Yes, one of the worst things the US does for actual pro-active security is to characterize non-friendly citizens are a bunch of techno-illiterate near-savages. Maybe it does something for morale to think yourself superior, but it also causes a lax attitude and underestimating your opponents.
Yeah, apparently the NSA didn't notice Snowden, and intelligence is their job!
That said, proper access controls are usually a good part of security. If a N. Korean janitor had physical access to the server room, not so good (if he was an admin, well you sorta have to trust your admins but you can still have some access controls in place with compartmentalized data)
The problem with many of the numbers is that it's based on reports and extrapolation, and men are much less likely to report domestic violence.
Also, that just includes violence, not the person stuck in an abusive relationship because the spouse threatens to ruin him/her (take the kids, false charges, no money, etc). There was a recent case of a Canadian woman who was killed by her spouse. She went back because she couldn't afford the lawyer to fight for custody, nor rent to live on her own. Many men are in a similar boat: facing loss of custody and/or crippling support payments.
"monkeys, zebras and lions all sleeping a few feet away from each other"
That doesn't really make much sense though. Lions are carnivores so wouldn't likely be eating the fruit. Maybe they got drunk from eating drunken monkeys?
The part about witnesses etc not wanting to be on camera makes some sense, however they could probably do the whole "fuzz and distort voice" thing similar to TV if that's a concern when presenting the video.
The main issue is that camera are not useful for the public without some enforcement for when they're suddenly "not working" at critical moment. We already have cams in cruisers and interrogation rooms that are mysteriously "broken" at times when their evidence might be useful to somebody other than the police. In Canada, a somewhat well-known case had a young man shot in an interrogation room by a police officer.The police officer testified the man was attacking him and going for his gun. Oddly, the camera for the interrogation room "wasn't working" for that day... go figure.
So there needs to be rigid rule for ensuring the devices are functional, and penalties for when they aren't except in obvious cases (say, camera video is good up to the point where the device is visibly damaged during an accident/struggle/etc).
Indeed, I've received multiple emails from ol' Jimmy again this year, one to a WP-specific email, and one to paypal. I don't care what your organization is, spam is spam, and unsolicited begging for funds qualifies just as well as any. I never agreed to allow them to contact me at my paypal address, they just scraped it from the time I did donate.
So Jimmy and WP can kiss my butt this year. Bah humbug to them.
This seems odd to me. Is bluetooth not an accepted standard in Korea?
The sticks themselves are just an extensible pole with a clip that can be adjusted to hold most cellular phones, no radio at all. They commonly come with a little bluetooth remote that can be used to activate the camera. It's not using any frequency that any other bluetooth device wouldn't, and would be less bandwidth than - for example - some bluetooth headphones running AD2P streaming.
Except for those of us who frankly don't put up with that shit. Yes, I try to make my wife happy, but I do not compromise with everything in my life to do so. I know somebody who has done that. His wife made a decision that put them in dire straights, and traded short-term happiness for long-term stability. They both ended miserable, and I can tell that - even though things seem to be clearing up now - he's still recovering.
Yes, sacrifices are necessary when one gets involved with relations (and has kids etc), but if you sell the farm then you're NOT going to have a happy life, and you'll end up resenting your spouse.
I'd say "unhappy wife, unhappy life", but the opposite isn't necessarily true. Relationships are built on compromise, and that goes both ways.
In my case, I still game, though I don't dedicate the time or money to it that I used to. My wife has time when she does her own thing, I have time for mine (be it gaming or whatever), and we both make sure to have time for each other. I won't say I'm happy *all* the time, but I think you'd struggle to find anyone who is.
I still play old games which had some fairly severe bugs. For example, the unpatched "C&C Tiberium Wars" (which is still fun to play in a LAN party, after patching) had some terrible de-synchronization issues etc. There are still sites out there that tended to have patches of these games, or - alternately - I have an old folder with discs of patches and a share on my local server.
Except in the case listed, you're basically removing things based on charges that have been shown as untrue (or at least unsubstantiated) in a court of law.
However, what people seem to be *actually* using the tool for is to remove things that are personally uncomfortable, but not untrue. So if salesman X is noted for scamming a bunch of people, or Banker Y is shown doing something inappropriate things, they can then get any linked articles about their behaviour removed. Then, when a new customer comes to Salesman X for Banker Y, they look them up and "hey, I can only find good things about this guy, I guess he's legit"
Indeed, I'd forgotten how slow HDD's were until I went to play a game the other day that I didn't often play (and thus was relegated to being installed on my larger 2TB HDD instead of the much faster - but smaller - SSD). The game wasn't too slow to start up, but loading levels resulted in a rather noticeably turtlish progress bar...
Do you still have the OCZ? I had the same issue with a 120GB but read about how many problems were related to them shipping with shyte firmware. Indeed after re-flashing mine it's been pretty reliable since.
Well, let's put it this way. If he didn't want to be charged with a fairly serious CRIME, then don't commit the crime. The problem here is that they do have a legitimate case against the guy for the crimes in question, but he's trying to get off claiming they're actually out to get him for something else (which doesn't mean he's not guilty of the original crime).
Yes, because it's only SWM's that have a bad attitude or screw the employer/customers, right? Nothing could ever go wrong by outsourcing to a country where labour laws and accountability are even worse...
Even Origins (Dragon Age 1) manages to look pretty damn good on an up-to-date PC. I'm guessing there may have been some updates since the early release, but the graphics definitely scale nicely for modern hardware.
It's funny because it's one of the few games where the in-game graphics actually look better than those in the trailers (because the trailers were made with older hardware - though likely the best at the time the game first came out).
I haven't played through DA2 but I heard the gameplay was somewhat shoddy compared to the original. Hopefully Inquisition (DA3) is better.
The hard drive thing must be fairly standard for HP. The last time I had a laptop sent in it was due to a known defect (bad Northbridge resulting in crashes if you had dual DIMM's and applications using more than a certain amount of RAM). They acknowledged the issue, but of course there was no replacement board so instead they fixed a supposedly loose power connector and the hard drive. The funny part was that - knowing their tendency re-image OS's - I'd taken out the 120GB HDD and put in a 30GB so that they wouldn't kill my data. When the laptop came back they'd plunked a new 120GB HDD in there. I guess they just had a bunch of pre-imaged stock drives and that was easier.
What really gets me is the wardrobe and fashion. Star-trek was pretty much out-of-era. There were lots of weird outfits, but the uniforms weren't really tied to any era (and they weren't weird spandex space-suits either). Hairstyles were also not quite so era based, except for a few characters. The old BSG also seem very... blonde.
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Yes, one of the worst things the US does for actual pro-active security is to characterize non-friendly citizens are a bunch of techno-illiterate near-savages. Maybe it does something for morale to think yourself superior, but it also causes a lax attitude and underestimating your opponents.
Yeah, apparently the NSA didn't notice Snowden, and intelligence is their job!
That said, proper access controls are usually a good part of security. If a N. Korean janitor had physical access to the server room, not so good (if he was an admin, well you sorta have to trust your admins but you can still have some access controls in place with compartmentalized data)
"would only get triggered if the employee was accessing the network from an unknown computer"
A stolen or compromised computer is still a *known* computer.
hmm. stealing
public defecation
violent altercations with police
I should start a new site: chimp-or-homelessdude.com
The problem with many of the numbers is that it's based on reports and extrapolation, and men are much less likely to report domestic violence.
Also, that just includes violence, not the person stuck in an abusive relationship because the spouse threatens to ruin him/her (take the kids, false charges, no money, etc).
There was a recent case of a Canadian woman who was killed by her spouse. She went back because she couldn't afford the lawyer to fight for custody, nor rent to live on her own. Many men are in a similar boat: facing loss of custody and/or crippling support payments.
"monkeys, zebras and lions all sleeping a few feet away from each other"
That doesn't really make much sense though. Lions are carnivores so wouldn't likely be eating the fruit. Maybe they got drunk from eating drunken monkeys?
The part about witnesses etc not wanting to be on camera makes some sense, however they could probably do the whole "fuzz and distort voice" thing similar to TV if that's a concern when presenting the video.
The main issue is that camera are not useful for the public without some enforcement for when they're suddenly "not working" at critical moment. We already have cams in cruisers and interrogation rooms that are mysteriously "broken" at times when their evidence might be useful to somebody other than the police. In Canada, a somewhat well-known case had a young man shot in an interrogation room by a police officer.The police officer testified the man was attacking him and going for his gun. Oddly, the camera for the interrogation room "wasn't working" for that day... go figure.
So there needs to be rigid rule for ensuring the devices are functional, and penalties for when they aren't except in obvious cases (say, camera video is good up to the point where the device is visibly damaged during an accident/struggle/etc).
That makes more sense. I'm fairly sure that "uncertified devices" goes way beyond bluetooth selfie remotes though... but low-hanging fruit I suppose.
Indeed, I've received multiple emails from ol' Jimmy again this year, one to a WP-specific email, and one to paypal. I don't care what your organization is, spam is spam, and unsolicited begging for funds qualifies just as well as any. I never agreed to allow them to contact me at my paypal address, they just scraped it from the time I did donate.
So Jimmy and WP can kiss my butt this year. Bah humbug to them.
I do. She turned me into a newt, but thankfully I got better.
This seems odd to me. Is bluetooth not an accepted standard in Korea?
The sticks themselves are just an extensible pole with a clip that can be adjusted to hold most cellular phones, no radio at all.
They commonly come with a little bluetooth remote that can be used to activate the camera. It's not using any frequency that any other bluetooth device wouldn't, and would be less bandwidth than - for example - some bluetooth headphones running AD2P streaming.
Except for those of us who frankly don't put up with that shit. Yes, I try to make my wife happy, but I do not compromise with everything in my life to do so.
I know somebody who has done that. His wife made a decision that put them in dire straights, and traded short-term happiness for long-term stability. They both ended miserable, and I can tell that - even though things seem to be clearing up now - he's still recovering.
Yes, sacrifices are necessary when one gets involved with relations (and has kids etc), but if you sell the farm then you're NOT going to have a happy life, and you'll end up resenting your spouse.
I'd say "unhappy wife, unhappy life", but the opposite isn't necessarily true. Relationships are built on compromise, and that goes both ways.
In my case, I still game, though I don't dedicate the time or money to it that I used to. My wife has time when she does her own thing, I have time for mine (be it gaming or whatever), and we both make sure to have time for each other.
I won't say I'm happy *all* the time, but I think you'd struggle to find anyone who is.
I still play old games which had some fairly severe bugs. For example, the unpatched "C&C Tiberium Wars" (which is still fun to play in a LAN party, after patching) had some terrible de-synchronization issues etc.
There are still sites out there that tended to have patches of these games, or - alternately - I have an old folder with discs of patches and a share on my local server.
Except in the case listed, you're basically removing things based on charges that have been shown as untrue (or at least unsubstantiated) in a court of law.
However, what people seem to be *actually* using the tool for is to remove things that are personally uncomfortable, but not untrue. So if salesman X is noted for scamming a bunch of people, or Banker Y is shown doing something inappropriate things, they can then get any linked articles about their behaviour removed. Then, when a new customer comes to Salesman X for Banker Y, they look them up and "hey, I can only find good things about this guy, I guess he's legit"
Indeed, I'd forgotten how slow HDD's were until I went to play a game the other day that I didn't often play (and thus was relegated to being installed on my larger 2TB HDD instead of the much faster - but smaller - SSD). The game wasn't too slow to start up, but loading levels resulted in a rather noticeably turtlish progress bar...
Do you still have the OCZ? I had the same issue with a 120GB but read about how many problems were related to them shipping with shyte firmware. Indeed after re-flashing mine it's been pretty reliable since.
All the kid had done so far was steal a box of cigars and resist arrest.
Actually, punching a cop is not "resisting arrest", that's "assaulting a police officer" (a bit more serious).
Well, let's put it this way. If he didn't want to be charged with a fairly serious CRIME, then don't commit the crime. The problem here is that they do have a legitimate case against the guy for the crimes in question, but he's trying to get off claiming they're actually out to get him for something else (which doesn't mean he's not guilty of the original crime).
Well, "on the internet" seems to be perfectly acceptable for lame patents, but those *benefit* the corporate overloads so I guess that's OK then...
Yes, because it's only SWM's that have a bad attitude or screw the employer/customers, right?
Nothing could ever go wrong by outsourcing to a country where labour laws and accountability are even worse...
So you still gave them your business... is what you're saying?
Even Origins (Dragon Age 1) manages to look pretty damn good on an up-to-date PC. I'm guessing there may have been some updates since the early release, but the graphics definitely scale nicely for modern hardware.
It's funny because it's one of the few games where the in-game graphics actually look better than those in the trailers (because the trailers were made with older hardware - though likely the best at the time the game first came out).
I haven't played through DA2 but I heard the gameplay was somewhat shoddy compared to the original. Hopefully Inquisition (DA3) is better.
The hard drive thing must be fairly standard for HP. The last time I had a laptop sent in it was due to a known defect (bad Northbridge resulting in crashes if you had dual DIMM's and applications using more than a certain amount of RAM).
They acknowledged the issue, but of course there was no replacement board so instead they fixed a supposedly loose power connector and the hard drive. The funny part was that - knowing their tendency re-image OS's - I'd taken out the 120GB HDD and put in a 30GB so that they wouldn't kill my data. When the laptop came back they'd plunked a new 120GB HDD in there. I guess they just had a bunch of pre-imaged stock drives and that was easier.
Some payment services these days will waive the chargeback fee if you successfully defend the charge
Some? If you've defended that the chargeback is not legitimate in what would should the associated fee still stick?
What really gets me is the wardrobe and fashion. Star-trek was pretty much out-of-era. There were lots of weird outfits, but the uniforms weren't really tied to any era (and they weren't weird spandex space-suits either). Hairstyles were also not quite so era based, except for a few characters. The old BSG also seem very... blonde.