> Ok, now tell me how hard it is to hack a WEP-enabled wireless network? It takes all of what, 90 seconds?
I have never been able to do it successfully. Recently I really, really *wished* I could do it. I was in a hotel (B&B, actually) which had Wi-Fi access but, even though it was included with the hotel, it was password protected and I did not have the password.
Now, supposedly it just takes a few seconds. But is there a cookbook example, preferably for OSX, to routinely log into a WEP-enabled wireless network? Can it be done in a chicken-and-egg situation where it's impossible to download software? Where there's only a single machine available? Is it possible to do with no traffic on the wireless network?
It occurred to me that in this situation, it was completely legal, completely ethical, and completely necessary for me to crack a WEP-enabled wireless network, and I didn't know how to do it. Would have really appreciated a button on the Airport preferences that simply logs into the WEP network. Why can't we just have THAT if it's so damned trivial?
Everybody with a grand plan to "fix voting" seems to envision a complete national adoption of their idea. It rarely seems to occur to them that the US has no "national election." Each state, through whatever process its legislature agrees on, sends a panel of electors to DC to elect the President and Vice President. The fact that every state does this via at-large elections, is an artifact of the authority the legislatures have.
All other elections, from the local to the state to the national office, are in the same sense, operated according to the delegated authority that originates with the legislature of each state.
So why don't the visionaries ever persuade even a single township to adopt one of these fabulous systems? Why does the vision have to be "all-or-nothing?"
I think you should just be grateful none of the states simply have a closed-doors meeting of the legislative house that chooses the electors...
>Yes, this is a ridiculous claim. There's no way to possibly know...
It gets old fast if you put constant disclaimers on every observation. Sure there could be things not observed. There could even be other universes. Those ideas have their place, but they tend to be annoying if used to characterize observations.
Now, my question is: Are we confident that we observe astronomical phenomena right up to the limits of our observable range, or do we believe that our observable range might extend further than the phenomena that have been observed?
>Honestly, I find it hard to believe that these guys doctored their Videos. I could believe photos, but video?
Right. People who can't seem to get their hands on anything more current than a Russian VHS camcorder from 1985, are also doing video edits?
I don't know what I find harder to believe, that these people can't go to a marketplace and pick up a basic consumer mini-dv, or that they have the resources to edit full motion video and yet they produce such really horrible quality output.
I am rather afraid to look, for fear that I might find more than a few moronic postings, often drunk on smitticks and trying desperately to make SLS installs of 0.99 versions of Linux work in what was otherwise a SunOS shop. After 1994 we never bought another piece of Sun hardware, so the experiment was successful to say the least. But it was kicking-and-screaming successful.
Are you aware of the enormous appetite the Europeans have for American cinema?
Europeans preferred Hollywood films in the 1950s, just as they do now.
On the other hand, if you are lucky enough to live in a US town that has a theatre that screens European films, not only will people pay top dollar to see the films, but they will patronize a snack bar that has fine food and fine wines instead of sodas and popcorn, won't talk or even take a cell phone into the auditorium, etc.
"Last time I went to a movie it was $8.50. I went and saw transformers the other day and nearly shit myself when I heard the price."
I got tired of hearing people my grandparents' age complain about how movies used to be $0.25 (when they were $3.xx), and now you don't realize you're that same person to some kid today.
It's been a lot more than 10 years. The meme seems to have been old before it was the "modem tax", and THAT was being spread around in the days of the 1200 baud modem.
I believe there *were* taxes on Telex and the RTTY networks and so on before then.
The thing that should really frighten them is the realization that Linux finds its niche with no *need* for marketing. It's not something that will die if it has a quarter with lower sales than the same quarter in the previous year. Even if the various consumer hardware platforms were made obsolete, Linux can endure. It can be excluded from certain marketplaces, as has already been done effectively in some, by explicitly raising a barrier for supporting certain kinds of peripherals (have you ever tried to explain to a novice how to setup NDISWrapper? Or explained that they can't send or receive faxes using the modem in their laptop, no way, ever?)
But then, that whole "market" can vanish and we will still be running IBM Linux on the Teragrid here.
The last time I got called for jury duty, I was really hoping I'd get picked while being honest.
I got pretty far in the process, and then the question was "Is anyone on this panel a member of NORML?"
I pulled out my membership card and held it up.
If there is no objection from counsel, Juror number 8, you are excused from this jury. No objection your honor.
My guess is, a card-carrying member of NORML will never be placed on a jury, even for a trial that's not a drug case.
The funny thing was, this *was* a drug case, a blatant high-volume hard drug smuggling case, and I think the guy was guilty as hell, and would have said so.
>>The setup of a new film requires it to be screened once. This is done late at night, by the minimum wage high school >>kid. The manager of the theatre can't be bothered.
>How so?
Which? In our case, the theatre manager was literally too fat to go up the stairs. The assistant manager could physically do it, but never did.
We were supposed to screen the films. We wanted to know if there were sprocket problems, audio issues, reels labeled wrong, etc.
>I'm a projectionist, and I own a theatre. Really.
I believe you, and I'm sure it's nice. When I worked in a theatre, the employees were abused, and abused right back. It really was horrible for $3.35 an hour. And one day, when I and another employee were injured in a car accident on the way to work, called in to let them know, and were told that we needed to come in no matter what... well, my mom got wind of that, and made me quit, and saw to it that the place closed down. It never re-opened. Almost 30 years later, it's still a vacant building.
"As a pc support guy in a biggish company, I'm REALLY glad this guy isn't making decisions here. Supporting Windows, OSX, SUSE and Ubuntu, and getting it all to play nice together would be a nightmare. "
How do you figure? I didn't see any mention of Solaris in the mix, so there is no way it rises to the level of "nightmare".
I'm waiting for people to come to a couple of conclusions:
1. "CD Quality" isn't all that great. In theory it is just at the threshold of the limit of human perception, and I don't want to get into arguments about Nyquist and bitrates and dynamic range here. The CD is a barely sufficient medium, but CD production abuses the medium in certain ways that often limit the quality of the end product.
2. The barrier for entry has fallen, that is, the means of production and distribution are freely available to anyone who chooses to practice the art.
You can realistically stop being a consumer of music and be a creator. Easily. And with very little need to recoup your investment. Not only that, but you can expose your material to a wider audience, for no investment on your part, than any artist or producer of any previous generation ever dreamed of.
I am hoping that we see a renaissance, entirely new forms of what for lack of better words, I would refer to as Folk Music. (Folk music does not *have* to be fiddles and mandolins and ballads.)
>If people don't buy popcorn (5000% profit), the lights go dark.
Distribution prices would come down before the producers gave up their venue...
Anyway, I expect the cam films to be mostly inside jobs. Projectionist, once a skilled trade with a labor union and a living wage, has long been a minimum wage job. The training on the platter system takes about an hour. The setup of a new film requires it to be screened once. This is done late at night, by the minimum wage high school kid. The manager of the theatre can't be bothered.
I know this, because it's what I did in High School. When I had the keys to the theatre, setup nights and the nights where we did deep cleaning were parties. If we'd had cameras and cared to deal with it, somebody would have made films. Usually the movies were boring though, so what we did instead was play music through the theatre sound system, drink fountain sodas and poke smot.
I don't know what theatre employees do these days, but I expect it's still a shit job, the kind of job that you go in every day hoping to get fired from, whose only perk is free movies and free fountain drinks. And maybe if you read in your girlfriend's diary that she had a fantasy about doing it in an empty movie theatre you can deliver. That and no-benefits minimum-wage pay for insanely long hours in a maddening environment.
"I'm not a gamer at all, but for years I've said that Quicken was the only thing keeping me from switching Linux full-time."
I actually prefer to run Quicken in a VM. I can backup the whole VM partition. I can run a version of Windows that's fully tuned to the application. It has a very small footprint. I've been doing this for almost ten years already.
I *greatly* prefer it to running it on a native Windows boot. I'd almost go as far as to say, if I had to run Windows, I'd probably start doing finances on paper.
>They've gone after grandmothers for downloading Metallica.
Well... Metallica is an 80s band... And in their demographic it wasn't uncommon for their original fans to be teenage moms... Their daughters were often teenage moms as well. Metallica fans are less than a decade away from being *great grandmothers*.
>>Stop overbooking. Just stop. No conditions, exceptions, nothing. > >Overbooking happens because on a certain percentage of flights business travelers always fail to show up.
Part of "no conditions, exceptions, nothing" might include "no-shows still *pay*"
Airline could often be paid twice for the same seat. Once for the no-show, once for the lucky standby passenger.
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>google is your friend.
Always. Not that it leads to a solution in this case. In fact, it leads here: http://kismac.de/
Great.
>but you could give Knoppix a try.
Actually, I run a heavily customized Debian-ish Linux everywhere *except* my laptop.
Knoppix doesn't actually come preconfigured with a one-click WEP-cracker does it? So I don't quite get your point.
>You can crash IE? Really? With a webpage? Who would have thought?
No telling. I didn't even realize people still used IE.
> Ok, now tell me how hard it is to hack a WEP-enabled wireless network? It takes all of what, 90 seconds?
I have never been able to do it successfully. Recently I really, really *wished* I could do it. I was in a hotel (B&B, actually) which had Wi-Fi access but, even though it was included with the hotel, it was password protected and I did not have the password.
Now, supposedly it just takes a few seconds. But is there a cookbook example, preferably for OSX, to routinely log into a WEP-enabled wireless network? Can it be done in a chicken-and-egg situation where it's impossible to download software? Where there's only a single machine available? Is it possible to do with no traffic on the wireless network?
It occurred to me that in this situation, it was completely legal, completely ethical, and completely necessary for me to crack a WEP-enabled wireless network, and I didn't know how to do it. Would have really appreciated a button on the Airport preferences that simply logs into the WEP network. Why can't we just have THAT if it's so damned trivial?
Everybody with a grand plan to "fix voting" seems to envision a complete national adoption of their idea. It rarely seems to occur to them that the US has no "national election." Each state, through whatever process its legislature agrees on, sends a panel of electors to DC to elect the President and Vice President. The fact that every state does this via at-large elections, is an artifact of the authority the legislatures have.
All other elections, from the local to the state to the national office, are in the same sense, operated according to the delegated authority that originates with the legislature of each state.
So why don't the visionaries ever persuade even a single township to adopt one of these fabulous systems? Why does the vision have to be "all-or-nothing?"
I think you should just be grateful none of the states simply have a closed-doors meeting of the legislative house that chooses the electors...
>Yes, this is a ridiculous claim. There's no way to possibly know...
It gets old fast if you put constant disclaimers on every observation. Sure there could be things not observed. There could even be other universes. Those ideas have their place, but they tend to be annoying if used to characterize observations.
Now, my question is: Are we confident that we observe astronomical phenomena right up to the limits of our observable range, or do we believe that our observable range might extend further than the phenomena that have been observed?
>I think the question to ask is if there's any compelling reason not to use IIS.
Server license would dwarf the remainder of our budget?
>I've heard many men make that joke, and no women.
Does not surprise me. My wife carries a Smith & Wesson 686, and would not touch a Sig. They stovepipe.
>Honestly, I find it hard to believe that these guys doctored their Videos. I could believe photos, but video?
Right. People who can't seem to get their hands on anything more current than a Russian VHS camcorder from 1985, are also doing video edits?
I don't know what I find harder to believe, that these people can't go to a marketplace and pick up a basic consumer mini-dv, or that they have the resources to edit full motion video and yet they produce such really horrible quality output.
I am rather afraid to look, for fear that I might find more than a few moronic postings, often drunk on smitticks and trying desperately to make SLS installs of 0.99 versions of Linux work in what was otherwise a SunOS shop. After 1994 we never bought another piece of Sun hardware, so the experiment was successful to say the least. But it was kicking-and-screaming successful.
>In America especially...
Are you aware of the enormous appetite the Europeans have for American cinema?
Europeans preferred Hollywood films in the 1950s, just as they do now.
On the other hand, if you are lucky enough to live in a US town that has a theatre that screens European films, not only will people pay top dollar to see the films, but they will patronize a snack bar that has fine food and fine wines instead of sodas and popcorn, won't talk or even take a cell phone into the auditorium, etc.
"Last time I went to a movie it was $8.50. I went and saw transformers the other day and nearly shit myself when I heard the price."
I got tired of hearing people my grandparents' age complain about how movies used to be $0.25 (when they were $3.xx), and now you don't realize you're that same person to some kid today.
It's been a lot more than 10 years. The meme seems to have been old before it was the "modem tax", and THAT was being spread around in the days of the 1200 baud modem.
I believe there *were* taxes on Telex and the RTTY networks and so on before then.
>it's just that there's no marketing for it.
The thing that should really frighten them is the realization that Linux finds its niche with no *need* for marketing. It's not something that will die if it has a quarter with lower sales than the same quarter in the previous year. Even if the various consumer hardware platforms were made obsolete, Linux can endure. It can be excluded from certain marketplaces, as has already been done effectively in some, by explicitly raising a barrier for supporting certain kinds of peripherals (have you ever tried to explain to a novice how to setup NDISWrapper? Or explained that they can't send or receive faxes using the modem in their laptop, no way, ever?)
But then, that whole "market" can vanish and we will still be running IBM Linux on the Teragrid here.
The last time I got called for jury duty, I was really hoping I'd get picked while being honest.
I got pretty far in the process, and then the question was "Is anyone on this panel a member of NORML?"
I pulled out my membership card and held it up.
If there is no objection from counsel, Juror number 8, you are excused from this jury. No objection your honor.
My guess is, a card-carrying member of NORML will never be placed on a jury, even for a trial that's not a drug case.
The funny thing was, this *was* a drug case, a blatant high-volume hard drug smuggling case, and I think the guy was guilty as hell, and would have said so.
>>The setup of a new film requires it to be screened once. This is done late at night, by the minimum wage high school
>>kid. The manager of the theatre can't be bothered.
>How so?
Which? In our case, the theatre manager was literally too fat to go up the stairs. The assistant manager could physically do it, but never did.
We were supposed to screen the films. We wanted to know if there were sprocket problems, audio issues, reels labeled wrong, etc.
>I'm a projectionist, and I own a theatre. Really.
I believe you, and I'm sure it's nice. When I worked in a theatre, the employees were abused, and abused right back. It really was horrible for $3.35 an hour. And one day, when I and another employee were injured in a car accident on the way to work, called in to let them know, and were told that we needed to come in no matter what... well, my mom got wind of that, and made me quit, and saw to it that the place closed down. It never re-opened. Almost 30 years later, it's still a vacant building.
>It was insane. Unsustainable valuations that reminded me more of tulip bulb trading.
If you remember that, shouldn't you have retired 300 years ago?
"As a pc support guy in a biggish company, I'm REALLY glad this guy isn't making decisions here. Supporting Windows, OSX, SUSE and Ubuntu, and getting it all to play nice together would be a nightmare. "
How do you figure? I didn't see any mention of Solaris in the mix, so there is no way it rises to the level of "nightmare".
I'm waiting for people to come to a couple of conclusions:
1. "CD Quality" isn't all that great. In theory it is just at the threshold of the limit of human perception, and I don't want to get into arguments about Nyquist and bitrates and dynamic range here. The CD is a barely sufficient medium, but CD production abuses the medium in certain ways that often limit the quality of the end product.
2. The barrier for entry has fallen, that is, the means of production and distribution are freely available to anyone who chooses to practice the art.
You can realistically stop being a consumer of music and be a creator. Easily. And with very little need to recoup your investment. Not only that, but you can expose your material to a wider audience, for no investment on your part, than any artist or producer of any previous generation ever dreamed of.
I am hoping that we see a renaissance, entirely new forms of what for lack of better words, I would refer to as Folk Music. (Folk music does not *have* to be fiddles and mandolins and ballads.)
>If people don't buy popcorn (5000% profit), the lights go dark.
Distribution prices would come down before the producers gave up their venue...
Anyway, I expect the cam films to be mostly inside jobs. Projectionist, once a skilled trade with a labor union and a living wage, has long been a minimum wage job. The training on the platter system takes about an hour. The setup of a new film requires it to be screened once. This is done late at night, by the minimum wage high school kid. The manager of the theatre can't be bothered.
I know this, because it's what I did in High School. When I had the keys to the theatre, setup nights and the nights where we did deep cleaning were parties. If we'd had cameras and cared to deal with it, somebody would have made films. Usually the movies were boring though, so what we did instead was play music through the theatre sound system, drink fountain sodas and poke smot.
I don't know what theatre employees do these days, but I expect it's still a shit job, the kind of job that you go in every day hoping to get fired from, whose only perk is free movies and free fountain drinks. And maybe if you read in your girlfriend's diary that she had a fantasy about doing it in an empty movie theatre you can deliver. That and no-benefits minimum-wage pay for insanely long hours in a maddening environment.
"The last time I went to a movie theater, I went through a metal detector. That's all that's needed to catch the camcorders."
What, seriously?
Where I live, people could simply pull out their (legal) concealed handgun, say "sorry, guess that set off your detector", and go on into the theatre.
>Tyler residents make up the jury pool are rich
You've never actually been to Tyler TX, have you?
"That would be a neat trick. I live in a college town (War Eagle!). 10 years ago (heck, probably 5) we had 2-3 used CD stores. Now there are ZERO."
Hardly sounds like your town is worthy of calling itself a "college town."
"I'm not a gamer at all, but for years I've said that Quicken was the only thing keeping me from switching Linux full-time."
I actually prefer to run Quicken in a VM. I can backup the whole VM partition. I can run a version of Windows that's fully tuned to the application. It has a very small footprint. I've been doing this for almost ten years already.
I *greatly* prefer it to running it on a native Windows boot. I'd almost go as far as to say, if I had to run Windows, I'd probably start doing finances on paper.
>They've gone after grandmothers for downloading Metallica.
Well... Metallica is an 80s band... And in their demographic it wasn't uncommon for their original fans to be teenage moms... Their daughters were often teenage moms as well. Metallica fans are less than a decade away from being *great grandmothers*.
>>Stop overbooking. Just stop. No conditions, exceptions, nothing.
>
>Overbooking happens because on a certain percentage of flights business travelers always fail to show up.
Part of "no conditions, exceptions, nothing" might include "no-shows still *pay*"
Airline could often be paid twice for the same seat. Once for the no-show, once for the lucky standby passenger.