The article opens with the statement that "time is weird," noting that despite our own human-centric expectations, "the Universe doesn't have a master clock to run by."
What, so God doesn't own a wristwatch? No wonder he's always late to the party. Or the rape, or robbery, or molestation, or murder. If only he had a watch he could've gotten there in time to stop that shit. Fuckin' slacker.
and being a dad surely doesn't make you a better person.
It's made me a better person in lots of ways. YMMV, lol.:)
It's brought me a lot personal growth in various ways that are kind of hard to quantify, but I definitely feel I've benefited greatly from being a father.
For good WINE/Windows compatibility, take a look at Chapeau (chapeaulinux.org). It's supposed to run stuff like Photoshop and other Windows applications that struggle under other distros. I haven't tried it myself yet, but it looks interesting.
As for Mint, everything I've tried seems to work- USB ports, my Canon scanner, webcam, etc.
It's a *lot* harder to "erase" a serial number from a gun than you might imagine. Even if you grind away enough metal so you can't see it, various imaging techniques can still detect it. Acid-etching, electron backscatter diffraction, and magneto-optical detection can all "see" serial numbers that appear to have been obliterated.
Want to destroy a gun's serial number? Melt it down into a puddle of metal.
$1 penalty per leaked / stolen record, imposed by the FTC/SEC/SSA/CFPB will quickly remedy this problem. As long as the value of private personal information is intangible, the value it will be assigned in companies' risk assessments and capital plans is $0.
I wish that penalties like this would spur them to keep my data safe, but it won't. At best it *might* make them try a little harder but I'm afraid the fact is that nothing will keep our data safe from those who want it.
The CIA, NSA, FBI....they all get hacked. Everyone gets hacked. There's no preventing it as far as I can tell. The attack surface is so large and there are so many potential points and methods of entry, it's a losing battle. That doesn't mean you should take precautions but if "they" want your data they'll get it, whether "they" are the government, some fucker in Romania, Putin's merry band of state-sponsored hackers, the competition, or the kid next door.
Also, knowing Dun & Bradstreet, they'd just pass the costs along to their users or turn the penalty into some kind of tax write off. Or both.
"Data Security: Dun & Bradstreet applies appropriate technical, physical, and administrative Data security measures to protect Data against unauthorized access and disclosure."
Except when they don't....
Also, (farther down the page): "Dun & Bradstreet does not respond to Do Not Track Signals."
You seem not to grasp how simple the construction of a hyperloop is, rofl.
Well then why don't you just pop down there in your flying car and give us all a progress report? Better yet, use your personal jetpack. Both of those things are way easier to build than a hyperloop and a hell of a lot cheaper too.
Even if you do like kids, bringing them to the world we have today isn't exactly a gift to them...
*Yawn*
I remember people saying this exact same thing in the 60s....and the 70s....and the 80s...and so on. People have been saying this since the dawn of time.
Everyone thinks the future sucks and it's a terrible place to bring children into it. I say bollocks, what a daffy fuckin' outlook. If you think it's so bad, don't have children. Get out of the way, let your shitty pessimistic genes die out, and make room for the rest of us who aren't scared to face the future.
Of course you don't regret having your song. Having a child alters your neurological pathways to become more nurturing,
Sure, but the fact remains that if my son had grown up to be a worthless shit or a mean-tempered prick I wouldn't be proud of him- I'd feel like I'd done the world a disservice, a net loss if you will. But that's not what happened.
I know more than a few parents who make no secret of the fact that they wish they'd never had children. Their children suck and they're honest enough to admit it (not like they could really deny it, to be frank). I credit my son turning out well to both luck and skill, but either way I'm proud of who he turned out to be.
I'm glad that you're happy with the decision not to have kids. They're not for everybody, that's for sure. A lot of people want to have kids but not a lot of people want to raise kids, those are two totally different things, lol.
18-25 years of financial drain, emotional stress, and missing free time, MIGHT lead to an end-of-life benefit of ~2 year extension.
That's not really what it's about, but to each their own.
I don't regret having my son at all...he's grown up to be a good person and I'm proud of who he's become. He's a smart, responsible man with a sense of self and I consider him to be a net gain to the world in many ways. Perhaps I got lucky, but raising him was for the most part a genuine pleasure.
Parenthood isn't for everyone, but I'm glad I had my son. I couldn't care less if having him lengthened my life or not, that wasn't the goal for me.
"Parenthood Can Help You Live Longer In Older Age, Research Suggests"
Yeah, but will it make up for the decade or so they took off your life in the first place?;) lol
Think of having kids as an accelerated stress & wear test- if you survive them then you're probably good to go for at least a few more years after they leave home.
Just replace the carpet, drapes, furniture, appliances, bedding, and a few windows and you'll be back to where you were before you had 'em.
"The notification remains at the bottom of the driver screen regardless of whether it is ignored, or if the podcast is listened to or not."
You can bet that Uber is gathering metrics on who which drivers refuse to listen to these "voluntary" podcasts and which ones click away from it before it's finished.
Those who fall into this "uncooperative" or "unreceptive" group will be punished one way or another, and you can bet your ass on that.
Seriously, what passes for "security" these days is akin to throwing a nympho with a bottle of Jack Daniels under each arm onto a troopship and expecting her to come out a virgin.
Yes, yes, I know there are valid, legitimate uses for Teamviewer- I've used it myself on occasion. But the fact remains that probably 99.9999999% of its use is by scammers to fuck people out of their money and to drop malware on their PCs.
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The article opens with the statement that "time is weird," noting that despite our own human-centric expectations, "the Universe doesn't have a master clock to run by."
What, so God doesn't own a wristwatch? No wonder he's always late to the party. Or the rape, or robbery, or molestation, or murder. If only he had a watch he could've gotten there in time to stop that shit. Fuckin' slacker.
The surveillance state is coming in its pants thinking about all the additional conversations they'll be able to monitor now.
Time to break out the bandannas and cough-masks....soon it'll be fashionable to wear them in public!
'the same clips to professional lip-readers"
ok, who else didn't know that there are "professional" lip readers?
The police use them from time to time (on surveillance videos). I imagine there are other uses as well.
Right, because we only ever "like" or "dislike" things. As humans, we never have any ambiguity in how we feel about things.
This is stupid, and a ham-handed attempt to "dumb it down" in order to boost the perceived rating. Ugh.
"Mission designer Ritu Karidhal had worked 48 hours straight, fueled by anticipation." ...and a 55-gallon drum of coffee.
and being a dad surely doesn't make you a better person.
It's made me a better person in lots of ways. YMMV, lol. :)
It's brought me a lot personal growth in various ways that are kind of hard to quantify, but I definitely feel I've benefited greatly from being a father.
What distro are you using?
For good WINE/Windows compatibility, take a look at Chapeau (chapeaulinux.org). It's supposed to run stuff like Photoshop and other Windows applications that struggle under other distros. I haven't tried it myself yet, but it looks interesting.
As for Mint, everything I've tried seems to work- USB ports, my Canon scanner, webcam, etc.
From now on I'll be running Windows in a virtual CPU I think.
I switched to Linux Mint a while back and have no complaints. I'm also looking at Chapeau (chapeaulinux.org) but so far Mint works great.
Microsoft just can't help fucking people over and then bragging about it. Incredible.
just rotten, i tell ya.
I'm disappointed by how many people didn't get this.
steal the gun, erase the serial number, etc.
It's a *lot* harder to "erase" a serial number from a gun than you might imagine. Even if you grind away enough metal so you can't see it, various imaging techniques can still detect it. Acid-etching, electron backscatter diffraction, and magneto-optical detection can all "see" serial numbers that appear to have been obliterated.
Want to destroy a gun's serial number? Melt it down into a puddle of metal.
What the hell does your post have to do with ANYTHING that I said?
Fuck. TypoMan strikes again.
"That doesn't mean you shouldn't take precautions..."
$1 penalty per leaked / stolen record, imposed by the FTC/SEC/SSA/CFPB will quickly remedy this problem. As long as the value of private personal information is intangible, the value it will be assigned in companies' risk assessments and capital plans is $0.
I wish that penalties like this would spur them to keep my data safe, but it won't. At best it *might* make them try a little harder but I'm afraid the fact is that nothing will keep our data safe from those who want it.
The CIA, NSA, FBI....they all get hacked. Everyone gets hacked. There's no preventing it as far as I can tell. The attack surface is so large and there are so many potential points and methods of entry, it's a losing battle. That doesn't mean you should take precautions but if "they" want your data they'll get it, whether "they" are the government, some fucker in Romania, Putin's merry band of state-sponsored hackers, the competition, or the kid next door.
Also, knowing Dun & Bradstreet, they'd just pass the costs along to their users or turn the penalty into some kind of tax write off. Or both.
From http://www.dnb.com/utility-pag...
"Data Security: Dun & Bradstreet applies appropriate technical, physical, and administrative Data security measures to protect Data against unauthorized access and disclosure."
Except when they don't....
Also, (farther down the page): "Dun & Bradstreet does not respond to Do Not Track Signals."
"Outlawed"
I do not think that word means what you think that word means.
Proven impossible, proven unattainable, sure...but it wasn't "outlawed".
I mean, if it was then why not just repeal that law and cool stuff to absolute zero?
There's a Greek myth of a king asking a wise god, "What is the greatest gift man could receive?"
Answer: "To never have been born."
I'd rather be able to live forever but to be able to forget stuff as needed.
You seem not to grasp how simple the construction of a hyperloop is, rofl.
Well then why don't you just pop down there in your flying car and give us all a progress report? Better yet, use your personal jetpack. Both of those things are way easier to build than a hyperloop and a hell of a lot cheaper too.
Even if you do like kids, bringing them to the world we have today isn't exactly a gift to them...
*Yawn*
I remember people saying this exact same thing in the 60s....and the 70s....and the 80s...and so on. People have been saying this since the dawn of time.
Everyone thinks the future sucks and it's a terrible place to bring children into it. I say bollocks, what a daffy fuckin' outlook. If you think it's so bad, don't have children. Get out of the way, let your shitty pessimistic genes die out, and make room for the rest of us who aren't scared to face the future.
Of course you don't regret having your song. Having a child alters your neurological pathways to become more nurturing,
Sure, but the fact remains that if my son had grown up to be a worthless shit or a mean-tempered prick I wouldn't be proud of him- I'd feel like I'd done the world a disservice, a net loss if you will. But that's not what happened.
I know more than a few parents who make no secret of the fact that they wish they'd never had children. Their children suck and they're honest enough to admit it (not like they could really deny it, to be frank). I credit my son turning out well to both luck and skill, but either way I'm proud of who he turned out to be.
I'm glad that you're happy with the decision not to have kids. They're not for everybody, that's for sure. A lot of people want to have kids but not a lot of people want to raise kids, those are two totally different things, lol.
18-25 years of financial drain, emotional stress, and missing free time, MIGHT lead to an end-of-life benefit of ~2 year extension.
That's not really what it's about, but to each their own.
I don't regret having my son at all...he's grown up to be a good person and I'm proud of who he's become. He's a smart, responsible man with a sense of self and I consider him to be a net gain to the world in many ways. Perhaps I got lucky, but raising him was for the most part a genuine pleasure.
Parenthood isn't for everyone, but I'm glad I had my son. I couldn't care less if having him lengthened my life or not, that wasn't the goal for me.
"Parenthood Can Help You Live Longer In Older Age, Research Suggests"
Yeah, but will it make up for the decade or so they took off your life in the first place? ;) lol
Think of having kids as an accelerated stress & wear test- if you survive them then you're probably good to go for at least a few more years after they leave home.
Just replace the carpet, drapes, furniture, appliances, bedding, and a few windows and you'll be back to where you were before you had 'em.
"The notification remains at the bottom of the driver screen regardless of whether it is ignored, or if the podcast is listened to or not."
You can bet that Uber is gathering metrics on who which drivers refuse to listen to these "voluntary" podcasts and which ones click away from it before it's finished.
Those who fall into this "uncooperative" or "unreceptive" group will be punished one way or another, and you can bet your ass on that.
"Australia Copyright Safe Harbour Provision Backed By Prime Minister"
Am I the only one that read this as "Australia Copyright Safe Harbour Provision Hacked By Prime Minister"
I was like, "Whaaaaaaaaaaat?"
Ha ha ha h- errr, I mean, that's terrible!
Seriously, what passes for "security" these days is akin to throwing a nympho with a bottle of Jack Daniels under each arm onto a troopship and expecting her to come out a virgin.
It's about time.
Yes, yes, I know there are valid, legitimate uses for Teamviewer- I've used it myself on occasion. But the fact remains that probably 99.9999999% of its use is by scammers to fuck people out of their money and to drop malware on their PCs.