Two docs by two different people to be dead. Seems simple enough by someone in the know.
In terms of life, all I can think of is the scenes from The Shawshank Redemption. Randall Stevens was created through the mail, but one needs a birth cert, a social security number, a bank account, a driver's license. As far as I can tell, that's the minimum to live a real life here in the US. How can one hack all of the above today? A DL in NJ required "six points of ID" presented in person. So... How can one hack a new life after hacking the death of an old one?
One certainly does have to manage their public image on the interwebs. It's out there forever. I am a high school teacher. I do have a facebook account. And yes, Virginia, I do watch what's out there and what gets shared, tagged, posted, etc. I have asked friends and students to mind what they post and to take things down I don't want published.
I don't know if it's a generational thing. I've telecommunicated since the days of 300 baud dialup and BBSes. I've largely kept my online persona in good repair. I do watch what I type because my students can find me online in a pinch, so I censor my tweets, etc. I don't know if kids are as concerned. Today's infrastructure for communication is way different for my students. Texts, tweets, FB postings, forums, and email are all acceptable forms of meaningful communication. Though I think kids mainly use email as a digital bridge between them and us old fogeys.
But in the end, it all has to be managed, cuz people DO judge. It's common sense.
S
Amen, baby! It baffles me that people would put a dumb, personal email address on a resume, business card, or even in an email message. I am a teacher and I get email from parents with addresses like "doglover@verizon.net" or "24beers@comcast.net". There's a line. If you are going to put yourself out there professionally, then your email address should reflect that professionalism. No parent ever gets my personal email address. I only use my school-provided email for work stuff and it bolsters my image. Sure, myname@isp.com works great, but it's not the same as myname@school.grade.state.us.
Putting a live XP or Linux distribution onto it makes it a fine rescue disk.
Give 'em to your church.
Use them for backups of small things.
Add them to the internal usb ports on your pc or pci card for some hidden always-available storage.
He won't be convicted of every charge. He won't get 38 years in jail. He will, however, have the shiat scared out of him as he's been arrested and incarcerated for doing what a lot of smart-ass seniors do with the school network--compromise it simply because they can. It's a lot of fun for HS students to attempt an end-run around IT policies in class just so that they can play stupid Flash games.
Every youngster thinks they're immortal and can't be hurt, arrested, or killed. I'm glad this little creep learned early.
There's the rub...You need "space for what you're carrying"...Unless it's humans, why not purchase a small pickup or a minivan? Nowadays vans and station wagons are simply not fashionable enough. It's an SUV monstermobile or nothing!
Amen to that. I am saving my sheckels for a nice Macbook Pro and am currently making a P3 based HP Omnibook do my daily driving. It's a P3 with 256 megs of RAM and a recently upgraded 40 gig HD. It runs XP, Creative Suite 1, Opera, Thunderbird, AutoCAD LT, Abiword, and VLC. That takes care of my basic portable needs. A Lucent Wavelan gets me on the net from the kitchen.
It just works. If one has the patience to wait 30 sec for Photoshop to run, it works great! The longer I use it, the more I am rethinking the need for a $1900 laptop system.
Lots of different commands would take out the Troll. "attack troll...", "hit troll...", "kill troll..." would all work with either the sword or the knife.
And yes, the packaging rocked on the original games...Maps, giveaways, beautiful gatefold boxen...Those were the days of great gaming.
At a certain younger age there isn't any room for reasoning. Sometimes the answer of "that's the way it is" or "because I said so" is what has to fly. There's no reasoning with preschoolers, kindergartners, or even first through third graders.
Most folks trade on the fact that ignorance is the best security out there. That is, how many out there will actually sniff for a network or attempt to acces your AP through default settings? If your AP is open, then folks can and will use it. It you don't have enough sense in your head to secure your AP, then tough luck. I noticed that my neighbor's kid was sponging off my AP not too long after getting it in place. A few clicks with the mouse in the web interface and all is well.
Last summer when I spent a week in Wales most of the locals LOVED Budweiser (it was theor favorite import), and dimissed Carlsberg as awful. I became quite the fan of the Bitters over there. My wife loved Strongbow. I wish I could finds something comparable to bitters over here in the USA. The closest I've come is Fuller's.
You should be able to edit your/etc/apt/sources.list without any trouble. Change all instances of "breezy" to "dapper". Do an apt-get update and then an apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade.
iPods already have PIM functionailty...It's just not realtime. You have to enter everything on your desktop software and then sync with the iPod.
Besides, most folks don't even realize that the iPod is also an external HD. As far as they are concerned, the music (and now video) is the limit of its functionality. iTunes works like magic. You don't need to know any geekery pokery to get your music in.
As far as the Newt is concerned...That will never come back on its own. I still use my 2100 every day for book reading, quick note taking (please, no eat up martha jokes), and phone numbers. If it fit my pockets, I would still use it everyday.
I went to a Psion for a couple of months and loved it...Then one of the hinges started to go. Bye Bye Psion.
Now I use a Zaurus SLC1000. It's a clamshell with a keyboard and a bright tappable 640x480 screen. It's small, but razor sharp. It takes SD, CF, and Microdrives for storage plus has a fair bit of built in storage space. Heck, I went through this whole thread and no one's mentioned the Zaurus at all. I read, note, calendar, video, music, and game on it. I use it every day. Best $300 I every spent on a PDA....I've tried lots!
Newt 130-sold it to get Visor
Handspring Visor Deluxe-two cracked screens and that was that
Palm m505-sold due to lack of use (nicest looking of all palms)
Newt 2100-still use all the time, even on the www and get mail.
Handspring Visor Edge-sold due to lack of use, loved the size.
Psion 5mx-still works, one failing hinge
Zaurus sl5500-took the cheaper $100 plunge to see if I liked...hated the thumboard. Sold it.
Zaurus slc1000-Love it, love it. Daily driver. Want to get Newt emulator running on it.
**Sigh**
Just what my middle schoolers need to hear about. Some lucky rogue that makes a living at FPS games.
I mean, if he stepped into a pot of gold...Hey great for him. I've been playing videogames since my folks brought home an Atari 2600 back in the day. (Yow....That's like 20 years ago) Now, I'm more ancient than this fellow and I certainly can't make a living at gaming even with 20 years under me.
I can see it now...Sitting in the Guidance Office, looking the counselors in the eye, and stating that college is not need because I am leet at CounterStrike.
Thank God the kid's investing instead of Viper-crashing.
Boot Error...LOL
I remember all of my Atari games quite fondly. We were always an Atari house. First a 400, then an 800, then an XE series machine. We still have all that stuff--though I suspect it's not long for this world as my Dad is cleaning out the house.
AstroChase, BallBlazer, The Eidolon, Crush, Crumble and Chomp, Archon, Zombies and Realm of Impossibility, Telengard, Miner 2049er.
One line from the article shines through...
>> Can, and will, spend whatever it takes to make the Xbox 360 a success.
That company has money to burn on this. The previous poster is correct. "It's the games, stupid." The console is a loss, the GAMES are the $$ gain. It's like printers....Inkjets are cheap to buy (sometimes free)...The ink is the killer cost.
XB360 will not fail. Penetration into our kids' minds is too great...Plus, like it or not, they have Halo and KIDS (even old ones) LOVE Halo.
Now, if the console is like the DC, then I will look hard at it. I love my DC and use it almost daily. Bleemcast Gran Turismo is a lifesaver, and Metropolis Street Racer rocks.
Most of my middle school students have no idea that there is another option besides Internet Explorer for their web access. It's either IE, or AOL for them. Most folks use it because it is there and seems to work...Not because it is better or worse.
It is true for the most part. Any non geek puts in the CDs that the ISP gives them and away they go. Dialers, browsers, and other annoyances get installed as the cd has an autorun script.
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Bless tech support, of course. But you can't fix stupid. I am working with someone who wants a new win install, but does not know how to boot from CD.
Two docs by two different people to be dead. Seems simple enough by someone in the know. In terms of life, all I can think of is the scenes from The Shawshank Redemption. Randall Stevens was created through the mail, but one needs a birth cert, a social security number, a bank account, a driver's license. As far as I can tell, that's the minimum to live a real life here in the US. How can one hack all of the above today? A DL in NJ required "six points of ID" presented in person. So... How can one hack a new life after hacking the death of an old one?
One certainly does have to manage their public image on the interwebs. It's out there forever. I am a high school teacher. I do have a facebook account. And yes, Virginia, I do watch what's out there and what gets shared, tagged, posted, etc. I have asked friends and students to mind what they post and to take things down I don't want published. I don't know if it's a generational thing. I've telecommunicated since the days of 300 baud dialup and BBSes. I've largely kept my online persona in good repair. I do watch what I type because my students can find me online in a pinch, so I censor my tweets, etc. I don't know if kids are as concerned. Today's infrastructure for communication is way different for my students. Texts, tweets, FB postings, forums, and email are all acceptable forms of meaningful communication. Though I think kids mainly use email as a digital bridge between them and us old fogeys. But in the end, it all has to be managed, cuz people DO judge. It's common sense. S
Amen, baby! It baffles me that people would put a dumb, personal email address on a resume, business card, or even in an email message. I am a teacher and I get email from parents with addresses like "doglover@verizon.net" or "24beers@comcast.net". There's a line. If you are going to put yourself out there professionally, then your email address should reflect that professionalism. No parent ever gets my personal email address. I only use my school-provided email for work stuff and it bolsters my image. Sure, myname@isp.com works great, but it's not the same as myname@school.grade.state.us.
Putting a live XP or Linux distribution onto it makes it a fine rescue disk.
Give 'em to your church.
Use them for backups of small things.
Add them to the internal usb ports on your pc or pci card for some hidden always-available storage.
S
Every youngster thinks they're immortal and can't be hurt, arrested, or killed. I'm glad this little creep learned early.
S
Doesn't this just mean that content will migrate over to the misc groups? They're part of the Big 8. Data finds its own way, like water.
There's the rub...You need "space for what you're carrying"...Unless it's humans, why not purchase a small pickup or a minivan? Nowadays vans and station wagons are simply not fashionable enough. It's an SUV monstermobile or nothing!
S
Amen to that. I am saving my sheckels for a nice Macbook Pro and am currently making a P3 based HP Omnibook do my daily driving. It's a P3 with 256 megs of RAM and a recently upgraded 40 gig HD. It runs XP, Creative Suite 1, Opera, Thunderbird, AutoCAD LT, Abiword, and VLC. That takes care of my basic portable needs. A Lucent Wavelan gets me on the net from the kitchen.
It just works. If one has the patience to wait 30 sec for Photoshop to run, it works great! The longer I use it, the more I am rethinking the need for a $1900 laptop system.
S
Lots of different commands would take out the Troll. "attack troll...", "hit troll...", "kill troll..." would all work with either the sword or the knife.
And yes, the packaging rocked on the original games...Maps, giveaways, beautiful gatefold boxen...Those were the days of great gaming.
At a certain younger age there isn't any room for reasoning. Sometimes the answer of "that's the way it is" or "because I said so" is what has to fly. There's no reasoning with preschoolers, kindergartners, or even first through third graders.
Scott
These things are the forerunners of the HK drones. Just wait till Skynet becomes operational.
Last summer when I spent a week in Wales most of the locals LOVED Budweiser (it was theor favorite import), and dimissed Carlsberg as awful. I became quite the fan of the Bitters over there. My wife loved Strongbow. I wish I could finds something comparable to bitters over here in the USA. The closest I've come is Fuller's.
You should be able to edit your /etc/apt/sources.list without any trouble. Change all instances of "breezy" to "dapper". Do an apt-get update and then an apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade.
"You there, revulcanize my tyres and fill her up with Petroleum Distillate, post haste!"
--C. Monty Burns
That's the first thing that popped into my head when I read that.
Scott
There goes half the fodder for Star Wars flamewars. No more Han shoots first...No more recasted Boba Fett...Aiiigh!
Frist p0zt?
I work as a schoolteacher in an affluent NJ district. The MIDDLE SCHOOLERS walk about with iPods, Razors, and Louis Vuitton bags.
Trust me, $300 for a neat robotic toy is nothing.
Besides, most folks don't even realize that the iPod is also an external HD. As far as they are concerned, the music (and now video) is the limit of its functionality. iTunes works like magic. You don't need to know any geekery pokery to get your music in.
As far as the Newt is concerned...That will never come back on its own. I still use my 2100 every day for book reading, quick note taking (please, no eat up martha jokes), and phone numbers. If it fit my pockets, I would still use it everyday.
I went to a Psion for a couple of months and loved it...Then one of the hinges started to go. Bye Bye Psion.
Now I use a Zaurus SLC1000. It's a clamshell with a keyboard and a bright tappable 640x480 screen. It's small, but razor sharp. It takes SD, CF, and Microdrives for storage plus has a fair bit of built in storage space. Heck, I went through this whole thread and no one's mentioned the Zaurus at all. I read, note, calendar, video, music, and game on it. I use it every day. Best $300 I every spent on a PDA....I've tried lots!
Newt 130-sold it to get Visor
Handspring Visor Deluxe-two cracked screens and that was that
Palm m505-sold due to lack of use (nicest looking of all palms)
Newt 2100-still use all the time, even on the www and get mail.
Handspring Visor Edge-sold due to lack of use, loved the size.
Psion 5mx-still works, one failing hinge
Zaurus sl5500-took the cheaper $100 plunge to see if I liked...hated the thumboard. Sold it.
Zaurus slc1000-Love it, love it. Daily driver. Want to get Newt emulator running on it.
"Nero fiddled while Rome burned..."
Burning Rome...Burning CDs.
It's a stretch, but it works.
Scott
I mean, if he stepped into a pot of gold...Hey great for him. I've been playing videogames since my folks brought home an Atari 2600 back in the day. (Yow....That's like 20 years ago) Now, I'm more ancient than this fellow and I certainly can't make a living at gaming even with 20 years under me.
I can see it now...Sitting in the Guidance Office, looking the counselors in the eye, and stating that college is not need because I am leet at CounterStrike.
Thank God the kid's investing instead of Viper-crashing.
Scott
AstroChase, BallBlazer, The Eidolon, Crush, Crumble and Chomp, Archon, Zombies and Realm of Impossibility, Telengard, Miner 2049er.
That wretched Tape Drive! The Carts rocked!
That company has money to burn on this. The previous poster is correct. "It's the games, stupid." The console is a loss, the GAMES are the $$ gain. It's like printers....Inkjets are cheap to buy (sometimes free)...The ink is the killer cost.
XB360 will not fail. Penetration into our kids' minds is too great...Plus, like it or not, they have Halo and KIDS (even old ones) LOVE Halo.
Now, if the console is like the DC, then I will look hard at it. I love my DC and use it almost daily. Bleemcast Gran Turismo is a lifesaver, and Metropolis Street Racer rocks.
Enough Rambling!
Scott
It is true for the most part. Any non geek puts in the CDs that the ISP gives them and away they go. Dialers, browsers, and other annoyances get installed as the cd has an autorun script.
Scott
Most of the lighter Linux live CDs could be considered "crippled" as they aren't as fully featured as Knoppix. SStrungis