You mean cool stuff like Agilent's gold standard meters that were designed in the 80s & 90s when they were HP and still manufactured today, or the cool stuff their handheld Tegam knockoffs?;)
Well that's what it takes when you have to administer steroids orally. Why do you think injection is the method of choice?
At any rate, steroids are both overrated and their negative effects are overblown. Used in moderation, they can be part of a solid training program, but they're not going to miraculously transform anyone into Mr. Universe. Neither will moderate usage give you bitch tits or "roid rage," (the existence of which is largely anecdotal to begin with).
When potentially beneficial drugs like steroids are demonized, it's no wonder why our population is suffering from an epidemic of obesity. God forbid we help anyone get in shape, but if you suffer from anxiety, we've got a whole spectrum of benzos so you can veg out on the couch in bliss. Good thing we have Hoverounds I guess.
this whole article is mostly pointless (besides the interesting story about rat farming).
Which itself seems to be a fabrication (unless this is the one story unavailable anywhere else on the internet). Johannesburg certainly has a rat problem, but there's no reports of the city paying bounties.
"tampering with the feed wouldn't be illegal since you own it"
Interfering with a police investigation is always a crime, and since you willfully provided the false feed, it could be argued that you provided false information. There are plenty of other catchalls as well.
The Stuxnet worm proved that even isolated networks are vulnerable.
To be fair, it only demonstrated that a single piece of software could exploit multiple attack vectors. As to what networks were infected and how isolated they were, that's mostly speculation.
As an AT&T customer, I echo your sentiments. The last thing I want is less competition that would allow AT&T to increase their already bloated rates. (Though to be fair, maybe T-Mobile's pricing is a bit on the low side if they're unprofitable enough that they want to sell so badly).
I really don't understand the level of vanity that causes some men to be prepared to throw so much money at trying to fix a process that doesn't cause any harm other than in their own heads.
Insecurity, not vanity. It's the same reason guys throw away money on "penis enlargement" fraud scams AKA late night infomercials that directly challenge a man's worth based on the size of his "certain part of the male body."
Still, there's a distinction between "I feel like less of a person and I'll do anything to cover up or cure baldness," and "I wouldn't mind having my hair back if there's a cost effective treatment." Though of course, cost effectiveness is a function of income and desire which vary from person to person.
AV just sucks up CPU cycles, provides a false sense of security, and makes AV vendors rich.
Proving there are admins out there who're highly susceptible to the "best practices == invulnerability" fallacy. AV is a lot like insurance in that it may increase overhead with no ROI. But on the other hand, it can mitigate an otherwise catastrophic event, and better than insurance, it can protect against that event rather than cover the costs of cleanup. It's not a silver bullet by any means, but neither is it a wasted effort; it's merely a part of a comprehensive and competent information assurance program.
The fact you used to be able to jailbreak your phone by visiting a website was not, in fact, a good thing.
Mostly true, however I might add that these exploits will almost inevitably exist as long as software originates with humans. I'm glad we're seeing them used for "good" with jailbreaks rather than for evil. Comex could easily have offered his services to the highest eastern European bidder instead of releasing a jailbreak (with the caveat that the jailbreak may well install a trojan horse for all I know.)
At any rate, IIRC "Jailbreakme" patches the exploit itself, essentially closing the door behind it on the way in. Functionality + responsibility is pretty cool as far as I'm concerned.
Hmm, yes, I bet feeding them is even more expensive. They should just farm/hunt for their food like the people they're fighting too. It certainly doesn't make sense to spend money to provide a tiny bit of convenience for people who volunteer to risk their lives living in harsh conditions away from family, loved ones, and friends in a foreign country, to give them a cool bed to sleep in at night when they're not performing patrols that make them vulnerable to snipers, IEDs, and ambushes.
For fuck's sake, even if it really did cost 20% of the entire budget for A/C, I don't really see a problem with that, but then I'm not a pretentious cock sitting halfway around the world criticizing the energy efficiency of someone who's sitting in Afghanistan for the 16th straight month because I'm not doing shit to bring him home. If you want to save money, pressure your politicians to get us out of Afghanistan, or if you think we should be there, then kindly STFU.
That's sort of a red herring -- as is this entire article -- because you cannot and have never been able to downgrade without jailbreaking in the first place. Apple has ALWAYS closed the signing window for older iOS versions within minutes to days of a new release.
And if this passed, everything would go swimmingly until someone inserted a provision in the next budget denying highway funding to states that allow recreational marijuana.
Which is why it should be regulated like the EU did with phone chargers. Want to sell an electronic device in the US? Conform to the standard power supply.
No, dumbass, what he's saying is that the insurance covered the losses. If he still has the data, then it wasn't a fucking loss; it was insurance fraud.
The expensive part about family healthcare isn't so much the children, but the parents. Children are very cheap to insure relatively speaking, and in many states there are state-run programs as a safety net for children.
If you're 18-24 right now, your policy may be low, but by the time you're 40 your premium will more than double for the same coverage, and that's just using current rates. It doesn't help things any that healthcare costs in the US are vastly outpacing both the CPI and the GDP -- and have been since 1970 -- so odds are you'll double your costs in inflation-adjusted dollars well before you're 40; closer to 10 about years from now. It may seem like a long way off, but it's like parents always say, the years are gone before you know it.
So... the choices are to keep pretending it's not a problem and inherit an even bigger problem when you're the age of your parents, or else start working to fix things now and hope you never have to deal with it in the future.
And I'm not speaking to you specifically, but more broadly to young people who think this isn't their problem.
Mexico doesn't necessarily need (or, arguably, already has) universal health care because they subsidize the shit out of the medical industry. It's an open secret that Mexico is the place to get your healthcare if you live in SoCal and you're paying out of pocket, and many of the doctors are trained in the US to boot. Are the best doctors in Mexico as good as the best doctors in the US? Probably not. But if you have the opportunity to see the best doctors in the US, then you almost definitely aren't worried about saving a few hundred/thousand dollars. For everyone else, Mexico's healthcare is the same trial and error, second opinion game that you play in the US until you find a doctor you trust, only you don't have to take out a second mortgage and/or file for bankruptcy just to get chemo.
1) The rate of cargo loss is independent of whether or not it was insured, therefore if N percent of all goods are lost, it's reasonable to assume the same N percent of insured goods are lost. In fact, if the loss rate differed substantially from the norm, that would be a solid indication of fraud. The value is largely irrelevant since the insurance fee is calculated proportional to value, not at a fixed rate, so it corrects for variations in the value of a given shipment. Of course there's always the possibility of the "black swan," but insurers are free to determine how much risk they'll take on.
2) Yes, I understand how insurance works. I'm saying that the cost for marine cargo insurance is disproportionate to the risk when compared to other industries. E.g., my car insurance for 1 year is roughly the same as marine cargo insurance for 1 voyage, despite *far* higher risks of totaling my vehicle than losing a shipment.
Is it possible? Of course, anything's possible. But it's much less work to just empty the container later than to claim it was lost at sea. Your cockamamie scheme just makes things more difficult than they need to be for no reason AND raises the odds of getting caught. What if that customs agent is just pretending to go along? What if a supervisor happens to do an inspection? What if the container has a GPS tracker inside, which any container of significant value would?
Now I'm not saying that what you describe had *never* happened, but I'd wager heavily it's not an epidemic.
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And then essentially reforming over the next decade like the T-1000.
You mean cool stuff like Agilent's gold standard meters that were designed in the 80s & 90s when they were HP and still manufactured today, or the cool stuff their handheld Tegam knockoffs? ;)
our stinking rich business leaders are now a bunch of incestuousness nepotistic numb-nuts.
You say that like it's not par for the course of human history.
I bet this ride would be huge with young people in the far east.
Well that's what it takes when you have to administer steroids orally. Why do you think injection is the method of choice?
At any rate, steroids are both overrated and their negative effects are overblown. Used in moderation, they can be part of a solid training program, but they're not going to miraculously transform anyone into Mr. Universe. Neither will moderate usage give you bitch tits or "roid rage," (the existence of which is largely anecdotal to begin with).
When potentially beneficial drugs like steroids are demonized, it's no wonder why our population is suffering from an epidemic of obesity. God forbid we help anyone get in shape, but if you suffer from anxiety, we've got a whole spectrum of benzos so you can veg out on the couch in bliss. Good thing we have Hoverounds I guess.
Countermeasures already exist. They're called capacitors.
Being alive is 100% fatal (assuming the universe ends at some point). Aging is a separate condition.
this whole article is mostly pointless (besides the interesting story about rat farming).
Which itself seems to be a fabrication (unless this is the one story unavailable anywhere else on the internet). Johannesburg certainly has a rat problem, but there's no reports of the city paying bounties.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Johannesburg-waging-war-against-rats-20110801
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Anti-rat-campaign-moves-to-Soweto-20110812
"tampering with the feed wouldn't be illegal since you own it"
Interfering with a police investigation is always a crime, and since you willfully provided the false feed, it could be argued that you provided false information. There are plenty of other catchalls as well.
Not really. Being alive is just one of the many medical conditions affecting the population; it's just the most common one among living patients.
The Stuxnet worm proved that even isolated networks are vulnerable.
To be fair, it only demonstrated that a single piece of software could exploit multiple attack vectors. As to what networks were infected and how isolated they were, that's mostly speculation.
As an AT&T customer, I echo your sentiments. The last thing I want is less competition that would allow AT&T to increase their already bloated rates. (Though to be fair, maybe T-Mobile's pricing is a bit on the low side if they're unprofitable enough that they want to sell so badly).
I really don't understand the level of vanity that causes some men to be prepared to throw so much money at trying to fix a process that doesn't cause any harm other than in their own heads.
Insecurity, not vanity. It's the same reason guys throw away money on "penis enlargement" fraud scams AKA late night infomercials that directly challenge a man's worth based on the size of his "certain part of the male body."
Still, there's a distinction between "I feel like less of a person and I'll do anything to cover up or cure baldness," and "I wouldn't mind having my hair back if there's a cost effective treatment." Though of course, cost effectiveness is a function of income and desire which vary from person to person.
AV just sucks up CPU cycles, provides a false sense of security, and makes AV vendors rich.
Proving there are admins out there who're highly susceptible to the "best practices == invulnerability" fallacy. AV is a lot like insurance in that it may increase overhead with no ROI. But on the other hand, it can mitigate an otherwise catastrophic event, and better than insurance, it can protect against that event rather than cover the costs of cleanup. It's not a silver bullet by any means, but neither is it a wasted effort; it's merely a part of a comprehensive and competent information assurance program.
The fact you used to be able to jailbreak your phone by visiting a website was not, in fact, a good thing.
Mostly true, however I might add that these exploits will almost inevitably exist as long as software originates with humans. I'm glad we're seeing them used for "good" with jailbreaks rather than for evil. Comex could easily have offered his services to the highest eastern European bidder instead of releasing a jailbreak (with the caveat that the jailbreak may well install a trojan horse for all I know.)
At any rate, IIRC "Jailbreakme" patches the exploit itself, essentially closing the door behind it on the way in. Functionality + responsibility is pretty cool as far as I'm concerned.
Hmm, yes, I bet feeding them is even more expensive. They should just farm/hunt for their food like the people they're fighting too. It certainly doesn't make sense to spend money to provide a tiny bit of convenience for people who volunteer to risk their lives living in harsh conditions away from family, loved ones, and friends in a foreign country, to give them a cool bed to sleep in at night when they're not performing patrols that make them vulnerable to snipers, IEDs, and ambushes.
For fuck's sake, even if it really did cost 20% of the entire budget for A/C, I don't really see a problem with that, but then I'm not a pretentious cock sitting halfway around the world criticizing the energy efficiency of someone who's sitting in Afghanistan for the 16th straight month because I'm not doing shit to bring him home. If you want to save money, pressure your politicians to get us out of Afghanistan, or if you think we should be there, then kindly STFU.
That's sort of a red herring -- as is this entire article -- because you cannot and have never been able to downgrade without jailbreaking in the first place. Apple has ALWAYS closed the signing window for older iOS versions within minutes to days of a new release.
And if this passed, everything would go swimmingly until someone inserted a provision in the next budget denying highway funding to states that allow recreational marijuana.
This is why we can't have nice things, America.
Which is why it should be regulated like the EU did with phone chargers. Want to sell an electronic device in the US? Conform to the standard power supply.
No, it retails for that much. What it costs to build a consumer vehicle is only tangentially related to its sale price.
No, dumbass, what he's saying is that the insurance covered the losses. If he still has the data, then it wasn't a fucking loss; it was insurance fraud.
The expensive part about family healthcare isn't so much the children, but the parents. Children are very cheap to insure relatively speaking, and in many states there are state-run programs as a safety net for children.
If you're 18-24 right now, your policy may be low, but by the time you're 40 your premium will more than double for the same coverage, and that's just using current rates. It doesn't help things any that healthcare costs in the US are vastly outpacing both the CPI and the GDP -- and have been since 1970 -- so odds are you'll double your costs in inflation-adjusted dollars well before you're 40; closer to 10 about years from now. It may seem like a long way off, but it's like parents always say, the years are gone before you know it.
So... the choices are to keep pretending it's not a problem and inherit an even bigger problem when you're the age of your parents, or else start working to fix things now and hope you never have to deal with it in the future.
And I'm not speaking to you specifically, but more broadly to young people who think this isn't their problem.
Mexico doesn't necessarily need (or, arguably, already has) universal health care because they subsidize the shit out of the medical industry. It's an open secret that Mexico is the place to get your healthcare if you live in SoCal and you're paying out of pocket, and many of the doctors are trained in the US to boot. Are the best doctors in Mexico as good as the best doctors in the US? Probably not. But if you have the opportunity to see the best doctors in the US, then you almost definitely aren't worried about saving a few hundred/thousand dollars. For everyone else, Mexico's healthcare is the same trial and error, second opinion game that you play in the US until you find a doctor you trust, only you don't have to take out a second mortgage and/or file for bankruptcy just to get chemo.
1) The rate of cargo loss is independent of whether or not it was insured, therefore if N percent of all goods are lost, it's reasonable to assume the same N percent of insured goods are lost. In fact, if the loss rate differed substantially from the norm, that would be a solid indication of fraud. The value is largely irrelevant since the insurance fee is calculated proportional to value, not at a fixed rate, so it corrects for variations in the value of a given shipment. Of course there's always the possibility of the "black swan," but insurers are free to determine how much risk they'll take on.
2) Yes, I understand how insurance works. I'm saying that the cost for marine cargo insurance is disproportionate to the risk when compared to other industries. E.g., my car insurance for 1 year is roughly the same as marine cargo insurance for 1 voyage, despite *far* higher risks of totaling my vehicle than losing a shipment.
You've been watching too many movies.
Is it possible? Of course, anything's possible. But it's much less work to just empty the container later than to claim it was lost at sea. Your cockamamie scheme just makes things more difficult than they need to be for no reason AND raises the odds of getting caught. What if that customs agent is just pretending to go along? What if a supervisor happens to do an inspection? What if the container has a GPS tracker inside, which any container of significant value would?
Now I'm not saying that what you describe had *never* happened, but I'd wager heavily it's not an epidemic.