So, how does "To Catch a Predator" work? Or any other undercover journalism for that matter? I doubt the mechanic ripping off customers signs a consent form. I really doubt pervs busted for trying to make little girls fuck their cats give consent.
In the cases above, and even your newspaper example, the work is being used as part of a commercial work. Newspapers sell ads. Therefore, the paper is making a profit off of my image.
Making the game wasn't the statement. Killing their classmates was the statement. That game just forces people to see it as such.
High school violence was largely ignored prior to Columbine. When I was a kid, jocks roughed up nerds all the time. It was a way of life. Most nerds never fought back.
Columbine should have forced teachers to address the issues that make people feel the need to shoot each other. Why were jocks allowed to torment? Why did they feel that the only answer was to shoot? Instead, it just made things worse. Now a jock can beat a kid and say the kid threatened him. Instant expulsion.
Personally, I wish that they had taken the time to address the media. I wish they would have communicated that jock X tormented them and teacher Y had ignored that. I wish they would have actually been able to shoot the jocks and teachers they had a grudge against.
When Columbine came on CNN, I was at work. I remember saying, out loud, that I believe they were right. The USian way has relied on superior force to intimidate an enemy for a long time. Unfortunately for the kids, MAD never ends well.
On a darker side note, how come they didn't kill more people? I always laugh when I hear about a madman with guns in an office taking out like 3 people and injuring 10 more. Anyone worth shooting is worth shooting again. How can two kids with guns walk into a school and only kill 12 people? Were they too stoned to shoot straight?
I usually get off work at 5pm. Sometimes 6ish. In the US, I have summer daylight till almost 10pm. I can cut my grass, swim a little, play some frisbee, and still cook burgers and dogs before dark.
In Japan, the first thing is that the sun comes up at like 4am. It's usually light by 3:30am and full sun my 4:30am. Sleeping in requires blackout devices on the windows.
Then, when you finally get home, you have, at best, 2 hours of light. Sun's down by 7pm and it's dark by 8pm.
I'll take the mild irritation of resetting my watch twice a year to have that extra sun in the afternoon.
Well, it depends. I really started noticing crap when I saw an IT something magazine on my boss' desk. I picked it up and looked at it. There was a "review" of some kit we had worked with in the past. The kit was crap but the review was glowing. I stopped reading IT mags after that.
Later, I was reading a RC modeling magazine. I love RC helis. They had a "review" of a a heli that I knew was okay, but not great. They were comparing it to helis that were capable of doing any maneuver that the pilot could throw at it. I stopped reading RC mags after that.
Video game mags are probably the worst. I read PC Gamer for the commentary and previews, but I only read the negative parts of the reviews.
When it comes to specialized gear like an RC heli or a new router, I rely on comments in online forums. I'll jump into IRC and ask people about the bad points of the gear. I'll call the company and speak with engineers or tech support; speaking with sales is a waste. If I have to deal with sales, I ask for written documentation of tests displaying any functionality he claims. If they can't produce a document showing increased throughput, I ignore that point.
When it comes to daily items, I check boards and really read the negative Amazon reviews. I'll google $item + shit or $item + "head to head". I'll check Consumer Reports or check BBB for the company name.
If I don't find a negative opinion about an item, then I can be pretty sure it's untested or the company censors opinions. Either way, it's not worth my money. I read the negative reviews carefully. If the negative is whining, I ignore it. If the negative is a valid complaint, then I call tech support and pretend I have the item and have that same problem. How they answer my questions will determine my purchase.
Finally, just asking questions of my peers can give a lot of insight. I have *very* close contact with peers that work for competitors. It's a fairly small community and we tend to stick together. We usually share knowledge about our mistakes. If someone mentions over a beer that they are thinking about buying Wizbang 2008, then the rest of the group spills every bad thing they have ever heard about it. If the guy comes out of the discussion by answering our points, then we all think about giving it a closer look.
The BSoD went away and was replaced with the "automatic reboot". I think there is an option or something to show the BSoD vice rebooting. For most people, the info in the BSoD is useless anyway.
Chances are that he wrote a loop to detect very specific keys. He knows the keys that are in the wild. I doubt a dumbthumb would trigger one of those keys.
>>The easiest thing would be to buy a CD player, and then re-record the music.
Are you dense? How is that easy? In order to do that, one has to:
1. Get dressed 2. Drive/walk/bike to music store 3. Park 4. Go into music store and find a CD you want 5. Drive home 6. Unwrap CD 7. Hook up CD player to Audio-in jack 8. Hit record on PC 9. Hit play on CD player 10. Break up the resulting WAV into individual tracks 11. Name tracks 12. Convert to MP3 13. Enter MP3 info details
To pirate the CD, I need a client and 30 seconds on isohunt. Most CDs come in at under 200MB. I finish downloading them in under an hour. If the RIAA comes calling (not likely), I have an open WAP. There is no way to prove I actually was the one who downloaded the music.
If Amazon can patent "one click", then B&N should patent "two click" through "hundred click". Then, if Amazon needs any more than a single click to buy anything you want from the site, B&N can sue.
I remember watching Schindler's List a long time ago. Saw it in the theater back home. Anyway, at one point, and Engineer is telling a Nazi that the foundation of the building is not sound.
He shoots her point blank in the head with a luger.
For the longest time, I couldn't get the vision out of my head of seeing the bullet exit the side of her head. She fell very realisticly. As she lay on the ground, you could see blood pour from her head wound as the heart stopped beating.
Up until that time, I had never seen anything that realistic in a movie. Maybe the suicide scene in Full Metal Jacket; but that's kind of a stretch.
When I was younger, I used to hunt. There is a way that an animal falls when you shoot it. When you watch a film, you can see that they are doing a controlled fall. Or worse, they fly through the air after being shot with a 9mm. When you see a person fall in that dead, limp way, it really is sickening.
A big problem is that a PC uses several voltages and most DC systems only produce 48vdc. I'm sure you could rig a busbar and a ATX power harness with some properly-sized resistors to drop the voltage to 12v, 5v, and 3.3v. However, it'd be a nasty hack.
Why don't we see more -48vdc powered PCs?
Where I work, we have commercial power and generators feeding an auto-transfer panel. The output of that feeds a rectifier which, in turn, feeds a big DC busbar with a bank of batteries attached to it. The busbar has a lead that goes to every rack in the comm center. Every rack has -48vdc powered cisco gear or an inverter to power PCs.
The AC to DC conversion is very efficient. The DC to AC conversion is very inefficient. However, the system never loses power.
Falcon Allied Force was about the first Bosnia invasion. Circa 1995. They got the title wrong, but whatever. These have been several GW2 games. A few flight sims and several shooters. None of them were any good. I'd love to see something like a driving sim in a humvee through the red zone. Or multiplayer with a driver and gunner.
>>A cross between command and conquer and simcity2000. See if you can stabilize Iraq before it can happen in real life.
Easy, cut the country up into three parts and move each tribe into a diff part. Pump the oil dry so they don't fight over who gets that part. Threaten Turkey to keep them from invading Northern Iraq.
20 -- Rise of Nations. It was ok. I really liked the nukes. 19 -- Halo. WTF? It was great on the XBOX but not a good FPS by PC standards. 18 -- Rom Total War. 17 -- UT2k4. Why this version? All of them were really good. Sequels should be disqualified. 16 -- MoH Allied Assault. It was ok. I really hated the way the game cutscened a lot. And the fact that it forced a tutorial sucked. 15 -- NWN. Great game and very modable. Still play this after, what, 5 years. 14 -- Max Payne. Loved bullet time. 13 -- C&C Generals. Never played it. 12 -- Guild Wars. MMO without fees. Awesome. 11 -- Civ4. After Civ3, I was really not willing to buy another Civ game. I still play Alpha Centuari though. 10 -- Warcraft 3. Not a big fan of RTS. Never tried it. 9 -- Doom3. Never played it. Too dark. Duct tape mod really showed how dumb game designers are. And WTF with batteries that last 10 seconds? 8 -- FEAR. Stupid name but great game. The demo gave away almost all the scary parts though. Bullet time and the nail gun was awesome. 7 -- Company of Heroes. Very fun for a RTS. Still, never played it more than a few hours. 6 -- BF1942. Played the shit out of this at LAN parties. Once Desert Combat was out, played the shit out of it again. The follow-ups sucked bad though. 5 -- KOTOR. Another port from XBOX. It was fun. Loved the moddable lightsaber. 4 -- Call of Duty. I was really burned out on WW2 games at this point. God, can we get another war? 3 -- Oblivion. Something about a first-person RPG just sucks. After 10 minutes of not knowing where the last rat was, I gave up and uninstalled it. 2 -- Half-Life 2. I guess it was OK. I only bought it because of CS:S 1 -- WoW. This game is a lot of fun and very social. Most of my friends play this to extremes. Once I got high-level, I quit. I don't have time to do the same 6+ hour crawl 20 times to get the uber sword of pwnage. I really loved the fact that I get credit for *not* playing. Makes leveling much easier.
So, where was X2 or X3? Both were lots of fun. How about GalCiv or GalCiv2? Empire at War was a blast as was Hero Quest. Flight simulators (all sims really) were missing. GTR, Falcon Allied Force, Flight Sim X, LOMAC, and IL2 were a ton of fun. As was Silent Hunter 3. Realistic sims are, for me, what really keeps me updating my PC. Everything else can be duplicated on a console. The first time you complete the ramp start in Falcon, you'll know the PC is king.
The place I work at is great. My boss is the kind of guy you can go and have a beer with every now and again. My coworkers are the nicest people in the world. If someone from another company started talking about my department or boss or coworkers, there would probably be physical violence to right the wrongs.
We are a tight group and we get things done.
However, if you make a wrong step, it can all turn sour in a minute.
Don't ever mistake the place you work for anything other than a symbiotic relationship. Don't ever mistake the people in the next cubicle for your friends. If you start something that devalues their stock or makes them work harder to pick up your slack, then you'll be out in the cold.
It pays to keep ammunition for those times. It might just literally save your life.
And, if it's never needed, then it's no blood no foul.
You need to keep a shit list. I've been with one company for about 12 years now. For the last 5, I've kept an offline diary about my work there. Every time I think I was wronged, I write about it while it's still fresh in my mind. Every time I do something really good, I write in another diary.
For your own sake, keep these private. Fireproof box with a combo or a key you *always* keep with you is okay.
When something goes bad for you, decide how you want to treat it. Do you want to pull out something from the "good book" or from the "bad book".
If you get threatened, you can easily turn the log over to a lawyer for a quick browse. Something as simple of 15~20 minutes of overtime (why does the boss call at 4:58PM for a chat about an e-mail I sent at 9AM) every week over a few years can leave a company with massive fines. Every racist/sexist joke you hear is handy too.
Even if nothing ever goes wrong, maybe one of those jackasses will run for office one day. Then, you can call them up and ask them if they remember the time they did Stacy while she was passed out after the office party. Maybe get a nice retirement bonus out of it. Or you could just end up dead like one former President's old buddies. Hmm...
First off, let me admit that I'm a self-described anti-hippy. Here's a classic example of why.
Why should all the consumers in an area pay higher prices just so a "hippy" can feel good about using solar cells?
If the technology is viable and profitable, let it grow. If, however, it's only profitable after subsidies, then it's a waste of time, money, and resources.
The first is a GNC protein shake. Mixed with cold water and blended it makes an awesome breakfast. 300 calories; all good. And it keeps me full till lunch.
If I had a shitty night, I eat a boiled egg and shoot a Mountain Dew Code Red. Very bad for me, but the sugar and caffeine get me going and the egg keeps my stomach from eating itself before lunch.
Also, one of the best things to get me going is some push-ups and stretching in the morning. I can knock out 30 push-ups in no time flat while I'm waiting for Outlook to sync up. After my first once-over of my inbox, I'll stretch while I think about the responses I'll send.
This is really close to what I've been waiting for. If the app will allow me to go "full screen" with the proper overlay setting, it'll be perfect.
Of course, I wonder about the "1Mb/s" requirement. XVID files are usually around 400MB/hour. That's what, 128kbps. What is their service doing that requires 8* the bandwidth of a torrent download?
And before you say that the BT download is low quality, I watch these things via S-Video out of my laptop right onto a 50" 1080i HDTV.
PS, I just pulled up the properties for a show. It says the video is encoded at 139kbps and the audio is 113kbps. The file size is 358MB and it runs 42m41s. That's 139kbps.
The don't just have fibers either. There is a central core; usually steel cable. Then they have power feeds for the repeaters. Every 50~100km, they'll have a repeater pod. Finally, they have the fibers and, on top, a thick metal or plastic sheath.
What's really amazing about undersea cables is that no one outside the industry really thinks about them. Sprint and ATT give everyone the impression that sats take care of most comms. However, the opposite is mostly true. The vast majority of comms are way too time sensitive to allow the the delay imposed by satcom.
Service members are entitled to a thing called SGLI. It's $5/month for $500,000 policy. It usually pays within a week of the death. I have seen it not pay when the member committed suicide or died in a DUI.
SGLI isn't required, but it's highly recommended. To deploy to Iraq without SGLI, a will, a living will, and multiple powers of attorney is actually more difficult than just getting them.
No one should be in Iraq without at least a $500k policy!
So, why does this guy's family need money from paypal?
Use Nlite to create an install disc with the latest service pack slipstreamed. After that, download the latest Autopatcher install.
Install with the slipstreamed disc and then run Autopatcher before you connect it to any network.
Install something like Zone Alarm and then connect it to the internet.
Go to windowsupdate and grab any patches you need. Aitopatcher is pretty good; WU won't have much to suggest.
Remember to keep versions of AVG, Autopatcher, Nlite, Zone Alarm, and any other applications you use on a CD. Many of those will be impossible to find in 5~10 years.
If you are really interested, the NSA has a step-by-step guide to securing Win2k. If you follow the guide (it's a DoD standard, so back-doors are a no-no), your box will be as secure as you can make it.
Finally, image the working drive using a bootable linux CD and the "dd" command. Ghost is crap; don't bother. Image that to a spare HD and lock that in a cabinet somewhere. If you get even a hint of spyware or unrequested HD or NIC activity, use "dd" to restore your image.
So long as the hardware does not die, you should be golden.
I didn't see the video, but it seems kinda stupid to remove it. It's not a copyright violation. It isn't disturbing. It may depict an illegal act, but so what?
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So, how does "To Catch a Predator" work? Or any other undercover journalism for that matter? I doubt the mechanic ripping off customers signs a consent form. I really doubt pervs busted for trying to make little girls fuck their cats give consent.
In the cases above, and even your newspaper example, the work is being used as part of a commercial work. Newspapers sell ads. Therefore, the paper is making a profit off of my image.
Making the game wasn't the statement. Killing their classmates was the statement. That game just forces people to see it as such.
High school violence was largely ignored prior to Columbine. When I was a kid, jocks roughed up nerds all the time. It was a way of life. Most nerds never fought back.
Columbine should have forced teachers to address the issues that make people feel the need to shoot each other. Why were jocks allowed to torment? Why did they feel that the only answer was to shoot? Instead, it just made things worse. Now a jock can beat a kid and say the kid threatened him. Instant expulsion.
Personally, I wish that they had taken the time to address the media. I wish they would have communicated that jock X tormented them and teacher Y had ignored that. I wish they would have actually been able to shoot the jocks and teachers they had a grudge against.
When Columbine came on CNN, I was at work. I remember saying, out loud, that I believe they were right. The USian way has relied on superior force to intimidate an enemy for a long time. Unfortunately for the kids, MAD never ends well.
On a darker side note, how come they didn't kill more people? I always laugh when I hear about a madman with guns in an office taking out like 3 people and injuring 10 more. Anyone worth shooting is worth shooting again. How can two kids with guns walk into a school and only kill 12 people? Were they too stoned to shoot straight?
I hated DST till I came to Japan.
I usually get off work at 5pm. Sometimes 6ish. In the US, I have summer daylight till almost 10pm. I can cut my grass, swim a little, play some frisbee, and still cook burgers and dogs before dark.
In Japan, the first thing is that the sun comes up at like 4am. It's usually light by 3:30am and full sun my 4:30am. Sleeping in requires blackout devices on the windows.
Then, when you finally get home, you have, at best, 2 hours of light. Sun's down by 7pm and it's dark by 8pm.
I'll take the mild irritation of resetting my watch twice a year to have that extra sun in the afternoon.
Well, it depends. I really started noticing crap when I saw an IT something magazine on my boss' desk. I picked it up and looked at it. There was a "review" of some kit we had worked with in the past. The kit was crap but the review was glowing. I stopped reading IT mags after that.
Later, I was reading a RC modeling magazine. I love RC helis. They had a "review" of a a heli that I knew was okay, but not great. They were comparing it to helis that were capable of doing any maneuver that the pilot could throw at it. I stopped reading RC mags after that.
Video game mags are probably the worst. I read PC Gamer for the commentary and previews, but I only read the negative parts of the reviews.
When it comes to specialized gear like an RC heli or a new router, I rely on comments in online forums. I'll jump into IRC and ask people about the bad points of the gear. I'll call the company and speak with engineers or tech support; speaking with sales is a waste. If I have to deal with sales, I ask for written documentation of tests displaying any functionality he claims. If they can't produce a document showing increased throughput, I ignore that point.
When it comes to daily items, I check boards and really read the negative Amazon reviews. I'll google $item + shit or $item + "head to head". I'll check Consumer Reports or check BBB for the company name.
If I don't find a negative opinion about an item, then I can be pretty sure it's untested or the company censors opinions. Either way, it's not worth my money. I read the negative reviews carefully. If the negative is whining, I ignore it. If the negative is a valid complaint, then I call tech support and pretend I have the item and have that same problem. How they answer my questions will determine my purchase.
Finally, just asking questions of my peers can give a lot of insight. I have *very* close contact with peers that work for competitors. It's a fairly small community and we tend to stick together. We usually share knowledge about our mistakes. If someone mentions over a beer that they are thinking about buying Wizbang 2008, then the rest of the group spills every bad thing they have ever heard about it. If the guy comes out of the discussion by answering our points, then we all think about giving it a closer look.
You know, I'm sure Mr. Buttle thought the same thing.
The BSoD went away and was replaced with the "automatic reboot". I think there is an option or something to show the BSoD vice rebooting. For most people, the info in the BSoD is useless anyway.
Chances are that he wrote a loop to detect very specific keys. He knows the keys that are in the wild. I doubt a dumbthumb would trigger one of those keys.
>>The easiest thing would be to buy a CD player, and then re-record the music.
Are you dense? How is that easy? In order to do that, one has to:
1. Get dressed
2. Drive/walk/bike to music store
3. Park
4. Go into music store and find a CD you want
5. Drive home
6. Unwrap CD
7. Hook up CD player to Audio-in jack
8. Hit record on PC
9. Hit play on CD player
10. Break up the resulting WAV into individual tracks
11. Name tracks
12. Convert to MP3
13. Enter MP3 info details
To pirate the CD, I need a client and 30 seconds on isohunt. Most CDs come in at under 200MB. I finish downloading them in under an hour. If the RIAA comes calling (not likely), I have an open WAP. There is no way to prove I actually was the one who downloaded the music.
I know it's bad taste to reply to myself, but here goes:
How about a JavaScript action for "no click" shopping? Just hold the mouse over the "buy now" button and it's automagically shipped to your door.
If Amazon can patent "one click", then B&N should patent "two click" through "hundred click". Then, if Amazon needs any more than a single click to buy anything you want from the site, B&N can sue.
Kinda like the joke about 7-minute abs...
I remember watching Schindler's List a long time ago. Saw it in the theater back home. Anyway, at one point, and Engineer is telling a Nazi that the foundation of the building is not sound.
He shoots her point blank in the head with a luger.
For the longest time, I couldn't get the vision out of my head of seeing the bullet exit the side of her head. She fell very realisticly. As she lay on the ground, you could see blood pour from her head wound as the heart stopped beating.
Up until that time, I had never seen anything that realistic in a movie. Maybe the suicide scene in Full Metal Jacket; but that's kind of a stretch.
When I was younger, I used to hunt. There is a way that an animal falls when you shoot it. When you watch a film, you can see that they are doing a controlled fall. Or worse, they fly through the air after being shot with a 9mm. When you see a person fall in that dead, limp way, it really is sickening.
I think people wouldn't be able to watch.
A big problem is that a PC uses several voltages and most DC systems only produce 48vdc. I'm sure you could rig a busbar and a ATX power harness with some properly-sized resistors to drop the voltage to 12v, 5v, and 3.3v. However, it'd be a nasty hack.
Why don't we see more -48vdc powered PCs?
Where I work, we have commercial power and generators feeding an auto-transfer panel. The output of that feeds a rectifier which, in turn, feeds a big DC busbar with a bank of batteries attached to it. The busbar has a lead that goes to every rack in the comm center. Every rack has -48vdc powered cisco gear or an inverter to power PCs.
The AC to DC conversion is very efficient. The DC to AC conversion is very inefficient. However, the system never loses power.
>>How about the 6 day war?
t ions-israeli-air-force
Janes' IAF was a flightsim based on that. Of course, you are no-so-much an arab in that one.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/janes-combat-simula
>>Or what about Gulf War II?
Falcon Allied Force was about the first Bosnia invasion. Circa 1995. They got the title wrong, but whatever. These have been several GW2 games. A few flight sims and several shooters. None of them were any good. I'd love to see something like a driving sim in a humvee through the red zone. Or multiplayer with a driver and gunner.
>>A cross between command and conquer and simcity2000. See if you can stabilize Iraq before it can happen in real life.
Easy, cut the country up into three parts and move each tribe into a diff part. Pump the oil dry so they don't fight over who gets that part. Threaten Turkey to keep them from invading Northern Iraq.
20 -- Rise of Nations. It was ok. I really liked the nukes.
19 -- Halo. WTF? It was great on the XBOX but not a good FPS by PC standards.
18 -- Rom Total War.
17 -- UT2k4. Why this version? All of them were really good. Sequels should be disqualified.
16 -- MoH Allied Assault. It was ok. I really hated the way the game cutscened a lot. And the fact that it forced a tutorial sucked.
15 -- NWN. Great game and very modable. Still play this after, what, 5 years.
14 -- Max Payne. Loved bullet time.
13 -- C&C Generals. Never played it.
12 -- Guild Wars. MMO without fees. Awesome.
11 -- Civ4. After Civ3, I was really not willing to buy another Civ game. I still play Alpha Centuari though.
10 -- Warcraft 3. Not a big fan of RTS. Never tried it.
9 -- Doom3. Never played it. Too dark. Duct tape mod really showed how dumb game designers are. And WTF with batteries that last 10 seconds?
8 -- FEAR. Stupid name but great game. The demo gave away almost all the scary parts though. Bullet time and the nail gun was awesome.
7 -- Company of Heroes. Very fun for a RTS. Still, never played it more than a few hours.
6 -- BF1942. Played the shit out of this at LAN parties. Once Desert Combat was out, played the shit out of it again. The follow-ups sucked bad though.
5 -- KOTOR. Another port from XBOX. It was fun. Loved the moddable lightsaber.
4 -- Call of Duty. I was really burned out on WW2 games at this point. God, can we get another war?
3 -- Oblivion. Something about a first-person RPG just sucks. After 10 minutes of not knowing where the last rat was, I gave up and uninstalled it.
2 -- Half-Life 2. I guess it was OK. I only bought it because of CS:S
1 -- WoW. This game is a lot of fun and very social. Most of my friends play this to extremes. Once I got high-level, I quit. I don't have time to do the same 6+ hour crawl 20 times to get the uber sword of pwnage. I really loved the fact that I get credit for *not* playing. Makes leveling much easier.
So, where was X2 or X3? Both were lots of fun. How about GalCiv or GalCiv2? Empire at War was a blast as was Hero Quest. Flight simulators (all sims really) were missing. GTR, Falcon Allied Force, Flight Sim X, LOMAC, and IL2 were a ton of fun. As was Silent Hunter 3. Realistic sims are, for me, what really keeps me updating my PC. Everything else can be duplicated on a console. The first time you complete the ramp start in Falcon, you'll know the PC is king.
The place I work at is great. My boss is the kind of guy you can go and have a beer with every now and again. My coworkers are the nicest people in the world. If someone from another company started talking about my department or boss or coworkers, there would probably be physical violence to right the wrongs.
We are a tight group and we get things done.
However, if you make a wrong step, it can all turn sour in a minute.
Don't ever mistake the place you work for anything other than a symbiotic relationship. Don't ever mistake the people in the next cubicle for your friends. If you start something that devalues their stock or makes them work harder to pick up your slack, then you'll be out in the cold.
It pays to keep ammunition for those times. It might just literally save your life.
And, if it's never needed, then it's no blood no foul.
You need to keep a shit list. I've been with one company for about 12 years now. For the last 5, I've kept an offline diary about my work there. Every time I think I was wronged, I write about it while it's still fresh in my mind. Every time I do something really good, I write in another diary.
For your own sake, keep these private. Fireproof box with a combo or a key you *always* keep with you is okay.
When something goes bad for you, decide how you want to treat it. Do you want to pull out something from the "good book" or from the "bad book".
If you get threatened, you can easily turn the log over to a lawyer for a quick browse. Something as simple of 15~20 minutes of overtime (why does the boss call at 4:58PM for a chat about an e-mail I sent at 9AM) every week over a few years can leave a company with massive fines. Every racist/sexist joke you hear is handy too.
Even if nothing ever goes wrong, maybe one of those jackasses will run for office one day. Then, you can call them up and ask them if they remember the time they did Stacy while she was passed out after the office party. Maybe get a nice retirement bonus out of it. Or you could just end up dead like one former President's old buddies. Hmm...
It's only carbon neutral if the total wood burned is equal to the total wood grown in a single year.
First off, let me admit that I'm a self-described anti-hippy. Here's a classic example of why.
Why should all the consumers in an area pay higher prices just so a "hippy" can feel good about using solar cells?
If the technology is viable and profitable, let it grow. If, however, it's only profitable after subsidies, then it's a waste of time, money, and resources.
I do one of two things for a morning boost.
The first is a GNC protein shake. Mixed with cold water and blended it makes an awesome breakfast. 300 calories; all good. And it keeps me full till lunch.
If I had a shitty night, I eat a boiled egg and shoot a Mountain Dew Code Red. Very bad for me, but the sugar and caffeine get me going and the egg keeps my stomach from eating itself before lunch.
Also, one of the best things to get me going is some push-ups and stretching in the morning. I can knock out 30 push-ups in no time flat while I'm waiting for Outlook to sync up. After my first once-over of my inbox, I'll stretch while I think about the responses I'll send.
This is really close to what I've been waiting for. If the app will allow me to go "full screen" with the proper overlay setting, it'll be perfect.
Of course, I wonder about the "1Mb/s" requirement. XVID files are usually around 400MB/hour. That's what, 128kbps. What is their service doing that requires 8* the bandwidth of a torrent download?
And before you say that the BT download is low quality, I watch these things via S-Video out of my laptop right onto a 50" 1080i HDTV.
PS, I just pulled up the properties for a show. It says the video is encoded at 139kbps and the audio is 113kbps. The file size is 358MB and it runs 42m41s. That's 139kbps.
The don't just have fibers either. There is a central core; usually steel cable. Then they have power feeds for the repeaters. Every 50~100km, they'll have a repeater pod. Finally, they have the fibers and, on top, a thick metal or plastic sheath.
What's really amazing about undersea cables is that no one outside the industry really thinks about them. Sprint and ATT give everyone the impression that sats take care of most comms. However, the opposite is mostly true. The vast majority of comms are way too time sensitive to allow the the delay imposed by satcom.
If the MPAA is the copyright holder, they can distribute it however they want. Them offering a torrent would not be infringement.
You downloading it from the MPAA would also not be infringement. Downloading is illegal.
However, once you upload a single bit to the MPAA or another party, you have infringed upon the MPAA's right to be the sole distributer.
Service members are entitled to a thing called SGLI. It's $5/month for $500,000 policy. It usually pays within a week of the death. I have seen it not pay when the member committed suicide or died in a DUI.
SGLI isn't required, but it's highly recommended. To deploy to Iraq without SGLI, a will, a living will, and multiple powers of attorney is actually more difficult than just getting them.
No one should be in Iraq without at least a $500k policy!
So, why does this guy's family need money from paypal?
Use Nlite to create an install disc with the latest service pack slipstreamed. After that, download the latest Autopatcher install.
Install with the slipstreamed disc and then run Autopatcher before you connect it to any network.
Install something like Zone Alarm and then connect it to the internet.
Go to windowsupdate and grab any patches you need. Aitopatcher is pretty good; WU won't have much to suggest.
Remember to keep versions of AVG, Autopatcher, Nlite, Zone Alarm, and any other applications you use on a CD. Many of those will be impossible to find in 5~10 years.
If you are really interested, the NSA has a step-by-step guide to securing Win2k. If you follow the guide (it's a DoD standard, so back-doors are a no-no), your box will be as secure as you can make it.
Finally, image the working drive using a bootable linux CD and the "dd" command. Ghost is crap; don't bother. Image that to a spare HD and lock that in a cabinet somewhere. If you get even a hint of spyware or unrequested HD or NIC activity, use "dd" to restore your image.
So long as the hardware does not die, you should be golden.
I didn't see the video, but it seems kinda stupid to remove it. It's not a copyright violation. It isn't disturbing. It may depict an illegal act, but so what?