Ain't nobody talkin' about hiding anything either. I be talkin' about how much the US Dollar is worth now vs how much it would be worth after a possible crash of the currency value. I.E. your life savings are worth jack shit even though the numerical value is a high one. Currency trading, simply stated.
Not crazy. I believe that anyone who considers themselves a weed addict is just a lazy weak-willed person. It simply is not addictive in a physical manner, only mental (where the willpower is referenced) addiction exists.
I have literally smoked at least my own weight of it, since high school and on through college. Every day, if I could manage to obtain it. It was totally awesome, but a fairly wasteful expense of money. As of today, however, it has been years since I did that. One day, everyone has to grow up and get jobs that do random drug testing, and the responsible lot decide that paying the bills is more important than partying.
All it takes to stop is the decision to stop, and enacting that decision to stop is mostly an exercise of inaction - you don't do it. The enaction of that inaction is made less difficult by removing oneself from environments that offer temptations, but there are no physical withdrawals. The worst thing is boredom. You'll be sitting around wishing you had the magical cure to make boredom disappear, and it's frustrating. But eventually you learn to actually DO things, and find entertainment in activities that (sometimes) provide real-world benefits.
Bottom line, it's just a matter of willpower. Some people claim they don't have it, and call themselves addicts, but they're really just lazy-asses. Other people claim they can't work, and live on welfare, etc.
Yeah you're mostly right. I've been looking into ways to save, outside of the normally established ways, because they all seem to be in jeopardy given the days of recent past with events like the bank "Bail-Ins" in Cyprus where people lost their life savings.
The FDIC has signed off on a plan to "Bail-In" banks in the USA just like that, if they are considered Too Essential to the economy, and are about to fail.
Bitcoins could be a good way to move money out of a crashing currency model on a temporary-only basis. But in the long run, only things you can put your hands on and move with your body (or things like land that no body can move) are a safe bet.
Google Glass will be the rich-nerd monocle of the 21st Century
If it works right etc
Wish I had bought some Bitcoins (or mined up a bunch) in January.... They're back up to about $200 now. From about $15/ea in January. Could have been more than a tenfold return if timed right.
This Fox COO is making dumb threats. As one with an inside-view of how broadcast TV is made available to viewers, I can tell you that this action if taken will result in no good for Fox.
Basically, there is in many areas at most a 15-20% marketshare for OTA broadcast TV, and the rest get their TV from cable or satellite. For Fox to be able to charge the "freeloaders" viewing by broadcast, they would have to implement some kind of scrambling of the broadcast signal.
Scrambling the signal would require hardware on both ends: 1 scrambler at the broadcast transmitter, and 1 descrambler at each viewer's house (many).
How many currently free viewers do you reckon are going to start paying Fox for hardware/subscription to view their 1 broadcast channel that they used to get for free? My bet is nearly none. So their 15-20% share would drop to ~ 2-5% costing them 10+% of their viewers. Look at that number, then think of the nation-wide ad revenue for the corporation it could represent, and plop that figure onto the table of the shareholders' meeting....
I half-read that article, but it was interesting about the QFuses and stuff. Could not for certain decipher if he's exactly talking about a carrier unlock or OS / jailbreak kind of unlock or both. My current phone has both, but its hardware is gradually failing.....
Operator needs more sleep this Monderp to comprehend
All damn day long every day you hear this or that Congressman or Congresswoman railing about new laws or new regulations to save lives or save the economy or save the environment. Either them or the celebrity President, who gets on TV to say "Shame on You" for not believing his lies and doing what he told you to do.
All damn day long every day what you don't see is those Capitol Hill suits being handed the fat checks from lobbyists from the mega corporations who they really serve instead of the voting public.
We need to protect amurca from the turrists! (READ: We needs to blow up lots of Boeing / Raytheon / GE munitions so they can sell us more and Profit!!!)
We need to ban all the Weapons of War from Our Streets to Keep the Children Alive !!! (While the cops / border patrol / DHS all drive around in armored SUVs and MRAPs carrying full-auto machineguns and wearing battle armor)
We need Health Care Reform to make Medicine Affordable (... so they force everyone to pay the insurance companies who are responsible for accepting the overbilling of every single medical procedure performed because doctors know they will pay so they bill double, instead of having the medical prices actually regulated to sane levels like every other civilized country in the world practially)
If an artwork/material/etc is considered obscene by the moral standards of the general community at large (in the pertinent locale) AND has no redeeming social/educational value, then it is considered obscene and should be banned.
Any "obscenely" violent vidya game could simply take a page from Playboy's playbook, and insert some kind of PSA like "give the gift of Literacy" somewhere within the work that is prominently visible, and it would fail Part 2 of the Miller Test and therefore be Not Obscene.
The solution to your gripes is to avoid Sandforce. That's what I did, being a cautious consumer, when I purchased my first 4 SSD's.
SSD's by Intel with their in-house controller design seem to be good. I was discouraged to see some of theirs running on Sandforces though.
I bought an Intel 320 drive with the 5-yr warranty first, and it's been doing really well for a while.
Generally I look for the drives made by RAM manufacturers known for quality products, with their own controller brand in the SSD. Crucial, Samsung, etc. So far so good, no SSD failures yet out of my personal batch of 4. Newest one was a cheap little SanDisk with (I think) a Marvell controller.
yeah, I've got a couple of little fileservers running on the Statler distro of #!
It's great for turning a junky old PC into something useful - the system uses about 200MB or less of RAM running Openbox, and you have all the essential background services running like a server, but still can use the GUI if you want to.
Crunchbang also makes for a good quick-booting live CD/USB for rescue/repair of ailing PCs
I concur with your sentiment.
It is so frustrating to fire up a new install of "linux" and have all the important parts of the OS hidden away from access, requiring more than a couple of clicks to get to or even requiring you to open a Search Dialog and search for the app that you want.
UI designers should really take notice of the reception things like Windows 8 and Gnome 3 and Unity have been getting lately. Remember that most business is still done with a mouse and keyboard at least.
cops, federales, et all these days just have no damn respect for anyone's privacy or rights in general these days, it seems.
anything or any new way they can exploit technology to spy on people is being used, to spy on the general public without probable cause, and at the cost of the taxpayers' money. we only find out about these things when the "good guys" get in trouble for breaking the law
All freedom-loving net users should coordinate in ways to return the favor to assholes doing stuff like this. Install cameras in your local police chief's bedroom, attach a GPS tracker to every squad car in town and put up a website to display their locations, and route the entire government's emails through a proxy that posts them to the web for total transparency.
THat's all that matters. How many headshots can you achieve with the diamond laser pickaxe?
Or I guess it could be considered relatively important also not to allow drive-by downloads of malicious software from webpages that you didn't even click anything on
THat's all I wants to know, can it run the damn best game of all last decade? What? Yeah I wanna put the sniper scope and laser sight and silencer all together on the standard SCAR and play through the entire game like that even though it's the first gun you get. Can't do that in Crysis 2 or even 3 I bet.
Frosty piss or not, put them tiggaflops to bouncin' on some PDRK headshots and nano-powered super leaps.
Well it cured my obesity, with a couple of short-term treatment periods of about 3 months each, over a course of a year. My BMI is now about 26.7, less than a point from being in the non-overweight / healthy range.
Would you rather have heart problems from obesity, or diabetes, or both? I chose the pills knowing the risk involved, and I definitely feel much healthier than I did before. Choose your own poison.
FWIW, I also made more healthy dietary choices like reducing corn-syrup beverages (replaced with clean filtered water) and lowering my carb intake from breads, pastas, etc. But nothing beats the magical ability to take a pill and not be hungry at least half the day.
If you want to start off by losing weight and then transition to a workout routine (made easier by being less fat) you can get a cheater's jump-start on the weight loss by taking controlled drugs in the amphetamine family. I have been to a couple of doctors who prescribed me phentermine for weight loss and I'm down about 40 pounds overall now. I did some workouts, formerly routinely, but not so often now. I plan to get back into that soon when the weather is better.
But damn! Taking some speed pills and losing weight is fucking awesome! I did so with FDA-approved meds with a legal prescription, and don't regret it a bit. Of course, you will need to be evaluated for cardio health before trying anything like that.
Allow me to retort... (try thinking of that line spoken a couple of different ways, one in a British uppity accent, another in the Sam Jackson / Pulp Fiction character's line)
Douglas Adams is deserving of any praise any company or individual chooses to give him. For one, those types of choices are not a world-democracy ballot option or anything, i.e., it's not up to anybody but the praise-deliverer. For another, he was a technological visionary who provided the world with a great gift of lovable entertainment. He also invented the concept that Wikipedia is based upon, essentially. Anyone ever visit H2G2.com back in the old-Internet days? I was a contributing member there before any lay person had heard of Wiki-anything.
Maybe he wasn't an Asimov or Heinlein - level space visionary, but he certainly earned his keep well enough in my book. Wait, I haven't written any books. Have you? Has anyone?
Kudos to Google for their cool distraction and Happy Birth Anniversary DNA
So it sounds like the newer, Oracle Java 7 SE was the vulnerable hole? Also hasn't that been the case for the last several months' worth of "Java Exploit" headlines?
I am's be wonderin'.... who need dat Java 7 anyway? What is it's be for?
I never installed it, just running the good ole' Java 6 SE which lets me run all the crap the interwebs brangs forth towards me.
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Ain't nobody talkin' about hiding anything either. I be talkin' about how much the US Dollar is worth now vs how much it would be worth after a possible crash of the currency value. I.E. your life savings are worth jack shit even though the numerical value is a high one. Currency trading, simply stated.
Citation requested: http://www.fdic.gov/about/srac/2012/gsifi.pdf
I have literally smoked at least my own weight of it, since high school and on through college. Every day, if I could manage to obtain it. It was totally awesome, but a fairly wasteful expense of money. As of today, however, it has been years since I did that. One day, everyone has to grow up and get jobs that do random drug testing, and the responsible lot decide that paying the bills is more important than partying.
All it takes to stop is the decision to stop, and enacting that decision to stop is mostly an exercise of inaction - you don't do it. The enaction of that inaction is made less difficult by removing oneself from environments that offer temptations, but there are no physical withdrawals. The worst thing is boredom. You'll be sitting around wishing you had the magical cure to make boredom disappear, and it's frustrating. But eventually you learn to actually DO things, and find entertainment in activities that (sometimes) provide real-world benefits.
Bottom line, it's just a matter of willpower. Some people claim they don't have it, and call themselves addicts, but they're really just lazy-asses. Other people claim they can't work, and live on welfare, etc.
The FDIC has signed off on a plan to "Bail-In" banks in the USA just like that, if they are considered Too Essential to the economy, and are about to fail.
Bitcoins could be a good way to move money out of a crashing currency model on a temporary-only basis. But in the long run, only things you can put your hands on and move with your body (or things like land that no body can move) are a safe bet.
Reefer Madness is a pretty funny movie.
Google Glass will be the rich-nerd monocle of the 21st Century
If it works right etc
Wish I had bought some Bitcoins (or mined up a bunch) in January.... They're back up to about $200 now. From about $15/ea in January. Could have been more than a tenfold return if timed right.
This Fox COO is making dumb threats. As one with an inside-view of how broadcast TV is made available to viewers, I can tell you that this action if taken will result in no good for Fox.
Basically, there is in many areas at most a 15-20% marketshare for OTA broadcast TV, and the rest get their TV from cable or satellite. For Fox to be able to charge the "freeloaders" viewing by broadcast, they would have to implement some kind of scrambling of the broadcast signal.
Scrambling the signal would require hardware on both ends: 1 scrambler at the broadcast transmitter, and 1 descrambler at each viewer's house (many).
How many currently free viewers do you reckon are going to start paying Fox for hardware/subscription to view their 1 broadcast channel that they used to get for free? My bet is nearly none. So their 15-20% share would drop to ~ 2-5% costing them 10+% of their viewers. Look at that number, then think of the nation-wide ad revenue for the corporation it could represent, and plop that figure onto the table of the shareholders' meeting....
Operator needs more sleep this Monderp to comprehend
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test
In the USA, fortunately, no one person holds all the political power.
All damn day long every day what you don't see is those Capitol Hill suits being handed the fat checks from lobbyists from the mega corporations who they really serve instead of the voting public.
We need to protect amurca from the turrists! (READ: We needs to blow up lots of Boeing / Raytheon / GE munitions so they can sell us more and Profit!!!)
We need to ban all the Weapons of War from Our Streets to Keep the Children Alive !!! (While the cops / border patrol / DHS all drive around in armored SUVs and MRAPs carrying full-auto machineguns and wearing battle armor)
We need Health Care Reform to make Medicine Affordable (... so they force everyone to pay the insurance companies who are responsible for accepting the overbilling of every single medical procedure performed because doctors know they will pay so they bill double, instead of having the medical prices actually regulated to sane levels like every other civilized country in the world practially)
If an artwork/material/etc is considered obscene by the moral standards of the general community at large (in the pertinent locale) AND has no redeeming social/educational value, then it is considered obscene and should be banned.
Any "obscenely" violent vidya game could simply take a page from Playboy's playbook, and insert some kind of PSA like "give the gift of Literacy" somewhere within the work that is prominently visible, and it would fail Part 2 of the Miller Test and therefore be Not Obscene.
SSD's by Intel with their in-house controller design seem to be good. I was discouraged to see some of theirs running on Sandforces though. I bought an Intel 320 drive with the 5-yr warranty first, and it's been doing really well for a while.
Generally I look for the drives made by RAM manufacturers known for quality products, with their own controller brand in the SSD. Crucial, Samsung, etc. So far so good, no SSD failures yet out of my personal batch of 4. Newest one was a cheap little SanDisk with (I think) a Marvell controller.
Desktop drives in 3.5" size still have the 7200rpm drive speeds, so the smaller ones have been gimped by Seagate's mfr'ing decision
It's great for turning a junky old PC into something useful - the system uses about 200MB or less of RAM running Openbox, and you have all the essential background services running like a server, but still can use the GUI if you want to.
Crunchbang also makes for a good quick-booting live CD/USB for rescue/repair of ailing PCs
It is so frustrating to fire up a new install of "linux" and have all the important parts of the OS hidden away from access, requiring more than a couple of clicks to get to or even requiring you to open a Search Dialog and search for the app that you want.
UI designers should really take notice of the reception things like Windows 8 and Gnome 3 and Unity have been getting lately. Remember that most business is still done with a mouse and keyboard at least.
anything or any new way they can exploit technology to spy on people is being used, to spy on the general public without probable cause, and at the cost of the taxpayers' money. we only find out about these things when the "good guys" get in trouble for breaking the law
All freedom-loving net users should coordinate in ways to return the favor to assholes doing stuff like this. Install cameras in your local police chief's bedroom, attach a GPS tracker to every squad car in town and put up a website to display their locations, and route the entire government's emails through a proxy that posts them to the web for total transparency.
That's just practicing equality, afterall
Or I guess it could be considered relatively important also not to allow drive-by downloads of malicious software from webpages that you didn't even click anything on
Frosty piss or not, put them tiggaflops to bouncin' on some PDRK headshots and nano-powered super leaps.
"This fake finger smells like it has been up someone's butt!"
Would you rather have heart problems from obesity, or diabetes, or both? I chose the pills knowing the risk involved, and I definitely feel much healthier than I did before. Choose your own poison.
FWIW, I also made more healthy dietary choices like reducing corn-syrup beverages (replaced with clean filtered water) and lowering my carb intake from breads, pastas, etc. But nothing beats the magical ability to take a pill and not be hungry at least half the day.
But damn! Taking some speed pills and losing weight is fucking awesome! I did so with FDA-approved meds with a legal prescription, and don't regret it a bit. Of course, you will need to be evaluated for cardio health before trying anything like that.
They should just own up to the failure, and post an interim placeholder webpage with about a 50-point font print of the word "DERP"
LOL
Allow me to retort... (try thinking of that line spoken a couple of different ways, one in a British uppity accent, another in the Sam Jackson / Pulp Fiction character's line) Douglas Adams is deserving of any praise any company or individual chooses to give him. For one, those types of choices are not a world-democracy ballot option or anything, i.e., it's not up to anybody but the praise-deliverer. For another, he was a technological visionary who provided the world with a great gift of lovable entertainment. He also invented the concept that Wikipedia is based upon, essentially. Anyone ever visit H2G2.com back in the old-Internet days? I was a contributing member there before any lay person had heard of Wiki-anything. Maybe he wasn't an Asimov or Heinlein - level space visionary, but he certainly earned his keep well enough in my book. Wait, I haven't written any books. Have you? Has anyone? Kudos to Google for their cool distraction and Happy Birth Anniversary DNA
What has Science done !!??@!
So it sounds like the newer, Oracle Java 7 SE was the vulnerable hole? Also hasn't that been the case for the last several months' worth of "Java Exploit" headlines? .... who need dat Java 7 anyway? What is it's be for?
I am's be wonderin'
I never installed it, just running the good ole' Java 6 SE which lets me run all the crap the interwebs brangs forth towards me.