using something as small, cheap and common as a hammer I may cause significant disruption to *all* computer activity within walking distance.
Yes, but unlike the PDA DOS attack, your hammer attack would be rather easy to trace down: one need only follow the crunch-crunch-crunch sounds, and the path of broken bits like Hansel & Gretel's breadcrumbs through the forest.
If the terrorists have the resources and contacts available to get materials make a nuclear weapon, chances are that they aren't going to be getting ideas from the newspaper.
You apparently missed the report a couple of years ago, wherein an Al Qaeda base in Afganistan was found with copies of a spoof entitled "How to Build an Atom Bomb" -- said spoof included the source: Annals of Improbable Research (aka Journal of Irreproducible Results).
"If convicted, they should force him to work end user tech support during his jailtime."
Yeah right! Convict tech support: I think we can help you with that problem, Mr. Customer, but first we'll need your user ID, password, and a valid credit card..."
The RIAA has sued what, 3000 people so far? With an average "catch" of $2500 each? If these numbers are correct, that's $7.5 million. Versus $50 million that RIAA cheated their own artists out of!
I purchased a nice used Boxlight XP-55m for only $600 on eBay. It has native XGA resolution. Purchased a 10 foot diagonal glass bead screen for $125 plus shipping from DaLite. Had to build my own mahogany entertainment center, because they just don't sell 'em with projection screens in mind. $75 worth of black flannel cloth from Walmart, $2 worth of shower curtain rings, and a couple of 1" oak dowels turned into theater curtains with upper/lower masks. Total cost of entertainment center materials was under $600, so the whole project has come in under $2000 - but looks like a lot, lot more. Also, I'm not sure why but DVD's look best when played back from a computer. I'm comparing our DVD's svideo connection to our computer's DVI-out port (with a DVI-to-SVGA adaptor), but the clarity is nonetheless superior.
Plus, it looks way cool to play Age of Mythology on such a big screen:)
How can someone win such a contest? by definition, isn't spam sent out to hundreds of thousands of people...
And the alternative is, what, "special deliver spam" only sent to a couple of people? Boyo, I should give your email address to my hick cousin Elrod in the Ozarks. He keeps trying to get me to invest in his nutty projects: ostrich farming, beefalo ranching, growing Hawaiian leis in Missouri... heh, who knows, maybe Elrod could win this stupid contest, even if I'm the only one he seems to be spamming!
From the oldos link you jmays posted: MindReader is a type-ahead word processor. This software is a powerful text editor that uses patented artificial intelligence techniques to suggest completion of words and/or phrases. This is a fascinating program and is perfect for the slower typist as well as the busy professional.
So this is where those damn Microsoft paperclip demons originated from! Those things are perfect to the busy professional only in that they are perfectly evil!!
"...so the feds could easily begin eminent domain proceedings against SCO in which the US government would take the Unix source code in exchange for fair market value."
Your business model is flawed, because it assumes SCO's Unix source code has a positive fair market value. In practice, at this point SCO would have to pay someone to use their code.
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"...if you really want to mess with the police..."
what kind of bogart shite are you suggesting here? why not just get plates that say "KICK ME" and be done with it?
Yes, but unlike the PDA DOS attack, your hammer attack would be rather easy to trace down: one need only follow the crunch-crunch-crunch sounds, and the path of broken bits like Hansel & Gretel's breadcrumbs through the forest.
Zat ees eet! I am getzing very tired uf you Americans talking zis poo poo about France!
Talk about putting the "power" into your power stroke!
You apparently missed the report a couple of years ago, wherein an Al Qaeda base in Afganistan was found with copies of a spoof entitled "How to Build an Atom Bomb" -- said spoof included the source: Annals of Improbable Research (aka Journal of Irreproducible Results).
Yeah right! Convict tech support: I think we can help you with that problem, Mr. Customer, but first we'll need your user ID, password, and a valid credit card..."
The RIAA has sued what, 3000 people so far? With an average "catch" of $2500 each? If these numbers are correct, that's $7.5 million. Versus $50 million that RIAA cheated their own artists out of!
I purchased a nice used Boxlight XP-55m for only $600 on eBay. It has native XGA resolution. Purchased a 10 foot diagonal glass bead screen for $125 plus shipping from DaLite. Had to build my own mahogany entertainment center, because they just don't sell 'em with projection screens in mind. $75 worth of black flannel cloth from Walmart, $2 worth of shower curtain rings, and a couple of 1" oak dowels turned into theater curtains with upper/lower masks. Total cost of entertainment center materials was under $600, so the whole project has come in under $2000 - but looks like a lot, lot more. Also, I'm not sure why but DVD's look best when played back from a computer. I'm comparing our DVD's svideo connection to our computer's DVI-out port (with a DVI-to-SVGA adaptor), but the clarity is nonetheless superior.
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Plus, it looks way cool to play Age of Mythology on such a big screen
You posted a few hundred words, but could have said all that needs to be said with these last 3.
Fowl hardware: pidgeons
And the alternative is, what, "special deliver spam" only sent to a couple of people? Boyo, I should give your email address to my hick cousin Elrod in the Ozarks. He keeps trying to get me to invest in his nutty projects: ostrich farming, beefalo ranching, growing Hawaiian leis in Missouri... heh, who knows, maybe Elrod could win this stupid contest, even if I'm the only one he seems to be spamming!
Missing icons, orphaned processes, other things lost on your computer? Sounds like you're using the Plus! Bermuda Triangle desktop theme!
New clueless guy sez: "So that's why all of those sites keep getting slashdotted! Jeez, ya think they'd use better computers for webservers."
With more patents than anyone else, IBM might say that this statement is a bit wrongish, eh?
So this is where those damn Microsoft paperclip demons originated from! Those things are perfect to the busy professional only in that they are perfectly evil!!
Unless, of course, you externalize by talking back to all of those little voices in there...
Do lottery tickets count?
Your business model is flawed, because it assumes SCO's Unix source code has a positive fair market value. In practice, at this point SCO would have to pay someone to use their code.
Darl McBride: the most successful graduate ever from Dartmouth's Archimedes Plutonium School of Business Management.
Huh? Did I wake up in Bizarro world this morning?
I think the idea here is to help office employees get more exercise, lugging these beasties from meeting to meeting, to the cafeteria, etc.
Of course, if this is true, Apple fanatics will claim it's better to duct tape a couple of barbells to a 17" iBook.
You've never been to a pawn shop, flea market, or Fast Fingers Freddy the Fence before, have you?
the article sed: The FTC will publicize this program by... sending tens of thousands of emails.
dOOD - if the FTC sends me ten thousand emails, I might very well heed their "suggestion" :P
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