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Been using the mac for 5 years now, never heard of the ‘PRAM’

What is mercury retrograde anyways?

Answer: Mercury retrograde is a time when things can go wrong, thus proving Murphy’s Law.

Password enabled blog

How do I submit a comment to Prof H’s blog. The browser keeps sending me back, “don’t forget the caps”????

Anyway-

Sorry to hear of your woes dear Prof. Hope you feel better quickly. Last year you mentioned that you fell down walking the dog. The mac is easily replaced, not broken body parts. Just ask “Eddie Sutter” who has a broken knee.

THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW YOUR CELL PHONE COULD DO.

There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies.  Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival.  Check out the things that you can do with it:

FIRST
Subject: Emergencies
The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you find yourself out of the coverage area of your mobile; network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly this number 112 can be
dialed even if the keypad is locked. Try it out.

SECOND
Subject: Have you locked your keys in the car?
Does your car have remote keyless entry? This may come in handy someday.  Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their cell phone from your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object.  You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other “remote” for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk). Editor’s Note: It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a cell phone!”

THIRD
Subject: Hidden Cell Phone Battery Power
Imagine your cell battery is very low. To activate, press the keys *3370# Your cell will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery.  This reserve will get charged when you charge your cell next time.

FOURTH
Subject: How to disable a LOST or STOLEN mobile phone?
To check your Mobile phone’s serial number, key in the following digits on your phone: * # 0 6 # A 15 digit code will appear on the screen.  This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe.  When your phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless. You probably won’t get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can’t use/sell it either. If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones. And Finally…

FIFTH
Subject: Beat extra phone costs.
Cell phone companies are charging customers $1.00 to $1.75 or more for 411 information calls when they don’t have to. Most of us do not carry a telephone directory in our vehicle, which makes this situation even more of a problem. When you need to use the 411 information option, simply dial:
(800) FREE 411, or (800) 373-3411 without incurring any charge at all.  Program this into your cell phone now.

SL on tonight’s news

They talked about SL around 10:30 pm on Fox 61 news.

Not us, though.

Female Chimps made and used spears on prey

Females — the main makers and users of spears among the Senegalese chimps — tend to be the innovators and creative problem solvers in primate culture.

What about human intelligence and machine intelligence? Will the machine have a symbiotic relationship with a live creature?

What goes around comes around

Work like you don’t need the money.
Love like you’ve never been hurt.
Dance like nobody’s watching.
Sing like nobody’s listening.
Live like it’s Heaven on Earth.

His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog.
He dropped his tools and ran to the bog.There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself.
Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.
The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman’s sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.
“I want to repay you,” said the nobleman. “You saved my son’s life.”
“No, I ca n’t accept payment for what I did,” the Scottish farmer replied waving off the offer. At that moment, the farmer’s own son came to the door of the family hovel.
“Is that your son?” the nobleman asked.
“Yes,” the farmer replied proudly.
“I’ll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education my own son will enjoy If the lad is anything like his father, he’ll no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of.” And that he did.
Farmer Fleming’s son attended the very best schools and in time, graduated from St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted
Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.
Years afterward, the same nobleman’s son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia.
What saved his life this time? Penicillin.
The name of the nobleman?
Lord Randolph Churchill .. His son’s name?
Sir Winston Churchill.
Someone once said: What goes around comes around.

Work like you don’t need the money.
Love like you’ve never been hurt.
Dance like nobody’s watching.
Sing like nobody’s listening.
Live like it’s Heaven on Earth.

Virtual felony Law suit in RL court

“A suit was filed in a real US state court on behalf of a man whose avatar was ousted and his Second Life land confiscated after Linden Labs concluded he got the property via rigged online auctions. Hackers broke into Second Life computers last year and stole membership data, raising concerns that the avatars could be stripped of the anonymity that frees them to express their inner selves in the fantasy world.”

This loss of privacy is an important change to society. It means that we will leave an even wider audit trail through our lives than we do now. And it’s not only a matter of making sure this audit trail is accessed only by “legitimate” parties: an employer, the government, etc. Once data is collected, it can be compiled, cross-indexed, and sold; it can be used for all sorts of purposes. It can be accessed both legitimately and illegitimately. And it can persist for your entire life.

Paul Virillio paints a morbid picture in his book, ‘The Information Bomb’, about the loss of privacy in our lives.  He warns against the long-term physiological, psychological, and cultural impacts of an environment suffused and fueled by digital information. “A digitally dominated environment is one in which the capacity to distinguish between reality and virtual reality atrophies because people no longer possess the mental ability necessary to actually know the world—or even themselves. The power of information technology to penetrate, stupefy, de-fuse the human mind, and wreak havoc on information infrastructures is akin to the power of radioactivity to penetrate matter—to destroy, mutate, and contaminate for centuries. An information bomb ticking away in those short nose-to-screen distances between mind and machine, tethering what is “known” to what is selected/presented/transmitted/packaged/advertised/highlighted.”

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