Agreed. I have a laptop that is also my desktop machine, and my field machine. I have to be able to connect to a wireless network, wired network, USB devices, PCMCIA cards, SD cards, serial devices, and burn CDs and DVDs. I have a phone that makes phone calls, sends texts, and takes really mediocre pictures. Others in my department that have smart phones still have to take a similar laptop to support their work. Another thing, there are times even a wide screen laptop does not give me all the space I could use. If there was a way to fold out side panels on a laptop screen for a triple head display, I would be all over that. The screen on a smart phone is simply not big enough for real work. If it was all I had, yes, I would use it, but then I have used pliers when I didn't have a set of wrenches, too. For right now, the cost of a smart phone is too high for it to be a "pair of pliers."
Where do you live that Interstate speed limits are as low as 55/65? Where I live, speed limits on Interstates are 70. And there are places where the limits are higher.
Oregon, the last time I was there. Also, Delaware. At least I think I was in Delaware at the time. I hear Hawaii has a 55 mph limit, but I have not had the chance to check that in person.
A friend of mine was driving a one-ton pickup, and got broadsided by some kid on a sport bike. The kid ran a stop sign at a police-estimated 150 mph, and struck the pickup in the rear passenger door (4 door pickup). It blew all the glass out of the passenger side, and the rear glass, put a crease in the roof of the truck, and bent the frame. The remains of the kid were launched across a four-lane divided highway, and almost cleared the whole road. I think the police said the bike mostly exploded on impact. It was probably the bike that got the frame, and the kid that got the roof.
I agree about how we use trucks. We used to use trucks to haul hay, haul livestock, haul stuff to the dump, and there was a car or station wagon to go to the office or on vacation.
I started working with UNIX in college in 1979. Version 5. Every job I after that was on some *IX platform. Learning to admin these things was seat-of-the-pants. Early jobs, I was the programmer and admin. At Y2K, rather than pay the outrageous price for a Y2K compliant upgrade, the company I was working for switched to linux platforms. After the programming jobs were outsourced, I was able to shift to an admin position. There was never any formal training or certification.
Only if you know in advance there's such a working group. And you know in advance there's malware with that name. The people who are previously aware of such things are probably not the people who are going to still be infected.
How could they not know? For the last week, this has been on local TV news, NPR, CNN, Fox, and probably others that are not on my cable TV system or broadcast in my area.
And while we are talking about what people do or don't know, what's wrong with a redirect to a web page that says your computer is infected and you need to fix it? Not "click here to fix it", but just "you need to get it fixed." That is NOT training them to click on unknown links.
I haven't tried this, because my On Star is an analog system installed when GM already knew the cellular system was changing to digital and they were using up stock of non-upgradeable equipment so I am immune, but why could you not disconnect the antenna and put on a dummy load? It probably would not have the range to hit an cell site if you were parked beside the tower, and would be reversible.
So I thought you know, you could make some sort of Al-Quieda ear-seeking missile with a microphone and a bit of C4, park that fucker in their current #2's ear, gather intel until it's battery's just about dead and then detonate it!
Forget it. We've all seen "Fifth Element" several times already.
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Agreed. I have a laptop that is also my desktop machine, and my field machine. I have to be able to connect to a wireless network, wired network, USB devices, PCMCIA cards, SD cards, serial devices, and burn CDs and DVDs. I have a phone that makes phone calls, sends texts, and takes really mediocre pictures. Others in my department that have smart phones still have to take a similar laptop to support their work. Another thing, there are times even a wide screen laptop does not give me all the space I could use. If there was a way to fold out side panels on a laptop screen for a triple head display, I would be all over that. The screen on a smart phone is simply not big enough for real work. If it was all I had, yes, I would use it, but then I have used pliers when I didn't have a set of wrenches, too. For right now, the cost of a smart phone is too high for it to be a "pair of pliers."
What sort of university is that?!
Hard Knocks U.
Now, read this in an Elmer Fudd voice
but maybe they're now just going to wait couple of days and temperature cycles and go tap it after that..
Worked on my honeymoon!
What's the voltage, Kenneth?
"Dry clean only. This time, we mean it."
Where do you live that Interstate speed limits are as low as 55/65? Where I live, speed limits on Interstates are 70. And there are places where the limits are higher.
Oregon, the last time I was there. Also, Delaware. At least I think I was in Delaware at the time. I hear Hawaii has a 55 mph limit, but I have not had the chance to check that in person.
Extreme counter-point
A friend of mine was driving a one-ton pickup, and got broadsided by some kid on a sport bike. The kid ran a stop sign at a police-estimated 150 mph, and struck the pickup in the rear passenger door (4 door pickup). It blew all the glass out of the passenger side, and the rear glass, put a crease in the roof of the truck, and bent the frame. The remains of the kid were launched across a four-lane divided highway, and almost cleared the whole road. I think the police said the bike mostly exploded on impact. It was probably the bike that got the frame, and the kid that got the roof.
I agree about how we use trucks. We used to use trucks to haul hay, haul livestock, haul stuff to the dump, and there was a car or station wagon to go to the office or on vacation.
"I have a wallet made of elephant foreskin. If I rub it, it turns into a suitcase!"
I started working with UNIX in college in 1979. Version 5. Every job I after that was on some *IX platform. Learning to admin these things was seat-of-the-pants. Early jobs, I was the programmer and admin. At Y2K, rather than pay the outrageous price for a Y2K compliant upgrade, the company I was working for switched to linux platforms. After the programming jobs were outsourced, I was able to shift to an admin position. There was never any formal training or certification.
With the way I see people drive now, my family included, flying cars are not a good idea
Red-giant star Aldebaran
I thought the Empire blew that up in the first movie.
You are right. I don't want to imagine that.
However...
I can believe that some of them would find it appealing.
Hell, I would be happy if they would stop using "busted" instead of "broken".
I can still find posts under my real name from 1988!
While I get your point, I'm still gonna call bullshit on the 1988 date.
Well, I can find stuff I posted to usenet from May of 1983, so I guess your bullshit call is, well, bullshit.
Everybody should, for now, sign up to Google+ and Facebook from a European union hosted system with a fake but real sounding name and fake data
"Adolf Elisabeth Hitler"
I watched two people do that back in high school. It was funny until they managed to lock bumpers. Then it was not funny anymore.
It was hilarious.
that my "old" BMW 3 series has a complicated security mechanism: to open it, you must have access to the door key .
FTFY
Otherwize it might be hard to get back in if you lock the doors if you had to get access to the ignition lock ...
Of course on most older cars the door lock and the ignition lock are keyed the same for convenience of carrying one key.
No, no, no. He owns a convertible.
Wow. Defective humor gene, or are the cramps worse than normal this month?
Only if you know in advance there's such a working group. And you know in advance there's malware with that name. The people who are previously aware of such things are probably not the people who are going to still be infected.
How could they not know? For the last week, this has been on local TV news, NPR, CNN, Fox, and probably others that are not on my cable TV system or broadcast in my area.
And while we are talking about what people do or don't know, what's wrong with a redirect to a web page that says your computer is infected and you need to fix it? Not "click here to fix it", but just "you need to get it fixed." That is NOT training them to click on unknown links.
I haven't tried this, because my On Star is an analog system installed when GM already knew the cellular system was changing to digital and they were using up stock of non-upgradeable equipment so I am immune, but why could you not disconnect the antenna and put on a dummy load? It probably would not have the range to hit an cell site if you were parked beside the tower, and would be reversible.
Now get off my lawn, I'm going to read some bizarre Victorian erotica.
Whew. I though for an instant you were going to say "Cosmo".
Actually, it means that those of us that were adopted are immune to the Grandfather Paradox, and thus, the only ones that can time travel.
And I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can
See the light that's right before my eyes
So I thought you know, you could make some sort of Al-Quieda ear-seeking missile with a microphone and a bit of C4, park that fucker in their current #2's ear, gather intel until it's battery's just about dead and then detonate it!
Forget it. We've all seen "Fifth Element" several times already.