On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:20:07 -0800, Bill Baka wrote:

> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>> On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:39:47 GMT, Bill Baka wrote:
>>
>>> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:54:19 GMT, Bill Baka wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> plenty900@yahoo.com wrote:
>>>>>>> It might be more complicated than this. They are said to have back doors in
>>>>>>> *standard protocols* (Linux included) [1,2,3,4] and these are hard to get by
>>>>>>> unless you are a security professional (I'm not). What about hardware-based
>>>>>>> hacks [5] (in which case "Intel" might be just an abbreviation)? Remember that
>>>>>>> they just need to sniff packets and then decrypt successfully in order to gain
>>>>>>> remote access.
>>>>>> Finally a mature response. I was beginning to think I was dealing with
>>>>>> 11-year-olds.
>>>>> If you don't think the NSA (or anybody else) gets into your computer,
>>>>> how about this, my experience so far. I used a torrent engine to
>>>>> download 'Dreamgirls' for my daughter. What I got was a crappy copy and
>>>>> a nasty e-mail from the MPAA police.
>>>> Maybe you should have considered paying for it?
>>> Idiot. Then I would have bought a junk movie.
>>
>> Why not just steal like you did the Dreamgirls movie?
>
> I thought it stunk, and I don't steal movies. All I have to do is wait
> 3-6 months and they are either on television or DVD rentals.

So why did you download an illegal copy?
You don't think that is stealing?

Hint: It doesn't matter if the movie stinks.

>> A great example you set for your daughter.
>
> I download Doctor Who and Torchwood from BBC. Doctor Who is on Sci-Fi
> but Torchwood is on a digital channel I can't get.
> I spent over $3,000 a few years back buying 3 sets of 27" NTSC
> televisions, VCR's, and DVD players (NTSC only), so I am not hurrying to
> buy 3 HDTV setups or converters.

Why?


>>>>> About 30 years ago I got a visit from 2 FBI gorillas in $1,000 suits
>>>>> knocking on my door (at home, 8:00 P.M.) for a very minor infraction of
>>>>> FCC regulations, and they gave me a pink ticket and a warning that if I
>>>>> dot another warning it would be a RED ticket. The RED ticket is one step
>>>>> from having you license pulled for a year.
>>>> FBI agents don't make enough money to afford $1,000 suits.
>>>> Perhaps you meant $100.00 suits?
>>> More like $1,000 suits when they go calling on people.
>>
>> Not quite.
>> Most of the people they are calling on wouldn't know the difference between
>> a $1000.00 suit and a $100.00 suit.
>
> I would. I deal with suit crowd more than I like. Sweats are fine for me
> to work in at home.

Maybe they heard you were a suit man and up dressed for the occasion.
Stuff like that gets around you know.


>> Especially someone with violations like you evidently had.
>> IOW you are a very small fish.
>
> I'm such small fish I am wondering why they bothered at all.

Maybe there is more to the story?


>>
>>>> Sounds like you are an Amateur Radio operator who was violating FCC
>>>> regulations.
>>>> Maybe more than 100 percent modulation or something like that.
>>>>
>>>> Rex Ballard is this you?
>>>> Rex is a HAM as well.
>>> And you are an idiot. I am not a HAM operator and never have been.
>>> The license was for a first class radiotelephone engineer with shipboard
>>> radar endorsement. That was required for me to work on transmitters.
>>
>> Even worse.
>> As a professional you should know better.
>
> My boss asked (err, told) me to install that setup since the guy was a
> major customer. He owned 12 charter boats and bought all his electronics
> at the place I worked. Since he assured the boss that he would only be
> monitoring his charter boats for an emergency, it was a go. The customer
> was yakking all over Silicon Valley like a kid with a cell phone and
> when he got nailed by the FCC he lied and told them we said it was OK.

Of course you had a rider to your contract which stipulated the above?
I know you'll answer yes, but I doubt you did.


>>
>>
>>>>> If you don't think the FBI monitors your activities just write something
>>>>> that says "A$$a$$inate p-r-e-s-i-d-e-n-t 'WEED'" in it and wait for the
>>>>> FBI at your door.
>>>>> I'm not paranoid, I have been hassled over trivial stuff.
>>>>> A few years back, like 2004 (I think) I was detained by both DHS and FBI
>>>>> agents on duty at Beale A.F.B. for riding my bike on a PUBLIC road and
>>>>> taking a few pictures with me 1.2 M Pixel fixed focus el-cheapo camera.
>>>> I guess you were too young to read the signs that are invariably around
>>>> places like AFB, Nuke facilities and more recently since 9-11 bridges,
>>>> tunnels, skyscrapers etc that say "Photography Prohibited".
>>> 59 is too young? I have time to read ALL signs at bicycle speed and
>>> there were none since I was at a back entrance and they only keep
>>> private planes and a few A-10 Warthogs and some KC-135's.
>>
>> Some people never learn to read.
>> You might be one of them.
>
> 600+ words per minute, a little slower upside down or in a mirror.
> My dad was a printer/proofreader so he brought home things like the
> print plates after an overnight printing run.

That sounds pretty cool!
My dad was a pilot for a major airline.
He didn't bring planes home but we got to fly anywhere for free+sales tax.


>> So you didn't read the signs.
>> That's your problem.
>
> IDIOT.
> There are no signs, except on the fence that says "Do not trespass".
> That means if you climb the fence you can be shot.

No it means, get out of there fast!
Especially in today's hyper sensitive LE environment...

IOW use some common sense.

> That means the highway is a public road and not under their jurisdiction.
> Again....IDIOT.

Let's see:
You steal movies for your kid and get caught.
You do a job for an idiot and he gets you in trouble.
You get harassed for hanging out, with a camera BTW, where you just maybe
should not be.

And you're calling *ME* an idiot?

That's a good one!


>> Do you also complain to the highway patrol that because the 55 mph speed
>> limit signs go by so fast you can't read them and that's why you were going
>> 90 mph?
>
> On a bicycle? I wish! I haven't driven a car for 1.5 years, by choice.
> Gas prices = bad.
> Exercise = good.

True..
Better learn to pedal faster though if you are going to frequent places
where you might get shot at.

I can hear it now:

" Gee Sargent, all I wanted to do was take a picture of that funny looking
aircraft over there so I could use it for a background on my Linux
machine's screen saver."




> Again, IDIOT!

See above.

I'd learn to pedal faster and leave the camera home.

> Beale AFB is over 10 square miles, maybe a lot more and they are
> directly in the way of the mountains I like to ride in.
> All the roads to get around are bordered by their fence, with signs.
> Too far OT, and this damn thing is cross-posted.
> Bill Baka

So?
You can drive over the Verrazano Bridge for $10.00 all day long.
Stop and take a picture and you very well might find yourself in jail.

And oh yea, the sign is the size of a postage stamp, well not really, but
very small.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verrazano-Narrows_Bridge


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Moshe Goldfarb
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