I don't know about anybody else but I don't associate Dell with quality. I can't see them buying out AMD as being good for AMD, I see it as the nail in the coffin of the processor wars with Intel finally having a permanent corner on the processor market, and I don't think that would be good for anyone.
So is internet meltdown now inevitable? Perhaps not. The attack is unlikely to be launched by malicious hackers, because mapping the network to find a target link is a highly technical task, and anyone with a large enough botnet is more likely to be renting it out for a profit.
..unless, of course, the would-be attacker is some malevolent government. I don't think I need mention any names here, except that at least one of them starts with a 'C'.
..that all end up in the same landfill. I'm sure the feds won't have any problems collecting all the pieces. Also I doubt they dismantled the drives down to the platters and scattered the platters.
Use an alias online instead of your real name, don't post or allow posting of pics with you in them, don't access it from your work computer, and deny everything if they manage to figure it out anyway. In a world full of people and companies that don't give a rat's ass about your privacy, you have to be pro-active about it.
..because Facebook has proven itself to be so fucking trustworthy with their users' personal data and privacy, we should just continue to put our entire lives on there and other sites like it and ignore the possible consequences. Over and over again I hear from the uninformed, "I have nothing to hide!". So you and everyone else, please, just go on ahead and keep doing what you're doing. I'll be over here not having my entire life be a matter of public record. Enjoy not getting that great job you wanted, because your prospective employer doesn't like the photo your buddy took of you in the karaoke bar when you had had one drink too many -- regardless of the fact that it was your birthday, you never drink like that, really, it was just a one-time thing! ..oh, and regarding those of you who are going to be so quick to point out that our lives are already a matter of public record: Bullshit, they are not, not until we wake up one morning and find CCTV cameras in every room of our houses. Those of us who actually value and protect our private lives still have one.
Here's a better idea that won't require any additional plugins or new technology to be created: Don't upload pics to Facebook or any other so-called "social networking" site that you don't want available to the public forever. We'll call this idea "common sense".
It's stated in the summary that the system would have to be 100% reliable. I propose that the system would have to be much more than 100% reliable: there would have to be, at the very least, redundancies built into the system in order for it to be considered safe. On top of that, how will such a system handle unexpected circumstances, such as obstacles in the road (both the static variety like an object, as well as more "dynamic" obstacles like animals and people), or bad roads, or detours? I don't see this as working out well in the end. As your professor said, the first time someone dies because of an inadequacy or error of such a system will be the end of it.
I figured I'd get some heat for this, but I went ahead and didn't explain up front anyway.I didn't say automobiles had to be austere, but if it's basic function as transportation is mediocre at best, then all the extras and bling are meaningless. I'll take reliable efficient transportation over flash and bling any day.
Just get yourself a nice piece of tinfoil and fashion yourself a nice little hat out of it. It'll keep all that nasty EM radiation away from your precious snowflake brains, and it'll also identify you at a glance for the rest of the world.
No, YOU un-relax. It seems that everyone has taken such a cavalier attitude towards personal privacy, shrugging collective shoulders and saying "it's no big deal" and my personal un-favorite, "I have nothing to hide", but like many things of value, people will not understand what it is they're giving away and losing until it's too damned late to do anything about it.
The tighter you squeeze, the more sand slips through your fingers, Hollywood; the more restrictive you make things, the more you encourage people to find ways to circumvent your systems of control, and the less profitable you become. Why can't these people understand that their business model doesn't work anymore?
The bottom line for this story really is that if you're in a Casino, you can be thrown out for no reason at any time at all without them having to prove anything to anyone, and there's not a damned thing you can do about it. These guys are lucky that they weren't just taken into a back room somewhere to have the shit beat out of them and/or killed instead of just arrested. Regardless of what happens to them legally, they'll never be allowed in any casino ever again because of this.
I used to work in the coin-op game industry, which shares many similarities to the gambling industry, but where it's most relevant here is that both industries exist to produce one thing and one thing only: profit. That's all they care about, and very often they don't care how they do it, so long as they can divest people of their cash, and the less they have to spend doing that, so much the better. I for one am not in the least bit shocked to hear your story; I'm just nodding my head, and reminding myself that no matter how much I hate where I'm working now, I can be thankful that 20 years ago I got the hell away from the coin-op game industry and bullshit like you're talking about having put up with.
Ignorance really is bliss, isn't it, and you're just the shiniest example of that, aren't you, good sir? Actually, you are a troll, aren't you? Nobody could be this completely wrong yet make it sound so completely sane and reasonable, could they? The world you would wish to create would be a classical house of cards, built to the stature of the tallest skyscrapers, and when the first little breeze came up and brought it crashing to the ground, the human race would be crushed beneath it. On second thought, perhaps you're running from your own past? Seriously: What horrible things have you done that you want to forget so badly, that you'd remake the entire world into your twisted mix of Pleasantville and The Stepford Wives? For that matter, how many Nazi war criminals, ex-dictators, and common criminals have sought to 're-invent' themselves by rewriting their entire life's history? My advice to you: Keep taking your meds, don't miss any appointments to see your therapist, or parole officer, or both, and please don't get anyone pregnant.
This is all assuming that a given person uses their real name and information on Facebook, which I and many people I know do not do because we still value our privacy. I don't even allow people I know to post pictures of me and tag me in them, as I don't want my face and my online identities linked anywhere. So far this has worked out wonderfully, but if this theoretical situation were to come to pass, I would not be participating because I would still refuse to use my real name and information online. With all the above in mind I just don't see this happening.
What they should be developing is a way to ensure that people who use online dating aren't lying about their age, weight, fitness, appearance, etc. and aren't using a fake photo. Online dating is a joke because of all these problems, and I'm not even getting into all the whores who use online dating sites as a way to either get desperate men to go to their porn site, or as a front for outright prostitution. Let them patent this all they want. They can have it all.
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That's what you get for using your real name, pictures, and information on sites like Facebook.
I don't know about anybody else but I don't associate Dell with quality. I can't see them buying out AMD as being good for AMD, I see it as the nail in the coffin of the processor wars with Intel finally having a permanent corner on the processor market, and I don't think that would be good for anyone.
So is internet meltdown now inevitable? Perhaps not. The attack is unlikely to be launched by malicious hackers, because mapping the network to find a target link is a highly technical task, and anyone with a large enough botnet is more likely to be renting it out for a profit.
..unless, of course, the would-be attacker is some malevolent government. I don't think I need mention any names here, except that at least one of them starts with a 'C'.
..that all end up in the same landfill. I'm sure the feds won't have any problems collecting all the pieces. Also I doubt they dismantled the drives down to the platters and scattered the platters.
Use an alias online instead of your real name, don't post or allow posting of pics with you in them, don't access it from your work computer, and deny everything if they manage to figure it out anyway. In a world full of people and companies that don't give a rat's ass about your privacy, you have to be pro-active about it.
Is it difficult to obtain citizenship there? I think I want to move.
..because Facebook has proven itself to be so fucking trustworthy with their users' personal data and privacy, we should just continue to put our entire lives on there and other sites like it and ignore the possible consequences. Over and over again I hear from the uninformed, "I have nothing to hide!". So you and everyone else, please, just go on ahead and keep doing what you're doing. I'll be over here not having my entire life be a matter of public record. Enjoy not getting that great job you wanted, because your prospective employer doesn't like the photo your buddy took of you in the karaoke bar when you had had one drink too many -- regardless of the fact that it was your birthday, you never drink like that, really, it was just a one-time thing!
..oh, and regarding those of you who are going to be so quick to point out that our lives are already a matter of public record: Bullshit, they are not, not until we wake up one morning and find CCTV cameras in every room of our houses. Those of us who actually value and protect our private lives still have one.
Here's a better idea that won't require any additional plugins or new technology to be created: Don't upload pics to Facebook or any other so-called "social networking" site that you don't want available to the public forever. We'll call this idea "common sense".
It's stated in the summary that the system would have to be 100% reliable. I propose that the system would have to be much more than 100% reliable: there would have to be, at the very least, redundancies built into the system in order for it to be considered safe. On top of that, how will such a system handle unexpected circumstances, such as obstacles in the road (both the static variety like an object, as well as more "dynamic" obstacles like animals and people), or bad roads, or detours? I don't see this as working out well in the end. As your professor said, the first time someone dies because of an inadequacy or error of such a system will be the end of it.
I figured I'd get some heat for this, but I went ahead and didn't explain up front anyway.I didn't say automobiles had to be austere, but if it's basic function as transportation is mediocre at best, then all the extras and bling are meaningless. I'll take reliable efficient transportation over flash and bling any day.
It's a car; it's transportation, not a lifestyle. If you're treating it as a lifestyle, you're doing it wrong.
Just get yourself a nice piece of tinfoil and fashion yourself a nice little hat out of it. It'll keep all that nasty EM radiation away from your precious snowflake brains, and it'll also identify you at a glance for the rest of the world.
No, YOU un-relax. It seems that everyone has taken such a cavalier attitude towards personal privacy, shrugging collective shoulders and saying "it's no big deal" and my personal un-favorite, "I have nothing to hide", but like many things of value, people will not understand what it is they're giving away and losing until it's too damned late to do anything about it.
They don't give any real value for your money.
The tighter you squeeze, the more sand slips through your fingers, Hollywood; the more restrictive you make things, the more you encourage people to find ways to circumvent your systems of control, and the less profitable you become. Why can't these people understand that their business model doesn't work anymore?
The bottom line for this story really is that if you're in a Casino, you can be thrown out for no reason at any time at all without them having to prove anything to anyone, and there's not a damned thing you can do about it. These guys are lucky that they weren't just taken into a back room somewhere to have the shit beat out of them and/or killed instead of just arrested. Regardless of what happens to them legally, they'll never be allowed in any casino ever again because of this.
I used to work in the coin-op game industry, which shares many similarities to the gambling industry, but where it's most relevant here is that both industries exist to produce one thing and one thing only: profit. That's all they care about, and very often they don't care how they do it, so long as they can divest people of their cash, and the less they have to spend doing that, so much the better. I for one am not in the least bit shocked to hear your story; I'm just nodding my head, and reminding myself that no matter how much I hate where I'm working now, I can be thankful that 20 years ago I got the hell away from the coin-op game industry and bullshit like you're talking about having put up with.
It's not all of us here in the West, pal, just a select group of unfortunately visible idiots who are making the rest of us look bad.
Ignorance really is bliss, isn't it, and you're just the shiniest example of that, aren't you, good sir? Actually, you are a troll, aren't you? Nobody could be this completely wrong yet make it sound so completely sane and reasonable, could they? The world you would wish to create would be a classical house of cards, built to the stature of the tallest skyscrapers, and when the first little breeze came up and brought it crashing to the ground, the human race would be crushed beneath it. On second thought, perhaps you're running from your own past? Seriously: What horrible things have you done that you want to forget so badly, that you'd remake the entire world into your twisted mix of Pleasantville and The Stepford Wives ? For that matter, how many Nazi war criminals, ex-dictators, and common criminals have sought to 're-invent' themselves by rewriting their entire life's history?
My advice to you: Keep taking your meds, don't miss any appointments to see your therapist, or parole officer, or both, and please don't get anyone pregnant.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" - George Santayana
This is all assuming that a given person uses their real name and information on Facebook, which I and many people I know do not do because we still value our privacy. I don't even allow people I know to post pictures of me and tag me in them, as I don't want my face and my online identities linked anywhere. So far this has worked out wonderfully, but if this theoretical situation were to come to pass, I would not be participating because I would still refuse to use my real name and information online. With all the above in mind I just don't see this happening.
What they should be developing is a way to ensure that people who use online dating aren't lying about their age, weight, fitness, appearance, etc. and aren't using a fake photo. Online dating is a joke because of all these problems, and I'm not even getting into all the whores who use online dating sites as a way to either get desperate men to go to their porn site, or as a front for outright prostitution.
Let them patent this all they want. They can have it all.
Troll calling the Kheldan an orc
LOL