While technically not out of the IT field, at least it would allow you to continue to use your skills. Not only that, but you'd (potentially, hopefully) get a broader base of tasks.
Hell, I bought a NEW XBox (NOT the 360) a week or so ago for 1/3rd the price of the 360. Add to that the fact that I'm adding a modchip and a 160GB hdd, and I'm STILL spending less.
Now I need to backup my games before my youngest loses the DVDs.
And since the 360 is out, the prices of the games for the original XBox should be dropping like SCO's ability to prove a case.
I've been using this for years. It's only down-fall is the inability to block some ads (java? flash? I don't know) but it works damned well otherwise. Hell, I don't even see the ads here.
Unless they move away from using a hosts file (is that even possible?) this should fix most of that.
Whod'a thunk that lurking among us is a sexual predator, determined to lure some unsuspecting teen (or younger) to meet and hook up with them.
How many 12-yr-olds do we have on this site? How many teens visit here and would be stupid enough to fall for this? How many adults won't be able to visit their sites from public terminals when they don't own their own pc?
Banning slashot? Banning AMAZON of all places? WTF?
While I agree to limiting internet access in schools, this is just another step in the gub'ment telling us what we can do when doing so isn't illegal.
If you're so intent on leaving it open, I'd suggest just getting their mac address and assign it back to 169.254.x.x or 127.0.0.1. That way, if they actually do anything illegal, its not tracked to you.
You're just flipping webpages, right? What's to stop them from getting on a P2P network and sharing/downloading files? What's to stop them from visiting illegal porn sites?
Doing this to them will just make their internet useless. Not as funny, but safer IMO.
Another thought: Is there some way to randomly route their requests to a totally different webpage? Say they want to go to Google, etc. Is there some way to redirect their request to a randomly-generated (but real) URL? I'd suggest something in a foreign country.
This is simply a last-ditch desparate effort of SCO to divert the attention from their pathetic selves and delay this tired and drawn-out leagal action.
Some advice for SCO - Roll over and expose your soft underbelly in a show of submission while IBM humps the air over you.
Your tactics are old and busted and everyone's tired of hearing about you.
SCO? I hear your momma calling. You better run home now.
There are several car stereos that offer this as an option now.
My Jensen MP6211 stereo is one of them and it offers this via an add-on adapter called the jport. The manual says it will control all of the iPods to date.
It doesn't, however, work with the shuffle option on the iPods. I don't have an iPod, so I can't comment on how well it works with them.
It'll also control a Jensen CD changer and has a set of RCA inputs for playing anything else via the stereo's AUX mode.
They offer a steering wheel remote as an accessory (not includeded w/the stereo). See here. The stereo comes with a credit card remote in the box.
Best of all, I got mine at Circuit City for less than $100.
My only gripes on this stereo is the clock is WAAY too small to be useful, the ID3 tags aren't displayed in random mode unless you push the button on the stero and when the ID3 tags are scolling on the LCD, they scroll too slowly (and there's no option to increase the speed).
My last two cellphones had the capability to be locked immediately upon being powered up. You had to enter a pin in order to use it in any way.
If I were a student there, I'd enable this feature immediately. If they wanted to take my phone, I'd power it off first. If they wanted me to unlock it so they could snoop, I'd tell them to suck my balls.
Sure, they have the right to confiscate, but you don't have to comply with their attempt to dig through your digital data.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Some of da country's most notorious street gangs has gotten Web-savvy, showcasin' illegal exploits, makin' threats, 'n honorin' killed 'n jailed members on digital turf.
Crips, Bloods, MS-13, 18th Street 'n others has staked claims on various corners of cyberspace n' shit. "Web bangers" be postin' potentially incriminatin' photos of members holdin' guns, messages tauntin' otha gangs 'n boasts of illegal exploits on personal Web sites 'n social networkin' sites.
"I'm just bein' real 'n Ah ain't gots nothin' to hide," said Kristopha "Kasper" Flowers, 30, a professed memba of da 18th Street gang wid facial tattoos of "18" 'n "666." Da main 18th Street gang Web site has a link to "Kaspers World."
Gangs once only roamed da streets of big ass cities but now can be found in 2,500 U.S, man. communities, accordin' to da FBI, man. Police departments suddenly faced wid da unwelcome arrivals be lookin' fo help anywhere they can get it, includin' da gangs' own easy-to-find Web sites.
George W, man. Knox, director of da National Gang Crime Research Center, said tha dude has trained hundreds of police officials in how to cull intelligence on gang membership, rivalries, territory 'n lingo from these Web pages.
"In orda to understand any subculture, be dat shit al-Qaida, witches, devil worshippers or gangs, yo' ass has to be able to know they own language," Knox said.
Da tendency fo gang members to brag about they exploits on Web pages such as da popular networkin' site Myspace.com has in some cases helped investigators make arrests.
Chicago police recently arrested a teenaga accused of sprayin' tha dude's gang nickname on a church by tracin' da monika to tha dude's Myspace.com account n' shit. Tha dude's online profile included tha dude's address, photo 'n real name.
A Northern California judge ruled earlia dis month dat two teens charged wid beatin' a boy into a coma could be tried as adults afta prosecutors showed photographs of da two from Myspace.com, know what I'm sayin'? In da images, they flashed da hand signs of a local gang.
(AP) Kristopha "Kasper" Flowers, 30, works on a tattoo Tuesday, June 20, 2006, in da Hollywood section... Full Image
Myspace.com representatives could not be reached fo comment.
Deputy Tom Ferguson of da Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's gang investigation unit has identified a numba of graffiti writers who posted to a public Web site photos of themselves in front of they work.
"Maybe they think we don't look at it," Ferguson said n' shit. "But we're out there gleanin' information on them."
Knox said it be important fo police to learn how to read between da lines on gang Web sites 'n blogs n' shit. Just as time on da streets has given gang investigators da ability to read da hieroglyphics of wall graffiti, time on da Web helps 'em understand arcane Web clues, man. Gang identifiers, such as tattoos, graffiti tags, colors 'n clothin' often be embedded in each site.
" Yo' ass can study gang blogs and, an hour or two into it, pick up on subtle word choices," Knox said n' shit. "These be holy words to them."
Knox 'n others fear gangs be usin' da Internet to recruit new members, who can be influenced by da secret handshakes, clothin' 'n slang of gang cultures.
"There may be a lot of wannabes out there," said Kenneth Davis, a school resource offica fo da Yonkers Police Department in New York 'n an expert on gang graffiti 'n Web sites.
Flowers, a Hollywood tattoo artist who says tha dude has sworn off violence, said tha dude gets e-mails from wannabe gangbangers from far reaches of da Web but usually does not respond.
"If Ah do, Ah tell 'em to get a life 'n do yo' own thin' 'n don't try to be part of somethin' else," tha dude said.
I don't watch Colbert or The Daily Show. I don't have time.
Ever think that maybe someone might think the same thing as someone else? And god forbid they happen to state it similarly. I can't quote someone I don't watch.
I guess neither you nor the other responder had considered that, eh?
As for Karma, I'm not whoring. I could really give a shiat as to what my score is.
Uhm, I thought that if you do anything in public, you have "no expectation of privacy." Isn't this correct? Not to mention, reporters do stuff like this all the time. Why are reporters not given any shit?
Also, if the assclown was on this guy's private property, he has the right to tape anyone he wants. Moreso that he had warning signs up.
Hopefully they made a back-up copy of the tape and can take this to the press to show what and how he taped the cop.
A few years ago I (thought I) cancelled an account with Sprint. We had balance due, and my wife paid it. We thought everything was resolved.
Three years later I get a notice from a collections agency that we still owed. We hadn't received another bill from Sprint prior to that.
After literally 2 hours on the phone, and after several CSR reps telling me to simply ignore it, I finally got to a rep who actually resolved it. I got his name and extension.
I called the collections agency and explained the situation. I gave the woman I spoke to the rep's information, and told her that they needed to recoup the fees for buying my account from Sprint. She agreed.
"MySpace says on a "Tips for Parents" page that users must be 14 or older. The Web site does nothing to verify the age of the user, such as requiring a driver's license or credit card number, Loewy said.
To create an account, a MySpace user must list a name, an e-mail address, sex, country and date of birth.
"None of this has to be true," the lawsuit said.
Uh, what 14 year old has a DL or credit card? This would accomplish nothing. The adult predator who does have a CC and/or DL could simply input their info and still sign up as a minor, saying that they're verifying that they give permission for their child to have an account. This still wouldn't solve shiat.
The kid's parents are shirking responsibility for their inaction to supervise her and the stupidity of their daughter.
Granted she didn't deserve this, but c'mon. MySpace isn't responsible for making sure it's users aren't acting like dumbasses.
Also from the article:
"If you interact on MySpace, you are safe, but if a 13-year-old or 14-year-old goes out in person and meets someone she doesn't know, that is always an unsafe endeavor," Gelman said. "We need to teach our kids to be wary of strangers."
If your child doesn't know by kindergarten that strangers aren't to be trusted, you're asking for trouble. If your teen doesn't know by now, then thats one example of failure to adequately parent.
"We feel that 1 percent of that is the bare minimum that they should compensate the girl for their failure to protect her online when they knew sexual predators were on that site," he said.
They're going to have to PROVE that MySpace knew that there were predators on their site and failed to police its own system. Even if MySpace was used like this in the past, that doesn't go towards proving it. They're going to have a hard time with this point.
I live in Travis County, and can't wait to see how this unfolds. I hope it gets thrown out of court as its an obvious attempt to get a hand-out.
If they really want justice, sue the 19 yr old that molested her. Of course, they won't since he doesn't have $30M to pay them.
.. with DRM can easily be thwarted using an audio capture program such as GoldWave.
If you can hear it, you can capture it using such a program.
Their efforts won't accomplish anything./* Begin Sarcasm */ Unless they require us to pay a licensing fee for having ears. With the gubment passing a lot of stupid laws lately, look for a lobbyist to "convince" someone to back-door this into another bill./* End Sarcasm*/
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While technically not out of the IT field, at least it would allow you to continue to use your skills. Not only that, but you'd (potentially, hopefully) get a broader base of tasks.
Might combat the boredom.
What's needed here is a registration list sort of like what's used for the Do Not Call list.
If a telemarketer calls someone on the DNC list they're subject to a fine of $11K per offense.
The only exceptions to the DNC list are companies you've had a business relationship in the last 18 months.
See Question 32.
11. Duke Nuke'em will actually be finished and brought to market sometime in the next decade.
..what format the ads will be in. Java? Flash?
We'll have to see if Mike's ad-blocking hosts file will strip them.
Here's a listing of Universal's lables and a partial list of their artists.
Too bad the jazz artists suck, with the exception of Herbie Hancock.
Both links pop in new browsers.
I forget which one of these I have, but I was able to create a DVD with 40 albums on a single 4.7GB disc.
See here.
The one I have even lets you put a picture on the main selection screen.
I believe there's another one out there that will allow you to put a picture for each individual song.
Their overly-bloated prices.
Hell, I bought a NEW XBox (NOT the 360) a week or so ago for 1/3rd the price of the 360. Add to that the fact that I'm adding a modchip and a 160GB hdd, and I'm STILL spending less.
Now I need to backup my games before my youngest loses the DVDs.
And since the 360 is out, the prices of the games for the original XBox should be dropping like SCO's ability to prove a case.
See Mike's ad-blocking hosts file.
Opens in a new window.
I've been using this for years. It's only down-fall is the inability to block some ads (java? flash? I don't know) but it works damned well otherwise. Hell, I don't even see the ads here.
Unless they move away from using a hosts file (is that even possible?) this should fix most of that.
Whod'a thunk that lurking among us is a sexual predator, determined to lure some unsuspecting teen (or younger) to meet and hook up with them.
How many 12-yr-olds do we have on this site? How many teens visit here and would be stupid enough to fall for this? How many adults won't be able to visit their sites from public terminals when they don't own their own pc?
Banning slashot? Banning AMAZON of all places? WTF?
While I agree to limiting internet access in schools, this is just another step in the gub'ment telling us what we can do when doing so isn't illegal.
As far as translating the text to another : How about esperanto?
Leaving an access point open is simply foolish.
Celebrate! First esperanto post!!
Becomes
Abituerienta diplomo nedifina artikolo alveturejo pinto malfermegi la bus^on
lau^dire justa malsag^a.
Celebri! Unua esperanto alglui!!
Translator found @ http://www.faganfinder.com/translate/
If you're so intent on leaving it open, I'd suggest just getting their mac address and assign it back to 169.254.x.x or 127.0.0.1. That way, if they actually do anything illegal, its not tracked to you.
You're just flipping webpages, right? What's to stop them from getting on a P2P network and sharing/downloading files? What's to stop them from visiting illegal porn sites?
Doing this to them will just make their internet useless. Not as funny, but safer IMO.
Another thought: Is there some way to randomly route their requests to a totally different webpage? Say they want to go to Google, etc. Is there some way to redirect their request to a randomly-generated (but real) URL? I'd suggest something in a foreign country.
Pot? This is kettle. You're black.
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This is simply a last-ditch desparate effort of SCO to divert the attention from their pathetic selves and delay this tired and drawn-out leagal action.
Some advice for SCO - Roll over and expose your soft underbelly in a show of submission while IBM humps the air over you.
Your tactics are old and busted and everyone's tired of hearing about you.
SCO? I hear your momma calling. You better run home now.
There are several car stereos that offer this as an option now.
My Jensen MP6211 stereo is one of them and it offers this via an add-on adapter called the jport. The manual says it will control all of the iPods to date.
It doesn't, however, work with the shuffle option on the iPods. I don't have an iPod, so I can't comment on how well it works with them.
It'll also control a Jensen CD changer and has a set of RCA inputs for playing anything else via the stereo's AUX mode.
They offer a steering wheel remote as an accessory (not includeded w/the stereo). See here. The stereo comes with a credit card remote in the box.
Best of all, I got mine at Circuit City for less than $100.
My only gripes on this stereo is the clock is WAAY too small to be useful, the ID3 tags aren't displayed in random mode unless you push the button on the stero and when the ID3 tags are scolling on the LCD, they scroll too slowly (and there's no option to increase the speed).
Otherwise, its a great stereo for the price.
My last two cellphones had the capability to be locked immediately upon being powered up. You had to enter a pin in order to use it in any way.
If I were a student there, I'd enable this feature immediately. If they wanted to take my phone, I'd power it off first. If they wanted me to unlock it so they could snoop, I'd tell them to suck my balls.
Sure, they have the right to confiscate, but you don't have to comply with their attempt to dig through your digital data.
For all the gang-bangers that read /.
I found the translator at http://www.psyclops.com/translator/.
Gangs Use Internet to Showcase Exploits
Jul 6, 4:08 PM (ET)
By ANDREW GLAZER
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Some of da country's most notorious street gangs has gotten Web-savvy, showcasin' illegal exploits, makin' threats, 'n honorin' killed 'n jailed members on digital turf.
Crips, Bloods, MS-13, 18th Street 'n others has staked claims on various corners of cyberspace n' shit. "Web bangers" be postin' potentially incriminatin' photos of members holdin' guns, messages tauntin' otha gangs 'n boasts of illegal exploits on personal Web sites 'n social networkin' sites.
"I'm just bein' real 'n Ah ain't gots nothin' to hide," said Kristopha "Kasper" Flowers, 30, a professed memba of da 18th Street gang wid facial tattoos of "18" 'n "666." Da main 18th Street gang Web site has a link to "Kaspers World."
Gangs once only roamed da streets of big ass cities but now can be found in 2,500 U.S, man. communities, accordin' to da FBI, man. Police departments suddenly faced wid da unwelcome arrivals be lookin' fo help anywhere they can get it, includin' da gangs' own easy-to-find Web sites.
George W, man. Knox, director of da National Gang Crime Research Center, said tha dude has trained hundreds of police officials in how to cull intelligence on gang membership, rivalries, territory 'n lingo from these Web pages.
"In orda to understand any subculture, be dat shit al-Qaida, witches, devil worshippers or gangs, yo' ass has to be able to know they own language," Knox said.
Da tendency fo gang members to brag about they exploits on Web pages such as da popular networkin' site Myspace.com has in some cases helped investigators make arrests.
Chicago police recently arrested a teenaga accused of sprayin' tha dude's gang nickname on a church by tracin' da monika to tha dude's Myspace.com account n' shit. Tha dude's online profile included tha dude's address, photo 'n real name.
A Northern California judge ruled earlia dis month dat two teens charged wid beatin' a boy into a coma could be tried as adults afta prosecutors showed photographs of da two from Myspace.com, know what I'm sayin'? In da images, they flashed da hand signs of a local gang.
(AP) Kristopha "Kasper" Flowers, 30, works on a tattoo Tuesday, June 20, 2006, in da Hollywood section...
Full Image
Myspace.com representatives could not be reached fo comment.
Deputy Tom Ferguson of da Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's gang investigation unit has identified a numba of graffiti writers who posted to a public Web site photos of themselves in front of they work.
"Maybe they think we don't look at it," Ferguson said n' shit. "But we're out there gleanin' information on them."
Knox said it be important fo police to learn how to read between da lines on gang Web sites 'n blogs n' shit. Just as time on da streets has given gang investigators da ability to read da hieroglyphics of wall graffiti, time on da Web helps 'em understand arcane Web clues, man. Gang identifiers, such as tattoos, graffiti tags, colors 'n clothin' often be embedded in each site.
" Yo' ass can study gang blogs and, an hour or two into it, pick up on subtle word choices," Knox said n' shit. "These be holy words to them."
Knox 'n others fear gangs be usin' da Internet to recruit new members, who can be influenced by da secret handshakes, clothin' 'n slang of gang cultures.
"There may be a lot of wannabes out there," said Kenneth Davis, a school resource offica fo da Yonkers Police Department in New York 'n an expert on gang graffiti 'n Web sites.
Flowers, a Hollywood tattoo artist who says tha dude has sworn off violence, said tha dude gets e-mails from wannabe gangbangers from far reaches of da Web but usually does not respond.
"If Ah do, Ah tell 'em to get a life 'n do yo' own thin' 'n don't try to be part of somethin' else," tha dude said.
Made me immediately think of the gang from Clockwork Orange.
"That was a real kick and good for laughs and lashings of the old ultraviolence. "
.. he saved the state some $ now that they don't have to warehouse him in jail.
I wonder how much that was...
I don't watch Colbert or The Daily Show. I don't have time.
Ever think that maybe someone might think the same thing as someone else? And god forbid they happen to state it similarly. I can't quote someone I don't watch.
I guess neither you nor the other responder had considered that, eh?
As for Karma, I'm not whoring. I could really give a shiat as to what my score is.
Unless one of them didn't report directly to the other. Of course, then neither of them would be a subordinate.
Still, its hyprocritical.
While talking about the foundation: Anyone else notice that Warren Buffet is so rich that he hired Bill Gates to spend his money?
What about drunk drivers who are also on their cellphones?
Hmm..
Uhm, I thought that if you do anything in public, you have "no expectation of privacy." Isn't this correct? Not to mention, reporters do stuff like this all the time. Why are reporters not given any shit?
Also, if the assclown was on this guy's private property, he has the right to tape anyone he wants. Moreso that he had warning signs up.
Hopefully they made a back-up copy of the tape and can take this to the press to show what and how he taped the cop.
Do you have an actual T-Mobile store in your area? And I don't mean the kiosks in the mall.
If you do, go into the store and tell them. It's not like they can turn you away. If they give you shit, demand the manager.
If you don't have a store in your area, call T-Mobile and immediately ask to speak to a supervisor.
If you really think its cloned, suck it up and make them give you a new number.
I have a similar experience, kinda.
A few years ago I (thought I) cancelled an account with Sprint. We had balance due, and my wife paid it. We thought everything was resolved.
Three years later I get a notice from a collections agency that we still owed. We hadn't received another bill from Sprint prior to that.
After literally 2 hours on the phone, and after several CSR reps telling me to simply ignore it, I finally got to a rep who actually resolved it. I got his name and extension.
I called the collections agency and explained the situation. I gave the woman I spoke to the rep's information, and told her that they needed to recoup the fees for buying my account from Sprint. She agreed.
End of problem.
"MySpace says on a "Tips for Parents" page that users must be 14 or older. The Web site does nothing to verify the age of the user, such as requiring a driver's license or credit card number, Loewy said.
To create an account, a MySpace user must list a name, an e-mail address, sex, country and date of birth.
"None of this has to be true," the lawsuit said.
Uh, what 14 year old has a DL or credit card? This would accomplish nothing. The adult predator who does have a CC and/or DL could simply input their info and still sign up as a minor, saying that they're verifying that they give permission for their child to have an account. This still wouldn't solve shiat.
The kid's parents are shirking responsibility for their inaction to supervise her and the stupidity of their daughter.
Granted she didn't deserve this, but c'mon. MySpace isn't responsible for making sure it's users aren't acting like dumbasses.
Also from the article:
"If you interact on MySpace, you are safe, but if a 13-year-old or 14-year-old goes out in person and meets someone she doesn't know, that is always an unsafe endeavor," Gelman said. "We need to teach our kids to be wary of strangers."
If your child doesn't know by kindergarten that strangers aren't to be trusted, you're asking for trouble. If your teen doesn't know by now, then thats one example of failure to adequately parent.
"We feel that 1 percent of that is the bare minimum that they should compensate the girl for their failure to protect her online when they knew sexual predators were on that site," he said.
They're going to have to PROVE that MySpace knew that there were predators on their site and failed to police its own system. Even if MySpace was used like this in the past, that doesn't go towards proving it. They're going to have a hard time with this point.
I live in Travis County, and can't wait to see how this unfolds. I hope it gets thrown out of court as its an obvious attempt to get a hand-out.
If they really want justice, sue the 19 yr old that molested her. Of course, they won't since he doesn't have $30M to pay them.
*cough*bullshit*cough*
.. with DRM can easily be thwarted using an audio capture program such as GoldWave.
/* Begin Sarcasm */ /* End Sarcasm*/
If you can hear it, you can capture it using such a program.
Their efforts won't accomplish anything.
Unless they require us to pay a licensing fee for having ears. With the gubment passing a lot of stupid laws lately, look for a lobbyist to "convince" someone to back-door this into another bill.