The Daily Show is the only news channel myself and many people i know watch on a regular basis. That says volumes about not only the quality of that show, but the state of news in this country.
If you were shopping for something like my Subaru WRX, anyone you find will almost always be a manual. Automatics do exist, but the WRX is a sporty, fun-to-drive car - most people who buy this kind of car prefer the extra performance and fun a manual provides.
You will have a tough time finding a modern SUV in a manual. I think ford offers a manual transmission in the lowest trim escape and explorer, but that's pretty much it. Your average SUV driver doesn't want to bother with shifting. Hell, even I wouldn't want to shift one - it'd just be more work, not extra fun.
The vast majority of Americans want something simple and easy to drive. An automatic works just fine for them. I think i read somewhere that about 10% of the cars on the road in the US are manual.
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Because then you have.... you guessed it- air hockey.
We did this to a couple of kids visiting our school for the weekend. They were thinking of transferring from a community college, and had come up to check out the school. We put up a nice wall of duct tape over their doorway.
A friend of mine had his laptop stolen. We went about once a month to the IT offices and had them check their logs for his MAC addresses (both wired and wireless), we never saw them. Then i decided to go warwalking through our dorm buildings while filtering for his wireless card's MAC. After about 20 minutes i found it. It took some time to locate the exact room - finding the floor was easy, but the old, old buildings on campus do some funny things with radio signals.
We eventually found the machine, called campus police, and my friend had his laptop back.
I went to Michigan Tech last year. I think i remember reading it was THE safest campus in the US. But shit still got stolen all the time. A kid two doors down from me bought a new 12" Powerbook. The very next day he left for a frat rush and left his door standing wide open. Not an hour later his laptop was gone.
I have an external 3.5" Bytecc enclosure. USB 2.0 and Firewire using the much sought-after Oxford chipset. I got a good deal on a 200 gig HD and just threw that in there. I love it.
I think you're right. This won't be a "You're on safe roads, we have evidence you've been safe, let's lower your premiums." It will just be a way for them to catch you making mistakes more often so they can raise your premiums more.
I'm 19. I drive a 2 door car with 260 horsepower. I pay out my ass for car insurance because the insurance companies think those factors increase my risk of a claim.
However, i've been involved in one accident (i was rear-ended and the damage was so insignificant i didn't bother with a claim) and I've never been pulled over. Yet I don't get any credit for that. My rates aren't any lower. I'm assumed a big risk because i'm young and drive a fast car, and there's no way to i prove that i am in fact a good, responsible driver. Yet that should be even more apparant because i drive a car that is very easy to get into trouble with.
This sytem will only be used to screw the customer.
WPA doesn't have the glaring vulnerabilities that WEP has. It might have some, but they haven't been discovered yet (to my knowledge anyways).
WPA would do as much good as WEP in prevent something like airpwn from working. If the attacker doesn't have access to the network (WEP or WPA key), he can't do anything. If he DOES have access to the network, neither WEP nor WPA will help.
Yup. My roommate at school bought his Dell laptop through his father's work so he could get corporate support. They always had him up and running after something died. I know a few others who weren't so lucky that had major hassles with getting their stuff repaired.
Very interesting (if i had mod points i'd give em to you), especially since there are so many vulnerabilities in that version of Red Hat, and that version of OpenSSL has some vulnerabilities too, i think.
England (and i'm sure other countries) used to have a legal vigilante system for dealing with pirates on the open seas. The government didn't have the resources to handle the problem, so it would allow privateers, with the proper paperwork of course, to go play pirate, but only to pirate ships. The infamous Captain Kidd was one such privateer, although later in life which side he was on wasn't exactly clear.
I wonder how a system like this would work for today? Would we devise a way to keep tabs on the privateers to keep them from turning black hat?
It seems that the shows that feature interviews with people in the gaming industry are always my favorites - Filter and Icons being the two regular ones, as well as the "Road to G-Phoria."
Invent This was one of my favorites from TechTV, and i'm glad it carried over. Too bad the same didn't happen for Big Thinkers.
XPlay is a show that hasn't changed its basic form, and is still pretty good. The reviews are solid, the hosts know what they're talking about and don't pull any punches when it comes to reviewing, and Morgan is easy on the eyes.
I'm hoping for the Screen Savers to turn quality after they get going in LA.
I made sure to set up a Tivo season pass for Icons, XPLay, and Filter.
I think there's a difference between a good storyline for a book, and a good storyline for a game. Instead of observing what goes on like in a book or movie, a game story line has to place you inside the events. Therefore, stories with action are better than something like, say, Big Fish. How boring would it be to play through The Great Gatsby?
Half Life's story was good because it did a good job of making you the action hero in the action movie. Something like Deus Ex is even better, because in addition to pull you into the action it brings up important moral issues, has good characters with well-defined personality, etc. But i wouldn't want to read a Deus Ex book.
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The sequal to B&W should address the questions you had. The followers can declare holy wars, their morals are influenced by your actions (you like to rain fire onto their huts to gain belief? They'll be more warlike), etc.
Quake 3 for linux was available on the same day the Windows version was, i believe. Or shortly thereafter. Carmack has always been a big open source fan.
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The Daily Show is the only news channel myself and many people i know watch on a regular basis. That says volumes about not only the quality of that show, but the state of news in this country.
Tons of game consoles... exponentially more RC cars... Sounds like my house.
Depends on the car you want.
If you were shopping for something like my Subaru WRX, anyone you find will almost always be a manual. Automatics do exist, but the WRX is a sporty, fun-to-drive car - most people who buy this kind of car prefer the extra performance and fun a manual provides.
You will have a tough time finding a modern SUV in a manual. I think ford offers a manual transmission in the lowest trim escape and explorer, but that's pretty much it. Your average SUV driver doesn't want to bother with shifting. Hell, even I wouldn't want to shift one - it'd just be more work, not extra fun.
The vast majority of Americans want something simple and easy to drive. An automatic works just fine for them. I think i read somewhere that about 10% of the cars on the road in the US are manual.
Because then you have.... you guessed it- air hockey.
Why not make them actual customers?
I don't do free tech support anymore. $35/hour (which is MORE than fair) or no help for you.
We did this to a couple of kids visiting our school for the weekend. They were thinking of transferring from a community college, and had come up to check out the school. We put up a nice wall of duct tape over their doorway.
A friend of mine had his laptop stolen. We went about once a month to the IT offices and had them check their logs for his MAC addresses (both wired and wireless), we never saw them. Then i decided to go warwalking through our dorm buildings while filtering for his wireless card's MAC. After about 20 minutes i found it. It took some time to locate the exact room - finding the floor was easy, but the old, old buildings on campus do some funny things with radio signals.
We eventually found the machine, called campus police, and my friend had his laptop back.
Locking the door is soooooooooo important.
I went to Michigan Tech last year. I think i remember reading it was THE safest campus in the US. But shit still got stolen all the time. A kid two doors down from me bought a new 12" Powerbook. The very next day he left for a frat rush and left his door standing wide open. Not an hour later his laptop was gone.
I have an external 3.5" Bytecc enclosure. USB 2.0 and Firewire using the much sought-after Oxford chipset. I got a good deal on a 200 gig HD and just threw that in there. I love it.
I think you're right. This won't be a "You're on safe roads, we have evidence you've been safe, let's lower your premiums." It will just be a way for them to catch you making mistakes more often so they can raise your premiums more.
I'm 19. I drive a 2 door car with 260 horsepower. I pay out my ass for car insurance because the insurance companies think those factors increase my risk of a claim.
However, i've been involved in one accident (i was rear-ended and the damage was so insignificant i didn't bother with a claim) and I've never been pulled over. Yet I don't get any credit for that. My rates aren't any lower. I'm assumed a big risk because i'm young and drive a fast car, and there's no way to i prove that i am in fact a good, responsible driver. Yet that should be even more apparant because i drive a car that is very easy to get into trouble with.
This sytem will only be used to screw the customer.
This would make a man-in-the-middle attack easier MAYBE, but it's nothing you can't do with arp poisoning.
How about putting VNC on there, and then running Windows Update for them?
High-quality LCD displays are on par with CRTs. They're just not cheap.
WPA doesn't have the glaring vulnerabilities that WEP has. It might have some, but they haven't been discovered yet (to my knowledge anyways).
WPA would do as much good as WEP in prevent something like airpwn from working. If the attacker doesn't have access to the network (WEP or WPA key), he can't do anything. If he DOES have access to the network, neither WEP nor WPA will help.
Holy shit.
I too would love to get my hands on one.
Yup. My roommate at school bought his Dell laptop through his father's work so he could get corporate support. They always had him up and running after something died. I know a few others who weren't so lucky that had major hassles with getting their stuff repaired.
Very interesting (if i had mod points i'd give em to you), especially since there are so many vulnerabilities in that version of Red Hat, and that version of OpenSSL has some vulnerabilities too, i think.
England (and i'm sure other countries) used to have a legal vigilante system for dealing with pirates on the open seas. The government didn't have the resources to handle the problem, so it would allow privateers, with the proper paperwork of course, to go play pirate, but only to pirate ships. The infamous Captain Kidd was one such privateer, although later in life which side he was on wasn't exactly clear.
I wonder how a system like this would work for today? Would we devise a way to keep tabs on the privateers to keep them from turning black hat?
Icons is one of my favorite shows on the channel.
It seems that the shows that feature interviews with people in the gaming industry are always my favorites - Filter and Icons being the two regular ones, as well as the "Road to G-Phoria."
Invent This was one of my favorites from TechTV, and i'm glad it carried over. Too bad the same didn't happen for Big Thinkers.
XPlay is a show that hasn't changed its basic form, and is still pretty good. The reviews are solid, the hosts know what they're talking about and don't pull any punches when it comes to reviewing, and Morgan is easy on the eyes.
I'm hoping for the Screen Savers to turn quality after they get going in LA.
I made sure to set up a Tivo season pass for Icons, XPLay, and Filter.
I think there's a difference between a good storyline for a book, and a good storyline for a game. Instead of observing what goes on like in a book or movie, a game story line has to place you inside the events. Therefore, stories with action are better than something like, say, Big Fish. How boring would it be to play through The Great Gatsby? Half Life's story was good because it did a good job of making you the action hero in the action movie. Something like Deus Ex is even better, because in addition to pull you into the action it brings up important moral issues, has good characters with well-defined personality, etc. But i wouldn't want to read a Deus Ex book.
The sequal to B&W should address the questions you had. The followers can declare holy wars, their morals are influenced by your actions (you like to rain fire onto their huts to gain belief? They'll be more warlike), etc.
Ah. I thought i remembered seeing "Linux" under the requirements on a PC box, but i might just be me remembering some advertisement.
Quake 3 for linux was available on the same day the Windows version was, i believe. Or shortly thereafter. Carmack has always been a big open source fan.
I think a better analogy would be Mexican food vs. French cuissine.