Not a bad idea. I was recently pulled over by an attractive female officer in my home town (for forgetting to put my registration sticker on my plate); I didn't ask her for her phone number because I thought it would seem like I was trying to get out of a ticket (even though there wasn't one). Maybe I should hire that kid who "pranks" swat teams to people's homes to send her to mine...
How do you intend to get a PC class keyboard and display into a smartphone?
Docking port. My old Ipaq 3975 has a sleeve that allows for VGA-out, and a foldable full size keyboard. That's with tech that's years old.
Just wait until you get a bluetoothy-style wireless docking port/monitor/dumb-terminal that uses whatever "new smartphone" that's sitting on its docking area as its CPU/RAM/Storage. Every CEO in the world will want one "new smartphone" and five docking stations. Once they're inexpensive enough, most home users would use these too. Unfortunately, they'd give information security departments fits, so no one in a corporation but the high muckety-mucks and salesmen will be able to use them for business.
Unfortunately, laser-projection still seems to use too much energy, otherwise, it would be yet another way to have a large display in a small package.
I call fakery. Everyone knows that Apple fanbois who are fervent enough in their beliefs as to produce psychic phenomena are photo-silicavores. They wouldn't dream of eating anything that has DNA.
This excel hack uses things in excel that shouldn't exist in a spreadsheet program, thus don't exist in others. It's kind of like someone using "M-X dunnet" to play a text-based game in emacs (even though the full functionality is already there). To ask if vi can do the same would garner different responses (with the same answer) from different sides of the vi/emacs divide.
You're joking, right? I know three huge businesses that install IEEE 1394 ports (as well as libraries and educational institutions). Their view is that a uniform hardware profile is best, and a significant proportion of the business (or students, or public), needs firewire. Tada: security holes all over the place. Granted, the businesses need keycards to get in, so all the hackers will be inside jobs, but I wonder how many of my old colleagues are wondering how to disable all the firewire remotely, and only re-enable on-demand?
There are usually ways to mitigate physical control, though. When I put a computer in a public place, I can lock its case, lock it to the table, lock the bios setup, set bios to boot only to HDD, etc etc. If this machine needs firewire for the public, then I can't assume that bios settings will protect my OS. This vulnerability is kind of like running a version of apache with known security flaws as root, and just not plugging in your network cable; Anyone can plug a cable in, and you're hosed. Firewire needs a Firewall; maybe when a device is detected, the driver allocates a bunch of RAM and uses that bunch instead of getting to do DMA.
This doesn't protect multi-user systems; If I'm the sysadmin, and I get a request for a department to have a workstation with firewire so they can upload video, I need to put the machine in place assuming it will get owned (use a throwaway admin password; constantly reimage the thing to nuke keyloggers; never log in to the machine; auto-login so people don't use their passwords; remove from the network so people don't use their passwords; suddenly this machine is becoming useless); Bleh.
This hack can be done on a machine that has its case physically locked, its bios set to boot only to the HDD, and a good bios-setup password. It's the firewire equiv to a remote exploit over the 'net, because the OS you want to own is _running_ at the time.
The only saving grace is that someone must be physically present to plug in a device. This is still an issue though; imagine how many machines might be pseudo-public terminals, locked down (w/o epoxy in the firewire ports), but are so easily own-able, allowing people to install keyloggers?
or intentional "goodwill" of the owner of the glass. "wow, I need to improve the economy, I'd better break this glass!" (as a result, two people's times are wasted). Same with junk snail mail: Very few people read the stuff, so it wastes at least three people's time a _lot_ (writer, reader, carrier).
Then you'll hate the stats in TFA: Kobolds have 27 HP, and a first level wizard with a 10 Con has 20 HP. Also notice that the wizard heals 5 HP 6 times a day, so now a wizard can take 40 arrows in the chest at first level.
Yes, 50% of those shows suck. That leaves you with 2 proven good spinoffs (the Simpsons excluded since it's not _really_ a spinoff of the tracey ulman show). Of course, GP would have to have a _lot_ of spinoffs to match the touted 99.999999999999999999999% suckage stats.
This is made getting into the box for cleaning or repair a pain. I always turned them sideways next to the monitor if I could. I did kind of like the Sparc IPX mini boxes though; very stackable.
Memory... a seven year old's is quite fluid. "My favorite food is steak" might morph into "My favorite food is ice cream" or "I like steak" or "I like eating" or "I like my little pony". Passphrases might be easier than g%jP22094jmqqlDMSk, but they're still memory-based.
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Not a bad idea. I was recently pulled over by an attractive female officer in my home town (for forgetting to put my registration sticker on my plate); I didn't ask her for her phone number because I thought it would seem like I was trying to get out of a ticket (even though there wasn't one). Maybe I should hire that kid who "pranks" swat teams to people's homes to send her to mine...
Docking port. My old Ipaq 3975 has a sleeve that allows for VGA-out, and a foldable full size keyboard. That's with tech that's years old.
Just wait until you get a bluetoothy-style wireless docking port/monitor/dumb-terminal that uses whatever "new smartphone" that's sitting on its docking area as its CPU/RAM/Storage. Every CEO in the world will want one "new smartphone" and five docking stations. Once they're inexpensive enough, most home users would use these too. Unfortunately, they'd give information security departments fits, so no one in a corporation but the high muckety-mucks and salesmen will be able to use them for business. Unfortunately, laser-projection still seems to use too much energy, otherwise, it would be yet another way to have a large display in a small package.
I call fakery. Everyone knows that Apple fanbois who are fervent enough in their beliefs as to produce psychic phenomena are photo-silicavores. They wouldn't dream of eating anything that has DNA.
Sounds remarkably intelligent and creative. Sanity =/= Intelligence
According to TFA, the only customers he seems to _really_ care about are the daycare kids.
This excel hack uses things in excel that shouldn't exist in a spreadsheet program, thus don't exist in others. It's kind of like someone using "M-X dunnet" to play a text-based game in emacs (even though the full functionality is already there). To ask if vi can do the same would garner different responses (with the same answer) from different sides of the vi/emacs divide.
Mods? How can the first post be redundant? Troll maybe, or flamebait, but redundancy requires a similar post first.
Except when he play a module himself and casts Resurrection...
There will have to be a miracle attributed to Mr. Gygax postmortem first; would GenCon turning a profit this year be miraculous enough?
Nevertheless, I bow to superior rule-lore.
You're joking, right? I know three huge businesses that install IEEE 1394 ports (as well as libraries and educational institutions). Their view is that a uniform hardware profile is best, and a significant proportion of the business (or students, or public), needs firewire. Tada: security holes all over the place. Granted, the businesses need keycards to get in, so all the hackers will be inside jobs, but I wonder how many of my old colleagues are wondering how to disable all the firewire remotely, and only re-enable on-demand?
There are usually ways to mitigate physical control, though. When I put a computer in a public place, I can lock its case, lock it to the table, lock the bios setup, set bios to boot only to HDD, etc etc. If this machine needs firewire for the public, then I can't assume that bios settings will protect my OS. This vulnerability is kind of like running a version of apache with known security flaws as root, and just not plugging in your network cable; Anyone can plug a cable in, and you're hosed. Firewire needs a Firewall; maybe when a device is detected, the driver allocates a bunch of RAM and uses that bunch instead of getting to do DMA.
This doesn't protect multi-user systems; If I'm the sysadmin, and I get a request for a department to have a workstation with firewire so they can upload video, I need to put the machine in place assuming it will get owned (use a throwaway admin password; constantly reimage the thing to nuke keyloggers; never log in to the machine; auto-login so people don't use their passwords; remove from the network so people don't use their passwords; suddenly this machine is becoming useless); Bleh.
The only saving grace is that someone must be physically present to plug in a device. This is still an issue though; imagine how many machines might be pseudo-public terminals, locked down (w/o epoxy in the firewire ports), but are so easily own-able, allowing people to install keyloggers?
But exceedingly common in universities.
or intentional "goodwill" of the owner of the glass. "wow, I need to improve the economy, I'd better break this glass!" (as a result, two people's times are wasted). Same with junk snail mail: Very few people read the stuff, so it wastes at least three people's time a _lot_ (writer, reader, carrier).
Then you'll hate the stats in TFA: Kobolds have 27 HP, and a first level wizard with a 10 Con has 20 HP. Also notice that the wizard heals 5 HP 6 times a day, so now a wizard can take 40 arrows in the chest at first level.
Who else but Quagmire?!? geekoid, apparently.
Yes, 50% of those shows suck. That leaves you with 2 proven good spinoffs (the Simpsons excluded since it's not _really_ a spinoff of the tracey ulman show). Of course, GP would have to have a _lot_ of spinoffs to match the touted 99.999999999999999999999% suckage stats.
Sorry, that's death sticks.
You don't want to sell me death sticks.
You want to go home and rethink your life.
This is made getting into the box for cleaning or repair a pain. I always turned them sideways next to the monitor if I could. I did kind of like the Sparc IPX mini boxes though; very stackable.
More than ten years ago, I edited a lab's windows 95 machines so that they would boot win.com under moslo.com at 33% of proc speed. Not quite as good as Mr. Pooter's 'puters though: http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=465612&cid=22547740
Not entirely true; there are more than a few PPC blades out there running linux; and they're bought in bulk for number crunching.
Memory... a seven year old's is quite fluid. "My favorite food is steak" might morph into "My favorite food is ice cream" or "I like steak" or "I like eating" or "I like my little pony". Passphrases might be easier than g%jP22094jmqqlDMSk, but they're still memory-based.