I have to encode all my proper punctuation as HTML entities. My quotation marks for instance are typed as “ and ”. I thought I was gonna demonstrate the same technique to get proper degree symbols here, but that trick doesn’t work for that one, nor do decimal or octal codes. Hmm. Dunno.
Regardless, speaking as a biologist, by placing anything that's warm on your lap for large portions of a day you're reducing your reproductive potential.
Speaking as someone who would like but can’t really afford a vasectomy, I could spin that as added value!
I can’t help thinking that the insane gobs of thermal paste shown in the service manual has got to be the result of studio photographers setting up a shot to read right rather than to be right. And then somebody at Apple approved the shots based on the assumption that any techs replacing heat sinks would quite obviously know what a reasonable amount of paste should be.
Of course, if a significant number of machines in the wild are really sporting a quarter pound of paste then either I’m wrong or somebody grossly overestimated the technical acumen of the paste monkeys.
I guess because it was an obvious line? Hell, that’s why I was hitting this thread at -1, to see if anybody had done it yet. Except I was gonna use the NSA, but same difference.
If we completely lost all forms of assertive belief, human society would stop just as surely as if we lost all forms of logical analysis and empirical thought.
But I thought the justification for all this was to catch terrorists? They are generally considered to be thorough and crafty enough to take these sorts of precautions. The typical late night mugging doesn’t involve groups of conspirators hatching their plot from remote locations.
And your assertion that the average law-abiding citizen will be unaffected by this depends on how you define ‘affected.’ If I mount a video camera in your bathroom but never act (that you know of) on the footage I receive, have you been affected?
Really? I see public displays of schizophrenia all the time. In the part of America I live in it’s only the government that has to remain neutral on the issue.
The only thing you can do is ban political contributions
Yeah, but some asshat managed to get money redefined as speech somehow. So now our right to free speech prevents us from stopping those who bribe our legislators to remove our right to free speech.
I have a Rush Limbaugh-loving, card-carrying right-wing friend who swears NPR is entirely left-wing.
I’ve got a Rush Limbaugh-loving, card-carrying right-wing relative who also happens to be a transvestite! Not sure of his opinion on NPR, I can’t get past the astounding cognitive dissonance of that first bit long enough to ask him.
I’ve been an NPR listener for a few years and find their actual news to be utterly neutral on the left-right axis. NPR stations do tend to carry some non-news shows that are quite obviously left-leaning, so that may explain the pervasive misconception. But their newscasters never deliver the obvious jabs that I expect them to when reporting on some of the more egregrious gaffes of the GOPpies.
Misreading that as an “HREF weapon,” I was left to ponder what exactly that would be. I pictured some pimply teenager with a laptop firing goatse into peoples’ occipital cortexes at twenty paces.
Our passwords are so bad that John Q. Public could have root in about four minutes.
Does that count?
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I use Last.FM/AudioScrobbler, and I love it. But that was opt-in. This iTMS thing, if it does indeed work by sending your usage history to Apple (which looks to be the case at the moment), is opt-out. By the time you even know about it, it’s already started taking afternoon tea with Phobos. It’s all about choice.
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Except that, as implemented, it seems to be opt-out.
I just happened to have run the 10.4.4. updater this morning, so when I opened iTunes just now I was asked to agree to the latest EULA. I skimmed through it and found no mention of usage data being sent to Apple, so I then read through it closely and still found no mention. When I hit ‘agree’ and iTunes opened, there was an outgoing connection to phobos.apple.com, which I denied. It made only that single request. I closed the iTMS pane at the bottom, and got no further requests until I opened it again.
So yes, it’s quite simple to avoid having your play history sent (if that is indeed what is happening), but unless you have a third party egress firewall running (or have been quite ruthless with ipfw in the past), it will start sending out data before an otherwise knowledgeable user can disable it.
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And why does Slashcode strip my degree signs?
I have to encode all my proper punctuation as HTML entities. My quotation marks for instance are typed as “ and ”. I thought I was gonna demonstrate the same technique to get proper degree symbols here, but that trick doesn’t work for that one, nor do decimal or octal codes. Hmm. Dunno.
Regardless, speaking as a biologist, by placing anything that's warm on your lap for large portions of a day you're reducing your reproductive potential.
Speaking as someone who would like but can’t really afford a vasectomy, I could spin that as added value!
I can’t help thinking that the insane gobs of thermal paste shown in the service manual has got to be the result of studio photographers setting up a shot to read right rather than to be right. And then somebody at Apple approved the shots based on the assumption that any techs replacing heat sinks would quite obviously know what a reasonable amount of paste should be.
Of course, if a significant number of machines in the wild are really sporting a quarter pound of paste then either I’m wrong or somebody grossly overestimated the technical acumen of the paste monkeys.
I guess because it was an obvious line? Hell, that’s why I was hitting this thread at -1, to see if anybody had done it yet. Except I was gonna use the NSA, but same difference.
Wow.
If we completely lost all forms of assertive belief, human society would stop just as surely as if we lost all forms of logical analysis and empirical thought.
Heh.
But I thought the justification for all this was to catch terrorists? They are generally considered to be thorough and crafty enough to take these sorts of precautions. The typical late night mugging doesn’t involve groups of conspirators hatching their plot from remote locations.
And your assertion that the average law-abiding citizen will be unaffected by this depends on how you define ‘affected.’ If I mount a video camera in your bathroom but never act (that you know of) on the footage I receive, have you been affected?
Really? I see public displays of schizophrenia all the time. In the part of America I live in it’s only the government that has to remain neutral on the issue.
The only thing you can do is ban political contributions
Yeah, but some asshat managed to get money redefined as speech somehow. So now our right to free speech prevents us from stopping those who bribe our legislators to remove our right to free speech.
I have a Rush Limbaugh-loving, card-carrying right-wing friend who swears NPR is entirely left-wing.
I’ve got a Rush Limbaugh-loving, card-carrying right-wing relative who also happens to be a transvestite! Not sure of his opinion on NPR, I can’t get past the astounding cognitive dissonance of that first bit long enough to ask him.
I’ve been an NPR listener for a few years and find their actual news to be utterly neutral on the left-right axis. NPR stations do tend to carry some non-news shows that are quite obviously left-leaning, so that may explain the pervasive misconception. But their newscasters never deliver the obvious jabs that I expect them to when reporting on some of the more egregrious gaffes of the GOPpies.
I’ve always loved the boiling frog analogy, as it explains so many social phenomena very eloquently. Too bad it’s wrong.
I can't count the number of time I and my customers have lost data with MySQL.
Don’t worry. I hear they plan to address this shortcoming by improving MySQL’s aggregate query handling in a future release.
And I dispute his causal assumption of christian and straight being equivalent. Sexual repression of that magnitude has both causes and effects.
Why, yes. I do.
Wow. You just made the idea of shipping arms to terrorists sound downright reasonable.
Creepy, man.
Misreading that as an “HREF weapon,” I was left to ponder what exactly that would be. I pictured some pimply teenager with a laptop firing goatse into peoples’ occipital cortexes at twenty paces.
Hopefully he’s not wearing spandex, either.
Those christians (and radical muslims etc) will be in their own dark age. The rest of us will do alright.
Unless they manage to take the rest of us out with them in their infighting.
But really, what modern viruses actually delete user data?
This one. Granted, it wasn’t out there when you posted that, but as of this morning there have been 700,000 confirmed sightings.
To trigger the exploit, the length must be set to 1. Not 2, 3, 0, or some other equally invalid value, but only the value "1".
And the counting of the length shall be ONE!
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."
And when incompetence proves inadequate?
Our passwords are so bad that John Q. Public could have root in about four minutes.
Does that count?
I use Last.FM/AudioScrobbler, and I love it. But that was opt-in. This iTMS thing, if it does indeed work by sending your usage history to Apple (which looks to be the case at the moment), is opt-out. By the time you even know about it, it’s already started taking afternoon tea with Phobos. It’s all about choice.
Except that, as implemented, it seems to be opt-out.
I just happened to have run the 10.4.4. updater this morning, so when I opened iTunes just now I was asked to agree to the latest EULA. I skimmed through it and found no mention of usage data being sent to Apple, so I then read through it closely and still found no mention. When I hit ‘agree’ and iTunes opened, there was an outgoing connection to phobos.apple.com, which I denied. It made only that single request. I closed the iTMS pane at the bottom, and got no further requests until I opened it again.
So yes, it’s quite simple to avoid having your play history sent (if that is indeed what is happening), but unless you have a third party egress firewall running (or have been quite ruthless with ipfw in the past), it will start sending out data before an otherwise knowledgeable user can disable it.
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Nothing happened when I moused over it. Have you implemented Opera support yet?
not have many companies employees - if any - touching any of the input data
But then who would administer the moderator bitchslaps?