My guess is as good as anyone else's, but I surmise it does a bit of packet trickery. Once device A (behind firewall) is connected to device B (may/may not be behind firewall, but at least one port is open, 22 by default in this case), device A can create an SSH tunnel...they really are rather neat and VERY useful as a means of security. For example, I have webmin running on a server, but its port (10 000) is blocked by the firewall. Once I connect to SSH I can redirect packets to a certain IP:Port combo (device A's IP:Random Port#) to the servers local address (127.0.0.1) and new UDP port, and voila: hidden/secure/direct connection. One can even make a tunnel in the other direction, so that the server can connect to a remote device in the same manner, and any application won't realize that it's even connecting to anything outside of its network.

Whomever thought of and implemented SSH tunnels is a master genius. I would shake his/her hand if I ever saw them.

Yellow pages, 411.com, or perhaps the local legal aid. You can just call one and set an appointment. Trust me, they like to take new clients, it equals more money for them. "Having a lawyer" means you've been to one, and have agreed that you can call them on any particular matter (some lawyers know civil law, some know only criminal law, some family law...you get the point). If you are charged with a criminal offence, just ask for 'duty council'...it's the lawyer that's on the clock at that time...you can ask for advice and it's free.

It's not always the best advice though...pay for it yourself if you want decent advice.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. But even if I was, I'd have a lawyer.

FTFA:

"She said she received an e-mail in January from a Toronto Police officer in 14 Division "asking me to contact them about an incident that occurred at The Piston (on Bloor St. W., Nov. 19, 2011)."

And then she did? WTF! That's the last thing anyone should do.

So...you received an Internet message from someone claiming to be a cop? Step #1: Ignore it. There's no way on god's green earth that anyone should respond to a frickin' electronic message from a cop. Clearly the cops didn't think it was important enough to send a car around to her place. If she ignored it, it probably would have went no where. The only possible first step is contact a lawyer. She believed she'd be cleared because that she is innocent? What?! Is she new? Since when has that ever happened? Cops are interested in closing the file...if your name is in it, or someone else's, it doesn't matter.

DO NOT TALK TO POLICE, especially on purpose. Talk to your lawyer, have your lawyer talk to police.

Seconded. Like you, there is 0% chance of me being mind and dollar fucked into oblivion. I own every toy and electronic I ever wanted. I go where I want, when I want. I work as much as I like (which is a lot), and I don't get guilt tripped. One day I will find a woman that is compatible with the above, and she will be goddamn amazing. Then I'll share everything I have with her. Until then, I carry on.

FTFY.

What were you talking about, anyway?

very interesting. Mr. Anonymous Co Ward, why for you don't have a UID?

I can. It's the reason that every country with half a brain and a little foresight would want to import all oil:

1. Import all oil, pay increasing prices (it's worth it)
2. Use/maintain local refinement infrastructure
3. Drain world of said oil (this is actually going to take a long time, long after everyone currently alive is dead)
4. Tap local wells, sell oil to foreign entities at insane prices
5. Hope alternative fuels haven't become viable
In essence: use everyone else's before using your own.

What the US public needs to do is revolve before #3 happens (nationalize resources) so that -they- can recoup the money they've spent on all the other oil.

I'm just going to throw this out there:

Your LP collection is graced by some dude named Ogre.

I bet. So you must be intimately aware that he was an architect previous to his career as a profit...and that Jerry Lee Lewis is the devil...btw

Yep, and I surmise it's because they don't want to stop giving you credit (everything would stop, then)...and when someone goes bankrupt, it's hard to justify giving them credit. If bankruptee repays something, they'll likely have some modicum of a credit score, and they can still get credit. Last I heard around here, they called it "a proposal"...but it's the same thing.

I think you misread the post...he didn't say VHS...

(Sorry, that was ripe for the picking)

Indeed it is! I told my tech that there's something wrong with my period. I got the strangest look. I thought I was being straight forward, and how hard can it be? Who knows what got into her.

Teeeeechnically I was going after the punctuation (is that a component of grammar, then? I'm asking)...really, it was just a dig at the weird locations of said hyphens. Like, did they just fall out of the sky and land there? Ellipses can also mean a trailing off, which is how I usually use them...bit I don't take Slashdot so seriously, so, it really doesn't matter...