it is stuff that any parent already has access to: grades, attendance, discipline records.
you know, no one complained about the public's right to access drivers license/criminal information until you could do it on the web. then everyone started getting antsy about it. but i remember being told (and seeing the terminal to do it) that anyone can go to the courthouse and access any info that was a matter of public record.
i think this goes a little farther though. this is information that's supposed to be available only to the parent, teacher, and school admins, and now it's available to whoever has the login/password.
they also mention that it shouldn't be a problem "as long as its secure", but who's to say it is? how many geek types will mess with it to see if they can change the info? and if it is comprimised in a major way, how soon with they fix it? if it can't be fixed, does the district get their money back?
i don't believe his intelligence had anything to do with it. i think his emotions took over when he heard the jail thing. he probably has heard something about what jail is like, and i don't konw about you but when i was 13 i wouldn't have wanted to have the possibility of being raped in the shower thrown in my face for hacking into a computer system. 13-year-olds aren't rational all the time. they may know right from wrong, but they're kids. i'm not saying he should have been let off easy, but if it's true that he was threatened with jail, then i could see how he could be depressed enough to think suicide might be better. not all intelligent people are rational about everything all the time, especially kids...
a guy at the last place i worked dutifully sent out warnings of the lovebug virus to everyone in the company, then promptly opened the first one that came to him...
i've found that guards are no match for the evil power of 'looking like you belong there'.
i was a contractor at a major telephone company and i was asked one time to help move a bunch of laptops (brand new, still in their boxes) from one building to another. i had permission, but the bad part was that only after i'd taken about $24,000 worth of laptops out of the building was i asked where i was going. this was after about 20 trips (80 laptops, 80 monitors, 80 docking stations).
sure, i had to have a badge to do get in and out of the doors, but there was always someone coming in or out who was willing to hold the door for me. would you make someone carrying a bunch of stuff stop to fumble with their card key when you know you could just stand there a few second longer and hold it open for them?
when i left there i noticed that if i took my parking card from my new job and clipped it to my belt with the back facing out, i was never challenged as to whether or not i was supposed to be there. (the employees all had to wear badges, and regulations were supposed to be that the badges had to have the picture facing out.) which brings up another point, if you are supposed to wear a badge at a place, why doesn't anyone ever challenge you? because they're embarressed to try since you may be legit. i mean this place used to issue temp badges (stickers that were supposed to be worn at all times), but no one ever wore them because they were a nuisance.
and security guards are no help unless they actually do something other than sit at their kiosk and read the paper/watch the video monitors..
here for a book PC. a friend of mine got one and uses it for mp3's. the one he got had an option to have a DVD player too (although he has a very nice one already). throw in any big harddrive you want, rip all your mp3's in, setup the playlists, and you're almost there. i don't think these are the ones he bought, but they're like them, wish i'd gotten one though, they kick butt and i think overall price (dvd drive, large harddrive, etc.) was about $400 or so..
http://www.directron.com/blackbookpc.html http://www.egtechnology.com/bookpc/bookpc.html
anyone else remember the early PC's that powered the monitor also? i remember when i dumped that one and got a new one i was quite disappointed to see that the new one wasn't like that, had to make room on my power strip for the monitor cable too. now it's normal.
in certain areas of my city you can always see that the pay phones have a strong following and are not leaving us anytime soon. just take a look at the areas where immigrant residence is high, and you'll see aliens (legal and illegal) using them to call their home country.
i've found that some companies, like dell, ibm, hp, are pretty good at allowing you to download their drivers for any of their systems. i used to completely reload w98 on laptops from those manufacturers (to get all the cr@p they had pre-loaded off of there) and rarely had a problem.
"Watched disk 1 of "Apocalypse Now". Shep tried to explain why Robert Duvall is always wearing the
black cavalry hat, but being a Navy guy, he's not sure he understands it either."
you should listen to the director's commentary track on the wargames DVD, it's pretty good, talks about the war-dialer (some of us are still debating if it was truly invented by this movie or not), the galaga game that broderick got for his dressing room, some other stuff..
simple to fix. get a pager, give the pager number out instead of the phone number. use the cell phone to call back only when you think it's an emergency or when you aren't busy.
reminds me of a story i read about a middle east ruler who is allowed to have 10 wives i think. so he has 9 permanent ones, and each friday he picks a girl, marries her, and then divorces her on sunday.
what about something that would dial-out into the voicemail system when you are done with the call, retrieve is and record the message to.wav or something, and then be able to serve it up? now that's something i'd be interested in...
"For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive -- you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular ependiture, of course, but meant you had to sit infuriatingly still is you wanted to keep listening to the same program."
ah, but if broadband starts getting into a majority of the households, would there be a need for an offline search capability? i mean, i'm usually connected all the time, so it's never a problem to pop open a browser window and do a quick search. i guess it would depend a little on if people start leaving their pc's on all the time. anybody know of "normal" people who like leaving their machines on? i know my girfriend likes to..
are you talking about richochet? i've got it in the dallas area, and it works pretty good. easy to set up, although a little pricey for the speed. the good part is that it's service area spans everywhere in the city i go to, and i've never had a problem getting connected. easy to get setup too, i went to a local dealer, bought it, and had it running in less than 15 minutes.
i read somewhere that the russians had female snipers because their fingers were more sensitive for the triggers. also, i know the russians had female pilots, and i believe some made ace even.
The PS3 Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic gameplaying. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
actually, back when i first started playing doom i learned the best position to play was with my feet propped up on the desk and the keyboard on my lap. the height of the desk allowed a comfortable angle, but only if i was in a certain chair we had. of course that all went to crap once i started using the mouse too..
lets see, one hand to drive with, one hand to shift with, one hand to manuever the mouse/trackball/touchpad, one hand to...hmmm..i need more hands if this is gonna work..
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it is stuff that any parent already has access to: grades, attendance, discipline records. you know, no one complained about the public's right to access drivers license/criminal information until you could do it on the web. then everyone started getting antsy about it. but i remember being told (and seeing the terminal to do it) that anyone can go to the courthouse and access any info that was a matter of public record. i think this goes a little farther though. this is information that's supposed to be available only to the parent, teacher, and school admins, and now it's available to whoever has the login/password. they also mention that it shouldn't be a problem "as long as its secure", but who's to say it is? how many geek types will mess with it to see if they can change the info? and if it is comprimised in a major way, how soon with they fix it? if it can't be fixed, does the district get their money back?
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i don't believe his intelligence had anything to do with it. i think his emotions took over when he heard the jail thing. he probably has heard something about what jail is like, and i don't konw about you but when i was 13 i wouldn't have wanted to have the possibility of being raped in the shower thrown in my face for hacking into a computer system. 13-year-olds aren't rational all the time. they may know right from wrong, but they're kids. i'm not saying he should have been let off easy, but if it's true that he was threatened with jail, then i could see how he could be depressed enough to think suicide might be better. not all intelligent people are rational about everything all the time, especially kids...
a guy at the last place i worked dutifully sent out warnings of the lovebug virus to everyone in the company, then promptly opened the first one that came to him...
i've found that guards are no match for the evil power of 'looking like you belong there'.
i was a contractor at a major telephone company and i was asked one time to help move a bunch of laptops (brand new, still in their boxes) from one building to another. i had permission, but the bad part was that only after i'd taken about $24,000 worth of laptops out of the building was i asked where i was going. this was after about 20 trips (80 laptops, 80 monitors, 80 docking stations).
sure, i had to have a badge to do get in and out of the doors, but there was always someone coming in or out who was willing to hold the door for me. would you make someone carrying a bunch of stuff stop to fumble with their card key when you know you could just stand there a few second longer and hold it open for them?
when i left there i noticed that if i took my parking card from my new job and clipped it to my belt with the back facing out, i was never challenged as to whether or not i was supposed to be there. (the employees all had to wear badges, and regulations were supposed to be that the badges had to have the picture facing out.) which brings up another point, if you are supposed to wear a badge at a place, why doesn't anyone ever challenge you? because they're embarressed to try since you may be legit. i mean this place used to issue temp badges (stickers that were supposed to be worn at all times), but no one ever wore them because they were a nuisance.
and security guards are no help unless they actually do something other than sit at their kiosk and read the paper/watch the video monitors..
wealthy enough to retire to an island, but too cheap to make an overseas call on his own dime?
oh, i forgot to mention, the book pc my friend got had s-video and normal a/v outputs built in.
here for a book PC. a friend of mine got one and uses it for mp3's. the one he got had an option to have a DVD player too (although he has a very nice one already). throw in any big harddrive you want, rip all your mp3's in, setup the playlists, and you're almost there. i don't think these are the ones he bought, but they're like them, wish i'd gotten one though, they kick butt and i think overall price (dvd drive, large harddrive, etc.) was about $400 or so.. http://www.directron.com/blackbookpc.html
http://www.egtechnology.com/bookpc/bookpc.html
subst most definately works in DOS, i used it all the time back in 'the day'.
anyone else remember the early PC's that powered the monitor also? i remember when i dumped that one and got a new one i was quite disappointed to see that the new one wasn't like that, had to make room on my power strip for the monitor cable too. now it's normal.
in certain areas of my city you can always see that the pay phones have a strong following and are not leaving us anytime soon. just take a look at the areas where immigrant residence is high, and you'll see aliens (legal and illegal) using them to call their home country.
i've found that some companies, like dell, ibm, hp, are pretty good at allowing you to download their drivers for any of their systems. i used to completely reload w98 on laptops from those manufacturers (to get all the cr@p they had pre-loaded off of there) and rarely had a problem.
"Watched disk 1 of "Apocalypse Now". Shep tried to explain why Robert Duvall is always wearing the
black cavalry hat, but being a Navy guy, he's not sure he understands it either."
cool, wonder if they have Apollo 13 too..
you should listen to the director's commentary track on the wargames DVD, it's pretty good, talks about the war-dialer (some of us are still debating if it was truly invented by this movie or not), the galaga game that broderick got for his dressing room, some other stuff..
simple to fix. get a pager, give the pager number out instead of the phone number. use the cell phone to call back only when you think it's an emergency or when you aren't busy.
reminds me of a story i read about a middle east ruler who is allowed to have 10 wives i think. so he has 9 permanent ones, and each friday he picks a girl, marries her, and then divorces her on sunday.
what about something that would dial-out into the voicemail system when you are done with the call, retrieve is and record the message to .wav or something, and then be able to serve it up? now that's something i'd be interested in...
that part in THHGTG...
"For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive -- you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular ependiture, of course, but meant you had to sit infuriatingly still is you wanted to keep listening to the same program."
truth is stranger than fiction, right?
ah, but if broadband starts getting into a majority of the households, would there be a need for an offline search capability? i mean, i'm usually connected all the time, so it's never a problem to pop open a browser window and do a quick search. i guess it would depend a little on if people start leaving their pc's on all the time. anybody know of "normal" people who like leaving their machines on? i know my girfriend likes to..
are you talking about richochet? i've got it in the dallas area, and it works pretty good. easy to set up, although a little pricey for the speed. the good part is that it's service area spans everywhere in the city i go to, and i've never had a problem getting connected. easy to get setup too, i went to a local dealer, bought it, and had it running in less than 15 minutes.
i read somewhere that the russians had female snipers because their fingers were more sensitive for the triggers. also, i know the russians had female pilots, and i believe some made ace even.
i could be wrong though..
The PS3 Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic gameplaying. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
i've heard that before, that if you make a change to a contract, as long as both parties initial the changes, it's valid.
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actually, back when i first started playing doom i learned the best position to play was with my feet propped up on the desk and the keyboard on my lap. the height of the desk allowed a comfortable angle, but only if i was in a certain chair we had. of course that all went to crap once i started using the mouse too..
lets see, one hand to drive with, one hand to shift with, one hand to manuever the mouse/trackball/touchpad, one hand to...hmmm..i need more hands if this is gonna work..