In some of my profiles, I explicitly indicate I am NOT there to rack up insane and unmanagealbe numbers of so-called "friends". I find it mind-boggling and weird that people try to associate with and manage hundreds (even 150) friends they neither directly nor thru a close friend.
Such persons should be ranked or called virtual acquantainces until justifiably called a REAL FRIEND.
Many of these sites bankroll on gobs of INSECURE, EXTRAVERTED people. I am some of both, but not to the tune of hundreds of friends. I keep mine below 5 to 25 people. If Pac-Man friend-hunting people seethe or the sites bristle, tough shit.
Years ago I wrote a business plan for an Internet cafe for which I never obtained the necessary start-up loans. But, for the bankers and any would-be investors/lenders, I wrote in a section dealing with this BMI risk. I stated that any music listened to would be via the patrons' own headphone, or if via my computers, they would listen via headphones and not out of the speakers. Also, I'd contacted one husban/wife Smooth Jazz producer/performer and they in e-mail gave me permission to pay their CDs. My intent was to buy their CDs and give them away to the patrons when the group's music played. Alternatively, some shop income would go to non-profit community and health-related causes.
An aside:
as for dealing with privacy, I would put up a sign with days incremented daily, stating: "Days since [DATE HERE] not approached for mandatory keystroke compliance with any government entities: xxx. If the days counted don't add up, assume my silence means we've been ordered to comply with wiretapping, but I'm not allowed to say WE DID.". If approached with wiretap orders, I'd take this stand. L/E can get their wiretaps from the frackin' DEMARC, not compel my blind, subservient compliance.
I read the article, too, about New York requiring a permit. But, the paper I read said that the NY city permits-related office spokesperson said the permit will NOT be required of:
-- tourists or similar groups smaller than 5 or 7 -- non-professional artists -- families out on picnics or the like.
Please. If you're going to say your bit, say it all, even the parts you don't like. But, I'll chalk it up to you typed so fast and hit the submit button that you said, "Hmm, maybe someone else will pick up the rest for me...".
Besides, the country could and most certainly WOULD deserve to descent into anarchy and chaos if the government began jamming citizen imagery everytime the cops wanted anonymity or shielding from abusing the public. But, as was stated elsewhere, it's a good way to ensure stable "democracy".
No, properly, they get to SIT down, even to pee. Isn't that better "relief" for the urinary tract instead of the walk-up, pee, shake, and walk-off routine MOST males practice every day, ostensibly to make them feel more "masculine"?
Wanna bring up Tibet? Try Native Americans. Or White House igooring desperate pleas from Jews begging the US to bomb the Nazi run extermination camps. TRY not to speciously sling mud.
Ther is a differenbe between gentle and blunt. but i will read the author and article. hopefully it is not us uk australian xenophobia, superiority, or worse. Btw, did australia let Menzies and archiologists inspect the Chinese wrecks, or is Australia fearful of something?
Well, by those analogies, China will be able to say the US is a renegade/rogue province. After all, nevermind Lief Erickson et al. THEY didn't survey the continent, let alone and meaningful chucnks of the world, to the extent China did in the 1400's. Heck for that matter, NO OTHER COUNTRIES performed China's non-aggressive feats.
For Russia to win such a claim might, as pointed out, cause a resurgence in some kind of New Cold War. But, I suppose since Canada never seems to make such a claim, the stomp-Canada jokes mighe show Canada is mature and relatively more peaceful than the US or Russia (I can't recall any heinous international or domestic large-scale outlandishness by Canada... Well, language issues and some resettlements, maybe other things... pls enlighten me...).
But "1421: The Year China Discovered America" is a very informative, provocative and evocative read. Upends a number of lies we were force fed about the US if you grew up here or read from skewed text books in school/college.
Imagine: if the lightning did not strike the capital, if the Mandarins didn't burn the surveys and scientific feats documents, and if China maintained an outward, active Navy (which at the time beat the socks off Portugal, England and any other country --AND, AND, China's has YET to outwardly assault or invade via use of naval power any country or island in the fashion the West or Japan has), we all would by default, with NO LEG TO STAND ON IN THE CONTRARY, be speaking Mandarin or some official Beijing dialect.
Amazing how history worked out. Might have helped world avoid WWI & WWII.
can develop technology to extract the oil from the rumored/claimed Siberian oil/ice, then Russia will probably eclipse even Saudi. Maybe Communism will see a "renassaince" or some resurgence? Maybe Russia will be able to pay its citizens some $70,000 or $100,000 a year? Maybe Russia will show the US a thing or two about extracting oil out of California's coast and out of Colorado and Alaska?
Is there a zombie mechanism in windoze to phone home? I wonder if ms really IS happy that all the daily geographical zombie reports indicate such computers with the above non-blockable key are in use. I mean, to ms, these could be pirated copies running alone, in which case they may assume the user is running *doze and will later buy a legit copy of it, or of other *doze cottage software. OTOH, machines with that non-blockable serial could be part of a Linux environment (or a business on the sly), in which case ms will send the BSA or others after such machinese when/as they pinpoint them....
But if you're NOT "open", then think about your other half/significant other/whatever. If you're mutually apart for a period of time (a day, a week, whatever) then you've got a limited window. If you violate your other half, then you should have IN ADVANCE considered and expected to accept the consequences.
If Joe Blow gets caught, tough. If his girlfriend KNEW he was logging in to such sites, then she could live with it or walk away on her own. IF she finds out by other means, whatever they may be aside from personally breaking into his computer/s, then tough for him. Maybe people should mutually declare or assign a "sanctity rating" to their relationships so they can responsibly handle each others' emotions so no one is crushed when an occasional fling occurs.
Oh well, so many people are feeble-minded. And, DAMNED RUDE with others' feelings
msoft will gradually buy up the RAM (and write it off, or do dodgy accounting) to *make* it appear the RAM is moving, and then enable the pipelines of distributors to do dodgy accounting and reporting, but even if they do that, the stores that would normally buy the RAM but which are *not* buying the RAM won't be in sycn with the manufacturers' distributors.
When I served aboard my 2nd ship in the USN, I became regularly tapped as the local onbooard terrorist. Eventually, as the CDO (Command Duty Officer) cheated in order to cope with my complex, but still realistic scenarios, the CDOs would cheat more to get to do their 8 o'clock reports done. I'd become more pissed off and ratchet things up, like stealing the Dynalec (intership microphone to the announcing system), "kill" off key officers and leave alive or resurrect ill-trained enlistedmen.
Finally, one night, one of the CDOs admitted that had my scenario been the real thing, he'd have had to call the CIA (and other agencies) to respond.
I've already posted it before, so if any of you have subscription, you can dig it up.
(One to deal with is the possibilty of yardbirds (civilian yard workers) perusing the crew leave listing, breaking into said person/s' lockers and planting time-delayed bombs -- assuming the opportunity to sneak it aboard, which would have been possible in the 80's and early to mid 90's. I'd used that in my scenario and because the CDO cheadet, I took the libberty of yelling "BULLSHIT, CDO! YOU CAN'T CHECK EVERY LOCKER IN 10 MINUTES..." when he cheated.)
Before China officially became a "friend of the US", rogue or official US government entities were actively trying to take out Zhou En Lai. Before that, Euro- or Euro-descendent interests were declaring Asia as part of their empire. It took until when, after 2000 for China to get back Hong Kong?
As for other's opinions about China waging war to get back Taiwan, forget it. The KMT and others periphery to them long ago allowed or (if corrupt or connected with fiduciary interests in businesses) SENT hi-tech businesses to the Mainland JUST to exploit low labor costs. Does anyone here really THINK that any hi-tech shit from the West will stay competitively secret for long? It's all a calculated risk such companies shareholders are willing to swallow, then they ride the press articles when a Chinese party is caught (no pun intended) red-handed stealing or otherwise "misappropriating" "us" sensitive information.
China, I SINCERELY HOPE, will defuse the mind-numbing, sickening perpetuating stories of "China will eventually attack the US" (stories which prop up wasteful defense and offense industries world-wide) by simiply "absorbing" Taiwan. At some point, tech in China (when manufacturing or construction quality improves, say in 5-15 years or maybe sooner) will eclipse what Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, the US and Europe can do or outsource to Malaysia, The Philippines and elsewhere. When that happens, it is entirely possible (not sure if likely or an eventuality) that Taiwan will be just hanging on economically, or economically motivated to "come back into the fold".
I hope all the war-mongers or anti-China ranters are dead wrong. Historically (let's for the moment disregard domestic abuse/violence, legal injustices and hasty executions of corrupt public officials (something sorely lacking in the USA...), and let's ignore international bribery... after all, the US is NOT innocent of any of these by a LONG SHOT), when the hell has China:
-- nuked anyone -- declared manifest destiny on a distant land (Tibet and Mogolia and others are adjacent and are viable buffers between Beijing and Europe/Russia) -- militarily invaded, occupied and refused to leave a country (let's ignore supporting NK a bit)
????
China, and most Asian nations in general, have no global, hegemonic, fear-based, god-inspired eminent domain claims. Sure, they want a place under the Sun, and deserve it, considering all the ravages wrought upon them by non-Asian powers and Word thumpers, but, China WILL strike (most likely economically, not militarily) if screwed with.
As for miltech, right now, only China is a major Asian, non-European, non-USA underling nation that can stand up to some extent to the USA, mainly thanks to greedy shareholders adn investors who would sell their granny for a buck, the Almighty Dollar.
You can come kick my ass AFTER China lobs a nuke, invades, or ravages African governments. For now, all I see is China countering western-oriented BS that set back China for hundreds of years, then egged China on, in the recent 25 or so, only to regret exploiting China because China doesn't sleep for long.... The western mind tends to have a short, seld-destructive, myopic, disillusioned mind in many matters.
Well, that depends. Whose OS will be on the Intel laptops? I will leap and say ms' warez will be on it. If Intel REALLY wants to get a laptop cheaply into kid's hands, it should fund Negroponte's activities or improve the supply pipeline. Then, more developers can have deeper access to Intel chips without Intel being accused of being more ms-friendly than Linux-friendly.
1. Copy and paste the contents to a new wp file 2. Copy and paste the contents to a.txt file to strip out all sorts of metadata, then copy the text from the.TXT FILE (not the effing windoze buffer) to a new wp file.
Also, learn to turn off document tracking (I use Lotus WordPro whenever possible... I don't need that stinkin' word....)
Remove user login and other identifying information from the registry AND from the damned wp application. Doing so can reduce author or machine-identifying information from the distributed or created document.
Also, when deleting a one-of-its-kind document, don't simply delete it.
1. Open it first, 2. Then select all the text and replace it with gibberish, or new text, or the content of a new document. 3. Save it. 4. Reopen it and copy the text to a.txt file 5. Save the file blank. 6. Reopen it and paste in gibberish or non-buffer stuff, trying to compress the file size 7. Close the file 8. Rename it 9. Then delete it
Those steps assume no copies exist elsewhere or locally.
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I wonder what this will do to the business models built around Enzyte (no more smiling Bob) or Viagra (slowing down their taps...)....
In some of my profiles, I explicitly indicate I am NOT there to rack up insane and unmanagealbe numbers of so-called "friends". I find it mind-boggling and weird that people try to associate with and manage hundreds (even 150) friends they neither directly nor thru a close friend.
Such persons should be ranked or called virtual acquantainces until justifiably called a REAL FRIEND.
Many of these sites bankroll on gobs of INSECURE, EXTRAVERTED people. I am some of both, but not to the tune of hundreds of friends. I keep mine below 5 to 25 people. If Pac-Man friend-hunting people seethe or the sites bristle, tough shit.
Years ago I wrote a business plan for an Internet cafe for which I never obtained the necessary start-up loans. But, for the bankers and any would-be investors/lenders, I wrote in a section dealing with this BMI risk. I stated that any music listened to would be via the patrons' own headphone, or if via my computers, they would listen via headphones and not out of the speakers. Also, I'd contacted one husban/wife Smooth Jazz producer/performer and they in e-mail gave me permission to pay their CDs. My intent was to buy their CDs and give them away to the patrons when the group's music played. Alternatively, some shop income would go to non-profit community and health-related causes.
An aside:
as for dealing with privacy, I would put up a sign with days incremented daily, stating: "Days since [DATE HERE] not approached for mandatory keystroke compliance with any government entities: xxx. If the days counted don't add up, assume my silence means we've been ordered to comply with wiretapping, but I'm not allowed to say WE DID.". If approached with wiretap orders, I'd take this stand. L/E can get their wiretaps from the frackin' DEMARC, not compel my blind, subservient compliance.
I read the article, too, about New York requiring a permit. But, the paper I read said that the NY city permits-related office spokesperson said the permit will NOT be required of:
-- tourists or similar groups smaller than 5 or 7
-- non-professional artists
-- families out on picnics or the like.
Please. If you're going to say your bit, say it all, even the parts you don't like. But, I'll chalk it up to you typed so fast and hit the submit button that you said, "Hmm, maybe someone else will pick up the rest for me...".
Besides, the country could and most certainly WOULD deserve to descent into anarchy and chaos if the government began jamming citizen imagery everytime the cops wanted anonymity or shielding from abusing the public. But, as was stated elsewhere, it's a good way to ensure stable "democracy".
No, properly, they get to SIT down, even to pee. Isn't that better "relief" for the urinary tract instead of the walk-up, pee, shake, and walk-off routine MOST males practice every day, ostensibly to make them feel more "masculine"?
Norris? I thought I saw his name. Wrong Chuck.
In space, Chuck Norris doesn't sleep. He moves solar winds and kicks asteroids.
As if the US Politicians would not do the same in the name of the Almighty Dollar?
Wanna bring up Tibet? Try Native Americans. Or White House igooring desperate pleas from Jews begging the US to bomb the Nazi run extermination camps. TRY not to speciously sling mud.
Ther is a differenbe between gentle and blunt. but i will read the author and article. hopefully it is not us uk australian xenophobia, superiority, or worse. Btw, did australia let Menzies and archiologists inspect the Chinese wrecks, or is Australia fearful of something?
Well, by those analogies, China will be able to say the US is a renegade/rogue province. After all, nevermind Lief Erickson et al. THEY didn't survey the continent, let alone and meaningful chucnks of the world, to the extent China did in the 1400's. Heck for that matter, NO OTHER COUNTRIES performed China's non-aggressive feats.
For Russia to win such a claim might, as pointed out, cause a resurgence in some kind of New Cold War. But, I suppose since Canada never seems to make such a claim, the stomp-Canada jokes mighe show Canada is mature and relatively more peaceful than the US or Russia (I can't recall any heinous international or domestic large-scale outlandishness by Canada... Well, language issues and some resettlements, maybe other things... pls enlighten me...).
But "1421: The Year China Discovered America" is a very informative, provocative and evocative read. Upends a number of lies we were force fed about the US if you grew up here or read from skewed text books in school/college.
Imagine: if the lightning did not strike the capital, if the Mandarins didn't burn the surveys and scientific feats documents, and if China maintained an outward, active Navy (which at the time beat the socks off Portugal, England and any other country --AND, AND, China's has YET to outwardly assault or invade via use of naval power any country or island in the fashion the West or Japan has), we all would by default, with NO LEG TO STAND ON IN THE CONTRARY, be speaking Mandarin or some official Beijing dialect.
Amazing how history worked out. Might have helped world avoid WWI & WWII.
can develop technology to extract the oil from the rumored/claimed Siberian oil/ice, then Russia will probably eclipse even Saudi. Maybe Communism will see a "renassaince" or some resurgence? Maybe Russia will be able to pay its citizens some $70,000 or $100,000 a year? Maybe Russia will show the US a thing or two about extracting oil out of California's coast and out of Colorado and Alaska?
Wouldn't that be "pooper soak" (spoonerism of super poke)?
And, her drink? I wonder if her breakfast of champions includes Sunny Delight.
Is there a zombie mechanism in windoze to phone home? I wonder if ms really IS happy that all the daily geographical zombie reports indicate such computers with the above non-blockable key are in use. I mean, to ms, these could be pirated copies running alone, in which case they may assume the user is running *doze and will later buy a legit copy of it, or of other *doze cottage software. OTOH, machines with that non-blockable serial could be part of a Linux environment (or a business on the sly), in which case ms will send the BSA or others after such machinese when/as they pinpoint them....
Not smart, I think, using such numbers.
Now, THAT would be sweet, but crude.
I head a joke once:
PC users are smart.
Mac users ars smart... with CLASS
But if you're NOT "open", then think about your other half/significant other/whatever. If you're mutually apart for a period of time (a day, a week, whatever) then you've got a limited window. If you violate your other half, then you should have IN ADVANCE considered and expected to accept the consequences.
If Joe Blow gets caught, tough. If his girlfriend KNEW he was logging in to such sites, then she could live with it or walk away on her own. IF she finds out by other means, whatever they may be aside from personally breaking into his computer/s, then tough for him. Maybe people should mutually declare or assign a "sanctity rating" to their relationships so they can responsibly handle each others' emotions so no one is crushed when an occasional fling occurs.
Oh well, so many people are feeble-minded. And, DAMNED RUDE with others' feelings
Captch: "odorous"
msoft will gradually buy up the RAM (and write it off, or do dodgy accounting) to *make* it appear the RAM is moving, and then enable the pipelines of distributors to do dodgy accounting and reporting, but even if they do that, the stores that would normally buy the RAM but which are *not* buying the RAM won't be in sycn with the manufacturers' distributors.
Go Linux, GO!
When I served aboard my 2nd ship in the USN, I became regularly tapped as the local onbooard terrorist. Eventually, as the CDO (Command Duty Officer) cheated in order to cope with my complex, but still realistic scenarios, the CDOs would cheat more to get to do their 8 o'clock reports done. I'd become more pissed off and ratchet things up, like stealing the Dynalec (intership microphone to the announcing system), "kill" off key officers and leave alive or resurrect ill-trained enlistedmen.
Finally, one night, one of the CDOs admitted that had my scenario been the real thing, he'd have had to call the CIA (and other agencies) to respond.
I've already posted it before, so if any of you have subscription, you can dig it up.
(One to deal with is the possibilty of yardbirds (civilian yard workers) perusing the crew leave listing, breaking into said person/s' lockers and planting time-delayed bombs -- assuming the opportunity to sneak it aboard, which would have been possible in the 80's and early to mid 90's. I'd used that in my scenario and because the CDO cheadet, I took the libberty of yelling "BULLSHIT, CDO! YOU CAN'T CHECK EVERY LOCKER IN 10 MINUTES..." when he cheated.)
see my incubator/s at:
http://www.otanashide.com/14.html
http://www.underway-shift-colors.com/6.html
http://www.unaun-shiftcolors.com/3.html
Or, "civilians in uniform" for nothin'?
Smilindog2000, THANKYOU!
imemyself...
Before China officially became a "friend of the US", rogue or official US government entities were actively trying to take out Zhou En Lai. Before that, Euro- or Euro-descendent interests were declaring Asia as part of their empire. It took until when, after 2000 for China to get back Hong Kong?
As for other's opinions about China waging war to get back Taiwan, forget it. The KMT and others periphery to them long ago allowed or (if corrupt or connected with fiduciary interests in businesses) SENT hi-tech businesses to the Mainland JUST to exploit low labor costs. Does anyone here really THINK that any hi-tech shit from the West will stay competitively secret for long? It's all a calculated risk such companies shareholders are willing to swallow, then they ride the press articles when a Chinese party is caught (no pun intended) red-handed stealing or otherwise "misappropriating" "us" sensitive information.
China, I SINCERELY HOPE, will defuse the mind-numbing, sickening perpetuating stories of "China will eventually attack the US" (stories which prop up wasteful defense and offense industries world-wide) by simiply "absorbing" Taiwan. At some point, tech in China (when manufacturing or construction quality improves, say in 5-15 years or maybe sooner) will eclipse what Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, the US and Europe can do or outsource to Malaysia, The Philippines and elsewhere. When that happens, it is entirely possible (not sure if likely or an eventuality) that Taiwan will be just hanging on economically, or economically motivated to "come back into the fold".
I hope all the war-mongers or anti-China ranters are dead wrong. Historically (let's for the moment disregard domestic abuse/violence, legal injustices and hasty executions of corrupt public officials (something sorely lacking in the USA...), and let's ignore international bribery... after all, the US is NOT innocent of any of these by a LONG SHOT), when the hell has China:
-- nuked anyone
-- declared manifest destiny on a distant land (Tibet and Mogolia and others are adjacent and are viable buffers between Beijing and Europe/Russia)
-- militarily invaded, occupied and refused to leave a country (let's ignore supporting NK a bit)
????
China, and most Asian nations in general, have no global, hegemonic, fear-based, god-inspired eminent domain claims. Sure, they want a place under the Sun, and deserve it, considering all the ravages wrought upon them by non-Asian powers and Word thumpers, but, China WILL strike (most likely economically, not militarily) if screwed with.
As for miltech, right now, only China is a major Asian, non-European, non-USA underling nation that can stand up to some extent to the USA, mainly thanks to greedy shareholders adn investors who would sell their granny for a buck, the Almighty Dollar.
You can come kick my ass AFTER China lobs a nuke, invades, or ravages African governments. For now, all I see is China countering western-oriented BS that set back China for hundreds of years, then egged China on, in the recent 25 or so, only to regret exploiting China because China doesn't sleep for long.... The western mind tends to have a short, seld-destructive, myopic, disillusioned mind in many matters.
Butt, Dysentery... is NOT...
(I'm not a STUNNING linguist, but I'll settle for "cunning")
Putin: "KHAN!! KHAN!!! KHAnNnNnN !...!!....!!!..."
Well, that depends. Whose OS will be on the Intel laptops? I will leap and say ms' warez will be on it. If Intel REALLY wants to get a laptop cheaply into kid's hands, it should fund Negroponte's activities or improve the supply pipeline. Then, more developers can have deeper access to Intel chips without Intel being accused of being more ms-friendly than Linux-friendly.
(Barrett ducks ballmer's chair hurling....)
A couple ways to deal with this shit:
.txt file to strip out all sorts of metadata, then copy the text from the .TXT FILE (not the effing windoze buffer) to a new wp file.
.txt file
1. Copy and paste the contents to a new wp file
2. Copy and paste the contents to a
Also, learn to turn off document tracking (I use Lotus WordPro whenever possible... I don't need that stinkin' word....)
Remove user login and other identifying information from the registry AND from the damned wp application. Doing so can reduce author or machine-identifying information from the distributed or created document.
Also, when deleting a one-of-its-kind document, don't simply delete it.
1. Open it first,
2. Then select all the text and replace it with gibberish, or new text, or the content of a new document.
3. Save it.
4. Reopen it and copy the text to a
5. Save the file blank.
6. Reopen it and paste in gibberish or non-buffer stuff, trying to compress the file size
7. Close the file
8. Rename it
9. Then delete it
Those steps assume no copies exist elsewhere or locally.