Or you can not be a dumbass and just sign up for Facebook as "Rusty Shackleford" or "John J Johnson" instead of handing over your real, actual info to that giant pile of crap in the first place. That seems to be working great for me.
They must be merging from multiple non-word documents or I don't see why this would work. I made a 500 page word doc one time in verison 2001 and all it did was tell me it was over the limit for spelling and grammar checking and would suspend the checking from there on. Also, scrolling sometimes stuck it at rendering the same page over and over. Other than that, it did actually function. What I'm thinking is they're trying to paste some HTML content or something and forgot to select the "keep text only" option after pasting it in. Btw, they're burying the lead here. Why the hell does it need to be 2000 pages?!?! What could it possibly say?!?! How about just adding a reference to those other documents they're pasting in instead of adding them in their entirety.
Maybe I'm overthinking this but wouldn't it be A LOT cheaper on the research budget if they just develop a shatter resistant hampster ball that they can fill with actual fireflies? Then they could drop that out and make a landing zone marker with it.
I remember reading about that forward-registering scam from WHOIS searches but I'm pretty sure it wasn't godaddy. It was some foreign registrar. But I do hate Godaddy just because of their idiotic, low budget looking site and borderline spam signup process. Does anyone know a better alternative registrar?
If you really think about it, we have the technology to reduce the US oil consumption to a mere fraction of what we use now which really reduces any lead time needed. If oil jumps to triple what it is now, I would give it a rough estimate of about 1-2 years before the problem starts getting better instead of worse. Once it costs more to use a traditional vehicle than an electric or hybrid, that's what people are going to buy without even giving it a second thought. At the other end of it, companies that make ones will up production like 100x and because of the volume, reduce the price. They don't need a 4 year lead time to invent a car from scratch when the Volt, Fusion, Prius, and those Tesla things already exist. They'd be selling patents and manufacturing stuff immediately and the problem would get better VERY shortly. That 15-30 year estimate is ridiculous. I bet it would take 10 years tops to replace every single power plant and vehicle in the entire US even if it wasn't urgent.
Unfortunately, there are no mitigations we can offer. However, Adobe is actively sharing information about this vulnerability (and vulnerabilities in general) with partners in the security community to enable them to quickly develop detection and quarantine methods to protect users until a patch is available. As always, Adobe recommends that users follow security best practices by keeping their anti-malware software and definitions up to date.
Oops, they're so flustered that they forgot to tell people to uninstall Adobe Reader.
I'd use noscript but I want the internet to work. Seriously, I like protection and stuff but that thing is overkill. blacklist-based ad blockers are a million times better and a billion times less annoying.
Plus, don't you think that the people wise enough to use this opt out option are also the type that never ever ever read or click on anything in a web ad anywhere ever? And the people too lazy or gnerally unwise or lacking internet knowledge are the types that click on ads all the time. So what do they care if there's a universal opt out?
Well it has to stop getting harder at some point. If it was me playing it, I'm pretty decent so it'd either have to spawn something unbeatable like a floor to ceiling brick wall or stop getting harder.
it doesn't help that what they did now is equally crap. I had no problem with old school Sega Genesis, sunken in D-pads that only went 4 directions. Adding in the multi-direction, diagonal thing was idiotic considering there are two joysticks.
That's funny because every time there's a massive security problem, it's not a younger programmer at fault. People my age learn about how to avoid, for example, SQL injections. Older programmers never had to worry about that because when they were in college, they didn't learn about it. And when it comes to retraining and keeping updated, well they're just "too busy" and will "do it later." So in review, for younger programmer, stupid mistakes and software glitches, yes, blatant security holes and generally old technology and methods, no!
And don't even get me started on all the clueless IT admins that got promoted to oversee everything just because of their age and supposed experience but take that as an excuse to not keep up on any new technology and generally don't know as much as the people under them. Although I've also seen several get fired for seriously screwing up so that's good at least.
I never thought anyone could beat the approximate 50% failure rate of Xbox 360's but Lenovo might have just nailed it. Their laptops are criminally badly put together and absolute garbage, as is pretty much everything they make. That combined with the fact that this is basically a counterfeit rip off of something else adds up to quite possibly the least reliable product ever.
This is nice and all but on the travel channel, I saw a guy whose job it was to ride around in a golf cart shooting off what looked like quarter stick charges and shotgun blanks to get the birds to go away right before a plane took off. That's not only smarter and more effective but definitely more fun. I'd practically pay them to have that job let alone doing it for like $30,000 a year lol. In fact, people on long layovers could be offered to go scare the hell out of birds for an hour or so to help their boredom. They'd never be without a volunteer.
If I post something on my US computer repair company website and someone in Uganda sues me over it, what are they gonna do? The US won't extradite me for something so stupid, they can't fine me (and actually make me pay the fine) without coming to a US court, and what are they going to do, block my business from operating in Uganda? I say if some foreign jackasses try and sue you, just ignore it.
Wow, I can just see how easy it would be to market a spray-on tobbacco battery. I mean it only has two historically epic "toxin" connotations to it (tobbacco and spraying chemicals on yourself) and just sounds horribly dangerous. Did anyone even study what happens when you constantly pass current through material that close to your nervous system like with these amazing new battery clothes? Why do I even want a battery that's thin and has a large surface area? I distinctly remember asking for a small, light, high capacity battery. This has dumb written all over it.
by "them" do you mean the idiot computer owners hosting this crap or the originators? Cuz I have a more direct idea than killing the owners. If it's a 2.5 million person botnet, just have each copy send spam to the computer it's on so only people irresponsible enough to catch the virus get to deal with its effects.
it's for the future, smarty. If they find the person who originated it and sue the hell out of them, they think it will deter the next smart ass who thinks they're "so cool" for leaking other games early. Just so we're clear, Microsoft is a bunch of dumbasses for opening up the servers and giving copies out to just whoever claims to be reporting on it in order to make more money on an already self-marketing product. The person who leaked it is a dumbass because they're going to get caught and sued into bankruptcy and probably prison. The people downloading it are dumbasses because they're handing Microsoft their IPs and Live and Xbox unique identifiers when they connect with the illegal version plus the last thing we need are more dumb 13 year olds whining about how Microsoft should unban them cuz all they did was steal a game and play it illegally. Pretty much no smart, sensible parties in this entire thing.
Hmm, a gian, thin space sail that's probably several square miles. Boy, I sure hope one single little chunk of orbital debris or meteor doesn't impact that gigantic area in the 2 weeks or it won't work so well. Sails tend to not like meteors impacting them. Too bad the odds of that happening are about 99.99999%. I don't know what they're thinking.
Well, I guess someone read the slashdot story about Time Warner purchasing AOL going down in history as the worst company purchase ever and they wanted to get in on some of that world record stupidity competition action.
If all it has to do is something barely more complicated than a light switch, why is it running on a full computer? Why not have electronic switches that result on a vote being registered on paper or in a database or however they prefer but have the terminal not have any processing abilities at all. Just make it purely mechanical! I mean, if they could make a mechanical slot machine 50 years ago, I think they can make a mechanical machine to record votes.
I've had lots of BFG cards fail on me and others I know because they're the "OC" ones that come factory overclock. That combined with the inferior fans that fail usually lead to damaged cards and fried GPUs. So BFG is both more likely to break than the average brand and now going back on their lifetime warranties. Wow, after that kind of BS, nobody's going to buy whatever it is they're still selling after getting out of these markets!
WOW! I know it's an open and shut case from the get go but with a company that big, usually $60,000 will barely get you a random word generator with text to speech representing you. For a quarter mil, you might even be able to get the disembodied voice that lives in my GPS to represent you. Somehow it always costs about a million for a supposedly "respectable" lawyer to even show up in court. What a joke. Oh well, at least they got around that this time somehow.
you're right! If pirates invaded my house and blew up 6 years of cable TV service, I'd be pissed! lol, good thing cable is set up 100000x smarter than this game obviously is.
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Or you can not be a dumbass and just sign up for Facebook as "Rusty Shackleford" or "John J Johnson" instead of handing over your real, actual info to that giant pile of crap in the first place. That seems to be working great for me.
They must be merging from multiple non-word documents or I don't see why this would work. I made a 500 page word doc one time in verison 2001 and all it did was tell me it was over the limit for spelling and grammar checking and would suspend the checking from there on. Also, scrolling sometimes stuck it at rendering the same page over and over. Other than that, it did actually function. What I'm thinking is they're trying to paste some HTML content or something and forgot to select the "keep text only" option after pasting it in.
Btw, they're burying the lead here. Why the hell does it need to be 2000 pages?!?! What could it possibly say?!?! How about just adding a reference to those other documents they're pasting in instead of adding them in their entirety.
Maybe I'm overthinking this but wouldn't it be A LOT cheaper on the research budget if they just develop a shatter resistant hampster ball that they can fill with actual fireflies? Then they could drop that out and make a landing zone marker with it.
I remember reading about that forward-registering scam from WHOIS searches but I'm pretty sure it wasn't godaddy. It was some foreign registrar. But I do hate Godaddy just because of their idiotic, low budget looking site and borderline spam signup process. Does anyone know a better alternative registrar?
If you really think about it, we have the technology to reduce the US oil consumption to a mere fraction of what we use now which really reduces any lead time needed. If oil jumps to triple what it is now, I would give it a rough estimate of about 1-2 years before the problem starts getting better instead of worse. Once it costs more to use a traditional vehicle than an electric or hybrid, that's what people are going to buy without even giving it a second thought. At the other end of it, companies that make ones will up production like 100x and because of the volume, reduce the price. They don't need a 4 year lead time to invent a car from scratch when the Volt, Fusion, Prius, and those Tesla things already exist. They'd be selling patents and manufacturing stuff immediately and the problem would get better VERY shortly. That 15-30 year estimate is ridiculous. I bet it would take 10 years tops to replace every single power plant and vehicle in the entire US even if it wasn't urgent.
Oh yeah? Well I can still legally hit it with a baseball bat so I guess humans still win in the end lol.
Oops, they're so flustered that they forgot to tell people to uninstall Adobe Reader.
I'd use noscript but I want the internet to work. Seriously, I like protection and stuff but that thing is overkill. blacklist-based ad blockers are a million times better and a billion times less annoying.
Plus, don't you think that the people wise enough to use this opt out option are also the type that never ever ever read or click on anything in a web ad anywhere ever? And the people too lazy or gnerally unwise or lacking internet knowledge are the types that click on ads all the time. So what do they care if there's a universal opt out?
Well it has to stop getting harder at some point. If it was me playing it, I'm pretty decent so it'd either have to spawn something unbeatable like a floor to ceiling brick wall or stop getting harder.
Would it kill them to add an e? Fort Gaye. That sounds real lol. And maybe even Big Bone Licke.
it doesn't help that what they did now is equally crap. I had no problem with old school Sega Genesis, sunken in D-pads that only went 4 directions. Adding in the multi-direction, diagonal thing was idiotic considering there are two joysticks.
That's funny because every time there's a massive security problem, it's not a younger programmer at fault. People my age learn about how to avoid, for example, SQL injections. Older programmers never had to worry about that because when they were in college, they didn't learn about it. And when it comes to retraining and keeping updated, well they're just "too busy" and will "do it later." So in review, for younger programmer, stupid mistakes and software glitches, yes, blatant security holes and generally old technology and methods, no!
And don't even get me started on all the clueless IT admins that got promoted to oversee everything just because of their age and supposed experience but take that as an excuse to not keep up on any new technology and generally don't know as much as the people under them. Although I've also seen several get fired for seriously screwing up so that's good at least.
I never thought anyone could beat the approximate 50% failure rate of Xbox 360's but Lenovo might have just nailed it. Their laptops are criminally badly put together and absolute garbage, as is pretty much everything they make. That combined with the fact that this is basically a counterfeit rip off of something else adds up to quite possibly the least reliable product ever.
This is nice and all but on the travel channel, I saw a guy whose job it was to ride around in a golf cart shooting off what looked like quarter stick charges and shotgun blanks to get the birds to go away right before a plane took off. That's not only smarter and more effective but definitely more fun. I'd practically pay them to have that job let alone doing it for like $30,000 a year lol. In fact, people on long layovers could be offered to go scare the hell out of birds for an hour or so to help their boredom. They'd never be without a volunteer.
If I post something on my US computer repair company website and someone in Uganda sues me over it, what are they gonna do? The US won't extradite me for something so stupid, they can't fine me (and actually make me pay the fine) without coming to a US court, and what are they going to do, block my business from operating in Uganda? I say if some foreign jackasses try and sue you, just ignore it.
Wow, I can just see how easy it would be to market a spray-on tobbacco battery. I mean it only has two historically epic "toxin" connotations to it (tobbacco and spraying chemicals on yourself) and just sounds horribly dangerous. Did anyone even study what happens when you constantly pass current through material that close to your nervous system like with these amazing new battery clothes? Why do I even want a battery that's thin and has a large surface area? I distinctly remember asking for a small, light, high capacity battery. This has dumb written all over it.
by "them" do you mean the idiot computer owners hosting this crap or the originators? Cuz I have a more direct idea than killing the owners. If it's a 2.5 million person botnet, just have each copy send spam to the computer it's on so only people irresponsible enough to catch the virus get to deal with its effects.
sorry, but "because I don't believe in that religion" isn't a legitiate scientific proof either. Only scientific proof is scientific proof.
it's for the future, smarty. If they find the person who originated it and sue the hell out of them, they think it will deter the next smart ass who thinks they're "so cool" for leaking other games early. Just so we're clear, Microsoft is a bunch of dumbasses for opening up the servers and giving copies out to just whoever claims to be reporting on it in order to make more money on an already self-marketing product. The person who leaked it is a dumbass because they're going to get caught and sued into bankruptcy and probably prison. The people downloading it are dumbasses because they're handing Microsoft their IPs and Live and Xbox unique identifiers when they connect with the illegal version plus the last thing we need are more dumb 13 year olds whining about how Microsoft should unban them cuz all they did was steal a game and play it illegally. Pretty much no smart, sensible parties in this entire thing.
Hmm, a gian, thin space sail that's probably several square miles. Boy, I sure hope one single little chunk of orbital debris or meteor doesn't impact that gigantic area in the 2 weeks or it won't work so well. Sails tend to not like meteors impacting them. Too bad the odds of that happening are about 99.99999%. I don't know what they're thinking.
Well, I guess someone read the slashdot story about Time Warner purchasing AOL going down in history as the worst company purchase ever and they wanted to get in on some of that world record stupidity competition action.
If all it has to do is something barely more complicated than a light switch, why is it running on a full computer? Why not have electronic switches that result on a vote being registered on paper or in a database or however they prefer but have the terminal not have any processing abilities at all. Just make it purely mechanical! I mean, if they could make a mechanical slot machine 50 years ago, I think they can make a mechanical machine to record votes.
I've had lots of BFG cards fail on me and others I know because they're the "OC" ones that come factory overclock. That combined with the inferior fans that fail usually lead to damaged cards and fried GPUs. So BFG is both more likely to break than the average brand and now going back on their lifetime warranties. Wow, after that kind of BS, nobody's going to buy whatever it is they're still selling after getting out of these markets!
WOW! I know it's an open and shut case from the get go but with a company that big, usually $60,000 will barely get you a random word generator with text to speech representing you. For a quarter mil, you might even be able to get the disembodied voice that lives in my GPS to represent you. Somehow it always costs about a million for a supposedly "respectable" lawyer to even show up in court. What a joke. Oh well, at least they got around that this time somehow.
you're right! If pirates invaded my house and blew up 6 years of cable TV service, I'd be pissed! lol, good thing cable is set up 100000x smarter than this game obviously is.