Well, strictly speaking, incrementing the number would result in P3P, not P4P. Just as P2P means "Peer to Peer", P4P could be interpreted as "Peer for Peer", justifying the numeral.
The point of all this blanket monitoring is not to secure convictions of suspected terrorists. The old FISA law was completely adequate for that purpose.
The purpose here is to make the American public toe the line, and for that purpose, convictions are not necessary. The mere threat of action, with the associated social embarrassment and financial hardship, will do nicely.
I don't know why the FBI even bothers to try to hide its wrongdoing...after all, this administration has made it very clear that they are above the law, and that anyone who joins them in their abuses can enjoy a comparable freedom from responsibility.
Solar and wind, as they are now anyways, will never be stable energy sources, they are too dependent on the other variables, like the weather.
That's why the solar installation needs to be above the weather (in orbit). A solar satellite would receive solar radiation about three times as intense as on the surface, and would never be affected by adverse weather conditions.
For an observer to have only perceived 6000 years since the formation of the universe, they would have to have been moving at 99.99999999999% of c since the universe began.
This situation reminds me a bit of the story a few weeks back, when the government was getting miffed at amateur satellite spotters for looking upward. The differences of course, being that the government couldn't make the satellites completely undetectable, even if they tried, and they did try...as opposed to MobiTV, who has the gall to bleat about "hacking" after being stupid enough to post a publically available URL.
Maximillian Dornseif demonstrated this same Firewire vulnerability against Linux and OS X machines in 2005. Adam Boileau just gets more press because he performed the hack against Windows PCs.
'A virus might be able to do that, because as a virus kills a tumor cell, it could also replicate, and you could end up with a therapy that's self-amplifying.'
Yes...and it may also mutate, and you'd wind up with a virus that has developed a taste for healthy brain cells. Granted, the chances are slight, but they're not nonexistent. Don't get me wrong...as the husband of a brain cancer victim, I find this development very exciting. I just have a habit of looking on the darker side of things.
... the best protection against botnets is never install Windows?
That will only hold true as long as the market share for the non-Windows operating systems remains at its current levels. Whether Mac or Linux is intrinsically more secure than Windows is a subject for another (lengthy and heated) discussion, but the fact remains that practically, an OS is only as secure as the user running it lets it be. Linux users are much more secure from threats than Windows users for two reasons. One: since Linux accounts for such an infinitesimally small percentage of market share, malware coders don't waste their time coding for Linux. Two: since most Linux users are enthusiasts who generally know what they are doing, they can harden their installs to a greater degree than your average Joe-Sixpack Windows user.
A large upsurge in Linux use, especially by the 'typical' user that clicks on anything and everything, and runs their console session as root, would be irresistible to the malware coders, and you'd see the same situation you're seeing with Windows now.
Just because you're talented or even brilliant at one thing doesn't mean that you're not a total idiot in other ways. There are plenty of smart people running around doing stupid things. The fact that this kid is capable of doing complex tricks with the phone system doesn't mean he'd do something easy and foolish because he thought it'd be funny.
Read the text I quoted again. Most malicious, and least sophisticated. Your explanation may account for the maliciousness, but not for the sudden inexplicable ineptitude.
If he's guilty, the attack is at once the least sophisticated and most malicious of a string of capers linked to Matt, who stumbled into the lingering remains of the decades-old subculture of phone phreaking when he was 14, and quickly rose to become one of the most skilled active phreakers alive.
Now isn't that interesting? Least sophisticated and most malicious, at the same time? And this from someone who is "one of the most skilled active phreakers alive"?
To prepare against the eventuality of an attack upon our network infrastructure, exactly how much duct tape and plastic sheeting do you recommend we stock up on?
Actually, there's no need to purchase a copy of XP to replace your Vista...you can usually talk the OEM into a free downgrade to XP...that's what my company does, as we're completely uninterested in inflicting this wretched excuse for an OS on our systems, users, and network.
I actually have free access to it. I suppose that eventually I'll have to bite the bullet and start using it, so I can more effectively support my users when we upgrade them, but since there's no plans for that at the moment, I somehow keep coming up with excuses to put off the install for myself.
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Well, strictly speaking, incrementing the number would result in P3P, not P4P. Just as P2P means "Peer to Peer", P4P could be interpreted as "Peer for Peer", justifying the numeral.
TMM: How are you?
Eddie: Does that question interest you?
TMM: Huh?
Eddie: Please go on.
TMM: Um..."go on" about what, exactly?
Eddie: Does that question interest you?
TMM: Never mind. I hear you're an AI.
Eddie: How long have you been an ai?
TMM: No...*you're* the AI. I'm a real live boy.
Eddie: Does it please you to believe I am a real live boy?
TMM: You're not listening to me.
Eddie: How long have you been not listening to you?
TMM: That's it. I'm done.
Eddie: Does it please you to believe I am done?
TMM: AAAAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!!!
Eddie: Please go on.
The point of all this blanket monitoring is not to secure convictions of suspected terrorists. The old FISA law was completely adequate for that purpose.
The purpose here is to make the American public toe the line, and for that purpose, convictions are not necessary. The mere threat of action, with the associated social embarrassment and financial hardship, will do nicely.
I don't know why the FBI even bothers to try to hide its wrongdoing...after all, this administration has made it very clear that they are above the law, and that anyone who joins them in their abuses can enjoy a comparable freedom from responsibility.
Solar and wind, as they are now anyways, will never be stable energy sources, they are too dependent on the other variables, like the weather.
That's why the solar installation needs to be above the weather (in orbit). A solar satellite would receive solar radiation about three times as intense as on the surface, and would never be affected by adverse weather conditions.
Information wants to be free.
For an observer to have only perceived 6000 years since the formation of the universe, they would have to have been moving at 99.99999999999% of c since the universe began.
This situation reminds me a bit of the story a few weeks back, when the government was getting miffed at amateur satellite spotters for looking upward. The differences of course, being that the government couldn't make the satellites completely undetectable, even if they tried, and they did try...as opposed to MobiTV, who has the gall to bleat about "hacking" after being stupid enough to post a publically available URL.
The URLs obtained with this "hack" play just fine in Quicktime as well.
That sounds like a challenge...
With this hack, you can spawn a command prompt with admin rights directly from the login screen. No reboot required.
And what stops someone from doing the same thing against Linux?
See my previous post on that subject.
Maximillian Dornseif demonstrated this same Firewire vulnerability against Linux and OS X machines in 2005. Adam Boileau just gets more press because he performed the hack against Windows PCs.
Unless you're a Microsoft employee tasked with defending your company's products, please stop defending thair pathetically insecure OS.
You must be new around here.
Yes...and it may also mutate, and you'd wind up with a virus that has developed a taste for healthy brain cells. Granted, the chances are slight, but they're not nonexistent. Don't get me wrong...as the husband of a brain cancer victim, I find this development very exciting. I just have a habit of looking on the darker side of things.
... the best protection against botnets is never install Windows?
That will only hold true as long as the market share for the non-Windows operating systems remains at its current levels. Whether Mac or Linux is intrinsically more secure than Windows is a subject for another (lengthy and heated) discussion, but the fact remains that practically, an OS is only as secure as the user running it lets it be. Linux users are much more secure from threats than Windows users for two reasons. One: since Linux accounts for such an infinitesimally small percentage of market share, malware coders don't waste their time coding for Linux. Two: since most Linux users are enthusiasts who generally know what they are doing, they can harden their installs to a greater degree than your average Joe-Sixpack Windows user.
A large upsurge in Linux use, especially by the 'typical' user that clicks on anything and everything, and runs their console session as root, would be irresistible to the malware coders, and you'd see the same situation you're seeing with Windows now.
That's right, mod me down, you cowards.
Don't forget to mod down this post as well.
Just because you're talented or even brilliant at one thing doesn't mean that you're not a total idiot in other ways. There are plenty of smart people running around doing stupid things. The fact that this kid is capable of doing complex tricks with the phone system doesn't mean he'd do something easy and foolish because he thought it'd be funny.
Read the text I quoted again. Most malicious, and least sophisticated. Your explanation may account for the maliciousness, but not for the sudden inexplicable ineptitude.
Now isn't that interesting? Least sophisticated and most malicious, at the same time? And this from someone who is "one of the most skilled active phreakers alive"?
This is sounding a lot like a frame-up job.
To prepare against the eventuality of an attack upon our network infrastructure, exactly how much duct tape and plastic sheeting do you recommend we stock up on?
The issue isn't drag. The issue isa 'surplus' of velocity...something you would expect if the craft was heading towards an unseen gravity source.
Could this anomaly possibly be explained by dark matter?
Actually, there's no need to purchase a copy of XP to replace your Vista...you can usually talk the OEM into a free downgrade to XP...that's what my company does, as we're completely uninterested in inflicting this wretched excuse for an OS on our systems, users, and network.
I actually have free access to it. I suppose that eventually I'll have to bite the bullet and start using it, so I can more effectively support my users when we upgrade them, but since there's no plans for that at the moment, I somehow keep coming up with excuses to put off the install for myself.
See my earlier post on this subject.