the common thief already knows that you have to wipe a stolen laptop. Or at least the vast majority do.
When I was younger and dumber I helped some common theives wipe/reinstall. They, like you said, either didn't know the login pw and knew that it had to be wiped to get around that, or they knew that they couldn't sell it at most(not all) pawnshops if they couldn't boot it to to the dtop to show that it worked.
I quit doing it because I came to a point in my life where I had too much to lose to mess with silliness like that. And the happy ending is that I heard thru the grapevine a few months ago that they got lowjacked and caught.
because I really like their business model. But I had Cricket and it really, really sucked. I never got more than 2 bars anywhere, text messaging would act just plain weird at times (would send the same message twice, would receive the same message twice, and sometimes it would take HOURS between when I sent a message and when the person I sent it to got it). Also, the phone I got thru them was a complete piece of garbage. I had sprint before
If you have had a good experience with them, please reply stating so. I don't want to bash them, this was just my experience with them.
You can't (which I am sure you already knew). The closest you can come is the travelmate 4720, which is about $800. You can get any number of laptops for $500, but none that I can find with a 13" screen. I'm sure that nobody that is responsible for deciding what specs a laptop will have view a smaller screen as a feature.
Also, small form factor aside, those of us who want an EEE also want it because it's pretty goddamned cool. I'll admit it.
at the risk of being modded flamebait again when I didn't mean it as a flamebait at all, I have to agree.
You(and everyone else)has a body that is magnificently designed to handle infection. Wash your hands, teach your kids to wash their hands, and don't sweat it.
Maybe I just have the constitution of a mule, but I don't give a goddamn about germs and don't really get sick, and when I do I seem to get it half as bad for half as long.
or had it....he broke the headstock off being a a rockstar one night.
It was heavy as hell and sounded like crapshitdoodypoop. Could have been the cheap electronics it had I suppose.
Although I admit that I am an old man now and mainly play acoustic, but I don't think that the wood selection of an electric instrument makes as much of a difference as one might think.
I'm not at all saying that you could make one out of plywood, just that I think the electronics have more to do with the tone than the wood does.
I own a Les Paul 1960 reissue, and a complete pos Aria pro 2 that I learned to play on. I replaced the pickup in the Aria and now they both make a tone that I am happy with.
NOD32 is pretty good about not being intrusive/using up resources. Whenever I fix(wipe/reinstall) someone's horribly infected PC I try to get them to buy it, it will save you the "it keeps popping up saying XYZ" calls.
but like you say if you are careful you really don't need on-access. In 12 years or so of owning a computer that had net access I have only had one virus. Got it from the warez version of one of the Mortal Kombat games (oddly enough...warez, downloaded from the right places, is almost always clean). An update to Starcraft came out and was nice enough to tell me that it couldn't patch the exe because it was the wrong size. Now that's virus protection!
my boss has an XLR that he paid about $90 grand for that is NICE.
The STS and DTS are pretty nice cars also, and the CTS is the 2008 motortrend car of the year.
Now if he was driving an 85 el Dorado, you are certainly correct.
Yet another reason the wife and I would love to move there... It's hard being a middle-class eccentric in a walmart culture.
really?...How?
You could...ummm....not shop at wal-mart?
I would think that the only thing that would make it hard to be a middle class eccentric is that you aren't middle class, or you aren't eccentric. Don't see that wal-mart has anything to do with it.
Or maybe you are just a little class conscious, in which case you probably would be happier in England.
from the GP post:
Unfortunately, a lot of government programs aren't much better
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I work at an insurance claims clearinghouse, and please believe me when I tell you that Medicare and Medicaid (especially) are FAR FAR worse than any commercial insurance company. Remember the scene in the Vegas Vacation movie where Chevy Chase is at the gambling table playing "Guess the Number"? That is trying to get a gov't payer to pay on a claim sometimes. They can sometimes only tell you that it is rejected, not why.
I HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend that anyone that is relatively healthy get high deductible insurance. If you employer doesn't offer it ask them if they can start.
I love the plan I have. Ends up being around $10 a month with what my employer kicks in. The way that it works, if you don't know, is that you have to pay the first $2500(for me, probably varies) of any medical care that you receive in a calendar year. I know that sounds scary, but you get a health savings account that you can deposit to tax free. Put in $100-$150 a month in...don't get sick for a year or two...and you are golden. The best part is that if you have a really bad year...you spend $2500. Once you hit that amount you don't pay a dime for anything. It's kind of odd that it is a great plan for young people (who don't get sick as much) and for the terminally ill (fixed yearly medical costs). You also get the assigned(discounted) price that the insurance company gets, which is significantly cheaper.
Kinda going off topic here, but you should also buy your drugs from India if you are on something that you always have to take. Since the ones you bought at your local pharmacy almost certainly came from there, you won't have problems. Just make CERTAIN that the company you order from is based in the United States. If the company is US based then it is subject to much higher standards of ensuring quality...never order from one based in India.
why is that that I seem to get far more spam written by someone that obviously doesn't speak English as a first language?
I am not arguing the point you make, it just seems odd.
Are there really people dumb enough to click on some of these links? I guess there are or people wouldn't waste their time doing it.
Anyone that watches sports (esp American football) will know when they invent a drug that will make actually make your penis bigger...you won't find out via email...it will be every third commercial during the games.
I have to say first off that I think there are more people watching out for you (esp now that gas is expensive) than there are assholes who think doing stuff like this is funny.
But if you want a monkey to completely lose it's mind, surrond in in a few thousand pounds of steel and wait for the crazy to start. I have never met a regular cyclist that doesn't have dozens of these stories.
I also have several....my favorite:
riding down a 4 lane road that on evenings/weekends changes to a 2 lane road with the outside lanes for parking. I ride this road frequently so I know that if I start at a particular light right when it turns green I won't catch another light if I maintain a certain pace. I can beat cars down this road easily.
I have to ride all the way to the right, between the traffic to my left and the parked cars to the right. Someone pulls up right next to me and starts yelling idiotic shit at me, I turn to tell them to go away....look back in front of me to see a guy halfway out of his Boxster directly in my path....couldn't swerve left without hitting the car...nowhere to go to the right, but it wouldn't have mattered anyway, I was already too close. Slam on the brakes...thankfull the guy jumps back in the car...my handlebars glanced off his side/hip....I, as an object in motion, continued in motion into his door. I bent that damn thing almost all the way around as I crashed thru it, thankfully I walked away with only road rash and needing to buy a new helmet (WEAR A HELMET!!!!!).
The guy called the cops on me...the cops that came said "he has every right to ride his bike there, you should have paid attention before you opened your door." If I had been on the sidewalk and did the exact same thing to the passenger side door...I'd probably have had to pay for it.
I would, but I already posted. These are good points.
I don't even live in a large city in the US...there was a time in my life a few years ago when my car got stolen and I just didn't buy another one. Rode a bicycle everywhere I went...and got looked at like I was from another planet when I told people that I did that.
"you rode here from WHERE?" "it's only 15 miles" "15 MILES!?!?!"
There were places that I just couldn't go on my bike because there was no safe way to get there. This isn't taken into account when planning roads/routes in most cities...esp smaller midwestern/southern cities.
I would also add another point....in most of the US it gets HOT in the summertime (90 something degrees and 90% humidity for most of the summer here)....so probably hot and humid depending on where you are. Where I live if I rode to work in the summertime I would need to take a shower when I got there, which isn't an option.
Hopefully $4 a gallon is changing this....but I hear that gas is expected to go back down to $3 and stay there for a while. I don't think that $3 a gallon hurts enough to spur change. I want to put my tinfoil hat on over this point, but I will resist the urge.
Next up; dumbasses stop racing up to the stop light and actually try other gas-saving measures. That shit drives me CRAZY....someone gets right up on your ass coming off the interstate because you can see that the light is red so you let off the gas to coast to the light.
Drive your car the way you would ride a bicycle people....if you know that you are going to have to stop at point B, then it really doesn't matter if you make it there from point A 15 seconds faster.
Don't get me started on how it should be the law to have 3-5 car lengths between you and the car in front of you at all times when you are on the interstate in an urban area. I have convinced myself that this would solve, or drastically reduce, traffic issues (exlcuding really bad accidents) in all but the largest urban areas.
My fat ass needs to go back to riding my bike everywhere anyway. I did not evolve to handle motorized transport....or a device that I can enter numbers into with a full expectation that someone will knock on my door in about 30 minutes with a pizza for me.
I work with health data, which cannot be sent over the net unencrypted. If I were working with/.ers that wouldn't be a big deal. However, the people that I work with aren't very computer savy.
"zip that file up and encrypt it before you send it to me....oh...okay, right click on it and pick send to, then click compressed folder....you don't see it huh......do you know if you have a program called winzip? No you don't have it or No you don't know?....."
or
"can you fax me that?"
Option 2 wins every time. It's old, but it still has a use.
If Sweden had an industrial base the size of the US's when the Metric system was rolled out you might still be measuring in mils and tums.
I didn't view your post as a troll at all, so please don't take this as one either...but we are Americans...we don't really give a damn what the rest of the world thinks. Laugh all you want.
don't sweat the mod system.....keep posting and you'll get some points and see how it works.
Did you see the BBC played Python all day on Memorial day? I watched it for about 5 hours....haven't watched MP in a long time, laughed my ass off, again.
you ever see the documentary (I think it was on PBS...could be mistaken) about NASA back in the 60's? They asked all these guys that worked there back then about pocket protectors. They almost all said "well, I didn't wear one", and right after they said it they showed a pic of them from back then with a pocket protector....it was really funny.
I thought they looked like they worked at Worst Buy, which did not instill any confidence.
Agree with the point about the practices of your local doctor.
I work for a clearinghouse, my job is to assist them in getting set up to use us. I handle mostly UNIX based systems, you would be astounded at how quickly they will give up their root password. So quickly that I can't help but think that they would tell anyone that called and asked.
I probably say "you really shouldn't do that, it's a HIPAA violation" 5-6 times a day. Also, everyone so quick to champion the HIPPA laws probably doesn't realize that there is really no enforcement arm (although I hear this is about to change).
I would say that the only time you can be sure, or at least feel confident, that your data is protected is while it's being transmitted between the doctor and the clearinghouse(if used), and then the clearinghouse and the insurance company. Just about every clearinghouse/payer is large enough to have an IT staff dedicated to securing the data. Just about every doctor's office is not.
I can say that one thing HIPPA has done is at least put it into the minds of Docotors/Billers that security is an issue. If they know what they need to do, or are willing to spend the money is another issue.
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I am positive that I am not the only slashdotter that thinks they can fix anything with a zip tie.
or you can say 'IE doesn't work well with it' if you'd like.
you only stopped helping criminals because you were too afraid of being caught yourself
That's a bad reason to stop? So if the world were made up entirely of pillars of morality like yourself we wouldn't need any laws?
the common thief already knows that you have to wipe a stolen laptop. Or at least the vast majority do.
When I was younger and dumber I helped some common theives wipe/reinstall. They, like you said, either didn't know the login pw and knew that it had to be wiped to get around that, or they knew that they couldn't sell it at most(not all) pawnshops if they couldn't boot it to to the dtop to show that it worked.
I quit doing it because I came to a point in my life where I had too much to lose to mess with silliness like that. And the happy ending is that I heard thru the grapevine a few months ago that they got lowjacked and caught.
Was about to post along the same lines...thought to search for it first. Immediately what I thought of when I read the description.
they had to use H because we(USA) wouldn't sell them He (rightfully so)
because I really like their business model. But I had Cricket and it really, really sucked. I never got more than 2 bars anywhere, text messaging would act just plain weird at times (would send the same message twice, would receive the same message twice, and sometimes it would take HOURS between when I sent a message and when the person I sent it to got it). Also, the phone I got thru them was a complete piece of garbage. I had sprint before
If you have had a good experience with them, please reply stating so. I don't want to bash them, this was just my experience with them.
so I checked.
You can't (which I am sure you already knew). The closest you can come is the travelmate 4720, which is about $800. You can get any number of laptops for $500, but none that I can find with a 13" screen. I'm sure that nobody that is responsible for deciding what specs a laptop will have view a smaller screen as a feature.
Also, small form factor aside, those of us who want an EEE also want it because it's pretty goddamned cool. I'll admit it.
really.
thank you. Wish I had mod points.
at the risk of being modded flamebait again when I didn't mean it as a flamebait at all, I have to agree.
You(and everyone else)has a body that is magnificently designed to handle infection. Wash your hands, teach your kids to wash their hands, and don't sweat it.
Maybe I just have the constitution of a mule, but I don't give a goddamn about germs and don't really get sick, and when I do I seem to get it half as bad for half as long.
or had it....he broke the headstock off being a a rockstar one night.
It was heavy as hell and sounded like crapshitdoodypoop. Could have been the cheap electronics it had I suppose.
Although I admit that I am an old man now and mainly play acoustic, but I don't think that the wood selection of an electric instrument makes as much of a difference as one might think.
I'm not at all saying that you could make one out of plywood, just that I think the electronics have more to do with the tone than the wood does.
I own a Les Paul 1960 reissue, and a complete pos Aria pro 2 that I learned to play on. I replaced the pickup in the Aria and now they both make a tone that I am happy with.
I use NOD32 and haven't had any trouble with it affecting p2p...is the network scanner enabled by default?
NOD32 is pretty good about not being intrusive/using up resources. Whenever I fix(wipe/reinstall) someone's horribly infected PC I try to get them to buy it, it will save you the "it keeps popping up saying XYZ" calls.
but like you say if you are careful you really don't need on-access. In 12 years or so of owning a computer that had net access I have only had one virus. Got it from the warez version of one of the Mortal Kombat games (oddly enough...warez, downloaded from the right places, is almost always clean). An update to Starcraft came out and was nice enough to tell me that it couldn't patch the exe because it was the wrong size. Now that's virus protection!
my boss has an XLR that he paid about $90 grand for that is NICE. The STS and DTS are pretty nice cars also, and the CTS is the 2008 motortrend car of the year.
Now if he was driving an 85 el Dorado, you are certainly correct.
Yet another reason the wife and I would love to move there... It's hard being a middle-class eccentric in a walmart culture.
really?...How? You could...ummm....not shop at wal-mart?
I would think that the only thing that would make it hard to be a middle class eccentric is that you aren't middle class, or you aren't eccentric. Don't see that wal-mart has anything to do with it.
Or maybe you are just a little class conscious, in which case you probably would be happier in England.
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I work at an insurance claims clearinghouse, and please believe me when I tell you that Medicare and Medicaid (especially) are FAR FAR worse than any commercial insurance company. Remember the scene in the Vegas Vacation movie where Chevy Chase is at the gambling table playing "Guess the Number"? That is trying to get a gov't payer to pay on a claim sometimes. They can sometimes only tell you that it is rejected, not why.
I HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend that anyone that is relatively healthy get high deductible insurance. If you employer doesn't offer it ask them if they can start.
I love the plan I have. Ends up being around $10 a month with what my employer kicks in. The way that it works, if you don't know, is that you have to pay the first $2500(for me, probably varies) of any medical care that you receive in a calendar year. I know that sounds scary, but you get a health savings account that you can deposit to tax free. Put in $100-$150 a month in...don't get sick for a year or two...and you are golden. The best part is that if you have a really bad year...you spend $2500. Once you hit that amount you don't pay a dime for anything. It's kind of odd that it is a great plan for young people (who don't get sick as much) and for the terminally ill (fixed yearly medical costs). You also get the assigned(discounted) price that the insurance company gets, which is significantly cheaper.
Kinda going off topic here, but you should also buy your drugs from India if you are on something that you always have to take. Since the ones you bought at your local pharmacy almost certainly came from there, you won't have problems. Just make CERTAIN that the company you order from is based in the United States. If the company is US based then it is subject to much higher standards of ensuring quality...never order from one based in India.
why is that that I seem to get far more spam written by someone that obviously doesn't speak English as a first language?
I am not arguing the point you make, it just seems odd.
Are there really people dumb enough to click on some of these links? I guess there are or people wouldn't waste their time doing it.
Anyone that watches sports (esp American football) will know when they invent a drug that will make actually make your penis bigger...you won't find out via email...it will be every third commercial during the games.
I have to say first off that I think there are more people watching out for you (esp now that gas is expensive) than there are assholes who think doing stuff like this is funny.
But if you want a monkey to completely lose it's mind, surrond in in a few thousand pounds of steel and wait for the crazy to start. I have never met a regular cyclist that doesn't have dozens of these stories.
I also have several....my favorite:
riding down a 4 lane road that on evenings/weekends changes to a 2 lane road with the outside lanes for parking. I ride this road frequently so I know that if I start at a particular light right when it turns green I won't catch another light if I maintain a certain pace. I can beat cars down this road easily.
I have to ride all the way to the right, between the traffic to my left and the parked cars to the right. Someone pulls up right next to me and starts yelling idiotic shit at me, I turn to tell them to go away....look back in front of me to see a guy halfway out of his Boxster directly in my path....couldn't swerve left without hitting the car...nowhere to go to the right, but it wouldn't have mattered anyway, I was already too close. Slam on the brakes...thankfull the guy jumps back in the car...my handlebars glanced off his side/hip....I, as an object in motion, continued in motion into his door. I bent that damn thing almost all the way around as I crashed thru it, thankfully I walked away with only road rash and needing to buy a new helmet (WEAR A HELMET!!!!!).
The guy called the cops on me...the cops that came said "he has every right to ride his bike there, you should have paid attention before you opened your door." If I had been on the sidewalk and did the exact same thing to the passenger side door...I'd probably have had to pay for it.
I would, but I already posted. These are good points.
I don't even live in a large city in the US...there was a time in my life a few years ago when my car got stolen and I just didn't buy another one. Rode a bicycle everywhere I went...and got looked at like I was from another planet when I told people that I did that.
"you rode here from WHERE?"
"it's only 15 miles"
"15 MILES!?!?!"
There were places that I just couldn't go on my bike because there was no safe way to get there. This isn't taken into account when planning roads/routes in most cities...esp smaller midwestern/southern cities.
I would also add another point....in most of the US it gets HOT in the summertime (90 something degrees and 90% humidity for most of the summer here)....so probably hot and humid depending on where you are. Where I live if I rode to work in the summertime I would need to take a shower when I got there, which isn't an option.
Hopefully $4 a gallon is changing this....but I hear that gas is expected to go back down to $3 and stay there for a while. I don't think that $3 a gallon hurts enough to spur change. I want to put my tinfoil hat on over this point, but I will resist the urge.
Drive your car the way you would ride a bicycle people....if you know that you are going to have to stop at point B, then it really doesn't matter if you make it there from point A 15 seconds faster.
Don't get me started on how it should be the law to have 3-5 car lengths between you and the car in front of you at all times when you are on the interstate in an urban area. I have convinced myself that this would solve, or drastically reduce, traffic issues (exlcuding really bad accidents) in all but the largest urban areas.
My fat ass needs to go back to riding my bike everywhere anyway. I did not evolve to handle motorized transport....or a device that I can enter numbers into with a full expectation that someone will knock on my door in about 30 minutes with a pizza for me.
I work with health data, which cannot be sent over the net unencrypted. If I were working with /.ers that wouldn't be a big deal. However, the people that I work with aren't very computer savy.
"zip that file up and encrypt it before you send it to me....oh...okay, right click on it and pick send to, then click compressed folder....you don't see it huh......do you know if you have a program called winzip? No you don't have it or No you don't know?....."
or
"can you fax me that?"
Option 2 wins every time. It's old, but it still has a use.
If Sweden had an industrial base the size of the US's when the Metric system was rolled out you might still be measuring in mils and tums.
I didn't view your post as a troll at all, so please don't take this as one either...but we are Americans...we don't really give a damn what the rest of the world thinks. Laugh all you want.
it really embiggens the discussion
don't sweat the mod system.....keep posting and you'll get some points and see how it works.
Did you see the BBC played Python all day on Memorial day? I watched it for about 5 hours....haven't watched MP in a long time, laughed my ass off, again.
you ever see the documentary (I think it was on PBS...could be mistaken) about NASA back in the 60's? They asked all these guys that worked there back then about pocket protectors. They almost all said "well, I didn't wear one", and right after they said it they showed a pic of them from back then with a pocket protector....it was really funny.
I thought they looked like they worked at Worst Buy, which did not instill any confidence.
Agree with the point about the practices of your local doctor.
I work for a clearinghouse, my job is to assist them in getting set up to use us. I handle mostly UNIX based systems, you would be astounded at how quickly they will give up their root password. So quickly that I can't help but think that they would tell anyone that called and asked.
I probably say "you really shouldn't do that, it's a HIPAA violation" 5-6 times a day. Also, everyone so quick to champion the HIPPA laws probably doesn't realize that there is really no enforcement arm (although I hear this is about to change).
I would say that the only time you can be sure, or at least feel confident, that your data is protected is while it's being transmitted between the doctor and the clearinghouse(if used), and then the clearinghouse and the insurance company. Just about every clearinghouse/payer is large enough to have an IT staff dedicated to securing the data. Just about every doctor's office is not.
I can say that one thing HIPPA has done is at least put it into the minds of Docotors/Billers that security is an issue. If they know what they need to do, or are willing to spend the money is another issue.