It's obvious to everyone that there are no guaruntees. At the end of the day we aren't and never will be 100% safe.
That doesn't mean we can't take some reasonable precautions in an attempt to make those who wish us harm have a more difficult job of it.
Ensuring that a laptop is bootable doesn't prove it's safe but does make things more difficult for people wishing to make one unsafe.
Your point about the drive bay is probably moot. Mine is removable and has an alternate face plate but you would stand no more chance of smuggling anything in there than in your toiletry bag, that's what they have x-ray machines for and they could manually examine that part if they needed to. The boot test is just one of the ways they can try and check something they can't manually examine, the innards of your computer.
Is it a guaruntee? No. But it would be foolish not to be doing it.
Script the whole thing so by the time you get back from the movie you already have two or three hours of uptime on your new kernel. Or a newly non-functioning computer if something went awry...
I had the misfortune to start reading the sample Joust "poem" and I'm still recovering.
JOUST:
i don't think there is much doubt that riding an ostrich
is pretty gay, especially when done as some part of a
renaissance festival gone
horribly
horribly
wrong;
but gliding on those wings, those feeble orange and yellow wings,
It has to ask me first to take that sort of decision.
They had an election. Now they (the government) gets to decide how they (the government) spend their money (albeit on behalf of us). That is not only their entitlement but their duty.
It is with a degree of pleasure that I witness you:
a) be cretinously stupid enough to mean your last post.
b) be cretinously stupid so as to be entertained by such a troll.
Network admins are much more comfortable with the "we didn't patch it because Microsoft hadn't released a patch" excuse than the "we didn't patch it because our monthly patch window isn't for two weeks" one.
I have my PC set up to autodownload updates. It's no skin off my nose if I get a "you have updates ready to install" more than once a month.
It's probably just an attempt to increase the appearance of security (by decreasing patch frequency) while not actually increasing security (and in fact decreasing security as machines can be unpatched for longer).
Yeah it is used derogatorily but probably not at the level of intended offensiveness as some people in the south might take it.
It probably maintains currency in international usage because "Yank" sounds a fair bit like "wank(er)" which is more or less the sort of feeling that is often meant.
Language does not evolve to a standard. Negative aspects to some words exist because of their historical usage not "sudden" decisions on the part os "PC pansies" today.
If anyone is being "politically correct" it is you as you are trying to wipe out the accepted, naturally acquired meaning of words in an effort to make things "even".
The only "coincidence" is that you chose the examples you listed. There are no doubt counter examples, such as calling an Italian an Iti.
And I've heard it reasonably often. But I live outside Britain, Brits inside Britain might not talk about being British as often because it's normal rather than a distinguishing feature I guess.
and it doesn't come out here till January 9th (god knows why) so I don't know whether it will be censored in this way or not. There's also rumours that the Australian edition might be censored in other ways in any case.
For the most part I probably don't actually care though. As long as the game mechanics are the same I don't expect a bit of swearing/nudity/whatever here or there will alter my enjoyment much.
Brits call themselves brits, Scots call themselves Scots so those two are probably self explanatory.
It probably doesn't help if you've been at war with someone in reasonably recent history as the abbreviated names tend to have retained their pejorative edge.
It also has to be said that I don't think I've ever heard "nip", "chink" or "paki" said without a degree of ill-feeling behind it (GWB's "pakis" statement being the exception).
It's not terribly unreasonable to accept that some shortened names have gathered a negative meaning while some haven't. Language evolves like that.
When my xbox controller died (the right analogue stick thought it was going left all the time) MS covered the postage and it was all handled easily and quickly. I too was expecting it to be somewhat painful, especially as I was within the last month of my warranty, but it ended up showing that customer service can be done right.
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It's obvious to everyone that there are no guaruntees. At the end of the day we aren't and never will be 100% safe.
That doesn't mean we can't take some reasonable precautions in an attempt to make those who wish us harm have a more difficult job of it.
Ensuring that a laptop is bootable doesn't prove it's safe but does make things more difficult for people wishing to make one unsafe.
Your point about the drive bay is probably moot. Mine is removable and has an alternate face plate but you would stand no more chance of smuggling anything in there than in your toiletry bag, that's what they have x-ray machines for and they could manually examine that part if they needed to. The boot test is just one of the ways they can try and check something they can't manually examine, the innards of your computer.
Is it a guaruntee? No. But it would be foolish not to be doing it.
That image might evoke the phrase "cavity search" which is the last thing you want him to be thinking.
"Attend law school"
Script the whole thing so by the time you get back from the movie you already have two or three hours of uptime on your new kernel. Or a newly non-functioning computer if something went awry...
I had the misfortune to start reading the sample Joust "poem" and I'm still recovering. Oh for fucks sake....
It is with a degree of pleasure that I witness you:
a) be cretinously stupid enough to mean your last post.
b) be cretinously stupid so as to be entertained by such a troll.
Either way, I pity you.
It's not about the government telling anyone else what to do. It's about what the government must do itself.
Network admins are much more comfortable with the "we didn't patch it because Microsoft hadn't released a patch" excuse than the "we didn't patch it because our monthly patch window isn't for two weeks" one.
I have my PC set up to autodownload updates. It's no skin off my nose if I get a "you have updates ready to install" more than once a month.
It's probably just an attempt to increase the appearance of security (by decreasing patch frequency) while not actually increasing security (and in fact decreasing security as machines can be unpatched for longer).
Yeah it is used derogatorily but probably not at the level of intended offensiveness as some people in the south might take it.
It probably maintains currency in international usage because "Yank" sounds a fair bit like "wank(er)" which is more or less the sort of feeling that is often meant.
When the British (and Irish) Lions tour they do :)
Language does not evolve to a standard. Negative aspects to some words exist because of their historical usage not "sudden" decisions on the part os "PC pansies" today.
If anyone is being "politically correct" it is you as you are trying to wipe out the accepted, naturally acquired meaning of words in an effort to make things "even".
The only "coincidence" is that you chose the examples you listed. There are no doubt counter examples, such as calling an Italian an Iti.
And I've heard it reasonably often. But I live outside Britain, Brits inside Britain might not talk about being British as often because it's normal rather than a distinguishing feature I guess.
Another might be that it is unoptimised for speedy browsing and tabs are a reasonable workaround....
and it doesn't come out here till January 9th (god knows why) so I don't know whether it will be censored in this way or not. There's also rumours that the Australian edition might be censored in other ways in any case. For the most part I probably don't actually care though. As long as the game mechanics are the same I don't expect a bit of swearing/nudity/whatever here or there will alter my enjoyment much.
Brits call themselves brits, Scots call themselves Scots so those two are probably self explanatory.
It probably doesn't help if you've been at war with someone in reasonably recent history as the abbreviated names tend to have retained their pejorative edge.
It also has to be said that I don't think I've ever heard "nip", "chink" or "paki" said without a degree of ill-feeling behind it (GWB's "pakis" statement being the exception).
It's not terribly unreasonable to accept that some shortened names have gathered a negative meaning while some haven't. Language evolves like that.
It's valuable pre-christmas publicity!
was a crackingly playable Quake 3. That was worth something to me.
When my xbox controller died (the right analogue stick thought it was going left all the time) MS covered the postage and it was all handled easily and quickly. I too was expecting it to be somewhat painful, especially as I was within the last month of my warranty, but it ended up showing that customer service can be done right.
Great Giana Sisters banned for similar reasons.
Don't worry. In 10 years time you or someone like you will be publically lauded and starring in your own TV show "Gamer Eye for a straight Guy"
I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, you can't prove anything.
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Doh!
Someone needs their ears boxen.
A few specks of moondust that would otherwise be sitting in a cupboard/safe somewhere.