This just in -- Spain is being a tool.
This seems like not only a bypassable law (encrypted ssh tunnels, etc...), an uninforceable law (what're they gonna do? punish the MILLIONS of people who fileshare?), but also a VERY STUPID LAW (legal file sharing is now a "no no"? why the FUCK was that even proposed, let alone passed!). For shame, Spain, for shame.
to continue my analogy -- a public computer is a lot like a prostitute: even if she looks clean and you can't find any warts or herpes on her, it doesn't mean it's safe to use your "sensitive information" on her. Now, if you have your own computer, it's like having a girlfriend...that you keep locked in your room. You can be pretty confident that - as long as you take the appropriate precautions like "anti-virus and a firewall" along with the trust that comes through "a password" - you can use your "sensitive information" on her to your hearts content.
Furthermore, if you don't think you can afford a girlfriend, you are wrong!
There are plenty of options, these include mail-order brides (cheap chinese imports), using your friends old girlfriend (you might just want to wipe her first), or using a girlfriend obtained from a nursing home (she may be old, but you're safe with her).
The Canadian laws of course.*
*Please note: "Canadian laws" and all laws therein are overruled by USA laws and **AA influences -- "USA, protecting the world from the world by going after everyone in the world!".
Duh, floppy diskettes. They're small, cheap, durable (just don't put them near magnets, powerlines, or small children... don't drop them... and... basically don't even handle them), and you can hold 1.44 MB per disk!
where you are. If you go to my school (*cough, somewhere in Illinois*), we have the machines locked down pretty tight. I work for the university helpdesk -- we manage all computers for students in the dorms and the dining and housing services. We have machines locked down with bios passwords (can't boot from cd), physical locks, either locked-down Novell client OR extremely locked down windows environment (no right clicking and other such things)... not to mention video monitoring 24/7... yet I would still never use those computers for any important information. It's kind of like an undocumented hooker -- you know you can put your *information* in her, but you don't know if there's anything lurking inside of her -- even if she uses protection and claims to be safe (worst analogy ever!).
PC's are bargain-priced nowadays, stop drinking for a few weeks and save up the $300 needed to buy a working computer.
Sadly, a squirrel walking on the powerline near my house decided to play "mmm, this transformer looks tasty" and ended up exploding himself... though he didn't affect the power (it did, however, cause me to crap my pants thinking that something of mine exploded).
More expensive to dig, harder to cross roads/othershit when digging, MUCH easier to repair above-ground lines than below-ground lines (all you need is a cherry-picker truck), and what would squirrels walk on if there weren't above-ground power lines?
They should give me some of the money (even though I'm in the United States) for having to deal with Windows Media Player. Microsoft, why oh why won't you let me uninstall it? Worst media player ever! (RealOne Player doesn't count because it's not a media player, it's what happened when someone's cat jumped on their keyboard, pressed a bunch of random keys, and hit "compile")
Yes, flying debris can punch holes in houses and such, but WIND is what will completely tear the house down (remember seing roofs blown off on your t.v. and whole houses collapsing?). The point is, they're NOT going to be able to do a goddamn thing about flying debris (well, they could build all houses out of 10" of tempered steel), what they are trying to do is make houses designed to be as hurricane resistant as possible.
FTA:"This is relevant because most of the damage to houses occurs in places where there are sudden changes in pressure, such as at the corners and edges of the building.
"You get swirling and rapid changes from positive to negative pressure," said Mr Wilkinson.
"If you were going to pull a panel off a roof you wouldn't just heave on it, you'd try to waggle it, and that's the most destructive thing for the wind to do.""
NEVER! We turned and ran once; we will NOT leave the Internet -- BROTHERS... SISTERS... uh... SECOND COUSINS TWICE REMOVED!!! Let us rise up! Two words will strike fear into the hearts of our bullying oppressors: battle bots. We must build to survive! Metal, plastic, fiberglass, pick-axes, chainsaws, sledge-hammers -- these are the materials from which our liberation will come!
It should be noted that if that doesn't work, we can always spam their asses back into the stone age.
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This isn't Apple-hatin', I grew up on Macs (an LC475 to be exact) and they hold a special place in my heart, but this describes a large number of Mac users I know and love (maybe not the love part) "Apple: Think Different... just like all the other trendy assholes with too much money who paid way too much money for a product that they will never take full advantage of and should have bought a 300 shit-pc from WalMart that would fulfill all their computing needs but then they wouldn't be able to pretend they were special". Run-on sentences rule.
The researchers wanted to use the computer to try and understand women, but realized that in order to have a computer answer something, it has to be based on logic.
Yes, because all Mac users are genuises and all Windows users are idiots....stop with the fanboy attitude -- there are stupid people (in generous proportions) in both camps -- hey, Linux... stop smirking, you've got some too. EVERYONE should know not to run code you don't know is legitimate (...ESPECIALLY Windows users since they seem to be targetted the most). So if anything, I'm willing to bet it was stupid Mac fanboys (not calling all Mac fanboys stupid, I'm just saying the ones who are stupid and also are Mac fanboys) high on their mighty thrones of "ohmygee macs are soo much better than peeceez *click'n [with one mouse button] on everything with no discretion because they think their Mac is god*". I hate Mac users (and ANY user) who think their computer is super-amazing and god-like...especially when I have to end up fixing it (I'm talking about YOU Mr. Mac-user-man-who-got-a-virus-and-said-"but that's impossible, it's a Mac, they don't have viruses").
As other people have already mentioned -- Faraday cage. Wikipedia it, I'm not doing the url gruntwork for you. Electrons like to be as far away from each other as possible (electrons like protons, but not eachother) so they go where they can be furthest from each other -- when you have a closed body like a sphere or cube or whatnot, they can be furthest from eachother on the outside of that sphere. So your car is a closed metal body, meaning the electricity will stay on the outside (for the most part... you still should avoid contact with the frame). Also of note, the rubber on the tires is completely ineffectual -- lightning takes the path of least resistance to the ground -- it has already trodded through the hardly-effective-at-conducting air and if it saw your nice metal car body it would gladly hitch a ride through it and then jump from the bottom of the car body to the ground (bypassing the tires). Don't believe me? Go ride a convertible in a thunderstorm:D
. What is wrong with setting up websites which discuss the matter in an elevated manner and then letting individuals use that information as they please instead of micromanaging willing participants in schemes of dubious merit? Concentrating all the phone calls in one day seems puerile at best and reminiscent of a DoS attack at worst.
"What about the freedom of citizens to not be spammed by (potentially abusive) phone calls?"
Ever heard of telemarketers? Nah, but really -- what's wrong with someone making a phonecall to someone else; it's called customer service (the RIAA doesn't have [at least I couldn't find] a customer service / complaints line).
"People really can't seem to be able to fight an intellectual battle in an honest and clean way."
What is not clean and honest about CALLING SOMEONE ON THE PHONE? This is not an anonymous DoS with bots or a nasty email virus or ANYTHING of that nature -- this is a reaching out to the RIAA (who frankly, I don't think will give a damn, but it's about making a point that we won't just sit by as the RIAA destroys our rights to listen to certain artists' music) through the telephone -- the good 'ol fashioned telephone.
"What is wrong with setting up websites which discuss the matter in an elevated manner and then letting individuals use that information as they please instead of micromanaging willing participants in schemes of dubious merit?"
Do you honestly think the RIAA would ever read such a website? Even if a thousand people emailed the President of the RIAA, s/he would never look at the website (call it ignorant avoidance) -- s/he can't magically ignore a phonecall as easily (without leaving work early).
This is the only way I can think of to get the RIAA to listen to "our" side of the story -- through open coversation... calling them up is the only sound way to make sure your voice is heard.
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*should be SSL tunnels, not SSH
This just in -- Spain is being a tool.
This seems like not only a bypassable law (encrypted ssh tunnels, etc...), an uninforceable law (what're they gonna do? punish the MILLIONS of people who fileshare?), but also a VERY STUPID LAW (legal file sharing is now a "no no"? why the FUCK was that even proposed, let alone passed!). For shame, Spain, for shame.
to continue my analogy -- a public computer is a lot like a prostitute: even if she looks clean and you can't find any warts or herpes on her, it doesn't mean it's safe to use your "sensitive information" on her. Now, if you have your own computer, it's like having a girlfriend ...that you keep locked in your room. You can be pretty confident that - as long as you take the appropriate precautions like "anti-virus and a firewall" along with the trust that comes through "a password" - you can use your "sensitive information" on her to your hearts content.
Furthermore, if you don't think you can afford a girlfriend, you are wrong!
There are plenty of options, these include mail-order brides (cheap chinese imports), using your friends old girlfriend (you might just want to wipe her first), or using a girlfriend obtained from a nursing home (she may be old, but you're safe with her).
The Canadian laws of course.*
*Please note: "Canadian laws" and all laws therein are overruled by USA laws and **AA influences -- "USA, protecting the world from the world by going after everyone in the world!".
So... should we look to sceneagers' (scenester teenagers) myspace pages for some examples? The future of web design!!!... it hurts my eyes :(
Duh, floppy diskettes. They're small, cheap, durable (just don't put them near magnets, powerlines, or small children... don't drop them... and... basically don't even handle them), and you can hold 1.44 MB per disk!
Every time you masturbate, god kills a kitten. Please -- think of the kittens.
where you are. If you go to my school (*cough, somewhere in Illinois*), we have the machines locked down pretty tight. I work for the university helpdesk -- we manage all computers for students in the dorms and the dining and housing services. We have machines locked down with bios passwords (can't boot from cd), physical locks, either locked-down Novell client OR extremely locked down windows environment (no right clicking and other such things)... not to mention video monitoring 24/7... yet I would still never use those computers for any important information. It's kind of like an undocumented hooker -- you know you can put your *information* in her, but you don't know if there's anything lurking inside of her -- even if she uses protection and claims to be safe (worst analogy ever!).
PC's are bargain-priced nowadays, stop drinking for a few weeks and save up the $300 needed to buy a working computer.
Become a corrupt, money-grubbing, tool. They're called politicians in the english language.
Sadly, a squirrel walking on the powerline near my house decided to play "mmm, this transformer looks tasty" and ended up exploding himself... though he didn't affect the power (it did, however, cause me to crap my pants thinking that something of mine exploded).
More expensive to dig, harder to cross roads/othershit when digging, MUCH easier to repair above-ground lines than below-ground lines (all you need is a cherry-picker truck), and what would squirrels walk on if there weren't above-ground power lines?
They should give me some of the money (even though I'm in the United States) for having to deal with Windows Media Player. Microsoft, why oh why won't you let me uninstall it? Worst media player ever! (RealOne Player doesn't count because it's not a media player, it's what happened when someone's cat jumped on their keyboard, pressed a bunch of random keys, and hit "compile")
I wonder if they will have trips to Uranus. NYUK-NYUK-NYUK. Yes, that was pretty bad... give me a break, I just woke up.
I bet when he saw that he threw a chair.
Why do they have to pick on Ballmer?... His dances bring joy to so many!
Yes, flying debris can punch holes in houses and such, but WIND is what will completely tear the house down (remember seing roofs blown off on your t.v. and whole houses collapsing?). The point is, they're NOT going to be able to do a goddamn thing about flying debris (well, they could build all houses out of 10" of tempered steel), what they are trying to do is make houses designed to be as hurricane resistant as possible.
FTA:"This is relevant because most of the damage to houses occurs in places where there are sudden changes in pressure, such as at the corners and edges of the building.
"You get swirling and rapid changes from positive to negative pressure," said Mr Wilkinson.
"If you were going to pull a panel off a roof you wouldn't just heave on it, you'd try to waggle it, and that's the most destructive thing for the wind to do.""
"Will spam for food"
As my friends always tell me -- "someone needs to get laid"
In your case I think they would also say "and a life."
NEVER! We turned and ran once; we will NOT leave the Internet -- BROTHERS... SISTERS... uh... SECOND COUSINS TWICE REMOVED!!! Let us rise up! Two words will strike fear into the hearts of our bullying oppressors: battle bots. We must build to survive! Metal, plastic, fiberglass, pick-axes, chainsaws, sledge-hammers -- these are the materials from which our liberation will come!
It should be noted that if that doesn't work, we can always spam their asses back into the stone age.
This isn't Apple-hatin', I grew up on Macs (an LC475 to be exact) and they hold a special place in my heart, but this describes a large number of Mac users I know and love (maybe not the love part) "Apple: Think Different... just like all the other trendy assholes with too much money who paid way too much money for a product that they will never take full advantage of and should have bought a 300 shit-pc from WalMart that would fulfill all their computing needs but then they wouldn't be able to pretend they were special". Run-on sentences rule.
The researchers wanted to use the computer to try and understand women, but realized that in order to have a computer answer something, it has to be based on logic.
Yes, because all Mac users are genuises and all Windows users are idiots. ...stop with the fanboy attitude -- there are stupid people (in generous proportions) in both camps -- hey, Linux... stop smirking, you've got some too. EVERYONE should know not to run code you don't know is legitimate (...ESPECIALLY Windows users since they seem to be targetted the most). So if anything, I'm willing to bet it was stupid Mac fanboys (not calling all Mac fanboys stupid, I'm just saying the ones who are stupid and also are Mac fanboys) high on their mighty thrones of "ohmygee macs are soo much better than peeceez *click'n [with one mouse button] on everything with no discretion because they think their Mac is god*". I hate Mac users (and ANY user) who think their computer is super-amazing and god-like ...especially when I have to end up fixing it (I'm talking about YOU Mr. Mac-user-man-who-got-a-virus-and-said-"but that's impossible, it's a Mac, they don't have viruses").
They have a weakness -- fire!... and lots of it! (throw 'em in a molten pit a`la T2)
As other people have already mentioned -- Faraday cage. Wikipedia it, I'm not doing the url gruntwork for you. Electrons like to be as far away from each other as possible (electrons like protons, but not eachother) so they go where they can be furthest from each other -- when you have a closed body like a sphere or cube or whatnot, they can be furthest from eachother on the outside of that sphere. So your car is a closed metal body, meaning the electricity will stay on the outside (for the most part... you still should avoid contact with the frame). Also of note, the rubber on the tires is completely ineffectual -- lightning takes the path of least resistance to the ground -- it has already trodded through the hardly-effective-at-conducting air and if it saw your nice metal car body it would gladly hitch a ride through it and then jump from the bottom of the car body to the ground (bypassing the tires). Don't believe me? Go ride a convertible in a thunderstorm :D
They'll go away... once the people they piss on daily have had enough and rise up against them with fire! Fire cures everything, even the RIAA.
. What is wrong with setting up websites which discuss the matter in an elevated manner and then letting individuals use that information as they please instead of micromanaging willing participants in schemes of dubious merit? Concentrating all the phone calls in one day seems puerile at best and reminiscent of a DoS attack at worst. "What about the freedom of citizens to not be spammed by (potentially abusive) phone calls?"
Ever heard of telemarketers? Nah, but really -- what's wrong with someone making a phonecall to someone else; it's called customer service (the RIAA doesn't have [at least I couldn't find] a customer service / complaints line).
"People really can't seem to be able to fight an intellectual battle in an honest and clean way."
What is not clean and honest about CALLING SOMEONE ON THE PHONE? This is not an anonymous DoS with bots or a nasty email virus or ANYTHING of that nature -- this is a reaching out to the RIAA (who frankly, I don't think will give a damn, but it's about making a point that we won't just sit by as the RIAA destroys our rights to listen to certain artists' music) through the telephone -- the good 'ol fashioned telephone.
"What is wrong with setting up websites which discuss the matter in an elevated manner and then letting individuals use that information as they please instead of micromanaging willing participants in schemes of dubious merit?"
Do you honestly think the RIAA would ever read such a website? Even if a thousand people emailed the President of the RIAA, s/he would never look at the website (call it ignorant avoidance) -- s/he can't magically ignore a phonecall as easily (without leaving work early).
This is the only way I can think of to get the RIAA to listen to "our" side of the story -- through open coversation... calling them up is the only sound way to make sure your voice is heard.