No, not really. The last week was relatively flat (the U.S. media started talking about the swine flu last weekend), the 7 weeks before that are not flat at all:
Read your link. To me, Godwin's law is a cynical statement that people are disappointing and someone will always, eventually, resort to a Hitler or Nazi comparison.
It doesn't end the thread (but meme0tards will comment that the thread is finished) or anything like that.
SP2 did ship with sane security defaults for normal people. Defaulting to limited user rights would have been nice, but look how poorly that went with Vista, and imagine 5 years less of 3rd party Windows software being fixed to work correctly in that environment.
Uncooked garbage. There is an episode of Dirty Jobs were lucky Mike Rowe goes to a pig farm outside of Las Vegas and feeds the pigs a wonderful assortment of casino table scraps (after sorting out some fun trash and cooking it).
A lot of it is just wit and quips though. And for his "The Word", he usually gives the context that the on screen text is riffing off of, so it isn't that hard to connect the dots.
Unfortunately, that situation is also a case of too late. If there were any traction for cooler heads in Egypt, they wouldn't have come out with a plan to slaughter uninfected pigs, so some wily Westerners trying to deflect attention away from pigs now isn't all that likely to matter.
They put in the cheapest part that they thought would satisfy the warranty. Given the size of that particular market (from what I can tell, less than 10,000 of that vehicle a year), the price insensitivity of their customers (people buying $50,000 SUVs are more worried about the label than they are about money) and the 3 year lead time on the failure, it isn't really that shocking.
Did you note if the failures got less common on later model years? That's a good indicator of how willing they are to screw customers.
I wish the car companies did a better job of thinking about serviceability, but they aren't sitting around scheming for ways to hide problems from customers, they are sitting around trying to squeeze every penny off from the upfront cost, because that increases the profits they make from customers who place far more value on brand than they do on quality. That those customers fail to consider overall ownership costs is just a bonus for them.
You are using some crazy definition of emulate. There were iconic games on pretty much every platform, not just arcade transfers, and given how painfully nostalgic humans are, it isn't even a little bit surprising that people are looking back to those games, let alone ironic.
I hope your are joking. Not because I care whether you store those dumps or not, but because if you aren't, you think that using some oddball definition of normally is an interesting comment (for instance,/dev/urandom isn't normally present on a personal computer; this is less true now that OS X has a decent amount of market share, but it still isn't a ridiculous statement).
Maybe. The problem with your theory is that most corporations are happy to operate on a 3 year schedule, and most home users don't care if stuff doesn't last 5 years (and they really don't want to pay for 10).
Yeah, that was a terrible way to phrase it. Files that have exactly no structure aren't something that are normally present, which is what I was trying to say. Most files will have some amount of structure, there is a good chance that the ones below some threshold are either compressed or trying to hide something.
Looking at it, if I had wrote "equate this situation with government censorship", my comment still means what I wanted it to mean, but we don't have to have the conversation about how censorship happens even when it isn't the pernicsious censorship that comes from a powerful organization trying to control the conversation (well, we wouldn't have to have it in this particular thread).
If I were in charge, I would invent a word that clearly meant government suppression of information, but alas.
I would guess that they are just looking for files that are overly random.
Plain text won't be particularly random, and unwritten space won't be particularly random either. Do a quick check if the file can be decompressed by 7-zip and you filter out a bunch of false positives.
I would describe it as a redirection of government resources.
I mean, the government doesn't actually have an obligation to fully represent all viewpoints, or to maintain public access to all content that it has ever published.
If FEMA refused to turn over the book in the face of a FOIA request, I would be a little irritated, but there is a link down the page to a copy of the book hosted on the Smoking Gun, so I wouldn't spend much time on it.
I'd be pretty okay with that. I think the only political possibility is to choose to opt out of future benefits in exchange for paying in slightly less.
The ban on doing embryonic stem cell research (on new lines) with federal dollars did mean that researchers interested in pursuing that research were required to setup independently funded labs that were often redundant with what they already had (I'm sure there were cases of labs that were largely federally funded, but also cases of labs that received just enough funding to be exposed to the ban).
So the Bush ban didn't prevent private research on embryonic stem cells, but it didn't have zero impact either (because any facility that had any sort of federal budget was off limits). He allowed research with the existing lines, but there are issues with using those in humans (they are old, things like that), so anybody pursuing human medical treatments is pretty much going to need to create new lines at some point, minimizing the importance of that particular aspect of it.
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No, not really. The last week was relatively flat (the U.S. media started talking about the swine flu last weekend), the 7 weeks before that are not flat at all:
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The problem is that people treat democracy as if it is virtuous, rather than accepting it because it does the least to restrict liberty.
I mean, a 9/10 vote to do something stupid still ends in doing something stupid.
Read your link. To me, Godwin's law is a cynical statement that people are disappointing and someone will always, eventually, resort to a Hitler or Nazi comparison.
It doesn't end the thread (but meme0tards will comment that the thread is finished) or anything like that.
SP2 did ship with sane security defaults for normal people. Defaulting to limited user rights would have been nice, but look how poorly that went with Vista, and imagine 5 years less of 3rd party Windows software being fixed to work correctly in that environment.
Careful, that stuff can be contagious.
Uncooked garbage. There is an episode of Dirty Jobs were lucky Mike Rowe goes to a pig farm outside of Las Vegas and feeds the pigs a wonderful assortment of casino table scraps (after sorting out some fun trash and cooking it).
A lot of it is just wit and quips though. And for his "The Word", he usually gives the context that the on screen text is riffing off of, so it isn't that hard to connect the dots.
Unfortunately, that situation is also a case of too late. If there were any traction for cooler heads in Egypt, they wouldn't have come out with a plan to slaughter uninfected pigs, so some wily Westerners trying to deflect attention away from pigs now isn't all that likely to matter.
They put in the cheapest part that they thought would satisfy the warranty. Given the size of that particular market (from what I can tell, less than 10,000 of that vehicle a year), the price insensitivity of their customers (people buying $50,000 SUVs are more worried about the label than they are about money) and the 3 year lead time on the failure, it isn't really that shocking.
Did you note if the failures got less common on later model years? That's a good indicator of how willing they are to screw customers.
I wish the car companies did a better job of thinking about serviceability, but they aren't sitting around scheming for ways to hide problems from customers, they are sitting around trying to squeeze every penny off from the upfront cost, because that increases the profits they make from customers who place far more value on brand than they do on quality. That those customers fail to consider overall ownership costs is just a bonus for them.
You have very mild sensibilities.
You are using some crazy definition of emulate. There were iconic games on pretty much every platform, not just arcade transfers, and given how painfully nostalgic humans are, it isn't even a little bit surprising that people are looking back to those games, let alone ironic.
I hope your are joking. Not because I care whether you store those dumps or not, but because if you aren't, you think that using some oddball definition of normally is an interesting comment (for instance, /dev/urandom isn't normally present on a personal computer; this is less true now that OS X has a decent amount of market share, but it still isn't a ridiculous statement).
Have you changed your oil recently?
Would you refuse an MRI if the machine used Windows (I have no idea if they do or not)?
Maybe. The problem with your theory is that most corporations are happy to operate on a 3 year schedule, and most home users don't care if stuff doesn't last 5 years (and they really don't want to pay for 10).
Just toss any suspects at decent decompression and image decoding programs and you can filter out quite a bit.
Yeah, that was a terrible way to phrase it. Files that have exactly no structure aren't something that are normally present, which is what I was trying to say. Most files will have some amount of structure, there is a good chance that the ones below some threshold are either compressed or trying to hide something.
Looking at it, if I had wrote "equate this situation with government censorship", my comment still means what I wanted it to mean, but we don't have to have the conversation about how censorship happens even when it isn't the pernicsious censorship that comes from a powerful organization trying to control the conversation (well, we wouldn't have to have it in this particular thread).
If I were in charge, I would invent a word that clearly meant government suppression of information, but alas.
I would guess that they are just looking for files that are overly random.
Plain text won't be particularly random, and unwritten space won't be particularly random either. Do a quick check if the file can be decompressed by 7-zip and you filter out a bunch of false positives.
If I ever have kids, the first step will be to teach them that I'm a hypocrite.
After that, when they ask why not, I can tell them I am an asshole, while emphasizing that they aren't to use such language.
I would describe it as a redirection of government resources.
I mean, the government doesn't actually have an obligation to fully represent all viewpoints, or to maintain public access to all content that it has ever published.
If FEMA refused to turn over the book in the face of a FOIA request, I would be a little irritated, but there is a link down the page to a copy of the book hosted on the Smoking Gun, so I wouldn't spend much time on it.
Do you mean to equate this situation with censorship, or are you just playing happy happy non sequitur?
I'd be pretty okay with that. I think the only political possibility is to choose to opt out of future benefits in exchange for paying in slightly less.
The ban on doing embryonic stem cell research (on new lines) with federal dollars did mean that researchers interested in pursuing that research were required to setup independently funded labs that were often redundant with what they already had (I'm sure there were cases of labs that were largely federally funded, but also cases of labs that received just enough funding to be exposed to the ban).
So the Bush ban didn't prevent private research on embryonic stem cells, but it didn't have zero impact either (because any facility that had any sort of federal budget was off limits). He allowed research with the existing lines, but there are issues with using those in humans (they are old, things like that), so anybody pursuing human medical treatments is pretty much going to need to create new lines at some point, minimizing the importance of that particular aspect of it.
If you are doing that many personal searches at work, your boss can't be that much of an A-HOLE.