't care what browser really was used. The second said it wasnt' Java, but when I caved in and used my housemate's vista-based computer to activate his service, it indeed WAS Java. This is got to be some customized version of Java designed solely to exclude or discriminate against non-ie/non-windows/non-Mac users.
The initial sign-up screen has 3 radio buttons:
Windows Mac Linux/Other.
Trying the first two, I got error messages because the browsers for these platforms were not detected. Trying the third, I got a flat-out rejection stating that Linux was not supported.
I plead my case to the AT&T representative that we Linux users ONLY need our IP assigned, and that the AT&T software has NO business whatsoever reading our registry (if we chose to use a windows box), changing files, and sending back code to AT&T from our machines. After all, if after the initial sign-on AT&T doesn't NEED a pure IE or Safari browser, then why discriminate against Konqueror, Opera, Firefox, Flock, etc.? It's because (I suspect) either AT&T, microsoft of the government/s or all 3 want to tie specific computers (maybe MAC addresses or motherboard IDs) to specific phone numbers and house addresses and account holders.
I also told these reps that AT&T (and Comcast and others, as I've dealt with Comcast in the past) ONLY need the AT&T-supplied or connecting-router's MAC address, since they already know the subscriber contact information and they can reverse lookup the phone number. He agreed there, too, except to admit they don't even need the router MAC. So, I challenged him, again, then WHY embed your downloaded software into to machine such that it has to be rebooted to "remove itself". No, I suspect it's to rewrite parts of the registry.
Between the ISPs and microsoft, the Apple and windows users who are not critically analyzing this situation are by default making microsoft and AT&T/et al cohorts or accomplices to wholesale wiretap clearinghousing of vast swaths of the US public.
Now I am ultimately NOT against the government/s collecting information on REAL criminals who've demonstrated they need an eye kept on them. But consider this, too:
AT&T, by compelling use of IE for initial sign-on, is allowing ms to collect and present to shareholders FALSE statistics about how many people are "using" ms ie. In reality, many people are ditching ie in favor of Flock, Safari, Opera, Konqueror, etc, generally based on open source code.
How long will it take for us to see an anti-trust-like/customer-abuse-like trial to BUST UP this uncouth conduct of AT&T, Comcast, etc? At least to Comcast's credit, several times (after my first and ONLY time using their CD), after I said in NO uncertain terms will there be a windoze box used in my household and that I use Linux, they validated my router, provided/provisioned it an IP, and I had no more browser/OS-level arguments with them.
Why the hell can't AT&T get their noses out of ms' rear? Is it because ms pays them kickbacks to coerce unsuspecting people into giving up on Linux? Is it because AT&T has money from ms and orders from the NSA/CIA/FBI/et al? Is it because AT&T has sloppy, thoughtless, idiotic execs or programmers? All of the above.
I guess, I'm trying to say that a smaller nation not wanting to be pushed around is like the kid with the cool lunch and pail (resources) the bully wants. Others, meek and timid before the bully, or suckling from the bully, are moral cowards (or could later change their stance).
If I am that kid with the lunch pail, and daily lose my lunch to an asshole, I will one day come to lunch with laxatives in the food or a booby trap. It won't matter if I waste (or extract waste) from the bully AND his entourage. In MY mind, I might leave alone the spectators and MOST of the teachers, but a few teachers, faculty and students certainly would be fair game.
So, smaller nations unwilling to play the game have the moral right, duty and expectation to vigorously defend and even kill to preserve their autonomy as long as they can. If that means nuking a carrier, sinking a sub, giving STDs to sailors, so be it. If it only takes going to the world court to get the equivalent of an injunction, then even better. But far too many smaller nations and locales have been screwed over by belligerent, bible-thumping, or sabre-rattling nations (not by just the US, but even by some Asian powers and a PLETHORA of European countries of the past. Think: How did all those South Pacific oil fields end up in NON-ASIAN hands? It SURE as hell wasn't voluntary. Most of it was trick-screwed or leased from losers of the war (taken from Japan, after Japan took it from most of the others, and well, I better stop here...)
What will they (U2) have to say about it? Hmmm, "Under a Blood Red Sky" on "Sunday Bloody Sunday", because "With or Without You", "In the Name of Love" of money, he is "Bad", and he "Still hasn't Found What he's Looking For".
There, Bono ought to have a field day with that one...
Well, as for asymmetrical warfare, what I mean is about going out in a blaze of glory meant to disparage the political image of the shooter.
This means that whomever is the target of the USN/US Machine need not HIT BACK directly. Just cause ecological damage that the US cannot and will not be economically, politically, nor morally willing to digest. Even China, with her trillions (or hundreds of billions) in the US will not idly sit by while the US or any other nation gleefully (or publicly reservedly) pops and sinks "enemy combatants" (ships, in my context here) that don't even have a chance to shoot back or yell or fire in wild futility.
Used to be navies and armies fought semi-gentlemanly. Now, the US government balks about "asymmetrical" warfare and "naked aggression", but downplays the massive, nearly retaliation-proof first-strike *capability* (i emphasize "capability" because I recognize that the US and other governments allied to the US don't regularly just pop people and ships), and this strikes me as the pot calling the kettle black (at times).
So, just as in my past arguments about the near-uselessness of trying to SINK a USN CVN when nuking the water she'll need for seawater cooling and desalination/etc, or nuking the flight area or flight deck and warping the arrestor wires and catapult pistons is possible (tho maybe not a likely SUCCESSFUL scenario, at LEAST an enemy/enema can TRY, if conditions are favorable...--fake Commair, assault in Panama, Suez assault, etc... ) to make a token gesture.
I'm not saying KILL the USN or attack it. I tend to say these things to point out the stupidity and futility of trying to Big Bad #1 when often the world is dead set against you if you actually split a hornet's nest instead of gassing it.
(I figure someone'll mark me inflammatory, off-topic, or troll or flame-bait, but, what the hell. I'm not a wus or kiss-ass draped in or ass-stuck by flags... And, I'll turn off my bonuses, too...)
Well, whatever the range, speed, or lethality of those "rail guns", they'll only give further justification for asymmetrical warfare and tactics. If I were a government faced with my ships being targeted by such guns, I'd resort to deploying ships with 50 or 100 MT nukes designed to detonate when impacted by high-energy rounds. The USN had then better hit my ships SPOT ON to assure they nukes wouldn't go off.
Sheesh, talk about exacerbating nuclear proliferation. As long as ONE nation has super weapons, no other nation can POSSIBLY feel non-threatened. Doesn't matter whether the US actually USES them. It's their existence and actual deployment that is unnerving to some nations. And, it only justifies nations spending exorbitant sums of public money on otherwise phantom or unjustified war footing.
But, then, it's just a matter of time before technology for rail guns that are "good enough" hit the fleets. Now, other navies will just have to mount axial mounts and state publicly that they'll unleash as many shells as they can if they detect shock waves hurtling at their own datum point. "Shoot at me, I'll shoot indiscriminantly and with great fervor." That would create furor in world bodies, but *might* keep powerful, flag-waving navies "at bay".
these mosquitoes to "eat shit", or "suck shit", we could rid the world of diseases associated with human fecal pollution. Now, if they gain (or, umm, display) sentience, and "evaluate the shit they're in", WE will be in a world of shit. Especially if they start to sting us. It'll be a real stinker.
Is that argument enough to not breed engineered mosquitoes? This shit could literally come back to bite us in our asses.
I guess what I'm getting at is that peddlers of pamphlets and flyers (ESPECIALLY of dogma, religion, etc.) should be required to have a "permit to distribute" or a "peddler's permit". Most cities require them, and many WILL enforce. But, SF sometimes is too damned liberal. I see the SAME people peddling these things, and I politely wave "no" to them, but I am sick of seeing their refuse lying on the ground.
The City should utilize some of those Powell-beat cops to tag these guy and fine them on the spot. And, any stuff of theirs collected should be sent to the Mayor's office until they become so sick of it they begin to enforce the law. I suppose that means the Downtown and Tendergroin street cleaning teams will have less to clean up, but if SF makes a big ol deal about people using street refuse bins to toss home-originated garbage, then the City can also crack down on these recruiters and anyone else peddling garbage-generating papers. It's not like they're offering "Street Sheet" in exchange for a buck (a program for homeless). These are religious types looking to recruit, convert or otherwise dupe people with movie-ticket-like cards. These, too, are another affront I see, littering the streets.
I do find fault with the litterbugs, but often they accept this paraphernalia out of politeness and then dump it in indignation that some Hubbard or Cruise or other outfit is handing these things out on a daily, factory-like basis. These are not just tourists, but locals.
SF had some plan (which seems to have died quietly) to go after DJs and promotional companies and clubs and bars because they would attach to cars all manner of and multiples of flyers, cards, strips and such and the vehicle owners either on the first or on subsequent visits to the area (or, they live there and were presumed to be a club-goer) get sick of it and just DUMP it to the ground.
To me, affixing ANY paper other than citations or kind "please don't block my driveway or you'll be towed next time" signs is a form of littering. SF WAS going to crack down, but there was a HUGE uproar by local businesses and things seemed to quiet down. Flyers still go onto cars, but maybe now SF just resorts to extra cleanup via use of the jobless in work programs.
Hell, it's not as if cracking down on Scientology or the like is the same as blaspheming the Pope. (The HS (Holy See) has at his command a private police force and I wouldn't be surprised if a few assassins or Popejas (ninjas....) work there too. Anyone know if there are "enforcers" for Scientology/et al?)
I can just see it now. First, we had to have duct tape (what a fiasco...). Now, we're likely to see snake-oil salespeople and inept government officials inducing a semi-panic.
But, it couldn't hurt to have a slew of Honda generators, arm-driven dynamo radio-cell phone charger units on hand.
It used to be in the prehistoric computing days, engineers got paid by number of lines cranked out. Now, it looks like gene engineers will bask in that opportunity.
But, hopefully, they don't crank out shitty code. Or, well REALLY have "The First man-Made Gnome" (which is what I read at first...). This could be a different take on Project Genesis.
In retrospect, I now wonder if this affected 1and1 late 2006 to early 2007. There were 3 times that one of my sites on 1and1 was affected. As in just inaccessible tho it would run for weeks and I hadn't changed anything. But, 1and1 were fast enough to fix it in under an hour. I used to be "paranoid" that some government agency was just trying to block my page (not necessarily the US, but maybe an Asian government). But I relaxed and nixed that line of thinking as no content was changed. It's been many months since I changed ANYthing on it.
Anyway, we all know the US, Russian, Chinese, and other governments regularly appear in the news condemning one another for staging shocking, penetrating attacks on each others military and infrastructure networks. Of course, we should not assume Japan, Israel and others are NOT conducting their own probes and audits, either.
If there IS malice involved, I'd venture to say the testers left the vuln as a message, or they slipped up and got discovered, but their tool bag was not left behind full...
But, then, I wouldn't put it past ms to be involved with this to undermine IT departments using heterogeneous servers. OH NO....
The City ought to revive the idea of charging fast-food restaurants for their garbage strewn all over the streets and apply it to those passing out the pink-paper "Are you bi-curious..." umm, I mean "Are you curious about yourself" tri-fold flyers. On any given day in Powell area, one can find locals and tourists just dropping the damned things once they realized what they've been proffered.
It's one thing to find chewing gum wrappers and fast-food containers and such on the streets, but ideas peddled and then rejected are a CLEAR sign that some one or some organization is going beyond free-speech guarantees. With TV, one can change channels or turn off the TV, and there is no immediate or sighted pollution. Even the ad sponsors can't (without digital connections) determine who is switching off their ads or just ignoring them and instead multi-tasking during commercial breaks or going to the bathroom between programs.
What that coarse-throat preacher and his megaphone gets up on his Powell Street pulpit condemning gays, heretics, non-Christians and so on, he's blabbing and making noise (apparently, he's within ordinance as SFPD never takes him down, since his Mr. Megaphone is not amplified via a generator or exceeding some decibel level, I guess...), he is making noise pollution, but at least one can walk away.
Flyers dropped or abandoned mean the message contained is simply not wanted. The content doesn't matter, unless it's pron, I guess, in which case we generally DON'T want the stuff face-up for kids and sensitive/easily-offended types to see. I guess I'm just sick and tired of seeing religious/belief paraphernalia on the street because its CONTENT is utterly rejected by 90% of those into whose hands it was stuck or taken out of sympathy for the pushers of it.
and inverse universe. What? Gates wants kinder, gentler capitalism? Cant that be like the wolf asking for its prey to exercise and make self beefier, juicer, and more succulent?
I guess monkeys or apes will go on the mock runs... They'll return (after 5,125 years of suspended animalization), and find... Cornelius? Or, maybe a Charlton Heston statue half-buried in older New York...
Or, they'll find the Land of the Lost, with millions of sexually-incompatible Sleetaks groveling all over the Earth.
I think the NASA part will be: Continuous audio piping of "Hey Hey, we're the Monkeys!...."
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AT&T does NOT deserve immunity from prosecution for activity in setting up wiretaps. By default, most computers come with ms windows on them. I suspect ms is paying AT&T -- a formerly Unix-based company-- marketing dollars to push windows. Last night, I tried to use my Linux-based computer to set up my housemate's DSL account activation, and AT&T programmers or upper management (via ineptitude? I doubt it...) decided to code their JAVA not for the most standards-adhering browsers, but for Internet Explorer. Well, the support Safari, too. I dealt with TWO technicians over 40 minutes. Both empathized with me, but were somewhat in disagreement with each other. One said the JAVA-based app wouldn't care what browser really was used. The second said it wasnt' Java, but when I caved in and used my housemate's vista-based computer to activate his service, it indeed WAS Java. This is got to be some customized version of Java designed solely to exclude or discriminate against non-ie/non-windows/non-Mac users.
The initial sign-up screen has 3 radio buttons:
Windows
Mac
Linux/Other.
Trying the first two, I got error messages because the browsers for these platforms were not detected. Trying the third, I got a flat-out rejection stating that Linux was not supported.
I plead my case to the AT&T representative that we Linux users ONLY need our IP assigned, and that the AT&T software has NO business whatsoever reading our registry (if we chose to use a windows box), changing files, and sending back code to AT&T from our machines. After all, if after the initial sign-on AT&T doesn't NEED a pure IE or Safari browser, then why discriminate against Konqueror, Opera, Firefox, Flock, etc.? It's because (I suspect) either AT&T, microsoft of the government/s or all 3 want to tie specific computers (maybe MAC addresses or motherboard IDs) to specific phone numbers and house addresses and account holders.
I also told these reps that AT&T (and Comcast and others, as I've dealt with Comcast in the past) ONLY need the AT&T-supplied or connecting-router's MAC address, since they already know the subscriber contact information and they can reverse lookup the phone number. He agreed there, too, except to admit they don't even need the router MAC. So, I challenged him, again, then WHY embed your downloaded software into to machine such that it has to be rebooted to "remove itself". No, I suspect it's to rewrite parts of the registry.
Between the ISPs and microsoft, the Apple and windows users who are not critically analyzing this situation are by default making microsoft and AT&T/et al cohorts or accomplices to wholesale wiretap clearinghousing of vast swaths of the US public.
Now I am ultimately NOT against the government/s collecting information on REAL criminals who've demonstrated they need an eye kept on them. But consider this, too:
AT&T, by compelling use of IE for initial sign-on, is allowing ms to collect and present to shareholders FALSE statistics about how many people are "using" ms ie. In reality, many people are ditching ie in favor of Flock, Safari, Opera, Konqueror, etc, generally based on open source code.
How long will it take for us to see an anti-trust-like/customer-abuse-like trial to BUST UP this uncouth conduct of AT&T, Comcast, etc? At least to Comcast's credit, several times (after my first and ONLY time using their CD), after I said in NO uncertain terms will there be a windoze box used in my household and that I use Linux, they validated my router, provided/provisioned it an IP, and I had no more browser/OS-level arguments with them.
Why the hell can't AT&T get their noses out of ms' rear? Is it because ms pays them kickbacks to coerce unsuspecting people into giving up on Linux? Is it because AT&T has money from ms and orders from the NSA/CIA/FBI/et al? Is it because AT&T has sloppy, thoughtless, idiotic execs or programmers? All of the above.
There is a minefield and
I guess, I'm trying to say that a smaller nation not wanting to be pushed around is like the kid with the cool lunch and pail (resources) the bully wants. Others, meek and timid before the bully, or suckling from the bully, are moral cowards (or could later change their stance).
If I am that kid with the lunch pail, and daily lose my lunch to an asshole, I will one day come to lunch with laxatives in the food or a booby trap. It won't matter if I waste (or extract waste) from the bully AND his entourage. In MY mind, I might leave alone the spectators and MOST of the teachers, but a few teachers, faculty and students certainly would be fair game.
So, smaller nations unwilling to play the game have the moral right, duty and expectation to vigorously defend and even kill to preserve their autonomy as long as they can. If that means nuking a carrier, sinking a sub, giving STDs to sailors, so be it. If it only takes going to the world court to get the equivalent of an injunction, then even better. But far too many smaller nations and locales have been screwed over by belligerent, bible-thumping, or sabre-rattling nations (not by just the US, but even by some Asian powers and a PLETHORA of European countries of the past. Think: How did all those South Pacific oil fields end up in NON-ASIAN hands? It SURE as hell wasn't voluntary. Most of it was trick-screwed or leased from losers of the war (taken from Japan, after Japan took it from most of the others, and well, I better stop here...)
(NKB/NSB)
From Russia with Love?
(NKB, NSB)
Spasibo, and dasvidanya, baby...
What will they (U2) have to say about it? Hmmm, "Under a Blood Red Sky" on "Sunday Bloody Sunday", because "With or Without You", "In the Name of Love" of money, he is "Bad", and he "Still hasn't Found What he's Looking For".
There, Bono ought to have a field day with that one...
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Well, as for asymmetrical warfare, what I mean is about going out in a blaze of glory meant to disparage the political image of the shooter.
This means that whomever is the target of the USN/US Machine need not HIT BACK directly. Just cause ecological damage that the US cannot and will not be economically, politically, nor morally willing to digest. Even China, with her trillions (or hundreds of billions) in the US will not idly sit by while the US or any other nation gleefully (or publicly reservedly) pops and sinks "enemy combatants" (ships, in my context here) that don't even have a chance to shoot back or yell or fire in wild futility.
Used to be navies and armies fought semi-gentlemanly. Now, the US government balks about "asymmetrical" warfare and "naked aggression", but downplays the massive, nearly retaliation-proof first-strike *capability* (i emphasize "capability" because I recognize that the US and other governments allied to the US don't regularly just pop people and ships), and this strikes me as the pot calling the kettle black (at times).
So, just as in my past arguments about the near-uselessness of trying to SINK a USN CVN when nuking the water she'll need for seawater cooling and desalination/etc, or nuking the flight area or flight deck and warping the arrestor wires and catapult pistons is possible (tho maybe not a likely SUCCESSFUL scenario, at LEAST an enemy/enema can TRY, if conditions are favorable...--fake Commair, assault in Panama, Suez assault, etc... ) to make a token gesture.
I'm not saying KILL the USN or attack it. I tend to say these things to point out the stupidity and futility of trying to Big Bad #1 when often the world is dead set against you if you actually split a hornet's nest instead of gassing it.
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1. Gives a new meaning to "Flash burn"
2. Hit three performing singers at once and it's a "torch song trilogy"...
3. As a method of execution.... Trial by fire... no illusions here
(I figure someone'll mark me inflammatory, off-topic, or troll or flame-bait, but, what the hell. I'm not a wus or kiss-ass draped in or ass-stuck by flags... And, I'll turn off my bonuses, too...)
Well, whatever the range, speed, or lethality of those "rail guns", they'll only give further justification for asymmetrical warfare and tactics. If I were a government faced with my ships being targeted by such guns, I'd resort to deploying ships with 50 or 100 MT nukes designed to detonate when impacted by high-energy rounds. The USN had then better hit my ships SPOT ON to assure they nukes wouldn't go off.
Sheesh, talk about exacerbating nuclear proliferation. As long as ONE nation has super weapons, no other nation can POSSIBLY feel non-threatened. Doesn't matter whether the US actually USES them. It's their existence and actual deployment that is unnerving to some nations. And, it only justifies nations spending exorbitant sums of public money on otherwise phantom or unjustified war footing.
But, then, it's just a matter of time before technology for rail guns that are "good enough" hit the fleets. Now, other navies will just have to mount axial mounts and state publicly that they'll unleash as many shells as they can if they detect shock waves hurtling at their own datum point. "Shoot at me, I'll shoot indiscriminantly and with great fervor." That would create furor in world bodies, but *might* keep powerful, flag-waving navies "at bay".
"forking shame"?
I would find a place to say 'They can have Taster's Choice, or they can taste *THIS*', hehe
Give me a break- break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar.... (Hehehe.... captcha: phosgene.... LOL)
Shed...
"THEN there will be a public outcry"...
Oh, I thought I read:
"THEN there will be a pubic outcry"... Butt, it DOES seem there might be pubic outpouring...
Hopefully, these aren't the exploding batteries... It could cost you another arm and a leg...
And, even if it didn't blow up, it could be shocking or quite emotionally discharging to see one of your limbs smoking.
"teething pains"...
Remakes of Hackers and The Net, anyone?
these mosquitoes to "eat shit", or "suck shit", we could rid the world of diseases associated with human fecal pollution. Now, if they gain (or, umm, display) sentience, and "evaluate the shit they're in", WE will be in a world of shit. Especially if they start to sting us. It'll be a real stinker.
Is that argument enough to not breed engineered mosquitoes? This shit could literally come back to bite us in our asses.
I guess what I'm getting at is that peddlers of pamphlets and flyers (ESPECIALLY of dogma, religion, etc.) should be required to have a "permit to distribute" or a "peddler's permit". Most cities require them, and many WILL enforce. But, SF sometimes is too damned liberal. I see the SAME people peddling these things, and I politely wave "no" to them, but I am sick of seeing their refuse lying on the ground.
The City should utilize some of those Powell-beat cops to tag these guy and fine them on the spot. And, any stuff of theirs collected should be sent to the Mayor's office until they become so sick of it they begin to enforce the law. I suppose that means the Downtown and Tendergroin street cleaning teams will have less to clean up, but if SF makes a big ol deal about people using street refuse bins to toss home-originated garbage, then the City can also crack down on these recruiters and anyone else peddling garbage-generating papers. It's not like they're offering "Street Sheet" in exchange for a buck (a program for homeless). These are religious types looking to recruit, convert or otherwise dupe people with movie-ticket-like cards. These, too, are another affront I see, littering the streets.
I do find fault with the litterbugs, but often they accept this paraphernalia out of politeness and then dump it in indignation that some Hubbard or Cruise or other outfit is handing these things out on a daily, factory-like basis. These are not just tourists, but locals.
SF had some plan (which seems to have died quietly) to go after DJs and promotional companies and clubs and bars because they would attach to cars all manner of and multiples of flyers, cards, strips and such and the vehicle owners either on the first or on subsequent visits to the area (or, they live there and were presumed to be a club-goer) get sick of it and just DUMP it to the ground.
To me, affixing ANY paper other than citations or kind "please don't block my driveway or you'll be towed next time" signs is a form of littering. SF WAS going to crack down, but there was a HUGE uproar by local businesses and things seemed to quiet down. Flyers still go onto cars, but maybe now SF just resorts to extra cleanup via use of the jobless in work programs.
Hell, it's not as if cracking down on Scientology or the like is the same as blaspheming the Pope. (The HS (Holy See) has at his command a private police force and I wouldn't be surprised if a few assassins or Popejas (ninjas....) work there too. Anyone know if there are "enforcers" for Scientology/et al?)
I can just see it now. First, we had to have duct tape (what a fiasco...). Now, we're likely to see snake-oil salespeople and inept government officials inducing a semi-panic.
But, it couldn't hurt to have a slew of Honda generators, arm-driven dynamo radio-cell phone charger units on hand.
counted....
It used to be in the prehistoric computing days, engineers got paid by number of lines cranked out. Now, it looks like gene engineers will bask in that opportunity.
But, hopefully, they don't crank out shitty code. Or, well REALLY have "The First man-Made Gnome" (which is what I read at first...). This could be a different take on Project Genesis.
In retrospect, I now wonder if this affected 1and1 late 2006 to early 2007. There were 3 times that one of my sites on 1and1 was affected. As in just inaccessible tho it would run for weeks and I hadn't changed anything. But, 1and1 were fast enough to fix it in under an hour. I used to be "paranoid" that some government agency was just trying to block my page (not necessarily the US, but maybe an Asian government). But I relaxed and nixed that line of thinking as no content was changed. It's been many months since I changed ANYthing on it.
Anyway, we all know the US, Russian, Chinese, and other governments regularly appear in the news condemning one another for staging shocking, penetrating attacks on each others military and infrastructure networks. Of course, we should not assume Japan, Israel and others are NOT conducting their own probes and audits, either.
If there IS malice involved, I'd venture to say the testers left the vuln as a message, or they slipped up and got discovered, but their tool bag was not left behind full...
But, then, I wouldn't put it past ms to be involved with this to undermine IT departments using heterogeneous servers. OH NO....
Are your R's and B's "Crossover" keys, or Virtual Keys, or VirtualBox keys?
Run your tummy makes me think of being run over, or loosing a hot bowel of a lahar surmounting, umm, surpassing even Mt. Pinatubo.
That are be unpossible.
The City ought to revive the idea of charging fast-food restaurants for their garbage strewn all over the streets and apply it to those passing out the pink-paper "Are you bi-curious..." umm, I mean "Are you curious about yourself" tri-fold flyers. On any given day in Powell area, one can find locals and tourists just dropping the damned things once they realized what they've been proffered.
It's one thing to find chewing gum wrappers and fast-food containers and such on the streets, but ideas peddled and then rejected are a CLEAR sign that some one or some organization is going beyond free-speech guarantees. With TV, one can change channels or turn off the TV, and there is no immediate or sighted pollution. Even the ad sponsors can't (without digital connections) determine who is switching off their ads or just ignoring them and instead multi-tasking during commercial breaks or going to the bathroom between programs.
What that coarse-throat preacher and his megaphone gets up on his Powell Street pulpit condemning gays, heretics, non-Christians and so on, he's blabbing and making noise (apparently, he's within ordinance as SFPD never takes him down, since his Mr. Megaphone is not amplified via a generator or exceeding some decibel level, I guess...), he is making noise pollution, but at least one can walk away.
Flyers dropped or abandoned mean the message contained is simply not wanted. The content doesn't matter, unless it's pron, I guess, in which case we generally DON'T want the stuff face-up for kids and sensitive/easily-offended types to see. I guess I'm just sick and tired of seeing religious/belief paraphernalia on the street because its CONTENT is utterly rejected by 90% of those into whose hands it was stuck or taken out of sympathy for the pushers of it.
and inverse universe. What? Gates wants kinder, gentler capitalism? Cant that be like the wolf asking for its prey to exercise and make self beefier, juicer, and more succulent?
It won't be a windy day in Arizona, this time.
But, when I re-read the tag, I saw:
NASA, Vets & Administration Clash Over Moon Plans
I guess monkeys or apes will go on the mock runs... They'll return (after 5,125 years of suspended animalization), and find... Cornelius? Or, maybe a Charlton Heston statue half-buried in older New York...
Or, they'll find the Land of the Lost, with millions of sexually-incompatible Sleetaks groveling all over the Earth.
I think the NASA part will be: Continuous audio piping of "Hey Hey, we're the Monkeys!...."