Just tell the students to go onto facebook or myspace an play every stupid little game or take every stupid little quiz in sight. Then, tell them to click on every stupid little "get a xxxxxxxx degree in weeks" advert they see, and download whatever is recommended on those sites. Find a suitably infected machine, create an image off that machine, and you're set.
I'm actually not joking, this is what I do when I want to play with whatever viruses are currently in the wild.
Microsoft is purchasing this in anticipation of starting a virtual brothel in Xbox Live. Subscribers will be able to pay real money to participate in virtual (fake) sex acts with complete strangers.
Maybe you shouldn't do any of those stupid things. You don't have to go to parties and act stupid and if you decide to go to parties and act stupid then you live with the consequences.
I think you're missing the point. Alot of things can be taken out of context or you could be discriminated against just for the way you live. I could be the most productive person in the world and also spend every night at a rave, why does it matter to my employer if im a lush outside of work if I do my work well?
This just highlights how corporations are moving in on areas they should have absolutely no say in. Between this and FICO scores determining who is hire-able, we're on the road to causing long term harm to people's livelihoods over a simple mistake, misunderstanding, or simply someone not liking you.
This trend scares me. Alot.
So now I have to wonder on how long it is before Microsoft adds this clause to their EULA. Imagine that every time you buy a used computer you have to buy a new copy of windows, or pay a fee to transfer this.
What this ruling really does is give software vendors free reign to fuck over people with licensing agreements and if companies that deal in indispensable software, like Microsoft, get a mind to pull some antics like this it could really hurt the consumers.
And dont argue with me about whether any software is truly indispensable, most of it is still in wide use and and isnt going to change any time soon.
A quick google search showed several free "Turn your webcam into a CCTV" products that may fit the bill. Most of them allow for internet transmission and while I'm not sure about their longevity, It may be another option.
I believe that this numbers station is actually a countdown timer for the army of robots created by the soviets in the 80s. When the buzzing sounds end and another codephrase is sent the army will rise up from their vaults that were placed strategically around the world by traveling vacuum salesmen and spread the glorious message of communism, with lasers.
As a test I went to a couple of sites of ill repute and watched a couple of free videos, then cleared my Firefox cache. Afterwards, I searched my computer for.flv and.mp4 files and couldnt find anything, so to the casual search most of you should be safe with your
It wasn't so much the content, as he was, in a laymans way, more or less correct. The flak comes from the rambling old-man-time's way of describing his point of view that he used. Also, the fact that he is completely out of touch with the internet as he seemed to mix up the words EMAIL and INTERNETS, he obviously hadn't used either in quite a while, if ever.
Any more I find network latency to be alot more important to me than the actual throughput of my connection. Being able to use my remote service software without as much lag is proving to be more useful to me than being able to download all the porn on the internet at 20 Mbps. I am quite happy with my current provider for that.
Another game to add to this: Supreme Commander 2. They gimped the game so hard just so they could get it to work on an xbox, removed all of the larger maps, pulled most of the unit and building variety, and capped the unit count at half of what it was capable of before. Way to go removing the epic large battles to make a few more bucks, and I do mean A FEW since im sure no one in their right minds would buy this title on an xbox.
Im a former Gateway/MPC tech and there were some issues with 2610 series Mobos having onboard NICs that would burn out on gigabit networks, engineering was aware of the issue but due to the flaky nature of the business at the time all we could do to fix it would be to send a expansion NIC to work around the issue. Dont know if thats useful or not but I hope it helps.
Oh, FYI, I got laid off back in october, and the reason that MPC went under was simply BAD MANAGEMENT. Jeff Yeros (the CEO) had a habit of promising creditors and shareholders things without completely thinking things through, and when his well laid plans inevitably fell apart, so did the company. Jeff treated the company like a college student might treat their first credit card, buying a whole bunch of stuff all at once and then figuring out that the part time job they have cant pay all of the bills that they've racked up with it.
There has always been that HSPC "testing station" that can be used for alot of the same uses being touted for this hunk of junk.
Personally, I dont really care to spend 190 for a not-that-pretty open air case that doesnt protect at all especially when the only use i can think of for this (easy access for testing) can just as easily be accomplished by screwing some standoffs into a piece of plywood in my opinion.
I'm guessing that this could easily be a hoax since the link supplied in the post goes to someone's IP address. It would be a relativly simple matter to make up a page that LOOKS like it could have come from Google Cache and throw the info on it that shows Microsoft offering Ubuntu Linux.
So apperently the way this works is that if I do something wrong to basically avoid doing more work later, I'm supposed to get off the hook? If they aren't convicted mare sure to keep this news away from small children everywhere or there will be alot of angry parents!
Depending on what type of info is on this new RFID system, I dont know why this would nessisarily be a bad thing. Im assuming that the RFID tattoo would basicaly just contain a reference number. A scanning system would then connect to a government server and download the information stored there for whoever was reading the scanner. This would allow for provacy protection as Im assuming that the only info that would be on there is info the government already has, (i.e. Name, Age, Birthdate, Address, etc...) most of which is already available on your state drivers liscence which they could ask you for anyways.
I just view this as almost more of a convenience thing for us, as I dont like standing in line at airport security any more than anyone else.
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It is illegal for government works to be copyrighted, including their documents.
Just tell the students to go onto facebook or myspace an play every stupid little game or take every stupid little quiz in sight. Then, tell them to click on every stupid little "get a xxxxxxxx degree in weeks" advert they see, and download whatever is recommended on those sites. Find a suitably infected machine, create an image off that machine, and you're set.
I'm actually not joking, this is what I do when I want to play with whatever viruses are currently in the wild.
Microsoft is purchasing this in anticipation of starting a virtual brothel in Xbox Live. Subscribers will be able to pay real money to participate in virtual (fake) sex acts with complete strangers.
Maybe you shouldn't do any of those stupid things. You don't have to go to parties and act stupid and if you decide to go to parties and act stupid then you live with the consequences.
I think you're missing the point. Alot of things can be taken out of context or you could be discriminated against just for the way you live. I could be the most productive person in the world and also spend every night at a rave, why does it matter to my employer if im a lush outside of work if I do my work well? This just highlights how corporations are moving in on areas they should have absolutely no say in. Between this and FICO scores determining who is hire-able, we're on the road to causing long term harm to people's livelihoods over a simple mistake, misunderstanding, or simply someone not liking you. This trend scares me. Alot.
So now I have to wonder on how long it is before Microsoft adds this clause to their EULA. Imagine that every time you buy a used computer you have to buy a new copy of windows, or pay a fee to transfer this. What this ruling really does is give software vendors free reign to fuck over people with licensing agreements and if companies that deal in indispensable software, like Microsoft, get a mind to pull some antics like this it could really hurt the consumers.
And dont argue with me about whether any software is truly indispensable, most of it is still in wide use and and isnt going to change any time soon.
A quick google search showed several free "Turn your webcam into a CCTV" products that may fit the bill. Most of them allow for internet transmission and while I'm not sure about their longevity, It may be another option.
I believe that this numbers station is actually a countdown timer for the army of robots created by the soviets in the 80s. When the buzzing sounds end and another codephrase is sent the army will rise up from their vaults that were placed strategically around the world by traveling vacuum salesmen and spread the glorious message of communism, with lasers.
I for one welcome our new robot overlords...
meant to have (insert silly porn here) on the end
As a test I went to a couple of sites of ill repute and watched a couple of free videos, then cleared my Firefox cache. Afterwards, I searched my computer for .flv and .mp4 files and couldnt find anything, so to the casual search most of you should be safe with your
It wasn't so much the content, as he was, in a laymans way, more or less correct. The flak comes from the rambling old-man-time's way of describing his point of view that he used. Also, the fact that he is completely out of touch with the internet as he seemed to mix up the words EMAIL and INTERNETS, he obviously hadn't used either in quite a while, if ever.
Rig up water cooling to exhaust the heat out of the back of the PC
Any more I find network latency to be alot more important to me than the actual throughput of my connection. Being able to use my remote service software without as much lag is proving to be more useful to me than being able to download all the porn on the internet at 20 Mbps. I am quite happy with my current provider for that.
Another game to add to this: Supreme Commander 2. They gimped the game so hard just so they could get it to work on an xbox, removed all of the larger maps, pulled most of the unit and building variety, and capped the unit count at half of what it was capable of before. Way to go removing the epic large battles to make a few more bucks, and I do mean A FEW since im sure no one in their right minds would buy this title on an xbox.
And here I was thinking it had already gone away... Silly me.
Im a former Gateway/MPC tech and there were some issues with 2610 series Mobos having onboard NICs that would burn out on gigabit networks, engineering was aware of the issue but due to the flaky nature of the business at the time all we could do to fix it would be to send a expansion NIC to work around the issue. Dont know if thats useful or not but I hope it helps.
Oh, FYI, I got laid off back in october, and the reason that MPC went under was simply BAD MANAGEMENT. Jeff Yeros (the CEO) had a habit of promising creditors and shareholders things without completely thinking things through, and when his well laid plans inevitably fell apart, so did the company. Jeff treated the company like a college student might treat their first credit card, buying a whole bunch of stuff all at once and then figuring out that the part time job they have cant pay all of the bills that they've racked up with it.
There has always been that HSPC "testing station" that can be used for alot of the same uses being touted for this hunk of junk. Personally, I dont really care to spend 190 for a not-that-pretty open air case that doesnt protect at all especially when the only use i can think of for this (easy access for testing) can just as easily be accomplished by screwing some standoffs into a piece of plywood in my opinion.
I'm guessing that this could easily be a hoax since the link supplied in the post goes to someone's IP address. It would be a relativly simple matter to make up a page that LOOKS like it could have come from Google Cache and throw the info on it that shows Microsoft offering Ubuntu Linux.
So apperently the way this works is that if I do something wrong to basically avoid doing more work later, I'm supposed to get off the hook? If they aren't convicted mare sure to keep this news away from small children everywhere or there will be alot of angry parents!
Depending on what type of info is on this new RFID system, I dont know why this would nessisarily be a bad thing. Im assuming that the RFID tattoo would basicaly just contain a reference number. A scanning system would then connect to a government server and download the information stored there for whoever was reading the scanner. This would allow for provacy protection as Im assuming that the only info that would be on there is info the government already has, (i.e. Name, Age, Birthdate, Address, etc...) most of which is already available on your state drivers liscence which they could ask you for anyways. I just view this as almost more of a convenience thing for us, as I dont like standing in line at airport security any more than anyone else.
My guess is that Blake is just irritated that a search on Google for the term "web browser" brings up Opera first and Firefox second :)