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Protecting My Daughter's Notebook?
ctwxman asks: "My daughter enters college in the fall. This past week she spent three days on campus for orientation... and had her iPod stolen! That got me to thinking about protecting her brand new laptop. I'll physically lock it to something immovable -- that's simple. However, I've got a website and it's got a log. Is there a way to make her laptop quietly 'phone home' every time it boots so I can get the IP address and always see where it is? Her machine runs XP, but knowing Slashdot, suggestions for all OSes will be appreciated."
The problem isn't that she's toting around a piece of technology worth atleast $1000, or that she had her iPod stolen by some university student. It's not even that you bought her an iPod and a brand new laptop and then sent her off on her own. That is, with a credit card of course, because you never know when you might encounter a cute pair of shoes that you must have, oh and then that panda-skin purse to match. Wouldn't it just be easier to track her by her over-priced cell phone, or the RFID tags in her designer clothes?
The real problem is that she doesn't belong in university, but your wallet didn't understand that. $50,000 later, and a sudden switch of admissions officers, and you've just unloaded your snotty, 18-year-old mistake on someone else.
he goes off insulting a parent like that because he feels like it - it's his post, don't read it if you don't want to. He likely made this long model-train-of-thought because he's an engineer like most of the smarter people in society are. It is a possibility and a hypothesis - based on valid data inputs and hence more likely than a random outcome.
Where do you get off using Jesus Christ in your pile of flame is offensive to me. Jesus and I used to be good friends. In fact, he used to be my copilot until I crashed the plane while he was sucking my dick. We were stranded on an iced mountain top for several months of hungry ass-sex but eventually I had to eat him. Fuck your whole extended family of retards, fuck your kids and your parents, fuck all your friends and coworkers, fuck your housepets, fuck your dishes, fuck your lawnmower, fuck the software you used to make this post, fuck your entire belief system, fuck your uid, fuck every post you've made here, and, of course, fuck you. Well, I brobably wouldn't want to fuck you, you disfigured fat sack of crap. go fuck yourself.