Just about everything ERD wrote is suitable for pre-teens and early-teens. That includes like 25 Tarzan novels, 11 "John Carter of Mars" novels, 8 Pellucidar (center of the earth, very timely with the new movie) novels, and at least another 30 or 40 miscellaneous stories.
ERD was like the steven king of sci-fi and fantasy, his books are nowhere near as long as King's but they are almost always real pager turns that your kids will want to stay up past their bedtime reading under the covers with flashlights.
And, despite the covers on some editions sporting very nubile women, the books are completely tame.
When I was in school I learned that our government is a system of Checks And Balances.
Ah, you were not paying close enough attention. Our government is a system where checks tip the balance. Checks written to the re-election fund of each person in congress that is...
And nations are made up of people so pathetic, idiotic and divorced from reality that they invent these sorts of conspiracy theories.
What happens is that in the absence of credible news, people make up their own. It has nothing to do with being 'pathetic,' 'idiotic' or 'divorced from reality.'
It is similar to the way religions play the role of explainer of the unexplainable. Due to the government control of the media in most middle-eastern countries, the 'news' there is very unreliable and everybody there knows it. So they try to figure out a plausible explanation given what they know and believe.
The quality of news reporting in the west has been in steady decline. It is no wonder we see more and more conspiracy theories here too. People are the same everywhere.
I see pixelation in the bluray demo movies that BestBuy like to show.
If they are showing the exact same program on multiple sets simultaneously then it is not blu-ray, or at least not blu-ray over digital like HDMI. The reason is stupid, it is because of the DRM in HDMI. You can not split an HDMI signal, so it is legally impossible to run the same output to multiple sets.
And how many billions does it cost for those murders? 9/11 may have "only" killed 3,000 people, but it cost us several billion in clean-up, insurance, legal costs et al and sent our economy into a tailspin. All these pathetic analogies to deaths from bee-stings or bath-tub accidents or homicide ignore the devastating economic costs of terrorist attacks.
I would say that say "several billion" more than covers the clean-up, insurance and legal costs. While the hit to our economy is way into the trillions - how much have we wasted on Iraq alone, and then there is the sum of all the time wasted by TSA theatrics.
The difference is that the economic cost of terrorist attacks is largely self-inflicted - we do it to ourselves out of irrational fear. That's why the bee-sting and bath-tub death comparisons are apt -- they are meant to illustrate that our society does not have an irrational response to bees despite them killing more people than terrorists, so maybe we should get a grip and stop reacting irrationally to terrorism too.
You don't mind exposing your secrets to a machine you don't have control over (and thus should not trust)? I don't recommend it.
You should copy the files that you don't mind exposing, to the unencrypted partition of the USB key or a different no crypto USB drive.
Obviously his specific use for truecrypt is to protect data in transit, should he lose the USB drive. I think that's a very common scenario. Your 'solution' completely negates the value of that use of truecrypt.
I work as a consultant and often use Truecrypt on my USB key in traveller mode on sites where I work. The top thing on my wishlist is to be able to run/install Truecrypt on a Windows machine without admin rights.
I'm surprised no one has come up with a stand-alone gui 'archive utility' for truecrypt volumes that works like winzip and the like - just treat the encrypted volume as one big archive file. It would probably have to be limited to FAT filesystems, but I suppose that would be OK for most USB applications.
Yeah, but Truecrypt has a defence against that. It is called "hidden volumes".
Last I heard, you could only have one hidden volume. That significantly reduces plausible deniability, if you are interrogated they can rubber-hose you until give it up and then your interrogators will know they got it all.
Has that changed? Does truecrypt support unlimited hidden volumes now?
He wasn't talking about his filesystem on the stand for weeks you know.
And he wasn't particularly articulate on the stand either, which, if you read the interviews with some jury members you'll see was a major factor in their decision.
Furthermore, his speech skills were fine, he is actually very articulate. I find it hard to believe that he had any sort of autism-related mental illness.
Shows what you know about Asperger's Syndrome. Being articulate does not rule you out. Those with Asperger's are often highly articulate when talking about their particular areas of focus.
The myth that every nerd who programs computers has some sort of "cool" mental defect really needs to die. A lot of you are just poorly socialized and stupid, that is all.
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I don't think it has had a US release. Might not ever get one, many asian flicks never do. Does netflix carry non-region 1 releases?
I see it is on ebay - it also has an alternate english name (also common for korean movies) "Educating Kidnappers." If you go looking for a foreign copy, watch out for VCD editions. VCDs are very popular in asia, but picture quality is about that of VHS and may not play in your DVD player. Also gotta watch out for the whole region encoding thing, although the $4.99 copy on ebay claims to be region free - it may or may not be a bootleg, you can't tell based on region coding alone.
they don't make a lot of money if they have 100% real profiles.
You mean they don't steal a lot of money. Because that's what fraud is - you are stealing their money under false pretenses. You promise something which you are incapable of delivering.
Don't react. If they believe they can't contact you, then they'll try something else to get whatever they want out of you before killing your wife. It will at least give you some awareness of the situation and probably buy your wife some more time.
There is a very cool korean movie that deals with a similar question - if your child is kidnapped, what happens if you refuse to answer the ransom call? It's part comedy and party tragedy (a combo the koreans have mastered). It's called A Cruel Attendance.
Would you really feel much safer knowing that Saddam had access to this stuff?
Here's what's wrong with that attitude:
(1) He already had "access to that stuff" in his own stockpiles. (2) There are plenty other vicious tin pot dictators around the world who can easily buy yellowcake from Niger, you ought to be a lot more worried about them. (3) You have no right to feel safe - especially over the rights of hundreds of thousands of iraqis to their lives, and in this case you had at least 1000x higher chance of being killed in a car accident then as result of anything saddam might have done.
He's dead and his people are liberated. Helluva a victory! Just like Hitler won WWII...
Hey brainiac, good way to miss the point. He's dead, his people are FAR from 'liberated' - hundreds of thousands more of them have been killed than while he was in power and the violence and curfews are much worse now than they were before.
Furthermore, he caused the US to throw away most of our political capital and trillions of dollars of actual capital. He's dead, but how many Americans are suffering because of the shit economy the war's deficit spending has brought upon us? And what did we gain in return? As far as I can see, nothing of value at all.
Hitler didn't do anywhere near as much damage to the US as Sadam did with his lies.
. Can you name ONE person who thinks that it was Iraq behind 9/11?
Uh yeah I can and furthermore, so did 69% of Americans after the invasion. You are just wrong dude.
Most of your Center for Public Integrity quotes are intelligence failures, not lies.
Deliberately picking and choosing the intelligence you wish to emphasize in order to arrive at a predetermined outcome is not an intelligence failure.
1) A pager that can turn on your cell phone - then you could use a service like google grandcentral that rings all of your actual phone numbers and the pager would turn the cell phone on in response in time to actually answer the call.
2) A cell phone with a directional antenna - you could point it at a tower that would normally be outside of your range. You would probably also want some sort of gadget, maybe a java app on the phone itself, that will show you heading and distance to 'all' of the towers around you without actually logging into the towers, so that you can easily pick and choose which tower you want to use.
Saddam wanted Iran to think he still had WMDs for his own security. No credible person disputes that. No matter how many times you retards repeat it,
So, Saddam was able to simply lie about WMDs and cause the US to waste hundreds of billions of dollars as a result? He may have lost the battle, but damn! did he win that war.
George W. Bush never blamed 9/11 on Iraq.
O'really? Perhaps you are right. He never outright blamed 9/11 on Iraq, but he sure as shit intimated it on a frequent basis, making at least 28 false statements about Iraq's links to al qaeda. But at least he has plausible deniability - it wasn't his fault the public heard "al qaeda" and thought "9/11" no, no, no, no!
The risk of Iraq engaging in a terrorist attack was very real and the scale could have been huge with state sponsorship.
Eh? Just where the hell did you get that from? Because it sure as shit don't follow from anything else ya said.
I find it pretty sad that you are still blindly claiming that it was a "lie". Try thinking for yourself once in a while instead of following the Bush-hating sheep.
So, riddle me this... Why was Saddam trying to acquire 500 tons of yellowcake from Niger when he already had more than that much in his possession?
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Just about everything ERD wrote is suitable for pre-teens and early-teens.
That includes like 25 Tarzan novels, 11 "John Carter of Mars" novels, 8 Pellucidar (center of the earth, very timely with the new movie) novels, and at least another 30 or 40 miscellaneous stories.
ERD was like the steven king of sci-fi and fantasy, his books are nowhere near as long as King's but they are almost always real pager turns that your kids will want to stay up past their bedtime reading under the covers with flashlights.
And, despite the covers on some editions sporting very nubile women, the books are completely tame.
PS, many of them are available for free on project gutenberg
Nah, I don't hang out with known criminals like yourself, despite the public opinion to the contrary. Your arguements are laughable.
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Just what 'arguement' did I make? That is so laughable?
When I was in school I learned that our government is a system of Checks And Balances.
Ah, you were not paying close enough attention. Our government is a system where checks tip the balance. Checks written to the re-election fund of each person in congress that is...
And nations are made up of people so pathetic, idiotic and divorced from reality that they invent these sorts of conspiracy theories.
What happens is that in the absence of credible news, people make up their own. It has nothing to do with being 'pathetic,' 'idiotic' or 'divorced from reality.'
It is similar to the way religions play the role of explainer of the unexplainable. Due to the government control of the media in most middle-eastern countries, the 'news' there is very unreliable and everybody there knows it. So they try to figure out a plausible explanation given what they know and believe.
The quality of news reporting in the west has been in steady decline. It is no wonder we see more and more conspiracy theories here too. People are the same everywhere.
I see pixelation in the bluray demo movies that BestBuy like to show.
If they are showing the exact same program on multiple sets simultaneously then it is not blu-ray, or at least not blu-ray over digital like HDMI. The reason is stupid, it is because of the DRM in HDMI. You can not split an HDMI signal, so it is legally impossible to run the same output to multiple sets.
And how many billions does it cost for those murders? 9/11 may have "only" killed 3,000 people, but it cost us several billion in clean-up, insurance, legal costs et al and sent our economy into a tailspin. All these pathetic analogies to deaths from bee-stings or bath-tub accidents or homicide ignore the devastating economic costs of terrorist attacks.
I would say that say "several billion" more than covers the clean-up, insurance and legal costs. While the hit to our economy is way into the trillions - how much have we wasted on Iraq alone, and then there is the sum of all the time wasted by TSA theatrics.
The difference is that the economic cost of terrorist attacks is largely self-inflicted - we do it to ourselves out of irrational fear. That's why the bee-sting and bath-tub death comparisons are apt -- they are meant to illustrate that our society does not have an irrational response to bees despite them killing more people than terrorists, so maybe we should get a grip and stop reacting irrationally to terrorism too.
You don't mind exposing your secrets to a machine you don't have control over (and thus should not trust)? I don't recommend it.
You should copy the files that you don't mind exposing, to the unencrypted partition of the USB key or a different no crypto USB drive.
Obviously his specific use for truecrypt is to protect data in transit, should he lose the USB drive.
I think that's a very common scenario.
Your 'solution' completely negates the value of that use of truecrypt.
I work as a consultant and often use Truecrypt on my USB key in traveller mode on sites where I work. The top thing on my wishlist is to be able to run/install Truecrypt on a Windows machine without admin rights.
I'm surprised no one has come up with a stand-alone gui 'archive utility' for truecrypt volumes that works like winzip and the like - just treat the encrypted volume as one big archive file. It would probably have to be limited to FAT filesystems, but I suppose that would be OK for most USB applications.
Yeah, but Truecrypt has a defence against that. It is called "hidden volumes".
Last I heard, you could only have one hidden volume. That significantly reduces plausible deniability, if you are interrogated they can rubber-hose you until give it up and then your interrogators will know they got it all.
Has that changed? Does truecrypt support unlimited hidden volumes now?
He wasn't talking about his filesystem on the stand for weeks you know.
And he wasn't particularly articulate on the stand either, which, if you read the interviews with some jury members you'll see was a major factor in their decision.
Ahhh, that one...my wiener's wet, my wiener's wet, my wiener's wet, my wiener's wet...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fSpI4oZoDc
This is pretty much a ridiculous conspiracy theory.
Maybe so, but your rebutall is completely illogical.
Reiser's attorney flat out denied that he had Aspberger's, Reiser never once raised any sort of mental illness defense.
Then why did he bring multiple witnesses to suggest otherwise?
Furthermore, his speech skills were fine, he is actually very articulate. I find it hard to believe that he had any sort of autism-related mental illness.
Shows what you know about Asperger's Syndrome. Being articulate does not rule you out. Those with Asperger's are often highly articulate when talking about their particular areas of focus.
The myth that every nerd who programs computers has some sort of "cool" mental defect really needs to die. A lot of you are just poorly socialized and stupid, that is all.
Way to exaggerate there pal.
I would like to invite you to join my shopping club - Jah-Go-Head.
We have many wonderful products, like Dell laptops for $99.99 and gasoline for 99cents/gallon.
All it takes is a monthly fee of $15 and you too can have access to all of these amazing products.
I don't think it has had a US release. Might not ever get one, many asian flicks never do. Does netflix carry non-region 1 releases?
I see it is on ebay - it also has an alternate english name (also common for korean movies) "Educating Kidnappers." If you go looking for a foreign copy, watch out for VCD editions. VCDs are very popular in asia, but picture quality is about that of VHS and may not play in your DVD player. Also gotta watch out for the whole region encoding thing, although the $4.99 copy on ebay claims to be region free - it may or may not be a bootleg, you can't tell based on region coding alone.
they don't make a lot of money if they have 100% real profiles.
You mean they don't steal a lot of money. Because that's what fraud is - you are stealing their money under false pretenses.
You promise something which you are incapable of delivering.
I'm very curious how many would-be dates have not happened because of this Google search
You need to use it to your advantage. Hot chicks dig bad boys.
Don't react. If they believe they can't contact you, then they'll try something else to get whatever they want out of you before killing your wife. It will at least give you some awareness of the situation and probably buy your wife some more time.
There is a very cool korean movie that deals with a similar question - if your child is kidnapped, what happens if you refuse to answer the ransom call? It's part comedy and party tragedy (a combo the koreans have mastered). It's called A Cruel Attendance.
Would you really feel much safer knowing that Saddam had access to this stuff?
Here's what's wrong with that attitude:
(1) He already had "access to that stuff" in his own stockpiles.
(2) There are plenty other vicious tin pot dictators around the world who can easily buy yellowcake from Niger, you ought to be a lot more worried about them.
(3) You have no right to feel safe - especially over the rights of hundreds of thousands of iraqis to their lives, and in this case you had at least 1000x higher chance of being killed in a car accident then as result of anything saddam might have done.
http://www.factcheck.org/bushs_16_words_on_iraq_uranium.html
He's dead and his people are liberated. Helluva a victory! Just like Hitler won WWII...
Hey brainiac, good way to miss the point. He's dead, his people are FAR from 'liberated' - hundreds of thousands more of them have been killed than while he was in power and the violence and curfews are much worse now than they were before.
Furthermore, he caused the US to throw away most of our political capital and trillions of dollars of actual capital. He's dead, but how many Americans are suffering because of the shit economy the war's deficit spending has brought upon us? And what did we gain in return? As far as I can see, nothing of value at all.
Hitler didn't do anywhere near as much damage to the US as Sadam did with his lies.
. Can you name ONE person who thinks that it was Iraq behind 9/11?
Uh yeah I can and furthermore, so did 69% of Americans after the invasion. You are just wrong dude.
Most of your Center for Public Integrity quotes are intelligence failures, not lies.
Deliberately picking and choosing the intelligence you wish to emphasize in order to arrive at a predetermined outcome is not an intelligence failure.
so, 550 tons of yellowcake would give ... how much ? 2 metric tons of weapon grade uranium ? And how many bombs can be made out of that ?
50.
Two gadgets I would like to see:
1) A pager that can turn on your cell phone - then you could use a service like google grandcentral that rings all of your actual phone numbers and the pager would turn the cell phone on in response in time to actually answer the call.
2) A cell phone with a directional antenna - you could point it at a tower that would normally be outside of your range. You would probably also want some sort of gadget, maybe a java app on the phone itself, that will show you heading and distance to 'all' of the towers around you without actually logging into the towers, so that you can easily pick and choose which tower you want to use.
Saddam wanted Iran to think he still had WMDs for his own security. No credible person disputes that. No matter how many times you retards repeat it,
So, Saddam was able to simply lie about WMDs and cause the US to waste hundreds of billions of dollars as a result?
He may have lost the battle, but damn! did he win that war.
George W. Bush never blamed 9/11 on Iraq.
O'really? Perhaps you are right. He never outright blamed 9/11 on Iraq, but he sure as shit intimated it on a frequent basis, making at least 28 false statements about Iraq's links to al qaeda. But at least he has plausible deniability - it wasn't his fault the public heard "al qaeda" and thought "9/11" no, no, no, no!
The risk of Iraq engaging in a terrorist attack was very real and the scale could have been huge with state sponsorship.
Eh? Just where the hell did you get that from? Because it sure as shit don't follow from anything else ya said.
I find it pretty sad that you are still blindly claiming that it was a "lie". Try thinking for yourself once in a while instead of following the Bush-hating sheep.
So, riddle me this... Why was Saddam trying to acquire 500 tons of yellowcake from Niger when he already had more than that much in his possession?
I think that says a lot more about the judging at the forensics league than it does about the real world.