There's no such thing as U.S. mandated worldwide embargo.
I can confirm that. I live in Canada (400 miles from NYC by plane) and while 80% of our foreign trade is with the States, lots of people go to vacations in Cuba. A friend of mine works for a company that sells doors to Cuba. The embargo is only inside the USA.
There's currently an election in Québec. The Bloc (federal) and the PQ (provincial) share the same electoral funds and they don't have enough for two elections the same year.
I really doubt the Bloc and the PQ share the same funds, and I suspect that would go against some electoral law about funding. Do you have a reference of some sort?
I eared it on TV!:-) It was on CBC, so I think it's true, but I don't have it in written. Maybe they said that they were sharing "ressources" (volunteers, equipment, etc) but I think I earing funds.
That's it for Stephen Harper, I think. It is possible to follow-up this vote with a vote of non-confidence. That should provoke the Spring election that many Canadians were expecting. It doesn't mean he won't win again, though...
There's currently an election in Québec. The Bloc (federal) and the PQ (provincial) share the same electoral funds and they don't have enough for two elections the same year. So the Bloc would vote against a vote of non-confidence. Also, Harper is gaining in the surveys, so it's a bad time for a non-confidence vote.
When I'm at "the other end of my cycle" aka, my period, I'm bleeding and bloated and cramping and my face is breaking out, and looking pretty is not exactly high on my list. When I'm not, looking pretty is much less of a hassle. So, not exactly rocket science here.
They did a similar study a while ago in a bar. They would ask female volunteers to give a saliva sample and have their picture taken. Then they calculated the area of the body that showed skin and found a correlation between "showing more skin" and ovulation. So it's likely more than just wanting to feel pretty, I mean you don't go in a bar if you feel "bloated and cramping". To me it looks like women are more horny why they are ovulating, which makes perfect sense if you think in terms of evolution.
If you do this a lot, may I introduce you to RIG, the random identity generator? It generates valid, yet fake US-address data.
Cool software! It would be even more usefull if it didn't have to be compiled, something like a perl script. Even better a CGI script. If someone has some free time...
Although I still like to use 1060 West Addison, Chicago, IL 60613. It's a valid address likely to make any Blues Brothers fan smile:
Elwood: I'm gonna quit work first thing in the morning.
Jake: And how are you gonna get to work Mr Lead Foot, Mr Hot Rod, Mr Motor Head? Those cops took your license away. They got your name, your address.
Elwood: No they don't got my address. I falsified my renewal. I put 1060 West Addison.
Jake: 1060 West Addison? That's Wrigley Field.
If possessing certain types of knowledge becomes illegal in and of itself, that's when we'll need the Anarchist's Cookbook the most.
pedantic bore, you have been identified by our automated communi^M^M^M^M^M^M^Mterrorist identification system. Interrogation agents will come to your house in the next 96 hours. Until then, you must go outside, on your knees and put your arms in the air. If you do not comply to those instructions, you will be shot at view.
Failure to enter your plea of not guilty within the next 15 minutes will result in you being placed in Guantanamo Bay detainment camp until further investigation.
Thank you for your cooperation, Your friends at the NSA
Ok, I must be missing here (the details of HDTV were not very specific). Do other people NOT decode HDTV, and is that milestone? Any product by DVICO will also decode HDTV. My Dvico USB unit decodes it.
The milestone is that it's done entirely with open-source software, instead of a proprietary chip.
Actually... even in residential areas (US and Canada), the line voltage on overhead transmission wires is typically 13800 volts, and long distance power transmission is done at 45000 volts and higher, up to 500 kV for really high power, long distance lines.
Anybody know how much work it is to do the above? Any prior public evidence of tracking a flying object from orbit? I expect it's somewhere between 'impossible' and 'just like on 24'.
Well, I remember that when the "sniper" was wreaking havoc in the Washington DC area, the DoD offered to the investigators sattelites images of the places of the attacks taken around the time of the attacks. This implies that they have sattelites taking pictures of every place all the time -- at least in DC area.
It's also useful to remember that the communication between air control and the DoD was almost inexistant in the minutes that followed the hijackings. So while this would have certainly been possible from a technological point of view, bureaucratic incompetence was the major problem...
Never did I think I'd actually be glad to be a Qwest customer. I mean, after all the rolling over that Qwest has done, all the anti-customer behavior, I'm surprised they took the moral high ground.
Oh, wait. They didn't, they were just afraid they'd get sued.
When having to choose between having to transfer data to the NSA on a regular basis or doing nothing. Choose doing nothing and claim it's for privacy!
Try it! I do it all the time. It works! People think that you're concerned when in fact you're just lazy.
It's interesting/funny to read Patrick Moore describing his former colleague in environmental groups:
[...] They rejected consensus politics and sustainable development in favor of continued confrontation and ever-increasing extremism. They ushered in an era of zero tolerance and left-wing politics. Some of the features of this environmental extremism are:
Environmental extremists are anti-human. Humans are characterized as a cancer on the Earth. To quote eco-extremist Herb Hammond, "of all the components of the ecosystem, humans are the only ones we know to be completely optional". Isn't that a lovely thought?
They are anti-science and technology. All large machines are seen as inherently destructive and unnatural. Science is invoked to justify positions that have nothing to do with science. Unfounded opinion is accepted over demonstrated fact.
They are anti-business. All large corporations are depicted as inherently driven by greed and corruption. Profits are definitely not politically correct. The liberal democratic, market-based model is rejected even though no viable alternative is proposed to provide for the material needs of 6 billion people. As expressed by the Native Forest Network, "it is necessary to adopt a global phase out strategy of consumer based industrial capitalism."
I think they mean civilization.
And they are just plain anti-civilization. In the final analysis, eco- extremists project a naive vision of returning to the supposedly utopian existence in the garden of Eden, conveniently forgetting that in the old days people lived to an average age of 35, and there were no dentists. In their Brave New World there will be no more chemicals, no more airplanes, and certainly no more polyester suits.
I did an image search for Karina Stenquist, the host of the mobuzztv vlog, and all I got was picture of Lala from TikiBarTV and one of Amanda Congdon. Nothing about Karina.
At least they provide pictures of hot chicks when queried for a hot chick, but I'm expecting a bit more accuracy!
> Wait for it... wait for it... Ok, now it's outdated.
The iPod too (from http://snltranscripts.jt.org/05/05fupdate.phtml )
Amy Poehler: Wait, that iPod was only out for like five seconds.
Steve Jobs: Five seconds too long! It was too big! Ridicules, old, obsolete! But guess what, I'm very proud to introduce, and I'm thrilled about this, the new iPod Invisa.
(He 'pulls' something out but he is really not holding anything)
Amy Poehler: Okay, wait a minute Steve Jobs, I don't even think you're really holding anything.
Steve Jobs: I am! The iPod Invisa, the perfect stocking stuffer. It holds 8 million songs, every photograph ever taken, Pong. And watch...
(He purposely throws 'it' on the desk.)
Steve Jobs: Oops I dropped it, but where did it go, on the ground? No, it's floating!
I also flipped back and forth between like ABC and NBC, Pacific Time, and notice they were like 3 seconds or so different in their countdown clocks. What is up with that?
I was watching CNN and they had a couple seconds difference between their on screen countdown and the Times Square Coke-sign countdown. It kind of scrapped the fun of counting down to 2006, CNN was allready at 0 when Times Square had 4 seconds left.
Yeah, I'm a dork, having my new year's fun scrapped by a 4 seconds discrepancy.
What if it's a Tsunami and you need to figure out which cities to send into a panic and which not?
What if the thought Police catches CmdrTaco and need to crack is PGP key fast! Can I donate my spare cpu cycles?
If they can't crack his key, they'll use barabaric means, like pouring hot grits down his pants, while he naked and petrified! I heared that it was used on Natalie Portman with great sucess.
(I was missing those Natalie Portman posts from the old days. I'm such a dork...)
Even so, the US Govt considers 256 bit AES to be good enough for "Top Secret" documents so I doubt it's crackable in 90 days.
Actually no, they recommend using AES 256 for govn't sensitive, but unclassified data. For anything classified, they are using classified military algorithms.
[...]I want a hotline where I can call in time, place and license plate of people like that.
I tought that there was allready such a thing in every part of the civilized world!:-) At least in the province of Québec, you can dial *4141 on any cell phone for free and get connected to the provincial police (SQ). I call them all the time to report accidents and vehicules in distress.
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There's no such thing as U.S. mandated worldwide embargo.
I can confirm that. I live in Canada (400 miles from NYC by plane) and while 80% of our foreign trade is with the States, lots of people go to vacations in Cuba. A friend of mine works for a company that sells doors to Cuba. The embargo is only inside the USA.
I really doubt the Bloc and the PQ share the same funds, and I suspect that would go against some electoral law about funding. Do you have a reference of some sort?
I eared it on TV! :-) It was on CBC, so I think it's true, but I don't have it in written. Maybe they said that they were sharing "ressources" (volunteers, equipment, etc) but I think I earing funds.
That's it for Stephen Harper, I think. It is possible to follow-up this vote with a vote of non-confidence. That should provoke the Spring election that many Canadians were expecting. It doesn't mean he won't win again, though...
There's currently an election in Québec. The Bloc (federal) and the PQ (provincial) share the same electoral funds and they don't have enough for two elections the same year. So the Bloc would vote against a vote of non-confidence. Also, Harper is gaining in the surveys, so it's a bad time for a non-confidence vote.
When I'm at "the other end of my cycle" aka, my period, I'm bleeding and bloated and cramping and my face is breaking out, and looking pretty is not exactly high on my list. When I'm not, looking pretty is much less of a hassle. So, not exactly rocket science here.
They did a similar study a while ago in a bar. They would ask female volunteers to give a saliva sample and have their picture taken. Then they calculated the area of the body that showed skin and found a correlation between "showing more skin" and ovulation. So it's likely more than just wanting to feel pretty, I mean you don't go in a bar if you feel "bloated and cramping". To me it looks like women are more horny why they are ovulating, which makes perfect sense if you think in terms of evolution.
One day the cows broke into my shop[...]
I guess you didn't tell your wife about the dangers of cow-orking either!
Warning: Orking Cows is dangerous, and illegal in the state of Utah.
If you do this a lot, may I introduce you to RIG, the random identity generator? It generates valid, yet fake US-address data.
Cool software! It would be even more usefull if it didn't have to be compiled, something like a perl script. Even better a CGI script. If someone has some free time...
Although I still like to use 1060 West Addison, Chicago, IL 60613. It's a valid address likely to make any Blues Brothers fan smile:
Elwood: I'm gonna quit work first thing in the morning.
Jake: And how are you gonna get to work Mr Lead Foot, Mr Hot Rod, Mr Motor Head? Those cops took your license away. They got your name, your address.
Elwood: No they don't got my address. I falsified my renewal. I put 1060 West Addison.
Jake: 1060 West Addison? That's Wrigley Field.
Anybody know of any usefull tools to completely wipe the contents of a drive?
I use Boot and Nuke. It does the job pretty well and it's open source.
If possessing certain types of knowledge becomes illegal in and of itself, that's when we'll need the Anarchist's Cookbook the most.
pedantic bore, you have been identified by our automated communi^M^M^M^M^M^M^Mterrorist identification system. Interrogation agents will come to your house in the next 96 hours. Until then, you must go outside, on your knees and put your arms in the air. If you do not comply to those instructions, you will be shot at view.
To enter a plea of not guilty, please visit this web site: https://www.nsa.gov/all_my_base_are_belong_to_the_ nsa
Failure to enter your plea of not guilty within the next 15 minutes will result in you being placed in Guantanamo Bay detainment camp until further investigation.
Thank you for your cooperation,
Your friends at the NSA
This smacks of the RIAA tactics of sue first, then force you to hand over your hard drive to incriminate yourself.
Wouldn't that violate the 5th amendment?
I'm not trolling about the RIAA violating the constitution, I'm really interested in knowing if the 5th would apply here.
Use an external antenna. A lot of phones still have connectors for those, so no hacks required there.
Obligatory karma whoring: Here's a good place to buy one.
For CAN$50 I got myself a mag mount 5 dBi external antenna.
Ok, I must be missing here (the details of HDTV were not very specific). Do other people NOT decode HDTV, and is that milestone? Any product by DVICO will also decode HDTV. My Dvico USB unit decodes it.
The milestone is that it's done entirely with open-source software, instead of a proprietary chip.
What is Pirate Bay and why do people care about it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay
(Anticipating your next question...) What is Wikipedia and why do people care about it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
Actually... even in residential areas (US and Canada), the line voltage on overhead transmission wires is typically 13800 volts, and long distance power transmission is done at 45000 volts and higher, up to 500 kV for really high power, long distance lines.
Hey Hydro-Quebec uses 735 kV transmission lines. They made a nice buzzing sound when you walk under them... :-)
Anybody know how much work it is to do the above? Any prior public evidence of tracking a flying object from orbit? I expect it's somewhere between 'impossible' and 'just like on 24'.
Well, I remember that when the "sniper" was wreaking havoc in the Washington DC area, the DoD offered to the investigators sattelites images of the places of the attacks taken around the time of the attacks. This implies that they have sattelites taking pictures of every place all the time -- at least in DC area.
It's also useful to remember that the communication between air control and the DoD was almost inexistant in the minutes that followed the hijackings. So while this would have certainly been possible from a technological point of view, bureaucratic incompetence was the major problem...
Never did I think I'd actually be glad to be a Qwest customer. I mean, after all the rolling over that Qwest has done, all the anti-customer behavior, I'm surprised they took the moral high ground.
Oh, wait. They didn't, they were just afraid they'd get sued.
When having to choose between having to transfer data to the NSA on a regular basis or doing nothing. Choose doing nothing and claim it's for privacy!
Try it! I do it all the time. It works! People think that you're concerned when in fact you're just lazy.
Mine will be Natalie Portman, naked and petrified.
Sweet!
It's interesting/funny to read Patrick Moore describing his former colleague in environmental groups:
Ref: Patrick Moore's Nuclear Statement to the US Congressional Committee
I did an image search for Karina Stenquist, the host of the mobuzztv vlog, and all I got was picture of Lala from TikiBarTV and one of Amanda Congdon. Nothing about Karina.
At least they provide pictures of hot chicks when queried for a hot chick, but I'm expecting a bit more accuracy!
BTW, Google image search doesn't provide anything...
> Wait for it... wait for it... Ok, now it's outdated.
The iPod too (from http://snltranscripts.jt.org/05/05fupdate.phtml )
Amy Poehler: Wait, that iPod was only out for like five seconds.
Steve Jobs: Five seconds too long! It was too big! Ridicules, old, obsolete! But guess what, I'm very proud to introduce, and I'm thrilled about this, the new iPod Invisa.
(He 'pulls' something out but he is really not holding anything)
Amy Poehler: Okay, wait a minute Steve Jobs, I don't even think you're really holding anything.
Steve Jobs: I am! The iPod Invisa, the perfect stocking stuffer. It holds 8 million songs, every photograph ever taken, Pong. And watch...
(He purposely throws 'it' on the desk.)
Steve Jobs: Oops I dropped it, but where did it go, on the ground? No, it's floating!
I also flipped back and forth between like ABC and NBC, Pacific Time, and notice they were like 3 seconds or so different in their countdown clocks. What is up with that?
I was watching CNN and they had a couple seconds difference between their on screen countdown and the Times Square Coke-sign countdown. It kind of scrapped the fun of counting down to 2006, CNN was allready at 0 when Times Square had 4 seconds left.
Yeah, I'm a dork, having my new year's fun scrapped by a 4 seconds discrepancy.
Anyone seen this before?: http://www.hamachi.cc/
Loos like a better way of doing VPN.. though ssh with in built vpn is going to be nice...
Here's my not so humble opinion about Hamachi:
Software review: Hamachi
In short: some good, some bad, some really great, some horrible.
What if it's a Tsunami and you need to figure out which cities to send into a panic and which not?
What if the thought Police catches CmdrTaco and need to crack is PGP key fast! Can I donate my spare cpu cycles?
If they can't crack his key, they'll use barabaric means, like pouring hot grits down his pants, while he naked and petrified! I heared that it was used on Natalie Portman with great sucess.
(I was missing those Natalie Portman posts from the old days. I'm such a dork...)
Even so, the US Govt considers 256 bit AES to be good enough for "Top Secret" documents so I doubt it's crackable in 90 days.
Actually no, they recommend using AES 256 for govn't sensitive, but unclassified data. For anything classified, they are using classified military algorithms.
Hey, I'm all mixed up with this advisory.
My router has version 12.4(2)T1, is it affected? The advisory says that all version are affected, but it seems to propose version 12.4(2)T1 as a fix.
Could someone shed some light one this?
[...]I want a hotline where I can call in time, place and license plate of people like that.
I tought that there was allready such a thing in every part of the civilized world! :-) At least in the province of Québec, you can dial *4141 on any cell phone for free and get connected to the provincial police (SQ). I call them all the time to report accidents and vehicules in distress.