bottled water is now on track to overtake soda as the largest beverage category in two years.
Everyone should note that for the most part bottled water is just "tap water" that has been filtered.
The OP forgot to mention "fruit juices", which is fruit that's been peeled (to eliminate all that nasty fibre and vitamins in the skin), pulped, the juice extracted (to get rid of any remaining fibre) and then processed so that what's left is a huge dose of good, healthy(tm) fructose and not much else. So now you can be healthy(tm) and natural(r) while drinking something that often has more sugar in it than Coke/Pepsi/whatever.
At least expensive tap water in plastic bottles isn't obviously unhealthy for you (except that it's not subject to the same stringent regulation as what water utilities provide, so it can be less healthy than tap water, but then I'm sure a little e.coli never hurt anyone), all you get is the environmental impact of all that plastic.
It's perfect. Now my Pi can have Telemetry! DirectX ought to come in handy, too.
Just as we don't have Pi's telling us to go out and find some dodgy hookers, maybe pick up some syphilis, share a few needles and get hepatitis, so we shouldn't be telling Pi's to infect themselves with Win10.
You have to go through an extra level of indirection, if you go to the description it's always something like "This fixes some stuff", but if you then follow through to the KB article you usually get the details of what's actually being done.
A bit more time? Extra days spent charging is not "a bit", particularly if the trip is 300 miles each way. Currently, in nearly any gasoline or diesel car, I would drive 5 hours nonstop and be there.
Or about 50 minutes by air, with the ticket costing you less than the price of the petrol (assuming US cheap airfares are about the same as here). Why would anyone want to drive for half their weekend to get somewhere when you can just fly, and the travel time is just a speedbump?
I was surprised to find it on mine, it's a business laptop which, so far, hadn't been infected by any of their other stuff. I guessed they didn't want to annoy their business customers, and since they're being paid a premium for the device they don't need to subsidise the cost with bloatware.
It's a complicated situation. Outside the US, critlcal/life-saving drugs are generally covered by government regulations that keep them affordable. Inside the US, pharma companies get to set whatever price they want. Since this drives buyers to non-US sources, they've got their friends in the US congress to pass laws making it illegal to buy (or at least bring in) drugs from alternative sources. Sure, some people will die because they can't afford the medication they need, but by and large profit margins will be maintained. It's an acceptable loss.
Just checked my Thinkpad, it's infected. OTOH now I know about it, removal instructions are pretty straightforward, run taskschd.msc, open the Lenovo | LSC entry, delete the three "Lenovo Customer Feedback" entries.
That would be preferable to buying from online "Canadian" pharmacies, which aren't that at all but mostly fronts for Russian organised crime. You'll be shipped generics from India, not Canada. It's not as bad as it sounds because they depend on repeat customers so they work pretty hard to keep customers happy (you generally get the real deal, your credit card won't get ripped off, etc), but it's still taking a bit of a gamble.
Forget about math nonsense, what about getting her to say "yes, they're plastic, but they're still pretty spectacular" or "oh Ken, you're so big, if only I was anatomically correct".
Yup, and you can tell how well they work for that by seeing how good a job they're doing in stopping phishing, malware, and spam.
Certificates are there to make money for commercial CAs because web sites are forced to pay them protection money to turn off the browser warning messages. That's all they do.
Did you even bother to read the rest of the summary? This actually causes real potential issues if someone stores copyrighted information in a URL-shortener's database.
Heck, my movie-warez site has been doing that for years. Sure, you have to click on 800 distinct URLs to get the content of a single frame of Game of Thrones in HD, but it's a small price to pay for thumbing your nose at the man.
I guess I tie the idea of "malware" to two concepts:
1) Mal, as in harmful to the user. 2) Ware, as in software.
You're using the wrong interpretation. "Mal" is a short form of the German "Einmal", sometimes. "Ware" is goods or commodities or a product. So AT&T's service is "sometimes product", i.e. you pay for their phone service and sometimes the product is delivered.
Exactly. I mean, he was a muslim, he was named Mohammed, he had dark skin, you just know that he isn't going to the school to get an education but purely for jihadterrorohmygoshgollybombs!.
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The Toba bottleneck was about 50,000 years ago
Sorry, all I heard was "The Boba fettleneck was about 50,000 years ago (in a galaxy far far away)".
... ejection seats... pilots under 135 pounds...
[Insert dwarf-throwing joke here].
if the end user doesnt do their part (recycle) how is that the companies fault???
"We just sell the guns/syringes/pseudoephedrine/oxycodone, it's not our fault if people misuse it/them (shrug)".
bottled water is now on track to overtake soda as the largest beverage category in two years.
Everyone should note that for the most part bottled water is just "tap water" that has been filtered.
The OP forgot to mention "fruit juices", which is fruit that's been peeled (to eliminate all that nasty fibre and vitamins in the skin), pulped, the juice extracted (to get rid of any remaining fibre) and then processed so that what's left is a huge dose of good, healthy(tm) fructose and not much else. So now you can be healthy(tm) and natural(r) while drinking something that often has more sugar in it than Coke/Pepsi/whatever.
At least expensive tap water in plastic bottles isn't obviously unhealthy for you (except that it's not subject to the same stringent regulation as what water utilities provide, so it can be less healthy than tap water, but then I'm sure a little e.coli never hurt anyone), all you get is the environmental impact of all that plastic.
I know your post is funny, but let's not overlook the opportunity to critique what is possibly the worst Slashdot article ever.
They forgot to give us Bennet Haselton's thoughts on the subject. That would have been the finishing touch that made it the worst article ever.
some people will do anything to avoid systemd.
So now you get svchost.exe instead, the model on which systemd was based.
It's perfect. Now my Pi can have Telemetry! DirectX ought to come in handy, too.
Just as we don't have Pi's telling us to go out and find some dodgy hookers, maybe pick up some syphilis, share a few needles and get hepatitis, so we shouldn't be telling Pi's to infect themselves with Win10.
It's Microsoft servicing their customers in the sense of "the farmer brought in a bull to service his cows".
You have to go through an extra level of indirection, if you go to the description it's always something like "This fixes some stuff", but if you then follow through to the KB article you usually get the details of what's actually being done.
A bit more time? Extra days spent charging is not "a bit", particularly if the trip is 300 miles each way. Currently, in nearly any gasoline or diesel car, I would drive 5 hours nonstop and be there.
Or about 50 minutes by air, with the ticket costing you less than the price of the petrol (assuming US cheap airfares are about the same as here). Why would anyone want to drive for half their weekend to get somewhere when you can just fly, and the travel time is just a speedbump?
I live in Canada. I refute what you wrote
No, you're confirming what I wrote. Bricks-and-mortar Canadian pharmacies are fine. Many/most online "Canadian" pharmacies are fronts for Russian organised crime. For example if you look at CIPA's figures, there are only 68 websites that meet the CIPA standards and are authorized to carry the CIPA certification mark, which makes the other eight million or so sites fakes (at least by CIPA standards).
Come to Canada and buy your medication
Yep, that's the one way to get guaranteed quality. If you buy online you'll probably still be OK, but you are taking a bit of a gamble.
I was surprised to find it on mine, it's a business laptop which, so far, hadn't been infected by any of their other stuff. I guessed they didn't want to annoy their business customers, and since they're being paid a premium for the device they don't need to subsidise the cost with bloatware.
It's a complicated situation. Outside the US, critlcal/life-saving drugs are generally covered by government regulations that keep them affordable. Inside the US, pharma companies get to set whatever price they want. Since this drives buyers to non-US sources, they've got their friends in the US congress to pass laws making it illegal to buy (or at least bring in) drugs from alternative sources. Sure, some people will die because they can't afford the medication they need, but by and large profit margins will be maintained. It's an acceptable loss.
It would appear their Thinkpad aren't affected
Just checked my Thinkpad, it's infected. OTOH now I know about it, removal instructions are pretty straightforward, run taskschd.msc, open the Lenovo | LSC entry, delete the three "Lenovo Customer Feedback" entries.
or even recommend a summer vacation to Canada
That would be preferable to buying from online "Canadian" pharmacies, which aren't that at all but mostly fronts for Russian organised crime. You'll be shipped generics from India, not Canada. It's not as bad as it sounds because they depend on repeat customers so they work pretty hard to keep customers happy (you generally get the real deal, your credit card won't get ripped off, etc), but it's still taking a bit of a gamble.
the Brits have a similar term, "all pants and no trousers".
Aussies have a similar saying, "all dingo and no wombat". Of course you need at least a dozen Fosters and half a bottle of Bundy for that to be funny.
Huh, I know exactly what a bomb looks like. It's labelled "Windows 8" on the box. Or Firefox OS Phone. Or Zune. Or Google Glass.
Zune Glass for Firefox OS on Windows 8 would practically be a nuclear weapon.
Forget about math nonsense, what about getting her to say "yes, they're plastic, but they're still pretty spectacular" or "oh Ken, you're so big, if only I was anatomically correct".
Plus, aren't all those customers now stuck with cars that are either not street legal
All VW has to do is reclassify them as light trucks and they'll be fine again. Ford has been getting away with that for decades.
Certificates are there for security,
Yup, and you can tell how well they work for that by seeing how good a job they're doing in stopping phishing, malware, and spam.
Certificates are there to make money for commercial CAs because web sites are forced to pay them protection money to turn off the browser warning messages. That's all they do.
Did you even bother to read the rest of the summary? This actually causes real potential issues if someone stores copyrighted information in a URL-shortener's database.
Heck, my movie-warez site has been doing that for years. Sure, you have to click on 800 distinct URLs to get the content of a single frame of Game of Thrones in HD, but it's a small price to pay for thumbing your nose at the man.
I guess I tie the idea of "malware" to two concepts:
1) Mal, as in harmful to the user.
2) Ware, as in software.
You're using the wrong interpretation. "Mal" is a short form of the German "Einmal", sometimes. "Ware" is goods or commodities or a product. So AT&T's service is "sometimes product", i.e. you pay for their phone service and sometimes the product is delivered.
You know he was there to start shit.
Exactly. I mean, he was a muslim, he was named Mohammed, he had dark skin, you just know that he isn't going to the school to get an education but purely for jihadterrorohmygoshgollybombs!.
Has anyone tried asking Bennett Haselton for his views?
IoT = Internet of Targets, not Internet of Things.