My local cable provider carries only plain channels on analog cable. If I want specialty channels, I gotta get the digital set top box. It becomes impossible to DVR with a PC. Their solution is to get their set top box with DVR functions. The do-it-yourself DVR is a great idea if you like having 70 channels to pick and choose programming from.
Everybody assumes that everybody will start flying these things as soon as they will hit the market. That's scary.
The only way I see these things being actually safe for use is if the license can only be gotten through intensive training, akin to a private pilot certificate. Pilot training is expensive, but maybe it'll come down in price as methods of effective mass teaching are invented.
Do a couple of formats/reformats with various filesystems. Write lots of data to the disk and then delete it. When you send the disk back, make sure it has a filesystem different from what it had before. And make sure it's an encrypted file system.
If all else fails, just overclock your PCI bus enough so that your system boots but your hard drive controller writes crap to its hard drives.
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What if you happen to get stuck at some weird altitude out of reach of help? If you're stuck high and above, you might have the space shuttle come and rescue you. If you're stuck low, you might have a helicopter come and help you. At other altitudes, you're pretty much fucked.
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That was your tour. That'll be $1000 please.
Sure, but can you jog with a frickin' textbook hanging down your neck?
Get one of those cinder block cell phones from the 70s. You'll never have to worry about viruses again.
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
Apparently, you need invites to go their cafeteria.
Now what do I do with it?
But in reality, who worries about their Windows XP license fee?
My local cable provider carries only plain channels on analog cable. If I want specialty channels, I gotta get the digital set top box. It becomes impossible to DVR with a PC. Their solution is to get their set top box with DVR functions. The do-it-yourself DVR is a great idea if you like having 70 channels to pick and choose programming from.
If it's a credible institution, where's the machine that goes 'bing'?
They should tax the illegal downloaders. Then again 25% of 0 is... um... uh... get back to me.
Running as root is like posting to slashdot without reading TFA. :)
Exactly; you get what you want done faster, like get the much coveted +5 Funny.
Everybody assumes that everybody will start flying these things as soon as they will hit the market. That's scary.
The only way I see these things being actually safe for use is if the license can only be gotten through intensive training, akin to a private pilot certificate. Pilot training is expensive, but maybe it'll come down in price as methods of effective mass teaching are invented.
...for porn on the go!
63 flashes should mean turn left. 64 flashes should mean turn right.
"We hope that you do take caution as you fly out of restricated airspace with your remaining eye"
Do a couple of formats/reformats with various filesystems. Write lots of data to the disk and then delete it. When you send the disk back, make sure it has a filesystem different from what it had before. And make sure it's an encrypted file system.
If all else fails, just overclock your PCI bus enough so that your system boots but your hard drive controller writes crap to its hard drives.
Too bad. They have it already.
Doctor Who!
Doctor who?
Doctor who!
Doctor Who?
Not the pronoun, but rather a doctor with the unlikely name of "Who"
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They have them on Star Trek already.
What if you happen to get stuck at some weird altitude out of reach of help? If you're stuck high and above, you might have the space shuttle come and rescue you. If you're stuck low, you might have a helicopter come and help you. At other altitudes, you're pretty much fucked.
Willy, remove the colored chalk from the classrooms.
You could swear they're running some illegal cartel. First it's drugs. Next thing you know, it'll be illegal immigrants.
April Fools is over for more than 5 days now!
Didn't you get the memo?