If you are driving along and a vehicle appearing to be a police car signals for you to pull over, and there is nowhere in the public eye for you to do so, put on your hazard lights, and hand signal out the window to the "officer" that you are continuing on ahead. If you have a cell phone, call the 911 operator and explain that you are being signaled to pull over but are unsure of the status of the vehicle in question. They can verify that you are being pulled over by a cop or if not, at least they will have it on record why you did not pull over immediately and you should be able to continue on to a safe area without legal repercussions.
You may get treated like shit by the power-hungry types, but it's better than being cornered by some psycho (cop or not) out of the public eye.
I was 10 when I read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep". It was jacketed as Blade Runner, but wasn't the movie adaptation.
I really enjoyed the book, but a few things left me high and dry, like the whole kipple thing. I kept leaving crumpled pieces of paper around garbage cans for weeks to see if they'd multiply.
Sorry, I've only watched a couple of SP episodes in the last few years. I love the show, I just forget to turn the TV on, or it's on the discovery channel in the background while I'm working on stuff.
It was too bad that Wired went from being relevant to blatant prostitution.
There were more ads than content when I cancelled my subscription. I picked up a couple of issues in the years since, but just couldn't find anything to justify making it a regular purchase any more.
Well, I for one would rather read the words they pull out of a hat than the ones they pull out of their asses.
Unfortunately, we can guess where they pulled the hat out of.
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I've been getting them as well. The only reason I could think of someone sending those around is to bog up Bayesian filters with random crap, possibly lowering their effectiveness.
Any spammmers/spam-experts feel like enlightening us?:)
So some weiner beats you to the punch, exploiting a weakness in the server before it can be patched.
Next thing you know there's a little guy in a black leather jacket running people down, shooting up the neighborhood, and bitch-slapping the prostitutes.
It's Grand Theft Auto: Visitorville, coming to a desktop near you.
In case of Slashdotting, the wailing of the server will be represented by a medley of Morrisey tunes.
As someone who worked in the darkroom of a newspaper, I can tell you that some photographers blew through film like there was no tomorrow.
It was less important to hunt for the "perfect shot" while out in the field, than to get the appropriate lighting and f-stop. Once you know the lighting and depth are good, going snap happy means you can look at the pics afterwards and choose the best images then.
Even if you're just shooting static images, every shot should be "bracketed" which means shooting above and below the target aperture setting, adding at least two images per shot. Might not matter if you're at the beach hanging out, but if it's for work, might as well do it right the first time.
You must be a proctologist. I've never seen anyone else with their head so far up their ass before.
Lots of people use antivirus software for the simple purpose of scanning files introduced to their machine BEFORE they are executed, viewed, etc.
And guess what? They're not doomed. Well, technically death comes for us all, but you actually CAN use antivirus software effectively without being relegated to the realm of the imbecile.
If someone believes a single antivirus package is the be-all, end-all of virus prevention, then they're in trouble simply because they're cloaked by a false sense of security.
On the other hand, a user who is conscientious about the code run on their machine, even if the OS isn't one of the most secure, is better off scanning then not.
It's not actually a trailer, it's a duplex. I was referring to the type of neighborhood with the trailer park comment. It's all really old, cheaply built houses with beat up cars in the driveways/yards, and in the summer, when it gets nice and warm at night, the drunks down the street take their domestic disputes for a walk.
No real worries about crime though. Our landlords kids and their friends would sit in their old storage garage every night smoking weed, so we'd have anywhere from 3 to 7 kids keeping an eye out till 2 or 3 in the morning:)
I've got a Linksys 802.11g setup at home, and have had no trouble setting up any of the various encryption schemes. Currently using AES.
The big problem is actually staying connected. There's no other visible networks, and the neighborhood is at the low end of trailer park (was saving money to get a house). I'm wondering if the neighbors have a leaky microwave and if I should be watching out for any extra nipples suddenly appearing.
To reconnect, I actually have to disable the network connection in XP, then re-enable it. Then it works... for a time.
At first I thought it was choking on the key rotation, with the client machine not rolling over. But even preventing it from renewing didn't help.
Hopefully when we move into the new place in two weeks the connection will improve. And maybe there will be some interesting new networks to cruise:)
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Otherwise you take a bullet to the temple.
What do the guys at the temple want with a bullet? Sounds like a wasted trip to me. Beats getting shot in the head though.
Someone's got a crush on the Wayan's brothers :P
Off-topic but relevant to the parent.
If you are driving along and a vehicle appearing to be a police car signals for you to pull over, and there is nowhere in the public eye for you to do so, put on your hazard lights, and hand signal out the window to the "officer" that you are continuing on ahead.
If you have a cell phone, call the 911 operator and explain that you are being signaled to pull over but are unsure of the status of the vehicle in question. They can verify that you are being pulled over by a cop or if not, at least they will have it on record why you did not pull over immediately and you should be able to continue on to a safe area without legal repercussions.
You may get treated like shit by the power-hungry types, but it's better than being cornered by some psycho (cop or not) out of the public eye.
I was 10 when I read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep". It was jacketed as Blade Runner, but wasn't the movie adaptation.
I really enjoyed the book, but a few things left me high and dry, like the whole kipple thing. I kept leaving crumpled pieces of paper around garbage cans for weeks to see if they'd multiply.
Woohoo! Vindication at last!
I heard about this a couple of years ago and told some friends about it. They thought I was on crack.
Now wait till I zap them from afar with my "laser taser"!
It's like the modern version of "I'm crushing your head!"
Sorry, I've only watched a couple of SP episodes in the last few years. I love the show, I just forget to turn the TV on, or it's on the discovery channel in the background while I'm working on stuff.
It was too bad that Wired went from being relevant to blatant prostitution.
There were more ads than content when I cancelled my subscription. I picked up a couple of issues in the years since, but just couldn't find anything to justify making it a regular purchase any more.
Well, I for one would rather read the words they pull out of a hat than the ones they pull out of their asses.
Unfortunately, we can guess where they pulled the hat out of.
I've been getting them as well.
:)
The only reason I could think of someone sending those around is to bog up Bayesian filters with random crap, possibly lowering their effectiveness.
Any spammmers/spam-experts feel like enlightening us?
fuchsia.
Sorry, not meaning to be a grammar/spelling nazi, just correcting the spelling so it's easier for people to find and visualize the color.
5) Black holes (the most extreme form of gravity) are the same thing as a woman's memory nothing _ever_ escapes.
:)
I've never heard of a selective black hole before. Ever notice that a woman's memory suddenly fails her when you point out a past mistake?
So some weiner beats you to the punch, exploiting a weakness in the server before it can be patched.
Next thing you know there's a little guy in a black leather jacket running people down, shooting up the neighborhood, and bitch-slapping the prostitutes.
It's Grand Theft Auto: Visitorville, coming to a desktop near you.
In case of Slashdotting, the wailing of the server will be represented by a medley of Morrisey tunes.
How long before we see "RIAA vs. The Vatican" :)
He said no suite running on the machine.
That doesn't mean they couldn't use web based scanning like Trend Micro and Panda Softwares online scanners.
Just curious, but what do you do for a living?
She may be a moron, but it's only free for the basic service. You pay for premium.
And yes, she should have made her own backups.
If you know the contents of solder resin/rosin, I'd bet that that is your culprit.
I like that smell. But maybe it's just because the brain cells it kills cause my brain to release pleasure stimulating endorphins.
As someone who worked in the darkroom of a newspaper, I can tell you that some photographers blew through film like there was no tomorrow.
It was less important to hunt for the "perfect shot" while out in the field, than to get the appropriate lighting and f-stop. Once you know the lighting and depth are good, going snap happy means you can look at the pics afterwards and choose the best images then.
Even if you're just shooting static images, every shot should be "bracketed" which means shooting above and below the target aperture setting, adding at least two images per shot. Might not matter if you're at the beach hanging out, but if it's for work, might as well do it right the first time.
You must be a proctologist. I've never seen anyone else with their head so far up their ass before.
Lots of people use antivirus software for the simple purpose of scanning files introduced to their machine BEFORE they are executed, viewed, etc.
And guess what? They're not doomed. Well, technically death comes for us all, but you actually CAN use antivirus software effectively without being relegated to the realm of the imbecile.
If someone believes a single antivirus package is the be-all, end-all of virus prevention, then they're in trouble simply because they're cloaked by a false sense of security.
On the other hand, a user who is conscientious about the code run on their machine, even if the OS isn't one of the most secure, is better off scanning then not.
Good point. I don't use cordless phones, or even a cell, but I bet there's one in the downstairs tenants place.
Though my signal strength is always great. It just seems like the card forgets how to talk to the WRT54.
It's not actually a trailer, it's a duplex.
:)
I was referring to the type of neighborhood with the trailer park comment. It's all really old, cheaply built houses with beat up cars in the driveways/yards, and in the summer, when it gets nice and warm at night, the drunks down the street take their domestic disputes for a walk.
No real worries about crime though. Our landlords kids and their friends would sit in their old storage garage every night smoking weed, so we'd have anywhere from 3 to 7 kids keeping an eye out till 2 or 3 in the morning
"Word on the street" my ass.
How hard was it to show them how to use suprnova and kazaa?
I've got a Linksys 802.11g setup at home, and have had no trouble setting up any of the various encryption schemes. Currently using AES.
:)
The big problem is actually staying connected. There's no other visible networks, and the neighborhood is at the low end of trailer park (was saving money to get a house). I'm wondering if the neighbors have a leaky microwave and if I should be watching out for any extra nipples suddenly appearing.
To reconnect, I actually have to disable the network connection in XP, then re-enable it. Then it works... for a time.
At first I thought it was choking on the key rotation, with the client machine not rolling over. But even preventing it from renewing didn't help.
Hopefully when we move into the new place in two weeks the connection will improve. And maybe there will be some interesting new networks to cruise
Don't forget those people who can claim it was "evil hackers" who put the stolen credit card info / child porn / whatever on their machines.
Innocence is just a matter of pretending you don't know how to use your machine.
Funny how gun owners or accident prone drivers don't get to use the same defense.
Thanks! That cleared it up nicely. Much appreciated.