Posts like this confuse me. You call others "at the top" stupid yet you're in your late 50's and never advanced beyond a minimum wage help desk zombie reading scripts. Ever stop to think it's not them, it's you?
When I was in my early 50's, I was doing senior level phone support for a major ISP, dealing with issues the other techs didn't understand and earning almost twice as much as what I liked to call "the phone firewall." And every day, I went home knowing that there were people who had a better day because they'd talked to me, and that's the main way I coped with the stress.
In particular, it is really shitty how we treat disabled veterans, so many of whom wind up on the streets.
As a disabled vet, not homeless, I'd like to thank you for recognizing how badly some of us are treated. However, I do have one question to ask: what are you doing to help homeless vets to get the treatment they need?
Not only that, they're not consistent. Go into any health food store, or one that specializes in organic and/or natural food, and you'll see food for sale that's been processed with either calcium hydroxide or lye, both highly corrosive chemicals. Why are they allowed to do such things?
The question as you phrased it is loaded. If the car goes off the cliff, the passenger dies, but if it doesn't, it hits the pedestrian who may or may not die. The only hope you have of not killing anybody is to hit the pedestrian and hope he/she survives.
I'm not sure which film you're talking about, but I do know that it was a Laurel and Hardy movie: Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Just a minor nitpick, but I do like to see people get things like that right.
That's an interesting thought. What I wonder is how many of those apps actually do send data to Google? Just because they're able to doesn't mean that they're doing it.
If you can, try switching to a pipe or cigars instead of cigarettes. If you pick decent quality cigars, or a brand of pipe tobacco that actually has some flavor to it (Not, let's say, Captain Black!) you won't need to inhale, just draw the smoke into your mouth (AKA "puffing") because most of the damage comes from drawing it into your lings.
The next time somebody asks how you are, reply, "Just terrible, thank you." in a cheerful voice. The odds are whoever asked will respond to your tone of voice, not your words.
Yes, they could, because the various typebars wore in unique, distinctive ways, such as having one character offset in a particular direction or another key not printing completely. Of course, this could be defeated if you had access to several machines of the same model plus some small tools so that you could move various typebars around among the machines so that none of them matched the sample. Much more practical, of course, was either selling the machine, smashing it or dumping it someplace where it's unlikely to be found, such as in deep water or the local city dump. You find this sort of thing in detective/spy novels written back then, but I've no idea if it ever happened in Real Life.
...starting to think about a complete whitelist approach...
I'd be reluctant to go that rout if I were you. It's not uncommon for various doctors from my health care plan (VA) to call me on their own cell phones rather than use the VA's lines simply because it's easier for them and you're going to want those calls to get through.
If I could force one change on Linux, I would make the root uid random/settable per system.
I don't think that would work the way you expect. Under *nix, there's nothing special about the username "root". You can change it to anything you want and it still works the same. The magic is in the userid of 0 and changing it the way you suggest would require that every program that needs elevated privileges would have to be rewritten to find out what that userid is on this system every time it's invoked, adding an extra layer of complexity. (This, of course, assume that those programs check to see what user is running them to find out if they have permission to do what's needed. If not, it might not be an issue.)
Judging from TFS, he was just the cyber equivalent of a peeping tom. And, if he was only 14 when he started, I don't know if you could really call him a pedofile if the pictures were of girls his own age.
If the new iPhones are getting poorer reception and slower downloads than the old ones did in the same location, I'd have to call it a very expensive downgrade, not an upgrade.
Now, algorithms and databases "remember" every time you didn't act "right."
No, algorithms don't "remember" anything. An algorithm is a method of solving a problem that meets certain criteria, including always coming up with the right answer as long as the input is correct and always completing in a finite amount of time. Either learn what the jargon you're throwing around means, or turn in your geek card.
Fi on Vi, and Emacs too! If you must use a text editor in a CLI, use Mork's editor, nano! If nothing else, the main commands are listed at the bottom of the screen, including ^G, which brings up the help file, including all of the less common commands.
We're not talking about cosmology here, but of such things as star mapping, records of planetary movements and of abnormal events such as comets, eclipses and novas.
True, but "well paid" is relative and depends on where you're talking about. A salary that would be considered good in St. Louis, Denver or Boston would probably be considered inadequate in San Francisco, Seattle or New York both because the cost of living is so badly inflated and the average salary is jumped up to match.
Not all rating systems allow zero stars, but that's a minor detail. Your method lets the astroturfers get away with inflating the ratings because you never look to see any comments they make. I like to read the comments because I can learn why they liked or didn't like the business, and get a better picture of what to expect. And, when I see large numbers of anonymous top ratings with no comments, I presume that the company's gaming the system and that there's probably a good reason they're fudging the numbers.
Yeah. I remember looking at the reviews on Google Maps for a hotel after a bad experience. Every time there was a bad review, with details, it was followed by two or three five star reviews by A GOOGLE USER with no comments. Blatant astroturfing, but it kept the hotel's rating artificially high.
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I'm no expert on such things, but I'd think that finding out why they're homeless would be a good place to start.
Posts like this confuse me. You call others "at the top" stupid yet you're in your late 50's and never advanced beyond a minimum wage help desk zombie reading scripts. Ever stop to think it's not them, it's you?
When I was in my early 50's, I was doing senior level phone support for a major ISP, dealing with issues the other techs didn't understand and earning almost twice as much as what I liked to call "the phone firewall." And every day, I went home knowing that there were people who had a better day because they'd talked to me, and that's the main way I coped with the stress.
In particular, it is really shitty how we treat disabled veterans, so many of whom wind up on the streets.
As a disabled vet, not homeless, I'd like to thank you for recognizing how badly some of us are treated. However, I do have one question to ask: what are you doing to help homeless vets to get the treatment they need?
Not only that, they're not consistent. Go into any health food store, or one that specializes in organic and/or natural food, and you'll see food for sale that's been processed with either calcium hydroxide or lye, both highly corrosive chemicals. Why are they allowed to do such things?
My understanding is that Benny the Moose had all of the schedules rewritten to match what the trains were really doing.
The question as you phrased it is loaded. If the car goes off the cliff, the passenger dies, but if it doesn't, it hits the pedestrian who may or may not die. The only hope you have of not killing anybody is to hit the pedestrian and hope he/she survives.
I watched the Stan & Laurel piece...
I'm not sure which film you're talking about, but I do know that it was a Laurel and Hardy movie: Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Just a minor nitpick, but I do like to see people get things like that right.
eggs in in plastic foam carton
Unless you make a habit of eating the eggshells, that's not going to be an issue.
That's an interesting thought. What I wonder is how many of those apps actually do send data to Google? Just because they're able to doesn't mean that they're doing it.
Yes, but I prefer using the real thing when possible, not synthetic imitations.
Yes, but it's considerably less common than lung cancer and not many people smoke either cigars or pipes enough to make it a significant risk.
If you can, try switching to a pipe or cigars instead of cigarettes. If you pick decent quality cigars, or a brand of pipe tobacco that actually has some flavor to it (Not, let's say, Captain Black!) you won't need to inhale, just draw the smoke into your mouth (AKA "puffing") because most of the damage comes from drawing it into your lings.
The next time somebody asks how you are, reply, "Just terrible, thank you." in a cheerful voice. The odds are whoever asked will respond to your tone of voice, not your words.
Yes, they could, because the various typebars wore in unique, distinctive ways, such as having one character offset in a particular direction or another key not printing completely. Of course, this could be defeated if you had access to several machines of the same model plus some small tools so that you could move various typebars around among the machines so that none of them matched the sample. Much more practical, of course, was either selling the machine, smashing it or dumping it someplace where it's unlikely to be found, such as in deep water or the local city dump. You find this sort of thing in detective/spy novels written back then, but I've no idea if it ever happened in Real Life.
...starting to think about a complete whitelist approach...
I'd be reluctant to go that rout if I were you. It's not uncommon for various doctors from my health care plan (VA) to call me on their own cell phones rather than use the VA's lines simply because it's easier for them and you're going to want those calls to get through.
If I could force one change on Linux, I would make the root uid random/settable per system.
I don't think that would work the way you expect. Under *nix, there's nothing special about the username "root". You can change it to anything you want and it still works the same. The magic is in the userid of 0 and changing it the way you suggest would require that every program that needs elevated privileges would have to be rewritten to find out what that userid is on this system every time it's invoked, adding an extra layer of complexity. (This, of course, assume that those programs check to see what user is running them to find out if they have permission to do what's needed. If not, it might not be an issue.)
I don't remember one from the 50s, but I do know there was a sitcom in the 60s where the hero had a phone hidden in his shoe.
Judging from TFS, he was just the cyber equivalent of a peeping tom. And, if he was only 14 when he started, I don't know if you could really call him a pedofile if the pictures were of girls his own age.
If the new iPhones are getting poorer reception and slower downloads than the old ones did in the same location, I'd have to call it a very expensive downgrade, not an upgrade.
Now, algorithms and databases "remember" every time you didn't act "right."
No, algorithms don't "remember" anything. An algorithm is a method of solving a problem that meets certain criteria, including always coming up with the right answer as long as the input is correct and always completing in a finite amount of time. Either learn what the jargon you're throwing around means, or turn in your geek card.
Fi on Vi, and Emacs too! If you must use a text editor in a CLI, use Mork's editor, nano! If nothing else, the main commands are listed at the bottom of the screen, including ^G, which brings up the help file, including all of the less common commands.
We're not talking about cosmology here, but of such things as star mapping, records of planetary movements and of abnormal events such as comets, eclipses and novas.
True, but "well paid" is relative and depends on where you're talking about. A salary that would be considered good in St. Louis, Denver or Boston would probably be considered inadequate in San Francisco, Seattle or New York both because the cost of living is so badly inflated and the average salary is jumped up to match.
Not all rating systems allow zero stars, but that's a minor detail. Your method lets the astroturfers get away with inflating the ratings because you never look to see any comments they make. I like to read the comments because I can learn why they liked or didn't like the business, and get a better picture of what to expect. And, when I see large numbers of anonymous top ratings with no comments, I presume that the company's gaming the system and that there's probably a good reason they're fudging the numbers.
Yeah. I remember looking at the reviews on Google Maps for a hotel after a bad experience. Every time there was a bad review, with details, it was followed by two or three five star reviews by A GOOGLE USER with no comments. Blatant astroturfing, but it kept the hotel's rating artificially high.