strikes again...im having a hard time caring. and for those who say dell is resorting to cheap tricks, its a fact for the big two that anything they sell from ram to monitors is a cheap trick. CPU's get whitewashed as helping twitter run faster, and memory gets the usual 'more tabs' treatment. customers dont notice, but nerds do. The only travesty here is the number of people outraged without realizing they arent the target demographic.
this shopping season could prove to be very interesting for Forest City thanks to Ettus research, Gnu Radio, and the same wanton disregard for the privacy of major conglomerate shopping centers as the shopping centers themselves display toward private citizens.
http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wikihttp://www.ettus.com/products
im not saying each cellphone is uniquely identifiable and that these characteristics could easily be script generated for an open source transceiver project that fits into a backpack with a netbook at a crowded shopping center, or that transmitting billions and billions of said cellular signatures may cause a cellphone tracking system to cave just as it would had you transmitted millions of malformed cellular signatures. Im just merely implying that once this system which is accessible through the malls ethernet and wireless network folds like a chair, it would allow various interesting exploits to be performed and data to be collected. and we all love to test the anonymity of data declared anonymous by a third party who collects it using their proprietary closed source appliance.
is an "economic secret"?? feels like federal agencies are getting nervous around all the budget cuts that are about to kick in from the super committee failure.
major federal crimes such as the collapse of the united states economy at the hands of wall-street, human trafficking between south america and north america, net neutrality compliance that is largely being ignored by major carriers, civil rights abuses in united states prisons, and protestor police brutality in major metropolitan cities, federal officials target their laser-like scrutiny upon the teeming cesspool of violent crime and evildoings that is Springfield Illinois. their objective? prove a small and unsubstantial water pump in a city of 116,000 people has been nefariously compromised and destroyed by cyber (attackers/hackers/criminals) from (china/iran/north korea/syria) in order to deprive american citizens of their shitty and unaccountably safe drinking water for an evening while the district manager oversees a few dozen pipefitters and welders as they replace a pump on a blustery november weekend.
by example in america, and after our example faltered we lead by decree. it seems we're just leading by military engagement these days.
the biggest threat to america is not from an attacking foreign power, but that it as a superpower will become irrelevant in the twenty first century.
is the only time america cares about chinese government censorship is when it impedes the flow of the free market economy.
we censor many foreign products from american consumption based on trademark or patent, we censor our media from covering the
zucatti park raid, and even arrest them. our censorship prevented journalists from photographing returning c130 cargo planes carrying dead
and wounded soldiers during the iraq war, and prevents us from knowing who presidents like George Bush invited to the whitehouse.
our system is a revolving door of corporatocracy from which elites of the upper class are bred for leadership, much the same as china.
rule-in-perpetuity by a single party is really no different than having only two parties to choose from, neither of which accomplish any meaningful
longterm reform or change.
you start a business, and we impose regulations to prevent you from abusing your tacit monopoly be it global or regional. Comply with them or spend more lobbying dollars.
do not threaten the customers hoping they will back you. verizon and AT&T subscribers enjoy some of the shittiest wireless service in the first world, comcast customer experience is comparative to that of an internet subscriber in rural india. cox service, if it ever gets installed, is just as bad. Sprint does nothing more than bait-and-switch its customers hoping they remember the CEO chortling about some amorphous unlimited everything plan on paid advertising.
that should get asked about the article
does cyanogenmod mitigate this threat? if not how about whispercore? could whisper systems in the future detect and correct this
rootkit?
can rootkit detection systems presently available in linux detect and successfully help a hacker to remove the rootkit?
or at best, DoD related bloat. The army already has numerous proprietary and secure communications technologies
that rely on field-tested technology already integrated well with existing systems. Considering the average warhawk's propensity to
wax prophetic on a war with china, its obligatory to also consider what would happen to these HTC, Samsung, and other devices regardless
of operating system once operated in a country with vastly more knowledge of the aformentioned cellular devices than our military.
but if the military is seen as no more than the strongarm by which capitalism is enforced across the globe, then so be it. The product must be consumed
and what better consumer than a well funded division of the government that is, by historical example alone, guaranteed to increase its spending each year
and arguably never fight a war in the sincere interest of protecting its citizens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soybean
For human consumption, soybeans must be cooked with "wet" heat to destroy the trypsin inhibitors (serine protease inhibitors). Raw soybeans, including the immature green form, are toxic to humans, swine, chickens, and in fact, all monogastric animals.[12]
gelatin, for its limited range of benefits that can easily be found in plants, is rather controversial too, as its potential to transmit BSE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelatin#Safety_concerns
why not try some hempseed or flax seed instead? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp_seed
just because its MIT doesnt make it any different. my undergrad CS profs would encourage me to collaborate but only so long as
i gave credit for functions or logic i used from other students. if only math worked this way too.
of military veterans in IT my experience is limited to managers or techies, all can vary wildly.
the manager I had at one company was from the navy. not very intelligent but he knew enough about how to lead a team
that he could tell when we needed help and he knew when to stay out of the way. great guy to work with.
but the helpdesk manager im told was a complete asshole. he alientated the seasoned pro's by treating them like kids
and before we knew it, they had all quit.
the NOC tech i work with now is coming out of retirement from the airforce. hes not brilliant by any stretch, and he doesnt appear motivated to
any great feats of knowlege. probably a bad example
the guy we just promoted is from the army. he isnt smart, and he chews up most of our time asking questions about code, but hes at least very motivated
to learn. i guess thats a plus.
offered by a seller who has no physical presence in the buyers state is a federal tax by any other name.
heres how its worked so far:
1. corrupt financial sector bankrupts millions of americans. staffed with conflicts of interest, the government sits politely on its hands
2. facing bankruptcy themselves, numerous banks receive loans, then lobby to have them forgiven by the american public. some pay them back, not many.
3. paid politicians acting on behalf of major corporations then insist government spending has spiralled out of control, after pissing away billions in lemon socialism to major multinationals like jp morgan chase
4. social programs are cut at all levels and public works projects are halted until we get our "debt" under control
5. george bush racks up another game of boggle with the missus in a crawford ranch livingroom
6. new taxes like this are designed to catch up with older tax policy and pay said 'debt', but fail miserably as theyre written by people who barely understand angry birds
7. repeat this cycle in approximately 40 years.
8. pretend everything from the lincoln savings and loan crisis to the tech bubble are just the result of cyclical market behavior and as such, completely normal. enjoy grinding poverty.
precision orbital strike come to mind...
but in all seriousness, as i work at a hosting company, just give theirs a call and detail the problem.
heres a little snip from the mx for the domain...
220-crescent.web-dns1.com ESMTP Exim 4.69 #1 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:15:43 -0500
220-We do not authorize the use of this system to transport unsolicited,
220 and/or bulk e-mail.
from the fedora project gave this speech at fudcon tempe 2011, and left most of the room thoroughly trolled. I think he titled it "how the cloud is killing linux" or something to that nature.
"the cloud" is just another way of saying "closed source." if we fought it before we will fight it again, and i predict for alot of the same reasons as well as emerging concerns like privacy. the strength of the open source community is the borg-like adaptability to change and our sterling motto of 'hell hath no fury like a hacker scorned' has shocked everyone from RAID vendors to Wireless companies. im not saying we're getting a desktop linux renaissance tomorrow, or the next year, but linux has always stood for freedom in most respects and for many its not something traded so easily. for example, had facebooks image storage service been so wonderful, no one would have developed the importer tool for digikam that sucks down all the images for a particular user. there will always be a bashpodder user, and that user will always be empowered to become a developer if and when she desires.
western corporations are completely amoral entities designed to generate obscene amounts of money
and would, if not thoroughly regulated by the united states government, export everything from toothpicks to
nuclear ICBMs to foreign countries just to turn a profit.
dont like it? use open source. at least then you didnt help finance the company that thinks its ok for despots and tyrants
to oppress their people, and you're part of something that helps liberate them.
for the IT department here. 1. lock it all down:
ive worked for companies that insist IT is the gatekeeper for everything from remote controls to pagers and cellphones. While you get great control, you also have no time or resources to dedicate to projects and ostensibly everything with a wall wart becomes "your job." Powerusers view you as some sort of hitler-incarnate so you wont get help or input from them at all.
2. trust your users:
im working at a company that embraces google apps, that trusts its users in the cloud, that appreciates anything that frees up resources so that projects can be accomplished and new achievements in the organization can be made. the downside to this is your IT support is often branded as a group of do-nothings as IT can really only help people with approved technologies. IT guys find themselves in elevators and hallways, cornered by desperate users who swear the problem theyre having in the cloud is something your IT department works on. If the bitching gets loud enough, you may end up supporting it anyhow, and that subset of 8 systems your team used to directly assist users begins to look like 'infinity.' you really need strong management for this type of environment to work. ready and open paths for users who bite off more than they can chew to safely make their way back to known desktop technologies is also a big plus. You can in some cases leverage power users to evangelize people in certain directions or help out where possible. Wiki's work wonders.
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the probe of US currency rigging. I heard whenever their banks are about to fail, they just print money to make sure it doesn't happen. Scandalous.
strikes again...im having a hard time caring. and for those who say dell is resorting to cheap tricks, its a fact for the big two that anything they sell from ram to monitors is a cheap trick. CPU's get whitewashed as helping twitter run faster, and memory gets the usual 'more tabs' treatment. customers dont notice, but nerds do. The only travesty here is the number of people outraged without realizing they arent the target demographic.
this shopping season could prove to be very interesting for Forest City thanks to Ettus research, Gnu Radio, and the same wanton disregard for the privacy of major conglomerate shopping centers as the shopping centers themselves display toward private citizens.
http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki http://www.ettus.com/products im not saying each cellphone is uniquely identifiable and that these characteristics could easily be script generated for an open source transceiver project that fits into a backpack with a netbook at a crowded shopping center, or that transmitting billions and billions of said cellular signatures may cause a cellphone tracking system to cave just as it would had you transmitted millions of malformed cellular signatures. Im just merely implying that once this system which is accessible through the malls ethernet and wireless network folds like a chair, it would allow various interesting exploits to be performed and data to be collected. and we all love to test the anonymity of data declared anonymous by a third party who collects it using their proprietary closed source appliance.
is an "economic secret"?? feels like federal agencies are getting nervous around all the budget cuts that are about to kick in from the super committee failure.
dont drive
major federal crimes such as the collapse of the united states economy at the hands of wall-street, human trafficking between south america and north america, net neutrality compliance that is largely being ignored by major carriers, civil rights abuses in united states prisons, and protestor police brutality in major metropolitan cities, federal officials target their laser-like scrutiny upon the teeming cesspool of violent crime and evildoings that is Springfield Illinois. their objective? prove a small and unsubstantial water pump in a city of 116,000 people has been nefariously compromised and destroyed by cyber (attackers/hackers/criminals) from (china/iran/north korea/syria) in order to deprive american citizens of their shitty and unaccountably safe drinking water for an evening while the district manager oversees a few dozen pipefitters and welders as they replace a pump on a blustery november weekend.
by example in america, and after our example faltered we lead by decree. it seems we're just leading by military engagement these days.
the biggest threat to america is not from an attacking foreign power, but that it as a superpower will become irrelevant in the twenty first century.
is the only time america cares about chinese government censorship is when it impedes the flow of the free market economy.
we censor many foreign products from american consumption based on trademark or patent, we censor our media from covering the
zucatti park raid, and even arrest them. our censorship prevented journalists from photographing returning c130 cargo planes carrying dead
and wounded soldiers during the iraq war, and prevents us from knowing who presidents like George Bush invited to the whitehouse.
our system is a revolving door of corporatocracy from which elites of the upper class are bred for leadership, much the same as china.
rule-in-perpetuity by a single party is really no different than having only two parties to choose from, neither of which accomplish any meaningful
longterm reform or change.
you start a business, and we impose regulations to prevent you from abusing your tacit monopoly be it global or regional. Comply with them or spend more lobbying dollars.
do not threaten the customers hoping they will back you. verizon and AT&T subscribers enjoy some of the shittiest wireless service in the first world, comcast customer experience is comparative to that of an internet subscriber in rural india. cox service, if it ever gets installed, is just as bad. Sprint does nothing more than bait-and-switch its customers hoping they remember the CEO chortling about some amorphous unlimited everything plan on paid advertising.
that should get asked about the article
does cyanogenmod mitigate this threat? if not how about whispercore? could whisper systems in the future detect and correct this
rootkit?
can rootkit detection systems presently available in linux detect and successfully help a hacker to remove the rootkit?
or at best, DoD related bloat. The army already has numerous proprietary and secure communications technologies
that rely on field-tested technology already integrated well with existing systems. Considering the average warhawk's propensity to
wax prophetic on a war with china, its obligatory to also consider what would happen to these HTC, Samsung, and other devices regardless
of operating system once operated in a country with vastly more knowledge of the aformentioned cellular devices than our military.
but if the military is seen as no more than the strongarm by which capitalism is enforced across the globe, then so be it. The product must be consumed
and what better consumer than a well funded division of the government that is, by historical example alone, guaranteed to increase its spending each year
and arguably never fight a war in the sincere interest of protecting its citizens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soybean
For human consumption, soybeans must be cooked with "wet" heat to destroy the trypsin inhibitors (serine protease inhibitors). Raw soybeans, including the immature green form, are toxic to humans, swine, chickens, and in fact, all monogastric animals.[12]
gelatin, for its limited range of benefits that can easily be found in plants, is rather controversial too, as its potential to transmit BSE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelatin#Safety_concerns why not try some hempseed or flax seed instead?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp_seed
just because its MIT doesnt make it any different. my undergrad CS profs would encourage me to collaborate but only so long as
i gave credit for functions or logic i used from other students. if only math worked this way too.
of military veterans in IT my experience is limited to managers or techies, all can vary wildly.
the manager I had at one company was from the navy. not very intelligent but he knew enough about how to lead a team
that he could tell when we needed help and he knew when to stay out of the way. great guy to work with.
but the helpdesk manager im told was a complete asshole. he alientated the seasoned pro's by treating them like kids
and before we knew it, they had all quit.
the NOC tech i work with now is coming out of retirement from the airforce. hes not brilliant by any stretch, and he doesnt appear motivated to
any great feats of knowlege. probably a bad example
the guy we just promoted is from the army. he isnt smart, and he chews up most of our time asking questions about code, but hes at least very motivated
to learn. i guess thats a plus.
"finally! a use for my music minor and a chance to dust off the ole cello..."
offered by a seller who has no physical presence in the buyers state is a federal tax by any other name.
heres how its worked so far:
1. corrupt financial sector bankrupts millions of americans. staffed with conflicts of interest, the government sits politely on its hands
2. facing bankruptcy themselves, numerous banks receive loans, then lobby to have them forgiven by the american public. some pay them back, not many.
3. paid politicians acting on behalf of major corporations then insist government spending has spiralled out of control, after pissing away billions in lemon socialism to major multinationals like jp morgan chase
4. social programs are cut at all levels and public works projects are halted until we get our "debt" under control
5. george bush racks up another game of boggle with the missus in a crawford ranch livingroom
6. new taxes like this are designed to catch up with older tax policy and pay said 'debt', but fail miserably as theyre written by people who barely understand angry birds
7. repeat this cycle in approximately 40 years. 8. pretend everything from the lincoln savings and loan crisis to the tech bubble are just the result of cyclical market behavior and as such, completely normal. enjoy grinding poverty.
honey as a sweetener and go for something more humane, sustainable, and less likely to fill the kitchen with bees.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agave_nectar
you might also solve this problem in the process
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollinator_decline
precision orbital strike come to mind... but in all seriousness, as i work at a hosting company, just give theirs a call and detail the problem.
heres a little snip from the mx for the domain...
220-crescent.web-dns1.com ESMTP Exim 4.69 #1 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:15:43 -0500
220-We do not authorize the use of this system to transport unsolicited,
220 and/or bulk e-mail.
for those upgrading via preupgrade, make sure to have at least 70% free space in boot or it will fail with an out of space error on the reboot.
"hey guys! EA has a new game about pirates coming out, lets invite some pirate enthusiasts!!"
from the fedora project gave this speech at fudcon tempe 2011, and left most of the room thoroughly trolled. I think he titled it "how the cloud is killing linux" or something to that nature.
"the cloud" is just another way of saying "closed source." if we fought it before we will fight it again, and i predict for alot of the same reasons as well as emerging concerns like privacy. the strength of the open source community is the borg-like adaptability to change and our sterling motto of 'hell hath no fury like a hacker scorned' has shocked everyone from RAID vendors to Wireless companies. im not saying we're getting a desktop linux renaissance tomorrow, or the next year, but linux has always stood for freedom in most respects and for many its not something traded so easily. for example, had facebooks image storage service been so wonderful, no one would have developed the importer tool for digikam that sucks down all the images for a particular user. there will always be a bashpodder user, and that user will always be empowered to become a developer if and when she desires.
until they started to look and sound like oracle.
western corporations are completely amoral entities designed to generate obscene amounts of money
and would, if not thoroughly regulated by the united states government, export everything from toothpicks to
nuclear ICBMs to foreign countries just to turn a profit.
dont like it? use open source. at least then you didnt help finance the company that thinks its ok for despots and tyrants
to oppress their people, and you're part of something that helps liberate them.
it has problems with time-travel and mind-reading.
for the IT department here.
1. lock it all down:
ive worked for companies that insist IT is the gatekeeper for everything from remote controls to pagers and cellphones. While you get great control, you also have no time or resources to dedicate to projects and ostensibly everything with a wall wart becomes "your job." Powerusers view you as some sort of hitler-incarnate so you wont get help or input from them at all.
2. trust your users:
im working at a company that embraces google apps, that trusts its users in the cloud, that appreciates anything that frees up resources so that projects can be accomplished and new achievements in the organization can be made. the downside to this is your IT support is often branded as a group of do-nothings as IT can really only help people with approved technologies. IT guys find themselves in elevators and hallways, cornered by desperate users who swear the problem theyre having in the cloud is something your IT department works on. If the bitching gets loud enough, you may end up supporting it anyhow, and that subset of 8 systems your team used to directly assist users begins to look like 'infinity.' you really need strong management for this type of environment to work. ready and open paths for users who bite off more than they can chew to safely make their way back to known desktop technologies is also a big plus. You can in some cases leverage power users to evangelize people in certain directions or help out where possible. Wiki's work wonders.