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| Thread ID: 87083 | 2008-02-07 06:32:00 | Did anyone just see Close Up? | nofam (9009) | PC World Chat |
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| 638209 | 2008-02-07 22:08:00 | What sort of infecund brain does that? Sounds as though, "The lights are on but nobody at home." :illogical Sorry, but this has been annoying me for a while. Why do you use complicated words when small, bite sized ones will suffice? The aim of language is communication, not flowery excluding peacockery. It seems like you're just trying to prove your own intelligence with your vocabulary, and not on your own actual merit. I'm sure you're an intelligent guy, but it's not really the best way to go about showing it. Sorry... just had to say it. |
Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
| 638210 | 2008-02-07 22:45:00 | Sorry, but this has been annoying me for a while. Why do you use complicated words when small, bite sized ones will suffice? The aim of language is communication, not flowery excluding peacockery. It seems like you're just trying to prove your own intelligence with your vocabulary, and not on your own actual merit. I'm sure you're an intelligent guy, but it's not really the best way to go about showing it. Sorry... just had to say it.They were nice, small bite-sized words - the longest one he used was a mere three syllables. If you didn't understand one of them, look it up in a dictionary or google it. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 638211 | 2008-02-07 22:53:00 | It's not that I don't understand them, and actually he was fairly good there. Most of the time though, it's just a bit elitist and quite self indulgent. I find that no matter how big my vocab becomes it pays not to think that it makes you a more intelligent person. Anyway, I wasn't meaning to attack him. Just vent a bit. |
Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
| 638212 | 2008-02-07 22:54:00 | Sorry, but this has been annoying me for a while. Why do you use complicated words when small, bite sized ones will suffice? The aim of language is communication, not flowery excluding peacockery. It seems like you're just trying to prove your own intelligence with your vocabulary, and not on your own actual merit. I'm sure you're an intelligent guy, but it's not really the best way to go about showing it. Sorry... just had to say it. Roscoe wants to sound smarter than he actually is. :rolleyes: |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 638213 | 2008-02-08 03:02:00 | I suppose it was asking a bit much for the WHOLE story to be told on TV. No explanation of how the Mac's firewall was bypassed or even how he identified the IP address being used - unless this "software" was already loaded on the machine. Also, why go on TV and tell the whole country (including your boss) that you were too careless to have backed up your family photos? Very interesting, nevertheless. |
decibel (11645) | ||
| 638214 | 2008-02-08 03:31:00 | Silly question Decibel - Close Up is more interested in Britney Spears than REAL stories! :D It's a good point you raise tho - I'd love to see those guys' D/R plan if they don't even have a $200 NAS device for pics etc. Pretty sure they must have had an SSH client on the Mac - not a standard install, but I'm guessing that as an Admin, he would use it for remote access to servers? |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 638215 | 2008-02-08 04:37:00 | Silly question Decibel - Close Up is more interested in Britney Spears than REAL stories! :D You're right - how silly of me to expect more! Pretty sure they must have had an SSH client on the Mac - not a standard install, but I'm guessing that as an Admin, he would use it for remote access to servers? This is where we need Winmacguy to explain this security breach. |
decibel (11645) | ||
| 638216 | 2008-02-08 21:58:00 | Those who steal are generally of pretty poor intelligence. I have suffered from 2 burglaries in the last 6 or so years - but thanks to my beloved Insurance company now have a much newer laptop and camera. In each case the third example. Funny enough when the insurance company (Tower) complained about my apparent lack of security i agreed, put stays on all windows, installed cameras and had a professional security system installed. To my surprise and delight Tower then reduced my premium. But when I was a school teacher years ago, and the school could not afford decent security I had a few ideas that paid off. 1) We put new locks on the door to the video room and I also put in an old expensive defunct lock. This wasn't even functioning but it was obvious on one attempt the idiots had spent some considerable time trying to find out why they could not pick it. 2) I added a small box crammed with old electronics bits in the room and put a notice up asking teachers "not to ring the security firm if they activated the detecting device during school hours - the firm knew when the school was open." Judging by the smashed device after one burglary the (same!) idiots were terrified they may have been caught out. 3) The cupboard containing the video gear. I added a massive steel door (actually just ms sheet over wood), then welded a strip on the door covering the gap so that they could not insert a jemmy. Pretty successful - but in fact the entire cupboard was just sorta fastened to the light weight wall by very small nails and could easily be pulled off and tipped over. No idiot ever noticed this. 4) One method that can still be used. I added my car licence number in invisible ink, to the VCR unit the school had just bought. In those days this unit came in two pieces, one for the power unit, the other was the tape reader etc. We didn't store the units too close together. This time we lost one of the units but years later the police turned up at my house. Had I had a VCR stolen - they had one with my car number plate on it. They had raided a house on a drugs raid and found one half of a VCR on the mantelpiece. Their ultra violet unit found the number - we got the thing back. Never had been used of course. Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 638217 | 2008-02-08 22:19:00 | 4) One method that can still be used. I added my car licence number in invisible ink, to the VCR unit the school had just bought. In those days this unit came in two pieces, one for the power unit, the other was the tape reader etc. We didn't store the units too close together. This time we lost one of the units but years later the police turned up at my house. Had I had a VCR stolen - they had one with my car number plate on it. They had raided a house on a drugs raid and found one half of a VCR on the mantelpiece. Their ultra violet unit found the number - we got the thing back. Never had been used of course. Tom What sort of ink did you get, and from where? |
somebody (208) | ||
| 638218 | 2008-02-08 22:27:00 | Those who steal are generally of pretty poor intelligence. I have suffered from 2 burglaries in the last 6 or so years - but thanks to my beloved Insurance company now have a much newer laptop and camera. In each case the third example. Funny enough when the insurance company (Tower) complained about my apparent lack of security i agreed, put stays on all windows, installed cameras and had a professional security system installed. To my surprise and delight Tower then reduced my premium. But when I was a school teacher years ago, and the school could not afford decent security I had a few ideas that paid off. 1) We put new locks on the door to the video room and I also put in an old expensive defunct lock. This wasn't even functioning but it was obvious on one attempt the idiots had spent some considerable time trying to find out why they could not pick it. 2) I added a small box crammed with old electronics bits in the room and put a notice up asking teachers "not to ring the security firm if they activated the detecting device during school hours - the firm knew when the school was open." Judging by the smashed device after one burglary the (same!) idiots were terrified they may have been caught out. 3) The cupboard containing the video gear. I added a massive steel door (actually just ms sheet over wood), then welded a strip on the door covering the gap so that they could not insert a jemmy. Pretty successful - but in fact the entire cupboard was just sorta fastened to the light weight wall by very small nails and could easily be pulled off and tipped over. No idiot ever noticed this. 4) One method that can still be used. I added my car licence number in invisible ink, to the VCR unit the school had just bought. In those days this unit came in two pieces, one for the power unit, the other was the tape reader etc. We didn't store the units too close together. This time we lost one of the units but years later the police turned up at my house. Had I had a VCR stolen - they had one with my car number plate on it. They had raided a house on a drugs raid and found one half of a VCR on the mantelpiece. Their ultra violet unit found the number - we got the thing back. Never had been used of course. Tom Could I suggest you move to a better area! |
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