The one reason the US won't have a KGB, secret police, SS, or equivalent is because of guns. Regardless of what you might thing about the 2nd amendment, lots of people in every state have them. If the secret police start showing up with midnight knocks on the door, they are just as likely to get a 12-gauge in the face as any successful arrest. Might make any job of a "secret" policeman more difficult.
After my father's 1963 Chevy was stolen, he installed a car kill switch kit. You can get them for modern cars too. Since you put the switch where ever you want, it would take a thief time to find it, and they won't be bothered. You can sometimes get a lower insurance rate too.
At the very least a unified format similar to Microsoft's format would be nice.
Event Viewer - The Event log file is corrupt
The description for Event ID ( 50 ) in Source ( SomeService ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer.
All of these cholesterol drugs including Lipitor work by mucking about with your liver. I am type 1 diabetic and my doctor prescribed a low dose of Zocor (a similar cholesterol drug). After about a year I started experiencing weird join pain and nerve problems. My first concern was ALS - I knew someone who died of it. I saw doctors, including a neurologist, had lots of tests done . Nothing. It wasn't until a year later that I read an article in the LA times about Zocor being withdrawn from the market at a higher dose because of the same symptom that I realized what was causing them. None of my doctors told me anything.
My cholesterol isn't really that high. My doctors prescribed it because of the diabetes. I stopped taking it and the pain improved dramatically. At one point it was so bad I could barely lift the top off of a coffee can.
The other side is the garbage that we call food. Most of it is loaded with trans-fatty oils and added sugars. Forget all of the claims on the front of the box - get a microscope and read the ingredient list on the back. If there are hydrogenated oils or lots of added sugar (any form of corn syrup, anything with *ose, "designer" sugars such as honey, molasses, evaporated cane juice, etc. Try to find foods that have fewer ingredients that can pronounce you actually might have in your kitchen. They are available and often don't cost much more. Some of the more reliable brands are Kashi, Amy's, Trader Joe's, Edy's, Martins, etc.
If you take any of these drugs, look them up on youtube (don't bother with webmd or anything similar as they are useless). The results might scare you.
All he has to do is adopt a policy of personally reading each bill before signing it. Any bill he can't read in the 2 week deadline will as a matter of policy be vetoed. To make this policy even better, also automatically veto any bill which has exemptions for any branch of the government.
I could see the speech now: "It is always a good idea to read contracts before you sign them. It is even more important to read laws. The Constitution has a hard deadline of 2 weeks for me to read them and sign them, so Congress needs to keep them simple so I can meet this deadline. Also, some laws that have been passed in past have included exemptions for Congress, the Executive branch, or other branches of government. Any exemption is automatic grounds for veto."
And the developers led full, rich and happy lives until the world's IT infrastructure was suddenly wiped out by an accidental DDOS started by a runaway query.
Both Williams and Atari released PC collections with emulators and the ROM's of the original games. I am not sure they can be extracted for MAME use, nor if it is legal, but it does provide another option. Many other old games have been released in some fashion with the ROM's included.
You probably can't do this in a studio, but I got a Power monitor. Literally paid for itself in the first week. It is hot as shit this year in VA , however my electric bill is only about $200, down from $300 last year. I adjusted the settings based on the meter. And guess what, the A/C works better at these new settings. For your studio, you can get a Kill-a-Watt and see which of your computers is drawing the most juice. You have those nice cool summers in Seattle, so buy a window fan to get some that nice cool air and adjust your computer power settings for summer. You will save lots of $.
I have yet to see one. Then again we can't get beer right either. Fosters (drinking one now) might not be very good but is a damn site better than Budweiser.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
As your actual password? It is a lot easier to remember than 1wtb0t1wtw0t!, and if you have any kind of lockout policy no script is going to ever guess it.
Like most everyone else, managing passwords is a nightmare for me:
Some websites require a 15 character password with at least 2 upper case letters 3 digits, at least 2 UNICODE characters, and must be changed weekly. Others require from 5 to 7 characters with no numbers and cannot be changed for at least 2 months. The password rules bear no relationship to the sensitivity of the data.
Managing all of this crap is a royal pain in the ass. I use keypassX with an IronKey to make things manageable, but it is still ridiculous.
Why not just all the user to put anything they want as a password, including spaces, commas, etc. Ban passwords under 5 characters, the top 500 easiest ones, anything matching personal info, etc. But otherwise all other things - and have a lockout policy after, say 5 bad attempts. While a script can run through the 190,000 words in a dictionary in a few minutes, it is a lot harder if the account is locked out after the first 5.
While lots of people hate PayPal for various reasons, they have one thing that is really slick: The ability to use your cellphone as a FOB. Everyone has a cell phone these days, and if you set it up, PayPal will text your phone with a secondary authentication code when you login with your password. So even if someone gets your password, unless they also have your cell phone, they still can't login. Why every bank doesn't have this security feature is beyond me.
We upgraded from Win2k to XP about 2 years ago, and still have a few 2k machines that can't be upgraded.
If I am in a bank or store where they use computers, I routinely look at the employees computer screens to see what they are running. Every one of them so far has been running XP. Every one. I have yet to see Vista/7 in use by a business.
As you run out into the parking lot, you briefly spot a flash of pink. Turning around you can't see anything but other people seem to be avoiding the area where you saw the flash.
Now you can see it. It is a spaceship and is pink, but that is the least of its problems. While it has the usual rockets and fins, it seems like it should fall apart right where it is. Perhaps Marvin designed it. Slartibartfast urges you on, as the sky is... well you don't really want to know. You hop in the spaceship and the interior is even stupider then the exterior. In one room, you can see congress debating the national debt while in another everyone is going on strike while the company off-shores everything to china.
The entire design of the ship seems to be concentrating stupidity, If you have to actually use the controls in an emergency situation you would get sucked into a black hole, rather than evading whatever emergency you faced.
Slartibarfast explains: Stupidity is the most powerful force in the universe. We can only harness the energy of 1% of stupidity, yet we can use it in ways that make both the Heart of Gold and the Bistonatic drive seem like Prams. "Earth and Vogon provide the purest, sweetest stupidity, but we can find sufficient quantities everywhere in the universe."
Slartibartfast pushes the "do not push" button and wow, you have found a new religion.
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The one reason the US won't have a KGB, secret police, SS, or equivalent is because of guns. Regardless of what you might thing about the 2nd amendment, lots of people in every state have them. If the secret police start showing up with midnight knocks on the door, they are just as likely to get a 12-gauge in the face as any successful arrest. Might make any job of a "secret" policeman more difficult.
After my father's 1963 Chevy was stolen, he installed a car kill switch kit. You can get them for modern cars too. Since you put the switch where ever you want, it would take a thief time to find it, and they won't be bothered. You can sometimes get a lower insurance rate too.
Obligatory: xkcd
Is that actually possible?
At the very least a unified format similar to Microsoft's format would be nice.
Event Viewer - The Event log file is corrupt
The description for Event ID ( 50 ) in Source ( SomeService ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer.
Nice indeed.
All of these cholesterol drugs including Lipitor work by mucking about with your liver. I am type 1 diabetic and my doctor prescribed a low dose of Zocor (a similar cholesterol drug). After about a year I started experiencing weird join pain and nerve problems. My first concern was ALS - I knew someone who died of it. I saw doctors, including a neurologist, had lots of tests done . Nothing. It wasn't until a year later that I read an article in the LA times about Zocor being withdrawn from the market at a higher dose because of the same symptom that I realized what was causing them. None of my doctors told me anything.
My cholesterol isn't really that high. My doctors prescribed it because of the diabetes. I stopped taking it and the pain improved dramatically. At one point it was so bad I could barely lift the top off of a coffee can.
The other side is the garbage that we call food. Most of it is loaded with trans-fatty oils and added sugars. Forget all of the claims on the front of the box - get a microscope and read the ingredient list on the back. If there are hydrogenated oils or lots of added sugar (any form of corn syrup, anything with *ose, "designer" sugars such as honey, molasses, evaporated cane juice, etc. Try to find foods that have fewer ingredients that can pronounce you actually might have in your kitchen. They are available and often don't cost much more. Some of the more reliable brands are Kashi, Amy's, Trader Joe's, Edy's, Martins, etc.
If you take any of these drugs, look them up on youtube (don't bother with webmd or anything similar as they are useless). The results might scare you.
How about one of these?
Wouldn't that be sort of like the B-Ark? Oh, wait, no that would be an insult to management consultants and telephone sanitizers everywhere.
The President can already do this.
All he has to do is adopt a policy of personally reading each bill before signing it. Any bill he can't read in the 2 week deadline will as a matter of policy be vetoed. To make this policy even better, also automatically veto any bill which has exemptions for any branch of the government.
I could see the speech now: "It is always a good idea to read contracts before you sign them. It is even more important to read laws. The Constitution has a hard deadline of 2 weeks for me to read them and sign them, so Congress needs to keep them simple so I can meet this deadline. Also, some laws that have been passed in past have included exemptions for Congress, the Executive branch, or other branches of government. Any exemption is automatic grounds for veto."
And the developers led full, rich and happy lives until the world's IT infrastructure was suddenly wiped out by an accidental DDOS started by a runaway query.
in /etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 facebook.com
An added benefit is your kids can't login either
Sort of like that Mad Magazine "Back to Colege Isue"
I would recommend the standard Unix conventions for stuff like this:
$ skein [args] [file] [--text 'some text']
xkcd
Both Williams and Atari released PC collections with emulators and the ROM's of the original games. I am not sure they can be extracted for MAME use, nor if it is legal, but it does provide another option. Many other old games have been released in some fashion with the ROM's included.
Canceling moderations to reply to this. But I must: xkcd.com
You probably can't do this in a studio, but I got a Power monitor. Literally paid for itself in the first week. It is hot as shit this year in VA , however my electric bill is only about $200, down from $300 last year. I adjusted the settings based on the meter. And guess what, the A/C works better at these new settings. For your studio, you can get a Kill-a-Watt and see which of your computers is drawing the most juice. You have those nice cool summers in Seattle, so buy a window fan to get some that nice cool air and adjust your computer power settings for summer. You will save lots of $.
I have yet to see one. Then again we can't get beer right either. Fosters (drinking one now) might not be very good but is a damn site better than Budweiser.
Why not just allow
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
As your actual password? It is a lot easier to remember than 1wtb0t1wtw0t!, and if you have any kind of lockout policy no script is going to ever guess it.
Like most everyone else, managing passwords is a nightmare for me:
Some websites require a 15 character password with at least 2 upper case letters 3 digits, at least 2 UNICODE characters, and must be changed weekly. Others require from 5 to 7 characters with no numbers and cannot be changed for at least 2 months. The password rules bear no relationship to the sensitivity of the data.
Managing all of this crap is a royal pain in the ass. I use keypassX with an IronKey to make things manageable, but it is still ridiculous.
Why not just all the user to put anything they want as a password, including spaces, commas, etc. Ban passwords under 5 characters, the top 500 easiest ones, anything matching personal info, etc. But otherwise all other things - and have a lockout policy after, say 5 bad attempts. While a script can run through the 190,000 words in a dictionary in a few minutes, it is a lot harder if the account is locked out after the first 5.
While lots of people hate PayPal for various reasons, they have one thing that is really slick: The ability to use your cellphone as a FOB. Everyone has a cell phone these days, and if you set it up, PayPal will text your phone with a secondary authentication code when you login with your password. So even if someone gets your password, unless they also have your cell phone, they still can't login. Why every bank doesn't have this security feature is beyond me.
We upgraded from Win2k to XP about 2 years ago, and still have a few 2k machines that can't be upgraded.
If I am in a bank or store where they use computers, I routinely look at the employees computer screens to see what they are running. Every one of them so far has been running XP. Every one. I have yet to see Vista/7 in use by a business.
Unfortunately, the stickers won't stick after awhile. I used to take it apart and put it back together again.
The LA Times/a has an article about controlling invasive squirrels which eat fruit from backyard trees. In the comments, everyone debates the merits of trapping the squirrels and releasing them elsewhere, shooting them with a BB gun, etc. But no one mentions getting a cat. I've had many cats over the years and one thing they consistently is get rid of varmints. You don't even have to adopt one. If let you neighbors know you want one, someone will have one. Just make sure you get it spaded/neutered.
As you run out into the parking lot, you briefly spot a flash of pink. Turning around you can't see anything but other people seem to be avoiding the area where you saw the flash.
Now you can see it. It is a spaceship and is pink, but that is the least of its problems. While it has the usual rockets and fins, it seems like it should fall apart right where it is. Perhaps Marvin designed it. Slartibartfast urges you on, as the sky is ... well you don't really want to know. You hop in the spaceship and the interior is even stupider then the exterior. In one room, you can see congress debating the national debt while in another everyone is going on strike while the company off-shores everything to china.
The entire design of the ship seems to be concentrating stupidity, If you have to actually use the controls in an emergency situation you would get sucked into a black hole, rather than evading whatever emergency you faced.
Slartibarfast explains: Stupidity is the most powerful force in the universe. We can only harness the energy of 1% of stupidity, yet we can use it in ways that make both the Heart of Gold and the Bistonatic drive seem like Prams. "Earth and Vogon provide the purest, sweetest stupidity, but we can find sufficient quantities everywhere in the universe."
Slartibartfast pushes the "do not push" button and wow, you have found a new religion.
Seems to be slash-dotted...