Why do they insist on capsules? Why not take the advice of someone from FPA; build it at the space station and design it to refuel/load from there, eliminating the need to return to earth? We still have to get things up to the ISS, but that'll be left to the Russians and their superior rockets. We can take over 'space exploration' by just skipping that part. "Oh but what if they don't want to help us shuttle our crew/items up to the ISS one day?" No worries, Virgin and Japan/other countries are working on that! So we'll find one way or another to get to the ISS.
here's my 1/2 assed attempt at the legendary template: (BTW - the filter almost prohibited me from posting this!)
(Inevitably, in every thread about Sony, someone proposes a reason with one or more flaws. This is a handy form that passes the lameness filter and that can be reused for all such posts to save time! It does not specifically address all possible flaws and may be expanded in future versions.)
approach to arguing for/against Sony. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which vary from state to state.)
( ) Sony is a corporation that has no heart, and apparently no head/brains either.
( ) Sony is a entity that exists all over the world in every country.
( ) As noted above, also have far reaching arms of the law.
( ) Is known to haplessly sue any individual/website/company that may violate its opinion of use of their products.
( ) Organizations such as Anonymous will only enable further actions
( ) Organizations such as Anonymous will be used as a scapegoat for attacks
( ) Grey hats will test their network, upon finding quantity of holes will become blackhats and obtain more money from those interested in users data.
( ) Users of PS3s will not put up with it
( ) Users of PSPs will not put up with it
( ) Users of PCs will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from law enforcement
( ) Requires cooperation from too many of your friends and is counterintuitive
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever worked
( ) Other:
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Legal precedence in previous court actions
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for Sony
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Asshats.
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than * to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by Sony
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected PS3 Consoles
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of break-ins
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of crackers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook.
( ) Other:.
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) Hardware should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) Plaintext Databases suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
Maybe they handed out some of those cd's to their employees and someone popped it in a machine or 100. My brother used to get free albums from interscope's office in L.A. because he worked in the same building and made friends with a graphic artist. One of those albums she did artwork for? Snoop Dog's Doggy Style (oh yeah!)
So i guess we can start looking forward to law enforcement and military using sony-donated equipment??? wink wink?
As an aside, did you ever stop to consider if things got hot, people can do without all you mentioned? I mean, really see the world. You can get by on little, and still enjoy life. But you won't be on the bleeding edge or even close to it with technology.
So about a year ago I finally decided to use my dental insurance to just get my teeth "cleaned." To my surprise, it's not that simple.
The Dentist I had selected (through my insurance) was:
Dental Group of Arcadia 440 E Huntington Dr Arcadia, CA 91006-3776
Dental Group of Arcadia is individually owned by Farhad Manavi D.D.S., II, Inc.
It looked very nice and was very modern!
So once I made an appointment and show up and it turns out they can't just clean your teeth - there's a lot to do before that! They have to take a full set of X-Rays before they can even look at the teeth themselves! Before I continue, let me give you a little back story...
When I was 9? I was going regularly to the dentist. It wasn't a bad experience really, I wasn't traumatized or in extreme pain when I went - not that I remember anyways. But I do remember being told that taking unnecessary X-Rays could cause harm, so they only took what they needed. Years later I end up majoring in manufacturing and learn through it's cousin metallurgy that X-Rays could indeed be bad... So those things stuck in my head.
Back to my story. So when they said first they need full set of X-Rays I asked why? I just wanted to get my teeth cleaned. They explained it's so they can see the condition of my teeth. When I said they're fine, I just want a cleaning they said "no, because you probably have problems you're not aware of." So 45 minutes later we come to a compromise, they'll take a minimum of X-Rays and go from there.
Now I might be silly, but I know that X-Rays lead to more problems which lead to $$$. Also, since it's insurance they're going to try to claim as many expenses as aren't needed. That was my real objection.
So after the minimal set of X-Rays they technician goes "mmm mmmmmm." And I'm like "what do you see?" "I see a few problems. Doesn't your left side hurt?" HAhaha! No, it doesn't. So after arguing with her about my mouth/teeth/feet not hurting we're done and I'm finally able to see the dentist.
By the way, when I made my appointment they were aware it was my first time to this office. They acknowledged it and said I would be getting my teeth cleaned on that day. They didn't however do that. Once I showed up for my appointment it turns out that nothing is ever done on your first visit - you only get a "check-up/inspection." Then you can make appointments for what you needs.
So here's what I needed, according to the X-Rays and Dentist: I apparently have 13 cavities and am in need of 3 root canals, one of them immediately before I lose the tooth. So while there she referred me to the in-house specialist who could perform the RC because it was apparently very advanced.
Let me give you some more back story. So when I was a kid, I apparently got a gold crown? on one of my molars. While eating/chewing on some delicious candy, it came off. I was like "this is some ghetto workmanship!" So back to the dentist I go. Guess what gang? There was a sign on the door that said "Closed due to Mal practice." It was an official looking sign and had a lot of stuff on it, but that was in a huge font. So that was the end of dentists for me. Not because I didn't like them or was worried about them, because that was my dentist in front of Toys R Us! There's no reason to go back now!
But that wasn't where my mistrust of dentists started. No it started many years later when we found out one of my sisters friends also had the very same dentist but had a lot of dental work done because she had braces. Apparently, he didn't do a very good job as the repairs to the damage done cost some $ to fix. Guess what? My sister also had a little brace-work done as well! And yep, she also had a bad job but since it was very little the damage wasn't so bad.
I also think he's onto something great. I've written scripts to add color to my console and found out after doing it for every program that you can handle that all in a few files. What he's done though, is done that for text and everything else. It looks very promising and I would be willing to give it a go when it's ready.
Yeah seriously! And as AC posted, they Australia f'd up, they missed out on a golden "Hello, World!" opportunity!
I finally got in an after reading TFA, it doesn't seem like it's a place we'd want to inhabit @ 2 x earth's gravity. We're gonna have to start working out build up strength in our legs and lose some serious weight! Unless we get those exoskeletons working right!
i just watched my first ever match on justintv or something... was impressive: guy was playing sv, listening to music, streaming his game, chatting with people via IM's and on 3 websites lol. I couldn't stop cracking up when he'd switch from the game to the other screens. So, definitely having a second monitor is a big plus for this. I run no less than 2 at work and at home.
You know why? Because if everyone took their break at lunch, then everyone else on lunch couldn't use the bank on their lunch break! When I worked in a bank, we'd be forced to take our lunch anywhere from 10-2. WTF is up with that right? So you could have worked as little as 1 - 2 hours before you HAD to take your lunch. So it's for our convenience.
I wouldn't worry about it. I worked as a teller and later 'merchant teller' for a while and I didn't care about customers having money or not. And to be honest, you could be surprised to find out that most people just don't have a lot of money. Very few in my experience had any notable amounts of deposits. Even the businesses didn't have enough to make me bat an eye. What did surprise me here and there was what people had in their safety deposit boxes. Why would you keep cash or other things in there? I'm sure they had their reasons. The reason I saw a few things is because I was asked to help with their boxes.
I think people are more self-conscious than anything. An old school mate had her account with my bank and so I tried chatting her up for a bit. Well, I think she was embarrassed with how little she had in her account and left as soon as she could! Or maybe, it was just me lol
You know, I've been very fortunate to have been able to have traveled across N.A. and the only place I would contemplate moving to, is Vancouver, B.C. It is beautiful and the people are great! Sorry Mexico, you're cool too, but just too far behind in technology at the moment.
Yeah BSD! You know, this is kinda weird... GhettoBSD is about to turn 10 years old itself! It makes sense, they stole my idea and made profit off of it!:( But GhettoBSD is still going, well, ghetto!
That's how I feel... because he supposedly wanted ewoks and midgets for luke and leia's roles in the one of the first drafts! wtf?!?!? Good by accident for sure!
So for the last world cup, I made for the teams we were rooting for (here in the office) Android banners! It took about a day to figure out what I was doing, but after that it went well. At first I just used backgrounds to match the colors and text for the slogan. But then I found it better/easier to use a graphic. So when our teams were playing we'd open the program and display our support on our android phones. +1 for Android!
I played this game and really enjoyed it. Sure, it is a bummer, but you know what? So is life sometimes. It's cool! GhettoBSD Approved!
It also shows what else flash is capable of. Most people hate the game and apparently, the functionality. But little do people realize it is an important function in the flash toolbox. This game, is also a great example for our privacy argument: most people won't know how to get around the game not allowing you to play it again, partly because of how flash is set up, and partly because people just don't know what to do on their end. It's interesting to read comments on "how to be able to play it again."
For me, it's like waiting for the newest andorid phone... I'll just wait until the next best thing comes out, and upgrade to that. So I'll be skipping BR myself!
yeah a little, me too... but, what if they actually incorporate this into a live show? now THAT would be awesome! No more "rock star gets burned when pyrotechnic effect goes off at wrong time." I would rock that on stage! Guitar, drums, bass oh yeah!
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Why do they insist on capsules? Why not take the advice of someone from FPA; build it at the space station and design it to refuel/load from there, eliminating the need to return to earth? We still have to get things up to the ISS, but that'll be left to the Russians and their superior rockets. We can take over 'space exploration' by just skipping that part. "Oh but what if they don't want to help us shuttle our crew/items up to the ISS one day?" No worries, Virgin and Japan/other countries are working on that! So we'll find one way or another to get to the ISS.
I hope you were joking about that... or did you mean to say you got her an OpenBSD system??? :P
here's my 1/2 assed attempt at the legendary template:
(BTW - the filter almost prohibited me from posting this!)
(Inevitably, in every thread about Sony, someone proposes a reason with one or more flaws. This is a handy form that passes the lameness filter and that can be reused for all such posts to save time! It does not specifically address all possible flaws and may be expanded in future versions.)
Your post advocates a
( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to arguing for/against Sony. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which vary from state to state.)
( ) Sony is a corporation that has no heart, and apparently no head/brains either.
( ) Sony is a entity that exists all over the world in every country.
( ) As noted above, also have far reaching arms of the law.
( ) Is known to haplessly sue any individual/website/company that may violate its opinion of use of their products.
( ) Organizations such as Anonymous will only enable further actions
( ) Organizations such as Anonymous will be used as a scapegoat for attacks
( ) Grey hats will test their network, upon finding quantity of holes will become blackhats and obtain more money from those interested in users data.
( ) Users of PS3s will not put up with it
( ) Users of PSPs will not put up with it
( ) Users of PCs will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from law enforcement
( ) Requires cooperation from too many of your friends and is counterintuitive
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever worked
( ) Other:
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Legal precedence in previous court actions
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for Sony
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Asshats.
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than * to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by Sony
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected PS3 Consoles
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of break-ins
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of crackers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook.
( ) Other:.
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) Hardware should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) Plaintext Databases suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures cannot involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures cannot involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my game stats
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
( ) Other:
My past experience with Sony items marked below are partially/entirely the basis for my reasoning:
( ) betamax tapes
( ) walkman
( ) discman
( ) radios
( ) stereos
( )
Maybe they handed out some of those cd's to their employees and someone popped it in a machine or 100. My brother used to get free albums from interscope's office in L.A. because he worked in the same building and made friends with a graphic artist. One of those albums she did artwork for? Snoop Dog's Doggy Style (oh yeah!)
So i guess we can start looking forward to law enforcement and military using sony-donated equipment??? wink wink?
As an aside, did you ever stop to consider if things got hot, people can do without all you mentioned? I mean, really see the world. You can get by on little, and still enjoy life. But you won't be on the bleeding edge or even close to it with technology.
So about a year ago I finally decided to use my dental insurance to just get my teeth "cleaned." To my surprise, it's not that simple.
The Dentist I had selected (through my insurance) was:
Dental Group of Arcadia 440 E Huntington Dr Arcadia, CA 91006-3776
Dental Group of Arcadia is individually owned by Farhad Manavi D.D.S., II, Inc.
It looked very nice and was very modern!
So once I made an appointment and show up and it turns out they can't just clean your teeth - there's a lot to do before that! They have to take a full set of X-Rays before they can even look at the teeth themselves! Before I continue, let me give you a little back story...
When I was 9? I was going regularly to the dentist. It wasn't a bad experience really, I wasn't traumatized or in extreme pain when I went - not that I remember anyways. But I do remember being told that taking unnecessary X-Rays could cause harm, so they only took what they needed. Years later I end up majoring in manufacturing and learn through it's cousin metallurgy that X-Rays could indeed be bad... So those things stuck in my head.
Back to my story. So when they said first they need full set of X-Rays I asked why? I just wanted to get my teeth cleaned. They explained it's so they can see the condition of my teeth. When I said they're fine, I just want a cleaning they said "no, because you probably have problems you're not aware of." So 45 minutes later we come to a compromise, they'll take a minimum of X-Rays and go from there.
Now I might be silly, but I know that X-Rays lead to more problems which lead to $$$. Also, since it's insurance they're going to try to claim as many expenses as aren't needed. That was my real objection.
So after the minimal set of X-Rays they technician goes "mmm mmmmmm." And I'm like "what do you see?" "I see a few problems. Doesn't your left side hurt?" HAhaha! No, it doesn't. So after arguing with her about my mouth/teeth/feet not hurting we're done and I'm finally able to see the dentist.
By the way, when I made my appointment they were aware it was my first time to this office. They acknowledged it and said I would be getting my teeth cleaned on that day. They didn't however do that. Once I showed up for my appointment it turns out that nothing is ever done on your first visit - you only get a "check-up/inspection." Then you can make appointments for what you needs.
So here's what I needed, according to the X-Rays and Dentist: I apparently have 13 cavities and am in need of 3 root canals, one of them immediately before I lose the tooth. So while there she referred me to the in-house specialist who could perform the RC because it was apparently very advanced.
Let me give you some more back story. So when I was a kid, I apparently got a gold crown? on one of my molars. While eating/chewing on some delicious candy, it came off. I was like "this is some ghetto workmanship!" So back to the dentist I go. Guess what gang? There was a sign on the door that said "Closed due to Mal practice." It was an official looking sign and had a lot of stuff on it, but that was in a huge font. So that was the end of dentists for me. Not because I didn't like them or was worried about them, because that was my dentist in front of Toys R Us! There's no reason to go back now!
But that wasn't where my mistrust of dentists started. No it started many years later when we found out one of my sisters friends also had the very same dentist but had a lot of dental work done because she had braces. Apparently, he didn't do a very good job as the repairs to the damage done cost some $ to fix. Guess what? My sister also had a little brace-work done as well! And yep, she also had a bad job but since it was very little the damage wasn't so bad.
So, now I'm thinking
+1
I also think he's onto something great. I've written scripts to add color to my console and found out after doing it for every program that you can handle that all in a few files. What he's done though, is done that for text and everything else. It looks very promising and I would be willing to give it a go when it's ready.
Yeah seriously! And as AC posted, they Australia f'd up, they missed out on a golden "Hello, World!" opportunity!
I finally got in an after reading TFA, it doesn't seem like it's a place we'd want to inhabit @ 2 x earth's gravity. We're gonna have to start working out build up strength in our legs and lose some serious weight! Unless we get those exoskeletons working right!
i just watched my first ever match on justintv or something... was impressive: guy was playing sv, listening to music, streaming his game, chatting with people via IM's and on 3 websites lol. I couldn't stop cracking up when he'd switch from the game to the other screens. So, definitely having a second monitor is a big plus for this. I run no less than 2 at work and at home.
You know why? Because if everyone took their break at lunch, then everyone else on lunch couldn't use the bank on their lunch break! When I worked in a bank, we'd be forced to take our lunch anywhere from 10-2. WTF is up with that right? So you could have worked as little as 1 - 2 hours before you HAD to take your lunch. So it's for our convenience.
I wouldn't worry about it. I worked as a teller and later 'merchant teller' for a while and I didn't care about customers having money or not. And to be honest, you could be surprised to find out that most people just don't have a lot of money. Very few in my experience had any notable amounts of deposits. Even the businesses didn't have enough to make me bat an eye. What did surprise me here and there was what people had in their safety deposit boxes. Why would you keep cash or other things in there? I'm sure they had their reasons. The reason I saw a few things is because I was asked to help with their boxes.
I think people are more self-conscious than anything. An old school mate had her account with my bank and so I tried chatting her up for a bit. Well, I think she was embarrassed with how little she had in her account and left as soon as she could! Or maybe, it was just me lol
apparently, its quite a bit but they say they'll reduce it for slower speeds. I saw something like 20GB per month.
You know, I've been very fortunate to have been able to have traveled across N.A. and the only place I would contemplate moving to, is Vancouver, B.C. It is beautiful and the people are great! Sorry Mexico, you're cool too, but just too far behind in technology at the moment.
It's going to be like Ghost in the Shell where we can plug in and do all you're saying and more! Can't wait for it yeah!!!
Yeah BSD! You know, this is kinda weird... GhettoBSD is about to turn 10 years old itself! It makes sense, they stole my idea and made profit off of it! :( But GhettoBSD is still going, well, ghetto!
That's how I feel... because he supposedly wanted ewoks and midgets for luke and leia's roles in the one of the first drafts! wtf?!?!? Good by accident for sure!
Wait, that makes too much sense for us here Mericans. Why don't you take your smarty pants snobby ideas back to yerope!
So for the last world cup, I made for the teams we were rooting for (here in the office) Android banners! It took about a day to figure out what I was doing, but after that it went well. At first I just used backgrounds to match the colors and text for the slogan. But then I found it better/easier to use a graphic. So when our teams were playing we'd open the program and display our support on our android phones. +1 for Android!
I played this game and really enjoyed it. Sure, it is a bummer, but you know what? So is life sometimes. It's cool! GhettoBSD Approved!
It also shows what else flash is capable of. Most people hate the game and apparently, the functionality. But little do people realize it is an important function in the flash toolbox. This game, is also a great example for our privacy argument: most people won't know how to get around the game not allowing you to play it again, partly because of how flash is set up, and partly because people just don't know what to do on their end. It's interesting to read comments on "how to be able to play it again."
count me in! Can we say class action? Oh yeah!
http://jalopnik.com/5726457/this-is-every-batmobile-ever
That said, it's not every batmobile. But the discussion has some interesting things!
GhettoBSD is to be ported to PS3. A new era of free/cheap games on high-end hardware is here!
Update: Porting failed.
For me, it's like waiting for the newest andorid phone... I'll just wait until the next best thing comes out, and upgrade to that. So I'll be skipping BR myself!
yeah a little, me too... but, what if they actually incorporate this into a live show? now THAT would be awesome! No more "rock star gets burned when pyrotechnic effect goes off at wrong time." I would rock that on stage! Guitar, drums, bass oh yeah!