RTFA carefully. Citizens are reporting sounds and vibrations they -think- are earthquakes etc. but authorities are saying it is just caused by the sonic booms of stuff (whatever it is) entering the atmosphere and exploding.
In the nursing home the effects of Alzheimer's and marijuana will be indistinguishable except that the stoners will be happier and will eat their food rather than throwing it.
Well duh, of course they went out of business. The main component of their huge deficit is the $$$ they owe to the paper company who supplies their register receipts. If they had printed much smaller receipts (they could easily get by with one about 1/8th the size) and spent the savings on quality sales people and price+ matching they'd still be in business. I'm sure of it. I know this guy who heated his house for almost an entire winter with just a wood stove and his CC sales and MIR receipts.
My neighbor's huge old black walnut tree has littered my yard with a -ton- of walnuts every year I've lived here (7 years).
Not only have there always been the large black squishy fruits but the squirrels make a real mess cracking them open. This year there have been very very few nuts - I've seen only a dozen or two. The squirrels seem to have moved on to nuttier pastures as I've seen far fewer of the furry little nuisances this year. I wonder if this is somehow related to the acorn shortage? Ponderous.
Catch 22: You have to be able to access the network and the mystery server in order to cycle power for the entire city.
The guy in jail still hold the keys.
Gosh, I hope no one at the Pentagon or the White House gets this SPAM. If it arrives in an email or it's on CNN then it must be true and they could actually kick off WW-III.
"Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks."
"I'm afraid, sir, I must ask you for the key, and the recall code. Have you got them handy, sir?"
Consider having them professionally printed to photo paper and store them in a box in the closet (or a safe deposit box - usually reasonably temperature/humidity controlled). Don't laugh. I recently was looking through a huge box of old family photos and negatives. Some of them date back to the early 1900's and many still look as if they were printed yesterday. Most of the negatives are in excellent condition and I've had a few of them reprinted as 8x10 prints. Granted, most of them are black and white, but most of the oldest color prints and negs still look darned good. Color slides I took in the early sixties still look great. There's a lot to be said for pictures and documents printed on good quality paper and film. There are books/documents/scrolls over 2000 years old still in existence.
Just pick up the phone and call. Oh, what a minute...
Hmmm, just write a letter and... ARGH!
OK, drive to the recipient and talk with them in person.
Ack, damned cameras. Nevermind, it wasn't all that important.
Hmmm, a recent study by a leading university indicates that Slashdot readers have an 80% higher
incidence of ADHD and OC than the general population. So yeah, damn right I'd buy it somewhere else
or... um, er, wow, let's go ride the bikes.
A cat with cancer was receiving radiation therapy? Don't get me wrong, I love cats and animals in general, but who pays possibly thousands of dollars for cat radiation therapy? Sad to consider that there are probably thousands of -people- in the US needing such treatment who don't have the means to pay for it. Every day our priorities seem to be more screwed up in this country. But then, the masses seem to care more about every detail of Brittney Spears life than starving children in Appalachia and our inner cities, so go figure. I think we're all fscked.
Oppenheimer and his pals referred to the first atomic bomb as 'The Gadget'.
Yes, it changed the world but not necessarily for the better. Not to mention
that it blew up.
So, they finally figured out how to manufacture that light weight material found at the Roswell crash site eh?
Took them long enough. Just one more product resulting from 'Alien Technology'. Ha!
Yes sir, encourage everyone to store all their documents and files online with Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, etc.
All the much easier for the government(s) to go snooping around hoping to find someone they can charge with
something nebulous and awful. What? You say 'they can't do that!'? Wanna bet? Secret courts, secret searches, secret detentions, secret prisons, secret (fill in the blank). Thank you, no. I'll keep all my stuff on my own drives and equipment. At least if they decide to search my stuff it hopefully won't be a secret from me. Unless, of course, they secretly enter my house, secretly diable my alarm system, kill my ferocious dog, and secretly search my stuff. But HA! Just let them try to secretly search the body cavity where I keep my secret USB drive. Ha!
It's the U.S. government, silly. They just buy a lot ~more~ of them.
Hmmm, I wonder who gets the contract for the generator tender ship that
will have to accompany the gun ship? Then there is the contact for the
generators, the contract for the...
By the time they are done with it, it ~will~ cost as much to fire as
a Tomahawk missile. The contractors and their congressmen will see to that.
Since you are posting on/. you are probably single, have no friends, and the neighbors all think you are
either a Russky spy, a child molester, or worse (g). So...
Sure, a few of the techie solutions are a good idea so you can do some remote monitoring on your own
(i personally like the Panasonic network cameras - they detect motion and can record or email pix).
And then hire someone to look after the place. There are property management and security companies that do exactly this sort of thing. Some realty companies also will provide this service. A monitored professionally installed alarm system would be a good idea and they have sensors for most anything you can imagine. You don't mention is your house is in a rural or small town setting or a decent sized city.
Availability of professionals would, of course, vary by location.
Do you know of any nice (still active) Senior Citizen couples who live nearby? An offer of a small remittance to retired folks is often all it takes to hire someone who has time on their hands, is reliable, and could use the extra bucks.
Good luck with it.
And you expected what? In the climate of today's 'war on terror' and everyone's extreme paranoia, you thought you might receive a presidential freedom award for pointing out a weakness in the Bush administration's 'feel good' security procedures? Or maybe at least a pat on the back from the DHS?
I happen to agree with your method, but it's hard to believe you really thought the government would not take notice, especially considering it is 10 days before the mid-term elections. Good luck (seriously!).
I suspect your 15 minutes of fame has been slightly extended.
I recently setup a wireless ap to give net access to my next door neighbor. I located the ap
in a closet on an outside wall facing his house. The distance across the driveway is only about 20 feet but the signal was very low in his house and was pretty much useless. We carried a laptop around outside and found that the signal dropped off very rapidly as we moved away from my house. Out at the street it was virtually gone. At first i was baffled. Then we realized that my house has aluminum siding. Bingo, the ap is inside a giant shield! I relocated the ap to a shelf on a window sill facing his house. Much better, but not as good as expected. I removed the window screen and all is well - he gets good signal anywhere in his house. This arrangement ends up being fairly directional toward his house. Signal strength outside the other three sides of my house is still very low.
When the aircraft goes ka boom and then ka-plop in the ocean, who will know
for sure. Well, except for George Bush, of course. Fsck, anything that blows
up that he doesn't like is IOTTMCO a terrorist action.
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RTFA carefully. Citizens are reporting sounds and vibrations they -think- are earthquakes etc. but authorities are saying it is just caused by the sonic booms of stuff (whatever it is) entering the atmosphere and exploding.
In the nursing home the effects of Alzheimer's and marijuana will be indistinguishable except that the stoners will be happier and will eat their food rather than throwing it.
Well duh, of course they went out of business. The main component of their huge deficit is the $$$ they owe to the paper company who supplies their register receipts. If they had printed much smaller receipts (they could easily get by with one about 1/8th the size) and spent the savings on quality sales people and price+ matching they'd still be in business. I'm sure of it. I know this guy who heated his house for almost an entire winter with just a wood stove and his CC sales and MIR receipts.
My neighbor's huge old black walnut tree has littered my yard with a -ton- of walnuts every year I've lived here (7 years). Not only have there always been the large black squishy fruits but the squirrels make a real mess cracking them open. This year there have been very very few nuts - I've seen only a dozen or two. The squirrels seem to have moved on to nuttier pastures as I've seen far fewer of the furry little nuisances this year. I wonder if this is somehow related to the acorn shortage? Ponderous.
Why risk perfectly good Rangers when you can get the Marines to do the grunt work for you :)
Send in the Marines! Once Dell HQ is surrounded I'm sure they'll find your laptop.
Catch 22: You have to be able to access the network and the mystery server in order to cycle power for the entire city. The guy in jail still hold the keys.
Gosh, I hope no one at the Pentagon or the White House gets this SPAM. If it arrives in an email or it's on CNN then it must be true and they could actually kick off WW-III.
"Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks."
"I'm afraid, sir, I must ask you for the key, and the recall code. Have you got them handy, sir?"
Consider having them professionally printed to photo paper and store them in a box in the closet (or a safe deposit box - usually reasonably temperature/humidity controlled). Don't laugh. I recently was looking through a huge box of old family photos and negatives. Some of them date back to the early 1900's and many still look as if they were printed yesterday. Most of the negatives are in excellent condition and I've had a few of them reprinted as 8x10 prints. Granted, most of them are black and white, but most of the oldest color prints and negs still look darned good. Color slides I took in the early sixties still look great. There's a lot to be said for pictures and documents printed on good quality paper and film. There are books/documents/scrolls over 2000 years old still in existence.
Just pick up the phone and call. Oh, what a minute...
Hmmm, just write a letter and... ARGH!
OK, drive to the recipient and talk with them in person.
Ack, damned cameras. Nevermind, it wasn't all that important.
Hmmm, a recent study by a leading university indicates that Slashdot readers have an 80% higher incidence of ADHD and OC than the general population. So yeah, damn right I'd buy it somewhere else or... um, er, wow, let's go ride the bikes.
A cat with cancer was receiving radiation therapy? Don't get me wrong, I love cats and animals in general, but who pays possibly thousands of dollars for cat radiation therapy? Sad to consider that there are probably thousands of -people- in the US needing such treatment who don't have the means to pay for it. Every day our priorities seem to be more screwed up in this country. But then, the masses seem to care more about every detail of Brittney Spears life than starving children in Appalachia and our inner cities, so go figure. I think we're all fscked.
> PS. Osama is hanging out on GWB's ranch in Texas - that's why they can't find him. So, Is he down there clearing some brush?
Oppenheimer and his pals referred to the first atomic bomb as 'The Gadget'. Yes, it changed the world but not necessarily for the better. Not to mention that it blew up.
So, they finally figured out how to manufacture that light weight material found at the Roswell crash site eh? Took them long enough. Just one more product resulting from 'Alien Technology'. Ha!
Yes sir, encourage everyone to store all their documents and files online with Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, etc. All the much easier for the government(s) to go snooping around hoping to find someone they can charge with something nebulous and awful. What? You say 'they can't do that!'? Wanna bet? Secret courts, secret searches, secret detentions, secret prisons, secret (fill in the blank). Thank you, no. I'll keep all my stuff on my own drives and equipment. At least if they decide to search my stuff it hopefully won't be a secret from me. Unless, of course, they secretly enter my house, secretly diable my alarm system, kill my ferocious dog, and secretly search my stuff. But HA! Just let them try to secretly search the body cavity where I keep my secret USB drive. Ha!
Oops, here's the correct url.
(I must be lame cuz I can't figure out how to edit my own ^#%$* post)
IIRC, something similar was done in 1985.
It's the U.S. government, silly. They just buy a lot ~more~ of them. Hmmm, I wonder who gets the contract for the generator tender ship that will have to accompany the gun ship? Then there is the contact for the generators, the contract for the... By the time they are done with it, it ~will~ cost as much to fire as a Tomahawk missile. The contractors and their congressmen will see to that.
Since you are posting on /. you are probably single, have no friends, and the neighbors all think you are
either a Russky spy, a child molester, or worse (g). So...
Sure, a few of the techie solutions are a good idea so you can do some remote monitoring on your own (i personally like the Panasonic network cameras - they detect motion and can record or email pix). And then hire someone to look after the place. There are property management and security companies that do exactly this sort of thing. Some realty companies also will provide this service. A monitored professionally installed alarm system would be a good idea and they have sensors for most anything you can imagine. You don't mention is your house is in a rural or small town setting or a decent sized city. Availability of professionals would, of course, vary by location.
Do you know of any nice (still active) Senior Citizen couples who live nearby? An offer of a small remittance to retired folks is often all it takes to hire someone who has time on their hands, is reliable, and could use the extra bucks.
Good luck with it.
You obviously work for the Bush administration and/or the CIA. HA - outted another one!
And you expected what? In the climate of today's 'war on terror' and everyone's extreme paranoia, you thought you might receive a presidential freedom award for pointing out a weakness in the Bush administration's 'feel good' security procedures? Or maybe at least a pat on the back from the DHS? I happen to agree with your method, but it's hard to believe you really thought the government would not take notice, especially considering it is 10 days before the mid-term elections. Good luck (seriously!). I suspect your 15 minutes of fame has been slightly extended.
I recently setup a wireless ap to give net access to my next door neighbor. I located the ap in a closet on an outside wall facing his house. The distance across the driveway is only about 20 feet but the signal was very low in his house and was pretty much useless. We carried a laptop around outside and found that the signal dropped off very rapidly as we moved away from my house. Out at the street it was virtually gone. At first i was baffled. Then we realized that my house has aluminum siding. Bingo, the ap is inside a giant shield! I relocated the ap to a shelf on a window sill facing his house. Much better, but not as good as expected. I removed the window screen and all is well - he gets good signal anywhere in his house. This arrangement ends up being fairly directional toward his house. Signal strength outside the other three sides of my house is still very low.
"What wacky stuff have you done that makes no obvious sense, but just works?" Installing Windows XP.
When the aircraft goes ka boom and then ka-plop in the ocean, who will know for sure. Well, except for George Bush, of course. Fsck, anything that blows up that he doesn't like is IOTTMCO a terrorist action.