Man, same here. I don't want anyone cutting my eyeball open and shooting lasers into my eyes while I'm only sedated JUST YET, but I've always said: I don't care how much it costs. Find me the most expensive place and take me there. I don't care if I have to pay Gimbel almighty himself to perform the surgery personally, I don't want to be taking ANY chances with something irreversible as lasic.
They do the exact same thing. It's your life and health at stake here. If you don't value either then you should go diving by the seat of your pants and hope you make it out safely before your air runs out.
And no, I don't adjust the time on it every 2 weeks. An appliance that has a clock should: - keep time well, not let it drift an hour a week - know what time zone I'm in so I don't have change the time on EVERYTHING with a clock every 6 months.
Just look at your average living area: - clock in microwave - clock in stove - clock in fridge (soon to be common-place?) - clock in VCR - clock in TV - clock in bedroom TV - clock in... clock (duh, you gotta wake up for work on time:) - clock in computer (bios and os) - clock in computer 2 - clock in switch - clock in router - clock in wrist watch (nice sector for every day) - clock in wrist watch (timex ironman for hiking/camping) - probably clock in several other devices
Do I need to be able to tell time from half dozen clocks at any given time? Probably not. Are they all accurate? Definitely not. Do they all need clocks? Most assuredly not.
Contractors do it all the time. You set up a company for yourself. You hold 100% of the shares (usually), it's just for yourself. All money paid to you is actually paid to the company; you're never hired, the company is, you just do the work. (A nice side-effect of this is that you can hire someone ELSE to do the work, pay them less and pocket the difference, while you're busy working a more beneficial shtick, unless the contract specifically names you.) Corporate taxes are much lower than personal taxes. The company pays you out whenever you need money, using whatever method happens to result in fewer taxes. There's nothing 'shaady' about this, it's perfectly legal, and it's SOP for most self-employed people. It provides a liability shield too, so it's not just for tax purposes.
And don't forget that that 1 extra HP looks like an impressively huge lead on a bar graph that starts at 345 HP!
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Not only that, but a big problem with client-side filtering is what happens when you go away for a month? What happens when my mailbox fills up with crap after a week?
In any case, read to the end of the article. With the proposed legistlation, 'registered' spammers wouldn't have to put ADV in the subject, or otherwise identify the email as spam. Filter that.
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Man, what am I gonna do with all these drugs!
What indeed? Sell them? Use them? Throw them out? The problem is similar to laundering money or circulating counterfeit currency. It's not hard to get lots of money illegaly. It's hard to USE it all legally. That's why you only get pennies on the dollar with fake money, and not much more for unlaundered money. It's hard to make use of significant amounts of illegal stuff. Sure, you can spend a few dollars here to buy some groceries, maybe a few bucks to buy that flat-screen TV, but when you got millions... If you're an average Joe and you ever find a bag full of 100s you'll be spending it for the rest of your life.
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Well, I don't know about that (re your last paragraph). Sure, C makes you spell everything out. But once you check out Java's (or whatever library's or whatever) security checks, you can just file them away. With C you have to check everyone's re-invention of the wheel, every time. Even if it looks the same, little things will throw it off, and you just can't trust it. Even if the code is byte by byte identical to something you've seen before, there may be unforseen interactions with other code.
I can relate to this paying fines thing... US (and Canada) has a very strange relationship with and attitude towards cash. I still routinely pay for big ticket items outright, either with real cash or a debit card. Even paying for the whole thing with a credit card gets you strange looks; you're supposed to take the installment plan or the no payments no interest for 6 months deal. It's almost like it's customary for people to buy things they can't pay for or can't afford, and deal with the fallout later. Although I have to admit, if you're disciplined enough, the 6 month thing IS a great idea; you can let the money sit and earn interest in something, then just show up 5.99 months later and pay the whole thing off. I'm sure I'm in the tiny monitory, and the store still makes money off other people.
I 100% agree. It always cracks me up when these thieving idiots justify themselves. The best one is when they say what they're doing is some kind of civil disobedience, a revolution. To which you say, you're no fucking revolutionary, you're just a common thief. That what you're doing happens in the digital domain is no more novel than all the 'on the Internet' patents.
If you have a problem with the RIAA business model, or don't like the music (yeah right, so why download it, like you said?), there's a simple solution to your problem. Don't listen to their music. Don't buy it. You don't like McDonalds you don't break in, steal all their burgers and have a BBQ. You go somewhere else, and tell others not to go to McDonalds either.
By downloading music as some method of rebellion, you're not part of the solution. You're just part of the problem and more importantly, part of the system.
The article missed the most important and difficult to detect cheat method: proxy.
The gamer connects to a game server through a proxy he controls. This proxy will be able to snoop and modify the data stream on the wire. If you decode the network protocol, and can gain all kinds of advantages; sometimes valuable data may be sent that even your client ignores completely. Wall hacks and autoaimers can be based on these methods. If you see a shot event, modify it with a vecor to the nearest enemy model.
A less robust cheat of the proxy variety employs a simple sniffer to watch the traffic.
No, but if i see him downloading or watching child porn, I'm likely to call the cops. It's a matter of degree, nothing is black and white, and you have to exercise a bit of judgement.
It was just an example. What if it was confidential work information? I sometimes get documents labeled so, and even employees of the company shouldn't look at it. So if my machine dies, and I have to send it in for repairs, I should feel confident that the techs won't be snooping around where they don't need to.
I think most 'company resources' rules can be summaried as follows:
Don't do or store on your work computer anything you wouldn't want police or your boss knowing about. You're at work to work.
Re browsing/. and goofing off: if you don't have enough work, tell your manager you don't have enough to do. One of two things will happen. He'll give you more work. That's good, that's why they pay you. Or, he'll say, it's a slow time right now, take things easy, take some courses, work from home, go on vacation. If you act like an adult, you'll probably be treated as one in return.
There is NO WAY someone like Gates or Balmer will ever lose so much money that they go broke. There'll always be a few million kicking around in some account somewhere to live off comfortably for the rest of their lives. That's not risk. Unless you consider looking bad in front of your 'peers' risk. Creating new businesses, funding interesting research and donating to good causes may be exciting and give you the warm fuzzies, but when you've got net worth in the billions it isn't taking any risks.
Look at it this way. You're gainfully employed, comfortably middle class, etc. You get together with friends for a dime ante poker game. Would you call that risky? Could be exciting and fun maybe.
Well, that's just nitpicking, and the first person sued for abusing this system will spoil it for everyone basically. Obviously, the spirit of the law, when crafted, allowed for sharing of tapes and CDs between family members and close friends you could physically give the media to. Since it was happening anyways, rather than making criminals out of everyone, including most politicians no doubt, the practice was formally legalized.
You'd think someone would become alarmed when a person suddenly brings in a bunch of 100s all with the strip missing and getting them replaced with real money. There's not much they can do, they have to replace damaged legal tender, but surely they wouldn't just send you on your merry way with a bagful of new money?
It leads me to believe that Intel rely far more on being able to ramp up their clockspeed than they do on creating a better chip. For that reason alone I prefer AMD.
Why? And if AMDs are so underclocked compared to the P4, why do they run so much hotter? Why would you prefer a slower hotter chip over a faster cooler one? Intel's architecture can be clocked higher and higher as processes improve. How far can AMD go? Not far, seeing as the architecture is dead and being replaced with a 64 bit one, so you can bet the ratings will be even more skewed and fixed at whatever AMD feels like.
No. Ethanol boils at 173.12F, freezes at -174.28F (78.4 and -114.6 Celsius respectively). Fahrenheit also fucked up when setting 100F to be body temperature; it is actually 98.4F, and it's not constant anyways. 0F was supposed to be the coldest temperature he could obtain, a water/salt mixture. He was also off on that one, the coldest possible mixture can attain -4F.
Yup, looks like the reset utility picks up your back-up email address from your Hotmail/Passport profile, sticks it in a URL, redirects you to it, and hopes you don't notice the email address flying by on the address bar. That's a brilliant piece of web app coding right there.
I sure hope their.net example code snippets followed some sort of secure computing initiative thingy guideline...
It's still a lame reason. Hotmail isn't a single point relase product. It won't be replaced with Hotmail 2003. What was the point of the security PR stunt if not to improve existing processes? And why would you say Hotmail and Passport won't benefit from the secure computing initiative?
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Maybe you have some fake Euro notes? :)
Man, same here. I don't want anyone cutting my eyeball open and shooting lasers into my eyes while I'm only sedated JUST YET, but I've always said: I don't care how much it costs. Find me the most expensive place and take me there. I don't care if I have to pay Gimbel almighty himself to perform the surgery personally, I don't want to be taking ANY chances with something irreversible as lasic.
They do the exact same thing. It's your life and health at stake here. If you don't value either then you should go diving by the seat of your pants and hope you make it out safely before your air runs out.
And no, I don't adjust the time on it every 2 weeks. An appliance that has a clock should:
... clock (duh, you gotta wake up for work on time :)
- keep time well, not let it drift an hour a week
- know what time zone I'm in so I don't have change the time on EVERYTHING with a clock every 6 months.
Just look at your average living area:
- clock in microwave
- clock in stove
- clock in fridge (soon to be common-place?)
- clock in VCR
- clock in TV
- clock in bedroom TV
- clock in
- clock in computer (bios and os)
- clock in computer 2
- clock in switch
- clock in router
- clock in wrist watch (nice sector for every day)
- clock in wrist watch (timex ironman for hiking/camping)
- probably clock in several other devices
Do I need to be able to tell time from half dozen clocks at any given time? Probably not. Are they all accurate? Definitely not. Do they all need clocks? Most assuredly not.
Contractors do it all the time. You set up a company for yourself. You hold 100% of the shares (usually), it's just for yourself. All money paid to you is actually paid to the company; you're never hired, the company is, you just do the work. (A nice side-effect of this is that you can hire someone ELSE to do the work, pay them less and pocket the difference, while you're busy working a more beneficial shtick, unless the contract specifically names you.) Corporate taxes are much lower than personal taxes. The company pays you out whenever you need money, using whatever method happens to result in fewer taxes. There's nothing 'shaady' about this, it's perfectly legal, and it's SOP for most self-employed people. It provides a liability shield too, so it's not just for tax purposes.
And don't forget that that 1 extra HP looks like an impressively huge lead on a bar graph that starts at 345 HP!
Not only that, but a big problem with client-side filtering is what happens when you go away for a month? What happens when my mailbox fills up with crap after a week?
In any case, read to the end of the article. With the proposed legistlation, 'registered' spammers wouldn't have to put ADV in the subject, or otherwise identify the email as spam. Filter that.
Man, what am I gonna do with all these drugs!
What indeed? Sell them? Use them? Throw them out? The problem is similar to laundering money or circulating counterfeit currency. It's not hard to get lots of money illegaly. It's hard to USE it all legally. That's why you only get pennies on the dollar with fake money, and not much more for unlaundered money. It's hard to make use of significant amounts of illegal stuff. Sure, you can spend a few dollars here to buy some groceries, maybe a few bucks to buy that flat-screen TV, but when you got millions... If you're an average Joe and you ever find a bag full of 100s you'll be spending it for the rest of your life.
Well, I don't know about that (re your last paragraph). Sure, C makes you spell everything out. But once you check out Java's (or whatever library's or whatever) security checks, you can just file them away. With C you have to check everyone's re-invention of the wheel, every time. Even if it looks the same, little things will throw it off, and you just can't trust it. Even if the code is byte by byte identical to something you've seen before, there may be unforseen interactions with other code.
I can relate to this paying fines thing... US (and Canada) has a very strange relationship with and attitude towards cash. I still routinely pay for big ticket items outright, either with real cash or a debit card. Even paying for the whole thing with a credit card gets you strange looks; you're supposed to take the installment plan or the no payments no interest for 6 months deal. It's almost like it's customary for people to buy things they can't pay for or can't afford, and deal with the fallout later. Although I have to admit, if you're disciplined enough, the 6 month thing IS a great idea; you can let the money sit and earn interest in something, then just show up 5.99 months later and pay the whole thing off. I'm sure I'm in the tiny monitory, and the store still makes money off other people.
Can't believe you stole my sig! Aww, that's ok, I didn't attribute it either. It's from Being John Malkovich.
I 100% agree. It always cracks me up when these thieving idiots justify themselves. The best one is when they say what they're doing is some kind of civil disobedience, a revolution. To which you say, you're no fucking revolutionary, you're just a common thief. That what you're doing happens in the digital domain is no more novel than all the 'on the Internet' patents.
If you have a problem with the RIAA business model, or don't like the music (yeah right, so why download it, like you said?), there's a simple solution to your problem. Don't listen to their music. Don't buy it. You don't like McDonalds you don't break in, steal all their burgers and have a BBQ. You go somewhere else, and tell others not to go to McDonalds either.
By downloading music as some method of rebellion, you're not part of the solution. You're just part of the problem and more importantly, part of the system.
The article missed the most important and difficult to detect cheat method: proxy.
The gamer connects to a game server through a proxy he controls. This proxy will be able to snoop and modify the data stream on the wire. If you decode the network protocol, and can gain all kinds of advantages; sometimes valuable data may be sent that even your client ignores completely. Wall hacks and autoaimers can be based on these methods. If you see a shot event, modify it with a vecor to the nearest enemy model.
A less robust cheat of the proxy variety employs a simple sniffer to watch the traffic.
No, but if i see him downloading or watching child porn, I'm likely to call the cops. It's a matter of degree, nothing is black and white, and you have to exercise a bit of judgement.
It was just an example. What if it was confidential work information? I sometimes get documents labeled so, and even employees of the company shouldn't look at it. So if my machine dies, and I have to send it in for repairs, I should feel confident that the techs won't be snooping around where they don't need to.
I think most 'company resources' rules can be summaried as follows:
/. and goofing off: if you don't have enough work, tell your manager you don't have enough to do. One of two things will happen. He'll give you more work. That's good, that's why they pay you. Or, he'll say, it's a slow time right now, take things easy, take some courses, work from home, go on vacation. If you act like an adult, you'll probably be treated as one in return.
Don't do or store on your work computer anything you wouldn't want police or your boss knowing about. You're at work to work.
Re browsing
There is NO WAY someone like Gates or Balmer will ever lose so much money that they go broke. There'll always be a few million kicking around in some account somewhere to live off comfortably for the rest of their lives. That's not risk. Unless you consider looking bad in front of your 'peers' risk. Creating new businesses, funding interesting research and donating to good causes may be exciting and give you the warm fuzzies, but when you've got net worth in the billions it isn't taking any risks.
Look at it this way. You're gainfully employed, comfortably middle class, etc. You get together with friends for a dime ante poker game. Would you call that risky? Could be exciting and fun maybe.
It's easy. Disable data autoplay, use your favourite ripper. Or do it under Linux with cdparanoia.
Well, that's just nitpicking, and the first person sued for abusing this system will spoil it for everyone basically. Obviously, the spirit of the law, when crafted, allowed for sharing of tapes and CDs between family members and close friends you could physically give the media to. Since it was happening anyways, rather than making criminals out of everyone, including most politicians no doubt, the practice was formally legalized.
You'd think someone would become alarmed when a person suddenly brings in a bunch of 100s all with the strip missing and getting them replaced with real money. There's not much they can do, they have to replace damaged legal tender, but surely they wouldn't just send you on your merry way with a bagful of new money?
Why? And if AMDs are so underclocked compared to the P4, why do they run so much hotter? Why would you prefer a slower hotter chip over a faster cooler one? Intel's architecture can be clocked higher and higher as processes improve. How far can AMD go? Not far, seeing as the architecture is dead and being replaced with a 64 bit one, so you can bet the ratings will be even more skewed and fixed at whatever AMD feels like.
No. Ethanol boils at 173.12F, freezes at -174.28F (78.4 and -114.6 Celsius respectively). Fahrenheit also fucked up when setting 100F to be body temperature; it is actually 98.4F, and it's not constant anyways. 0F was supposed to be the coldest temperature he could obtain, a water/salt mixture. He was also off on that one, the coldest possible mixture can attain -4F.
Bottom line, you do nothing for SEEK time by increasing RPMs of the platters. The head still moves at the same speed between cylinders.
Yup, looks like the reset utility picks up your back-up email address from your Hotmail/Passport profile, sticks it in a URL, redirects you to it, and hopes you don't notice the email address flying by on the address bar. That's a brilliant piece of web app coding right there.
.net example code snippets followed some sort of secure computing initiative thingy guideline...
I sure hope their
It's still a lame reason. Hotmail isn't a single point relase product. It won't be replaced with Hotmail 2003. What was the point of the security PR stunt if not to improve existing processes? And why would you say Hotmail and Passport won't benefit from the secure computing initiative?