Its not apocryphal. It used to be in the Hull yellow pages. Then they took it out. Maybe someone complained. I have been trying to track down an old copy as lots of people don't believe me, however this isn't easy to do. How many people do you know who collect old copies of the yellow pages!
For any Americans reading this, Hull is a town in England that never sold out its council owned telephone company when all the others did, creating British Telecom. As a result Hull still has an independant company (Kingston Communications) running the local telephone service. As a result, the Hull yellow pages is not the same as the BT yellow pages.
I don't suggest trying this unless you are very good with electronics.
I shared an office with a guy who was heavily into electronics and used to fix TVs and monitors as a hobby. This was back in the time of Windows 3.1. He stayed back the night before April 1st and stripped a guys monitor down and rebuilt it so the picture was upside down. (please don't ask me how.) Then he installed some hack on the display driver so Windows also displayed upside down. Rebooted the machine and went home.
The victim used to spend a lot of time telneted into a Unix box and ran his login session full screen. Since the monitor was inverted and windows was inverted, everything looked fine. He started his telnet session, hit alt-enter to make it full screen and since it was no longer using the display driver, the display was now upside down.
Hmmm.
He spent a while trying to figure out what had happened and someone dropped a hint that maybe the display driver had been tampered with. He tracked down a clean display driver and installed it.
You could allow everyone to connect regardless but use a VPN client on the customers machine to allow internet access.
The only problem here is that people could connect just to play online games with other connected people or run VOIP style apps but would this be a problem? If you only intend to charge for internet access, allowing people IP access to each other would be a way of getting them to try the system first.
I get wap over GPRS so its reasonably fast. I have a P800 so the screen is a reasonable size. I don't pay a fixed fee for my GPRS so I don't get generic IP access so I can't run a web browser or use the built in email reader.
However, I can go to wap.yahoo.co.uk and read mail at my yahoo account and I can reply via my phone if I need to. I can also send instant messages to people such as "Turn your phone on!!".
You may think wap died but I use it regularly to check my mail without having to pay extra for web access. I count this as usefull and not a sign of death in any way.
I also sometimes use it in bed to check the news headlines to see if anything really important and worth getting up for has happened. It usually hasn't.
" The team sits nearby in a car receiving the information transmitted wirelessly over weekends and evenings from equipment they install on the front of the ATM (see photos). If you see an attachment like this, do not use the ATM and report it immediately to the bank using the 800 number or phone on the front of the ATM. "
Excuse me. They want you to stand next to an ATM on an evening or weekend and use the phone to inform the bank that a group of criminals might be seated in a nearby car skimming cards! Maybe you could get them to send you an ambulance as well!
If there is no distributer, what about film festivals? I have a ticket for Bubba Ho-tep right here for the Leeds (UK) film festival. However whether it will get a general release here, I don't know.
If you have any kind of local film festival where you are, it may be worth getting in touch with the people running it and see if they can get a print of the film.
For any UK people reading, its being shown next Saturday as part of the all-nighter (5 films back to back from 10pm till 8am) which is what I am off to and repeated on the Sunday.
However the NRA are happy to state that gun ownership is higher now then in the 1700's despite the increase in police numbers.
Bob.
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I have been saying this for a while. You can't just overthrow the machines and have millions of people suddenly wake up. How do you clothe, house and feed them.
I am sure that at the end of the trilogy, there will still be a matrix in place, they may just be either starting to wake people up a few at a time or starting to put people back in.
If they are taking them out, then it will take a long time. This could be where the game is set.
The way this works in the UK is that BT have to supply lines to other companies because of monopoly issues. I found an ISP that gives me an ADSL connection with 5 IP addresses for the same price as 1 and doesn't mind how many machines I connect.
If there are independant DSL providers that get enough phone calls from people looking for a provider that will allow them to use NAT then eventually some will see it makes business sense to allow this simply as a way to get more custom.
Even if you only have one machine connected, you should ring your provider and ask about NAT. If they say its not allowed then enquire when your contract ends so you can check out other suppliers.
Eventually they will get the message.
The plan to ban NAT was made for business reasons. The unbanning of it by some providers will be made for business reasons. The majority of the providers going the same way will be made for business reasons. You can beat them on a technicallity but them changing for business reasons is easier.
For those in the UK, I use Zen Internet (www.zen.co.uk). I don't work for them and I don't have any problems with them. They can take over a DSL connection from BT if you want to move over and they have a rolling 1 month contract from day 1.
Given the choice between signing up with the major supplier and finding technical methods to circumvent their terms and conditions or finding a supplier with terms and conditions I likes, I went with the latter.
If in the US, you only have one major ADSL supplier then this is a monopoly issue and you need to start complaining to your congressmen. Thats what they are there for.
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See Civil Engineers. "
Its not apocryphal. It used to be in the Hull yellow pages. Then they took it out. Maybe someone complained. I have been trying to track down an old copy as lots of people don't believe me, however this isn't easy to do. How many people do you know who collect old copies of the yellow pages!
For any Americans reading this, Hull is a town in England that never sold out its council owned telephone company when all the others did, creating British Telecom. As a result Hull still has an independant company (Kingston Communications) running the local telephone service. As a result, the Hull yellow pages is not the same as the BT yellow pages.
Bob. (Who was born there).
I don't suggest trying this unless you are very good with electronics.
I shared an office with a guy who was heavily into electronics and used to fix TVs and monitors as a hobby. This was back in the time of Windows 3.1. He stayed back the night before April 1st and stripped a guys monitor down and rebuilt it so the picture was upside down. (please don't ask me how.) Then he installed some hack on the display driver so Windows also displayed upside down. Rebooted the machine and went home.
The victim used to spend a lot of time telneted into a Unix box and ran his login session full screen. Since the monitor was inverted and windows was inverted, everything looked fine. He started his telnet session, hit alt-enter to make it full screen and since it was no longer using the display driver, the display was now upside down.
Hmmm.
He spent a while trying to figure out what had happened and someone dropped a hint that maybe the display driver had been tampered with. He tracked down a clean display driver and installed it.
Ta-daaaa.
Now everything was upside down.
Bob.
Which is where it should be. What was thought to be anthropology turned out to be psychology.
Bob.
Surely on a scale of brightness, minus infinity has to mean it smacks you in the face. It can't get much brighter then that.
Bob.
You could allow everyone to connect regardless but use a VPN client on the customers machine to allow internet access.
The only problem here is that people could connect just to play online games with other connected people or run VOIP style apps but would this be a problem? If you only intend to charge for internet access, allowing people IP access to each other would be a way of getting them to try the system first.
Bob.
Hmmm.
I get wap over GPRS so its reasonably fast. I have a P800 so the screen is a reasonable size. I don't pay a fixed fee for my GPRS so I don't get
generic IP access so I can't run a web browser or
use the built in email reader.
However, I can go to wap.yahoo.co.uk and read
mail at my yahoo account and I can reply via my
phone if I need to. I can also send instant
messages to people such as "Turn your phone on!!".
You may think wap died but I use it regularly to
check my mail without having to pay extra for web
access. I count this as usefull and not a sign of
death in any way.
I also sometimes use it in bed to check the news
headlines to see if anything really important and
worth getting up for has happened. It usually
hasn't.
Bob.
"The biggest thing seems to have been the size"
I tend to find that as a rule, the biggest thing of most things is its size. If it gets any bigger, its size grows to accomodate it.
Bob.
" The team sits nearby in a car receiving the information transmitted wirelessly over weekends and evenings from equipment they install on the front of the ATM (see photos). If you see an attachment like this, do not use the ATM and report it immediately to the bank using the 800 number or phone on the front of the ATM. "
Excuse me. They want you to stand next to an ATM on an evening or weekend and use the phone to inform the bank that a group of criminals might be seated in a nearby car skimming cards! Maybe you could get them to send you an ambulance as well!
Bob.
Maybe they use Macs as well. I guess with one big plunger, they would want a computer that only has one big mouse button.
Bob.
This makes me feel old. I remember the figures before they had poseable arms. Not only that, my first big box of lego came in a wood box.
I wonder when they stopped using wood for the boxes.
Bob.
If you were storing old-coke for an unborn child, make sure you kept an eye on the use by date.
Bob.
... I have been throw a few airport detectors in my Berghaus hiking boots and they are the first I have ever had that have not set them off.
Bob.
If there is no distributer, what about film festivals? I have a ticket for Bubba Ho-tep right here for the Leeds (UK) film festival. However whether it will get a general release here, I don't know.
If you have any kind of local film festival where you are, it may be worth getting in touch with the people running it and see if they can get a print of the film.
For any UK people reading, its being shown next Saturday as part of the all-nighter (5 films back to back from 10pm till 8am) which is what I am off to and repeated on the Sunday.
Bob.
" "The Equilibre ($8,475) - nominally a 60-watt stereo amp."-- yes, power ratings are nominal. What's the problem here? "
I think the thing that is at issue is that some people expect more then 60 watts for $8,475.
And, yes I know, its quality that counts.
Bob.
What if the defender has nuclear weapons?
http://www.geocities.com/justaguy93/Nuke.html
Bob.
Just change it to "Push This Button To Talk - PTBTT"
Pronounced the same as blowing a raspberry.
Bob.
However the NRA are happy to state that gun ownership is higher now then in the 1700's despite the increase in police numbers.
Bob.
I have been saying this for a while. You can't just overthrow the machines and have millions of people suddenly wake up. How do you clothe, house and feed them.
I am sure that at the end of the trilogy, there will still be a matrix in place, they may just be either starting to wake people up a few at a time or starting to put people back in.
If they are taking them out, then it will take a long time. This could be where the game is set.
Bob.
"I can't see a financial justification to use it as a start point for Mars missions"
Maybe a mars mission would be done for ideological reasons.
Maybe they want to make the red planet the, er, red planet.
Bob.
I still find it odd that Microsoft licensed SCO code on May 19th.
n ix _1.html
...
... SCOs stock closed at 6.66
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/030519/tech_microsoft_u
And on May 20th
http://table.finance.yahoo.com/k?s=scox&g=d
Coincidence?
Bob.
Did daemon stop meaning,
Device And Execution MONitor.
You could try telling her its simply an acronym.
Bob.
" So what measures can we expect to see? Lighter inks, crazier fonts to screw with the robots OCR? Funny paper that makes it hard to flip pages? "
I think you just described a typical issue of wired. Are they worried about people copying?
Bob.
The way this works in the UK is that BT have to supply lines to other companies because of monopoly issues. I found an ISP that gives me an ADSL connection with 5 IP addresses for the same price as 1 and doesn't mind how many machines I connect.
If there are independant DSL providers that get enough phone calls from people looking for a provider that will allow them to use NAT then eventually some will see it makes business sense to allow this simply as a way to get more custom.
Even if you only have one machine connected, you should ring your provider and ask about NAT. If they say its not allowed then enquire when your contract ends so you can check out other suppliers.
Eventually they will get the message.
The plan to ban NAT was made for business reasons. The unbanning of it by some providers will be made for business reasons. The majority of the providers going the same way will be made for business reasons. You can beat them on a technicallity but them changing for business reasons is easier.
For those in the UK, I use Zen Internet (www.zen.co.uk). I don't work for them and I don't have any problems with them. They can take over a DSL connection from BT if you want to move over and they have a rolling 1 month contract from day 1.
Given the choice between signing up with the major supplier and finding technical methods to circumvent their terms and conditions or finding a supplier with terms and conditions I likes, I went with the latter.
If in the US, you only have one major ADSL supplier then this is a monopoly issue and you need to start complaining to your congressmen. Thats what they are there for.
Bob.
Didn't anyone watch 2010. All you need is a non-conductive blade and a little red calculator.
Bob.
Maybe Spirograph could claim prior art.
Bob.