Could be they will image/snapshot (think: stealthy backup) the entire system (or, whatever they can get away with) and then just speed up subsequent monitoring by doing differential snapshots. That could explain why later on the monitoring process will be quicker.
But, since they pulled the freebie deal, how much does it matter anymore? (aside from learning how to do stealthy snapshots to embed in the next version of ms windows?)
"If it is analyzed by a machine, I guess you haven't told a Microsoft employee and Microsoft is in the clear."
That would run contrary to law enforcement using cameras and remote trackers/traffic counters/cell phone cell-site-traversal timings when issuing speeding citations.
The machines can issue citations with evidence and the charges/citations will stick in court. If a software company using automated gear finds irrefutable or irresistible evidence of crime, why would not the computer be considered an employee? Because it lacks a soul and is non-ambulatory? Doesn't take/give a dump? If a quad-amputee employee sat an monitored evidence of a crime, it would count, right? Despite the employee being limited in some way?
I'm not defending ms' monitoring (of data), just pointing out my take.
Imagine being given wrong directions, misleading or misinforming.
This could be merely the first step in domestic warfare upon civilians. In the case of the US, bitching about China conducting IT warfare against the US... sheesh, the US ADMITTED (IIRC) that it would seek out technical capabilities in this area. Doesn't matter anymore who started it. The whiny bitching in the papers is pathetic. All governments do this, so the US is not the only nor the last target.
But, Rogers is probably just sleuthing along a la AT&T, on the Canadian side of the border.
Could be that real, bona fide Terrorists set up shop in comfy (to them?) Canada and Canada, fearful of becoming a haven for springboard attacks to the good ole U.S. of A, wants to show washington it can get tough with technical prowess.
OTOH, could be the US is encouraging Canada to do this, knowing the fallout will be terrorists might have to clam up and reduce their activity.
As for crackers, they will have to also go further underground, or risk being caught.
So, what we have is stupid criminals and less sophisticated Ts getting caught, marketing teams manipulating consumer privacy information, and government saying it's all for the common good.
Somewhere in there lies the truth, the dark truth, and worse.
(*unless you are worried about neighbors or sniffers scooping up your collection titles...).
Now, you can use a relational database, sort them, and then displace or misplace them about the premises all you like. Just call them up. If you have multiple book cases and lots of non-thief guests, help them be helpful by putting wall scanners around the house. They can press the book against one or under one (like in "Targey") and be told in audio or in display where approximately to deposit or set the book.
This would work for not only books, but tools, DVDs, CDs, dishes, clothes, whatever anyone wishes to anal-retentively catalog, sort, and locate (place or find)...
Best thing? You don't NEED a fixed placement; shelving can be dynamic. This is something public libraries (ESPECIALLY SF Main) could use. It's frustrating to not be able to re-check for 5-15 DAYS a book or video I KNOW that I returned and is not on hold for another patron. I asked about that and aside from technical issues was the explanation that the delay helps deter repeat checkouts and enables others to find and check out or just at-desk read or browse a work.
But, still, to be fair to SF Main, they are updating the branch with a more automated check-in/check-out system. Hopefully they've dispensed with the tagging of reserved books with patron name. NObody should have to wonder what nosybodies are scanning the reservation shelves by patron and topic.
Up your ass with a splintered fiddle you riaa bastards and bitches...
Disks WEAR OUT. You think I'm going to keep replacing player-scratched media? I have finally, for the first time in my life, bought an MP3 player in Nov 07, and I have years worth of CDs I PURCHASED, and some from the net, but I don't have any habit of burning and selling or even giving away to more than 3 people EVER.
Call it space-shifting if you want, but it helps reduce wear and tear on my computer when I listen to 25 hours of music over the weekend. My CDs are in MY possession, and you're lucky I paid for THOSE, considering they are 5-25 times more expensive than they OUGHT to be. Worse, the MUSICIANS are being screwed (not just because they stupidly signed with a label that screws them in contract but) because you REFUSE to reward them for what they are worth. If I could figure out HOW to directly compensate them, I would, and just bypass your asses.
Capricious, unrestricted, unchallenged, and blanket permission to just take away computers because the RIAA or others want to start punishing or using as examples people who still buy SOMETHING from among the overpriced products.
Go Canada! Stand up and who your pride AND defiance.
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Glad you had a laugh. Thanks for reading and setting me straight...
So, were they blasted INTO space our OUT BY space objects?
Did they find any Sleestaks, or other creatures from Land of the Lost?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_the_Lost_(1974_TV_series)
http://www.landofthelost.com/
Will they whine if they become referred to as "Beast Buyte"?
Retro-Rewind (70's)
Narrator: What's NEW pussy-cat?
Cat: Glaow, glaoww, glaowww...
------
Chorus: PuuRINA CAT GLaow...
Kitties: Glaow-glaow
Chorus: PuuRINA CAT GLaow...
Kitties: Glaow-glaow
Chorus: PuRINA-
Kitties: (stop-action/fwd/rev) Gla-gla-gla- glao--gla--gla--glaow-glaow-glaowwww....
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Glaow-glaow-glawo-
Glaow-glaow-glawo-
Glaow-
glaow-
Glawo-
glaow-
Glaow-
glawo-
Glawo-
Feed it NUKeNUBA and it'll be outta sight...
And, while you're at it....
"Put.. the.. PLUS.. ON.. YOUR.. CAT, the HERTZ 2+1 cat...
And, to BHIMA:
"My GF died her cat purple years ago. He was embarrassed... I hadn't seen an embarrassed cat before."
Mwo? An effete male cat??? Was it a SHElion, then... Did he get "catty" later on?
presentation...
Butt, will the GIMP make'm glow, or does the GIMP blow?
(It puts the kitties in the basket, or the blows' a' glowing...)
FPGA glow stix
Well, kitties are so close they practically have "nuclear bonds", anyway...
Now, there can be not just "Eukanuba cat food", but Nukenub cat food...
Could be they will image/snapshot (think: stealthy backup) the entire system (or, whatever they can get away with) and then just speed up subsequent monitoring by doing differential snapshots. That could explain why later on the monitoring process will be quicker.
But, since they pulled the freebie deal, how much does it matter anymore? (aside from learning how to do stealthy snapshots to embed in the next version of ms windows?)
"If it is analyzed by a machine, I guess you haven't told a Microsoft employee and Microsoft is in the clear."
That would run contrary to law enforcement using cameras and remote trackers/traffic counters/cell phone cell-site-traversal timings when issuing speeding citations.
The machines can issue citations with evidence and the charges/citations will stick in court. If a software company using automated gear finds irrefutable or irresistible evidence of crime, why would not the computer be considered an employee? Because it lacks a soul and is non-ambulatory? Doesn't take/give a dump? If a quad-amputee employee sat an monitored evidence of a crime, it would count, right? Despite the employee being limited in some way?
I'm not defending ms' monitoring (of data), just pointing out my take.
Considering all the steroids on animal farms, it could be QUITE hairy:
1: her
2: she could out power(fill in your blanks)you...
When you pass out from fleeing her, you'll endure the Heimlich maneu(ve)r...
Especially think: at&t + Rogers cable......
Holy flaming Eucharist in Bucharest at the Chalice of Malice, Batman!!!
government honey nets....
Imagine being given wrong directions, misleading or misinforming.
This could be merely the first step in domestic warfare upon civilians. In the case of the US, bitching about China conducting IT warfare against the US... sheesh, the US ADMITTED (IIRC) that it would seek out technical capabilities in this area. Doesn't matter anymore who started it. The whiny bitching in the papers is pathetic. All governments do this, so the US is not the only nor the last target.
But, Rogers is probably just sleuthing along a la AT&T, on the Canadian side of the border.
Could be that real, bona fide Terrorists set up shop in comfy (to them?) Canada and Canada, fearful of becoming a haven for springboard attacks to the good ole U.S. of A, wants to show washington it can get tough with technical prowess.
OTOH, could be the US is encouraging Canada to do this, knowing the fallout will be terrorists might have to clam up and reduce their activity.
As for crackers, they will have to also go further underground, or risk being caught.
So, what we have is stupid criminals and less sophisticated Ts getting caught, marketing teams manipulating consumer privacy information, and government saying it's all for the common good.
Somewhere in there lies the truth, the dark truth, and worse.
O-Hai-Yo Arrrht... Etch-Uhhh-Sketch...
Maybe they think laptops are high-tech Etch-A-Sketches and cannot be networked?
I guess in the end, the department head will be "shaken", but not "stirred", happy hour or not.
Maybe the Ohio department has such MI-5-like employees that they need interns as decoys?
Whew, then I only shain-brifted ("brain-shifted", for the chentally mallenged...)
Well, one could always wield an ax before visitors who can't sort of refile...
1. Bar Code
2. Wi-Fi*
3. RFID*
(*unless you are worried about neighbors or sniffers scooping up your collection titles...).
Now, you can use a relational database, sort them, and then displace or misplace them about the premises all you like. Just call them up. If you have multiple book cases and lots of non-thief guests, help them be helpful by putting wall scanners around the house. They can press the book against one or under one (like in "Targey") and be told in audio or in display where approximately to deposit or set the book.
This would work for not only books, but tools, DVDs, CDs, dishes, clothes, whatever anyone wishes to anal-retentively catalog, sort, and locate (place or find)...
Best thing? You don't NEED a fixed placement; shelving can be dynamic. This is something public libraries (ESPECIALLY SF Main) could use. It's frustrating to not be able to re-check for 5-15 DAYS a book or video I KNOW that I returned and is not on hold for another patron. I asked about that and aside from technical issues was the explanation that the delay helps deter repeat checkouts and enables others to find and check out or just at-desk read or browse a work.
But, still, to be fair to SF Main, they are updating the branch with a more automated check-in/check-out system. Hopefully they've dispensed with the tagging of reserved books with patron name. NObody should have to wonder what nosybodies are scanning the reservation shelves by patron and topic.
For the duly-deserving, make that "Laser Fiddle" (instead of "splintered fiddle"), and with a warning:
"Due to excessive, irreversible cauterization, to not reinsert in previously-lased asses"...
Motherfarkers....
Whew, there's IS an "L" in that word.... was worrying... for a second, or two... tick tock, tick tok...
This is going to be unkind, but...
Up your ass with a splintered fiddle you riaa bastards and bitches...
Disks WEAR OUT. You think I'm going to keep replacing player-scratched media? I have finally, for the first time in my life, bought an MP3 player in Nov 07, and I have years worth of CDs I PURCHASED, and some from the net, but I don't have any habit of burning and selling or even giving away to more than 3 people EVER.
Call it space-shifting if you want, but it helps reduce wear and tear on my computer when I listen to 25 hours of music over the weekend. My CDs are in MY possession, and you're lucky I paid for THOSE, considering they are 5-25 times more expensive than they OUGHT to be. Worse, the MUSICIANS are being screwed (not just because they stupidly signed with a label that screws them in contract but) because you REFUSE to reward them for what they are worth. If I could figure out HOW to directly compensate them, I would, and just bypass your asses.
Capricious, unrestricted, unchallenged, and blanket permission to just take away computers because the RIAA or others want to start punishing or using as examples people who still buy SOMETHING from among the overpriced products.
Go Canada! Stand up and who your pride AND defiance.
ROTFLMGDAO... "Interesting?" heheheheheh....
Thanks!
Let's call the product "AnuAug"....