Let me introduce myself. I am Professor Mugabawabe from the Country of Nigeria.
I have been contracted to the American Federal Trade Comission for the express purpose of researching identity theft victims and possibly to assist them in recovering potentially MILLIONS in punitive damages.
In order to perform my research I ask that you send me the following information:
* Full Name * Address of domicile * Social Security Number (completely secure - will be compared against our records) * Date of Birth
For statistical purposes, we ask for the following:
* Average household income * Method of employ
Thank you for your time in this matter. If you haven't been a victim of identity theft but know of someone who has, please forward this on to them.
Go to the local park one day when they're trimming the trees. Just take all of the HDDs and throw them into the big chipper/shreader thing that they have there. Voila, no more HDDs to worry about.
It's not so much thrashing the servers as it is saturating their network cards. Assuming that you're using a standard image across all desktops, a server with a large amount of RAM cacheing the image and a few of the new 10Gbps NICs into your routers and switches should be able to handle it without too much of a problem. If you're using PXE booting, the DHCP server should be set up with several of the different IP blocks pointing to different addresses on the same boot server (different NICs).
Like suggested before, the WoL function would be a great boon to your system, that way people just shut down at the end of the day and everything is ready to go in the morning.
The problem is that the sound emitted by that device can easily reach into other's yards. Just imagine how horrible it must be living down the street from a guy pumping a really annoying sound out of a loudspeaker 24/7.
Think of someone blasting something like Cher outside your house 24/7 - you'd go insane after a very short while.
It ended up taking me about 15 minutes to finally cancel the account. The lady was nice, but she just had her script to go by. Still, I wish that I could bill them for my cell time.
But can they also slash the energy requirements and the heat produced by their CPUs? Seriously, between choosing an Intel CPU, or an AMD one that runs cooler and uses less energy, I'll go with the AMD.
The downside? It violates everything that we stand for, i.e. illegal search and seizure, and the fact that it reminds one too much of old East-German stasi methods.
Yes,/. practices censorship, but they're up front about it, and it's within reason. Every comment (except for the Xenu one) is available to be read, even all of the GNAA/goatse spam ones. So yes, they do censor, but what they don't do is completely remove those spam/troll comments from the search engine/site history (in essence).
And a lot of the issue with the bannination that you experienced most likely had to do with you or someone else using your external IP trolling as AC. If you want to troll while signed in, that's one thing, because the karma system will eventually knock you down to starting at 0/-1, but when you troll or post off-topic as AC (and start out with visible comments), the only real solution that they have it to ban your IP.
I don't know about that. I never really noticed prices that differed from those of, say, Starbucks. And a regular cup of coffee there was actually cheaper than a regular cup Starbucks' coffee here in Vegas.
As far as I'm concerned, you lose your entitlement to seatspace when you finish your drink and whatever food you purchased.
Obviously you've never been to a real cafe like in Europe. There, once you've got a table, you've got it for as long as you want, and they won't bother you to leave. Granted, others may come up and sit in the seat across from you, but some interesting and fun conversations can start that way.
I like to use Books for OSX found at http://books.aetherial.net/. It's open-source and tends to work out pretty nicely. It isn't as feature complete as Delicious Library or Booxter, but it tends to do the job for me.
If you don't mind paying a bit, and it's only books that you want to read, Booxter is a good choice. A lot less than the Delicious Library.
I don't foresee that happening anytime in the near future. By restricting the hardware that the OS can run on, Apple can maintain a high level of performance and quality which just isn't possible with most Windows systems. A lot of the problems that I've run across when it comes to dealing with crashing on vanilla wintel boxes was bad drivers, something avoided when you control the hardware and the software.
Apple's already stated that they'll do nothing to stop somebody from running XP on their hardware, but on the same hand, they weren't going to help make it any easier either.
They take action against people who run OSX on wintel boxes simply because that's a pirated and hacked version of their OS. It's their prerogative to decide what hardware they want their OS to run on.
I'm quite the bibliophile, so i'd have a large library with very tall windows to let in as much light as possible. Large quantities of empty space for people/friends to congregate during parties and BBQs (go figure, there's pretty long summers here in Vegas). The TV screens and computers would all be hidden except for some well-placed iMacs/iBooks. Maybe some nice hardware in the kitchen. Got to love a powerful stove/oven and an oversized fridge. Not much else.
On the whole I prefer simplicity to showing off. That doesn't necessarily mean that there's no technology in there, just that it's so well integrated that you don't even notice it (e.g. something like door locks that are activated by the proximity of a special key ala shielded RFID).
Then odds are that you've disabled the "open safe files" option in the general tab of preferences. You have to have that activated in order to be vulnerable.
Maybe something like iCal/LDAP address books (and logon)/open source groupware solution. That way you have standard address books for everyone (invites, etc.), as well as standard users for the groupware solution when using things like room checkout, etc.
Set up the email to use IMAP, that way everybody could access their email from their Macs as well as over the internet.
Because I really don't want everyone seeing (and possibly taping) me do my impersonation of Tom Cruise in Risky Business. I can only imagine that the more riské things seen on the cameras would be leaked to the internet.
Not to mention the huge privacy implications.
Here's an idea, let's do a few test runs by putting closed circuit cameras into the chief's house first, then every police officer's house and see how they like it, then see if they want to expand that test - to their immediate family, and see the response that that gets.
Otherwise, they'll find their IPs banned pretty quickly. There's a lot of redundant linking that goes on in a normal website, including edit pages, print versions, etc. The government may have the funds for all the bandwidth in the world, but normal website operators who would be getting hit by a bunch of superfluous requests don't.
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Let me introduce myself. I am Professor Mugabawabe from the Country of Nigeria.
I have been contracted to the American Federal Trade Comission for the express purpose of researching identity theft victims and possibly to assist them in recovering potentially MILLIONS in punitive damages.
In order to perform my research I ask that you send me the following information:
* Full Name
* Address of domicile
* Social Security Number (completely secure - will be compared against our records)
* Date of Birth
For statistical purposes, we ask for the following:
* Average household income
* Method of employ
Thank you for your time in this matter. If you haven't been a victim of identity theft but know of someone who has, please forward this on to them.
Sincerely,
Dr. Mugabawabe
AFAIK, they only demo PHP based CMS systems, no Java based ones.
Go to the local park one day when they're trimming the trees. Just take all of the HDDs and throw them into the big chipper/shreader thing that they have there. Voila, no more HDDs to worry about.
It's not so much thrashing the servers as it is saturating their network cards. Assuming that you're using a standard image across all desktops, a server with a large amount of RAM cacheing the image and a few of the new 10Gbps NICs into your routers and switches should be able to handle it without too much of a problem. If you're using PXE booting, the DHCP server should be set up with several of the different IP blocks pointing to different addresses on the same boot server (different NICs).
Like suggested before, the WoL function would be a great boon to your system, that way people just shut down at the end of the day and everything is ready to go in the morning.
That's it, kill your friend off to get back at your neighbor. You sound like a real stand-up guy.
Remind me to never shake your hand.
The problem is that the sound emitted by that device can easily reach into other's yards. Just imagine how horrible it must be living down the street from a guy pumping a really annoying sound out of a loudspeaker 24/7.
Think of someone blasting something like Cher outside your house 24/7 - you'd go insane after a very short while.
It ended up taking me about 15 minutes to finally cancel the account. The lady was nice, but she just had her script to go by. Still, I wish that I could bill them for my cell time.
But can they also slash the energy requirements and the heat produced by their CPUs? Seriously, between choosing an Intel CPU, or an AMD one that runs cooler and uses less energy, I'll go with the AMD.
The downside? It violates everything that we stand for, i.e. illegal search and seizure, and the fact that it reminds one too much of old East-German stasi methods.
If I'm not mistaken, WantedList is what you're looking for.
It was in Wired a while back.
Yes, /. practices censorship, but they're up front about it, and it's within reason. Every comment (except for the Xenu one) is available to be read, even all of the GNAA/goatse spam ones. So yes, they do censor, but what they don't do is completely remove those spam/troll comments from the search engine/site history (in essence).
And a lot of the issue with the bannination that you experienced most likely had to do with you or someone else using your external IP trolling as AC. If you want to troll while signed in, that's one thing, because the karma system will eventually knock you down to starting at 0/-1, but when you troll or post off-topic as AC (and start out with visible comments), the only real solution that they have it to ban your IP.
I don't know about that. I never really noticed prices that differed from those of, say, Starbucks. And a regular cup of coffee there was actually cheaper than a regular cup Starbucks' coffee here in Vegas.
As far as I'm concerned, you lose your entitlement to seatspace when you finish your drink and whatever food you purchased.
Obviously you've never been to a real cafe like in Europe. There, once you've got a table, you've got it for as long as you want, and they won't bother you to leave. Granted, others may come up and sit in the seat across from you, but some interesting and fun conversations can start that way.
I like to use Books for OSX found at http://books.aetherial.net/. It's open-source and tends to work out pretty nicely. It isn't as feature complete as Delicious Library or Booxter, but it tends to do the job for me.
If you don't mind paying a bit, and it's only books that you want to read, Booxter is a good choice. A lot less than the Delicious Library.
I don't foresee that happening anytime in the near future. By restricting the hardware that the OS can run on, Apple can maintain a high level of performance and quality which just isn't possible with most Windows systems. A lot of the problems that I've run across when it comes to dealing with crashing on vanilla wintel boxes was bad drivers, something avoided when you control the hardware and the software.
Apple's already stated that they'll do nothing to stop somebody from running XP on their hardware, but on the same hand, they weren't going to help make it any easier either.
They take action against people who run OSX on wintel boxes simply because that's a pirated and hacked version of their OS. It's their prerogative to decide what hardware they want their OS to run on.
There's a torrent to the solution at http://exe64.com:6969/ seeing as how the onmac servers seem to be down at the moment.
I'm quite the bibliophile, so i'd have a large library with very tall windows to let in as much light as possible. Large quantities of empty space for people/friends to congregate during parties and BBQs (go figure, there's pretty long summers here in Vegas). The TV screens and computers would all be hidden except for some well-placed iMacs/iBooks. Maybe some nice hardware in the kitchen. Got to love a powerful stove/oven and an oversized fridge. Not much else.
On the whole I prefer simplicity to showing off. That doesn't necessarily mean that there's no technology in there, just that it's so well integrated that you don't even notice it (e.g. something like door locks that are activated by the proximity of a special key ala shielded RFID).
Yeah, it happened for me.
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Then odds are that you've disabled the "open safe files" option in the general tab of preferences. You have to have that activated in order to be vulnerable.
http://www.sharp-ideas.net.nyud.net:8080/download/ slurp.zip
^- The Coralized version of the software.
Maybe something like iCal/LDAP address books (and logon)/open source groupware solution. That way you have standard address books for everyone (invites, etc.), as well as standard users for the groupware solution when using things like room checkout, etc.
Set up the email to use IMAP, that way everybody could access their email from their Macs as well as over the internet.
Because I really don't want everyone seeing (and possibly taping) me do my impersonation of Tom Cruise in Risky Business. I can only imagine that the more riské things seen on the cameras would be leaked to the internet.
Not to mention the huge privacy implications.
Here's an idea, let's do a few test runs by putting closed circuit cameras into the chief's house first, then every police officer's house and see how they like it, then see if they want to expand that test - to their immediate family, and see the response that that gets.
Otherwise, they'll find their IPs banned pretty quickly. There's a lot of redundant linking that goes on in a normal website, including edit pages, print versions, etc. The government may have the funds for all the bandwidth in the world, but normal website operators who would be getting hit by a bunch of superfluous requests don't.