Tape over the camera and/or microphone. Find the GPS antenna and disconnect or cut the lead, or just wrap it in aluminum foil and connect it to signal ground. Nobody should have to put up with this shit.
*shrug* then take a hammer, or hacksaw, or tin-snips, or just your own two strong hands to the platters and physically destroy them. My whole point is that it doesn't take rocket science to destroy these, just a little common sense. Need another method? Get a common propane torch and heat them up. Should destroy the coating in short order. How about a piece of nice 80-grit sandpaper? Use your imagination!
The rare-earth magnets used for the head actuator in the HDD you're disassembling/destroying are incredibly strong. Rub them on the surface of the platters directly, and you're sure to completely corrupt the contents.
Place HDD on concrete, apply sledgehammer vigorously. Ta-da, unrecoverable HDD.
Personally, I dismantle them for the magnets, and pull the platters out. If they're ceramic you can shatter them, if they're aluminum you can deface them, bend them, use the magnets to corrupt them, cut them in half with a hacksaw/bandsaw/whatever, be creative.
I'm not quite that paranoid, but I don't answer my phone for numbers I don't recognize, and robocalls usually don't leave voicemail, so if I see an unrecognized number and there's no voicemail, I don't bother over who (or what) it was.
Am I the only person here thinking that at least part of the reason behind this is so that the GOP and/or the DNC can legally get away with robocalling voters?
Marriage is an outdated notion driven by that system of control known as "religion". If you need some document and a ceremony in front of all your friends (read as: witnesses) in order to make a long-term committment to your significant other, then I pity you. Otherwise the only legitimate (pun intended) reason for "marriage" was becaue of any offspring resulting from the union, but that too is now an obsolete notion as there are other legal mechanisms available to recognize them as your heirs.
I really think everyone is panicking a bit early on this one. I don't disagree that Microsoft would love it if they were able to keep every other OS off people's computers, forever, but the fact of the matter is that if they manage to do this, it's creating a monopoly, and I believe that there would be legal issues raised at that point? Besides which, how long do you think it would take for the Linux community to jailbreak computers built that way? A week? Two, maybe? A month, on the outside?
This is the first time spectators have died, but I doubt seriously that the government will intervene
Think again: aircraft are involved, and cars, even Formula 1 cars, don't generally speaking drop out of the sky because of mechanical failures or driver error.
Seriously. They don't understand that so-called "renewable" won't cut it right now, likely never will, but at the same time they won't want to cut their use of electric power. They'll whine about how the "government isn't doing it's job", but they will NEVER get it out of their heads that "nuclear power plant" != "nuclear bomb". Seriously, the average person is a complete retard when it comes to subjects like this.
Slashdot doesn't support Unicode because they don't want the script-kiddie crowd screwing up the way pages display because some fucktard put strange Unicode characters in their post that makes the whole page print everything backwards and stuff like that, that's why.
Sad to say, but there will now be a massive investigation into this incident, and regardless of the outcome of that investigation I can't see where public officials will allow an event like this to occur in the United States ever again.
Gee, that all stings so bad coming from someone who posts as an AC, while I at least have the balls to take my pot-shots out in the open. Go back to/b/ on 4chan and lurk more.
Wow. Here's a tip for you: I hear the dollar stores have great deals on off-brand aluminum foil. So, you know, you can never run out of tinfoil hats, to keep the gov'ment mind-control lasers from getting you.
Do you go to the gym? Do any serious strength training? If you increase the resistance too quickly, you can overload yourself in a bad way and get injured. Similarly if you push your brain too hard too quickly, it will just give up and not even try anymore. That's what I think I'm seeing. Too much change too quickly. Many people can't keep up with it, and they reject it.
All kidding aside, what I think is really going on with this, is it's part of a trend I've been seeing more and more over the last, say, 20 years. People are more and more rejecting technology and technological progress altogether. Not sure why. I suspect that our poor caveman brains are just finally getting overloaded by the non-stop onslaught of sensory input. Think about it: We watch too much TV; the commercials are noticeably louder than the actual program, and the program very often has pop-up ads on it. Instead of a telephone being just a telephone, it's a multi-media, internet-connected mobile computing platform, and 99 times out of 100 when someone'e phone rings, it doesn't sound like a phone ringing, it's some obnoxious sound or jingle or song. If you browse the internet, everything is run on Flash, and many have sound that you can't turn off. You walk and drive around in public, your senses are assaulted by electronic billboards often featuring full-motion video, but always transmitting light, not just reflecting ambient light or directed light; it makes a difference, especially at night, it's not anywhere as easy to ignore. Kids don't go out and play as much, they sit inside and play video games featuring lots of noise and fast motion. Speaking of TV again: TVs themselves are huge now, and who doesn't have at least 5.1 surround sound? Myself, I live what I consider a technological lifestyle (I'm an electronics engineering technician who gets to pretend I'm an actual engineer, own multiple computing devices, etc) but I'm not immune to that which I speak of, I find myself wanting to isolate myself from the non-stop onslaught to my senses. So, yes, I'm saying that these people who claim to have an "allergy" to wireless signals are psychosomatic, but at the same time I'm saying that what they're experiencing is completely real to them, whether it's their own brains rejecting the constant overload all around them, or actually being affected by electromagnetic waves. The fact of the matter is that the air has been full of man-made electromagnetic radiation of one wavelength or another for 100 years and nobody up until now has had problems like these, so I can't believe that it's radio waves themselves -- but it still may well be the technology creating them that's the problem.
Back in the day when I repaired pinball machines and coin-op arcade games for a living (using that word loosely here!) if you had a game with one or more bad ROMs/EPROMs, you didn't go to the manufacturer for the part; you copied it from another of the same game. I used to have a HUGE library of ripped ROMs from arcade games (sorry, don't have them anymore!). Especially if it's an old game from a company that no longer exists, just bite the bullet and either download a copy from someone else, or get a physical set of boards for the game, a chip programmer, and read them yourself. Seriously: you're not selling them, or building clones of the old game to operate for profit, right? You just want to play the damned game. Unless it's Pac Man or any of it's variants, in which case Namco will have your balls if you get caught, nobody really cares all that much.
I'll be fair about this: I suppose if someone is one of those people who like to have the stereo (and maybe the TV as well) turned on and blaring while they read or study, then this might be a positive thing for me. Personally I don't know anybody like that, I know people for that, like myself, reading is a quiet-time thing, and I want/need quiet when I'm studying something, too. I do much reading just before going to sleep at night, too, because it takes my mind off the day and allows me to relax, and having what I'm reading decide to start making noises and music isn't going to be conducive to becoming sleepy. Furthermore, (and I can't speak for anyone else on this) part of the reading experience is having my own imagination fill in details like people's voices, the sound something might make, etcetera. If I want sound with my content, then I'll watch TV or a movie.
My personal opinion is that this is just more sensory-overload in an era full of sensory-overload sources. Things like this make me wonder a little less why it is that so many people are actively seeking to 'simplify their lives', and why so many people also seem to be rejecting technological advances: we often get them jammed down our throats.
Worst idea ever. The last thing I want is someone else's noises invading my reading. I'll keep sticking to my nice, old-fashioned, uncomplicated paper books, thank you very much.
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People are still using McAfee?
Tape over the camera and/or microphone. Find the GPS antenna and disconnect or cut the lead, or just wrap it in aluminum foil and connect it to signal ground. Nobody should have to put up with this shit.
*shrug* then take a hammer, or hacksaw, or tin-snips, or just your own two strong hands to the platters and physically destroy them. My whole point is that it doesn't take rocket science to destroy these, just a little common sense. Need another method? Get a common propane torch and heat them up. Should destroy the coating in short order. How about a piece of nice 80-grit sandpaper? Use your imagination!
The rare-earth magnets used for the head actuator in the HDD you're disassembling/destroying are incredibly strong. Rub them on the surface of the platters directly, and you're sure to completely corrupt the contents.
Place HDD on concrete, apply sledgehammer vigorously. Ta-da, unrecoverable HDD.
Personally, I dismantle them for the magnets, and pull the platters out. If they're ceramic you can shatter them, if they're aluminum you can deface them, bend them, use the magnets to corrupt them, cut them in half with a hacksaw/bandsaw/whatever, be creative.
I'm not quite that paranoid, but I don't answer my phone for numbers I don't recognize, and robocalls usually don't leave voicemail, so if I see an unrecognized number and there's no voicemail, I don't bother over who (or what) it was.
Am I the only person here thinking that at least part of the reason behind this is so that the GOP and/or the DNC can legally get away with robocalling voters?
Cool story, bro.
Marriage is an outdated notion driven by that system of control known as "religion". If you need some document and a ceremony in front of all your friends (read as: witnesses) in order to make a long-term committment to your significant other, then I pity you. Otherwise the only legitimate (pun intended) reason for "marriage" was becaue of any offspring resulting from the union, but that too is now an obsolete notion as there are other legal mechanisms available to recognize them as your heirs.
I really think everyone is panicking a bit early on this one. I don't disagree that Microsoft would love it if they were able to keep every other OS off people's computers, forever, but the fact of the matter is that if they manage to do this, it's creating a monopoly, and I believe that there would be legal issues raised at that point? Besides which, how long do you think it would take for the Linux community to jailbreak computers built that way? A week? Two, maybe? A month, on the outside?
This will fail spectacularly. I anticipate Italy being completely off the internet in a few weeks once this goes into effect.
..as a condition of shipping the PC with Windows 8
Let the sheep of the world continue to buy shitty pre-built PCs, and the rest of us will continue to build our own from components.
This is the first time spectators have died, but I doubt seriously that the government will intervene
Think again: aircraft are involved, and cars, even Formula 1 cars, don't generally speaking drop out of the sky because of mechanical failures or driver error.
Seriously. They don't understand that so-called "renewable" won't cut it right now, likely never will, but at the same time they won't want to cut their use of electric power. They'll whine about how the "government isn't doing it's job", but they will NEVER get it out of their heads that "nuclear power plant" != "nuclear bomb". Seriously, the average person is a complete retard when it comes to subjects like this.
Slashdot doesn't support Unicode because they don't want the script-kiddie crowd screwing up the way pages display because some fucktard put strange Unicode characters in their post that makes the whole page print everything backwards and stuff like that, that's why.
Sad to say, but there will now be a massive investigation into this incident, and regardless of the outcome of that investigation I can't see where public officials will allow an event like this to occur in the United States ever again.
Gee, that all stings so bad coming from someone who posts as an AC, while I at least have the balls to take my pot-shots out in the open. Go back to /b/ on 4chan and lurk more.
Wow.
Here's a tip for you: I hear the dollar stores have great deals on off-brand aluminum foil. So, you know, you can never run out of tinfoil hats, to keep the gov'ment mind-control lasers from getting you.
Do you go to the gym? Do any serious strength training? If you increase the resistance too quickly, you can overload yourself in a bad way and get injured. Similarly if you push your brain too hard too quickly, it will just give up and not even try anymore. That's what I think I'm seeing. Too much change too quickly. Many people can't keep up with it, and they reject it.
All kidding aside, what I think is really going on with this, is it's part of a trend I've been seeing more and more over the last, say, 20 years. People are more and more rejecting technology and technological progress altogether. Not sure why. I suspect that our poor caveman brains are just finally getting overloaded by the non-stop onslaught of sensory input. Think about it: We watch too much TV; the commercials are noticeably louder than the actual program, and the program very often has pop-up ads on it. Instead of a telephone being just a telephone, it's a multi-media, internet-connected mobile computing platform, and 99 times out of 100 when someone'e phone rings, it doesn't sound like a phone ringing, it's some obnoxious sound or jingle or song. If you browse the internet, everything is run on Flash, and many have sound that you can't turn off. You walk and drive around in public, your senses are assaulted by electronic billboards often featuring full-motion video, but always transmitting light, not just reflecting ambient light or directed light; it makes a difference, especially at night, it's not anywhere as easy to ignore. Kids don't go out and play as much, they sit inside and play video games featuring lots of noise and fast motion. Speaking of TV again: TVs themselves are huge now, and who doesn't have at least 5.1 surround sound? Myself, I live what I consider a technological lifestyle (I'm an electronics engineering technician who gets to pretend I'm an actual engineer, own multiple computing devices, etc) but I'm not immune to that which I speak of, I find myself wanting to isolate myself from the non-stop onslaught to my senses. So, yes, I'm saying that these people who claim to have an "allergy" to wireless signals are psychosomatic, but at the same time I'm saying that what they're experiencing is completely real to them, whether it's their own brains rejecting the constant overload all around them, or actually being affected by electromagnetic waves. The fact of the matter is that the air has been full of man-made electromagnetic radiation of one wavelength or another for 100 years and nobody up until now has had problems like these, so I can't believe that it's radio waves themselves -- but it still may well be the technology creating them that's the problem.
Dollar-store aluminum foil for headwear construction. Problem solved!
Back in the day when I repaired pinball machines and coin-op arcade games for a living (using that word loosely here!) if you had a game with one or more bad ROMs/EPROMs, you didn't go to the manufacturer for the part; you copied it from another of the same game. I used to have a HUGE library of ripped ROMs from arcade games (sorry, don't have them anymore!). Especially if it's an old game from a company that no longer exists, just bite the bullet and either download a copy from someone else, or get a physical set of boards for the game, a chip programmer, and read them yourself. Seriously: you're not selling them, or building clones of the old game to operate for profit, right? You just want to play the damned game. Unless it's Pac Man or any of it's variants, in which case Namco will have your balls if you get caught, nobody really cares all that much.
I'll be fair about this: I suppose if someone is one of those people who like to have the stereo (and maybe the TV as well) turned on and blaring while they read or study, then this might be a positive thing for me. Personally I don't know anybody like that, I know people for that, like myself, reading is a quiet-time thing, and I want/need quiet when I'm studying something, too. I do much reading just before going to sleep at night, too, because it takes my mind off the day and allows me to relax, and having what I'm reading decide to start making noises and music isn't going to be conducive to becoming sleepy. Furthermore, (and I can't speak for anyone else on this) part of the reading experience is having my own imagination fill in details like people's voices, the sound something might make, etcetera. If I want sound with my content, then I'll watch TV or a movie.
My personal opinion is that this is just more sensory-overload in an era full of sensory-overload sources. Things like this make me wonder a little less why it is that so many people are actively seeking to 'simplify their lives', and why so many people also seem to be rejecting technological advances: we often get them jammed down our throats.
Worst idea ever. The last thing I want is someone else's noises invading my reading. I'll keep sticking to my nice, old-fashioned, uncomplicated paper books, thank you very much.
Implying that they're going to go after real criminals and not just who the RIAA and MPAA want to nail.