Sony already declared war on hackers that's what started all this.
What annoys me is Sony picked the fight without checking that their security was up to snuff.
The viao's are just junk these days they look pretty but hinge problems, bad screen connections, keys popping off, ect ect. They have always been a bit more fragile than the compition but the last four I have worked on have been less than a month old and had to be RMAed.
Ahh You are leaveing out that peice of dung Win ME that was rolled out along side of Win 2k. ME was the reason that XP was pushed out the door so fast, it was broken from the getgo. Microsoft needed a OS that they could sell to home users that wouldn't cause them to ask thier techy friends about finding a copy of win98se for them.
And the construction industry will beat a path to your door. Yes screws are a better fastener but they take much longer to install driving the labor costs up. This is a case where they applied complex tech to the design of something simple and improved it.
That takes in said items we use them to refurbish computers which we in turn hand off to other charities around the world. WWW.interconnection.org will gladly take OS as well as hardware.
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I work at a not for profit computer refurbisher so Voodoo is what I do day in and day out. Some choice bits from this last month are;
The system that refused to install win2k until I walked over and clicked the install button. The volunteer had been fighting it all morning as had a couple of other techs. I didn't do anything they didn't do it just liked me.
Getting a dead system to run again by turning it upside down. I am going to assume that it had a short some where that opened, or a loose chip that the movement reseated.
Standing there with a wireless NIC antenna in my hand because that was the only way the system would see the network.
That seems to be going to a lot of trouble to produce a bomb that might not make it through the checked baggage screening process. I predict the next rash of bombings are going to be in the terminals themselves. Right outside of the security gates where you have huge crowds of people standing in line with their shoes off. The political impact is the same, the amount of destruction is in the same general range, and you don't have to bother with trying to get to a hardened target like an airplane.
TFA describes their "pride over technical cunning." I never thought about those people trying to bypass my popup or spam blocker actually being proud of their spawn.
No person ever really thinks he is evil. These coders are just doing a job and collecting a paycheck.
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Sony already declared war on hackers that's what started all this. What annoys me is Sony picked the fight without checking that their security was up to snuff.
The viao's are just junk these days they look pretty but hinge problems, bad screen connections, keys popping off, ect ect. They have always been a bit more fragile than the compition but the last four I have worked on have been less than a month old and had to be RMAed.
Ahh You are leaveing out that peice of dung Win ME that was rolled out along side of Win 2k. ME was the reason that XP was pushed out the door so fast, it was broken from the getgo. Microsoft needed a OS that they could sell to home users that wouldn't cause them to ask thier techy friends about finding a copy of win98se for them.
And the construction industry will beat a path to your door. Yes screws are a better fastener but they take much longer to install driving the labor costs up. This is a case where they applied complex tech to the design of something simple and improved it.
That takes in said items we use them to refurbish computers which we in turn hand off to other charities around the world. WWW.interconnection.org will gladly take OS as well as hardware. Mike Yust Donation Coordinator
I was just about to mention this when I saw your post. Clear skys!
Nukes is there nothing they can't do. :P
If nothing else the IRS could nab him for tax evasion if he didn't pay taxes on prizes he acquired in game.
I work at a not for profit computer refurbisher so Voodoo is what I do day in and day out. Some choice bits from this last month are; The system that refused to install win2k until I walked over and clicked the install button. The volunteer had been fighting it all morning as had a couple of other techs. I didn't do anything they didn't do it just liked me. Getting a dead system to run again by turning it upside down. I am going to assume that it had a short some where that opened, or a loose chip that the movement reseated. Standing there with a wireless NIC antenna in my hand because that was the only way the system would see the network.
It's not the X rays they have to get past it's the chemical sniffers that detect the trace amounts of gas that a block of explosive gives off.
That seems to be going to a lot of trouble to produce a bomb that might not make it through the checked baggage screening process. I predict the next rash of bombings are going to be in the terminals themselves. Right outside of the security gates where you have huge crowds of people standing in line with their shoes off. The political impact is the same, the amount of destruction is in the same general range, and you don't have to bother with trying to get to a hardened target like an airplane.
TFA describes their "pride over technical cunning." I never thought about those people trying to bypass my popup or spam blocker actually being proud of their spawn. No person ever really thinks he is evil. These coders are just doing a job and collecting a paycheck.