They've invented virtual graffiti; the possibilities are endless.
Imagine the digital scavenger hunts, finding the virtual phone number on the wall (no longer do I have to visit those nasty public restrooms and jot down numbers).
I used to own a business where we'd build the occasional computer. I decided to see what would happen if I tried taking apart a computer with the power on...
The short answer is nothing. Well, it didn't break anything.
We'd pull the ram with the power on and it would throw the system into a safe-mode where the screen would go black and the motherboard would cut power to everything. I looked into it and discovered that on a 72 pin SIMM, pin 1 connects to pin 72 to indicate that it has a good connection. Pull the SIMM and it will essentially switch off the power supply to protect all the system components. Same thing with the processor and any PCI/AGP/ISA cards.
If the country of Elbonia has 100 IP addresses, and 90 of them have been linked back to committing fraud and therefore blacklisted, then effecitvely their country has been knocked off the net.
If Russia has 1 million IP addresses, and 9,000 or even 90,000 have been traced back to fraud and therefore blacklisted - the majority of the country is still able to access the internet even though the rates of fraud exceed Elbonia's by 100x to 1000x...
This rate is irrellevant as the country of Elbonia needs to look at fraud as a percentage of users in their country, then introduce efforts to reduce that percentage. This effect of whining because your country is being kicked off the net is pointless.
Macedonia, Ghana, Nigeria, et al: Clean your house, pass some laws, and we'll let you participate in the world economy again. Its as simple as that.
Forgive me, but I have never heard of a single consumer that has been looking for DRM to be integrated into their tv sets.
Its kinda funny that they're fighting for the adoption of the new HDTV technology and at the same time invent new ways to prevent people from using it. People don't give a shit about the quality of the recording, why do you think people go into theaters with camcorders. All this fear of people making digital perfect copies of TV shows... Who cares!
If Beastie Boys release and get flamed for it, and therefore sales drop - all these genius executives that think that they'll still have a market once they effectively lock everything down.
I attended Comdex for the first time in 1995, back when the convergence was taking place between multimedia and computer systems. 3D graphics cards were the newest, hottest things, the Pentium 166 was the fastest processor on the market, DVD's were known as Super Density Roms or SD-ROM (and the burners cost $30,000) and USB was unheard of.
The internet was tiny, compared to what it is now and wasn't even talked about much at the show.
In 1996, I started a computer consulting company in Utah and every November I would close up shop and take all my technicians down to Comdex. It was great! We could take them all to one place and they would get up to speed on every hot new technology in the marketplace. It was invaluable.
We would take that information back to the office and use it in our consulting business - it essentially provided us with the exposure to the technologies we needed to then go out and sell it to our customers.
We did this for every year until I sold the business in 1999, which also happened to mark the downturn in the quality of the show as well as attendance.
It was great to watch it over those years when astounding changes were taking place in the industry from year to year.
I guess in time, all good things must come to an end...
They are using this technology to make objects "Invisible", here's how.
They have a subject standing in front of an object, say a wall or even street traffic. Behind the person is a camera that records the scene behind the person.
The person is dressed up in the special black fabric that reflects the RGB light.
A projector in front of the person projects the image from the camera stationed behind the person, onto the person... this makes the person the movie screen and enables you to "see through" that person.
I've seen this done and it is very cool and could even be described as quite errie to see a truck drive 'through' a person, or more precicely being able to see through the person and see the truck passing by behind them.
My immediate reaction to this post was: Well, that explains why they are now defunct... they blew their wad on free coffee.
I used to work for a company that offered free coffee, drinks/pop/water and popcorn for all employees (this was an office of ~120 people). The accounting department tabulated how much they spent per year on these and it came out to right around $20,000 per year.
Regardless if you think that is a little, or a lot of money - that comes down to the salary of a janitor. For the annual salary of a janitor, they increased the year-round morale and productivity of every single employee - not to mention that all your frineds are jealous that you get free drinks at work.
I say that they got their money's worth at spending $165 per employee, per year on drinks.
Incidentally, that works out to be $13.75 per person, per month or just $0.45 per day. That's one hell of an ROI even if that means you only get 30 minutes of extra productivity out of this freebie.
Blaster was a worm, and of worms in general I would say that there is little new to be learned from them. I did learn something new with blaster though.
I was doing some security work for an ISP at the time of blaster. They have a number of Cisco 12000 series GSR routers as well as Foundry Big Iron Switches. For those who are not familiar with the Cisco 12000 series routers, let it be sufficed to say that it is Cisco's biggest, baddest router that stands up to 6 feet tall and comes from the factory with a 4 barrel carburetor, dual testosterone modules and a custom paint job with flames painted on the side (pin stripes are optional). These switches are designed to handle hundreds of gigs of traffic across their backplane and through their interfaces. If the ISP were forewarned that they would be seeing 300 mbps of traffic coming from the MS Blaster worm, they would have said "Bring it on!"
For those of us that aren't CCIE's, Cisco routers and Layer 3 switches have a function called CEF, or Cisco Express Forwarding. CEF is a technology that by its simplest definition caches routes.
If a packet from my computer is destined for yahoo.com, it will first hit the DNS server to resolve the host name to its IP address. My computer will then send packets to my ISP with the destination IP of yahoo.com (66.218.71.198). My ISP's router, presuming it's a Cisco router with CEF enabled, will look at its internet BGP tables and determine the optimal route my packet should take on the internet to arrive at that destination. Once the router has processed the route, it caches it so that all future packets coming from my home IP address, destined for yahoo.com will automatically be routed using the cached route. This takes a tremendous load off the router CPU as each packet no longer needs to be processed by the CPU, hence the term "Express Forwarding".
What the blaster worm did was send out hundreds of thousands of ICMP pings per second. This usually wouldn't be a problem for the router, except for each packet was destined for a unique IP address. What started happening is that each route was looked up, routed, and stored in its cache for future packets - only there weren't any future packets. What happened next was the memory space allocated for caching CEF routes filled up, and once full, the router simply purged its cache so that every packet had to then go to the CPU to be routed. Once this happened, all hell broke loose.
CPU utilization on the routers jumped to 100%, which should never happen under normal conditions, but this was clearly not a normal condition, and the internet came to a crawl.
There we were, with a router that should handle hundreds of gigs across the backplane without breaking a sweat being brought to its knees by 100mb of traffic... it was incredible.
"It's like watching a water bucket with a large hole and small hole in the bottom," Russ said. "For some reason, the water is pouring out the small hole six times faster than it's coming out of the large one. Something unusual must be going on inside the bucket."
This first observation of the new meson expands the picture of the ways in which the strong force works within the atomic nucleus... A meson is made up of a quark and an antiquark, bound together by the strong force."
So they admit that the force is strong with this one...
Why is it that if a girl is attractive, and she knows it, thats a good thing. However, if a person is smart, and knows it then they're considered pretentious?
I've always had a voracious appetite for learning, yet I hated school. Everyone I knew thought I had a 4.0 average in school, but I graduated in the bottom of my class with a 1.7GPA.
I'm a highly intelligent person with a well rounded knowledge in numerous areas. I am now an executive for a mid-sized corporation where things are going quite well. I never took traditional schooling seriously, and I'm far better because of it. I'm self educated and because of that I never, never stop learning. I can't tell you the number of people that I know with a doctorate degree, yet they're still unable to get a job because even though they're smart - they can't get a job outside of academia because the answers in the real world aren't found in the back of the book.
Most people I know that are highly intelligent never took school seriously. Those that did take school seriously are often book smart, but they're idiots in the real world.
The late President Reagan gave a speech to some college students when he was president. He stated: "When I was in college, I never took my schooling seriously, I was more interested in football than my classes. I'd like to say that I graduated at the top of my class, but I didn't. I graduated with a 'C' average... And I still look back on my college years and wonder what I could have accomplished if I'd taken my education more seriously."
I never took to a professor trying to teach me how to quit thinking logically. Example: Putting more cops on the streets means a lower crime rate. Thats logical, however, anyone that thinks otherwise must have an advanced degree and no longer considers logic when making decisions. That drives me nuts.
I say that whatever you do, you'll do just fine. Anyone that puts you down, just understand that they're not as gifted as you are, and therefore cannot recognize the gift - therefore they just resort to putting you down.
We were remodeling an old property I own and discovered that back in the 1930's era they used newspapers stitched together at the sides and covered with wax paper as insulation. When I finished pulling the papers from the wall, I had a good 3 foot stack of Minneapolis Star Tribune papers dating from 1929 through 1931.
I had one heck of a time reading about Al Capone and his rise to power in Chicago... I read a lot of articles about the economy, as the stock market had just crashed in 1929 and everyone was saying how it'll come back and the economy was on an upswing-- little did they know it was the start of the Great Depression. There were articles that could have been pulled from todays newspapers talking about partisan politics and how the democrats and republicans in congress were fighting over this or that and that some bill had stalled in congress.
It was a fascinating read into history and I can only imagine seeing what all that century's news online would be like - you could just step back into your time machine and read the headlines of the day. That would be fascinating.
Of course, if you want to read about the past and have a laugh, you can always read The Onion where their April 14, 1912 headline announces: "Worlds Greatest Metaphor runs into Iceberg, Sinks".
I once used this to exact revenge against my ex-wife. We were still married at the time, headed for divorce when she took off to Vegas, by car, with her boyfriend for a weekend of sport fscking, I'm sure.
I was obviously pissed as I knew she was going somewhere, and suspected it would be with her 'boyfriend' so I paged her, but she never returned my call.
What I did then was setup Telex (BBS Software) on my PC to dial her pager number, wait for 2 seconds, then enter my cell phone number and hang up, repeated ad infinum. It took a total of 8 seconds for each paging cycle. I knew she was leaving pager range but what did I care.
I was sending out 450 pages per hour, starting on a Friday afternoon. I stopped paging once she returned to town that Monday. I paged her no fewer than 32,400 times that weekend. What I did was a denial of service attack on her pager where she was charged 10 cents for each page over 1000 per month.
My satisfaction grew once I heard that she received a $3,200 pager bill for that month, which she never paid and I'm sure is still on her credit report.
If you get rid of the spyware, and use Google Popup blocker or XP SP2, you don't have any problems.
In my experience, 99% of the popups comefrom spyware that is installed on the computer. If the software (spyware) is causing popups, google or any other blocker won't do jack.
Who cares about an Xbox gaming system... It doesn't make me money. But going without a car? I'm out of a job.
I paid $20+ thousand dollars for this hunk of metal and you're telling me that I'm supposed to just kowtow to the almighty dealer every time I want my check-engine light turned off? I don't think so. I should have the option of going to the dealer, to be sure, but if I'm having a drivability problem, I want to go to someone I trust with my car, someone that charges less and I'm happier with.
I've got an older Jeep Grand Cherokee with drivability problems. Thing is that Chrysler (Dodge) keeps pretty close tabs on their trouble codes so every time my car acts up, if I want to plug it into a computer to find out why its running rough I have to go to the dealer, pull into the service bay, talk to some dipshit who tells me to wait in the waiting room. By the time the technician 'calls my number' the car is running fine and I'm charged the minimum $75 fee for plugging the reader into my car. Because its just running rough, no trouble codes are set in the computer, and therefore the only way to catch the problem is when its happening.
Conversely, It started happening again and I called my local mechanic telling him that I'm coming over, "Its acting up again". I pull up and he walks out with his code reader in hand, wiping his hands on a red shop towel. Plugs in the computer and sees immediately that I've got a widget stuck in the maniform valve, giving the ejection seat a prematurely high voltage which was advancing the ignition timing to fire way before tea-time.
I dunno what was wrong that time, but all I know is it was a $110 part and $75 in labor and my Jeep is running like new...
Technology used to be the domain of technologists.. then it became popular and that's when "Joe Sixpack" got online.
Nothing wrong with Joe Sixpack, per se, he's a good guy but he doesn't know the first thing about his car, except where to put the gas, and he doesn't know the first thing about his computer, except how to surf the net. And the scary part is that he doesn't *want* to know anything more.
When things go wrong, he hasn't the first clue of what to do, with the car or the comptuer. All he knows is that he wanted to surf the net at high speed from his Lay-Z-Boy. Ever since he and his cronies got on board, the technological per capita IQ on the internet plummeted.
There has been a long standing computer security axiom that states: "There is no such thing as absolute anonymity, in real life, or on the web."
Well, now there's a caveat to that axiom that I have coined, that states: "Unless you use someone else's unsecured wireless network."
Joe Sixpack is not only providing the foothold that spammers need to purvey their ilk, but also the perfect foundation from which criminals can perpetrate fraud and theft.
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They've invented virtual graffiti; the possibilities are endless.
Imagine the digital scavenger hunts, finding the virtual phone number on the wall (no longer do I have to visit those nasty public restrooms and jot down numbers).
This could be fun!
I used to own a business where we'd build the occasional computer. I decided to see what would happen if I tried taking apart a computer with the power on...
The short answer is nothing. Well, it didn't break anything.
We'd pull the ram with the power on and it would throw the system into a safe-mode where the screen would go black and the motherboard would cut power to everything. I looked into it and discovered that on a 72 pin SIMM, pin 1 connects to pin 72 to indicate that it has a good connection. Pull the SIMM and it will essentially switch off the power supply to protect all the system components. Same thing with the processor and any PCI/AGP/ISA cards.
It was kinda disappointing, actually.
If the country of Elbonia has 100 IP addresses, and 90 of them have been linked back to committing fraud and therefore blacklisted, then effecitvely their country has been knocked off the net.
If Russia has 1 million IP addresses, and 9,000 or even 90,000 have been traced back to fraud and therefore blacklisted - the majority of the country is still able to access the internet even though the rates of fraud exceed Elbonia's by 100x to 1000x...
This rate is irrellevant as the country of Elbonia needs to look at fraud as a percentage of users in their country, then introduce efforts to reduce that percentage. This effect of whining because your country is being kicked off the net is pointless.
Macedonia, Ghana, Nigeria, et al: Clean your house, pass some laws, and we'll let you participate in the world economy again. Its as simple as that.
Forgive me, but I have never heard of a single consumer that has been looking for DRM to be integrated into their tv sets.
Its kinda funny that they're fighting for the adoption of the new HDTV technology and at the same time invent new ways to prevent people from using it. People don't give a shit about the quality of the recording, why do you think people go into theaters with camcorders. All this fear of people making digital perfect copies of TV shows... Who cares!
If Beastie Boys release and get flamed for it, and therefore sales drop - all these genius executives that think that they'll still have a market once they effectively lock everything down.
I attended Comdex for the first time in 1995, back when the convergence was taking place between multimedia and computer systems. 3D graphics cards were the newest, hottest things, the Pentium 166 was the fastest processor on the market, DVD's were known as Super Density Roms or SD-ROM (and the burners cost $30,000) and USB was unheard of.
The internet was tiny, compared to what it is now and wasn't even talked about much at the show.
In 1996, I started a computer consulting company in Utah and every November I would close up shop and take all my technicians down to Comdex. It was great! We could take them all to one place and they would get up to speed on every hot new technology in the marketplace. It was invaluable.
We would take that information back to the office and use it in our consulting business - it essentially provided us with the exposure to the technologies we needed to then go out and sell it to our customers.
We did this for every year until I sold the business in 1999, which also happened to mark the downturn in the quality of the show as well as attendance.
It was great to watch it over those years when astounding changes were taking place in the industry from year to year.
I guess in time, all good things must come to an end...
They are using this technology to make objects "Invisible", here's how.
They have a subject standing in front of an object, say a wall or even street traffic. Behind the person is a camera that records the scene behind the person.
The person is dressed up in the special black fabric that reflects the RGB light.
A projector in front of the person projects the image from the camera stationed behind the person, onto the person... this makes the person the movie screen and enables you to "see through" that person.
I've seen this done and it is very cool and could even be described as quite errie to see a truck drive 'through' a person, or more precicely being able to see through the person and see the truck passing by behind them.
My immediate reaction to this post was: Well, that explains why they are now defunct... they blew their wad on free coffee.
I used to work for a company that offered free coffee, drinks/pop/water and popcorn for all employees (this was an office of ~120 people). The accounting department tabulated how much they spent per year on these and it came out to right around $20,000 per year.
Regardless if you think that is a little, or a lot of money - that comes down to the salary of a janitor. For the annual salary of a janitor, they increased the year-round morale and productivity of every single employee - not to mention that all your frineds are jealous that you get free drinks at work.
I say that they got their money's worth at spending $165 per employee, per year on drinks.
Incidentally, that works out to be $13.75 per person, per month or just $0.45 per day. That's one hell of an ROI even if that means you only get 30 minutes of extra productivity out of this freebie.
Blaster was a worm, and of worms in general I would say that there is little new to be learned from them. I did learn something new with blaster though.
I was doing some security work for an ISP at the time of blaster. They have a number of Cisco 12000 series GSR routers as well as Foundry Big Iron Switches. For those who are not familiar with the Cisco 12000 series routers, let it be sufficed to say that it is Cisco's biggest, baddest router that stands up to 6 feet tall and comes from the factory with a 4 barrel carburetor, dual testosterone modules and a custom paint job with flames painted on the side (pin stripes are optional). These switches are designed to handle hundreds of gigs of traffic across their backplane and through their interfaces. If the ISP were forewarned that they would be seeing 300 mbps of traffic coming from the MS Blaster worm, they would have said "Bring it on!"
For those of us that aren't CCIE's, Cisco routers and Layer 3 switches have a function called CEF, or Cisco Express Forwarding. CEF is a technology that by its simplest definition caches routes.
If a packet from my computer is destined for yahoo.com, it will first hit the DNS server to resolve the host name to its IP address. My computer will then send packets to my ISP with the destination IP of yahoo.com (66.218.71.198). My ISP's router, presuming it's a Cisco router with CEF enabled, will look at its internet BGP tables and determine the optimal route my packet should take on the internet to arrive at that destination. Once the router has processed the route, it caches it so that all future packets coming from my home IP address, destined for yahoo.com will automatically be routed using the cached route. This takes a tremendous load off the router CPU as each packet no longer needs to be processed by the CPU, hence the term "Express Forwarding".
What the blaster worm did was send out hundreds of thousands of ICMP pings per second. This usually wouldn't be a problem for the router, except for each packet was destined for a unique IP address. What started happening is that each route was looked up, routed, and stored in its cache for future packets - only there weren't any future packets. What happened next was the memory space allocated for caching CEF routes filled up, and once full, the router simply purged its cache so that every packet had to then go to the CPU to be routed. Once this happened, all hell broke loose.
CPU utilization on the routers jumped to 100%, which should never happen under normal conditions, but this was clearly not a normal condition, and the internet came to a crawl.
There we were, with a router that should handle hundreds of gigs across the backplane without breaking a sweat being brought to its knees by 100mb of traffic... it was incredible.
"It's like watching a water bucket with a large hole and small hole in the bottom," Russ said. "For some reason, the water is pouring out the small hole six times faster than it's coming out of the large one. Something unusual must be going on inside the bucket."
This first observation of the new meson expands the picture of the ways in which the strong force works within the atomic nucleus... A meson is made up of a quark and an antiquark, bound together by the strong force."
So they admit that the force is strong with this one...
Scientists have finally discovered the black sheep in the nuclear family... ...sorry
For those that state that weblogs are gay... WTF do you think Slashdot is?!
Don't look now, but everyone here is blogging! SSShhhhhhhhh!
It sure as hell isn't the New York Times!
Why is it that if a girl is attractive, and she knows it, thats a good thing. However, if a person is smart, and knows it then they're considered pretentious?
I've always had a voracious appetite for learning, yet I hated school. Everyone I knew thought I had a 4.0 average in school, but I graduated in the bottom of my class with a 1.7GPA.
I'm a highly intelligent person with a well rounded knowledge in numerous areas. I am now an executive for a mid-sized corporation where things are going quite well. I never took traditional schooling seriously, and I'm far better because of it. I'm self educated and because of that I never, never stop learning. I can't tell you the number of people that I know with a doctorate degree, yet they're still unable to get a job because even though they're smart - they can't get a job outside of academia because the answers in the real world aren't found in the back of the book.
Most people I know that are highly intelligent never took school seriously. Those that did take school seriously are often book smart, but they're idiots in the real world.
The late President Reagan gave a speech to some college students when he was president. He stated: "When I was in college, I never took my schooling seriously, I was more interested in football than my classes. I'd like to say that I graduated at the top of my class, but I didn't. I graduated with a 'C' average... And I still look back on my college years and wonder what I could have accomplished if I'd taken my education more seriously."
I never took to a professor trying to teach me how to quit thinking logically. Example: Putting more cops on the streets means a lower crime rate. Thats logical, however, anyone that thinks otherwise must have an advanced degree and no longer considers logic when making decisions. That drives me nuts.
I say that whatever you do, you'll do just fine. Anyone that puts you down, just understand that they're not as gifted as you are, and therefore cannot recognize the gift - therefore they just resort to putting you down.
We were remodeling an old property I own and discovered that back in the 1930's era they used newspapers stitched together at the sides and covered with wax paper as insulation. When I finished pulling the papers from the wall, I had a good 3 foot stack of Minneapolis Star Tribune papers dating from 1929 through 1931.
I had one heck of a time reading about Al Capone and his rise to power in Chicago... I read a lot of articles about the economy, as the stock market had just crashed in 1929 and everyone was saying how it'll come back and the economy was on an upswing-- little did they know it was the start of the Great Depression.
There were articles that could have been pulled from todays newspapers talking about partisan politics and how the democrats and republicans in congress were fighting over this or that and that some bill had stalled in congress.
It was a fascinating read into history and I can only imagine seeing what all that century's news online would be like - you could just step back into your time machine and read the headlines of the day. That would be fascinating.
Of course, if you want to read about the past and have a laugh, you can always read The Onion where their April 14, 1912 headline announces: "Worlds Greatest Metaphor runs into Iceberg, Sinks".
Uh, I was paging her with my Cell Phone number... I wasn't exactly trying to hide the fact that I was the one making the calls.
And there was no stalking involved...
I'll say it again, all is fair in love and war!
Bah!
All is fair, in love and war.
Need I say more?
Can you hear me now?...
Good!!!
I once used this to exact revenge against my ex-wife. We were still married at the time, headed for divorce when she took off to Vegas, by car, with her boyfriend for a weekend of sport fscking, I'm sure.
I was obviously pissed as I knew she was going somewhere, and suspected it would be with her 'boyfriend' so I paged her, but she never returned my call.
What I did then was setup Telex (BBS Software) on my PC to dial her pager number, wait for 2 seconds, then enter my cell phone number and hang up, repeated ad infinum. It took a total of 8 seconds for each paging cycle. I knew she was leaving pager range but what did I care.
I was sending out 450 pages per hour, starting on a Friday afternoon. I stopped paging once she returned to town that Monday. I paged her no fewer than 32,400 times that weekend. What I did was a denial of service attack on her pager where she was charged 10 cents for each page over 1000 per month.
My satisfaction grew once I heard that she received a $3,200 pager bill for that month, which she never paid and I'm sure is still on her credit report.
Of course it is 'spyware' but what it looks for is something I dont mind giving up in exchange for its blocking.
The only thing it collects is the pages I visit in order to figure out which sites are the most popular.
If you get rid of the spyware, and use Google Popup blocker or XP SP2, you don't have any problems.
In my experience, 99% of the popups comefrom spyware that is installed on the computer. If the software (spyware) is causing popups, google or any other blocker won't do jack.
Who cares about an Xbox gaming system... It doesn't make me money. But going without a car? I'm out of a job.
I paid $20+ thousand dollars for this hunk of metal and you're telling me that I'm supposed to just kowtow to the almighty dealer every time I want my check-engine light turned off? I don't think so. I should have the option of going to the dealer, to be sure, but if I'm having a drivability problem, I want to go to someone I trust with my car, someone that charges less and I'm happier with.
I've got an older Jeep Grand Cherokee with drivability problems. Thing is that Chrysler (Dodge) keeps pretty close tabs on their trouble codes so every time my car acts up, if I want to plug it into a computer to find out why its running rough I have to go to the dealer, pull into the service bay, talk to some dipshit who tells me to wait in the waiting room. By the time the technician 'calls my number' the car is running fine and I'm charged the minimum $75 fee for plugging the reader into my car. Because its just running rough, no trouble codes are set in the computer, and therefore the only way to catch the problem is when its happening.
Conversely, It started happening again and I called my local mechanic telling him that I'm coming over, "Its acting up again". I pull up and he walks out with his code reader in hand, wiping his hands on a red shop towel. Plugs in the computer and sees immediately that I've got a widget stuck in the maniform valve, giving the ejection seat a prematurely high voltage which was advancing the ignition timing to fire way before tea-time.
I dunno what was wrong that time, but all I know is it was a $110 part and $75 in labor and my Jeep is running like new...
Dealers have their place, but not in every case.
Technology used to be the domain of technologists.. then it became popular and that's when "Joe Sixpack" got online.
Nothing wrong with Joe Sixpack, per se, he's a good guy but he doesn't know the first thing about his car, except where to put the gas, and he doesn't know the first thing about his computer, except how to surf the net. And the scary part is that he doesn't *want* to know anything more.
When things go wrong, he hasn't the first clue of what to do, with the car or the comptuer. All he knows is that he wanted to surf the net at high speed from his Lay-Z-Boy. Ever since he and his cronies got on board, the technological per capita IQ on the internet plummeted.
There has been a long standing computer security axiom that states: "There is no such thing as absolute anonymity, in real life, or on the web."
Well, now there's a caveat to that axiom that I have coined, that states: "Unless you use someone else's unsecured wireless network."
Joe Sixpack is not only providing the foothold that spammers need to purvey their ilk, but also the perfect foundation from which criminals can perpetrate fraud and theft.
Then you must get technology enabled clothing. Check out www.scottevest.com.
I found this throug a friend of mine in the secret service. The best way to carry technology safely is to disguise the fact that you're carrying it.
Yes, this all sounds horrifying on the surface -- but has this been proven scientifically?
I'm going to put my best researchers on this right away and I'll get back to you in five years with the results.
Wait a minute, what the... where'd all my researchers go?!
Theres always http://www.stolenshit.com/