But if they have a point then so does the boy's mother when she says he isn't legally able to accept the EULA. Because, you know, he's not an adult. Hopefully Epic pushes this hard, and then the case gets picked up on the defense by the EFF and goes all the way to trial because I'd love to see the look on the C level execs' faces at Epic when the court rules that he didn't breach the EULA because he couldn't agree to it legally, and OH BY THE WAY, Epic (and all other game companies) need to put measures in place to stop non-adults playing their games or remove their EULAs entirely if they want non-adults to play them.
The patient in this case is a moron. Tattoo removal or infill is something they should look into prior to them ending up in an ER unconscious and not able to clarify the "joke" status.
I disagree with your disagreement. Naming your WAP "bomb on board" is something the person on the plane chose to do so consciously with the intent it would be seen by other passengers. It's open for debate as to whether they thought it would be a dumb joke or whether they were looking to cause a panic, but the outcome in this case was definitely a panic.
Naming it "bomb on board" when not ON BOARD a plane is a much less meaningful context as in most cases, like out in the park, at home, in a restaurant etc you are not "on board" something. Therefore it is likely that the person in this case deliberately chose to name his/her access point that before or during the flight, with the intent that others would see it on the plane. Just like the intent that a note is to be read.
There's a huge difference between calling something "surveillance van" and "bomb on board". Since you don't seem to get it, I'll break it down for you. The first implies someone is watching. Ooo scary. The second implies that you might die in a fiery explosion, or as you fall from the sky when the plane is crippled. See the difference?
If you still don't get it, do the following for a real-world education: Go to the bank and deposit two different deposits. On the first deposit slip's back write "FBI surveillance van", and on the second write "I'm carrying a bomb". The police will be happy to give you some percussive education.
Oh, advertising. That was their second out of the parker. But what else, really? Chromebook? Eh... it's successful-ish but not anything dominant. And Chrome is starting to lose its luster to Edge and a much improved Firefox again. Web browser market share is a fickle mistress...
Serious question - other than search, what area is Google strangling? Everything I see them involved in is either license and let companies build whatever the hell they want on it like Android, or kind of half assed and on life support or just plain dead like Fiber, self driving cars, social media (plus, wave, Meebo, other things), chat, Google Code, Google Health, Google Pay, Smart Glass, etc, etc, etc.
They're basically the company that hits one massive out of the park and into the next county home run that leaves a crater, and then whiffs the next 300 pitches in a row.
> I don't think you could even fit Windows 10 on 128GB anymore
You can, but you probably shouldn't unless you have great discipline on installing most everything afterward elsewhere or keeping things trimmed down. I just installed W10 on my new build Ryzen on a 256GB SSD and from what I see the Windows install and some basic programs - Office, Chrome, and a few others I wanted to run from the SSD - consume a collective 46GB right now. So a 128 GB SSD is doable but over time will get eaten a lot sooner than a 256GB one will. And the price bump is small enough that it's better IMO to just pay for the 256GB. Long term you'll be way happier.
I don't generally buy laptops because they're too anemic unless you spend way too much money. And most places I use a laptop a power plug is only a few feet away so I will happily trade lower battery life for more power per dollar.
On the desktop side I can absolutely attest that the Ryzen desktop processors' power/price point is very competitive, as I am typing this very comment from a new build Ryzen machine I put together to replace my old 2500K machine and so far I am very pleased with what I see.
> I was still home at 16... I did this all on my own, no parent money or support given.
But you were in fact given the most important support there. Someone was paying for where you lived, and what you ate while you learned all of this. They also paid for the yard you carried out your learning in. Huge advantages over a lot of people. I'm not sure you're getting this, but in many places even in North America, having access to a yard that will store two derelict cars, let alone one, while you learn to fix it is something many people don't have. Even in my suburban upbringing, I can only think of a single set of parents who would have permitted that to occur, and several of my friends didn't have yards at all so it was a completely moot point.
> I was able to have my own car when I was 16 because I bought two identical model year non working beaters ($400 and a $150) and combined them into one 'working' car.
Sure, and you were able to do that because you were young, able and - most importantly - almost certainly having your living expenses paid for by your parents while you spent hours and days learning how to combine two machines into one, in garage space or backyard space provided by your parents. Probably with their tools too. I did something similar and while it makes a great bootstrappy fantasy, the reality is there was a lot of support in place to allow you (and me) to do that. Things a lot of people these days don't have. I live in a condo now with a full time job so I neither have the space (against strata bylaws to do anything more involved than tire rotation/change in your parking spot) nor the time to work on cars much so I instead spend more to have a reliable vehicle.
People might be buying new mobile homes because as a former resident of one I can tell you things on older ones tend to go south a lot faster than a comparably aged traditional house. That causes unexpected expense that can be even more costly than larger payments from buying new. The first 2 years I owned my place I spent close to 10K on repairs and maintenance, including a roof replacement.
> trailer homes don't increase in value like real estate.
Depends on the trailer home. I bought and lived in a trailer home 10 years ago for 50K, sold it for 90K 3 years ago. Now the Vancouver boom has really reached out to the valley and my neighbors at the old trailer park are listing their 30 year old, sometimes-renoed partially homes for anywhere from 125K-200K. And getting it. And this is on leased land. Crazy...
Example: Here's one just shy of a quarter million:
How old are you that you don't recognize it might be easier to ask someone who appears to be already familiar with a particular situation than it would be to randomly Google a variety of laws hoping you find the relevant one?
Neither of the provided links, nor another 5 stories on the Laurier situation I searched have any mention of the specific law in question. SO yes, **asking** someone for direct information on it is appropriate. When the hell did asking questions become something to belittle people over?
When he's referring to tools, he means the ones you go to the space to use because you don't have room/money/both to have one yourself, like a cnc or laser cutter or lathe, etc.
> no one seems interested in your certification status for woodworking equipment.
Most woodworking equipment is robust enough that average misuse won't damage it, and gross misuse is usually harder on the meatbag attempting it than the machine. Example, in the contest of idiot vs lathe, always bet on the lathe. And have a phone handy for the 911 call.
The problem is for every person like you, there's a hundred others that claim to have the experience and knowledge and then if taken at their word, they end up wrecking a multi-thousand dollar CNC machine because they're a lying sack of crap.
Nah, that ship has sailed and is already over the horizon without a radio, no way to call it back. A lot of kids these days don't even use voice. And those that do are also using VOIP messenger apps that will work over wifi as well as the cell network.
Same. No direct dial in Canada so we had to pay to use the Datapac network at a crazy hourly rate on top of the Compuserve hourly rate. Datapac was priced so it was JUST cheaper than direct dialing LD to Compuserve in the US directly. Today's kids will never know the pain of calling someone 100km away and paying $1.25 a minute for the pleasure OR waiting until after 8pm to do it for *only* 25 cents a minute.
Let's not kid ourselves. If this goes through a lot of the counter attackers aren't going to be the sharpest knives in the block. For example would you trust... say... Equifax's IT team (the same ones who couldn't have Steve install a patch) to properly ID the correct target before taking action? Me neither. On the plus side, their attack would almost certainly be ineffective, perhaps even unnoticed as it fails so there is that too...
Also add to the fact that a lot of people are - to put it bluntly - stupid, and will probably misinterpret the source of an attack, launching a counterattack against an uninvolved 3rd party.
You of course are forgetting that many hacks involve breaching someone else to use as a stepping stone, or misdirection like DDOS floods from innocent 3rd parties via reflection amplification attacks. Both of which would only allow the retaliating company to strike at people who are also being victimized.
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But if they have a point then so does the boy's mother when she says he isn't legally able to accept the EULA. Because, you know, he's not an adult. Hopefully Epic pushes this hard, and then the case gets picked up on the defense by the EFF and goes all the way to trial because I'd love to see the look on the C level execs' faces at Epic when the court rules that he didn't breach the EULA because he couldn't agree to it legally, and OH BY THE WAY, Epic (and all other game companies) need to put measures in place to stop non-adults playing their games or remove their EULAs entirely if they want non-adults to play them.
That would indeed be Epic.
The patient in this case is a moron. Tattoo removal or infill is something they should look into prior to them ending up in an ER unconscious and not able to clarify the "joke" status.
I disagree with your disagreement. Naming your WAP "bomb on board" is something the person on the plane chose to do so consciously with the intent it would be seen by other passengers. It's open for debate as to whether they thought it would be a dumb joke or whether they were looking to cause a panic, but the outcome in this case was definitely a panic.
Naming it "bomb on board" when not ON BOARD a plane is a much less meaningful context as in most cases, like out in the park, at home, in a restaurant etc you are not "on board" something. Therefore it is likely that the person in this case deliberately chose to name his/her access point that before or during the flight, with the intent that others would see it on the plane. Just like the intent that a note is to be read.
There's a huge difference between calling something "surveillance van" and "bomb on board". Since you don't seem to get it, I'll break it down for you. The first implies someone is watching. Ooo scary. The second implies that you might die in a fiery explosion, or as you fall from the sky when the plane is crippled. See the difference?
If you still don't get it, do the following for a real-world education: Go to the bank and deposit two different deposits. On the first deposit slip's back write "FBI surveillance van", and on the second write "I'm carrying a bomb". The police will be happy to give you some percussive education.
Oh, advertising. That was their second out of the parker. But what else, really? Chromebook? Eh... it's successful-ish but not anything dominant. And Chrome is starting to lose its luster to Edge and a much improved Firefox again. Web browser market share is a fickle mistress...
Serious question - other than search, what area is Google strangling? Everything I see them involved in is either license and let companies build whatever the hell they want on it like Android, or kind of half assed and on life support or just plain dead like Fiber, self driving cars, social media (plus, wave, Meebo, other things), chat, Google Code, Google Health, Google Pay, Smart Glass, etc, etc, etc.
They're basically the company that hits one massive out of the park and into the next county home run that leaves a crater, and then whiffs the next 300 pitches in a row.
Sounds like you're off your meds. Do you have a phone number we can call so a competent adult can come get you and take you to a safe place?
You didn't think they spent a ton of money on political donations and PR for nothing, did you?
> I don't think you could even fit Windows 10 on 128GB anymore
You can, but you probably shouldn't unless you have great discipline on installing most everything afterward elsewhere or keeping things trimmed down. I just installed W10 on my new build Ryzen on a 256GB SSD and from what I see the Windows install and some basic programs - Office, Chrome, and a few others I wanted to run from the SSD - consume a collective 46GB right now. So a 128 GB SSD is doable but over time will get eaten a lot sooner than a 256GB one will. And the price bump is small enough that it's better IMO to just pay for the 256GB. Long term you'll be way happier.
I don't generally buy laptops because they're too anemic unless you spend way too much money. And most places I use a laptop a power plug is only a few feet away so I will happily trade lower battery life for more power per dollar.
On the desktop side I can absolutely attest that the Ryzen desktop processors' power/price point is very competitive, as I am typing this very comment from a new build Ryzen machine I put together to replace my old 2500K machine and so far I am very pleased with what I see.
> I was still home at 16... I did this all on my own, no parent money or support given.
But you were in fact given the most important support there. Someone was paying for where you lived, and what you ate while you learned all of this. They also paid for the yard you carried out your learning in. Huge advantages over a lot of people. I'm not sure you're getting this, but in many places even in North America, having access to a yard that will store two derelict cars, let alone one, while you learn to fix it is something many people don't have. Even in my suburban upbringing, I can only think of a single set of parents who would have permitted that to occur, and several of my friends didn't have yards at all so it was a completely moot point.
> I was able to have my own car when I was 16 because I bought two identical model year non working beaters ($400 and a $150) and combined them into one 'working' car.
Sure, and you were able to do that because you were young, able and - most importantly - almost certainly having your living expenses paid for by your parents while you spent hours and days learning how to combine two machines into one, in garage space or backyard space provided by your parents. Probably with their tools too. I did something similar and while it makes a great bootstrappy fantasy, the reality is there was a lot of support in place to allow you (and me) to do that. Things a lot of people these days don't have. I live in a condo now with a full time job so I neither have the space (against strata bylaws to do anything more involved than tire rotation/change in your parking spot) nor the time to work on cars much so I instead spend more to have a reliable vehicle.
People might be buying new mobile homes because as a former resident of one I can tell you things on older ones tend to go south a lot faster than a comparably aged traditional house. That causes unexpected expense that can be even more costly than larger payments from buying new. The first 2 years I owned my place I spent close to 10K on repairs and maintenance, including a roof replacement.
> trailer homes don't increase in value like real estate.
Depends on the trailer home. I bought and lived in a trailer home 10 years ago for 50K, sold it for 90K 3 years ago. Now the Vancouver boom has really reached out to the valley and my neighbors at the old trailer park are listing their 30 year old, sometimes-renoed partially homes for anywhere from 125K-200K. And getting it. And this is on leased land. Crazy...
Example: Here's one just shy of a quarter million:
https://www.realtor.ca/Residential/Single-Family/18681563/18-10221-WILSON-STREET-Mission-British-Columbia-V4S1E2
15 years ago that would been sold for less than 40K.
How old are you that you don't recognize it might be easier to ask someone who appears to be already familiar with a particular situation than it would be to randomly Google a variety of laws hoping you find the relevant one?
Neither of the provided links, nor another 5 stories on the Laurier situation I searched have any mention of the specific law in question. SO yes, **asking** someone for direct information on it is appropriate. When the hell did asking questions become something to belittle people over?
Nobody's talking about the real stats - how long will the tires last at top speed? Do they really know, or will they give a Bugatti "answer" ?
https://youtu.be/LSFX9vrwJf8?t=50
Sadly that's what happens when a lot of "makers" think a youtube video is a substitute for training/experience/both.
When he's referring to tools, he means the ones you go to the space to use because you don't have room/money/both to have one yourself, like a cnc or laser cutter or lathe, etc.
> no one seems interested in your certification status for woodworking equipment.
Most woodworking equipment is robust enough that average misuse won't damage it, and gross misuse is usually harder on the meatbag attempting it than the machine. Example, in the contest of idiot vs lathe, always bet on the lathe. And have a phone handy for the 911 call.
The problem is for every person like you, there's a hundred others that claim to have the experience and knowledge and then if taken at their word, they end up wrecking a multi-thousand dollar CNC machine because they're a lying sack of crap.
> Now in the long run this means that companies will either be Democrat companies or Republican ones. Up to now that hasn't happened.
Oh really? What planet have you been living on for the past 40 years?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickallen/2012/10/09/ceo-says-hell-fire-employees-if-obamas-reelected/#2301dd3259c0
http://www.businesspundit.com/20-companies-that-you-probably-didnt-know-were-republican/
Nah, that ship has sailed and is already over the horizon without a radio, no way to call it back. A lot of kids these days don't even use voice. And those that do are also using VOIP messenger apps that will work over wifi as well as the cell network.
Same. No direct dial in Canada so we had to pay to use the Datapac network at a crazy hourly rate on top of the Compuserve hourly rate. Datapac was priced so it was JUST cheaper than direct dialing LD to Compuserve in the US directly. Today's kids will never know the pain of calling someone 100km away and paying $1.25 a minute for the pleasure OR waiting until after 8pm to do it for *only* 25 cents a minute.
Let's not kid ourselves. If this goes through a lot of the counter attackers aren't going to be the sharpest knives in the block. For example would you trust... say... Equifax's IT team (the same ones who couldn't have Steve install a patch) to properly ID the correct target before taking action? Me neither. On the plus side, their attack would almost certainly be ineffective, perhaps even unnoticed as it fails so there is that too...
Also add to the fact that a lot of people are - to put it bluntly - stupid, and will probably misinterpret the source of an attack, launching a counterattack against an uninvolved 3rd party.
You of course are forgetting that many hacks involve breaching someone else to use as a stepping stone, or misdirection like DDOS floods from innocent 3rd parties via reflection amplification attacks. Both of which would only allow the retaliating company to strike at people who are also being victimized.
Terrible idea.
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