Perhaps if you didn't speed, you wouldn't have to worry as much about the enforcement of speeding tickets. I agree that if feels unfair that stop-sign runners got away -- very lame -- but you can't control them. You CAN control your actions. Being polite to police officers, rather than saying things like "Fuck you, you got nothing on me", is likely in many cases to help you avoid both attention and the bad results you seem to have accumulate.
Put it in your will, or tell your loved ones about it. If there's any violent death (or anything related), they are to check your video feeds. I imagine most anyone that knows you well enough to care about your death (family) would know that you were likely to record Risky Stuff, and were you to get killed in a questionable manner I'm pretty sure it'd occur to them to check such things, if they knew you made them.
I wonder if you can auto-tweet the postings of such videos. It might be posthumous, but it might help catch the people that killed you. (What a morbid thought!)
The last time Americans tried to stage a serious revolution, more Americans died than in any other war besides World War II. Three times as many died as we lost in Vietnam. I don't think we're likely to have another one anytime soon.
It might take that long to crack One Specific Password, but imagine how many others you crack in the process, since you'd effectively be generating a rainbow table limited only by space.
But... you're their techie. You say, "Hey, we're going to use X now. Here is an installer for it, and I'll help you through setting it up." That's how you got them to set up to use Skype, right? If the purpose of the tool is videoconferencing over the internet (rather than low cost international calls), it seems like that should be sufficient.
It may be "findable with search" on his site, but I sure as heck haven't been able to find it. Perhaps it's now only searchable by his name (which I don't know), or by something related to the scam. The closest I could find was his blog post on trytobreak.com's scam, which didn't seem to mention any names. So, it seems like it's effectively hidden unless someone is searching specifically for that name, and in that case they'd have to know to search his site for the person's name. It seems pretty effectively hidden.
Interesting point, though, on the slight inconsistency between trusting that someone's moving on from their "idiot stage" and trying to turn their life around enough to make it un-searchable, but not enough to take it down completely.
Amen to that. I'm tired all the time, my spare time is shot to hell. I can't schedule video game time reliably anymore, and travel is Highly Inconvenient. The house is a mess and I'm always stressed. All of that is worth it when my kid gives me a big squeezy hug, and watching my kid's joy unfold is pure magic.
All civilized men should study Geometry, Philosophy, and the game of Go.
The humans making the decisions don't understand Go. They're not even engineers, so they haven't seen all the numbers. Hell, even engineers look at cost comparisons, but not total impact....
While I've not studied Go nearly enough as a civilized person ought to (or even as much as I'd like to), I don't really see the connection. What do cost calculations of projects have to do with an understanding of Go? What aspect of understanding Go (which I clearly do not have) applies here, and is a direct consequence of studying Go (as opposed to fencing, chess, etc)?
Some of the ways we've (some or all of us, depending on the case) had the exercise of our freedoms curtailed, or creatively interpreted:
- INS can ask for your papers anywhere up to 100 miles from the borders. See Arizona, and the article linked in Shutdown's reply. - No fly lists. - Absolute paranoia about air travel. We used to be able to travel with pocket knives, scissors, bottles of water, or even shampoo in our carry-ons, and now have a mandatory checkpoint where we have to be groped or scanned (and which is a juicier target than any airliner). - The above checkpoints are being expanded to cover rail travel, and I'll bet it will be commonplace within the next decade. - Roving vans doing similar scans, planned (according to memos) to be used without our knowledge or consent. - Warrantless wiretapping. More than just specific bad guys, this was a data harvesting on a massive scale where basically everyone was targeted. - Prisons where you can be disappeared to, on locations which are Not The US and therefore the constitution "doesn't apply".
I've not added links as it's 1am here, but I'm sure that you know (or can find via Google or even Slashdot) about the issues I'm talking about. Individually these don't necessarily take away our rights completely, but they do limit the ways in which we are now allowed to exercise them... and that's something I'd consider us having lost some of our freedoms.
For someone interested enough in the country to translate books critical of the king, it's a pretty serious lapse in judgment to then take a trip there before making sure that, you know, the king's cool with all of your past actions.
More importantly, the courts support that position as well. It's not hate speech, but rather protected political speech. I respect that you (Oxford Comma Lover) feel it shouldn't be legal, but I see it as no less a valid political statement than bumper stickers that ridicule the president.
Please elaborate. I'm having a hard time finding things in what they said which are untrue. What is it that you're disagreeing with? (Or was this sarcasm related to TFA and attaching a stigma to things? It's 1am, so... I might be overreacting.)
Oh, I agree: the reason we do or say nothing about it (at the time of the indignity) is because it is personally inconvenient, in the short or the long term (miss a flight, lose a job). Protesting at the airport, while it might be satisfying (I imagine), will do nearly nothing. In theory, we're supposed to write to our congressional representatives about it. In practice, I expect that that would do nearly nothing, as no one wants to be seen as "soft on terrorism".
They (most people) think that maybe finding SOME terrorists is better than not looking for any at all. They neglect the aggregate radiation doses, personal liberties violations, and the fact that any terrorist looking to terrorize air travel would bomb the LINE, not the PLANE. It's the tragedy of the commons: nearly everyone feels that they are personally safer if the Wierdos In Line are scanned, as otherwise someone might smuggle in a bomb/gun/penknife/pen/bottle.
Others of us know it's security theater, are profoundly offended by it, and still are unwilling to protest it at the time because we know our wife would kill us if we made her and our family miss our flight just to protest some silly civil liberties nonsense.
> "What if someone is using the pirate bay to distribute his own content?"
Use a different method. There's lots of them available on the internet. Here's a few: setup a website and put your music on there, put your music on MySpace, put your music on Facebook, put your music on Megaupload, put your music on dropbox.
A torrent is more convenient for your customers (people you might want going to your shows or buying your next album) than some of those, and after the initial seeding, requires very little from you in terms of upload bandwidth. I'm not saying that a torrent is the best option, but saying "well don't use it" is disingenuous.
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... that we know of.
Perhaps if you didn't speed, you wouldn't have to worry as much about the enforcement of speeding tickets. I agree that if feels unfair that stop-sign runners got away -- very lame -- but you can't control them. You CAN control your actions. Being polite to police officers, rather than saying things like "Fuck you, you got nothing on me", is likely in many cases to help you avoid both attention and the bad results you seem to have accumulate.
Put it in your will, or tell your loved ones about it. If there's any violent death (or anything related), they are to check your video feeds. I imagine most anyone that knows you well enough to care about your death (family) would know that you were likely to record Risky Stuff, and were you to get killed in a questionable manner I'm pretty sure it'd occur to them to check such things, if they knew you made them.
I wonder if you can auto-tweet the postings of such videos. It might be posthumous, but it might help catch the people that killed you. (What a morbid thought!)
The last time Americans tried to stage a serious revolution, more Americans died than in any other war besides World War II. Three times as many died as we lost in Vietnam. I don't think we're likely to have another one anytime soon.
And is remarkably resilient versus batons.
Not so much versus bullets or tear gas or trampling, of course.
It might take that long to crack One Specific Password, but imagine how many others you crack in the process, since you'd effectively be generating a rainbow table limited only by space.
But ... you're their techie. You say, "Hey, we're going to use X now. Here is an installer for it, and I'll help you through setting it up." That's how you got them to set up to use Skype, right? If the purpose of the tool is videoconferencing over the internet (rather than low cost international calls), it seems like that should be sufficient.
It may be "findable with search" on his site, but I sure as heck haven't been able to find it. Perhaps it's now only searchable by his name (which I don't know), or by something related to the scam. The closest I could find was his blog post on trytobreak.com's scam, which didn't seem to mention any names. So, it seems like it's effectively hidden unless someone is searching specifically for that name, and in that case they'd have to know to search his site for the person's name. It seems pretty effectively hidden.
Interesting point, though, on the slight inconsistency between trusting that someone's moving on from their "idiot stage" and trying to turn their life around enough to make it un-searchable, but not enough to take it down completely.
May I politely request that you teach her to be a twitch, spawn-camping, FPS-dominating polite young lady instead? :-)
Amen to that. I'm tired all the time, my spare time is shot to hell. I can't schedule video game time reliably anymore, and travel is Highly Inconvenient. The house is a mess and I'm always stressed. All of that is worth it when my kid gives me a big squeezy hug, and watching my kid's joy unfold is pure magic.
All civilized men should study Geometry, Philosophy, and the game of Go.
The humans making the decisions don't understand Go. They're not even engineers, so they haven't seen all the numbers. Hell, even engineers look at cost comparisons, but not total impact....
While I've not studied Go nearly enough as a civilized person ought to (or even as much as I'd like to), I don't really see the connection. What do cost calculations of projects have to do with an understanding of Go? What aspect of understanding Go (which I clearly do not have) applies here, and is a direct consequence of studying Go (as opposed to fencing, chess, etc)?
Most Americans are selfish enough to care more about their own job than about someone in another country having that job.
Some of the ways we've (some or all of us, depending on the case) had the exercise of our freedoms curtailed, or creatively interpreted:
- INS can ask for your papers anywhere up to 100 miles from the borders. See Arizona, and the article linked in Shutdown's reply.
- No fly lists.
- Absolute paranoia about air travel. We used to be able to travel with pocket knives, scissors, bottles of water, or even shampoo in our carry-ons, and now have a mandatory checkpoint where we have to be groped or scanned (and which is a juicier target than any airliner).
- The above checkpoints are being expanded to cover rail travel, and I'll bet it will be commonplace within the next decade.
- Roving vans doing similar scans, planned (according to memos) to be used without our knowledge or consent.
- Warrantless wiretapping. More than just specific bad guys, this was a data harvesting on a massive scale where basically everyone was targeted.
- Prisons where you can be disappeared to, on locations which are Not The US and therefore the constitution "doesn't apply".
I've not added links as it's 1am here, but I'm sure that you know (or can find via Google or even Slashdot) about the issues I'm talking about. Individually these don't necessarily take away our rights completely, but they do limit the ways in which we are now allowed to exercise them... and that's something I'd consider us having lost some of our freedoms.
For someone interested enough in the country to translate books critical of the king, it's a pretty serious lapse in judgment to then take a trip there before making sure that, you know, the king's cool with all of your past actions.
More importantly, the courts support that position as well. It's not hate speech, but rather protected political speech. I respect that you (Oxford Comma Lover) feel it shouldn't be legal, but I see it as no less a valid political statement than bumper stickers that ridicule the president.
Good luck getting an artificial horizon or GPS when your computer systems have voted each other off the island and are looking for their towels. :)
Please elaborate. I'm having a hard time finding things in what they said which are untrue. What is it that you're disagreeing with? (Or was this sarcasm related to TFA and attaching a stigma to things? It's 1am, so ... I might be overreacting.)
Oh, I agree: the reason we do or say nothing about it (at the time of the indignity) is because it is personally inconvenient, in the short or the long term (miss a flight, lose a job). Protesting at the airport, while it might be satisfying (I imagine), will do nearly nothing. In theory, we're supposed to write to our congressional representatives about it. In practice, I expect that that would do nearly nothing, as no one wants to be seen as "soft on terrorism".
He meant the cost of deploying the scanners, not the cost of air travel.
That would be Very Bad for business, wouldn't it?
They (most people) think that maybe finding SOME terrorists is better than not looking for any at all. They neglect the aggregate radiation doses, personal liberties violations, and the fact that any terrorist looking to terrorize air travel would bomb the LINE, not the PLANE. It's the tragedy of the commons: nearly everyone feels that they are personally safer if the Wierdos In Line are scanned, as otherwise someone might smuggle in a bomb/gun/penknife/pen/bottle.
Others of us know it's security theater, are profoundly offended by it, and still are unwilling to protest it at the time because we know our wife would kill us if we made her and our family miss our flight just to protest some silly civil liberties nonsense.
> "What if someone is using the pirate bay to distribute his own content?"
Use a different method. There's lots of them available on the internet. Here's a few: setup a website and put your music on there, put your music on MySpace, put your music on Facebook, put your music on Megaupload, put your music on dropbox.
A torrent is more convenient for your customers (people you might want going to your shows or buying your next album) than some of those, and after the initial seeding, requires very little from you in terms of upload bandwidth. I'm not saying that a torrent is the best option, but saying "well don't use it" is disingenuous.
He didn't say a GOOD keyboard, though, merely a Cheap one.
Nope. /we[a|]ry/ matches wery, weary. /we?ary/ matches weary, wary.
Gman, thanks for the joke. :D
How do they handle hash collisions?