Just because you confuse "theory" (argument supported by facts) and "hypothesis" (educated guess) doesn't mean that other people are wrong and that people who do science are talking out their asses.
This is exactly like the retard^W Creationist argument that "I've never seen any animal evolve into another species" totally ignoring what is actually/meant/ by the accepted definition of "species" while the retard^W Creationist uses his own private definition of "species".
You argue without and against reason, and do not deserve reasonable argument back. To attempt to do so would be trying to drain your ocean of stupidity with a pipette.
But I think that after teaching a bear that small white things are sweet and then you toss in a ping pong ball...well...you get what you deserve after that.
"Having bullet casings, leaves, newspapers and the like drop and swirl around in response to player actions is actually pretty nifty from an immersion standpoint"
That's it. I'm done with immersion games. I'm going outside to stand in the rain. Back later.
"The copyright still remains with the sender, so, no, they are not yours. Furthermore, you cannot legally do with them as you wish."
I can do with the email as I wish. I can post it all over usenet if I so desire if I am not bound by a civil contract like an NDA or something. Then there are those so-called disclaimers that demand that the email be deleted if it was sent in error, and that it may contain confidential information or some other nonsense. At most they are there to scare people. At best, they are contracts of adhesion.
"No, but it sure can add reason. Judges are human too (though sometimes it seems they aren't often enough and other times they are human too often), and if someone can give a good enough reason why they thought they needed to break the law, a judge could acquit them because of the reason."
Usually when that happens, it's because someone tried to save someone else's life or defend his own.
But since this is all about tort and not about saving life and limb, it's more likely for the judge to say to MD that "You don't do that in civilized society. That's what this courtroom is for."
"Denial of service attacks are illegal in the US under 12 different statutes, including the Economic Espionage Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. So is MD above the law?"
Nope.
And anyone who wants to look at the "howto" for this stuff, go HERE:
Since Revision 3 is also in California, they have an open-and-shut case against Media Defender for civil damages.
Please note that vigilantism is _not_ something that justifies breaking US federal or state law. From the POV of Media Defender, the best they can get away with is pleading guilty to conspiracy, especially since they admitted in public that they're engaged in vigilante "net justice"
"Why'd you reboot? That seems like a pointless step."
Belt and braces. I was anticipating problems, especially since the tech wasn't familiar with Linux, and at the time I hadn't dealt with cable broadband installation before, being a former dialup victim. That was a few (5?) years ago.
I got to introduce a Cox techie (an actual techie, not a subcontractor) to Linux.
It went like this: Run the coax from the outside box to the basement and connect to the coax hanging from the basement ceiling. Go to apartment. Hook up coax to cable modem, cat5 from cable modem to computer, and plug in cable modem power brick. Power-cycle everything. Watch network connection come up on boot screen. Connected. Browse Google to confirm. Done.
"That was the easiest install I ever did" says he. Sure as hell got him interested in Linux.
"Talking "we need something lighter than WindowMaker" here, of course;)"
What, like Open Look with a decent file manager? I've been fond of that since forever ago - since 486 and 8 megs ago. Can anyone get more lightweight than that?
I tend to find Mark Sobell's books excellent, in that they are plain-spoken and *not boring*
Someone up there mentioned "Install linux" as a snarky answer. There's no substitute for hands-on. Even for those that don't want to actually install Linux, there are Live CDs and VMWare images.
Oh yeah, and just because something is old doesn't mean it's useless. Sometimes the old stuff saves one's butt when you can't find a click-and-drool interface for what you need to do. Look at the butt-saving stuff in the old textbook and see if the new texts cover 'em.
I wanted you. And I was looking for you. But I couldn't find you. I wanted you. And I was looking for you all day. But I couldn't find you. I couldn't find you. You're walking. And you don't always realize it, but you're always falling. With each step you fall forward slightly. And then catch yourself from falling. Over and over, you're falling. And then catching yourself from falling. And this is how you can be walking and falling at the same time.
113. Late in the evening of April 29, 1997, Merkey returned a laptop computer to Novell. Upon inspection Novell discovered that the hard drive in the computer was smashed. That same computer and hard drive were offered as an exhibit and the court has personally inspected the computer.
114. The hard drive of the laptop is a modular unit, easily removable from the computer.
115. At trial the hard drive was removed and inspected by the court. It had the appearance of having been smashed with several blows from a hard object like a hammer.
116. Merkey has offered no less than four different explanations of how the hard drive came to be smashed, pointing most of the blame to his children.
117. One of his explanations is that he was so angry at the replevin that he threw the computer at Novell's door when he returned it. This explanation does not fly (like the computer allegedly did) for neither the computer carrying case nor the laptop bear any evidence of physical abuse or damage, though the hard drive, which ordinarily is mounted within the plastic shell of the computer, clearly has been smashed.
The dog ate it! No, my KIDS smashed it...no...IT IS WHITE HOUSE POLICY! (Jon Lovitz Voice) Yeah, That's the ticket!
City police recruits getting lesson at Holocaust Museum
01:00 AM EDT on Friday, March 14, 2008
By Gregory Smith
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE The days are gone when city police recruits were trained mostly in the laws, in subduing suspects and in handling weapons. Nowdays they get an extensive grounding in the theory and concepts of law enforcement, too.
Which brings them to the study of the Jewish Holocaust in Nazi Germany.
In a sharp departure from past practice, Police Chief Dean M. Esserman yesterday sent a busload of recruits on a field trip to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., for instruction tailored to law enforcement officers.
Weve changed training, Esserman pointed out. The proud traditions that weve had, weve built on them. One of the most noticeable changes is that all probationary officers, once they graduate the Providence police academy, spend at least a year in training on the streets under the supervision of a sergeant.
According to museum and city police officials, there is a local lesson in the Nazis rise to power in Germany in the 1930s.
Adolf Hitler and his minions won over the provincial police forces, tapped into the esteem in which the police were held by the citizenry and used that association to gather legitimacy in their ultimate rise to power. The Nazi dictatorship led to the mass extermination of millions of Jews and others.
Were talking about legitimate power and authority that was co-opted, Esserman said. Its a story that young officers need to know. Police officers are given enormous power and they must consider that power within a historical context, he added.
Said Deputy Police Chief Paul J. Kennedy, What does it say to cops, soldiers and others? Your oath is to who? Its to the people. Its not to any politician, not to any commander-in-chief. Its to the people.
The 65th Providence Police Training Academy, which runs for 22 weeks, the longest of the three police academies in Rhode Island, includes 15 recruits. Long-distance field trips, until now, have not been part of the curriculum.
The recruits already have heard from Esserman, who spoke to them about the U.S. Constitution.
Every officer gets a copy of the Constitution from me, to let them know I am no king. And they dont take the oath to me, Esserman said.
For four or five years, Providence academies also heard a presentation about Operation Plunder Dome from now-retired FBI Special Agent Dennis Aiken, who led the investigation of City Hall corruption that brought down Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr. in 2002. Aiken addressed the 2007 Police Department retreat, too, and Esserman said he hopes to have him back in the future.
In public ceremonies, Esserman repeatedly makes a point of thanking Mayor David N. Cicilline for returning the Police Department to the public and to its members. The reference is to Plunder Dome and related cases that exposed interference in hiring and other police decisions by Cianci and Frank E. Corrente, his director of administration.
Some police officers believed it was necessary during the Cianci era to make political donations to further their careers, but the current city leadership insists that practice is nothing more than a bad memory.
I look at this training program as a cautionary tale about abuse of power applicable to all police departments, Esserman said yesterday.
Its the story about police being co-opted and the rule of law being subjugated to the will and the rule of an individual, he said. But Esserman does not directly link Plunder Dome with what the museum and academy courses have to say about the abuse of power.
Cianci, now a radio talk show host, has belittled the museum trip on his show.
In Washington, the recruits will attend a program called Law Enforcement and Society: Lessons of the Holocaust, in which more than 36,000 officers from 12 police agencies in the Washington area, including the FBI, have participated. T
"More importantly, the less likely disease vectors (accidents, rape) are not enough to cause an epidemic. So such vaccines should be available (maybe even subsidized), but not mandatory."
But it's already an epidemic.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as many as 50 percent of sexually active men and women become infected with Human Papillomavirus (HPV) at some point in their lives. Because the virus is so pervasive, by age 50, at least 80 percent of women will have acquired genital HPV infection. http://www.cdc.gov/std/HPV/STDFact-HPV.htm#common
Now if people would stop being such political TWATS about a HEALTH issue, maybe we could put a stop to the third leading cause of cancer in women.
FRC and Focus on the Family are dangerous, murderous organizations that want you *dead* if you "sin." They and their ilk are the Taliban, right here in the good ol' USA.
I briefly went to Windows95, after my install disks died (bloody weird format, too). That didn't last long, and in a fury of frustration, I decided to look at Linux again.
I never looked back. Oh yes, I miss some things. I miss Workplace Shell most of all, but then KDE does most of what WPS did. Indeed, having Linux gives me a lot more useful stuff that I never even had with Warp or any other OS. I don't miss it so much anymore.
IBM had something great but didn't defend it very well in the marketplace. I'm probably better off having gone the Linux route.
Have the rack of equipment in its own area for climate control and physical security reasons. The machine room should be separated from the office. Also, figure at least 3 feet or 1 meter around the racks to walk around. Far too many people put the racks right up against the wall until "oops, I have to run a wire in back."
Large enough desk/bench area to take apart systems. See Lista above for decent benches.
As many electrical outlets as you can make them install. Make sure the electrical service is big enough to take the load and can be upgraded for expansion.
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Just because you confuse "theory" (argument supported by facts) and "hypothesis" (educated guess) doesn't mean that other people are wrong and that people who do science are talking out their asses.
This is exactly like the retard^W Creationist argument that "I've never seen any animal evolve into another species" totally ignoring what is actually /meant/ by the accepted definition of "species" while the retard^W Creationist uses his own private definition of "species".
You argue without and against reason, and do not deserve reasonable argument back. To attempt to do so would be trying to drain your ocean of stupidity with a pipette.
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Totally offtopic...
I once told a long lost acquaintance that "you have that 'o' thing goin' there, dontcha?"
She was 'orrified, guvna. Really 'orrified. She only thought that Newfies really had it.
She was from Haligonia.
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"How is a robot supposed to get a bear to stand still and open its mouth to throw in a ping pong ball?"
Marshmallows.
Bears *love* marshmallows. They will do anything for a sweet squishy marshmallow.
http://www.clarkstradingpost.com/attractions.php
But I think that after teaching a bear that small white things are sweet and then you toss in a ping pong ball...well...you get what you deserve after that.
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"'It's easy -- just open a terminal and type' I've lost them..."
I find that all depends on the age of the user. If the user is old enough to have been familiar with DOS at the command line, it's really no problem.
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"Having bullet casings, leaves, newspapers and the like drop and swirl around in response to player actions is actually pretty nifty from an immersion standpoint"
That's it. I'm done with immersion games. I'm going outside to stand in the rain. Back later.
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"The copyright still remains with the sender, so, no, they are not yours. Furthermore, you cannot legally do with them as you wish."
I can do with the email as I wish. I can post it all over usenet if I so desire if I am not bound by a civil contract like an NDA or something. Then there are those so-called disclaimers that demand that the email be deleted if it was sent in error, and that it may contain confidential information or some other nonsense. At most they are there to scare people. At best, they are contracts of adhesion.
Feel free to ignore those, too.
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If 5 watts isn't enough, just hook it up to a 1KW linear amp. Oh wait, there's a van out front that says FCC on it. BRB. Door.
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"No, but it sure can add reason. Judges are human too (though sometimes it seems they aren't often enough and other times they are human too often), and if someone can give a good enough reason why they thought they needed to break the law, a judge could acquit them because of the reason."
Usually when that happens, it's because someone tried to save someone else's life or defend his own.
But since this is all about tort and not about saving life and limb, it's more likely for the judge to say to MD that "You don't do that in civilized society. That's what this courtroom is for."
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BMO
"Denial of service attacks are illegal in the US under 12 different statutes, including the Economic Espionage Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. So is MD above the law?"
Nope.
And anyone who wants to look at the "howto" for this stuff, go HERE:
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/ccmanual/01ccma.html#F.
That's the applicable one.
Since Revision 3 is also in California, they have an open-and-shut case against Media Defender for civil damages.
Please note that vigilantism is _not_ something that justifies breaking US federal or state law. From the POV of Media Defender, the best they can get away with is pleading guilty to conspiracy, especially since they admitted in public that they're engaged in vigilante "net justice"
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If anyone wants the old torrent of Media Defender emails, they are still up on PirateBay.
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3806944/MediaDefender.Mail.200612.200709-MDD
Anyone got a list of the Media Defender IP block? It'd be nice to add to the firewall.
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"Why'd you reboot? That seems like a pointless step."
Belt and braces. I was anticipating problems, especially since the tech wasn't familiar with Linux, and at the time I hadn't dealt with cable broadband installation before, being a former dialup victim. That was a few (5?) years ago.
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BMO
I got to introduce a Cox techie (an actual techie, not a subcontractor) to Linux.
It went like this: Run the coax from the outside box to the basement and connect to the coax hanging from the basement ceiling. Go to apartment. Hook up coax to cable modem, cat5 from cable modem to computer, and plug in cable modem power brick. Power-cycle everything. Watch network connection come up on boot screen. Connected. Browse Google to confirm. Done.
"That was the easiest install I ever did" says he. Sure as hell got him interested in Linux.
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BMO
"Talking "we need something lighter than WindowMaker" here, of course ;)"
What, like Open Look with a decent file manager? I've been fond of that since forever ago - since 486 and 8 megs ago. Can anyone get more lightweight than that?
Gimme back my oval buttons, bitch.
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BMO
"So, if I'm laid off, and it's "absolutely out of my control," you'll gladly pay my bills. Great, what's your address, just in case?"
That's what *unemployment insurance* is for. Everyone is required to pay into it (except for some exceptions like self-employment, etc).
If you get laid off, I *already* gladly pay your bills. Similarly, if I get laid off, I get the same.
You "I've got mine, fuck you" retards are just so special.
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BMO
Over by the sinks where I work, there are signs about it being illegal to pour "chemicals" into the drain.
I asked our guy in charge of environmental compliance if "dihydrogen monoxide" could be put down the drain. He said no.
*headdesk*
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BMO
I tend to find Mark Sobell's books excellent, in that they are plain-spoken and *not boring*
Someone up there mentioned "Install linux" as a snarky answer. There's no substitute for hands-on. Even for those that don't want to actually install Linux, there are Live CDs and VMWare images.
Oh yeah, and just because something is old doesn't mean it's useless. Sometimes the old stuff saves one's butt when you can't find a click-and-drool interface for what you need to do. Look at the butt-saving stuff in the old textbook and see if the new texts cover 'em.
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BMO
I wanted you.
And I was looking for you.
But I couldn't find you.
I wanted you.
And I was looking for you all day.
But I couldn't find you.
I couldn't find you.
You're walking.
And you don't always realize it, but you're always falling.
With each step you fall forward slightly.
And then catch yourself from falling.
Over and over, you're falling.
And then catching yourself from falling.
And this is how you can be walking and falling at the same time.
4e:45:56:45:52:20:47:4f:4e:4e:41:20:47:49:56:45:20:59:4f:55:20:55:50
4e:45:56:45:52:20:47:4f:4e:4e:41:20:4c:45:54:20:59:4f:55:20:44:4f:57:4e
4e:45:56:45:52:20:47:4f:4e:4e:41:20:52:55:4e:20:41:52:4f:55:4e:44
41:4e:44:20:48:55:52:54:20:59:4f:55
Osama, the CDs are on the plane.
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Hey! where have we seen this excuse before?
Smashing hard disks pisses off judges, and they write things like this:
http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20041021131512626
113. Late in the evening of April 29, 1997, Merkey returned a laptop computer to Novell. Upon inspection Novell discovered that the hard drive in the computer was smashed. That same computer and hard drive were offered as an exhibit and the court has personally inspected the computer.
114. The hard drive of the laptop is a modular unit, easily removable from the computer.
115. At trial the hard drive was removed and inspected by the court. It had the appearance of having been smashed with several blows from a hard object like a hammer.
116. Merkey has offered no less than four different explanations of how the hard drive came to be smashed, pointing most of the blame to his children.
117. One of his explanations is that he was so angry at the replevin that he threw the computer at Novell's door when he returned it. This explanation does not fly (like the computer allegedly did) for neither the computer carrying case nor the laptop bear any evidence of physical abuse or damage, though the hard drive, which ordinarily is mounted within the plastic shell of the computer, clearly has been smashed.
The dog ate it! No, my KIDS smashed it...no...IT IS WHITE HOUSE POLICY! (Jon Lovitz Voice) Yeah, That's the ticket!
--
BMO
City police recruits getting lesson at Holocaust Museum
01:00 AM EDT on Friday, March 14, 2008
By Gregory Smith
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE The days are gone when city police recruits were trained mostly in the laws, in subduing suspects and in handling weapons. Nowdays they get an extensive grounding in the theory and concepts of law enforcement, too.
Which brings them to the study of the Jewish Holocaust in Nazi Germany.
In a sharp departure from past practice, Police Chief Dean M. Esserman yesterday sent a busload of recruits on a field trip to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., for instruction tailored to law enforcement officers.
Weve changed training, Esserman pointed out. The proud traditions that weve had, weve built on them. One of the most noticeable changes is that all probationary officers, once they graduate the Providence police academy, spend at least a year in training on the streets under the supervision of a sergeant.
According to museum and city police officials, there is a local lesson in the Nazis rise to power in Germany in the 1930s.
Adolf Hitler and his minions won over the provincial police forces, tapped into the esteem in which the police were held by the citizenry and used that association to gather legitimacy in their ultimate rise to power. The Nazi dictatorship led to the mass extermination of millions of Jews and others.
Were talking about legitimate power and authority that was co-opted, Esserman said. Its a story that young officers need to know. Police officers are given enormous power and they must consider that power within a historical context, he added.
Said Deputy Police Chief Paul J. Kennedy, What does it say to cops, soldiers and others? Your oath is to who? Its to the people. Its not to any politician, not to any commander-in-chief. Its to the people.
The 65th Providence Police Training Academy, which runs for 22 weeks, the longest of the three police academies in Rhode Island, includes 15 recruits. Long-distance field trips, until now, have not been part of the curriculum.
The recruits already have heard from Esserman, who spoke to them about the U.S. Constitution.
Every officer gets a copy of the Constitution from me, to let them know I am no king. And they dont take the oath to me, Esserman said.
For four or five years, Providence academies also heard a presentation about Operation Plunder Dome from now-retired FBI Special Agent Dennis Aiken, who led the investigation of City Hall corruption that brought down Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr. in 2002. Aiken addressed the 2007 Police Department retreat, too, and Esserman said he hopes to have him back in the future.
In public ceremonies, Esserman repeatedly makes a point of thanking Mayor David N. Cicilline for returning the Police Department to the public and to its members. The reference is to Plunder Dome and related cases that exposed interference in hiring and other police decisions by Cianci and Frank E. Corrente, his director of administration.
Some police officers believed it was necessary during the Cianci era to make political donations to further their careers, but the current city leadership insists that practice is nothing more than a bad memory.
I look at this training program as a cautionary tale about abuse of power applicable to all police departments, Esserman said yesterday.
Its the story about police being co-opted and the rule of law being subjugated to the will and the rule of an individual, he said. But Esserman does not directly link Plunder Dome with what the museum and academy courses have to say about the abuse of power.
Cianci, now a radio talk show host, has belittled the museum trip on his show.
In Washington, the recruits will attend a program called Law Enforcement and Society: Lessons of the Holocaust, in which more than 36,000 officers from 12 police agencies in the Washington area, including the FBI, have participated. T
"More importantly, the less likely disease vectors (accidents, rape) are not enough to cause an epidemic. So such vaccines should be available (maybe even subsidized), but not mandatory."
But it's already an epidemic.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as many as 50 percent of sexually active men and women become infected with Human Papillomavirus (HPV) at some point in their lives. Because the virus is so pervasive, by age 50, at least 80 percent of women will have acquired genital HPV infection.
http://www.cdc.gov/std/HPV/STDFact-HPV.htm#common
Now if people would stop being such political TWATS about a HEALTH issue, maybe we could put a stop to the third leading cause of cancer in women.
FRC and Focus on the Family are dangerous, murderous organizations that want you *dead* if you "sin." They and their ilk are the Taliban, right here in the good ol' USA.
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BMO
I thought Fluorine was 9. Sulfur is 16, last I checked.
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BMO
Yes, I was a big fan of OS/2.
I briefly went to Windows95, after my install disks died (bloody weird format, too). That didn't last long, and in a fury of frustration, I decided to look at Linux again.
I never looked back. Oh yes, I miss some things. I miss Workplace Shell most of all, but then KDE does most of what WPS did. Indeed, having Linux gives me a lot more useful stuff that I never even had with Warp or any other OS. I don't miss it so much anymore.
IBM had something great but didn't defend it very well in the marketplace. I'm probably better off having gone the Linux route.
--
BMO
Have sound tiles installed or use sound blankets http://www.thomasnet.com/products/curtains-sound-barrier-21260203-1.html
Have the rack of equipment in its own area for climate control and physical security reasons. The machine room should be separated from the office. Also, figure at least 3 feet or 1 meter around the racks to walk around. Far too many people put the racks right up against the wall until "oops, I have to run a wire in back."
Plan for expansion.
Climate control. Redundant systems.
Media storage. Lista cabinets. http://www.listaintl.com/
Large enough desk/bench area to take apart systems. See Lista above for decent benches.
As many electrical outlets as you can make them install. Make sure the electrical service is big enough to take the load and can be upgraded for expansion.
Get good locks for the machine room.
A refrigerator, pull out couch, and beer cooler.
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Areal as in "related to Ares the Greek God of Savage War"?
Fitting typo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ares
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