Yeah, good idea. I did that and it left me with a $4800 bill because they do everything in their power to drag it out until the hospital sends it to collections. They make repeated requests for information release forms, I send them in, they claim they didn't get them. Then they find some other forms I need to fill out and send back and do it all over again. It's been 3 years, and the hospital finally sent it to collections.
Fortis is the name of the insurance company that fucked me. Don't go with them at all.
Obviously, the real reason they are doing this is to force the entire country to buy new clocks which will spy on you, figure out if you are a "political dissident", and send the data to the Haliburton death squads.
Unfortunately, it's gone. It was the best windows virtual desktop pager I've found. Very simple and lightweight, and none of the fluffy bloated options on any of the other ones. Completely configurable too. If you manage to find it, post the link here, I've been looking for it.
How is attending class an important part of the educational process? If a student gets the assignment listed in the syllabus in on time and passes the midterms, it means he has learned the material. My last two years of college, I went to the first day of each class and only showed up to hand in homework and take tests, and I still learned a ton. Some people learn better on their own that listening to someone with a horrible foreign accent talking and writing jibberish on the board.
Family and friends always bothered me to fix their windows machines. When it came time for them to get new computers, I convinced most of them to buy a Mac. Problem solved. I still get the occasional call, but it's usually something like "how to I export a video so I can email it?" rather than "my computer is slow and porn keeps popping up on the screen, and my printer won't work."
Tell them you won't work on their computer unless it's a Mac.:)
It seems to me that just about everything you hear about in the news lately seems to fit the theory that MS is actively *trying* to get people to go over to OSX. WGA, AV vendors being stonewalled, licensing issues, etc. MS is in a dominant position now greatly because of piracy of their product, even Bill Gates admitted to that years ago. But what happens when it's no longer possible to easily pirate windows?
Large corporations will put up with it more than an individual user will, but what happens when the technology decision makers are all running OSX at home? Those people are going to start looking for places in their corporate infrastructure where they can replace Windows with something else, be it OSX, linux, or anything that doesn't have draconian licensing restrictions and the general hassle associated with running Windows. In fact, it's much more annoying if you actually have purchased licensed copies and still have licensing issues, and even worse if your mission critical production environment can be erroneously disabled.
Many of my corporate clients have already expressed some concern over their MS environment, and some are already actively looking for places where they can wedge something else in.
Some engines require higher octane fuel to prevent detonation though. If I put 87 octane in my car and start up my datalogger, I see knock and it kicks the timing back a few degrees to prevent it. The car runs at reduced efficiency. If the timing wasn't backed off it would detonate the fuel, which means it explodes instead of burns. This generates increased temps which can burn holes in the pistons. If it cannot back off the timing anymore, like on a hot dry day, it will start backing off the boost (turbo pressure) from 23psi to something around 14psi.
Putting high octane fuel in your chevy cavalier is a waste of money, but putting it in certain types of cars is a requirement to prevent engine damage.
So, does there ever come a point in a society where decades or centuries of legislation finally just grinds things to a halt and the government caves in under its own weight?
It certainly seems as if the rate at which we're passing legislation recently that this may actually happen. Have any studies on the Roman Empire been done to see if this was part of their demise?
I've long been a proponent of forcing banks to do some sort of two factor auth, and it's good that some of them are finally doing it. I wrote an internal memo about this *exact* attack a few months ago, but I also mentioned that even if this attack were performed, the percentage of actual account compromises will still drop. This attack is more difficult to perform, and requires real-time interaction with the client, which isn't currently need for just simple password phishing.
Regardless, there are some methods that can be employed now to thwart this particular attack. I just need some moola to get it off the ground.:)
There is a CVS version of rdesktop available that will let you export just a single window, not the whole desktop. You could just run windows in Parallels, minimize it, and then use this rdesktop beta.
Codeweavers WINE will be available soon for OSX also, so you can run the apps "natively".
Those chairs are great. I sat in a Herman Miller Aeron for about 3 years, and it really kept me from hurting compared to the older chairs I sat in. I picked up an old (1975) Herman Miller Ergon for home, and it's nearly as comfortable. The cool thing about the HM stuff, is there is a lifetime warranty on it. I had a wheel stop working, and then sent out a truck and fixed it for free, and that chair is 30 years old.
But, do you know your back pain is coming from your chair? It certainly might have something to do with it, however, I read an article that said 60% of americans are chronically dehydrated and that can cause back pain. I thought about it, and I really didn't drink that much water. I started carrying a water bottle with me everywhere, and my back rarely hurts anymore.
Asterisk will do what you want. You can set up rules in your extensions.conf file to filter on the incoming caller id. Send everything unknown to voicemail, and you can create a list of known numbers that will be forwarded to your phone. I'm running it at home now and it rocks.
If you want an easy way to get started, search for Asterisk@home. It's a distro that just wipes the box clean and installs linux with a fully functioning Asterisk install. About the hardest part of getting it set up is figuring out the concept of contexts and how they work.
The best part about having your own Asterisk server is that you can use a softphone on your laptop and make and receive calls through your home phoneline from anywhere in the world. I was just in Jamaica and used it to make calls back home for free.
Actually, even without admin rights, an attacker could theoretically use DNS cache poisoning techniques and write a fake server that would remotely disable the machines that connected to it. DNS cache poisoning is NOT a thing of the past. Many ISP's are running Bind 4 and 8, and Microsoft DNS servers are still vulnerable to it.
Poison a Comcast DNS server, or any other large ISP, and you effectively take out a huge portion of home users. At least, provided you figure out how the communication for this remote disabler thing works, and write something that mimics the legitimate server.
You do if you don't have a landline and use your mobile phone instead, like I do. In addition, it's doubtful this thing will work using a VoIP phone line also because the compression strips out so much data. So those of you that have a Vonage or similar service are hosed.
Why wouldn't they put an ethernet port on the thing?
Just buy the slower white one, and then pimp it out with a big aluminum wing, a coffee can exhaust and some racing stripes made from red electrical tape. Man, that would be so fast.
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This game is still obviously addicting. One night my girlfriend went to bed a 9pm because she was tired. I had the sims running on my machine in my room. I came in there about midnight, 3 hours later, and she's laying awake in bed watching them. I'm like "what are you doing?" She says "I can't stop watching them, they just do things randomly, turn it off!"
Last I saw, you could get these the size of a grain of rice. Why not just pierce your ear and stick it in the hole, or superglue it to your fingernail (which you'd have to redo periodically)
Here's a reason no one thought of for these... If there's any ferrous metal in the device, you cannot go into an MRI machine. Additionally, even though there may not be ferrous metal in it, the MRI can still cause inductive heating on the device which can burn you. This is fine, when you're coherent enough to tell the docs what you have. What happens if you are in a car accident or have a stroke, and they need to stick you in an MRI machine?
Fingerprints of the Gods is a great read, however, it does tend to get a little bit "out there" towards the end when it's talking about alien influence and the end of the world. Mr. Hancock does bring up some interesting points though.
Part of what he is arguing is that the egyptian pyramids are far older than we think they are, and the hieroglyphs inside are basically graffiti which was places there by the egyptians. Parts of the pyramids at Giza which were not easily accessible are devoid of any markings, with the exception of a chamber above one of the rooms. However, there is a "typo" in what was found, leaving people wondering if the discoverer put the markings there either to make himself famous, or to support his theory on who built the pyramid.
Additionally, there is water erosion on the Sphinx. That area has been a desert since around 7000BC, which would indicate that the Sphinx is far older than the 3000BC or so that it's currently dated at.
Hancock doesn't help his case any by going around touting alien collaboration and end of the world nonsense. The Egyptology community has written off all of his ideas as nonsense. It's because of Hancock and people like him that the Egyptologists are completely unwilling to entertain any idea which goes against what they think is historically accurate.
The fact is, whether or not the Egyptologists think we figured it out, we really don't know anything for sure. A lot can happen over 5000 years, including "graffiti" by egyptians which would lead later generations to conclude that the egyptians were the ones who built the pyramids at Giza. I'm not saying they did or didn't. I think that Graham Hancock and others have pointed out some very interesting things, and this needs to be taken into consideration and investigated instead of just writing it off as nonsense.
The same goes for the alleged pyramid in Bosnia. This guy has been written off as a nutcase in the past, but it's completely possible he did stumble upon something of interest. I've been watching this Bosnian pyramid story since it broke last year. Excavations stopped at the end of last year, and just resumed mid-April. It will be interesting to see what they uncover. If this is a bunch of non-sense, we should know within the next couple of months.
I don't think it was a slip up. I think he was referencing the time Bush screwed up that saying "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me" and instead screwed it up and had to explain at the end, "the point is, you can't fool me again".
An earthquake sometime in the 1800's knocked off most of the shell that was on the pyramids. You can still see the cap which remained on the top of a couple of them. When this stone fell off, people who lived nearby stole it for building projects.
It's arguable that the pyramids are in such good condition because of the harder outer shell. It's only been a couple hundred years since it came off, so it will be interesting to see if this increases the rate of erosion on the pyramid.
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Yeah, good idea. I did that and it left me with a $4800 bill because they do everything in their power to drag it out until the hospital sends it to collections. They make repeated requests for information release forms, I send them in, they claim they didn't get them. Then they find some other forms I need to fill out and send back and do it all over again. It's been 3 years, and the hospital finally sent it to collections.
Fortis is the name of the insurance company that fucked me. Don't go with them at all.
Obviously, the real reason they are doing this is to force the entire country to buy new clocks which will spy on you, figure out if you are a "political dissident", and send the data to the Haliburton death squads.
We're all fucked!
JSPager. It used to be located here:
http://hem.fyristorg.com/jspage/
Unfortunately, it's gone. It was the best windows virtual desktop pager I've found. Very simple and lightweight, and none of the fluffy bloated options on any of the other ones. Completely configurable too. If you manage to find it, post the link here, I've been looking for it.
How is attending class an important part of the educational process? If a student gets the assignment listed in the syllabus in on time and passes the midterms, it means he has learned the material. My last two years of college, I went to the first day of each class and only showed up to hand in homework and take tests, and I still learned a ton. Some people learn better on their own that listening to someone with a horrible foreign accent talking and writing jibberish on the board.
Family and friends always bothered me to fix their windows machines. When it came time for them to get new computers, I convinced most of them to buy a Mac. Problem solved. I still get the occasional call, but it's usually something like "how to I export a video so I can email it?" rather than "my computer is slow and porn keeps popping up on the screen, and my printer won't work."
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Tell them you won't work on their computer unless it's a Mac.
It seems to me that just about everything you hear about in the news lately seems to fit the theory that MS is actively *trying* to get people to go over to OSX. WGA, AV vendors being stonewalled, licensing issues, etc. MS is in a dominant position now greatly because of piracy of their product, even Bill Gates admitted to that years ago. But what happens when it's no longer possible to easily pirate windows?
Large corporations will put up with it more than an individual user will, but what happens when the technology decision makers are all running OSX at home? Those people are going to start looking for places in their corporate infrastructure where they can replace Windows with something else, be it OSX, linux, or anything that doesn't have draconian licensing restrictions and the general hassle associated with running Windows. In fact, it's much more annoying if you actually have purchased licensed copies and still have licensing issues, and even worse if your mission critical production environment can be erroneously disabled.
Many of my corporate clients have already expressed some concern over their MS environment, and some are already actively looking for places where they can wedge something else in.
Some engines require higher octane fuel to prevent detonation though. If I put 87 octane in my car and start up my datalogger, I see knock and it kicks the timing back a few degrees to prevent it. The car runs at reduced efficiency. If the timing wasn't backed off it would detonate the fuel, which means it explodes instead of burns. This generates increased temps which can burn holes in the pistons. If it cannot back off the timing anymore, like on a hot dry day, it will start backing off the boost (turbo pressure) from 23psi to something around 14psi.
Putting high octane fuel in your chevy cavalier is a waste of money, but putting it in certain types of cars is a requirement to prevent engine damage.
So, does there ever come a point in a society where decades or centuries of legislation finally just grinds things to a halt and the government caves in under its own weight?
It certainly seems as if the rate at which we're passing legislation recently that this may actually happen. Have any studies on the Roman Empire been done to see if this was part of their demise?
I've long been a proponent of forcing banks to do some sort of two factor auth, and it's good that some of them are finally doing it. I wrote an internal memo about this *exact* attack a few months ago, but I also mentioned that even if this attack were performed, the percentage of actual account compromises will still drop. This attack is more difficult to perform, and requires real-time interaction with the client, which isn't currently need for just simple password phishing.
:)
Regardless, there are some methods that can be employed now to thwart this particular attack. I just need some moola to get it off the ground.
There is a CVS version of rdesktop available that will let you export just a single window, not the whole desktop. You could just run windows in Parallels, minimize it, and then use this rdesktop beta.
Codeweavers WINE will be available soon for OSX also, so you can run the apps "natively".
Those chairs are great. I sat in a Herman Miller Aeron for about 3 years, and it really kept me from hurting compared to the older chairs I sat in. I picked up an old (1975) Herman Miller Ergon for home, and it's nearly as comfortable. The cool thing about the HM stuff, is there is a lifetime warranty on it. I had a wheel stop working, and then sent out a truck and fixed it for free, and that chair is 30 years old.
But, do you know your back pain is coming from your chair? It certainly might have something to do with it, however, I read an article that said 60% of americans are chronically dehydrated and that can cause back pain. I thought about it, and I really didn't drink that much water. I started carrying a water bottle with me everywhere, and my back rarely hurts anymore.
You mean like a government ID? :/
Asterisk will do what you want. You can set up rules in your extensions.conf file to filter on the incoming caller id. Send everything unknown to voicemail, and you can create a list of known numbers that will be forwarded to your phone. I'm running it at home now and it rocks.
If you want an easy way to get started, search for Asterisk@home. It's a distro that just wipes the box clean and installs linux with a fully functioning Asterisk install. About the hardest part of getting it set up is figuring out the concept of contexts and how they work.
The best part about having your own Asterisk server is that you can use a softphone on your laptop and make and receive calls through your home phoneline from anywhere in the world. I was just in Jamaica and used it to make calls back home for free.
Actually, even without admin rights, an attacker could theoretically use DNS cache poisoning techniques and write a fake server that would remotely disable the machines that connected to it. DNS cache poisoning is NOT a thing of the past. Many ISP's are running Bind 4 and 8, and Microsoft DNS servers are still vulnerable to it.
Poison a Comcast DNS server, or any other large ISP, and you effectively take out a huge portion of home users. At least, provided you figure out how the communication for this remote disabler thing works, and write something that mimics the legitimate server.
Actually, BSD is just the subsystem. The kernel is Mach, which is what NeXT used, Job's last company.
You do if you don't have a landline and use your mobile phone instead, like I do. In addition, it's doubtful this thing will work using a VoIP phone line also because the compression strips out so much data. So those of you that have a Vonage or similar service are hosed.
Why wouldn't they put an ethernet port on the thing?
This is sweet. We definitely need to fill our prisons with more people that shouldn't be there.
Brings me back to the days of the Sego DreamCost. What a sweet system.
Just buy the slower white one, and then pimp it out with a big aluminum wing, a coffee can exhaust and some racing stripes made from red electrical tape. Man, that would be so fast.
This game is still obviously addicting. One night my girlfriend went to bed a 9pm because she was tired. I had the sims running on my machine in my room. I came in there about midnight, 3 hours later, and she's laying awake in bed watching them. I'm like "what are you doing?" She says "I can't stop watching them, they just do things randomly, turn it off!"
Last I saw, you could get these the size of a grain of rice. Why not just pierce your ear and stick it in the hole, or superglue it to your fingernail (which you'd have to redo periodically)
Here's a reason no one thought of for these... If there's any ferrous metal in the device, you cannot go into an MRI machine. Additionally, even though there may not be ferrous metal in it, the MRI can still cause inductive heating on the device which can burn you. This is fine, when you're coherent enough to tell the docs what you have. What happens if you are in a car accident or have a stroke, and they need to stick you in an MRI machine?
Fingerprints of the Gods is a great read, however, it does tend to get a little bit "out there" towards the end when it's talking about alien influence and the end of the world. Mr. Hancock does bring up some interesting points though.
Part of what he is arguing is that the egyptian pyramids are far older than we think they are, and the hieroglyphs inside are basically graffiti which was places there by the egyptians. Parts of the pyramids at Giza which were not easily accessible are devoid of any markings, with the exception of a chamber above one of the rooms. However, there is a "typo" in what was found, leaving people wondering if the discoverer put the markings there either to make himself famous, or to support his theory on who built the pyramid.
Additionally, there is water erosion on the Sphinx. That area has been a desert since around 7000BC, which would indicate that the Sphinx is far older than the 3000BC or so that it's currently dated at.
Hancock doesn't help his case any by going around touting alien collaboration and end of the world nonsense. The Egyptology community has written off all of his ideas as nonsense. It's because of Hancock and people like him that the Egyptologists are completely unwilling to entertain any idea which goes against what they think is historically accurate.
The fact is, whether or not the Egyptologists think we figured it out, we really don't know anything for sure. A lot can happen over 5000 years, including "graffiti" by egyptians which would lead later generations to conclude that the egyptians were the ones who built the pyramids at Giza. I'm not saying they did or didn't. I think that Graham Hancock and others have pointed out some very interesting things, and this needs to be taken into consideration and investigated instead of just writing it off as nonsense.
The same goes for the alleged pyramid in Bosnia. This guy has been written off as a nutcase in the past, but it's completely possible he did stumble upon something of interest. I've been watching this Bosnian pyramid story since it broke last year. Excavations stopped at the end of last year, and just resumed mid-April. It will be interesting to see what they uncover. If this is a bunch of non-sense, we should know within the next couple of months.
I don't think it was a slip up. I think he was referencing the time Bush screwed up that saying "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me" and instead screwed it up and had to explain at the end, "the point is, you can't fool me again".
An earthquake sometime in the 1800's knocked off most of the shell that was on the pyramids. You can still see the cap which remained on the top of a couple of them. When this stone fell off, people who lived nearby stole it for building projects.
It's arguable that the pyramids are in such good condition because of the harder outer shell. It's only been a couple hundred years since it came off, so it will be interesting to see if this increases the rate of erosion on the pyramid.
Use this