Anyone who is truly concerned with security knows that you take your drive with you [...] that's how most data ends up getting into the wrong hands.
You've got that right. Many of the people I have worked with have excellent heads for business, graphic design, administration, or programming, but I still don't trust them to put their pants on the right way around every morning. Why would I want them pulling their hard drives out of their computers every night?
No, this smells like increased sales at the airport bar.
Don't think of it as "The most ridiculous display of snake-oil security theatre since the last one", think of it as "an economic stimulus package for airport bars". Then it all starts to make perfect sense.
Mechwarrior 1 also had hit locations. It would have been a pretty pathetic implementation of Battletech if it didn't.
Unfortunately that meant that it was trivially simple to line up head shots on slower moving targets and suck any hint of challenge out of the game, but so be it.
Don't worry, I'll start up a protest group called "Don't Shut Down Facebook!" and try to get a million people to join it. I'm sure that will help a lot.
What do you think stars are? Fuckface, they're balls of fucking FUSION. Without fusion stars would be blacker than your god damn heart.
How do you think stars are formed? Do giant space storks bring them?
Here's the executive summary -- Without fusion stars are just really big clouds of hydrogen gas. Gravitational collapse of gas clouds leads to internal heating and eventually drives the temperature at the core of the new star up high enough to start hydrogen fusion. Even before stellar ignition occurs these gravitationally powered stars can glow as brightly as their older, hydrogen burning main sequence cousins.
So unless your god damn heart is glowing like a blackbody at two thousand kelvin, with strong absorption in the Lyman Alpha line, then stars without fusion are certainly not any blacker than it.
To learn more about stellar evolution, T-Tauri stars, the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, nuclear fusion and spectroscopy, why not go to your local library or take an astrophysicist out to a karaoke bar? Either way you'll hear a lot that you may not be able to understand.
We went from nothing to the Moon in under ten years; it's taking us four years between test launches of something that we've done before?
September 12, 1962. President John F. Kennedy says "We choose to go to the Moon". Nine years later Alan Shepard is playing gold at Fra Mauro.
Fast forward to 2009, when President Barry Obama says "Well, I guess you can go to the Moon, but I can't pay for it. Maybe you could go to an asteroid or play some chess instead." NASA starts looking for loose change in the couch to finance the next test launch.
"So it is not surprising that some would have us stay where we are a little longer to rest, to wait. But this city of Houston, this state of Texas, this country of the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward--and so will space."
...just not today, so maybe we should wait and rest and look behind us for a while, until that darn economy fixes itself.
Why the hell haven't they put the same spam filters that they use for Gmail on the discussion lists?
Maybe it's because they want to encourage you to use Gmail, which they control and can extract some income from, instead of Usenet, which they have only a passing acquaintance with and can't squeeze a penny out of.
Yes, I'm serious: Ban everything, and force passengers to maybe, I don't know, read a book perhaps?
You have obviously never seen how much damage a terrorist could do by hitting someone on the head with a hardcover book. They're far worse than toenail clippers, pliers or bottles of water larger than 100mL. Nothing is more dangerous to the American people than books.
they usually have a few passages that they conveniently claim to mean something that they don't really, then they repeat those parts over and over to drown out anyone who contradicts them.
The Mayans were amateurs when it comes to doomsday calendars. We have a doomsday once every 365 days (except on leap years) when our calendar hits December 31.
If the Mayans had Windows, they would know that Doomsday happens every seven days, right after Monday.
Don't you get it? Windows EffingSucks was just too early! Loo at the dating pattern - 95 -> 1998 -> 3000. That means they released Windows EffingSucks 1000 years too early!
If the pattern holds true they also released Windows 95 1900 years late.
What you probably have is an HP un2400 (USB ID 03f0:201d), which uses the Qualcomm GOBI chipset. You'll need the qcserial module to run it, and that is included in the 2.6.31 kernel which ships with Ubuntu 9.10. I can't speak for how easy it will be to use, but support is in the kernel and will be installed by default if you upgrade to The Koala.
Right click on "My Computer" and select "Properties". You will see the Windows version number there. That option is available on such operating systems as Windows 95 (4.00.95), Windows 98 (4.10.1998), Windows EffingSucks (4.90.3000), Windows 2000 (5.0), Windows XP (5.1), Windows 2003 (5.2), Windows Fistsya (6.0) and the curiously named Windows Seven (6.1).
So, unless you are a die-hard Applista or just started using computers this year, you probably do remember your Windows 4 and 5 boxes very well.
Great Diablo 2. Let me know when I can buy something off the shelf today, not out of the bargain bin.
World of Warcraft. Supreme Commander. Half Life 2. Call of Duty 2. Warhammer Online. Eve Online. Fallout 3. Command and Conquer 3. The Sims 3. Counter Strike Source.
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You've got that right. Many of the people I have worked with have excellent heads for business, graphic design, administration, or programming, but I still don't trust them to put their pants on the right way around every morning. Why would I want them pulling their hard drives out of their computers every night?
Awesome? It's more like teaching fish how to swim by asking the rocks for advice.
No, this smells like increased sales at the airport bar.
Don't think of it as "The most ridiculous display of snake-oil security theatre since the last one", think of it as "an economic stimulus package for airport bars". Then it all starts to make perfect sense.
They're using people who play Facebook games to train their systems to be smarter?
The mind wobbles.
Unfortunately that meant that it was trivially simple to line up head shots on slower moving targets and suck any hint of challenge out of the game, but so be it.
Don't worry, I'll start up a protest group called "Don't Shut Down Facebook!" and try to get a million people to join it. I'm sure that will help a lot.
If somebody hadn't done it before then it would be called "search".
How do you think stars are formed? Do giant space storks bring them?
Here's the executive summary -- Without fusion stars are just really big clouds of hydrogen gas. Gravitational collapse of gas clouds leads to internal heating and eventually drives the temperature at the core of the new star up high enough to start hydrogen fusion. Even before stellar ignition occurs these gravitationally powered stars can glow as brightly as their older, hydrogen burning main sequence cousins.
So unless your god damn heart is glowing like a blackbody at two thousand kelvin, with strong absorption in the Lyman Alpha line, then stars without fusion are certainly not any blacker than it.
To learn more about stellar evolution, T-Tauri stars, the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, nuclear fusion and spectroscopy, why not go to your local library or take an astrophysicist out to a karaoke bar? Either way you'll hear a lot that you may not be able to understand.
They already do.
September 12, 1962. President John F. Kennedy says "We choose to go to the Moon". Nine years later Alan Shepard is playing gold at Fra Mauro.
Fast forward to 2009, when President Barry Obama says "Well, I guess you can go to the Moon, but I can't pay for it. Maybe you could go to an asteroid or play some chess instead." NASA starts looking for loose change in the couch to finance the next test launch.
"So it is not surprising that some would have us stay where we are a little longer to rest, to wait. But this city of Houston, this state of Texas, this country of the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward--and so will space."
...just not today, so maybe we should wait and rest and look behind us for a while, until that darn economy fixes itself.
It is, however, a wonderful time to rein in your spelling.
Maybe it's because they want to encourage you to use Gmail, which they control and can extract some income from, instead of Usenet, which they have only a passing acquaintance with and can't squeeze a penny out of.
You have obviously never seen how much damage a terrorist could do by hitting someone on the head with a hardcover book. They're far worse than toenail clippers, pliers or bottles of water larger than 100mL. Nothing is more dangerous to the American people than books.
That's a SIX YEAR OLD list of overpaid jobs. Six years later, Chesley Sullenberger has to pack his own peanut butter sandwich because the airline won't even feed the flight crews. Six years later airlines are losing billions of dollars and passing on the joy to their employees.
Six years ago working in IT pretty much guaranteed you an overpaid job. Something has changed since then.
Would that include the first page, which says "To my darling Candy. All characters portrayed within this book are fictitious and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental"?
If the Mayans had Windows, they would know that Doomsday happens every seven days, right after Monday.
If the pattern holds true they also released Windows 95 1900 years late.
With any luck, Steve will only get as far as "CHA" before he gets thwarted.
The U2400 is either a low power Core 2 Duo CPU from Intel or a Nano CPU from VIA. The Mini 5100 uses an Atom N280, which is a different processor entirely. While all three are supported quite well by Linux, none of them do much for wireless networking.
What you probably have is an HP un2400 (USB ID 03f0:201d), which uses the Qualcomm GOBI chipset. You'll need the qcserial module to run it, and that is included in the 2.6.31 kernel which ships with Ubuntu 9.10. I can't speak for how easy it will be to use, but support is in the kernel and will be installed by default if you upgrade to The Koala.
Right click on "My Computer" and select "Properties". You will see the Windows version number there. That option is available on such operating systems as Windows 95 (4.00.95), Windows 98 (4.10.1998), Windows EffingSucks (4.90.3000), Windows 2000 (5.0), Windows XP (5.1), Windows 2003 (5.2), Windows Fistsya (6.0) and the curiously named Windows Seven (6.1).
So, unless you are a die-hard Applista or just started using computers this year, you probably do remember your Windows 4 and 5 boxes very well.
Never, ever mess with costumers. Those are people you really don't want to get mad.
Then perhaps you need to read RFC 3514 a little more closely.
World of Warcraft. Supreme Commander. Half Life 2. Call of Duty 2. Warhammer Online. Eve Online. Fallout 3. Command and Conquer 3. The Sims 3. Counter Strike Source.
And that's just from the front page. Are those more in your price range?
If I was trying to be misleading I wouldn't have provided such an obvious link to the full text that I was quoting from, would I?
Indeed. If only there were some way of running all that software designed for the Microsoft platform on a Linux platform...
Just because your OS kernel is Open Source(tm) doesn't mean all of your applications need to be.