also (on these networks) sometimes I turn off the windows firewall for filesharing to win98 machines. some XP boxes had this off for months and i have never had a problem with it. But now having announced that to the world I will be doublechecking that I have it enabled everywhere. (not that I felt it would really do any good but on the off chance it might)
I use a little four port router i got from Wal-mart for $50. I logged onto it using the instructions that came with it and configured it to be connected as needed and used its firewall. I have installed winXP on 6 machines and none of them have gotten a virus. None of the machines I networked on the job have gotten viruses either and all have been behind the exact same $50 wal-mart purchased brand named router with DHCP and firewall enabled.
mis-seating a brake pad probably won't result in a runaway truck. hydraulic failure is statisticly a more scarey event and since I value timely stopping, brakes were the one thing I almost always took to a professional.
I grew up helping my father tune/swap engines and I believe it helped nurture my desire to know how everything works. it dedeified the automobile from the moving godhood's most people seemed to atribute thier sources of transportation.... "the sacred -insertmakehere- refused to start, preventing me from getting to work on time"
a mechanic was not a god but a priest (or priestess) that was sometimes mystified by the fickle operation of the car "it never made that sound when I drove it" or "it never GPFed when I booted it" it's all about expirience.
I've changed a timing chain in -40 windchill and am much more gratefull for having a garage to work in now but I would rathing be watching a 5400 rpm 160gig hd doing a surface scan than doing anything under the hood, it's just where my passion lies.
I believe motor heads are just geeks of a different ilk.
I'm not one to argue for the sanity of the US BUT as most night owl NRA infomercial watchers will tell you the UK (effectivly) gave up the right to bear arms faster than the US will (wakey wakey CA) and it seems they have (in a way) given up the right to confidential DNA first as well.
I would LIKE to keep my DNA a secret until I can go halves on a "clone" wi a nice girl and we see what we get on our spin of the punnet square.
Another "Oppressed becomes the oppressor" story. ok so offhand I cannot think of another one, aside from if Mr Gates possibly felt oppressed as a computer programmer and now many people have felt oppressed by him.
Taking megalomaniacle activities to a new level instead of genocyde Magneto attempts to "genocycle" (hey did I make a word?) or recycle humans into mutants. He appeared to be attempting to be a father figure to the human race by bringing them into the mutant exsistance not realizing the threat the suddenly mutated and almost always angry (at least as stereotyped) populace of New York would be to him. They would not have lovingly accepted him as daddy but hated him for twisting thier DNA and yanking them from thier predictable acceptable lives. Possibly creating thier own militant mutant faction.
Emotional walls inside an otherwise logical and advanced mind result in the same bigoted and crippling thought processes as any other mind.
As for the actors of The X-Men movie I was sceptical of almost every one of them with the exception of Logan and Professor X. I thought; Storm should have been older (not the 20-something babe she is in the movie), Mystique totally slitheringly-disgusting (not the babe she is in the movie), Rogue a redhead (not the brunette babe she is in the movie), Cyclops a little less of a fruity jerkwad(but not much less hehe), Sabre a little older (ok so I dint think he was hot), and I was kinda hoping for a 3 hour epic but in retrospect none of that mattered to me. The movie made it as a good movie and a good big-screen translation of the comics and animated series even while rigidly sticking to neither but protraying the feeling rather than the definition (my ideas probably would have resulted in a sucky movie although I would still like to see Tina Turner flying around wi lightning in her eyes as Storm, but maybe thats just a fantasy of mine)
ONCE I "checked the availability" of a domain name, one I considered to be odd enough that no one would have it and it turned out that no one did at that time. I came back the next day and that site "owned" it and wanted to charge me more than if I had gone to internick myself.
more positive re-inforcement for my paranoia, now.god may be against me too.
it does load html pages accessing "things" from the net to build the page (at least outlook does) a while back AOL was telling people not to click on links in email because it could activate a javascript that may send someone thier screen name and pw...
just because it doesn't automatically run this virus doesn't mean the preview pane is secure...
I have always felt that preview pane was a security risk. Most of the people with my email addy are pretty internet-savy, I wonder how much of this can be blamed on the novice emailer (and how many IT professionals use the preview pane?). Of course if someone you trusted appeared to have emailed you a.exe you are more likely to open it anyway.
Do the demo, information technology I find it mildly amusing, as the "help desk" didn't say what the error msg was (maybe windows was just missing a plugin) and then.....
... but now I know all.zip files are dangerous. hehe
yes they were pretty "cheap" as efects go. They were originally done on videotoaster (according to an old videotoaster magazine I had). It was my understanding that support for the commadore spawned 'toaster disintigrated somewhere around mid 2nd season for B5...... anyone have more info on that??
IF Hydrogen becomes a more viable alternative fuel a vehicle that emits only H2O from its exhaust pipe could conceivably be better for the environment than EVs BUT, WIREDs one year old article is enough for me to be interested in a commuter/cruiser powered by optima batteries and a DC motor or two. Suck AMPS! Hey it's the title of the article.
Actually according to certain "surpressed" technology it's possible to simply "BE" in another place instantaneously. So all we would have to do (assuming we had the tech) is figure out how long ago the big bang happened and simply plug in the co-ordinates. Fun books to peruse I reccomend The Anti-Gravity Handbook.
What I find most interesting about astronomy is that there could concievably be no stars out there at all (Sol not included) since if the (second including Sol) nearest star went dark today (or yesterday) the inhabitants of Earth wouldn't witness it's demise for... um... a... very long time..
A few years back a president declared airlines integral to the functioning of our country and strikes therefore illegal. Even as a child I didn't think that was fair to the airline employees.
As an honorably-released-former-member of the teamsters I deplore NW airlines clear disdain for its highly trained and loyal flight attendants. As a resident of Minneapolis I can attest to the cities love-hate relationship with the company, and support for the employees of this heinous corporation.
On a more interesting note (that I do not have linkable evidence for) the airline allegedly tried shipping parts to mexico for repair, where mexican engineers simply replaced the entire part to be on the safe side at greater cost. Instead of using local union labor to refurbish the part to new or better than new specifications for less money.
A week ago many of us were drooling over the thought of plugging our heads directly into hardware. This type of interface while very exciting is something I would initially dread (over time I would learn to accept that paranoia like all the others I have accepted).
The descision to search private individuals personal computers for edivence of co-ordinating illegal acts is barely a step away from plugging someone into a thought scanning machine for whatever crossed thier mind at any time. A little power surge and "Oops there goes your memory for the night in question. Sry, but now you have no defense"
As a paranoid person might have once thought "Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to reformat my wetware"
I would like to know what Jon considers his role to be, since in this day and age you can pretty much define your own role if you have the right audience.
Legacy systems have already shown corporations predilection to maintaining old protocols and hardware over upgrading to more efficient and (sometimes) more restrictive hardware and operator interfaces. As long as the current (relatively) non-restrictive internet is 'cost effective' our current (and imho rightfull) liberties online will continue to exist. The moment the people with the money to 'up-grade' the hardware and software that is the internet decide it is in thier best interest (or more importantly figure out how) to do so; they will.
In the interest of backwards compatibility the internet will probably always continue to support the protocols it is currently using (ie TC/IP).
Individual private Wide Area Networks (WANs) have the greater possibility for rapid highbandwidth gains and censorship possibilities. A system owner should be able to dictate what data is allowed on thier own system.
The MPAA Dilemma is more the way I see restrictions associated with the internet to go(badly). They are makeing it hard on the net as a whole by unjustly persecuting (not prosecuting) someone for breaking a strangle hold on media (that limits its use to non-opensource OSes {which many of us use even tho we find them to be inferior; thus illustrating my take on backwards compatibility}) that does not directly affect copyrights.
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I would like to see a switch between every networked PC. As I have been led to believe that _SHOULD_ stamp out packet sniffing.
Not to mention the HUGE TRACKS of bandwidth that could be gained.
if my parents are installing an OS without my help someone needs to kick me in the @ss
also (on these networks) sometimes I turn off the windows firewall for filesharing to win98 machines. some XP boxes had this off for months and i have never had a problem with it. But now having announced that to the world I will be doublechecking that I have it enabled everywhere. (not that I felt it would really do any good but on the off chance it might)
I use a little four port router i got from Wal-mart for $50. I logged onto it using the instructions that came with it and configured it to be connected as needed and used its firewall. I have installed winXP on 6 machines and none of them have gotten a virus. None of the machines I networked on the job have gotten viruses either and all have been behind the exact same $50 wal-mart purchased brand named router with DHCP and firewall enabled.
Did they not keep your old tires when you had the new ones mounted? In MN I kept my old tires and didn't have to pay the fee.
.nl approach when it comes to things that I'm not still using.
I like the
mis-seating a brake pad probably won't result in a runaway truck. hydraulic failure is statisticly a more scarey event and since I value timely stopping, brakes were the one thing I almost always took to a professional.
I grew up helping my father tune/swap engines and I believe it helped nurture my desire to know how everything works. it dedeified the automobile from the moving godhood's most people seemed to atribute thier sources of transportation.... "the sacred -insertmakehere- refused to start, preventing me from getting to work on time"
a mechanic was not a god but a priest (or priestess) that was sometimes mystified by the fickle operation of the car "it never made that sound when I drove it" or "it never GPFed when I booted it" it's all about expirience.
I've changed a timing chain in -40 windchill and am much more gratefull for having a garage to work in now but I would rathing be watching a 5400 rpm 160gig hd doing a surface scan than doing anything under the hood, it's just where my passion lies.
I believe motor heads are just geeks of a different ilk.
I'm not one to argue for the sanity of the US BUT as most night owl NRA infomercial watchers will tell you the UK (effectivly) gave up the right to bear arms faster than the US will (wakey wakey CA) and it seems they have (in a way) given up the right to confidential DNA first as well. I would LIKE to keep my DNA a secret until I can go halves on a "clone" wi a nice girl and we see what we get on our spin of the punnet square.
gattaca
Taking megalomaniacle activities to a new level instead of genocyde Magneto attempts to "genocycle" (hey did I make a word?) or recycle humans into mutants. He appeared to be attempting to be a father figure to the human race by bringing them into the mutant exsistance not realizing the threat the suddenly mutated and almost always angry (at least as stereotyped) populace of New York would be to him. They would not have lovingly accepted him as daddy but hated him for twisting thier DNA and yanking them from thier predictable acceptable lives. Possibly creating thier own militant mutant faction.
Emotional walls inside an otherwise logical and advanced mind result in the same bigoted and crippling thought processes as any other mind.
As for the actors of The X-Men movie I was sceptical of almost every one of them with the exception of Logan and Professor X. I thought; Storm should have been older (not the 20-something babe she is in the movie), Mystique totally slitheringly-disgusting (not the babe she is in the movie), Rogue a redhead (not the brunette babe she is in the movie), Cyclops a little less of a fruity jerkwad(but not much less hehe), Sabre a little older (ok so I dint think he was hot), and I was kinda hoping for a 3 hour epic but in retrospect none of that mattered to me. The movie made it as a good movie and a good big-screen translation of the comics and animated series even while rigidly sticking to neither but protraying the feeling rather than the definition (my ideas probably would have resulted in a sucky movie although I would still like to see Tina Turner flying around wi lightning in her eyes as Storm, but maybe thats just a fantasy of mine)
I never thought I would hear mettalica make an anti anarchy statement.
more positive re-inforcement for my paranoia, now .god may be against me too.
just because it doesn't automatically run this virus doesn't mean the preview pane is secure ...
Do the demo, information technology I find it mildly amusing, as the "help desk" didn't say what the error msg was (maybe windows was just missing a plugin) and then .....
Maybe there wouldn't have been enough "Ego gratification" to make that "feature" more secure.
yes they were pretty "cheap" as efects go. They were originally done on videotoaster (according to an old videotoaster magazine I had). It was my understanding that support for the commadore spawned 'toaster disintigrated somewhere around mid 2nd season for B5 ...... anyone have more info on that??
sig? never touch 'em.
IF Hydrogen becomes a more viable alternative fuel a vehicle that emits only H2O from its exhaust pipe could conceivably be better for the environment than EVs BUT, WIREDs one year old article is enough for me to be interested in a commuter/cruiser powered by optima batteries and a DC motor or two. Suck AMPS! Hey it's the title of the article.
sig? never touch 'em.
Actually according to certain "surpressed" technology it's possible to simply "BE" in another place instantaneously. So all we would have to do (assuming we had the tech) is figure out how long ago the big bang happened and simply plug in the co-ordinates. Fun books to peruse I reccomend The Anti-Gravity Handbook.
sig? never touch 'em.
If we can go faster than the speed of light and outrun the light and then turn around and look ...
Interesting
Is lobbying allowed? Hegh
sig? never touch 'em.
What I find most interesting about astronomy is that there could concievably be no stars out there at all (Sol not included) since if the (second including Sol) nearest star went dark today (or yesterday) the inhabitants of Earth wouldn't witness it's demise for ... um ... a ... very long time ..
sig? never touch 'em.
As an honorably-released-former-member of the teamsters I deplore NW airlines clear disdain for its highly trained and loyal flight attendants. As a resident of Minneapolis I can attest to the cities love-hate relationship with the company, and support for the employees of this heinous corporation.
On a more interesting note (that I do not have linkable evidence for) the airline allegedly tried shipping parts to mexico for repair, where mexican engineers simply replaced the entire part to be on the safe side at greater cost. Instead of using local union labor to refurbish the part to new or better than new specifications for less money.
sig? never touch 'em.
A week ago many of us were drooling over the thought of plugging our heads directly into hardware. This type of interface while very exciting is something I would initially dread (over time I would learn to accept that paranoia like all the others I have accepted).
The descision to search private individuals personal computers for edivence of co-ordinating illegal acts is barely a step away from plugging someone into a thought scanning machine for whatever crossed thier mind at any time. A little power surge and "Oops there goes your memory for the night in question. Sry, but now you have no defense"
As a paranoid person might have once thought "Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to reformat my wetware"
sig? never touch 'em.
I would like to know what Jon considers his role to be, since in this day and age you can pretty much define your own role if you have the right audience.
sig? never touch 'em.
Legacy systems have already shown corporations predilection to maintaining old protocols and hardware over upgrading to more efficient and (sometimes) more restrictive hardware and operator interfaces. As long as the current (relatively) non-restrictive internet is 'cost effective' our current (and imho rightfull) liberties online will continue to exist. The moment the people with the money to 'up-grade' the hardware and software that is the internet decide it is in thier best interest (or more importantly figure out how) to do so; they will.
In the interest of backwards compatibility the internet will probably always continue to support the protocols it is currently using (ie TC/IP).
Individual private Wide Area Networks (WANs) have the greater possibility for rapid highbandwidth gains and censorship possibilities. A system owner should be able to dictate what data is allowed on thier own system.
The MPAA Dilemma is more the way I see restrictions associated with the internet to go(badly). They are makeing it hard on the net as a whole by unjustly persecuting (not prosecuting) someone for breaking a strangle hold on media (that limits its use to non-opensource OSes {which many of us use even tho we find them to be inferior; thus illustrating my take on backwards compatibility}) that does not directly affect copyrights.
sig? never touch 'em.