Posts by Captain DaFt 3821 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2007
If the ID scheme goes through, I can pick my target, get a fake driver's licence, gas bill, etc, then pop over, get the National ID card in my target's name with my fingerprints and biometrics on it, then report HIM as being the ID thief, he goes off to where ever they send terrorists these days, since his biometrics don't match the official ID, and I now own his life, right?
Whew, I think that's the longest run-on sentence I've ever done!
Or does this whole article sound like it was lifted straight from a James Bond Novel? Seriously, Mystery company, run by a genius with a troubled past, massive compound with decor designed by said genius....
The only part missing at the end was the revelation of his world conquering plan!
I do believe amanfromMars is a perfect example of the long term effects of cognitive drugs!
Elsewise, I remember reading about how the state one's mind is in when learning something affects how it's remembered later, Ie, if you've had a couple of drinks and then study, you'll do best on the exam with a couple under your belt.
(Well, it's as good an excuse as any!)
Why not just ACTUALLY run DOS or 3,11 on it?
If you have a cracked iPhone, just ssh in and install dosbox (Stop here for those that want DOS on it), then just install 3,11 on top of that, easy! Not very useful unless you have some old Windows/DOS games to add, but loads of laffs!
Coat icon as I'm now fleeing from Windows and Apple fans that finally agree on something, burning me at the stake!.
IS the number of distros! With everyone free to branch off and try different ideas, occasionally somebody comes up with the "Damn! That's so obvious and useful, why didn't I think of that" ideas that everybody promptly adopts.
That said, Exherbo? 'Scuse me, where do they dig up these names? Just draw tiles at random out of a scrabble bag? Yggdrasil, Ubuntu, Xandros, Phlak, Mandriva, Sabayon.... I'd list more, but my spellchecker's having a seizure.
The one they were showing off could burn through 8 centimeters of armor grade steel in less than 3 seconds from a range of .5 kilometers.
They then demonstrated with a block of acrylic. The beam sputtered out about half way through due to the dense smoke.
So, if you don't want something fried with a laser, cover it with plastic! Or just put it in a foggy area, lasers are useless in less than clear conditions!
(I'll be off then, to gitmo, for revealing state secrets!)
"(It'd be fun trying to use Windows without it)"
Actually, it is! http://www.litepc.com/ My Win PC runs just fine with no IE.
(Gah! this sounds like a commercial,) The only reason I still have a windows machine at all is that I need a couple of closed source programs (non-microsoft) that don't have proper UNIX analogs.
So if the Storm Worm is being directed to targets that have Zango installed, obviously there's a weakness in Zango's adware that's being actively exploited, right?
So there's a "Roll it out if it works, who cares if it's secure" line of reasoning in a company that actively seeks to exploit people's PCs with adware? GASP! And the hackers found the weaknesses and are exploiting them? Double-GASP!
Meh, just another reason to keep Zango (or any other adware) off your system.
Weren't you aware that Michiganite is the only thing that can harm the Michelin Man? http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1173/774789874_7cee7c85b9_o.jpg
Of course, even I (DaFt as I am) didn't know there was a human MADE of the stuff! Gads! The Nightmare Super-villain of all car drivers!
Um, where I come from, the "one tequila. two tequila" refers to bottles, not glasses!
So you blokes in Newcastle pass out after HALF a bottle? (Assuming the standard 16 drinks per bottle.)
Skull and crossbones, because a decent drink comes with warning labels to let you know it's worth drinking!
"And why-oh-why does EVERY d*mn web page I come across nowadays ask me if I want to fill in a f*cking survey? I don't. I don't want to do your job for you,"
Oh C'mon! That's the best part of a website to play with! Nothing like letting them "know" I'm an 87 year old lesbian grandmother, and a devout Wiccan Republican with an engineering degree in advanced gravitics!
(And you wonder why those off the wall ads keep showing up?)
If he was mentally incompetent, why was he found guilty of manslaughter instead of the system that released him?
You'd think the bureaucracy that accidentally released a danger to society should be held to responsibility the same way that an individual that accidentally caused a death would be.
Here it's kind of like blaming a carelessly flung hammer for the death instead of the person that negligently flung it.
@Tim: Don't call it anti terror radiation! You'll frighten potential customers with those words, Instead say,"Generates a comforting, terrorist free field." The sucke... er, customers will come flocking! (Geez, doesn't anybody pay attention to market speak anymore?)
@ Steve Liddie: So that was YOU bellowing on the bus? How're them hemorrhoids coming along? (Everybody within earshot heard about them!)
Once I sent a doofus to maintenance to get a door-stretcher when he couldn't figure out how to get a pallet he misloaded into a freight elevator (Obvious solution, restack the pallet correctly)
45 minutes later the foreman asked me where he was. I explained what happened. and the foreman set off in pursuit.
Another 45 minutes pass, and the foreman returns with the doofus and after sending him back to work, wants "A word with me."
It seems the maintenance foreman picked up on the joke, and had sent him to the loading area at the farthest end of the factory.
They in turn, had sent him to another loading dock, where he was sent to a delivery area, and so on and so on.
Of course, the poor foreman had to retrace every route the doofus took in his quest to retrieve him, and was about 50/50 annoyed and amused. I was cautioned "When a damned fool ask a stupid question, give him a straight answer,"
Nah, the system doesn't matter in the end, it's the clueless user.
Set Joe Sixpack up with a nice Linux distribution, and nine times out of ten, it'll be borked in an hour!
("Honest. I dint do nuffin! All I did was go to www.phish.com to download the special linux codec to run that teen BJ video some bloke emailed me! Now when you fix that, can you get outlook runnin' onnit?")
If Psystar had any business sense, they would have gotten a proper licence from the author, or just done EFI natively, and released this as a low cost Linux machine,
THEN let it out, unofficially to the mod community, that it could run OSX natively. The Linux fanboys would be pleased that another Linux machine was in the wild, modders would scramble to get one and install OSX on it, and Steve Jobs would be asking Steve Ballmer for chair throwing tips.
Why, yes, I can think like a scum-sucking CEO, but I try to use my powers for good. ;-)
Back when the DS was first announced, it was touted as having PDA functionality. Nintendo even stated they were talking with Palm about it.
http://www.pdastreet.com/articles/2005/3/2005-3-3-Nintendo-DS-PDA.html
Now, much time has passed, and aside from homebrew, there's no mention of it.
Maybe, just maybe, when a new DS comes out, it'll have it?
Until then, I'll just have to get by with my Lifedrive, with its impossible to see in bright light screen.
For any and all of those that have ever actually dared to inquire "Where's the IT angle?", I posit this tidbit of wisdom from my mentor;
"In today's world, with the proliferation of WiFi, and satellites transmitting the internet to every nook and cranny of the globe, every person on Earth now has porn passing through their body, 24/7." - Dhamma Absu
Dunno why, but I get the warm fuzzies just thinking about it, the Ultimate IT Angle!
Reinstall every 6 months? No offense, but why?
My machine running 98SE has been going strong for over two years (I bought it reconditioned) and runs better now than when I first powered it up!
I recommend Orphans Remover ( www.digiarch.org ) and TweakNow registry cleaner ( www.tweaknow.com ) to keep the cruft cleared out. They're both free, and work (at least for me).
Oh, and no matter what spyware or anti-virus you're using, I recommend using something like Startup Guard ( www.acelogix.com ) as an added layer of protection. That way, at least you get a second chance to prevent it if something slips through and tries to install itself.
It's my only Windows machine, the other two run Puppy or Vector. I keep it because some great programs run on 98 that won't run on anything else. (The same reason I have Win 3.11 running in emulation.)
How about this little link that appears at the top of the article, just below the title:
Nail down your security priorities. Ask the experts and your peers at The Register Security Debate, April 17, 2008 ?
Seems like El Reg jumped on the bad taste bandwagon with this one!
I couldn't find one!
There's half a dozen Wal Marts within 35 miles of me, and not one of them carried it! Even the online outlet said "local stores only", so that wasn't any help either.
This computer, like the Eee PC, seems to have been a mythical animal, much talked about, but never actually seen in the wild.
Shame too, I was looking, still am, for a low spec, off the shelf system just to use as an internet only machine. Oh well...
(Seriously, El Reg needs a WTF? icon!)
After the big bang there would have been a whole stew of particles and anti-particles in close proximity. Naturally if an electron and positron (for instance) collide, they totally annihilate each other and become energy. But what about dissimilar particles and anti-particles, say a muon and a positron? Then you'd have a great deal of energy AND a particle as a result.
Enough random asymmetrical collisions take place, and you have a chance to end up with a mostly positive (or negative) universe with a lot of energy. Just like we observe now.
So it all really boils down to;
"The Universe just happened to happen like it happened, otherwise we wouldn't happen to be here to argue about how it happened." -Dhamma Absu
I thought all this seemed familiar, so I checked, Yep, it went down before and Microsoft couldn't fix it. (They forgot to pay their hosting bill back in 1999)
Maybe somebody should drop a note to Michael Chaney?
http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/19061/linux-advocate-keeps-microsofts-hotmail-running.html
That seems to be the one thing that's never mentioned as probable cause.
Once upon a time, bees were kept by bee-keepers in clusters of hives that sat in one place.
Then somebody had the clever idea of mounting bee hives on trailers and carting them around to pollinate crops on a rental basis.
Bees navigate by environmental cues, such as position of the sun and terrain. Suddenly uprooting the bees on a weekly basis disrupts the cues, since the hive is no longer where it was when the bees last left the hive. Plus, the effects of constant shipping (being locked in the hive for days, through temperature swings, coupled with unfamiliar jostling) puts the bees under a stress they never encounter naturally.
Look at it from a personal perspective, Every week or so, at random, you wake up to find your home in a completely different area. Now you have to figure out which way to go to get to work, and hope you can remember the way home again afterward! How stressful do you think you'd find that situation?
Their recent flurry of acquisitions resembles AOL's sudden push to acquire Time Warner back in 2000.
Steve Case saw the writing on the wall, both for dial-up and the dotcom bubble, and merged the transient value of AOL stock with Time Warner. After the bubble burst, the new AOL Time-Warner took a big hit, but not the headshot AOL alone would have taken.
So, what exactly does Microsoft see looming that has them grabbing at acquisitions before their value slips away? What's supposed to happen this summer when Billy says aloha?
(I haven't a clue, but then I rarely do!)
I can follow amanfrommars quirky postings, but this IS gibberish!
Looks like the handbook for our times, "1984", was wrong when it stated that thought control would be achieved by reducing the number of words in language.
Here's a prime example of controlling thought by injecting so many words into the language that definition disappears, causing thought control by obfuscation!
Never mind the jacket, I'll just run off screaming into the night!
And nobody's pointed out that the US government has rolled out their own, security hardened version of the linux kernel long ago: www.nsa.gov/selinux/
That's the value of linux, don't like the way it it works, roll your own version!
Like this one: tinfoilhat.shmoo.com/ Tinfoil Hat Linux, linux for the true paranoid!
(Yes, It's real)
Now, I'll take my coat, it's the rough canvas one with the brass buckles and the sporty, tie-behind-the-back sleeves.
I'm surprised that so many people have trouble understanding amanfromMars.
It's simply IT related word association interspersed into an otherwise straight-forward message.
For a simple guide to understanding what he's on about, I refer you to Monty Python's Word Association Sketch by John Cleese, complete with translation guide: http://www.oslc.com/templates/cusoslc/details.asp?id=29361&PID=304743
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