I use Tracfone (aka Net10). Pony up for a double minute card and it's pretty damn economical. I've even got a semi-smart phone that'll get online (albeit at a crawl), but I hardly ever need to use it since I can usually find WiFi on my mp3 player. If you're the type of person that burns through lots of minutes, then there might be better options for you. Personally, I buy 900 minutes at a time and that usually lasts me 3-5 months. That works out somewhere between $16-26 a month. I mostly just text which is charged at a rate of.3m per message. I've never signed a contract for a phone, and don't see any reason why I would.
From what I've read this doesn't sound any more stealthy or tenacious than any other modern trojans. If you're running up-to-date AV like you should, then you should already know you have an infected computer (and be doing something about it). I don't see why anything out of the ordinary needs to be done. Just shut down the rogue servers. If people didn't know they had a problem before, they will then. How would this be any different from a virus that simply disables your internet connection? I see complaints about the cost to ISPs and tech support that will wind up fielding calls from the clueless plebs, but why would this be handled any different from all the other calls they receive? I realize it means you'll have a busy work week, but such is the price of business.
Why do we need any human entity to oversee the Internet? Let the protocols govern the Internet, and let us (tech people who know wtf we're doing) worry about the protocols. The Internet is a tool. Tools can be used for good or evil, but it's not the tools fault. Stop imposing regulations on the tool, and worry about the people behind the tool. If I use a hammer to fix your fence; thank me, not the hammer. If I use a hammer to bludgeon a puppy; blame me, not the hammer. Nobody has ever been raped or murdered through the Internet. Somebody might use the Internet to find out where you live so they can come rape/murder you, but that doesn't mean the Internet needs fixing; It means the rapists and murderers need fixing.
Thanks to them? You want me to thank the bleeding heart activists for requiring me to sedate a cow before I drive a bolt through it's forehead? Am I supposed to pet a chicken and lull it into a false sense of security before I pull it's head off? I'm an animal lover and would never stand to see animals tortured; but if you want to kill and eat an animal, just kill and eat the damn thing. You don't have to give it a valium and absolve it of it's sins first.
Growing up in a small town in Texas, a police scanner is some of the only entertainment we had. Besides laughing at your friends when they get pulled over, you get an idea what kind of idiots get deputized. I've spent many nights laughing my ass off listening to inept officers chasing their tails. If you learn the car numbers and all their codes, you get an idea of how often that particularly fat sheriff's deputy stops for snacks. If you figure out the frequency of their "private" channel, you get to hear them talk about all the racist, redneck stuff they do. Eventually they stopped doing that. Now they "public service" each other (which means they just break out the cell phones when they wanna talk about racial profiling, accepting bribes, or whatever other corrupt shit they do). Actually, now that I say it out loud, it's no surprise they want to encrypt transmissions.
Don't console manufacturers lose money on hardware hoping their loss will be offset by subsidies from software sales? Wouldn't upgrading a console be cheaper for the manufacturer than developing, building, shipping a brand new box? For a small bit of new hardware they'll have a chance to sell a bunch of new software. I'm not saying it's a good idea, just poking holes.
When did we run out of snipers? Did they all just up and retire last weekend? Is there a reason we need a large numbers of snipers trained quickly? Is RL warfare turning into one of those CoD matches where everyone rolls sniper and stares at a window until someone with a shotgun creeps up behind them? Although this research sounds interesting, it strikes me as a solution looking for a problem.
I'm pretty sure I heard them testing the SuperDracos last night. It was loud enough to make me stop what I was doing and stare blankly in the general direction of McGregor, but not loud enough to rattle windows and set off car alarms like the falcons.
you're missing something. In my area we have hard water (from ground water). It's fairly saturated in minerals and is in many ways healthier than most tap water. Even soft water has a decent mineral load. Distilled and especially UPW, however, have little to no mineral load. Not only do they not provide any minerals, but they actively strip minerals from your body. We're not talking about no minerals, we're talking negative minerals. Granted, it's still not terribly likely you'll develop a case of water intoxication. But in a world of fast food diets where most people are already mineral deficient, why would you choose to further rob your body of minerals by drinking UPW?
There are plenty of people that are mineral deficient already. A range of studies showed that somewhere between 68% and 80% of americans are deficient in one important trace mineral or another. Even if you didn't drink enough UPW to reach a state of water toxicity, you could still be exacerbating an existing problem. It might not kill you, but what about arthritis, hypertension, osteoporosis, anemia, MS, cataracts, etc?
I can't tell if you're a troll or just simple.
1. Reread my post; I said it's "easier" not "guaranteed."
2. No durr, the water in food isn't distilled. I would hope the distillation process would remove particles even smaller than a hot dog.
3. There is an order of magnitude difference between distilled water and UPW.
4. Usually when you talk about water toxicity, you're talking about an electrolyte imbalance. I agree, this is fairly unlikely. Most people (especially americans) get plenty of salt in their diet. I would think the leeching of other trace minerals would be the more present danger. Granted, as you so eloquently put it, "Some foods even have their own minerals, too." I personally eat plenty fresh fruits and vegetables. I like seafood and liver and onions. Therefore, I probably carry a fairly dense mineral load. However, I know plenty of people who live on a steady diet of chicken nuggets and other nutrient void food. These tend to be the same people who would jump all over the idea of ultra pure bottled water. I'm not saying it would instantly kill them, just make them more prone to several diseases and disorders. In the end though, if you really wanted to OD on water, you could pretty easily do it by drinking large amounts of UPW.
It's easier to overdose on distilled water than regular tap water. From what I've read, this process seems to make Ultra Pure Water (UPW) which leeches minerals even faster. UPW is often used in manufacturing electronics. Currently, the process for making UPW starts with RO filtered water then subjects it to 12 more steps of filtration with the last step being a 20nm filter. Drinking a glass of the stuff won't kill you, but over a prolonged time it almost certainly would.
In the five years I've had an account at a CU, I haven't paid a single fee. The only money they've made off me was interest on a car loan (which was at 2% points lower than I could finance anywhere else). On my bank account, however, I've had 2 overdrafts that cost be something like $38 each, and for the last 4-5 months I've been paying $5 a month for the same service I had for the prior 10 years.
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I use Tracfone (aka Net10). Pony up for a double minute card and it's pretty damn economical. I've even got a semi-smart phone that'll get online (albeit at a crawl), but I hardly ever need to use it since I can usually find WiFi on my mp3 player. If you're the type of person that burns through lots of minutes, then there might be better options for you. Personally, I buy 900 minutes at a time and that usually lasts me 3-5 months. That works out somewhere between $16-26 a month. I mostly just text which is charged at a rate of .3m per message. I've never signed a contract for a phone, and don't see any reason why I would.
From what I've read this doesn't sound any more stealthy or tenacious than any other modern trojans. If you're running up-to-date AV like you should, then you should already know you have an infected computer (and be doing something about it). I don't see why anything out of the ordinary needs to be done. Just shut down the rogue servers. If people didn't know they had a problem before, they will then. How would this be any different from a virus that simply disables your internet connection? I see complaints about the cost to ISPs and tech support that will wind up fielding calls from the clueless plebs, but why would this be handled any different from all the other calls they receive? I realize it means you'll have a busy work week, but such is the price of business.
I never turned it on in the first place.
Mushroom farm. That was one of the better ideas for the abandoned SSC.
apparently you're not using the optional intubation kit.
Why do we need any human entity to oversee the Internet? Let the protocols govern the Internet, and let us (tech people who know wtf we're doing) worry about the protocols. The Internet is a tool. Tools can be used for good or evil, but it's not the tools fault. Stop imposing regulations on the tool, and worry about the people behind the tool. If I use a hammer to fix your fence; thank me, not the hammer. If I use a hammer to bludgeon a puppy; blame me, not the hammer. Nobody has ever been raped or murdered through the Internet. Somebody might use the Internet to find out where you live so they can come rape/murder you, but that doesn't mean the Internet needs fixing; It means the rapists and murderers need fixing.
Thanks to them? You want me to thank the bleeding heart activists for requiring me to sedate a cow before I drive a bolt through it's forehead? Am I supposed to pet a chicken and lull it into a false sense of security before I pull it's head off? I'm an animal lover and would never stand to see animals tortured; but if you want to kill and eat an animal, just kill and eat the damn thing. You don't have to give it a valium and absolve it of it's sins first.
Awwwwww! I was saving all that debris to build a space fort. Back to my damn treehouse.
Growing up in a small town in Texas, a police scanner is some of the only entertainment we had. Besides laughing at your friends when they get pulled over, you get an idea what kind of idiots get deputized. I've spent many nights laughing my ass off listening to inept officers chasing their tails. If you learn the car numbers and all their codes, you get an idea of how often that particularly fat sheriff's deputy stops for snacks. If you figure out the frequency of their "private" channel, you get to hear them talk about all the racist, redneck stuff they do. Eventually they stopped doing that. Now they "public service" each other (which means they just break out the cell phones when they wanna talk about racial profiling, accepting bribes, or whatever other corrupt shit they do). Actually, now that I say it out loud, it's no surprise they want to encrypt transmissions.
Remember Sega CD and the 32x? That's totally how they should do it.
Don't console manufacturers lose money on hardware hoping their loss will be offset by subsidies from software sales? Wouldn't upgrading a console be cheaper for the manufacturer than developing, building, shipping a brand new box? For a small bit of new hardware they'll have a chance to sell a bunch of new software. I'm not saying it's a good idea, just poking holes.
I ain't afeard of that. I'll just get a new neck, off'n a cat.
I'll read between the lines and answer the question you didn't ask: No, this procedure will not be ready in time for prom.
When did we run out of snipers? Did they all just up and retire last weekend? Is there a reason we need a large numbers of snipers trained quickly? Is RL warfare turning into one of those CoD matches where everyone rolls sniper and stares at a window until someone with a shotgun creeps up behind them? Although this research sounds interesting, it strikes me as a solution looking for a problem.
Let's smoke it!
And that's why I always insist that we use the cone of silence.
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I'm pretty sure I heard them testing the SuperDracos last night. It was loud enough to make me stop what I was doing and stare blankly in the general direction of McGregor, but not loud enough to rattle windows and set off car alarms like the falcons.
you're missing something. In my area we have hard water (from ground water). It's fairly saturated in minerals and is in many ways healthier than most tap water. Even soft water has a decent mineral load. Distilled and especially UPW, however, have little to no mineral load. Not only do they not provide any minerals, but they actively strip minerals from your body. We're not talking about no minerals, we're talking negative minerals. Granted, it's still not terribly likely you'll develop a case of water intoxication. But in a world of fast food diets where most people are already mineral deficient, why would you choose to further rob your body of minerals by drinking UPW?
There are plenty of people that are mineral deficient already. A range of studies showed that somewhere between 68% and 80% of americans are deficient in one important trace mineral or another. Even if you didn't drink enough UPW to reach a state of water toxicity, you could still be exacerbating an existing problem. It might not kill you, but what about arthritis, hypertension, osteoporosis, anemia, MS, cataracts, etc?
I can't tell if you're a troll or just simple. 1. Reread my post; I said it's "easier" not "guaranteed." 2. No durr, the water in food isn't distilled. I would hope the distillation process would remove particles even smaller than a hot dog. 3. There is an order of magnitude difference between distilled water and UPW. 4. Usually when you talk about water toxicity, you're talking about an electrolyte imbalance. I agree, this is fairly unlikely. Most people (especially americans) get plenty of salt in their diet. I would think the leeching of other trace minerals would be the more present danger. Granted, as you so eloquently put it, "Some foods even have their own minerals, too." I personally eat plenty fresh fruits and vegetables. I like seafood and liver and onions. Therefore, I probably carry a fairly dense mineral load. However, I know plenty of people who live on a steady diet of chicken nuggets and other nutrient void food. These tend to be the same people who would jump all over the idea of ultra pure bottled water. I'm not saying it would instantly kill them, just make them more prone to several diseases and disorders. In the end though, if you really wanted to OD on water, you could pretty easily do it by drinking large amounts of UPW.
It's easier to overdose on distilled water than regular tap water. From what I've read, this process seems to make Ultra Pure Water (UPW) which leeches minerals even faster. UPW is often used in manufacturing electronics. Currently, the process for making UPW starts with RO filtered water then subjects it to 12 more steps of filtration with the last step being a 20nm filter. Drinking a glass of the stuff won't kill you, but over a prolonged time it almost certainly would.
In the five years I've had an account at a CU, I haven't paid a single fee. The only money they've made off me was interest on a car loan (which was at 2% points lower than I could finance anywhere else). On my bank account, however, I've had 2 overdrafts that cost be something like $38 each, and for the last 4-5 months I've been paying $5 a month for the same service I had for the prior 10 years.
Even better: join a credit union
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