When I die, my "work stuff" folder and the password for the truecrypt container found within shall be passed on to my eldest son, as is done among my people.
Do you carry large sums of paper money on you when you go walking around town? Do you have thousands of dollars stashed away in a shoebox under your bed?
I'd consider Bitcoins on a server to be roughly as secure as the money in my pocket as I walk around downtown, and Bitcoins in my personal posession about as secure as cash in a shoebox under my bed. So, I'd never keep more than $20-$60 in bitcoins on a server, and probably never more than $100-$200 worth in my total Bitcoin holdings.
Seriously, what happened? Have they always been a mustache-twirling, comically evil organization? Did they make Lex Luthor the police chief on 9/12/2001?
Someone should just do comments as a service, like Disqus does, but using the same basic system as Slashdot.
Oh please god no. It's bad enough waiting for a comment thread to collapse for 15 seconds after I click; don't spread the slashdot comment code to other sites, please!
I think that's an overly optimistic appraisal of the situation. Laws are selectively enforced all the time. Mostly they'll leave people alone, but when election time rolls around I think judges and DAs all over the place will be more than happy to bust a few random exit node operators for trafficking in child pornography. Bonus: if you lead protests, or run for office against the incumbent DA, or start a business that competes with a business owned by a local judge's son, all they have to do is watch your exit node traffic until some unmentionables slip by and they've got you.
If full page ads and surveys become a problem it should be relatively easy to write extensions to bypass them. I hope they like survey results where 99% of respondents pick the first answer to every question.
Why would the organizers of this study even tell the patients which group they're in? Hell, you probably shouldn't even tell the patients they're part of a study. Just pick 100 random suitable hospital patients; pray for half of them; don't pray for the other half.
It's not just an "every other version" thing. Versions of windows that introduce huge changes generally come with a side serving of massive incompatibility and instability. Versions of windows that make subtle refinements and UI changes generally have good compatibility and stability. Win 8 is introducing a huge change to the way Windows works, so we can assume that it will generally suck. Windows 9 will look a lot like win8 but will be refined and work well.
they seem to be getting enough business to support multiple of this type of store in the same area.
The fact that they exist does not imply that they have sufficient business. If you're the type of person who opens a brick & mortar business based on a product that is clearly nothing more than a passing fad, are you really doing the market research beforehand to guarantee that your market is large enough? Probably not.
The computer is nothing more than a tool that lets me play games, use the internet, and get work done. Any effort spent on the computer itself is wasted effort. I'll run linux when you can point me at a distro that is the same or less effort as a windows 7 install, will support all of my hardware with similar confidence as windows 7, and will run whatever games I feel like playing.
And I'm not paying $2500 for a $1200 computer so apple can fuck off.
So to communicate instantaneously over any distance I just need to use photons with wavelength greater than or equal to the communication distance? Cool.
Actually, I meant this to be a snarky response but, given that high wavelength = low energy I could see a situation where this is true but for any significant distance the photon energy is so small that they can't actually be detected on the far end. Cool!
Can't wait to jailbreak it and start developing apps! Just think of the possibilities....
*Automatically slow to the speed limit when coming up on a speed trap *image processing app to detect police cruisers using the back-up camera *ParallelParkMe *IPhone Remote Control (for easy ghost riding)
When truth comes in contact with politics they annihilate each other in a truth / anti-truth reaction. The truth / anti-truth reaction releases a few photon of s-radiation, (the s stands for stupid) which has the effect of making anyone exposed feel an uncontrollable desire to watch American Idol and drink Bud Lite.
For kids who "have trouble remembering where they're supposed to be" I would recommend a giant 6x3 foot poster with the word "SCHOOL" written on it in giant block letters. It's probably cheaper than a GPS tracker, too!
I'm pretty sure the "humanities" GP is talking about do not include practical art skills like yours. Nobody would claim that being able to produce art is worthless; hell, I'd even support possibly forcing engineers/programmers to develop some kind of art skill(drawing / painting / music / something) as a part of their education.
I think GP is talking about "humanities" in the sense of the typical read-an-article-then-discuss-it-in-class, what-is-the-author-saying-here, write-a-50-page-research-paper-on-a-topic-of-your-choosing style course, and I'd agree those are somewhat worthless:)
I'd say the one step that makes renting on Apple TV more trouble than pirating is the "have an Apple TV" step. It's a weird almost-computer, almost-DVD-player, and I think for most people it falls squarely into the category of "I'm not buying it because I don't know what it's supposed to do".
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When I die, my "work stuff" folder and the password for the truecrypt container found within shall be passed on to my eldest son, as is done among my people.
I haven't bought any other blizzard games in the past few years
So you've bought every single game they released, then?
It's a bit like Steve Jobs serving meals at a homeless shelter and letting the homeless decide what they want to eat.
Fixed for proper Steve Jobs analogy.
Do you carry large sums of paper money on you when you go walking around town? Do you have thousands of dollars stashed away in a shoebox under your bed?
I'd consider Bitcoins on a server to be roughly as secure as the money in my pocket as I walk around downtown, and Bitcoins in my personal posession about as secure as cash in a shoebox under my bed. So, I'd never keep more than $20-$60 in bitcoins on a server, and probably never more than $100-$200 worth in my total Bitcoin holdings.
Seriously, what happened? Have they always been a mustache-twirling, comically evil organization? Did they make Lex Luthor the police chief on 9/12/2001?
I hate to be the one to break this to you, but... ... Firefly isn't on TV any more. It was cancelled. I'm so sorry.
Someone should just do comments as a service, like Disqus does, but using the same basic system as Slashdot.
Oh please god no. It's bad enough waiting for a comment thread to collapse for 15 seconds after I click; don't spread the slashdot comment code to other sites, please!
If the results are THAT good, they should be able to prove it fairly easily, right?
If by "fairly easily" you mean, ten years of clinical trials and hundreds of millions of dollars.
I guess I'll just have to hope I don't need any of these treatments in the next decade.
I think that's an overly optimistic appraisal of the situation. Laws are selectively enforced all the time. Mostly they'll leave people alone, but when election time rolls around I think judges and DAs all over the place will be more than happy to bust a few random exit node operators for trafficking in child pornography. Bonus: if you lead protests, or run for office against the incumbent DA, or start a business that competes with a business owned by a local judge's son, all they have to do is watch your exit node traffic until some unmentionables slip by and they've got you.
If full page ads and surveys become a problem it should be relatively easy to write extensions to bypass them. I hope they like survey results where 99% of respondents pick the first answer to every question.
"Never again will I curse the ground because of humans">
The apocalypse isn't "because of humans", it was a part of the plan from the beginning.
Why would the organizers of this study even tell the patients which group they're in? Hell, you probably shouldn't even tell the patients they're part of a study. Just pick 100 random suitable hospital patients; pray for half of them; don't pray for the other half.
It's not just an "every other version" thing. Versions of windows that introduce huge changes generally come with a side serving of massive incompatibility and instability. Versions of windows that make subtle refinements and UI changes generally have good compatibility and stability. Win 8 is introducing a huge change to the way Windows works, so we can assume that it will generally suck. Windows 9 will look a lot like win8 but will be refined and work well.
I wish. Tried playing the "Myst" series lately? A virtual machine running Win95 is pretty much the only way.
they seem to be getting enough business to support multiple of this type of store in the same area.
The fact that they exist does not imply that they have sufficient business. If you're the type of person who opens a brick & mortar business based on a product that is clearly nothing more than a passing fad, are you really doing the market research beforehand to guarantee that your market is large enough? Probably not.
The computer is nothing more than a tool that lets me play games, use the internet, and get work done. Any effort spent on the computer itself is wasted effort. I'll run linux when you can point me at a distro that is the same or less effort as a windows 7 install, will support all of my hardware with similar confidence as windows 7, and will run whatever games I feel like playing.
And I'm not paying $2500 for a $1200 computer so apple can fuck off.
So to communicate instantaneously over any distance I just need to use photons with wavelength greater than or equal to the communication distance? Cool.
Actually, I meant this to be a snarky response but, given that high wavelength = low energy I could see a situation where this is true but for any significant distance the photon energy is so small that they can't actually be detected on the far end. Cool!
Can't wait to jailbreak it and start developing apps! Just think of the possibilities ....
*Automatically slow to the speed limit when coming up on a speed trap
*image processing app to detect police cruisers using the back-up camera
*ParallelParkMe
*IPhone Remote Control (for easy ghost riding)
u mad, bro?
Are enough fans interested in watching the weakest films of the trilogy again just to experience them in 3D?"
No, definitely not. Are enough retards going to go to buy tickets to make this ridiculously profitable? Yes, definitely.
When truth comes in contact with politics they annihilate each other in a truth / anti-truth reaction. The truth / anti-truth reaction releases a few photon of s-radiation, (the s stands for stupid) which has the effect of making anyone exposed feel an uncontrollable desire to watch American Idol and drink Bud Lite.
For kids who "have trouble remembering where they're supposed to be" I would recommend a giant 6x3 foot poster with the word "SCHOOL" written on it in giant block letters. It's probably cheaper than a GPS tracker, too!
I'm pretty sure the "humanities" GP is talking about do not include practical art skills like yours. Nobody would claim that being able to produce art is worthless; hell, I'd even support possibly forcing engineers/programmers to develop some kind of art skill(drawing / painting / music / something) as a part of their education.
:)
I think GP is talking about "humanities" in the sense of the typical read-an-article-then-discuss-it-in-class, what-is-the-author-saying-here, write-a-50-page-research-paper-on-a-topic-of-your-choosing style course, and I'd agree those are somewhat worthless
I'd say the one step that makes renting on Apple TV more trouble than pirating is the "have an Apple TV" step. It's a weird almost-computer, almost-DVD-player, and I think for most people it falls squarely into the category of "I'm not buying it because I don't know what it's supposed to do".
Demonoid has some ebooks. I'm not sure how wide the selection is, I've never really been that big on pirating books.