well if you really wanted to, you could just park your car in their living room.

it also fires shells that cost more than a car.

They'd actually retracted this policy before this post even went live, likely a ploy for publicity.

Interestingly enough, I know which company you work for and I used to work for them at what used to be the residential headquarters. In truth, you're going to find that, at least from my past experience, they've already made up their minds and anything you bring to the table isn't going to have any attention paid to it until long after something catastrophic fails and leaves you without a backup. What I had wanted to do, and what local staff had always wanted to do, was bring everything back in house on the local data centers so that production never stopped when the outside links went down; we were ignored. I do wish you the best of luck in this endeavor though, i mainly only commented because I know what you're going through first hand.

but what do i know, i only know the guy.

Or he reverse engineered the locks for a project and learned this as part of that process.

Yes, yes i can. All of my vehicles were built before the government mandated nanny system explosion, so my brakes are tied directly to driver input, not some resistor and relay switch.

my 'real' enterprise uses LEAP based authentication with a hidden SSID, the leap login is based on your AD username and password, and it ties directly into the local network without VPN. so, clearly, while this is an exceptionally shitty method of doing things, 'real' enterprises do stupid shit, though in one instance we have here at least, there isn't a better way, or, not much of a better way. I'd go WPA, but it's not my call, and not my network, i just fix it when it breaks.

Windows/AD based networks are just as legitimate as any other, the System administrators are just as legitimate as any other, and as soon as you put aside your arrogance, you'll realize that most businesses run windows on their office machines, and AD to manage logins. That said, my place of employment is an international corporation, so, we qualify as Real Enterprise, and the switches have no down-ports, so the 'walk in, plug in, profit' method would work just fine. i'm not in charge of the network, so it's not my problem, but i still recognize the potential flaws in the system.

my mother was a potato cannon you insensitive clod!

Sorry, my bad A-12.

That wasn't an SR-71, it's a YF-12. Yes, there *is* a difference.

i don't know about you, but my car didn't come with a contract.

This. I had a demo once, expired after one hour, but i spend most of that hour looking at settings to get it to work correctly, and never had an actual chance to PLAY the demo. so i deleted it, re installed it. It was still expired, hidden reg key that i never did find.

Well, since this is an educational institution, wouldn't it be the eMargin?