Why "woosh"? I mean, I want to check my mail this evening, but I forgot my phone at work this afternoon. I'll call in tomorrow, and memorize the code, so that I can use it now! Errr, wait - I guess I've gotta finish my time machine first?
Look, buddy. A nice randomly generated password is good. Why not just reuse the damned thing? If it was random once, it's gonna be just as random 150 times, right? Hell, try mine. 123abc456def No one has cracked it yet!!! There's no point in overworking the Gods of Random Numbers, is there?
How about an encrypted RAID array? Remove the critical number of drives from your array, replace them with blank drives, then give the encryption key when asked? They fire that bad boy up, the RAID attempts to rebuild itself, but fails, they look harshly at you, but you can say convincingly, "Hey, I'm cooperating here, what do you WANT from me?"
Yes, HungryHobo has it right.
There are a number of things that have happened during my lifetime, which I've not told ANYONE. You don't tell your buddy that you'll take care of things, before, during, or after. You don't tell your wife, your parents, your kids, not even your grandparents when they are on their deathbeds. That's the problem with ANY secret - people want to brag about what they did. They want credit. Phht. The minute you take credit, it's no longer a secret.
Need to destroy a hard drive? Wait til 2:00 A.M. open the computer up, take out the drive, put another in it's place, and leave the premises. Destroy that sucker somewhere else. And, NEVER tell anyone!
Next day, when the entire office is gossiping about the hard drive that is missing all it's data, you just say, "Huh?"
Don't even tell your own great-grandkids about it when YOU are the one who is dying!
Rupert Murdoch is one of the sleaziest bastards on earth, and he's an opinionated sumbitch as well. ALL of his media and publications reflect those facts. Fox is no more conservative than I am a rocket scientist. Fox is a tool, designed for the purpose of shaping public opinion. I don't quite "hate" Fox - but I do despise it. What I truly hate is the fact that so many sniveling morons sit down to watch that crap, and take it all for gospel truth.
Any man who takes the word of ANY media outlet as "THE TRUTH" is a complete moron, no matter what the political affiliation of that outlet.
I gotta give you thumbs up, for thinking, but thumbs down for missing a couple important details. Julian Assange is not charged with rape, but rather some kind of sexual "misconduct". Only the American media has managed to exaggerate Julian's case into some kind of rape case.
I think you lie, snowgirl. Every single unicorn I've ever seen has been pure snow white, sometimes with a blue tint - again, like snow. Unicorns are as pure as the driven snow, after all. No red, no purple, no lilac, no pastels, nothing like that. If you're not lying, then you do some bad drugs.
Catching bullets with a net wouldn't be very hard, if you were traveling in approximately the same direction as the bullet, at a similar speed. Bullets are only deadly to people who are to slow to outrun them, or at least to dodge them.
Well - they HOPE they've thought of everything. There have been a couple of rather spectacular launches to prove that they do NOT think of everything all the time.
I say, toss one of those little old nets out there, and see how it works. If we discover that the engineers failed to think of something important, then we can watch to see how they fix it!!
That's a little bit like science, isn't it? Observe the universe, develop an idea, test the idea, observe the results, modify idea, modify test as required, and test again.
You don't think that popular support would sway the war? I can promise you, if a ware erupted between Google and allies against MPAA and it's allies, I would be on ALL my representative's asses, and I would be looking for ways in which to aid Google. Cash donations (however meager my cash might be), grassroots publicity, whatever might present itself. I'm not very imaginative in this area, but I would make a great grunt soldier, and I would fall in and follow someone with a plan!
There are lot of popular cultures. Swine flu, for instance. Asian flu. Bird flu. Cultures come and go, and I think Hollywood is past due for some antibiotics.
Do ya really think so? I'm really not interested enough to go googling for the answer, but it seems to me that warez and games probably rival all the content that the MPAA puts out, then there is music which probably exceeds the MPAA. Then, there is all the porn produced by people other than the MPAA.
De-indexing the MPAA would put a hole in Google's indexing, for sure, but I don't think it would be half.
Again, I'm to lazy to research. My own off-the-cuff estimate says 15% minimum, 30% maximum.
Well - there are more ways than one to figure the balance of a fight, as you have pointed out, yourself.
Morally speaking - Google has this one beaten, without even responding. The information wants to be free - so fly free, little bits and bytes!! Free Willy! LMAO
Salute! That's the other half of that equation! That's the half of the equation that universities and business colleges have forgotten in the past 40 to 50 years. I think they dropped that part right around the time we dropped the gold standard, and experienced our first oil "shortage". Mmmm-hmmmm - sounds about right.
"want a game to play on the toilet."
Uhhhhh. Why don't they play with the same things we played with while we were on the toilet, back in the middle of the last century? Which, is most likely the same things our great grandparents played with in the middle of the previous century. What's that? Today's young men have nothing there to play with? Damn shame, isn't it?
"Cheap Automobiles a Risk To the Industry," says Henry Ford.
Oh, wait - I just made that shit up, didn't I? Don't mind me, I'm just getting senile. Or, am I? What WOULD old man Henry have said in this situation? That old bastard worked hard to produce the cheapest damned cars in the world, didn't he? Maybe I'm not so senile after all?
Now, now - you can't have it both ways. Was your mom "kicked out", or did she willingly head back to the safety and the comfort of the city?
My mama was probably - ohhh - I'll guess 5 to 8 years older than your mama. My mama told us very clearly that she was HAPPY when she didn't have to play "Rosie the Riveter" anymore. She WANTED to go home, play house, care for her war hero, raise kids, and all that other feminine stuff.
I think that most all of us, male and female, tend to see things from our own perspectives, here, today. We just forget, or gloss over, what real life was like back then.
Are you gay, or are you trying to offer the English guy a cigarette? Probably neither - your tone of voice makes you sound like a rude sumbitch, and nothing more.
Oh - really. The people hired to do the calcs were almost invariably women. So - how do you explain all the naval gunnery? No women aboard ships back then. And, believe me, many of those gun plot and gunnery crews were dead on target, all the time. Never missed. Many engagements were decided by who saw whom first, because there was no opportunity for a second salvo.
You will also note that few Army and Air Force gunners can hit naval targets. There are to many variables, for which they are unprepared.
Go NAVY!! Go MARINES!! Go UDT and/or SEALS too!! (and no, that last isn't a mistake - I know both UDT and SEALS, and I know a couple of them who were both)
I could tell you a few sea stories - but I know you youngsters get bored easily . . .
Oh, matter of fact, we shot 99% all the time. Never a 98, never a 100 - always 99% even when the computers went down due to heat. If you need me to explain why we never shot 100%, I'll refer you to ancient superstitions held by many peoples, including seafarers.
Edge cases be damned. You kicked the car out of gear, intentionally or otherwise, it's up to you to get it back INTO gear, or shut the engine down, or sit there looking foolish after the engine comes apart spectacularly.
As for the recent spectacular Toyota problems? I'd have to experience an instance to believe all the hype. I remember the MORON cop who claimed that his car was accelerating uncontrollably. What did he do? He called the police department, and asked that the intersection be cleared. They played his phone call several times.
What did the cop NOT do? He didn't shift into neutral. He didn't turn the key off. He didn't downshift, which would have made the top speed of the vehicle much lower. He didn't intentionally drive into something with give to it. He did not try driving into something less lethal than oncoming traffic, such as a pond, a field, a ditch, or even some undergrowth among some trees.
Back when the earth was much younger, and we had to watch for dinosaurs crossing the road, we had to learn DEFENSIVE DRIVING. Apparently, no one teaches real defensive driving anymore. Today, the term has a connotation of "bad driver, busted for DWI". In my high school, every student eligible to apply for a driver's license was REQUIRED to take defensive driving - even if he never intended to get a license!
Defensive driving means, the very last thing you ever want to hit, is an oncoming vehicle. Hitting a rock wall is slightly more survivable, than hitting an oncoming vehicle. Hitting a large tree is even more survivable. Running through an orchard of smaller trees is vastly more survivable.
It will take a lot to convince me that the vast majority of these accidents were caused by anything other than driver stupidity.
Take control of your life. If you can't control that vehicle - meaning, if you don't know HOW to control it under any and all circumstances - then DON'T DRIVE IT!!!
Oh yeah. I have had a throttle stick on me. Several times, in fact, in a Mack Cruiseliner. The solution was, to stick my toe UNDER the accelerator, pull up, stop the truck, get out, and replace the broken throttle return spring. Something any moron can figure out.
Also, I had a sticky butterfly on an old carbureted chevy to stick a couple times. Lifting on the accelerator didn't solve the problem - but turning the key to "off" did the trick.
Think fast, or die. I'm alive to talk about my experiences, so I guess I'm a fast thinker.
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Why "woosh"? I mean, I want to check my mail this evening, but I forgot my phone at work this afternoon. I'll call in tomorrow, and memorize the code, so that I can use it now! Errr, wait - I guess I've gotta finish my time machine first?
Look, buddy. A nice randomly generated password is good. Why not just reuse the damned thing? If it was random once, it's gonna be just as random 150 times, right? Hell, try mine. 123abc456def No one has cracked it yet!!! There's no point in overworking the Gods of Random Numbers, is there?
Of course I can. Just let me take another sip of my anti-amnesia medicine, and I'll make up some cool-sounding shit to baffle you. ;^)
How about an encrypted RAID array? Remove the critical number of drives from your array, replace them with blank drives, then give the encryption key when asked? They fire that bad boy up, the RAID attempts to rebuild itself, but fails, they look harshly at you, but you can say convincingly, "Hey, I'm cooperating here, what do you WANT from me?"
Please post your mailing address. Next time I need to get rid of a a disk, and I'm really short on time, I'll slap a mailing label on it. ;^)
Yes, HungryHobo has it right. There are a number of things that have happened during my lifetime, which I've not told ANYONE. You don't tell your buddy that you'll take care of things, before, during, or after. You don't tell your wife, your parents, your kids, not even your grandparents when they are on their deathbeds. That's the problem with ANY secret - people want to brag about what they did. They want credit. Phht. The minute you take credit, it's no longer a secret. Need to destroy a hard drive? Wait til 2:00 A.M. open the computer up, take out the drive, put another in it's place, and leave the premises. Destroy that sucker somewhere else. And, NEVER tell anyone! Next day, when the entire office is gossiping about the hard drive that is missing all it's data, you just say, "Huh?" Don't even tell your own great-grandkids about it when YOU are the one who is dying!
Wait - there's not an app for that?
Rupert Murdoch is one of the sleaziest bastards on earth, and he's an opinionated sumbitch as well. ALL of his media and publications reflect those facts. Fox is no more conservative than I am a rocket scientist. Fox is a tool, designed for the purpose of shaping public opinion. I don't quite "hate" Fox - but I do despise it. What I truly hate is the fact that so many sniveling morons sit down to watch that crap, and take it all for gospel truth. Any man who takes the word of ANY media outlet as "THE TRUTH" is a complete moron, no matter what the political affiliation of that outlet.
I gotta give you thumbs up, for thinking, but thumbs down for missing a couple important details. Julian Assange is not charged with rape, but rather some kind of sexual "misconduct". Only the American media has managed to exaggerate Julian's case into some kind of rape case.
I think you lie, snowgirl. Every single unicorn I've ever seen has been pure snow white, sometimes with a blue tint - again, like snow. Unicorns are as pure as the driven snow, after all. No red, no purple, no lilac, no pastels, nothing like that. If you're not lying, then you do some bad drugs.
Catching bullets with a net wouldn't be very hard, if you were traveling in approximately the same direction as the bullet, at a similar speed. Bullets are only deadly to people who are to slow to outrun them, or at least to dodge them.
Well - they HOPE they've thought of everything. There have been a couple of rather spectacular launches to prove that they do NOT think of everything all the time. I say, toss one of those little old nets out there, and see how it works. If we discover that the engineers failed to think of something important, then we can watch to see how they fix it!! That's a little bit like science, isn't it? Observe the universe, develop an idea, test the idea, observe the results, modify idea, modify test as required, and test again.
You don't think that popular support would sway the war? I can promise you, if a ware erupted between Google and allies against MPAA and it's allies, I would be on ALL my representative's asses, and I would be looking for ways in which to aid Google. Cash donations (however meager my cash might be), grassroots publicity, whatever might present itself. I'm not very imaginative in this area, but I would make a great grunt soldier, and I would fall in and follow someone with a plan!
There are lot of popular cultures. Swine flu, for instance. Asian flu. Bird flu. Cultures come and go, and I think Hollywood is past due for some antibiotics.
Do ya really think so? I'm really not interested enough to go googling for the answer, but it seems to me that warez and games probably rival all the content that the MPAA puts out, then there is music which probably exceeds the MPAA. Then, there is all the porn produced by people other than the MPAA. De-indexing the MPAA would put a hole in Google's indexing, for sure, but I don't think it would be half. Again, I'm to lazy to research. My own off-the-cuff estimate says 15% minimum, 30% maximum.
Well - there are more ways than one to figure the balance of a fight, as you have pointed out, yourself. Morally speaking - Google has this one beaten, without even responding. The information wants to be free - so fly free, little bits and bytes!! Free Willy! LMAO
Salute! That's the other half of that equation! That's the half of the equation that universities and business colleges have forgotten in the past 40 to 50 years. I think they dropped that part right around the time we dropped the gold standard, and experienced our first oil "shortage". Mmmm-hmmmm - sounds about right.
I hope you also read "Lord of the Flies". Pretty much the same lesson, minus the minimal vestiges of civilization found in a prison.
Whoa! Dude! WalMart is selling quality stuff now? I gotta see this! - oh - I see what you did there!
"want a game to play on the toilet." Uhhhhh. Why don't they play with the same things we played with while we were on the toilet, back in the middle of the last century? Which, is most likely the same things our great grandparents played with in the middle of the previous century. What's that? Today's young men have nothing there to play with? Damn shame, isn't it?
"Cheap Automobiles a Risk To the Industry," says Henry Ford. Oh, wait - I just made that shit up, didn't I? Don't mind me, I'm just getting senile. Or, am I? What WOULD old man Henry have said in this situation? That old bastard worked hard to produce the cheapest damned cars in the world, didn't he? Maybe I'm not so senile after all?
Now, now - you can't have it both ways. Was your mom "kicked out", or did she willingly head back to the safety and the comfort of the city? My mama was probably - ohhh - I'll guess 5 to 8 years older than your mama. My mama told us very clearly that she was HAPPY when she didn't have to play "Rosie the Riveter" anymore. She WANTED to go home, play house, care for her war hero, raise kids, and all that other feminine stuff. I think that most all of us, male and female, tend to see things from our own perspectives, here, today. We just forget, or gloss over, what real life was like back then.
Are you gay, or are you trying to offer the English guy a cigarette? Probably neither - your tone of voice makes you sound like a rude sumbitch, and nothing more.
Oh - really. The people hired to do the calcs were almost invariably women. So - how do you explain all the naval gunnery? No women aboard ships back then. And, believe me, many of those gun plot and gunnery crews were dead on target, all the time. Never missed. Many engagements were decided by who saw whom first, because there was no opportunity for a second salvo. You will also note that few Army and Air Force gunners can hit naval targets. There are to many variables, for which they are unprepared. Go NAVY!! Go MARINES!! Go UDT and/or SEALS too!! (and no, that last isn't a mistake - I know both UDT and SEALS, and I know a couple of them who were both) I could tell you a few sea stories - but I know you youngsters get bored easily . . . Oh, matter of fact, we shot 99% all the time. Never a 98, never a 100 - always 99% even when the computers went down due to heat. If you need me to explain why we never shot 100%, I'll refer you to ancient superstitions held by many peoples, including seafarers.
Edge cases be damned. You kicked the car out of gear, intentionally or otherwise, it's up to you to get it back INTO gear, or shut the engine down, or sit there looking foolish after the engine comes apart spectacularly. As for the recent spectacular Toyota problems? I'd have to experience an instance to believe all the hype. I remember the MORON cop who claimed that his car was accelerating uncontrollably. What did he do? He called the police department, and asked that the intersection be cleared. They played his phone call several times. What did the cop NOT do? He didn't shift into neutral. He didn't turn the key off. He didn't downshift, which would have made the top speed of the vehicle much lower. He didn't intentionally drive into something with give to it. He did not try driving into something less lethal than oncoming traffic, such as a pond, a field, a ditch, or even some undergrowth among some trees. Back when the earth was much younger, and we had to watch for dinosaurs crossing the road, we had to learn DEFENSIVE DRIVING. Apparently, no one teaches real defensive driving anymore. Today, the term has a connotation of "bad driver, busted for DWI". In my high school, every student eligible to apply for a driver's license was REQUIRED to take defensive driving - even if he never intended to get a license! Defensive driving means, the very last thing you ever want to hit, is an oncoming vehicle. Hitting a rock wall is slightly more survivable, than hitting an oncoming vehicle. Hitting a large tree is even more survivable. Running through an orchard of smaller trees is vastly more survivable. It will take a lot to convince me that the vast majority of these accidents were caused by anything other than driver stupidity. Take control of your life. If you can't control that vehicle - meaning, if you don't know HOW to control it under any and all circumstances - then DON'T DRIVE IT!!! Oh yeah. I have had a throttle stick on me. Several times, in fact, in a Mack Cruiseliner. The solution was, to stick my toe UNDER the accelerator, pull up, stop the truck, get out, and replace the broken throttle return spring. Something any moron can figure out. Also, I had a sticky butterfly on an old carbureted chevy to stick a couple times. Lifting on the accelerator didn't solve the problem - but turning the key to "off" did the trick. Think fast, or die. I'm alive to talk about my experiences, so I guess I'm a fast thinker.