Can't wait to ask a question or two about this in one of the more gearhead orientated breakout sessions at Convergence next week. GASP. I home the MSserfs don't read this, else no bacon-wrapped scallop for me at the welcome reception! What was with the swedish bikini team sporting parrots on the shoulders and the caracature-art guys at last year's anyway!? Weird.
When I was living in a dorm, the substandard wiring had a hidden benefit. Every room and half shared a circuit- I was in a "half" room- one wall shared the circuit with the entire room next door, and the other wall shared with the room on that side. This gave me final veto authority over either of my neighbors' (usually poor) choice of music. I had a cut of lamp cord with the wires twisted together inside a big ball of electrical tape. Plug it in, it shuts off your neighbor's stereo (and everything else!). One semester I had a neighbor who liked to blast "Freebird" every afternoon. After the sixth or seventh time I used my "remote", he was out in the hallway swearing about the lousy dorms. A girl walking by innocently suggested that maybe his stereo was blowing the fuse. She didn't know how right she was!
Do what we do: Cut off their internet access as soon as you detect downloads (grep for.exe |/.zip , for example)in the proxy logs. Then take your sweet time getting around to refreshing their Ghost image. Worked wonders around here after the second or third "example".
Living in a town with 1000 people, we can play around with our "official" address quite a bit. As a lark, I had Fingerhut (for those that don't know, a mail-order catalog full of cheap and usually exremely tacky dreck) produce a self-inking return address stamp for me with "Outer Mongolia" instead of my name. After a year or so of unintended training, I discovered that my local postal workers would happily deliver mail to me with no more of an address than "Outer Mongolia + my zip code". I also got lots of interesing junk mail (thanks Fingerhut!)... "Dear Outer, You and the rest of the Mongolia family may already have won!!!!!"
Are supposed to be printed on the back of the card. The vendor is supposed to store them only as long as needed to authorize the purchase, then discard, regardless of what they do with the rest of the number. Use is voluntary on the vendor's part, and I doubt there's any formal process in place to make sure they aren't being saved, negating their usefulness.
In countless online transactions in the past year or two, I've only been asked for those digits once, by a company that only produces accounting software, a huge fraud target, I am sure!
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot's Fth birthday?
I have a theory that our Windows support group uses a set of Bananagram tiles to name their servers. XLBASWWRTPD1 is typical.
We not only support it (somewhat), but we offer our on spin-off on Ubuntu distro!
http://linux.oit.umass.edu/
Like he said! Show them your scars. Kids love that stuff.
Hopefully they'll release one in this (apple leaked!) form factor:
http://brent-noorda.blogspot.com/2007/08/apples-new-ipod-freestyle-to-good-for.html
The ipod freestyle.
Can't wait to ask a question or two about this in one of the more gearhead orientated breakout sessions at Convergence next week. GASP. I home the MSserfs don't read this, else no bacon-wrapped scallop for me at the welcome reception! What was with the swedish bikini team sporting parrots on the shoulders and the caracature-art guys at last year's anyway!? Weird.
When I was living in a dorm, the substandard wiring had a hidden benefit. Every room and half shared a circuit- I was in a "half" room- one wall shared the circuit with the entire room next door, and the other wall shared with the room on that side. This gave me final veto authority over either of my neighbors' (usually poor) choice of music. I had a cut of lamp cord with the wires twisted together inside a big ball of electrical tape. Plug it in, it shuts off your neighbor's stereo (and everything else!). One semester I had a neighbor who liked to blast "Freebird" every afternoon. After the sixth or seventh time I used my "remote", he was out in the hallway swearing about the lousy dorms. A girl walking by innocently suggested that maybe his stereo was blowing the fuse. She didn't know how right she was!
Do what we do: Cut off their internet access as soon as you detect downloads (grep for .exe |/.zip , for example)in the proxy logs. Then take your sweet time getting around to refreshing their Ghost image. Worked wonders around here after the second or third "example".
emacs or vi? Wrong answer, and the interview is over.
Living in a town with 1000 people, we can play around with our "official" address quite a bit. As a lark, I had Fingerhut (for those that don't know, a mail-order catalog full of cheap and usually exremely tacky dreck) produce a self-inking return address stamp for me with "Outer Mongolia" instead of my name. After a year or so of unintended training, I discovered that my local postal workers would happily deliver mail to me with no more of an address than "Outer Mongolia + my zip code". I also got lots of interesing junk mail (thanks Fingerhut!)... "Dear Outer, You and the rest of the Mongolia family may already have won!!!!!"
In countless online transactions in the past year or two, I've only been asked for those digits once, by a company that only produces accounting software, a huge fraud target, I am sure!
I'm no lawyer, but seem's to me their beef is with the "person(s)" who leaked the information, not the one who published it.