It can evidently hook into the file system, and I wonder if it can know, ask, or be told what other applications are installed and what they're up to (that is more or less what the HackMaster app did on PalmOS, which was exceedingly powerful yet relatively simple given that it was an event-driven (as opposed to multitasking) OS).
I say godspeed to this project, and I hope they'll allow others to follow in their footsteps.
My first reaction when finding this topic today was "Wow, neato". My 2nd reaction, after reading the above section of your post was : "Uh oh - a new era of VBS-type exploits and rampant malware problems on a microsoft platform."
My mother managed to get some nasty installed on a *limited account* in a fully updated install of XP with SP3.
It doesn't surprise me the GP is a retailer. They usually have the biggest mouths in defense of MSware but, ironically seem to know next to nothing about what a computer is, what it does and how it works. The above rant is almost pure nonsense.
I saw a fake A/V get installed on a limited account on a domain. These users cannot change even their own clock, yet this rogue was able to get installed and start surfing to porn sites. Scared the lady half to death as she was in a medical office.
Not all of the registry changes were allowed to happen, but it still was running, still disabled things like taskmgr, still able to make some registry changes to the local profile such that I had to remove them from the admin profile.
I've even seen where a limited account gets infected yet the cleaner software doesn't have sufficient rights to do anything and cannot clean the infection under the same account. Amazing!
As I mention in a different post, surfing sandboxed will/can prevent so much. Most malware, I would imagine, doesn't even bother to run sandboxed.
AS mentioned above most malware comes from the internet. I have discovered (and I'm sure many other people have too) that the best way to create a secure windows surfing environment is to do the following:
Start with a clean windows install, apply updates, use a limited account if so desired. Install a reputable antivirus if so desired, such as anything but norton, mcafee or trend micro, (possibly AVG Internet security business edition with the enhanced features turned on to help detect rogues) Install firefox, no-script and ad-block plus Install flash and java Install Sandboxie Only surf with noscript/abp and only surf sandboxed. Don't be stupid
Probably the most thorough and insightful commentary on the various startreks I've seen on here yet.
Having the STs on netflix is long overdue and very welcome. I see it as a milestone in a way, solidifying NF as THE vast repository of our media content.
Aaaaaaand...... with their quite reasonable price, might in the long run cut down on.... "illegal downloads"? Maybe?
If you believe that people should get a real job instead of an education then you've got a country of predominantly labourers and factory line workers. A dangerous route to take in a time when low skilled jobs can get outsourced to somewhere cheaper very easily.
If a person has a 4 year Bachelors degree in Engineering, for example, and their job gets outsourced, can't find work in a down economy, never learned any other marketable skills, etc etc etc - Wouldn't people in that boat have been better off becoming a Plumber? How about an Electrician? Carpenter? Mechanic?
I tell you what, engineering, science, manufacturing, all those things can to some extent be outsourced to other countries - and have done, but... If someone's toilet is overflowing and they can't stop the geyser of crap - No-one from India is going to come by and fix it for them. At $65 to show up, $75 per hour, don't you think that the licensed plumber with 20 years experience and a good reputation sleeps soundly at night? Academia might look down on a lowly plumber - but who is more often desperately needed?
The traditional trades cannot be outsourced, even some of the new ones - You might get your router and switch from China, but they don't install it and configure it for you - A hands-on networking guy is also a "Trade" that can command high hourly rates and cannot be outsourced either.
If we pay less FICA for Medicaid we will benefit. Fatties are the ones whom would pay more. We get more take home pay, they get future health care cost paid for being unwilling to eat a salad every now and then.
I don't know if you've noticed, but obesity is often a symptom of poverty. You're not going to get any more taxes out of someone who's already on welfare, and you haven't fixed the problem that a home-made sandwich costs 3 times as much as a McDonalds cheeseburger.
ding ding ding, we have a winner. Just try going on a natural food "cleansing diet" for any length of time where you eat no meat, no sugar, NO HFCS(!), no nasty preservatives, no caffeine.... Yet still eat to satisfied and don't hate life.
Doable, just a hassle with reading labels, and DEFINITELY more expensive. High fructose corn syrup is in many things, and having done a diet like that even for just 3 weeks - the results are astonishing. Much higher energy levels, much lost weight, body just WORKS much better. You can eat well too, once you figure it out.
I don't just mean on the total with pensions and all. Even just the healthcare taken separately, actually cost less. Why? (snip)
One of the most insightful comments I've read this week. Reminds me of an old sitcom "married with children" where somehow a uber-athlete ends up having to live with the Bundys and even though he exercised all the time and ate tofu and bean sprouts and was super healthy, he had a heart attack after eating Bundy food for a week - he just couldn't handle it.
Parent post is very insightful. Regarding the people who live to 100 and are constantly sick and miserable for the last 35 years of that, going to the doctor weekly and on a fistful of different pills every day - from a gov't expense cost-cutting perspective, yes, it is a huge drain if they are on public funds for all that. And many are.
From a pharmaceutical and hospital/nursinghome revenue perspective - they are a FREAKING GOLD MINE and don't ever forget it.
I've seen it with more than one grandparent. They string them along with as much work as they can until they get so bad they are a hassle, then they get put into a place where they can quietly die. If the people are *just* healthy enough to make it into the Dr office on a regular basis, *just* sick enough to need a constant regimen of some sort of procedures and meds, that is great. Get them in a vegetative state in a nursing home bed with a colostomy bag where it's just "yucky" and a hassle for the Dr to go there - just watch, they'll be dead in a couple months.
Pessimistic? Unrealistic? Well, I saw it happen more than once.
Uh, I don't understand this retarded article. How are they determining that users are under 13? The article says "In fact, it's relatively easy." but then goes on to talk about something entirely different. Of course the user can tell the truth or lie, but how is Facebook determining they lie?
I always liked how Leisure Suit Larry did it - Asking questions an adult at the time would know, but a 13 y/o kid hoping to see 8 bit boobies would not know.
Do you want a list of Dell models that my employer has concluded have design flaws or do you just want to fling mud at Apple? (here's a hint: Every manufacturer has issues with their machines, including Apple).
Hold on now, that's not the same thing. No other manufacturer of consumer electronics has such furiously loyal customers and touts such a flawless and refined user experience.
Couple that with the recent flaws with the iPhone4 and this is becoming silly.
Any cellular phone -> 1 purpose, make a phone call. Tell me how any company can release a phone that is so defective that massive amounts of people won't be able to do that one thing.
What do many MBP customers do? Video and graphics. What's the one thing a MBP or any computer do? COMPUTE! Hard! 100% load for days on end if required. The iPhone 4 was a black eye to Apple. This is a slug to the other one. They are very publicly losing rep, and if Teh Steve ascends into the clouds, I have concerns Apple will only be a withering peel of what it once was.
Disclaimer -> I think the Al unibody MBP's are no doubt one of the sharpest and nicest looking laptops ever, with stunning screens.
Yeah, weather, RF coverage, radiation, etc... Ssssssssuuurrrreeee..... Sounds fine to me....
But we already know they have mobile "body scanners" and who knows what else. These days the tinfoil hat crowd doesn't seem so crazy, more like just early adopters.
These guys have want amount of magic faerie machines.
Probably the worst aspect is this idea that all these forensics guys are cops with fancy machines. When is the last time you ever heard of an actual lab tech getting into a chase with a perp, or, in most cases, even being in the same fucking building as the perp?
I was reading an anecdotal account once of a person who is ACTUALLY involved in the law-enforcement forensics field. This person was horrified of the idea that a forensic scientist would ever even be remotely involved, in the same place as, or ever question or talk to a suspect.
Apparently the "real" csi people aren't geeky cops. They're just geeks. Hmm! Never would have guessed. Perhaps CSI and the like are glorifying scientists just like Star Trek glorified engineering.
Why hasn't anyone mentioned "Enemy of the State"? Is it because we all sort of suspect that the tech in that particular movie isn't so far off?
They were put on the radio because police and fire departments have been buying incompatible coms equipment for years.
After the clusterfuck that was the 9/11 reponse, there has been a concerted push to get law enforcement, fire, EMS, military, and government all working on the same wavelength.
That's pretty much the entire point of this bill.
Obviously selling off part of the HAM spectrum is a stupid idea, but his goal of getting ALL responders onto one wavelength is long overdue.
Of course, once you put all the responders onto an encrypted channels in the 700MHz range, amateur radio will no longer be able to help.
You're right, a locality might have local police/sheriff/fire on the same band, but it will likely be only for that area, and the state police will or could be on another. Then, if that community is near the state border, the officials in the other state are quite likely using even different equipment. I was talking with an emergency management official who went to a "high level" meeting trying to figure out how to handle this very problem if there ever was a large scale disaster. The meeting went on for HOURS, and they never got ANYWHERE. Just a bunch of bureaucracy, red tape blabbering of career politicians with no real knowledge of anything in the real world. Basically it was going to be expensive because ultimately someone was going to have to scrap all their radios and no-one wanted to do it. As a (not active anymore but licensed) ham, who's dad IS an active ham, and who has spent a little time working with law enforcement and EM guys, ham radio IS vital to keep up. Many EM departments actively seek out local hams and support them and involve them. When the power goes out on a large scale, like a katrina situation, or in a 3rd world country with crap infrastructure - the low power long range capability of ham radio is vital.
I used to do it too, for everyone I knew, friends, work, family etc, and it got really irritating not only because they always called me at odd hours and any time they felt like it, but they also made the same damn mistakes. They aren't stupid, just unwilling, I mean, why bother learning something I show in five minutes, when they can call this idiot any time something goes wrong.
So, I've stopped doing it, when someone asked, I use linux, my knowledge is out of date, I don't have time, and so on. Now, they only call me when they're truly desperate, deadlines looming, sensitive data in danger and so on, and they pay, oh yes, they pay.
Smart man. Also - For the curious wannabe techie who "just wants to watch" comes around - it costs twice as much if someone want to watch. That shuts them up real quick. No exceptions.
unless your family and friends aren't cheap douches.
my mom's harddrive died a few weeks ago. i recovered her data, installed the new drive, and reinstalled windows. she paid me $100.
last week my step-sister's computer refused to boot. something had fucked up her windows install, so i recovered her data and reinstalled windows. $50.
just yesterday, one of my aunts was at my mom's house and couldn't get connected to the wifi. checked the connection, it was fine. checked the IE settings, it was trying to use a dialup connection so i fixed that. $20.
fixing computers isn't my business either, but i'm not going to turn down $170 for really easy computer fixes.
I'll fix comps for free for my parents and my wifes parents because of all the free babysitting and etc. Most everyone else - not for free. Fixing computers is my business. Just the same, I don't just "recommend" linux. Most people aren't capable of dealing with something that requires command line. I don't just haphazardly make recommendations, sometimes it's best to keep quiet unless asked for recommendations.
Called someone a "pedophile" in this age of crazy parents, vigilantism, and indefinite search engine indexing they deserve at least to be expelled. Such accusations could very easily result in that teacher losing their job or worse having some moron fire bombing their home. It is exactly this kind of thing which is driving male teachers out of education in droves.
I know, there ought to be a law! Not about facebook, but a law that says all male teachers have to be chemically castrated eunuchs! That way the kids can never say they were pedophiles! That would fix the whole priest thing too....
Ridiculous? Yes. It is ridiculous! Of course, there have been many instances where young female teachers have sex with underage boys.... Does anyone call them pedophiles? No, because subconsciously all the male lawyers and judges are quietly saluting the young boy - "Score, dude, she's hot! Wish I had been so lucky when I was your age! WAY TO GO! Gimme a high five!"
Seriously though, I agree - any FALSE claim of pedophilia, incest, rape, molestation, etc is truly libel whether it's though an electronic media, speech, print or the bathroom wall.
That's my experience too. When I'm playing a game and it's my turn, but I also need to go, I have a hard time figuring out what to do. I go to the toilet, and after I come back, the decision is suddenly very easy.
Perhaps the "improved decision making" is just deciding "I need to have a pee".
Ugh, did you open up the casing of that MBP at all? Every time I have to open a Mac I want to kick Steve Jobs.
I took off the back to re-seat the ram, which is one of the quick fixes of a no-boot. Seemed alright, other than having to remove a handful of tiny screws and the whole bottom of the case just to access the ram.....
Does that page reference the douchery of their owners, and how those owners seem to need to point out how their laptops are different from every other laptop out there?
mmmmm, maybe if you read between the lines. It does talk about the "aluminum unibody construction" so many people point out that they have. I primarily work on PC's but just recently I had to "fix" a MBP. It would not boot. I tried all the simple fixes but ended up having to install OSX from the disk. I have to admit that the MBP was, indeed, impressive. (except for the being broken part)
The only thing that sets the MBP apart from other laptops is the touch pad interface. Other than that they are the same as every other laptop out there. That touch pad is the only thing I miss when I'm working on other computers.
The other thing is how it adds to the show in character development. Let me explain: If a main character is going to do something on a computer and they walk over to a shiny apple product it tells you the kind of person they are. They have spent money. They chose to buy an apple, because anyone can go to walmart and put an acer in their cart alongside the milk and eggs, you usually have to GO to an apple store and plop down some change . Also you know they might be a little more creative and artistic, might be a little more affluent, they might know what they like. Also you know they might have an iphone. Also like on 24 they had a shload of Dell equipment, so in my mind I think "massive government contract" "vendor support agreements" and so on. Also subconsciously I think about "wow, dell must have some fine products if they provide this kind of reliability and power." lol.
It's distracting. Especially with the laptops, where Apple plasters a large illuminated logo on the back. It pulls me out of the movie and makes me think about Apple for a few seconds. In my opinion, they should cover up the brand entirely. As much as I'm a tech guy, I really don't need to know what brand of computer the guy in the movie is using, unless it has something to do with the narrative.
I know my life was enriched knowing I can hack an alien spaceship with a macbook.
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Microsoft developed fool-proof methods to trash entire hard drives long ago...
I remember "Doublespace" being pretty effective at wiping hard drives.
It can evidently hook into the file system, and I wonder if it can know, ask, or be told what other applications are installed and what they're up to (that is more or less what the HackMaster app did on PalmOS, which was exceedingly powerful yet relatively simple given that it was an event-driven (as opposed to multitasking) OS).
I say godspeed to this project, and I hope they'll allow others to follow in their footsteps.
My first reaction when finding this topic today was "Wow, neato". My 2nd reaction, after reading the above section of your post was : "Uh oh - a new era of VBS-type exploits and rampant malware problems on a microsoft platform."
My mother managed to get some nasty installed on a *limited account* in a fully updated install of XP with SP3.
It doesn't surprise me the GP is a retailer. They usually have the biggest mouths in defense of MSware but, ironically seem to know next to nothing about what a computer is, what it does and how it works. The above rant is almost pure nonsense.
I saw a fake A/V get installed on a limited account on a domain. These users cannot change even their own clock, yet this rogue was able to get installed and start surfing to porn sites. Scared the lady half to death as she was in a medical office.
Not all of the registry changes were allowed to happen, but it still was running, still disabled things like taskmgr, still able to make some registry changes to the local profile such that I had to remove them from the admin profile.
I've even seen where a limited account gets infected yet the cleaner software doesn't have sufficient rights to do anything and cannot clean the infection under the same account. Amazing!
As I mention in a different post, surfing sandboxed will/can prevent so much. Most malware, I would imagine, doesn't even bother to run sandboxed.
AS mentioned above most malware comes from the internet. I have discovered (and I'm sure many other people have too) that the best way to create a secure windows surfing environment is to do the following:
Start with a clean windows install, apply updates, use a limited account if so desired.
Install a reputable antivirus if so desired, such as anything but norton, mcafee or trend micro, (possibly AVG Internet security business edition with the enhanced features turned on to help detect rogues)
Install firefox, no-script and ad-block plus
Install flash and java
Install Sandboxie
Only surf with noscript/abp and only surf sandboxed.
Don't be stupid
The last two items are not easy for everyone.
Probably the most thorough and insightful commentary on the various startreks I've seen on here yet.
...... with their quite reasonable price, might in the long run cut down on .... "illegal downloads"? Maybe?
Having the STs on netflix is long overdue and very welcome. I see it as a milestone in a way, solidifying NF as THE vast repository of our media content.
Aaaaaaand
If you believe that people should get a real job instead of an education then you've got a country of predominantly labourers and factory line workers. A dangerous route to take in a time when low skilled jobs can get outsourced to somewhere cheaper very easily.
If a person has a 4 year Bachelors degree in Engineering, for example, and their job gets outsourced, can't find work in a down economy, never learned any other marketable skills, etc etc etc - Wouldn't people in that boat have been better off becoming a Plumber? How about an Electrician? Carpenter? Mechanic?
I tell you what, engineering, science, manufacturing, all those things can to some extent be outsourced to other countries - and have done, but... If someone's toilet is overflowing and they can't stop the geyser of crap - No-one from India is going to come by and fix it for them. At $65 to show up, $75 per hour, don't you think that the licensed plumber with 20 years experience and a good reputation sleeps soundly at night? Academia might look down on a lowly plumber - but who is more often desperately needed?
The traditional trades cannot be outsourced, even some of the new ones - You might get your router and switch from China, but they don't install it and configure it for you - A hands-on networking guy is also a "Trade" that can command high hourly rates and cannot be outsourced either.
If we pay less FICA for Medicaid we will benefit. Fatties are the ones whom would pay more. We get more take home pay, they get future health care cost paid for being unwilling to eat a salad every now and then.
I don't know if you've noticed, but obesity is often a symptom of poverty. You're not going to get any more taxes out of someone who's already on welfare, and you haven't fixed the problem that a home-made sandwich costs 3 times as much as a McDonalds cheeseburger.
ding ding ding, we have a winner. Just try going on a natural food "cleansing diet" for any length of time where you eat no meat, no sugar, NO HFCS(!), no nasty preservatives, no caffeine.... Yet still eat to satisfied and don't hate life.
Doable, just a hassle with reading labels, and DEFINITELY more expensive. High fructose corn syrup is in many things, and having done a diet like that even for just 3 weeks - the results are astonishing. Much higher energy levels, much lost weight, body just WORKS much better. You can eat well too, once you figure it out.
In this case, last I've seen a study based on data from an actual health insurance company, it turned out that smokers and the obese actually cost LESS. Summary, for example, here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/health/05iht-obese.1.9748884.html
I don't just mean on the total with pensions and all. Even just the healthcare taken separately, actually cost less. Why? (snip)
One of the most insightful comments I've read this week. Reminds me of an old sitcom "married with children" where somehow a uber-athlete ends up having to live with the Bundys and even though he exercised all the time and ate tofu and bean sprouts and was super healthy, he had a heart attack after eating Bundy food for a week - he just couldn't handle it.
Parent post is very insightful. Regarding the people who live to 100 and are constantly sick and miserable for the last 35 years of that, going to the doctor weekly and on a fistful of different pills every day - from a gov't expense cost-cutting perspective, yes, it is a huge drain if they are on public funds for all that. And many are.
From a pharmaceutical and hospital/nursinghome revenue perspective - they are a FREAKING GOLD MINE and don't ever forget it.
I've seen it with more than one grandparent. They string them along with as much work as they can until they get so bad they are a hassle, then they get put into a place where they can quietly die. If the people are *just* healthy enough to make it into the Dr office on a regular basis, *just* sick enough to need a constant regimen of some sort of procedures and meds, that is great. Get them in a vegetative state in a nursing home bed with a colostomy bag where it's just "yucky" and a hassle for the Dr to go there - just watch, they'll be dead in a couple months.
Pessimistic? Unrealistic? Well, I saw it happen more than once.
maybe they're just all high on teh Crizzak
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/15/nasa-finds-cocaine-space-center_n_836109.html
Uh, I don't understand this retarded article. How are they determining that users are under 13? The article says "In fact, it's relatively easy." but then goes on to talk about something entirely different. Of course the user can tell the truth or lie, but how is Facebook determining they lie?
I always liked how Leisure Suit Larry did it - Asking questions an adult at the time would know, but a 13 y/o kid hoping to see 8 bit boobies would not know.
Do you want a list of Dell models that my employer has concluded have design flaws or do you just want to fling mud at Apple? (here's a hint: Every manufacturer has issues with their machines, including Apple).
Hold on now, that's not the same thing. No other manufacturer of consumer electronics has such furiously loyal customers and touts such a flawless and refined user experience.
Couple that with the recent flaws with the iPhone4 and this is becoming silly.
Any cellular phone -> 1 purpose, make a phone call. Tell me how any company can release a phone that is so defective that massive amounts of people won't be able to do that one thing.
What do many MBP customers do? Video and graphics. What's the one thing a MBP or any computer do? COMPUTE! Hard! 100% load for days on end if required. The iPhone 4 was a black eye to Apple. This is a slug to the other one. They are very publicly losing rep, and if Teh Steve ascends into the clouds, I have concerns Apple will only be a withering peel of what it once was.
Disclaimer -> I think the Al unibody MBP's are no doubt one of the sharpest and nicest looking laptops ever, with stunning screens.
Yeah, weather, RF coverage, radiation, etc... Ssssssssuuurrrreeee..... Sounds fine to me....
But we already know they have mobile "body scanners" and who knows what else. These days the tinfoil hat crowd doesn't seem so crazy, more like just early adopters.
These guys have want amount of magic faerie machines.
Probably the worst aspect is this idea that all these forensics guys are cops with fancy machines. When is the last time you ever heard of an actual lab tech getting into a chase with a perp, or, in most cases, even being in the same fucking building as the perp?
I was reading an anecdotal account once of a person who is ACTUALLY involved in the law-enforcement forensics field. This person was horrified of the idea that a forensic scientist would ever even be remotely involved, in the same place as, or ever question or talk to a suspect.
Apparently the "real" csi people aren't geeky cops. They're just geeks. Hmm! Never would have guessed. Perhaps CSI and the like are glorifying scientists just like Star Trek glorified engineering.
Why hasn't anyone mentioned "Enemy of the State"? Is it because we all sort of suspect that the tech in that particular movie isn't so far off?
They were put on the radio because police and fire departments have been buying incompatible coms equipment for years.
After the clusterfuck that was the 9/11 reponse, there has been a concerted push to get law enforcement, fire, EMS, military, and government all working on the same wavelength. That's pretty much the entire point of this bill.
Obviously selling off part of the HAM spectrum is a stupid idea, but his goal of getting ALL responders onto one wavelength is long overdue. Of course, once you put all the responders onto an encrypted channels in the 700MHz range, amateur radio will no longer be able to help.
You're right, a locality might have local police/sheriff/fire on the same band, but it will likely be only for that area, and the state police will or could be on another. Then, if that community is near the state border, the officials in the other state are quite likely using even different equipment.
I was talking with an emergency management official who went to a "high level" meeting trying to figure out how to handle this very problem if there ever was a large scale disaster. The meeting went on for HOURS, and they never got ANYWHERE. Just a bunch of bureaucracy, red tape blabbering of career politicians with no real knowledge of anything in the real world. Basically it was going to be expensive because ultimately someone was going to have to scrap all their radios and no-one wanted to do it.
As a (not active anymore but licensed) ham, who's dad IS an active ham, and who has spent a little time working with law enforcement and EM guys, ham radio IS vital to keep up. Many EM departments actively seek out local hams and support them and involve them.
When the power goes out on a large scale, like a katrina situation, or in a 3rd world country with crap infrastructure - the low power long range capability of ham radio is vital.
I used to do it too, for everyone I knew, friends, work, family etc, and it got really irritating not only because they always called me at odd hours and any time they felt like it, but they also made the same damn mistakes. They aren't stupid, just unwilling, I mean, why bother learning something I show in five minutes, when they can call this idiot any time something goes wrong.
So, I've stopped doing it, when someone asked, I use linux, my knowledge is out of date, I don't have time, and so on. Now, they only call me when they're truly desperate, deadlines looming, sensitive data in danger and so on, and they pay, oh yes, they pay.
Smart man. Also - For the curious wannabe techie who "just wants to watch" comes around - it costs twice as much if someone want to watch. That shuts them up real quick. No exceptions.
unless your family and friends aren't cheap douches.
my mom's harddrive died a few weeks ago. i recovered her data, installed the new drive, and reinstalled windows. she paid me $100.
last week my step-sister's computer refused to boot. something had fucked up her windows install, so i recovered her data and reinstalled windows. $50.
just yesterday, one of my aunts was at my mom's house and couldn't get connected to the wifi. checked the connection, it was fine. checked the IE settings, it was trying to use a dialup connection so i fixed that. $20.
fixing computers isn't my business either, but i'm not going to turn down $170 for really easy computer fixes.
I'll fix comps for free for my parents and my wifes parents because of all the free babysitting and etc. Most everyone else - not for free. Fixing computers is my business. Just the same, I don't just "recommend" linux. Most people aren't capable of dealing with something that requires command line. I don't just haphazardly make recommendations, sometimes it's best to keep quiet unless asked for recommendations.
Called someone a "pedophile" in this age of crazy parents, vigilantism, and indefinite search engine indexing they deserve at least to be expelled. Such accusations could very easily result in that teacher losing their job or worse having some moron fire bombing their home. It is exactly this kind of thing which is driving male teachers out of education in droves.
I know, there ought to be a law! Not about facebook, but a law that says all male teachers have to be chemically castrated eunuchs! That way the kids can never say they were pedophiles! That would fix the whole priest thing too....
Ridiculous? Yes. It is ridiculous! Of course, there have been many instances where young female teachers have sex with underage boys.... Does anyone call them pedophiles? No, because subconsciously all the male lawyers and judges are quietly saluting the young boy - "Score, dude, she's hot! Wish I had been so lucky when I was your age! WAY TO GO! Gimme a high five!"
Seriously though, I agree - any FALSE claim of pedophilia, incest, rape, molestation, etc is truly libel whether it's though an electronic media, speech, print or the bathroom wall.
That's my experience too. When I'm playing a game and it's my turn, but I also need to go, I have a hard time figuring out what to do. I go to the toilet, and after I come back, the decision is suddenly very easy.
Perhaps the "improved decision making" is just deciding "I need to have a pee".
I have anecdotal evidence that exactly the opposite is true. And no, I would prefer not to say any more about this thank you very much.
When I have to pee really bad I usually can only focus on finding a place and time to take a pee. The ability to focus is greatly diminished.
Ugh, did you open up the casing of that MBP at all? Every time I have to open a Mac I want to kick Steve Jobs.
I took off the back to re-seat the ram, which is one of the quick fixes of a no-boot. Seemed alright, other than having to remove a handful of tiny screws and the whole bottom of the case just to access the ram.....
Does that page reference the douchery of their owners, and how those owners seem to need to point out how their laptops are different from every other laptop out there?
mmmmm, maybe if you read between the lines. It does talk about the "aluminum unibody construction" so many people point out that they have.
I primarily work on PC's but just recently I had to "fix" a MBP. It would not boot. I tried all the simple fixes but ended up having to install OSX from the disk.
I have to admit that the MBP was, indeed, impressive. (except for the being broken part)
The only thing that sets the MBP apart from other laptops is the touch pad interface. Other than that they are the same as every other laptop out there. That touch pad is the only thing I miss when I'm working on other computers.
Sorry, no, looks like they have a little more to their credit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro
Aren't there some barebook distributors who assemble in the US? Jetta? Nspire?
The other thing is how it adds to the show in character development. Let me explain:
If a main character is going to do something on a computer and they walk over to a shiny apple product it tells you the kind of person they are. They have spent money. They chose to buy an apple, because anyone can go to walmart and put an acer in their cart alongside the milk and eggs, you usually have to GO to an apple store and plop down some change .
Also you know they might be a little more creative and artistic, might be a little more affluent, they might know what they like. Also you know they might have an iphone.
Also like on 24 they had a shload of Dell equipment, so in my mind I think "massive government contract" "vendor support agreements" and so on. Also subconsciously I think about "wow, dell must have some fine products if they provide this kind of reliability and power." lol.
It's distracting. Especially with the laptops, where Apple plasters a large illuminated logo on the back. It pulls me out of the movie and makes me think about Apple for a few seconds. In my opinion, they should cover up the brand entirely. As much as I'm a tech guy, I really don't need to know what brand of computer the guy in the movie is using, unless it has something to do with the narrative.
I know my life was enriched knowing I can hack an alien spaceship with a macbook.