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Or, you could get a monitor mirror, so you can see those users creeping up before they can see anything on your monitor. Works great for the boss creeping up behind you too.

The "looking over your shoulder" problem is more difficult to deal with than you might think. More than once I've had issues with users stalking up behind me and reading my screen before I even knew they were there.

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dollars to do so. The American Council on Education (ACE) filed an appeal with the circuit court last week against the new rules that Carnegie Mellon Chief Information Officer Joel Smith referred to as "definitely an overkill."

Under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) of 1994, telephone companies must pay to maintain their systems so that federal agents can easily obtain wiretaps. The most recent orders under this act, issued by the FCC, asks that institutions providing Internet access also reengineer their systems accordingly within the next 18 months. Carnegie Mellon is one such institution. With a subpoena and the flip of a switch, federal officials could have access to e-mail accounts and online information of any student at compliant universities.

"The Department of Justice wants 24/7 access, whenever they need it, and they want remote access. We find that too extremely burdensome in terms of money, staff, and technology," said Maureen McFalls, Director of Government Relations for Carnegie Mellon and the coordinator of Carnegie Mellon's response to this issue. According to an ACE press release, the cost to universities could be upwards of $7 billion, or at least $450 extra on each student's tuition bill.

"Burdensome is really the best word for the new rules," McFalls added.

"Colleges and universities have a long history of working with law enforcement agencies pursuing criminal investigations and are proud of our working relationship," said Sheldon E. Steinbach, ACE vice-president and general counsel, in the same press release. "When you evaluate efficiency versus the incredible cost of compliance, we just dont think it makes a lot of sense."

According to the new rules set forth under CALEA, federal agencies want to be able to access a private institution's network from almost any location at almost any time. Currently, universities take special precautions to make this kind of remote access very difficult, in order to prevent online crime.

"We do recognize the need to be in compliance and cooperate with law enforcement," said Smith, "but it happens very rarely that they need this kind of access, here or nationally." According to a report from Educause, a nonprofit organization that deals with online issues in higher education, there were 3468 wiretaps ordered by local, state, national, and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) courts in 2004. The report also stated that the number or wiretaps on campuses is extremely small.

So how is Carnegie Mellon's administration reacting to these new proposed regulations? The school plans "to work through the appropriate channels for the University to make our views known, just as a matter of fact, that it would be very costly for every student in every college," said University Provost Mark Kamlet.

"We are going to review the AAU [Association for American Universities] and ACE actions and perhaps take our own if we feel that we may have something different or more important to say than t

Check out the USB version: http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5de e/

It's just the beginning of a new product line from Sony

I don't want anyone choosing for me. I think Debian is not the kind of comunity to choose for anyone (maybe that's why they have so many packages and developers). You can always install Ubuntu on your machine and get an Operating System with the default configurations, but will you stick with gedit (the text editor that comes default with ubuntu)? By the way, I think you're talking more about Perl than Python don't you? http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/oreillyshirts/5bc 2/back/

Then get out your credit card

No, it's STandFord University.

Have you seen their T-skirt?

http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/bags/7017/ These work well, it'll hold atleast a 15.4" widescreen notebook without a problem. it has a compartment at the top for an mp3/cd player with a hole through the back for the headphone cord.

ThinkGeek :: I Hate Jack Thompson T-Shirts
Very trendy!

I'm totally surprised that they OSTG didn't pimp their LED bulb from thinkgeek. 35 bucks is a little steep though.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/7aa8/


Of course, you could always make your own.
http://www.etgtech.com/update/products/super_flux. htm

Just wish they made a left hand only keyboard. That would be cool.

They do. Not that I have ever tried one, but they do look interesting.

Alternatively, there are also Dvorak keyboard layouts optimized for one handed typing too. I haven't tried those either, but the basic idea (moving all the commonly used keys to one side of the keyboard) is pretty sound.

As you know, eighteen years ago I commenced efforts against the entertainment industry's illegal distribution of adult entertainment to minors. That fledgling effort resulted in the first decency fines ever levied by the FCC.

The broadcasters struck back with Bar complaints. One happy result of that is that The Bar's insurance carrier had to pay me money damages for The Bar's having taken the bait offered by the SLAPP bar complainants. SLAPP is the acronym for "strategic litigation against public participation." Filing such a complaint violates certain federal civil rights statutes and state laws as well.

I hardly see any relevance here, but it looks like he is trying to declaire the anti-SLAPP law as illegal. Given that filing bogus lawsuits and/or complaints (or threatening to do so) in the first place is illegal anyway...

Most likely, he is smug from his previous victory where the SLAPP lawsuits were themselves bogus. In this case, it is different.

I hear today, then, from the Internet-based "enthusiast video game press" that "gamers" are going to file or have filed new SLAPP Bar complaints against me. Here's why:

An outfit in Seattle called "Think Geek" is marketing a t-shirt emblazoned across the front of which are the words "I Hate Jack Thompson." [...]

The parent company is an outfit called Penny Arcade. In the last several days, the folks at Think Geek provided, improperly, Penny Arcade with my email address, which had not been widely circulated (I had to get rid of the last one because of death threats and the like).

This is half-way through the response - either his argument is going to be very thin, or he was just doing padding to make his letter seem important. In any case, ThinkGeek is based in Fairfax, specifically in the state of "VA", whatever that is. Think Geek does have a business relationship with Penny Arcade, but if it is anything like ownership, he has his facts backwards, as the Penny Arcade merchandise is hosted on ThinkGeek (and aside from a few advertisements, Penny Arcade contains no Think Geek content.)

BTW, JT posted his e-mail address - the first on the StopKill website, and the other in the WHOIS database for the StopKill DNS. It is common knowledge - if he doesn't want people distributing his e-mail, he can get someone else to take up the job as a technical and administrative contact (and not send e-mails to comic strips that make fun of him.)

I have written the Police Chief in Seattle and asked that their department investigate this matter, as I believe this constitutes a criminal act by Penny Arcade. Penny Arcade has thus ramped up the harassment, and now there is a campaign among gamers to go to The Florida Bar to "discipline" me for trying to protect myself and my family, as well as my right, under the First Amendment to try to get the video game industry to start acting like something other than a bunch of sociopaths.

He's declaring First Admendment for harassment and filing a false police report. (Actually, he did libel since he sent it to everyone other than Penny Arcade.)

Note that Penny Arcade can

While this clock http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/lights/788e/ doesn't quite do all of the things that you list in your post, it does do quite a few. I'm currently thinking of getting one for my hubby and I.

Check this out: the Neverlate 7-day Alarm Clock!

What? I can't believed they dropped the Ms-WI (Microsoft Wife Licnense)

Restrictive license for Wives/Girlfriends that only allows online purchases from Victorias Secret, Flora Lee, and Think Geek!

The Nerve!!

Here's a product that gets two out of four from think geek. Otherwise, I suggest putting an FM tuner card in a computer and programming the thing yourself...

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.

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From: squee burger
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Hi,
You are a moron.
Please see -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moron
Also I like http://www.thinkgeek.com/pennyarcade/gamer/7a15/
Thanks,
Have a good day.

damn.

Almost what you want. But not quite old enough.

There are much easier ways to rip people off than CREATING this hardware, test it, ...

I would hate to be locked out of my house because of a power cut (battery charge doesn't last forever), or ignored because I'm drenched (and can't be recognised).

So provide the user with a means of powering the device aside from land-line power. The lock on ThinkGeek has external contacts for a 9-volt battery in case it dies. Something like that would work fine. Instead of keeping a key under the mat, keep a 9-volt battery there...

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/77af/

Identix makes a Biometric PC-Card:

http://www.identix.com/products/pro_info_fp_biotou ch_pc.html

Others:

http://www.secure-it.com/products/umatch/via253.ht m
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/6518/

That would seem to be what you're looking for for a laptop. The Biometric sensor slides in and out of the card leaving it perfectly flush with the side of the laptop. This should help avoid accidental breakage.

My experience comes mostly from the Identix Optical sensors. Problems:
-Optical Biometrics can be bypassed via simple gummibear technology ;). Google it up if you don't believe it :).

-Optical sensors are notoriously finicky. People with poor fingerprint definition - people who work with their hands, as in a garden (earth is abrasive) or workout with weights (sometimes the weight bars can be abrasive) might have problems getting their fingerprints read. Same goes for dry skin, and for some reason, black people. Not trying to be racist here or anything, we did a pilot at work a few years back and 9/10 black people had problems getting their prints read by the system.

-Anything that messes with your Windows GINA authentication system can cause problems. I've seen the Identix product freak out if it couldn't find an internet connection, or a domain controller, or the internet connection was half baked, etc. It was very very random. May have been solved with their latest service packs.

Finally, you're still best off applying some form of encryption to your files.

Good luck,

-Jack Ash

This is exactly the kind of situation that leads to things like the T-Virus.

Time to brush up on a little reading.

This is a great speech for engineers.
Commencement address by Steve Jobs on June 12, 2005

Here's an interesting book about a little company called ID Software
Masters of Doom

Note to author, the glass is half full. You're less than two years into (possibly) a long career and already very jaded. Open your eyes and try to learn more about your situation instead of pointing fingers at why the world has wronged you...

• Street-level maps of the city and surrounding regions.
  
• Medical history, for those with medical issues.
  
• Any actual medications that have a decent enough shelf life to store for a while.
  
• A pair of contacts or glasses if you need them.
  
• Dust mask (at least).
  
• Minimal first aid kit.
  
• As an amateur radio operator I would definitely have a repeater guide to access repeaters while traveling. It's a sure thing the cell service will be down or overloaded. I'd also include a small wide-band receive transceiver, like the Yaesu VX-2R.
  
• You know those kinetic flashlights we see advertised here at Slashdot by ThinkGeek all the time? Definitely one of those.
  
• Ditto with a human-powered radio.
  
• Some sort of food (granola bars at least).
  
• A water purifier. There are water purifiers that are like a thick straw. You can put it in any water source and as you suck water through the "straw" it is purified.
  
• A couple "space blankets".
  
• A hard-copy of War of the Worlds. Putting it on the USB drive doesn't count.
  
  
  Dan East

Instead of a cell phone hand crank, how about a cell phone that recharges by shaking it, like those "Forever Flashlights" that you shake a magnet through a metal coil? No extra accessories and the recharging mechanism is hidden!

then I get to make it bulkier just to keep it looking nice, but you have to remove the cover anyway just to dock the damn thing.

You need to get the iGuy. You don't need to remove the whole case to dock it, just, er, pull his pants down.

then I get to make it bulkier just to keep it looking nice, but you have to remove the cover anyway just to dock the damn thing.

You need to get the iGuy. You don't need to remove the whole case to dock it, just, er, pull his pants down.

does this remind anyone of this?

That's true. A true hacker could, however, combine the Lazer Trip Wire, the Room Defender, and the Pan/Tilt Network Camera. (I think they used to have a face-tracking camera, which would have been perfect, but it doesn't seem to be there now.)

That's true. A true hacker could, however, combine the Lazer Trip Wire, the Room Defender, and the Pan/Tilt Network Camera. (I think they used to have a face-tracking camera, which would have been perfect, but it doesn't seem to be there now.)

That's true. A true hacker could, however, combine the Lazer Trip Wire, the Room Defender, and the Pan/Tilt Network Camera. (I think they used to have a face-tracking camera, which would have been perfect, but it doesn't seem to be there now.)

Thinkgeek offers one that shoots foam discs.

There was a time I thought Romero was interesting: before I actually learned anything about him and just knew he was part of ID. Talk about letting a little success go to your head... he's like a warning label for the entire concept of ego overtaking your rational thought processes.

No kidding! I just finished reading Masters of Doom and didn't realize until then how much of a prick John Romero really was. For those who haven't read the book - it's a "rise and fall of Id Software" book. It's interesting that after DOOM was released, Romero clearly became more interested in playing games than writing them. He pretty much left all the game-writing to John Carmack. The book spells out how Romero was a better programmer in the beginning, but Carmack quickly surpassed him and left Romero behind. Pretty much because Romero lost focus.

These days, Romero is a big hype machine. Diakatana, anyone? Ha ha ha ha!

Just get him one if these.

No, for higher geek value you should have bought one at http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5a9f/ three years before Sharper Image had them. And yes, it's clear and you can see the inside workings.

yep too late ...

and as calling people arent suspicious enough to you, watch out for the smokers too, thinkgeek has a "spy camera cigarette lighter" for sale for a long time now (link: http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/7886/ ).

aren't people just a bit too paranoid about these things ?

my phone has a camera too but i use it really very rarely (and i probably would something more comfortable to copy documents, wouldn't you ?)

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For the sole purpose of listening at music, it seems to do the job. I don't have this gizmo, I rather than use a special cassette with a stereo jack to my Zaurus 6000-SL and it's working fine.

What would be better than a USB jack IMHO, a CF slot or SD slot to insert 2GB of music on a post stamp directly in a Ogg/MP3 player.

Wooosh

...until we hear someone screaming:
Soylent Shell is People !

Shit like this is proof positive that democracies and republics are goddamn shams, because damn near everyone is goddamn stupid and their combined ineptitude ends up fucking the whole thing up.

None of us is as dumb as all of us.

Where can I get one of those?

Right here.

Can I get one customized for my wife... pre-bookmarked with links designed to spend my money

Or maybe one pre-bookmarked with sites I wished she would visit more often.
Victoria's Secret... I approve
Flora Lee... Get smelling good and soft.
Think Geek... Gift ideas for me...

The Coolermaster Stacker has 11 bays http://www.coolermaster.com/index.php?LT=english&L anguage_s=2&url_place=product_list&p_class=614 I want to get one and put eleven http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/ezbake.shtml If my calculations are correct I could output enough baked goods to open a small bakery.

One of these babies: http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/6908/

mini-fridge

http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/6ad2/

Personally, i've always liked the idea of putting an LCD screen that can pop out the front of your drive bay...

This is a very cool waste of space and you don't have to worry about DRM.