>>they've permanently altered our society to turn us into scared cattle
I respectfully disagree.
We are not scared cattle. The terrorists haven't really scared us. Fuck them.
But they have started a series of eveents that makes us more like abused cattle. Facilitated by the tit squeezing, child molesting, mall cop employing TSA.
What really pains me about the killing of the show is that I was fully expecting to see the events leading up to, and eventually the actual events of the Cylon War. Including all the expected retconned hooks into BSG.
And especially battlefields full of badass TOS era Cylons wielding swords, and the back-story of why a particular Battlestar was built so shoddily (mob influence on the labor unions?).
I don't doubt your experience at all. I can see things going down that way, corporate culture and all being what it is.
But I still don't get it.
If a guy with a small store would have to expense similar tasks, (locks on cabinets, a labeling system, etc).. at his level of the economy. Why is the same a problem for a huge 1000+ store chain? I mean, they are that big because they are making money - right? And you'd think that the economy of scale would mae the installation of some of these things even cheaper proportionally than it would be for the small shop guy.
>> My current directory is reporting the future?! I can't believe it! My terminal just simply started spitting out all sorts of useful advice above events that haven't happened yet. I performed the pwd command to figure out which magical directory I had entered, but then my computer imploded! I didn't have a chance to copy the terminal output to my USB drive. Now I'll never be able to know what happens in the future!
Well what happened was that your machine figured out all the winning lottery numbers for tonight's games and dumped them out to file. So it did it's job.. pulling data from the future.
What's interesting though is that when the machine imploded it was really moving through time. You'll find it back on your desk in the morning, and you should be able to pick up tonight's lottery numbers at that time....
And just as a goof, I once took the ripped sequence of the FBI warning from some movie and inserted it into a dvd I put together of a family function. Funny thing was that no one noticed or questioned how it got there. LOL.
Jeez... you can write a perl script to do the scraping in about 15 minutes.
Besides the fix for the insecure functions on the page, I certainly hope they are doing IP blocking....
But what a bunch of PR jumbo... the problem is the result of a bug?? I'd disagree. I've seen the login error page. The function of showing the image and repeating the email address is by design . A horribly insecure design in the context of Facebook's privacy settings setup. But it was a design decision, not a bug.
I used the be a huge fan of Starbucks.. but the novelty kind of wore off. (took like 15 years, but that's just me). I feel a lot better about myself supporting the local coffee truck, and a deli nearby.
I'm as much of a geek as anyone here - love tech and science. Programming and designing stuff. But I can't rationalize buying a kindle or any other such thing... simply because I can't hold the book. I need to feel the paper.. a real book doesn't need it's battery charged.
And in the case of my beloved O'reilly, and ADW books... in an e-Format, you can't highlight and take notes (or scribble in corrections when you find bugs in the code examples;)
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I for one welcome our new Cylon overlords.
>>they've permanently altered our society to turn us into scared cattle
I respectfully disagree.
We are not scared cattle. The terrorists haven't really scared us. Fuck them.
But they have started a series of eveents that makes us more like abused cattle. Facilitated by the tit squeezing, child molesting, mall cop employing TSA.
Just read TFA. OK, maybe it's not so bad. Perhaps Blood and Chrome will cover the points about the war I made in parent post.
Hard Core BSG fan here. Like many of you are.
What really pains me about the killing of the show is that I was fully expecting to see the events leading up to, and eventually the actual events of the Cylon War. Including all the expected retconned hooks into BSG.
And especially battlefields full of badass TOS era Cylons wielding swords, and the back-story of why a particular Battlestar was built so shoddily (mob influence on the labor unions?).
But now that all won't be seen.
>>you've still got a pretty much permanent asset.
Tell that to the landowners on Alderan.
Just wait until someone invents a transporter system. And same becomes inexpensive enough for the average Federation Citizen to have one.
I don't doubt your experience at all. I can see things going down that way, corporate culture and all being what it is.
But I still don't get it.
If a guy with a small store would have to expense similar tasks, (locks on cabinets, a labeling system, etc).. at his level of the economy. Why is the same a problem for a huge 1000+ store chain? I mean, they are that big because they are making money - right? And you'd think that the economy of scale would mae the installation of some of these things even cheaper proportionally than it would be for the small shop guy.
>> My current directory is reporting the future?! I can't believe it! My terminal just simply started spitting out all sorts of useful advice above events that haven't happened yet. I performed the pwd command to figure out which magical directory I had entered, but then my computer imploded! I didn't have a chance to copy the terminal output to my USB drive. Now I'll never be able to know what happens in the future!
Well what happened was that your machine figured out all the winning lottery numbers for tonight's games and dumped them out to file. So it did it's job.. pulling data from the future.
What's interesting though is that when the machine imploded it was really moving through time. You'll find it back on your desk in the morning, and you should be able to pick up tonight's lottery numbers at that time....
What would a Fireman do?
Susan ends up repenting and paying the RIAA about a billion dollars.....
>>To me, that says human laws are inconsequential and mean nothing.
And yet some feel the need to legislate God's will, in order to enforce it. Go figure.
You guys need to be searching for references to 15 commandments.
Didn't you see the movie? There were 15 before there were 10....
Coveting thy neighbors wife... I suppose that ends up helping the economy for divorce lawyers
I've heard stories of Medieval offices in the 90's that would chain laptops to desks to prevent them from being carried off.
Not much has changed, it seems...
And just as a goof, I once took the ripped sequence of the FBI warning from some movie and inserted it into a dvd I put together of a family function. Funny thing was that no one noticed or questioned how it got there. LOL.
There's no provision in copyright law _yet_.
Give congress a little more time... they'll get it there...
Which country are you writing about specifically?
Jeez... you can write a perl script to do the scraping in about 15 minutes.
Besides the fix for the insecure functions on the page, I certainly hope they are doing IP blocking....
But what a bunch of PR jumbo... the problem is the result of a bug?? I'd disagree. I've seen the login error page. The function of showing the image and repeating the email address is by design . A horribly insecure design in the context of Facebook's privacy settings setup. But it was a design decision, not a bug.
At least that's how I see it.
>>Scraping Facebook for this type of information is prohibited, she added.
Oh, yes. That'll stop em'. Stern warnings always do.
Is that TSA or TnA ?
Thank you, I'll be here all week. Please try the veal, it's great....
I used the be a huge fan of Starbucks.. but the novelty kind of wore off. (took like 15 years, but that's just me). I feel a lot better about myself supporting the local coffee truck, and a deli nearby.
Just because.
I've seen this in B&N's for at least 10 years. The one in Princeton, NJ stands out... but I've seen it in a lot of them over the last decade.
I'm as much of a geek as anyone here - love tech and science. Programming and designing stuff. But I can't rationalize buying a kindle or any other such thing... simply because I can't hold the book. I need to feel the paper.. a real book doesn't need it's battery charged.
And in the case of my beloved O'reilly, and ADW books... in an e-Format, you can't highlight and take notes (or scribble in corrections when you find bugs in the code examples ;)
You know... this is the next excuse the Iranians are going to give for having their centrifuges....
So what has happened to the technology since then? Any improvements, commercial sponsors, etc?
Makes you wonder how feasible the solution really is if the project itself hasn't progressed....