reserving domain names for one of her target's 3 year old daughter.
One of the three... daughters... who are old... that the target... adopted... a year ago?
That is a very ugly and incorrect phrase. First, "3-year-old" needs hyphens when used as an adjective for "daughter". Also, leading with "one of" leads the reader into thinking something in there is going to be plural: either "daughters" (if the target had more than one 3-year-old daughter) or, more likely, "targets", which would form the possessive "targets' " (apostrophe trails the s iff the -s suffix signifies a plural). And mixing prepositional possessive phrases with bare possessives is just asking for parsing trouble.
That link-text is more readable as:
reserving domain names for the 3-year-old daughter of one of her targets.
or, the less likely:
reserving domain names for one of the 3-year-old daughters of her target.
that the target had twin girls, or, if even less likely hyphenation error was misconstrued:
reserving domain names for one of the three year-old daughters of her target.
suggesting the target had triplets, each being one year of age.
Whoever edited that submission needs remedial study.
To me, there's clearly a connection between piracy and privacy, and not just the obvious that you want your piracy to be secret to avoid prosecution, but that some piracy is motivated in remaining a private person, especially in the face of corporations and their associations that seek to make you not, for their own benefit.
They want to find those consumers with low standards and meet, not exceed them, with as little effort as possible.
In an information economy, a cash sale is considered a loss.
With digital goods, the supply is infinite, trying to artificially limit it is ridiculous and just results in someone else stepping up to cater to that demand.
Hello, children. Hello. Here is this morning's story. Are you ready? Then we'll begin.
One day, Ricky the magic pixie went to visit Daisy Bumble in her tumble-down cottage. He found her in the bedroom. Roughly, he grabbed her heavy shoulders, pulling her down onto the bed and ripping off her--
Old Nick the sea captain was a rough, tough, jolly sort of fellow. He loved the life of the sea, and he loved to hang out down by the pier, where the men dressed as ladies--
Rumpletweezer ran the dinky-tinky shop in the foot of the magic oak tree by the wobbly dum-dum bush in the shade of the magic glade down in Dingly Dell. Here he sold contraceptives and--
Wasn't there a lot of child nudity in Ender's Game?
It's not a picture book. Any child nudity you saw while reading it (or listening to it in audiobook form or otherwise having it read to you) you produced yourself in your own mind.
With Evi's single eye bouncing left and right while she processes the question, I asked, "Are you a Cylon?" Evi responded, "I don't know, I'm afraid." So apparently she's a sleeper agent like Boomer.
The easiest way for them to do this is to adopt another legal fallacy: like corporations are people, encryption is a munition, money is speech, the national "border" is 200 miles thick (100 miles to each side), and DRM is effective protection, declare the Internet as a public space and you can surveil with impunity.
(Acknowledged, those are US official legal fallacies and this is about Canada.)
Rose Tyler: So, what is it? What's wrong? The Doctor: Don't know, some kind of signal drawing the TARDIS off course. Rose Tyler: Where are we? The Doctor: Earth, Utah, North America. About half a mile underground. Rose Tyler: And... when are we? The Doctor: 2012. Rose Tyler: God, that's so close. So I should be... 26.
Adam Mitchell: This is Mr. van Statten. Rose Tyler: And who is he when he's not at home? Adam Mitchell: Mr. van Statten owns the Internet. Rose Tyler: Don't be stupid, no one owns the Internet. Henry van Statten: And let's just keep the whole world thinking that way, right kids?
Henry van Statten: So, the next President. What do you think? Republican or Democrat? Diana Goddard: Democrat, Sir. Henry van Statten: For what reason? Diana Goddard: They're... just so funny, Sir?
How about, "God does not deign to exist; existence is beneath Him"?
Or, "God cannot exist: He could not tolerate Himself having power rivaling His own"?
And lastly, a quotation on existence itself:
"[B]efore I came on stage, the Universe had been around for twelve billion years. All that time I was in a state of nonexistence, and it wasn't bad. Pretty comfortable as a matter of fact. I figure it'll be just as comfortable for the next twelve billion years." -- Dr. Kurt Mendel; Odyssey 5: "Pilot"
Alternatively the product is not the Movie but the Theatre Going Experience.
I had a "Theatre Going Experience". The one local theater that still showed second-run movies for $2 (9 screens) was torn down and is now a nearly completed parking garage. Theatre: Gone.
All the theaters here are Marcus. Their website is nearly unusable unless you either know which theater you want to go to or which movie you want to see: no listing of just movies available in your city, and theaters are organized by state which, while listed by full name, are sorted by postal abbreviation.
The marquee on one of their theaters actually tells you "for movie and event info like our Facebook page" and a runtogetherword which is assumedly the name of that Facebook page. You own a theater; you own the marquee of the theater; I'm standing in front of your theater looking at your marquee. You're telling me you can't be assed to list your movie titles on your free-for-you marquee and instead ask me to get on-line and use another company's service to find out what movies you're showing and when? It's not that cold out here. (Then again, they did list a live RiffTracks simulcast on their marquee more than a month in advance, but when the date came around for it, they disavowed any knowledge of the event.)
Does this mean non-AT&T branded TiVo remotes will now be able to carry a Standby button and users not have to use Slow Up Skip Select to do the same thing reliably?
[as Max piloting the Leonov's pod approaches the Monolith] Dr. Heywood Floyd: Maybe Max should extend the pod's arms. Put the hands out. Dr. Vasili Orlov: Are you serious? Dr. Heywood Floyd: Yes. Walter Curnow: I don't know about you, but that thing with its claws in the air would scare the piss out of me. Dr. Heywood Floyd: Maybe you're right.
"This is only the fifth time Oracle has issued an alert outside its routine quarterly patch cycle since introducing its own version of Patch Tuesday at the start of 2005."
That would be Microsoft's "Patch Tuesday". Oracle doesn't call it "out-of-band".
Adobe called it a "Security bulletin", and judging from when Adobe releases updates for Flash Player, I'm not even seeing a regular schedule to classify it as "out-of-band" as Microsoft defines it.
They're actually talking about delivery of patches via FTP and TFTP. Another talks about SNMP as the method. That is out-of-band and not what Microsoft is doing.
If anything about Microsoft releasing a patch off-schedule is "out-of-band" it is that they call special attention to it via press release rather than otherwise silently informing people via Windows Update. And that's assuming that they don't issue press releases anyway that usually get ignored by the press when they're on the regular schedule. It's not delivering the patch out-of-band, it's informing the public out-of-band, i.e. via an alternate band of communication. But it isn't delivery of the patch; that still occurs through the normal channel: Windows Update. It's conflating security "update" as a deliverable fix with security "update" as bulletin about the availability of the fix via the usual channels.
And that's the closest to a concession you'll get out of me on this.
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reserving domain names for one of her target's 3 year old daughter.
One of the three... daughters... who are old... that the target... adopted... a year ago?
That is a very ugly and incorrect phrase. First, "3-year-old" needs hyphens when used as an adjective for "daughter". Also, leading with "one of" leads the reader into thinking something in there is going to be plural: either "daughters" (if the target had more than one 3-year-old daughter) or, more likely, "targets", which would form the possessive "targets' " (apostrophe trails the s iff the -s suffix signifies a plural). And mixing prepositional possessive phrases with bare possessives is just asking for parsing trouble.
That link-text is more readable as:
reserving domain names for the 3-year-old daughter of one of her targets.
or, the less likely:
reserving domain names for one of the 3-year-old daughters of her target.
that the target had twin girls, or, if even less likely hyphenation error was misconstrued:
reserving domain names for one of the three year-old daughters of her target.
suggesting the target had triplets, each being one year of age.
Whoever edited that submission needs remedial study.
Immature Alien Martial Artists
Immature Alien Martial Artists
Immature Alien Martial Artists
Cash in on a franchise, with sexplosions.
To me, there's clearly a connection between piracy and privacy, and not just the obvious that you want your piracy to be secret to avoid prosecution, but that some piracy is motivated in remaining a private person, especially in the face of corporations and their associations that seek to make you not, for their own benefit.
They want to find those consumers with low standards and meet, not exceed them, with as little effort as possible.
In an information economy, a cash sale is considered a loss.
With digital goods, the supply is infinite, trying to artificially limit it is ridiculous and just results in someone else stepping up to cater to that demand.
Disney.
Check their pockets and make them play in a giant Faraday cage!
Neutrino subdermal communicators?
"The Klute offers a draw!"
Hello, children. Hello. Here is this morning's story. Are you ready? Then we'll begin.
One day, Ricky the magic pixie went to visit Daisy Bumble in her tumble-down cottage. He found her in the bedroom. Roughly, he grabbed her heavy shoulders, pulling her down onto the bed and ripping off her--
Old Nick the sea captain was a rough, tough, jolly sort of fellow. He loved the life of the sea, and he loved to hang out down by the pier, where the men dressed as ladies--
Rumpletweezer ran the dinky-tinky shop in the foot of the magic oak tree by the wobbly dum-dum bush in the shade of the magic glade down in Dingly Dell. Here he sold contraceptives and--
Discipline... naked... "with a melon"?
Wasn't there a lot of child nudity in Ender's Game?
It's not a picture book. Any child nudity you saw while reading it (or listening to it in audiobook form or otherwise having it read to you) you produced yourself in your own mind.
So you would need a patsy to plug it in or physical access.
That would be easier if it doubled as a USB charger.
It's often paraphrased: "One law, for rich and poor alike, which prohibits them equally from stealing bread or sleeping under bridges."
With Evi's single eye bouncing left and right while she processes the question, I asked, "Are you a Cylon?" Evi responded, "I don't know, I'm afraid." So apparently she's a sleeper agent like Boomer.
It's just a (wire)tap on the head.
All right, Miss Mack. You're confirmed on Southwest's flight 114 leaving Chicago's O'Hare Airport at 8.15am on 18 August. Do we need a rental car? No.
The easiest way for them to do this is to adopt another legal fallacy: like corporations are people, encryption is a munition, money is speech, the national "border" is 200 miles thick (100 miles to each side), and DRM is effective protection, declare the Internet as a public space and you can surveil with impunity.
(Acknowledged, those are US official legal fallacies and this is about Canada.)
Rose Tyler: So, what is it? What's wrong?
The Doctor: Don't know, some kind of signal drawing the TARDIS off course.
Rose Tyler: Where are we?
The Doctor: Earth, Utah, North America. About half a mile underground.
Rose Tyler: And... when are we?
The Doctor: 2012.
Rose Tyler: God, that's so close. So I should be... 26.
Adam Mitchell: This is Mr. van Statten.
Rose Tyler: And who is he when he's not at home?
Adam Mitchell: Mr. van Statten owns the Internet.
Rose Tyler: Don't be stupid, no one owns the Internet.
Henry van Statten: And let's just keep the whole world thinking that way, right kids?
Henry van Statten: So, the next President. What do you think? Republican or Democrat?
Diana Goddard: Democrat, Sir.
Henry van Statten: For what reason?
Diana Goddard: They're... just so funny, Sir?
LO0ol
How about, "God does not deign to exist; existence is beneath Him"?
Or, "God cannot exist: He could not tolerate Himself having power rivaling His own"?
And lastly, a quotation on existence itself:
"[B]efore I came on stage, the Universe had been around for twelve billion years. All that time I was in a state of nonexistence, and it wasn't bad. Pretty comfortable as a matter of fact. I figure it'll be just as comfortable for the next twelve billion years." -- Dr. Kurt Mendel; Odyssey 5: "Pilot"
Aliens destroy us, after a fanboy calls the iPad to make ET jokes.
Do you think going with using Facetime to make a Superman II joke would be received better?
Well, if you presume a perfectly spherical iPad....
Alternatively the product is not the Movie but the Theatre Going Experience.
I had a "Theatre Going Experience". The one local theater that still showed second-run movies for $2 (9 screens) was torn down and is now a nearly completed parking garage. Theatre: Gone.
All the theaters here are Marcus. Their website is nearly unusable unless you either know which theater you want to go to or which movie you want to see: no listing of just movies available in your city, and theaters are organized by state which, while listed by full name, are sorted by postal abbreviation.
The marquee on one of their theaters actually tells you "for movie and event info like our Facebook page" and a runtogetherword which is assumedly the name of that Facebook page. You own a theater; you own the marquee of the theater; I'm standing in front of your theater looking at your marquee. You're telling me you can't be assed to list your movie titles on your free-for-you marquee and instead ask me to get on-line and use another company's service to find out what movies you're showing and when? It's not that cold out here. (Then again, they did list a live RiffTracks simulcast on their marquee more than a month in advance, but when the date came around for it, they disavowed any knowledge of the event.)
"Peoples of the Universe, please attend carefully. The message that follows is vital to the future of you all."
Does this mean non-AT&T branded TiVo remotes will now be able to carry a Standby button and users not have to use Slow Up Skip Select to do the same thing reliably?
Just the thought reminds me of the new The Outer Limits episode "Simon Says", where a boy put in a robot body had somehow pet a cat to death.
[as Max piloting the Leonov's pod approaches the Monolith]
Dr. Heywood Floyd: Maybe Max should extend the pod's arms. Put the hands out.
Dr. Vasili Orlov: Are you serious?
Dr. Heywood Floyd: Yes.
Walter Curnow: I don't know about you, but that thing with its claws in the air would scare the piss out of me.
Dr. Heywood Floyd: Maybe you're right.
Be a Government Informer. Betray Your Family & Friends. Fabulous Prizes to be Won.
"Oracle issues rare out-of-band update for Apache DDoS vulnerability"
"This is only the fifth time Oracle has issued an alert outside its routine quarterly patch cycle since introducing its own version of Patch Tuesday at the start of 2005."
That would be Microsoft's "Patch Tuesday". Oracle doesn't call it "out-of-band".
"Adobe Releases Out-of-Band Patch"
Adobe called it a "Security bulletin", and judging from when Adobe releases updates for Flash Player, I'm not even seeing a regular schedule to classify it as "out-of-band" as Microsoft defines it.
"Installing out-of-band updates for IBM BladeCenter devices using Telnet fails"
They're actually talking about delivery of patches via FTP and TFTP. Another talks about SNMP as the method. That is out-of-band and not what Microsoft is doing.
If anything about Microsoft releasing a patch off-schedule is "out-of-band" it is that they call special attention to it via press release rather than otherwise silently informing people via Windows Update. And that's assuming that they don't issue press releases anyway that usually get ignored by the press when they're on the regular schedule. It's not delivering the patch out-of-band, it's informing the public out-of-band, i.e. via an alternate band of communication. But it isn't delivery of the patch; that still occurs through the normal channel: Windows Update. It's conflating security "update" as a deliverable fix with security "update" as bulletin about the availability of the fix via the usual channels.
And that's the closest to a concession you'll get out of me on this.