Never again run out of space for your X-10 video stream of the neighbor's house!
You don't know how true of a statement that is.
A few weeks back I was having a lan party in my garage. Pretty hot, so the door was closed to about a foot. Halfway through playing the neighbors 16 yro ritilin hyped Add kid (aunt later told me this) kid crawled under the 1 foot gap in the garage.
I consider myself a computer philanthopist (yeah right, i'm unemployed:P) So I never miss a chance to infuence people into computers. Kid said he played CS so I invited him to play on a station not being used.
Well about 10 rounds later kid turns to me and asks, "Know where to get any dope?" I ask him his age, find out he's 16 and intruct him never to speak of that again in my house in order to maintain neighborhood harmony. After a few more minutes he takes off till about 8.
Now anyone that has ever been to a private lan party knows that after many straight hours of interactive gaming a break of non-interactivity is required. So we were sitting around watching funny pr0n when I looked over and the kid was back! He didn't announce himself or anything, he was just sitting there all quiet (creepy like)
Well, earlier that day I had fried the bios on a friends computer. So I payed him no mind and went back to searching the web for a fix when his mother and aunt came over. They both seemed pretty drunk and started flirting with my friends. I mean heavy flirting, like one of my buddies has japanese kanji characters tattood on his arm, and she was tracing the outline while running her fingers through his hair. These bitches were straight FREAKY DEEKS! No BS here, these middle age broads were down for some young cock!
Well, i'm still staring at my screen trying to not pay attention to whats going on when the kids mom started rubbing up on me. I got pissed (any true get gets pissed when someone breaks their concentration) so I thought I would make a smart ass remark to her..
"HEY TELL YOUR KID TO QUIT HITTIN MY FRIENDS UP FOR DOPE!!"
Everyone started laughing, she went up to her son, said his name in a whiny tone of voice NooooLAAAN and sorta hugged him. He sheepishly grinned and I thought that was that. I had told the kid no askin, and I had let the parent know what happened. I thought I had done my duty as a neighbor and went back to fixing that bios.
She went home, about 5 minutes later the kids stepdad comes out. NOLAN TOQER! COME HERE I WANNA TALK TO YOU! I told the guys to wait there, wasn't a big deal and i'd be back in a minute.
Well, I followed the guy out front, he got 6 inches in my face and started holding a fist, threatening to call the cops on me for delinquency to a minor, and was just being drunk and nasty (I could hella smell it on his breath)
"Hey if you want to come over here to get a point across thats cool, but getting 6 inches in my face isn't, now if you would just take a step back and a breath, maybe we can talk about this rationally" I took a step back while sayin that just in case, he started lurching forward so I started yelling "GET THE FUCK OFF MY PROPERTY!! GET THE FUCK OFF MY PROPERTY!!"
Well, by that time the clan had stood up, and his wife was over there pulling him back across the street apogizing the whole time.
Before people start dissin me, let me explain some known things about this cat. 1. He only bought his house 3 months ago 2. He's pissed every neighbor off by leaving his dog out front all day while he's at work so it wont shit in his backyard (guess where it goes?) 3. He's gotten into fights with 4 neighbors 4. nobody, and I mean nobody in the neighborhood likes this cat. 5. Oh and just today the mailman had to mace his dog, and told me he wont deliver mail to the neighborhood if his dog keeps getting left out. 6. If this guy is worried about his stepson being around dope, he shouldn't go asking his neighbors himself where he can get it.
Well, i'm really not that much of a fighter. I'm 29, pack a day smoker since I was like 10, and I really REALLY am a pencil neck geek. So yeah, basically i'm scared because this house I bought and planned on living in for the next 30 years has some drunken fat surly construction worker living across the street wanting to kick my ass. What to do???
Well, MY GEEK POWERS COMBINED! I set up a video capture card and camera combo. I mounted the camera in an electrical box, and put tinted plexiglass over the front. It now points at my frontyard waiting to catch his dog shitting on my yard, or my neighbors yard. The camera goes into a MS WMS on a win2k server (If someone can point me to something open source i'll use it)
The trusted neighbors all know about the camera and connect to it over our cat5 fence network to watch it. Currently I can store 24 hours of low quality video on the crud equipment I have.
I guess this comment really doesn't have much to do with a 200gig hard drive, or the show cmdr taco is at, but that comment on x10 camera's just hit home, so I wanted to post this.
God dammit, I hate it when I unjustly get modded as a troll, anyways..
I've read all the responses thus far "Oh the MPAA doesn't have the right to go on my hard drive blah blah blah"
The one thing everyone has to understand is that when you share on a P2P network, you might as well walk down to the MPAA offices wearing a big sign that says, "HEY LOOK HERE I'M PIRATING YOUR MOVIES YOU FUCKS!"
A buddy of mine just left like 4 minutes ago, while he was here, he hooked his computer into my network and dumped a bunch of movies onto my hard drive. No advertising to the MPAA at all.
So if you're going to pirate movies, go ahead, but don't cry if the MPAA erases your collection because you were advertising on a P2P network.
I hear lots of crying "Ohh the big bad MPAA is going to hack my computer for pirating their movies!!"
Well for starters, this is a very touchy issue. In all honesty we all know P2P is used PRIMARILY for piracy. I think the MPAA is well within their rights to try and remove movies from peoples hard drives.
I don't think them DoS'ing a server is very cute though, I compare it to spam, where as the MPAA doesn't have to pay for all the havoc their DoS'ing causes between them and their victum.
Thing is though, the type of DoS'ing they're doing already is benign. All those fake movies and MP3's out there, it's an inconvinience at the most and doesn't really do any critical damage.
For your review, my pirated dishTV I have a pirated dish TV. 10 channels of porn and everything else. Dish networks will occasionally (before major events) send out a signal that will damage your box if you've been pirating. Do I cry and say "Waaaaaa! They broke MY property!" No! I knew coming into it that this is just a part of being a pirate. I accept the fact that I have to be on a constant mailing list to recieve updates to "Fix" my dishtv box.
So the point I wanted to get across in all this, don't cry because MPAA doesn't want you to pirate their movies anymore. As of now, they don't really have a lot of other recourse until ISP's are required by law to be more forthcoming about a suspected pirates information OR DRM goes from being a pipe dream to something real OR people just stop being pirates.
The snappy video snapshot from play inc did this years ago IIRC. Even though NTSC res is 720x480 the snappy was able to squeeze high res pictures out by sampling 2 frames, them performed mathmatical magic to achieve resolutions over 1280x1024.
this is just ramblins so slashdot doesnt kick me for doin some response in less that 20 seconds(i.e. no), although the 20 second limit and the message "SLOW DOWN COWBOY" can sometimes be good against abusers, it should be turned off once a persons karma reaches a certain point.
a few years ago, let's say 1997-8 or so. I would have made my company go bankrupt quicker!
*This is a tale of dot com glutony*
I was working for a small startup with a good amount of capitol. I was averaging a trip a week down to our LA office to deal with all the windows problems. (Remote wasn't possible, the CTO thought that running HIZ software through a firewall/Router/Tunnel would make it run bad)
Anyways aside from the problem of having a lunatic for a CTO my main issue was making sure that if the LA office needed me that week that they arranged all travel.
Well sometimes things were forgotten, and one week they forgot to rent my car for me. I was in the burbank airport, at the budget rent a car counter...
"Mr. Toqer we're sorry but we have no reservations for you!"
"Awe fuck, they slipped upped again" I muttered to myself. "Ok then what do you have left??
"We have a 1998 Convertable Jaguar XK8!" Oooh my pulse quickened, I was going to be there 3 days, sportin that ride in LA would be tits! So I called my CEO to see if it would be ok.
"Yo, CEO, your office manager forgot to reserve my car AGAIN! All the other rental places are out of cars and all thats left is a Jaguar Xk8"
"How much?"
"$350@day"
"Do it! I want to see you here in 30 minutes!"
Man, what a rush. I had never, and I mean NEVER EVER driven a car that fast in my life. I hopped on the 405?? and headed towards Thousand Oaks. I put the pedal to the medal and I felt like I was the millenium falcon going into hyperdrive! It went from 0 to 110 in no time flat.
Well towards the end of my trip I thought i'd go see the sunset strip by myself. I wanted to see the viper room where river phonix died (favorite actor, stand by me, ect) I made it a point to have a beer at about 9 of the joints on the strip. Fully loaded with a buzz I hopped back on the 101 to thousand oaks.
I look back now, it's not that funny. I really could have hurt myself, or some innocent bystander. 25, young dumb and full of cum.
Well, not really an exciting end to this post, just that I somehow managed to make it back to my hotel without wrecking or getting pulled over. Next day I handed the keys back and swore I would never drive anything over a "econo class" again. I'm not sure I can responsibilly handle that much power.
PUNCH IT CHEWIE
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEE EE IIIIIIII
which means it shouldn't bump getting run over by a llama off your list of worries.
Yeah but I don't want to be inhaling LLAMA DUST because all the LLAMA'S were turned into a fine white powder from the heat of the impact.
That would even further our trade deficit with the countries bordering the Andes with white powder like substances. Columbia, Peru, lotta white powder (probably cut with llama ash) comes from there already.
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Damn you!
Now the corporations monitoring my transmissions won't use my idea of patenting astroid deflection technology because of your comment! Curse you and your kind!
chillaz a killaz bluntaz you fukaz that's my choice
Why isnt the world testing deflection technology?
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I find it strange that there is almost 1/2 million geeks on slashdot, yet none of them have ever brought this up on these Near earth orbit stories.
Has there ever been any contingouncy planning made in case something like this does happen? Or is it all being kept a secret from the general population (i.e. only 100 of those grey alien ufo's for escape)
A company that did real work into this issue could stand to make a killing. Anyone that figured out a real nice way to make these NEO rocks bounce, blow up, deflect, time phase shift, or tractor away from the earth could pull some mass patents on that and laugh all the way to the bank.
People used to say if man was meant to fly he would have wings. Well, if man was meant to blow up space rocks he would have nukes, and he does.
How many unknown exploits exist? Can you answer that? Because if I were a malicious hacker I wouldn't tell the likes of you. I wouldn't post it to security focus. I would STFU keep my lips sealed. Keep it in my pocket.
There is no way of accounting for the unnacountable. How long did the apache problem really exist before it was discovered? I can't answer that, c'mon, try and give me an answer. What's that? can't answer that? Try giving me an estimate. Can't estimate it? Well neither can I.
Only way to truly stay secure from a network is to not be connected to one at all.
I went back and read some of your old comments because sympathy on / is hard to find. The thing that struck me was you were an atari user, not a commode door person.
You Rock!
Wife just made me move all my computer stuff into the garage. She would never let me plug in my 800 with dual happy modified 810 drives, omnimon and rambo upgrades. Every damn time I would she would neatly tear it all down and put it back in the box.
This was my computer from when I was like... 12 to like 17 or so? Around 17 I got into PC's and dos. Man I miss knowing what every poke location did. Those were the days =)
Now I got everything all unpacked, not hooked up yet though. I took some pics in case you want to see. Lemme know and i'll upload em somewhere.
Microcode updates? Bios Updates? Programmable Grid Arrays? Ever hear of any of these? Probably not. I won't flame you, you obviously don't know enough about hardware to make any logical conclusions yourself..
Tuna Mac 1 can of tuna 1 can of macaroni and cheese 1 tsp black pepper
Cook macaroni like you normally would. When done cooking drain tuna and mix with macaroni. Pepper to taste.
Dennisons Chili Chimichanga's 1 Can of dennisons chilie 3 cups of shredded cheese 6 flour tortilla's
Use equal amounts of cheese and chili and wrap the ends. Fry in a pan till golden brown.
Chili Relleno's 2 tblspoons of flour 1 egg white 1 Can of whole green chili's Cheese cut into sticks.
Mix the flour and egg white. Stuff the chili pepper with a stick of cheese, then dip in the batter. Fry in a pan until it is brown and the cheese is melted.
Open source Salsa
Everyone brings the hottest chili's they can find. Add tomato paste and chilis to a food processor. Mix until you have a nice salsa like texture. Have a contest to see who can eat the most.
Don't argue with me about it - the courts have already decided that knowingly having sex when you are at risk of transmitting the AIDS virus is attempted murder.
You warped the law to fit your comment. If that really is the law then all humans should be locked up because we are all "AIDS PNP"
It should read. The courts have already decided that IF you HAVE aids and you KNOWINGLY have SEX with a PERSON without DISCLOSING that you HAVE aids then you are guilty of Attempted murder.
It's one less day they need phone support. It's one less day they have to provide service. It's one less day they have to do anything but have their top techs in the office fixing the problem (Who are probably in the office all the time anyways) On top of all the less they have to provide for a day, they're still charging the customers money. So they don't really lose anything at all by doing this, they gain alot.
Yes but what you are describing is a pre-existing motive. If M$ had manufactured these boxes with the INTENT to leave this hole open (Look at intent) Then they could be held liable.
The only person with the INTENT to spread the virus is the original virus writer himself. Maybe you just hate MS and can't look at the issue objectively enough?
Slashdot Mirror
Correction.
:P
(any true get gets pissed when someone breaks their concentration)
Should read
(any true geek gets pissed when someone breaks their concentration)
I write my flow without spelling or punctuation, maybe CowboyNeal can check it for me
--toq
No this is what apple means to :P
"Think Different"
--toq
Never again run out of space for your X-10 video stream of the neighbor's house!
:P) So I never miss a chance to infuence people into computers. Kid said he played CS so I invited him to play on a station not being used.
You don't know how true of a statement that is.
A few weeks back I was having a lan party in my garage. Pretty hot, so the door was closed to about a foot. Halfway through playing the neighbors 16 yro ritilin hyped Add kid (aunt later told me this) kid crawled under the 1 foot gap in the garage.
I consider myself a computer philanthopist (yeah right, i'm unemployed
Well about 10 rounds later kid turns to me and asks, "Know where to get any dope?" I ask him his age, find out he's 16 and intruct him never to speak of that again in my house in order to maintain neighborhood harmony. After a few more minutes he takes off till about 8.
Now anyone that has ever been to a private lan party knows that after many straight hours of interactive gaming a break of non-interactivity is required. So we were sitting around watching funny pr0n when I looked over and the kid was back! He didn't announce himself or anything, he was just sitting there all quiet (creepy like)
Well, earlier that day I had fried the bios on a friends computer. So I payed him no mind and went back to searching the web for a fix when his mother and aunt came over. They both seemed pretty drunk and started flirting with my friends. I mean heavy flirting, like one of my buddies has japanese kanji characters tattood on his arm, and she was tracing the outline while running her fingers through his hair. These bitches were straight FREAKY DEEKS! No BS here, these middle age broads were down for some young cock!
Well, i'm still staring at my screen trying to not pay attention to whats going on when the kids mom started rubbing up on me. I got pissed (any true get gets pissed when someone breaks their concentration) so I thought I would make a smart ass remark to her..
"HEY TELL YOUR KID TO QUIT HITTIN MY FRIENDS UP FOR DOPE!!"
Everyone started laughing, she went up to her son, said his name in a whiny tone of voice NooooLAAAN and sorta hugged him. He sheepishly grinned and I thought that was that. I had told the kid no askin, and I had let the parent know what happened. I thought I had done my duty as a neighbor and went back to fixing that bios.
She went home, about 5 minutes later the kids stepdad comes out. NOLAN TOQER! COME HERE I WANNA TALK TO YOU! I told the guys to wait there, wasn't a big deal and i'd be back in a minute.
Well, I followed the guy out front, he got 6 inches in my face and started holding a fist, threatening to call the cops on me for delinquency to a minor, and was just being drunk and nasty (I could hella smell it on his breath)
"Hey if you want to come over here to get a point across thats cool, but getting 6 inches in my face isn't, now if you would just take a step back and a breath, maybe we can talk about this rationally" I took a step back while sayin that just in case, he started lurching forward so I started yelling "GET THE FUCK OFF MY PROPERTY!! GET THE FUCK OFF MY PROPERTY!!"
Well, by that time the clan had stood up, and his wife was over there pulling him back across the street apogizing the whole time.
Before people start dissin me, let me explain some known things about this cat.
1. He only bought his house 3 months ago
2. He's pissed every neighbor off by leaving his dog out front all day while he's at work so it wont shit in his backyard (guess where it goes?)
3. He's gotten into fights with 4 neighbors
4. nobody, and I mean nobody in the neighborhood likes this cat.
5. Oh and just today the mailman had to mace his dog, and told me he wont deliver mail to the neighborhood if his dog keeps getting left out.
6. If this guy is worried about his stepson being around dope, he shouldn't go asking his neighbors himself where he can get it.
Well, i'm really not that much of a fighter. I'm 29, pack a day smoker since I was like 10, and I really REALLY am a pencil neck geek. So yeah, basically i'm scared because this house I bought and planned on living in for the next 30 years has some drunken fat surly construction worker living across the street wanting to kick my ass. What to do???
Well, MY GEEK POWERS COMBINED! I set up a video capture card and camera combo. I mounted the camera in an electrical box, and put tinted plexiglass over the front. It now points at my frontyard waiting to catch his dog shitting on my yard, or my neighbors yard. The camera goes into a MS WMS on a win2k server (If someone can point me to something open source i'll use it)
The trusted neighbors all know about the camera and connect to it over our cat5 fence network to watch it. Currently I can store 24 hours of low quality video on the crud equipment I have.
I guess this comment really doesn't have much to do with a 200gig hard drive, or the show cmdr taco is at, but that comment on x10 camera's just hit home, so I wanted to post this.
--toq
Story still pending..
A namco system 22 emulator (ridge racer, ect) has been release called vivannono.
You can find out about it here.
http://www.geocities.com/viva_nonno/
God dammit, I hate it when I unjustly get modded as a troll, anyways..
I've read all the responses thus far "Oh the MPAA doesn't have the right to go on my hard drive blah blah blah"
The one thing everyone has to understand is that when you share on a P2P network, you might as well walk down to the MPAA offices wearing a big sign that says, "HEY LOOK HERE I'M PIRATING YOUR MOVIES YOU FUCKS!"
A buddy of mine just left like 4 minutes ago, while he was here, he hooked his computer into my network and dumped a bunch of movies onto my hard drive. No advertising to the MPAA at all.
So if you're going to pirate movies, go ahead, but don't cry if the MPAA erases your collection because you were advertising on a P2P network.
I hear lots of crying "Ohh the big bad MPAA is going to hack my computer for pirating their movies!!"
Well for starters, this is a very touchy issue. In all honesty we all know P2P is used PRIMARILY for piracy. I think the MPAA is well within their rights to try and remove movies from peoples hard drives.
I don't think them DoS'ing a server is very cute though, I compare it to spam, where as the MPAA doesn't have to pay for all the havoc their DoS'ing causes between them and their victum.
Thing is though, the type of DoS'ing they're doing already is benign. All those fake movies and MP3's out there, it's an inconvinience at the most and doesn't really do any critical damage.
For your review, my pirated dishTV
I have a pirated dish TV. 10 channels of porn and everything else. Dish networks will occasionally (before major events) send out a signal that will damage your box if you've been pirating. Do I cry and say "Waaaaaa! They broke MY property!" No! I knew coming into it that this is just a part of being a pirate. I accept the fact that I have to be on a constant mailing list to recieve updates to "Fix" my dishtv box.
So the point I wanted to get across in all this, don't cry because MPAA doesn't want you to pirate their movies anymore. As of now, they don't really have a lot of other recourse until ISP's are required by law to be more forthcoming about a suspected pirates information OR DRM goes from being a pipe dream to something real OR people just stop being pirates.
The snappy video snapshot from play inc did this years ago IIRC. Even though NTSC res is 720x480 the snappy was able to squeeze high res pictures out by sampling 2 frames, them performed mathmatical magic to achieve resolutions over 1280x1024.
no :)
this is just ramblins so slashdot doesnt kick me for doin some response in less that 20 seconds(i.e. no), although the 20 second limit and the message "SLOW DOWN COWBOY" can sometimes be good against abusers, it should be turned off once a persons karma reaches a certain point.
a few years ago, let's say 1997-8 or so. I would have made my company go bankrupt quicker!
E EE IIIIIIII
*This is a tale of dot com glutony*
I was working for a small startup with a good amount of capitol. I was averaging a trip a week down to our LA office to deal with all the windows problems. (Remote wasn't possible, the CTO thought that running HIZ software through a firewall/Router/Tunnel would make it run bad)
Anyways aside from the problem of having a lunatic for a CTO my main issue was making sure that if the LA office needed me that week that they arranged all travel.
Well sometimes things were forgotten, and one week they forgot to rent my car for me. I was in the burbank airport, at the budget rent a car counter...
"Mr. Toqer we're sorry but we have no reservations for you!"
"Awe fuck, they slipped upped again" I muttered to myself. "Ok then what do you have left??
"We have a 1998 Convertable Jaguar XK8!" Oooh my pulse quickened, I was going to be there 3 days, sportin that ride in LA would be tits! So I called my CEO to see if it would be ok.
"Yo, CEO, your office manager forgot to reserve my car AGAIN! All the other rental places are out of cars and all thats left is a Jaguar Xk8"
"How much?"
"$350@day"
"Do it! I want to see you here in 30 minutes!"
Man, what a rush. I had never, and I mean NEVER EVER driven a car that fast in my life. I hopped on the 405?? and headed towards Thousand Oaks. I put the pedal to the medal and I felt like I was the millenium falcon going into hyperdrive! It went from 0 to 110 in no time flat.
Well towards the end of my trip I thought i'd go see the sunset strip by myself. I wanted to see the viper room where river phonix died (favorite actor, stand by me, ect) I made it a point to have a beer at about 9 of the joints on the strip. Fully loaded with a buzz I hopped back on the 101 to thousand oaks.
I look back now, it's not that funny. I really could have hurt myself, or some innocent bystander. 25, young dumb and full of cum.
Well, not really an exciting end to this post, just that I somehow managed to make it back to my hotel without wrecking or getting pulled over. Next day I handed the keys back and swore I would never drive anything over a "econo class" again. I'm not sure I can responsibilly handle that much power.
PUNCH IT CHEWIE
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAE
--toq
More than welcome to use my bytewriter (eeprom burner connect via joystick ports) to copy it :) I'll even give you a eeprom.
The mail servers were cleaned up late last week and all new incoming mail is filtered for the hack.
Wow MS had a handle on it BEFORE slash ran the story.. WOW M$ CAN GO BACKWARDS IN SLASHDOT TIME!
1.21 jigawatts marty!!!
vrrooooOOOOM *BOOM*
or something like that.
which means it shouldn't bump getting run over by a llama off your list of worries.
Yeah but I don't want to be inhaling LLAMA DUST because all the LLAMA'S were turned into a fine white powder from the heat of the impact.
That would even further our trade deficit with the countries bordering the Andes with white powder like substances. Columbia, Peru, lotta white powder (probably cut with llama ash) comes from there already.
Damn you!
Now the corporations monitoring my transmissions won't use my idea of patenting astroid deflection technology because of your comment! Curse you and your kind!
Time to go roll up a tin foil hat!
--Toq
nah...
chillaz a killaz bluntaz you fukaz
that's my choice
I find it strange that there is almost 1/2 million geeks on slashdot, yet none of them have ever brought this up on these Near earth orbit stories.
Has there ever been any contingouncy planning made in case something like this does happen? Or is it all being kept a secret from the general population (i.e. only 100 of those grey alien ufo's for escape)
A company that did real work into this issue could stand to make a killing. Anyone that figured out a real nice way to make these NEO rocks bounce, blow up, deflect, time phase shift, or tractor away from the earth could pull some mass patents on that and laugh all the way to the bank.
People used to say if man was meant to fly he would have wings. Well, if man was meant to blow up space rocks he would have nukes, and he does.
Very easy to make such broad categorizations.
How many unknown exploits exist? Can you answer that? Because if I were a malicious hacker I wouldn't tell the likes of you. I wouldn't post it to security focus. I would STFU keep my lips sealed. Keep it in my pocket.
There is no way of accounting for the unnacountable. How long did the apache problem really exist before it was discovered? I can't answer that, c'mon, try and give me an answer. What's that? can't answer that? Try giving me an estimate. Can't estimate it? Well neither can I.
Only way to truly stay secure from a network is to not be connected to one at all.
Yes i am /. stalking you oo0000ooo
I went back and read some of your old comments because sympathy on / is hard to find. The thing that struck me was you were an atari user, not a commode door person.
You Rock!
Wife just made me move all my computer stuff into the garage. She would never let me plug in my 800 with dual happy modified 810 drives, omnimon and rambo upgrades. Every damn time I would she would neatly tear it all down and put it back in the box.
This was my computer from when I was like... 12 to like 17 or so? Around 17 I got into PC's and dos. Man I miss knowing what every poke location did. Those were the days =)
Now I got everything all unpacked, not hooked up yet though. I took some pics in case you want to see. Lemme know and i'll upload em somewhere.
--Toq
Funny, I used to be in all honor english classes before I got into computers :/
Microcode updates? Bios Updates? Programmable Grid Arrays? Ever hear of any of these? Probably not.
I won't flame you, you obviously don't know enough about hardware to make any logical conclusions yourself..
Lol! So I guess you have no doubt of my sysadmin'ness :P
Speaking of caffine, allmost time to get another 2 liter of mtn dew. This one is all drank up.
--toq
Before I got married I ate the following.
Tuna Mac
1 can of tuna
1 can of macaroni and cheese
1 tsp black pepper
Cook macaroni like you normally would. When done cooking drain tuna and mix with macaroni. Pepper to taste.
Dennisons Chili Chimichanga's
1 Can of dennisons chilie
3 cups of shredded cheese
6 flour tortilla's
Use equal amounts of cheese and chili and wrap the ends. Fry in a pan till golden brown.
Chili Relleno's
2 tblspoons of flour
1 egg white
1 Can of whole green chili's
Cheese cut into sticks.
Mix the flour and egg white. Stuff the chili pepper with a stick of cheese, then dip in the batter. Fry in a pan until it is brown and the cheese is melted.
Open source Salsa
Everyone brings the hottest chili's they can find. Add tomato paste and chilis to a food processor. Mix until you have a nice salsa like texture. Have a contest to see who can eat the most.
--toq
Making M$ pay a little doesn't seem like that bad of an idea.
So what kind of message does that send out to virus writers?
"Yeah it's a free for all on M$! Go ahead and write viruses for their OS because we'll hold M$ liable and not you because j00 4r3 50 l33t!"
No I think thats the wrong message. It should be stopped at the source, M$ didn't sell webtv units with the virus installed.
Don't argue with me about it - the courts have already decided that knowingly having sex when you are at risk of transmitting the AIDS virus is attempted murder.
You warped the law to fit your comment. If that really is the law then all humans should be locked up because we are all "AIDS PNP"
It should read.
The courts have already decided that IF you HAVE aids and you KNOWINGLY have SEX with a PERSON without DISCLOSING that you HAVE aids then you are guilty of Attempted murder.
The webtv boxes did not come with aids installed.
It doesn't make them any money.
It's one less day they need phone support.
It's one less day they have to provide service.
It's one less day they have to do anything but have their top techs in the office fixing the problem (Who are probably in the office all the time anyways)
On top of all the less they have to provide for a day, they're still charging the customers money. So they don't really lose anything at all by doing this, they gain alot.
Add that all up, and I see black for that day.
Yes but what you are describing is a pre-existing motive. If M$ had manufactured these boxes with the INTENT to leave this hole open (Look at intent) Then they could be held liable.
The only person with the INTENT to spread the virus is the original virus writer himself. Maybe you just hate MS and can't look at the issue objectively enough?