Japanese food is outstanding, their snacks and goodies fantastic.
Personal taste. There are many out there who couldn't care less about Japanese food.
Their cartoons and manga are the best.
The cartoons that consist mostly of still images without much fluidity to them? The best? As for manga - well, they all too often tread way too close to gender abuse and paedophilia. To each his own, I guess.
Their electronics are fantastic.
Used to be. Not so any more.
Japanese women are friendly, but not easy sexual targets like western women.
Wild generalization - Western women come in all sorts of flavors.
Prostitution and hard core (full nudity) pornography are highly illegal and will get anyone time in the "monkey house" (prison). And yes, they take it deadly seriously. This stuff does exist, but it's treated akin to illegal drugs in America--it's kept largely out of sight, and damn harder to acquire should you roll that way.
A DUI, if you drive, will end your life as you know it. You'll spend years in prison. Fighting with a Japanese citizen will result in the same.
While not as strict as Singapore, the Japanese penal system isn't something with which you want to be acquainted.
Because they can't. This does not amount to besmirching NASA - simply, the technology is not there. Sure, we do have the technology to do what are essentially helicopters, but they will remain noisy, inefficient, expensive and limited. Flying cars, like in Blade Runner, The Fifth Element, Back to the Future, etc. remain as firmly in the realm of Sci-Fi today as when they were posited.
2 billion Facebook accounts do not equate 2 billion people obsessed with checking out what is going on in their network. Most of the people I know with Facebook accounts use them the same way as I do - to log in effortlessly into sites where you have a passing interest, can't be bothered to supply a username and a password, and couldn't care less what garbage that will generate into your Facebook account. I do not know what is in my Facebook account, which I never visit, and I do not give a damn. As an all but infinite capacity garbage bin, Faecesbook is invaluable.
All that is very interesting. It also underlines a really nefarious aspect: that we cannot be sure that Intel will not be using that stuff to spy. We do not know if it is, but we sure know that they have built the capability to do so in their products. You may be OK with that; many of us are not.
Thank you for saying that it's off by default - everyone seems to just gloss over that one. More than that, there are only two ways to enable it:
- using a keyboard shortcut during BIOS POST (physical access, the machine is already owned in any number of ways including just taking the drive out, why bother with AMT?)
or
- enable it remotely through arbitrary privileged code execution on the machine (it's owned already) AND you have a certificate issued by a trusted CA specifically for AMT provisioning (costs money), and that certificate's domain matches the one being given out by DHCP at the time of provisioning (meaning the network is owned too). If you already own the machine to the point of executing whatever you like with admin-level permissions, and you own the network to the point of changing DHCP options, why bother with AMT?
How the heck do you know all that? Because Intel has told you so? That surely makes one feel reassured all right.
Intel doesn't need to recall anything. It is OFF by default.
Says who? Intel? Is this something that can be independently verified for each device? Even if it can, how do we know that Intel cannot turn it on remotely whenever they want?
The news business has been morphing into entertainment business for a few decades now. Check out any newspaper or TV news show, and you will notice that it's only news if it is entertaining, one way or the other. Telling what really happens is, at best, a secondary endeavor - in some cases, as in Fox News, not even that.
Out of curiosity: what is that software that you need, that is not available under Linux? I do not doubt your assertion, but I would like to know more.
Actually, I do not entirely agree. I think that there are things to watch. The problem is that, in order to be able to watch them, the cable companies force you to pay for tons of stuff that you do not really want to watch. The solution would be TV a la carte, at reasonable prices. However, the cable companies/content owners have forever refused doing this. It will never happen.
Slavery has been invented many times over. No point to blame any particular ethnic groups - human beings of all walks of life have enthusiastically engaged in this activity probably forever.
And from glancing at the article in question, it looks like the scientists actually didn't claim nearly as big a deal as the summary suggests.
Unfortunately, that is par for the course for the mainstream press, which lives on hyperbole, distortion and exaggeration. In fact, it is not too far-fetched to assert that the mainstream has been, for a long time now, moving from the news report business to the entertainment business.
Not all passwords are created equal. For example, my Facebook password is probably a very weak one, for I use Facebook only when I am forced to register to some site where I want to write a comment. I don't really know (or care) about the contents of this account, which I opened under false credentials long ago. You see, Facebook can be useful, after all. This aside, the truth is that the bad guys all too often obtain passwords simply by asking for them. Well, not so simply, for the theater involved to get the victim to relinquish their password can be quite elaborated. But, this seems to work pretty well; having seen the process in action a few times, I couldn't help but feeling impressed.
Articles like this amount to little more than marketing for someone (LastPass, in this case) or mental masturbation. The people who select easy-to-crack passwords are, most likely, those who are going to relinquish their password when properly asked to do so, anyway. And, quite frankly, I for one couldn't care less if somebody gains knowledge of my Facebook password. Which I have forgotten, at any rate - only my browser knows it.
It matters not what MS says, for they are a very interested party. I.e. anything they say in this respect must be taken with a very healthy dose of skepticism. What does the independent evidence say?
I still remember recoiling in horror when facing Perl for the first time. Years later, despite multiple interactions with Perl, the horror remains as vivid as the first time.
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Japanese food is outstanding, their snacks and goodies fantastic.
Personal taste. There are many out there who couldn't care less about Japanese food.
Their cartoons and manga are the best.
The cartoons that consist mostly of still images without much fluidity to them? The best? As for manga - well, they all too often tread way too close to gender abuse and paedophilia. To each his own, I guess.
Their electronics are fantastic.
Used to be. Not so any more.
Japanese women are friendly, but not easy sexual targets like western women.
Wild generalization - Western women come in all sorts of flavors.
Prostitution and hard core (full nudity) pornography are highly illegal and will get anyone time in the "monkey house" (prison). And yes, they take it deadly seriously. This stuff does exist, but it's treated akin to illegal drugs in America--it's kept largely out of sight, and damn harder to acquire should you roll that way.
A DUI, if you drive, will end your life as you know it. You'll spend years in prison. Fighting with a Japanese citizen will result in the same.
While not as strict as Singapore, the Japanese penal system isn't something with which you want to be acquainted.
It does sound like a police state.
And you are going to buy it? What about telling the boy to earn it?
Does anybody think that the iSheep will care?
Because they can't. This does not amount to besmirching NASA - simply, the technology is not there. Sure, we do have the technology to do what are essentially helicopters, but they will remain noisy, inefficient, expensive and limited. Flying cars, like in Blade Runner, The Fifth Element, Back to the Future, etc. remain as firmly in the realm of Sci-Fi today as when they were posited.
2 billion Facebook accounts do not equate 2 billion people obsessed with checking out what is going on in their network. Most of the people I know with Facebook accounts use them the same way as I do - to log in effortlessly into sites where you have a passing interest, can't be bothered to supply a username and a password, and couldn't care less what garbage that will generate into your Facebook account. I do not know what is in my Facebook account, which I never visit, and I do not give a damn. As an all but infinite capacity garbage bin, Faecesbook is invaluable.
A breakthrough of this magnitude is a faithful reflection of MS's prowess and innovation, especially in the mobile world.
All that is very interesting. It also underlines a really nefarious aspect: that we cannot be sure that Intel will not be using that stuff to spy. We do not know if it is, but we sure know that they have built the capability to do so in their products. You may be OK with that; many of us are not.
Thank you for saying that it's off by default - everyone seems to just gloss over that one. More than that, there are only two ways to enable it: - using a keyboard shortcut during BIOS POST (physical access, the machine is already owned in any number of ways including just taking the drive out, why bother with AMT?) or - enable it remotely through arbitrary privileged code execution on the machine (it's owned already) AND you have a certificate issued by a trusted CA specifically for AMT provisioning (costs money), and that certificate's domain matches the one being given out by DHCP at the time of provisioning (meaning the network is owned too). If you already own the machine to the point of executing whatever you like with admin-level permissions, and you own the network to the point of changing DHCP options, why bother with AMT?
How the heck do you know all that? Because Intel has told you so? That surely makes one feel reassured all right.
Intel doesn't need to recall anything. It is OFF by default.
Says who? Intel? Is this something that can be independently verified for each device? Even if it can, how do we know that Intel cannot turn it on remotely whenever they want?
The news business has been morphing into entertainment business for a few decades now. Check out any newspaper or TV news show, and you will notice that it's only news if it is entertaining, one way or the other. Telling what really happens is, at best, a secondary endeavor - in some cases, as in Fox News, not even that.
Paying taxes is not a moral choice, it is a part of doing business.
Paying taxes is the price that we have to pay for the right of living in a civilized society. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The summary, as it stands, is an obvious oxymoron.
Out of curiosity: what is that software that you need, that is not available under Linux? I do not doubt your assertion, but I would like to know more.
Actually, I do not entirely agree. I think that there are things to watch. The problem is that, in order to be able to watch them, the cable companies force you to pay for tons of stuff that you do not really want to watch. The solution would be TV a la carte, at reasonable prices. However, the cable companies/content owners have forever refused doing this. It will never happen.
Can you really be so ignorant about the lessons of history? The alternative is that you are just trolling; I sincerely hope that this is the case.
We know the Flood occurred in 2348 BC
Nope. That's nonsense, like the rest of your post.
In recent light of the political climate, I think we should remove these Pyramids as they are monuments of slavery. Sorry I just could not resist.
You could not resist posting nonsense? There is no evidence that the pyramids were built by slave labor.
Slavery has been invented many times over. No point to blame any particular ethnic groups - human beings of all walks of life have enthusiastically engaged in this activity probably forever.
This bait is stale and moldy
What bait? You mean to say that it is not true?
I remember for years the phrase was "mathematically a bumblebee can't fly".
That is a canard. At best, it was an utterance by an otherwise eminent scientist who happened to know very little about aerodynamics.
And from glancing at the article in question, it looks like the scientists actually didn't claim nearly as big a deal as the summary suggests.
Unfortunately, that is par for the course for the mainstream press, which lives on hyperbole, distortion and exaggeration. In fact, it is not too far-fetched to assert that the mainstream has been, for a long time now, moving from the news report business to the entertainment business.
Not all passwords are created equal. For example, my Facebook password is probably a very weak one, for I use Facebook only when I am forced to register to some site where I want to write a comment. I don't really know (or care) about the contents of this account, which I opened under false credentials long ago. You see, Facebook can be useful, after all. This aside, the truth is that the bad guys all too often obtain passwords simply by asking for them. Well, not so simply, for the theater involved to get the victim to relinquish their password can be quite elaborated. But, this seems to work pretty well; having seen the process in action a few times, I couldn't help but feeling impressed. Articles like this amount to little more than marketing for someone (LastPass, in this case) or mental masturbation. The people who select easy-to-crack passwords are, most likely, those who are going to relinquish their password when properly asked to do so, anyway. And, quite frankly, I for one couldn't care less if somebody gains knowledge of my Facebook password. Which I have forgotten, at any rate - only my browser knows it.
It matters not what MS says, for they are a very interested party. I.e. anything they say in this respect must be taken with a very healthy dose of skepticism. What does the independent evidence say?
I still remember recoiling in horror when facing Perl for the first time. Years later, despite multiple interactions with Perl, the horror remains as vivid as the first time.
Now take it to its logical conclusion, MS, and kill yourself.