I wonder how these comments would read if the whole article and summary was shoved through a s/Apple/Google/g regex.
I have a feeling there would be 300 posts of praise about how Google is leading the tech industry once again, and how everyone else is falling behind and risks becoming an obscure note in tech history if they don't climb on board that train...
And you'd be the guy yelling about Apple being a heavy handed asshat of a company if they started demanding that Foxconn use renewable energy at their manufacturing operations, dictating to other companies how to do their business, blah blah blah.
It's clearly Apple's responsibility to make sure half the planet is using renewable energy too, right? I mean, if they plug into their supply chain ANYWHERE, then clearly it counts. In your mind, does Apple have to make sure that they only use unicorn-fart powered mining equipment to extract the rare-earths necessary to manufacture devices too?
There were rumors that Intel actually looked into alternative cooling methods for Pentium before those big ass fans ended up being the norm. There was supposedly one system that actually used freon.
Also, you're not kidding about the die being huge on those - in those days Intel would take the defective units and encase them in acrylic and give them away as keychains. Now, the actual chip is so small you can't do that anymore.
Makes me wonder what they could do against a volume of assault, such as a couple hundred thousand Slashdot readers all posting a comment on their Facebook page at once...
I haven't looked at AppZapper, but I did write a perl script that would uninstall just about any PKG by reversing the order of the lsbom output, and then deleting files, and deleting the directory if it was empty.
Worked like a champ for getting rid of an application that liked to scribble all over the disk, rather than be a good Mac app and self-contain...
As for the malware thing, it's got to run from somewhere. As they can't even be bothered to find themselves a proper exploit to get installed, I doubt they are executing from somewhere not in the following list: /System/Library/LaunchDaemons /System/Library/LaunchAgents /Library/LaunchDaemons /Library/LaunchAgents /Library/StartupItems ~/Library/LaunchDaemons ~/Library/LaunchAgents ~/Library/StartupItems
Find the.plist, blow it away, reboot. The rest is benign.
I really have never understood why no one has made an attempt at a diesel electric hybrid like trains and boats. Or, like diesel generators you can buy from Home Depot. This is technology we've had for 60+ years, and has been practically perfected.
Luckily for Mac users though, that if it installs from a standard PKG or MPKG (which another comment above basically states) you can go to/var/db/receipts and get the entire bill of materials for that package with the lsbom command.
Pipe that into a delete routine, and you're all set.
(this works as a fairly effective uninstall for most PKG installs)
Commercial reactor waste has very little weapons-grade material in it, because in order to maximize production of weapons-grade Plutonium, you have to use a commercially inefficient fuel cycle to minimize the amount of spontaneously fissioning Plutonium isotopes being created through continued neutrox flux.
More succinctly: the more time U238 spends being bombarded in a reactor (thus, the more energy you create from the same fuel assembly), the more likely it is going to pass the "sweet spot" of Pu-239 into the undesireable Pu-240 or Pu-241 which poisons a prompt supercriticality which is created during a nuclear detonation. The reactors at Hanford that made the vast majority of weapons-bound Plutonium for the US weapons stockpile used somewhere around 6-month fuel cycles, where the average commercial reactor uses the fuel assembly for several years.
This is why I've been happy to see the rise of Kickstarter-funded games, two of which I'm eagerly anticipating the release of this year - Shadowrun Returns and Wasteland 2.
If they self-publish, the developer isn't beholden to the asshattery of established publishers like EA, Ubisoft, and Vivendi Universal.
Everyone forgets about SimFarm, which predates that FarmVille piece of shit by like 15 years.
I've always been waiting for Maxis to tie everything together, so you could have a SimEarth that contains SimCities filled with SimTowers and SimFarms, with The Sims living in the SimCities and tilling the fields and tending to the SimLife on the SimFarms.
Maybe combine it with a new product called SimGalaxy, and call it SimUniverse?
The thing that is even more remarkable is that not only did China co-sponsor the sanctions, but they've gotten to that point very rapidly after a long history of abstaining from these kinds of votes.
China could veto any Security Council resolution they want with zero reprecussions. They can choose not to vote, letting the other members decide. They could vote yes on something another country puts on the docket.
Or they could put it on the docket themselves, which they did. China has had enough of the Kim family's bullshit, and this is their way of signalling that in a very public fashion.
Time Warner is doing a variation on it though. What the guy really said was:
"We offer high-bandwidth service in some markets, but people don't subscribe to it"
What he's not expanding on, is the reason why they don't subscribe. Is it because people don't want it, or is it because they've made is so damn expensive that people don't see value in it compared to the lower-bandwidth service?
Unfortunately, us taxpayers do. My Federal Government at work.
Let's hope that instead of cutting weather satellite operations at NOAA in the sequester, they cut stupid ass report generation. Like nothing was ever built in places that get hot - seems to me there are lots of oil refineries that get built in the middle of freakin deserts.
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I wonder how these comments would read if the whole article and summary was shoved through a s/Apple/Google/g regex.
I have a feeling there would be 300 posts of praise about how Google is leading the tech industry once again, and how everyone else is falling behind and risks becoming an obscure note in tech history if they don't climb on board that train...
And you'd be the guy yelling about Apple being a heavy handed asshat of a company if they started demanding that Foxconn use renewable energy at their manufacturing operations, dictating to other companies how to do their business, blah blah blah.
It's clearly Apple's responsibility to make sure half the planet is using renewable energy too, right? I mean, if they plug into their supply chain ANYWHERE, then clearly it counts. In your mind, does Apple have to make sure that they only use unicorn-fart powered mining equipment to extract the rare-earths necessary to manufacture devices too?
They got it backwards then. They've had a printed card game for years.
Because this is so different than Wizards of the Coast having their own online M:TG game?
People that want to play with real cards, will.
People that don't, won't. This is an attempt to get some of those people in, too.
There were rumors that Intel actually looked into alternative cooling methods for Pentium before those big ass fans ended up being the norm. There was supposedly one system that actually used freon.
Also, you're not kidding about the die being huge on those - in those days Intel would take the defective units and encase them in acrylic and give them away as keychains. Now, the actual chip is so small you can't do that anymore.
Makes me wonder what they could do against a volume of assault, such as a couple hundred thousand Slashdot readers all posting a comment on their Facebook page at once...
People use condoms and tampons to keep water out of fuel inlets on vehicles fording streams. TopGear did this in their Bolivia special.
I haven't looked at AppZapper, but I did write a perl script that would uninstall just about any PKG by reversing the order of the lsbom output, and then deleting files, and deleting the directory if it was empty.
Worked like a champ for getting rid of an application that liked to scribble all over the disk, rather than be a good Mac app and self-contain...
As for the malware thing, it's got to run from somewhere. As they can't even be bothered to find themselves a proper exploit to get installed, I doubt they are executing from somewhere not in the following list:
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons
/System/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/LaunchDaemons
/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/StartupItems
~/Library/LaunchDaemons
~/Library/LaunchAgents
~/Library/StartupItems
Find the .plist, blow it away, reboot. The rest is benign.
No one in the US is shocked that Richard Nixon was a gaping asshole. That's a well established fact.
He's also long dead. What do you want to do about it now, and how would it be of any use?
How about the increased low RPM torque available from diesel, in order to move an already heavy limo covered in even heavier armor plating?
We wouldn't allow Quebec in as a state.
Most of Canada that isn't Quebec would be perfectly fine with this.
I really have never understood why no one has made an attempt at a diesel electric hybrid like trains and boats. Or, like diesel generators you can buy from Home Depot. This is technology we've had for 60+ years, and has been practically perfected.
Luckily for Mac users though, that if it installs from a standard PKG or MPKG (which another comment above basically states) you can go to /var/db/receipts and get the entire bill of materials for that package with the lsbom command.
Pipe that into a delete routine, and you're all set.
(this works as a fairly effective uninstall for most PKG installs)
You're not being even remotely accurate.
Most corporations would like to enslave shareholders too.
group of people who will drive a 4x4 in the outback for 12 hours a day, just to fix someone's phone connection.
This sounds like a great way to retire after I'm done with my current career!
Step 1: Perfect cloning.
Step 2: Repeal Endangered Species Act
Step 3: Club baby seals
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Profit!
Yeah, so lets burn more gasoline to do the same amount of work, which has never caused any environmental or health problems.
Are you an idiot?
I'd love to get one of these in the US. 373 HP and 576 LB-Ft. of torque while getting almost 40 mpg? Yes please.
It won't happen though, because for some reason everyone in the US hates diesel cars, so manufacturers don't even bother with importing them.
Commercial reactor waste has very little weapons-grade material in it, because in order to maximize production of weapons-grade Plutonium, you have to use a commercially inefficient fuel cycle to minimize the amount of spontaneously fissioning Plutonium isotopes being created through continued neutrox flux.
More succinctly: the more time U238 spends being bombarded in a reactor (thus, the more energy you create from the same fuel assembly), the more likely it is going to pass the "sweet spot" of Pu-239 into the undesireable Pu-240 or Pu-241 which poisons a prompt supercriticality which is created during a nuclear detonation. The reactors at Hanford that made the vast majority of weapons-bound Plutonium for the US weapons stockpile used somewhere around 6-month fuel cycles, where the average commercial reactor uses the fuel assembly for several years.
This is why I've been happy to see the rise of Kickstarter-funded games, two of which I'm eagerly anticipating the release of this year - Shadowrun Returns and Wasteland 2.
If they self-publish, the developer isn't beholden to the asshattery of established publishers like EA, Ubisoft, and Vivendi Universal.
Everyone forgets about SimFarm, which predates that FarmVille piece of shit by like 15 years.
I've always been waiting for Maxis to tie everything together, so you could have a SimEarth that contains SimCities filled with SimTowers and SimFarms, with The Sims living in the SimCities and tilling the fields and tending to the SimLife on the SimFarms.
Maybe combine it with a new product called SimGalaxy, and call it SimUniverse?
The thing that is even more remarkable is that not only did China co-sponsor the sanctions, but they've gotten to that point very rapidly after a long history of abstaining from these kinds of votes.
China could veto any Security Council resolution they want with zero reprecussions. They can choose not to vote, letting the other members decide. They could vote yes on something another country puts on the docket.
Or they could put it on the docket themselves, which they did. China has had enough of the Kim family's bullshit, and this is their way of signalling that in a very public fashion.
It seems to me that there are lots of countries that manage to not get slapped with UN sanctions, yet have disagreements with the US.
Getting UN sanctions applied means that you aren't pissing off the US, but that you're pissing off most of the planet.
Time Warner is doing a variation on it though. What the guy really said was:
"We offer high-bandwidth service in some markets, but people don't subscribe to it"
What he's not expanding on, is the reason why they don't subscribe. Is it because people don't want it, or is it because they've made is so damn expensive that people don't see value in it compared to the lower-bandwidth service?
Who pays for crap like this?
Unfortunately, us taxpayers do. My Federal Government at work.
Let's hope that instead of cutting weather satellite operations at NOAA in the sequester, they cut stupid ass report generation. Like nothing was ever built in places that get hot - seems to me there are lots of oil refineries that get built in the middle of freakin deserts.