For God's sake, echelon has existed since the 1970's and the "torturing" that you're talking about involves making a bunch of murderous psychos listen to christina aguilera tapes.
Personally i think that people like you are the result of the "bubble wrapping" of the country. When i was just a pup, we stayed out all night, disappeared into the woods camping for days at a time without cellphones or GPS, i drove a boat by myself and pulled my brothers around on inner-tubes (as in the actuall inner-tube of a tractor tire) when i was 13 years old in my dad's boat. We shot at rabbits, and ate them. I went deer hunting, i killed pheasants. I didn't take stupid gun safety course, and starting learing how to hunt with my dad when i was like 7 years old.
Fortunately for me, my parents DIDN'T just let me sit in front of the television or the computer all day long. If i wanted something to happen I actually had to go outside and DO IT! Oh, the kids are picking on you at school? Well deal with it. You want a new bike? Well go and track down a neighbor who will let you mow the grass for some money and buy one, no i won't do it for you. Your dog is misbehaving? Well either learn how to train it to stop misbehaving, or we're going to get rid of it.
Unlike some of the youth of today, I was NOT taught that if you want something, you can just sit down and talk with somebody until it happens. Try that first (because its easier) but eventually, if you want it bad enough, you're going to have to figure out a way to make it happen on your own.
So I say to you, if you hate the government so bad, and you think that we are just this big pack of evil baby-seal-killers, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! Run for public office, if enough people agree with you, you'll have the oppurtunity to change something. Do you believe in your cause enough to die for it? The people who FOUNDED this country did, so show some goddamned respect.
After a recent Incident in the billing department, verizon is rumored to be moving their entire accounting system to a series of mechanical slide rules that are operated by squirrels.
from the MSNB article on the subject:
The battery-powered rectangular device had nine flashing lights, and Simpson had Play-Doh in her hands, Pare said. so this girl attached a breadboard covered in flashing lights to the OUTSIDE of her clothing, and walked around an airport (which is obviously a sensative area) with a bunch of play dough in her hands (something that is KNOWN to set off bomb detectors).
Yeah, it TOTALLY sounds like this girl was wearing her "art piece" to the airport to pick up her friend.
While I disagree with what happened to this girl in principal, she was still being a whack-tard.
Out of curiosity, how did you "promptly" re-image 700+ workstations? Is there some software that will net-boot them all and make it happen? If so, does it update the windows license key and everything when it does? The only thing i can think of that would do this would be netbooting them into a linux distro that grabs an img, pulls it down to each client, then writes and reboots.
Sorry, i know this is TOTALLY off-topic, but really large scale I.T. stuff like that interests me.
Think of all the data they could collect but owning the platform, they could mine where your contacts live how often you talk to each of them, From what I hear, the google brothers closest from Brad Dunglhorfingshtick owns the worlds foremost tinfoil hat manufacturing facility. This is, IMHO, simply an attempt by google to gift their friend Brad D. some cash; tax free. Informants inside of google have even gone so far as to state that Sergey is PERSONALLY fronting the operating capital for They're Watching, Brad's hat conglomorate. IN this way, Sergey is said to be "double-dipping", a term coined the the mid-90's hit comdedy television show "Seinfeld". Sergey will make money not only off the phone, but on the "back-end" as well from all the whack-tards out there who will sell their entire Second Life Real Estate portfolio and convert it to tin foil hat bonds.
Who are the engineers building this crap? Does the MPAA just dragnet tech schools looking for programmers who can't find work? The people needed to build a mechanism for "filtering the internet" are the SAME PEOPLE who use services like IRC,FTP,BITTORRENT, and USENET to communicate with one another and exchange data. They are NOT going to create a tool that will shut down the closest thing they have to a bastion of technical discussion; usenet/irc. Yes yes yes, flame on, i know that usenet is flooded with morons lately, and some irc servers out there are no better than an AOHELL chatroom, but the fact of the matter is that good channels/groups DO still exist (I know from experience).
Okay so, lets pretend for a second that there are SOME semi-intelligent programmers out there who decide to create a database of god knows what that can be matched against some other database of some arbitrary value inside of a file sitting on some server somewhere...lets just PRETEND for a second that this hacked-together-in-a-month system is actually DEPLOYED on a live network. If it doesn't simply crash from shere-volume, it will be easily defeated by either a single re-encode, adding a watermark to the film, shifting the audio track an 1/100th of a milisecond, adjusting the contrast, or any one of a THOUSAND other things that can make one file look COMPLETELY differant that another one.
The beam has the ability to travel a half of a mile and still be effective, but only travels 1/64th of an inch below the surface of the skin? What happens when your standing 10 feet in front of this thing?
As odd as, say, someone keeping printouts of 25+ year old conversations from community college message boards?;) Welcome to slashdot, you must be new here. Here is your 100 sided dice, your PHD in engineering that you acquired from google University. You're unbelievable hott girlfriend that is part of the demo-scene and collects old VAX/VMS hardware for fun should come in the mail soon...OR WILL SHE COME VIA TCP_OVER CARRIER PIGEON!!!??!!
Actually the ipod shuffle thing confused me. Are they talking about the size of the device? Are saying that the device is meant to play music? Do they mean that it is simply powered by a battery? Seriously, I am completely failing to see any correlation between a military satelite and a white ego inflating piece of plastic that was built by the lowest bidder in some third world country.
I propose a new godwin-esque law. First person to mention an apple product in a story that has absolutely NOTHING to do with apple gets 30 lashings.
Not if it's a properly configured MacBook laptop. If you set a firmware password then they can't simply wipe & re-install. This amazing just one more thing feature is known as a power on password to us mere non mac owning mortals.
Reading about the way most laptop trackers function actually kindof scares me. People really think they're going to track down a laptop based on an IP address? While this might get you close to the city that they're in, its definitely not going to give you their home phone number and street address. ESPECIALLY if you call the ISP that owns the IP block it falls into and tell them something along the lines of "Well, i created a cron job to pull a private txt file from a server i control once a minute just in case the machine gets stolen. This is the IP address showing up in my logs, please give me some names and phone numbers"
Why hasn't somebody just bought one of These and had a cron job that throws the coordinates at a server once an hour/minute/second/whatever. THAT would be more effective. It would also open the possibility for a full scale ninja attack on their house.
Except the people that want to support the preacher in his cause. Its the same as the smoking laws in AZ (my home state). There is a market for people who want to smoke in bars/restaurants. If you aren't a part of it, don't eat/drink there. If business owners loose enough business over their smoking allowed policy, then they will(should) change it.
if that devout christian grocery store owner wants to prevent you from buying groceries at his store unless you went to store, thats his own perogative. It might be a bad business decision, but as a business owner it is his right to do so. Have we really got ourselves so out of whack that people like you believe the government should be able to dictate the way that an individual runs their privately owned business?
I am saying that the laws should reflect what is reasonable. Code ciphers where at point considered munitions and were, therefore, governed by applicable laws. However, we reached a point where creating (and even breaking) encryption became trivial. At that point it made sense to change the laws governing it.
Likewise: There was a point at which pirating media WAS a serious crime because it took a serious CRIMINAL to do it. That is no longer the case, and the laws should be changed to reflect that.
The laws governing copyright infringement need to be updated. The laws on the books today (or at least their ideologies) were written in a pre-internet era. Back then, pirating large amounts of media in the fashion that we easily can today WAS a serious crime because it actually took a criminal to do it. using the laws of then to govern today is like using an early 20th century speed limit to fine somebody driving a ferrari, or other ultra-high-performance race car.
The airlines are publicly owned and operated. The TSA is a government agency that is providing a service to travelers (and airline operators) at their own request. If you charter a plane, you don't have to show ANYTHING. So...there isn't a law requiring you to show ID before you get onto an airplane, but there IS a policy that most (if not all) airlines have implemented requiring you to show ID before you get onto their privately owned aircraft.
Ethernet is great because it just ALWAYS WORKS! Not to mention the fact that most regular old telephone run through the walls on Ethernet cables anyway. There are a number of reasons NOT to do this:
1. Ethernet ALWAYS works, any os, just about any card, every single time...it just. always. works. 2. I haven't seen a computer ship for a LONG time that doesn't come with an Ethernet card on it. Most motherboards have them soldered on. I don't think i have seen a motherboard (excluding some laptops/tables/custom applications) that have a wirelesss card built in. 3. Because Ethernet is a physical medium, it makes deploying things like gateway firewalls, or inline traffic sniffers MUCH MUCH easier. 4. Wireless is inherently insecure as a method for transmitting data. Everybody can see every single packet of data that is blasted across the airwaves. 5. There really is not a limit to how many Ethernet cables you can have running through the walls of your building. 802.11x on the other hand can become congested. 6. LEGACY HARDWARE try finding an 802.11n card for some obscure handheld computer that runs an equally obscure stripped-down version of DOS. Both of which are 10+ years old.
Yeah, i moved away too...old town scottsdale now:)...the HOTTEST women you have ever seen in your LIFE!
win:)
Tempe had to many freaking crack-head bums (not to be confused with regular bums, or turpentine huffing bums), but scottsdale has no rula bula, what with its tuesday night open mic night:(:(
WHoo-Hoo, another tempe arizona resident! I understand the cab-only to discourage drunk driving mentality, but when me and my roomate want to go to La Pita on a thursday night and get a hookah and some hummus (and to talk to the cute waitresses), I have to park all the way over in the lot next door to city hall.
Boo! BAD FORM TEMPE! Btw, you can't validate parkit anymore.
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For God's sake, echelon has existed since the 1970's and the "torturing" that you're talking about involves making a bunch of murderous psychos listen to christina aguilera tapes.
Personally i think that people like you are the result of the "bubble wrapping" of the country. When i was just a pup, we stayed out all night, disappeared into the woods camping for days at a time without cellphones or GPS, i drove a boat by myself and pulled my brothers around on inner-tubes (as in the actuall inner-tube of a tractor tire) when i was 13 years old in my dad's boat. We shot at rabbits, and ate them. I went deer hunting, i killed pheasants. I didn't take stupid gun safety course, and starting learing how to hunt with my dad when i was like 7 years old.
Fortunately for me, my parents DIDN'T just let me sit in front of the television or the computer all day long. If i wanted something to happen I actually had to go outside and DO IT! Oh, the kids are picking on you at school? Well deal with it. You want a new bike? Well go and track down a neighbor who will let you mow the grass for some money and buy one, no i won't do it for you. Your dog is misbehaving? Well either learn how to train it to stop misbehaving, or we're going to get rid of it.
Unlike some of the youth of today, I was NOT taught that if you want something, you can just sit down and talk with somebody until it happens. Try that first (because its easier) but eventually, if you want it bad enough, you're going to have to figure out a way to make it happen on your own.
So I say to you, if you hate the government so bad, and you think that we are just this big pack of evil baby-seal-killers, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! Run for public office, if enough people agree with you, you'll have the oppurtunity to change something. Do you believe in your cause enough to die for it? The people who FOUNDED this country did, so show some goddamned respect.
After a recent Incident in the billing department, verizon is rumored to be moving their entire accounting system to a series of mechanical slide rules that are operated by squirrels.
Can they call it "orange" and have it covered with loads and loads of black plastic?
So, it was like a REALLY REALLY big map directing you to the "Print Screen" key?
Couldn't you just get a prepayed one?
Why don't you just use a proxy?
This should help you, grep it for United States
i don't remember who said it but somethign to the effect of:
The internet deals with censorship by just routing around it.
Yeah, it TOTALLY sounds like this girl was wearing her "art piece" to the airport to pick up her friend.
While I disagree with what happened to this girl in principal, she was still being a whack-tard.
Out of curiosity, how did you "promptly" re-image 700+ workstations? Is there some software that will net-boot them all and make it happen? If so, does it update the windows license key and everything when it does? The only thing i can think of that would do this would be netbooting them into a linux distro that grabs an img, pulls it down to each client, then writes and reboots.
Sorry, i know this is TOTALLY off-topic, but really large scale I.T. stuff like that interests me.
where your contacts live how often you talk to each of them, From what I hear, the google brothers closest from Brad Dunglhorfingshtick owns the worlds foremost tinfoil hat manufacturing facility. This is, IMHO, simply an attempt by google to gift their friend Brad D. some cash; tax free. Informants inside of google have even gone so far as to state that Sergey is PERSONALLY fronting the operating capital for They're Watching, Brad's hat conglomorate. IN this way, Sergey is said to be "double-dipping", a term coined the the mid-90's hit comdedy television show "Seinfeld". Sergey will make money not only off the phone, but on the "back-end" as well from all the whack-tards out there who will sell their entire Second Life Real Estate portfolio and convert it to tin foil hat bonds.
A wise move comrad, a wise move.
Or......you're an idiot.
Who are the engineers building this crap? Does the MPAA just dragnet tech schools looking for programmers who can't find work? The people needed to build a mechanism for "filtering the internet" are the SAME PEOPLE who use services like IRC,FTP,BITTORRENT, and USENET to communicate with one another and exchange data. They are NOT going to create a tool that will shut down the closest thing they have to a bastion of technical discussion; usenet/irc. Yes yes yes, flame on, i know that usenet is flooded with morons lately, and some irc servers out there are no better than an AOHELL chatroom, but the fact of the matter is that good channels/groups DO still exist (I know from experience).
Okay so, lets pretend for a second that there are SOME semi-intelligent programmers out there who decide to create a database of god knows what that can be matched against some other database of some arbitrary value inside of a file sitting on some server somewhere...lets just PRETEND for a second that this hacked-together-in-a-month system is actually DEPLOYED on a live network. If it doesn't simply crash from shere-volume, it will be easily defeated by either a single re-encode, adding a watermark to the film, shifting the audio track an 1/100th of a milisecond, adjusting the contrast, or any one of a THOUSAND other things that can make one file look COMPLETELY differant that another one.
Point is:
THESE PEOPLE ARE RETARDED!
So let me get this straight:
The beam has the ability to travel a half of a mile and still be effective, but only travels 1/64th of an inch below the surface of the skin? What happens when your standing 10 feet in front of this thing?
So best buy is going to charge, what, $400 a cable for a 3 footer now?
"But you don't understand! Data on this cable moves at the speed of LIGHT!!! THIS FIBER OPTIC CABLE IS GOLD PLATED!"
Oh yes, the obligatory grammar nazi!
Toast to you grammar of nazi!!
nobody knows YOU INSENSATIVE CLOD!
Smilies are lame :(...
now bow before you evil smiley overlord >:-|
(.)(.)
^emoticons, making perl regex NSFW for 24 years!
Actually the ipod shuffle thing confused me. Are they talking about the size of the device? Are saying that the device is meant to play music? Do they mean that it is simply powered by a battery? Seriously, I am completely failing to see any correlation between a military satelite and a white ego inflating piece of plastic that was built by the lowest bidder in some third world country.
I propose a new godwin-esque law. First person to mention an apple product in a story that has absolutely NOTHING to do with apple gets 30 lashings.
Reading about the way most laptop trackers function actually kindof scares me. People really think they're going to track down a laptop based on an IP address? While this might get you close to the city that they're in, its definitely not going to give you their home phone number and street address. ESPECIALLY if you call the ISP that owns the IP block it falls into and tell them something along the lines of
"Well, i created a cron job to pull a private txt file from a server i control once a minute just in case the machine gets stolen. This is the IP address showing up in my logs, please give me some names and phone numbers"
Why hasn't somebody just bought one of These and had a cron job that throws the coordinates at a server once an hour/minute/second/whatever. THAT would be more effective. It would also open the possibility for a full scale ninja attack on their house.
Except the people that want to support the preacher in his cause. Its the same as the smoking laws in AZ (my home state). There is a market for people who want to smoke in bars/restaurants. If you aren't a part of it, don't eat/drink there. If business owners loose enough business over their smoking allowed policy, then they will(should) change it.
if that devout christian grocery store owner wants to prevent you from buying groceries at his store unless you went to store, thats his own perogative. It might be a bad business decision, but as a business owner it is his right to do so. Have we really got ourselves so out of whack that people like you believe the government should be able to dictate the way that an individual runs their privately owned business?
I am saying that the laws should reflect what is reasonable. Code ciphers where at point considered munitions and were, therefore, governed by applicable laws. However, we reached a point where creating (and even breaking) encryption became trivial. At that point it made sense to change the laws governing it.
Likewise:
There was a point at which pirating media WAS a serious crime because it took a serious CRIMINAL to do it.
That is no longer the case, and the laws should be changed to reflect that.
The laws governing copyright infringement need to be updated. The laws on the books today (or at least their ideologies) were written in a pre-internet era. Back then, pirating large amounts of media in the fashion that we easily can today WAS a serious crime because it actually took a criminal to do it. using the laws of then to govern today is like using an early 20th century speed limit to fine somebody driving a ferrari, or other ultra-high-performance race car.
The airlines are publicly owned and operated. The TSA is a government agency that is providing a service to travelers (and airline operators) at their own request. If you charter a plane, you don't have to show ANYTHING. So...there isn't a law requiring you to show ID before you get onto an airplane, but there IS a policy that most (if not all) airlines have implemented requiring you to show ID before you get onto their privately owned aircraft.
Ethernet is great because it just ALWAYS WORKS! Not to mention the fact that most regular old telephone run through the walls on Ethernet cables anyway. There are a number of reasons NOT to do this:
/thread closed.
1. Ethernet ALWAYS works, any os, just about any card, every single time...it just. always. works.
2. I haven't seen a computer ship for a LONG time that doesn't come with an Ethernet card on it. Most motherboards have them soldered on. I don't think i have seen a motherboard (excluding some laptops/tables/custom applications) that have a wirelesss card built in.
3. Because Ethernet is a physical medium, it makes deploying things like gateway firewalls, or inline traffic sniffers MUCH MUCH easier.
4. Wireless is inherently insecure as a method for transmitting data. Everybody can see every single packet of data that is blasted across the airwaves.
5. There really is not a limit to how many Ethernet cables you can have running through the walls of your building. 802.11x on the other hand can become congested.
6. LEGACY HARDWARE try finding an 802.11n card for some obscure handheld computer that runs an equally obscure stripped-down version of DOS. Both of which are 10+ years old.
So to answer the question:
No.
Yeah, i moved away too...old town scottsdale now :)...the HOTTEST women you have ever seen in your LIFE!
:)
:( :(
win
Tempe had to many freaking crack-head bums (not to be confused with regular bums, or turpentine huffing bums), but scottsdale has no rula bula, what with its tuesday night open mic night
WHoo-Hoo, another tempe arizona resident! I understand the cab-only to discourage drunk driving mentality, but when me and my roomate want to go to La Pita on a thursday night and get a hookah and some hummus (and to talk to the cute waitresses), I have to park all the way over in the lot next door to city hall.
Boo! BAD FORM TEMPE!
Btw, you can't validate parkit anymore.