That's the biggest peeve I have with facebook/myspace, et al. They don't take the end users' security into consideration.
I am an avid Facebook user (5-10+ updates a day kinda guy), but that quote from your post is exactly why I never say or do anything on there I care about the public knowing. I'm fully aware that nothing I do on there is truly private, and I use it with that in mind.
I agree with Will Wright...playing something like Advance Wars is a great way to exercise the brain, especially to get it jumpstarted in the morning.
I personally prefer to play a few songs on Guitar Hero or play 20-30 minutes of Muramasa: The Demon Blade while on my recumbent bike. My mornings are always much easier and I'm much more awake when I give myself the time to do that.
Yup, it can do it all...the ONLy thing i can't do is run DDR3 (it has four DDR2 slots), but other than that I can take care of all the new stuff (exceptin' USB3.0 and Sata6, of course...but not much on the market can do that yet either)
Until I realized how much of a pain in the ass it was to move everything. At this point, I'm 26, and likely will only move a couple more times, but when I was younger moving was a fairly normal occurrence...and I definitely didn't want to deal with all that stuff.
If you live in Montgomery County, Maryland, and don't own a home, chances are very good you will be stuck with either DSL or Comcast. Since we never plan on owning a home in this area, we would be stuck with it no matter where we moved.
There isn't much the government can do about that. Comcast's size prohibits competition, not loose laws.
Now, I didn't get this rich by being stupid. I would never do something like you saw in tonight's episode. Electricity and water.. just do not mix. So, be a winner like "Quinner," and don't play with electricity. Right, ladies? Yeahhh, that's right...
I live in Atlanta and have Comcast. It's cheaper than Clear, and faster than DSL. I never have downtime and I download a few torrents a month with no problem. I mean, unless Atlanta is the exception, my Internet is never down, and I never have any issues. 45 bucks a month for something so important and integrated into daily life, you don't see me complaining. You could probably negotiate your rent down 100 bucks if you are _that_ strapped for cash.
It has nothing to do with being strapped for cash. I Comcast's quality of service in the DC/Metropoliton area is spotty at best (We live in Montgomery County). You know the saying vote with your wallet? I don't want to support Comcast's business, but due to my fiancee's professional needs as a teacher as well as the fact that we both like to game online, DSL won't cut it... so we don't have a choice.
And if you are completely raping the 'unlimited' service because you want to utilize the full 15mbps 100% of the time, to pull terabytes of illegal data, I don't want to hear about it. You are a fucking retard and I hope your balls explode.
On the Internet though, your neighbor can easily run a "factory" by simply seeding a bunch of torrents like an asshole, using all the bandwidth.
Or by watching cats all day on Youtube...or by watching TV episodes on Hulu all day, or streaming movies through Netflix all day, or any other number of bandwith-intensive activities.
Torrent users are being targeted because they are the easiest ones to go after...what about the stay at home mom who streams Netflix and Hulu 8 hours a day, or the patent examiner who works from home and is constantly streaming c-span reruns to help with their research?
There are a lot of high bandwith uses for the Internet that don't involve piracy or torrents...so why is it only torrents are being targeted?
Unfortunately, we are stuck with the exact same situation you describe...we just moved into a new apartment building, and everything is almost perfect...except Internet. We have a choice between Comcast Cable, or the local DSL provider. Since my fiancee is a 3rd grade teacher and does a TON of work from home, and I do a lot of online gaming, a DSL line just wouldn't cut it...so, we're stuck with Comcast.
...but unless you work for, are paid by, or represent an ISP, how can you support allowing ISPs to give preferential (or detrimental) treatment to different types of Internet traffic?
while your tone suggests your wish for big brother to step in to dictate what proprietors may or may not sell and what consumers may or may not purchase.
Actually, my comment was directed towards cig manufacturers focusing on a quality smoke rather than an addictive one.
But thanks for playing. I always love it when people who don't know me assume something about me...especially a coward.
Myself, for one. No worries about whether I have everything filled out, whether I have everything calculated properly, etc...I'm a complete idiot when it comes to tax stuff, and Turbo Tax is idiot-proof.::shrug::
Two words: Turbo Tax. Takes 20 minutes to do my taxes and my fiancee's taxes, and since it hooks up directly with ADP's servers, it fills out nearly all of our information automatically. Since we have already used it before, it also automatically fills out our info from last year.
Best part? Even if you use their highly overpriced service of paying by taking the money out of your refund, it only costs around $80-$90 per person for both federal and state...about on par or even a little less than if we went to a CPA.
Seriously. Give it a try. It works REALLY well and it's super easy.
Parent pretty much has it right. We do save money out of each paycheck, but not nearly as much as we would like to...we can't help it, we like shiny stuff:/
The way around it was preventing us from having ANY access to some bit of money that we would get in one or two checks once a year. We have gotten much better over the past couple of years, and in another year or two can probably start aiming for getting less of a return...but for now, it is helping us save. We already make plenty of money to pay our bills and save a little out of each paycheck, so it isn't like not having the extra money in each paycheck is a problem.
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That's the biggest peeve I have with facebook/myspace, et al. They don't take the end users' security into consideration.
I am an avid Facebook user (5-10+ updates a day kinda guy), but that quote from your post is exactly why I never say or do anything on there I care about the public knowing. I'm fully aware that nothing I do on there is truly private, and I use it with that in mind.
I just read what you linked to in your sig. Absolutely friggin' hilarious. Thank you for making this Wednesday awesome :-)
It works great on my Dell Mini 9, and I dual-boot it on my gaming machine for WINE experimentation.
I agree with Will Wright...playing something like Advance Wars is a great way to exercise the brain, especially to get it jumpstarted in the morning.
I personally prefer to play a few songs on Guitar Hero or play 20-30 minutes of Muramasa: The Demon Blade while on my recumbent bike. My mornings are always much easier and I'm much more awake when I give myself the time to do that.
Of course they did...look at that little "microchip"! Can you say mini-dildo? Because I can.
...the 200th episode was fucking epic. Easily one of the best South Park episodes ever, even if it was a parody of "rehash" episodes...it was amazing.
Yup, it can do it all...the ONLy thing i can't do is run DDR3 (it has four DDR2 slots), but other than that I can take care of all the new stuff (exceptin' USB3.0 and Sata6, of course...but not much on the market can do that yet either)
Until I realized how much of a pain in the ass it was to move everything. At this point, I'm 26, and likely will only move a couple more times, but when I was younger moving was a fairly normal occurrence...and I definitely didn't want to deal with all that stuff.
...the AM2+/AM3 socket on my AMD board continues to be useful for new AMD CPUs literally years after I originally purchased it.
Not even to mine? http://last.fm/music/pojut ::sniff sniff:: You make me a sad panda. /shameless self promotion
If you live in Montgomery County, Maryland, and don't own a home, chances are very good you will be stuck with either DSL or Comcast. Since we never plan on owning a home in this area, we would be stuck with it no matter where we moved.
There isn't much the government can do about that. Comcast's size prohibits competition, not loose laws.
Now, I didn't get this rich by being stupid. I would never do something like you saw in tonight's episode. Electricity and water.. just do not mix. So, be a winner like "Quinner," and don't play with electricity. Right, ladies? Yeahhh, that's right...
haha, you fucking dork. what level is your wizard up to?!? bahahaha
None...he died...thanks for bringing it up, you insensitive clod!
I live in Atlanta and have Comcast. It's cheaper than Clear, and faster than DSL. I never have downtime and I download a few torrents a month with no problem. I mean, unless Atlanta is the exception, my Internet is never down, and I never have any issues. 45 bucks a month for something so important and integrated into daily life, you don't see me complaining. You could probably negotiate your rent down 100 bucks if you are _that_ strapped for cash.
It has nothing to do with being strapped for cash. I Comcast's quality of service in the DC/Metropoliton area is spotty at best (We live in Montgomery County). You know the saying vote with your wallet? I don't want to support Comcast's business, but due to my fiancee's professional needs as a teacher as well as the fact that we both like to game online, DSL won't cut it... so we don't have a choice.
And if you are completely raping the 'unlimited' service because you want to utilize the full 15mbps 100% of the time, to pull terabytes of illegal data, I don't want to hear about it. You are a fucking retard and I hope your balls explode.
See previous response, you fucking retard.
The iPad definitely has its place...it's just a really pointless place, in my opinion.
On the Internet though, your neighbor can easily run a "factory" by simply seeding a bunch of torrents like an asshole, using all the bandwidth.
Or by watching cats all day on Youtube...or by watching TV episodes on Hulu all day, or streaming movies through Netflix all day, or any other number of bandwith-intensive activities.
Torrent users are being targeted because they are the easiest ones to go after...what about the stay at home mom who streams Netflix and Hulu 8 hours a day, or the patent examiner who works from home and is constantly streaming c-span reruns to help with their research?
There are a lot of high bandwith uses for the Internet that don't involve piracy or torrents...so why is it only torrents are being targeted?
Unfortunately, the very thing that free markets require to function properly (greed) is also the very thing that causes them to fail -_-;;;
Unfortunately, we are stuck with the exact same situation you describe...we just moved into a new apartment building, and everything is almost perfect...except Internet. We have a choice between Comcast Cable, or the local DSL provider. Since my fiancee is a 3rd grade teacher and does a TON of work from home, and I do a lot of online gaming, a DSL line just wouldn't cut it...so, we're stuck with Comcast.
Which blows. Really bad.
...but unless you work for, are paid by, or represent an ISP, how can you support allowing ISPs to give preferential (or detrimental) treatment to different types of Internet traffic?
Yeah, but...Jackson's nipple is still awesome, unlike Metallica.
while your tone suggests your wish for big brother to step in to dictate what proprietors may or may not sell and what consumers may or may not purchase.
Actually, my comment was directed towards cig manufacturers focusing on a quality smoke rather than an addictive one.
But thanks for playing. I always love it when people who don't know me assume something about me...especially a coward.
How about we sell cigs that don't contain so much bullshit? I mean honestly...is all that crap really necessary?
Myself, for one. No worries about whether I have everything filled out, whether I have everything calculated properly, etc...I'm a complete idiot when it comes to tax stuff, and Turbo Tax is idiot-proof. ::shrug::
Two words: Turbo Tax. Takes 20 minutes to do my taxes and my fiancee's taxes, and since it hooks up directly with ADP's servers, it fills out nearly all of our information automatically. Since we have already used it before, it also automatically fills out our info from last year.
Best part? Even if you use their highly overpriced service of paying by taking the money out of your refund, it only costs around $80-$90 per person for both federal and state...about on par or even a little less than if we went to a CPA.
Seriously. Give it a try. It works REALLY well and it's super easy.
Parent pretty much has it right. We do save money out of each paycheck, but not nearly as much as we would like to...we can't help it, we like shiny stuff :/
The way around it was preventing us from having ANY access to some bit of money that we would get in one or two checks once a year. We have gotten much better over the past couple of years, and in another year or two can probably start aiming for getting less of a return...but for now, it is helping us save. We already make plenty of money to pay our bills and save a little out of each paycheck, so it isn't like not having the extra money in each paycheck is a problem.