I'm writing some software for iOS. My lawyer told me last week that I should incorporate because of patent trolls. And he did TELL me in no uncertain terms.
My karma isn't bad, just "good" right now. "Funny" mods gets you nowhere (not even +.25 or +.5) and all it takes is a handful of zealot mods to hurt the ol' karma. Not a biggee:) It's happened before, I'm sure it will happen again.
I was a vegetarian for about 10 years (ending over 15 ago) for no particular reason.
But bacon... oh bacon... It would call to me in my dreams. Sizzling bacon strips with arms and legs and breasts moaning seductively "Eat me, grub!"
Then the dream that ended it all. I was tied to a slab of salt pork while a giant bacon strip wearing a pig mask and sporting a large bacon penis assaulted me.
So when friends today ask why I quit being a vegetarian I don't tell them about the anal and oral rape. I just shrug my shoulders sheepishly.
'WiFi on Steroids' which allows a large number of users within a 50-mile radius to tap into a single high-speed broadband connection for the same price as a traditional WiFi router.
Great! I can use open "Linksys" networks from across the city!
... pretty much replaced the laptop. It was used mostly for web browsing and PDF reading. Instant on and no Windows chaff (AV, Spyware, etc.) to worry about makes this a sheer win for the iPad.
... works as a smartphone. Skype and Acrobits Smartphone (VoIP) work well on the iPad.
... is used as an eBook reader (mostly PDF and epub)
So, yeah, it's not a necessity in the sense that food and water are but it's a darn useful device. The most surprising for me was the laptop. It's only been booted up to get passwords for sites we now visit on the iPad.
Assume Joe User brings in an infected USB stick and his local AV misses the new bug. A desktop firewall on other machines could prevent it from spreading to them (if designed to spread through the network.)
At work we're putting L3 ACLs on our switching gear to help with that risk but I wouldn't want to disable firewalls via a GP just yet.
True enough. My brother uses FF and AdBlock+ but won't install NoScript. Flat out refuses to, saying he hates having to whitelist everything. I've tried explaining that over (reasonable) time the sites you visit are all categorized and you rarely need to add exceptions. Even newly visited sites are fine much of the time.
"Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death" as the Dead Kennedys album says...
evercookie is written in JavaScript and additionally
uses a SWF (Flash) object for the Local Shared Objects and
PHP for the server-side generation of cached PNGs.
[...] If a user gets cookied on one browser and switches to
another browser as long as they still have the Local Shared Object
cookie, the cookie will reproduce in both browsers.
Well, the site's EXAMPLE failed on my box. That's NoScript at work.
If you use BetterPrivacy (another FF extension), it removes the LSO at
browser shutdown.
As for China, I wonder how long it will be until someplace like Australia or Canada decide "Hey that's a good idea" and declare takedown request to be state secrets.
I checked the map, interesting Canada has less than 10 (!)
World of difference the border between the US and Canada makes.
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I'm writing some software for iOS. My lawyer told me last week that I should incorporate because of patent trolls. And he did TELL me in no uncertain terms.
One's that it won't make a difference if you're off by 13 meters...
Nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
Actually his is the only message that looks normal on this Wyse-60 terminal.
Now get off my lawn,
The record companies need to stop running their businesses like they are some big movie studio and start finding ways to save money
That would require the getting rid of the managerial fluff which cripples many a big business. Start with Graham Henderson and work down.
I literally have a stack of them going back to the mid 90's, and occasionally dig out something to refer back to it.
I bet you have them indexed and labelled with Roman numerals, too.
If I had some mod points to sell, would that make me a karma whore or a karma pimp?
Neither: it'd make me your bitch!
I'm not worried, I've had Terrible in the past. It always makes its way back up.
My karma isn't bad, just "good" right now. "Funny" mods gets you nowhere (not even +.25 or +.5) and all it takes is a handful of zealot mods to hurt the ol' karma. Not a biggee :) It's happened before, I'm sure it will happen again.
I was a vegetarian for about 10 years (ending over 15 ago) for no particular reason.
But bacon... oh bacon... It would call to me in my dreams. Sizzling bacon strips with arms and legs and breasts moaning seductively "Eat me, grub!"
Then the dream that ended it all. I was tied to a slab of salt pork while a giant bacon strip wearing a pig mask and sporting a large bacon penis assaulted me.
So when friends today ask why I quit being a vegetarian I don't tell them about the anal and oral rape. I just shrug my shoulders sheepishly.
MMmm... bacon.
Pretty much anything sold by Thinkgeek these days is poor quality.
Anything except BaconSalt or Baconaisse
MMmmm... bacon....
'WiFi on Steroids' which allows a large number of users within a 50-mile radius to tap into a single high-speed broadband connection for the same price as a traditional WiFi router.
Great! I can use open "Linksys" networks from across the city!
That's fine for you, Mr.Goatse. However this is a serious concern for we mortals with anuses in sizes nature intended.
Feed me, Seymour!
Our iPad has...
... pretty much replaced the laptop. It was used mostly for web browsing and PDF reading. Instant on and no Windows chaff (AV, Spyware, etc.) to worry about makes this a sheer win for the iPad.
... works as a smartphone. Skype and Acrobits Smartphone (VoIP) work well on the iPad.
... is used as an eBook reader (mostly PDF and epub)
So, yeah, it's not a necessity in the sense that food and water are but it's a darn useful device. The most surprising for me was the laptop. It's only been booted up to get passwords for sites we now visit on the iPad.
YMMV, of course.
2010: Year of the iPad
2011: Year of the [AOL]Me Too![/AOL]
Assume Joe User brings in an infected USB stick and his local AV misses the new bug. A desktop firewall on other machines could prevent it from spreading to them (if designed to spread through the network.)
At work we're putting L3 ACLs on our switching gear to help with that risk but I wouldn't want to disable firewalls via a GP just yet.
but most people use neither of these things
True enough. My brother uses FF and AdBlock+ but won't install NoScript. Flat out refuses to, saying he hates having to whitelist everything. I've tried explaining that over (reasonable) time the sites you visit are all categorized and you rarely need to add exceptions. Even newly visited sites are fine much of the time.
"Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death" as the Dead Kennedys album says...
evercookie is written in JavaScript and additionally uses a SWF (Flash) object for the Local Shared Objects and PHP for the server-side generation of cached PNGs.
[...]
If a user gets cookied on one browser and switches to another browser as long as they still have the Local Shared Object cookie, the cookie will reproduce in both browsers.
Well, the site's EXAMPLE failed on my box. That's NoScript at work. If you use BetterPrivacy (another FF extension), it removes the LSO at browser shutdown.
YMMV
How to we mark an entire story as -1, Flamebait?
As for China, I wonder how long it will be until someplace like Australia or Canada decide "Hey that's a good idea" and declare takedown request to be state secrets.
I checked the map, interesting Canada has less than 10 (!)
World of difference the border between the US and Canada makes.
have seen hints of what may be the hot, dense state of matter thought to have filled the universe in its first nanoseconds.
It's truly remarkable that they can see how the universe was 5999 years, 11 months, 30 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59.9999999... seconds ago!
Well, we're even. I had to google "shibboleth" :)
Cheers!
I've posted it once before, google will prove it. Nice troll, though.
Yes, for that I agree, should have clarified and meant as a 'tweeter'.
Still think I nailed it when I wrote "Twitter: the UDP of human conversation. -me"
Why, again, should I be using Twitter?
Youporn if you're using Ubuntu. If it gets ported to the Mac you go to goatse.
I jest, I jest.