They regularly sell for $3000 or more over MSRP, even when they are two years old with over 30,000 miles on them, you don't save much on gas unless you're in an overpopulated city with lots of stop-and-go traffic, and licensing is more expensive since the government feels they don't earn them back enough in gasoline taxes.
It doesn't have much for rear view mirror visibility.
I wanted one, but walked out when the dealer quoted one price, talked to his manager, and then quoted another that was $1900 higher. I got the 2007 Honda Fit instead.
"If you had access to the computer, could you open the doors?" "Of course. Why?" "Just wondered how good you really were." "Don't try and manipulate me, Blake." "Now why should I try and do that?" "You need my help." "Only if you can open the doors."
"I could open every door, blind all the scanners, knock out the security overrides, and control the computer. Control the computer and you control the ship."
Hitting the ball could result the batter scoring. Being walked does not allow the batter to score. A bases-loaded walk allows a score, but it isn't the batter.
Anyway, my point was that sports metaphors, howdoyousayit, suuuuck.
Best solution, is to wipe the slate clean with both houses and executive branch...no one in office can be re-elected....start from scratch.
Like there aren't more than enough corrupt politicians to replace them, i.e. the people that ran against them in the last election or in their primary.
Now maybe if you put a low enough ceiling on how wealthy you can be to hold elected office and that your only income can be your governmental salary....
Because if you swing the bat enough times eventually you'll hit the ball.
I don't follow the sport but even I know that's not true in baseball. The batter cannot leave his box, but the pitcher doesn't have to pitch to the box.
Now cricket, I admit to having no idea about whether the bowler has bowl anywhere near the batter or wicket.
And on top of those, make sure you run PeerGuardian Lite to block all internet police-wannabees IP address ranges.
That's probably less effective now as the RIAA is enrolling their own student narcs into targeted universities. That's their undisclosed methodology.
Some of the firms they hire to investigate file sharing may get their investigators hired at companies, giving them glowing references, just to put their people behind fresh new IPs from which to snoop. If it works for the CIA, it'll work for private industry.
if you whistled the correct tone, the call would hang up.
2600 cycles per second and the base essence of blue-boxing. A certain cereal had as a prize a whistle that if you taped over one of the holes it would generate that frequency perfectly. With proper usage you could get free long distance calls from any phone.
Don't try it now. It no longer works and the system will red-flag you immediately.
Since I knew he was going to call back, I also found out that if I continually pushed up and down on the, uh, what do you call those two little buttons on the cradle? -- the "hanger-up-buttons"?
Hookswitch. Tapping it rapidly can also be an alternative to pulse/rotary dialing.
My high school had a student phone that would not let you call any number that started with 0 or 1 to prevent incurring long distance charges, including operator-assisted calls. I figured out that you could dial those numbers first anyway by tapping the hookswitch, once for 1, ten times for 0. That's essentially what the dial of a rotary phone does. The lockout only intercepted the first DTMF tone.
The administration caught on and changed that phone. You can no longer tap the hookswitch to dial, it uses non-standard DTMF tones (so you couldn't use a pocket tone dialer from Radio Shack), and every call is logged on a printer in the basement... where any student could get to and read or destroy the paper record.
It even had a crossover with Simon & Simon "Fly the Alibi Skies" (Whiz Kids "Deadly Access" was first) which may be the only way to see any part of Whiz Kids on DVD (IMDb thinks S&S is coming to DVD in the US, but amazon.com disavows).
As to Albert Ingalls (Matthew Laborteaux), you should see Deadly Friend. Best movie where someone's head gets smashed in with a basketball. Final scene is your typical nonsensical horror movie ending.
He's apparently doing voice acting for animation now.
Also, the wardialer shown in the movie really is a useful tool.
Indeed, I wrote one myself, but quickly realized that sequential dialing was a bad idea, so I rearranged the last four digits to "avoid detection". I also found out that in my home town there were really only 3000 assignable phone numbers in the prefix, that a number beginning with 3 or 9 could also be called beginning with a 9 or 3 respectively, and that the system would allow you to dial 8 indefinitely. The town was also small enough that I could eliminate all published numbers.
The town was also small enough to not have anything of interest to connect.
And then there was that whole thing of dial/answer/hangup/dial again using an acoustic coupled modem.
Not that difficult. Just induce feedback on the line and the phone will disconnect the call and give you a new dialtone. At least that worked in my home town. It isn't infeasible that David modified his acoustic coupler modem to do that.
The novelization had it that a lot of his phreaking software and hardware came from Jim, and that Jim was really Cap'n Crunch. Actually, both novelizations had that: the regular (green title) and the Science Fiction Book Club expurgated version (red title) that eliminated the drug references but left in David reading a shoplifted book-by-same-author.
Or that, like in Jumping Jack Flash, after the first association of the text to the voice, the voice was in his head, even altering to be echoing in the war room, though not quite as magical as Terry Dolittle being able to hear Jack's voice when her back was to the screen.
I know that when I was sketching 280x192 pictures on green phosphor screens, I got to the point that those green pixels looked white to me. (Amber monitors never had that effect on me.)
The first six of them were produced for Showtime. Showtime ended it with the two-parter "Final Appeal" which was to be the end of the series. Sci-Fi picked it up and produced only season 7. (The episode "Think Like a Dinosaur" was previously an audio drama on the Seeing Ear Theater section of their website.)
For example we have seen the replicators pretty much wiped out unceremoniously.
Oh, I wouldn't count them out just yet. They've already been found in at least two galaxies (Milky Way and Ida, and possibly were the sensitive matter of the Asgard's in a "neighboring galaxy" to Ida), who knows if they'll suddenly show up in Pegasus or in the Ori's galaxy or some other one or attack from an alternate universe where they weren't defeated?
My usual Mozilla user settings has an extensive stylesheet that turns of many abuses I don't like, including fixed-width tables and resized 1x1 gifs. I prefer pages that size themselves to my window, not force me to maximize my window obscuring all other applications because the content got "centered" such that some of it is off-window to the left were you can't scroll to it (apple.com).
I have a second set of settings I switch to when I need to use something that becomes horribly broken with my stylesheet, such as Google Maps. I'd create yet another for the contest if I was entering.
Yes, I'm in favor of using MiB, GiB etc to end this confusion
So am I, as long as it doesn't confuse the steel industry and their units of kips (kilopounds of force (1000 lbs)), and the computer industry and their MIPS (millions of instructions per second) and KIPS (thousands of...).
Meanwhile, don't confuse the musicians. (1.36 million gigs? How many sets is that? And how many songs per set?)
Finally, to Stephen Colbert: Megamerican? Keep kicking it up and what do you get? Gigamerican, Teramerican, Petamerican, Examerican.
Shouldn't an employer have the right to fire a worker who wastes too much time online?
Unfortunately the system logging net usage does not attempt to correlate it to compiler usage, so it doesn't show that you were surfing while waiting for a 15 minute build and link to complete because a header file used by only 21% of the code had to be touched and you need the resulting binary to do testing.
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What's wrong with the price of the Prius?
They regularly sell for $3000 or more over MSRP, even when they are two years old with over 30,000 miles on them, you don't save much on gas unless you're in an overpopulated city with lots of stop-and-go traffic, and licensing is more expensive since the government feels they don't earn them back enough in gasoline taxes.
It doesn't have much for rear view mirror visibility.
I wanted one, but walked out when the dealer quoted one price, talked to his manager, and then quoted another that was $1900 higher. I got the 2007 Honda Fit instead.
"If you had access to the computer, could you open the doors?"
"Of course. Why?"
"Just wondered how good you really were."
"Don't try and manipulate me, Blake."
"Now why should I try and do that?"
"You need my help."
"Only if you can open the doors."
"I could open every door, blind all the scanners, knock out the security overrides, and control the computer. Control the computer and you control the ship."
Hitting the ball could result the batter scoring. Being walked does not allow the batter to score. A bases-loaded walk allows a score, but it isn't the batter.
Anyway, my point was that sports metaphors, howdoyousayit, suuuuck.
Best solution, is to wipe the slate clean with both houses and executive branch...no one in office can be re-elected....start from scratch.
Like there aren't more than enough corrupt politicians to replace them, i.e. the people that ran against them in the last election or in their primary.
Now maybe if you put a low enough ceiling on how wealthy you can be to hold elected office and that your only income can be your governmental salary....
That still doesn't mean he'll get to score.
Because if you swing the bat enough times eventually you'll hit the ball.
I don't follow the sport but even I know that's not true in baseball. The batter cannot leave his box, but the pitcher doesn't have to pitch to the box.
Now cricket, I admit to having no idea about whether the bowler has bowl anywhere near the batter or wicket.
And on top of those, make sure you run PeerGuardian Lite to block all internet police-wannabees IP address ranges.
That's probably less effective now as the RIAA is enrolling their own student narcs into targeted universities. That's their undisclosed methodology.
Some of the firms they hire to investigate file sharing may get their investigators hired at companies, giving them glowing references, just to put their people behind fresh new IPs from which to snoop. If it works for the CIA, it'll work for private industry.
if you whistled the correct tone, the call would hang up.
2600 cycles per second and the base essence of blue-boxing. A certain cereal had as a prize a whistle that if you taped over one of the holes it would generate that frequency perfectly. With proper usage you could get free long distance calls from any phone.
Don't try it now. It no longer works and the system will red-flag you immediately.
Since I knew he was going to call back, I also found out that if I continually pushed up and down on the, uh, what do you call those two little buttons on the cradle? -- the "hanger-up-buttons"?
Hookswitch. Tapping it rapidly can also be an alternative to pulse/rotary dialing.
My high school had a student phone that would not let you call any number that started with 0 or 1 to prevent incurring long distance charges, including operator-assisted calls. I figured out that you could dial those numbers first anyway by tapping the hookswitch, once for 1, ten times for 0. That's essentially what the dial of a rotary phone does. The lockout only intercepted the first DTMF tone.
The administration caught on and changed that phone. You can no longer tap the hookswitch to dial, it uses non-standard DTMF tones (so you couldn't use a pocket tone dialer from Radio Shack), and every call is logged on a printer in the basement... where any student could get to and read or destroy the paper record.
I understand why this is on slashdot, but CNN?
It even had a crossover with Simon & Simon "Fly the Alibi Skies" (Whiz Kids "Deadly Access" was first) which may be the only way to see any part of Whiz Kids on DVD (IMDb thinks S&S is coming to DVD in the US, but amazon.com disavows).
As to Albert Ingalls (Matthew Laborteaux), you should see Deadly Friend . Best movie where someone's head gets smashed in with a basketball. Final scene is your typical nonsensical horror movie ending.
He's apparently doing voice acting for animation now.
Also, the wardialer shown in the movie really is a useful tool.
Indeed, I wrote one myself, but quickly realized that sequential dialing was a bad idea, so I rearranged the last four digits to "avoid detection". I also found out that in my home town there were really only 3000 assignable phone numbers in the prefix, that a number beginning with 3 or 9 could also be called beginning with a 9 or 3 respectively, and that the system would allow you to dial 8 indefinitely. The town was also small enough that I could eliminate all published numbers.
The town was also small enough to not have anything of interest to connect.
And then there was that whole thing of dial/answer/hangup/dial again using an acoustic coupled modem.
Not that difficult. Just induce feedback on the line and the phone will disconnect the call and give you a new dialtone. At least that worked in my home town. It isn't infeasible that David modified his acoustic coupler modem to do that.
The novelization had it that a lot of his phreaking software and hardware came from Jim, and that Jim was really Cap'n Crunch. Actually, both novelizations had that: the regular (green title) and the Science Fiction Book Club expurgated version (red title) that eliminated the drug references but left in David reading a shoplifted book-by-same-author.
Or that, like in Jumping Jack Flash , after the first association of the text to the voice, the voice was in his head, even altering to be echoing in the war room, though not quite as magical as Terry Dolittle being able to hear Jack's voice when her back was to the screen.
I know that when I was sketching 280x192 pictures on green phosphor screens, I got to the point that those green pixels looked white to me. (Amber monitors never had that effect on me.)
Do you also have the WarGames RTS computer game?
I missed out on getting it and now can't find it anywhere, not even reviews on whether or not it sucked.
it ran for 7 seasons
The first six of them were produced for Showtime. Showtime ended it with the two-parter "Final Appeal" which was to be the end of the series. Sci-Fi picked it up and produced only season 7. (The episode "Think Like a Dinosaur" was previously an audio drama on the Seeing Ear Theater section of their website.)
I loved what they did with the new Outer Limits
You mean produce one new season which had two consecutive clip shows and re-cancelled it?
For example we have seen the replicators pretty much wiped out unceremoniously.
Oh, I wouldn't count them out just yet. They've already been found in at least two galaxies (Milky Way and Ida, and possibly were the sensitive matter of the Asgard's in a "neighboring galaxy" to Ida), who knows if they'll suddenly show up in Pegasus or in the Ori's galaxy or some other one or attack from an alternate universe where they weren't defeated?
And the Goa'uld still have Ba'als.
So says the Anus Wood Acronym.
Didn't Bryce Lynch invent the two-way sampler just 19 years ago and 20 Minutes Into the Future?
My usual Mozilla user settings has an extensive stylesheet that turns of many abuses I don't like, including fixed-width tables and resized 1x1 gifs. I prefer pages that size themselves to my window, not force me to maximize my window obscuring all other applications because the content got "centered" such that some of it is off-window to the left were you can't scroll to it (apple.com).
I have a second set of settings I switch to when I need to use something that becomes horribly broken with my stylesheet, such as Google Maps. I'd create yet another for the contest if I was entering.
It doesn't make the chips illegal, it only makes it illegal to implant them in a human. You can still put them on a human.
I recommend putting it in a tag worn on the shoulder.
I hate these filthy neutral nets, Kif! With tiered nets you know where they stand but with neutrals? Who knows! It sickens me.
... Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a hub full of neutrality?
What makes a net turn neutral
..at hugh hefner's porn server!
Not Larry Flint's?
Yes, I'm in favor of using MiB, GiB etc to end this confusion
So am I, as long as it doesn't confuse the steel industry and their units of kips (kilopounds of force (1000 lbs)), and the computer industry and their MIPS (millions of instructions per second) and KIPS (thousands of...).
Meanwhile, don't confuse the musicians. (1.36 million gigs? How many sets is that? And how many songs per set?)
Finally, to Stephen Colbert: Megamerican? Keep kicking it up and what do you get? Gigamerican, Teramerican, Petamerican, Examerican.
Shouldn't an employer have the right to fire a worker who wastes too much time online?
Unfortunately the system logging net usage does not attempt to correlate it to compiler usage, so it doesn't show that you were surfing while waiting for a 15 minute build and link to complete because a header file used by only 21% of the code had to be touched and you need the resulting binary to do testing.