And how exactly do you mark the *hardware* for de-installation? After all, what can be turned OFF remotely, can be turned back ON remotely...
Uh, that's not necessarily the case. In fact, if it's really OFF, it can't be turned back ON remotely. If you want to be able to turn something ON remotely, you specifically have to leave part of it ON to receive the wake-up signal.
(regardless of whether you think parents should be prosecuted for having bathtime pictures of their children in private family photo albums)
do you really think that some person taking pictures of your naked kids without your knowledge wouldn't be prosecuted, or that any sane court would consider those pictures to be anything but child porn?
So while your odds of being hit by lightning this year are around 1 in 1 million, your odds of being arrested for taking innocent pictures of your naked kids are about 1 in 300 million.
So, about the same probability of me being the President of the United States.
Well, since I know I'm not the President of the United States, and I know I didn't take any innocent pictures of naked kids to Walgreens last year, I'm guessing my probability of both is 0%. I think people like me might be skewing your statistic slightly...
Yeah; of course I'd also take into consideration whether I'd be able to pay it by phone or online, or actually be there in person; or whether I'd drive by there often anyway or have to make a special trip out of my way. So I admit I was generalizing a bit with a few favorable assumptions.
Well... I might as well name names; the account I have is with CapitalOne's InterestPlus online savings. With a $1000+ balance it currently pays 1.1%, limit of 6 electronic withdrawals per calendar month, and if your average balance is $10,000+ or if you have an active CapitalOne credit card (one transaction per month) you get a quarterly bonus of an additional 1/10 of the amount of interest you earned that quarter.
They do have an online checking account too, with a slightly lower interest rate and I'd assume it has more of the strings such as you described. But the online savings seemed to be pretty good especially compared with what I had my money in before.
I have an account making over 1% and that's in lousy economic times; I can remember when PayPal's money market dividend was paying something like 3%. But yeah, it obviously requires the organization to somehow remind yourself to pay it off before it starts getting interest added on.
(2) I've never met a decent rich guy, and I was brought up in a significantly privileged environment - while I've never used money to decide on my friends, I've never been able to form a lasting friendship with anyone of significant means as they have all failed at demonstrating kindness/selflessness/generosity/etc and end up taking advantage of me when I try to demonstrate same. Causation no, but correlation certainly;
Um, most of them probably would never tell you in person that they have ~$50,000 in savings and investments. I know I wouldn't. And they probably have that much because they don't spend a lot, so again you wouldn't really notice. Thus I'd say it's entirely possible you know a few of them.
The average savings account in the U.S. contains somewhere on the order $20,000. Therefore, if you're buying anything on credit that costs more than an order of magnitude less than that, you are basically declaring yourself to be poor, complete with a giant, flashing neon sign. [blah blah blah about interest rates]
Therefore, in general, unless what you are buying costs... I don't know, say 25% of the U.S. median annual income (about $12,500), you should not even consider buying it on credit.
That's nice, but if I'm buying a $500 TV and they offer zero-percent financing for the first 6 months and I can pay it off without a penny of interest a few days before the zero-percent financing ends, that generalization you made about low loan amounts coming with high interest rates sort of doesn't apply to me. Meanwhile I have an extra $500 that can be left in an account where it bears interest.
Pff, who needed a modem to dial pulse? I called Time & Temperature by clicking the switch hook on the telephone.
P.S. Apparently telephone networks don't like being shorted across low-resistance speakers scavenged from old AM radios. But if you add a few hundred k's of resistance, it works...
I'm a network engineer as well, and uh, even if they find the router, unless it's logging itself to flash, they won't find any evidence. Maybe if it's configured for voip that's some pretty pressing evidence.
I suspect they're hoping it'll have a custom firmware that prints out "click here to call your cell phone and make it look like your wife's still alive" when it boots.
My fault, actually - for a while now instead of "when hell freezes over" I've been saying "when they get bin Laden." Please convey my apologies to the rest of the people down there - I wouldn't wish AOL on even my worst enemy.
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To what, Wife 7? Polygamy's illegal.
What he needs to do is format his wife and install a different one... wait, that's illegal too.
:%s/any/F5/g
Hello
If this is your first white screen of death
First contact Microsoft about this problem.
Then press the [any] key to continue.
If this screen still appear you are infected by a virus.
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This white screen of death is made by Microsoft
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No, because the firewall is obviously configured to allow incoming connections on port 80.
And how exactly do you mark the *hardware* for de-installation? After all, what can be turned OFF remotely, can be turned back ON remotely...
Uh, that's not necessarily the case. In fact, if it's really OFF, it can't be turned back ON remotely. If you want to be able to turn something ON remotely, you specifically have to leave part of it ON to receive the wake-up signal.
And this rental agreement remains in effect after he has bought the computer that he was previously renting?
Um -
(regardless of whether you think parents should be prosecuted for having bathtime pictures of their children in private family photo albums)
do you really think that some person taking pictures of your naked kids without your knowledge wouldn't be prosecuted, or that any sane court would consider those pictures to be anything but child porn?
So while your odds of being hit by lightning this year are around 1 in 1 million, your odds of being arrested for taking innocent pictures of your naked kids are about 1 in 300 million.
So, about the same probability of me being the President of the United States.
Well, since I know I'm not the President of the United States, and I know I didn't take any innocent pictures of naked kids to Walgreens last year, I'm guessing my probability of both is 0%. I think people like me might be skewing your statistic slightly...
Yeah; of course I'd also take into consideration whether I'd be able to pay it by phone or online, or actually be there in person; or whether I'd drive by there often anyway or have to make a special trip out of my way. So I admit I was generalizing a bit with a few favorable assumptions.
Well... I might as well name names; the account I have is with CapitalOne's InterestPlus online savings. With a $1000+ balance it currently pays 1.1%, limit of 6 electronic withdrawals per calendar month, and if your average balance is $10,000+ or if you have an active CapitalOne credit card (one transaction per month) you get a quarterly bonus of an additional 1/10 of the amount of interest you earned that quarter.
They do have an online checking account too, with a slightly lower interest rate and I'd assume it has more of the strings such as you described. But the online savings seemed to be pretty good especially compared with what I had my money in before.
I have an account making over 1% and that's in lousy economic times; I can remember when PayPal's money market dividend was paying something like 3%. But yeah, it obviously requires the organization to somehow remind yourself to pay it off before it starts getting interest added on.
from the they-learned-it-from-school-in-pennsylvania dept.
Cashier's check, obviously. As good as the bank it's drawn from, and as good as cash as long as the bank is good.
(2) I've never met a decent rich guy, and I was brought up in a significantly privileged environment - while I've never used money to decide on my friends, I've never been able to form a lasting friendship with anyone of significant means as they have all failed at demonstrating kindness/selflessness/generosity/etc and end up taking advantage of me when I try to demonstrate same. Causation no, but correlation certainly;
Um, most of them probably would never tell you in person that they have ~$50,000 in savings and investments. I know I wouldn't. And they probably have that much because they don't spend a lot, so again you wouldn't really notice. Thus I'd say it's entirely possible you know a few of them.
The average savings account in the U.S. contains somewhere on the order $20,000. Therefore, if you're buying anything on credit that costs more than an order of magnitude less than that, you are basically declaring yourself to be poor, complete with a giant, flashing neon sign. [blah blah blah about interest rates]
Therefore, in general, unless what you are buying costs... I don't know, say 25% of the U.S. median annual income (about $12,500), you should not even consider buying it on credit.
That's nice, but if I'm buying a $500 TV and they offer zero-percent financing for the first 6 months and I can pay it off without a penny of interest a few days before the zero-percent financing ends, that generalization you made about low loan amounts coming with high interest rates sort of doesn't apply to me. Meanwhile I have an extra $500 that can be left in an account where it bears interest.
I find your username oddly (and quite amusingly) fitting...
Pff, who needed a modem to dial pulse? I called Time & Temperature by clicking the switch hook on the telephone.
P.S. Apparently telephone networks don't like being shorted across low-resistance speakers scavenged from old AM radios. But if you add a few hundred k's of resistance, it works...
Um, ATDT is kind of the most basic modem command in the book...
If all they have is that he faked a call from his wife, in my mind that doesn't prove anything.
At the very least it proves that he already knew she was missing and knew he'd be a suspect.
I'm a network engineer as well, and uh, even if they find the router, unless it's logging itself to flash, they won't find any evidence. Maybe if it's configured for voip that's some pretty pressing evidence.
I suspect they're hoping it'll have a custom firmware that prints out "click here to call your cell phone and make it look like your wife's still alive" when it boots.
They probably figured it reads Slashdot.
But is it merely correlative or is it actually causative, and if so, which is the cause and which is the effect? More data points are needed...
have to learn a new language at marriage so that they can communicate.
Married people communicate?
What's the matter - short on virgins?
My fault, actually - for a while now instead of "when hell freezes over" I've been saying "when they get bin Laden." Please convey my apologies to the rest of the people down there - I wouldn't wish AOL on even my worst enemy.