Jake Scully: Are you married? Sam Bouchard: Separated. Jake Scully: Me too, as of yesterday. We weren't married, but it was almost the same thing. Sam Bouchard: What happened? I'm sorry. That's none of my business. Jake Scully: That's okay. It's just... sounds so stupid. Sam Bouchard: These things usually do. Jake Scully: Caught her in bed with another guy. Can you believe that? Sam Bouchard: Man. You had no idea? Jake Scully: None. Christ, I keep seeing it. Carol lying there. Her face was glowing. Sam Bouchard: Her face was glowing? Jake Scully: Yeah. Sam Bouchard: [feigning incredulousness] How do you get a girl's face to glow? I got 16 years of good humping, not once did I get a glimmer, let alone a fucking glow! [Jake sputters a laugh into his drink] Sam Bouchard:Glowing? I'm sorry. That's tough. Jake Scully: No, you're right. It's not that big a deal, really. Sam Bouchard: You kicked the bitch out I hope. Jake Scully: [shakes head] I didn't. Sam Bouchard: Why not? Jake Scully: It was her place. [a beat, then they both laugh] Sam Bouchard: Oh, you've been through the shitter.
Nah, you just need some eyeshine like Riddick. Though it's not shaving down the lens, it's an injection of a reflective substance behind the retina so you sense the photons twice.
For example, the movie "Battlefield Earth" was released in May of 2000, and critics quickly concluded that it was not too early to declare it the worst movie of the century.
Well, 2000 was the last year of the 20th Century of the Current Era.
how exactly are you planning to store such a massive amount of power and avoid losing energy in the transfer?
I was going to make that point, so instead I'll make the counterpoint: the value of the energy lost would have to be within the peak/off-peak cost differential.
It actually gets slower when you have mod points on some platforms (I can't say all as I don't use all). It can take a long time just to open the combobox choose how to mod the message, close the box, see it change, and get focus away from the box so when you try to scroll using the keyboard it doesn't change how you're modding the post. I think it is a problem with form efficiency in the browser: it just doesn't expect that many comboboxes to exist in a single form.
Then again, it may be just as slow to have each message have its own form. I've hit limits of operating systems as to how many controls I could have in a screen.
Seems like a good way to get a ticket for impersonating an emergency vehicle.
Indeed. Though it depends on your state, there are restrictions on what lights you can put on a car and in what colors. Many restrict red lights to the back of the car, and some don't allow any light colors than red, white, and yellow on the back of a car (e.g. no neon purple illuminated plate frames). I heard a story from a police officer who pulled someone over just as he left the dealer's lot for having too many high deer lights on his brand new truck; the guy was pissed they'd sold him a car in an illegal configuration.
And just because something is legal in the state in which your car is licensed doesn't mean you won't get ticketed when you cross into another state. Permanent window tinting is another per-state restriction; you may have to drive with your windows open to stay legal, which will suck in states that experience Winter.
Their system kept track of what MACs were using what IP addresses. If you were caught using an IP address not assigned to you, your MAC could be banned. When I worked for their Internet Services department, one of the tasks I was given was to check that database for consistency. And to get access, you have to give them your MAC so their DHCP server could match you to your assigned IP.
Of course, it's possible to falsify your MAC and I've seen evidence of people doing it in their database (e.g. 00:00:00:10:00:00 was one) but most users don't know how and would either resolve the problem with IS or buy themselves a new NIC (and likely get it banned too). If you didn't do anything like trample on someone else's IP address or use an IP in a reserved range you'd be fine.
A few years ago, they told the RIAA that that information was not tracked. Maybe they stopped tracking it after I left. IIRC their web interface for accessing the logs just used grep. I do know they had started monitoring traffic volume by protocol before I left and considering throttling protocols.
Or it could have been a wireless IP address. They'd just started setting up access points around campus, and I don't think they went through the same logging DHCP server that the wired network did.
It's not "absurd" to rule that IP addresses are not personally identifiable information from a legal standpoint for one very simple reason--though IP addresses can be PIIs, they are not always PIIs.
When I had Internet access in college, the IP addresses assigned to students in the residence halls had DNS records that gave the student's name, the name of the residence hall, and room number. You could request an alternate record be added, but you could not have that information removed. made unavailable to anyone who could run nslookup. I'd expect more such institutions to do the same as a deterrent against sharing of files illegally (they don't have to deal with subpoenas, enough public information is in the DNS for the RIAA to serve the student directly).
I hear that, some years after graduating from that college, they finally realized that your social security number should not be used as your student ID number on a card you need to carry while on campus.
So what they have now are the best drug dogs they will ever have, their abilities can't improve any - they will be the same as the dog they were cloned from.
Yet they have also preserved the wellspring of this genetic combination beyond the lifetime of one generation. They could experiment with more variations than they could from one individual animal and, if they stray too far into undesirable traits, breed back to be closer to the original even generations later. (Frozen sperm samples still have a limited shelf life.)
The Toppy's are genetically immortal thanks to cloning (assuming replicative fading is science fiction's way of inventing a problem for purposes of plot).
Like the speculation that somewhere within Visa's accounting system, they store currency transactions as 8 byte integers, completely disregarding any fractional money.
Well, integer math is faster that floating point math, you wouldn't want to have only mantissa accuracy for storing a large number as a float or double, and he did multiply it by 100 cents to a dollar first so it would be stored as integer cents.
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For a moment, I thought you were the author of the Windows File Copy Dialog...
I actually miss the animation from the XP file copy dialog. It rotates all the files 90 degrees, turning them imaginary.
"Which half of her swimsuit did she wear?"
"The left half."
I think that was from Bewitched, regarding Samantha's twin sister's visit to a public beach.
It should. I had to Google it to make sure I got it right, though I added the stage directions from memory.
I've left it as a mystery long enough. It's from the 1984 movie Body Double.
Another topic-inspired quote recall:
Jake Scully: Are you married?
Sam Bouchard: Separated.
Jake Scully: Me too, as of yesterday. We weren't married, but it was almost the same thing.
Sam Bouchard: What happened? I'm sorry. That's none of my business.
Jake Scully: That's okay. It's just... sounds so stupid.
Sam Bouchard: These things usually do.
Jake Scully: Caught her in bed with another guy. Can you believe that?
Sam Bouchard: Man. You had no idea?
Jake Scully: None. Christ, I keep seeing it. Carol lying there. Her face was glowing.
Sam Bouchard: Her face was glowing?
Jake Scully: Yeah.
Sam Bouchard: [feigning incredulousness] How do you get a girl's face to glow? I got 16 years of good humping, not once did I get a glimmer, let alone a fucking glow!
[Jake sputters a laugh into his drink]
Sam Bouchard: Glowing? I'm sorry. That's tough.
Jake Scully: No, you're right. It's not that big a deal, really.
Sam Bouchard: You kicked the bitch out I hope.
Jake Scully: [shakes head] I didn't.
Sam Bouchard: Why not?
Jake Scully: It was her place.
[a beat, then they both laugh]
Sam Bouchard: Oh, you've been through the shitter.
I thought looking at the sun at any time was a Really Bad Idea (tm) and during an eclipse was supposedly an Even Worse Really Bad Idea.
But... that's where the fun is!
With the right prosthetic eyes, not any more :)
Nah, you just need some eyeshine like Riddick. Though it's not shaving down the lens, it's an injection of a reflective substance behind the retina so you sense the photons twice.
Shouldn't that be invisible light?
More like subliminal light. Subluminal?
Ohh....
¿ Qué ?
For example, the movie "Battlefield Earth" was released in May of 2000, and critics quickly concluded that it was not too early to declare it the worst movie of the century.
Well, 2000 was the last year of the 20th Century of the Current Era.
how exactly are you planning to store such a massive amount of power and avoid losing energy in the transfer?
I was going to make that point, so instead I'll make the counterpoint: the value of the energy lost would have to be within the peak/off-peak cost differential.
They meant "opportunity".
Are they wanted Dead or Alive?
Doesn't matter: they're zombies.
And it tends not to matter who gets the first word; it's all about who has the last word.
It actually gets slower when you have mod points on some platforms (I can't say all as I don't use all). It can take a long time just to open the combobox choose how to mod the message, close the box, see it change, and get focus away from the box so when you try to scroll using the keyboard it doesn't change how you're modding the post. I think it is a problem with form efficiency in the browser: it just doesn't expect that many comboboxes to exist in a single form.
Then again, it may be just as slow to have each message have its own form. I've hit limits of operating systems as to how many controls I could have in a screen.
Seems like a good way to get a ticket for impersonating an emergency vehicle.
Indeed. Though it depends on your state, there are restrictions on what lights you can put on a car and in what colors. Many restrict red lights to the back of the car, and some don't allow any light colors than red, white, and yellow on the back of a car (e.g. no neon purple illuminated plate frames). I heard a story from a police officer who pulled someone over just as he left the dealer's lot for having too many high deer lights on his brand new truck; the guy was pissed they'd sold him a car in an illegal configuration.
And just because something is legal in the state in which your car is licensed doesn't mean you won't get ticketed when you cross into another state. Permanent window tinting is another per-state restriction; you may have to drive with your windows open to stay legal, which will suck in states that experience Winter.
Their system kept track of what MACs were using what IP addresses. If you were caught using an IP address not assigned to you, your MAC could be banned. When I worked for their Internet Services department, one of the tasks I was given was to check that database for consistency. And to get access, you have to give them your MAC so their DHCP server could match you to your assigned IP.
Of course, it's possible to falsify your MAC and I've seen evidence of people doing it in their database (e.g. 00:00:00:10:00:00 was one) but most users don't know how and would either resolve the problem with IS or buy themselves a new NIC (and likely get it banned too). If you didn't do anything like trample on someone else's IP address or use an IP in a reserved range you'd be fine.
A few years ago, they told the RIAA that that information was not tracked. Maybe they stopped tracking it after I left. IIRC their web interface for accessing the logs just used grep. I do know they had started monitoring traffic volume by protocol before I left and considering throttling protocols.
Or it could have been a wireless IP address. They'd just started setting up access points around campus, and I don't think they went through the same logging DHCP server that the wired network did.
It's not "absurd" to rule that IP addresses are not personally identifiable information from a legal standpoint for one very simple reason--though IP addresses can be PIIs, they are not always PIIs.
When I had Internet access in college, the IP addresses assigned to students in the residence halls had DNS records that gave the student's name, the name of the residence hall, and room number. You could request an alternate record be added, but you could not have that information removed. made unavailable to anyone who could run nslookup. I'd expect more such institutions to do the same as a deterrent against sharing of files illegally (they don't have to deal with subpoenas, enough public information is in the DNS for the RIAA to serve the student directly).
I hear that, some years after graduating from that college, they finally realized that your social security number should not be used as your student ID number on a card you need to carry while on campus.
probably not a banker, [s]he'd have got a bailout by now...
I get your current-events joke. Setting that aside, I don't think you can get bailed out of jail for a contempt charge.
If you can defy court orders, the system loses all of its terror and, consequentially, all of its power.
You heard it here first: the US court system is a tool of terrorism.
So what they have now are the best drug dogs they will ever have, their abilities can't improve any - they will be the same as the dog they were cloned from.
Yet they have also preserved the wellspring of this genetic combination beyond the lifetime of one generation. They could experiment with more variations than they could from one individual animal and, if they stray too far into undesirable traits, breed back to be closer to the original even generations later. (Frozen sperm samples still have a limited shelf life.)
The Toppy's are genetically immortal thanks to cloning (assuming replicative fading is science fiction's way of inventing a problem for purposes of plot).
Heh. Yeah, the "If everyone else jumped off a bridge, would you?" always confused me as a child.
I like Dilbert's answer. If everyone wore clothes, would you?
I like Tommy Smothers' answer: "Heh, not again!"
Its not like "lieing" is a single category.
I have long felt, mostly from listening to the statements made by people who claim to be able to tell when a person is lieing.
"I know your lieing because when you tell me about X and Y you look me right in the eye, but when you say Z, you look away"
If your spelling checker told you that was correct, it was lying. ;)
(BTW, stop training dogs to "lay down". The correct command is "lie down".)
Maybe it's shoggoth shit.
Maybe it's shisno.
I had a roommate who had a calling card that had rolled over to maxint minutes remaining. He checked the balance on a speakerphone to prove it to me.
Like the speculation that somewhere within Visa's accounting system, they store currency transactions as 8 byte integers, completely disregarding any fractional money.
Well, integer math is faster that floating point math, you wouldn't want to have only mantissa accuracy for storing a large number as a float or double, and he did multiply it by 100 cents to a dollar first so it would be stored as integer cents.