This is actually done, and it works extremely well. I have a friend whose car was stolen by a guy using a tow truck. A cop actually walked up and talked to the guy while he was hitching up the car. The cop never thought twice that maybe this guy wasn't asked to tow the car. It was pretty embarassing for the cop to put that in the stolen vehicle report:)
It would suck to play any games over VNC, even on a fast network. The framerate is pretty low, even at 100Mbps. It basically pushes a snapshot of the desktop to the client at an arbitrary interval, and sends snapshots of an area around the mouse cursor at more frequent intervals. Its not uncommon for parts of the screen to get out of sync. VNC is mainly designed for remote administration of M$ boxen (which it rocks at). It keeps me from ever having to get up from my FreeBSD box here at work.
They claim that sharing your cable-modem connection with your neighbors via 802.11b is illegal. Aren't you paying for bandwidth at a fixed rate? Why should they be able to mandate what you have on the other end of the line. Business providers certainly don't care how many machines (or what type) you have at the other end of their T1 or T3. I suppose the real question is what is in the service agreement you have with them. It seems really slimy to me to restrict how you use your bandwidth. Why can't the ISPs just treat bandwith as a commodity instead of being restrictive on their customers?
First of all China is only a communist government. They have a capitalist economy, and always have. China has never been a full communist state, and never will be. China does have slavery, its called prison work camps. I know what Chinese people think about the country because I know Chinese people. You obviously have never talked to someone who is from China, or has family living in China. Who do you think builds up the country in China, the poor. The communist regime in China only gives the appearance of an equal, classless society. The truth is far from the image, just like in the former Soviet Union. Look, no country is all good, or all bad. I just don't think as many people are happy with having no say in their own goverment as you do. But I feel that will all change in a few years now that China is joining the WTO. I think the exposure to the outside world is going to bring about some major social reform.
First of all Capitalism is NOT American. Captitalism existed long before this country, so don't blame us if you don't like it.
We don't force our culture down the throats of other countries, because we don't have to. They eat it up happily. Just because the rest of the world isn't as rabidly anti-US as you are doesn't mean that we are forcing them import our culture.
If you think for a second that the gov't of China actually represents the population of the country, then you are vastly mistaken. China's population consists mainly of poor farmers who could care less about politics or the goverment. They are only concerned with their family's survival. Those who oppose the communist regime are afraid to be vocal. Just look at what happened in Tianamen Square eleven years ago. If you think for even a second that people don't want the freedom to live their lives how they see fit, then you are a fool.
It took a massive US bombing campaign and military action to empower the Afghan people and give them enough confidence to stand up and begin to reclaim their country. It may not take measures this drastic in other countries, but there needs to be some catalyst to motivate the people to stand up for themselves. You are right about making sacrifices for freedom, but people won't make that sacrifice if they don't think it is a fight which can be won. We need to pave the way for social reforms and enhanced freedom in these countries.
Oh... that's too bad. Unfortunately Linksys doesn't make a 56K router. I wonder why they don't, I'm sure there are plenty of people who would still buy them. Netgear does, but its about $225, which seems a little over the top.
For an extra $15 you can get a NAT firewall from Linksys. It does PPOE, NAT, portmapping, DHCP, et al. It has no fans, so it is completely silent. Check it out here.
Bootable? You mean rootable right?;) Man you could do some damage quick with a bootable usb storage device. Scary stuff. Keep those server rooms locked up tight.
What geek wouldn't want this sweet little drive? You can DeCSS DVD movies and burn copies of them. Plus it burns CDs as well. About $450-$500 according to pricewatch. I want one of these.... and a T3:)
Ummm... actually engines are designed to rip away from the wing if there is violent vibration from them. This keeps an engine from ripping the plane apart along with itself. My father was on a 737 where one engine ripped away from the wing because of just that reason.
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They just need to bring back Sky-Marshalls. Sky-Marshalls are specially trained agents that fly in plain clothes. The airlines don't even know who they are. El Al never gets hijacked because there are a guaranteed 2 armed agents on every flight. If we had just one Sky-Marshall on each of those flights they would have taken out the terrorists before most people on the plane even realized what was going on. Sky-Marshalls have not been flying much (or at all) lately because of budgetary cutbacks. The FAA has anounced that there will be many more Sky-Marshalls flying in the future.
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It is suprisingly easy to go missing at any time. There is no need to use a big catastrophe to do so. Hell, I could have a real drivers license and passport under a different name within a week if I wanted. You would be surprised how low tech and backwards the public records offices in some rural areas are.
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Its a Futurama reference. Lighten up.
Atlanta! Oh wait that's not for another 1,000 years :)
heehee
Thankfully I never got into evercrack. I think I'm going to quit my job when Star Wars Galaxies comes out, though.
This is actually done, and it works extremely well. I have a friend whose car was stolen by a guy using a tow truck. A cop actually walked up and talked to the guy while he was hitching up the car. The cop never thought twice that maybe this guy wasn't asked to tow the car. It was pretty embarassing for the cop to put that in the stolen vehicle report :)
So, would eating a human liver grown in another animal count as cannibalism?
It would suck to play any games over VNC, even on a fast network. The framerate is pretty low, even at 100Mbps. It basically pushes a snapshot of the desktop to the client at an arbitrary interval, and sends snapshots of an area around the mouse cursor at more frequent intervals. Its not uncommon for parts of the screen to get out of sync. VNC is mainly designed for remote administration of M$ boxen (which it rocks at). It keeps me from ever having to get up from my FreeBSD box here at work.
They claim that sharing your cable-modem connection with your neighbors via 802.11b is illegal. Aren't you paying for bandwidth at a fixed rate? Why should they be able to mandate what you have on the other end of the line. Business providers certainly don't care how many machines (or what type) you have at the other end of their T1 or T3. I suppose the real question is what is in the service agreement you have with them. It seems really slimy to me to restrict how you use your bandwidth. Why can't the ISPs just treat bandwith as a commodity instead of being restrictive on their customers?
First of all China is only a communist government. They have a capitalist economy, and always have. China has never been a full communist state, and never will be. China does have slavery, its called prison work camps. I know what Chinese people think about the country because I know Chinese people. You obviously have never talked to someone who is from China, or has family living in China. Who do you think builds up the country in China, the poor. The communist regime in China only gives the appearance of an equal, classless society. The truth is far from the image, just like in the former Soviet Union. Look, no country is all good, or all bad. I just don't think as many people are happy with having no say in their own goverment as you do. But I feel that will all change in a few years now that China is joining the WTO. I think the exposure to the outside world is going to bring about some major social reform.
It's not satanic
Yes it is. Just look at what this reputable news source has to say about it.
First of all Capitalism is NOT American. Captitalism existed long before this country, so don't blame us if you don't like it.
We don't force our culture down the throats of other countries, because we don't have to. They eat it up happily. Just because the rest of the world isn't as rabidly anti-US as you are doesn't mean that we are forcing them import our culture.
If you think for a second that the gov't of China actually represents the population of the country, then you are vastly mistaken. China's population consists mainly of poor farmers who could care less about politics or the goverment. They are only concerned with their family's survival. Those who oppose the communist regime are afraid to be vocal. Just look at what happened in Tianamen Square eleven years ago. If you think for even a second that people don't want the freedom to live their lives how they see fit, then you are a fool.
To this day, I have yet to hear of one single story of a person influenced by Alice in Wonderland practicing some sort of evil satanic witchcraft.
That's because people were influenced to take psychedelic drugs by Alice in Wonderland, not practice witchcraft.
It took a massive US bombing campaign and military action to empower the Afghan people and give them enough confidence to stand up and begin to reclaim their country. It may not take measures this drastic in other countries, but there needs to be some catalyst to motivate the people to stand up for themselves. You are right about making sacrifices for freedom, but people won't make that sacrifice if they don't think it is a fight which can be won. We need to pave the way for social reforms and enhanced freedom in these countries.
What's *so* bad in the books, that they must be banned?
Promotion of evil satanic witchcraft.
People said the same thing about the Afghan people and the Taliban. Look at the mess that created.
Oh... that's too bad. Unfortunately Linksys doesn't make a 56K router. I wonder why they don't, I'm sure there are plenty of people who would still buy them. Netgear does, but its about $225, which seems a little over the top.
For an extra $15 you can get a NAT firewall from Linksys. It does PPOE, NAT, portmapping, DHCP, et al. It has no fans, so it is completely silent. Check it out here.
Bootable? You mean rootable right? ;) Man you could do some damage quick with a bootable usb storage device. Scary stuff. Keep those server rooms locked up tight.
What geek wouldn't want this sweet little drive? You can DeCSS DVD movies and burn copies of them. Plus it burns CDs as well. About $450-$500 according to pricewatch. I want one of these.... and a T3 :)
On the fourth day of Christmas my geek friends gave to me, 4 sticks of Rdram
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AHA! A real geek would never give a friend RDRAM. PC2100 (or higher) DDR only. Shame on you!
When I fire up my PS1 or N64, I expect them to load the games quickly, without crashes.
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You expect the PS1 to load games quickly!?
Ummm... actually engines are designed to rip away from the wing if there is violent vibration from them. This keeps an engine from ripping the plane apart along with itself. My father was on a 737 where one engine ripped away from the wing because of just that reason.
Walking around like regular people. They don't see each other. They only see what they want to see. They don't know they're stupid.
How often do you see them?
All the time!
Bzzzt! Wrong answer.
Yahoo! still uses FreeBSD almost exclusively.
Thanks for playing. Care to try again?
They just need to bring back Sky-Marshalls. Sky-Marshalls are specially trained agents that fly in plain clothes. The airlines don't even know who they are. El Al never gets hijacked because there are a guaranteed 2 armed agents on every flight. If we had just one Sky-Marshall on each of those flights they would have taken out the terrorists before most people on the plane even realized what was going on. Sky-Marshalls have not been flying much (or at all) lately because of budgetary cutbacks. The FAA has anounced that there will be many more Sky-Marshalls flying in the future.
It is suprisingly easy to go missing at any time. There is no need to use a big catastrophe to do so. Hell, I could have a real drivers license and passport under a different name within a week if I wanted. You would be surprised how low tech and backwards the public records offices in some rural areas are.