One of my professors would make the student give him the cellphone, and he would take the call for the student! It was hilarious to listen to some of the conversations.
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Hello?... No, this is his/her professor. He/she is in my class right now.... Ok. I'll let him/her know to pick it up from the store on the way back.... Bye."
"The problem is, if the government told people everything they did, everyone would revolt:)"
May I quote a part of the Declaration of Independence?
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government..."
That reminds me of my freshmen year of college. One of my friends across the hall from me had a quad-monitor setup on his computer. He and his roommate never realized that the heater in their room didn't work until my friend turned his computer off one day for hardware maintenance. The room froze quite quickly without the heat from the monitors, but when they were powered back up, they kept the room comfortably warm.
Two CRTs currently heat my apartment, and all my roommates have several computers each. We aren't anticipating having to turn the central heat on this winter.
The "unit" as a whole would probably spin a few inches above ground while the laws of physics desperately try to sort themselves out. I predict an infinite loop, however, and a very dizzy kitten.
There is also the tried-and-true trick of null-routing the advertisers' domain name(s) to your local host. Just add the following to your hosts file:
127.0.0.1 server.that.you.are.blocking.com
My first do-it-yourself computer has suffered some. The motherboard is an Abit KT7 with an AMD Athlon Thunderbird at 800 MHz. The HSF that I had for it was the kind that requires a flat-head screw driver to hold the clips down while you install it. While attempting to install the HSF, the screw driver slipped to the side and the blade drove right into the motherboard, knocking off a diode or two right next to the CPU. I had a sick feeling in my gut at having just killed my expensive motherboard (expensive to a highschooler at least), but I decided to carefully try again. After slowly but successfully seating the HSF onto its mounting bracket, I power it on to see if I was lucky enough to not kill it. Aparently it was my lucky day. It POSTed and works fine to this day, some many years later. At the moment, it's sitting in my parents' kitchen powering Mom's computer. It never generates errors and is rock-solid (indefinite uptime, in excess of a month though), so either the motherboard is increadibly fault-tolerant, or those pieces I knocked off aren't used for anything that the machine does or has ever done.
They're worried about these overly conspicuous non-standard-looking Coke cans when wrist watch cell phones exist? Now THAT is military intelligence for you! *rolls eyes*
Good idea. I was going to suggest placing a small firewall between you and the rest of the network. Done right, you can configure the firewall to have the fingerprints of a POSIX OS, so the campus scanners will be fooled. Anyone intelligent enough to keep the school's spyware off their computer is without a doubt able to take care of their own computer.
Step 1: Offer "extreme DSL speeds" to ISP customers at "extreme prices."
Step 2: ???
Step 3: PROFIT!!!
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in a pinch caps lock might work as a "ANY" key
But then you have the problem of Caps Lock being on after tapping it. This can be especially problematic if you're setting up an O/S at the time, and you have to set your root/Administrator password shorterly thereafter...
Not so much terrorism as totalitarianism, where the government (or dictator or equivalent person *cough*president*cough*) has complete unchecked power against its people and can do just this: silence anyone opposing them without anyone else knowning about it.
This past fall I purchased a full-length black trenchcoat, and I can hide my PDA, cell phone, wallet, a small maglite and more within its pockets without anyone being able to tell. Plus, the coat in general gives me a better "don't mess with me" appearance. A set jaw, a purposeful gate, and sharp, alert eyes to go with it make for a nice combination that keeps unwanted people away. It's even helped to ward off the advertisers who happen to wander onto my college's campus. My black backpack blends into the coat when seen from the front, too. Too bad the coat is too heavy to wear in warmer weather.
Personally, I prefer the CTRL key or any of the arrow keys.
As far as Scroll Lock goes in Windows, I don't think it does a whole lot. It has uses in *nix, but Windows just ignores it (or Windows developers ignore it).
Of course the RIAA/MPAA are run by retards. As you said, they have this massively rich resource (re: the Internet) for distributing their wares (music/movies/anything else that can be transfered over a digital medium), but they REFUSE to accept it. They are more afraid of it than we are afraid of them. There have been so many ideas published on how to make money off of a file sharing network, but suprisingly few people have taken advantage of this. iTunes should be an example of just how sucessful such a service can be. Now if only the *AA's would grow a shred of intelligence, put the lawyers down, and reap the profits of a system that should be relatively painless and easy to setup.
Bellsouth.net is one of the major providers in GA. I use them for home DSL access. They don't neccessarily prohibit their customers from using more than one computer online at any given time, but they will charge $10/month extra if you connect an extra computer and take up another IP address. I switched all my computers behind a router with NAT, so I'm only using 1 IP address now. They haven't bothered me with extra charges since.
Mindspring/Earthlink is also popular in my area, but I'm not sure of their multiple computer policies. It's been a while since I've used them. I'm sure the other "mamoth" ISPs are also providing to GA. I've only used Mindspring and Bellsouth to date though.
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May I quote a part of the Declaration of Independence?
That reminds me of my freshmen year of college. One of my friends across the hall from me had a quad-monitor setup on his computer. He and his roommate never realized that the heater in their room didn't work until my friend turned his computer off one day for hardware maintenance. The room froze quite quickly without the heat from the monitors, but when they were powered back up, they kept the room comfortably warm.
Two CRTs currently heat my apartment, and all my roommates have several computers each. We aren't anticipating having to turn the central heat on this winter.
From the second line of part two ("how I did it") of the article:
"I used the instructions below to guide me through the process of setting up a server at Redwood Virtual with the following components..."
And a little bit further down:
"I bought a personal account at Redwood Virtual. It's $10 per month..."
Something similar has been done before.
How to fry an egg on an Athlon XP
The "unit" as a whole would probably spin a few inches above ground while the laws of physics desperately try to sort themselves out. I predict an infinite loop, however, and a very dizzy kitten.
There is also the tried-and-true trick of null-routing the advertisers' domain name(s) to your local host. Just add the following to your hosts file:
127.0.0.1 server.that.you.are.blocking.com
And what? Dismantle all the cruisers on the lot?
Or...
I can see the headlines now...
"Man gets away from police chase by remotely dismantling the police intercepters..."
Not that I condone actually doing any of this.
Why stop with disassembling your neighbor's car?
Take a trip to the dealership, and just walk up and down the rows of cars... >=)
I know the trouble you'd get in would be astronomical, but it just might say something to the dealers about "remote control" screws.
My first do-it-yourself computer has suffered some. The motherboard is an Abit KT7 with an AMD Athlon Thunderbird at 800 MHz. The HSF that I had for it was the kind that requires a flat-head screw driver to hold the clips down while you install it. While attempting to install the HSF, the screw driver slipped to the side and the blade drove right into the motherboard, knocking off a diode or two right next to the CPU. I had a sick feeling in my gut at having just killed my expensive motherboard (expensive to a highschooler at least), but I decided to carefully try again. After slowly but successfully seating the HSF onto its mounting bracket, I power it on to see if I was lucky enough to not kill it. Aparently it was my lucky day. It POSTed and works fine to this day, some many years later. At the moment, it's sitting in my parents' kitchen powering Mom's computer. It never generates errors and is rock-solid (indefinite uptime, in excess of a month though), so either the motherboard is increadibly fault-tolerant, or those pieces I knocked off aren't used for anything that the machine does or has ever done.
They're worried about these overly conspicuous non-standard-looking Coke cans when wrist watch cell phones exist? Now THAT is military intelligence for you! *rolls eyes*
Good idea. I was going to suggest placing a small firewall between you and the rest of the network. Done right, you can configure the firewall to have the fingerprints of a POSIX OS, so the campus scanners will be fooled. Anyone intelligent enough to keep the school's spyware off their computer is without a doubt able to take care of their own computer.
Step 1: Offer "extreme DSL speeds" to ISP customers at "extreme prices."
Step 2: ???
Step 3: PROFIT!!!
in a pinch caps lock might work as a "ANY" key
But then you have the problem of Caps Lock being on after tapping it. This can be especially problematic if you're setting up an O/S at the time, and you have to set your root/Administrator password shorterly thereafter...
Not so much terrorism as totalitarianism, where the government (or dictator or equivalent person *cough*president*cough*) has complete unchecked power against its people and can do just this: silence anyone opposing them without anyone else knowning about it.
This past fall I purchased a full-length black trenchcoat, and I can hide my PDA, cell phone, wallet, a small maglite and more within its pockets without anyone being able to tell. Plus, the coat in general gives me a better "don't mess with me" appearance. A set jaw, a purposeful gate, and sharp, alert eyes to go with it make for a nice combination that keeps unwanted people away. It's even helped to ward off the advertisers who happen to wander onto my college's campus. My black backpack blends into the coat when seen from the front, too. Too bad the coat is too heavy to wear in warmer weather.
Wouldn't that mean that SCO will be suing themselves shortly?
Personally, I prefer the CTRL key or any of the arrow keys.
As far as Scroll Lock goes in Windows, I don't think it does a whole lot. It has uses in *nix, but Windows just ignores it (or Windows developers ignore it).
Of course the RIAA/MPAA are run by retards. As you said, they have this massively rich resource (re: the Internet) for distributing their wares (music/movies/anything else that can be transfered over a digital medium), but they REFUSE to accept it. They are more afraid of it than we are afraid of them. There have been so many ideas published on how to make money off of a file sharing network, but suprisingly few people have taken advantage of this. iTunes should be an example of just how sucessful such a service can be. Now if only the *AA's would grow a shred of intelligence, put the lawyers down, and reap the profits of a system that should be relatively painless and easy to setup.
Bellsouth.net is one of the major providers in GA. I use them for home DSL access. They don't neccessarily prohibit their customers from using more than one computer online at any given time, but they will charge $10/month extra if you connect an extra computer and take up another IP address. I switched all my computers behind a router with NAT, so I'm only using 1 IP address now. They haven't bothered me with extra charges since.
Mindspring/Earthlink is also popular in my area, but I'm not sure of their multiple computer policies. It's been a while since I've used them. I'm sure the other "mamoth" ISPs are also providing to GA. I've only used Mindspring and Bellsouth to date though.