You over estimate thieves. Ghetto banger thugs that are looking for a quick score aren't going to have an XP disk floating around. Second I DON'T RUN LINUX. I just stated that those should work for linux. I use OS X. No one is going to steal a MacBookPro and wipe it attempting to put Windows on it. Same with pawn shop, etc. People know what a Mac is. Not to mention I removed the DVD drive so you'd have to have a USB DVD drive AND a Windows CD.
And to the person below, yes I have a guest account enabled that allows you to do everything you could want. When it first boots to the login screen it has my name and then it has "Guest."
If you login to "Guest", Chrome and Safari launch themselves. So even if you don't recognize their icons, you should recognize a web page when it's open.
And if you DID have Linux, just install a basic XP on a partition, have it default in grub, have it login automatically and install all the crap onto that.
Maybe I'm paranoid. Or maybe I just really want to reign hell down on whom ever steals my laptop.
First, most thieves are dumb, they're not going to wipe it. They're going to sell it as fast as possible to get cash.
All of this is free and open source and should work on Mac and Linux, not sure how to create services in Windows.
1) Prey Project. An OSS theft recovery tool. Uses google geo location, web camera if it comes installed. 2) AutoSSH. I have an autossh run as a service that creates a link between my home router and my laptop. ssh -R 2222:127.0.0.1:22 home.example.com. So no matter where I leave my laptop, if it can get out to the internet, I can ssh into it from my home router. 3) OpenVPN. AutoSSH * 10. No matter where my laptop is, it IS no my home network. Leave it at a friend's house. 4) Keylogger. . I have a launchd (cron) set up to sftp me the log every day and then restart the log.
So now I know: 1) Where my laptop is and possibly have a photo of who is using it. 2 & 3) Can access my laptop and play fun tricks 4) Know exactly what said person is up to and when they login to gmail, facebook, etc. I have their passwords.
I don't want 'lists' of friends. I want an entire sandbox.
Right now I can say if friends can see my profile picture, albums, interests, or not.
I want to be able to set a profile picture, interests, etc for each group.
Right now the closest thing you're going to get is creating a whole new profile. My coworkers don't need to know I'm in an open relationship with my girlfriend or pictures of me on a Rugby tour.
If you didn't know your stuff, it didn't matter if you had every book on the subject, you didn't have enough time to complete the test.
Personally I programmed to study. I would write programs for my TI-89 to do everything for the test. However after writing out all the equations by hand, checking it against every possible way they could ask the question, verifying it with 5-6 different problems, checking everything again I had inadvertently memorized the equations.
It saved my ass a few times when I screwed up a sign early on.
At my company, for new hires: We meet 90% of people at Job Fairs. Job fairs are staffed by people in a similar position to what is being hired for. Engineers talk to engineers, Marketing marketing, etc.
At the end of the day all the engineers get together and screen the first round. People then get a go/no go selection for a 1-on-1 interview on campus.
If they pass to the next level, you then go interview on site with the people you will be working with. Usually the manager, another person in the group and another manager in another division in the building. They get together and make a group decision on the hiring.
Everyone has to go through HR and legal training, but you avoid 90% of the BS that I hear goes on with letting HR and business majors make the decisions.
Plus you get to go back to your alma mater with a business credit card and buy shots for sorority pub crawl.
My experience with golf carts is that they're great for inclines. You can park them on a hill and start it right up. It wasn't the fastest thing in the world and when it started losing speed it felt like I might not make it, but the torque just pulled it up and over.
And greatest thing about electric motors is that you don't need to spin your wheels. You can apply full torque at 0 rpm and pull yourself out of being stuck.
Second where the two photographers screwed up is they never had written permission to photograph/videotape the facility.
That's the point. They DON'T NEED PERMISSION. By default they have permission to film anything they want in public. Police, Rail stations, Nuclear power plants, etc. They just shot an e-mail off making sure that the security chief knew the law.
I'm going on a porn hunt I'm not a afraid. I got some good business partners. By my side. Oh. Oh. What do I see. Oh look! It's a Free! Advertisement. Can't go over it. Can't go under it. Can't go around it. Got to go through it.
Oh,oh! It's dark in here. I feel something It has lots of hair! It has... what is this! It's a tranny!!
Close the browser, back through the paywall, back through the firewall, lock the door, safe under the covers.
ALL AT&T cell phones I've used show this problem. I'm not sure if it's GSM or if AT&T is doing some trickery to make the phone think it has more signal than it actually does.
Sitting on the table, 5 bars. You try and text, call or answer a call, suddenly you drop to 0 or 1 bars. You may not even be able to complete the call.
After reading the Wiki: Originally Cingular Wireless LLC, a joint venture between SBC Communications and BellSouth, the company acquired the old AT&T Wireless in 2004; SBC later acquired the original AT&T and re-branded as "The New AT&T". Cingular became wholly-owned by The New AT&T in December 2006 as a result of AT&T's acquisition of BellSouth.
So Cingular (a joint venture between SBC and Bell bought AT&T Wireless), but still operated as "Cingular". SBC bought AT&T. And renamed itself "The New AT&T". Cingluar (With AT&T Wireless) was still being operated by SBC and Bell.
SBC (The New AT&T) then bought out Bell South. Meaning that the joint venture of Cingular was bought by AT&T, becoming an owned subsidiary. They then renamed Cingular to AT&T.
And remember, Bell South and SBC were both formed when AT&T was broken up for being a monopoly.
Once again, Apple didn't choose AT&T because they were the best. Back in 2006, long before the iPhone release when Apple was shopping around for a provider Cingular was the only phone company that agreed to let Apple have complete control over the phone AND agreed to upgrade their voice mail system to handle visual voice mail. AT&T bought Cingular out and honored the contract. It was a Huge gamble, but paid off. It could have easily flopped and AT&T would have been screwed out of the money they paid to upgrade their servers and such.
After the failed Abortion that was the Rockr Jobs didn't want anyone else building an "Apple" phone.
Rumors are that Sprint respectfully declined while the Verizon CEO basically a huge asshole in declining. AT&T even declined, they just managed to pick it up when the Cingular 'merger/buyout' went through.
So far the feedback from most forums is that it sucks. Build quality is all over the place. The touch screen is lacking multi-touch. (Different technology). Some people have had theirs die completely after a few days of use. The battery life is horrible compared to the iPad and it's running Android 1.6.
I don't think it's "cheating" if he's aware of it.
4. to practice fraud or deceit: She cheats without regrets. 5. to violate rules or regulations: He cheats at cards. 6. to take an examination or test in a dishonest way, as by improper access to answers. 7. Informal . to be sexually unfaithful (often fol. by on ):
I know it may come as a shock to most slashdotters, but some people are comfortable with open relationships, cuckolding, swinging, polyamory, etc. It's not for everyone, but relationships and sex are a HUGE gray area and not as black and white as the bible belt would like to make you think.
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You over estimate thieves. Ghetto banger thugs that are looking for a quick score aren't going to have an XP disk floating around. Second I DON'T RUN LINUX. I just stated that those should work for linux. I use OS X. No one is going to steal a MacBookPro and wipe it attempting to put Windows on it. Same with pawn shop, etc. People know what a Mac is. Not to mention I removed the DVD drive so you'd have to have a USB DVD drive AND a Windows CD.
And to the person below, yes I have a guest account enabled that allows you to do everything you could want. When it first boots to the login screen it has my name and then it has "Guest."
If you login to "Guest", Chrome and Safari launch themselves. So even if you don't recognize their icons, you should recognize a web page when it's open.
And if you DID have Linux, just install a basic XP on a partition, have it default in grub, have it login automatically and install all the crap onto that.
Maybe I'm paranoid. Or maybe I just really want to reign hell down on whom ever steals my laptop.
First, most thieves are dumb, they're not going to wipe it. They're going to sell it as fast as possible to get cash.
All of this is free and open source and should work on Mac and Linux, not sure how to create services in Windows.
1) Prey Project. An OSS theft recovery tool. Uses google geo location, web camera if it comes installed.
2) AutoSSH. I have an autossh run as a service that creates a link between my home router and my laptop. ssh -R 2222:127.0.0.1:22 home.example.com. So no matter where I leave my laptop, if it can get out to the internet, I can ssh into it from my home router.
3) OpenVPN. AutoSSH * 10. No matter where my laptop is, it IS no my home network. Leave it at a friend's house.
4) Keylogger. . I have a launchd (cron) set up to sftp me the log every day and then restart the log.
So now I know: 1) Where my laptop is and possibly have a photo of who is using it. 2 & 3) Can access my laptop and play fun tricks 4) Know exactly what said person is up to and when they login to gmail, facebook, etc. I have their passwords.
Sadly my laptop hasn't been stolen yet.
I don't want 'lists' of friends. I want an entire sandbox.
Right now I can say if friends can see my profile picture, albums, interests, or not.
I want to be able to set a profile picture, interests, etc for each group.
Right now the closest thing you're going to get is creating a whole new profile. My coworkers don't need to know I'm in an open relationship with my girlfriend or pictures of me on a Rugby tour.
Is also a great resource. With less ads, things broken up by chapter, examples, how to detect if something is enabled, etc.
http://diveintohtml5.org/
So... is this a 'real' instrument?
*This is at a Fortune 50 company with close to ~100k employees. So not all corporations are created equal.
We had open book tests in my engineering courses.
If you didn't know your stuff, it didn't matter if you had every book on the subject, you didn't have enough time to complete the test.
Personally I programmed to study. I would write programs for my TI-89 to do everything for the test. However after writing out all the equations by hand, checking it against every possible way they could ask the question, verifying it with 5-6 different problems, checking everything again I had inadvertently memorized the equations.
It saved my ass a few times when I screwed up a sign early on.
Future career: Outsourcing job manager.
Not where I work.
At my company, for new hires:
We meet 90% of people at Job Fairs. Job fairs are staffed by people in a similar position to what is being hired for. Engineers talk to engineers, Marketing marketing, etc.
At the end of the day all the engineers get together and screen the first round. People then get a go/no go selection for a 1-on-1 interview on campus.
If they pass to the next level, you then go interview on site with the people you will be working with. Usually the manager, another person in the group and another manager in another division in the building. They get together and make a group decision on the hiring.
Everyone has to go through HR and legal training, but you avoid 90% of the BS that I hear goes on with letting HR and business majors make the decisions.
Plus you get to go back to your alma mater with a business credit card and buy shots for sorority pub crawl.
My experience with golf carts is that they're great for inclines. You can park them on a hill and start it right up. It wasn't the fastest thing in the world and when it started losing speed it felt like I might not make it, but the torque just pulled it up and over.
And greatest thing about electric motors is that you don't need to spin your wheels. You can apply full torque at 0 rpm and pull yourself out of being stuck.
Good thing Pachelbel's estate isn't suing.
Although it would be almost amusing to see what the people push for extended copyrights do for a guy that's been dead for 304 years.
Second where the two photographers screwed up is they never had written permission to photograph/videotape the facility.
That's the point. They DON'T NEED PERMISSION. By default they have permission to film anything they want in public. Police, Rail stations, Nuclear power plants, etc. They just shot an e-mail off making sure that the security chief knew the law.
I'm going on a porn hunt
I'm not a afraid.
I got some good business partners.
By my side.
Oh. Oh.
What do I see.
Oh look! It's a Free! Advertisement.
Can't go over it.
Can't go under it.
Can't go around it.
Got to go through it.
Oh,oh! It's dark in here. ... what is this!
I feel something
It has lots of hair!
It has
It's a tranny!!
Close the browser, back through the paywall, back through the firewall, lock the door, safe under the covers.
ALL AT&T cell phones I've used show this problem. I'm not sure if it's GSM or if AT&T is doing some trickery to make the phone think it has more signal than it actually does.
Sitting on the table, 5 bars. You try and text, call or answer a call, suddenly you drop to 0 or 1 bars. You may not even be able to complete the call.
Command+Shift+4 When it brings up the selection rectangle, press the space bar. Select what ever particular window you want to capture.
With TinkerTool (or command line hacking) you can also enable or disable the capture of the drop shadow.
http://www.goodgearguide.com.au.nyud.net:8080/article/351651/12_most_interesting_unusual_useful_linux_distros/
Come on submitters, just hit it once before you hit submit, that way a mirror exists somewhere.
It's easy to see how one could get confused. (Video)
After reading the Wiki: Originally Cingular Wireless LLC, a joint venture between SBC Communications and BellSouth, the company acquired the old AT&T Wireless in 2004; SBC later acquired the original AT&T and re-branded as "The New AT&T". Cingular became wholly-owned by The New AT&T in December 2006 as a result of AT&T's acquisition of BellSouth.
So Cingular (a joint venture between SBC and Bell bought AT&T Wireless), but still operated as "Cingular". SBC bought AT&T. And renamed itself "The New AT&T". Cingluar (With AT&T Wireless) was still being operated by SBC and Bell.
SBC (The New AT&T) then bought out Bell South. Meaning that the joint venture of Cingular was bought by AT&T, becoming an owned subsidiary.
They then renamed Cingular to AT&T.
And remember, Bell South and SBC were both formed when AT&T was broken up for being a monopoly.
Once again, Apple didn't choose AT&T because they were the best. Back in 2006, long before the iPhone release when Apple was shopping around for a provider Cingular was the only phone company that agreed to let Apple have complete control over the phone AND agreed to upgrade their voice mail system to handle visual voice mail. AT&T bought Cingular out and honored the contract. It was a Huge gamble, but paid off. It could have easily flopped and AT&T would have been screwed out of the money they paid to upgrade their servers and such.
After the failed Abortion that was the Rockr Jobs didn't want anyone else building an "Apple" phone.
Rumors are that Sprint respectfully declined while the Verizon CEO basically a huge asshole in declining. AT&T even declined, they just managed to pick it up when the Cingular 'merger/buyout' went through.
Check DealExtreme.
So far the feedback from most forums is that it sucks. Build quality is all over the place. The touch screen is lacking multi-touch. (Different technology). Some people have had theirs die completely after a few days of use. The battery life is horrible compared to the iPad and it's running Android 1.6.
But it is cheap.
Not just that, Apple was asking for the phone company to upgrade their servers for visual voice mail.
Back in 2006 this was a HUGE gamble, Apple had never done a phone before. The iPod was doing well but this was new territory.
Jobs went shopping around and Cingular threw them a 'aww sure, what the hell'. It paid off 10 fold, but it could have easily gone the other way.
SABnzbd + SickBeard + XBMC + $10/month to a server of your choice.
The whole process is nothing short of magic, plus you can get back episodes if available.
Seems investors were fully charged.
I don't think it's "cheating" if he's aware of it.
4. to practice fraud or deceit: She cheats without regrets.
5. to violate rules or regulations: He cheats at cards.
6. to take an examination or test in a dishonest way, as by improper access to answers.
7. Informal . to be sexually unfaithful (often fol. by on ):
I know it may come as a shock to most slashdotters, but some people are comfortable with open relationships, cuckolding, swinging, polyamory, etc. It's not for everyone, but relationships and sex are a HUGE gray area and not as black and white as the bible belt would like to make you think.
C'est la vie.
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You can get 2TB for $90, (21.980437 GB/$). For this to be competitive, it'd need to cost $140.
DVCPRO HD is 40 to 100Mbit/s.
A 2 hour movie would be up to ~90GB. Say you shoot video for a living, you could easily take 10 hours of video a week.
So you're up to ~1TB for a week of video. Plus scratch disk, plus some extra clips. 3TB starts to get filled very quickly.