[Hippo]

my parents tried to limit me once... i downloaded a key tracker and ued their password to disable my limiting... shortly thereafter, the computer needed to be re-formatted, and they never cared how long i was on, as long as it wasn't late a night, and my homework was done... now that it was summer, they didn't care if i spent 13 hours on it, as long as i didn't all of a sudden gain 50 pounds or stop being semi-social...

You people don't know how to bypass a monitor power shutdown?

[diamondgeezer]

Originally posted by Rictor
I wonder if our generation will finally turn out to be the "cool" parents and not get freaked out by technology.

I saw an advert yesterday for a Mac with a 21" widescreen flat-panel monitor. That freaked me out, I don't mind admiting. What a waste of a beautiful monitor

[Grey Wolf]

WTF? Cutting power to the monitor? I sincerely doubt it actually physically cuts power to the monitor. I would think that's beyond the technical capabilities of a soccer mom to install. What does it do, cut the signal from the video card?

[Hippo]

no... the monitor is plugged in through a timer that disconnects the monitor when the timer runs out. some fat people use a generator that they have to pedal the whole time they use the computer...

[Woolie Wool]

[mall mom]Oh NO! What am I to do? Now Junior will never grow up to be a sensitive pissant middle-class pinhead like me! *bawls*[/mall mom]

Hell, if I were one of those kids, I'd just kill the program and overwrite the executable with zeroes, and then chuckle as Mr. and Mrs. Dumbass spend hours with tech support trying to find out why Windows is saying "whatever.exe is not a valid Win32 application".

I think it's the soccer moms who need to grow up, throw out their pie-in-the-sky world, and embrace technology.

I have an idea for a game show: Computer nerds visit soccer moms' houses and wreak all kinds of harmless havoc on their computers, like causing Doom to run every time the computer starts, changing Windows' colors to all kinds of horrible shades, configuring the sound scheme to play a sound clip of Beavis and Butthead going "Huhhuhhuhuhhuhhuhuhhuh" every time a window opens, etc. A soccer mom that manages to undo all the changes gets $10,000.

[Nico]

Originally posted by Hippo

You people don't know how to bypass a monitor power shutdown?

I never had to try it, mind you. nobody messes with my computer. well, at least, they never do it twice.

[Grey Wolf]

Originally posted by Hippo
no... the monitor is plugged in through a timer that disconnects the monitor when the timer runs out. some fat people use a generator that they have to pedal the whole time they use the computer...

Then why not, I don't know, remove the timer and, say, smash it with a sledgehammer?

[Kamikaze]

Or, even better, take the timer out and put it back when you're done.

The article seems to imply it's software though.

[Hippo]

Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009
Then why not, I don't know, remove the timer and, say, smash it with a sledgehammer?

sometimes the power plug from the monitor is locked in with a padlock... you can kill the power to the timer, and when it resets, the monitor comes alive again...

I think it's the soccer moms who need to grow up, throw out their pie-in-the-sky world, and embrace technology.

*shudders*

I... agree... with you...

*shudders*

[Admiral LSD]

Originally posted by Hippo
no... the monitor is plugged in through a timer that disconnects the monitor when the timer runs out. some fat people use a generator that they have to pedal the whole time they use the computer...

Serious? I'd have thought it far simpler to use a software solution which sends the DPMS blanking pulses (you know, the ones that blank your monitor and turn it's power light orange if you leave it long enough?) after the time runs out...

[StratComm]

Have we really gotten to the point that sarcasm is lost upon us?  Honestly.  At any rate, I don't see how this will work because at most all one would have to do is identify the process monitoring time online and kill it.  And since most kids know more about computers than their parents...

[Unknown Target]

unfortunately for me, when I'm at home, my parents monitor me very strictly (at least since High School). But they don't use any timing stuff. They give me one hour, and that's it.

[Admiral LSD]

Originally posted by StratComm
Have we really gotten to the point that sarcasm is lost upon us?  Honestly.  At any rate, I don't see how this will work because at most all one would have to do is identify the process monitoring time online and kill it.  And since most kids know more about computers than their parents...

Well it is AOL we're talking about...

[StratComm]

oh, didn't realize this was AOCrap

[Flipside]

I used to be with them, then one day I discovered the Internet.....

Flipside

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by StratComm
oh, didn't realize this was AOCrap

Reason #248340585623975252572545705826520 not to use AOL.

[diamondgeezer]

From what I know of AOL... using it would be nothing short of a living hell if you knew what the internet was supposed to be. It doesn't bear thinking about. And to think they charge the same as proper ISPs...

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
From what I know of AOL... using it would be nothing short of a living hell if you knew what the internet was supposed to be. It doesn't bear thinking about. And to think they charge the same as proper ISPs...

They charge two and a half times as much for 56k.

[diamondgeezer]

Ya, I think they charge a squid or two more than my local ISP does for 600k cable. Bastards. They're practically robbing people, charging that kind of money then delivering a fraction of the internet's content

[Hippo]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
From what I know of AOL... using it would be nothing short of a living hell if you knew what the internet was supposed to be. It doesn't bear thinking about. And to think they charge the same as proper ISPs...

*waves*

AOL, 56K, the need to pause any Kazaa downloads just to post a reply...