Just write to your ISP pretending to work for one **AA and you'll immediately get a complete list of your activities. As a bonus, you can also use that to terminate your subscription without the 2 mounthes notice.
This week, I bought an USB key. The thing was packaged in an easy to tear plastic/paper casing, put in a hard plastic security box by the shop that happens to have two relatively small holes, but since the key was even smaller, I could have easily popped it out in a couple of seconds with my bare fingers, but being honest, I let the clerk struggle to open the box the regular way, in 30s with a lot of pain and curse words.
"With the PS2 controller,... it's hard to tell which button does what."
And because of that, there is no constitancy. One game's jump is another one fire, one's map is another one's menu... For people like me who like to switch between many games on a regular basis (just this week, on the PS2 alone, I did some DQ9, FFXII, DMC3 & Lego SW + several games on PC & DS), it's a real PITA to have to relearn to use the controler every day.
I love the GC pad too, in particular the BigBen copy which is slightly larger (I have big hands), it feels so natural I could almost use it while sleeping. On the other hand, although I play more often with my PS2, I still regulary need to look down because I always forget if the square is the left or right button.
Except the mafia, who has both the desire AND the resources to datamine tons of paperwork to identify undercover policemen or protected witness by the dozen?
I see your logic, but also your lack of common sense. If someone spends hours every week making your life miserable, I don't see how higher economical interests can compete with the joy of putting one last big nail on your coffin, the temptation will just be too high and there doesn't seem to be any real safeguard against abuses.
Of course, when most of the unemployed people will be on that list, everyone will stop consulting it and it will simply become one more DHS complete failure, but you can't prevent the initial abuse.
Sure, I'm waiting to see what will be the mad scholl shooter version of "duck and cover".
Joke aside, with young children, the only practical way of dealing with this is to teach them to stay with the teacher and quietly evacuate, not to traumatize them. If they ever get within 5m of a real shooter, they can only rely on luck anyway, but there is no reason to rape their childhood for such a tiny statistical risk.
1- Paranoia doesn't mean you're not actually a target. Actually, anyone who has access to data worth stealing might be targetted by a spy, but don't worry, it's usually painless.
2- People like this man are expected to be suspicious when they see something odd. In that case, that leaded to useless investigation of something mundane to the point of being ridiculous (and a good occasion to have mock the apparent low tech of US currency), but that "better safe than sorry" is the expected behavior in some proffessions.
I was telling myself that if I was a spy and my target was american, I think I'll try using something that looks like a nickel, not an odd-looking foreign commemorative special edition coin. OTOH, you may expect the guy to keep it as a souvenir instead of using it in a vending machine. Anyway, swapping his watch, phone or pen seems the better solution, it is slighly harder to perform, but once it's done, the guy is bugged with something apparently harmless he wants to keep whith him anywhere he goes.
You need to be really stupid to see a loner teenager, say to yourself "This kind of boy might go postal if pissed off"...and decide to ruin his chances to go to college.
The French president is elected to drive the political program he proposed to the electors, he chose the prime minister (and the other ministers are usualy chosen by mutual agreement of the two) whose only purpose is implement the president's choices and take the backfires. If the is a conflict with the parlement, the parlement can only force the ministers out, to which the president can respond by calling a new election to get a new parlement. If members of the government disagree, he gets the final decision.
He is also chief of the armies (and the only one who has the authority to order the use of nuclear weapons unless the whole country has been vaporized, in which case our submarine(s?) on duty is supposed to retaliate at random), he is also the highest judge of the country (the presidence is sometimes called "magistrature suprème") and has the right to chose who to put in a lot of key positions.
Another thing that is not in the constitution but that is a strong tradition is that the president acts as a kind of super-diplomat for important matters.
For historical reasons, he is also co-prince of Andore with the king of Spain, but that's almost a joke (Andore is a tiny valley between France and Spain, its economy relies mostly on re-exporting as duty-free imported gas, alchool and cigarettes).
You won't notice anything because 1- it is too weak and 2- you don't have enough metal in your body to be affected even by strong magnetic fields anyway, and BTW, it is not induction but static charge that makes your hair stand on end.
1- Not that bad, since the system is supposed to only power the area where power is required. Of course, it's hard to beat a good old AC/DC converter. 2- No risk. EM field have been studied for long, and such a low power quasi static field is way below things known to be harmless. Plus, since the field is supposed to be located only where it is needed and not all the time in the whole room, it won't probably not even reach you. Using an electric shave will probably send more EM radiation to your head.
I worked for years with Nucleus+ and VxWorks, and tried WindRiver RtLinux. And honestly, I really like all of those, but you can't really compare Nucleus+ and Linux because they are not designed for the same usage.
Nucleus+ is a small closed OS (that means you need to statically link everything you need unless you use something like a Java virtual machine on top of it). It can be OK, but not for everyone. Also note that I rewrote the dynamic memory allocation from scratch because the one provided with Nucleus+ was performing poorly when we had to drasticaly increase the size and number of allocated buffers, and this is only one of the examples saying that N+ is better for small application rather than for big ones. Both VxWorks and Linux are quite the opposite on that point.
Given that there were about 50 people actually interested by that key (they all have it now) and a few hundreds of thousands that found the thing funny (but who lost interest for something else a few hours later), that's quite normal. Anyway, since there are now far more people knowing that key that the number they can actually sue or force into submission, it is a large victory for the pirates since their secret code is not only de facto public domain, but also made ridiculous.
To be honest, when recycling that joke on maried men, I was thinking about tofu or other 0% fat meat substitute, not about junk or cheap fast food, which I classify as chemical waste. But seriously, even if you are facing overweight problems, eating has to be a pure and simple pleasure, let's say at least once a week.
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Just write to your ISP pretending to work for one **AA and you'll immediately get a complete list of your activities. As a bonus, you can also use that to terminate your subscription without the 2 mounthes notice.
This week, I bought an USB key. The thing was packaged in an easy to tear plastic/paper casing, put in a hard plastic security box by the shop that happens to have two relatively small holes, but since the key was even smaller, I could have easily popped it out in a couple of seconds with my bare fingers, but being honest, I let the clerk struggle to open the box the regular way, in 30s with a lot of pain and curse words.
"With the PS2 controller, ... it's hard to tell which button does what."
And because of that, there is no constitancy. One game's jump is another one fire, one's map is another one's menu... For people like me who like to switch between many games on a regular basis (just this week, on the PS2 alone, I did some DQ9, FFXII, DMC3 & Lego SW + several games on PC & DS), it's a real PITA to have to relearn to use the controler every day.
I love the GC pad too, in particular the BigBen copy which is slightly larger (I have big hands), it feels so natural I could almost use it while sleeping. On the other hand, although I play more often with my PS2, I still regulary need to look down because I always forget if the square is the left or right button.
Except the mafia, who has both the desire AND the resources to datamine tons of paperwork to identify undercover policemen or protected witness by the dozen?
I see your logic, but also your lack of common sense. If someone spends hours every week making your life miserable, I don't see how higher economical interests can compete with the joy of putting one last big nail on your coffin, the temptation will just be too high and there doesn't seem to be any real safeguard against abuses.
Of course, when most of the unemployed people will be on that list, everyone will stop consulting it and it will simply become one more DHS complete failure, but you can't prevent the initial abuse.
Quiting a job because of a nasty boss would probably rank #1 cause for getting on that list.
I tend to think that in this case, it might actually be a desired feature.
Not anymore, the link being already slashdoted.
Bin Laden should wake up and kill at least a few million people if he want to still be the most hated man on US ground.
Sure, I'm waiting to see what will be the mad scholl shooter version of "duck and cover".
Joke aside, with young children, the only practical way of dealing with this is to teach them to stay with the teacher and quietly evacuate, not to traumatize them. If they ever get within 5m of a real shooter, they can only rely on luck anyway, but there is no reason to rape their childhood for such a tiny statistical risk.
Maybe there is a link with the fact that Christianity clearly draws a line between law of the men and law of God and consider them equally important.
1- Paranoia doesn't mean you're not actually a target. Actually, anyone who has access to data worth stealing might be targetted by a spy, but don't worry, it's usually painless.
2- People like this man are expected to be suspicious when they see something odd. In that case, that leaded to useless investigation of something mundane to the point of being ridiculous (and a good occasion to have mock the apparent low tech of US currency), but that "better safe than sorry" is the expected behavior in some proffessions.
I was telling myself that if I was a spy and my target was american, I think I'll try using something that looks like a nickel, not an odd-looking foreign commemorative special edition coin. OTOH, you may expect the guy to keep it as a souvenir instead of using it in a vending machine. Anyway, swapping his watch, phone or pen seems the better solution, it is slighly harder to perform, but once it's done, the guy is bugged with something apparently harmless he wants to keep whith him anywhere he goes.
You need to be really stupid to see a loner teenager, say to yourself "This kind of boy might go postal if pissed off" ...and decide to ruin his chances to go to college.
The French president is elected to drive the political program he proposed to the electors, he chose the prime minister (and the other ministers are usualy chosen by mutual agreement of the two) whose only purpose is implement the president's choices and take the backfires. If the is a conflict with the parlement, the parlement can only force the ministers out, to which the president can respond by calling a new election to get a new parlement. If members of the government disagree, he gets the final decision.
He is also chief of the armies (and the only one who has the authority to order the use of nuclear weapons unless the whole country has been vaporized, in which case our submarine(s?) on duty is supposed to retaliate at random), he is also the highest judge of the country (the presidence is sometimes called "magistrature suprème") and has the right to chose who to put in a lot of key positions.
Another thing that is not in the constitution but that is a strong tradition is that the president acts as a kind of super-diplomat for important matters.
For historical reasons, he is also co-prince of Andore with the king of Spain, but that's almost a joke (Andore is a tiny valley between France and Spain, its economy relies mostly on re-exporting as duty-free imported gas, alchool and cigarettes).
You won't notice anything because 1- it is too weak and 2- you don't have enough metal in your body to be affected even by strong magnetic fields anyway, and BTW, it is not induction but static charge that makes your hair stand on end.
1- Not that bad, since the system is supposed to only power the area where power is required. Of course, it's hard to beat a good old AC/DC converter.
2- No risk. EM field have been studied for long, and such a low power quasi static field is way below things known to be harmless. Plus, since the field is supposed to be located only where it is needed and not all the time in the whole room, it won't probably not even reach you. Using an electric shave will probably send more EM radiation to your head.
I worked for years with Nucleus+ and VxWorks, and tried WindRiver RtLinux. And honestly, I really like all of those, but you can't really compare Nucleus+ and Linux because they are not designed for the same usage.
Nucleus+ is a small closed OS (that means you need to statically link everything you need unless you use something like a Java virtual machine on top of it). It can be OK, but not for everyone.
Also note that I rewrote the dynamic memory allocation from scratch because the one provided with Nucleus+ was performing poorly when we had to drasticaly increase the size and number of allocated buffers, and this is only one of the examples saying that N+ is better for small application rather than for big ones. Both VxWorks and Linux are quite the opposite on that point.
Given that there were about 50 people actually interested by that key (they all have it now) and a few hundreds of thousands that found the thing funny (but who lost interest for something else a few hours later), that's quite normal. Anyway, since there are now far more people knowing that key that the number they can actually sue or force into submission, it is a large victory for the pirates since their secret code is not only de facto public domain, but also made ridiculous.
Not a chance. A more likely outcome would be that only pirates would be able to read genuine HD disks after all the keys would have been invalidated.
To be honest, when recycling that joke on maried men, I was thinking about tofu or other 0% fat meat substitute, not about junk or cheap fast food, which I classify as chemical waste.
But seriously, even if you are facing overweight problems, eating has to be a pure and simple pleasure, let's say at least once a week.
Another way to see this:
-Act nicely and the world will treat you like a crap.
-Act like a crap and the world will treat you nice.
Maybe Buda got that whole karma thing the wrong way...
Well, since the longer they live, the slower they evolve, I wouldn't worry too much.
Healthy food does not prolonge life, it just make it seem so long and boring you want to die.