To change biometric pw, practice gurning.
DON'T: change hair style or color
grow/shave/trim mustache or beard
cut yourself while shaving
get colored contact lenses
How about rendering the broken parts in red, or outlining them in red? If the maintainer of a page got a few emails complaining about the EXACT part of the site/page that was broken, I'd imagine it would be more likely to be fixed than if a vague "it's broken" was received.
Posting: if you can have the captcha played as an mp3, wouldn't a bot written to use Dragon Dictate or a similar package, be able to pass as human?
Old 5.25 inch floppy drives are worth taking apart for the cool looking drive motor windings. Basically, a radial arangement of coils,
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-0- /|\
above which the spinning hub is mounted. It looks a lot like a WWI era radial engine. The hub has a toroidal magnet mounted to the edge -- not very strong, but enough to hold a few papers to a fridge. The same drives -- possibly 3.5 in drives as well, have head positioning stepper motors with a fairly strong magnet shaped like two stacked gears. ( --||-- ) Just perfect for holding dentist picks, jeweler screwdrivers, and jeweler files.
Hard drives have small radial coils glued to the frame underneath the disk hub. Removed, they would make cool ( although a bit heavy ) earrings. The hubs have corresponding toroidal magnets, also good for fridges if the bottom of the hub ends flush with the magnets.
A robot using hard drive head positioning arms for legs would be cool.
Bill Gates' primary goal is power, not money. Money is just one means of keeping score. Remember, his motto is "A computer in every household, running Microsoft software", not "The wealthiest man in the world".
$99 seems OK to me as well, provided that sub-version upgrades are downloadable for free. As a long-time Amiga (and Photogenics) user, one thing I miss under Linux is ARexx. Have you found anything of equivalent functionality for Linux? The ability to call ANY program, even full GUI apps, from any other running program, and request specific services from it, is something Linux seems to be missing. What do the Rexx hooks in Photogenics/Linux call, if anything?
I don't recall finance being so HUGELY important until the Reagan admin dropped the FCC "Equal Time" law, which required TV stations to give equal time to all candidates, even if they had to give the air time for free! This had two effects. First, we heard from candidates we would never have otherwise known about. OK, so the Consumer Party never went anywhere, and LaRouche turned out to be a nut, but it was still interesting to hear from them. Second, and most important, TV stations refused more than a limited amount of expensive, paid advertising, because of the losses they would incur giving free air time to the fringe groups. This in turn kept candidate's financial needs more reasonable.
We were told that killing the equal time rule would give us more and better political discussions. Yeah. I've seen mud slinging and rapidly escalating campaign expenses instead. Bring back the equal time rule, and we'll get some moderation back again, without having troublesome first amendment issues complicating an already difficult problem.
When Russia was setting up for its first real elections, I read we were sending campaign consultants to help their candidates out. Am I the only one who suspected that simply nuking them would have been kinder? At least radioactivity has a known half-life.
"With Windows, or even a Mac, you just don't have enough configuration power to configure the complexities away."
At Ease for the Mac, commonly used in K-12 educational settings, hides the entire desktop if you want, and replaces it with configurable buttons to run just the software the admin chooses. A password can be required to get to finder and do OS stuff. I have never found misplaced or nested system folders on Macs that were protected with this.
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Have the cover etched at
www.etchstar.com
with something like this:
http://www.etchstar.com/art/863/Zombie-Medusa
--- NOT cute at ALL.
To change biometric pw, practice gurning. DON'T: change hair style or color grow/shave/trim mustache or beard cut yourself while shaving get colored contact lenses
... Is there a class of scientists getting paranoid that hamsters might take over the world if we let our guard down?!
No, not hamsters -- LAB MICE!!!
Much the same thing happened on Easter Island -- tropical paradise reduced to near desolation by overuse of resources.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/easter.html
Hope the security on these are good, otherwise...
Grommit!! Help!! It's the WRONG PANTS!!!
How about rendering the broken parts in red, or outlining them in red?
If the maintainer of a page got a few emails complaining about the EXACT
part of the site/page that was broken, I'd imagine it would be more likely
to be fixed than if a vague "it's broken" was received.
Posting: if you can have the captcha played as an mp3, wouldn't a bot
written to use Dragon Dictate or a similar package, be able to pass as human?
Old 5.25 inch floppy drives are worth taking apart for the cool looking drive motor windings. Basically, a radial arangement of coils,
/|\
\|/
-0-
above which the spinning hub is mounted. It looks a lot like a WWI era radial engine. The hub has a toroidal magnet mounted to the edge -- not very strong, but enough to hold a few papers to a fridge. The same drives -- possibly 3.5 in drives as well, have head positioning stepper motors with a fairly strong magnet shaped like two stacked gears. ( --||-- ) Just perfect for holding dentist picks, jeweler screwdrivers, and jeweler files. Hard drives have small radial coils glued to the frame underneath the disk hub. Removed, they would make cool ( although a bit heavy ) earrings. The hubs have corresponding toroidal magnets, also good for fridges if the bottom of the hub ends flush with the magnets. A robot using hard drive head positioning arms for legs would be cool.
Bill Gates' primary goal is power, not money. Money is just one means of keeping score. Remember, his motto is "A computer in every household, running Microsoft software", not "The wealthiest man in the world".
"To steal from one is plagiarism; to steal from many is research."
-- wasn't this a line from "Lobachevsky" on an old Tom Lehrer album?
$99 seems OK to me as well, provided that sub-version upgrades are downloadable for free. As a long-time Amiga (and Photogenics) user, one thing I miss under Linux is ARexx. Have you found anything of equivalent functionality for Linux? The ability to call ANY program, even full GUI apps, from any other running program, and request specific services from it, is something Linux seems to be missing. What do the Rexx hooks in Photogenics/Linux call, if anything?
We were told that killing the equal time rule would give us more and better political discussions. Yeah. I've seen mud slinging and rapidly escalating campaign expenses instead. Bring back the equal time rule, and we'll get some moderation back again, without having troublesome first amendment issues complicating an already difficult problem.
When Russia was setting up for its first real elections, I read we were sending campaign consultants to help their candidates out. Am I the only one who suspected that simply nuking them would have been kinder? At least radioactivity has a known half-life.
At Ease for the Mac, commonly used in K-12 educational settings, hides the entire desktop if you want, and replaces it with configurable buttons to run just the software the admin chooses. A password can be required to get to finder and do OS stuff. I have never found misplaced or nested system folders on Macs that were protected with this.