I was going to argument that a well-hidden (or mobile) bio lab with a few fake ones in various countries could piss off said countries when the USA want to conduct "police actions" there... but the real kicker is the one you delivered yourself: The whole "we'll just invade that country while insisting it's not an act of war" and "we'll just capture someone and put them in a camp where we pretend the Geneva Conventions don't apply to them" attitudes are already making the USA look bad. Provoking more of that is exactly what the terrorists want.
Also, "that nation has WMDs" is no longer very credible coming from the USA thanks to the Iraq War. You'd have to present independently verified evidence to avoid accusations of this being yet another justification for a unprovoked war. Just bringing it up would be controversial.
Let's say the USA figure out that this flu strain was developed in some backwater part of Brunei. Will they wait for the local authorities to look into things or will they just send a drone to bomb the place? What if they can't exactly tell where to drop the bombs? If the USA aren't careful they're going to end up with yet another controversial war on their hands... and "careful" just doesn't seem to be in the States' vocabulary these days.
All in all, 20 grand seems like a steal for the potential to plunge the States into another Iraq War or to at least have them piss off yet another country.
A bioweapon doesn't need to kill. It can also be used to harrass.
Step 1: Develop a new, strain of the flu. It it's very virulent, so much the better.
Step 2: Develop a vaccine for your strain, just in case.
Step 3: Vaccinate your people and spread your flu in the target area.
The result: The target area will have to deal with a flu outbreak, reducing their productivity (how much depends on how many people catch it). Since you are already vaccincated you don't have to worry much about it coming back to you. It might mutate enough to bypass your vaccine on the way back, of course.
If you do it right you could make the target area have a different flu outbreak every year. Perhaps some or most of these can be transmissible to livestock. If you're lucky you can make them as nervous about, say, birds as the USA currently are about airplanes and foreigners. You won't end civilization but you will cost them a bit of money through lost productivity, security expenses etc. If that bit of money is more than what you invested to cook up and spread your flu strain you win.
Why wage a war of destruction when 20k$ in equipment and a guy with a biochem degree are sufficient to constantly harrass them and potentially hurt their economy? Make it part of a larget harrassment plan and you might even raise panic levels. Hell, just imagine what the media would do if they heard that AQ successfully deployed a "weaponized" flu strain in the USA.
I don't see why not. For instance, WordPress posts use MySQL DATETIME fields, which allow dates as far back as 0000-00-00. If you want your post to appear as being from 1531, go right ahead.
Now, WordPress automatically sets the post date and AFAIK you'd have to resort to database manipulation to change it but if there isn't already a plugin that handles this it would be easy to write one.
I think i just felt a disturbance in the force, as if millions of fans involved in the never ending "which is better, Star Wars or Star Trek?" debates suddenly cried out in bewilderment and then their heads asploded.
...in a brilliant display of gigantic lens flares.
I take it you have never tried to use the Windows 7 installer on a system with more then one SATA drive, then. Let's just say that between bizarre, undocumented requirements (the installer expects to be installed on the first SATA drive; you can select another drive but you'll get an error message after configuring the partitions) and the cryptic error messages given if you don't meet them (something about not finding a system partition) it's clearly not ready for prime time but was shipped regardless. I haven't looked at the Metro one yet but I hope they switched to something more reasonable like Ubiquity. Home-grown installers clearly aren't Redmond's forte.
Once you've got it running it's a mixed bag. The built-in Wine is flat-out awesome (it even has near-perfect compatibility with DirectX) but the preinstalled software is extremely sparse for such a big distro (you don't even get GCC!), for some reason the login screen doesn't allow you to select the window manager, leaving you stuck with the default one... Oh yeah, and you can't even get out of X11 while the system is running. No shell, no nothing. Who does that?
I'd recommend it for compatibility purposes only. If you need Wine for something this is the distro to use. For everything else just use another distro.
And when you can't write a patch (for example because you're unfamiliar with the codebase and/or languare or aren't a programmer), complain constructively. If possible this means writing a detailes bug report. If you can't do that you'll have to find some other way to get the devs' attention without becoming rude.
Case in point: I'm not a C++ developer and entirely unfamiliar with the Chrome codebase but I found and reported a rendering bug in Chrome. The devs agreed that it was a bug and it's been fixed in the trunk recently.
The again the entire Minecraft modding scene exists because Java cen be decompiled relatively easily. I don't think that we would havs such an expansive modding scene if Minecraft were distributed as a regular binary. In fact it's the only closed-source game I know where people routinely write mods that replace parts of the engine itself.
Had it not been for guns, the world would be a much different place right now. We would still be honoring Queen Elizabeth as our monarch.
If you're referring to the United States I think that without guns the settlers wouldn't even have taken over the continent like they did. When you're down to bow and arrow then native tribes become more formidable enemies, whether you use biological warfare or not.
1. Determine someone's mail address.
2. Associate an IP address (or ISP-specific range) with the mail address, for example by having malicious code in place in a website where the mail address is entered.
3. Store the IP/mail address combo in a database and use it to verify that the person visiting is likely to be the person the mail was supposed to reach.
4. ????
5. Profit
Sure, it's relatively much work but it's also relatively hard to get into.
It depends on the bank but in Germany most banks have already phased out basic things like TAN lists (plain and indexed). Username/password are required to log onto the site but they aren't sufficient to conduct any transaction. At most you'll be able to determine someone's balance.
For example, my bank allows two methods, ChipTAN and mTAN. These are fairly usual in Germany.
ChipTAN uses the user's bank card and a card reader. The reader is synchronized with the bank so that when combined with the correct bank card and a challenge issued by the bank (either in the form of a picture of flickering squares or as a number to be entered via keypad; ChipTAN readers support both) generates a TAN that is only valid for one specific transaction. Additionally, the reader will display the receiving account number and the amount of money transferred before displaying the TAN, allowing the user to proof-read.
ChipTAN readers are supposed to be able to be used with multiple bank accounts with multiple banks simultaneously but I haven't tried that yet. My bank sold me my reader for ten Euros.
mTAN simply consists of the bank sending the user a text message containing the relevant data (recipient, amount, TAN) every time a transaction is attempted. The user can proofread the transaction data and enters the TAN as usual. Note that banks might charge you per text message in addition to what your carrier may charge (which is nothing in the case of Germany).
The bottom line is that every semi-modern bank will securely inform you of the details of each transaction before you confirm the transaction with a TAN specific to that transaction's parameters. (There are holes in this relating to combined bank transfers but for single transfers it's fairly solid.) If your bank doesn't do that then your bank sucks at security.
Wasn't it originally the other way around, ie. wasn't anti-cannabis legislation initially started due to pressure from the cotton and timber lobbies who felt threatened by a plant that could potentially replace wood pulp for paper and cotton for clothing?
Anyway, growing hemp might just be an interesting niche in a state where you can get away with it. It is kind of versatile (even if we discount the recreational uses of certain strains).
My post is not about what the article talks about, it's a reply to its parent post (as evidenced by it being submitted as a reply and not a completely new post). That post talks about deploying "smart mines armed with supercavitating torpedos" and keeping them inactive so that they can just be brought online "in case of war" - essentially CAPTOR mines with a modified fuze and a beefed-up detection system.
In other terms there is an ordinance payload, the payload does explode and they are most assuredly mines.
Before replying in a thread it helps to actually read the thread.
Right now would be a horrible time to switch to WebKit (besides it being pointless anyway). With IE10 they finally got Trident into a respactable shape and switching to WebKit wouldn't do anything to alleviate the main issue Internet Explorer has - Microsoft's utter disregard for backwards compatibility. IE versions are usually only compatible with the current and previous Windows release, leaving people with older versions of Windows with no upgrade path other than to replace the entire operating system. Thus web designers need to support ancient IE versions because they simply won't drop below the "we can afford to ignore this" margin for years after they've become obsolete.
IE/WebKit would be just as much of a standards-retarding nightmare as IE/Trident is, not because of the engine but because of Microsoft's policy on backports.
I don't think your plan of "deploy them in case we might need them later" is a terribly good one. International law requires you to announce any sea minefields you create (and as far as I know it doesn't make an exception for "but we haven't armed the mines yet") so you'd immediately tip off the country in question, most likely resulting in the rest of the world wanting to know why you mined the waters of a country you're not even at war with. Of course the "not at war" status might be open to interpretation at that point.
If you don't disclose your minefield then you'd better hope that those mines are never discovered because setting up a minefield in foreign waters in violation of international law is going to go over even less well.
Whichever way you turn it, this looks like a PR timebomb. Given the fact that the USA's reputation is fairly bad as it is perhaps it might be wise to only deploy minefields when you can actually justify their presence (with a better justification than "this is in our country's interest").
Plus, depending on the country in question you might not be able to deploy these where divers can't get at them. The last thing you want is for Hostilecountristan to steal^W salvage your supercavitating torpedos and then publicly shame you in front of the UN.
True. In Germany, back before smartphones there were essentially Nokia and a few other companies no one cared about. Nokias were tanks that fit in your pocket, almost indestructible and with long battery life. In 2010, Nokia still had the reputation of being a solid choice (if somewhat old-fashioned as Meego was only starting to pick up steam and people were still associating Nokia with Symbian). I can't say much beyond that as I can only tell about the techie population but most techies I know avoid the company's products since Elop happened. As far as I can tell, Samsung and Apple have become the new Nokia: If you use Macs then Apple is the first manufacturer you consider when planning to buy a smartphone while Samsung is if you're a Windows or Linux user.
Nokia is only considered if you have already decided to buy a WinMo phone - and even that may be shaky due to Microsoft invalidating the entire current Lumia line shortly after release by making WinMo 8 incompatible with existing devices (apparently without telling Nokia how to make compatible ones before launching the OS) and making WinMo 8 apps incompatible with WinMo 7, making Nokia's smartphone unit stuck with nothing but futureless legacy phones for the second time in two years. I can imagine that even people who consciously bought a Lumia in 2010/11 would be wary about WinMo and/or Nokia after that.
I think that relatively soon even average people will realize that Nokia is no longer the mobile phone giant it was. Hell, marketing alone could take care of that; it's been months since I've seen a Nokia ad but Apple, Samsung and HTC ads are all over the place.
No, I explicitly mentioned the illegal practices ("Besides Microsoft's questionable dealings"). All I did was to point out that presently network effects are one reason (but not the only one) why Windows is successful. Fairly or not, it did reach a massive market share on the desktop and that factors into the equation today.
Let's be fair. Besides Microsoft's questionable dealings there are also plain old network effects in effect. One reason why Windows is so successful on the desktop is because it's so successful on the desktop.
Actually, focus is one of the cues we use to determine the relative depth of objects we see. Most of what you see at any given time is not in focus. Rendering everything in focus (which many video games with stereoscopy support do) is confusing to some people as the focus suggests that all objects are on a plane while the difference in perception between the eyes suggests otherwise.
There's a simpler solution: Developers stop using stereoscopy until we have consumer-ready volumetric displays. (Or, alternatively, developers stop using stereoscopy until 2025 when the current fad is forgotten and they can sell it to us as a "brand new" technology.)
Oh, that's simple. First off, all targeting information will be gathered by our extremely loyal British espionage network, transmitted via encrypted messages that follow a known format and in fact usually start with the same words. This data will be supplemented with strategic information gathered from the briefcases of drowned soldiers. Then we'll build a ridiculously heavy tank we can't actually afford around the weapon, theoretically enabling us to move it at up to walking speed as long as we stay on sturdy roads and don't try something silly like driving through a town. Then we'll use it to attack Russia during winter without working supply lines.
You know, we have plenty of experience with having things go wrong during a war. Don't test us. We'd have to one-up ourselves and you don't want to be held responsible when we accidentally blow up the moon or something like that. I kind of like having tides.
I took an IQ test once (a proper one, not one of those self-test thingies). What did I learn? I had slightly better reactions than most (at the time I was really into FPSes and Q3A is all about twitch gaming so little surprise there), I had an above-average short-term memory (which I kept exploiting throughout school by cramming for tests right before the test started, then dumping what I had read onto scratch paper once I was allowed to do so) and that I didn't do very well with certain kinds of math problem (which was the entire reason they made me take the test in the first place).
I think I can chalk the math problems up to having a teacher I really didn't get along with right when certain crucial concepts were introduced - so in the end all I ever learned from the test (besides an arbitrary number) was that my short-term memory is good. Well, better than nothing, I guess.
Unfortunately, you still need to install Kies if you want to flash from Windows; Kiescomes with the required driver. (Technically there are third-party tools supposed to include one but theie driver failed to work for me.)
I have it on good authority that the preferred way of dealing with the Devil is to run him down. Getting a car might be a good idea.
Of course when dealing with the minions of hell in general I wouldn't have a healthier or more deeply-felt respect for any object in the universe than a shotgun. Or I'd just use a chaingun, the hell with respect! Whatever your approach is, you should have a good chance as long as your cause is just, your will is strong and your gun is very, very large.
I addressed that. There are alternate ways of distributing Android apps; the Play Store just happens to be the most widely known one, thus probably the most attractive one to people trying to sell their Android apps. (Realistically, though, you'd probably want to use as many of them as possible. They're not mutually exclusive, after all.)
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I was going to argument that a well-hidden (or mobile) bio lab with a few fake ones in various countries could piss off said countries when the USA want to conduct "police actions" there... but the real kicker is the one you delivered yourself: The whole "we'll just invade that country while insisting it's not an act of war" and "we'll just capture someone and put them in a camp where we pretend the Geneva Conventions don't apply to them" attitudes are already making the USA look bad. Provoking more of that is exactly what the terrorists want.
Also, "that nation has WMDs" is no longer very credible coming from the USA thanks to the Iraq War. You'd have to present independently verified evidence to avoid accusations of this being yet another justification for a unprovoked war. Just bringing it up would be controversial.
Let's say the USA figure out that this flu strain was developed in some backwater part of Brunei. Will they wait for the local authorities to look into things or will they just send a drone to bomb the place? What if they can't exactly tell where to drop the bombs? If the USA aren't careful they're going to end up with yet another controversial war on their hands... and "careful" just doesn't seem to be in the States' vocabulary these days.
All in all, 20 grand seems like a steal for the potential to plunge the States into another Iraq War or to at least have them piss off yet another country.
A bioweapon doesn't need to kill. It can also be used to harrass.
Step 1: Develop a new, strain of the flu. It it's very virulent, so much the better.
Step 2: Develop a vaccine for your strain, just in case.
Step 3: Vaccinate your people and spread your flu in the target area.
The result: The target area will have to deal with a flu outbreak, reducing their productivity (how much depends on how many people catch it). Since you are already vaccincated you don't have to worry much about it coming back to you. It might mutate enough to bypass your vaccine on the way back, of course.
If you do it right you could make the target area have a different flu outbreak every year. Perhaps some or most of these can be transmissible to livestock. If you're lucky you can make them as nervous about, say, birds as the USA currently are about airplanes and foreigners. You won't end civilization but you will cost them a bit of money through lost productivity, security expenses etc. If that bit of money is more than what you invested to cook up and spread your flu strain you win.
Why wage a war of destruction when 20k$ in equipment and a guy with a biochem degree are sufficient to constantly harrass them and potentially hurt their economy? Make it part of a larget harrassment plan and you might even raise panic levels. Hell, just imagine what the media would do if they heard that AQ successfully deployed a "weaponized" flu strain in the USA.
I don't see why not. For instance, WordPress posts use MySQL DATETIME fields, which allow dates as far back as 0000-00-00. If you want your post to appear as being from 1531, go right ahead.
Now, WordPress automatically sets the post date and AFAIK you'd have to resort to database manipulation to change it but if there isn't already a plugin that handles this it would be easy to write one.
I think i just felt a disturbance in the force, as if millions of fans involved in the never ending "which is better, Star Wars or Star Trek?" debates suddenly cried out in bewilderment and then their heads asploded.
...in a brilliant display of gigantic lens flares.
I take it you have never tried to use the Windows 7 installer on a system with more then one SATA drive, then. Let's just say that between bizarre, undocumented requirements (the installer expects to be installed on the first SATA drive; you can select another drive but you'll get an error message after configuring the partitions) and the cryptic error messages given if you don't meet them (something about not finding a system partition) it's clearly not ready for prime time but was shipped regardless. I haven't looked at the Metro one yet but I hope they switched to something more reasonable like Ubiquity. Home-grown installers clearly aren't Redmond's forte.
Once you've got it running it's a mixed bag. The built-in Wine is flat-out awesome (it even has near-perfect compatibility with DirectX) but the preinstalled software is extremely sparse for such a big distro (you don't even get GCC!), for some reason the login screen doesn't allow you to select the window manager, leaving you stuck with the default one... Oh yeah, and you can't even get out of X11 while the system is running. No shell, no nothing. Who does that?
I'd recommend it for compatibility purposes only. If you need Wine for something this is the distro to use. For everything else just use another distro.
And when you can't write a patch (for example because you're unfamiliar with the codebase and/or languare or aren't a programmer), complain constructively. If possible this means writing a detailes bug report. If you can't do that you'll have to find some other way to get the devs' attention without becoming rude.
Case in point: I'm not a C++ developer and entirely unfamiliar with the Chrome codebase but I found and reported a rendering bug in Chrome. The devs agreed that it was a bug and it's been fixed in the trunk recently.
The again the entire Minecraft modding scene exists because Java cen be decompiled relatively easily. I don't think that we would havs such an expansive modding scene if Minecraft were distributed as a regular binary. In fact it's the only closed-source game I know where people routinely write mods that replace parts of the engine itself.
Had it not been for guns, the world would be a much different place right now. We would still be honoring Queen Elizabeth as our monarch.
If you're referring to the United States I think that without guns the settlers wouldn't even have taken over the continent like they did. When you're down to bow and arrow then native tribes become more formidable enemies, whether you use biological warfare or not.
1. Determine someone's mail address.
2. Associate an IP address (or ISP-specific range) with the mail address, for example by having malicious code in place in a website where the mail address is entered.
3. Store the IP/mail address combo in a database and use it to verify that the person visiting is likely to be the person the mail was supposed to reach.
4. ????
5. Profit
Sure, it's relatively much work but it's also relatively hard to get into.
It depends on the bank but in Germany most banks have already phased out basic things like TAN lists (plain and indexed). Username/password are required to log onto the site but they aren't sufficient to conduct any transaction. At most you'll be able to determine someone's balance.
For example, my bank allows two methods, ChipTAN and mTAN. These are fairly usual in Germany.
ChipTAN uses the user's bank card and a card reader. The reader is synchronized with the bank so that when combined with the correct bank card and a challenge issued by the bank (either in the form of a picture of flickering squares or as a number to be entered via keypad; ChipTAN readers support both) generates a TAN that is only valid for one specific transaction. Additionally, the reader will display the receiving account number and the amount of money transferred before displaying the TAN, allowing the user to proof-read.
ChipTAN readers are supposed to be able to be used with multiple bank accounts with multiple banks simultaneously but I haven't tried that yet. My bank sold me my reader for ten Euros.
mTAN simply consists of the bank sending the user a text message containing the relevant data (recipient, amount, TAN) every time a transaction is attempted. The user can proofread the transaction data and enters the TAN as usual. Note that banks might charge you per text message in addition to what your carrier may charge (which is nothing in the case of Germany).
The bottom line is that every semi-modern bank will securely inform you of the details of each transaction before you confirm the transaction with a TAN specific to that transaction's parameters. (There are holes in this relating to combined bank transfers but for single transfers it's fairly solid.) If your bank doesn't do that then your bank sucks at security.
Wasn't it originally the other way around, ie. wasn't anti-cannabis legislation initially started due to pressure from the cotton and timber lobbies who felt threatened by a plant that could potentially replace wood pulp for paper and cotton for clothing?
Anyway, growing hemp might just be an interesting niche in a state where you can get away with it. It is kind of versatile (even if we discount the recreational uses of certain strains).
Quick! Build a game around analogies!
...you can express "analogies are universally fun" in terms of impact on ARPPDAU, right?
My post is not about what the article talks about, it's a reply to its parent post (as evidenced by it being submitted as a reply and not a completely new post). That post talks about deploying "smart mines armed with supercavitating torpedos" and keeping them inactive so that they can just be brought online "in case of war" - essentially CAPTOR mines with a modified fuze and a beefed-up detection system.
In other terms there is an ordinance payload, the payload does explode and they are most assuredly mines.
Before replying in a thread it helps to actually read the thread.
Right now would be a horrible time to switch to WebKit (besides it being pointless anyway). With IE10 they finally got Trident into a respactable shape and switching to WebKit wouldn't do anything to alleviate the main issue Internet Explorer has - Microsoft's utter disregard for backwards compatibility. IE versions are usually only compatible with the current and previous Windows release, leaving people with older versions of Windows with no upgrade path other than to replace the entire operating system. Thus web designers need to support ancient IE versions because they simply won't drop below the "we can afford to ignore this" margin for years after they've become obsolete.
IE/WebKit would be just as much of a standards-retarding nightmare as IE/Trident is, not because of the engine but because of Microsoft's policy on backports.
I don't think your plan of "deploy them in case we might need them later" is a terribly good one. International law requires you to announce any sea minefields you create (and as far as I know it doesn't make an exception for "but we haven't armed the mines yet") so you'd immediately tip off the country in question, most likely resulting in the rest of the world wanting to know why you mined the waters of a country you're not even at war with. Of course the "not at war" status might be open to interpretation at that point.
If you don't disclose your minefield then you'd better hope that those mines are never discovered because setting up a minefield in foreign waters in violation of international law is going to go over even less well.
Whichever way you turn it, this looks like a PR timebomb. Given the fact that the USA's reputation is fairly bad as it is perhaps it might be wise to only deploy minefields when you can actually justify their presence (with a better justification than "this is in our country's interest").
Plus, depending on the country in question you might not be able to deploy these where divers can't get at them. The last thing you want is for Hostilecountristan to steal^W salvage your supercavitating torpedos and then publicly shame you in front of the UN.
True. In Germany, back before smartphones there were essentially Nokia and a few other companies no one cared about. Nokias were tanks that fit in your pocket, almost indestructible and with long battery life. In 2010, Nokia still had the reputation of being a solid choice (if somewhat old-fashioned as Meego was only starting to pick up steam and people were still associating Nokia with Symbian). I can't say much beyond that as I can only tell about the techie population but most techies I know avoid the company's products since Elop happened. As far as I can tell, Samsung and Apple have become the new Nokia: If you use Macs then Apple is the first manufacturer you consider when planning to buy a smartphone while Samsung is if you're a Windows or Linux user.
Nokia is only considered if you have already decided to buy a WinMo phone - and even that may be shaky due to Microsoft invalidating the entire current Lumia line shortly after release by making WinMo 8 incompatible with existing devices (apparently without telling Nokia how to make compatible ones before launching the OS) and making WinMo 8 apps incompatible with WinMo 7, making Nokia's smartphone unit stuck with nothing but futureless legacy phones for the second time in two years. I can imagine that even people who consciously bought a Lumia in 2010/11 would be wary about WinMo and/or Nokia after that.
I think that relatively soon even average people will realize that Nokia is no longer the mobile phone giant it was. Hell, marketing alone could take care of that; it's been months since I've seen a Nokia ad but Apple, Samsung and HTC ads are all over the place.
No, I explicitly mentioned the illegal practices ("Besides Microsoft's questionable dealings"). All I did was to point out that presently network effects are one reason (but not the only one) why Windows is successful. Fairly or not, it did reach a massive market share on the desktop and that factors into the equation today.
Let's be fair. Besides Microsoft's questionable dealings there are also plain old network effects in effect. One reason why Windows is so successful on the desktop is because it's so successful on the desktop.
Actually, focus is one of the cues we use to determine the relative depth of objects we see. Most of what you see at any given time is not in focus. Rendering everything in focus (which many video games with stereoscopy support do) is confusing to some people as the focus suggests that all objects are on a plane while the difference in perception between the eyes suggests otherwise.
There's a simpler solution: Developers stop using stereoscopy until we have consumer-ready volumetric displays. (Or, alternatively, developers stop using stereoscopy until 2025 when the current fad is forgotten and they can sell it to us as a "brand new" technology.)
Oh, that's simple. First off, all targeting information will be gathered by our extremely loyal British espionage network, transmitted via encrypted messages that follow a known format and in fact usually start with the same words. This data will be supplemented with strategic information gathered from the briefcases of drowned soldiers. Then we'll build a ridiculously heavy tank we can't actually afford around the weapon, theoretically enabling us to move it at up to walking speed as long as we stay on sturdy roads and don't try something silly like driving through a town. Then we'll use it to attack Russia during winter without working supply lines.
You know, we have plenty of experience with having things go wrong during a war. Don't test us. We'd have to one-up ourselves and you don't want to be held responsible when we accidentally blow up the moon or something like that. I kind of like having tides.
I took an IQ test once (a proper one, not one of those self-test thingies). What did I learn? I had slightly better reactions than most (at the time I was really into FPSes and Q3A is all about twitch gaming so little surprise there), I had an above-average short-term memory (which I kept exploiting throughout school by cramming for tests right before the test started, then dumping what I had read onto scratch paper once I was allowed to do so) and that I didn't do very well with certain kinds of math problem (which was the entire reason they made me take the test in the first place).
I think I can chalk the math problems up to having a teacher I really didn't get along with right when certain crucial concepts were introduced - so in the end all I ever learned from the test (besides an arbitrary number) was that my short-term memory is good. Well, better than nothing, I guess.
If you fill it with bees it might ward off Nicolas Cage.
Unfortunately, you still need to install Kies if you want to flash from Windows; Kiescomes with the required driver. (Technically there are third-party tools supposed to include one but theie driver failed to work for me.)
I have it on good authority that the preferred way of dealing with the Devil is to run him down. Getting a car might be a good idea.
Of course when dealing with the minions of hell in general I wouldn't have a healthier or more deeply-felt respect for any object in the universe than a shotgun. Or I'd just use a chaingun, the hell with respect! Whatever your approach is, you should have a good chance as long as your cause is just, your will is strong and your gun is very, very large.
I addressed that. There are alternate ways of distributing Android apps; the Play Store just happens to be the most widely known one, thus probably the most attractive one to people trying to sell their Android apps. (Realistically, though, you'd probably want to use as many of them as possible. They're not mutually exclusive, after all.)