FYI, Renee and I finally got to Palestine, TX at about 5:45 AM -- 30 hours after leaving our house in Clear Lake. The Prius still has about 1/4 tank of gas...
I drove my '01 Benz slk320 from downtown Houston south to Clear Lake, and then headed north to Palestine. I had over 1/4 of a tank. Maybe you just need a car that can idle efficiently. I had the AC on the whole time too.
Not getting the Onstar recommended services may void the warranty? I could be worse than that. The current black boxes in your car tracks most aspects of operation, not just the simple codes aftermarket tools can read out.
Onstar has detected abnormally high acceleration and speed in your Corvette. Your drivetrain warranty has been automatically voided, you've been Onstared.
Gm may tell you up front, or just wait until you bring it in for service.
Oh, the FBI can do more than just listen to you. They can track your movements with that fancy Nav system too.
If you're making money, keep it to yourself or the next day, a million people will be doing the same thing.
Those million people will be costing lawyers money. Maybe *that* is what his goal is. Perhaps he just doesn't like lawyers. Is there a downside?
The really cynical possibility is that he works for MSN, and that this publicity for the technique is a gambit to damage the value of adsense to Google.
Basically, you're shifting the burden of proof onto the accused - guilty until proven innocent. Very bad move! It's no wonder kids don't understand their constitutional rights when we treat them like cattle.
Oh, and in regards to your original statement, the school won't even check the records until something happens. It won't prevent anything except make it easier for the school to point and say "You broke the rules here, here, and here." Most of the rules broken are usually asinine in the first place, and no reasonable person would follow them. In doing this, the school also violates the right of every single other student following the rules.
More than that, the records will be checked based on who you are. When I was in highschool, students who didn't score well on the state standardized testing were hazed by the administration who encouraged them to drop out. They made the school look bad you see. I'm sure this could be used as a weapon in that little game quite nicely. (These were the same folks who placed the worst teachers in the remedial classes. It seems that when they taught honors classes the parents raised hell, but nobody expected the remedial students to learn so there was no $h*tstorm of complaints)
These same school administrators had the polics come to the school and search students cars for drugs. They said that drug dogs barking gave them the right to search anywhere they wanted. Students (suspects?) were not allowed to witness the dog search. Those same school officials didn't have an explanation for why several students were called to the office for a car search despite not having driven thier car to school that day. Hmmm.....
If I were attending that school, I think I'd wear a tan shirt to school every day. I'd put on a white arm band with red trim, then put the id badge on that. When the school officials complained, I'd say I thought that is what we're doing.
Do you think they would try to ban dress that was clearly political speach? -shrug-
Compulsary personal tracking is a terrible idea, and very dangerous to a free society. Don't you think it would be usefull to plant an electronic device onto your (political/religous/etc) opponents that must be worn at all times.
The idea that any group of people do not have the rights of citizenship is a bad one. The age of these students should not strip equal protection under the law from them. If you think that is silly, are you ready to wear a state controlled tracking device? Are you ready for neo-cons to track gays so that sodomy laws can be enforced. What about gun control liberals tracking gun owners? How would Watergate have been different if the other parties personell could be remotely monitored? Too long ago? Remember the 'missing' FBI files of prominent political operatives that turned up in the last administration's offices? I'm sure you can think of a more annoying possibilitys on your own.
It makes far more sense for a centralised block list, regularly updated, hosted by a reputible body.
A small change in functionality to your web browser so that when you attempt to connect to a site on your blocklist. your browser informs you and the reason why and then asks you if you want to proceed anyway.
Isn't the base problem that the ISPs hosting the 419 sites are unresponsive? Blocking the website's IPs in the browser would be like playing whack-a-mole with spammers. What about SPEWS type listing, stopping traffic to an ever increasing range of IPs at the 419's ISP. That should get the ISP's attention in the same way SPEWS manages - the wallet when legit customers leave.
This will depend on support blocking software for web proxies, and significant adoption. It can't happen overnight, but email blocklists have shown blocklists can grow into an effective force.
Okay, if it only takes 2.5 hours at top speed to go anywhere on the planet...
If the security check ins take any longer we'll need speeds like this to get anywhere. Besides, just think how fast all of your luggage can be lost and sent to Burma!
I would be worried about SCO sueing me for IP violations if I hired a programmer who had worked there. The morality of working for SCO wouldn't be the issue. Putting my company, it's employee's, and all of their families paycheck on the line would be though.
But software radio would make any kind of changeable DRM real easy. You'd have to download the software to receive to program first. The software could be changed as soon as someone cracked it.
Yeah, just wait for this message. 'you must download the Bonzia buddy application to view this program.' I can't wait for 'pop-up' commercials from DRM software. ick
Yep, I've got 3 of them at home, and another 5-6 at work. I didn't pay more that $5 for any of them. I've never seen a broken one. About all that can happen is losing keytops.
The small, detachable keyboard controller board inside makes a great mame controller too. Hmm, time to make an Ateroids & Space War controller to go with my 2 player joystick one.
Built the cell repeater into the new XM radio receivers. Anyone listening to tunes would be also be a repeater. I'd love a discount on the XM gear or monthly fee in exchange for that. My cell phone would also have a local, higher powered (than the cell phone) repeater just a few feet away while I'm driving.
One little point. What happens when you spend the money you've already saved? You pay all of the income taxes on it with our current tax law, then you pay again with higher sales tax when you spend it. Anyone near retirement would be hit very hard.
Exactly. The suit doesn't need to be intended for combat. A suit that helps the engineering corps build a bridge without heavy construction equipment would be great. That could allow a division to move across a river much faster than the enemy anticitpates. Just about anything that improves a units ability to traverse obsticals, or bring along less support equipment would be good canidates for this.
Why not reverse engineer the data format Real uses. A Seti type screen saver that feeds bogus info into the Real database would be fun, especially with the/. effect. I don't think it would take too long to screw up their current database.
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I drove my '01 Benz slk320 from downtown Houston south to Clear Lake, and then headed north to Palestine. I had over 1/4 of a tank. Maybe you just need a car that can idle efficiently. I had the AC on the whole time too.
Not getting the Onstar recommended services may void the warranty?
I could be worse than that. The current black boxes in your car tracks most aspects of operation, not just the simple codes aftermarket tools can read out.
Onstar has detected abnormally high acceleration and speed in your Corvette. Your drivetrain warranty has been automatically voided, you've been Onstared.
Gm may tell you up front, or just wait until you bring it in for service.
Oh, the FBI can do more than just listen to you. They can track your movements with that fancy Nav system too.
They are the government. If too many bypass the taxes, the FCC will make your wireless mess illegal unless you pay.
You will be assimilated.
Here is a link to more information about oxytocin.
http://www.oxytocin.org/cuddle-hormone/
Those million people will be costing lawyers money. Maybe *that* is what his goal is. Perhaps he just doesn't like lawyers. Is there a downside?
The really cynical possibility is that he works for MSN, and that this publicity for the technique is a gambit to damage the value of adsense to Google.
More than that, the records will be checked based on who you are. When I was in highschool, students who didn't score well on the state standardized testing were hazed by the administration who encouraged them to drop out. They made the school look bad you see. I'm sure this could be used as a weapon in that little game quite nicely. (These were the same folks who placed the worst teachers in the remedial classes. It seems that when they taught honors classes the parents raised hell, but nobody expected the remedial students to learn so there was no $h*tstorm of complaints)
These same school administrators had the polics come to the school and search students cars for drugs. They said that drug dogs barking gave them the right to search anywhere they wanted. Students (suspects?) were not allowed to witness the dog search. Those same school officials didn't have an explanation for why several students were called to the office for a car search despite not having driven thier car to school that day. Hmmm.....
If I were attending that school, I think I'd wear a tan shirt to school every day. I'd put on a white arm band with red trim, then put the id badge on that. When the school officials complained, I'd say I thought that is what we're doing.
Do you think they would try to ban dress that was clearly political speach? -shrug-
Compulsary personal tracking is a terrible idea, and very dangerous to a free society. Don't you think it would be usefull to plant an electronic device onto your (political/religous/etc) opponents that must be worn at all times.
The idea that any group of people do not have the rights of citizenship is a bad one. The age of these students should not strip equal protection under the law from them. If you think that is silly, are you ready to wear a state controlled tracking device? Are you ready for neo-cons to track gays so that sodomy laws can be enforced. What about gun control liberals tracking gun owners? How would Watergate have been different if the other parties personell could be remotely monitored? Too long ago? Remember the 'missing' FBI files of prominent political operatives that turned up in the last administration's offices? I'm sure you can think of a more annoying possibilitys on your own.
This will depend on support blocking software for web proxies, and significant adoption. It can't happen overnight, but email blocklists have shown blocklists can grow into an effective force.
Okay, if it only takes 2.5 hours at top speed to go anywhere on the planet...
If the security check ins take any longer we'll need speeds like this to get anywhere. Besides, just think how fast all of your luggage can be lost and sent to Burma!
I would be worried about SCO sueing me for IP violations if I hired a programmer who had worked there. The morality of working for SCO wouldn't be the issue. Putting my company, it's employee's, and all of their families paycheck on the line would be though.
But software radio would make any kind of changeable DRM real easy. You'd have to download the software to receive to program first. The software could be changed as soon as someone cracked it.
Yeah, just wait for this message. 'you must download the Bonzia buddy application to view this program.' I can't wait for 'pop-up' commercials from DRM software. ick
The small, detachable keyboard controller board inside makes a great mame controller too. Hmm, time to make an Ateroids & Space War controller to go with my 2 player joystick one.
Built the cell repeater into the new XM radio receivers. Anyone listening to tunes would be also be a repeater. I'd love a discount on the XM gear or monthly fee in exchange for that. My cell phone would also have a local, higher powered (than the cell phone) repeater just a few feet away while I'm driving.
You know, there might be a reason why such programs are called "WAR" dialers.
Before Wargames, we called them demon dialers, after a popular program for searching for computers on a phone exchange.
Ringworld by Larry Niven
>OK, I'll bite... what SF is this from? Ringworld by Larry Niven
One little point. What happens when you spend the money you've already saved? You pay all of the income taxes on it with our current tax law, then you pay again with higher sales tax when you spend it. Anyone near retirement would be hit very hard.
Exactly. The suit doesn't need to be intended for combat. A suit that helps the engineering corps build a bridge without heavy construction equipment would be great. That could allow a division to move across a river much faster than the enemy anticitpates. Just about anything that improves a units ability to traverse obsticals, or bring along less support equipment would be good canidates for this.
Why not reverse engineer the data format Real uses. A Seti type screen saver that feeds bogus info into the Real database would be fun, especially with the /. effect. I don't think it would take too long to screw up their current database.