In the summertime during High School, when I couldn't be in the computer room at school on the ASR-33 terminals connected to the computer, I could use the phone at home to dial up the number of the computer system and if I whistled properly into the phone, the frequency could engage the modem at the other end and it would warble indefinitely. If I stopped to breathe, of course, the modem would hang up.
Now, that was computer withdrawal. No young person today will ever go through that degree of computer withdrawal.
Being able to relate this and know that at least one person reading this understands is part of why Slashdot is important to me.
I used to love salting Excel files at work with lower case L's in place of ones. It's actually sort of old school. When I learned typing in High School it was on old manual Royal typewriters that didn't have a '1' numeral on them. You were supposed to use the lower case L. It's sort of refreshing to dust off old typing habits and use them.
Particularly using lower-L as a numeral can fuck up the data in the spreadsheet that the boneheaded Lead Technician wouldn't know how to numerically analyze anyway if someone gave him a two hour lesson in Excel. (he thinks of Excel as essentially a Form Designer Tool, and boy does he get irked if anybody messes up the layout and box outlines of his excel files with cut-and-paste operations)
We've also toyed with the idea of writing an Excel macro so that once data is placed in the lowest cell in the spreadsheet 'form' it uses conditional formatting to turn all the characters in all the cells the color white. But that would take it a bit too far, and not be worth having to explain to him afterwards.
They have wrangled as much of the data-transfer capability out of 'plain old voice' channels as humanly possible. Particularly so on a VoIP connection. It was inevitable that they would do so as soon as people stopped using Modems regularly. It makes no sense for the connection to be 'clear' enough for an acoustic modem to work when it doesn't need to be.
With a PalmOS device, you could even share PalmOS programs back and forth between two Palm devices over the IR link.
If you had, say, a decent Unit Conversion program on your Palm Pilot and a coworker needed it, you could pass it to them in a matter of seconds. I still have some programs I got that way.
At that point in time, it was also illegal to hook up your own equipment to a voice line, or alarm monitoring loop. You had to have the phone man come out and do it.
If you dropped your punch card deck it could get scrambled. the paper tapes were compact and reliable.
Better yet, punched card readers had a habit of crunching up the first card on the deck fairly often.
The first card at the Batch Terminal that I used at the U of M back in the late 70's was the password card. So it was fairly common to be able to dig in the trash can next to the unattended Remote Batch Terminal in the History Building and find someone's mangled password card. Which could then be read/decoded and the password used to run my programs. Even better yet, the ID/password could be used in the terminal room in the basement of Lind Hall to log onto an interactive session. 300 baud on an ASR-33 teletype. For free.
The four links you provided were not every election that has occurred. And your handwaving about other instances is... well, did it cool off your fingers?
There have been many unjust interventions throughout history. By many geopolitical forces. Not just by the U.S. I mean, get fucking real.
A plurality of the population of Egypt elected Morsi
Egypt was right smack in the middle of the ol' One Man, One Vote, One Time deal. The Islamic Brotherhood (a group very close to the Obama administration- the wife of that penis boy, (whatever his name is, who is running for mayor of NY) was the Islamic Brotherhood mouthpiece within Hillary's state department.
It's shocking that just to be anti-American, people flout shitty political situations like that, and back political forces that would incinerate the gay population of the world if they had their way.
Just be aware of the fact that when you fetishize certain sexual practices, you yank other people who engage in them into the closet with you.
Put another way: when you fetishize storm-trooper boots you do it at least in part because of the taboo nature of it. If you had grown up with your mother insisting your put on your dark leather boots every day before going to school, and it was a mainstreamed thing, it wouldn't be the turnon that it is for you.
So have your fun, but do so knowing that you're enabling a 'closeted' sexual culture.
Have a nice day and 'nananana' to contradictions. If you wish.
Agreed. Antagonizing nose-pickers simply because their behavior is repulsive to you doesn't make them stop picking their nose.
Likewise, though, people who have personal practices that they KNOW gross other people out need to get over the idea that it's a 'phobia' that triggers the revulsion. Live and let live means not being an 'In your face' troublemaker.
Yeah, we know. Years of being looked down on (or years of shutting yourself out of the mainstream and self-perceived oppression) lead to a temptation to say "we're here. get used to us." Get over it and stop giving the 'leaders' of your movement the power they crave.
There are many religions. Even many that are not acknowledged as religions by those who follow them.
I can't be tolerant of anyone who forms beliefs based on a religious cult.
But it's a cult-like behavior to label other people as belonging to a religious cult. Really. The most virulent anti-other-religion people are religious themselves. Flame on with your intolerance, dude.
It still sounds like $50 per location to install something that gets 5-6 opportunities a week to inject malware. If the traffic being intercepted and corrupted was more common than APK files, it would maybe, possibly, be cost-effective to maintain this constellation of $50 Raspberry Pi systems in local Starbucks. As it is, people don't install new APKs that frequently, let alone install them in coffee bars.
It does sound like the big return would be in nabbing Raspberry Pi hardware you find hidden behind chairs. What are they selling for on eBay at present?
So the way to install a compromised app on someone's Android system is to lurk in the shadows with a complete set of compromised copies of everything in the Google PlayStore and sniffing in hopes of intercepting someone's traffic then quickly to insert a compromised copy of something midstream with a man-in-the-middle attack.
I found it a little annoying that I had to scroll all the way down the page (offscreen) to deselect off the checkbox that enables download/install of the EFF/Stallman Browser toolbar, though.
The definition of a snitch is somebody who 'tattles' on their peers. The NSA is not a member of Snowden's peer group. He didn't tattle on the NSA to the school principal.
You need to find a better 'bad word' to call Snowden. Be creative. I am sure with your furious demeanor about the dude, you can come up with something.
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You use a VFC, obviously. For example, you could use an LM331 to be moderately old-school about it.
I think you meant to type John Draper.
In the summertime during High School, when I couldn't be in the computer room at school on the ASR-33 terminals connected to the computer, I could use the phone at home to dial up the number of the computer system and if I whistled properly into the phone, the frequency could engage the modem at the other end and it would warble indefinitely. If I stopped to breathe, of course, the modem would hang up.
Now, that was computer withdrawal. No young person today will ever go through that degree of computer withdrawal.
Being able to relate this and know that at least one person reading this understands is part of why Slashdot is important to me.
I used to love salting Excel files at work with lower case L's in place of ones. It's actually sort of old school. When I learned typing in High School it was on old manual Royal typewriters that didn't have a '1' numeral on them. You were supposed to use the lower case L. It's sort of refreshing to dust off old typing habits and use them.
Particularly using lower-L as a numeral can fuck up the data in the spreadsheet that the boneheaded Lead Technician wouldn't know how to numerically analyze anyway if someone gave him a two hour lesson in Excel. (he thinks of Excel as essentially a Form Designer Tool, and boy does he get irked if anybody messes up the layout and box outlines of his excel files with cut-and-paste operations)
We've also toyed with the idea of writing an Excel macro so that once data is placed in the lowest cell in the spreadsheet 'form' it uses conditional formatting to turn all the characters in all the cells the color white. But that would take it a bit too far, and not be worth having to explain to him afterwards.
They have wrangled as much of the data-transfer capability out of 'plain old voice' channels as humanly possible. Particularly so on a VoIP connection. It was inevitable that they would do so as soon as people stopped using Modems regularly. It makes no sense for the connection to be 'clear' enough for an acoustic modem to work when it doesn't need to be.
Place the emphasis on 'cheap'. As opposed to 'overpriced.'
With a PalmOS device, you could even share PalmOS programs back and forth between two Palm devices over the IR link.
If you had, say, a decent Unit Conversion program on your Palm Pilot and a coworker needed it, you could pass it to them in a matter of seconds. I still have some programs I got that way.
At that point in time, it was also illegal to hook up your own equipment to a voice line, or alarm monitoring loop. You had to have the phone man come out and do it.
If you dropped your punch card deck it could get scrambled. the paper tapes were compact and reliable.
Better yet, punched card readers had a habit of crunching up the first card on the deck fairly often.
The first card at the Batch Terminal that I used at the U of M back in the late 70's was the password card. So it was fairly common to be able to dig in the trash can next to the unattended Remote Batch Terminal in the History Building and find someone's mangled password card. Which could then be read/decoded and the password used to run my programs. Even better yet, the ID/password could be used in the terminal room in the basement of Lind Hall to log onto an interactive session. 300 baud on an ASR-33 teletype. For free.
Be reasonable, now. B.O. Plenty wasn't even one of the main villains in the Dick Tracy series.
Work on reading comprehension.
The four links you provided were not every election that has occurred. And your handwaving about other instances is... well, did it cool off your fingers?
There have been many unjust interventions throughout history. By many geopolitical forces. Not just by the U.S. I mean, get fucking real.
I thought I'd never see worse than Carter but Bush beat him hands down
Don't worry. Obama is working on topping both of them.
Dis-proven in multiple studies conducted by independent Media organizations. But keep on dreaming. The Tree ain't ever gonna be prez.
A plurality of the population of Egypt elected Morsi
Egypt was right smack in the middle of the ol' One Man, One Vote, One Time deal. The Islamic Brotherhood (a group very close to the Obama administration- the wife of that penis boy, (whatever his name is, who is running for mayor of NY) was the Islamic Brotherhood mouthpiece within Hillary's state department.
It's shocking that just to be anti-American, people flout shitty political situations like that, and back political forces that would incinerate the gay population of the world if they had their way.
The TLDR for those who don't want to follow the link:
Don't Piss Off The Marketing Fucks.
And what might be a "proper" personality for OS X?
Anal retentive. Obsessed with image over substance. I could go on....
Just be aware of the fact that when you fetishize certain sexual practices, you yank other people who engage in them into the closet with you.
Put another way: when you fetishize storm-trooper boots you do it at least in part because of the taboo nature of it. If you had grown up with your mother insisting your put on your dark leather boots every day before going to school, and it was a mainstreamed thing, it wouldn't be the turnon that it is for you.
So have your fun, but do so knowing that you're enabling a 'closeted' sexual culture.
Have a nice day and 'nananana' to contradictions. If you wish.
Is Salon still really around? They moved out of that expensive building, no? Or did some sugar-daddy bail them out of that mess?
that festering asshole's
You're apparently not aware that 'asshole' is similar to 'faggot' in that it is a classical anti-homosexual slur.
Agreed. Antagonizing nose-pickers simply because their behavior is repulsive to you doesn't make them stop picking their nose.
Likewise, though, people who have personal practices that they KNOW gross other people out need to get over the idea that it's a 'phobia' that triggers the revulsion. Live and let live means not being an 'In your face' troublemaker.
Yeah, we know. Years of being looked down on (or years of shutting yourself out of the mainstream and self-perceived oppression) lead to a temptation to say "we're here. get used to us." Get over it and stop giving the 'leaders' of your movement the power they crave.
There are many religions. Even many that are not acknowledged as religions by those who follow them.
I can't be tolerant of anyone who forms beliefs based on a religious cult.
But it's a cult-like behavior to label other people as belonging to a religious cult. Really. The most virulent anti-other-religion people are religious themselves. Flame on with your intolerance, dude.
It still sounds like $50 per location to install something that gets 5-6 opportunities a week to inject malware. If the traffic being intercepted and corrupted was more common than APK files, it would maybe, possibly, be cost-effective to maintain this constellation of $50 Raspberry Pi systems in local Starbucks. As it is, people don't install new APKs that frequently, let alone install them in coffee bars.
It does sound like the big return would be in nabbing Raspberry Pi hardware you find hidden behind chairs. What are they selling for on eBay at present?
So the way to install a compromised app on someone's Android system is to lurk in the shadows with a complete set of compromised copies of everything in the Google PlayStore and sniffing in hopes of intercepting someone's traffic then quickly to insert a compromised copy of something midstream with a man-in-the-middle attack.
Doesn't sound like a very robust vector.
I found it a little annoying that I had to scroll all the way down the page (offscreen) to deselect off the checkbox that enables download/install of the EFF/Stallman Browser toolbar, though.
j/k
The definition of a snitch is somebody who 'tattles' on their peers. The NSA is not a member of Snowden's peer group. He didn't tattle on the NSA to the school principal.
You need to find a better 'bad word' to call Snowden. Be creative. I am sure with your furious demeanor about the dude, you can come up with something.