And now you have my Y2K and Y2K12 plans.:) Have enough ammo to start, and the rest you can acquire if "bad things" happen. If bad things don't happen, you have ammo to burn up at the range.:) Or, "don't bring a knife to an apocalypse fight":)
Tie your spam filtering software into your firewall. Nothing says loving like dropping their inbound traffic.:) We only receive about 20k spams/day now (versus more than 300k before), just by having rolling blacklists based on spammy inbound traffic. You'll get a handful through, but nothing else will come in for days.
You know, that's very true. Residential customers may stick with their provider (how many AOL users are still out there), but hosting customers will jump ship if they get disconnected. I had a friend who's SQL server got unplugged when a MSSQL worm was going around. It wasn't infected, but for the "safety of the datacenter" one of the techs walked around and pulled the power cord on any machine labeled "SQL". He called, and they couldn't resolve the problem. They said "we don't see anything wrong." When he got there, he found his machine was unplugged, just like quite a few other customers SQL boxes. Two days later, his equipment was in another datacenter.
I was wondering how long it would take someone to catch that.:)
Is my fiction any different that of a game? Well, only in that I didn't fit it into the game's storyline.
"He" could have said something like "Control of information is essential to ensure the continuity of peace for the civilians who we are sworn to protect." But, I play for the side of free speech and unlimited access to information. When information is free to everyone and there are no more secrets, we can formulate truly educated opinions.
All that we really know about the incident in question is that it is rumored that the Turkish government may have blocked access to Google IP blocks. Until we have all the information, we won't know if it is truly a malicious attempt by their government to limit access to information, or simply a routing error. Where the article did say some Google properties are accessible but very slow, it could just be a major mistake, and not actually government censorship. It's not like we've never seen that happen before.
We likely will never know the whole truth though.
If they deny it, it could be a routing error, or they could be lying and it is censorship.
If they admit it, it could be censorship, or they may see it was a good idea (just speculation, not really a good idea) and enforce it as a new rule.
I would think if they blocked Google properties to limit civilian access to outside resources, it would have been a rapid and wide spread block, which removed access from any potentially threatening intellectual property.
On the first reading, I thought that was odd, but I took it to mean the 100 years which have just passed. I've read plenty of good quotes from non-native English speakers that read a bit odd. Since I don't know the game, I'll have to assume Earth ended in imaginary timeline.
As it is frequently commented on here, people fail to read the whole summary, and more often the article itself. It would be irrational to assume anyone would follow a link in a comment. Even if they did, they may not have recognized the name at the top of the page as a game page, and it would simply look like a list of famous quotes. I know I didn't game a lot through that period (busy working and having a life), and therefore didn't recognize the game name, but I did recognize Sid Meier's name.
Well, the attribution for the quote was to Commissioner Pravin Lal of the UN. That position indicates someone who has earned respect of world leaders, and in that is himself a world leader.
Myself, I don't know all the members of the UN, nor all the titles within the UN. I strongly suspect most of us wouldn't. It would be easy to confuse a well written game quote, for a well written quote of a world leader. Likewise, there should be no expectation that we would all recognize every character from every video game.
Or as NATO Intelligence Chief Henry Schmit once said, "There's only a fine line between information and disinformation. We must remain diligent to the factuality of any information presented."
I went to my doctor about a week ago. I was joking that I'm getting fat (I'm 5'8", 155, and fairly muscular, just like I have been for years). He pointed out that they had a new scale. The old one only went to 400 pounds. I asked if he was joking, and he said "no". He recently had to send a patient off to a large animal clinic for an MRI, because the patient wouldn't fit in any of the human sized ones. I'd always thought stories like that were just urban legends, but this was his first-hand account of it happening.
It makes me sad that people are doing this to themselves. Just because cheap high calorie foods are available doesn't mean you have to eat so much that you grow to unnatural proportions.
You know, I wasn't sure so I did a little looking before posting it. I just posted it as a joke, but I like to make my jokes at least somewhat accurate. The American Heart Association symptoms page says:
* Chest discomfort. Most heart attacks involve discomfort in the center of the chest that lasts more than a few minutes, or that goes away and comes back. It can feel like uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, fullness or pain.
* Discomfort in other areas of the upper body. Symptoms can include pain or discomfort in one or both arms, the back, neck, jaw or stomach.
* Shortness of breath with or without chest discomfort.
* Other signs may include breaking out in a cold sweat, nausea or lightheadedness
So, if you feel pain in the right arm and not the left, don't discount the possibility of a heart attack. Be educated, and request help as necessary. I am not a doctor, but I do take the advice of experts as useful.
Strangely enough, no. I'm white, and that kind of thing usually happens in places that aren't all that bad. It's always been the bored cops looking for an easy bust. The good cops just keep going, or swing by to ask if everything's ok. I do appreciate it when they just roll down their window and ask "is everything ok?" and when we say "yes", they tell us to have a nice night and keep moving.
Mmmmm.. Fill the glass with bacon, fries, and fried burger squeezings. You don't have to worry about the cadmium, that's a heart attack in a glass. Oh, who am I kidding, pretty much anything at McD shortens your lifespan by about a year per serving.
Why is my chest feeling tight? And my right arm is starting to hurt. I must just be hungry, let me finish this ultramegasupersize Bigmac, and everything will be ok.
That was a good plan (business wise). Too bad they'll slap on labels that are absolute lies. It's a good reason to buy American. At least she could have sued the vendor.
Arc International is present in five continents with production sites (France, USA, China, UAE), distribution subsidiaries (France, US, Spain, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, Japan) and sales offices.
I'd suspect small production runs and urgent items are produced locally (or relatively locally). Large low cost runs with plenty of lead time, like McDonalds would want, would likely be produced in China.
I'm still waiting for them to include nuclear particle accelerators. Imagine what fun these would be at parties.:) They'd be so much more exciting that cadmium laced drinking glasses with silly cartoons painted on them.
That's something a lot of people don't get. When a provider puts in a line, it's a fixed size. It's always that size. It doesn't cost any more or less to maintain that line. Well, in trivial aspects, which we're not going to get into.
What a lot of people don't see is, the more bandwidth a provider uses, the cheaper it gets. I've seen 1 Mb/s go for pennies (like $0.12 to $0.15), because the contract was so large (several Gb/s). I'm sure AT&T maintains huge pipes, and their pricing goes accordingly. Any charging for transfer is only in the interest of the company for a larger profit.
Home users are the obvious abuse of this. They can get a 2Mb/s line for $15.00 or a 20Mb/s line for $100/mo. (arbitrary, unresearched numbers). At 2Mb/s, assuming $0.15/Mb/s, the base charge is $14.70, assuming no profit on the small lines. No better lines nor equipment are installed for the increased capacity. You just call up, and they change the limit. So at 20Mb/s, cost would then only be $17.70.
As we know, very few users utilize 100% capacity all the time. For every Mb/s sold, they can oversell those 1000 times over.
The same applies to cell service. Sure, they have a larger infrastructure, but that's reflected in the base price. The arbitrary caps and inflated overage fees are simply a way to make more money from the consumers. It's nothing more than that. That's how any business works though. How can we sell our product to optimize the profit.
My favorite was always "business" phone lines. It costs $15/mo for a basic residential phone line. It costs $35/mo for a basic business phone line. I've known people who run home based businesses, and therefore buy a business line for the "office" and a residential line for the "house". There's no difference in the cost to the company, other than they can milk a business for more money.
That's why you don't admit to anything. Then there's nothing for them to testify to. "He confessed" will be testified to. "He told me about rushing home to help his sick kid" won't ever be repeated.
Here's the actual Miranda quote, which has been modified for the Miranda warning.
The person in custody must, prior to interrogation, be clearly informed that he or she has the right to remain silent, and that anything the person says will be used against that person in court; the person must be clearly informed that he or she has the right to consult with an attorney and to have that attorney present during questioning, and that, if he or she is indigent, an attorney will be provided at no cost to represent her or him.
It says your statement will be used against you. It doesn't say it will be used to help clear you. Nothing you say can possibly help you.
Ideally, you should remain silent when the cop pulls you over, but doing that will likely result in worse treatment. Admitting you don't know why you were stopped is the truth. Stating anything beyond that is bad for you.
Idle chitchat about the weather or even local laws (once the cop is done doing his official duties, and gives up on giving you a ticket) isn't a bad idea, as long as you're careful never to implicate yourself. I like asking about their car or motorcycle. They like talking about them, especially if they're driving a special one.:) I had a nice chat recently with an off-duty officer about his retired police edition Camaro. We compared notes about our cars, since they are similar.
I think that's the difference between a home grown GPS tracking tool, and a commercial one. If your company is providing that service, then it's an easy matter to show the accuracy, which would be the business you are in. It's in your best interest to provide accurate information, not falsify information for a single client. If I, Mr Joe Public, were to do the same thing, it will quickly be argued that the data I generated is easily modified with whatever data I want to include.
I know of a few commercial units that do what you're describing.
I would expect one day the courts will review the data and methodology, when a sufficient incident occurs.
That's one of the things I do on long drives.:) I let someone who wants to drive faster than me pass, even if he just wants to do 2mph faster than me. I let him take point at about a mile ahead. If I see him hit his brakes hard, I let off the gas and roll down just under the speed limit. If I see pretty blue lights kick on, I know I just lost my point man, and wait for another to catch up. If he's driving way too fast and I lose visual on him, I slow down a little until another point man comes up.
I found the best place to be is with a point man way ahead, and several cars following. Drivers tend to cluster, and they'll play follow the leader with a fast car. On a long enough drive, I'll usually end up with 5 or 6 cars doing exactly what I do. If I move right and slow down, they'll all do exactly what I do because I obviously see something they don't.:) If the police stop someone, they'll get the point man, or the last car in line.
So, your copbait/copcatcher description is perfect.:)
Funny thing, I'm not black. I'm white. Just a clean cut looking 30-something white guy. Their profiling is out of place, unless they just like to propose stupid things where they know there isn't a lot of risk.
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And now you have my Y2K and Y2K12 plans. :) Have enough ammo to start, and the rest you can acquire if "bad things" happen. If bad things don't happen, you have ammo to burn up at the range. :) Or, "don't bring a knife to an apocalypse fight" :)
Tie your spam filtering software into your firewall. Nothing says loving like dropping their inbound traffic. :) We only receive about 20k spams/day now (versus more than 300k before), just by having rolling blacklists based on spammy inbound traffic. You'll get a handful through, but nothing else will come in for days.
You know, that's very true. Residential customers may stick with their provider (how many AOL users are still out there), but hosting customers will jump ship if they get disconnected. I had a friend who's SQL server got unplugged when a MSSQL worm was going around. It wasn't infected, but for the "safety of the datacenter" one of the techs walked around and pulled the power cord on any machine labeled "SQL". He called, and they couldn't resolve the problem. They said "we don't see anything wrong." When he got there, he found his machine was unplugged, just like quite a few other customers SQL boxes. Two days later, his equipment was in another datacenter.
The clock is ticking to December 21, 2012. Tighten your tinfoil hats and stock up on your rations. :)
I was wondering how long it would take someone to catch that. :)
Is my fiction any different that of a game? Well, only in that I didn't fit it into the game's storyline.
"He" could have said something like "Control of information is essential to ensure the continuity of peace for the civilians who we are sworn to protect." But, I play for the side of free speech and unlimited access to information. When information is free to everyone and there are no more secrets, we can formulate truly educated opinions.
All that we really know about the incident in question is that it is rumored that the Turkish government may have blocked access to Google IP blocks. Until we have all the information, we won't know if it is truly a malicious attempt by their government to limit access to information, or simply a routing error. Where the article did say some Google properties are accessible but very slow, it could just be a major mistake, and not actually government censorship. It's not like we've never seen that happen before.
We likely will never know the whole truth though.
If they deny it, it could be a routing error, or they could be lying and it is censorship.
If they admit it, it could be censorship, or they may see it was a good idea (just speculation, not really a good idea) and enforce it as a new rule.
I would think if they blocked Google properties to limit civilian access to outside resources, it would have been a rapid and wide spread block, which removed access from any potentially threatening intellectual property.
On the first reading, I thought that was odd, but I took it to mean the 100 years which have just passed. I've read plenty of good quotes from non-native English speakers that read a bit odd. Since I don't know the game, I'll have to assume Earth ended in imaginary timeline.
I was going to reply that they have Eagles, but it seems they don't. They do have a fleet of Falcons though.
I think William Shatner said it best.
As it is frequently commented on here, people fail to read the whole summary, and more often the article itself. It would be irrational to assume anyone would follow a link in a comment. Even if they did, they may not have recognized the name at the top of the page as a game page, and it would simply look like a list of famous quotes. I know I didn't game a lot through that period (busy working and having a life), and therefore didn't recognize the game name, but I did recognize Sid Meier's name.
Well, the attribution for the quote was to Commissioner Pravin Lal of the UN. That position indicates someone who has earned respect of world leaders, and in that is himself a world leader.
Myself, I don't know all the members of the UN, nor all the titles within the UN. I strongly suspect most of us wouldn't. It would be easy to confuse a well written game quote, for a well written quote of a world leader. Likewise, there should be no expectation that we would all recognize every character from every video game.
Or as NATO Intelligence Chief Henry Schmit once said, "There's only a fine line between information and disinformation. We must remain diligent to the factuality of any information presented."
That would have been a lot more impressive if it was a real quote, and not just a quote from a video game.
I went to my doctor about a week ago. I was joking that I'm getting fat (I'm 5'8", 155, and fairly muscular, just like I have been for years). He pointed out that they had a new scale. The old one only went to 400 pounds. I asked if he was joking, and he said "no". He recently had to send a patient off to a large animal clinic for an MRI, because the patient wouldn't fit in any of the human sized ones. I'd always thought stories like that were just urban legends, but this was his first-hand account of it happening.
It makes me sad that people are doing this to themselves. Just because cheap high calorie foods are available doesn't mean you have to eat so much that you grow to unnatural proportions.
You know, I wasn't sure so I did a little looking before posting it. I just posted it as a joke, but I like to make my jokes at least somewhat accurate. The American Heart Association symptoms page says:
So, if you feel pain in the right arm and not the left, don't discount the possibility of a heart attack. Be educated, and request help as necessary. I am not a doctor, but I do take the advice of experts as useful.
Strangely enough, no. I'm white, and that kind of thing usually happens in places that aren't all that bad. It's always been the bored cops looking for an easy bust. The good cops just keep going, or swing by to ask if everything's ok. I do appreciate it when they just roll down their window and ask "is everything ok?" and when we say "yes", they tell us to have a nice night and keep moving.
Do you want fries with that?
Mmmmm.. Fill the glass with bacon, fries, and fried burger squeezings. You don't have to worry about the cadmium, that's a heart attack in a glass. Oh, who am I kidding, pretty much anything at McD shortens your lifespan by about a year per serving.
Why is my chest feeling tight? And my right arm is starting to hurt. I must just be hungry, let me finish this ultramegasupersize Bigmac, and everything will be ok.
I wouldn't be surprised if there was lead(Pb) too. :)
That was a good plan (business wise). Too bad they'll slap on labels that are absolute lies. It's a good reason to buy American. At least she could have sued the vendor.
Was the label in English, or Engrish? :)
Unless you work for the company and can confirm they didn't use their Chinese manufacturing plant, it's still up in the air.
the press release
I'd suspect small production runs and urgent items are produced locally (or relatively locally). Large low cost runs with plenty of lead time, like McDonalds would want, would likely be produced in China.
I'm still waiting for them to include nuclear particle accelerators. Imagine what fun these would be at parties. :) They'd be so much more exciting that cadmium laced drinking glasses with silly cartoons painted on them.
That's something a lot of people don't get. When a provider puts in a line, it's a fixed size. It's always that size. It doesn't cost any more or less to maintain that line. Well, in trivial aspects, which we're not going to get into.
What a lot of people don't see is, the more bandwidth a provider uses, the cheaper it gets. I've seen 1 Mb/s go for pennies (like $0.12 to $0.15), because the contract was so large (several Gb/s). I'm sure AT&T maintains huge pipes, and their pricing goes accordingly. Any charging for transfer is only in the interest of the company for a larger profit.
Home users are the obvious abuse of this. They can get a 2Mb/s line for $15.00 or a 20Mb/s line for $100/mo. (arbitrary, unresearched numbers). At 2Mb/s, assuming $0.15/Mb/s, the base charge is $14.70, assuming no profit on the small lines. No better lines nor equipment are installed for the increased capacity. You just call up, and they change the limit. So at 20Mb/s, cost would then only be $17.70.
As we know, very few users utilize 100% capacity all the time. For every Mb/s sold, they can oversell those 1000 times over.
The same applies to cell service. Sure, they have a larger infrastructure, but that's reflected in the base price. The arbitrary caps and inflated overage fees are simply a way to make more money from the consumers. It's nothing more than that. That's how any business works though. How can we sell our product to optimize the profit.
My favorite was always "business" phone lines. It costs $15/mo for a basic residential phone line. It costs $35/mo for a basic business phone line. I've known people who run home based businesses, and therefore buy a business line for the "office" and a residential line for the "house". There's no difference in the cost to the company, other than they can milk a business for more money.
That's why you don't admit to anything. Then there's nothing for them to testify to. "He confessed" will be testified to. "He told me about rushing home to help his sick kid" won't ever be repeated.
It was mentioned in this lecture.
Here's the actual Miranda quote, which has been modified for the Miranda warning.
It says your statement will be used against you. It doesn't say it will be used to help clear you. Nothing you say can possibly help you.
Ideally, you should remain silent when the cop pulls you over, but doing that will likely result in worse treatment. Admitting you don't know why you were stopped is the truth. Stating anything beyond that is bad for you.
Idle chitchat about the weather or even local laws (once the cop is done doing his official duties, and gives up on giving you a ticket) isn't a bad idea, as long as you're careful never to implicate yourself. I like asking about their car or motorcycle. They like talking about them, especially if they're driving a special one. :) I had a nice chat recently with an off-duty officer about his retired police edition Camaro. We compared notes about our cars, since they are similar.
I think that's the difference between a home grown GPS tracking tool, and a commercial one. If your company is providing that service, then it's an easy matter to show the accuracy, which would be the business you are in. It's in your best interest to provide accurate information, not falsify information for a single client. If I, Mr Joe Public, were to do the same thing, it will quickly be argued that the data I generated is easily modified with whatever data I want to include.
I know of a few commercial units that do what you're describing.
I would expect one day the courts will review the data and methodology, when a sufficient incident occurs.
That's one of the things I do on long drives. :) I let someone who wants to drive faster than me pass, even if he just wants to do 2mph faster than me. I let him take point at about a mile ahead. If I see him hit his brakes hard, I let off the gas and roll down just under the speed limit. If I see pretty blue lights kick on, I know I just lost my point man, and wait for another to catch up. If he's driving way too fast and I lose visual on him, I slow down a little until another point man comes up.
I found the best place to be is with a point man way ahead, and several cars following. Drivers tend to cluster, and they'll play follow the leader with a fast car. On a long enough drive, I'll usually end up with 5 or 6 cars doing exactly what I do. If I move right and slow down, they'll all do exactly what I do because I obviously see something they don't. :) If the police stop someone, they'll get the point man, or the last car in line.
So, your copbait/copcatcher description is perfect. :)
Well, yes and no.
Too many people in real life are stupid, which makes the television representation of them almost correct.
Funny thing, I'm not black. I'm white. Just a clean cut looking 30-something white guy. Their profiling is out of place, unless they just like to propose stupid things where they know there isn't a lot of risk.