The hilarious fiction of this should be obvious. Social security will not last the decade, let alone long enough for me to get any money from it. They are free to take fines out of my SS account if they want, there isn't going to be anything left anyway so I don't give a shit.
If you have "post in HTML" (or something like that) enabled, you have to put a paragraph in front of each paragraph to get a new line. Line breaks work too.
As often as I use P r e and boldface or whatever here, I should set mine back... but I code HTML a lot for work so banging out yet another paragraph tag is fast and I don't have to think about it.
Compromised ad servers seem to happen often enough still. People have in not so recent past gotten infected from not so dangerous sites such as CNN.com.
Some sites are such morasses of server calls to other places all jumbled in one page it defies description. True, someone visiting the same four sites is going to be OK, but someone visiting Facebook (as an example) may very well be exposed.
There are two reasons for a no-knock arrest. Either they think the suspect will resist or they thing evidence might be destroyed; in either case surprise and overwhelming force are used whether you approve of it or not.
It's done mostly to intimidate.
You can't fucking tell me a half a pound of weed destroyed down a toilet is worth the violence. (Plus, you'd have to make a bunch of assumptions someone is ready to destroy evidence at a second's notice all the time.)
Whatever the cause for melting Arctic is, it's actually bound to cause more use for those icebreakers instead of freeing them up. Just like any other country with coastline to Arctic sea areas, Russia has plans to drill oil in the Arctic. They are also trying to start using the northern route for shipping around the continent.
Also as previous poster noted, there's always winter. And it's not necessarily getting any easier because of the global warming, because extreme weather conditions may become more common.
The Russians are making a land-grab north of Canada. They'll be able to move troops and equipment to establish a stronghold without Canada being able to do anything about it besides call on their southern neighbors to start a war with Russia. Without significant and fast military build up, they are going to lose a significant portion of their energy future as Russia steals and squanders it.
System have the ability to go further, why not make 2048 the minimum? Does anyone know why 1024 was selected? I would guess it has to do with some backwards compatibility with something. Some of the issuers are making it next to impossible to go below 2048.
There is an embedded VPN device (hardware box) that is so old it won't take certs longer than 1024 where I work. I assume a lot of other companies are in the same boat, expensive or simply not made anymore bits of infrastructure using tech that was envisioned as "enough". Stuff that came out during the tech-boom is even worse, where the assumption every company was loaded with cash to spend on IT stuff was sorta true.
I bought a 3 year cert last time around for the device, and have about a year left before it's gotta get scrapped as "too old" despite working well enough for what it does.
After balancing out work, play, and sleep. Fees I would have to charge to come out "even" are pretty high. Any spare effort or time in IT stuff goes toward the obligated family and friends support. Interrupting with paid outside work would have to be paid at around $200 - $250 an hour for it to be worth it for me.
As a student or a young "getting started" person, $20 an hour for some small office IT work four times a month is worth it. For me, I'd have to charge so much that I am out of the market of the people that would hire me. Plus, that way you get to learn all the personality quirks and methods you will need for an impossibly whiny, cheap, and ignorant customer. (Of which, you will run into loads of as a professional later.)
So work cheap, do stuff like "i'll set up this and reprovision the server on this new hardware, and take $20 an hour for it, and I get to keep any hardware you aren't using anymore."
The windows CDs now contain a "recovery" console that copies required-to-boot files back into the install.
It works pretty well, I was quite surprised when I used it the first time, and it's been a great help (as in, saving time) several times.
That said, any compromised machine still needs to be wiped, but the damage they did by deleting files isn't unrecoverable. So, if you need to walk someone through it on a phone or something it may be worthwhile to know.
The "rape" crime has no evidence to back it up (and conveniently enough, by it's very nature under Swiss law).
You are advocating throwing someone in jail for literally, nothing.
So don't be getting all hot-headed and sanctimonious on us douchebag. The chicks you know still aren't going to fuck you no matter how they see you blathering on about rape on the internet.
XP 64 kicked ass as long as you didn't want to: print, plug in anything that wasn't a keyboard or mouse, play any music on it, upgrade any hardware, use a good video card, play games.
For doing big, memory intensive stuff it was great. It was also stable as hell. But, in an office, you sorta kinda gotta print once in a while.
The mistake is not in the numbers of the devices "in the market."
The mistake is putting the devices in the same market in the first place.
Tablets and Desktop PCs simply fill a different role in computing. Tablets barely do anything useful at all as it is, until they've got a whole fucking lot more packed into them than they will in the foreseeable future anyway.
Aside from a few specialty purposes, people DONT WANT to be finger fucking their screens all the time. If you think repetitive stress injuries are an issue with mice and keyboards, just wait until all the fat ladies in HR are getting surgery to fix rotator cuffs from reaching a screen all the time.
The "PC is dead" prediction has been said a million times, and it's been wrong for every single one of those times.
Yes, Microsoft needs to have a tablet OS, but they also need a desktop computer OS. It's particularly stupid to drop the desktop branch at a time when FOS software is hiding in the corner waiting to take advantage of things.
Especially in an environment where MAJOR industries are lagging far behind in the OS upgrade loop. Really, it's 5 maybe 6 years long, releasing a new OS every 3 years is going to cause corporate users to skip OSs. As a web developer, I constantly run into SuzyMcMarketing clients who has windows XP installed with the default blue theme (ick!) and is using IE8. These companies are not going to upgrade for no reason. (They might, but the ones that have moved to Win7 just got done or are still doing it sure as fuck won't, especially if they just bought all new dual-screen hardware.. The IT folks in those companies are going to go "who's going to pay for that?" or simply say "fuck you" when someone brings up moving to Win 8.)
Vista was the last one skipped, and Win 8 is going to be the next one. That's all there is to it.
I'd be interested in such an app just for the data.
Knowing what the insurance companies have determined is statistically higher accident risk behavior would help teach better driving methods.
I do all sorts of stuff that's a little different than what most people do to minimize accident risk. Over a lifetime of driving, it has apparently worked well for reducing accidents. (I had one, within the first year of driving when I still didn't know what I was doing. That was 18 years ago.)
For example, I stay way back from the wide white line at intersections, the more traffic or faster the cross traffic is the farther back I stay. There is NO REASON to get up close unless turning right. All that does is set up a situation where an accident in the intersection could push cars into mine. The extra 10 feet doesn't matter for starting up again when the light turns green.
The insurance companies could help one another and themselves by making this information public and easy to access. (Of course, the lawyers wouldn't like it, but.. fuck them.
"Dental hygiene seems to me to be the one application where you're better off using wide-spectrum antibiotics all the time"
Nonsense. Tooth decay is only caused by a small subset of bacteria and most of them are removed by physical brushing. The only use for the toothpaste is mainly for the flouride. There are thousands of different types of bacteria in the human mouth and no one knows if any of them are useful to our health as the ones in our guts and on our skin are. Just killing the lot of them every day is probably foolish.
There is a very very strong statistical link between heart valve infections (which will kill you DRT if undetected) and dental hygine. Bacterial loads on gums or tooth infections can directly lead to not only infections in the head, but infections in the blood stream and cardiovascular system.
A nigh-germ free environment in the dental area is much better for overall health than believing in "friendly" bacteria there. At least, with modern research and thinking. There's probably lots of bacteria that haven't been looked at in there but assuming they are symbiotic is premature.
Using touch screen controls on a car is akin to texting on your mobile; taking eyes off the road to see your dashboard or stereo controls is an inherently bad idea.
Yup. On it's surface, in the middle, and after analysis the touch-screen in a car idea is monumentally stupid. MAYBE for electronic screens in the back for kids.... but then you have the "greasy non functioning screen" problem.
The problem is especially compounded when your market is old, probably can't see so well up close, and somewhat technophobic in the first place.
A better system would be an advanced aircraft like screen, square with simple large graphics and buttons around the edges that change usage depending on the mode. The computer and programming wouldn't be any harder, and you'd have a solid switch. Glance for the color (mode) press third down on the right edge to have the nav map bring up directions for getting "home".
As a director of my company, if you were dragged into my office over unbecoming behavior of a coworker of the opposite sex and threw the load of bullshit you just typed as your justification, you would be out on your ass in about ten seconds.
Do your fucking job and behave like a fucking adult.
Look, one of the sociopaths in charge speaks! Go raid some retirement accounts or something.
The cool thing about water, is it doesn't need to be used right away. A tower with a windmill at the top pumping sea water into a (mostly gravity run) reverse osmosis system could then also pump the water into a nearby fresh water tower to be used as needed.
It pumps and purifies water when the wind blows, which then sits there waiting for the valve to be opened to use the water. Renewable energy's biggest problem of not power, but WHEN the power is needed goes away.
The system might even be able to create spare electricity.
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The hilarious fiction of this should be obvious. Social security will not last the decade, let alone long enough for me to get any money from it. They are free to take fines out of my SS account if they want, there isn't going to be anything left anyway so I don't give a shit.
It's your settings.
If you have "post in HTML" (or something like that) enabled, you have to put a paragraph in front of each paragraph to get a new line. Line breaks work too.
As often as I use P r e and boldface or whatever here, I should set mine back... but I code HTML a lot for work so banging out yet another paragraph tag is fast and I don't have to think about it.
HA HA Look at the third world shitholes struggle with lack of free speech! You are never going to get off your tiny island if you keep it up!
Google should just shut off their entire net-block forever. Let them rot in the dark without information.
The forestry department wants you to use files on the stick, instead of printing stuff out on paper. Which is made from trees. :)
Not really.
Compromised ad servers seem to happen often enough still. People have in not so recent past gotten infected from not so dangerous sites such as CNN.com.
Some sites are such morasses of server calls to other places all jumbled in one page it defies description. True, someone visiting the same four sites is going to be OK, but someone visiting Facebook (as an example) may very well be exposed.
There are two reasons for a no-knock arrest. Either they think the suspect will resist or they thing evidence might be destroyed; in either case surprise and overwhelming force are used whether you approve of it or not.
It's done mostly to intimidate.
You can't fucking tell me a half a pound of weed destroyed down a toilet is worth the violence. (Plus, you'd have to make a bunch of assumptions someone is ready to destroy evidence at a second's notice all the time.)
When I see one of those cars, I think "that guy is obviously over-charging".
Whatever the cause for melting Arctic is, it's actually bound to cause more use for those icebreakers instead of freeing them up. Just like any other country with coastline to Arctic sea areas, Russia has plans to drill oil in the Arctic. They are also trying to start using the northern route for shipping around the continent.
Also as previous poster noted, there's always winter. And it's not necessarily getting any easier because of the global warming, because extreme weather conditions may become more common.
The Russians are making a land-grab north of Canada. They'll be able to move troops and equipment to establish a stronghold without Canada being able to do anything about it besides call on their southern neighbors to start a war with Russia. Without significant and fast military build up, they are going to lose a significant portion of their energy future as Russia steals and squanders it.
System have the ability to go further, why not make 2048 the minimum? Does anyone know why 1024 was selected? I would guess it has to do with some backwards compatibility with something. Some of the issuers are making it next to impossible to go below 2048.
There is an embedded VPN device (hardware box) that is so old it won't take certs longer than 1024 where I work. I assume a lot of other companies are in the same boat, expensive or simply not made anymore bits of infrastructure using tech that was envisioned as "enough". Stuff that came out during the tech-boom is even worse, where the assumption every company was loaded with cash to spend on IT stuff was sorta true.
I bought a 3 year cert last time around for the device, and have about a year left before it's gotta get scrapped as "too old" despite working well enough for what it does.
Or... just work cheaply.
After balancing out work, play, and sleep. Fees I would have to charge to come out "even" are pretty high. Any spare effort or time in IT stuff goes toward the obligated family and friends support. Interrupting with paid outside work would have to be paid at around $200 - $250 an hour for it to be worth it for me.
As a student or a young "getting started" person, $20 an hour for some small office IT work four times a month is worth it. For me, I'd have to charge so much that I am out of the market of the people that would hire me. Plus, that way you get to learn all the personality quirks and methods you will need for an impossibly whiny, cheap, and ignorant customer. (Of which, you will run into loads of as a professional later.)
So work cheap, do stuff like "i'll set up this and reprovision the server on this new hardware, and take $20 an hour for it, and I get to keep any hardware you aren't using anymore."
I hear Dodo is delicious.
The windows CDs now contain a "recovery" console that copies required-to-boot files back into the install.
It works pretty well, I was quite surprised when I used it the first time, and it's been a great help (as in, saving time) several times.
That said, any compromised machine still needs to be wiped, but the damage they did by deleting files isn't unrecoverable. So, if you need to walk someone through it on a phone or something it may be worthwhile to know.
You are advocating throwing someone in jail for literally, nothing.
So don't be getting all hot-headed and sanctimonious on us douchebag. The chicks you know still aren't going to fuck you no matter how they see you blathering on about rape on the internet.
XP 64 kicked ass as long as you didn't want to: print, plug in anything that wasn't a keyboard or mouse, play any music on it, upgrade any hardware, use a good video card, play games.
For doing big, memory intensive stuff it was great. It was also stable as hell. But, in an office, you sorta kinda gotta print once in a while.
The mistake is not in the numbers of the devices "in the market."
The mistake is putting the devices in the same market in the first place.
Tablets and Desktop PCs simply fill a different role in computing. Tablets barely do anything useful at all as it is, until they've got a whole fucking lot more packed into them than they will in the foreseeable future anyway.
Aside from a few specialty purposes, people DONT WANT to be finger fucking their screens all the time. If you think repetitive stress injuries are an issue with mice and keyboards, just wait until all the fat ladies in HR are getting surgery to fix rotator cuffs from reaching a screen all the time.
The "PC is dead" prediction has been said a million times, and it's been wrong for every single one of those times.
Yes, Microsoft needs to have a tablet OS, but they also need a desktop computer OS. It's particularly stupid to drop the desktop branch at a time when FOS software is hiding in the corner waiting to take advantage of things.
Especially in an environment where MAJOR industries are lagging far behind in the OS upgrade loop. Really, it's 5 maybe 6 years long, releasing a new OS every 3 years is going to cause corporate users to skip OSs. As a web developer, I constantly run into SuzyMcMarketing clients who has windows XP installed with the default blue theme (ick!) and is using IE8. These companies are not going to upgrade for no reason. (They might, but the ones that have moved to Win7 just got done or are still doing it sure as fuck won't, especially if they just bought all new dual-screen hardware.. The IT folks in those companies are going to go "who's going to pay for that?" or simply say "fuck you" when someone brings up moving to Win 8.)
Vista was the last one skipped, and Win 8 is going to be the next one. That's all there is to it.
I bet releasing a trunk load of mylar and foil balloons in front of one of the tailgating computer-cars would make it back off. ;)
I'd be interested in such an app just for the data.
Knowing what the insurance companies have determined is statistically higher accident risk behavior would help teach better driving methods.
I do all sorts of stuff that's a little different than what most people do to minimize accident risk. Over a lifetime of driving, it has apparently worked well for reducing accidents. (I had one, within the first year of driving when I still didn't know what I was doing. That was 18 years ago.)
For example, I stay way back from the wide white line at intersections, the more traffic or faster the cross traffic is the farther back I stay. There is NO REASON to get up close unless turning right. All that does is set up a situation where an accident in the intersection could push cars into mine. The extra 10 feet doesn't matter for starting up again when the light turns green.
The insurance companies could help one another and themselves by making this information public and easy to access. (Of course, the lawyers wouldn't like it, but.. fuck them.
"Interesting the .gay thing, considering how infamous Saudi Party Boys are..."
That's among the reasons Saudis pray in KSA but party in Bahrain.
And Malaysia, Thailand, etc.
Not to mention Penn State football.
I realize this is an American site, but, 4.5 tons of cargo? That's a "delivery" sized truck, not an SUV.
"Dental hygiene seems to me to be the one application where you're better off using wide-spectrum antibiotics all the time"
Nonsense. Tooth decay is only caused by a small subset of bacteria and most of them are removed by physical brushing. The only use for the toothpaste is mainly for the flouride. There are thousands of different types of bacteria in the human mouth and no one knows if any of them are useful to our health as the ones in our guts and on our skin are. Just killing the lot of them every day is probably foolish.
There is a very very strong statistical link between heart valve infections (which will kill you DRT if undetected) and dental hygine. Bacterial loads on gums or tooth infections can directly lead to not only infections in the head, but infections in the blood stream and cardiovascular system.
A nigh-germ free environment in the dental area is much better for overall health than believing in "friendly" bacteria there. At least, with modern research and thinking. There's probably lots of bacteria that haven't been looked at in there but assuming they are symbiotic is premature.
There is some credence to the "never leaves" theory.
Triclosan degrades into a couple of families of dioxin compounds.
Wikipedia Article
There's nothing stopping this degradation process from happening in the body, or before it is consumed.
The molecule starts out pretty close to dioxin in shape anyway. Symmetrical with two carbon rings...
Using touch screen controls on a car is akin to texting on your mobile; taking eyes off the road to see your dashboard or stereo controls is an inherently bad idea.
Yup. On it's surface, in the middle, and after analysis the touch-screen in a car idea is monumentally stupid. MAYBE for electronic screens in the back for kids.... but then you have the "greasy non functioning screen" problem.
The problem is especially compounded when your market is old, probably can't see so well up close, and somewhat technophobic in the first place.
A better system would be an advanced aircraft like screen, square with simple large graphics and buttons around the edges that change usage depending on the mode. The computer and programming wouldn't be any harder, and you'd have a solid switch. Glance for the color (mode) press third down on the right edge to have the nav map bring up directions for getting "home".
As a director of my company, if you were dragged into my office over unbecoming behavior of a coworker of the opposite sex and threw the load of bullshit you just typed as your justification, you would be out on your ass in about ten seconds.
Do your fucking job and behave like a fucking adult.
Look, one of the sociopaths in charge speaks! Go raid some retirement accounts or something.
The cool thing about water, is it doesn't need to be used right away. A tower with a windmill at the top pumping sea water into a (mostly gravity run) reverse osmosis system could then also pump the water into a nearby fresh water tower to be used as needed.
It pumps and purifies water when the wind blows, which then sits there waiting for the valve to be opened to use the water. Renewable energy's biggest problem of not power, but WHEN the power is needed goes away.
The system might even be able to create spare electricity.
Are you really telling me Eurotrash can't read well enough to pick up basic facts?
WTF is wrong with you people? (Besides getting the crap kicked out of you by the krauts a few too many times.)