We don't allow people to install Flash on their systems here at work but we do provide the ActiveX component to run Flash. Is it affected as well? The article doesn't say.
Personally, I don't run Flash. Time and again it has been shown to be a security risk and these new developments only strengthen that perception.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art had a special exhibit on Hatshepsut last year. It was not located with their egyptian wing but in a separate location. I had taken my parents there as my mom is our resident egyptologist and there were two other exhibits I wanted to see (the arms and armor permanent collection and the travelling tibetan armor exhibit).
It was certainly interesting seeing all the pieces from her reign that had been destroyed in an attempt to erase her memory from history. Despite the pieces having been carved by hand, my dad would bring up the subject of how hard it is for him to use a dremel tool to carve things and how he would like to know how they did the intricate carvings. Needless to say, we would look around after he would say that and hope no real egyptologist was around.
New Jersey is generally considered the armpit of the country for several reasons, some of which include the large amount of chemical industries located within the state, the seemingly endless amount of concrete that covers the state, drivers who are always near the top in worst in the nation and the general overall blahness of the state. To get from point A to point B generally requires you go on either a toll road or some other concrete highway. Back roads are very few and far between.
Consider this: Camden is ranked second only to Detroit, MI in overall crime rate yet Camden has 1/10 of the population that Detroit does. You can do a comparison of crime rates for Detroit, Camden and Newark. These statistics are from 2003 but have only gotten worse since then.
The charges in the Pennsylvania case referenced in the posting have been withdrawn.
From the article:
"When police are audio- and video-recording traffic stops with notice to the subjects, similar actions by citizens, even if done in secret, will not result in criminal charges."
The fact that this made the national news doesn't surprise me. This is Pennsylvania where our new state motto is:
But what if his intent was only to give himself access to his data from any location on campus?
Then he should have locked the directory with a password so only he had access to it.
Did he do that or did he let it wide open and tell his friends about it? If he had at least used a password locked file, he could claim he was taking measures to only allow himself access to the music.
Granted, he could have given the password to his friends but at least he would have a stronger case.
having better contracts with better benefits, and then the general public getting pissed when unions fight to keep what they have.
What union are you talking about? The union that I am forced to pay into (i.e. fair share) has consistently seen to it that their dues go up but our benefits go down. For example, when I first worked the state, it was in a temporary clerical pool. I, and everyone else, had to pay union dues but got no benefits. Zero. So why were we paying dues if we weren't getting benefits?
About six years ago, the union thought it would be fun to forgo the rank and file any type of pay increase, COLA or otherwise, for two years yet people still had to pay union dues. If you're not going to do what you're paid to do, why should we pay you for not doing it?
I could go on about what a joke the union is but since you're union, you'll probably make up some excuse about how I should pay more money to become a full union member so I can make changes. Believe me, I've dealt with some of the folks at the tops of unions and the only thing they're interested in is keeping as many people on the payroll so they can continue to suck money from the system.
Maybe your union is different but my union and its antics are why the general public is pissed at them.
Building the games with Flash means that users can play them without having to download anything.
Last time I checked, every time I visit a site which uses Flash, I get a message telling me I need to download Flash to view their site (I don't have Flash on my systems).
I'm not sure what their definition of "without having to download anything" is, but to view a site which uses Flash, you need to download something.
Passports are a federal document, not state. I would hope they were the same.
icense plates are the same..
No they're not. There are a minimum of 500 different license plates for the states. More than likely, double that number due to the specialty plates once can get. I know in PA there are fourteen different license plates one can get not including the generic one.
social security numbers are the same...
Again, that's a federal issue, not a state issue.
What's the big deal? Who is it hurting? . . . those who don't want to be followed by "the man".
You answered your own question. I distinctly remember when I was younger, people would talk about how the folks in the Soviet Union and their satellite states would spy on their own citizens, track their movement, who they talked to, etc. In fact, my dad told me that as a ham radio operator, regardless of where in the Soviet Union you talked to someone, you sent your QSL card to one central box number in Moscow.
Forcing a national ID card on people is nothing less than doing exactly what Reagan and others harped about what was wrong in Russia for over five decades. Why would we want to follow that example?
which caused tsunamis all over the world at the same time.
Congratulations, you've just salted the Earth. Now nothing will grow, man and beasts will starve and we're left with only creatures in the oceans.
Which then begs the question: if everything was killed off by the great flood, leaving no land animals, where did these land animals come from? Certainly not Noah and those he took onto his ark. The land was salted, remember? They couldn't survive.
Does that mean, wait for it, that after the tsunami flood, the sea creatures evolved into land animals? Naw, that couldn't be it.
a local radio host had on an atheist the other day who refused to recite the pledge in its current incarnation because of the "one nation under God" part.
Someone came on and identified themselves as a Catholic and bemoaned how society has become "me first" and this was because of people not worshipping God.
That got me thinking, if the caller was upset about the "me first" generation then he should certainly have a problem with the biggest "me first"er of them all: God.
After all, God says that there will be only one God, him (her/it/whatever), that you must follow his rules and you must give thanks to him. If that isn't self-centered, I don't know what is.
As we can see from the exhibits (it's not a museum folks), apparently anything can be twisted enough to justify a religious rather than scientific or logical reason for something.
The really depressing part is now we'll have another generation of kids having their minds polluted by nonsense of dinosaurs living with man and the Earth being only a few thousand years old. I guess being oblivious to reality is the easiest way of getting through life.
SOCIAL SECURITY IS YOUR FAULT, MEDICARE YOUR FAULT, FOOD STAMPS and WELFARE ALL YOUR FAULTS!!!
And yet, every Republican administration since these things were created has not tried to repeal them and in fact have continued to expand their scope.
Further, when Republicans had control of both the White House and Congress, not one bill was presented to dismantle any of the above programs.
You remind me of the jackasses who came in when former Governor Tom Ridge was elected. A big deal was made about cutting government yet all he did was expand it, spent more money and continued the cronyism of the political realm. In fact, when he was elected and the House and Senate were also Republican controlled, not once did they even try to get rid of unions for state employees.
Spare me your supposed indignation about government programs being the fault of Democrats. Until the Republican party starts doing what it claims to stand for, they are just as guilty as the Democrats.
And p.s, I'm a lifelong registered Repubican but these asshats do not in any way represent me.
I believe it was Ron Jeremy who gave two reasons for the cumshot:
1) To show that the guy actually did get off and didn't just stop. It's easy for a woman to fake, not so for the guy. For a guy it's either he did or he didn't. The cumshot proves it.
2) Safety. By pulling out and blowing his load, there is a much reduced chance of the woman getting pregnant even if they are using medications.
Take the above as you wish but those two reasons seem perfectly plausible.
Nope, not in the least. When you consider that he took over people's machines, used those machines to scam people, took their money and laundered it for his own use and forged other people's email addresses for the return addresses on his emails, thus having innocent people harassed, 65 years is a good start.
Solitary confinement with him only able to be out three hours a day would be a good thing. In fact, use his money the government wants to confiscate to pay for his incarceration. That way the taxpayers don't have to foot to the bill for this asshat.
'When you control the pipe you should be able to get profit from your investment.'
Since the taxpayers of this country have been saddled with tens of millions (billions?) of subsidies to those who we have to go through for our net connection, it only seems fair that either:
A) All those who now control the pipes and who received these subsidies, now give that money back
OR
B) Those who now control the pipes and who received these subsidies have to keep things as they are and not control whose information gets preferential treatment.
Sorry John, you didn't have my vote before and this so-called "free market" idealism isn't helping your cause.
Yes, free markets are a good thing but when business has been receiving, and still receives, tons of money in subsidies, you can't now claim that you want the free market to decide what the outcome will be.
Most users would not think twice about freely giving their password in a social engineering attack because IT here has gotten everyone in the habit of handing out their password to IT to "make things easier."
Everyone is a local administrator, so google toolbars and instant messaging programs pop up here and there. The creative users block group policy.
I work for state government and these two items take place where I work. When I moved to where I am now (higher position and pay), I found out those two things on my first day. My jaw hit the floor when I found this out.
Where I had been previously, another state agency, we, the administrators, NEVER asked anyone for their passwords and with the exception of those in IT and one or two in the Executive area, everyone was a general user. No admin privileges on their machines.
That didn't stop the occasional piece of crapware from being installed but it did stop people from trying to install other things.
I'm trying to combat the first item by telling people why I don't ask for their password but instead have them log in for me. That doesn't mean it still doesn't happen but at least they know why they shouldn't just give out their password.
Now we know how mankind really evolved. First there was the virgin birth, then we crawled out of the sea and after a few millenia, started to walk upright.
Anti-snitch campaigns are really the only way to fight ineffective/abusive law enforcement;
Um, no. The reason for the anti-snitch campaigns is to prevent eyewitnesses from identifying the perpetrators or from those in the know ratting out who did what crime. In other words, "You let us keep robbing/mugging/dealing drugs/killing your family members and we won't come after you."
When they keep dropping, the city will replace the lot of them.
What fantasy land do you live in? Police don't get replaced unless they've seriously screwed up. Their union raises holy hell to prevent the firing of bad cops. Witness the recent asshat in Chicago who beat up the bartender, on video no less, and has plead not guilty. In any other situation, the person caught on tape would have already been convicted. In this case, there will be some lame ass trial where the cop gets off with a slap on the wrist and then goes back out.
I'm all for getting rid of bad cops, and prosecuting them to Nth degree, but thinking that a dropping conviction rate is the way to do it is a larf.
This goes along with the whole "Don't snitch" campaign taking place in Philadelphia, LA, and a whole host of other places including my own city and one a bit further south.
After all, why help the cops do their job trying to track down the person who murdered your son/daughter/husband/wife/whatever when it is so much easier to just go out, get a gun from the guy on the corner and shoot the person.
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We don't allow people to install Flash on their systems here at work but we do provide the ActiveX component to run Flash. Is it affected as well? The article doesn't say.
Personally, I don't run Flash. Time and again it has been shown to be a security risk and these new developments only strengthen that perception.
Considering there are still people in this country who believe Iraq had something to do with 9/11, you are correct.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art had a special exhibit on Hatshepsut last year. It was not located with their egyptian wing but in a separate location. I had taken my parents there as my mom is our resident egyptologist and there were two other exhibits I wanted to see (the arms and armor permanent collection and the travelling tibetan armor exhibit).
It was certainly interesting seeing all the pieces from her reign that had been destroyed in an attempt to erase her memory from history. Despite the pieces having been carved by hand, my dad would bring up the subject of how hard it is for him to use a dremel tool to carve things and how he would like to know how they did the intricate carvings. Needless to say, we would look around after he would say that and hope no real egyptologist was around.
They're the ones who work for the TSA who allow you to get on a plane, right?.
Consider this: Camden is ranked second only to Detroit, MI in overall crime rate yet Camden has 1/10 of the population that Detroit does. You can do a comparison of crime rates for Detroit, Camden and Newark. These statistics are from 2003 but have only gotten worse since then.
From the article:
The fact that this made the national news doesn't surprise me. This is Pennsylvania where our new state motto is:
Doing our best to become the next New Jersey.
Then he should have locked the directory with a password so only he had access to it.
Did he do that or did he let it wide open and tell his friends about it? If he had at least used a password locked file, he could claim he was taking measures to only allow himself access to the music.
Granted, he could have given the password to his friends but at least he would have a stronger case.
So someone who is a drunk isn't a good choice to be allowed to vote but someone who advocates that it's a good thing when few people vote is?
To be honest, I'd rather someone vote who is drunk than someone who wants low voter turnout so they can manipulate the system.
What union are you talking about? The union that I am forced to pay into (i.e. fair share) has consistently seen to it that their dues go up but our benefits go down. For example, when I first worked the state, it was in a temporary clerical pool. I, and everyone else, had to pay union dues but got no benefits. Zero. So why were we paying dues if we weren't getting benefits?
About six years ago, the union thought it would be fun to forgo the rank and file any type of pay increase, COLA or otherwise, for two years yet people still had to pay union dues. If you're not going to do what you're paid to do, why should we pay you for not doing it?
I could go on about what a joke the union is but since you're union, you'll probably make up some excuse about how I should pay more money to become a full union member so I can make changes. Believe me, I've dealt with some of the folks at the tops of unions and the only thing they're interested in is keeping as many people on the payroll so they can continue to suck money from the system.
Maybe your union is different but my union and its antics are why the general public is pissed at them.
Building the games with Flash means that users can play them without having to download anything.
Last time I checked, every time I visit a site which uses Flash, I get a message telling me I need to download Flash to view their site (I don't have Flash on my systems).
I'm not sure what their definition of "without having to download anything" is, but to view a site which uses Flash, you need to download something.
Ok, nitpick over.
Passports are a federal document, not state. I would hope they were the same.
icense plates are the same..
No they're not. There are a minimum of 500 different license plates for the states. More than likely, double that number due to the specialty plates once can get. I know in PA there are fourteen different license plates one can get not including the generic one.
social security numbers are the same...
Again, that's a federal issue, not a state issue.
What's the big deal? Who is it hurting? . . . those who don't want to be followed by "the man".
You answered your own question. I distinctly remember when I was younger, people would talk about how the folks in the Soviet Union and their satellite states would spy on their own citizens, track their movement, who they talked to, etc. In fact, my dad told me that as a ham radio operator, regardless of where in the Soviet Union you talked to someone, you sent your QSL card to one central box number in Moscow.
Forcing a national ID card on people is nothing less than doing exactly what Reagan and others harped about what was wrong in Russia for over five decades. Why would we want to follow that example?
Congratulations, you've just salted the Earth. Now nothing will grow, man and beasts will starve and we're left with only creatures in the oceans.
Which then begs the question: if everything was killed off by the great flood, leaving no land animals, where did these land animals come from? Certainly not Noah and those he took onto his ark. The land was salted, remember? They couldn't survive.
Does that mean, wait for it, that after the tsunami flood, the sea creatures evolved into land animals? Naw, that couldn't be it.
The original pledge was a simple, non-religous creation of a Baptist minister.
The story of Bellamy reminds me of Roger Williams (my alma mater). The guy was a minister but was forced out of Salem because of his diverse, new, and dangerous opinions" that questioned the Church.
a local radio host had on an atheist the other day who refused to recite the pledge in its current incarnation because of the "one nation under God" part.
Someone came on and identified themselves as a Catholic and bemoaned how society has become "me first" and this was because of people not worshipping God.
That got me thinking, if the caller was upset about the "me first" generation then he should certainly have a problem with the biggest "me first"er of them all: God.
After all, God says that there will be only one God, him (her/it/whatever), that you must follow his rules and you must give thanks to him. If that isn't self-centered, I don't know what is.
As we can see from the exhibits (it's not a museum folks), apparently anything can be twisted enough to justify a religious rather than scientific or logical reason for something.
The really depressing part is now we'll have another generation of kids having their minds polluted by nonsense of dinosaurs living with man and the Earth being only a few thousand years old. I guess being oblivious to reality is the easiest way of getting through life.
And yet, every Republican administration since these things were created has not tried to repeal them and in fact have continued to expand their scope.
Further, when Republicans had control of both the White House and Congress, not one bill was presented to dismantle any of the above programs.
You remind me of the jackasses who came in when former Governor Tom Ridge was elected. A big deal was made about cutting government yet all he did was expand it, spent more money and continued the cronyism of the political realm. In fact, when he was elected and the House and Senate were also Republican controlled, not once did they even try to get rid of unions for state employees.
Spare me your supposed indignation about government programs being the fault of Democrats. Until the Republican party starts doing what it claims to stand for, they are just as guilty as the Democrats.
And p.s, I'm a lifelong registered Repubican but these asshats do not in any way represent me.
For those wondering about that laptop, see my latest entry.
Yeah, just look at all those hacks, show offs and wannabee(sic) managers at NASA when they put men on the moon. What a bunch of losers.
And don't get me started on the Manhattan Project. What an absolute waste of money. Those guys and gals were just plain bad.
I believe it was Ron Jeremy who gave two reasons for the cumshot:
1) To show that the guy actually did get off and didn't just stop. It's easy for a woman to fake, not so for the guy. For a guy it's either he did or he didn't. The cumshot proves it.
2) Safety. By pulling out and blowing his load, there is a much reduced chance of the woman getting pregnant even if they are using medications.
Take the above as you wish but those two reasons seem perfectly plausible.
Nope, not in the least. When you consider that he took over people's machines, used those machines to scam people, took their money and laundered it for his own use and forged other people's email addresses for the return addresses on his emails, thus having innocent people harassed, 65 years is a good start.
Solitary confinement with him only able to be out three hours a day would be a good thing. In fact, use his money the government wants to confiscate to pay for his incarceration. That way the taxpayers don't have to foot to the bill for this asshat.
Since the taxpayers of this country have been saddled with tens of millions (billions?) of subsidies to those who we have to go through for our net connection, it only seems fair that either:
A) All those who now control the pipes and who received these subsidies, now give that money back
OR
B) Those who now control the pipes and who received these subsidies have to keep things as they are and not control whose information gets preferential treatment.
Sorry John, you didn't have my vote before and this so-called "free market" idealism isn't helping your cause.
Yes, free markets are a good thing but when business has been receiving, and still receives, tons of money in subsidies, you can't now claim that you want the free market to decide what the outcome will be.
Everyone is a local administrator, so google toolbars and instant messaging programs pop up here and there. The creative users block group policy.
I work for state government and these two items take place where I work. When I moved to where I am now (higher position and pay), I found out those two things on my first day. My jaw hit the floor when I found this out.
Where I had been previously, another state agency, we, the administrators, NEVER asked anyone for their passwords and with the exception of those in IT and one or two in the Executive area, everyone was a general user. No admin privileges on their machines.
That didn't stop the occasional piece of crapware from being installed but it did stop people from trying to install other things.
I'm trying to combat the first item by telling people why I don't ask for their password but instead have them log in for me. That doesn't mean it still doesn't happen but at least they know why they shouldn't just give out their password.
Now we know how mankind really evolved. First there was the virgin birth, then we crawled out of the sea and after a few millenia, started to walk upright.
Er wait, I'm confused.
See my sig.
Um, no. The reason for the anti-snitch campaigns is to prevent eyewitnesses from identifying the perpetrators or from those in the know ratting out who did what crime. In other words, "You let us keep robbing/mugging/dealing drugs/killing your family members and we won't come after you."
When they keep dropping, the city will replace the lot of them.
What fantasy land do you live in? Police don't get replaced unless they've seriously screwed up. Their union raises holy hell to prevent the firing of bad cops. Witness the recent asshat in Chicago who beat up the bartender, on video no less, and has plead not guilty. In any other situation, the person caught on tape would have already been convicted. In this case, there will be some lame ass trial where the cop gets off with a slap on the wrist and then goes back out.
I'm all for getting rid of bad cops, and prosecuting them to Nth degree, but thinking that a dropping conviction rate is the way to do it is a larf.
After all, why help the cops do their job trying to track down the person who murdered your son/daughter/husband/wife/whatever when it is so much easier to just go out, get a gun from the guy on the corner and shoot the person.
As far as the baby shot in a drive-by, there is no need for you to be an eyewitness.