This is not the flame, This is the torch that will carry the flame in a few weeks. And maybe already has carried it for a while. Yes, I've heard those stories about re-lighting it with a lighter, but there's no reason you can't "park" an eternal flame for a couple of days while you put the torch in a hard vacuum.
So do you support murdering the poor with earthquakes?
Not sure if troll or just that stupid. Has there even been a quake attributed to fracking that has been strong enough to do even minor property damage, much less anything dangerous enough to injure or kill someone?
Someone should pass the output of that script to whois and see how many combinations are already registered. For instance, pinklizard? CHECK! airfish? CHECK! brownwhale? CHECK! (oh wait, brownwhale.net hasn't been registered! better hurry!)
Sure, but if you live next to a radio transmitter or under a power line (ever held a fluorescent tube lamp under a power line?) then you'll just be raking in free electricity!
I bought something in a Best Buy the other day, yes, a "brick and mortar" store, and they needed to type in my CVN to make the sale. (It used to just be typing in the last 4 digits from the front of the card to ensure it matched the mag stripe.) Okay, so they were a big chain, but imagine what an unscrupulous small fly-by-night place could do if they kept those around.
I used the first 8 of my discover card (all DC start with 6011, FWIW, so there really were only 4 unique digits being searched) and found a couple of hits. One was from 2004 with a list of some students going to Korea for something, and someone put up a public web page with ALL their CC numbers.
Then I found another page somewhere with a big list of people apparently ordering take-out food three years ago. It was HTML without ".html" at the end, so it came up as a wall of tags. There was a credit card number, exp date in 2014, name, address, phone, AND CVN of someone in there. Holy identity theft, Batman! The CC, CVN, and address had been entered manually into a "notes" field. And someone made it public viewable by google bot. Good work, morons. And that was just five minutes of looking around.
But muh corn lobby! (So who exactly is the "trans-fat lobby", and how much do they donate to political campaign funds?) Must... put... more... ethanol... in... gasoline...
I don't get cable TV, only antenna, but I set up a MythTV box a few months ago. While some of what it records is duplicates (because I'm using the EIT information rather than an external schedule service, and there is an old MythTV bug that causes incorrect descriptions to be saved in the schedule database), the number of things that I say "hey, that would be cool to watch" and tell it to record is now really starting to stack up. And that's when most TV stations only have 12 hours ahead of schedules, so I'm tagging them only a few hours in advance! (But mostly it's the fault of the local 3-stream PBS station. There's a lot of cool random stuff on KLRU-Q.)
You can often buy them for $3 to $5 new locally if you know where to look. (WalMart dump bin, Big Lots, etc.) It's just not going to be new releases, but there's a LOT of stuff that's been on DVD that you won't have seen before.
Another option might be a place that resells used DVDs. And if it's a matter of selection that your customers would want, there are so many DVDs that are available for $3 or $5 in retail bargain bins that it shouldn't be too hard to build up a nice rental store collection. It's the new release movies that can be killer to get enough copies for the initial rental rush. (At least I'm pretty sure the First Sale Doctrine means they don't have to pay anything extra to rent them in the US.) I think it's entirely possible that the end of Ballbuster (and the video rental market generally no longer being worth it for ANY national chain) could lead to return of independent mom'n'pop video store.
On the matter of prices, DVD didn't help them much there either. With VHS, there were "rental only" releases between theater and retail. The rental-window tapes cost about $100 each (which is where the studios made their money off of rentals). But DVDs came out in the rental window period at near VHS prices, so all video rental places suddenly lost their exclusive period. In my opinion, this was the real beginning of the end, even if they did hang on until streaming killed the rest of their customer base. (That $5 DVD bin at WalMart probably didn't help either.)
I actually have two now (one running Windows, and my recent addition of a MythTV box running Ubuntu to record antenna TV), but I hate streaming, and I have no love for Hollywood crap either.
I liked going through their piles of used video games back in the late '90s. I ended up with one of their Virtual Boy store demo* units for $20 (they had lost the key to the unit and I had to pry around just to get it open), most of the Virtual Boy games sold in the US, most with box and instructions, for $1 or $2 each (not all at the same time), and maybe around 15 copies of Christmas Nights for Saturn for $1 each, about half of them with the original CD sleeve.
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And Abe Vigoda is still alive.
...or they could light something else with the flame for a few days, then re-light it from that flame when they get back. Lrn2EternalFlame.
This is not the flame, This is the torch that will carry the flame in a few weeks. And maybe already has carried it for a while. Yes, I've heard those stories about re-lighting it with a lighter, but there's no reason you can't "park" an eternal flame for a couple of days while you put the torch in a hard vacuum.
On the positive side, at least the torch would be lit on the way down!
So do you support murdering the poor with earthquakes?
Not sure if troll or just that stupid. Has there even been a quake attributed to fracking that has been strong enough to do even minor property damage, much less anything dangerous enough to injure or kill someone?
Ah, well there you go... they have to cut back on wood burning stoves because... you can't tax hand-chopped wood!
Try Seamonkey instead... they haven't fucked that up... yet...
Someone should pass the output of that script to whois and see how many combinations are already registered. For instance, pinklizard? CHECK! airfish? CHECK! brownwhale? CHECK! (oh wait, brownwhale.net hasn't been registered! better hurry!)
Me either... that wasn't in the submission, so... a /. editor edited. Wow. And with the answer to the most obvious question, even.
Nope, Italian cars (Ferrari, Lambo) are the top car for catching fire! I know because I heard it on Jalopnik!
How many parsecs will it take to charge my phone?
Sure, but if you live next to a radio transmitter or under a power line (ever held a fluorescent tube lamp under a power line?) then you'll just be raking in free electricity!
You know the old saying, it's not the volts, it's the amps. (I can make thousands of volts just by combing my hair!)
I bought something in a Best Buy the other day, yes, a "brick and mortar" store, and they needed to type in my CVN to make the sale. (It used to just be typing in the last 4 digits from the front of the card to ensure it matched the mag stripe.) Okay, so they were a big chain, but imagine what an unscrupulous small fly-by-night place could do if they kept those around.
I used the first 8 of my discover card (all DC start with 6011, FWIW, so there really were only 4 unique digits being searched) and found a couple of hits. One was from 2004 with a list of some students going to Korea for something, and someone put up a public web page with ALL their CC numbers.
Then I found another page somewhere with a big list of people apparently ordering take-out food three years ago. It was HTML without ".html" at the end, so it came up as a wall of tags. There was a credit card number, exp date in 2014, name, address, phone, AND CVN of someone in there. Holy identity theft, Batman! The CC, CVN, and address had been entered manually into a "notes" field. And someone made it public viewable by google bot. Good work, morons. And that was just five minutes of looking around.
Searching for Discover 6011, I also found an official test card number for Discover, and a check digit validator page.
But I still think googling for web cams in other countries was much more fun.
I want them to put up a Gopher site for downloads!
And isn't the # supposed to be at the front of the hashtag? Damn hipsters and their hashtag crap.
But muh corn lobby! (So who exactly is the "trans-fat lobby", and how much do they donate to political campaign funds?) Must... put... more... ethanol... in... gasoline...
I don't get cable TV, only antenna, but I set up a MythTV box a few months ago. While some of what it records is duplicates (because I'm using the EIT information rather than an external schedule service, and there is an old MythTV bug that causes incorrect descriptions to be saved in the schedule database), the number of things that I say "hey, that would be cool to watch" and tell it to record is now really starting to stack up. And that's when most TV stations only have 12 hours ahead of schedules, so I'm tagging them only a few hours in advance! (But mostly it's the fault of the local 3-stream PBS station. There's a lot of cool random stuff on KLRU-Q.)
THAT'S THE JOKE.
You can often buy them for $3 to $5 new locally if you know where to look. (WalMart dump bin, Big Lots, etc.) It's just not going to be new releases, but there's a LOT of stuff that's been on DVD that you won't have seen before.
Another option might be a place that resells used DVDs. And if it's a matter of selection that your customers would want, there are so many DVDs that are available for $3 or $5 in retail bargain bins that it shouldn't be too hard to build up a nice rental store collection. It's the new release movies that can be killer to get enough copies for the initial rental rush. (At least I'm pretty sure the First Sale Doctrine means they don't have to pay anything extra to rent them in the US.) I think it's entirely possible that the end of Ballbuster (and the video rental market generally no longer being worth it for ANY national chain) could lead to return of independent mom'n'pop video store.
On the matter of prices, DVD didn't help them much there either. With VHS, there were "rental only" releases between theater and retail. The rental-window tapes cost about $100 each (which is where the studios made their money off of rentals). But DVDs came out in the rental window period at near VHS prices, so all video rental places suddenly lost their exclusive period. In my opinion, this was the real beginning of the end, even if they did hang on until streaming killed the rest of their customer base. (That $5 DVD bin at WalMart probably didn't help either.)
I actually have two now (one running Windows, and my recent addition of a MythTV box running Ubuntu to record antenna TV), but I hate streaming, and I have no love for Hollywood crap either.
I <3 those horizontal Antec quiet cases.
I liked going through their piles of used video games back in the late '90s. I ended up with one of their Virtual Boy store demo* units for $20 (they had lost the key to the unit and I had to pry around just to get it open), most of the Virtual Boy games sold in the US, most with box and instructions, for $1 or $2 each (not all at the same time), and maybe around 15 copies of Christmas Nights for Saturn for $1 each, about half of them with the original CD sleeve.
*link untested because blocked here