While having physical access to a machine makes it 80% vulnerable, the rest 20% seems to be OS driven. Am surprised that Mac OS X didn't prompt the user for root password at all. If it had and the user had typed it in to invoke the crack, then it is no crack at all. But in this case Mac seems to be running like XP, which is terrifying.
XP grew up in a bad neighborhood with lots of people hacking into your home and kicking you. So you grew up to disproportionate sizes to counter the bullies and also put in rudimentary plyboards to prevent them from coming in. Also you started building a fort around yourself (Vista) so that others can be seen swimming towards your fort and sunk. All in all, XP's rapid "growing up" and the fact that it has become robust over years shows the brutal world out there in wild.
Mac has been living the sheltered life like the Lion in the Zoo in Madagascar. Safari was its first brutal exposure to the bad world and its quick exploit by XP hackers proved to be as much of a shock to Apple as it did to Mac Fanboys(who could not dispute or ridicule like the republicans do their opponents). Now, the hurd has taken the battle to Apple's camp and cracked its Mac OS X through Safari.
One perverse way Microsoft must be celebrating that their default install of XP or Vista did not crack so easily.
Probably Apple needs some Microsoft lessons. But then apple has always sued hackers or jailed them, unlike Microsoft which has an uneasy peace with them.
Bottomline: Microsoft has been slowly improving default security and is kinda crackproof. Mac still believes all users are angels and its hallelujah crowd will defend its glory. Apple is in for a rude surprise when it enters the wild world of Windows.
Probably yes. It would be fun if it were true. But it would be tragic if it was not. But then the actions of Bush-Cheney have always implied it is true. Guilt by association. For instance cheney's recent movement of his personal fortune into Euro Money bonds away from USD shows his trust of this country's ability. I always think of Bush-Cheney as the long-stretched pearl harbour.
Definitely Clinton. I mean come on, he got a good blowjob from a sexy young girl, and LIED to congress about it! OH MY GOD! Can you believe it? He lied to his family, his friends and betrayed the whole country! Because of his lies, the pope died and a famine ravaged the south. Because he lied, Bin Laden got mad and blew up planes and towers. What a corrupt man. He ought to be sentenced to death for manslaughter.
aaahhhhh.. now i have released my whole day's tension. Now what was it you were talking about??
They complain about the lack of good paying jobs,and living with a corrupt government No, they don't. They want good paying jobs in their country. One that allows them to harvest and sow back same corn they have been doing for 50 generations. They want to make Pita bread with their own corn. Have they been able to do so? Monsanto demands payment each year from such corn growers and in additon makes the corrupt government send troops to quell "dissidence" when farmers too poor refuse to pay and try to reuse corn.
I agree, lumber is just a symptom. There are far bigger fish to fry: US Steel industry, GM crops being imposed on other countries leading to mass suicides, refusal to open up textile markets, refusal to open up or stop subsidizing food markets.
Many things in life are about the money but getting fair political representation really shouldn't be one. True. But look at the state of affairs. PACs and vested interests, plus corporates (which ironically cannot vote) get laws passed to suit them. Take for instance Conagra's insistence on replacing sugar with sucrose, or banana growers, or even US Steel makers. Take for instance copyrights and patents. Even though ONLY Humans can invent anything, corporates own the patents! Justify that. Can a corporation "invent" anything? Can it go out and vote? Can it even climb a podium and give a "I have a dream..." speech? And yet, such corporates which pay less than 25.7% corporate income taxes in their bracket get pehnomenal breaks.
Link that to huge donations to campaign funds of senators who helped pass the laws (Orrin Hatch, Rockefeller, etc) and i see more than smoke.
There is no fair representation unless you raise your funds exclusively from only human voters in very small amounts. That way you are not bound to obey corporate diktats.
no geek capable of running Motorola will ever be offered the job. We're far too outspoken, way too radical, most (myself included) have never been contaminated with a Harvard business degree So, are you saying that to be the CEO of a company you have to: a) Have an IQ of 98 or less. b) Must have been an User Car dealer in present or past life. c) Should have a Law or CFA degree from either a diploma mill or Harvard. d) Should be able to sell not only refrigerators to Eskimos, but should also sign them up for the Service Contracts @ $399/ per fridge excluding sending the fridge from Alaska to CT. e) Should NOT have engineer in family. f) Should have been a bully in school. Police/School records proving the same are welcome. g) Should not have been technically convicted yet. (Appeals are not counted unless the SCOTUS and President both reject the appeal) h) Should be excellent in Golf and wife/husband should have an excellent social life in Wisteria lane. i) Wife should organize frequent school trips to art Museums, organize barbeques, @ home and nearby. j) MUST have atleast 3 different bankers as close friends.
Quoted from article:
"I don't give a goddamn," Bush retorted. "I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way."
"Mr. President," one aide in the meeting said. "There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution."
"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face," Bush screamed back. "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"
I've talked to three people present for the meeting that day and they all confirm that the President of the United States called the Constitution "a goddamned piece of paper."
And, to the Bush Administration, the Constitution of the United States is little more than toilet paper stained from all the shit that this group of power-mad despots have dumped on the freedoms that "goddamned piece of paper" used to guarantee.
Surprising! Isn't that what small businesses in Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and Indonesia said when US corpororates dumped cheap material on them and flooded them out? How come when it affects your friends, it becomes US versus them, but when someone invisible is affected by millions, then it becomes free-trade?
I would cheer canada any day. And if you want laws changed, contribute to your congressman. Stop crying and act like a man.
To listen to them bitch and moan Isn't that what US does most often nowadays in US and WTO? Complaints against CHina, against Russia, closing down allofmp3.com arresting and indicting a DVD decryptor, complain against France (although France showed the middle finger similingly), complain against EU for fining Microsoft, refuse to impose sanctions against Saudi Arabia... Since most countries listen patiently to this blatant complaining by US against others, it is only fair to expect US to listen when others complain. Alternately, Bush can withdraw from UN tomorrow. Am sure UN would not miss a beat.
*job of government* - to act in the interests of the people of the United States Wow! let me add more to that: 1. The job of the US government is to act in protecting the interets of special interest groups, lobbyists and corporates who have donated huge amounts to campaigns. Since 1980s began Reagan enforced on the government that its sole responsibility is to SIG and corporates.
2. How come when other national governments act in the interests of their people, we bomb the hell out of them and do a regime change? Panama, Nicaragua, mexico (many times), Venezuela (failed), Puerto Rico, Indonesia, Shah of Iran, etc.?
EVERY sovereign country should act in it's own interests Exactly. However US seems to think EVERY sovereign country should act in US interests. And failing to do so results in regime change by force or by crook.
When other countries defy US rules, everybody cheers and proclaims them to be heroes for standing up to the US. When we do the same, even in a ridiculously minor way, people response like we are the fourth reich. As you said earlier, why should other countries follow US rules? US certainly does not do so. For instance during 2004 election, about 65% world population wanted Bush to go. But did he? Instead he responded: "Those guys didn't vote for me." So it means, i can affect other people's lives in any way i see fit, but the affected can't do the same to me? There is nothing minor in refusing to honor a WTO treaty. After all US does the same to allofmp3.com, Russia, China, etc. and it considers every small argument as a major one. What do you classify as minor? Farm subsidies for Corn Ethanol which makes it cheaper to export? Or tarrifs on Brazil or Mexican Ethanol which is cheaper (from cane), but can't be imported due to high tarrifs in violation of Treaties that US expects others to uphold?
Cuban human rights abuses So you say Guantanamo Military Base is run by Cuban Military??? Wow! You are dumber than i thought. Secondly, if US has the moral right to impose sanctions on cuba & iran due to huma rights violations, should it not do the same to Saudi Arabia (flogging, etc), Pakistan, New Iraq, Kuwait (where women are nit allowed to vote)? Anyway, what's wrong with other countries demanding US play by the same rules they are asked to follow in the same place? Remember Super 501 laws? Which allowed US to turn around and impose a country's laws on the same country if it thought the country violated free trade?
mechanisms to ensure fairness Since when was gambling fair? Probably you meant that US-owned corporates don't have access to the money Antigua companies earn... Once a US corporate buys out a few Antiguan gambling corporates, you can expect REAL change, REAL quick.
Let's face it. The world is not fair. Each country is entitled to screw the other if it benefits them. US has every right to do so, and so do Iran, EU and other countries.
Two Words: Preemptive Strike. If i was running Hitachi or Samsung, i would be filing two suits (each) against Seagate: 1. Filing for removal of patent protection for a technology their scientists invented. 2. Filing a case against Seagate for violating Hitachi/Samsung's vague patents. As a bonus i would file a separate case invoking RICO on Seagate's CEO personally for threating harm to a body by demanding money in return for protection.
imagine the cost and the amount of money that has been spent on these type of projects How else do you think we started with a Budget Surplus in 2000, and ended up with a trillion dollar hole in 2008?
The defense industrial complex never had it so good. Not even during Second World War. After all WW II did not last for 6 years (for US).
Let me play FoxNews plus Gonzales for a while:
1. I'm remodeling my house. I go down to Home Despot/Slowes and buy a dozen smoke detectors. Would I get pulled over for being a suspected terrorist? Yes. You would get pulled over and charged. You need to prove to the Police and the judge beyond doubt that the detectors are for your home. A work contract signed by your contractor, a REAL ID and a passport are necessary to get discharged from the case. Plus if you live in Montana or California, tough luck. These states support terrorism by rejecting REAL ID and thus endangering you! (endangering you by your rendition to Gitmo).
2. I'm a cancer patient undergoing radiation therapy. What can be done to prevent the horror of being pulled over by the KGB? Would it be reasonable to issue "radiology patient" tags, like they issue handicapped tags for the handicapped? Yes. That badge would need to be accompanied by REAL ID. The badge itself would be built by the highest bidder who has offered better quality, 3D hologram embossed with your wife's or Eva Longoria's photo on the badge and also has Bluetooth enabled. Oh BTW, your insurance would not pay for the badge which would cost $399 each.
3. What is the false positive rate of such monitoring? Here, we have a cute example of a sick cat setting off a false positive. What about other incidents like this that fail to get into the newspaper? Those details are "deemed classified." Much like information about cellphone tower coverage which companies used to provide publicly but stopped in 2003/04 when Bush deemed them classified at their instigation. Similarly if you continue questioning about false positives, you would be classified as a "person of interest" and be subject to such intense surveillance that the movie Enemy of State would be outdated. Heck, even your stool shit would be studied after scraping it from toilets.
Hey, that piece of information ought to be classified and you ought to keep your trap shut instead of blathering out in open like this. If the terrorists read about this, then they would plan like below: 1. Come to Oak Ridge, TN with an empty 2-tonner truck. 2. Squash and drive over thousands of radioactive frogs in a matter of weeks shouting their usual battle cry "death to infi..."etc. 3. Buy a Geiger counter locally and check for enough radioactivity. 4. Skip to Mexico/border country and get a dirty bomb (I was watching "Goldfinger" Bond movie yesterday), the iodine kind which emits less radioactivity. 5. Load onto this radioactive-tired truck (of course you would be stupid enough to drive out from TN all the way to Mexico on same tires and expect same radioactivity. So you stove away the tires and buy new/used ones which are NOT radioactive to drive to mexico. When you drive back you latch on the radioactive tires). 6. Border guards stop your truck since it seems to be glowing with radioactivity. They look at the tires and the tired guys at wheel. Of course the terrorists would be telling the truth about Oak Ridge TN and telling them they had just made a delivery to that place. They can also produce a newspaper clipping or something which proves even the frogs are radioactive and ask the border guards to talk to the Sherrif there to prove it. 7. Border guards allow the truck with "Medical Cargo" to enter US. 8. About two weeks later somewhere an incident happens.... 9. Bush gets elected for a 3rd Time after tearing up the constitutionand is actually seen on Fox News using it as toilet paper to wipe cheney's ass with it. 10. Cheney asks "So?"
There, see the probabilities of imagination?..and that is why you must never discuss confidential or "could be potentially confidential" stuff on slashdot. The KGB was right.
Tesltra??? You tried talking sense into Telstra! Ha ha ha... Its like talking a pig into voluntarily dying to become Bacon. Not even parliment could talk or order Telstra into doing anything the people wanted.
Telstra is a scum bag. Period. They make COmcast plus Verizon look like saints.
Power of market and Free market capitalism are both wrongly used nowadays. During the days of Second BUS Bank of US) Free Banking was meant to mean that government does NOT intervene to help any ailing bank and that it treated all banks as equal businesses. i.e., If a bank failed to meet its outstanding obligations in FULL (in Specie in those days), it was to be immediately wound up, its assets sold and money to be distributed to creditors. No central bank assistance of any kind, No "forced mergers" with JP Morgans, no lender of last resort crap. And No Fractional Reserve Banking as we have today. No hiding behind government skirts, no campaign funds donations.
Today comcast, Verizon file costly lawsuits to prevent municipalities from providing free WiFi to its citizens. Next step, the corporates stop providing those services to citizens unless the municipality pays them enough money to make it profitable enough.
How come the saying "Never fight City Hall" apply to corporates? Atleast one moneyed city hall should sic RICO on the corporate and win the case.
Yeah, but you should be get your hands on a kindle first. With amazon devoting the entire first page to Kindle, it seem it is a big failure for amazon. So don;t expect to see one soon.
...and they do not have our physical money. Hence they can't "spend" the money we pay them for the book except under conditions we specify. I faced the same issue with a now-defunct ebook retailer: www.paperbackdigital.com I had bought about 8 mobi format ebooks from them and when i needed to visit their website to reset PIDs for my PocketPC, they were closed. I felt like a dork. Fortunately my credit card was just billed, so i disputed all the payments i made to them. If i can't get their product, they can't get my money.
Comcast would get sued into oblivion. Nope. Retroactive Immunity. Two words that will take the sails out of any lawsuit pioneer including Ralph Nader and Moore. My predictions: 1. Comcast would start using the camera to monitor how many people are actually watching the TV during a particular session of Golden Girls or Desperate Housewives versus how many are in the room fcuking around. Just a statistic. 2. Somehow NSA comes to know of such capability (leaked to NSA by a Patriot Texan). Two blacksuits land in Comcast office threatening to blow it up unless Comcast agreed to set up "Room 11" to intercept all such feeds and send them to NSA. 3. The next Federal Defense Budget has provisions for $250 hammers and $3500 toilet seats and such appropriations are protected under Executive Privilege AND Partiot Act. So any lawsuits by ACLU get dismissed. 4. Room 11 starts recording 1TB of data each data and sifts through the same with face recognition software to "detect any terrorists and terrorist behavior of citizens". Seagate and Dell get multi-million dollars of NSA purchases. IBM profits increase by 34.7% due to NSA purchases. Lenovo starts to feel alone. 5. Few Comcast employees start making tapes of such videos to rival "Girls gone wild" and "Jenna Jameson" Home packs. The videos find their way to YouTube! and MySpace by mistake. 6. A huge uproar ensues with Congress and Senate Critters falling over one another to rake NSA over coals. 7. NSA silently produces a written order from His Majesty Sir McCain authorizing such activity. 8. ACLU wants to sue Comcast, but is rebuffed by McCain by using his executive privilege. 9. Comcast increases its donations to campaign funds by 250% to BOTH parties. 10. Two months later, congress and senate pass a midnight law silently approving retroactive immunity. Fox News plays a headline of a single mom terrorised by a Squirrel released by AlQaeda to prevent her from leaving from home. It also puts up another headline screaming how companies are willing to provide their employees orgasm time during working hours to help them release their tension. 11. Once passed, the law effectively prevents anyone from comcast. NSA tries to justify the need for surveillance by pointing out that it had helped FBI solve 12 murders, 14 child-rape cases, 687 family assault cases, and 2478 drug abuse cases (out of which 1987 are legitimate diabetic injections, but that info is supressed).
12. Fox starts a new show LOST @ Home which talks about six family members in a home and their travails.
Before: 1. Beg, borrow, or steal 1 million dollars 2. Take ill-gotten gains to JP Morgan 3. ?????? 4. Profit!!! Nope. It goes something like this: Before: 1. Beg, borrow, or steal 1 million dollars 2. Take ill-gotten gains to JP Morgan 3. Watch them invest your money in CDOs backed by Home Equity Loans. 4. Watch them lose your money. 5. Watch them being bought over by Bank of America! 6. PROFIT !!! (For those whose lost your money)
Bloomberg and CNN are both owned by corporates which benefit from such insider trading. Whom do you think they would cover? You, a stupid, individual who rolls on the couch, and pays stupid taxes as ordered to by IRS, or, their parent corp which pays them the salary necessary for them to buy their next Jaguar and BMWs...
Newbie a$shole. Stop posting such stupid questions in slashdot.
People don't understand what liberty means, so they don;t care to defend it.
They think liberty is choosing between beige colored vs bright yellow colored pants or Cheeburger versus Vegan, Choosing between AT&T or Verizon for phone lines, or choosing between Half&Half versus Full Cream milk. As long as they can drive their cars at 2 AM to local walmart without the Gestapo stopping them every meter, americans are more than happy to let the government spy on them, and preferably put some of their "private moments" online in the vain hope some book company would give them a contract.
Probably as a school exchange, about 1 million students a year should be sent to N.Korea, Iran, Libya, Russia and Srilanka to study and learn what exactly is liberty.
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You MUST be from texas.
I don't know whether to laugh at your stupidity or weep at your ignorance.
I pity you.
While having physical access to a machine makes it 80% vulnerable, the rest 20% seems to be OS driven.
Am surprised that Mac OS X didn't prompt the user for root password at all.
If it had and the user had typed it in to invoke the crack, then it is no crack at all.
But in this case Mac seems to be running like XP, which is terrifying.
XP grew up in a bad neighborhood with lots of people hacking into your home and kicking you. So you grew up to disproportionate sizes to counter the bullies and also put in rudimentary plyboards to prevent them from coming in.
Also you started building a fort around yourself (Vista) so that others can be seen swimming towards your fort and sunk.
All in all, XP's rapid "growing up" and the fact that it has become robust over years shows the brutal world out there in wild.
Mac has been living the sheltered life like the Lion in the Zoo in Madagascar.
Safari was its first brutal exposure to the bad world and its quick exploit by XP hackers proved to be as much of a shock to Apple as it did to Mac Fanboys(who could not dispute or ridicule like the republicans do their opponents).
Now, the hurd has taken the battle to Apple's camp and cracked its Mac OS X through Safari.
One perverse way Microsoft must be celebrating that their default install of XP or Vista did not crack so easily.
Probably Apple needs some Microsoft lessons. But then apple has always sued hackers or jailed them, unlike Microsoft which has an uneasy peace with them.
Bottomline: Microsoft has been slowly improving default security and is kinda crackproof.
Mac still believes all users are angels and its hallelujah crowd will defend its glory.
Apple is in for a rude surprise when it enters the wild world of Windows.
Welcome to Earth!
Probably yes. It would be fun if it were true. But it would be tragic if it was not.
But then the actions of Bush-Cheney have always implied it is true. Guilt by association.
For instance cheney's recent movement of his personal fortune into Euro Money bonds away from USD shows his trust of this country's ability.
I always think of Bush-Cheney as the long-stretched pearl harbour.
Definitely Clinton. I mean come on, he got a good blowjob from a sexy young girl, and LIED to congress about it!
OH MY GOD! Can you believe it?
He lied to his family, his friends and betrayed the whole country!
Because of his lies, the pope died and a famine ravaged the south.
Because he lied, Bin Laden got mad and blew up planes and towers.
What a corrupt man.
He ought to be sentenced to death for manslaughter.
aaahhhhh.. now i have released my whole day's tension.
Now what was it you were talking about??
Have they been able to do so?
Monsanto demands payment each year from such corn growers and in additon makes the corrupt government send troops to quell "dissidence" when farmers too poor refuse to pay and try to reuse corn.
I agree, lumber is just a symptom. There are far bigger fish to fry: US Steel industry, GM crops being imposed on other countries leading to mass suicides, refusal to open up textile markets, refusal to open up or stop subsidizing food markets.
Take for instance Conagra's insistence on replacing sugar with sucrose, or banana growers, or even US Steel makers.
Take for instance copyrights and patents. Even though ONLY Humans can invent anything, corporates own the patents! Justify that.
Can a corporation "invent" anything? Can it go out and vote? Can it even climb a podium and give a "I have a dream..." speech?
And yet, such corporates which pay less than 25.7% corporate income taxes in their bracket get pehnomenal breaks.
Link that to huge donations to campaign funds of senators who helped pass the laws (Orrin Hatch, Rockefeller, etc) and i see more than smoke.
There is no fair representation unless you raise your funds exclusively from only human voters in very small amounts. That way you are not bound to obey corporate diktats.
a) Have an IQ of 98 or less.
b) Must have been an User Car dealer in present or past life.
c) Should have a Law or CFA degree from either a diploma mill or Harvard.
d) Should be able to sell not only refrigerators to Eskimos, but should also sign them up for the Service Contracts @ $399/ per fridge excluding sending the fridge from Alaska to CT.
e) Should NOT have engineer in family.
f) Should have been a bully in school. Police/School records proving the same are welcome.
g) Should not have been technically convicted yet. (Appeals are not counted unless the SCOTUS and President both reject the appeal)
h) Should be excellent in Golf and wife/husband should have an excellent social life in Wisteria lane.
i) Wife should organize frequent school trips to art Museums, organize barbeques, @ home and nearby.
j) MUST have atleast 3 different bankers as close friends.
Quoted from article: "I don't give a goddamn," Bush retorted. "I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way."
"Mr. President," one aide in the meeting said. "There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution."
"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face," Bush screamed back. "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"
I've talked to three people present for the meeting that day and they all confirm that the President of the United States called the Constitution "a goddamned piece of paper."
And, to the Bush Administration, the Constitution of the United States is little more than toilet paper stained from all the shit that this group of power-mad despots have dumped on the freedoms that "goddamned piece of paper" used to guarantee.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, while still White House counsel, wrote that the "Constitution is an outdated document." http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,198829,00.html/
Surprising!
Isn't that what small businesses in Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and Indonesia said when US corpororates dumped cheap material on them and flooded them out?
How come when it affects your friends, it becomes US versus them, but when someone invisible is affected by millions, then it becomes free-trade?
I would cheer canada any day.
And if you want laws changed, contribute to your congressman. Stop crying and act like a man.
What constitution?
I thought Bush and Cheney already classified constitution as toilet paper in their speeches about 2 years ago.
Since most countries listen patiently to this blatant complaining by US against others, it is only fair to expect US to listen when others complain.
Alternately, Bush can withdraw from UN tomorrow.
Am sure UN would not miss a beat.
1. The job of the US government is to act in protecting the interets of special interest groups, lobbyists and corporates who have donated huge amounts to campaigns. Since 1980s began Reagan enforced on the government that its sole responsibility is to SIG and corporates.
2. How come when other national governments act in the interests of their people, we bomb the hell out of them and do a regime change? Panama, Nicaragua, mexico (many times), Venezuela (failed), Puerto Rico, Indonesia, Shah of Iran, etc.? EVERY sovereign country should act in it's own interests Exactly. However US seems to think EVERY sovereign country should act in US interests. And failing to do so results in regime change by force or by crook. When other countries defy US rules, everybody cheers and proclaims them to be heroes for standing up to the US. When we do the same, even in a ridiculously minor way, people response like we are the fourth reich. As you said earlier, why should other countries follow US rules? US certainly does not do so. For instance during 2004 election, about 65% world population wanted Bush to go. But did he? Instead he responded: "Those guys didn't vote for me." So it means, i can affect other people's lives in any way i see fit, but the affected can't do the same to me?
There is nothing minor in refusing to honor a WTO treaty. After all US does the same to allofmp3.com, Russia, China, etc. and it considers every small argument as a major one.
What do you classify as minor? Farm subsidies for Corn Ethanol which makes it cheaper to export?
Or tarrifs on Brazil or Mexican Ethanol which is cheaper (from cane), but can't be imported due to high tarrifs in violation of Treaties that US expects others to uphold?
Secondly, if US has the moral right to impose sanctions on cuba & iran due to huma rights violations, should it not do the same to Saudi Arabia (flogging, etc), Pakistan, New Iraq, Kuwait (where women are nit allowed to vote)?
Anyway, what's wrong with other countries demanding US play by the same rules they are asked to follow in the same place?
Remember Super 501 laws? Which allowed US to turn around and impose a country's laws on the same country if it thought the country violated free trade? mechanisms to ensure fairness Since when was gambling fair? Probably you meant that US-owned corporates don't have access to the money Antigua companies earn...
Once a US corporate buys out a few Antiguan gambling corporates, you can expect REAL change, REAL quick.
Let's face it. The world is not fair. Each country is entitled to screw the other if it benefits them. US has every right to do so, and so do Iran, EU and other countries.
Two Words: Preemptive Strike.
If i was running Hitachi or Samsung, i would be filing two suits (each) against Seagate:
1. Filing for removal of patent protection for a technology their scientists invented.
2. Filing a case against Seagate for violating Hitachi/Samsung's vague patents.
As a bonus i would file a separate case invoking RICO on Seagate's CEO personally for threating harm to a body by demanding money in return for protection.
Seagate would get Darlm McBride as CEO
The defense industrial complex never had it so good. Not even during Second World War. After all WW II did not last for 6 years (for US).
Plus if you live in Montana or California, tough luck. These states support terrorism by rejecting REAL ID and thus endangering you! (endangering you by your rendition to Gitmo). 2. I'm a cancer patient undergoing radiation therapy. What can be done to prevent the horror of being pulled over by the KGB? Would it be reasonable to issue "radiology patient" tags, like they issue handicapped tags for the handicapped? Yes. That badge would need to be accompanied by REAL ID. The badge itself would be built by the highest bidder who has offered better quality, 3D hologram embossed with your wife's or Eva Longoria's photo on the badge and also has Bluetooth enabled. Oh BTW, your insurance would not pay for the badge which would cost $399 each. 3. What is the false positive rate of such monitoring? Here, we have a cute example of a sick cat setting off a false positive. What about other incidents like this that fail to get into the newspaper? Those details are "deemed classified." Much like information about cellphone tower coverage which companies used to provide publicly but stopped in 2003/04 when Bush deemed them classified at their instigation. Similarly if you continue questioning about false positives, you would be classified as a "person of interest" and be subject to such intense surveillance that the movie Enemy of State would be outdated. Heck, even your stool shit would be studied after scraping it from toilets.
Hey, that piece of information ought to be classified and you ought to keep your trap shut instead of blathering out in open like this.
..and that is why you must never discuss confidential or "could be potentially confidential" stuff on slashdot.
If the terrorists read about this, then they would plan like below:
1. Come to Oak Ridge, TN with an empty 2-tonner truck.
2. Squash and drive over thousands of radioactive frogs in a matter of weeks shouting their usual battle cry "death to infi..."etc.
3. Buy a Geiger counter locally and check for enough radioactivity.
4. Skip to Mexico/border country and get a dirty bomb (I was watching "Goldfinger" Bond movie yesterday), the iodine kind which emits less radioactivity.
5. Load onto this radioactive-tired truck (of course you would be stupid enough to drive out from TN all the way to Mexico on same tires and expect same radioactivity. So you stove away the tires and buy new/used ones which are NOT radioactive to drive to mexico. When you drive back you latch on the radioactive tires).
6. Border guards stop your truck since it seems to be glowing with radioactivity. They look at the tires and the tired guys at wheel. Of course the terrorists would be telling the truth about Oak Ridge TN and telling them they had just made a delivery to that place. They can also produce a newspaper clipping or something which proves even the frogs are radioactive and ask the border guards to talk to the Sherrif there to prove it.
7. Border guards allow the truck with "Medical Cargo" to enter US.
8. About two weeks later somewhere an incident happens....
9. Bush gets elected for a 3rd Time after tearing up the constitutionand is actually seen on Fox News using it as toilet paper to wipe cheney's ass with it.
10. Cheney asks "So?"
There, see the probabilities of imagination?
The KGB was right.
Tesltra??? You tried talking sense into Telstra! Ha ha ha...
Its like talking a pig into voluntarily dying to become Bacon.
Not even parliment could talk or order Telstra into doing anything the people wanted.
Telstra is a scum bag. Period.
They make COmcast plus Verizon look like saints.
They even had a funny nickname: Telescum.
Power of market and Free market capitalism are both wrongly used nowadays.
During the days of Second BUS Bank of US) Free Banking was meant to mean that government does NOT intervene to help any ailing bank and that it treated all banks as equal businesses.
i.e., If a bank failed to meet its outstanding obligations in FULL (in Specie in those days), it was to be immediately wound up, its assets sold and money to be distributed to creditors.
No central bank assistance of any kind, No "forced mergers" with JP Morgans, no lender of last resort crap.
And No Fractional Reserve Banking as we have today.
No hiding behind government skirts, no campaign funds donations.
Today comcast, Verizon file costly lawsuits to prevent municipalities from providing free WiFi to its citizens. Next step, the corporates stop providing those services to citizens unless the municipality pays them enough money to make it profitable enough.
How come the saying "Never fight City Hall" apply to corporates?
Atleast one moneyed city hall should sic RICO on the corporate and win the case.
Yeah, but you should be get your hands on a kindle first.
With amazon devoting the entire first page to Kindle, it seem it is a big failure for amazon.
So don;t expect to see one soon.
...and they do not have our physical money. Hence they can't "spend" the money we pay them for the book except under conditions we specify.
I faced the same issue with a now-defunct ebook retailer: www.paperbackdigital.com
I had bought about 8 mobi format ebooks from them and when i needed to visit their website to reset PIDs for my PocketPC, they were closed.
I felt like a dork.
Fortunately my credit card was just billed, so i disputed all the payments i made to them.
If i can't get their product, they can't get my money.
Two words that will take the sails out of any lawsuit pioneer including Ralph Nader and Moore.
My predictions:
1. Comcast would start using the camera to monitor how many people are actually watching the TV during a particular session of Golden Girls or Desperate Housewives versus how many are in the room fcuking around. Just a statistic.
2. Somehow NSA comes to know of such capability (leaked to NSA by a Patriot Texan). Two blacksuits land in Comcast office threatening to blow it up unless Comcast agreed to set up "Room 11" to intercept all such feeds and send them to NSA.
3. The next Federal Defense Budget has provisions for $250 hammers and $3500 toilet seats and such appropriations are protected under Executive Privilege AND Partiot Act. So any lawsuits by ACLU get dismissed.
4. Room 11 starts recording 1TB of data each data and sifts through the same with face recognition software to "detect any terrorists and terrorist behavior of citizens". Seagate and Dell get multi-million dollars of NSA purchases. IBM profits increase by 34.7% due to NSA purchases. Lenovo starts to feel alone.
5. Few Comcast employees start making tapes of such videos to rival "Girls gone wild" and "Jenna Jameson" Home packs. The videos find their way to YouTube! and MySpace by mistake.
6. A huge uproar ensues with Congress and Senate Critters falling over one another to rake NSA over coals.
7. NSA silently produces a written order from His Majesty Sir McCain authorizing such activity.
8. ACLU wants to sue Comcast, but is rebuffed by McCain by using his executive privilege.
9. Comcast increases its donations to campaign funds by 250% to BOTH parties.
10. Two months later, congress and senate pass a midnight law silently approving retroactive immunity. Fox News plays a headline of a single mom terrorised by a Squirrel released by AlQaeda to prevent her from leaving from home. It also puts up another headline screaming how companies are willing to provide their employees orgasm time during working hours to help them release their tension.
11. Once passed, the law effectively prevents anyone from comcast. NSA tries to justify the need for surveillance by pointing out that it had helped FBI solve 12 murders, 14 child-rape cases, 687 family assault cases, and 2478 drug abuse cases (out of which 1987 are legitimate diabetic injections, but that info is supressed).
12. Fox starts a new show LOST @ Home which talks about six family members in a home and their travails.
1. Beg, borrow, or steal 1 million dollars
2. Take ill-gotten gains to JP Morgan
3. ??????
4. Profit!!! Nope.
It goes something like this:
Before:
1. Beg, borrow, or steal 1 million dollars
2. Take ill-gotten gains to JP Morgan
3. Watch them invest your money in CDOs backed by Home Equity Loans.
4. Watch them lose your money.
5. Watch them being bought over by Bank of America!
6. PROFIT !!! (For those whose lost your money)
Bloomberg and CNN are both owned by corporates which benefit from such insider trading.
Whom do you think they would cover?
You, a stupid, individual who rolls on the couch, and pays stupid taxes as ordered to by IRS,
or,
their parent corp which pays them the salary necessary for them to buy their next Jaguar and BMWs...
Newbie a$shole.
Stop posting such stupid questions in slashdot.
Which is absolutely true in US case.
People don't understand what liberty means, so they don;t care to defend it.
They think liberty is choosing between beige colored vs bright yellow colored pants or Cheeburger versus Vegan, Choosing between AT&T or Verizon for phone lines, or choosing between Half&Half versus Full Cream milk.
As long as they can drive their cars at 2 AM to local walmart without the Gestapo stopping them every meter, americans are more than happy to let the government spy on them, and preferably put some of their "private moments" online in the vain hope some book company would give them a contract.
Probably as a school exchange, about 1 million students a year should be sent to N.Korea, Iran, Libya, Russia and Srilanka to study and learn what exactly is liberty.