One fellow did this to me three times in the same week. The first two times I merely changed the password and deactivated the account with a quickness. When it happened a third time, I figured I'd teach him a lesson. I let him add all his high-school friends, family and co-workers at the ice-cream parlor over the next week or two, then changed the password, Goatse'd his profile, and sent notices out to all of them. "If little Johnny Junior would like a Facebook account, tell him to get his own. This one is attached to my email address.". I let it sink in for a couple days before putting the kibosh on it.
Johnny's dad was amused and sent me an apology. It seems that Johnny Senior had signed up for a super-spammy dating site with my email address some years ago and I'd Goatse'd his profile in response.
When the port (or a railroad) accepts the container, it comes with a shipper certified weight attached to it in the computer. In rare cases the railroad or port will 'fudge' the weight closer to reality, reweigh it, or hold it for inspection. I'd say if you had a slightly overweight container you could get away with it 99.99% of the time.
I had to support a manufacturing company 15 years ago that was using (at the time) 15-20 year old gear. I did it by scavenging and making it myself. Robot needs a new SSDD floppy drive? Flea market Commodore. RAM in the Soviet S100 clone going bad? Take apart a broken synth. Winchester drive controller going tits up? Drive around and look at all the junk bins of every computer shop in the county. Need to move a bit of kit but now the non-standard 45-pin cable is too short? Clip the ends off and Radio Shack them to RS-232. I also swapped a lot of gear around; The DOS machine that was used to program one robot was gradually upgraded from an 8088 machine to a 486 as I stole parts from it to keep the CP/M-86 one running.
The other thing I did a lot of was preventative maintenance. Blow out the dust, check the power supply, clean the disc drive, make sure everything is well seated. Switches got lubed, cables checked for faults, and media replaced.
I've done jobs that required me to carry a non-camera phone. Simply proving that the camera was non-functional was good enough to keep my shiny smart-phone. Remove the back panel, apply a bit of electrical tape between the camera module and the external cover and Bob's your uncle.
The worst I ever had to do was take apart the vendor firmware and replace the camera binary with another application, then fudge a checksum somewhere and document the entire process. That company was super paranoid, but it saved me carrying a WinCE PDA, Palm PDA, three cables and a dumb-phone, plus chargers for each of them.
Just wipe the camera APK in a provable way and tell them to shove off.
Clarkson and May were both automotive print journalists and reviewers/presenters on the old, more serious 'Top Gear', and Hammond was a professional radio and TV host, including a stint on 'Motor Week'.
In addition, they're all giant children.
So yes, they're all experts at what they do; Talk about cars and act like children on television.
I saw a lot of that at one job, though I can't blame HR or management. I know IT was being CC'd on firings/layoffs/etc, they just never did anything about it.
One employee quit to pursue a college degree. When he returned three years later, his uid/pass still worked. Another, a friend of mine, supplied me with his user/pass on the way to retirement; It worked five years later, and probably still works now, ten years on.
Hmm. Maybe you're right. I looked around for some numbers, and it looks like it took Microsoft nearly three years to take 20% with Vista. Win7 is currently at 19% after only one year.
They've seen the horrible uptake numbers from Vista continue with Windows 7.
Step 1. Convince everyone to get behind the idea of black-holing insecure or infected machines. Step 2. End support for all versions of Windows other than the current. Step 3. Wait for a new remote vulnerability in older versions. Step 4. Refuse to patch the issue. Step 5. Profit as everyone either has to buy a new PC or a newer operating system to access the internet.
Just think about it. Something like two thirds of machines running a Microsoft operating system are still running the end-of-life Windows XP.
A friend of mine who taught at a community college actually did this back in the mid 90s. He took a copy of Nowhere Man's Virus Creation Lab and tossed together a couple annoying but non-destructive viruses and infected a few stand alone machines for the students to play with.
You can probably still find VCL out there, or a more modern DIY virus kit. Though with the new ones, I'm not sure I would trust they don't have any hidden functionality.
Well, it *was* identical spec when new. The case has been missing since the late '90's, the 8088 is now a NEC V20, the clock speed is now ~17MHz, and the parallel port has a resistor based DAC free-soldered onto it, but it still runs. I use a single density 3 1/2 floppy to boot FreeDOS and then run a terminal emulator, though it has also run Minix, Xenix and Linux over the years.
If you have trouble getting FreeDOS to run, I still have the original EPSON DOS disk images somewhere.
Do what I do. Drive something nice and old. The cost to run is higher, but depreciation is zero.
Here's an example. 1980's Porsche 928, with a little shopping you can get one for under $8000 with 20K on the odometer. I can drive it 50K miles over the next five years and still sell it for $8000, with the only likely mechanical costs being brakes and tires.
Now here's the problem in the calculation. Car round trip in heavy traffic is about an hour, and depending on the day the bus can take anywhere from 2:30 to 3:15 to cover the same 40 miles.
That's 390-585 hours per year to save $320.
Until the prevailing wage falls to 50 cents an hour, no thanks.
Ran the calculation for my wife as well. If she were able to take a bus instead of driving, she'd waste only 195 hours per year, but public transportation would save her -$18.
He was here for a couple months. Sometime in the middle of February I managed to get him with with a single post containing tubgirl, goatse, and the giver; He went blind.
Glad to see he's finally gotten the hang of his Braille screen reader at least.
Crafted and technological art are sold under different terms. Things like his silversmith pal produces are typically not works for hire like the Tesla body design.
DFI never sold these motherboard models, (In your case, the 'jeweler' did.) and doesn't contract out to have other companies design and make boards for them. (In your case, the 'jeweler' did.)
So no. The friends that bought them were doing something more like "Oh, I know this fab designer and picked up one of his originals for £30!" instead of "I bought this £90 chunk of crap they told me 'jeweler' sells for £120, but they don't and it's actually worth only £15!"
If it's 'new' I wouldn't take the gamble at all. Make the dealer do it, warranties suck.
Older car? Wire size has no match on reality.
Speaking as the owner or mechanic of (over my life, by starting year) of a 1959-1961 MG, 1961-1964 Triumph, 1968-1975 and 1977 Mercedes Benz, 1969-1974 Opel, 1972-1974 AMC Eagle, a 1977 AMC Jeep Cherokee, 1977 and 1979 Chevrolet Camaro, 1980-1985 and 1989 Ford truck, 1991-1993 and 1996 Ford sedan, 1992-1996 Volkswagen, and 1998 GMC truck:
Fuse rating has zero match with wire gauge and expected circuit load. I have never seen a 5A fuse I could not replace with a 10A fuse, even if it ran around, next to, and then wrapped around the weakest rubber line in my fuel system five times.
Anything rated for less than 15A is probably the same wire in my experience, model to model, unless:
1: It's the ignition line on any car with a Bosch or Lucas ignition system, which may have resistive wire of smaller gauge than would be expected. If it has a normal wire, it has a huge ceramic resistor on the coil most of the time. If you have a Bosch distributor with points, go see a Volkswagen mechanic for extra horsepower and mileage switching to a full voltage coil, Pertronix system to replace the points, and a Porsche 914/6 rotor to keep you from too much fun. Lucas owners, you're lucky it still starts. Repeat after me: 'Exhalted is thee, Lucas, Prince of Darkness. For thee hast given me the two position switch with three settings, they be off, on, and smoking. Let my bulbs last longer than a thousand miles, and let my generator always furnish nine to fifteen of the required volts. In your name, God Lucas, Amen.' 2: It belongs to the computer or airbag on a Ford, GM or Chrysler post 1987/1988, in which case it will be too large for the fuse by one gauge. 3: It powers the lighting, auxiliary or AC on a Mercedes before 1982-ish. Daimler Benz sold so many different light configurations, power interior packages, and AC packages all over the world that they planned for the worst gauge required in the harness and shrunk the fuse rating. In many of the 1960's models the AC fuse was reused for other things. 4: It is the optional fuse of any American Motors or Jeep product made in their name. They came with no fuse installed in the box, and wire runs through the firewall to the bumper would support a 20A load for the dealer installed lighting packages easily. 5: Power seat fuses on the Ford Escort/Mercury Topaz and Ford full-size sedans were always too large for their wiring.
You forget that Detroit at least has the bad habit of wiring up almost everything with the same wire gauge. The 15A fuse connected to the fuel pump, the 10A fuse that runs the signals, and the 5A fuse for the radio are probably all connected to the same wire gauge.
WTF is it with Fred Thompson, anyway?? You keep seeing the media ranting about how he's "the new Ronald Reagan", but he seems to entirely lack Reagan's charisma (and charisma was pretty much Reagan's only strong point).
Reagan seems to have morphed from 'the doddering old guy who gave us Reaganomics, the Star Wars space laser, Just Say No to Drugs, Uniboob, and Saddam Hussein' to 'SuperConservativeMan! Tax cuts for the wealthy will crush our enemies with prayer in the schools!!'... Which seems to be Fred Thompson's schtick.
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The largest container is 53 feet long. The largest common size is 40/45. So no, not going to fit.
Microsoft is already charging for Android, in that they say 'Pay us license fees per handset or we sue' and actually get it from 60% of them?
Do you honestly think that, at a 100% payment rate, they'll charge more per handset?
One fellow did this to me three times in the same week. The first two times I merely changed the password and deactivated the account with a quickness. When it happened a third time, I figured I'd teach him a lesson. I let him add all his high-school friends, family and co-workers at the ice-cream parlor over the next week or two, then changed the password, Goatse'd his profile, and sent notices out to all of them. "If little Johnny Junior would like a Facebook account, tell him to get his own. This one is attached to my email address.". I let it sink in for a couple days before putting the kibosh on it.
Johnny's dad was amused and sent me an apology. It seems that Johnny Senior had signed up for a super-spammy dating site with my email address some years ago and I'd Goatse'd his profile in response.
They do operate on the honor system, basically.
When the port (or a railroad) accepts the container, it comes with a shipper certified weight attached to it in the computer. In rare cases the railroad or port will 'fudge' the weight closer to reality, reweigh it, or hold it for inspection. I'd say if you had a slightly overweight container you could get away with it 99.99% of the time.
I had to support a manufacturing company 15 years ago that was using (at the time) 15-20 year old gear. I did it by scavenging and making it myself. Robot needs a new SSDD floppy drive? Flea market Commodore. RAM in the Soviet S100 clone going bad? Take apart a broken synth. Winchester drive controller going tits up? Drive around and look at all the junk bins of every computer shop in the county. Need to move a bit of kit but now the non-standard 45-pin cable is too short? Clip the ends off and Radio Shack them to RS-232. I also swapped a lot of gear around; The DOS machine that was used to program one robot was gradually upgraded from an 8088 machine to a 486 as I stole parts from it to keep the CP/M-86 one running.
The other thing I did a lot of was preventative maintenance. Blow out the dust, check the power supply, clean the disc drive, make sure everything is well seated. Switches got lubed, cables checked for faults, and media replaced.
I've done jobs that required me to carry a non-camera phone. Simply proving that the camera was non-functional was good enough to keep my shiny smart-phone. Remove the back panel, apply a bit of electrical tape between the camera module and the external cover and Bob's your uncle.
The worst I ever had to do was take apart the vendor firmware and replace the camera binary with another application, then fudge a checksum somewhere and document the entire process. That company was super paranoid, but it saved me carrying a WinCE PDA, Palm PDA, three cables and a dumb-phone, plus chargers for each of them.
Just wipe the camera APK in a provable way and tell them to shove off.
So what do you think about fitting power brakes to a MG TD?
Superinjunctions and libel tourism seem to say otherwise.
Clarkson and May were both automotive print journalists and reviewers/presenters on the old, more serious 'Top Gear', and Hammond was a professional radio and TV host, including a stint on 'Motor Week'.
In addition, they're all giant children.
So yes, they're all experts at what they do; Talk about cars and act like children on television.
I saw a lot of that at one job, though I can't blame HR or management. I know IT was being CC'd on firings/layoffs/etc, they just never did anything about it.
One employee quit to pursue a college degree. When he returned three years later, his uid/pass still worked. Another, a friend of mine, supplied me with his user/pass on the way to retirement; It worked five years later, and probably still works now, ten years on.
Hmm. Maybe you're right. I looked around for some numbers, and it looks like it took Microsoft nearly three years to take 20% with Vista. Win7 is currently at 19% after only one year.
They've seen the horrible uptake numbers from Vista continue with Windows 7.
Step 1. Convince everyone to get behind the idea of black-holing insecure or infected machines.
Step 2. End support for all versions of Windows other than the current.
Step 3. Wait for a new remote vulnerability in older versions.
Step 4. Refuse to patch the issue.
Step 5. Profit as everyone either has to buy a new PC or a newer operating system to access the internet.
Just think about it. Something like two thirds of machines running a Microsoft operating system are still running the end-of-life Windows XP.
A friend of mine who taught at a community college actually did this back in the mid 90s. He took a copy of Nowhere Man's Virus Creation Lab and tossed together a couple annoying but non-destructive viruses and infected a few stand alone machines for the students to play with.
You can probably still find VCL out there, or a more modern DIY virus kit. Though with the new ones, I'm not sure I would trust they don't have any hidden functionality.
Why not just get him an antique? Kiddo can't hose the OS install on a Apple II or a Commodore 64, and they're pretty indestructible.
At $20-40 on eBay, they're cheap too.
Well, it *was* identical spec when new. The case has been missing since the late '90's, the 8088 is now a NEC V20, the clock speed is now ~17MHz, and the parallel port has a resistor based DAC free-soldered onto it, but it still runs. I use a single density 3 1/2 floppy to boot FreeDOS and then run a terminal emulator, though it has also run Minix, Xenix and Linux over the years.
If you have trouble getting FreeDOS to run, I still have the original EPSON DOS disk images somewhere.
Do what I do. Drive something nice and old. The cost to run is higher, but depreciation is zero.
Here's an example. 1980's Porsche 928, with a little shopping you can get one for under $8000 with 20K on the odometer. I can drive it 50K miles over the next five years and still sell it for $8000, with the only likely mechanical costs being brakes and tires.
Now here's the problem in the calculation. Car round trip in heavy traffic is about an hour, and depending on the day the bus can take anywhere from 2:30 to 3:15 to cover the same 40 miles.
That's 390-585 hours per year to save $320.
Until the prevailing wage falls to 50 cents an hour, no thanks.
Ran the calculation for my wife as well. If she were able to take a bus instead of driving, she'd waste only 195 hours per year, but public transportation would save her -$18.
He was here for a couple months. Sometime in the middle of February I managed to get him with with a single post containing tubgirl, goatse, and the giver; He went blind.
Glad to see he's finally gotten the hang of his Braille screen reader at least.
Crafted and technological art are sold under different terms. Things like his silversmith pal produces are typically not works for hire like the Tesla body design.
DFI never sold these motherboard models, (In your case, the 'jeweler' did.) and doesn't contract out to have other companies design and make boards for them. (In your case, the 'jeweler' did.)
So no. The friends that bought them were doing something more like "Oh, I know this fab designer and picked up one of his originals for £30!" instead of "I bought this £90 chunk of crap they told me 'jeweler' sells for £120, but they don't and it's actually worth only £15!"
If it's 'new' I wouldn't take the gamble at all. Make the dealer do it, warranties suck.
Older car? Wire size has no match on reality.
Speaking as the owner or mechanic of (over my life, by starting year) of a 1959-1961 MG, 1961-1964 Triumph, 1968-1975 and 1977 Mercedes Benz, 1969-1974 Opel, 1972-1974 AMC Eagle, a 1977 AMC Jeep Cherokee, 1977 and 1979 Chevrolet Camaro, 1980-1985 and 1989 Ford truck, 1991-1993 and 1996 Ford sedan, 1992-1996 Volkswagen, and 1998 GMC truck:
Fuse rating has zero match with wire gauge and expected circuit load. I have never seen a 5A fuse I could not replace with a 10A fuse, even if it ran around, next to, and then wrapped around the weakest rubber line in my fuel system five times.
Anything rated for less than 15A is probably the same wire in my experience, model to model, unless:
1: It's the ignition line on any car with a Bosch or Lucas ignition system, which may have resistive wire of smaller gauge than would be expected. If it has a normal wire, it has a huge ceramic resistor on the coil most of the time. If you have a Bosch distributor with points, go see a Volkswagen mechanic for extra horsepower and mileage switching to a full voltage coil, Pertronix system to replace the points, and a Porsche 914/6 rotor to keep you from too much fun.
Lucas owners, you're lucky it still starts. Repeat after me: 'Exhalted is thee, Lucas, Prince of Darkness. For thee hast given me the two position switch with three settings, they be off, on, and smoking. Let my bulbs last longer than a thousand miles, and let my generator always furnish nine to fifteen of the required volts. In your name, God Lucas, Amen.'
2: It belongs to the computer or airbag on a Ford, GM or Chrysler post 1987/1988, in which case it will be too large for the fuse by one gauge.
3: It powers the lighting, auxiliary or AC on a Mercedes before 1982-ish. Daimler Benz sold so many different light configurations, power interior packages, and AC packages all over the world that they planned for the worst gauge required in the harness and shrunk the fuse rating. In many of the 1960's models the AC fuse was reused for other things.
4: It is the optional fuse of any American Motors or Jeep product made in their name. They came with no fuse installed in the box, and wire runs through the firewall to the bumper would support a 20A load for the dealer installed lighting packages easily.
5: Power seat fuses on the Ford Escort/Mercury Topaz and Ford full-size sedans were always too large for their wiring.
You forget that Detroit at least has the bad habit of wiring up almost everything with the same wire gauge. The 15A fuse connected to the fuel pump, the 10A fuse that runs the signals, and the 5A fuse for the radio are probably all connected to the same wire gauge.
Throttling the network is fine to accomplish QoS goals.
Comcast, however, is forging RST packets. They're taking the traffic and altering the content of it.
No legitimate QoS solution does this. Delay the content, fine. Slow the transmission rate of the content, fine.
Discard the traffic and generate a forged reply? Not fine.
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In english, it means 'Real fucking funny, putz. I'm calling Godwin on you anyway."
WTF is it with Fred Thompson, anyway?? You keep seeing the media ranting about how he's "the new Ronald Reagan", but he seems to entirely lack Reagan's charisma (and charisma was pretty much Reagan's only strong point).
Reagan seems to have morphed from 'the doddering old guy who gave us Reaganomics, the Star Wars space laser, Just Say No to Drugs, Uniboob, and Saddam Hussein' to 'SuperConservativeMan! Tax cuts for the wealthy will crush our enemies with prayer in the schools!!'... Which seems to be Fred Thompson's schtick.
How soon they forget..
Oh, and they were both actors.