Another petroleum-based product. Whenever people think about our dependency on foreign oil, they talk about cars and gaas mileage, but noone ever mentions the bazillions of plastics and polymers that wouldn't exist without a constant supply of petroleum.
We knew Page was running a DAT right off the board for like 10 years now, and I was wondering if they were ever going to do anything with it.
It's a good idea, really, since there are a LOT of people who go to the shows, but don't know a taper, or have the patience or bandwidth for etree. It's a cool idea to know that you can get a tape of the shows you've actually been to, especially with soundboard quality.
The database doesn't exist yet. They're still using test data.
You can find lots of arguments against it if you do a google search for TIA database, or you can visit www.aclu.org, and they've got some good info on it. I believe that truthout.org also has some good articles on the issue as well.
The whole concept ITSELF is out of line. The TIA database isn't just for your financial transactions -- it will also be storing biometric information about you, along with facial recognition images that will be put together when you get your drivers license.
Articles like this are giving people false hope that they will be able to circumvent the system without mentioning the whole camera/surveillance/REAL big brother part of the equation. They won't need your credit card number if they have a positive visual ID of you purchasing something that may be considered threatening.
The fact of the matter here is that the whole TIA database idea must be scrapped, and no more federal funding should be granted. It has already sucked up well over $100million of our tax dollars.
Please write to your representatives and let them know how abhorrent this whole program is. It is an unprecedented invasion of our privacy, and it should be stopped dead right now.
Sending email to your elected officials is pretty much copying it to/dev/null. Noone reads their email, not even their interns most of the time. Either snail mail the letter or, if you're in a hurry, fax it to them.
At any rate, LET THEM KNOW. People made enough noise to force Kissinger to resign, people made enough noise to get Trent Lott in some serious hot water, people made enough noise to stop the exploratory oil drilling off the coast of California...
The point is clear -- make A LOT of noise to support your cause, and chances are you will be heard.
Well, a major reason for the War on Drugs was to gain reasonable legislation that erodes our privacy rights. Things like FISA warrants and on-the-spot car searches were brought to you by the War on Drugs.
Now that we have an equally open-ended War on Terror, I wonder if the War on Drugs might soften a little....
HID is the Human ID at a Distance program that DARPA is working on. Their goal is to develop technology to be able to positively ID individuals from a camera at a distance of 150 feet.
Goldstein said participants' left brain, the logical side, was telling them they might have to switch if Apple went under. But the right brain, the emotional attachment to Apple, rejected it. There was a profound sense that Apple was one of them -- counterculture, grassroots, human, approachable, Goldstein said.
Goldstein obviously graduated from the Bumbleberg School of Hugely Oversimplified Psychology.
It looks like Wired is really having to search for their daily Apple handjob article these days.
No, see, I give the Radio Shack guy a friend's real address and a fake name. For a couple of years noone knew who was doing it. Some of them still don't.
Can I open a SimBrick kiosk near the SimMcD's to sell SimObjects to throw through the SimWindows? ( Hmmm. Aah, all right. We'll have, uh, two with points and... a big flat one.).
Can I SimSpit on people wearing SimFur? Maybe hit them with SimSprayPaint?
Re:Have we grown complacent?
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Perhaps Linux users and administators have grown overly comfortable due to the long reign of tight security and lack of virii?
I think this is a complete fallacy. Most default Linux installations, when left alone on a cable/DSL connection, have been hackable for years now. I can remember when I installed RedHat 6.2 on my gateway machine without having time to do the updates, and before midnight that night the box had been hacked.
I think that a lot of Linux users don't even realize when they've been hacked, either. Even the automated scan-and-exploit tools these days are becoming quite good at getting themselves installed on a system quietly. Unless you watch your logs on a daily basis, you often have no idea what is actually going on with your system.
One installs and runs nessus, updates the plugins and scans one's servers weekly.
One also tends to sleep well at night afterwards.
Run right out and get nessus.
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If you haven't yet, you should definitely check out nessus.
It'll scan your machiens for known vulnerabilities and give you pointers on how to go about taking care of any that it finds. It's also got built-in updating to pull in the latest exploits.
The clients are even getting pretty spiffy these days, and the project has matured very rapidly.
Hack a computer, spend life in prison.
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That's the one thing I simply don't understand about modern voting rhetoric. How could we possibly place more trust in voting systems simply because they are electronic? All this would require is a single person with a single clue somewhere along the data chain to manipulate the results.
It seems that fraud would become even simpler with computerized voting to me. It's like everyone is jumping on a train without thinking about its destination, or, more to the point, the path it will take to its destination.
Where do the results go? Do they go to separate databases, preferably several separate databases, as soon as a vote is cast? This would seemingly allow for "diffing," for lack of a better term, between multiple sources of final vote counts.
I'm in no shape at the moment to define how the electronic/computerized voting results should be quanitified, but PLEASE, at least let us consider these things, rather than saying to ourselves "Well, it's computerized now, so at least there will be no more fraud."
If we're going to redesign how the votes in this nation are counted, and I believe that we are all in agreement that this system of voting desperately needs to be revamped in this modern age (please feel free to tell me I'm wrong), that we can sit down and discuss how it should be done, rather than allowing our morbidly ignorant "representative government" to tell us how it should, and will be done for us.
Oh, wait, this is the US. I forgot, we have no say. Ah, well, cross your fingers and hope for the best.
I don't understand why people even look at Makefiles anymore now that Ant exists. We've completely automated all of our builds and deploys across NT, Linux and Solaris with it, across different architectures and different locations.
I'm not going to expound on using Java, since it is fairly ubiquitous these days and if it would work for you, I'm sure you would have already considered it.
Consolidation doesn't mean progress is happening, or that consumer products will make it to store shelves, nor does the fact that they're making very cool, very usable products. History is littered with companies that were about to produce amazing things that never came to fruition and imploded.
What consolidation often means is that noone is investing in the idea, or that one of the companies couldn't survive long enough to get an actual product out the door.
I've vontacted them many times about people selling pirated MST3K videos ("Keep Circulating the Tapes" doesn't mean you can charge for them), even of episodes that Rhino and BBI has for sale.
Their answer is always "The copyright owner must contact us. Please alert them and have them get in touch with us."
I guess the same thing doesn't apply to music for some reason.
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Another petroleum-based product. Whenever people think about our dependency on foreign oil, they talk about cars and gaas mileage, but noone ever mentions the bazillions of plastics and polymers that wouldn't exist without a constant supply of petroleum.
We knew Page was running a DAT right off the board for like 10 years now, and I was wondering if they were ever going to do anything with it.
It's a good idea, really, since there are a LOT of people who go to the shows, but don't know a taper, or have the patience or bandwidth for etree. It's a cool idea to know that you can get a tape of the shows you've actually been to, especially with soundboard quality.
The database doesn't exist yet. They're still using test data.
You can find lots of arguments against it if you do a google search for TIA database, or you can visit www.aclu.org, and they've got some good info on it. I believe that truthout.org also has some good articles on the issue as well.
The whole concept ITSELF is out of line. The TIA database isn't just for your financial transactions -- it will also be storing biometric information about you, along with facial recognition images that will be put together when you get your drivers license.
/dev/null. Noone reads their email, not even their interns most of the time. Either snail mail the letter or, if you're in a hurry, fax it to them.
Articles like this are giving people false hope that they will be able to circumvent the system without mentioning the whole camera/surveillance/REAL big brother part of the equation. They won't need your credit card number if they have a positive visual ID of you purchasing something that may be considered threatening.
The fact of the matter here is that the whole TIA database idea must be scrapped, and no more federal funding should be granted. It has already sucked up well over $100million of our tax dollars.
Please write to your representatives and let them know how abhorrent this whole program is. It is an unprecedented invasion of our privacy, and it should be stopped dead right now.
Sending email to your elected officials is pretty much copying it to
At any rate, LET THEM KNOW. People made enough noise to force Kissinger to resign, people made enough noise to get Trent Lott in some serious hot water, people made enough noise to stop the exploratory oil drilling off the coast of California...
The point is clear -- make A LOT of noise to support your cause, and chances are you will be heard.
Well, a major reason for the War on Drugs was to gain reasonable legislation that erodes our privacy rights. Things like FISA warrants and on-the-spot car searches were brought to you by the War on Drugs.
Now that we have an equally open-ended War on Terror, I wonder if the War on Drugs might soften a little....
Yeah, the ultimate test of this was when I couldn't get Dellhost support to respond to some major problems we were having for about a week.
Finally I just cc'ed mdell@dell.com, and had a phone call within the hour.
The bastards canceled MST3K.
My bad. Who knew the government was capable of using the metric system?
You know, the ones that are hanging out in my house all the time when I'm not home?
Will there be popup ads? God I love popup ads.
HID is the Human ID at a Distance program that DARPA is working on. Their goal is to develop technology to be able to positively ID individuals from a camera at a distance of 150 feet.
You can check it out here.
Goldstein said participants' left brain, the logical side, was telling them they might have to switch if Apple went under. But the right brain, the emotional attachment to Apple, rejected it. There was a profound sense that Apple was one of them -- counterculture, grassroots, human, approachable, Goldstein said.
Goldstein obviously graduated from the Bumbleberg School of Hugely Oversimplified Psychology.
It looks like Wired is really having to search for their daily Apple handjob article these days.
No, see, I give the Radio Shack guy a friend's real address and a fake name. For a couple of years noone knew who was doing it. Some of them still don't.
They carry ZipZaps. Tons o' fun.
RC matchbox cars, pretty much.
All of my friends get several copies of every Radio Shack flier, addressed to names like John P. Sartre, J. Wilkes Booth, J Philip Sousa, P Dadi....
I guess that with the new TIA database tracking all of your purchases, it's just redundant data anyway.
Between Bejeweled, Dopewars and Backgammon, I don't think I'll ever be able to go to the bathroom without my PDA again.
I think you meant rationale .
Yup. Just being a grammar cop.
Can I open a SimBrick kiosk near the SimMcD's to sell SimObjects to throw through the SimWindows? ( Hmmm. Aah, all right. We'll have, uh, two with points and... a big flat one.).
Can I SimSpit on people wearing SimFur? Maybe hit them with SimSprayPaint?
Perhaps Linux users and administators have grown overly comfortable due to the long reign of tight security and lack of virii?
I think this is a complete fallacy. Most default Linux installations, when left alone on a cable/DSL connection, have been hackable for years now. I can remember when I installed RedHat 6.2 on my gateway machine without having time to do the updates, and before midnight that night the box had been hacked.
I think that a lot of Linux users don't even realize when they've been hacked, either. Even the automated scan-and-exploit tools these days are becoming quite good at getting themselves installed on a system quietly. Unless you watch your logs on a daily basis, you often have no idea what is actually going on with your system.
One installs and runs nessus, updates the plugins and scans one's servers weekly.
One also tends to sleep well at night afterwards.
If you haven't yet, you should definitely check out nessus.
It'll scan your machiens for known vulnerabilities and give you pointers on how to go about taking care of any that it finds. It's also got built-in updating to pull in the latest exploits.
The clients are even getting pretty spiffy these days, and the project has matured very rapidly.
MSNBC has a good article up about this"
A last-minute addition to a proposal for a Department of Homeland Security bill would punish malicious computer hackers with life in prison.
That's the one thing I simply don't understand about modern voting rhetoric. How could we possibly place more trust in voting systems simply because they are electronic? All this would require is a single person with a single clue somewhere along the data chain to manipulate the results.
It seems that fraud would become even simpler with computerized voting to me. It's like everyone is jumping on a train without thinking about its destination, or, more to the point, the path it will take to its destination.
Where do the results go? Do they go to separate databases, preferably several separate databases, as soon as a vote is cast? This would seemingly allow for "diffing," for lack of a better term, between multiple sources of final vote counts.
I'm in no shape at the moment to define how the electronic/computerized voting results should be quanitified, but PLEASE, at least let us consider these things, rather than saying to ourselves "Well, it's computerized now, so at least there will be no more fraud."
If we're going to redesign how the votes in this nation are counted, and I believe that we are all in agreement that this system of voting desperately needs to be revamped in this modern age (please feel free to tell me I'm wrong), that we can sit down and discuss how it should be done, rather than allowing our morbidly ignorant "representative government" to tell us how it should, and will be done for us.
Oh, wait, this is the US. I forgot, we have no say. Ah, well, cross your fingers and hope for the best.
I don't understand why people even look at Makefiles anymore now that Ant exists. We've completely automated all of our builds and deploys across NT, Linux and Solaris with it, across different architectures and different locations.
I'm not going to expound on using Java, since it is fairly ubiquitous these days and if it would work for you, I'm sure you would have already considered it.
Consolidation doesn't mean progress is happening, or that consumer products will make it to store shelves, nor does the fact that they're making very cool, very usable products. History is littered with companies that were about to produce amazing things that never came to fruition and imploded.
What consolidation often means is that noone is investing in the idea, or that one of the companies couldn't survive long enough to get an actual product out the door.
I've vontacted them many times about people selling pirated MST3K videos ("Keep Circulating the Tapes" doesn't mean you can charge for them), even of episodes that Rhino and BBI has for sale.
Their answer is always "The copyright owner must contact us. Please alert them and have them get in touch with us."
I guess the same thing doesn't apply to music for some reason.