I'd suggest licking it clean, but you're already immune.
So in that case, get all your friends, family and co-workers to lick it clean. After a couple weeks, they'll all be immune to that virus.
Keep doing this until your laptop is clean, or everyone around you is immune to it. You'll have done good by boosting the herd immune system a notch or two. Reward yourself with a cookie.
Disable volume control. Load up a wav that screams, in a childs voice "KIDNAPPER! RAPE! RAPE!". Then, once you can determine the thief is in public (webcam? Wireless provider?), set it off.
This raises an interesting question as to the nature of military/civilian coordination in the future, especially as conflicts arise more and more often out of financial and ideological, rather than territorial, causes.
The answer is easy. Posters that say "UncleSam001 wants YOU... to install cyb3rAttack_omgwtfbbq (Build 91, Nightly 003)"
By this point, "backing up" saved games should be a non-issue. There should be a partition on the PS3 hdd that ALL saved games get saved to. And those files should be saved twice, in case one fails. And there should be the option (on by default) to save the saved games to a online "userspace". And all of this should be automatic
I should also have the option of manually backing up the game data to anywhere at anytime of my choosing. To a network share. To a USB key. To a myps3backups.sony.com site. Anywhere.
I mean, it's 2008, and this is a game console. It shouldn't require an A+ certification and knowledge of an incremental backup scheme just to keep my Guitar Hero scores safe.
I'm with the parent. Black background. I use Lime Green, with Lime Green for the cursor, and Yellow for selection. It's high contrast, easy on the eyes, and it makes it look like you're programming The Matrix. =)
Indium, for example, is more common than silver, and the only reason for the supposed scarcity on the market is that the Chinese mining companies stopped extracting it from their zinc tailings.
Damn Chinese Indium farmers always going and fucking up my day. Now I'm going to have to get it on the auction.
While I applaud Netflix, I think it's odd/funny/sad/hilarious that we make a big deal when "companies listen to their customers".
Isn't that what they are supposed to be doing?
Yes, it is what they are supposed to be doing. And that is exactly why we should make a big deal out if it.
If the only time we speak up as consumers is to tell a company that they've f'd up and we're pissed at them-- then that is the only image companies will have of use as consumers. Their default assumption of us will be that we're whiny little bitches who only live to annoy them, and who must be avoided at all costs. All we will do is punish companies when they misbehave. It will taint their perception of us.
However, if we make sure to let companies know when they do right and be vocal about it, then that too will change their perspective of us. We will be rewarding them for good behavior. Their default perception of us will be of good customers, and that when they behave they good increased income and good publicity. It changes the relationship in a way that benefits both parties.
We all talk about how "companies love profit" and how thy will look at the cost to produce versus the income they'll realize, and will say "screw it" to any feature, even beloved ones, where income - cost
One of these intangible benefits is "customer satisfaction". In the first scenario, where customers only complain and make life miserable for the company, this value is low. In the second, where we let the company know they've done well, we're happy-- where we do that vocally and often, that value is high. And since that value is high, the formula (actual income) + (intangible income) - costs ends up > 0 far more often. Features like Profiles, where customer satisfaction is part of the equation, suddenly become profitable to keep around; even though it only satisfies a smaller market share, it's a much higher profit per person.
There would be a lot less animosity if the cable company's just ponied up to their mistake and worked on moving on. If they had just said something like:
"Hey, everyone, about the Unlimited access. Things have changed a lot in the last few years, and quite simply, we can't afford to do unlimited anymore. Over the next year or so, we're going to be phasing it out. Right now, we're not going to take any new unlimited accounts. Anyone who is currently unlimited will enjoy it for a period of time. After that, we'll have a special monthly rate for our current unlimited customers. We hope you'll stay on as customers. As we move on, we want to figure out the best way to deliver the right service to all our varied customers, no matter what their usage needs are."
I'd think that it'd be easier to try to hack the satellite. Find out the frequency it runs on, the command prefixes, and send a "start -> shutdown -> ok" to it. You may have to kidnap several key engineers or storm a control center, but it'd still be a hell of a lot easier than trying to chuck a rock at a target that high up. Multiple times.
Fresh out of high school, I got a job doing trade shows for the MTO (Ontario's equivalent of the DMV). Our main goal was to pimp the new (at the time) license plates with graphics on them. But we could also take orders for vanity plates. We had a laptop where we could look up plate availability.
We couldn't let the customers see the screen, though, because the only way to check availability was to run the plate, and see if it was owned or not
Every now and then, the Vehicle Number 000000000 (or something like that) would come up.
"What's that?" I asked.
"The MTO's special reserved vehicle. Any plate they determine as offensive gets registered to it so it is blocked in the system." My boss answered
"How do they determine what's offensive?"
As it turns out, they have an entire committee-- and entire committee-- of people whose job is to not only review every single vanity plate application, but to also sit around all day and think up of cuss words in EVERY LANGUAGE THEY KNOW, and block them.
What a fucking job to have, no shitting!
For fun, I ran the VIN 0000000, and saw that there were tens of thousands of blocked plates...
(C) Copyright Alexander Gromikov in the code is a big hint, if the students name is Ken Smith.
You laugh, but...
My fiance teaches high school. She's a science teacher, but for her first year she was also given an "Introduction to Computers" course. How to use a mouse and do stuff with office suites.
One of the first projects was to make up a bunch of data, put it in Excel, and run a few functions on it. It was an individual assignment. Because she had a ton of marking to do, I helped her mark some of the assignments.
Something about the first few of them struck me as odd. The fonts were all the same, and we're the Excel standard font. OK, maybe some students all like the same font. All the data was the same. Odd, since it was made up-- but not outside of the realm of possibility. They all had the same error in one cell. Stranger still, but-- well, students make mistakes.
Then I scrolled up. You see, the worksheet was just over a screen long. And Excel remembers where you scrolled to when you close a document. All of them were scrolled down, leaving the top row off screen. I scroll up on Student X's sheet, and there's his name in cell A1.
I do the same with the other files-- and what do you know. There's Student X's name. On each of them. They hadn't bothered to scroll up past the default view to change the name of the person they copied off of.
My finance told them all they could either take the 0, or she could discuss the anomaly with their parents and the admin. No one tried to cheat after that.
Do everything in your power to give everyone the opportunity to achieve the same expected level of success-- but never, ever do this by lowering the expectations!
Having trouble factoring for x? Here's a lesson. Here's the prof's extra help time table. Here's the TA's times, too. Here's a peer tutor. Here's Dr. Math dot com.
As stupid as the parent was being, this is actually kinda true. One of Novell's key locations is in Provo, Utah. Due to demographics alone, with about 61% of the population being Mormon, Novell most likely has a higher-than-average employ of Mormons. (Howard Tayler, of Schlock Mercenary fame, and a Mormon, used to work there)
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If you're going to go with a theme, go with one that'll make your day easier. Every single machine should be a threat.
Email server: RebootOutlookOrIllFuckingKillYou
Database server: DoNotEvenThinkOfTouchingFucktard
Backup server: BackupNowSteveOrYourKidsAreOrphans
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Just remember, no matter which one you chose, the answer is of course, +5 Funny. (Or Karma-stomp... depends on which mods have had their coffee)
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I'd suggest licking it clean, but you're already immune.
So in that case, get all your friends, family and co-workers to lick it clean. After a couple weeks, they'll all be immune to that virus.
Keep doing this until your laptop is clean, or everyone around you is immune to it. You'll have done good by boosting the herd immune system a notch or two. Reward yourself with a cookie.
Better:
Disable volume control. Load up a wav that screams, in a childs voice "KIDNAPPER! RAPE! RAPE!". Then, once you can determine the thief is in public (webcam? Wireless provider?), set it off.
The answer is easy. Posters that say "UncleSam001 wants YOU... to install cyb3rAttack_omgwtfbbq (Build 91, Nightly 003)"
Which makes the scanner overall pretty useless. Thus, it should just be disabled. It was a stupid idea to begin with.
By this point, "backing up" saved games should be a non-issue. There should be a partition on the PS3 hdd that ALL saved games get saved to. And those files should be saved twice, in case one fails. And there should be the option (on by default) to save the saved games to a online "userspace". And all of this should be automatic
I should also have the option of manually backing up the game data to anywhere at anytime of my choosing. To a network share. To a USB key. To a myps3backups.sony.com site. Anywhere.
I mean, it's 2008, and this is a game console. It shouldn't require an A+ certification and knowledge of an incremental backup scheme just to keep my Guitar Hero scores safe.
I'm with the parent. Black background. I use Lime Green, with Lime Green for the cursor, and Yellow for selection. It's high contrast, easy on the eyes, and it makes it look like you're programming The Matrix. =)
Let me guess. You also asked them for a free phone, and they said "Sure, just sign this harmless contract that you shouldn't read."
So of course they'll give you "free" text messaging, if only to keep you on the plan that anally rapes your soul every month.
Damn Chinese Indium farmers always going and fucking up my day. Now I'm going to have to get it on the auction.
It must have been written by a CIO.
Actually, you usually know exactly what percentage of your advertising works. You'll know that 50% of your adverts work.
But you won't know which 50%...
Yes, it is what they are supposed to be doing. And that is exactly why we should make a big deal out if it.
If the only time we speak up as consumers is to tell a company that they've f'd up and we're pissed at them-- then that is the only image companies will have of use as consumers. Their default assumption of us will be that we're whiny little bitches who only live to annoy them, and who must be avoided at all costs. All we will do is punish companies when they misbehave. It will taint their perception of us.
However, if we make sure to let companies know when they do right and be vocal about it, then that too will change their perspective of us. We will be rewarding them for good behavior. Their default perception of us will be of good customers, and that when they behave they good increased income and good publicity. It changes the relationship in a way that benefits both parties.
We all talk about how "companies love profit" and how thy will look at the cost to produce versus the income they'll realize, and will say "screw it" to any feature, even beloved ones, where income - cost
One of these intangible benefits is "customer satisfaction". In the first scenario, where customers only complain and make life miserable for the company, this value is low. In the second, where we let the company know they've done well, we're happy-- where we do that vocally and often, that value is high. And since that value is high, the formula (actual income) + (intangible income) - costs ends up > 0 far more often. Features like Profiles, where customer satisfaction is part of the equation, suddenly become profitable to keep around; even though it only satisfies a smaller market share, it's a much higher profit per person.
Show your work
There would be a lot less animosity if the cable company's just ponied up to their mistake and worked on moving on. If they had just said something like:
"Hey, everyone, about the Unlimited access. Things have changed a lot in the last few years, and quite simply, we can't afford to do unlimited anymore. Over the next year or so, we're going to be phasing it out. Right now, we're not going to take any new unlimited accounts. Anyone who is currently unlimited will enjoy it for a period of time. After that, we'll have a special monthly rate for our current unlimited customers. We hope you'll stay on as customers. As we move on, we want to figure out the best way to deliver the right service to all our varied customers, no matter what their usage needs are."
Deploy the anti anti-missile-missile missiles!
I'd think that it'd be easier to try to hack the satellite. Find out the frequency it runs on, the command prefixes, and send a "start -> shutdown -> ok" to it. You may have to kidnap several key engineers or storm a control center, but it'd still be a hell of a lot easier than trying to chuck a rock at a target that high up. Multiple times.
Company's going backrupt over poorly worded "lifetime warranty" guarantees?
You laugh, but...
Fresh out of high school, I got a job doing trade shows for the MTO (Ontario's equivalent of the DMV). Our main goal was to pimp the new (at the time) license plates with graphics on them. But we could also take orders for vanity plates. We had a laptop where we could look up plate availability.
We couldn't let the customers see the screen, though, because the only way to check availability was to run the plate, and see if it was owned or not
Every now and then, the Vehicle Number 000000000 (or something like that) would come up.
"What's that?" I asked.
"The MTO's special reserved vehicle. Any plate they determine as offensive gets registered to it so it is blocked in the system." My boss answered
"How do they determine what's offensive?"
As it turns out, they have an entire committee-- and entire committee-- of people whose job is to not only review every single vanity plate application, but to also sit around all day and think up of cuss words in EVERY LANGUAGE THEY KNOW, and block them.
What a fucking job to have, no shitting!
For fun, I ran the VIN 0000000, and saw that there were tens of thousands of blocked plates...
You laugh, but...
My fiance teaches high school. She's a science teacher, but for her first year she was also given an "Introduction to Computers" course. How to use a mouse and do stuff with office suites.
One of the first projects was to make up a bunch of data, put it in Excel, and run a few functions on it. It was an individual assignment. Because she had a ton of marking to do, I helped her mark some of the assignments.
Something about the first few of them struck me as odd. The fonts were all the same, and we're the Excel standard font. OK, maybe some students all like the same font. All the data was the same. Odd, since it was made up-- but not outside of the realm of possibility. They all had the same error in one cell. Stranger still, but-- well, students make mistakes.
Then I scrolled up. You see, the worksheet was just over a screen long. And Excel remembers where you scrolled to when you close a document. All of them were scrolled down, leaving the top row off screen. I scroll up on Student X's sheet, and there's his name in cell A1.
I do the same with the other files-- and what do you know. There's Student X's name. On each of them. They hadn't bothered to scroll up past the default view to change the name of the person they copied off of.
My finance told them all they could either take the 0, or she could discuss the anomaly with their parents and the admin. No one tried to cheat after that.
It comes down to a fairly major education tenant:
Do everything in your power to give everyone the opportunity to achieve the same expected level of success-- but never, ever do this by lowering the expectations!
Having trouble factoring for x? Here's a lesson. Here's the prof's extra help time table. Here's the TA's times, too. Here's a peer tutor. Here's Dr. Math dot com.
Take factoring out of the curriculum? No.
Well, there's your problem right there...
As stupid as the parent was being, this is actually kinda true. One of Novell's key locations is in Provo, Utah. Due to demographics alone, with about 61% of the population being Mormon, Novell most likely has a higher-than-average employ of Mormons. (Howard Tayler, of Schlock Mercenary fame, and a Mormon, used to work there)
Ha. Slightly off topic, but I recently came across some dude's website that has all those Hostess comic's archived
Even as a kid, I used to think those were the craziest things in the comics, and that's after reading stories about radioactive spiders.