If the NSA (or other TLAgencies) are willing to pay for the information (possibly by being one of those "Microsoft 'controlled' subsidiaries") then there is reasonable motive to cooperate. Furthermore, by using shell companies MS gets plausible deniability should the information become public. It may sting, but not enough to kill the company.
I have to use MS at work, and due to some level of compatibility and school requirements for my Wife, I use it at home as well. My server and dev machines are linux, but the "home PC" and the notebook are Windows XP. Vista will not touch my PCs till I have absolutely no choice in the matter. -nB
I know what you mean. For that moment I was thinking MS != Evil as they took the enlightened approach of hiring the guys rather than suing them. Someone in my office was wearing a "church" shirt, to which I replied "red team pWns", they almost fell over laughing.
Ah.... Time to saturate the download pipe at the office I suppose (and to buy the last two seasons on DVD). -nB
Like me for example. Found my Ex had a myspace page, so I trolled her for a bit. Hell she stalked me for 5 years, what's a couple weeks of trolling. Was fun though, and the nit is so dumb that she never could figure out who I was...
ironically today's hard drives have butterfly seek times that are a couple mS *faster* than old 286 era ram. thus, in theory you could map system memory to the hard disk and have "unlimited" memory. In reality the custom controller and addressing limits would stop you. -nB
You know, I've been following your blog for some time now. I would tend to suggest that you simply point employers at it. If I was a hiring manager (I am not, and hope to never be one), I would likely offer you a job right now (after reading your resume), if you were willing to relocate. Your writing is quite good. -nB
That's what it is really, just that openness is requisite. Helps keep things in balance and perspective, plus it gives the spouse a chance to ask why and propose alternatives (or a I don't know, they seem [fill in the blank] to me). So far it's served my marriage very well.
But, you are right, marital infidelity is hard to cover up. My spouse and I have a covenant that should either of us want to stray it's automatically OK so long as neither of us hides it from the other (from family is fine, but not from each other). This has worked out very well as one of us was... interested in another person. This person was known to both of us, and was reciprocal in the interest. Nothing ended up happening, because my wife and I were able to talk about it openly and without fear. Had this been a buried interest I'm willing to bet something would have happened.
Which is cool till you want to dump +suffix. I mean it's better than nothing for sure but I have a mailserver host with unlimited forwarders and a boatload of real boxes (to a max of a gig of mail). Thus I register sitename(+seq#)@networkboy.net (i.e. slashdot01@networkboy.net) I point the address to my root account (random numbers and letters@networboy.net). If an account goes bad and spammy, and I don't want the service I forward to:blackhole:. if OTOH I think the address is compromised but still want the service I change my e-mail (seq++) and then:blackhole: the old one.
On the surface it seems like a lot of work, but in reality it's dead easy. -nB
you can see the USB ports in the picture. I wonder when these will hit the market? I would buy one *today* if I could. I fly out on a trip tomorrow and don't want to carry my thinkpad, this would be perfect for what I want to do while I'm away. (namely upload pictures to my server from my digital camera). -nB
Our society says murder is illegal, theft is illegal, B&E are illegal, these are all societally "wrong". In fact, copyright law was in existence far before legislation was wholesale available for purchase. We may differ on opinion about how broken the system is (I'm thinking life of author, or 30 years whichever is less, one time renewable), but the fact of the matter is that society has deemed breaking copyright is wrong.
Illegal is another way to say your society has determined it is wrong.
Seriously, pirate if you want, I don't really care that much. What I do care about is that you understand when you are breaking a law and be *honest* with *yourself* as to why.
For example, I pirate Doctor Who. Why? Because I don't want to wait a year for it to get to the states. I am a rabid fan, I offered the BBC money (ala TV Tax), through inaction they have not granted me permission, but still I download. I don't download movies (that's what Netflix is for). I don't download music much (no good sites carry torrents of what I really like anyway, and even AllOfMP3 barely has what I want). Do I break the law? likely. Do I care? yes. Am I honest? yes.
The "I wouldn't have bought it anyway" crowd is what pisses me off. I've DL'd software before, and without fail either bought it or decided it was crap and deleted it. Why? Because I wouldn't have downloaded it if I didn't have a need for some functionality. If it fills my needs, I buy it because I want the support and upgrade path. If it didn't work out for my needs then I saved a couple bucks. I've been burned far too many times buying software that was crap, but nonreturnable. A couple times I've gotten a store to issue a credit so I can buy a different package, but that's rare, and only once was I able to get a manufacturer to refund me. -nB
"If consumers _really_ wanted unbiased reviews, then publications would do it the right way. Buy the product off the retailer's shelf and test. But that's expensive and no consumer is willing to pay for it."
I'll have to assume you were meaning to strongly agree there... The only time I would recommend using a 90 (and I would then suggest 2 90's at opposing angles) is if the person you're doing the install for is an absolute asshat (Like if I was installing gear for mister Jack T).
True enough. I should also add that if you decide to do go the open attic route cable trays (while expensive) are a very good idea (get the kind that the top pops open and "fingers" stick up, all plastic. Unless you want to spend tons of cash on metal). As to the conduit, make sure you never shoot a 90 degree bend and avoid 45's like the plague. 3 30deg bends spaced apart makes the pulling easiest. -nB
People use what is provided to them. Especially outside of the technical areas (math, EE, CS, etc.) I think that the journals accept the DOC format because it is convenient to do so. I also am willing to bet they have a rendering parser that converts the.doc format to TeX. -nB
IDK why you got modded redundant, you are correct. From a central closet *with good ventilation* you want to run one of these tubes (they are a corrugated plastic) to each room. Each tube can carry about 5-8 CAT5/6 cables or whatnot. Also remember to leave a pull string in the tube, and to pull a new pull string with any cable you pull with the old pull string. I would pre run 2 cat5e or cat6, one RG6 to each room from the central closet. If you are on a budget then don't pull cable to rooms you don't thing will need it, but *do* put the conduit in. Also, in each room the conduit should circle the room, you can always terminate a signal early, but what if you want to go to the other side of the room someday? having the conduit present will make that easy.
A PBX while cool, is overkill. A central media server is awesome (that's what I have). Having video/music on demand to any room is really unexplainably nice. I use chip'd Xboxes as front-ends. -nB
Sure, but for a hundred grand for an org chart? I'd risk it. Of course now I've gone public about it, make it 200 grand. An org chard is only company confidential where I work, not restricted or secret, thus the likely penalties are going to stop with termination, not criminal charges. -nB
That drive you opened was old then eh? Most current drives are glass platters. I found this out when I had a batch of DeathStars go bad. IBM wanted the drives back for RMA, but we had company restricted secrete data on the disks... I informed IBM of the dilemma and that I would be drilling a pair of holes in the platters. When I did I heard a crunch sound, followed by broken shards of glass coming out the holes. Got replacement drives in no problem. -nB
Last recruiter that asked me for an org chart was caught off guard when I offered to give them org charts covering over 1000 people, only catch? I wanted $100 per name on the org chart, they could buy as many as they wanted and had to start from the bottom up. I didn't make that sale, but it was fun. Told my boss about it at our monthly meeting, he laughed at me and asked what I would have done if they gave me $100,000K, I said I'd likely piss myself, then buy a car. -nB
I have an old MM jukebox by Archos. I'd still use it except the battery is toast. I really liked their way of doing it, just use a folder tree, simple, easy. -nB
Slashdot Mirror
Money.
If the NSA (or other TLAgencies) are willing to pay for the information (possibly by being one of those "Microsoft 'controlled' subsidiaries") then there is reasonable motive to cooperate. Furthermore, by using shell companies MS gets plausible deniability should the information become public. It may sting, but not enough to kill the company.
I have to use MS at work, and due to some level of compatibility and school requirements for my Wife, I use it at home as well. My server and dev machines are linux, but the "home PC" and the notebook are Windows XP.
Vista will not touch my PCs till I have absolutely no choice in the matter.
-nB
thanks for the laugh
That one was *good*
-nB
I know what you mean. For that moment I was thinking MS != Evil as they took the enlightened approach of hiring the guys rather than suing them. Someone in my office was wearing a "church" shirt, to which I replied "red team pWns", they almost fell over laughing.
Ah....
Time to saturate the download pipe at the office I suppose (and to buy the last two seasons on DVD).
-nB
Soybeans can be converted to biodiesel, and the "waste" product of protein/carb cake can be used as foodstuff for livestock. fairly win/win there.
-nB
Like me for example.
Found my Ex had a myspace page, so I trolled her for a bit. Hell she stalked me for 5 years, what's a couple weeks of trolling. Was fun though, and the nit is so dumb that she never could figure out who I was...
ironically today's hard drives have butterfly seek times that are a couple mS *faster* than old 286 era ram. thus, in theory you could map system memory to the hard disk and have "unlimited" memory. In reality the custom controller and addressing limits would stop you.
-nB
You know, I've been following your blog for some time now.
I would tend to suggest that you simply point employers at it.
If I was a hiring manager (I am not, and hope to never be one), I would likely offer you a job right now (after reading your resume), if you were willing to relocate. Your writing is quite good.
-nB
That's what it is really, just that openness is requisite. Helps keep things in balance and perspective, plus it gives the spouse a chance to ask why and propose alternatives (or a I don't know, they seem [fill in the blank] to me). So far it's served my marriage very well.
Now that I did not know!
I assumed (wrongly, apparently) that the to field was not involved in filtering.
-nB
hence the moon landing can't be a fake...
But, you are right, marital infidelity is hard to cover up. My spouse and I have a covenant that should either of us want to stray it's automatically OK so long as neither of us hides it from the other (from family is fine, but not from each other). This has worked out very well as one of us was... interested in another person. This person was known to both of us, and was reciprocal in the interest. Nothing ended up happening, because my wife and I were able to talk about it openly and without fear. Had this been a buried interest I'm willing to bet something would have happened.
-nB
Which is cool till you want to dump +suffix. I mean it's better than nothing for sure but I have a mailserver host with unlimited forwarders and a boatload of real boxes (to a max of a gig of mail). Thus I register sitename(+seq#)@networkboy.net (i.e. slashdot01@networkboy.net) I point the address to my root account (random numbers and letters@networboy.net). If an account goes bad and spammy, and I don't want the service I forward to :blackhole:. if OTOH I think the address is compromised but still want the service I change my e-mail (seq++) and then :blackhole: the old one.
On the surface it seems like a lot of work, but in reality it's dead easy.
-nB
you can see the USB ports in the picture.
I wonder when these will hit the market?
I would buy one *today* if I could. I fly out on a trip tomorrow and don't want to carry my thinkpad, this would be perfect for what I want to do while I'm away. (namely upload pictures to my server from my digital camera).
-nB
Estate could renew for 30.
Our society says murder is illegal, theft is illegal, B&E are illegal, these are all societally "wrong".
In fact, copyright law was in existence far before legislation was wholesale available for purchase.
We may differ on opinion about how broken the system is (I'm thinking life of author, or 30 years whichever is less, one time renewable), but the fact of the matter is that society has deemed breaking copyright is wrong.
-nB
Illegal is another way to say your society has determined it is wrong.
Seriously, pirate if you want, I don't really care that much. What I do care about is that you understand when you are breaking a law and be *honest* with *yourself* as to why.
For example, I pirate Doctor Who. Why? Because I don't want to wait a year for it to get to the states. I am a rabid fan, I offered the BBC money (ala TV Tax), through inaction they have not granted me permission, but still I download. I don't download movies (that's what Netflix is for). I don't download music much (no good sites carry torrents of what I really like anyway, and even AllOfMP3 barely has what I want). Do I break the law? likely. Do I care? yes. Am I honest? yes.
The "I wouldn't have bought it anyway" crowd is what pisses me off. I've DL'd software before, and without fail either bought it or decided it was crap and deleted it. Why? Because I wouldn't have downloaded it if I didn't have a need for some functionality. If it fills my needs, I buy it because I want the support and upgrade path. If it didn't work out for my needs then I saved a couple bucks. I've been burned far too many times buying software that was crap, but nonreturnable. A couple times I've gotten a store to issue a credit so I can buy a different package, but that's rare, and only once was I able to get a manufacturer to refund me.
-nB
"If consumers _really_ wanted unbiased reviews, then publications would do it the right way. Buy the product off the retailer's shelf and test. But that's expensive and no consumer is willing to pay for it."
You mean like consumer reports?
I'll have to assume you were meaning to strongly agree there...
The only time I would recommend using a 90 (and I would then suggest 2 90's at opposing angles) is if the person you're doing the install for is an absolute asshat (Like if I was installing gear for mister Jack T).
True enough. I should also add that if you decide to do go the open attic route cable trays (while expensive) are a very good idea (get the kind that the top pops open and "fingers" stick up, all plastic. Unless you want to spend tons of cash on metal). As to the conduit, make sure you never shoot a 90 degree bend and avoid 45's like the plague. 3 30deg bends spaced apart makes the pulling easiest.
-nB
Obviously the fewer bends the better
You are a touch, well..., out of touch.
.doc format to TeX.
People use what is provided to them. Especially outside of the technical areas (math, EE, CS, etc.) I think that the journals accept the DOC format because it is convenient to do so. I also am willing to bet they have a rendering parser that converts the
-nB
IDK why you got modded redundant, you are correct.
From a central closet *with good ventilation* you want to run one of these tubes (they are a corrugated plastic) to each room. Each tube can carry about 5-8 CAT5/6 cables or whatnot. Also remember to leave a pull string in the tube, and to pull a new pull string with any cable you pull with the old pull string. I would pre run 2 cat5e or cat6, one RG6 to each room from the central closet. If you are on a budget then don't pull cable to rooms you don't thing will need it, but *do* put the conduit in. Also, in each room the conduit should circle the room, you can always terminate a signal early, but what if you want to go to the other side of the room someday? having the conduit present will make that easy.
A PBX while cool, is overkill.
A central media server is awesome (that's what I have). Having video/music on demand to any room is really unexplainably nice. I use chip'd Xboxes as front-ends.
-nB
Sure, but for a hundred grand for an org chart? I'd risk it.
Of course now I've gone public about it, make it 200 grand.
An org chard is only company confidential where I work, not restricted or secret, thus the likely penalties are going to stop with termination, not criminal charges.
-nB
That drive you opened was old then eh?
Most current drives are glass platters. I found this out when I had a batch of DeathStars go bad. IBM wanted the drives back for RMA, but we had company restricted secrete data on the disks... I informed IBM of the dilemma and that I would be drilling a pair of holes in the platters. When I did I heard a crunch sound, followed by broken shards of glass coming out the holes.
Got replacement drives in no problem.
-nB
Last recruiter that asked me for an org chart was caught off guard when I offered to give them org charts covering over 1000 people, only catch? I wanted $100 per name on the org chart, they could buy as many as they wanted and had to start from the bottom up.
I didn't make that sale, but it was fun. Told my boss about it at our monthly meeting, he laughed at me and asked what I would have done if they gave me $100,000K, I said I'd likely piss myself, then buy a car.
-nB
I have an old MM jukebox by Archos. I'd still use it except the battery is toast.
I really liked their way of doing it, just use a folder tree, simple, easy.
-nB
Especially as they are still referring to NT technology as the underlying core.
-nB