Ya can't make an omelet without breakin' a few eggs!
YeHaw! Bang Bang! YeHaw!
Seriously though, I find all the letters to the editor mentality here a bit repugnant when I don't think I would be out of line to say that 99%+ of the people here use oil. Likely a LARGE portion of that use on average per capita more oil than the rest of the world. I would even go so far to say that MANY of the people posting right now, indignant about the spill, have actually burned some of the oil, BP took out of that well personally.
That would include myself. I try to have as little impact as possible, however even I have driven about 60,000km in the last 8 years or so, and that doesn't include jet travel, public transportation, or even electrical power put into the system from sources using oil as fuel.
Anyway it is a terrible tragedy, however it is like a fat man being indignant about the fate of minimum wage employees of McDonald's, while chomping down as many BigMacs as will fit in his face. Perhaps the fat man as little choice? Perhaps he is addicted to it, or is poor and that is all he can afford, or perhaps the regulation on food, or perhaps labor is at cause. However bottom line he is still consuming it in great quantities while screaming about the problem. It is somewhat crazy if you think about it. (BTW a car analogy is too easy here)
I was thinking of the detainee torture and killing, and the abortion thing, the corruption thing about access to governmental environmental contracts, and I am pretty sure I am forgetting a thing or two... Bottom line, is they have their hands full of damage control to worry about further pissing off potential voters with a law that will limit what people can do for fun (I.E. Movies, Music, etc..)
Sadly I agree with you that the Liberals are no better than the Conservatives. Their stance has been just as bad, if not worse as they are less honest about it. The NDP to my knowlege are the only ones that have a very well established opposition to this IP BS that the USA keeps trying to foist on us.
What I think is funny, is I would bet the percentage of Artists, Musicians, Directors, etc are NDP as higher proportional to the public. Heck the Bare Naked Ladies are spokesmen for them. So I find it really hard to believe that this is for the protection of those afore mentioned people. Anyway that's part of the reason I voted NDP so they have some political bargaining power at least. Which is why I am not all that happy to see a "Pirate Party" in Canada, as those views are already encapsulated by the NDP and they have a hard enough time getting votes without splitting the left any further!
"Canada Canada will remain on the Priority Watch List in 2010. The United States looks forward to the government of Canada’s implementation of its previous commitments, recently reaffirmed in 2010, to improve IPR protection, and is encouraged by the high level of cooperation between the Canadian and United States governments on IPR matters. However, Canada has not completed the legislative reforms in the copyright area that are necessary to deliver on its commitments. The United States urges Canada to enact legislation in the near term to update its copyright laws and address the challenge of Internet piracy. Canada should fully implement the WIPO Internet Treaties, which Canada signed in 1997. Canada’s weak enforcement of intellectual property rights is also of concern, and the United States continues to encourage Canada to improve its IPR enforcement system to provide for deterrent sentences and stronger enforcement powers. In particular, border enforcement continues to be weak. The United States encourages Canada to provide its border officials with the authority to seize suspected infringing materials without the need for a court order. The United States will continue to follow Canada’s progress toward implementing an adequate and effective IPR protection and enforcement regime, including its progress on actions to address Internet piracy and improve border enforcement."
Ya. We'll get right on top of that.
Though I am pretty sure our Conservative government has bigger problems than your stupid IP laws.
Seriously though if they are gonna grow anything on Mars they should defiantly grow weed. Call it Martian Green... (or maybe it would be red?)!
I have heard (not sure if it is just hippy propaganda) that hemp is one of the best producers of Oxygen in the plant world for the amount of space it takes up.
Last I checked the list was full of Korean Pop stars and Figure Skaters.
I would say that somehow S. Korea folks were really aware of this, and/or no one else cared.
I would say that "Time" hasn't quite figured out this thing called "Cyberspace" and perhaps their "Time" has long since passed.
I mean how many years ago was it when Stephen Cobare would join just about any internet voting thing, nominate himself, plug it on his show, and get bridges, space station equipment, and a variety of other crap named after himself. I think the ultimate joke was how stupid these "contests" were.
My personal favorite was up here in Canada where "This Hour Has 22 Minutes" a political satire comedy news show not unlike "The Daily Show" (predated it actually by many years) made fun of stupid politician (Stockwell Day) who wanted a referendum on ANY topic where someone could get 1% of the population to sign a petition. So they ran a petition on their website, and plugged it on their show to have a referendum about changing Stockwell Day's name to "Doris Day". They got the over 300,000 signatures they needed, proving that this was a very stupid idea. Gold, Jerry Gold!
What bothers the heck out of me is the fact that with the advent of HDTV for whatever reasons some technology seems inexplicably abandoned.
I have a PC. It has a high end LCD monitor and as such is 4:3. I have a HDTV, it is for watching movies, etc... and it is 16:9.
The MAX resolution of my PC LCD is pretty high at 1920 x 1200. However the max resolution of HD is 1920x1,080.
This means I have to set my PC resolution to 1280 x 1024 and then using software "stretch" 1280 to fit 1920.
I am using a ATI 1950PRO with dual DVI outputs and a DVI-to-HDMI cable.
Can someone tell me WHY with all the technology we have that I somehow cannot run, either due to the video card drivers or the OS (Vista in this case), two different resolutions on two different monitors? Am I the only one that thinks this is insane? How long has HD been out now, and seemingly no one has been able to figure this out? Also I seem to remember using stuff like Hydravision that essentially did this more than half a decade ago? What the hell is up with that?
As near as I can figure, unless the drivers or OS is changed somehow, my options are 1) Buy a new LCD monitor for my PC that is 16:9 and be FORCED to use HD resolution on my PC or 2) (and I am not even sure if this one will work) buy a second video card (and it would have to be legacy PCI as I only have one AGP slot) and run two video cards, one for each display... Of course, then what is the point of having dual DVI or TV-Out or any of that BS if that is what you have to do.
Anyway this is something I messed about with in frustration for awhile before I gave up and just settled on stretching 1280 x 1024 and using that as my default PC resolution. Anyway it seems silly to me that this cannot be done.
I clearly remember having a choice of going 4:3 or 16:9 when I bought my new system. At the time, pretty much all games only ran 4:3, and only a few 16:9 with the rest having kludges to make them work with wide screen. This being the case, my thinking was I plan on playing video games on my computer not watching movies on this thing... Now you would have to WORK to find a 4:3 aspect ratio computer monitor, as everything is 16:9 now, which is totally attributed to HDTV as that specification has nothing to do with PC's whatsoever. So ya, I feel the posters pain.
as I remember a time long ago, when manuals actually were the DRM!
Don't you remember having to look up chapter 3, paragraph 4, line 2, word 5, and having to type that word into the game as a code in order to play? Ah good times...
I also remember others would include "code wheels" or other like devices as DRM.
Heck I remember the most DRM part of the original Mech Warrior game was that it came with a keyboard cover and a list of what every key did because the interface was so crazy that every key on your keyboard actually did something for your Mech! I remember trying to use a photocopy that was so frustrating that I eventually gave up.
Perhaps they should drop their online DRM checking servers of FAIL, and bring back some manuals. Might work out better for them. If anything, ditch the in game tutorial...
They will however be able to tweak it so that ARM processors perhaps run better on Apple architecture further solidifying their strangle hold on certain markets, where other companies would have no alternative but to buy the same processors for their products even though they are not streamlined to use them like Apple. They could also give themselves discounts to make their constructed products cheaper and more competitive. They would likely have to tread softly to avoid any anti-trust complications however.
As far as embedded processors, there isn't much out there that I know of. VIA perhaps? Does Motorola still make processors?
Anyway a pretty savvy move by Apple. The only surprising part to me is that another big consumer of ARM processors hasn't already done so.
But seriously though, a smart move by Valve if they can pull it off. There is an untapped market for real games on Linux. They would be the only game (pardon pun) in town, and many/any linux user would likely be more than happy to fork over money for games that run naively on Linux, particularly given the cost structure and the slick nature of remote distribution by Steam. I would even go so far to say that many, having saved 100-400$ by not having to buy a Windows OS, would justify or rationalize spending more on Valve games, and this is "Free" money (i.e. they saved it initially, so why not spend it on things that are fun, like games).
So while "Year of the Linux Desktop" it might not be, it is certainly a step in the right direction, as well as a step towards OS parity.
In another note, it might be interesting to see if this effects netbooks. Steam has a lot of independents, and smallish, low horsepower type games that are really cheap. Netbooks can only install stuff via networks (generally speaking). So think of a netbook, running Linux, and Steam, and using that service to install netbook friendly games onto netbooks. An interesting combination I think. Particularly given the low cost nature of all the above... low cost netbook, low cost linux, low cost gaming... Definatly a niche, but perhaps a very popular/profitable one. Look at iPhones for example.
Interesting and insidious... I always just assumed that it was some important windows service/process and that the virus just named itself that to escape detection. Generic process name eh? Brutal.
Back when I used to run a pirated copy of Windows XP I used to get a particular virus all the time. What it did was mimic SVCHOST and use your computer, presumably as a botnet zombie. In some instances you would get a whole bunch of SVCHOST running. However the trouble was, one of those is a legit Windows service. Kill the right one, and you computer speeds up, kill the wrong one, and your computer grinds to a halt.
It sure sounds like they were trying to target that virus (years too late) and killed the wrong process. I remember after killing my computer a few time finding a procedure/method that would work online. However after awhile XP started getting so many viruses, it was just easier to do a clean install every few months. Eventually I got so fed up with it, I used Linux until I bought a new machine and bought a copy of Vista.
Anyway I remember the SVCHOST virus as it really used to piss me off. Many times you could just kill the process that was eating the most cycles as for the most part the Windows process didn't require many resources... however if you just happened to look at it at the wrong time when it was doing something and killed the wrong process... well not good.
I would suspect most tech folks have to some degree or another hoarding of old technology.
I know myself I have an embarrassing amount of crap I should throw away.
I think I have an IPC Pentium I 120Mhz system, a Dell PIII 800 system, and a custom built BP6 dual 466Mhz Celerons. I am sure other people have a lot more.
What is worse is all the crap that goes along with that. Cables, spare parts, etc... About the only rational for keeping them is because you still have the systems. Some of the stuff isn't even compatible technology anymore. I know I was cleaning out some of my Dad's tech junk telling him what to keep and what to toss, and was laughing at him for having 51/4" floppy disks still as well as an old serial keyboard, until I realized that I probably have a serial keyboard as well for my old Pentium system myself.
Some are curiosities, that are just unnecessary anymore, like a 4 port Hub NIC, or like an FM PCI card (FM radio for your PC!)... Probably worse is the hundreds and hundreds of floppy disks and CD's now, that I have absolutely no intention of trying to figure out what is on them all. Likely Pirated games from the mid 90's...
Maybe this spring I will try and dump the really old stuff like the Pentium and friends... The BP6 I got to keep around because it is still pretty cool, and can run a decent Linux still. I know a couple of years ago I went through my hard drives to see what was still working, and was surprised that some had died while not even in use anymore. However I remember I still had a tank of a HD, a 6GB fujitsu drive that just refuses to die. Kind of useless seeing as I can get a thumb drive bigger than that for like 10$ but whatever...
Understand, that was the line that was fed me. As I said my reaction was "what the hell are you talking about"...
As to your technical prowress you might want to fact check. I did use a monochrome built in CRT Mac, and I did encrypt my floopy disk. That was in 1993 I believe. That I personally know. The rest is second hand information that was fed to me to explain why I was getting suspended.
I don't think many teachers really understand the word. I got suspended from school for "hacking" and bringing down the school network.
I was in computer lab, which were all Macs, and not "Cool" Macs everyone has now, but the big square brick shaped monochrome screen macs. We had one PowerPC I think. Anyway I digress. So I was in lab finishing up an assignment, when I saw an option in the menu to "encrypt" my floppy disk after I had finished saving (as if I haven't dated myself already). Knowing what encryption was, and thinking it was neat that the option was available on the Mac I encrypted my floppy with a password to protect all my really important and top secret labs etc..
Fast forward to the next day. I get brought into the Principals office in the morning, and accused of taking down the system. To which I have no idea what the hell they are talking about.
Anyway long story short, my buddy that was sitting beside me, saw what I did, thought it was neat, and tried it himself. The differance being rather than selecting the "A:" drive... yes that's right he selected the "C:" drive. Encrypted the whole damn computer.
Big deal you say? Well this was back when people still used "Ring" networks, which required being able to talk to its immediate two networked neighbors to function properly. One of them now a lump of encrypted uselessness. Though in defense the system was set up by our Grade 10 math teacher, not an IT professional.
The guy also had no idea what he had entered for his password. Whole machine had to be wiped and re-installed. Which they also made me do as "punishment" after my suspension.
Why did I get accused? Because they basically said my buddy wasn't smart enough to do it on his own, and that I "enabled" him to do it. So ya... that's how I got suspended for "hacking" when I was younger. I would not be surprised if it is something as idiotic or more so in this case.
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Ya can't make an omelet without breakin' a few eggs!
YeHaw! Bang Bang! YeHaw!
Seriously though, I find all the letters to the editor mentality here a bit repugnant when I don't think I would be out of line to say that 99%+ of the people here use oil. Likely a LARGE portion of that use on average per capita more oil than the rest of the world. I would even go so far to say that MANY of the people posting right now, indignant about the spill, have actually burned some of the oil, BP took out of that well personally.
That would include myself. I try to have as little impact as possible, however even I have driven about 60,000km in the last 8 years or so, and that doesn't include jet travel, public transportation, or even electrical power put into the system from sources using oil as fuel.
Anyway it is a terrible tragedy, however it is like a fat man being indignant about the fate of minimum wage employees of McDonald's, while chomping down as many BigMacs as will fit in his face. Perhaps the fat man as little choice? Perhaps he is addicted to it, or is poor and that is all he can afford, or perhaps the regulation on food, or perhaps labor is at cause. However bottom line he is still consuming it in great quantities while screaming about the problem. It is somewhat crazy if you think about it. (BTW a car analogy is too easy here)
Semantics... If they were smart they would call it a "leak"...
Either that or they required more SCV's... (Starcraft Creative Visionaries)
god i hate myself.
First of all I am not sure why the "media" would have a campaign against gun ownership...
Second, the 90% figure was given by an interviewed senior ATF officer... unless they have a campaign against gun ownership as well.
Most of the guns were non-automatic Ak-47's and M16 types, and handguns all produced in the US of A.
I don't doubt the smaller percentage of fully auto, and milspec hardware were obtained from China or from the Mexican sources...
I was thinking of the detainee torture and killing, and the abortion thing, the corruption thing about access to governmental environmental contracts, and I am pretty sure I am forgetting a thing or two... Bottom line, is they have their hands full of damage control to worry about further pissing off potential voters with a law that will limit what people can do for fun (I.E. Movies, Music, etc..)
Sadly I agree with you that the Liberals are no better than the Conservatives. Their stance has been just as bad, if not worse as they are less honest about it. The NDP to my knowlege are the only ones that have a very well established opposition to this IP BS that the USA keeps trying to foist on us.
What I think is funny, is I would bet the percentage of Artists, Musicians, Directors, etc are NDP as higher proportional to the public. Heck the Bare Naked Ladies are spokesmen for them. So I find it really hard to believe that this is for the protection of those afore mentioned people. Anyway that's part of the reason I voted NDP so they have some political bargaining power at least. Which is why I am not all that happy to see a "Pirate Party" in Canada, as those views are already encapsulated by the NDP and they have a hard enough time getting votes without splitting the left any further!
I saw a show about the violence that has been happening in Mexico...
Guess what percentage of guns used in killings in Mexico actually came from the USA?
90%
OMGWTFBBQ!
"Canada
Canada will remain on the Priority Watch List in 2010. The United States looks forward to the government of Canada’s implementation of its previous commitments, recently reaffirmed in 2010, to improve IPR protection, and is encouraged by the high level of cooperation between the Canadian and United States governments on IPR matters. However, Canada has not completed the legislative reforms in the copyright area that are necessary to deliver on its commitments. The United States urges Canada to enact legislation in the near term to update its copyright laws and address the challenge of Internet piracy. Canada should fully implement the WIPO Internet Treaties, which Canada signed in 1997. Canada’s weak enforcement of intellectual property rights is also of concern, and the United States continues to encourage Canada to improve its IPR enforcement system to provide for deterrent sentences and stronger enforcement powers. In particular, border enforcement continues to be weak. The United States encourages Canada to provide its border officials with the authority to seize suspected infringing materials without the need for a court order. The United States will continue to follow Canada’s progress toward implementing an adequate and effective IPR protection and enforcement regime, including its progress on actions to address Internet piracy and improve border enforcement."
Ya. We'll get right on top of that.
Though I am pretty sure our Conservative government has bigger problems than your stupid IP laws.
Was this "Starter Kit" donated by Amsterdam?
Seriously though if they are gonna grow anything on Mars they should defiantly grow weed. Call it Martian Green... (or maybe it would be red?)!
I have heard (not sure if it is just hippy propaganda) that hemp is one of the best producers of Oxygen in the plant world for the amount of space it takes up.
Last I checked the list was full of Korean Pop stars and Figure Skaters.
I would say that somehow S. Korea folks were really aware of this, and/or no one else cared.
I would say that "Time" hasn't quite figured out this thing called "Cyberspace" and perhaps their "Time" has long since passed.
I mean how many years ago was it when Stephen Cobare would join just about any internet voting thing, nominate himself, plug it on his show, and get bridges, space station equipment, and a variety of other crap named after himself. I think the ultimate joke was how stupid these "contests" were.
My personal favorite was up here in Canada where "This Hour Has 22 Minutes" a political satire comedy news show not unlike "The Daily Show" (predated it actually by many years) made fun of stupid politician (Stockwell Day) who wanted a referendum on ANY topic where someone could get 1% of the population to sign a petition. So they ran a petition on their website, and plugged it on their show to have a referendum about changing Stockwell Day's name to "Doris Day". They got the over 300,000 signatures they needed, proving that this was a very stupid idea. Gold, Jerry Gold!
talk to me when they can replace a whole head. Now that would be something!
Swordfish... Only Nicholas Cage looks a lot like Wolverine.
What bothers the heck out of me is the fact that with the advent of HDTV for whatever reasons some technology seems inexplicably abandoned.
I have a PC. It has a high end LCD monitor and as such is 4:3. I have a HDTV, it is for watching movies, etc... and it is 16:9.
The MAX resolution of my PC LCD is pretty high at 1920 x 1200. However the max resolution of HD is 1920x1,080.
This means I have to set my PC resolution to 1280 x 1024 and then using software "stretch" 1280 to fit 1920.
I am using a ATI 1950PRO with dual DVI outputs and a DVI-to-HDMI cable.
Can someone tell me WHY with all the technology we have that I somehow cannot run, either due to the video card drivers or the OS (Vista in this case), two different resolutions on two different monitors? Am I the only one that thinks this is insane? How long has HD been out now, and seemingly no one has been able to figure this out? Also I seem to remember using stuff like Hydravision that essentially did this more than half a decade ago? What the hell is up with that?
As near as I can figure, unless the drivers or OS is changed somehow, my options are 1) Buy a new LCD monitor for my PC that is 16:9 and be FORCED to use HD resolution on my PC or 2) (and I am not even sure if this one will work) buy a second video card (and it would have to be legacy PCI as I only have one AGP slot) and run two video cards, one for each display... Of course, then what is the point of having dual DVI or TV-Out or any of that BS if that is what you have to do.
Anyway this is something I messed about with in frustration for awhile before I gave up and just settled on stretching 1280 x 1024 and using that as my default PC resolution. Anyway it seems silly to me that this cannot be done.
I clearly remember having a choice of going 4:3 or 16:9 when I bought my new system. At the time, pretty much all games only ran 4:3, and only a few 16:9 with the rest having kludges to make them work with wide screen. This being the case, my thinking was I plan on playing video games on my computer not watching movies on this thing... Now you would have to WORK to find a 4:3 aspect ratio computer monitor, as everything is 16:9 now, which is totally attributed to HDTV as that specification has nothing to do with PC's whatsoever. So ya, I feel the posters pain.
as I remember a time long ago, when manuals actually were the DRM!
Don't you remember having to look up chapter 3, paragraph 4, line 2, word 5, and having to type that word into the game as a code in order to play? Ah good times...
I also remember others would include "code wheels" or other like devices as DRM.
Heck I remember the most DRM part of the original Mech Warrior game was that it came with a keyboard cover and a list of what every key did because the interface was so crazy that every key on your keyboard actually did something for your Mech! I remember trying to use a photocopy that was so frustrating that I eventually gave up.
Perhaps they should drop their online DRM checking servers of FAIL, and bring back some manuals. Might work out better for them. If anything, ditch the in game tutorial...
Now you kids, get the hell off my lawn!
Good point, the fabricators would just tell them to piss off.
Still probably a smart move for Apple none the less.
They will however be able to tweak it so that ARM processors perhaps run better on Apple architecture further solidifying their strangle hold on certain markets, where other companies would have no alternative but to buy the same processors for their products even though they are not streamlined to use them like Apple. They could also give themselves discounts to make their constructed products cheaper and more competitive. They would likely have to tread softly to avoid any anti-trust complications however.
As far as embedded processors, there isn't much out there that I know of. VIA perhaps? Does Motorola still make processors?
Anyway a pretty savvy move by Apple. The only surprising part to me is that another big consumer of ARM processors hasn't already done so.
OK I said it.
But seriously though, a smart move by Valve if they can pull it off. There is an untapped market for real games on Linux. They would be the only game (pardon pun) in town, and many/any linux user would likely be more than happy to fork over money for games that run naively on Linux, particularly given the cost structure and the slick nature of remote distribution by Steam. I would even go so far to say that many, having saved 100-400$ by not having to buy a Windows OS, would justify or rationalize spending more on Valve games, and this is "Free" money (i.e. they saved it initially, so why not spend it on things that are fun, like games).
So while "Year of the Linux Desktop" it might not be, it is certainly a step in the right direction, as well as a step towards OS parity.
In another note, it might be interesting to see if this effects netbooks. Steam has a lot of independents, and smallish, low horsepower type games that are really cheap. Netbooks can only install stuff via networks (generally speaking). So think of a netbook, running Linux, and Steam, and using that service to install netbook friendly games onto netbooks. An interesting combination I think. Particularly given the low cost nature of all the above... low cost netbook, low cost linux, low cost gaming... Definatly a niche, but perhaps a very popular/profitable one. Look at iPhones for example.
Interesting and insidious... I always just assumed that it was some important windows service/process and that the virus just named itself that to escape detection. Generic process name eh? Brutal.
Back when I used to run a pirated copy of Windows XP I used to get a particular virus all the time. What it did was mimic SVCHOST and use your computer, presumably as a botnet zombie. In some instances you would get a whole bunch of SVCHOST running. However the trouble was, one of those is a legit Windows service. Kill the right one, and you computer speeds up, kill the wrong one, and your computer grinds to a halt.
It sure sounds like they were trying to target that virus (years too late) and killed the wrong process. I remember after killing my computer a few time finding a procedure/method that would work online. However after awhile XP started getting so many viruses, it was just easier to do a clean install every few months. Eventually I got so fed up with it, I used Linux until I bought a new machine and bought a copy of Vista.
Anyway I remember the SVCHOST virus as it really used to piss me off. Many times you could just kill the process that was eating the most cycles as for the most part the Windows process didn't require many resources... however if you just happened to look at it at the wrong time when it was doing something and killed the wrong process... well not good.
They are poking fun at radical Islam, not Catholics! Sheesh!
I would suspect most tech folks have to some degree or another hoarding of old technology.
I know myself I have an embarrassing amount of crap I should throw away.
I think I have an IPC Pentium I 120Mhz system, a Dell PIII 800 system, and a custom built BP6 dual 466Mhz Celerons. I am sure other people have a lot more.
What is worse is all the crap that goes along with that. Cables, spare parts, etc... About the only rational for keeping them is because you still have the systems. Some of the stuff isn't even compatible technology anymore. I know I was cleaning out some of my Dad's tech junk telling him what to keep and what to toss, and was laughing at him for having 51/4" floppy disks still as well as an old serial keyboard, until I realized that I probably have a serial keyboard as well for my old Pentium system myself.
Some are curiosities, that are just unnecessary anymore, like a 4 port Hub NIC, or like an FM PCI card (FM radio for your PC!)... Probably worse is the hundreds and hundreds of floppy disks and CD's now, that I have absolutely no intention of trying to figure out what is on them all. Likely Pirated games from the mid 90's...
Maybe this spring I will try and dump the really old stuff like the Pentium and friends... The BP6 I got to keep around because it is still pretty cool, and can run a decent Linux still. I know a couple of years ago I went through my hard drives to see what was still working, and was surprised that some had died while not even in use anymore. However I remember I still had a tank of a HD, a 6GB fujitsu drive that just refuses to die. Kind of useless seeing as I can get a thumb drive bigger than that for like 10$ but whatever...
Not quite. I saw on TV where the government caught up to a couple of people doing the exact same thing. Fraud and stealing from investors.
Ya, they got shot.
Madoff gets to spend the rest of his life in Club Fed. Not exactly the same thing.
However comparing anything to Saskatchewan you run the risk of people assuming it is boring as hell and stop listening to you...
"Hey come to Saskatchewan, we're, er, rectangle, and flat and stuff..."
Well I don't know what to tell you smarty pants.
Understand, that was the line that was fed me. As I said my reaction was "what the hell are you talking about"...
As to your technical prowress you might want to fact check. I did use a monochrome built in CRT Mac, and I did encrypt my floopy disk. That was in 1993 I believe. That I personally know. The rest is second hand information that was fed to me to explain why I was getting suspended.
I don't think many teachers really understand the word. I got suspended from school for "hacking" and bringing down the school network.
I was in computer lab, which were all Macs, and not "Cool" Macs everyone has now, but the big square brick shaped monochrome screen macs. We had one PowerPC I think. Anyway I digress. So I was in lab finishing up an assignment, when I saw an option in the menu to "encrypt" my floppy disk after I had finished saving (as if I haven't dated myself already). Knowing what encryption was, and thinking it was neat that the option was available on the Mac I encrypted my floppy with a password to protect all my really important and top secret labs etc..
Fast forward to the next day. I get brought into the Principals office in the morning, and accused of taking down the system. To which I have no idea what the hell they are talking about.
Anyway long story short, my buddy that was sitting beside me, saw what I did, thought it was neat, and tried it himself. The differance being rather than selecting the "A:" drive... yes that's right he selected the "C:" drive. Encrypted the whole damn computer.
Big deal you say? Well this was back when people still used "Ring" networks, which required being able to talk to its immediate two networked neighbors to function properly. One of them now a lump of encrypted uselessness. Though in defense the system was set up by our Grade 10 math teacher, not an IT professional.
The guy also had no idea what he had entered for his password. Whole machine had to be wiped and re-installed. Which they also made me do as "punishment" after my suspension.
Why did I get accused? Because they basically said my buddy wasn't smart enough to do it on his own, and that I "enabled" him to do it. So ya... that's how I got suspended for "hacking" when I was younger. I would not be surprised if it is something as idiotic or more so in this case.
Since when do they teach reading in school?
I envision the monkey computer scene from Zoolander as more likely.