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| 2005/8/23-24 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:39222 Activity:moderate |
8/23 It's Pat:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/23/robertson.chavez/index.html
Pat Roberson calls to have Hugo Chavez assassinated. Gee, prominent
public relig figure calling for "death to <head of state>" ... what
does that remind you of? I like the line "This is in our sphere of
influence, so we cant let this happen" ... gee, I wonder if people
in Venezuala talk about "American Black Helecopters". And I wonder
if Hugo Chavez is a bigger theat to America than activist judges".
Any bets on who the next ambassador to Venezuala might be?
\_ Jesus for Oil..
\_ I'm willing to make that trade.
\_ Huge Chavez is a clown. -- ilyas
\_ Hugo Chavez is a clown. -- ilyas
\- So? Who would you rather have as your ruler, Hugo or Pat?
\_ Well, I was gonna say you, Partha, but then I remembered you
would feed me ankles first into a woodchipper. -- ilyas
\- in spite of your psb-persecution complex, you'ld
probably be pretty low on my reeducation or beyond
reeducation, convert to fertilizer list. --psbpot
\_ I don't know, Partha, you haven't seen me with a lot
of money. -- ilyas
\- ok i'll keep my options option to have your
bones scraped with a rusty file.
\_ When Pat ran for President in the 80s I distinctly remember
him saying that one of his first acts as President would be
to nuke the USSR. So I'd rather have Chavez.
\_ We need to keep our mullahs in line ... Maybe Venezuela should
ship off Robertson somewhere, say Egypt. I love the automatic
assumption that Venezuela's oil belongs to us because it is in
our "hemisphere" ... Isn't it property of the people of Venezuela?
\_ But they are Brown and Catholic, therefore subservient to
Anglo-Saxon Jesus.
\_ Heh, yeah, it Belongs to the People. -- ilyas
\_ No, actually, it's properly owned by PDV, which is at least
majority- if not entirely owned by the government of
Venezuela, which is, at least pro forma, a democracy, so yes,
it Belongs to the People. If you want to argue that
knocking off that fucker Chavez is a good thing due to
geostrategic interests (and, well, because he's a fucker)
then that's entirely different (this is what I think we
should have done with Saddam and couple of other places if
we were honest about it). However, there is _no_ argument
that Venezuelan (or any other) oil supplies "belong" to
anyone other than whoever's got the drilling rights to
them. -John
\_ I am fairly sure the oil in Venezuela belongs to Chavez.
Personally, I am in favor of knocking off Chavez _last_
among the world's head-of-state fuckers because, hey,
at least he's funny. -- ilyas
\_ Let's see... Chavez is aligned with Iran, Ven. is becoming
a client state of China, and Chavez provides extensive
military support to the FARC narco-terrorists.
Without oil Venezuela = Zimbabwe. I'd say pat is exactly right,
but shows poor judgement to say such things in public.
\_ Fair enough. Nonetheless, the point isn't who it
belongs to, rather who it doesn't, i.e. us. And
careful, Partha "the Mulcher" is watching. -John
\_ Let's see... Chavez is aligned with Iran, Ven. is becoming
client state of China, and Chavez provides extensive
military support to the FARC narco-terrorists. I'd say
Pat is exactly right. Without oil Venezuela = Zimbabwe.
\- still crazy after all these years ...
*Boredcast Message from 'john': Thu Oct 13 15:47:45 1994
||
||ok...straw poll:
||If anyone on soda was to become the evil dictator of a small
||country, who would it be?
||(assuming I get to be chief of the secret police)
||
*Boredcast Message from 'alanc': Thu Oct 13 15:48:30 1994
||
||Probably psb
||
\_ I am pretty sure that this is an act of terrorism as defined
by the Patriot Act. I won't hold my breath waiting for him
to be arrested.
\_ Let's see... Beaner is aligned with Turbin, Venezuela is becoming
client state of Chink, and Beaner provides extensive
military support to the Turbin wearin terrorists. I'd say
Pat is exactly right. Without oil Venezuela = Bin Laden.
Fuck immigrants, blacks, and Jews. !jblack
\_ "Can anybody understand what this duck is saying?"
\_ Pat in 2003:
"How dare the president of the United States say to the duly
elected president of another country, 'You've got to step down.'"
http://csua.org/u/d55 |
| 2005/8/23-24 [Computer/Companies/Yahoo] UID:39223 Activity:nil |
8/22 Google search 36.5%, Yahoo 30.5%. Who the hell still uses Yahoo?
No one I know uses Yahoo anymore.
\_ Yahoo search has actually gotten pretty good, and is sometimes
better than Google. Try searching both for "http".
\_ A lot of people, especially people who are Joe Average consumers
and have an SBC/Yahoo DSL account. I still utilize Yahoo maps
vs. Google maps just out of habit.
\_ I do too, because Yahoo maps is better than google's,
at least when it comes to giving directions.
\_ driving directions to dense urban areas with google
maps totally suck. i hate them.
\_ The CSUAers who work for Yahoo! Search.
\_ I use Yahoo! I only use Google for Google Groups.
\_ I use Yahoo for email and sports and news. I just use Google for sea
\_ I use Yahoo for email and sports and news. I just use Google for search.
\_ Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Nulla quis
massa eu mauris placerat tincidunt. Mauris interdum pellentesque
urna. Nullam non mauris sit amet leo hendrerit mollis.
\_ I have Yahoo DSL. I use Yahoo for news (including Japanese and
Chinese), maps (including Japan), stock quotes, and looking up
things in its Web Directory section. I use http://www.google.com for
searching, and http://images.google.com for porn. |
| 2005/8/23-24 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq, Recreation/Travel] UID:39224 Activity:nil |
8/22 Just wondering, how much vacation do military servicemen in Iraq get?
\_ free paid vacation in Mosul.
\_ All service personnel are guaranteed 1 month vacation a year. |
| 2005/8/23 [Health, Health/Women] UID:39225 Activity:moderate |
8/23 Utah police go nutzoid:
http://www.buzzlife.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62975
\_ So, were all of the bits in the Sherriff's Dept. official
statement complete fabrication?
\_ Yeah, the police never fabricate anything.
\_ This is nothing. The Czech police used a tank!
\_ No, but when you have 2 versions of events on the internet,
and one requires the police to just be EVIL AND HATE FREEDOM
and the other that the people reporting this were on drugs
(while at a rave, no less), Occam's Razor says...
\_ Well the police's version (paraphrased) is that a large
party somebody is probably doing something illegal, so they
decided to bust it up and include the SWAT team because
regular cops are no match for raver kids.
\_ No, the police version is that something was probably
illegal, then that they didn't have the right permits,
then that they surveilled and there WAS illegal stuff
going on, then they went in.
\_ So do you suggest Gestapo tactics for other
gatherings that include illegal activity, such as
rock concerts and frat parties?
\_ And you just know at a left-wing political rally
somebody's going to be carrying drugs.
\_ Right, and at a right wing political rally
you know somebody is going to be carrying
loaded automatic weaponry without the proper
permit. So either way, yay!
concealed loaded automatic weaponry, so
either way, yay!
\_ Um, read some of the local press articles linked to from
the various web forums. Guns, Drugs, and note how they
bring up the possibility of rape, and how there may be
many minors (won't someone think of the children!) there.
They make it sound like a Hell's Angels 666th anniversary
grill party and baby sacrifice. Occam's razor also says
that mindless police brutality and excessive force are not
unknown. But then it's just a bunch of drug-addled
children, so... -John
\_ Heh, I like this:
"I saw a dog signal out a guy who obviously had some drugs on
him....They had liscenced security guards at the gates
confiscating any alcohol or drugs found upon entry (yes, they
searched every car on the way in). Oh, I suppose I should
mention that they arrested all the security guards for
possession." |
| 2005/8/23 [Transportation/Car, Transportation/Motorcycle] UID:39226 Activity:moderate |
8/23 I saw a commercial for Geico Motorcycle insurance yesterday. I guess
this is new since I've never known geico to do motorcycle insurance.
Anyone given them a try?
\_ I have them and am quite happy. Don't even get one point though,
or your rates will go up. -ausman
\_ Geico and Progressive provide motorcycle insurance and are not
always the cheapest. If you have an auto insurance, they often
offer "recreational vehicle" insurance, which includes your yacht,
motorcycle, and in some cases your LearJet or Citation X. They
usually don't advertise this but they do that. I have my motorcyle
insurance through AAA but I'm switching to something else because
they keep raising the price. Here is my biggest gripe with
insurance. For the first year or two it's pretty cheap, then
they figure you're sticking with them (even without a single
accident) and they keep raising the price. Fuckers.
\_ capitalism at its best. same for my sbc dsl service. they
offer new users at $14.95 per month, while old users have to
renew their 1 year contract at $26.95 per month, or they
will raise the price to $49 per month. fairness and
customer loyalty means nothing to them. they just want
to milk as much as possible out of you, and have a very
short term view on running a business. so you either pay
more or call them and complain, switch, etc., wasiting
your invaluable time.
\_ Left wing socialist rant alert!!! Under capitalism the
nature of competition drives down the price. If you don't
like your provider, you switch to something cheaper or
better. Stupid liberal rant. !jblack
\_ You know, if you ignore the first sentence of pp's post,
it is completely apolitical. Don't have to be a socialist
to hate SBC.
\_ hehe, call it whatever you like. I just don't
like to play games with these companies. they keep
setting various traps for their customers. for
instance, if I missed the letter saying that if
I don't renew the contract at $26.95 for one year,
I will suddenly see my bill increase to $49. I
am the type who will gladly pay a little more
as long as I don't have to deal with these types
of crap. And a lot of the things these phone
companies do like some of those fees they tag on
to your phone bills turned out to be illegal.
and of course the switching of your carrier
without notifying you. another example was MCI
whose long distance service I had been happily
using for some time, until one day, after WorldCom
bought MCI, they suddenly decided to increase
the rates through the roof. We all know where
Ebbers is headed. |
| 2005/8/23-24 [Uncategorized] UID:39227 Activity:nil |
8/23 Maradona admits scoring goal by hand:
http://csua.org/u/d4j (Yahoo! Sports)
So much for Argentine soccer.
\_ Barry Bonds doesn't even admit to using steriods..
\_ The only way most CSUAers know how to score is by using their hand.
\_ That's Rosy Palm and her five sisters. |
| 2005/8/23-24 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:39228 Activity:moderate |
8/23 Photos from the Iraq war. Warning: Very graphic.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/08/23/iraq_gallery/index.html
\_ This puts some things in perspective. "Oh no, the British police
accidentally and incorrectly killed one innocent person!" Now
\_ Your moral equivalance/equivocation is disgusting. That's not
perspective. You can call both "wrong".
\_ They _are_ both wrong! But which has gotten more press?
\_ It's not a zero sum game. They both should get plenty
of press. That the war hasn't is a decision of the gov't
and complicity by our media outlets
let's look at the bit in the slideshow where the US Helicopter fired
a missle into a group of 13 civilians. "Oops, our bad." I mean,
it's really they're fault for _forcing_ us to invade. Stupid
it's really their fault for _forcing_ us to invade. Stupid
camel jockeys.
\_ They did have the audacity to have lots of oil.
\_ Actually it was a group of > 50-100 people. Many were partying
by the disabled Bradley. Is it within the rules of engagement
to lob a missile into the middle of the crowd? I don't know.
-moderate/liberal
\_ Not really, but unfortunately the US doesn't have a weapon
that swoops down to beat people with sticks. -John
\_ just admit it, we are not accountable for anything we
do. It is OK to kill Iraqi at randomn. Something
that we don't talk about, but it's a fact. Do you know
how many people got ran over by US convoy due to
aggressive driving? do you have any idea how many
people died as he/she bring his blanket to the roof
to sleep because electricity is not restored? Is
there any consequences for killing civilian?
Without punishment, people bound to do bad things, pure
and simple... And at the mean time, Americans don't
understand why Iraqi hates Americans.
\_ Are you stupid? Yeah, that's exactly what I was
implying. Kill all those non-American civilians! Woo!
It's OK! Moron. -John
\_ Am I saying that all US
GIs are shooing at Iraqis for fun? of course
not. All I am saying is that there are bad apples;
there are those who are trigger happy, justified
or not. The problem is that there are no
consequences for any wrongful actions unless it's
caught by US media. Even so, US militaries are not
subject to any external scruny other than its
own military justice system.
Then, there is the issue of mercenaries or
"private contractors." Their actions are not even
subject to US law and US military.
\_ Bad apples, huh? There are reports that in
faloojeh, we got intel that the "bad guys" were
using taxicabs. The order came down that cabs
were greenlighted as targets. I won't be
surprised when we hear about free-fire zones.
These things happen because of orders. There
may be some bad apples, but the real bad shit
comes from orders that the troops are told are
legal.
\_ All intentional abuse of military power should be
avoided and punished when it occurs. It's wrong.
Nobody's saying that it isn't. I also find it
odd that a lot of people say "hey, all these
abuses go unreported, just look at this link!"
My point was that people who dance around a
burning apc or who generally celebrate that kind
of violence (even if they're in the US military)
deserve a fucking beating. -John
\_ Put yourself in their shoes for a sec. That
same APC has been blowing up _their houses_
looking for terrorists. You'd bemoan its
destruction?
\_ Has it? And no I wouldn't, I'd probably
stay inside wishing it would end. -John
\_ But if your house blows up while you
are in it ... maybe safer to dance
on blown up Bradleys!
\_ Wow, the clever, seductive transition from 'we' in
the beginning to 'Americans' in the end almost had me
going for a second there. Well, aside from the
atrocious engrish, anyhow. Whatever personal guilt,
political/social obligations & responsibilities I may
feel, I'm certainly not going to debate them with a
clown like you. What's the point when your whole
statement makes it clear that you're not going to
listen to intelligent discourse?
\_ Why the hell not? For all the billions we've flushed down
the toilet for space weapons that literally contributed
*nothing* to national defense we could have not only
beat stick drones, but imperial walkers by now.
\_ No, but we do have a ray gun that microwaves people.
\_ sweet idea, had they used that instead, it would be
helicopter flies up, blasts crowd with burning-pain
beam until they disperse, then drop bomb on disabled
bradley to destroy it. |
| 2005/8/23 [Recreation/Computer/Games] UID:39229 Activity:low |
8/23 ilya, what do you think of Arimaa?
http://arimaa.com/arimaa
\_ Well, if you want an example of a game where computers do poorly,
there is no need to invent a new one -- Wei Chi will do. But
thanks for the link -- looks interesting. My intuition about this
game, without looking into it carefully, is that one of the
superstrategies is dominant (it is very difficult to balance the
rules in such a way that you can have completely different looking
games, and have them all be reasonable strategies). -- ilyas |
| 2005/8/23-24 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:39230 Activity:nil |
8/23 Bush talking to veterans: "We owe them something. We will finish the
task that they gave their lives for..." Finishing the task? Look out
North Korea and Vietnam! We'll get it right this time!
http://csua.org/u/d4l
\_ Time to invade Vietnam and finish the task we started there
40 years ago!
\_ Veteran with his Bullshit Protector on
http://csua.org/u/d4o |
| 2005/8/23-24 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:39231 Activity:nil |
8/23 I need to setup a kiosk with a mouse and a browser. How do I make
Firefox/Mozilla/whatever display the entire screen, and disable
Windows format, reboot, installation, going off to improper
porn sites, etc for the kiosk? Thanks.
\_ STFW. There are people who have done this before. There is even
a firefox package or something specifically for kiosks. |
| 2005/8/23-24 [Industry/Jobs] UID:39232 Activity:nil |
8/23 My brother is an engineering manager at Apple (iTunes Music Store).
His group is looking to hire a mid/sr level SW engineer. We do our
development in WebObjects, but a solid understanding and practical
experience with appservers in general is more important than specific
knowledge of Java or WebObjects. Email me if you're interested or
have questions. -abe |
| 2005/8/23-24 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:39233 Activity:low |
8/23 Hi motd. I recently got a Dell Latitude D610 from work. There is a
"Hard Drive Password" feature in BIOS. After setting it, now every
time I boot it asks me for this before it loads the OS.
Does anyone know if this password is stored on the drive or on the
mobo? E.g., if the latter, I can just put the drive in an external
enclosure and access all files. Thanks. I suspect the latter.
Okay, I see here it looks like the former:
http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-1942031.php
\_ Depends on the make & model. A lot of mfgrs deal with the password
with a combination of bios and either an eeprom or a reserved area
on the drive. Generally it's some variant of the bios being a
sort of "handler" for the password info which is stored elsewhere.
The good news is, there are ways of breaking this with some
understanding of electronics diagrams and a degree of proficiency
with a soldering iron. With some IBMs, for example, you need to
nuke the password on the particular laptop it was set on before you
can use it for something else (unless of course you break it, which
is difficult-but-not-impossible.) I did some research on this a
while ago for a project, but my info may be out of date. -John
\_ fyi, I downloaded the spec doc for the Hitachi 5K80 Travelstar,
and there's a whole section on this, which leads with: "With a
device lock password, a user can prevent unauthorized access to a
device even if it is removed from the computer." It sounds like
\_ fyi, I downloaded the spec doc for the Hitachi 7K100 Travelstar,
and there's oodles about password set/clear/change. Presumably
this is all stored on the HD.
Upon further reading, it looks like the drive supports a Master
Password and User Password. Presumably the Master Password is
known only to Dell and is different for different service tags,
and is used to unlock the drive if the user forgets the User
Password that he or she used to lock the drive.
Unfortunately it looks like all you need is a keygen program
to get the Master Password for Dell Latitudes:
http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic18780-pg4.html&pp=20
Doh! -op
I do agree that if you speak with Dell they'll probably tell
you a special way of clearing the "Hard Drive Password" if
you authenticate with them completely. And DriveSavers probably
knows exactly how to do it without any trouble.
After googling for a while, it looks like this is the only way to
clear the hard drive password: http://dp.allhyper.com
Much easier to clear the non-hard-drive passwords. -op
\_ OK the mechanism I found consisted of soldering together a
bit of electronic gymcrackery according to a set of wiring
specs I found, which would slurp the password hash off the
laptop via serial and let you dump it on a PC in order to
crack it. I'd be very interested in what you find, so if you
would like to look at the bit of poking around that I did,
drop me a mail (non-bouncing email in my .plan) -John
\_ Oh, it's just the link I posted -- run the keygen
against the reported hard drive code, obtain the password
which clears the other passwords. Apparently another
mechanism involves a paperclip shorting some pins. -op
\_ Good news. That keygen only works for old service tags
(ending with extension -D35B). Then, I e-mailed the owner of
the document that describes how to unlock passwords using
a paperclip (shorting some pins). He says his method is
only for the BIOS passwords, and there is nothing he knows
of that can unlock the "hard drive password". Yay. -op
\_ See above, offer still stands (dunno if it'll be of any use
but might give you some pointers of where to look.) -John |
| 2005/8/23 [Computer/SW/Mail, Computer/Companies/Yahoo] UID:39234 Activity:nil |
8/23 I have a lot of problems with Google and Yahoo mail lately. I use
pine with the "Roles" feature where I can set the From: field to
whatever address I have. I've been using this for a while without
any problem, but lately Google and Yahoo just filter all of my
mails. How do I tell them that my email is legit? I don't send
spam contents or anything like that. Thanks.
Below is my header, generated by Pine and the mailer:
From myname2005@mydomain.com Tue Aug 23 12:45:24 2005
Return-Path: <myname2005@mydomain.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:45:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Blow <myname2005@mydomain.com>
X-X-Sender: myRealLogin@myPrimaryDomain.com
\_ Is http://mydomain.com advertising SPF rules that contradict where you're
actually sending it from?
\_ What's a SPF rule and how do I find out?
\_ 1) http://www.google.com/search?q=SPF+rule
2) dig http://google.com TXT |
| 2005/8/23-24 [Computer/SW] UID:39235 Activity:nil |
8/23 CS history question - are there documented instances of early
PC software firms going bankrupt due to pirated software? More
generally, good accounts of what prevented the early PC software
firms from succeeding? What distinguished successful firms from
failures in that market. Email fab. Thanks. |
| 2005/8/23-24 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:39236 Activity:nil |
8/23 Anyone know of a good way to convert from tex to decent looking HTML?
\_ Um, latex2html does a fairly good job. Is this a troll?
\_ Is latex2html-2002-2-1.tar.gz the best version?
see http://saftsack.fs.uni-bayreuth.de/~latex2ht/current
Its over 3 yrs old. I'm just wonder if there isn't something
newer b/c it didn't work properly on OS X.
\_ I use 2002-2-1 as part of fink on OS X. Works fine. --pp |
| 2005/8/23-24 [Computer/SW/Apps] UID:39237 Activity:nil |
8/23 Google IM is up.
http://www.smashsworld.com/2005/08/im-on-google-talk-right-now.php
\_ Great. Just what we need. Yet Another Fucking Messenger. I am so
sick and tired of having to keep track of different logins and
clients. I have YM, AIM, MSN, and IRC. Trillian is the solution?
No. I can't get to certain features in YM like interactive games
and Audibles. Fuck Google.
\_ You might not know this, but you are too stupid to live.
\_ I used to use AIM. Now I don't even bother logging on. If it's
urgent, call me. If it's not urgent, send me e-mail.
\_ Holy fucking shit. A branded Jabber server with no SSL support.
Where are my smelling salts? What will they think of next?!
\_ Great, only socks proxy. Woo. That's sad. -John |
| 2005/8/23-24 [Uncategorized] UID:39239 Activity:nil |
8/23 I got some .att files that look like segmented mails with base64/
MIME data. What program can view/extract attachment from such files?
\_ munpack? -John |
| 2005/8/23-24 [Consumer/TV] UID:39240 Activity:nil |
8/23 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4176240.stm Poll, Blu-ray or HD-DVD? Which one is going to win? Blu-ray (50G): .. HD-DVD (30G): \_ Optical data storage media are fucking retarded: .. \_ either way the consumer will lose |
| 2005/8/23-24 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:39241 Activity:nil |
8/23 Looking for a good backup software for Windows. Preferably free,
or something cheap with encryption. I'm sick and tired of manually
using MS's backup software to create a tar-like file and then
using my pirated Nero to burn it on the DVD. ok thx.
\_ Check out the backup reviews first.
http://www.backup-software-reviews.com
I downloaded a copy of Genie Backup Manager, trial version.
It is very good. I got it from Bittorrent with serial keys
but I liked it so much that I decided to buy it from them.
\_ I use Acronis True Image to back up my Windoze disk to an
external hard drive. It's fast: 1 gigabyte / minute over
FireWire or an efficient Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interface.
Image is password-protected (though not encrypted, but I think
the password protection is good enough). Buy the download version
off http://newegg.com. |
| 2005/8/23 [Computer/HW/Drives, Consumer/TV] UID:39242 Activity:high |
8/23 Do differences in PAL/NTSC formats matter when playing DVD movies
on PCs? What about VCR?
\_ PAL/NTSC doesn't matter when playing on a PC, just region
code (unless you use a workaround). Tapes won't play right
on a VCR, but you can get a converter.
\_ No, doesn't matter on a PC, although you may have region issues.
As for VCRs, you can't play DVDs on VCRs. What's your question?
If you mean if NTSC vs. PAL tapes matter, yes. They're analog
standards being played on an analog device.
formats being played on an analog device.
\_ What about watching a PAL DVD on a TV with normal US-purchased
DVD player?
\_ It's almost certainly not going to work. NTSC DVD players
are rare multi-standard. |
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