Let me know how all that shit works out when there's a gas main explosion in your basement, or a plane falls out of the sky and destroys your precious over-thought out coffin.
Nah, you don't need those Chippendale's in Helmets! Nor the Gov't, all those laws are for suckers!!`!~
Oh, and I would say the Jaws of Life are a significant improvement over ancient Roman firefighting techniques.
Not everything has to be reported with breathless end-of-the-world doom and gloom just to be the best click-bait.
Once in a while it's nice to give the hyperbole and bullshit a rest. However, this is a serious issue that needs to be addressed quickly. Isolation from the internet is probably the best solution, but even that is not idiot-proof (think USB drives in parking lot) and it's massively inconvenient, but until we can develop remote access systems that are truly bulletproof, then we shouldn't be risking our critical infrastructure.
I looked at it for a while, and my reaction was: "Cripes. This is a horrible mash-up of every genre of video game all at the same time." It is an RPG, an FPS, a D+D, and a construction/builder like MineCraft with some grinding crap like WoW or EverCrack. It's just too ridiculously busy, shiny shit flying everywhere and everyone has super-human jump and shoot ability. It's all just too much in one place at one time to make any kind of rational decisions, you have to throw yourself into it and flail around faster than everyone else. But that's the object, to disengage any rational thought processes and turn up the twitch-adrenaline to the MAX!
Bah.
I know, get off my lawn, etc... I used to be into Quake/Quake II back in the day, so I know very well about dopamine addiction and absorption.
Agreed. Those assholes are charging for "Caller name ID", then charge a monthly blocker fee, and that is limited in the number of calls it blocks.
Assholes.
I use an Android app called "Call Control" and it seems to be the best of the blocker apps. It does white and blacklists, and it has no limit on the number of numbers it blocks. The main feature I use it for is local NXX spoofing - you can enter a block of (Area)+NXX, which takes care of all the random fake "local" spam calls! Works great and it's free!
The issue is that the term "torus" has only entered the mainstream public vernacular in fairly recent days. The branch of math that refers to them primarily is Topology. They are referenced, defined and used in general Geometry, but aren't particularly important shapes because there are few examples of Torii in the physical universe. Do(ugh)nuts, Tires,and other things like life preserver/rescue rings make up most of the examples of that shape in the real world. There just are't that many. So, unless you were a Geometry or Topology math wonk you probably didn't know about Torii. Branches of math that use them most have only been around since the early 20th century, so they are not very "main stream", even now at present unless you're a math student or professor you probably have not heard of or ever use the term "Torii" or "Torus".
Now, Do(ugh)nuts have been around since 1847 according to the experts, so they have had nearly a 100 year head start on the public awareness of those delicious rings of fried dough. Hence, more people have heard of Do(ugh)nuts for quite a longer time than torii. Also they are called different things in different locales, sometimes they referred to their specialist examples, such as Crullers, Beneyets (sp?), Bear Claws, Sweet Rolls, Eclairs, Long Johns, Danish, Jelly Rolls, Bismarks, etc. Not all Do(ugh)nuts are Torii, and not all Torii are Do(ugh)nuts.
Anyway, TL;DR is the "Torus" is a niche technical math term, whereas "Do(ugh)nuts" is a common bakery food term, so as such it's much more in the awareness of the mainstream public.
I think this may have changed recently. I remember hearing in the last month or two that biometrics are now considered the same as a numeric password, or passphrase. You cannot be compelled to use biometrics anymore, or at least that it has the same legal protections now that a password has.
Rubber hoses aside, of course. Those still work.
Not sure if this is state-specific or federal. I don't remember the exact details, but I do remember thinking, "That's cool, now I don't have to turn off the fingerprint reader login on my phone!"
Probably Ireland, they have a European HQ located there, but not sure if they have a server farm there too.
Also, it's probably not very relevant where the data is actually stored these days, it's most likely replicated and backed up in several countries. Most global companies now use off-site backups and replicate their data in geographically separate locations, with data centers in many countries spread throughout the world. This gives them more redundancy and a better shot at handling an international disaster; a given country would likely be unaffected while another is having a disaster like a tidal wave or whatever.
The whole point of the new law was to deal with exactly this sort of situation, where the local laws or agencies of other countries are either not enforceable or somehow otherwise are an impediment to them getting legal access to the data. The other country really doesn't have any chance to say anything in the matter, if they're even aware of it. If Google or whoever refuses the request, they would no doubt prosecute them as though they had denied law enforcement's access to the data just the same as if it was located in the U.S.
Not saying it's right or wrong. Personally, I'm not a fan of laws that give Government expanded powers to nose into people's lives, either real or online, but I'm not a fan of crime, obviously. If nothing else, this was expected. Many of our laws need to be updated to be meaningful and reflect the new digital reality we live in - the legal system is lagging behind reality in many ways by anywhere from 5-10 years to about 50.
Just like the healthcare industry, people's moral centers should not be based on profit-making motives, whether monetary or in the form of promised eternal salvation.
It's unfortunate that they are, or seem to be, but that's the human condition, apparently. Sad things are this way, but they always have been and probably will continue to be as long as there are selfish, stupid humans.
There have been a few decent ones recently. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs by the Cohen bros. was pretty good, and there have been some recent Quentin Tarantino western-esque movies lately that were arguably decent.
And then there were some westerns in disguise, like Star Trek TOS and that whole Star Wars Ep. IV thing. They never really went away, they just morphed into one branch of Sci-Fi.
Ah, thank you! I was trying to figure out what that was all about!
It sounds like the new format will still have a similar problem, but by adding 3 bits, now it will still happen, but 8x less often. So what, every 160 years instead of 20 after the protocol changes?
Feh. Don't hash dates!! What is it with these people?/seinfeld
Our Chief Weapons are Surprise, Fear, Etc., Etc....
No goalpost movement here, bud. Relax!
Seriously, user "DigiShaman" started talking about ECC.
Then, user "bill_mcgonigle" conflated lack of ECC memory with filesystem corruption. I thought that's where we were at. I just went with it.
Interesting anecdote about your experience with ECC memory, though. No doubt, ECC there to handle the one-in-a-billion case of a more than n-correctable critical bit flip(s), and is likely a major boondoggle - I would tend to agree with you.
How do you know? That last "everything went batshit" reboot might have been caused by DRAM corruption. It might have been caused by buggy software, or even cosmic rays. Who knows how many "mystery" crashes might have been averted by use of ECC memory and bus structure. No one knows, that's part of the problem, n00b end-lusers are blamed, system gets re-imaged, and all is right with the world for another quarter. Rinse and repeat.
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No I am not insane, and yes, I love Jelly on toast.
English much?
Let me know how all that shit works out when there's a gas main explosion in your basement, or a plane falls out of the sky and destroys your precious over-thought out coffin.
Nah, you don't need those Chippendale's in Helmets! Nor the Gov't, all those laws are for suckers!!`!~
Oh, and I would say the Jaws of Life are a significant improvement over ancient Roman firefighting techniques.
Idiot.
Not everything has to be reported with breathless end-of-the-world doom and gloom just to be the best click-bait.
Once in a while it's nice to give the hyperbole and bullshit a rest. However, this is a serious issue that needs to be addressed quickly. Isolation from the internet is probably the best solution, but even that is not idiot-proof (think USB drives in parking lot) and it's massively inconvenient, but until we can develop remote access systems that are truly bulletproof, then we shouldn't be risking our critical infrastructure.
I guess that's my problem, too.
I looked at it for a while, and my reaction was: "Cripes. This is a horrible mash-up of every genre of video game all at the same time." It is an RPG, an FPS, a D+D, and a construction/builder like MineCraft with some grinding crap like WoW or EverCrack. It's just too ridiculously busy, shiny shit flying everywhere and everyone has super-human jump and shoot ability. It's all just too much in one place at one time to make any kind of rational decisions, you have to throw yourself into it and flail around faster than everyone else. But that's the object, to disengage any rational thought processes and turn up the twitch-adrenaline to the MAX!
Bah.
I know, get off my lawn, etc... I used to be into Quake/Quake II back in the day, so I know very well about dopamine addiction and absorption.
O RLY?
Isn't that a technical publishing company?
Agreed. Those assholes are charging for "Caller name ID", then charge a monthly blocker fee, and that is limited in the number of calls it blocks.
Assholes.
I use an Android app called "Call Control" and it seems to be the best of the blocker apps. It does white and blacklists, and it has no limit on the number of numbers it blocks. The main feature I use it for is local NXX spoofing - you can enter a block of (Area)+NXX, which takes care of all the random fake "local" spam calls! Works great and it's free!
The issue is that the term "torus" has only entered the mainstream public vernacular in fairly recent days. The branch of math that refers to them primarily is Topology. They are referenced, defined and used in general Geometry, but aren't particularly important shapes because there are few examples of Torii in the physical universe. Do(ugh)nuts, Tires,and other things like life preserver/rescue rings make up most of the examples of that shape in the real world. There just are't that many. So, unless you were a Geometry or Topology math wonk you probably didn't know about Torii. Branches of math that use them most have only been around since the early 20th century, so they are not very "main stream", even now at present unless you're a math student or professor you probably have not heard of or ever use the term "Torii" or "Torus".
Now, Do(ugh)nuts have been around since 1847 according to the experts, so they have had nearly a 100 year head start on the public awareness of those delicious rings of fried dough. Hence, more people have heard of Do(ugh)nuts for quite a longer time than torii. Also they are called different things in different locales, sometimes they referred to their specialist examples, such as Crullers, Beneyets (sp?), Bear Claws, Sweet Rolls, Eclairs, Long Johns, Danish, Jelly Rolls, Bismarks, etc. Not all Do(ugh)nuts are Torii, and not all Torii are Do(ugh)nuts.
Anyway, TL;DR is the "Torus" is a niche technical math term, whereas "Do(ugh)nuts" is a common bakery food term, so as such it's much more in the awareness of the mainstream public.
The FARGate? Completely legally different than StarGate?
Yeah, they're pretty rank, alright...
I think this may have changed recently. I remember hearing in the last month or two that biometrics are now considered the same as a numeric password, or passphrase. You cannot be compelled to use biometrics anymore, or at least that it has the same legal protections now that a password has.
Rubber hoses aside, of course. Those still work.
Not sure if this is state-specific or federal. I don't remember the exact details, but I do remember thinking, "That's cool, now I don't have to turn off the fingerprint reader login on my phone!"
Probably Ireland, they have a European HQ located there, but not sure if they have a server farm there too.
Also, it's probably not very relevant where the data is actually stored these days, it's most likely replicated and backed up in several countries. Most global companies now use off-site backups and replicate their data in geographically separate locations, with data centers in many countries spread throughout the world. This gives them more redundancy and a better shot at handling an international disaster; a given country would likely be unaffected while another is having a disaster like a tidal wave or whatever.
The whole point of the new law was to deal with exactly this sort of situation, where the local laws or agencies of other countries are either not enforceable or somehow otherwise are an impediment to them getting legal access to the data. The other country really doesn't have any chance to say anything in the matter, if they're even aware of it. If Google or whoever refuses the request, they would no doubt prosecute them as though they had denied law enforcement's access to the data just the same as if it was located in the U.S.
Not saying it's right or wrong. Personally, I'm not a fan of laws that give Government expanded powers to nose into people's lives, either real or online, but I'm not a fan of crime, obviously. If nothing else, this was expected. Many of our laws need to be updated to be meaningful and reflect the new digital reality we live in - the legal system is lagging behind reality in many ways by anywhere from 5-10 years to about 50.
GENERAL BUCK TURGIDSON:
Gentlemen! We cannot have a psi research gap!
Won't someone please THINK OF THE CORPORATIONS!!!1!
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Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Yeah, and it's bullshit when they use it too.
The point is that you're not using ANY of the shit they're peddling, paid or not, yet you get caught up as by-catch in their information dragnet.
"Bless his heart"
I've been to the American South.
That's how they say "Fuck Him". :)
It was disjointed because there were several unrelated short stories, perhaps?
Just like the healthcare industry, people's moral centers should not be based on profit-making motives, whether monetary or in the form of promised eternal salvation.
It's unfortunate that they are, or seem to be, but that's the human condition, apparently. Sad things are this way, but they always have been and probably will continue to be as long as there are selfish, stupid humans.
There have been a few decent ones recently. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs by the Cohen bros. was pretty good, and there have been some recent Quentin Tarantino western-esque movies lately that were arguably decent.
And then there were some westerns in disguise, like Star Trek TOS and that whole Star Wars Ep. IV thing. They never really went away, they just morphed into one branch of Sci-Fi.
Ah, thank you! I was trying to figure out what that was all about!
It sounds like the new format will still have a similar problem, but by adding 3 bits, now it will still happen, but 8x less often. So what, every 160 years instead of 20 after the protocol changes?
Feh. Don't hash dates!! What is it with these people? /seinfeld
Not as often as I have been raped and sodomized at the cash register of one!
{rimshot}
I think someone's testing a Markov bot...
Probably the most intelligent thing said here all day!
Geez. I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!
No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition!
Our Chief Weapons are Surprise, Fear, Etc., Etc. ...
No goalpost movement here, bud. Relax!
Seriously, user "DigiShaman" started talking about ECC.
Then, user "bill_mcgonigle" conflated lack of ECC memory with filesystem corruption. I thought that's where we were at. I just went with it.
Interesting anecdote about your experience with ECC memory, though. No doubt, ECC there to handle the one-in-a-billion case of a more than n-correctable critical bit flip(s), and is likely a major boondoggle - I would tend to agree with you.
How do you know? That last "everything went batshit" reboot might have been caused by DRAM corruption. It might have been caused by buggy software, or even cosmic rays. Who knows how many "mystery" crashes might have been averted by use of ECC memory and bus structure. No one knows, that's part of the problem, n00b end-lusers are blamed, system gets re-imaged, and all is right with the world for another quarter. Rinse and repeat.
How do you know?
For SURE?
Well you should. Legion was a pretty good show, after all.