Many businesses, in order to avoid the bsa, need to collectively push for new legislation that makes grudge-based "whistle-blowing" subject to unmasking WHO is suing. If bsa won't reveal sources, then the company simply should get a "notice of demanded correction" and NO intimidation/fees/fines of ANY sort by bsa. This will destroy their business model and force them to make money a cleaner, less destructive way to small companies.
But, ultimately, to wreck their business model, Open Source needs to be part of the corrective process. Obviously, people will cheat, but if QUALITY (read: non-geek) substitutes arrive on scene, then
-- either mshaft and others will go berserk and try even harder to destroy Open Source, or
-- mshaft will blackmail/buy up more O/S,
-- or O/S will gain more ground.
A combination of these could happen/continue to happen
Even MORE now than ever, companies fearful of the riaa/bsa need to:
-- go with virtualization and terminal servers to remove hard drives and media access port so ANY employees who don't need them
-- replace with Open Source as MUCH software as they can
-- pony up money for consultative groups with similar passion for not being pursued by mshaft
-- come up with new NDA documents that specify that the company will counter-sue ANY employee who discloses licensing violations without FIRST notifying IT, the company counsel, and the company president (hmmm, sort of like the supposed checks-and-balances of Executive, Legislative, and Judicial?) on an OPEN display board so that no one side can snuff out the early notifications... this so that the company has a fighting chance to clean up whether or not it wantonly or negligently slipped into using illegal or miscounted copies of software...
That would take a LOT of balls to smother microshaft...
(Too bad enough competing and non-competing companies don't join to find common needs/ground so that an Open Source solution accelerates instead of plods along. I am not thinking OO.o...)
I guess I may have been unconsciously (and, umm, "unconscionably"?) been alluding to the feeling that SOME western companies and entities still see Asia as some untapped province of the west. But, I guess, the corollary is that Asian countries (bloc/partnered or not) can do similar.
Plus, a lot of the younger Japanese and Koreans are ragingly hot into each others exported music. With the eventual expiration of enough politicians on BOTH sides, the younger, less historically encumbered/tethered/(pick whatever euphemism that suits) will open more doors to each other than their elders might dare to.
In Gnome, what I DO like are emblems. Gnomes with emblems are nice and not gaudy. I wish (or hope that KDE) gets them. Their absence is...emblematic of a prob....lem....
Wouldn't be grand if in say, 4 years, KDE, X, or Gnome become so powerful as to be a semi-functional host environment for simple apps that don't need a full-blown OS? Not necessarily for LED book devices, but for say, tablets or hardware used for writing reports, creating content, etc.
I've ALWAYS suspected, and will continue to suspect, that those discs comcast and other ISPs give to windoze and Mac users is to install a keystroke tool or some back door onto the machines.
My fierce assertion is this: You wanna sniff my ass? DO SO AT THE DEMARC, FUCKERS.
If I EVER open an internet cafe, I will post signs:
"Not forced to comply with a court-ordered wiretap in [ ] days.
"Along with a "Safe working, accident-free [ ] days..."
"TRUST NO ONE: Assume this computer, or at least your session on it, is compromised. It's clean ONLY when the drive is wiped, the keyboards are melted, the other hardware disconnected from the Net/Web/Internets, as keystroking/data logging activities go. Be on your best behavior. Thank your emperors and governors..."
And, those computers would be Linux-based machines. Anyone wanting to use windoze would have to bring in their own machine (laptop) if they want a connection.
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Looks like someone Tor a new ass...and the big, fe(de)ral wolf is deeply embedded... hungry like the poof, umm, I mean wolf. I think someone IS crying wolf. End-to-end connect-shun with a big, hoary man-in-the-middle of the comm stream.... Jacking the pipe, sucking off the line...
All this talk of humongo-king crabs and giant claws makes me want to buy Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea DVDs to see those cheesy-ass sea lobsters attack the Seaview... I guess I can see aliens, too, to get through some of yesterday's Aliens Among us treat posted yesterday.
Slightly off but trying to stay on topic of the THREAD to which I responded...
Same happening in Japan, too... and Korea, Philippines, etc. with non-traditional foods with processing and preserving chemicals fattening up people. What's better: food that doesn't contribute to fattening up even when sedentary, or foot that fattens up, increases lethargy (in the absence of compensatory exercising), and introduces new medical risks?
I understand that the high-tech sector craze is a BOON for biomedical researchers and doctors in Texas, in places like Dallas and San Antonio and Austin. So many jobs were created along with so many homes being build that people with money they previously didn't spend are now eating their asses off more than ever before, pigging out at all number of ever-popping-up eateries and huge-steak-serving restaurants. Why a boon to medical? Because ever increasing is the number of heart-disease prospects who are going in for clinical trials, diagnoses and more, including procedures and pills dispensation.
Maybe in all that cow meat eaten some chemicals will cause freakish babies to be born? There are still farms out there somewhere where girls exposed to steroids are growing facial hair and enlarged pre-pubescent organs...
What sucks, and is possibly even more egregious is that companies like Ditech use these or some subset of these databases to try to "help" generate quotes or other information for callers looking to refinance or take a second mortgage against their home.
I called them, back in 2001/02, when I HAD a home (lost it (sold it orderly) to the dot-commie economy crash...). It was listed on country property tax rolls, correctly, as a 2533 sq ft, 2-story, 4+ bedroom, 3 full bath, LR, DR, FR, nook, kitchen, 2-car attached garage home on a lot measuring 50'x~80'.
Ditech INSISTED my home was a one-story, 3BR home on a smaller lot. I confirmed with them the address, and they CONTINUED to insist MY home was something that it was not. It was inFURIATING that they could claim to have the latest information databases, and were probably issuing inflated or inadequate rates, loan amounts, and more, wasting inquirers' time, screwing up the paperwork, incurring more fees upon the borrower, and more.
This kind of inaccuracy, though is worse in other ways. In Alameda, CA, a woman drove off a road and into the bay, buried in her own car, hidden under a pier, for days or a couple weeks. I don't know if she passed out or what. But in New York, IIRC, around 2000 or 2002 an elderly couple drowned because the were too reliant upon the GPS navigation system and blindly followed its instructions which told them to go such and such and then turn and proceed. They ended up driving through a closed street, into the harbor. It seems NEITHER street had sufficient barriers to destroy and stop the car rather than allow users to drive to their peril, by GPS, or by seizure or other maybe being chased by would-be car jackers.
I don't know that lawsuits should be issued against these cities, but which is more important: manipulating and obfuscating fixed objects like homes, ostensibly on privacy grounds (in the backwards-ass US, on this issue, of all places...), or on identifying stationary or time-sensitive/project-dependent, life-saving obstacles?
As for Ditech, they never got my business. And, frankly, why should they have? If I'd been in a hurry to capture or lock a rate, and depended on them, they'd have been a kink in the process.
Well, churches, watchdog groups, and the general, bored person can tag or follow those who visit brothels, illegal gambling spots, or who support certain political causes and then map them.
Targeted solicitation or personal attacks would probably become more precise. For example, many lawyers, doctors, and others in positions of risk or notoriety may choose to muck around with home/deed records to obfuscate where they live. For example, crafty doctors or lawyers may create a fictitious business name, then operate that business under a subsid of a company that pays for their home. Sure, they still own the home, but creativity might allow them to claim privacy trumps the exact naming. As long as the holding company is private, pays it's taxes, registration fees, etc, and has another lawyer or agency listed as the officer/point of contact, it's possible to legally keep one's residence's OWNER's true name out of Google... unless someone in a country or jurisdiction office messes up the database or publishes or "loses" it.
What I wonder COULD happen is that those who are unscrupulous or mischievous could force the listing of say, police safe houses, federal government or national security safe houses or remote sensing/monitoring facilities set up to look like live-in homes, and so on.
What happens if someone starts tracking police cars, ambulances, fire trucks and fire response vehicles as a means to snarl emergency response so an attack or robbery or mayhem can occur more easily and more clandestinely (by exploiting someone in a trusted position...).
a rad ass custom mod chip that the user injects into the cerebral cortex and obdulla loongggatta and up down undah. The user then develops Tourettes Syndrome out the ass and has shit for brains now and only has to utter some crazy fucking ass phrase to seed a crazy fucking password in the solid-state gene-erator cuz they've gone fucking goddam crazy over that motherfuckin' chip in their ass and brain.
Sign those salted hashes in blood. And hope none of your blood or DNA is in someone's possession.
But, increase the security factor by 10x by adding some spittle to the mix. Add a few strands of hair, an ocular scan, about 2 cubic meters of flatulence as an enhancer, and 3 toenails. Mix well, and syringe feed into the password encryption-generator. Then, put on your jade loin ring. Shoot your transmission and remove your bio-matter from the solid-state password encrypter device. Your password is now secure.
Ignore the at-will prenup and treat the employment as a marriage. When they lay you off, and hand you your severance package (or termination papers) serve them with papers stating that you'll class action alimony sue them in court, you and you fellow laid off.
Tell the judge that by working at home for x years, AT&T provided you with a level of comfort and existence they now dare to just take away (nevermind that your salary akin to an allowance means you could have saved to buy a bicycle...). Set a new trend... Stealth layoffs will be tracked by an invisible employee network to monitor layoffs, transfers, banishment, etc.
The sign could say, on the Internets, something like "Not laid off as of this day..."
(Of course, the negative tradeoff is that creditors, friends and others could monitor this for purposes of calling in debt owed to them.... if they think you should have been able to pay.)
Which might bring up, in court, that AT&T may have offered these people telecommuting to:
-- save on commercial real (fake) estate costs -- to relieve driving stress from employees (as a perk or favor that) -- personally reward or benefit economically strained employees (not ALL telecommuters are well-paid, I suppose...)
So, what... umm, aliens who for fun breed with dumb animal humans are just, what... ummm.... fuckin' around?
Could explain why some "humans" look the way they do...
If they REALLY want to have fun, they should/could introduce real, live Chimeras, just to screw with the biologists, anthropologists and other scientific research communities. Will even throw the Vatican for a loop -- or two...
It also could be a "shadow layoff" being used for plugging the security leaks about sites. Maybe someone has been cracking their machines and following packets to geographical locations of their cia-paid-for sifting servers?
That is, assuming the SUPERSENSITIVE work is being done by pricey, get-what-i-want telecommuters even IF they are using encryption. The packets still have headers, right? Unless a secure VPN is directly on the AT&T phone lines, but AT&T doesn't own ALL the landlines, right?
"I think they would be more interested in personal assets that could be liquidated for damages, not the servers."
Butt, the DOO have personal ASS Sets that can be LIQUIDated for damages: their asses are their most prized ass sets, since they likely program sitting down...
While they eat donuts, Danish plates, Belgian Waffles, and Turkish Hens...French Toast (from the US?),
Slashdot Mirror
"Yes, but you don't get any floating point support. Integer only..."
Huh? Just (add) throw one in the water. (May need salt for extra buoyancy...) It'll float. Now, you have floating point answers....
I hit send button too soon...
Many businesses, in order to avoid the bsa, need to collectively push for new legislation that makes grudge-based "whistle-blowing" subject to unmasking WHO is suing. If bsa won't reveal sources, then the company simply should get a "notice of demanded correction" and NO intimidation/fees/fines of ANY sort by bsa. This will destroy their business model and force them to make money a cleaner, less destructive way to small companies.
But, ultimately, to wreck their business model, Open Source needs to be part of the corrective process. Obviously, people will cheat, but if QUALITY (read: non-geek) substitutes arrive on scene, then
-- either mshaft and others will go berserk and try even harder to destroy Open Source, or
-- mshaft will blackmail/buy up more O/S,
-- or O/S will gain more ground.
A combination of these could happen/continue to happen
Even MORE now than ever, companies fearful of the riaa/bsa need to:
-- go with virtualization and terminal servers to remove hard drives and media access port so ANY employees who don't need them
-- replace with Open Source as MUCH software as they can
-- pony up money for consultative groups with similar passion for not being pursued by mshaft
-- come up with new NDA documents that specify that the company will counter-sue ANY employee who discloses licensing violations without FIRST notifying IT, the company counsel, and the company president (hmmm, sort of like the supposed checks-and-balances of Executive, Legislative, and Judicial?) on an OPEN display board so that no one side can snuff out the early notifications... this so that the company has a fighting chance to clean up whether or not it wantonly or negligently slipped into using illegal or miscounted copies of software...
That would take a LOT of balls to smother microshaft...
(Too bad enough competing and non-competing companies don't join to find common needs/ground so that an Open Source solution accelerates instead of plods along. I am not thinking OO.o...)
I guess I may have been unconsciously (and, umm, "unconscionably"?) been alluding to the feeling that SOME western companies and entities still see Asia as some untapped province of the west. But, I guess, the corollary is that Asian countries (bloc/partnered or not) can do similar.
Plus, a lot of the younger Japanese and Koreans are ragingly hot into each others exported music. With the eventual expiration of enough politicians on BOTH sides, the younger, less historically encumbered/tethered/(pick whatever euphemism that suits) will open more doors to each other than their elders might dare to.
Captcha: "terrify"
REkindle and stoke the stock fires, or be kindling for understocking and understoking!
In Gnome, what I DO like are emblems. Gnomes with emblems are nice and not gaudy. I wish (or hope that KDE) gets them. Their absence is ...emblematic of a prob....lem....
Well, as of 1431 PST, I got:
/. Here's one KDE 4.0 RC 1 screen shot for now. Check back later.
You're killing the server
LMAO. I'm killing the server... Here's *ONE* screen shot for now. Later...
Eventually, and it'll run vista OFF.
Wouldn't be grand if in say, 4 years, KDE, X, or Gnome become so powerful as to be a semi-functional host environment for simple apps that don't need a full-blown OS? Not necessarily for LED book devices, but for say, tablets or hardware used for writing reports, creating content, etc.
I've ALWAYS suspected, and will continue to suspect, that those discs comcast and other ISPs give to windoze and Mac users is to install a keystroke tool or some back door onto the machines.
My fierce assertion is this: You wanna sniff my ass? DO SO AT THE DEMARC, FUCKERS.
If I EVER open an internet cafe, I will post signs:
"Not forced to comply with a court-ordered wiretap in [ ] days.
"Along with a "Safe working, accident-free [ ] days..."
"TRUST NO ONE: Assume this computer, or at least your session on it, is compromised. It's clean ONLY when the drive is wiped, the keyboards are melted, the other hardware disconnected from the Net/Web/Internets, as keystroking/data logging activities go. Be on your best behavior. Thank your emperors and governors..."
And, those computers would be Linux-based machines. Anyone wanting to use windoze would have to bring in their own machine (laptop) if they want a connection.
Looks like someone Tor a new ass...and the big, fe(de)ral wolf is deeply embedded... hungry like the poof, umm, I mean wolf. I think someone IS crying wolf. End-to-end connect-shun with a big, hoary man-in-the-middle of the comm stream.... Jacking the pipe, sucking off the line...
All this talk of humongo-king crabs and giant claws makes me want to buy Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea DVDs to see those cheesy-ass sea lobsters attack the Seaview... I guess I can see aliens, too, to get through some of yesterday's Aliens Among us treat posted yesterday.
Slightly off but trying to stay on topic of the THREAD to which I responded...
Same happening in Japan, too... and Korea, Philippines, etc. with non-traditional foods with processing and preserving chemicals fattening up people. What's better: food that doesn't contribute to fattening up even when sedentary, or foot that fattens up, increases lethargy (in the absence of compensatory exercising), and introduces new medical risks?
I understand that the high-tech sector craze is a BOON for biomedical researchers and doctors in Texas, in places like Dallas and San Antonio and Austin. So many jobs were created along with so many homes being build that people with money they previously didn't spend are now eating their asses off more than ever before, pigging out at all number of ever-popping-up eateries and huge-steak-serving restaurants. Why a boon to medical? Because ever increasing is the number of heart-disease prospects who are going in for clinical trials, diagnoses and more, including procedures and pills dispensation.
Maybe in all that cow meat eaten some chemicals will cause freakish babies to be born? There are still farms out there somewhere where girls exposed to steroids are growing facial hair and enlarged pre-pubescent organs...
While I check your theory against my tape measure...
What sucks, and is possibly even more egregious is that companies like Ditech use these or some subset of these databases to try to "help" generate quotes or other information for callers looking to refinance or take a second mortgage against their home.
I called them, back in 2001/02, when I HAD a home (lost it (sold it orderly) to the dot-commie economy crash...). It was listed on country property tax rolls, correctly, as a 2533 sq ft, 2-story, 4+ bedroom, 3 full bath, LR, DR, FR, nook, kitchen, 2-car attached garage home on a lot measuring 50'x~80'.
Ditech INSISTED my home was a one-story, 3BR home on a smaller lot. I confirmed with them the address, and they CONTINUED to insist MY home was something that it was not. It was inFURIATING that they could claim to have the latest information databases, and were probably issuing inflated or inadequate rates, loan amounts, and more, wasting inquirers' time, screwing up the paperwork, incurring more fees upon the borrower, and more.
This kind of inaccuracy, though is worse in other ways. In Alameda, CA, a woman drove off a road and into the bay, buried in her own car, hidden under a pier, for days or a couple weeks. I don't know if she passed out or what. But in New York, IIRC, around 2000 or 2002 an elderly couple drowned because the were too reliant upon the GPS navigation system and blindly followed its instructions which told them to go such and such and then turn and proceed. They ended up driving through a closed street, into the harbor. It seems NEITHER street had sufficient barriers to destroy and stop the car rather than allow users to drive to their peril, by GPS, or by seizure or other maybe being chased by would-be car jackers.
I don't know that lawsuits should be issued against these cities, but which is more important: manipulating and obfuscating fixed objects like homes, ostensibly on privacy grounds (in the backwards-ass US, on this issue, of all places...), or on identifying stationary or time-sensitive/project-dependent, life-saving obstacles?
As for Ditech, they never got my business. And, frankly, why should they have? If I'd been in a hurry to capture or lock a rate, and depended on them, they'd have been a kink in the process.
Well, churches, watchdog groups, and the general, bored person can tag or follow those who visit brothels, illegal gambling spots, or who support certain political causes and then map them.
Targeted solicitation or personal attacks would probably become more precise. For example, many lawyers, doctors, and others in positions of risk or notoriety may choose to muck around with home/deed records to obfuscate where they live. For example, crafty doctors or lawyers may create a fictitious business name, then operate that business under a subsid of a company that pays for their home. Sure, they still own the home, but creativity might allow them to claim privacy trumps the exact naming. As long as the holding company is private, pays it's taxes, registration fees, etc, and has another lawyer or agency listed as the officer/point of contact, it's possible to legally keep one's residence's OWNER's true name out of Google... unless someone in a country or jurisdiction office messes up the database or publishes or "loses" it.
What I wonder COULD happen is that those who are unscrupulous or mischievous could force the listing of say, police safe houses, federal government or national security safe houses or remote sensing/monitoring facilities set up to look like live-in homes, and so on.
What happens if someone starts tracking police cars, ambulances, fire trucks and fire response vehicles as a means to snarl emergency response so an attack or robbery or mayhem can occur more easily and more clandestinely (by exploiting someone in a trusted position...).
Just some ideas....
That's...
re-E-merge...
hehehe
a rad ass custom mod chip that the user injects into the cerebral cortex and obdulla loongggatta and up down undah. The user then develops Tourettes Syndrome out the ass and has shit for brains now and only has to utter some crazy fucking ass phrase to seed a crazy fucking password in the solid-state gene-erator cuz they've gone fucking goddam crazy over that motherfuckin' chip in their ass and brain.
Crazy fucking luser. Crazy fucking assword. Crazy fuckin' whirled up world.
The above is the 1.0 tourettes pack, silver. Stainless-fucking-steel adds an additional language pack...
Sign those salted hashes in blood. And hope none of your blood or DNA is in someone's possession.
But, increase the security factor by 10x by adding some spittle to the mix. Add a few strands of hair, an ocular scan, about 2 cubic meters of flatulence as an enhancer, and 3 toenails. Mix well, and syringe feed into the password encryption-generator. Then, put on your jade loin ring. Shoot your transmission and remove your bio-matter from the solid-state password encrypter device. Your password is now secure.
Wehhlll, hell...
Ignore the at-will prenup and treat the employment as a marriage. When they lay you off, and hand you your severance package (or termination papers) serve them with papers stating that you'll class action alimony sue them in court, you and you fellow laid off.
Tell the judge that by working at home for x years, AT&T provided you with a level of comfort and existence they now dare to just take away (nevermind that your salary akin to an allowance means you could have saved to buy a bicycle...). Set a new trend... Stealth layoffs will be tracked by an invisible employee network to monitor layoffs, transfers, banishment, etc.
The sign could say, on the Internets, something like "Not laid off as of this day..."
(Of course, the negative tradeoff is that creditors, friends and others could monitor this for purposes of calling in debt owed to them.... if they think you should have been able to pay.)
Which might bring up, in court, that AT&T may have offered these people telecommuting to:
-- save on commercial real (fake) estate costs
-- to relieve driving stress from employees (as a perk or favor that)
-- personally reward or benefit economically strained employees (not ALL telecommuters are well-paid, I suppose...)
So, if you're so xenophobic as to hate lice, and you tell them off, and scrub them away 3x a day, does that make you ... umm... rewd and licentious?
So, what... umm, aliens who for fun breed with dumb animal humans are just, what... ummm.... fuckin' around?
Could explain why some "humans" look the way they do...
If they REALLY want to have fun, they should/could introduce real, live Chimeras, just to screw with the biologists, anthropologists and other scientific research communities. Will even throw the Vatican for a loop -- or two...
Yo, CENtaur, come hither....
It also could be a "shadow layoff" being used for plugging the security leaks about sites. Maybe someone has been cracking their machines and following packets to geographical locations of their cia-paid-for sifting servers?
That is, assuming the SUPERSENSITIVE work is being done by pricey, get-what-i-want telecommuters even IF they are using encryption. The packets still have headers, right? Unless a secure VPN is directly on the AT&T phone lines, but AT&T doesn't own ALL the landlines, right?
"I think they would be more interested in personal assets that could be liquidated for damages, not the servers."
Butt, the DOO have personal ASS Sets that can be LIQUIDated for damages: their asses are their most prized ass sets, since they likely program sitting down...
While they eat donuts, Danish plates, Belgian Waffles, and Turkish Hens...French Toast (from the US?),
(OK, lame, trying too hard...)
"What do they think they can find out by following us around? Everything we do is digital.'"
NOTHING will be found out about them. EVERYthing they:
-- eat
-- breath
-- shit
-- shower
-- shave
-- scratch
-- rub
-- tickle
-- burp
is a DIGIT.
Can u dig it?