Posts by I didn't do IT.

Still Chargeable

Nope, even if the person is Mother Theresa who inadverently sent any kind of affirmative message "Yes, I will bring the orphans to the mission for prayer." to the wrong message thread amongst the overwhelming hoard of SPAM (a "suggestion" if you want a nudey pic), Mother Theresa is in jail pending bail because the very ACT of "incitement" is illegal regardless of anything else, and just as heavy a crime as raping underage farm animals.

The very fact that there is no person, no picture and no accountability on law enforcement CONTINUALLY -=*TESTING *=- that we are "lawful" citizens makes no difference whatsoever.

At least, on this side of the pond... Same too for Blighty, or so COEP keeps trying to make it...

The 'Truth'

I am sure that if you take a passenger list of everone on that train at the time (obviously obtainable from the US FAA, because it had *something* to do with people moving from one place to another, even if no American was involved...), there will be one or more people of significant importance to "The Plan".

What's the significnce of a couple hundred extra clones that might just prove useful anyway where ever they work or play?

Copyright <> Morals

The difference here is intellectual property rights vs. societal norms.

Having a mechanism in place where copyright holders can submit hashes to match against submitted works from the public and mark possible infringements is not necessarily a bad thing - as long as derivitive works and public use rights are not stamped out.

Trying to enforce societal norms against "questionable" material through an automated set of rules would be a pointless endeavor.

Whose societal rules do you use? You CANNOT say the "best" one or yours just because you know them - What works for you might be completely intolerable to you neighbor, and vice versa. And NO, YOU CANNOT say "use country controls" because it must be more granular than by country or county - even if ALL your neighbors are in other countries. This would construct a "least common" denominator, and we all know how well THAT works (In case you don't - NOT AT ALL). :(

By staying out of the subjective realm of morals, they keep themselves from taking the express lane to become complete gits. Odd from Google, eh?

So, sorry - you will all have to retain your right to personal responsibility and accountability. Google is worried about selling advertising based on your habits, NOT (yet) in being the nanny that says what you can and cannot see based on morals. Isn't that why you have NuLabor?

Near Miss

The issue is that a good portion (of "Blue Book" sightings) were from civilian and military aircraft pilots who experienced "near miss" events from aircraft that did not show up on airport or aircraft radar. Since they didn't expect something to be there, they did not avoid the other craft until it was visually sighted - still a good excuse for not completely automating aircraft flights.

Psychopaths?

Does that include those with Narcissistic Personality Disorder? Or is that a Sociopath? NPD would definitely not commit suicide; its the rest of us that need to die for them, natch!

You know - like all the rest of the politicians?

...Think of the children

Darn right! Those little theiving buggers will swipe that prime piece of tech up before the branches have a chance to break and strip it for parts in seconds flat.

All you'll find is a couple leaves and a few droplets of silicon lubricant (for the plastic gears, you pervs).

Gas Recirculation

Your absolute best efficiencies come from when you use pure Hydrogen and Oxygen gases; however, storage of these gases is considered difficult for "normal" residential use. A couple tens of cubic feet of Hydrogen is considered to be an extremely hazardous thing for residential use.

This is why most fuel cells for "commodity" use have targeted hydrocarbon fuels, as they are more easily stored and people already (mostly) know the risks involved. Also, as they don't have to be stored at any kind of pressure, this reduces other possible issues due to environmental changes or somebody simply knocking a pipe loose cleaning/storing/etc. in the utility closet or shed.

Ewww.. Sorry about that...

Unfortunately, that would not work one bit. Imagine the scene:

Young tike picks up the NEW (IMPROVED?!) Star Dog! Lunchmeat Product Substitute(tm) and bites off one of the star points, not chewing as is normal.

The point of the star allows easy, streamlined entry down the throat... only to get stuck in the tyke's esophagus as the widening meat shape proves too much for the youngster's developing muscles. It lodges in tight! And because of the ragged edge at the base of the "point" (from biting), it cannot turn around or be easily slipped up and out by Heimlich.

You sir, have just created a MORE EFFICIENT choking food! Bravo!

Not the office...

I am assuming that the phone book would be to find the name and HOME address of the person the Out-Of-Office reply came from, helpfully provided by the automatic signature attached (Thank you, Outlook/Exchange!).

If the target was the office, yes, after hours is best.

Very Astute...

It is quite odd, isn't it, that he publishes his results at the same time a new chip is being announced that "denies" this attack... when there isn't any real demand for a new chip?

After all, why would you buy the new, higher priced chip if you can get the one everyone else is relying on for only $0.15 a pop, eh?

Travel Disincentive

Brilliant!!!

That's how we will all make our carbon limits; no more need to burn petrol, or jet fuel, and we will all be glued to our ever-present telly for the CCTV footage across the country - Big Brother: Your Next Door Neighbor!*

*Self-inflicted injury to escape this hell not allowed, citizen.

Post Haste?

Perhaps he finds the chemicales de Francais "tout suite" for him in Paris?

What do you mean "Probable Cause?"

Exactly.

If there is no audit trail of the scanning session, then there is nothing that can point back to the viewer who tipped off security for "additional screening." Without that ACCOUNTABILITY the system is ripe for vendetta, scamming for quota, or simple boredom at others' expense.

But wait! How can this be? Isn't part of the BAA's "Continual Improvement Process" the act of taking "real life" scans for progressive training?! How else can they get them?

Or is all of this excuses for future failures in BAA's training (i.e. a plane blows up)?

Ah, the $25 "minimum signing limit"

This "convenience" is just to make face-to-face transactions as liable to the customer as web transactions. Most transactions are under $25 (in the US) and it is a price break for liability/return for the cards... so they make it more "convenient" by not requiring you to sign for under that amount.

However, under the terms and conditions, if you don't sign, THE CARD IS NOT LIABLE *AT ALL*, as the minimum security verification of checking that signature is unavailable. So, as long as a thief doesn't get anything more than $25 at a time (say a CD, dinner, gas - half a tank, though), you are liable for those transactions. Listen to those adverts next time when they wax lyrical about "not being held responsible for fraud"... you will hear or see the caveat of "signed transactions" somewhere.

Again, the cards make you liable at your own expense instead of protecting you. They only protect themselves from liablility. Convenient, eh?

@AC: All geeks

Really? Would that be in the liquidy, yellow-ish font, then?

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That is exactly what the government wants. It matters not all the data they collect about you from birth, through school, and any tertiary contact merely conducting business in the modern world (auto license, etc) - WE MUST KNOW ALL.

What better way to keep you entertained with drivel, targeted with ads to get the money we can't tax away from you, and get the needed jump (pun - or policy?!) on the next generation - your kids.

Don't forget to leave your Government Status Report for the time you spent reading this when you could have been victimized... er... serviced by your government and corporate masters.

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I would have upvoted "Hallmark"

... except that it brought such a cold chill of reality.

I am saddened, and feel so glad my parents taught me personal responsibility.

Now, if only we can get the government to understand that concept, instead of being filled with Piggy Porkers, eh?

Oddly, that works for both sides of the pond...

God Love You, Sarah Bee

You have no idea how wonderful you make my (and others', surely!) day to know you are out there.

A pint, as you well deserve it. It is Friday, after all. :)

Re: Checks and Balances?

How about "innocent until proven guilty?", or is that truly lost from the mother isle across the pond?

The whole point of the DCMA was to dump the burden (and COST) of proof onto the ISP or the user who posted any "offending" material. Until then the publisher had to get off their own @ss and actually PROVE your 28K "Family_at_Disneyworld_2008.jpg" is actually some cleverly compressed 780MB copy of "Snow White". Now, they just poke the over paid lawyer to justify its existence by throwing out letters and emails to ISPs after doing the morning Google search for *disney*...

But again, in order to effectively "challenge" any such takedown (which the statements about Article 6 seem to claim that such court action would be frivolously unnecessary, so just let the nice BPI take care of all that, thank-you-very-much), all costs have to be stumped up by the challenger, usually in advance, and then more continually poured in as the boring legal case progresses. Quick, easy, pro bono civil prosecution against a BPI take down.. kinda like looking for Nessy, eh?

This is where the big companies "make the magic happen"... by smothering people in paper and outlasting their pocketbooks in court.

The only checks are the ones the companys expect from us as "summary judgement fines" and the balances are how much we "owe" for the next 20 years...

Indeed - Direct Buying Pays Off (Me)

I wanted a phone that did NOT have crap - any crap. I was tired of phones that constantly died due to cheap construction, shoddy workmanship, bad materials choices, etc. I am hard on phones, and most die from shattered screens due to pressure, shock, freezing or data card issues from close proximity to 440V EMF fields (its my job).

So, where to get a phone that will hold up? Mil grade phones are 300+ with plan... until I found the Motorola F3 - for developing(?!) countries - its sturdy and makes calls. No real SMS (any messages are strings of gobbody gook), no camera, no video playback, no internet whizz bangs. You call people, and the phone rings when they call you.

That's all I want a PHONE to do. How much? Less then 10 quid each - bought three just in case, but the first has lasted over a year now. Done and done.

Pet Shop Boys

Album: Fundamental. Song: "Integral".

Hear it. Love it. Live it.

- Love, Alan Johnson.

Of Course They Are

Any fervently religious zealot will tell you (or scream at you, take your pick), that the END TIMES must come for the absolute, best, mostest happy event in the world; the "return" of <insert diety nickname here />.

Without the mass death, war and other generally profitable activities, it would just be another day where "paradise" was not realized. If there is no NEW WORLD ORDER, then there will be no one (and no need) to save us.

Flames - because they WANT the world to burn, eh?

Perspective

Actually, those droplets were his sweat (from the remembering/dream) when he woke up from "cryo-sleep". And the fuzziness was because it was intentionally out of focus so that you would see his face, and then bring your attention to what was in front of him - as he would as he was waking up.

I found the use of focus and perspective to be much better, and natural, tools in the 3D version to quickly bring your attention to the action in the movie. The 2D could only use speed and movement - which was also enhanced in the 3D. The human eye focuses on only one thing or area at a time...

Watching both 2D and 3D versions several times - I prefer the 3D because it seemed crisper; but then I wear glasses normally, and I don't know what kind of optical interaction might have been going on with my perscription, the 3D glasses, and my brain processing the two separately polarized images into a unified whole perspective "image".

They already have this...

... it's called having a publisher.

Most authors do not have the "freedom" to write what they want. They are constantly - CONSTANTLY - hounded to write what the publisher's think will be the "next big thing", whether it be fiction about vampires, or werewolves, or space murders or what have you. Most authors are tied to thier deadlines and obligations to the publisher if they want to see that check in the mail.

Oddly, I know several that even getting welfare would be a "raise" in pay compared to the publishers stipend - and one of them is getting to be pretty dam popular...

Careful...

Old age can induce rambling and feelings of the past being better than it really was.

Believe me - I know! ;-)

Agree to Disagree

True it is not necessarily overpopulation. It is the standard of living REQUIRED for that population. Personally, I enjoy living in and with Nature - yurts or other sustainable (and natural!) housing, renewable energy sources, everyone growing personal crops, etc.

The problem is that the "Western" lifestyle of excess and waste has become some kind of idealized "utopia", and it has a hugely lopsided resources per captia ratio that is UNSUSTAINABLE to keep up with the current population, never mind a possible "58 billion".

We could provide everyone with the same lifestyle, across the planet, and it would be even, fair, and balanced... but would also be unacceptable to everyone in equal measure.

Is the best we can hope for our species actually to crush ourselves into an identical mold of "poverty" (by Western standards)?

Fat chance getting those "in power" to agree to that, eh?

Common Tactic

... especially here in the US leagues.

No one wants to be the one that "missed" the "easy goal", so they pass it all over the acreage to anybody they can... including the other team. :)

AltaVista Geneology

AltaVsita is owned by Overture Services, Inc. (www.altavista.com/about).

Overture Services, Inc. is the marketing arm of Yahoo (enter the URL mentioned in the "about" page from AltaVista - www.overture.com - and you get Yahoo!).

Yahoo is now used by Micrsoft for searches... including Bing (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091205/tc_afp/usitcompanyinternetyahoomicrosoftgoogle)

You usually don't expect these kind of relationships except in backwater Tennessee...

Requote

Perhaps he simply stated, "I've got something in my pants for you... and its DY-NA-MITE!"

With apologies to 70's sitcom "Good Times"

Fencing Stolen Goods

Possession of stolen property in the US is a crime in and of itself, similar to fencing (selling of stolen goods).

And, of course, once you have that on your eCRB, guess it would be hard to get a promotion in the Force - oh, sorry - Service, eh?

"(e) he is detained in lawful custody,"

I like this part.

a) So, if the person is UNlawfully imprisioned, then they don't have to be vetted? Nifty.

b) And, of course that means as well as taking a sampling of DNA, you get to have all your details researched (without warrant) by having the eCRB done.

Facism achieved.

Secure? GREAT!

So, you are telling me that there is a network being installed, that everyone is being issued a connect device for, that operates through the distribution power lines?

SWEET! I was wondering how everyone was going to torrent when the IP pipes were restricted/shaped/cut off.

Since they have to leave the channels open (at least to the collector), then this provides, at a minimum, localized sub nets for communities to share files amongst themselves. And, as long as it doesn't interfere with the meters, they wouldn't know.

Now, that's not quite correct. Any copper wire is limited on the number of electrons that will/can flow through it, based on the gauge of the wire. That means that cross interference from even distinct frequencies on the same wire can/will cause distortion of the individual signals (crosstalk). There was talk about "turtle" modems for power line/meter communication running at about 10-30 bps, mostly because the overwhelming ELF from AC transmission (25,000+ V) blasted anything higher. Internal home networks running 120/240 V @ 15-20A are much more well behaved.

Thanks to digital processing, this means that such distortion is dropped, but that will limit the bandwidth/throughput. But any "excess" interference (which, by FCC regs, at least, MUST be accepted that could cause "unwanted" operation) cannot be shielded or blocked. So, all this happy, expensive kit being installed is rendered low by having a cheap, slightly off phase device plugged into the home power circuit, preferably between the meter and the box, as you would have for a home energy solution, so the box does not limit the "buy back" leccy to the power company. And, since anything after the meter is the responsibility and property of the consumer, the power company can't even investigate without the consumer's permission.

Huh, seems ripe for fraud to me, from both sides.

Impressively Implemented Inticements

I think some people may be missing the point. By way of this example, specifically the 2012 Olympics logo, people are being allowed to incriminate themselves. They devised a nifty "icon" that _must_ be placed where all can see it, all the time. As this official piece of "art" is not depicting a person in detail, and was not expressly created for arousal, it is within the eye (and mind) of the beholder...

Which means all those who "see" a(n incestual) fellatiatic act are, themselves, the _very_ persons the gov is trying to route out with this legislation.

And if you _happen_ to care/dare enough to (attempt to) use the High and Moral Laws against They Who Must Be Obeyed, you are meeting all the(ir) criteria, and are a danger to allow on the streets.

Didn't you guys kick out all the uptight Protestants from your country already? Obviously, they got back in - so you must need tighter Border Control. For your own good, you know. :)