"Up In Smoke" is entirely on-topic: one of the scenarios (scenaria?) involves smuggling hash across the border by converting it into the body of a panel-van. No prizes for guessing what happens to it...
On a more serious note, cultivation of the weed under agrodomes used to keep an old codger I knew in the Cotswolds in relative comfort in his retirement back in the '80s. (Thatcher's Britain was sometimes a miserable place to be.) But if I had kept smoking the stuff like I did then, I would be hard pressed to muster a quorum of neurons now. Several of my acquaintances from back then might as well be suffering from dementia, such is the effect of dope on memory.
It's unlikely that any home-made lemonade (assuming it's actually made out of lemons) will cause any kind of food poisoning. The pH is too low to permit the growth of the majority of toxic bacteria.
I have no problem with companies giving precedence to real-time communications, from voice, to video, to gaming, in order to facilitate an improved experience for the users.
As a matter which might be of interest to some, my Australian ISP has for a long time offered a scale of connections (within the same ADSL2+ price plan) that is supposed to optimise connections for gamers to give "quickest connection response rather than a faster download speed". However, I haven't run any kind of benchmarks to check up on the validity of this claim, which might be best ingested with NaCl.
As long as we, the people, look towards the government for all our personal needs, personal safety, personal income, personal food, personal shelter, we WILL be treated as cattle, because we ARE.
Exactly. As Bird and Fortune put it:
"The most important task [of government] is security. The security of every decent, hard-working man and woman up and down the country. And we think that's best achieved by treating them all as potential criminals."
Some day Some one Is going to find an old ancient iPad and take a look at it and say "WTH where they thinking?"
Probably no more than we do with the Sinclair ZX80. I can see the drive for touchscreens waning as people realise that fingerprints and shiny things don't coexist very well, but apart from that, the machine will eventually seem as clunky as the Apple II does now.
They already exist. A friend showed me one a couple of weeks ago (I'm sorry, I can't remember the brand, as it was far from prominent on the box) that had been brought back from Singapore.
I liked the fact that it is possible to use the thing as a *nix terminal, with the usual shell commands. Also, I liked the fact that its network interface is via WiFi rather than a paid mobile connection plan. I expect Mr. Jobs might disagree with my priorities, but what the hell.
On the downside, the finish was a bit tacky (but hey, no obvious brand...) and an excessive amount of the screen-space was occupied by a black border. But I fully expect someone will come up with a slicker offering before long.
wow, you were able to determine exactly when the machine in question was pwned?
In this case, yes. In the preceding two months, I had been using *nix machines under my own administration, and in that 14-day period I was stuck with a Windows box which was locked down with a crappy AV program.
I think that we can all agree that the 'magic' cables are going to pass the same 0s and 1s as any working cable. Still, it is not impossible that the 'magic' cables result in better sound.
The only way I can imagine there being a difference is if you were to use SATA cables for carrying an analogue signal. I haven't RTFA, (since it seems to have been pulled or moved in order to avoid being slashdotted), but in this instance I expect the cable would suck royally, because there simply isn't enough copper there.
I would be the first to agree that snake-oil is available by the bucketful in the audio industry, but a reasonable expenditure on decent cables does make a significant difference to the output from a system held together with the lamp-cable interconnects that often come by default. The point is not to be sucked into the diminishing (or zero) returns scam of spending hundreds of dollars per cable.
but Jesus said that lusting after someone else's wife was morally equivalent to adultery
I'm not a christian of any sort, but the King James bible I was brought up with specifically mentions "though shall not covet thy neighbour's wife" as one of the 10 commandments. The same sentence goes on to say "...or thy neighbour's ass", but I don't want to go there.;-)
But at the end of the day, our justice system has had many centuries to work out those questions...
And centuries of experience can be wiped out in the length of time it takes to say "election promise". Which I guess is why ripping off company shareholders often attracts heavier sentences than murder. It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.
In any case, if you have any kind of criminal record at all, that might be a major roadblock if you're applying for a migration visa to any other country. (I know for a fact that Australia applies this, and I believe the US does too.) I don't know how strictly the respective authorities apply their rules, but it's definitely a question they ask on their forms.
Also, from a user's point of view, hosts file ad-blocking would become somewhat problematic (or at least more unwieldy) with IPv6. But fortunately or otherwise, it seems IPv4 is more than sufficient for ad-servers to make everyone's lives a burden and an affliction.
Heh - the first dialup modem I used was the size of a small suitcase and only offered 300 baud. It got the job done, but I was a happy chappie when I got my first 4800 baud machine for remote sysadmin working from home.
I know someone will chime in with something against taking work home, so I'll just say this: my setup was a lot more comfortable than a sleeping-bag on the machine-room floor (I've done that from time to time as well).
If I'm not traveling with my laptop, I now make sure I carry a Linux LiveCD. This is a result of an ill-advised (but unavoidable) online transaction I made on a machine that had been pwned in December 2008 when I was on a trip with my wife and a couple of other ladies. My mistake resulted in a spurious transaction being made on my Visa card. In this case, the bank picked it up quickly enough, and no real harm was done, but I was without access to a credit card for 10 days while it was all fixed up.
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"Up In Smoke" is entirely on-topic: one of the scenarios (scenaria?) involves smuggling hash across the border by converting it into the body of a panel-van. No prizes for guessing what happens to it...
On a more serious note, cultivation of the weed under agrodomes used to keep an old codger I knew in the Cotswolds in relative comfort in his retirement back in the '80s. (Thatcher's Britain was sometimes a miserable place to be.) But if I had kept smoking the stuff like I did then, I would be hard pressed to muster a quorum of neurons now. Several of my acquaintances from back then might as well be suffering from dementia, such is the effect of dope on memory.
It's unlikely that any home-made lemonade (assuming it's actually made out of lemons) will cause any kind of food poisoning. The pH is too low to permit the growth of the majority of toxic bacteria.
Wasting it on party balloons is destroying a potentially very useful product.
It's also wasting opportunities for educational noises which are better (and more cheaply) achieved by using hydrogen in the presence of a flame.
Helium is the second most abundant element at 25%.
No, you should know that the second most common element is stupidity.
No wonder the rest of the world thinks Americans are stupid.
And that's why in many of those "socialist" countries like France...
Uh, what the fuck are you talking about? The most cursory examination of French politics shows a wide streak of fascism.
I have no problem with companies giving precedence to real-time communications, from voice, to video, to gaming, in order to facilitate an improved experience for the users.
As a matter which might be of interest to some, my Australian ISP has for a long time offered a scale of connections (within the same ADSL2+ price plan) that is supposed to optimise connections for gamers to give "quickest connection response rather than a faster download speed". However, I haven't run any kind of benchmarks to check up on the validity of this claim, which might be best ingested with NaCl.
As long as we, the people, look towards the government for all our personal needs, personal safety, personal income, personal food, personal shelter, we WILL be treated as cattle, because we ARE.
Exactly. As Bird and Fortune put it:
"The most important task [of government] is security. The security of every decent, hard-working man and woman up and down the country. And we think that's best achieved by treating them all as potential criminals."
In any case, getting back to the topic of embedded RFID chips: wouldn't a couple of minutes in the microwave put paid to them?
I realise that, but on the device I saw, it was somewhat over an inch wide, leaving a comparatively small amount of useful screen area.
Some day Some one Is going to find an old ancient iPad and take a look at it and say "WTH where they thinking?"
Probably no more than we do with the Sinclair ZX80. I can see the drive for touchscreens waning as people realise that fingerprints and shiny things don't coexist very well, but apart from that, the machine will eventually seem as clunky as the Apple II does now.
Your netbook has a touchscreen?
Let's just turn that question around: Why does your screen have so many yucky fingerprints all over it?
...with the Adroid tablet, the tablet for geeks!
They already exist. A friend showed me one a couple of weeks ago (I'm sorry, I can't remember the brand, as it was far from prominent on the box) that had been brought back from Singapore.
I liked the fact that it is possible to use the thing as a *nix terminal, with the usual shell commands. Also, I liked the fact that its network interface is via WiFi rather than a paid mobile connection plan. I expect Mr. Jobs might disagree with my priorities, but what the hell.
On the downside, the finish was a bit tacky (but hey, no obvious brand...) and an excessive amount of the screen-space was occupied by a black border. But I fully expect someone will come up with a slicker offering before long.
wow, you were able to determine exactly when the machine in question was pwned?
In this case, yes. In the preceding two months, I had been using *nix machines under my own administration, and in that 14-day period I was stuck with a Windows box which was locked down with a crappy AV program.
I think that we can all agree that the 'magic' cables are going to pass the same 0s and 1s as any working cable. Still, it is not impossible that the 'magic' cables result in better sound.
The only way I can imagine there being a difference is if you were to use SATA cables for carrying an analogue signal. I haven't RTFA, (since it seems to have been pulled or moved in order to avoid being slashdotted), but in this instance I expect the cable would suck royally, because there simply isn't enough copper there.
I would be the first to agree that snake-oil is available by the bucketful in the audio industry, but a reasonable expenditure on decent cables does make a significant difference to the output from a system held together with the lamp-cable interconnects that often come by default. The point is not to be sucked into the diminishing (or zero) returns scam of spending hundreds of dollars per cable.
Malcolm Steward's number is +441428717400
Guess someone might as well call it, since the article linked in the submission is 404.
...but from a corporate perspective it is a pretty solid product.
Last time I used McAfee, it was a great product. It successfully killed any virus I cared to throw at it.
1992 was a great year...
Sorry, meant to say "thou", not "though". :-|
but Jesus said that lusting after someone else's wife was morally equivalent to adultery
;-)
I'm not a christian of any sort, but the King James bible I was brought up with specifically mentions "though shall not covet thy neighbour's wife" as one of the 10 commandments. The same sentence goes on to say "...or thy neighbour's ass", but I don't want to go there.
But at the end of the day, our justice system has had many centuries to work out those questions...
And centuries of experience can be wiped out in the length of time it takes to say "election promise". Which I guess is why ripping off company shareholders often attracts heavier sentences than murder. It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.
In any case, if you have any kind of criminal record at all, that might be a major roadblock if you're applying for a migration visa to any other country. (I know for a fact that Australia applies this, and I believe the US does too.) I don't know how strictly the respective authorities apply their rules, but it's definitely a question they ask on their forms.
True - I don't think I had my brain saddled up there... :-|
Also, from a user's point of view, hosts file ad-blocking would become somewhat problematic (or at least more unwieldy) with IPv6. But fortunately or otherwise, it seems IPv4 is more than sufficient for ad-servers to make everyone's lives a burden and an affliction.
Wasn't the marketing name for V.92 'V.Fast'?
Heh - the first dialup modem I used was the size of a small suitcase and only offered 300 baud. It got the job done, but I was a happy chappie when I got my first 4800 baud machine for remote sysadmin working from home.
I know someone will chime in with something against taking work home, so I'll just say this: my setup was a lot more comfortable than a sleeping-bag on the machine-room floor (I've done that from time to time as well).
If I'm not traveling with my laptop, I now make sure I carry a Linux LiveCD. This is a result of an ill-advised (but unavoidable) online transaction I made on a machine that had been pwned in December 2008 when I was on a trip with my wife and a couple of other ladies. My mistake resulted in a spurious transaction being made on my Visa card. In this case, the bank picked it up quickly enough, and no real harm was done, but I was without access to a credit card for 10 days while it was all fixed up.