Businesses regularly "BOZO". They need help discovering where they have BOZOed. If he goes forward through all of this he may get a prized possession - an apology from the "boss".
With so much semi-private information available (all credit cards, bank accounts, eyc), it is a wonder that vendors and providers of credit use the stuff to identify their customers. How about a "better" way?!?
Now, this was MEANT to be funny - and I hope I don't get karmatized like last time - but it is an intriguing question:
"how do you enable a firewall on a built-in wireless card as you are installing Windows?"
1. cover your wireless router with firebricks (common bricks will not suffice)
2. borrow a well armored tank from your local National Guard unit, enter and close hatch - do not engage fire control - that is for another purpose
3. relocate to West Virginia and put your office in a mine shaft (economic enticement package is available)
I hope someone has some even better ideas. My humor is a little sour these days, since one of my best clients (and very good friend) got spywared, wormed and trojaned to the point of total system failure - causing him significant financial damage - at a time that his aging mother was hospitalized (intensive care type).
When the outlook is bleak, a little more dark humor is called for...
ps The solution, of course, is to pre-order SP2 on CD and disable ports & peripherals in BIOS. This begs the issue of whether this will be actually done by the thousands of technologically unsophisticated home users and college kids.
This is caused by the teachers' union, which colluded with various beaurocrats who were getting concerned about having too much to do.
Recent studies proved that giving free access tools to poor kids allows them to know so much more and to pursue sources of information based on curiosity that they become unteachable - at least by conventional methods.
Isn't this issue like so many other "illegal" recreational issues with an element which goes beyond societal norms? Consider similarities to porn, drugs, prostitution, gambling, bare-fist fighting, cock fighting, etc.
Hey, I'm sure some folks might be seeing "red". Deep breath, please.
Instead of the other "illegals", the norm violated may not be substantive in the eyes of many (similar to pot in some communities). The societal norm here (a/k/a "The Establishment") is the current system for delivering reasonable and proper remuneration to artists and creative folks and their producers.
While a bunch of folks are heavily involved in pursuing criminal prosecution of the illegal organizers/profiteers (the "bad guys"), another group or groups is involved in making public examples of the "users". Face it - without the "users" the problem goes away overnight. The "bad guys" are in it for bad guy purposes - to exploit for profit at expense of others. I am all for the FBI, state and local police, Homeland Security, CIA, etc to go after the "bad guys" and I can see some value in doing something to the active "users" group.
The prosecution of "users" seems unfortunate, but we do not seem to have worked out a better societal solution to "warning" vast numbers of potential "users" away from supporting the illegal activities of the "bad guys". Our society has a history of pillorying relative innocents - consider Hester Pryne in Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" - nothing much has changed in 300 years...
When we really understand why we do this as a society, maybe we can work out something better and it will change. My current opinion is that we won't in my lifetime...
Since I do not like what the RIAA IS doing, I just don't buy their stuff. I spend my money to go to a concert instead..
Of course, that is because you forgot the (ta-da-da-da-daa) FILING FEE. The FTC, as an ever vigilant arm of the fe(de)ral bureaucracy finds it necessary to obtain a filing fee to offset the huge expense involved in handling the thousands of complaints received every day. Without the filing fee thay are unable to defray costs sufficiently to actually DO SOMETHING.
Kidding aside, maybe we should pay them (to reduce frivolous complaints) a small fee - then we will know that they actually did something when they cash the check....
Having read thru the threads, it seems we should put all of the patentable ideas that we might have into an open central dated source. Publishing in this manner establishes a compendium of "prior art". To do this well, we should ask the examiners @ USPTO how to organize and link categories. Then we should have inventors and engineers tell us how it could be useful to them. It then becomes a centralized resource for examiners to review while allowing those interested in sharing ideas an effective resource.
See related topics: Ask The USPTO, Patent Generators, Make More Prior Art
Just want to add one - bait money: - stick low value money in your pocket along with coins - if mugged start to hand over the "wad" - "nervous" is probaby "ok" as it keeps to mugger's scenario - get clumsy - drop a few coins then the wad (be sure change hits the ground with ringing sound & let paper money spread out) - while mugger, distracted, chases the money, get out
If you have marked the money (specific marks or record of numbers), it can help police nail the case later.
Fight crime! As soon as you are safe, write down what you can recall, details. Take the time to do a police report!
I'm wondering if private enterprise could "claim jump"? I believe the commercial space companies could find a use for anything lifted pretty much out of the gravity well. Could it be maintained by robots?
NASA must be political by the very nature of its funding. Sale for $1 could lead to a second and possibly more interesting use.
My bet is that it is some guy who shorted the stock at $14 in November and needs it to fall below that to get his broker off his back. In that light, the $250,000 is a reasonable bounty for SCO to offer - since the stock is the only real currency they have. They need the stock "up".
I tried to short it several days ago - and my broker (Schwab) couldn't find any shares available to borrow. It is a really popular short. Too popular.
The problem with shorts in this condition (no stock available) is that you "borrow" shares from someone who owns them in order to sell short. If the real owner then decides to sell them, you have to buy at the current market and you get caught in a short squeeze. You can get clobbered - selling low and buying high.
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So the guy who figures out that hack wins a "Service To Mankind" Award. Look at you heating bill (if you pay one) and consider the value!!
Did the YAHOO who moderated this "offtopic" even LOOK at the PARENT?
I think I just read something from the new Microsoft EULA....
but then I haven't felt productive in decades...
Escapes me as to why either applies.
Totally, but my Karma is already bad because of an apparent lack of the necessary - sense of humor that is...
Just wondering...
When you know the answer, but forgot the question.
Businesses regularly "BOZO". They need help discovering where they have BOZOed. If he goes forward through all of this he may get a prized possession - an apology from the "boss".
That is even better than a 5+ moderation.
With so much semi-private information available (all credit cards, bank accounts, eyc), it is a wonder that vendors and providers of credit use the stuff to identify their customers. How about a "better" way?!?
Is there such a miracle fluid?
Is there an epoxy sufficiently heat resistant, etc so I could make a prototype?
Should I put grooves in the bottom of the HS to increase surface area and to enhance flow characteristics?
"how do you enable a firewall on a built-in wireless card as you are installing Windows?"
1. cover your wireless router with firebricks (common bricks will not suffice)
2. borrow a well armored tank from your local National Guard unit, enter and close hatch - do not engage fire control - that is for another purpose
3. relocate to West Virginia and put your office in a mine shaft (economic enticement package is available)
I hope someone has some even better ideas. My humor is a little sour these days, since one of my best clients (and very good friend) got spywared, wormed and trojaned to the point of total system failure - causing him significant financial damage - at a time that his aging mother was hospitalized (intensive care type).
When the outlook is bleak, a little more dark humor is called for...
ps The solution, of course, is to pre-order SP2 on CD and disable ports & peripherals in BIOS. This begs the issue of whether this will be actually done by the thousands of technologically unsophisticated home users and college kids.
and I was hoping someone would suggest a .spam domain where they can all get together
The Brownies were at work.. definitely Brownies.
Bhad tonghue..
Shorrie...
Recent studies proved that giving free access tools to poor kids allows them to know so much more and to pursue sources of information based on curiosity that they become unteachable - at least by conventional methods.
And we all remember conventional methods...
Hey, I'm sure some folks might be seeing "red". Deep breath, please.
Instead of the other "illegals", the norm violated may not be substantive in the eyes of many (similar to pot in some communities). The societal norm here (a/k/a "The Establishment") is the current system for delivering reasonable and proper remuneration to artists and creative folks and their producers.
While a bunch of folks are heavily involved in pursuing criminal prosecution of the illegal organizers/profiteers (the "bad guys"), another group or groups is involved in making public examples of the "users". Face it - without the "users" the problem goes away overnight. The "bad guys" are in it for bad guy purposes - to exploit for profit at expense of others. I am all for the FBI, state and local police, Homeland Security, CIA, etc to go after the "bad guys" and I can see some value in doing something to the active "users" group.
The prosecution of "users" seems unfortunate, but we do not seem to have worked out a better societal solution to "warning" vast numbers of potential "users" away from supporting the illegal activities of the "bad guys". Our society has a history of pillorying relative innocents - consider Hester Pryne in Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" - nothing much has changed in 300 years...
When we really understand why we do this as a society, maybe we can work out something better and it will change. My current opinion is that we won't in my lifetime...
Since I do not like what the RIAA IS doing, I just don't buy their stuff. I spend my money to go to a concert instead..
ps SMNO (def)- "sticking my neck out"
Of course, that is because you forgot the (ta-da-da-da-daa) FILING FEE. The FTC, as an ever vigilant arm of the fe(de)ral bureaucracy finds it necessary to obtain a filing fee to offset the huge expense involved in handling the thousands of complaints received every day. Without the filing fee thay are unable to defray costs sufficiently to actually DO SOMETHING. Kidding aside, maybe we should pay them (to reduce frivolous complaints) a small fee - then we will know that they actually did something when they cash the check....
Having read thru the threads, it seems we should put all of the patentable ideas that we might have into an open central dated source. Publishing in this manner establishes a compendium of "prior art". To do this well, we should ask the examiners @ USPTO how to organize and link categories. Then we should have inventors and engineers tell us how it could be useful to them. It then becomes a centralized resource for examiners to review while allowing those interested in sharing ideas an effective resource. See related topics: Ask The USPTO, Patent Generators, Make More Prior Art
On the shelf in my kid's room we have proof of the existence of prior art, it's called "Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon" - beep, beep to you too..
Very fine ideas.
Just want to add one - bait money:
- stick low value money in your pocket along with coins
- if mugged start to hand over the "wad"
- "nervous" is probaby "ok" as it keeps to mugger's scenario
- get clumsy
- drop a few coins then the wad (be sure change hits the ground with ringing sound & let paper money spread out)
- while mugger, distracted, chases the money, get out
If you have marked the money (specific marks or record of numbers), it can help police nail the case later.
Fight crime! As soon as you are safe, write down what you can recall, details. Take the time to do a police report!
NASA must be political by the very nature of its funding. Sale for $1 could lead to a second and possibly more interesting use.
My bet is that it is some guy who shorted the stock at $14 in November and needs it to fall below that to get his broker off his back. In that light, the $250,000 is a reasonable bounty for SCO to offer - since the stock is the only real currency they have. They need the stock "up". I tried to short it several days ago - and my broker (Schwab) couldn't find any shares available to borrow. It is a really popular short. Too popular.
The problem with shorts in this condition (no stock available) is that you "borrow" shares from someone who owns them in order to sell short. If the real owner then decides to sell them, you have to buy at the current market and you get caught in a short squeeze. You can get clobbered - selling low and buying high.
Don't go there on this one - too volatile.
If 10 of these were mounted on a backplane, what would be the theoretical net speed in comparison to a single CPU?
Could I start with 2 and work up?
How much energy (fans, power supply losses, etc) would I save if I could do this?
My HD and CD drives are about 25w and 10 on a backplane would bring me in around 100w or so. Or am I missing something important?