This laptop will self-destruct.....
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Laptop Lojack?
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The Navy Seals already have (waterproof, magnesium) laptops that have an integral incendiary device to slag all the innards. I think it can be triggered at will, but I'm not sure about it other than that. Like for instance in this case it would maybe be of use to go off after a number of bad passwords.
As an added bonus, it would probably start someone's car or suitcase or something on fire when it triggered, which would certainly draw some attention. On that idea, booby trap them to mark anyone who tampers with them somehow maybe? Kind of like the red dye used in banks, but less obvious.
Sounds cool, but wouldn't work worth a damn here. We get 4- 5 feet of snow in the winter around here, and so shingles on the roof don't see the light for a good chunk of the year. That and if/when you had to shovel the roof off (as is sometimes done to relieve the snow load), I imagine walking on the roof would break them. Maybe in Arizona....
BTW, you're not friendly with Timothy McVay, are you? Idiot. Concern for preventing a totalitarian nanny state ala Singapore is not equivalent to being supportive of or being a terrorist. Why would there be any point in commiting or endorsing the exact same activities I myself am against? If I don't want my life controlled, why would I control someone else's, much less take their lives?
...but seriously: Apparently most people have not stopped to notice that the entire gross worth, on paper even(so as to make it a very exaggerated estimate) is but a bit of change forgotten under a couch cushion somepace when you compare it to the amounts of money the US federal government throws around routinely. In addition to this, I can choose whether or not to buy MS stuff, or take part in it or deal with it whatsoever. Granted, this might make my life difficult (deny me jobs, whatever) but so it has always been with making choices and balancing the pros and cons of them. Everything has benefits and drawbacks of some sort. On the other hand, if I don't volunteer to hand over a good sized chunk of my income, I get marched off to jail. Even if I don't use or intend to use the stuff that money buys, I can't opt out. The amount of money anyone thinks Microsoft has "extorted" or "taxed" from them is paltry compared to the amount that is literally extorted and taxed from you by the IRS.
Keep things in perspective here. The government that you applaud for dealing heavy-handedly against your foes can just as easily enslave you, and if it's powerful enough to do things for you that you cannot do yourself; it is more powrful than you. This being the case, what safeguard do you have against it turning against you someday? None at all.
0.56 was out a couple days ago. My timestamp on the installer file from the initital download is 12:34 on March 30, and I don't even know when it actually became available. Actually, I've seen 3 new versions in the last two weeks or so now--development seems to be speeding right along. It is getting a lot more stable quite quickly, though. The one three versions back loved to BSOD on me on a fairly regular basis.
Yep. Tripod effect. The only way I've personally found to get a file like that from Tripod is to use IE4. Netscape 4.x doesn't seem to work-or at least not the particular version I have. Opera either. Bastards. There's gotta be something phenomenally wonderful at a Tripod site before I'll bother to go look at it, between the pop up windows and their PITA(Pain In The Ass) download pages.
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As an added bonus, it would probably start someone's car or suitcase or something on fire when it triggered, which would certainly draw some attention. On that idea, booby trap them to mark anyone who tampers with them somehow maybe? Kind of like the red dye used in banks, but less obvious.
Sounds cool, but wouldn't work worth a damn here. We get 4- 5 feet of snow in the winter around here, and so shingles on the roof don't see the light for a good chunk of the year. That and if/when you had to shovel the roof off (as is sometimes done to relieve the snow load), I imagine walking on the roof would break them. Maybe in Arizona....
Yet another story about reinventing magnetic core memory. One sort or another of these pops up every couple months or so, don't they?
Idiot. Concern for preventing a totalitarian nanny state ala Singapore is not equivalent to being supportive of or being a terrorist. Why would there be any point in commiting or endorsing the exact same activities I myself am against? If I don't want my life controlled, why would I control someone else's, much less take their lives?
...but seriously: Apparently most people have not stopped to notice that the entire gross worth, on paper even(so as to make it a very exaggerated estimate) is but a bit of change forgotten under a couch cushion somepace when you compare it to the amounts of money the US federal government throws around routinely. In addition to this, I can choose whether or not to buy MS stuff, or take part in it or deal with it whatsoever. Granted, this might make my life difficult (deny me jobs, whatever) but so it has always been with making choices and balancing the pros and cons of them. Everything has benefits and drawbacks of some sort. On the other hand, if I don't volunteer to hand over a good sized chunk of my income, I get marched off to jail. Even if I don't use or intend to use the stuff that money buys, I can't opt out. The amount of money anyone thinks Microsoft has "extorted" or "taxed" from them is paltry compared to the amount that is literally extorted and taxed from you by the IRS.
Keep things in perspective here. The government that you applaud for dealing heavy-handedly against your foes can just as easily enslave you, and if it's powerful enough to do things for you that you cannot do yourself; it is more powrful than you. This being the case, what safeguard do you have against it turning against you someday? None at all.
0.56 was out a couple days ago. My timestamp on the installer file from the initital download is 12:34 on March 30, and I don't even know when it actually became available. Actually, I've seen 3 new versions in the last two weeks or so now--development seems to be speeding right along. It is getting a lot more stable quite quickly, though. The one three versions back loved to BSOD on me on a fairly regular basis.
Yep. Tripod effect. The only way I've personally found to get a file like that from Tripod is to use IE4. Netscape 4.x doesn't seem to work-or at least not the particular version I have. Opera either. Bastards. There's gotta be something phenomenally wonderful at a Tripod site before I'll bother to go look at it, between the pop up windows and their PITA(Pain In The Ass) download pages.