You're seriously telling me that there are no other numbers on the PCB? Granted sometimes they put the serial on a sticker that falls off, especially older cards.
That, and MACs aren't a serial number per se (granted blocks of them are assigned to specific manufacturers, but there's a reason that network hardware devices always have S/Ns in addition to MACs), they are ADDRESSES. They are SUPPOSED TO BE KNOWN. It makes no sense that people would freak out about somebody knowing the MAC address of their wireless but not the street address on their mailbox. Oh noes! Somebody might use their 31337 h4x0ring skillz to send me spam and phishing attacks to my interweb mail! Like they don't already? Somebody could send a pipe bomb to your physical mailbox too. Better hide that address, oh wait, you can't.
Stop scaring the sheeple. I know it's kind of fun, but it's bad in the long term. That's how we get stupid legislation like banning wardriving or public access points/mandatory encryption.
Which is exactly why back when I was wardriving I used an 18 dbi omni so I didn't have to be close to anything and did it at 2 am when everybody was asleep.
Not to mention I religiously carry an H&K USP myself.
Not all wireless routers have the wireless turned on by default. Beyond that, I would just use netstumbler to find the the MAC of the wireless side of the router;-P
Wigle has been doing this for years and years. They're also almost completely open and cross platform.
Besides, if anybody wants to know where somebody is, there are a lot easier ways than trying to link a an address from the media access control layer to some coordinate on a map.
People should listen to John Lott. The only effective defense against homicidal individuals with guns is a similarly armed resistance. If teachers were armed, no school shooting with be even a fraction as lethal as Columbine or Virginia Tech.
People need to be more practical about firearms. They are a pre-industrial technology, and as such the genie will never go back into the bottle. The fact is any reasonably intelligent person can make guns and powder for themselves. They're just tubes in which to put powder and projectiles essentially, and as such all controls on them only effect the harmless and the innocent. Gun control has always and will always fail to get arms out of the hands of criminals. It's not a problem that can be legislated away.
The sooner that teachers and other responsible adults in private life can be regularly armed, the safer and more polite the whole of society will become. Violent crime in every state that has enacted concealed carry legislation has either remained the same or decreased. Meanwhile those urban areas that remain most hostile to self-defense, such as Chicago and Washington DC, are in constant competition for the dubious title of having the most murders each year.
And before anybody trots out the thin blue line, consider how many people have died cowering with a phone in their hands waiting for a police response. When a lethal threat is in your face, you don't have half an hour for the police to show up. When a lethal threat is already in the same building as you are, you'll live or die in a matter of minutes. Not to mention in drastic scenarios like Columbine or Virginia Tech, the police spend a lot of time simply gathering intel and organizing. They don't even move in to situations like those for excruciatingly long periods of time.
Privately armed individuals stopped the rampage at the Appalachian Law School, but the anti-self-defense media did their best to cover that up, just in case anybody with sense was paying attention and might connect the dots.
What it proves is that you're not qualified to judge any part of this situation. Firaxis was valued at $26 million when it was sold to Take Two, and as a company has sold over 8 million games in its Civilization series alone. Some others you're forgetting are Bethesda of Elder Scrolls and Fallout 3, Big Huge of Rise of Nations, Epic of the Unreal series, Take Two/2K Boston of Bioshock, etc.
I really don't know what kind of crazy you are to be this antagonistic about something this awesome. I really think I got it right the first time, that you're some loyalist to some local event, and you're afraid that PAX is going to rock the socks off of everybody over there so hard that whatever event you like is going to wither or be forced to change, just like E4A and DragonFlight.
I've been attending PAX since it began in 2004. It is the best show of its kind on earth, that's why it's been growing by double every year with almost 0 budgeted for advertising. I plan my entire year around it and would have to be hospitalized or dead to miss it. The East Coast will come to welcome and love its new game expo overlords.
I think you're afraid that PAX East will kick the ass of everything over there right now. Might your name be Ed Fleming?
No concerts and no developers? What are you smoking? What sound, rational basis do you have for believing that PA Inc. would abandon all the things that have made the PAX model a success in the first place? Robert Khoo has already said the developers are not only on board, they were a force in bringing this about. Perhaps you forget about the East Coast game companies like Firaxis?
Have you even been to PAX? Ever met Jerry and Mike (Tycho and Gabe)?
There's going to be an East Coast PAX because metric ftons of people begged on their knees for it. It will have all the same features for what I would wager will be the same cost. How is that profiteering? Sources on the inside of PA Inc. have said that at their current, dirt-cheap ticket price they only about break even. I don't see how doing the same thing in another place that other people have requested is somehow magically sleazy. There's no sound ethical rationale for that.
This just in, All Crime is a superset of Murder. Do you need a Venn diagram? So Sweden probably has more property crime or something, even disregarding the theft perpetrated by taxes. Besides which, we were talking about correlations of wealth distribution and crime, not breakdowns and comparisons of crime types.
Nationmaster is a dangerous petard, here's the hoist for you. You'll not that the US with the greatest imbalance has less crime than Sweden with the greatest balance. By statistical standards there is very little correlation between crime and wealth distribution. Kidnapping doesn't seem to be well tracked by various sources I've looked at, so it's hard to say about that specifically.
80s huh? I suppose the 108 people kidnapped in Sao Paulo in 1998 alone were just imagining things? I'll grant that the kidnapping situation in Brazil has improved a lot, but it's far from 'erased'.
It is neither the War on Drugs nor "class inequality". While I think the War on Drugs is mostly retarded, it's not as though if that were to stop tomorrow kidnapping would stop with it. There's no correlation at all. And as for class inequality, please. That exists everywhere on earth, and the wealthiest people sure as hell don't live in Mexico.
Things must be a lot worse in Mexico than I thought.
Somebody hasn't been paying attention. Kidnapping is an entire industry in countries south of the Rio Grande, especially in Mexico and Brazil, and has been for at least a decade.
Actually Penny Arcade eXpo is the new big dog in the hemisphere, and deservedly so. I've gone every year and it's unbelievably awesome. This year's is only a week away... and expecting ~55k attendees.
I'm not surprised that TV for babies would slow development. The human mind only really develops when faced with challenges and problems. Children's TV tries to do this but they worry far too much about it being 'too hard' or 'frustrating' so it ends up being horrible mindless drivel.
Polygamy is really only effective as an improvement to procreative capacity. Polyandry is probably the only reliable way to improve the satisfaction of women.
I wish somebody would mod your posts up, they're probably some the most interesting, informative, and relevant ones in this discussion, but you're left to languish in AC obscurity.
I would have to say it's the separation of the thing done from the person doing. It's ok in my mind to say wow, the stuff this crazy person wrote is hilarious. However it would not be ok to simply say it is hilarious that somebody is crazy.
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You're seriously telling me that there are no other numbers on the PCB? Granted sometimes they put the serial on a sticker that falls off, especially older cards.
That, and MACs aren't a serial number per se (granted blocks of them are assigned to specific manufacturers, but there's a reason that network hardware devices always have S/Ns in addition to MACs), they are ADDRESSES. They are SUPPOSED TO BE KNOWN. It makes no sense that people would freak out about somebody knowing the MAC address of their wireless but not the street address on their mailbox. Oh noes! Somebody might use their 31337 h4x0ring skillz to send me spam and phishing attacks to my interweb mail! Like they don't already? Somebody could send a pipe bomb to your physical mailbox too. Better hide that address, oh wait, you can't.
Stop scaring the sheeple. I know it's kind of fun, but it's bad in the long term. That's how we get stupid legislation like banning wardriving or public access points/mandatory encryption.
Which is exactly why back when I was wardriving I used an 18 dbi omni so I didn't have to be close to anything and did it at 2 am when everybody was asleep.
Not to mention I religiously carry an H&K USP myself.
Not all wireless routers have the wireless turned on by default. Beyond that, I would just use netstumbler to find the the MAC of the wireless side of the router ;-P
Wigle has been doing this for years and years. They're also almost completely open and cross platform. Besides, if anybody wants to know where somebody is, there are a lot easier ways than trying to link a an address from the media access control layer to some coordinate on a map.
People should listen to John Lott. The only effective defense against homicidal individuals with guns is a similarly armed resistance. If teachers were armed, no school shooting with be even a fraction as lethal as Columbine or Virginia Tech.
People need to be more practical about firearms. They are a pre-industrial technology, and as such the genie will never go back into the bottle. The fact is any reasonably intelligent person can make guns and powder for themselves. They're just tubes in which to put powder and projectiles essentially, and as such all controls on them only effect the harmless and the innocent. Gun control has always and will always fail to get arms out of the hands of criminals. It's not a problem that can be legislated away.
The sooner that teachers and other responsible adults in private life can be regularly armed, the safer and more polite the whole of society will become. Violent crime in every state that has enacted concealed carry legislation has either remained the same or decreased. Meanwhile those urban areas that remain most hostile to self-defense, such as Chicago and Washington DC, are in constant competition for the dubious title of having the most murders each year.
And before anybody trots out the thin blue line, consider how many people have died cowering with a phone in their hands waiting for a police response. When a lethal threat is in your face, you don't have half an hour for the police to show up. When a lethal threat is already in the same building as you are, you'll live or die in a matter of minutes. Not to mention in drastic scenarios like Columbine or Virginia Tech, the police spend a lot of time simply gathering intel and organizing. They don't even move in to situations like those for excruciatingly long periods of time.
Privately armed individuals stopped the rampage at the Appalachian Law School, but the anti-self-defense media did their best to cover that up, just in case anybody with sense was paying attention and might connect the dots.
What it proves is that you're not qualified to judge any part of this situation. Firaxis was valued at $26 million when it was sold to Take Two, and as a company has sold over 8 million games in its Civilization series alone. Some others you're forgetting are Bethesda of Elder Scrolls and Fallout 3, Big Huge of Rise of Nations, Epic of the Unreal series, Take Two/2K Boston of Bioshock, etc.
I really don't know what kind of crazy you are to be this antagonistic about something this awesome. I really think I got it right the first time, that you're some loyalist to some local event, and you're afraid that PAX is going to rock the socks off of everybody over there so hard that whatever event you like is going to wither or be forced to change, just like E4A and DragonFlight.
I've been attending PAX since it began in 2004. It is the best show of its kind on earth, that's why it's been growing by double every year with almost 0 budgeted for advertising. I plan my entire year around it and would have to be hospitalized or dead to miss it. The East Coast will come to welcome and love its new game expo overlords.
That was obviously a sarcastic reply to the parent.
I think you're afraid that PAX East will kick the ass of everything over there right now. Might your name be Ed Fleming?
No concerts and no developers? What are you smoking? What sound, rational basis do you have for believing that PA Inc. would abandon all the things that have made the PAX model a success in the first place? Robert Khoo has already said the developers are not only on board, they were a force in bringing this about. Perhaps you forget about the East Coast game companies like Firaxis?
Have you even been to PAX? Ever met Jerry and Mike (Tycho and Gabe)? There's going to be an East Coast PAX because metric ftons of people begged on their knees for it. It will have all the same features for what I would wager will be the same cost. How is that profiteering? Sources on the inside of PA Inc. have said that at their current, dirt-cheap ticket price they only about break even. I don't see how doing the same thing in another place that other people have requested is somehow magically sleazy. There's no sound ethical rationale for that.
Uh, last year's Omegathon featured Halo 3. Before it was released. Probably pretty major for the publisher.
This just in, All Crime is a superset of Murder. Do you need a Venn diagram? So Sweden probably has more property crime or something, even disregarding the theft perpetrated by taxes. Besides which, we were talking about correlations of wealth distribution and crime, not breakdowns and comparisons of crime types.
That would make something of a funny Monty Python sketch...
Nationmaster is a dangerous petard, here's the hoist for you. You'll not that the US with the greatest imbalance has less crime than Sweden with the greatest balance. By statistical standards there is very little correlation between crime and wealth distribution. Kidnapping doesn't seem to be well tracked by various sources I've looked at, so it's hard to say about that specifically.
Wow. Two people. They managed to beat out Ukraine. I am shocked that my point is so soundly disproved.
80s huh? I suppose the 108 people kidnapped in Sao Paulo in 1998 alone were just imagining things? I'll grant that the kidnapping situation in Brazil has improved a lot, but it's far from 'erased'.
It is neither the War on Drugs nor "class inequality". While I think the War on Drugs is mostly retarded, it's not as though if that were to stop tomorrow kidnapping would stop with it. There's no correlation at all. And as for class inequality, please. That exists everywhere on earth, and the wealthiest people sure as hell don't live in Mexico.
Things must be a lot worse in Mexico than I thought.
Somebody hasn't been paying attention. Kidnapping is an entire industry in countries south of the Rio Grande, especially in Mexico and Brazil, and has been for at least a decade.
I want a certified sushi organization. There's money to be made!
I actually think that's a good idea... and good for the consumer.
Actually Penny Arcade eXpo is the new big dog in the hemisphere, and deservedly so. I've gone every year and it's unbelievably awesome. This year's is only a week away... and expecting ~55k attendees.
Talk about the last nail in the ESA's coffin. Goodbye E3.
I'm not surprised that TV for babies would slow development. The human mind only really develops when faced with challenges and problems. Children's TV tries to do this but they worry far too much about it being 'too hard' or 'frustrating' so it ends up being horrible mindless drivel.
Polygamy is really only effective as an improvement to procreative capacity. Polyandry is probably the only reliable way to improve the satisfaction of women.
I wish somebody would mod your posts up, they're probably some the most interesting, informative, and relevant ones in this discussion, but you're left to languish in AC obscurity.
I would have to say it's the separation of the thing done from the person doing. It's ok in my mind to say wow, the stuff this crazy person wrote is hilarious. However it would not be ok to simply say it is hilarious that somebody is crazy.