Erm... the subject of my previous post should end with "incorrect" instead of "invalid" (yay sleep deprivation). Think about it logically, though. Which would be easier to implement, deep packet inspection to hijack connections to non-existent servers or a DNS server that reports a bogus A record instead of a NXDOMAIN?
voted Libertarian, which is what I plan to do this time
Except the libertarian candidate supports the war on drugs, voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, and voted for the USAPATRIOT Act, not to mention his positions on religious freedom (that Wiccans shouldn't be allowed to serve in the military). The Libertarian Party, now with less Libertarian.
They're also not people, at least according to legal advice given by Alberto Gonzalez verbally to the Bush and his terrier Barney in a cold war bunker under his ranch at 4:32am on 9/11/2001.
Except Bush was in Florida on 9/11 until after the terrorists did their thing at about 9 AM, and then he got put in a hole in the ground in Nebraska if I recall correctly.
I went to a Cubs game in April 2002, and the search they did on purses involved sticking what appeared to be the barrel of a baseball bat into the purse and stirring it a bit. No clue what they were actually hoping to achieve there.
Also, Amtrak's security has seemed to rely entirely on checking ID (because the TSA tells them to, apparently) every time I've traveled by train. Not sure exactly how that's supposed to achieve anything.
Not quite what you want, but the HP Mininote and MSI Wind have versions that come preloaded with SuSE, the Asus EEE has a Xandros version, and Dell sells laptops with Ubuntu and (I believe) some models can be purchased with a FreeDOS disk in the box and no preinstalled OS.
Actually, there's more than two. XFCE definitely counts as a "desktop environment". If you expand that to include window managers, you'd add at least fluxbox, blackbox, openbox, windowmaker, ratpoison, and icewm.
I'm fairly sure they could invent a terrorist threat to scare us with via txt spam*, or that the President could decide to use this for political spam. Both of those would probably be considered propaganda by some.
*I'm not saying all the alleged terrorist threats aren't based on fact or at least reasonable suspicion, but there have been some pretty ridiculous threats since 9/11 (model airplanes loaded with explosives, anyone?)
I sure hope that by "may not be charged for recieving alerts" they mean "the cell phone companies are obligated to deliver these propaga^H^H^H^H^H^H^Halerts at no charge to the consumer"
Sadly, I doubt this will actually be the case.
So they're using nerf guns. What's the big deal. Even if an innocent bystander gets caught in the crossfire, no big deal.
Shouldn't they have better things to do?
This time with proper formatting... 1) This guy works for a company that sold its soul to Microsoft in exchange for a useless patent agreement 2) This guy got a large quantity of money from Microsoft in the recent past 3) This guy got a large quantity of crack from Microsoft in the recent past and consumed it 4) Going by the date in the letter (March 24) they released the letter 8 days early Remember, friends don't let friends post without using preview
1) This guy works for a company that sold its soul to Microsoft in exchange for a useless patent agreement
2) This guy got a large quantity of money from Microsoft in the recent past
3) This guy got a large quantity of crack from Microsoft in the recent past and consumed it
4) Going by the date in the letter (March 24) they released the letter 8 days early
And Iceweasel 2.0.0.12 (or whatever's currently in Debian etch) runs surprisingly well on my laptop with a P3-500 and 128 MB of RAM if I'm careful to not open too many tabs.
Except the 14th district is about 60 miles from Cook County. As someone who isn't in the district in question, but is close enough to have been bombarded with the BS from both sides, I'm not so sure Foster won this election so much as Jim Oberweis lost yet another political race (at last count he's 0 for 4).
How is cash safer?
If I use a brute-force attack and take your credit card, in theory you don't lose anything.
If I use a brute-force attack and take your big wad of bills, you'll never see them again.
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Erm... the subject of my previous post should end with "incorrect" instead of "invalid" (yay sleep deprivation).
Think about it logically, though.
Which would be easier to implement, deep packet inspection to hijack connections to non-existent servers or a DNS server that reports a bogus A record instead of a NXDOMAIN?
This likely has nothing to do with DPI, it's just a DNS server (mis?)configured to return a result for all queries.
I'm not saying it's an appropriate choice here, but as I understand it, overrated and underrated aren't subject to metamoderation
Pure speculation here, but I think it went something like this
RIAA: Disable stereo mix recording in your laptops or we'll sue
Dell: OK, we'll disable that for you
Yes. and so did Linspire.
Your point is?
More like the Summer Olympics in Chicago/Madrid/Tokyo/Rio de Janiero.
Except the libertarian candidate supports the war on drugs, voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, and voted for the USAPATRIOT Act, not to mention his positions on religious freedom (that Wiccans shouldn't be allowed to serve in the military).
The Libertarian Party, now with less Libertarian.
Except Bush was in Florida on 9/11 until after the terrorists did their thing at about 9 AM, and then he got put in a hole in the ground in Nebraska if I recall correctly.
They already do.
I went to a Cubs game in April 2002, and the search they did on purses involved sticking what appeared to be the barrel of a baseball bat into the purse and stirring it a bit.
No clue what they were actually hoping to achieve there.
Also, Amtrak's security has seemed to rely entirely on checking ID (because the TSA tells them to, apparently) every time I've traveled by train. Not sure exactly how that's supposed to achieve anything.
Not quite what you want, but the HP Mininote and MSI Wind have versions that come preloaded with SuSE, the Asus EEE has a Xandros version, and Dell sells laptops with Ubuntu and (I believe) some models can be purchased with a FreeDOS disk in the box and no preinstalled OS.
I think the submitter meant voila.
Actually, there's more than two.
XFCE definitely counts as a "desktop environment".
If you expand that to include window managers, you'd add at least fluxbox, blackbox, openbox, windowmaker, ratpoison, and icewm.
I'm fairly sure they could invent a terrorist threat to scare us with via txt spam*, or that the President could decide to use this for political spam. Both of those would probably be considered propaganda by some.
*I'm not saying all the alleged terrorist threats aren't based on fact or at least reasonable suspicion, but there have been some pretty ridiculous threats since 9/11 (model airplanes loaded with explosives, anyone?)
I sure hope that by "may not be charged for recieving alerts" they mean "the cell phone companies are obligated to deliver these propaga^H^H^H^H^H^H^Halerts at no charge to the consumer"
Sadly, I doubt this will actually be the case.
You can't always get what you want
Just to clarify, the first "they" is the roleplayers, the second "they" is the administration.
So they're using nerf guns. What's the big deal. Even if an innocent bystander gets caught in the crossfire, no big deal. Shouldn't they have better things to do?
This time with proper formatting...
1) This guy works for a company that sold its soul to Microsoft in exchange for a useless patent agreement
2) This guy got a large quantity of money from Microsoft in the recent past
3) This guy got a large quantity of crack from Microsoft in the recent past and consumed it
4) Going by the date in the letter (March 24) they released the letter 8 days early
Remember, friends don't let friends post without using preview
1) This guy works for a company that sold its soul to Microsoft in exchange for a useless patent agreement 2) This guy got a large quantity of money from Microsoft in the recent past 3) This guy got a large quantity of crack from Microsoft in the recent past and consumed it 4) Going by the date in the letter (March 24) they released the letter 8 days early
And Iceweasel 2.0.0.12 (or whatever's currently in Debian etch) runs surprisingly well on my laptop with a P3-500 and 128 MB of RAM if I'm careful to not open too many tabs.
Except the 14th district is about 60 miles from Cook County. As someone who isn't in the district in question, but is close enough to have been bombarded with the BS from both sides, I'm not so sure Foster won this election so much as Jim Oberweis lost yet another political race (at last count he's 0 for 4).
How is cash safer? If I use a brute-force attack and take your credit card, in theory you don't lose anything. If I use a brute-force attack and take your big wad of bills, you'll never see them again.
Well, they certainly haven't done it here (Elmhurst/Chicago, IL system), at least not yet.
Not here, as far as I can tell. Looking up a bogus domain using my DSL modem's IP, which presumably caches info from AT&T's DNS server
and using my local BIND install
They may be evil, but stick to facts when attacking them.