-where copies of games are sold in shopping malls publicly -where in many stores you cannot buy a console without a modchip -where video rental places publicly rent you blue-belly (copied) DVDs (in some unlucky cases, just downloaded screeners formatted onto a DVD) -where the 2-hand worker makes less than $200 a month
You either drop your prices (at least to the US price) or you have to enforce it with guns and armies.
Why? Well a game copy is now $8 for consoles... an original is $80... mom works in MCdonalds flipping burgers for $180 a month, dad is a factory/field worker for $200...... Ahm did I forget, that they need a computer for little Jose and while little Jose can skip on xbox games (and can buy a PS1 CD for $2) he cannot skip on M$ Windows and Word and dunno what else, unless he wants to flip burgers like mommy or pick coffee like dad......
I guess at the end it will be some extra work for me installing/planning Linux based whatever for whoever maybe for some nice $$$, but before that I can see lots of legal trouble for lots of people here.
Ahm I live in Costa Rica and piracy here is more than scary.... no because people are evil, because they cannot afford..... on top of that you have %80-%100 on top of US prices for many things.... especially electronics, software, music, video....
now go figure...
The only positive thing in that whole trade is that itt will break some bad monopolistic practices such as telco, insurance and maybe electricity and fuel......
just my 5c: small businessess will go down as more pricesmart/walmart/megawhatever flows in.... making bad to worse.... but that is an other story
while I would go PHP with confidence, read mysql dox before putting a real big (large scale) application on mysql. While mysql can be pretty nice, it has issues with one thing i really needed in a project: Full text indexing.... this is only supported in myisam tables, however i would not suggest using myisam tables for anything large scale if you have lots of deletes and create "holes" in your tables because of the aggressive locking (locks whole table including selects)...
just a warning, i might also be wrong, i just found out some weird things while working with a database of 3-4 million records stuffed with varchar 255 and text fields and some updates locked my DB for 3-4 hours....
and again i never used myisam on that big full text indexed tables before, so if you know better just ignore this.....
also you can get an oracle personal for a $500 or so, (it needs more machine too and limits you L into redhat/suse unless you want lots of hacking during installation on other distros....) by the way ehre is the freebsd port.....
e.g. I can afford it but i refuse to buy it again.
I was forced to buy one with my laptop, I use the laptop with linux, and my purchased version does not install on a normal PC (and there was not a sign: beware this crippled version won't install anywhere but this crappy piece of hardware)...
so I "borrowed one" (I figured that If i bought it i use it because I paid for it).... everything was fine until I wanted to DL some update nowadays..... of course the licence number could not be used from my laptop version so I googled a serial FOR MY PURCHASED COPY
Now what can I do ?
Same with a wk2 copy... I bought it, I have the original CD, but I lost the little book with the serial.....
I understand that there are people who do not want to buy something and choose pirating and so... but personally I get screwed by MS for the second time..... and there is virtually nothing I can do other than walk into a store and buy an expensive piece of crap software that will be obsolete... on top of that I only use WIN to run IE to validate some work I do on "other" systems...
Ahh I think it is time to slide that debian CD into my windoze box now....
I need a new laptop and I will get an iBook just so i can have a unix-like system and do not throw an other CD into the trash with a valid serial, unable to use on a desktop PC (where I would actually need it)....
When I bought my toshiba laptop in Costa Rica they did not only refuse to sell me the laptop without Windows XP, they weren't even willing to give at least with an English version....
OK, so with PCs at least you get a normal version, but laptop versions do not install anywhere else other than the laptop... so great I had to get a pirated version of XP for my desktop PC (do not even ask why I need it) because I refuse to pay again for the same thing I did not want to buy the first place, but if they at least gave me a normal English version not a Crippled only toshiba Spanish, I could have simply used the licence I ALREADY PAID FOR....
I hate microsoft for that crap, and hate all retailers who force me to buy a copy with every laptop I buy...
I do not need WINDOWS on my laptop please do not let me pay for it:(
PCs I just build from pieces and not by OP system (Linux/BSD would be used anyway)
a good and easy source to get cash in San Andreas is to kill dealers... they dump $2-4k on you and they are easy to run over or shot in the head...
Now you can say many bad things about that game, but at the end it teaches you that dealers hanging around in the neighborhood are not a good thing and should be taken care of for even an extra benefit:)
on the serious side: as i understand you need a patch to the game to unlock the coffe thing.... To patch a game on Ps2/Xbox you need to be able to run a modified/copied game, and that needs a Modchip..... Then we are back to square one, they left the thing in the xbox and ps2 versions 2, but if you unlock it you already broke the law by 1. making a copy 2. modding your console (mine is modded for the sake of avi playback, and some games you cannot buy anymore (e.g. REZ and some Japanese imports )) 3. modifying the game....
I think this whole thing is ridiculous, rockstar really made some cool games and deserves it's place on the top..... besides, it is cool to run over people, do a drive-by with your girlfriend, and being chased in the cannal system by bad guys, or bad cops....
As far as you have that tiny little piece of brain to understand that this is a game, this is not reality and you should do that in the game and not in real life...
On the other hand besides being a good gangster simulator, it is quite educating with the consequences that starting a gang war can bring, the frequent "wasted" sign on your screens, and cars that need somewhat realisticly small amount of damage to burst in flames and explode, sometimes killing you....
AO rating kills a game as many retailers refuse to even put it on their shelves.....
I think/heard that lots of ATMs and banking applications still used os/2 (well a few years ago I guess) and have a feeling that they do not switch OS every year on an ATM do they ?
Well i guess I gave it up now, but for the last few years I wanted to build a retro machine with os/2 installed, just could not get the installer anywhere here:(
I ran a BBS on it for years, and basically anything until i siwtched to linux.
Unless you have professional GPS devices, I recommend a consumer one (which is a few meters accurate if you have clear view.
Make sure you have big memory for saving routes, otherwise you will need a laptop/pda connected all the time...
You can find lots of free software to make maps, if you manage to get satellite images you can make your own map (GPSU and others will calibrate known map points to your route).
It all might sounds easy, but it is harder as it sounds. Sometimes you loose reception so you have to go back to re-record or you have to connect points by hand with a software...
I got sick of the local Costa Rican tradition of not having maps and having directions like: 100E 50N from Whatever Pharmacy near McDonalds...
So i bought an etrex vista and started making my maps... well saving routes is a thing, but never really got the time to convert them to actual garmin format maps.... but one day:)
HAH.. so in 2009 I build a TV tower like Lo Teks in Johnny Mnemonic..... just wonder how I'll power all those crap cathode ray tube powersucking monsters....
more seriously : did anyone think of how much toxic wate will be generated by that action if people really end-up selling their TVs ?
Yes I mean you can buy a converter for that time (and now) for sure, but how many will be able to afford ?
Also maybe it is a good time to start a pirate/private TV station/broadcast (hey broadcasting equip will be cheap too) for the masses that won't buy subscription/hdtv tuners and other gadgets that are obviously forced on them due someone needs MORE CASH in their pockets...
I read all his books, including burning chrome (the collection) BUT Difference engine...
I will disappoint you, but I could not read it, somehow I lost interest in the subject around the 100th page....
I will try it again though, just because now I am older, and have read a lot more in english (not my native language), and because that is the only missing one from him...
First I will re-read the Neuromancer-Count Zero-Mona Lisa trilogy, as half of that I read in translation back a good few years ago, just arrived from Amazon
If you are a Gibson fan, get No maps for these territories (DVD) - expensive and kinda short, but interesting content and style.... the video quality is crappy though (minidv shot in a car) so do not watch it on a 2m plasmaTv or projector:)
I watched it on projector and got kinda mad at the quality I got for $24 bucks...
Hmm interesting that people get caught on the "REMIX" issue.
I just finished reading Pattern Recognition yesterday and probably now I see that article in a different light.
On the book: waaay different from anything before, it is more like a today's nover instead of close or distant future. Much slower but I just could not put it down. The only book I could not read from him was The Difference Engine (just could not catch on the subject and gave it up on the 100th page)
Everything else I loved, including that very Gibson-ish bit on wired...
His site: a book site links to books that you can buy. You do not have to.
His blog: there is some quite interesting stuff if you take a closer look
when as soon as a stupid patent is introduced, everyone starts delevolipn apps that infringe the patents and using them in a mass movement style action.
Not necessary companies, but a waste amount of individuals.
I am not a patent lawyer and makes me wonder how a company comes after me if I start making software for devices that are US patents thing and sell them outside the US, or use them on online sites with servers outside the US.
Press button for 5 secs, view buyer history..... I am really a happy Amazon customer and that patent does not personally bother me,... on the other hand I made a banner server once that serves ads based on what pages you visited on a site (product pages)..... so I guess I am breaking the US law if I use that piece of software later on...
I might argue that an FTP server or HTTP server is intended to share information, and can be used by any user to share music..... so what distinguishes a P2P app form all other services?
It is bullshit like bittorrent... there is legit use and not everyone should be punished, especially not the software makers...
not mentioning the technical questions: how will the hard drive see a GPS signal sitting in a HDD case, in a rack, in a room, in a building.
My garmin starts to bitch if I am under a tree and hey I am almost on the equator with 10+ satellites showing full reception.....
Actually it happened that with a clear view of the sky I just happened to be in the middle of the Atlantic ocean - well according to my gps.
No radio tower/cellphone station or any well seen human cause interference... I was in the jungle walking my dogs and my wife and recording custom routes for fun.
My point is: if it happens to a trusted brand and quality but admittably a consumer device, it could happen by accident to any device.
While it should be common knowledge (as it makes sense) I see many people staring at the moon here, closer to the equator.
When it is round it's OK, but as soonas it is a C or a D it really faces in a different direction....
creeped me a little the first time I saq it:)
bigger moon ? sorry it is DAMN rainy season here, I haven't seen the moon for days... it is pouring now too and i'm on my bike... wish i had a batman suit, or at least my surfing wetsuit:( friday night kinda stuck in the office fixing some sql queries...
life sux and the moon is probably about to crash into that mudball we call earth.. there will be chaos and death, pain ans suffering...
whoops.. rain stopped... it is just an illusion:) gotta run to start my engine
however if you are used to these people you do work like this:
"I don't want access to your database and see your mailing/players lists."
Refuse to take a PDA or any data carrier where there is sensitive data, and request a trusted tech to be nearby if I do stuff with the database or mail systems/logs or whatever sensitive they do there...
on the other hand I hate pople staring at my screen when I am working... especially when they as stupid stuff like "how can you remember all these messed up commands"
when I arrived here to Costa Rica first, to set up some network stuff and firewalls, I was told that the previous tech was chased by the neighbour outside with a gun in hand because he stole casino player data....
well, before you think that it was your average latino guy that carries a gun i have to tell that it was a US businessman who operates a casino here...
well I think if instead of the police, some big guy chases you down the street with a gun every time you touch data that does not belong to you - really makes the point... and would keep people selling other's sensitive info...
I wanted to get my wife into photography... the real thing- when I went back home 2 years ago to hungary)
Got her a canon full-manual camera, and got all my developing tools out.... safelight, negative developing box... and the real ancient tool: a thing we used to call suitcase-magnfier... it is a suitcase, with a few holes, where you can put the lamp frame, and build an ultra lo-tek photo developing studio in seconds...... all that to realize, that the chemicals are not available, only to quantity purchasers... (meaning hundreds of $$ for kilos of the stuff from which i needed grams)
I really loved to take b&w pix and then play hours with just one frame of negative film to figure what you can do with it in the post-production phase....
well i guess now i can set my lame full-auto nikon to b&w mode, then play with gimp....
while I understand the act of killing b&w film for the masses, it bothers me too....
with digital I started to make so many (and so crappy) pics, that I do not really care anymore, just cram them on a DVD when they reach 4gigs and store them......
when film costs, and development takes hours you value your pics better..
much like the RSA device that updates a pass based on the time of day...
a more primitive aproach is what my bank uses: they gave me a sheet of 50 loooooong passwords that are used for transfers. I can access my banking with one passwords, see transactions, or even generate a online only mastercard (up to $500) but any major xfers need the looong passwords, that are associated with a number....
If security starts at the government _ANY_GOVERNMENT_ it brings you unvanted stupid filters and regulations that will cripple the more advanced users' internet.
More of: -port restrictions (killing eg SMTP, IRC,IMAP because for the most INTERNET=WEB (http(s)) -monitoring -private ips (as opposed to public) -proxies - that cripple things (many times I have perfect net, but my ISP forces http thru a transparent proxy, that sometimes does weird things)
security should be at the users' level, or ON REQUEST at the isp...
I want public IP, no port restriction (IN-OUT), I want to run my webserver, and other services on strange ports at home (for whatever geeky or practical reason that comes into my mind)
If they trust MS security, they should be sent to the doctor for a head check, then charge them a lot by their ISP to cripple THEIR internet...
cannot help myself.... just have to think of an app, that goes to a bittorrent site, and quiclkly cache-s all the songs, games and warez on the disk...
more seriously: what if i come from an unwanted popup, now all those naked teen pictures on my disk are my property and if any of them turns to be under 18 i am charged with pedophilia ?
HAHA... in Hungary there was a TV program for teaching BASIC...
the geekiest thing was, that after the show ended, they would TRASMIT a ZX Spectrum program thru the TV:)
so i was sitting in front of the TV with a tape recorder waiting for the BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP--kkrrrsshhrhhhssssssskrrshsh
the typing: i spent a summer holiday job at my dad's workplace once... it was super educating...(NOT!) I was typing in a program from a book hours long, to find out that it just did not work, and no one found out really why....
I guess that was the first time I decided to dump computers and be a shephard or something.... That green monitor made me suffer... but it had a geek factor I have to admit... now I would be happy to own one of those artifacts HT-something HT = Hiradas Technika... the fish is your friend
I guess sheep stank or something, because for the last 20 years I am back into computers:)
Slashdot Mirror
-where copies of games are sold in shopping malls publicly
... an original is $80 ... mom works in MCdonalds flipping burgers for $180 a month, dad is a factory/field worker for $200 ......
..... .... especially electronics, software, music, video ....
...
......
.... but that is an other story
-where in many stores you cannot buy a console without a modchip
-where video rental places publicly rent you blue-belly (copied) DVDs (in some unlucky cases, just downloaded screeners formatted onto a DVD)
-where the 2-hand worker makes less than $200 a month
You either drop your prices (at least to the US price) or you have to enforce it with guns and armies.
Why? Well a game copy is now $8 for consoles
Ahm did I forget, that they need a computer for little Jose and while little Jose can skip on xbox games (and can buy a PS1 CD for $2) he cannot skip on M$ Windows and Word and dunno what else, unless he wants to flip burgers like mommy or pick coffee like dad......
I guess at the end it will be some extra work for me installing/planning Linux based whatever for whoever maybe for some nice $$$, but before that I can see lots of legal trouble for lots of people here.
Ahm I live in Costa Rica and piracy here is more than scary.... no because people are evil, because they cannot afford
on top of that you have %80-%100 on top of US prices for many things
now go figure
The only positive thing in that whole trade is that itt will break some bad monopolistic practices such as telco, insurance and maybe electricity and fuel
just my 5c: small businessess will go down as more pricesmart/walmart/megawhatever flows in.... making bad to worse
while I would go PHP with confidence, read mysql dox before putting a real big (large scale) application on mysql.
.....
....) by the way ehre is the freebsd port .....
While mysql can be pretty nice, it has issues with
one thing i really needed in a project:
Full text indexing.... this is only supported in myisam tables, however i would not suggest using myisam tables for anything large scale if you have lots of deletes and create "holes" in your tables because of the aggressive locking (locks whole table including selects)...
just a warning, i might also be wrong, i just found out some weird things while working with a database of 3-4 million records stuffed with varchar 255 and text fields and some updates locked my DB for 3-4 hours....
and again i never used myisam on that big full text indexed tables before, so if you know better just ignore this
also you can get an oracle personal for a $500 or so, (it needs more machine too and limits you L into redhat/suse unless you want lots of hacking during installation on other distros
Can't afford it ? Do not use it !
...
..... of course the licence number could not be used from my laptop version so I googled a serial FOR MY PURCHASED COPY
.....
... but personally I get screwed by MS for the second time..... and there is virtually nothing I can do other than walk into a store and buy an expensive piece of crap software that will be obsolete ... on top of that I only use WIN to run IE to validate some work I do on "other" systems ...
....
There are exceptions that MS should handle:
e.g. I can afford it but i refuse to buy it again.
I was forced to buy one with my laptop, I use the laptop with linux, and my purchased version does not install on a normal PC (and there was not a sign: beware this crippled version won't install anywhere but this crappy piece of hardware)
so I "borrowed one" (I figured that If i bought it i use it because I paid for it).... everything was fine until I wanted to DL some update nowadays
Now what can I do ?
Same with a wk2 copy... I bought it, I have the original CD, but I lost the little book with the serial
I understand that there are people who do not want to buy something and choose pirating and so
Ahh I think it is time to slide that debian CD into my windoze box now
I need a new laptop and I will get an iBook just so i can have a unix-like system and do not throw an other CD into the trash with a valid serial, unable to use on a desktop PC (where I would actually need it)....
When I bought my toshiba laptop in Costa Rica they did not only refuse to sell me the laptop without Windows XP, they weren't even willing to give at least with an English version ....
... so great I had to get a pirated version of XP for my desktop PC (do not even ask why I need it) because I refuse to pay again for the same thing I did not want to buy the first place, but if they at least gave me a normal English version not a Crippled only toshiba Spanish, I could have simply used the licence I ALREADY PAID FOR ....
...
:(
OK, so with PCs at least you get a normal version, but laptop versions do not install anywhere else other than the laptop
I hate microsoft for that crap, and hate all retailers who force me to buy a copy with every laptop I buy
I do not need WINDOWS on my laptop please do not let me pay for it
PCs I just build from pieces and not by OP system (Linux/BSD would be used anyway)
a good and easy source to get cash in San Andreas is to kill dealers ... they dump $2-4k on you and they are easy to run over or shot in the head ...
:)
.... ....
..... ....
...
.....
... i better work
Now you can say many bad things about that game, but at the end it teaches you that dealers hanging around in the neighborhood are not a good thing and should be taken care of for even an extra benefit
on the serious side: as i understand you need a patch to the game to unlock the coffe thing
To patch a game on Ps2/Xbox you need to be able to run a modified/copied game, and that needs a Modchip.....
Then we are back to square one, they left the thing in the xbox and ps2 versions 2, but if you unlock it you already broke the law by
1. making a copy
2. modding your console (mine is modded for the sake of avi playback, and some games you cannot buy anymore (e.g. REZ and some Japanese imports ))
3. modifying the game
I think this whole thing is ridiculous, rockstar really made some cool games and deserves it's place on the top
besides, it is cool to run over people, do a drive-by with your girlfriend, and being chased in the cannal system by bad guys, or bad cops
As far as you have that tiny little piece of brain to understand that this is a game, this is not reality and you should do that in the game and not in real life
On the other hand besides being a good gangster simulator, it is quite educating with the consequences that starting a gang war can bring, the frequent "wasted" sign on your screens, and cars that need somewhat realisticly small amount of damage to burst in flames and explode, sometimes killing you....
AO rating kills a game as many retailers refuse to even put it on their shelves
ahm it is too friday
You have to look at others too...
....
:)
It is summertime so sales are down by 80% in some cases.......
so yes searches and traffic is down very badly
I live from online sales and work and summertime shows on my wallet
I think/heard that lots of ATMs and banking applications still used os/2 (well a few years ago I guess) and have a feeling that they do not switch OS every year on an ATM do they ?
:(
:( it is a shame.
Well i guess I gave it up now, but for the last few years I wanted to build a retro machine with os/2 installed, just could not get the installer anywhere here
I ran a BBS on it for years, and basically anything until i siwtched to linux.
I just loved OS/2
Unless you have professional GPS devices, I recommend a consumer one (which is a few meters accurate if you have clear view.
...
: ...
... well saving routes is a thing, but never really got the time to convert them to actual garmin format maps.... but one day :)
Make sure you have big memory for saving routes, otherwise you will need a laptop/pda connected all the time...
You can find lots of free software to make maps, if you manage to get satellite images you can make your own map (GPSU and others will calibrate known map points to your route).
It all might sounds easy, but it is harder as it sounds. Sometimes you loose reception so you have to go back to re-record or you have to connect points by hand with a software
I got sick of the local Costa Rican tradition of not having maps and having directions like
100E 50N from Whatever Pharmacy near McDonalds
So i bought an etrex vista and started making my maps
anyway good luck for the project !
HAH .. so in 2009 I build a TV tower like Lo Teks in Johnny Mnemonic ..... ....
...
just wonder how I'll power all those crap cathode ray tube powersucking monsters
more seriously : did anyone think of how much toxic wate will be generated by that action if people really end-up selling their TVs ?
Yes I mean you can buy a converter for that time (and now) for sure, but how many will be able to afford ?
Also maybe it is a good time to start a pirate/private TV station/broadcast (hey broadcasting equip will be cheap too) for the masses that won't buy subscription/hdtv tuners and other gadgets that are obviously forced on them due someone needs MORE CASH in their pockets
I read all his books, including burning chrome (the collection) BUT Difference engine ...
....
.... the video quality is crappy though (minidv shot in a car) so do not watch it on a 2m plasmaTv or projector :)
...
I will disappoint you, but I could not read it, somehow I lost interest in the subject around the 100th page
I will try it again though, just because now I am older, and have read a lot more in english (not my native language), and because that is the only missing one from him...
First I will re-read the Neuromancer-Count Zero-Mona Lisa trilogy, as half of that I read in translation back a good few years ago, just arrived from Amazon
If you are a Gibson fan, get No maps for these territories (DVD) - expensive and kinda short, but interesting content and style
I watched it on projector and got kinda mad at the quality I got for $24 bucks
Many comments here really show that people might have seen Johnny Mnemonic or New Rose Hotel on tv, but never read a book from Gibson.
... (pricey on amazon ($25) , but you can get it used cheap)
.....
:(
In my prev. post I mentioned Pattern Recognition and how that has the REMIX idea and puts a different light into his article, but haven't mentioned
"No maps for these territories" - a really interesting interview with him
Just do not watch it on a projector, it is minidv recorded, and has really crappy quality on the big screen
hmm or the encoding is crap, my $400 minidv looks better on a 2m screen
Hmm interesting that people get caught on the "REMIX" issue.
I just finished reading Pattern Recognition yesterday and probably now I see that article in a different light.
On the book: waaay different from anything before, it is more like a today's nover instead of close or distant future.
Much slower but I just could not put it down. The only book I could not read from him was The Difference Engine (just could not catch on the subject and gave it up on the 100th page)
Everything else I loved, including that very Gibson-ish bit on wired...
His site: a book site links to books that you can buy. You do not have to.
His blog: there is some quite interesting stuff if you take a closer look
when as soon as a stupid patent is introduced, everyone starts delevolipn apps that infringe the patents and using them in a mass movement style action.
..... so I guess I am breaking the US law if I use that piece of software later on ...
....
Not necessary companies, but a waste amount of individuals.
I am not a patent lawyer and makes me wonder how a company comes after me if I start making software for devices that are US patents thing and sell them outside the US, or use them on online sites with servers outside the US.
Press button for 5 secs, view buyer history.....
I am really a happy Amazon customer and that patent does not personally bother me,... on the other hand I made a banner server once that serves ads based on what pages you visited on a site (product pages)
Patent laws are just plain stupid
I might argue that an FTP server or HTTP server is intended to share information, and can be used by any user to share music..... so what distinguishes a P2P app form all other services?
... there is legit use and not everyone should be punished, especially not the software makers...
It is bullshit like bittorrent
not mentioning the technical questions:
.....
... I was in the jungle walking my dogs and my wife and recording custom routes for fun.
how will the hard drive see a GPS signal sitting in a HDD case, in a rack, in a room, in a building.
My garmin starts to bitch if I am under a tree and hey I am almost on the equator with 10+ satellites showing full reception
Actually it happened that with a clear view of the sky I just happened to be in the middle of the Atlantic ocean - well according to my gps.
No radio tower/cellphone station or any well seen human cause interference
My point is: if it happens to a trusted brand and quality but admittably a consumer device, it could happen by accident to any device.
I imagine myself walking with a GPS Jammer around data centers like a little kid imagining how many drives I just blew away ....
While it should be common knowledge (as it makes sense) I see many people staring at the moon here, closer to the equator.
....
:)
... it is pouring now too and i'm on my bike ... wish i had a batman suit, or at least my surfing wetsuit :( friday night kinda stuck in the office fixing some sql queries ...
.. there will be chaos and death, pain ans suffering ...
.. rain stopped ... it is just an illusion :) gotta run to start my engine
When it is round it's OK, but as soonas it is a C or a D it really faces in a different direction
creeped me a little the first time I saq it
bigger moon ?
sorry it is DAMN rainy season here, I haven't seen the moon for days
life sux and the moon is probably about to crash into that mudball we call earth
whoops
hmm thanks. will look around ...
:(
besides all my lab stuff was in hungary an I moved to costa rica
technically i have to buy all that again:)
well yep ....
:
...
... especially when they as stupid stuff like "how can you remember all these messed up commands"
however if you are used to these people you do work like this
"I don't want access to your database and see your mailing/players lists."
Refuse to take a PDA or any data carrier where there is sensitive data, and request a trusted tech to be nearby if I do stuff with the database or mail systems/logs or whatever sensitive they do there
on the other hand I hate pople staring at my screen when I am working
when I arrived here to Costa Rica first, to set up some network stuff and firewalls, I was told that the previous tech was chased by the neighbour outside with a gun in hand because he stole casino player data ....
...
... and would keep people selling other's sensitive info ...
well, before you think that it was your average latino guy that carries a gun i have to tell that it was a US businessman who operates a casino here
well I think if instead of the police, some big guy chases you down the street with a gun every time you touch data that does not belong to you - really makes the point
"where there is gambling, there are criminals"
I wanted to get my wife into photography ...
.... ... and the real ancient tool: a thing we used to call suitcase-magnfier ... ... all that to realize, that the chemicals are not available, only to quantity purchasers ...
....
the real thing- when I went back home 2 years ago to hungary)
Got her a canon full-manual camera, and got all my developing tools out
safelight, negative developing box
it is a suitcase, with a few holes, where you can put the lamp frame, and build an ultra lo-tek photo developing studio in seconds...
(meaning hundreds of $$ for kilos of the stuff from which i needed grams)
I really loved to take b&w pix and then play hours with just one frame of negative film to figure what you can do with it in the post-production phase
well i guess now i can set my lame full-auto nikon to b&w mode, then play with gimp....
while I understand the act of killing b&w film for the masses, it bothers me too....
with digital I started to make so many (and so crappy) pics, that I do not really care anymore, just cram them on a DVD when they reach 4gigs and store them......
when film costs, and development takes hours you value your pics better..
much like the RSA device that updates a pass based on the time of day ...
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a more primitive aproach is what my bank uses:
they gave me a sheet of 50 loooooong passwords that are used for transfers.
I can access my banking with one passwords, see transactions, or even generate a online only mastercard (up to $500) but any major xfers need the looong passwords, that are associated with a number
If security starts at the government _ANY_GOVERNMENT_ it brings you unvanted stupid filters and regulations that will cripple the more advanced users' internet.
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More of:
-port restrictions (killing eg SMTP, IRC,IMAP because for the most INTERNET=WEB (http(s))
-monitoring
-private ips (as opposed to public)
-proxies - that cripple things (many times I have perfect net, but my ISP forces http thru a transparent proxy, that sometimes does weird things)
security should be at the users' level, or ON REQUEST at the isp
I want public IP, no port restriction (IN-OUT), I want to run my webserver, and other services on strange ports at home (for whatever geeky or practical reason that comes into my mind)
If they trust MS security, they should be sent to the doctor for a head check, then charge them a lot by their ISP to cripple THEIR internet
cannot help myself .... ...
just have to think of an app, that goes to a bittorrent site, and quiclkly cache-s all the songs, games and warez on the disk
more seriously: what if i come from an unwanted popup, now all those naked teen pictures on my disk are my property and if any of them turns to be under 18 i am charged with pedophilia ?
this is just not right....
HAHA ... ...
:)
... it was super educating ...(NOT!) I was typing in a program from a book hours long, to find out that it just did not work, and no one found out really why ....
.... ... but it had a geek factor I have to admit ... now I would be happy to own one of those artifacts HT-something ... the fish is your friend
:)
in Hungary there was a TV program for teaching BASIC
the geekiest thing was, that after the show ended, they would TRASMIT a ZX Spectrum program thru the TV
so i was sitting in front of the TV with a tape recorder waiting for the BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP--kkrrrsshhrhhhssssssskrrshsh
the typing: i spent a summer holiday job at my dad's workplace once
I guess that was the first time I decided to dump computers and be a shephard or something
That green monitor made me suffer
HT = Hiradas Technika
I guess sheep stank or something, because for the last 20 years I am back into computers