Actually, I think that is far to much to ask for. What if you are in California or Texas. And you are in San Diego and the warrant is issued 10 hours away? I think there should be a verification that the warrant is valid PRIOR to arresting the person.
Sorry - in this day and age it could easily be scanned and e-mailed to the police car. I haven't seen one for a while that doesn't have networking now.
Or worse yet, what if the court is closed for a three day weekend? OR as we have in SD, the court is opened once a week.
Easily fixable - create a weekend clerk position. Or if the court is not open more often put in a T1 to the home of the court clerk and give him remote access to the database and forward his desk phone to his home phone.
They haven't done better. They have produced a more costly, less reliable version of established Soviet/Russian launchers and have given themselves far too much of a pat on the back for it.
Yes but they've done it as a private company not a government funded one. They are doing this highly separate from the established system and as a result they have to reinvent a whole lot of things using current technology.
_That_ is why they are patting themselves on the back so hard.
They need encouragement NOT disparagement to continue and hammering them because they didn't immediately produce a killer replacement for the existing heavy-payload launch units helps no one.
The retards saying that Falcon 1 is some revolution in price need to shut the fuck up and check their facts.
Falcon 9 might beat (well, equal) Proton for price/kg if, repeat IF, it ever flies. This joker has got the simplest possible liquid fueled rocket flying after blowing up three of them, it will at least take him a while to figure out how to cluster engines.
But after all this work he will only be able to equal the price of the old Russia stalwart, whats the fucking point? Nobody in their right mind will buy a launch from a billionaire with too much time on his hands when they can choose a far more proven launcher.
Oh right...I mean nobody would want to use anything flying that was made by bicycle manufacturers!
I mean after all cargo ships are made by proven large concerns so nobody would want anything to do with two guys in their backyard! Preposterous!
Your math statement may be correct however you fail in that you refuse to accept that people should even try to do better than the existing structure.
(And yes I know my airplane analogy is a bit flawed but it's the best I could come up with. Perhaps I'll start my own company to make better analogies.)
I was responding to the subject at hand which was a troll claiming that suicide and mental illness were not as synonymous as they are.
You are however correct in that I forgot about many other types of suicide such as for fatal illnesses and honor related suicides. However as far as I'm concerned both should be rare events.
Regardless the article is concerning a singular suicide and that's the subject I used to frame the discussion in my mind.
My apologies to all for feeding the trolls. I just have seriously strong feelings concerning this subject.
You're not a "survivor" if you were never in any danger. Claiming to be disgraces the memories of those who died tragically.
Fuck you troll.
Ask more people than just the person in the mirror if they are "survivors" of someone close to them committing suicide and the answer is always the same - yes.
That death leaves something inside of you that is serious to deal with and I disgrace no one my claiming the title of survivor.
Apparently you never had anyone close to you commit suicide and therefor cannot understand why I consider people who take suicide willingly complete egoistic and ungrateful morons.
Those who commit suicide because they are mentally ill (schizofrenic, and such) and do not know right from wrong are excluded from this definition as they cannot possible be blamed for this utterly stupid and ultimate egoistic act.
Okay Troll I'll bite.
As a survivor of having a close relative commit suicide I can easily say that by the time they commit the act they are already mentally ill.
In my experience it takes at least some serious mental instability to even consider suicide as an option.
Quick frankly you should be ashamed of yourself for holding the viewpoint you do. They failed and broke but know this - the people around them failed as well and many of us, myself included, will carry that failure to our graves with us.
And if I could find the bridge you live under I would drag you out into the sunlight with the rest of us and stake you out in it until you realize how important it is to help those around you.
'Scuse me now while I go shower to remove your nasty trollish smell from my presence.
In "The door into summer" (1957) Heinlein wrote what I think is the first literary description of a CAD system, plus plotter. Had many details wrong (i.e. using keystrokes instead of a pointing device) and his description of the device's electronics is totally crap, but he had some great insights, imho.
A great many long-time Autocad users and the like still use at least 50% keystrokes when working. It's much faster at times to define an entity from the keyboard rather than moving the mouse through menus or toolbars.
That and many times you want the mouse pointer to stay on the focus of a particular point/object/entity so that you can execute the command.
so.. we all know what would happen if Microsoft designed a motor car, but what would happen if the Rover Team designed one?
(I don't know about you, but I think still working after 4 years is damn impressive)
It would use almost no gas, almost never break down, but there would be a 4 to 40 minute lag between when you push the gas pedal and when it moves.:-D
I wonder how long before people in possession of scary "hacking software and equipment" are subjected to similar intrusions? Welcome to the NewUSA, where all knowledge is classified.
This has already happened once to a friend of mine who collects large systems and does component-level development.
The local HOA lady called the cops because he had so many computers that "He must be doing something illega! Look at all those wiiiires!"
Everyone has missed the point. The DHCP protocol does not use MAC addresses to identify clients. It uses client identifiers, which can be any unique string. The fact the *windows* chooses to use the mac address as a client identifier is beside the point. Who says the client being investigated is using windows?
I expected more from the MS-bashing Slashdot crowd. Apparently you are all windows users.
So it's time for someone to write a tiny little app that changes the client identifier for the Windows DHCP protocol.
As for non-Windows users didn't someone in another post mention an auto MAC changer?
What I'd love to see here is an MIT style hack where all of a sudden the students put all the computers behind NATs with MAC addresses that match faculty workstations.
Forrer said the system has tens of thousands of lines of code, so it is time-consuming to find and replace salaries for each job classification on an individual basis.
I studied COBOL in High School and one of the things they beat into us was not hard-coding data. They basically made us treat the whole setup as if someone was feeding you punch cards from a reader.
Ahh...WATBOL...
OT - Does anybody know where to find a copy of WATBOL if you have an old PDP system?
I'm not sure if it's considered illegal wiretapping
How in the world could it possibly be wiretapping?
Recording of audio without the consent of all parties involved is often covered, for my money erroneously, under the wiretapping laws. The video may be legal but the audio is often not.
This is sometime why companies choose to put in security cameras that have no audio ability just in case.
No reason to use two cameras if your camera is hidden and you do not reveal it's existence. There is no legal requirement anywhere in the United States to reveal that you are making a video or audio recording of public events. (Telephone calls are another matter and laws vary from state to state.)
However in many states you are required by law to have a public informational sticker on your property if a permanent video recording device is installed there.
I'm not sure if it's considered illegal wiretapping if you don't but the footage almost certainly will be on less firm legal ground without those stupid window stickers.
Oh for fsk's sake why don't they just openly come out and make it illegal to actually _own_ anything so that we all have to rent things from large corporations.
I mean that's what they really want here. At least if they came out openly and said it we'd know where we stand.
And the worst part is that it's unlikely to change until the majority of couch potato people are affected by it.
Which if the-powers-that-be are as clever as they have appeared to be so far will never happen. The last thing they want is people actually _looking_ at what they are doing - especially Joe Public - so they'll do anything to keep them fat and happy.
[Matrix]
What good is an Onion Router Mr. CastrTroy if it can not exit?
[/Matrix]
You can bet that if this trend continues they'll be able to cover all the major trunk points and any Tor endpoints that are unchecked at that point will be highly noticeable.
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Posting to remove accidental mis-mod.
Actually, I think that is far to much to ask for. What if you are in California or Texas. And you are in San Diego and the warrant is issued 10 hours away? I think there should be a verification that the warrant is valid PRIOR to arresting the person.
Sorry - in this day and age it could easily be scanned and e-mailed to the police car. I haven't seen one for a while that doesn't have networking now.
Or worse yet, what if the court is closed for a three day weekend? OR as we have in SD, the court is opened once a week.
Easily fixable - create a weekend clerk position. Or if the court is not open more often put in a T1 to the home of the court clerk and give him remote access to the database and forward his desk phone to his home phone.
They haven't done better. They have produced a more costly, less reliable version of established Soviet/Russian launchers and have given themselves far too much of a pat on the back for it.
Yes but they've done it as a private company not a government funded one. They are doing this highly separate from the established system and as a result they have to reinvent a whole lot of things using current technology.
_That_ is why they are patting themselves on the back so hard.
They need encouragement NOT disparagement to continue and hammering them because they didn't immediately produce a killer replacement for the existing heavy-payload launch units helps no one.
Falcon 1: $7 million/165kg = $42,424/kg
Russian Proton: $85 million/21,600kg = $4,302/kg
The retards saying that Falcon 1 is some revolution in price need to shut the fuck up and check their facts.
Falcon 9 might beat (well, equal) Proton for price/kg if, repeat IF, it ever flies. This joker has got the simplest possible liquid fueled rocket flying after blowing up three of them, it will at least take him a while to figure out how to cluster engines.
But after all this work he will only be able to equal the price of the old Russia stalwart, whats the fucking point? Nobody in their right mind will buy a launch from a billionaire with too much time on his hands when they can choose a far more proven launcher.
Oh right...I mean nobody would want to use anything flying that was made by bicycle manufacturers!
I mean after all cargo ships are made by proven large concerns so nobody would want anything to do with two guys in their backyard! Preposterous!
Your math statement may be correct however you fail in that you refuse to accept that people should even try to do better than the existing structure.
(And yes I know my airplane analogy is a bit flawed but it's the best I could come up with. Perhaps I'll start my own company to make better analogies.)
You're not hallucinating. I just wish we could get more reality like this...
(Posting to reverse mod mistake.)
I was responding to the subject at hand which was a troll claiming that suicide and mental illness were not as synonymous as they are.
You are however correct in that I forgot about many other types of suicide such as for fatal illnesses and honor related suicides. However as far as I'm concerned both should be rare events.
Regardless the article is concerning a singular suicide and that's the subject I used to frame the discussion in my mind.
My apologies to all for feeding the trolls. I just have seriously strong feelings concerning this subject.
You're not a "survivor" if you were never in any danger. Claiming to be disgraces the memories of those who died tragically.
Fuck you troll.
Ask more people than just the person in the mirror if they are "survivors" of someone close to them committing suicide and the answer is always the same - yes.
That death leaves something inside of you that is serious to deal with and I disgrace no one my claiming the title of survivor.
Apparently you never had anyone close to you commit suicide and therefor cannot understand why I consider people who take suicide willingly complete egoistic and ungrateful morons.
Those who commit suicide because they are mentally ill (schizofrenic, and such) and do not know right from wrong are excluded from this definition as they cannot possible be blamed for this utterly stupid and ultimate egoistic act.
Okay Troll I'll bite.
As a survivor of having a close relative commit suicide I can easily say that by the time they commit the act they are already mentally ill.
In my experience it takes at least some serious mental instability to even consider suicide as an option.
Quick frankly you should be ashamed of yourself for holding the viewpoint you do. They failed and broke but know this - the people around them failed as well and many of us, myself included, will carry that failure to our graves with us.
And if I could find the bridge you live under I would drag you out into the sunlight with the rest of us and stake you out in it until you realize how important it is to help those around you.
'Scuse me now while I go shower to remove your nasty trollish smell from my presence.
Or if someone were to place a bomb underneath the bus that would detonate should it go under 55 miles per hour? What would the robots do then, huh?
Go off to make several other bad movies?
In "The door into summer" (1957) Heinlein wrote what I think is the first literary description of a CAD system, plus plotter. Had many details wrong (i.e. using keystrokes instead of a pointing device) and his description of the device's electronics is totally crap, but he had some great insights, imho.
A great many long-time Autocad users and the like still use at least 50% keystrokes when working. It's much faster at times to define an entity from the keyboard rather than moving the mouse through menus or toolbars.
That and many times you want the mouse pointer to stay on the focus of a particular point/object/entity so that you can execute the command.
And the commercial succeeded in putting a human ass on the company.
C'mon! Give them points for truth in advertising at least! ;-)
It all comes down to Google's stated goal: To index and make available all the worlds information.
;-)
Isn't that also Brainiac's ultimate goal?
so.. we all know what would happen if Microsoft designed a motor car, but what would happen if the Rover Team designed one? (I don't know about you, but I think still working after 4 years is damn impressive)
It would use almost no gas, almost never break down, but there would be a 4 to 40 minute lag between when you push the gas pedal and when it moves. :-D
So, what eventually happened?
The police (much to their credit) walked in and looked around, he explained the situation, and they thanked him for the time and went on their way.
As to the nosey HOA lady I have no idea but I don't recall him saying he had more trouble with her.
That's what he gets for living in an area with a HOA. He chose his poison when he chose where to live.
Indeed. This is why I made it a requirement not to have one when we bought our house.
:-)
Incidentally he has lived and learned and now lives HOA-free.
I wonder how long before people in possession of scary "hacking software and equipment" are subjected to similar intrusions? Welcome to the NewUSA, where all knowledge is classified.
This has already happened once to a friend of mine who collects large systems and does component-level development.
The local HOA lady called the cops because he had so many computers that "He must be doing something illega! Look at all those wiiiires!"
Everyone has missed the point. The DHCP protocol does not use MAC addresses to identify clients. It uses client identifiers, which can be any unique string. The fact the *windows* chooses to use the mac address as a client identifier is beside the point. Who says the client being investigated is using windows?
I expected more from the MS-bashing Slashdot crowd. Apparently you are all windows users.
So it's time for someone to write a tiny little app that changes the client identifier for the Windows DHCP protocol.
As for non-Windows users didn't someone in another post mention an auto MAC changer?
What I'd love to see here is an MIT style hack where all of a sudden the students put all the computers behind NATs with MAC addresses that match faculty workstations.
MAFIAA:"Okay Professor you now owe us $500K."
Yeah the controller's statement bothered me too:
Forrer said the system has tens of thousands of lines of code, so it is time-consuming to find and replace salaries for each job classification on an individual basis.
I studied COBOL in High School and one of the things they beat into us was not hard-coding data. They basically made us treat the whole setup as if someone was feeding you punch cards from a reader.
Ahh...WATBOL...
OT - Does anybody know where to find a copy of WATBOL if you have an old PDP system?
Over the next 5 minutes, i watch him hug the blind spots of 3 more vehicles before I finally reached my turn.
That's not a motorcyclist - that's an organ donor waiting to happen.
Please don't judge the rest of us on two wheels by his actions.
I'm not sure if it's considered illegal wiretapping
How in the world could it possibly be wiretapping?
Recording of audio without the consent of all parties involved is often covered, for my money erroneously, under the wiretapping laws. The video may be legal but the audio is often not.
This is sometime why companies choose to put in security cameras that have no audio ability just in case.
No reason to use two cameras if your camera is hidden and you do not reveal it's existence. There is no legal requirement anywhere in the United States to reveal that you are making a video or audio recording of public events. (Telephone calls are another matter and laws vary from state to state.)
However in many states you are required by law to have a public informational sticker on your property if a permanent video recording device is installed there.
I'm not sure if it's considered illegal wiretapping if you don't but the footage almost certainly will be on less firm legal ground without those stupid window stickers.
Oh for fsk's sake why don't they just openly come out and make it illegal to actually _own_ anything so that we all have to rent things from large corporations.
I mean that's what they really want here. At least if they came out openly and said it we'd know where we stand.
And the worst part is that it's unlikely to change until the majority of couch potato people are affected by it.
Which if the-powers-that-be are as clever as they have appeared to be so far will never happen. The last thing they want is people actually _looking_ at what they are doing - especially Joe Public - so they'll do anything to keep them fat and happy.
And then we'll all just use TOR.
[Matrix] What good is an Onion Router Mr. CastrTroy if it can not exit? [/Matrix]
You can bet that if this trend continues they'll be able to cover all the major trunk points and any Tor endpoints that are unchecked at that point will be highly noticeable.
Rubbish!
;-)
The keys will obviously be stored in a disused submarine lavatory with no lights and a sign saying 'Beware the leopard!'.