That they cut them so they can replace them with new cables that just happen to have signals ports built in to give the NSA even more detailed access...
It's like when I worked in an HQ, you never trust any repairman, even if cleared, that you did not specifically request.
They were SUPPOSED to cut them all at the same time.
No, you cut them in sequence so you can see how the internal Net and backup lines are configured in Iran, and to allow the printers and multi-core chipsets to report out intel to the NSA before you make it go dark.
Then the severed machines run BSOD attacks and any other core ops programs the NSA set loose.
Cheney's in his bunker, counting all his money, setting up the GOP to steal the election as we speak.
Sounds like standard ops for a preemptive bombing attack on Iran.
The main question people in Iran should be asking is: are your printers and computers running strange jobs that seem to be doing something, because if they are, they are doing the prep work to report the Intel back to the US forces.
Especially those AMD multicore chips you bought in Dhubai... they're all designed to run spy intel if they receive certain signals.
We could just stop the Iraq War and get 160Gbps cable modem for the entire nation, PLUS replace all imported oil with US energy supplies of wind, solar, geothermal, tidal energy plants PLUS rebuild our nations's crumbling bridges/roads PLUS fund health care for every American kid.
And still have enough left over to get rid of the budget deficit.
No, that is not a misprint. That's how CHEAP this is.
Right now, the US is slipping fast in science, broadband, education, and health care - all because we can't just say "Oops! My Bad! See ya!"
Remember how we used to laugh at 6502c coders who couldn't make the box squawk on a 6502 - 8086 and 8088 chipsets were lame, and we thought nothing of popping open a Timex-Sinclair to get at the board and probe it.
And most of us who did it would add improvements which we sent to the game authors.
I remember having 172k of RAM (on a 48k Apple II+) that I used as a RAM drive to run programs 1000 times faster, with a dual floppy setup so I could have a data disk and a program disk.
And it was fun creating the world's first play-by-mail role-playing games on it, doing nutso things like using word-processing macros to churn out character stories for each player, or automated D & D, Traveller, and other game system character generation.
Until Bill G rolled around this artificial IP concept really was just regarded as code hoarding. Copy protection was not just a challenge, it was rude, and you were honor-bound (back then I'd say honour-bound, since I was in Canada) to crack it - and then distro copies with the add-ons you improved the original game with.
Memory loss is the least of your problems if you have Alzheimer's disease.
Just looking at the form in front of me (am at an ADRC) possible impacts range from physical to congnitive to neurological, including tremors, slowness, balance, orientation, judgement and problem solving, withdrawing from community, personal hygiene, delusions, hallucinations, agitation, aggression, depression, dysphoria, anxiety, euphoria, elation, apathy, indifference, disinhibition, irritability, lability, aberrant motor behavior, sleepwalking, appetite, language, falls, gait disorder, and the list goes on.
So, while this might be good for certain people, it definitely is not doing anything about plaque buildup in your brain, neural tangles, or any of the other problems that lead to you dying from this in a fairly short number of years.
But it might help if you just have memory problems.
When I try to post at the Seattle Times their Captcha is nigh unreadable. It's dark and frequently I only succeed with maybe one try out of five.
Which really frosts my cookies and has made it so I try not to buy their print edition, choosing instead the more user-friendly system at the much more urban-focussed Seattle Post-Intelligencer instead.
It's a royal pain.
Maybe Yahoo shouldn't be firing 1000 people
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My guess is that the lack of security will do more harm than good.
And the reason I don't have licenses for most of my software is I work for an educational institution and most of our software is exempt from license fees and most of the work I do at home is for non-profits.
But, hey, in the US Constitution, patents had a lifespan of something like 13 years maximum and copyright only lasted 17 years maximum...
(shakes his head at all the people who fail to understand age risks, mortality, and what living in specific countries means)
Well, unlike most Americans, half my relatives made it to 100. And I haven't lived here my whole life. Even the NIA knows what our actual mortality rates are - and they're not good. Which is the field of research I work in.
I think any prenouncements of a death knell for a recording medium - BluRay or HD-DVD - that people really don't need until they buy a 1080p HDTV that has a screen LARGER than 42 inches are... a little premature.
My point is that you are making assumptions not grounded in the actual science - whether the study of comparitive abilities, the study of psychological abilities, the study of neurology and the ability of the brain to adapt, the study of education and the ability to teach methods to permit people to cope with learning deficits, or even the critical fact that most GENETIC traits are not ON/OFF switches but usually multiple gradients - many syndromes have up to four major controlling genes, but are acted on by many silencing, reinforcing, and alternate biochemical pathways.
Read the underlying scientific paper. Read the tables at the end that explain the PROBLEMS with making the kinds of assumptions you are making.
Is it useful to know people have a deficit? Sure. Can we then say they (as you did) "can't learn"? No.
People aren't cars. You don't just turn the ignition and they work. They have multiple semi-redundant reinforcing biochemical pathways to get things done. As any scientist would know.
Look, I work with disabled veterans in my field, and people who have various diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's - people who have probably done more than most of the readers here ever will - and will probably do more in the future.
My brother has a mild reading disability - he's a manager at a cable firm and makes more than many CEOs. My other brother had a speech impediment - he's an international lawyer who actually wrote Iraq's insurance laws - and does way more than just that.
In medicine there are gradients of impediment - the human brain is very very adaptable, and minor and even some major disabilities can be more than compensated for by people.
So, let's not be all black and white here - most people are on a curve, a gradient, of functionality in many respects. Language is just one thing, as is the ability to learn - there are techniques to compensate for many impairments.
Right, it's not like their economies are twice as successful as ours, or they live 10-20 years longer than Americans, or they have stronger privacy rights and more limited IP/copyright problems.
Oh... wait... they do.
Remind me why it's so great to be American again (note: I was born on a USAF base in Texas....)
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That they cut them so they can replace them with new cables that just happen to have signals ports built in to give the NSA even more detailed access ...
It's like when I worked in an HQ, you never trust any repairman, even if cleared, that you did not specifically request.
They were SUPPOSED to cut them all at the same time.
No, you cut them in sequence so you can see how the internal Net and backup lines are configured in Iran, and to allow the printers and multi-core chipsets to report out intel to the NSA before you make it go dark.
Then the severed machines run BSOD attacks and any other core ops programs the NSA set loose.
Cheney's in his bunker, counting all his money, setting up the GOP to steal the election as we speak.
Sounds like standard ops for a preemptive bombing attack on Iran.
... they're all designed to run spy intel if they receive certain signals.
The main question people in Iran should be asking is: are your printers and computers running strange jobs that seem to be doing something, because if they are, they are doing the prep work to report the Intel back to the US forces.
Especially those AMD multicore chips you bought in Dhubai
To the bomb shelters, Batman!
We could just stop the Iraq War and get 160Gbps cable modem for the entire nation, PLUS replace all imported oil with US energy supplies of wind, solar, geothermal, tidal energy plants PLUS rebuild our nations's crumbling bridges/roads PLUS fund health care for every American kid.
And still have enough left over to get rid of the budget deficit.
No, that is not a misprint. That's how CHEAP this is.
Right now, the US is slipping fast in science, broadband, education, and health care - all because we can't just say "Oops! My Bad! See ya!"
I had an Amber monitor. You didn't just have to buy a green one.
Ich nicht spreched das Frankish, mein herr.
Was ist den policien fabrichten heir?
Pining for the fjords.
...
It has joined the choir invisible.
Oh, darn, my video card needs to be upgraded again, time to buy a fresh Vista OS copy, since they count that as a new machine
Let me put it this way, Vista is Bill G's gift to his wife, so we'll stop talking smack about Microsoft Bob.
Yes, it's that bad.
Remember how we used to laugh at 6502c coders who couldn't make the box squawk on a 6502 - 8086 and 8088 chipsets were lame, and we thought nothing of popping open a Timex-Sinclair to get at the board and probe it.
Ah, hex. A1B2C3D4E5. F!
And most of us who did it would add improvements which we sent to the game authors.
I remember having 172k of RAM (on a 48k Apple II+) that I used as a RAM drive to run programs 1000 times faster, with a dual floppy setup so I could have a data disk and a program disk.
And it was fun creating the world's first play-by-mail role-playing games on it, doing nutso things like using word-processing macros to churn out character stories for each player, or automated D & D, Traveller, and other game system character generation.
Until Bill G rolled around this artificial IP concept really was just regarded as code hoarding. Copy protection was not just a challenge, it was rude, and you were honor-bound (back then I'd say honour-bound, since I was in Canada) to crack it - and then distro copies with the add-ons you improved the original game with.
Memory loss is the least of your problems if you have Alzheimer's disease.
Just looking at the form in front of me (am at an ADRC) possible impacts range from physical to congnitive to neurological, including tremors, slowness, balance, orientation, judgement and problem solving, withdrawing from community, personal hygiene, delusions, hallucinations, agitation, aggression, depression, dysphoria, anxiety, euphoria, elation, apathy, indifference, disinhibition, irritability, lability, aberrant motor behavior, sleepwalking, appetite, language, falls, gait disorder, and the list goes on.
So, while this might be good for certain people, it definitely is not doing anything about plaque buildup in your brain, neural tangles, or any of the other problems that lead to you dying from this in a fairly short number of years.
But it might help if you just have memory problems.
Tous vos bases policieres nous n'avons pas des Fenetres.
The pic that came with the story on Yahoo was of some hot French police (two women and a guy).
I'm guessing that many Microsofties (Mee-crow-soft in French) would love to be searched by one of them.
I have to agree with you here.
When I try to post at the Seattle Times their Captcha is nigh unreadable. It's dark and frequently I only succeed with maybe one try out of five.
Which really frosts my cookies and has made it so I try not to buy their print edition, choosing instead the more user-friendly system at the much more urban-focussed Seattle Post-Intelligencer instead.
It's a royal pain.
My guess is that the lack of security will do more harm than good.
The Net is an unforgiving beast.
I always go into the Dreamtime and become a female Roo when I want to access information about female rituals.
Your mileage may vary, of course.
and yet we get no health care. they do. there's a reason why my EU stocks outperform my US stocks.
So, that aside, I'd rather have privacy rights, no BSA gestapo on my door, and do better.
And yet, the EU which still outperforms the US on real pay and growth, has not done this.
Hmmmm.
Maybe patents shouldn't be made for software?
Maybe copyrights should expire after 17 years?
And the reason I don't have licenses for most of my software is I work for an educational institution and most of our software is exempt from license fees and most of the work I do at home is for non-profits.
...
But, hey, in the US Constitution, patents had a lifespan of something like 13 years maximum and copyright only lasted 17 years maximum
LOL. Let me guess, you're from Lake Wobegon.
(shakes his head at all the people who fail to understand age risks, mortality, and what living in specific countries means)
Well, unlike most Americans, half my relatives made it to 100. And I haven't lived here my whole life. Even the NIA knows what our actual mortality rates are - and they're not good. Which is the field of research I work in.
Americans live 8 years shorter than other first-world nations.
I think perchance you might want to reevaluate your choices based on the cold hard facts.
And even our well off don't live that long.
I think any prenouncements of a death knell for a recording medium - BluRay or HD-DVD - that people really don't need until they buy a 1080p HDTV that has a screen LARGER than 42 inches are ... a little premature.
I foresee a long wonderful friendship between me and law enforcement as I track down RIAA agents using extreme measures for the bounties ...
Lock and load, filesharers! It's clobbering time!
My point is that you are making assumptions not grounded in the actual science - whether the study of comparitive abilities, the study of psychological abilities, the study of neurology and the ability of the brain to adapt, the study of education and the ability to teach methods to permit people to cope with learning deficits, or even the critical fact that most GENETIC traits are not ON/OFF switches but usually multiple gradients - many syndromes have up to four major controlling genes, but are acted on by many silencing, reinforcing, and alternate biochemical pathways.
Read the underlying scientific paper. Read the tables at the end that explain the PROBLEMS with making the kinds of assumptions you are making.
Is it useful to know people have a deficit? Sure. Can we then say they (as you did) "can't learn"? No.
People aren't cars. You don't just turn the ignition and they work. They have multiple semi-redundant reinforcing biochemical pathways to get things done. As any scientist would know.
Look, I work with disabled veterans in my field, and people who have various diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's - people who have probably done more than most of the readers here ever will - and will probably do more in the future.
My brother has a mild reading disability - he's a manager at a cable firm and makes more than many CEOs. My other brother had a speech impediment - he's an international lawyer who actually wrote Iraq's insurance laws - and does way more than just that.
In medicine there are gradients of impediment - the human brain is very very adaptable, and minor and even some major disabilities can be more than compensated for by people.
So, let's not be all black and white here - most people are on a curve, a gradient, of functionality in many respects. Language is just one thing, as is the ability to learn - there are techniques to compensate for many impairments.
Right, it's not like their economies are twice as successful as ours, or they live 10-20 years longer than Americans, or they have stronger privacy rights and more limited IP/copyright problems.
... wait ... they do.
....)
Oh
Remind me why it's so great to be American again (note: I was born on a USAF base in Texas