And speak with more than just your money; they're giving you a direct opportunity to speak with your, er, online voice! Sure, you'll be one of 21004 (at this moment) people, but they're aware that a multi-platform release is something people are interested in already. Additional voices claiming support for it might prompt them to devote additional resources towards it.
Reminds me of a line about WWII I came across years ago that ran something like: "The superior German tanks could outperform anything the Allies threw at them, 10:1. Unfortunately, they built 11 tanks for each German tank."
My favorite requirement was exactly 8 characters, one of which must be capital, one of which must be a symbol, one of which must be a number, none of those three may be in the first or last position, and it had to be changed every month.
A lot of people just don't think of passwords in an effective manner though; most people I know still subscribe to the 'Complex [to a human] and therefore difficult to remember is best' line of thought. Me, I just ended up switching to a line from a song that's 25-characters long and incorporates proper capitalization and punctuation. Easy to remember and pretty difficult to brute force!
I use a variant of that: Pick a line from a song you know well. It also works well with monthly rotations: Just pick the nth line from the song. Admittedly, last time I had a problem with that when I needed somebody else to use my account and they couldn't spell Ipanema...
I pick decently long and complex phrases that I already remember as my passwords. Song titles are a pretty good pick: TheGirlFromIpanema is decently long, already memorized, easy enough to read off to somebody else if necessary and has a few obvious mutations if needed for subsequent incarnations. *Disclaimer: Not good for all songs. I believe 'If' was a #1 song in the 70s...
I received a notice from my bank last week where the bottom half of the flap was cut through (and, judging by the way the paper tore, I'd guess it was a serrated blade) and taped shut again. Just a confirmation of address change, but kind of odd, nonetheless.
One of my friends in a college town drives an ancient beaten up Taurus with junk all over the interior [clearly old shoes, fast food bags, etc]. One day, she found her door pried open and the only thing missing she could identify was a tuna sandwich.
Low end i5, 4gb with onboard video. The first stage was about as smooth as the downloaded version with the exception of a periodic tiny skip about every two seconds. Chrome 15.0.874.121 m.
I think it can be reliably stated that over 99.99% of all living individuals today have had at least one parent who have had sexual urges before. (Google spits back a global population of 6,840,507,000, so that's a decent 68k people to fit into anomalies such as being born from cases like parthenogenesis, or being forced into it culturally [and never having an urge for the rest of their life], etc.)
In 2010, one Virginia PETA facility took in 1553 cats and had 1507 euthanized (46 were dealt with in other ways, such as adoption, reclamation, being shipped to other facilities, etc.) http://www.virginia.gov/vdacs_ar/cgi-bin/Vdacs_search.cgi?link_select=facility&form=fac_select&fac_num=157&year=2010 [Alternatively, search for 'virginia department of agriculture and consumer services online animal reporting' and it shows up quite high. Disclaimer: This is the source data from an anti-PETA site, so Virginia might have a particularly high count or something.]
I just drove cross-country and had that same experience, though I blame it on random crud getting stuck on my glasses having not cleaned them after being stuck in a car all day. My favorite? "KY SLIPPERY" next to a bridge. (ICY)
Hop in your car, floor it out of town, get on the interstate, sit in traffic for 13 minutes. Alternatively, call up the SO, head towards the point of impact and attempt to join the Billion Particle club?
One of my friends, a doctor working with MSF/Doctors Without Borders, had his laptop confiscated for pornography in his medical reference materials. They even graciously told him, 'If you miss your flight, I'll be my fault.'
As I recall, Ubuntu names were picked to be alliterative [to be easier to remember], in alphabetical order [after the first few], and, when presented as the adjective and animal, to be a unique search engine hit.
It'd take a bit to get used to it; it's quite different from the experiment about flipping vision around with mirrors since that dealt with the same amount of data in a fashion that was mostly similar. A quick look around online suggests that the human field of vision is approximately 150 degrees laterally and 120 degrees vertically. Full "spherical" vision would result in something like... 7 times more stimulation or so. Without mental restructuring, you'd probably develop some psychoses from trying divide your attention up so much.
Slashdot Mirror
Not good, when you consider how long species exist on this planet though.
"Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish.
That's the way we do things, lad, we're making shit up as we wish..."
-Voltaire
And speak with more than just your money; they're giving you a direct opportunity to speak with your, er, online voice! Sure, you'll be one of 21004 (at this moment) people, but they're aware that a multi-platform release is something people are interested in already. Additional voices claiming support for it might prompt them to devote additional resources towards it.
I can't speak for the other categories, but that iPod Nano watchband in the Design category is over 6000%. I doubt OOtS would break that.
It's not quite $30/month, but T-Mobile has an option for 500min/text/200mb for $45. Chop out the data to save an extra $5.
Reminds me of a line about WWII I came across years ago that ran something like: "The superior German tanks could outperform anything the Allies threw at them, 10:1. Unfortunately, they built 11 tanks for each German tank."
Dr. Perry Cox of Scrubs: Look... First of all, it's not like you tripped and fell into her... and then out of her... and then into her... again.
My favorite requirement was exactly 8 characters, one of which must be capital, one of which must be a symbol, one of which must be a number, none of those three may be in the first or last position, and it had to be changed every month.
A lot of people just don't think of passwords in an effective manner though; most people I know still subscribe to the 'Complex [to a human] and therefore difficult to remember is best' line of thought. Me, I just ended up switching to a line from a song that's 25-characters long and incorporates proper capitalization and punctuation. Easy to remember and pretty difficult to brute force!
Are you thinking of the case where a newspaper sued Google and demanded they remove links to them from all their pages? http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110508/16543114199/belgian-appeals-court-says-google-must-pay-up-linking-to-newspaper-websites.shtml
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110718/16394915157/belgian-newspapers-give-permission-to-google-to-return-them-to-search-results.shtml
I use a variant of that: Pick a line from a song you know well. It also works well with monthly rotations: Just pick the nth line from the song. Admittedly, last time I had a problem with that when I needed somebody else to use my account and they couldn't spell Ipanema...
My sister's boss got a 100$ digital picture frame (no battery, data is SD) for Christmas. I think a 35$ tablet is more than adequate to replace that.
I pick decently long and complex phrases that I already remember as my passwords. Song titles are a pretty good pick: TheGirlFromIpanema is decently long, already memorized, easy enough to read off to somebody else if necessary and has a few obvious mutations if needed for subsequent incarnations.
*Disclaimer: Not good for all songs. I believe 'If' was a #1 song in the 70s...
I received a notice from my bank last week where the bottom half of the flap was cut through (and, judging by the way the paper tore, I'd guess it was a serrated blade) and taped shut again. Just a confirmation of address change, but kind of odd, nonetheless.
One of my friends in a college town drives an ancient beaten up Taurus with junk all over the interior [clearly old shoes, fast food bags, etc]. One day, she found her door pried open and the only thing missing she could identify was a tuna sandwich.
Low end i5, 4gb with onboard video. The first stage was about as smooth as the downloaded version with the exception of a periodic tiny skip about every two seconds. Chrome 15.0.874.121 m.
I think it can be reliably stated that over 99.99% of all living individuals today have had at least one parent who have had sexual urges before. (Google spits back a global population of 6,840,507,000, so that's a decent 68k people to fit into anomalies such as being born from cases like parthenogenesis, or being forced into it culturally [and never having an urge for the rest of their life], etc.)
In 2010, one Virginia PETA facility took in 1553 cats and had 1507 euthanized (46 were dealt with in other ways, such as adoption, reclamation, being shipped to other facilities, etc.)
http://www.virginia.gov/vdacs_ar/cgi-bin/Vdacs_search.cgi?link_select=facility&form=fac_select&fac_num=157&year=2010
[Alternatively, search for 'virginia department of agriculture and consumer services online animal reporting' and it shows up quite high. Disclaimer: This is the source data from an anti-PETA site, so Virginia might have a particularly high count or something.]
I just drove cross-country and had that same experience, though I blame it on random crud getting stuck on my glasses having not cleaned them after being stuck in a car all day. My favorite? "KY SLIPPERY" next to a bridge. (ICY)
Hop in your car, floor it out of town, get on the interstate, sit in traffic for 13 minutes. Alternatively, call up the SO, head towards the point of impact and attempt to join the Billion Particle club?
Maybe this system can finally process The Great Adamantine Space Elevator...
One of my friends, a doctor working with MSF/Doctors Without Borders, had his laptop confiscated for pornography in his medical reference materials. They even graciously told him, 'If you miss your flight, I'll be my fault.'
As I recall, Ubuntu names were picked to be alliterative [to be easier to remember], in alphabetical order [after the first few], and, when presented as the adjective and animal, to be a unique search engine hit.
1.5 Cupcake
1.6 Donut
2.1 Eclair
2.2 Froyo [Frozen Yogurt]
2.3.x Gingerbread
3.x.x Honeycomb
4.x.x Ice Cream Sandwich
My guess is that somebody very, very hungry developed the naming system.
Really, really nauseated.
It'd take a bit to get used to it; it's quite different from the experiment about flipping vision around with mirrors since that dealt with the same amount of data in a fashion that was mostly similar. A quick look around online suggests that the human field of vision is approximately 150 degrees laterally and 120 degrees vertically. Full "spherical" vision would result in something like... 7 times more stimulation or so. Without mental restructuring, you'd probably develop some psychoses from trying divide your attention up so much.