I might be wrong and horribly confused...but I've logged into my routers before and seen the MAC addresses of any attached devices. Since AOL is mostly dialup, they can catch a logon of a user of one of the stolen laptops and look up his MAC from the first level of routers they logged into. Yes? No? Overly simplified? Who cares.
Of course, I could just be drinking and posting. It's 3:33pm.
I'm not even going to get into why you need to learn some history. The civil war was not fought with the primary goal of ending slavery. I have completely lost patience with these jackasses who think it was.
I agree with this. I was about to post a disagreement comment, but after a few seconds, I look over to my laptop running Debian and I realized that 3 weeks after I successfully got it running, I'm still looking for a list of configuration files that always get parsed on startup.
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That's a negative, sir.
I'll give you 50c for the rights to your "idea"
I'll give you a dollar, I liked that you referred to the French as "extra-terrestrials" in your movies.
I might be wrong and horribly confused...but I've logged into my routers before and seen the MAC addresses of any attached devices. Since AOL is mostly dialup, they can catch a logon of a user of one of the stolen laptops and look up his MAC from the first level of routers they logged into. Yes? No? Overly simplified? Who cares.
Of course, I could just be drinking and posting. It's 3:33pm.
If my house was in orbit above the earth I would tend to give more merit to the thought "Maybe that was a meteor..."
Can you imagine paying a prostitute that way? No, I can't.
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I don't. But I bow to the viewpoint.
well, I'm high and you just caused my friend to run out of the room screaming after I read your post to him 3 times slowly.
I'm not even going to get into why you need to learn some history. The civil war was not fought with the primary goal of ending slavery. I have completely lost patience with these jackasses who think it was.
mod parent up!! it isn't offtopic at all!! what the hell is wrong with all of you??
there goes what little karma I had....fuck it
I agree with this. I was about to post a disagreement comment, but after a few seconds, I look over to my laptop running Debian and I realized that 3 weeks after I successfully got it running, I'm still looking for a list of configuration files that always get parsed on startup.
The laws that govern particles would not exist without the particles...