Dave Gelertner is also famous as one of the UNABOM victims who survived. He originally wrote a book called "Mirror Worlds" that offered a theoretical means to digitally replicate the natural world in a way that would be indistinguishable from the original. After publishing this book he received a mail bomb from the UNABOM (purported to be FBI detainee Ted Kaczynski) which prompted him to stop publishing, remove the book from distribution, and re-write another book under the same title that some consider a complete retraction of the original premise.
It's not amateurish to take the accused at their word? Have you or anyone you know verified or disproved the accounts of either of the parties, at all?
The more I read the more upset I am. There are now several different stories floating around about this.
Many sources are purporting that the Samsung Keylogger incident was a false alarm raised by an incompetent person. However, some of these sources are Samsung the company itself.
Two questions:
1. Why would Samsung self-implicate if they were innocent? According to the article, they did state to the author that they were complicit.
2. Why hasn't this been verified in a technically sound and competent manner? Most of the feedback I'm reading are a bunch of tweets and retweets either trying to create or destroy confidence in Samsung and/or in the story, with no technical backing and no apparent technical backGROUND. One dutch site takes hearsay for science and promotes itself as holding a definitive opinion. Etc.
IF it is true, here's what you do about that: tell everybody in every media you can about the incident. suggest that it would be wise to stop using or buying samsung computers as they are potential minefields of security nightmares and backdoors. tell everybody with samsung stock to sell samsung. don't buy it when the price dips -- just leave it alone. let them die miserable out in the cold -- teach companies a lesson not to do this to consumers.
It's obvious "why" engineering grads will become financiers instead. There's money in it, immediately, as in now. It requires no ingenuity, no inventiveness, no tinker time, no being robbed of credit for your idea by less productive peers (no having to come up with ideas in the first place), no dealing with the impossibly thick and almost conspiratorially inept and skewed patent and trademark office, no long and drawn-out research and development, and on, and on.
If you don't want to be an inventor "solving problems" then there are only so many engineering "jobs" out there, most of them in the military. How are you supposed to apply your engineering degree if there's not really a huge demand for engineers? Why don't you put the blame where it belongs, and stop scapegoating the graduate.
Chess and its entire paradigm Whreupon two "masters" (differwnt from the rest of us) Seat humched over one board (which if you arent playing, dont touch) Where what your autonomous thought aays to do with the board is denigrated beneath the rules created centuries ago
It is a great occasion for kudos. This is a modern tragedy!!!... From now on, this is what *could have been happening*, anytime anyone wins, anywhere!!!
Out of every response ive garnered in tese fifteen minutes, yours is te most lucid and sees the most clearly theough the entire issue. But sadly, you are wrong. Even im random play there are board Configurations that cannot be rwached, and in the real set there are branches upon which one player sits already imminently defeated by any competitive opponent, and within the remaining competitive set there is a set we could say is noncompetitive or we could say is randomized. But it doeant break through its subset notation into anything more grand; rather , within what would be to a computer a narrow instance of plays closely following a line of entropy, there is an opportunity to destroy the hopes of a system based of memorization of openings and so-far-successful middle games, that opportunity being proporionate to one's own memory space versus the opponent's. We could add an optimization and it would still be about resources in an unknown. Which against a fellow computer is a procedure; only a human ho hasmt thought it through believes its achieving something outside the game or improving its life and not wasting its time playing.
I say this because I know fame theory and i know that if chess is a balanced game there is a theoretical point to always achieve stalemate. I searched for it for ten years and interviewed an amazing array of hobbyists and scholars and i can assure you, chess is not balanced.
You think you can flagrantly insult me without base and find a foothold? You're a hapless romantic, nervously prizing chess for purely sentimentalist motives. You're no intellectual or you would be able to find no quarrel in any of my conjectures.
If you just want to troll, there's 4chan (or so i hear). If you need more there's irc. But you've officially earned te reward of "longest response to an obviously unmotivated troll in over ten years".
From yours truly, Eyenot
P.S. You dont't even know me, whar a laugh! Please, roast me again in the future, troll!
Chess is for autistic, gullible, unimaginative people who should be stuck im the dark ages if at all and in any way possible.
That it teaches strategy is a misnomer; the limitations on the game's entire possible data set is a cul-de-sac that the player enters willingly, with one ruse: that white is entering the room with black behind holding the knife, whereas in actuality the first player "leads" in the sense of gesturing into the room (wherein lies the end) and follows as black is forced to respond to the initial gesture.
If two gods were to play, white would forever win. This we *do* know as indisputable fact. Icingly we can also store all nine piece endgames -- ALL of them, possible, probable, or not -- on a singlle Digital Video Disc.
Chess does nothing but pigeomhole otherwise useful mental cycles. I't's all niches and workout, no payoff or analogy. Even simple study of naval warfare would be a better exertion for every single one of chess's claimed passive benefits. For the active, well, modern gameplay has surely provided better. Golf. Football. Flight sims. aNYTHING is closer to reality.
Some people believe chess is mystical because we cannot yet compute it all. The same people believe human conciousness can exist in electrons and transistors (but not the equivalent in even a trillion abacii). Chess is an abacus compared to what we can achieve today in challenges and discoveries. The holdover is entirely for nostalgia.
These young men showed it up is all. If the scheme had been more actively encryptable, and the answers to questioning prepared more carefully, they would have ruined exhibition chess for the rest of eternity.
So saying, they have done so by proxy. I applaud their genius and so should every instructor alive today, for the liberation they exposed.
I read TFA, and seriously, it meanders and sort of wilts away before it's even halfway through. It's almost like the people interviewed to support the theory abandon the theory mid-sentence and just give up trying to say that, seriously, people threw all this trash into one spot and did this.
Are we to go against all of our understanding of native Americans being a people who utilize every single remnant of every possible thing in some design, or tool set, or medicine? All of a sudden there's this idea to just "chuck shit into the bog over there" until it makes an island just sort of out of nowhere?
Somebody else on/. already commented that it's far more likely that this was a conscious effort to raise the land above sea level for habitation. If I recall this is already folk lore about the natives in Florida, that they purposefully land-filled sections of the Everglades. If that's the case how is this news?
One person asked if there wasn't some sign that those natives were "already agricultural". I believe there is a lot of evidence supporting the idea that any attempts to subdue and reform natural environs is directly evidence of domestication of some plant or animal, and that domestication and agriculture are fairly frequent bedfellows. So I'd guess probably.
And another person remarked that it's just as likely that these sediment layers formed on top of existing humps of land and that the discarded remnants of -- what again? Animal matter -- were left behind by their fellow animal predators. There's nothing in the article about broken pottery, tools, or any other signs of human habitation, just "peat", "soil" (as differentiated from peat which is a soil form, so I'm guessing sandy soil mixture), "bones" and "guano". Peat is just semi decayed plant matter. Any standing or accumulating water that can host plant life can produce peat. The only remaining question is what moves large amounts of soil around. It wouldn't even take moving a large quantity of soil to create these mounds.
There are so many possible and even likely scenarios, that I had to wonder what their evidence was. But there are no cited findings in TFA. Just some theories!
And then there's this entire slant, the whole way it's presented from title to certain remarks in the article, that suggest it's alright to haphazardly discard trash. Even going so far as to contradict the founded image of natives as conservationist and leading waste-less lifestyles. So I'm wondering, wtf? Who asked this person to writ this article, do they have vested interest in waste management, and was there money involved?
The theorist is from Canada. I live in Michigan and I know firsthand that Canada prefers to dump their trash in America.
Michiu kaku will predict that one day we wont collectively need or wany the quantum flux statesnproduced by michiu kakus continued existence so well wish him out of history. George boori, art bell, richard hoagland, and bill nye the science guy will surround kaku and atempt to sbvert his quantum presence with the ghosts of half of albert einstein and half of mister wizard. They will be unsucessful so we will chamge quantum states to avoid paradox ehich is impossible, and just wish him into an iceberg made of junk, science, and washed-up fringes. Michiu kaku will be right but dead, the resultung revelation inspired paradoxialironic tension will result in a mass conclusion that michiu kaku was wrong but died anyway.
Had a typical midwesterner conversation this morning in college. It wasn't over exactly this antivirus fakeout, but it led up to the flaws behind the antivirus system, namely the symbiotic relationship between virus/antivirus. But the reason the antivirus companies make so much money, and the reason why fake virus attacks work, and so on, is because people are educated from the wrong directions.
This morning, after somebody realised I was a computer programmer they asked if I could hack into computer systems. Once we got past my incredulous phase where I can't believe somebody would ask something like that out in the open in front of other people, it came down to, "no, I can't, or if I can I don't want to".
Do you walk up to people and say "could you jack a car?" "Could you murder somebody?" Just right out in the open, not even meeting them? Try it out like this: do you tell them, "yeah, oh yeah!" You know how much federal time that is, right out the gate? By the time you affirm something like that, it's not the other person's liable time, either, it's yours. Even if it's also illegal to ask in the first place, seeking to conspire over these things and soliciting such skill through such a line of questioning.
But if it's computer hacking, well everybody feels that's a great thing. Everybody wants to know a hacker, see a hack going on. This is why it's very lucrative to make games where a person believes they are hacking a computer system, but never to make it very complex: they wouldn't know a hack if they were one, but they love the idea of trumping all this new-fangled computer nonsense that puts knots in their brains and makes them feel inferior. Oh, if only they could hack the machine and get it out of the damn way and just get down to brass tacks and business.
So I had to weather wave after wave of this guy begging for the reality of the grey-hat market. That maybe it's okay to commit computer crimes because if you get caught, you won't go to jail, the NSA will show up with the men in black and hire you into the upper, upper, uppity echelon of secret dream, top-level, wish fulfillment and instant gratification the real world won't let you have.
He promoted himself as some kind of brilliant business person, because he's spending money to go to college for business. He didn't even know to bring cash with him to do the printing he needed for this uppity business class trip of his, and wasn't independent minded enough to put it together on his own. I explained to him how to put the scanner and the printer together through the computer and pay for it off his printing account instead. I didn't even get a thanks, just a frankly indifferent, self-scolded, urban-culture "yeah that'll work that's cool".
So, when he got on me about where's all the grey hat money money, I told him, it's not supposed to be like that. The systems should be installed properly and used properly the first time. You don't go around giving your housekey away to strangers all in order to sustain the police records filing level industry, do you? You keep your shit secure because you want it. You do that because that's what your instincts want, is security. That's exactly what an employer is thinking, too. They aren't saying, hey, I want holes in my security to hire a grey-hat, so I'm going to go buy a security system, have it installed properly, and then have a mad hatter at the front desk surfing the web from an admin level unpatched windows desktop and taking bathroom breaks with the system password post-it noted over the keyboard numerical pad. That way I can hire a cool-sounded thing, like, the rugged individualist down on his luck who got caught stealing my wife's credit card number and now has been hand-picked by the NSA to come to me to charge me twice for my security: once to point out how I screwed it up and again to install the whole new system.
When I put it to him like that, he said, well, ha-ha, it's obvious you don't know biz-niss. I explained as well as I could that, in fact, he doesn't know bu
I would think the Yellowstone caldera is a more frightening prospect and more worth mentioning than the San Andreas. They both seem to me to be pretty much closely connected and one is likely to set off the other. But it never gets mentioned, probably because the prospect of the western half of the United States going through a Krakatoa-like event is rather harrowing and would drive people away from the Northwest (which for those people wouldn't be a bad idea).
In Japan there's an increasingly popular accessory called Poken. It's a little molded plastic cute or cool object that resembles something that you'd like to show people. It might be a flower, or a play character, a cat or robot, something syndicated maybe, or so on. Anyways, you put it near a new acquaintance's Poken, and the two Poken exchange vitals: email address, etc. Whatever you authorized your Poken to share. When you get home after a day of hearty Pokening, you attached it to your computer and retrieve all the new contacts.
I would get one but nobody in America is using anything like this let alone this particular brand. Since it's already fairly popular in Japan I suggest we all might look into this cheap alternative to teh business card.
Of course......... you know I'll be holding out for a memristor version before I invest in mine. Because it's not real if it isn't Memristor.
make that a memristor sandwich and you would have my interest. in fact i've decided not to buy another pc until it features AMOLED and memristor memory. fuck these other "advances", they're just trying to stall the inevitable or grab some of the remaining market time. toshiba just got quaked and everybody's bitching about how memory's going to go up. someone is inevitably going to attempt to capitalize on that, but unless it's the *actual*, new, advance it's not really "advanced". so opt out of planned obsolescence and hold out for memristor from HP.
Hold up there, orson. Its not that cheating people cheat and post about it online -- its that they're using online to find who ta cheat with ta beginwith! Hoss!
In my opinion, one of the greatest outcomes of the fall of "Victorian" gender politics and social mores has been the emergence of open admission to "swinging". Sometimes two similarly pent-up, high-pressure, low-curiosity types meet, compat, and spend the rest of ther natural lives together. But anybody who's at least 18 knows from anecdotes that those are the extreme rarity, and can conclude that marriages based on being like that are either situations of denial (of some fundamental fact) or gambles, or just the result of peer pressure. Refreshingly, in this day and age, a man and a woman can do what they will. People who aren't trying to become icons of eldritch tradition have a much better chance staying together if they agree that instead of parting over the seeming inevitable, that they will wholeheartedly embrace it. Accepting that "extra marital" desires are natural (and powerful) and something to go along with will show the couple what they're really made of; the alternative is to resign their remaining lives to loyal membership in something that bears little or no resemblence to normal human desire. Anyways, kudos to those who share the knowledge that there is life after marriage (and not only as some ironic cliche).
Your stricture is a harsh and oppressive environment. *heavy breathing* your wife is going to think twice about it at the first opportunity *heavy breathing* she's gonna meet somebody who has what you don't: newness and fun *heavy breathing* because of your repression and the law of forbidden fruit, even thinking about letting him fuck her in the break room is gonna feel better than the same ol you've pigeonholed her into *breathing heavy* and when she finally lets loose and lets him cream her vulnerable pussy, its gonna feel better for her than anything she can remember, all because of you.... You, and every other schmuck truing to live in a fantasy land of perfect security and shoring it up with bullshit like marriage. Listen to biology: every married man is a wanmabe cuckold.
More proof that facebook is a holy roman conspiracy. Quick everybody switch over to handfasting and ICQ before they crush us into a dark age of bondage orgies and skype.
Wow, for the first time in generations it looks like nerds face a challenge they might actually be up to.
You don't censor criticism and mere mention.
What every t......n fan should do, now, is give them what they want: never mention the crazy old coot or his hillbilly descendents ever again.
That shit was rotting your brain, any way. Learning enough about middle earth to make reading the books worthwhile is equivalent to several college courses, only fewer people want to employ you if you mention your intimate knowledge of middle earth languages, history, and geography. Pssst -- its lame.
These reclusive and obviously business- and politics-retarded layabouts are giving you the challenge, now, to quit suckling fantasy and engage more in reality. NO, not by mastering a dungeon with your dice and pencil friends. NO not by taking a degree in Harry Potter instead.
Just walk away from the dumb shit, and never look back. You'll be able to say, "I did this really adult thing, once."
Slashdot Mirror
Dave Gelertner is also famous as one of the UNABOM victims who survived. He originally wrote a book called "Mirror Worlds" that offered a theoretical means to digitally replicate the natural world in a way that would be indistinguishable from the original. After publishing this book he received a mail bomb from the UNABOM (purported to be FBI detainee Ted Kaczynski) which prompted him to stop publishing, remove the book from distribution, and re-write another book under the same title that some consider a complete retraction of the original premise.
Yes it is their SOULS that are down there. Quick! Go down there, and get thee their SOULS!
It's not amateurish to take the accused at their word? Have you or anyone you know verified or disproved the accounts of either of the parties, at all?
No, no, no, you don't go to the ACCUSED as the source! Jesus. WTF... they already admitted complicity!
The more I read the more upset I am. There are now several different stories floating around about this.
Many sources are purporting that the Samsung Keylogger incident was a false alarm raised by an incompetent person. However, some of these sources are Samsung the company itself.
Two questions:
1. Why would Samsung self-implicate if they were innocent? According to the article, they did state to the author that they were complicit.
2. Why hasn't this been verified in a technically sound and competent manner? Most of the feedback I'm reading are a bunch of tweets and retweets either trying to create or destroy confidence in Samsung and/or in the story, with no technical backing and no apparent technical backGROUND. One dutch site takes hearsay for science and promotes itself as holding a definitive opinion. Etc.
IF it is true, here's what you do about that: tell everybody in every media you can about the incident. suggest that it would be wise to stop using or buying samsung computers as they are potential minefields of security nightmares and backdoors. tell everybody with samsung stock to sell samsung. don't buy it when the price dips -- just leave it alone. let them die miserable out in the cold -- teach companies a lesson not to do this to consumers.
It's obvious "why" engineering grads will become financiers instead. There's money in it, immediately, as in now. It requires no ingenuity, no inventiveness, no tinker time, no being robbed of credit for your idea by less productive peers (no having to come up with ideas in the first place), no dealing with the impossibly thick and almost conspiratorially inept and skewed patent and trademark office, no long and drawn-out research and development, and on, and on.
If you don't want to be an inventor "solving problems" then there are only so many engineering "jobs" out there, most of them in the military. How are you supposed to apply your engineering degree if there's not really a huge demand for engineers? Why don't you put the blame where it belongs, and stop scapegoating the graduate.
Chess and its entire paradigm
Whreupon two "masters"
(differwnt from the rest of us)
Seat humched over one board
(which if you arent playing, dont touch)
Where what your autonomous thought aays to do with the board is denigrated beneath the rules created centuries ago
Yeah
Youre a real social poster child
Bravo!
It is a great occasion for kudos. This is a modern tragedy!!! ... From now on, this is what *could have been happening*, anytime anyone wins, anywhere!!!
Do you see the breakthrough?
Truly the game is the player!!!!
Ho / who
Firat / first, etc.
(ipod 2g)
Out of every response ive garnered in tese fifteen minutes, yours is te most lucid and sees the most clearly theough the entire issue. But sadly, you are wrong. Even im random play there are board Configurations that cannot be rwached, and in the real set there are branches upon which one player sits already imminently defeated by any competitive opponent, and within the remaining competitive set there is a set we could say is noncompetitive or we could say is randomized. But it doeant break through its subset notation into anything more grand; rather , within what would be to a computer a narrow instance of plays closely following a line of entropy, there is an opportunity to destroy the hopes of a system based of memorization of openings and so-far-successful middle games, that opportunity being proporionate to one's own memory space versus the opponent's. We could add an optimization and it would still be about resources in an unknown. Which against a fellow computer is a procedure; only a human ho hasmt thought it through believes its achieving something outside the game or improving its life and not wasting its time playing.
I say this because I know fame theory and i know that if chess is a balanced game there is a theoretical point to always achieve stalemate. I searched for it for ten years and interviewed an amazing array of hobbyists and scholars and i can assure you, chess is not balanced.
Firat player wins, that is chess.
Oh my god, shut up.
You think you can flagrantly insult me without base and find a foothold? You're a hapless romantic, nervously prizing chess for purely sentimentalist motives. You're no intellectual or you would be able to find no quarrel in any of my conjectures.
If you just want to troll, there's 4chan (or so i hear). If you need more there's irc. But you've officially earned te reward of "longest response to an obviously unmotivated troll in over ten years".
From yours truly,
Eyenot
P.S. You dont't even know me, whar a laugh! Please, roast me again in the future, troll!
Chess is for autistic, gullible, unimaginative people who should be stuck im the dark ages if at all and in any way possible.
That it teaches strategy is a misnomer; the limitations on the game's entire possible data set is a cul-de-sac that the player enters willingly, with one ruse: that white is entering the room with black behind holding the knife, whereas in actuality the first player "leads" in the sense of gesturing into the room (wherein lies the end) and follows as black is forced to respond to the initial gesture.
If two gods were to play, white would forever win. This we *do* know as indisputable fact. Icingly we can also store all nine piece endgames -- ALL of them, possible, probable, or not -- on a singlle Digital Video Disc.
Chess does nothing but pigeomhole otherwise useful mental cycles. I't's all niches and workout, no payoff or analogy. Even simple study of naval warfare would be a better exertion for every single one of chess's claimed passive benefits. For the active, well, modern gameplay has surely provided better. Golf. Football. Flight sims. aNYTHING is closer to reality.
Some people believe chess is mystical because we cannot yet compute it all. The same people believe human conciousness can exist in electrons and transistors (but not the equivalent in even a trillion abacii). Chess is an abacus compared to what we can achieve today in challenges and discoveries. The holdover is entirely for nostalgia.
These young men showed it up is all. If the scheme had been more actively encryptable, and the answers to questioning prepared more carefully, they would have ruined exhibition chess for the rest of eternity.
So saying, they have done so by proxy. I applaud their genius and so should every instructor alive today, for the liberation they exposed.
I read TFA, and seriously, it meanders and sort of wilts away before it's even halfway through. It's almost like the people interviewed to support the theory abandon the theory mid-sentence and just give up trying to say that, seriously, people threw all this trash into one spot and did this.
Are we to go against all of our understanding of native Americans being a people who utilize every single remnant of every possible thing in some design, or tool set, or medicine? All of a sudden there's this idea to just "chuck shit into the bog over there" until it makes an island just sort of out of nowhere?
Somebody else on /. already commented that it's far more likely that this was a conscious effort to raise the land above sea level for habitation. If I recall this is already folk lore about the natives in Florida, that they purposefully land-filled sections of the Everglades. If that's the case how is this news?
One person asked if there wasn't some sign that those natives were "already agricultural". I believe there is a lot of evidence supporting the idea that any attempts to subdue and reform natural environs is directly evidence of domestication of some plant or animal, and that domestication and agriculture are fairly frequent bedfellows. So I'd guess probably.
And another person remarked that it's just as likely that these sediment layers formed on top of existing humps of land and that the discarded remnants of -- what again? Animal matter -- were left behind by their fellow animal predators. There's nothing in the article about broken pottery, tools, or any other signs of human habitation, just "peat", "soil" (as differentiated from peat which is a soil form, so I'm guessing sandy soil mixture), "bones" and "guano". Peat is just semi decayed plant matter. Any standing or accumulating water that can host plant life can produce peat. The only remaining question is what moves large amounts of soil around. It wouldn't even take moving a large quantity of soil to create these mounds.
There are so many possible and even likely scenarios, that I had to wonder what their evidence was. But there are no cited findings in TFA. Just some theories!
And then there's this entire slant, the whole way it's presented from title to certain remarks in the article, that suggest it's alright to haphazardly discard trash. Even going so far as to contradict the founded image of natives as conservationist and leading waste-less lifestyles. So I'm wondering, wtf? Who asked this person to writ this article, do they have vested interest in waste management, and was there money involved?
The theorist is from Canada. I live in Michigan and I know firsthand that Canada prefers to dump their trash in America.
Wait i just got a glimpse of the future!
Michiu kaku will predict that one day we wont collectively need or wany the quantum flux statesnproduced by michiu kakus continued existence so well wish him out of history. George boori, art bell, richard hoagland, and bill nye the science guy will surround kaku and atempt to sbvert his quantum presence with the ghosts of half of albert einstein and half of mister wizard. They will be unsucessful so we will chamge quantum states to avoid paradox ehich is impossible, and just wish him into an iceberg made of junk, science, and washed-up fringes. Michiu kaku will be right but dead, the resultung revelation inspired paradoxialironic tension will result in a mass conclusion that michiu kaku was wrong but died anyway.
Had a typical midwesterner conversation this morning in college. It wasn't over exactly this antivirus fakeout, but it led up to the flaws behind the antivirus system, namely the symbiotic relationship between virus/antivirus. But the reason the antivirus companies make so much money, and the reason why fake virus attacks work, and so on, is because people are educated from the wrong directions.
This morning, after somebody realised I was a computer programmer they asked if I could hack into computer systems. Once we got past my incredulous phase where I can't believe somebody would ask something like that out in the open in front of other people, it came down to, "no, I can't, or if I can I don't want to".
Do you walk up to people and say "could you jack a car?" "Could you murder somebody?" Just right out in the open, not even meeting them? Try it out like this: do you tell them, "yeah, oh yeah!" You know how much federal time that is, right out the gate? By the time you affirm something like that, it's not the other person's liable time, either, it's yours. Even if it's also illegal to ask in the first place, seeking to conspire over these things and soliciting such skill through such a line of questioning.
But if it's computer hacking, well everybody feels that's a great thing. Everybody wants to know a hacker, see a hack going on. This is why it's very lucrative to make games where a person believes they are hacking a computer system, but never to make it very complex: they wouldn't know a hack if they were one, but they love the idea of trumping all this new-fangled computer nonsense that puts knots in their brains and makes them feel inferior. Oh, if only they could hack the machine and get it out of the damn way and just get down to brass tacks and business.
So I had to weather wave after wave of this guy begging for the reality of the grey-hat market. That maybe it's okay to commit computer crimes because if you get caught, you won't go to jail, the NSA will show up with the men in black and hire you into the upper, upper, uppity echelon of secret dream, top-level, wish fulfillment and instant gratification the real world won't let you have.
He promoted himself as some kind of brilliant business person, because he's spending money to go to college for business. He didn't even know to bring cash with him to do the printing he needed for this uppity business class trip of his, and wasn't independent minded enough to put it together on his own. I explained to him how to put the scanner and the printer together through the computer and pay for it off his printing account instead. I didn't even get a thanks, just a frankly indifferent, self-scolded, urban-culture "yeah that'll work that's cool".
So, when he got on me about where's all the grey hat money money, I told him, it's not supposed to be like that. The systems should be installed properly and used properly the first time. You don't go around giving your housekey away to strangers all in order to sustain the police records filing level industry, do you? You keep your shit secure because you want it. You do that because that's what your instincts want, is security. That's exactly what an employer is thinking, too. They aren't saying, hey, I want holes in my security to hire a grey-hat, so I'm going to go buy a security system, have it installed properly, and then have a mad hatter at the front desk surfing the web from an admin level unpatched windows desktop and taking bathroom breaks with the system password post-it noted over the keyboard numerical pad. That way I can hire a cool-sounded thing, like, the rugged individualist down on his luck who got caught stealing my wife's credit card number and now has been hand-picked by the NSA to come to me to charge me twice for my security: once to point out how I screwed it up and again to install the whole new system.
When I put it to him like that, he said, well, ha-ha, it's obvious you don't know biz-niss. I explained as well as I could that, in fact, he doesn't know bu
I would think the Yellowstone caldera is a more frightening prospect and more worth mentioning than the San Andreas. They both seem to me to be pretty much closely connected and one is likely to set off the other. But it never gets mentioned, probably because the prospect of the western half of the United States going through a Krakatoa-like event is rather harrowing and would drive people away from the Northwest (which for those people wouldn't be a bad idea).
In Japan there's an increasingly popular accessory called Poken. It's a little molded plastic cute or cool object that resembles something that you'd like to show people. It might be a flower, or a play character, a cat or robot, something syndicated maybe, or so on. Anyways, you put it near a new acquaintance's Poken, and the two Poken exchange vitals: email address, etc. Whatever you authorized your Poken to share. When you get home after a day of hearty Pokening, you attached it to your computer and retrieve all the new contacts.
I would get one but nobody in America is using anything like this let alone this particular brand. Since it's already fairly popular in Japan I suggest we all might look into this cheap alternative to teh business card.
Of course ......... you know I'll be holding out for a memristor version before I invest in mine. Because it's not real if it isn't Memristor.
Let's have this a regular column, bi-weekly or weekly until Japan is effectively back on their square.
make that a memristor sandwich and you would have my interest. in fact i've decided not to buy another pc until it features AMOLED and memristor memory. fuck these other "advances", they're just trying to stall the inevitable or grab some of the remaining market time. toshiba just got quaked and everybody's bitching about how memory's going to go up. someone is inevitably going to attempt to capitalize on that, but unless it's the *actual*, new, advance it's not really "advanced". so opt out of planned obsolescence and hold out for memristor from HP.
Hold up there, orson.
Its not that cheating people cheat and post about it online -- its that they're using online to find who ta cheat with ta beginwith! Hoss!
In my opinion, one of the greatest outcomes of the fall of "Victorian" gender politics and social mores has been the emergence of open admission to "swinging". Sometimes two similarly pent-up, high-pressure, low-curiosity types meet, compat, and spend the rest of ther natural lives together. But anybody who's at least 18 knows from anecdotes that those are the extreme rarity, and can conclude that marriages based on being like that are either situations of denial (of some fundamental fact) or gambles, or just the result of peer pressure. Refreshingly, in this day and age, a man and a woman can do what they will. People who aren't trying to become icons of eldritch tradition have a much better chance staying together if they agree that instead of parting over the seeming inevitable, that they will wholeheartedly embrace it. Accepting that "extra marital" desires are natural (and powerful) and something to go along with will show the couple what they're really made of; the alternative is to resign their remaining lives to loyal membership in something that bears little or no resemblence to normal human desire. Anyways, kudos to those who share the knowledge that there is life after marriage (and not only as some ironic cliche).
Your stricture is a harsh and oppressive environment. *heavy breathing* your wife is going to think twice about it at the first opportunity *heavy breathing* she's gonna meet somebody who has what you don't: newness and fun *heavy breathing* because of your repression and the law of forbidden fruit, even thinking about letting him fuck her in the break room is gonna feel better than the same ol you've pigeonholed her into *breathing heavy* and when she finally lets loose and lets him cream her vulnerable pussy, its gonna feel better for her than anything she can remember, all because of you. ... You, and every other schmuck truing to live in a fantasy land of perfect security and shoring it up with bullshit like marriage. Listen to biology: every married man is a wanmabe cuckold.
More proof that facebook is a holy roman conspiracy. Quick everybody switch over to handfasting and ICQ before they crush us into a dark age of bondage orgies and skype.
Wow, for the first time in generations it looks like nerds face a challenge they might actually be up to.
You don't censor criticism and mere mention.
What every t......n fan should do, now, is give them what they want: never mention the crazy old coot or his hillbilly descendents ever again.
That shit was rotting your brain, any way. Learning enough about middle earth to make reading the books worthwhile is equivalent to several college courses, only fewer people want to employ you if you mention your intimate knowledge of middle earth languages, history, and geography. Pssst -- its lame.
These reclusive and obviously business- and politics-retarded layabouts are giving you the challenge, now, to quit suckling fantasy and engage more in reality. NO, not by mastering a dungeon with your dice and pencil friends. NO not by taking a degree in Harry Potter instead.
Just walk away from the dumb shit, and never look back. You'll be able to say, "I did this really adult thing, once."