Spyware is debatable, but we can certainly expect that some of the phonecalls made to, say, "Broter Bear" end up rerouted to,say, "teen young lesbian porn"
All jokes aside
The article mentioned infrared cameras. How long before someone finds something to cover the plate with, similar to the manner in which relective plate covers are used against regular traffic cameras here in New York?
I was wondering....can we have a celebrity deathmatch between Linus Tovalds and Theo de Raad?
And who would win?
I do have a couple of promotional logos in mind though.... Cafeshops Cafeshops, but check around you for [boss|superior|wife|kids]
Aw, hell, my carma's in the gutter anyway....
Also, with film, you can pick up an Ansel Adams negative made 80 years ago and make a print from it. How will archiving last that long for digital? CDROM? Isn't the lifespan of a CD only like 20 years at best? You'll have to keep updating your pictures to newer and newer media. They still haven't gotten around that yet.
I like On-Star for being able to have police/rescue know exactly where I am if/when my Airbag deploys.
GPS:
Please make a left turn. ...
Why did you not make a left turn? ...
Please make a left turn here or I will deploy the airbag repeatedly until a left turn is made
I have a friend who primarily uses his PC to surf for porn and download music, and does all that on a unfirewalled cable modem connection. So naturally, every now and then someone fucks his box up. At which point in time I get my ass over to his house, format the drive, and reinstall everything from scratch.
Then one day he asks me why this never(or rather very rarely) happens to me. At which point I came to a realization that I theoreticaly could lock his box down as much as I locked my windows box down(behind firewall, most services disabled, don't use IE, etc.) but then I'd end up spending a whole lot more time in his house unlocking ad installing things that he's probably going to need at one point or another(Flash, configuring ports for e-donkey, etc.)
Which brings me to a conclusion: If you're giving this PC as a gift to someone who's not as technicaly advanced as you are, don't even bother securing it unless they intend to keep some important info on it. You will be called upon anyway, most likely to reinstall it because someone sent them a screen saver that formated the C drive.
In any event, here is the 4-point challenge.
1. The target hardware in question is a Toshiba Satellite 1805-S204. (You can look up the specs on your own time.)
2. The distribution must ask no questions during install that my mother can't figure out. (I reserve the right to have my mother do the install.)
3. At the end of the install, my SMC2835W 802.11g card must be up and functioning, have negotiated a DHCP address and be active on the network. This means that during install I must have been asked for my WEP information.
4. At the end of the install, I must be able to put a commercial DVD into the DVD-ROM drive and have the movie start and play without skipping or stuttering.
WOW, his mother can configure WEP!?! I can't get mine to configure a VCR.....
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No, you're confusing it with a heart implant.
If you're hooked up to a fat pipe, but want mobility I was under the impression that immobility was the desired effect of a fat pipe...
...here at the Microsoft School for Better Busines Practices we use....
oh
wait
never mind
Spyware is debatable, but we can certainly expect that some of the phonecalls made to, say, "Broter Bear" end up rerouted to ,say, "teen young lesbian porn"
This will more than likely ruin a lot of teenage sex lives :)
All jokes aside
The article mentioned infrared cameras. How long before someone finds something to cover the plate with, similar to the manner in which relective plate covers are used against regular traffic cameras here in New York?
A large part of the planet has already lived through Animal Farm... can 1984 really be that bad? :)
Indigestable Chicken McNugget Protocol?
gniting flame war in 5...4...we have main engine start...3...2...ignition!...1...
This is ground control to major troll...
We need a new term for this kind of journalistic troll.
:-)
Troll de jour?
There are already quite a few lonely geeks with at least ONE Popye arm... unless, of course, they're ambidexterous
Karma go down the hole.......
I was wondering....can we have a celebrity deathmatch between Linus Tovalds and Theo de Raad?
And who would win?
I do have a couple of promotional logos in mind though....
Cafeshops
Cafeshops, but check around you for [boss|superior|wife|kids]
Aw, hell, my carma's in the gutter anyway....
Or, more importantly, scan the person next to you and check marital status and medical history :-)
Also, with film, you can pick up an Ansel Adams negative made 80 years ago and make a print from it. How will archiving last that long for digital? CDROM? Isn't the lifespan of a CD only like 20 years at best? You'll have to keep updating your pictures to newer and newer media. They still haven't gotten around that yet.
Negatives burn. Internet doesn't
Tried that....
My dealer said he prefers cash
Great....
A bunch of geeks with antisocial tendencies duking it out through the eyes of a buch of characters with SEVERE antisocial tendencies....
Something tells me that one of these days we'll see a headline stating: "Geek goes postal, chokes 10 lamers with cat-5 cable"
Isn't this the way those trashy love novels are written?
As a result, the only think I'm still comfortable with putting into my luggage is my underwear.
What, and risk losing my BSD boxers?
I like On-Star for being able to have police/rescue know exactly where I am if/when my Airbag deploys.
...
...
GPS:
Please make a left turn.
Why did you not make a left turn?
Please make a left turn here or I will deploy the airbag repeatedly until a left turn is made
I have a friend who primarily uses his PC to surf for porn and download music, and does all that on a unfirewalled cable modem connection. So naturally, every now and then someone fucks his box up. At which point in time I get my ass over to his house, format the drive, and reinstall everything from scratch.
Then one day he asks me why this never(or rather very rarely) happens to me. At which point I came to a realization that I theoreticaly could lock his box down as much as I locked my windows box down(behind firewall, most services disabled, don't use IE, etc.) but then I'd end up spending a whole lot more time in his house unlocking ad installing things that he's probably going to need at one point or another(Flash, configuring ports for e-donkey, etc.)
Which brings me to a conclusion: If you're giving this PC as a gift to someone who's not as technicaly advanced as you are, don't even bother securing it unless they intend to keep some important info on it. You will be called upon anyway, most likely to reinstall it because someone sent them a screen saver that formated the C drive.
And here I was thinking that I'm gonna get my daily SCO fix....
I wonder how many slashdotters immediately stopped reading after realizing this is not about SCO?
Hmm...
:-)
I thought that memories of the first kiss and of the first computer were mutually exclusive.
That is... if you have long-term memories of owning a computer, the memory of the first kiss is probably still recent....
I always found this rather ironic.... penis enlargement emails coming FROM China.....
In the words of John Cleese: "Oh well.. you'll laugh later"
In any event, here is the 4-point challenge.
1. The target hardware in question is a Toshiba Satellite 1805-S204. (You can look up the specs on your own time.)
2. The distribution must ask no questions during install that my mother can't figure out. (I reserve the right to have my mother do the install.)
3. At the end of the install, my SMC2835W 802.11g card must be up and functioning, have negotiated a DHCP address and be active on the network. This means that during install I must have been asked for my WEP information.
4. At the end of the install, I must be able to put a commercial DVD into the DVD-ROM drive and have the movie start and play without skipping or stuttering.
WOW, his mother can configure WEP!?! I can't get mine to configure a VCR.....
Time was, Big Red defined networking.
Yeah, we're still cleaning up the remainders of this "definition"