[COP] Did anyone other than you have access to your computer?
[NEIGHBOR] Only the guy next door, and *he* says that he didn't see anyone tamper with it...I guess it's a mystery
{COP immediately goes next door}
I don't know about you, but I make an effort to get to know my neighbors, thus, the notion that I would actually suggest helping them with something is not automatically deemed a scam.
[YOU] "My computer keeps detecting it, thinking it can log on - did you set a password, WEP ect.?"
[NEIGHBOR] "What's that?"
[YOU] "It how you keep anyone other than yourself from being able to access your internet connection,
if it's not secure, anyone within your routers range can log in....I can help you if you'd like"...this shouldn't be that much different that telling someone they left thier window open or their door unlocked.
I got a wireless router not too long ago for the first time. It came with an automated installer and, after reading the instructions and following the prompts, I was set up and "good-to-go".....or was I?
I also needed to get this router configured on my Linux box...this required that I read some "outside documentation" - where I would learn of such things as passwords, WEP, etc.
Anyway, it turns out the Windows auto-install script set this thing up with no protection what-so-ever. It was only after I read the HOWTO's on the internet that I was able to go back and secure my router for both Linux and Windows.
I lived in a couple of neighborhoods since then and, when I fire up my laptop, there are usually one or two unsecured routers that get auto-detected.
I can only assume there are scores of "average users" with no idea they are sharing their internet access with their neighbors or anyone who "drives by".
Best security software in the world won't do much good if you don't tell the user what it is and how to use it.
This bill is not about restricting free speech, it's about making sure that resources intended for eduacation are used for education. On a similar note, when I was getting my Master's, DOOM was real big. Every time I went to the computer lab, the vast majority of the machines were people playing DOOM...some of these a-holes wouldn't even shut the sound off - which was all bleeps and blips on the computer lab machines.
I have to belive sites like MySpace are far worse. Oh, and here's a thought, when these kids move into the workforce, they'll likely find they can't access sites like MySpace from there either.
can a string of 0's and 1's get modded as funny...every day...it gets a little closer to the day I'm sitting in a rocking chair on my front porch yelling at kids to get off my lawn....
but, I don't think they would survive the loss of the dominance of MS Office. They can port Office to Apple, Linux, heck, Solaris if they wanted to....but if ODF takes off, and they now have to compete with Sun and IBM....seem to me that's a much bigger threat.
1. Pumping sulphur into the atmosphere. Injecting millions of tonnes of sulphur into the upper atmosphere would reflect 1% of sunlight back into space to keep the Earth cool, an idea proposed by Nobel-Prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen. On the downside, it would increase acid rain and might cause respiratory problems, too.
and Earth will smell like egg-farting ass....NEXT!!!
2. Trillions of little sunshades in space (pictured). More like lenses than shades, these would bend sunlight away from Earth, reducing the light hitting the planet by about 2%. Although the shades would be simple and lightweight, it would still cost trillions of dollars to build and launch so many of them, according to astronomer Roger Angel of the University of Arizona, who is championing the idea.
and, if we put enough small objects in orbit, we won't be able to orbit anything else for fear of impact....NEXT!!!
3. A giant orbiting dust cloud. Vast quantities of dust obtained by vaporising a comet - or collecting lunar dust - could be injected into an orbit similar to the Moon's. The dust cloud would eclipse the Sun for several hours each month, cutting the total amount of sunlight reaching Earth per month by more than 1%, according to a proposal by astronomer Curtis Struck of Iowa State University. On the downside, the particles making up the cloud would eventually spiral towards Earth in huge numbers, hitting and possibly destroying satellites.
Wasn't this one of the plot elements in the MATRIX? and hey, why stop at tweaking our own planet's eco-system when we can tweak the entire solar system....NEXT!!!
4. Painting the ground white. We could cover roads, oceans, deserts or other surfaces with reflective material, thereby increasing the amount of sunlight reflected back into space. On the downside, changing the amount of solar energy absorbed by the ground or oceans could have unanticipated effects on the weather.
Reminds me of THX1138. Oh and, I did an experiment in elementary school where we had shoe-boxes that were painted different colors on the inside with glass tops and thermometers inside. We left them out in the sun and, guess what? THEY ALL REACHED ABOUT THE SAME TEMPERATURE!!!...yes, the dark ones may have heated up faster, but they all peaked about the same....NEXT!!!
I sure hope this is just a science-fluff piece....like Omni Magazine.
Isn't that like, 30 years old? Is there nothing more up-to-date that is worth remastering? What's next, "The Devil and Mrs. Jones"? or, how about "Fritz the Cat"?
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Seriously..you assume that all non slashdotters are NASCAR fans?
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I would really rip into you if it were not so busy following the Anna Nichole Smith scandal
[COP] Did anyone other than you have access to your computer?
[NEIGHBOR] Only the guy next door, and *he* says that he didn't see anyone tamper with it...I guess it's a mystery
{COP immediately goes next door}
I don't know about you, but I make an effort to get to know my neighbors, thus, the notion that I would actually suggest helping them with something is not automatically deemed a scam.
Looks like Ballmer's off his meds again....tsk tsk...
[YOU] "Do you have a [brand] router?'
[NEIGHBOR] "Yes, I do."
[YOU] "My computer keeps detecting it, thinking it can log on - did you set a password, WEP ect.?"
[NEIGHBOR] "What's that?"
[YOU] "It how you keep anyone other than yourself from being able to access your internet connection,
if it's not secure, anyone within your routers range can log in....I can help you if you'd like"
I got a wireless router not too long ago for the first time. It came with an automated installer and, after reading the instructions and following the prompts, I was set up and "good-to-go".....or was I?
I also needed to get this router configured on my Linux box...this required that I read some "outside documentation" - where I would learn of such things as passwords, WEP, etc.
Anyway, it turns out the Windows auto-install script set this thing up with no protection what-so-ever. It was only after I read the HOWTO's on the internet that I was able to go back and secure my router for both Linux and Windows.
I lived in a couple of neighborhoods since then and, when I fire up my laptop, there are usually one or two unsecured routers that get auto-detected.
I can only assume there are scores of "average users" with no idea they are sharing their internet access with their neighbors or anyone who "drives by".
Best security software in the world won't do much good if you don't tell the user what it is and how to use it.
you damn near got me fired!
Hey!...y-you guys are just a bunch of GEEKS!....all this time....I...I've been hanging out with GEEKS!!!
{...sniff...} and I thought I really was funny and insightful! {....sob!....}
that and "hey y'all, watch this!"
"Backend Architecture, Nano-RAM, type A" it would be called BA-Nano-RAM-A? ....it's ok....I'll just go now....
This bill is not about restricting free speech, it's about making sure that resources intended for eduacation are used for education. On a similar note, when I was getting my Master's, DOOM was real big. Every time I went to the computer lab, the vast majority of the machines were people playing DOOM...some of these a-holes wouldn't even shut the sound off - which was all bleeps and blips on the computer lab machines.
I have to belive sites like MySpace are far worse. Oh, and here's a thought, when these kids move into the workforce, they'll likely find they can't access sites like MySpace from there either.
can a string of 0's and 1's get modded as funny...every day...it gets a little closer to the day I'm sitting in a rocking chair on my front porch yelling at kids to get off my lawn....
they don't begin with the same letter, it would have to be "Pickled Phallus", "Periwinkle Phallus", or perhaps, "Pee-wee Phallus".
On the other hand, if you are that enamored with the letter "F", you could have "Fluffy Fur-burg{CENSORED}"
I can see the add campaign now:
The new Sony Razor - now with Bend-O-Tech technology,
The phone that conforms to your face!
Yea, that'll work...all they need now is a good "jingle".
life just doesn't make sense anymore...that's wild...really
seriously WTF?
I simply listed the OS's in aggragate and assumed the /. crowd would be sophisticated enough to understand.
Not the I didn't expect someone unable to resisit pointing it out but..."my bad"
but, I don't think they would survive the loss of the dominance of MS Office. They can port Office to Apple, Linux, heck, Solaris if they wanted to....but if ODF takes off, and they now have to compete with Sun and IBM....seem to me that's a much bigger threat.
my 2 cents anyway
1. Pumping sulphur into the atmosphere. Injecting millions of tonnes of sulphur into the upper atmosphere would reflect 1% of sunlight back into space to keep the Earth cool, an idea proposed by Nobel-Prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen. On the downside, it would increase acid rain and might cause respiratory problems, too.
and Earth will smell like egg-farting ass....NEXT!!!
2. Trillions of little sunshades in space (pictured). More like lenses than shades, these would bend sunlight away from Earth, reducing the light hitting the planet by about 2%. Although the shades would be simple and lightweight, it would still cost trillions of dollars to build and launch so many of them, according to astronomer Roger Angel of the University of Arizona, who is championing the idea.
and, if we put enough small objects in orbit, we won't be able to orbit anything else for fear of impact....NEXT!!!
3. A giant orbiting dust cloud. Vast quantities of dust obtained by vaporising a comet - or collecting lunar dust - could be injected into an orbit similar to the Moon's. The dust cloud would eclipse the Sun for several hours each month, cutting the total amount of sunlight reaching Earth per month by more than 1%, according to a proposal by astronomer Curtis Struck of Iowa State University. On the downside, the particles making up the cloud would eventually spiral towards Earth in huge numbers, hitting and possibly destroying satellites.
Wasn't this one of the plot elements in the MATRIX? and hey, why stop at tweaking our own planet's eco-system when we can tweak the entire solar system....NEXT!!!
4. Painting the ground white. We could cover roads, oceans, deserts or other surfaces with reflective material, thereby increasing the amount of sunlight reflected back into space. On the downside, changing the amount of solar energy absorbed by the ground or oceans could have unanticipated effects on the weather.
Reminds me of THX1138. Oh and, I did an experiment in elementary school where we had shoe-boxes that were painted different colors on the inside with glass tops and thermometers inside. We left them out in the sun and, guess what? THEY ALL REACHED ABOUT THE SAME TEMPERATURE!!!...yes, the dark ones may have heated up faster, but they all peaked about the same....NEXT!!!
I sure hope this is just a science-fluff piece....like Omni Magazine.
Get the bugs worked out be Xmas and you could sell at 1.81 Tflop easy-bake oven
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Thank you, I'll be here all night...TRY THE VEAL!
The new fall line-up on FOX.
Well....there goes my karma....
Ok, first off, this could make recruiting a bit dicey for the NASA astronaught program
Secondly, why are the eunuchs required to wear unitards?....Is this a sci-fi novel reference?....do we need to point the brain scanner at you?
I'm confused
Perhaps you're just referring to an a-sexual voice for the Unix based ship computer?
See how rumors get started?
Isn't that like, 30 years old? Is there nothing more up-to-date that is worth remastering? What's next, "The Devil and Mrs. Jones"? or, how about "Fritz the Cat"?
It's the same bad joke over and over again until somebody post one of the following....
.... PROFIT!
"In Soviet Russia - Open Ports Penetrate You!"
or..."my back door is impenetrable YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!!!"
or...perhaps a reference to a Beowulf cluster-f%@k
or...something ending in
then we all get sick of it.