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while there may be reasons to like or dislike cheese, lactose intolerance should not default to hating cheese. i know someone that is slightly lactose intolerant, but he loves his pizza. granted, it turns him into the amazing human whoopee cushion, but if you leave a window or two open all is good.

leave your penguin in the icebox where it belongs. :haha: :haha: boxing day is the day after christmas

i think the question/opinion was that while fabbing a chip once it goes into series is a lot cheaper than the retail, the number of 40 bucks for a 670 buck retail seemed too low.

yeah. ms deploys the 360 to 3 continents several weeks before christmas. children all over the world get it under the tree. and then on boxing day, the insidious bioweapon is harbored deploys, the xbox sprouts it's biomechanically engineered legs, boosts the power to its laser and bills bid for world domination commences. you better not pout you better cry you better watch out i'm telling you why x-box-bot is coming to town.

it does not reflect costs of design and marketing. doh! design is the most expensive part of the process. materials are nada. some silicates, a smidge of precious metals. the 40 bucks sounds a bit too low for the elaborate fab processes needed though. wonder what other costs were left out. power? staff? the factory itself?

dsl is great in one way, lets you use existing potus lines to deploy broadband by modulating a high freq signal onto them. the problem lies in the range restriction imposed by the same wires. the cheap low quality conductors can carry the signal only so far, it degrades rapidly. so the farther you are from your telco's switch, the lower your maximum speed you can get. as for outages, you need to ask people in your area how their experience with it is, if your telco is running the dsl, expect about the same service quality. if it's a third party you have no way of prediciting other than polling other customers.

i lost count of the times i stood at the checkout and noticed a flickering dot out of the corner of my eye. then again i am fairly tall and i guess a lot of people are shielded from the scanner field by the counter or the register, whatever. but those things are harmless, else you can be assured someone would have pulled a class action lawsuit out of their hat against em.

how do you know he's from an island?

i'm not sure of the classes and don't feel like googling for it, but i think class 1 is the kind that is irritating but harmless if looked into directly. like a supermarket checkout and the like.

DOH! i just noticed he completely revamped his post to look respectable. oh well.

i think it's averaging a useless post or two a day.

kodak dx7440. on sale kodak direct 200. so cheaper elsewhere. i added 30 bucks for hicap battery. (it comes with standard battery and charger and i added a 512 meg sd card. with the 512 meg it's good for ~250 4 MP pics in the high qual compression or 48 minutes of 320x240 25 fps quicktime. it has a 4x optical and 4x digi zoom and a shitload of manual options to get pix just right. but good qulity snapshiot as well. file size 1.5 to 2.5 meg per 4 mp pic.

price range on that camera?

well, how sophisticated or discerning do you think a print reader that everyone including radio shack sells for under 100 bucks is? if it feels a warmish body (if it even checks that, some dont) and sees the print it wants to see, it doesn't really care. more sophisticated systems check for an actual pulse and other life signs and the better concepts still require a password just to be sure they are not being tricked as described.

they even managed to fool an iris scanner. the scanner wouldn't take just the printed photo of the iris, they had to cut out the pupil and put a real eye behind it to fool the depth perception mechanism the camera was apparently using. iirc the fake fingers were basically rubber blanks made with latex into which they etched the print lifted of various surfaces with a normal print kit with photosensitive laquers. once they had the process down they stated they could snag a mug or glass, lift the print and have a working dummy finger in less than 15 minutes.

not csi. a german computer mag did a big test a few years back where they took all the biometric sensors available at the time and checked for vulnerabilities.

lose aohell. then research his location for high speed internet and have him use the monthly aohell fee he saves to get that.

registration has slowed because everyone is waiting to be number 15000...

the one pictured looks like the print sensor is an area sensor. those are unsafe as the residual oils left by a print can be used to fool it. after the authed user logs in an unauthed user can use a plastic bag of warm water to simulate a finger touching it and the oils left behind will actually fool the reader. safer are the ones that make you swipe your finger across a line sensor, as there is no usable residual print left behind. other than those problems, it is ridiculously easy to fashion a fake finger with a few commercially available products . (if you get a glass or similar that has the print you want)

exactly, that and the fact that the installation did not become faulty over time but was substandard from day one should help. if you don't have them you should see if you can get a hold of the tech that came out and get the writeup documents he made to prepare for a possible small claims court proceeding.

so you think i shouldn't be punished with hard time if i paint your house DayGlo Pink. that would /only/ be vandalism. on which note, contact your local transit authority and ask them how much they pay a year to repair vandalism, which you seem to find so harmless, i.e. redecorated stations, rail cars, buses and the like. well, slashing the tires on your car would be considered a prank. and that is the equivalent to someone screwing up someones website or their comp. they need to invest time and money to remedy the problem. if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it is a duck. crime is crime, no matter how it's perpetrated. and to every crime there is a victim, no matter how far removed the perpetrator is removed from it. my point is not the semantics of what to call the criminals, my point is that any malicious act in the 'virtual' world (that term being BS in itself since every act on the web affects the 'real' world) should be punished the same way a malicious act in the 'real' world should be. but since so many say that all information is free, i guess i'll go and liberate myself a nice plasma tv so i can watch my free information in HD.

then i would make sure before flashing that a new bios version will actually have the options you want. i flashed a board successfully long time ago, i did gain 0.3 percent speed. but 2 weeks later i saw a buddy flash his, the program aborted for some arcane reason or other, and he ended up with a dead bios chip, rendering his board useless. it's a fairly easy diy project, but it does have its risks. and i am not so sure a bios revision for a board used in retail boxes would inclue a change as drastic as overclocking options. usually a bios revision is released to fix "real" problems in the bios that cause hanging under certain conditions and the like, not for cosmetics.

at this point i would suggest checking if the support peeps at your isp can help you there.

pin looks ok. remember, you're bouncing that ping all the way into geosync orbit and back. even at light speed, that takes some time.