This just in! The American government has now banned anything and everything that a child could possibly fit into its mouth, including food!
In other news, the government has also banned anyone from saying anything that might ever be considered offensive by anyone, under penalty of death. Immediately after creating this law, since literally everyone was offended by it, the government died.
I just want there to be a multiplayer mode where you can play as a zombie! First thing I'm gonna do is bite that bitch Laurie, she's always whining and causing drama. And then Carl because it's a safe bet he ain't in the house.
I have a feeling this will be reminiscent of the HL1/Counter-Strike AI code, where you go up to an NCP, hit E to make them follow you. But when you're nearly to your objective (the farmhouse), you turn around to find that the damn thing is not there, so you double back and finally find him caught on a doorway running in place.
Top of their list: Tom Anderson of Myspace. He created a social networking site for the sole purpose that it would force everyone to be his friend. However, in the end, he has 11,781,293 friends, but hasn't even met one of them in person.
If I remember correctly, this is the same concept as the head that floats above a hard disk platter. My question is: If something fails or the computer is bumped hard enough, will this processor fan start gouging into the CPU die? Let's find out!
In the handful of companies that I've worked for doing IT, whether I left voluntarily or was canned, I somehow still have access to ALL of their systems. They took away some of my logins, but most of them are still intact, and the main admin accounts apparently never have their passwords changed. Kind of scary to think that they don't know and/or don't care, especially since I'm pretty sure I came off as the type of crazy bastard that would come back to haunt them if they pissed me off.
As it stands, I have full access to two large hospital networks, the local ISP's network, and a local major oil refinery's network. Kind of looking forward to the day that I have nothing to lose and go to town on all that jazz...
This highlights the age-old question: If you don't want people to play the song, why is it in the jukebox?
I've run into this while Rickrolling people in bars. They would glare at me, sometimes even go unplug the jukebox. Then they refused to give me my money back, and were unable to answer my above question. They kicked me out when I started singing it.
There are going to be a LOT of people refusing to keep paying when their 360 dies outside of the 1-year warranty, but within the 2-year contract. Good luck, Microsoft, this is just going to turn into another PR nightmare.
Whomever Newegg purchased the drives from is at fault. If a person has a HDD die under warranty, they can't necessarily run DBAN on it before they return it to the manufacturer for replacement. Definitely let NewEgg know that these refurb drives weren't refurbished very well.
If it were me, I would try and use the data on the drive to find out who it belonged to, and let them know what happened. If you file a complaint that you found someone's data on a drive, they really won't care and will just tell you to wipe it. However, if someone ever purchased a refurb drive and found my data on it, I would want to know so I could inspire some fear into the hearts of the manufacturer.
Give them the wrong password. Let them type it enough times to lock themselves out completely. If they get mad, tell them they must have mistyped it. Or, better yet, use encryption software that shows a completely different filesystem if you use a certain different password. They can't exactly prove you purposefully gave the wrong password.
I have one, don't like it. Some weird bugs such as wifi dropping, and you can't use Tomato cause DD-WRT is the only custom firmware supported. Used to love DD-WRT, but it hasn't hardly been developed in the last year or two, and there are some gaping bugs, such as DDNS and QoS not working.
Makes you wonder if the list included any or all of the current Dirt 3 owners. Could they be banned for using a key that was later posted on the innernet? Any Dirt 3 owners on here who could search the list to see if their key is in it?
There is one benefit to ISPs abusing their monopolies like this: It will help inspire people to seek alternatives, such as forming co-op ISPs to compete with the big bullies. I've been interested in doing this for years, but never thought it'd be feasible after seeing how others got steamrolled. Lately, though, it looks like those who never gave up are seeing positive results, either by being able to sustain a business and provide faster/cheaper service, or by forcing their local provider to compete with them and provide the same.
I for one am embarrassed to hear about how so many other countries are way ahead of us in terms of networking, and I've decided to do something about it. Either I'm going to actually try starting a co-op ISP here, or I'll just throw a drunken hissy-fit in the parking lot of my local cable ISP and probably get arrested. Keep an eye on the Montana news to see which path I take.
I worked at an ISP's call center for 3 years, and was pretty well known and liked by all (the exception of course being the management). Towards the end, I was pretty miserable, having testified against them in a recent lawsuit, and rather stressed out. By a stroke of luck, I managed to find a much better job. I didn't tell any of my friends or co-workers. Just subtly packed up my stuff, sent an email to the whole place saying, "So long, and thanks for all the fish," and left. I guess everyone was pretty shocked to see me go, but it was amazing seeing how many people actually got the joke.
Just do what I do: either have a dual boot setup with linux, with it defaulting to a squeeky clean linux install; or for those not wanting to dual boot, just stick a non-prompting Linux boot CD in your cd-rom drive. When they go to inspect it and turn it on, it boots to a Linux distro with nothing on it.
Has anyone ever met a TSA with Linux experience?:)
The survey also assumes that "kissing a co-worker" means kissing a co-worker of the opposite sex. I don't know about you, but in most of the IT Departments I've seen, they are mostly guys. Sounds like the survey should have also checked on how many bi/homosexual IT workers were counted in these numbers.
I'm not gay, btw.
There is actually a viable solution to this problem that will in fact take out several birds with one stone:
Rather than requiring websites themselves to verify identity, this process should be done at the user's computer! Yes, you heard me. We should require users to obtain personal licenses before using a computer and/or the Internet. Not unlike a driver's license, in fact.
If this were the case, then (1) not only will the user's age be verified, but their entire identity will be, too, thusly eliminating the need for typed passwords and other similar authentication; (2) you will have to go through training to use a computer, so not only will users' computer skills be improved, but people in tech support will no longer be plagued with such infamous situations as "it says 'to start, press any key,' but I can't find it" or "it said it was a virus but I downloaded it anyway and now everything is slow"; and (3) since the computer itself will verify the user's identity on the client-side, when the users visits a website that has an age restriction, the computer can simply tell the site that the user does or does not meet the requirement, so the website won't get to collect all of the user's personal data and effectively ruin their anonymity.
Check out Virtual Native Network.
"VNN is a platform which provides the peer to peer's transparence.
The peer that is behide either NAT devices or a SOCKS server can communicate with another peer transparently.
Also the applications run on the peer can ignore the NAT devices' existence.
Enter the world of VNN. Get over the lack of IPv4 address.
Construct our own convenient and easy-using VPN."
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This just in! The American government has now banned anything and everything that a child could possibly fit into its mouth, including food!
In other news, the government has also banned anyone from saying anything that might ever be considered offensive by anyone, under penalty of death. Immediately after creating this law, since literally everyone was offended by it, the government died.
And there was much rejoicing.
The anti-piracy advertisements are so misleading. I'm still waiting on this car that I can supposedly download...
You people still pay for computer and vidya games? What a bunch of saps! The last game I bought was Half-Life 1!
Am I the only one who's gonna say it? Fine then.
Fuck Florida.
Let them all die off as a result of their stupidity.
I just want there to be a multiplayer mode where you can play as a zombie! First thing I'm gonna do is bite that bitch Laurie, she's always whining and causing drama. And then Carl because it's a safe bet he ain't in the house.
I have a feeling this will be reminiscent of the HL1/Counter-Strike AI code, where you go up to an NCP, hit E to make them follow you. But when you're nearly to your objective (the farmhouse), you turn around to find that the damn thing is not there, so you double back and finally find him caught on a doorway running in place.
Top of their list: Tom Anderson of Myspace. He created a social networking site for the sole purpose that it would force everyone to be his friend. However, in the end, he has 11,781,293 friends, but hasn't even met one of them in person.
If I remember correctly, this is the same concept as the head that floats above a hard disk platter. My question is: If something fails or the computer is bumped hard enough, will this processor fan start gouging into the CPU die? Let's find out!
In the handful of companies that I've worked for doing IT, whether I left voluntarily or was canned, I somehow still have access to ALL of their systems. They took away some of my logins, but most of them are still intact, and the main admin accounts apparently never have their passwords changed. Kind of scary to think that they don't know and/or don't care, especially since I'm pretty sure I came off as the type of crazy bastard that would come back to haunt them if they pissed me off. As it stands, I have full access to two large hospital networks, the local ISP's network, and a local major oil refinery's network. Kind of looking forward to the day that I have nothing to lose and go to town on all that jazz...
This highlights the age-old question: If you don't want people to play the song, why is it in the jukebox? I've run into this while Rickrolling people in bars. They would glare at me, sometimes even go unplug the jukebox. Then they refused to give me my money back, and were unable to answer my above question. They kicked me out when I started singing it.
There are going to be a LOT of people refusing to keep paying when their 360 dies outside of the 1-year warranty, but within the 2-year contract. Good luck, Microsoft, this is just going to turn into another PR nightmare.
So this is a flashlight whose sole purpose is to shine on your flesh. I'm pretty sure there's already a product called a Fleshlight.
Whomever Newegg purchased the drives from is at fault. If a person has a HDD die under warranty, they can't necessarily run DBAN on it before they return it to the manufacturer for replacement. Definitely let NewEgg know that these refurb drives weren't refurbished very well. If it were me, I would try and use the data on the drive to find out who it belonged to, and let them know what happened. If you file a complaint that you found someone's data on a drive, they really won't care and will just tell you to wipe it. However, if someone ever purchased a refurb drive and found my data on it, I would want to know so I could inspire some fear into the hearts of the manufacturer.
Give them the wrong password. Let them type it enough times to lock themselves out completely. If they get mad, tell them they must have mistyped it. Or, better yet, use encryption software that shows a completely different filesystem if you use a certain different password. They can't exactly prove you purposefully gave the wrong password.
And in a power outage, you could partly power your house from your car!
I have one, don't like it. Some weird bugs such as wifi dropping, and you can't use Tomato cause DD-WRT is the only custom firmware supported. Used to love DD-WRT, but it hasn't hardly been developed in the last year or two, and there are some gaping bugs, such as DDNS and QoS not working.
Makes you wonder if the list included any or all of the current Dirt 3 owners. Could they be banned for using a key that was later posted on the innernet? Any Dirt 3 owners on here who could search the list to see if their key is in it?
There is one benefit to ISPs abusing their monopolies like this: It will help inspire people to seek alternatives, such as forming co-op ISPs to compete with the big bullies. I've been interested in doing this for years, but never thought it'd be feasible after seeing how others got steamrolled. Lately, though, it looks like those who never gave up are seeing positive results, either by being able to sustain a business and provide faster/cheaper service, or by forcing their local provider to compete with them and provide the same. I for one am embarrassed to hear about how so many other countries are way ahead of us in terms of networking, and I've decided to do something about it. Either I'm going to actually try starting a co-op ISP here, or I'll just throw a drunken hissy-fit in the parking lot of my local cable ISP and probably get arrested. Keep an eye on the Montana news to see which path I take.
I worked at an ISP's call center for 3 years, and was pretty well known and liked by all (the exception of course being the management). Towards the end, I was pretty miserable, having testified against them in a recent lawsuit, and rather stressed out. By a stroke of luck, I managed to find a much better job. I didn't tell any of my friends or co-workers. Just subtly packed up my stuff, sent an email to the whole place saying, "So long, and thanks for all the fish," and left. I guess everyone was pretty shocked to see me go, but it was amazing seeing how many people actually got the joke.
Has anyone ever met a TSA with Linux experience? :)
The survey also assumes that "kissing a co-worker" means kissing a co-worker of the opposite sex. I don't know about you, but in most of the IT Departments I've seen, they are mostly guys. Sounds like the survey should have also checked on how many bi/homosexual IT workers were counted in these numbers. I'm not gay, btw.
Oh, but let me add that anyone smart enough to know how to use Linux should be exempt from these licenses. Sort of like diplomatic immunity... ;)
Rather than requiring websites themselves to verify identity, this process should be done at the user's computer! Yes, you heard me. We should require users to obtain personal licenses before using a computer and/or the Internet. Not unlike a driver's license, in fact.
If this were the case, then (1) not only will the user's age be verified, but their entire identity will be, too, thusly eliminating the need for typed passwords and other similar authentication; (2) you will have to go through training to use a computer, so not only will users' computer skills be improved, but people in tech support will no longer be plagued with such infamous situations as "it says 'to start, press any key,' but I can't find it" or "it said it was a virus but I downloaded it anyway and now everything is slow"; and (3) since the computer itself will verify the user's identity on the client-side, when the users visits a website that has an age restriction, the computer can simply tell the site that the user does or does not meet the requirement, so the website won't get to collect all of the user's personal data and effectively ruin their anonymity.
Comparing buckets of water to the formation and orbit of spacial objects gives new meaning to the phrase, "I live in a giant bucket."
Check out Virtual Native Network. "VNN is a platform which provides the peer to peer's transparence. The peer that is behide either NAT devices or a SOCKS server can communicate with another peer transparently. Also the applications run on the peer can ignore the NAT devices' existence. Enter the world of VNN. Get over the lack of IPv4 address. Construct our own convenient and easy-using VPN."