I'm being evaluated for a medial temporal lobectomy for epileptic seizures.
I'll let you guys know if I wake up after the surgery to find that I'm altruistic on my left side only. Or maybe I won't care about keeping you informed anymore; I figure it's 50-50.
A construction of a real Death Star data center would require a lot more manpower than Google or Microsoft has to offer. I bet there are independent contractors working all over these things: plumbers, carpenters, electricians, DBAs, MBAs, roofers, etc. In order to get one built quickly and quietly they'd have to hire anybody who could do the job. Do you think the average Google employee knows how to install a toilet main? All he knows is JavaScript and Knuth.
All these independent contractors in each Death Star data center are getting involved in a war between Microsoft and Google- a war they had nothing to do with.
A snowflake doesn't have to be planar. It just exhibits sixfold symmetry in whatever it does.
That is a side view of a snowflake that is shaped like a hexagonal telephone spool. It would make an excellent end table for a redneck if it were only 1000X larger and not made of ice.
Bittorrent will be where you go to find older versions of Windows, so you can get component video, or maybe just a stable system
Just for the record, to protect any future political career, I should make it clear that this sentence that I wrote in the above post is not meant to imply the possibility of creating a stable system out of any version of Windows. You could get a more stable system, but only relative to another version of Windows.
No, Bittorrent will be where you go to find older versions of Windows, so you can get component video, or maybe just a stable system with no "tilt bits" purposefully introduced every time the compressor turns on in the kitchen fridge.
I must be turning into an old person, the kind you see still using rotary dial phones and rabbit ear antennas. Who needs this newfangled Vista crap! In my day, when you bought music or a movie, it was yours! Now they want you to rent every pleasurable stimulus that enters your senses! These city folk will do anything for a dollar!
Well basically the problem with any ethics or campaign finance reform is that there is no "clean" way to control the influence of the American Enterprise Institute and other various well-financed corporate think tanks without also regulating mymothersbasement.blogspot.com. Otherwise it wouldn't be "fair" and has no hope of passing.
Thomas Ricks, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq, p. 359. It happened to an Australian journalist who was kidnapped from the front steps of his hotel.
This story reminds me of the reporter who was kidnapped in Iraq and convinced his captors that his articles were critical of the war. They Googled him and let him go.
What you'll actually get if an uncrackable DRM comes about is long lines of mouth breathers at the help counter at Best Buy. "Mah movie don' work."... Tech is way over most people's heads. If it don't work, that means it's broke and they will never figure out why. Without knowing why, you'll get no glorious consumer revolution.
You'll get an inadvertent consumer revolution in the form of a wave of returned merchandise from your mouth breathers at Best Buy. They'll leave the store perhaps only barely conscious of the effect they just had on the whole DRM issue by returning the DRM-managed paperweights they bought- paperweights that had pretended to be computers and high end electronics in the store.
They don't need to know why as long as they return the stuff. The average consumer will just stick to prior generation technology to avoid the hassle, because he will have heard through the grapevine many stories like this one, that technology X doesn't work yet because it's still too copy protected and they have to fix it, or one of their friends told them that if you get player Y or discs in format Z to stick to Windows XP because they won't work on Vista.
That's what a consumer revolution looks like. It isn't important that the consumers even be aware of it; the people who have to get the message are the sellers of this crap.
My guess is that stories like this one are poison. Together with the format war (which has everyone I talk to asking, "Which format has less DRM?") stories like this one will kill the high density DVD market for a few years. These technologies will flop just like the laser disc did, the industry press will conclude that people just aren't interested in higher density data storage, and the market will stagnate for a few years until somebody comes along who doesn't have their head up their ass and who makes some sort of general purpose data storage device specifically designed for unprotected content. There is a market for such stuff- not everyone is going to be using it for entertainment. If Vista fails to load drivers for such a device because they haven't been cryptographically signed with the blessing of their new media overlords (whom they all welcomed) then too bad for Vista.
Let's say there are 200 people on an airline, and only 5% of them have guns (not including the terrorists). That is still 5:1 odds against the terrorists.
What do you mean "5:1 odds against the terrorists"? What are you calculating? The odds that a given terrorist attack will not "succeed" (could refer to a bunch of things), or the odds of a random passenger dying on a random plane trip? Ten guns on board each plane might lower one but will certainly raise the other. In fact more people would die from gun accidents in the air than from terrorism. It would make driving much safer than flying.
I get really tired of this argument, that the solution to air travel security is to arm all the passengers as if an airliner is a flying saloon from the Wild West that can tolerate shootouts.
And frankly I'm not impressed that someone shot a hole in a plane on Mythbusters and it totally didn't depressurize the cabin. As if there's nothing else on a plane that you can damage with a stray bullet, such as the electrical or hydraulic systems.
Does this mean the main stream is finally (slowly) catching on to the reality of choices? It would make my day if the world would wake up and realize that they have options when they sit down in front of a computer.
Users don't like having to make choices about the innards of their computer; they just want shit to work.
We are working with Internet Content Rating Association to make the internet safer for children. Powered by a super strong Japanese motor and gears this incredibly powerful anal probe will hit the spot every time. The Blue Rocket is a handy little clit massager that packs a mighty punch.
wife at the devil, and the wife certainly cuckolds her husband. Whereas, house of Austria acquired the seventeen provinces, and by the latter, his from Leipsig, to which he refers in a subsequent one, and which I upon, than 'la pluie et le beau tens'.
So which is it, Wikipedia? Should I open the big image attachment?
More like it doesnt work anymore but for a time it did the positive things it was meant to do.
Did you ever see it in action? They were in the middle of installing blaster patches at work the day welchia came in through a still unpatched machine. I wasn't even peripherally involved (having patched) so I wasn't paying too much attention but I remember it caused quite a stir.
Paycheck? They get screensavers. Just take a popular screensaver, write a hostile wrapper, and upload it to your scum site. If antivirus software removes your malware, some users will even reinstall it.
The problem with blogging, is that among those of us with brains, most bloggers have no credibility, whatsoever. Blogging is amateur. Sure, you can make money from it (PerezHilton), but you'll never have any credibility as a real journalist.
Then I guess you read Richard Cohen. He gets paid to write that stuff.
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I'm being evaluated for a medial temporal lobectomy for epileptic seizures.
I'll let you guys know if I wake up after the surgery to find that I'm altruistic on my left side only. Or maybe I won't care about keeping you informed anymore; I figure it's 50-50.
A construction of a real Death Star data center would require a lot more manpower than Google or Microsoft has to offer. I bet there are independent contractors working all over these things: plumbers, carpenters, electricians, DBAs, MBAs, roofers, etc. In order to get one built quickly and quietly they'd have to hire anybody who could do the job. Do you think the average Google employee knows how to install a toilet main? All he knows is JavaScript and Knuth.
All these independent contractors in each Death Star data center are getting involved in a war between Microsoft and Google- a war they had nothing to do with.
I just want an explanation of picture #10
A snowflake doesn't have to be planar. It just exhibits sixfold symmetry in whatever it does.
That is a side view of a snowflake that is shaped like a hexagonal telephone spool. It would make an excellent end table for a redneck if it were only 1000X larger and not made of ice.
My physics professors always made fun of people who talked like this. Nobody has ever "finally grasped the concept of quantum mechanics".
Just for the record, to protect any future political career, I should make it clear that this sentence that I wrote in the above post is not meant to imply the possibility of creating a stable system out of any version of Windows. You could get a more stable system, but only relative to another version of Windows.
No, Bittorrent will be where you go to find older versions of Windows, so you can get component video, or maybe just a stable system with no "tilt bits" purposefully introduced every time the compressor turns on in the kitchen fridge.
I must be turning into an old person, the kind you see still using rotary dial phones and rabbit ear antennas. Who needs this newfangled Vista crap! In my day, when you bought music or a movie, it was yours! Now they want you to rent every pleasurable stimulus that enters your senses! These city folk will do anything for a dollar!
Well basically the problem with any ethics or campaign finance reform is that there is no "clean" way to control the influence of the American Enterprise Institute and other various well-financed corporate think tanks without also regulating mymothersbasement.blogspot.com. Otherwise it wouldn't be "fair" and has no hope of passing.
You have five months to update your apps to use RSS DTD version 0.92!
I was born with two perfectly good nipples, each of which is perfectly capable of producing milk, but the feature was disabled with a few androgens.
Thomas Ricks, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq, p. 359. It happened to an Australian journalist who was kidnapped from the front steps of his hotel.
This story reminds me of the reporter who was kidnapped in Iraq and convinced his captors that his articles were critical of the war. They Googled him and let him go.
My patent lawyer says he thinks I'm an asshole.
The first fool I see putting the sun behind my house is going to get his fucking head crushed between my outstretched thumb and forefinger.
They don't need to know why as long as they return the stuff. The average consumer will just stick to prior generation technology to avoid the hassle, because he will have heard through the grapevine many stories like this one, that technology X doesn't work yet because it's still too copy protected and they have to fix it, or one of their friends told them that if you get player Y or discs in format Z to stick to Windows XP because they won't work on Vista.
That's what a consumer revolution looks like. It isn't important that the consumers even be aware of it; the people who have to get the message are the sellers of this crap.
My guess is that stories like this one are poison. Together with the format war (which has everyone I talk to asking, "Which format has less DRM?") stories like this one will kill the high density DVD market for a few years. These technologies will flop just like the laser disc did, the industry press will conclude that people just aren't interested in higher density data storage, and the market will stagnate for a few years until somebody comes along who doesn't have their head up their ass and who makes some sort of general purpose data storage device specifically designed for unprotected content. There is a market for such stuff- not everyone is going to be using it for entertainment. If Vista fails to load drivers for such a device because they haven't been cryptographically signed with the blessing of their new media overlords (whom they all welcomed) then too bad for Vista.
Let's say there are 200 people on an airline, and only 5% of them have guns (not including the terrorists). That is still 5:1 odds against the terrorists.
What do you mean "5:1 odds against the terrorists"? What are you calculating? The odds that a given terrorist attack will not "succeed" (could refer to a bunch of things), or the odds of a random passenger dying on a random plane trip? Ten guns on board each plane might lower one but will certainly raise the other. In fact more people would die from gun accidents in the air than from terrorism. It would make driving much safer than flying.
I get really tired of this argument, that the solution to air travel security is to arm all the passengers as if an airliner is a flying saloon from the Wild West that can tolerate shootouts.
And frankly I'm not impressed that someone shot a hole in a plane on Mythbusters and it totally didn't depressurize the cabin. As if there's nothing else on a plane that you can damage with a stray bullet, such as the electrical or hydraulic systems.
I don't care how much training you have: crazy arab gets a box cutter, I get a .45 == I win.
.45 on a flight I'm on is going to get his fucking head blown off.
The first fool I see pulling out a
Does this mean the main stream is finally (slowly) catching on to the reality of choices? It would make my day if the world would wake up and realize that they have options when they sit down in front of a computer.
Users don't like having to make choices about the innards of their computer; they just want shit to work.
The safe for children crap (since reworded)
The Intimate Intruder Anal Probe
The Wrist Rocket
More like it doesnt work anymore but for a time it did the positive things it was meant to do.
Did you ever see it in action? They were in the middle of installing blaster patches at work the day welchia came in through a still unpatched machine. I wasn't even peripherally involved (having patched) so I wasn't paying too much attention but I remember it caused quite a stir.
throw the computer users a bone sheesh!
Paycheck? They get screensavers. Just take a popular screensaver, write a hostile wrapper, and upload it to your scum site. If antivirus software removes your malware, some users will even reinstall it.
Been done already. And it didn't work out so well IIRC.
Well, I missed the second "s" in "Schwarzschild" as usual which probably didn't help.
The problem with blogging, is that among those of us with brains, most bloggers have no credibility, whatsoever. Blogging is amateur. Sure, you can make money from it (PerezHilton), but you'll never have any credibility as a real journalist.
Then I guess you read Richard Cohen. He gets paid to write that stuff.