What if it's like: "There's nothing supernatural about our zombies." "They just have this virus that makes them crave." "Brainz." So: "There's nothing supernatural about our vampires." "They just have this virus that makes them crave." "Blood. Or, you know, money." Sucking the life blood of our community. You mean that money is the life blood of your community? Yes. Damn vampires.
The answer to the overdone question was disappointing. Vampires are overdone. And these vampires aren't even going to be supernatural, so what's the point? Just make a decent detective story and be done with it.
Of course, I'm not going to watch (let alone pay to watch) this movie anyway, so don't pay any attention to me. (There's too much other media around. I'm thinking of watching Babylon 5, is it any good? How does it compare to Farscape (almost finished the first season)? Or to the newer Doc Who?)
I've seen the fnords! I've seen them! They're everywhere! Protect your children! Hide your women and meN! the aliens are coming! The lizards are in control of hte government, and teverything is coming unstucck!! ! ! !
and ym best referal bonus was $5 and a milkshake. that milk shake was good. i set up my brother ! i betrayed hiam>! but i got a mlikshak andd that was the best evevt6y.
Many places don't even have a Visa network. Where I live (African country), there are only (I think) two or three ATMs in the city. Now, drop out of the city, and many places don't even have electricity. Therefore, cards are useless. However, the banks will still accept traveler's checks (to the best of my knowledge). The thing about checks is that they are easy to carry, harder for people to use if they steal them, and easy to cancel. And if you get Amex, then you can cash them for free at various places in Europe (and maybe other places?). They are much better than cash only. Now, whatever you do, don't get one of those stupid traveler's Visa cards. They will cost more than you think they will, and you'll invariably have a problem you wouldn't have had with an ordinary credit card.
Oh, and get an RSA dongle for your Internet Banking. If you have to login at an Internet Cafe, it's better safe than sorry. (And if you could somehow setup two factor authentication for your other essential logins, that would be even better.)
As for the phone, my cheap (well, it was ~$170 when I bought it three years ago, but it's cheap now) phone can serve as a radio, music player (MP3 only, no Ogg), and even has a crappy camera. The advice about the smart phone is good though. (And a powerboard with universal outlets, I want one, where can I get it?)
And countries that are paranoid about plastic knives are stupid countries. Seriously.
Yes, so for many countries. It depends on where the person is going. Many African countries do not have good ATM networks, and if they have ATMs, will often only work with Visa. So, cash is king. And even in many Western European countries, you can't actually use credit cards in man shops and restaurants, again, cash is needed (even if you don't carry it around all the time, you still need enough for a couple of days).
Things to take: A spare battery for your laptop. (And encrypt your laptop, and have a decent backup solution.) Power adaptors for your things. A powerboard, hostels often only have one or two powerpoints. Oh, and a voltage converter thing. An unlocked mobile phone. Fewer electronics (no music player, no recorder, etc., let your phone do all that). A backpack (a suitcase will really piss you off). Water bottles. Plastic travel cutlery maybe (it's cheaper to buy bread and cheese separately than it is to buy them together as a pre-made sandwich). Travelers Checks and cash for many countries. A lock for your bags, a lock for lockers in hostels, and a bicycle lock to tie your bags to your bed (or park bench) when you don't have a locker. Get clothing with hidden (inside) pockets to put cash in. But that's emergency cash. Put your general day cash in an easily accessible pocket (and watch it).
Hostels only sometimes have quiet areas, and are only sometimes quiet (not just drunken people wandering in at 3:00, but also just the traffic all evening, or the bar downstairs), and only sometimes have Internet in the rooms. If you're looking for places to stay all day, try libraries instead. Ask yourself if an American cafe would let you stay all day. The answer is probably the same for other countries. But then again, a library or a local park would be cheaper.
Two years is a long time. You'll probably get sick of traveling by the end.
Your question is too generic to give a more specific answer.
HELP MY ACCOUNT HAS BEEN HACKED BY AN ILLIBERAL ART STUDENT SET TO DESTROY THE INTERWEBZ!
And Wayland sucks because it doesn't do graphics forwarding. Even though I never use that feature of X. And ignoring that Wayland is being developed by many of the same people who develop X.org. Oh yes, I know what I'm talking about.
I sliced a piece of pie off my cow and threw it in the sea. The ocean boiled and cooked fish rose and I took them and fed them to the trees. What's a pretty picture and who is that pretty young thing? Quark, equine, quinine.
Hark, the sound of rabid waves! I smash the beast within but let the beast without free to ravage and rampage. I saw the end times.
Most of the other digital currencies are scams and frauds. Most of them are created for the express purpose of making the creator rich. Besides, Wikipedia lists heaps, just not at the article you linked to. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_digital_currencies.
Oh, and Bitcoin. Don't use LibertyReserve or another centralized system, use Bitcoin!
I flew deep into the ocean and ate helium and nitrogen. The fish walked among the goats and elephants as the sun shone from below. I listened to the violent green and tasted the rectangle. I ecstatic. I am in hell.
It was a Gary Larson carton, and the cartoon was a man in an airplane. He reaches for the "recline seat" switch, but hits the "wings fall off" switch instead. I can't just find a copy, but yeah.
Err, that's what these two people did. They saw the enemy, someone who (if not personally, then is part of the same gang that has) harassed their community, jailed their compatriots, etc. They took steps to "vanish" the person.
Now quick, justify the E-e-edl attacking mosques! What? You're denunciation seems rather half-hearted you right-wing racist bastard scum. I think it's about time someone took direct action to make you vanish.
It's simple. In the vast majority of cases, bad cops are protected. By "good" cops. Ergo, the "good" cops aren't.
This guy got done because he went against his team. If he had merely hacked (or paid someone to do so) some outsider's emails, then the NYPD would have slapped him on the wrist, and given him time off (with pay).
We've seen this happen many other times before. Even if a "bad" cop kills someone, the "good" cops all circle the wagons. The fact is, "good" and "bad" when it comes to cops are unnecessary adjectives. Because all cops are bad/bastards.
OK, I'm exaggerating slightly. It's 99% of cops give the rest a bad name. The cops that actually are not bastards either leave, or become bastards.
"This cop has just done the entire law enforcement profession a great disservice, but the public trust of law enforcement is wearing thin as it is at this point..." Oh come on, don't be silly. This cop hasn't done anything. The entire law enforcement profession can't be brought any lower in my eyes, because they are all scum. OK, so this cop did do something, he re-enforced a perfectly valid view point.
ACAB.
Now where's my damn, "post without karma bonus" check box?
Status-4-evar is the addon you want. I installed in when forcibly upgraded to 10 (Ubuntu LTS stayed with 3.6 until it hit unsupported status). It's great. I for one can't understand why the removed it. And I can't understand at all why Safari on Mac doesn't even show the URL when you hover over a link. (It's not my Mac, fuck Apple with a chainsaw, but I do use it sometimes.)
Yeah? More like a worthless IOU. I don't have a check account anywhere in the world. The only "developed" country I know of that still uses personal checks is the USA. OK, you can still use them in other places, but it's just easier to do an electronic funds transfer, which are (generally) free (domestically). I don't have a USA bank account, so I can't even do that (without incurring International bank transfer fees). Did you not read the bit about me being in an African country? (And I've never even been to the USA, and have no friends or family there, sort of rules out a whole lot of other options you may suggest.) And if you meant a bank check or similar, then, that's, you know, sort of costing me money as well.
Bitcoin offers a way for me to effectively, quickly, and easily, transfer money around the world, without involving any companies at all. (The fact that the recipient may automatically convert those funds to a particular government issued currency is irrelevant.) Besides, fuck the banks.
Pray tell how? I live (currently) in a developing African country. If I want to donate cash to EFF, I'd have to fly to the USA and hand it to them. Or, you know, use a service that takes a chunk as a transfer fee. So, yeah, maybe you want me to post it to them? I'll stick with Bitcoins.
Too late indeed. I donated before they stopped. Something like 15 bitcoins (which, at $100 a coin, is $1500, a nice chunk of change, at the time it was more like $4 a coin). They then, stupidly, turned around and gave all the bitcoins away. And not to other organizations of a similar mind (FSF, or whoever), but to the Bitcoin Faucet. They should have either just stopped publishing the donation address (and left all the coins sitting in a hidden, off-line wallet), until they worked out the legal consequences, or they should have given the coins to other freedom loving organizations (e.g. FSF).
As it is, I won't be donating $1500 again, instead, it is possible I won't donate again at all. (Though, if they had have just converted the coins straight to USD, which appears to be their policy now, it would have only been ~$60.)
Bitcoins are an easy, simple, and safe way for me to donate to freedom loving organizations. No bank fees, no credit card fees, no Paypal (which i refuse to use), etc. Bitcoin (which I can get by doing services for people) work extremely well. Except when the organization is made up of lawyers who worry too much about the future. And, what's odd, is that their discussion about potential strengths (e.g. that, unlike other payment processors, it can't be cut by a single actor), and weaknesses (e.g. only pseudonymous (though you can take action to make it more anonymous)) are not new. All these issues remain exactly the same as the did two years ago. Bitcoin (or another widely used distributed cypto-currency) is a positive because of the strengths identified, and despite the potential weaknesses.
I can't believe it took them two years to workout that maybe merely accepting bitcoin and converting them straight to USD (like they do with stocks, cars, and other assets) is probably not going to open them up to legal action. I'm a little disappointed really that it took so long.
I have third-party cookies (indeed, all cookies, except those from domains specifically whitelisted) blocked. I've never noticed a problem with blocking third-party cookies. I have a heck of a lot more issues with third-party JavaScript (people using Google-hosted or similar JQuery for example).
So, Firefox, take note, there are not going to be any problems for the vast majority of people.
I seem to recall a case in Australia in the last year where Google was asked to remove offensive autocomplete terms, and didn't. And got sued. And lost.
It's because it's potentially defamatory. And just like I can't write "I saw Soulskill touch a dogs wiener" without potentially being sued, Google can't write that Herr Rolf is a fraud.
The first number says "I'm incompatible with previous versions", which in Firefox's case, probably should mean with regards to plugins and extensions. So, if there's no need to increase it, don't! The second number, that's for additional functionality, and various changes that don't break compatibility, and the third number is for patches (bug fixes).
It's also plausible to upgrade the first number for major rewrites, or other major changes in the software's life cycle. A change from a SGML/XML based renderer to a HTML5 based one could justify a major version increase.
But it's "keeping up with the Jones'" versioning isn't it. Chrome has auto-updating and silly numbers, and so Firefox needs to have them to; to keep being "relevant".
You know, I feel like I only just upgraded to Firefox 20. In fact, there hasn't even been a 20.1 yet. I really like Firefox, I do. Some of the new web development tools (which I've only just discovered) are really nice. But, to be frank, apart from those, I can't tell the difference between 18, and 20. And looking at the changelog, I can't see anything that says, "I'm a major new version that breaks compatibility with previous versions".
So, I want to ask again (and I'm beating a horse that is not only dead, but buried, and decomposed, with only a few bones and other hard items left), what's the point of these fast track updates?
Many of the new features (e.g. the web developer tools and the Social API (only useful for people who actually use "social websites", i.e. not me)) would be better off as plugins. Instead, Mozilla should be focusing on things that actually improve both the user experience and the safety of browsing the web. So, perhaps blocking third party cookies by default, building in a simplified RequestPolicy-like tool (with a blacklist of ad networks and trackers), and maybe even improve the shitty bookmark system. But no, they want to improve the Social API.
I'll continue to use Firefox, it's better than the alternatives. But it's the plugins that really make it better, not the superfast increase the numbers (and hide useful UI - luckily that can be fixed with plugins).
So I guess you'll not buy Nvidia again? Because they obviously don't care about your Linux experience. Because if they did, they'd open source their driver, and work to get it accepted into the Linux mainline tree. So that then the kernel developers would maintain it for them. For free.
Oohh ohh.
Nvidia had a charming air All cheap and debonair You found so sweet And so you took Nvidia in Your sheets still warm with him Now filled with filth and foul disease As time wore on Nvidia proved A debt-ridden drunken mess Leaving you A poor consumptive wretch
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What if it's like: "There's nothing supernatural about our zombies." "They just have this virus that makes them crave." "Brainz."
So: "There's nothing supernatural about our vampires." "They just have this virus that makes them crave." "Blood. Or, you know, money." Sucking the life blood of our community. You mean that money is the life blood of your community? Yes. Damn vampires.
The answer to the overdone question was disappointing. Vampires are overdone. And these vampires aren't even going to be supernatural, so what's the point? Just make a decent detective story and be done with it.
Of course, I'm not going to watch (let alone pay to watch) this movie anyway, so don't pay any attention to me. (There's too much other media around. I'm thinking of watching Babylon 5, is it any good? How does it compare to Farscape (almost finished the first season)? Or to the newer Doc Who?)
I've seen the fnords! I've seen them! They're everywhere! Protect your children! Hide your women and meN! the aliens are coming! The lizards are in control of hte government, and teverything is coming unstucck!! ! ! !
and ym best referal bonus was $5 and a milkshake. that milk shake was good. i set up my brother ! i betrayed hiam>! but i got a mlikshak andd that was the best evevt6y.
Many places don't even have a Visa network. Where I live (African country), there are only (I think) two or three ATMs in the city. Now, drop out of the city, and many places don't even have electricity. Therefore, cards are useless. However, the banks will still accept traveler's checks (to the best of my knowledge).
The thing about checks is that they are easy to carry, harder for people to use if they steal them, and easy to cancel. And if you get Amex, then you can cash them for free at various places in Europe (and maybe other places?). They are much better than cash only.
Now, whatever you do, don't get one of those stupid traveler's Visa cards. They will cost more than you think they will, and you'll invariably have a problem you wouldn't have had with an ordinary credit card.
Oh, and get an RSA dongle for your Internet Banking. If you have to login at an Internet Cafe, it's better safe than sorry. (And if you could somehow setup two factor authentication for your other essential logins, that would be even better.)
As for the phone, my cheap (well, it was ~$170 when I bought it three years ago, but it's cheap now) phone can serve as a radio, music player (MP3 only, no Ogg), and even has a crappy camera. The advice about the smart phone is good though. (And a powerboard with universal outlets, I want one, where can I get it?)
And countries that are paranoid about plastic knives are stupid countries. Seriously.
Yes, so for many countries. It depends on where the person is going. Many African countries do not have good ATM networks, and if they have ATMs, will often only work with Visa. So, cash is king. And even in many Western European countries, you can't actually use credit cards in man shops and restaurants, again, cash is needed (even if you don't carry it around all the time, you still need enough for a couple of days).
Things to take:
A spare battery for your laptop. (And encrypt your laptop, and have a decent backup solution.)
Power adaptors for your things.
A powerboard, hostels often only have one or two powerpoints.
Oh, and a voltage converter thing.
An unlocked mobile phone.
Fewer electronics (no music player, no recorder, etc., let your phone do all that).
A backpack (a suitcase will really piss you off).
Water bottles. Plastic travel cutlery maybe (it's cheaper to buy bread and cheese separately than it is to buy them together as a pre-made sandwich).
Travelers Checks and cash for many countries.
A lock for your bags, a lock for lockers in hostels, and a bicycle lock to tie your bags to your bed (or park bench) when you don't have a locker.
Get clothing with hidden (inside) pockets to put cash in. But that's emergency cash. Put your general day cash in an easily accessible pocket (and watch it).
Hostels only sometimes have quiet areas, and are only sometimes quiet (not just drunken people wandering in at 3:00, but also just the traffic all evening, or the bar downstairs), and only sometimes have Internet in the rooms.
If you're looking for places to stay all day, try libraries instead. Ask yourself if an American cafe would let you stay all day. The answer is probably the same for other countries. But then again, a library or a local park would be cheaper.
Two years is a long time. You'll probably get sick of traveling by the end.
Your question is too generic to give a more specific answer.
HELP MY ACCOUNT HAS BEEN HACKED BY AN ILLIBERAL ART STUDENT SET TO DESTROY THE INTERWEBZ!
And Wayland sucks because it doesn't do graphics forwarding. Even though I never use that feature of X. And ignoring that Wayland is being developed by many of the same people who develop X.org. Oh yes, I know what I'm talking about.
I sliced a piece of pie off my cow and threw it in the sea. The ocean boiled and cooked fish rose and I took them and fed them to the trees. What's a pretty picture and who is that pretty young thing? Quark, equine, quinine.
Hark, the sound of rabid waves! I smash the beast within but let the beast without free to ravage and rampage. I saw the end times.
i did a boo boo :( lol
u w8 hear & i show?
Most of the other digital currencies are scams and frauds. Most of them are created for the express purpose of making the creator rich. Besides, Wikipedia lists heaps, just not at the article you linked to. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_digital_currencies.
Oh, and Bitcoin. Don't use LibertyReserve or another centralized system, use Bitcoin!
I flew deep into the ocean and ate helium and nitrogen. The fish walked among the goats and elephants as the sun shone from below. I listened to the violent green and tasted the rectangle. I ecstatic. I am in hell.
It was a Gary Larson carton, and the cartoon was a man in an airplane.
He reaches for the "recline seat" switch, but hits the "wings fall off" switch instead.
I can't just find a copy, but yeah.
Bravo. The only issue was linking to Fox News when discussing Britain.
Err, that's what these two people did. They saw the enemy, someone who (if not personally, then is part of the same gang that has) harassed their community, jailed their compatriots, etc. They took steps to "vanish" the person.
Now quick, justify the E-e-edl attacking mosques! What? You're denunciation seems rather half-hearted you right-wing racist bastard scum. I think it's about time someone took direct action to make you vanish.
It's simple. In the vast majority of cases, bad cops are protected. By "good" cops. Ergo, the "good" cops aren't.
This guy got done because he went against his team. If he had merely hacked (or paid someone to do so) some outsider's emails, then the NYPD would have slapped him on the wrist, and given him time off (with pay).
We've seen this happen many other times before. Even if a "bad" cop kills someone, the "good" cops all circle the wagons. The fact is, "good" and "bad" when it comes to cops are unnecessary adjectives. Because all cops are bad/bastards.
OK, I'm exaggerating slightly. It's 99% of cops give the rest a bad name. The cops that actually are not bastards either leave, or become bastards.
"This cop has just done the entire law enforcement profession a great disservice, but the public trust of law enforcement is wearing thin as it is at this point..."
Oh come on, don't be silly. This cop hasn't done anything. The entire law enforcement profession can't be brought any lower in my eyes, because they are all scum. OK, so this cop did do something, he re-enforced a perfectly valid view point.
ACAB.
Now where's my damn, "post without karma bonus" check box?
I run Busybox/Linux, and when Toybox gets done, I'll think about switching to Toybox/Linux. ^_^
Status-4-evar is the addon you want. I installed in when forcibly upgraded to 10 (Ubuntu LTS stayed with 3.6 until it hit unsupported status). It's great. I for one can't understand why the removed it. And I can't understand at all why Safari on Mac doesn't even show the URL when you hover over a link. (It's not my Mac, fuck Apple with a chainsaw, but I do use it sometimes.)
Yeah? More like a worthless IOU. I don't have a check account anywhere in the world. The only "developed" country I know of that still uses personal checks is the USA. OK, you can still use them in other places, but it's just easier to do an electronic funds transfer, which are (generally) free (domestically). I don't have a USA bank account, so I can't even do that (without incurring International bank transfer fees). Did you not read the bit about me being in an African country? (And I've never even been to the USA, and have no friends or family there, sort of rules out a whole lot of other options you may suggest.) And if you meant a bank check or similar, then, that's, you know, sort of costing me money as well.
Bitcoin offers a way for me to effectively, quickly, and easily, transfer money around the world, without involving any companies at all. (The fact that the recipient may automatically convert those funds to a particular government issued currency is irrelevant.) Besides, fuck the banks.
Pray tell how? I live (currently) in a developing African country. If I want to donate cash to EFF, I'd have to fly to the USA and hand it to them. Or, you know, use a service that takes a chunk as a transfer fee. So, yeah, maybe you want me to post it to them? I'll stick with Bitcoins.
Too late indeed.
I donated before they stopped. Something like 15 bitcoins (which, at $100 a coin, is $1500, a nice chunk of change, at the time it was more like $4 a coin). They then, stupidly, turned around and gave all the bitcoins away. And not to other organizations of a similar mind (FSF, or whoever), but to the Bitcoin Faucet. They should have either just stopped publishing the donation address (and left all the coins sitting in a hidden, off-line wallet), until they worked out the legal consequences, or they should have given the coins to other freedom loving organizations (e.g. FSF).
As it is, I won't be donating $1500 again, instead, it is possible I won't donate again at all. (Though, if they had have just converted the coins straight to USD, which appears to be their policy now, it would have only been ~$60.)
Bitcoins are an easy, simple, and safe way for me to donate to freedom loving organizations. No bank fees, no credit card fees, no Paypal (which i refuse to use), etc. Bitcoin (which I can get by doing services for people) work extremely well. Except when the organization is made up of lawyers who worry too much about the future. And, what's odd, is that their discussion about potential strengths (e.g. that, unlike other payment processors, it can't be cut by a single actor), and weaknesses (e.g. only pseudonymous (though you can take action to make it more anonymous)) are not new. All these issues remain exactly the same as the did two years ago. Bitcoin (or another widely used distributed cypto-currency) is a positive because of the strengths identified, and despite the potential weaknesses.
I can't believe it took them two years to workout that maybe merely accepting bitcoin and converting them straight to USD (like they do with stocks, cars, and other assets) is probably not going to open them up to legal action. I'm a little disappointed really that it took so long.
I have third-party cookies (indeed, all cookies, except those from domains specifically whitelisted) blocked. I've never noticed a problem with blocking third-party cookies. I have a heck of a lot more issues with third-party JavaScript (people using Google-hosted or similar JQuery for example).
So, Firefox, take note, there are not going to be any problems for the vast majority of people.
(I use CookieMonster, it works real nice like.)
I seem to recall a case in Australia in the last year where Google was asked to remove offensive autocomplete terms, and didn't. And got sued. And lost.
It's because it's potentially defamatory. And just like I can't write "I saw Soulskill touch a dogs wiener" without potentially being sued, Google can't write that Herr Rolf is a fraud.
The first number says "I'm incompatible with previous versions", which in Firefox's case, probably should mean with regards to plugins and extensions. So, if there's no need to increase it, don't! The second number, that's for additional functionality, and various changes that don't break compatibility, and the third number is for patches (bug fixes).
It's also plausible to upgrade the first number for major rewrites, or other major changes in the software's life cycle. A change from a SGML/XML based renderer to a HTML5 based one could justify a major version increase.
But it's "keeping up with the Jones'" versioning isn't it. Chrome has auto-updating and silly numbers, and so Firefox needs to have them to; to keep being "relevant".
You know, I feel like I only just upgraded to Firefox 20. In fact, there hasn't even been a 20.1 yet. I really like Firefox, I do. Some of the new web development tools (which I've only just discovered) are really nice. But, to be frank, apart from those, I can't tell the difference between 18, and 20. And looking at the changelog, I can't see anything that says, "I'm a major new version that breaks compatibility with previous versions".
So, I want to ask again (and I'm beating a horse that is not only dead, but buried, and decomposed, with only a few bones and other hard items left), what's the point of these fast track updates?
Many of the new features (e.g. the web developer tools and the Social API (only useful for people who actually use "social websites", i.e. not me)) would be better off as plugins. Instead, Mozilla should be focusing on things that actually improve both the user experience and the safety of browsing the web. So, perhaps blocking third party cookies by default, building in a simplified RequestPolicy-like tool (with a blacklist of ad networks and trackers), and maybe even improve the shitty bookmark system. But no, they want to improve the Social API.
I'll continue to use Firefox, it's better than the alternatives. But it's the plugins that really make it better, not the superfast increase the numbers (and hide useful UI - luckily that can be fixed with plugins).
So I guess you'll not buy Nvidia again? Because they obviously don't care about your Linux experience. Because if they did, they'd open source their driver, and work to get it accepted into the Linux mainline tree. So that then the kernel developers would maintain it for them. For free.
Oohh ohh.
Nvidia had a charming air
All cheap and debonair
You found so sweet
And so you took Nvidia in
Your sheets still warm with him
Now filled with filth and foul disease
As time wore on Nvidia proved
A debt-ridden drunken mess
Leaving you
A poor consumptive wretch
Or something like that.