This might just be due diligence by the FBI to get everything lined up before going after Hillary. And/or they're after the emails she's scrubbed if this guy has copies.
Aye, spin up an AWS instance in whatever region you need, run Chrome, and chrome remote the screen to your real machine/tablet/phone anywhere in the world. Heck, if Netflix is now running using AWS, it's probably a couple of racks over it needs to get to, decent ping rate! "It's already in the house!!!"
True, as for most people, it's/really/ hard to find that reversed ?. Needs to be an existing punctuation mark but in a different place, and most charsets support the !
Excellent, italics is a great way to give a hint, we need something to give a clue that what's being written should be looked at different. We use a ? at the end to show we meant a question, and that use can instantly let you know that the sentence was different.
When the character set doesn't support italics (like some emails?) I still think using a marker at the BEGINNING of the sentence is a solid way to let the reader know that what is about to follow should be read with a sarcastic tone (as you need to know in advance to be useful, the question mark works as you can just 'go up in pitch' for that last word and it works, but we need more with sarcasm.
No need for new fonts, italics, just use a '!' at the beginning.
!no one would EVER get that confused.
Can still use a ? at the ned to make a sarcastic question;
!did you mean to drop all that ?
and as far as I'm aware, it's not used elsewhere in any existing language, we just get to use an existing glyph in a new way.
And that this is a techy site, you can see it as the 'not' operator. Dunno what to call it though, a Sarcalic?
if only it was "bonks LIKE an animal"...
A manager brought his son's computer in to have a 'quick look at when I've got a spare moment'/raises eye to my manager "just get it done, no need to upset anyone" "ok then..." "like... now? drop what you're doing and just sort it" "ok..."
The Manager and my manager follow me into the workspace and hover over my shoulder as I plug it in, power it on, do the usual updates/driver checks/system info/clear temp folders/scan disk/defrag, the sort of stuff you do before you really start putting your trouble shooting head on.
me "oh, what's this I see here?" as I find a hidden folder in the root folder called 'sex'.
tits.mpg/doubleclick expecting some random lightweight boobs juggling.
No, full on animal stuff, some chick being rogered by a horse.
the room went very silent very fast. "so.. uhm.. what did you say the problem was again?" "it's ok, as long as it turns on and runs eh? just pop it back in it's box, I'll take it back to him.
Then the MD who retired was having trouble with his computer, top end kit that he'd ordered for himself just before retiring to have at home. He'd bring it in every month for some new problem where he'd installed something and the malware had knocked something else out, the usual stuff, happened often. What was different was that he was well into using usenet. Not often I saw anyone with that, and probably where he was getting all the viruses from, lets have a quick look, and... oh. uhm, OH! Right, uhm... "Oh, that's ok, don't worry about it, I have a friend we try to out do each other which who can find the strangest things on the internet." Well, I think he won all right. Luckily no kiddie stuff, just lots of (again) animal stuff, and interracial gay stuff, all perfectly normal!
We'd had a big project to get everyone sorted with email. At the time, company being around 125 people, 6 locations, I found it odd they'd not had email a long time before, but as a haulage/shipping company, they lived on crazy amounts of faxes, but were a bit behind the times before they realised they needed an IT department and had hired my boss and then me. Still, they didn't like spending money, and instead of doing it right and spending even half the budget they could end up spending in the pub for a 'management meeting', we did it really on the cheap. 28kbaud dial up modem. Internal emails flew around obviously, but the model was 'dial up every hour, send out, receive, drop the connection' Then changed to 'every 30minutes' as the quickly got hooked on email. But basically, from the moment it first dialed up in the morning, it never dropped it's connection, the amount of 'emails' quickly saturated the slow link. Head bean counter saw the phone bill and wondered what was going on, my manager used it as an excuse to get an ISDN line paid for, but still the bean counter wanted to know what was going on. Especially as we'd had a few virus breakouts that had brought a couple of departments down for an hour as we sorted things out. So we stayed late one night, head bean counter included, to go around each machine and see what was going on.
well.. being a shipping/haulage company, with there being a few firings for some of the drivers running pr0n importing businesses on the side, it was obvious what we found. Hundreds of megabytes per machine filled with sick and depraving stuff. Wasn't anything mild, it was all intense fetish(where did her arm go?)/gangbanging/animals again. Head beancounter was not happy, that we found so much of this in the SENT folder to external addresses, he was flipping his lid that there was a huge liability/legal issue that so much sick stuff had been sent out from our company. He flew up to his office to send out a company wide email/print out a memo posted everywhere to warn people that this was it, last chance, firings and police involvement if done again. Now, we never got all the machines cleared out in the evening, so we carried on in the m
Reminds me...
BMW i3
Wifey hates me tootling around in my Smart Car, and for some reason though the BWM i3 would be better. Went to the showroom, and... so unintentionally hilarious.
Sales guy is smooth, he's got the answers to all the obvious questions, the range, the option of the small gas motor for extra range, the 'if all your doing is driving 10 miles there and back, you'll be fine' stuff. And we got to the 'gas cap' thing, the cover over the power socket that you actually plug the power into. It's electrically operated. The showroom car was totally flat, "err, how do you open the power cap thingy if it's battery operated but the battery is flat?" "hmm, that's odd, but let me show you the... " "no, hang on, this is kinda a bit design issue for me, if I can't open the cap..." "yes, yes of course, let me look into that for you while we get you a test drive" and he calls over the other sales guy to handle that, as he then goes crazy at the 'youngsters' "I WAS AWAY TWO WEEKS, YOU HAD ONE JOB, ONE JOB! MAKE SURE THE ELECTRIC CAR WAS PLUGGED IN! If any of you idiots lose me this sale, you're all fired" lots of arm waving, wildly gesturing, probably thought we couldn't hear him outside through the glass, but the whole showroom was watching, and I was offering helpful commentary. We went for a test drive, back in 15-20 minutes and 5 young sales associates and the first guy were clambering all over the car, pushing/prodding everything you could thing of, all the optional extras were on the floor as they continued to look. The test drive sales guy realises what's happening and takes us to look at the different models, and one last look over the shoulder see's the 5 people still all over the car, one of them underneath the car, as the head sales guy is flipping furiously through the think manual. 10 minutes later, we're back, the port is open and the power cable is plugged in, no lights on the car yet, they must have/really/ let it drain out "oh, all sorted?" "oh yes, no problem at all really, there's just a tiny hidden button behind the rear seat that you need to press, no problem at all really..."
Sure everyone in that showroom knows where the manual cover pop open button is now though.
I think a few people are ok with it as long as they use that UI shell thing called... uhm.. Android? Yeah, that's the name, Android.
Seems to work fine for a Billion users.
I find it odd to wear a watch these days when my phone is next to me when I'm out and about, and when I'm at the desk, in the lower right corner there's the time/date as needed.
Wife wears a broken watch that looks pretty as the phone is practically glued to her hand, and the moto 360 I bought her was worn for a week, then added to the tech junkpile that's my desk.
Perhaps we just don't need watches these days? Like we don't need a PDA and a phone. The phones ARE the pocket watches of old that do everything.
They should have a view different to the usual Star Fleet. Perhaps a small bunch of misfits trying to avoid the Federation, just making a living doing whatever needs to be done, keeping a low profile.
But one of their members is more than they appear, and the Federation REALLY wants their living weapon back.
I know, I know, it'd be easy to create Firefly lite in the Star Trek universe, we had a bit of a bash tabletoping such a thing a solid 10+ years before firefly, but we had Ferengi/Romulans and a tank/Klingon. The cloaking device always needed topping up, but it was a fun campaign. When Firefly came out, we were sure the writers had been sat in some of our sessions, even some of the dialogue sounded familiar ("I'll be in my pillow fort")
But... I'm just bored of the sparkly feds, the honourable klingons, the sneaky ferengi blah blah blah, I want to see a different view of what we're used to. Firefly could almost have worked in the ST universe. Almost. Hopefully we get that, and not the filler episodes we had so much of in the past.
Seriously, you want to spend 10% of the US military's entire budget on one line item?
One off payment for that much bandwidth, that improves the world's communications? Yes, I would. One of the best uses for taxpayer cash I can think of. Let the US own the world's internet hardware infrastructure, or at least have a backup to sell/lease to private companies in case their links get cut/broken.
Ah, I think you've hit the nail on the head. I can't be 100% sure, but I think it's the machines without Office on that have been a bit more spammy. I'll keep an eye out to see if this holds up.
You will. One machine (win7 upgrade), no messages at all, all the others, yeah, the 365, the store, the 'new features to windows 10' (really? a couple of weeks after installing, NOW you're telling me all the cool things I've already been using?).
The notifications window could/SHOULD be a thing of wonder, same as it works on Android, but I suspect it's going to be the next vector for mass amounts of spam (that Android USED to get until better controls for managing were added, MS will get around to it eventually).
Not seen the Bing message yet though, maybe a bit more time.
Exactly what a few of us were commenting on. That it's go so many antennae for 2.4 that goes further, I'd expect these routers to be standard for Google Fiber installations to start throwing cell phone wifi coverage further out for people to hop on, and scatterings around other places too. One router patch away.
Probably the sell would be 'earn extra data on YOUR Fi bandwidth if you share a small % of your home bandwidth out when you're not using it, here's some helpful friendly charts showing you how it'll work and how little it'll impact you".
The main sticking point for non-Google Fiber will be the existing ISP's who as part of your subscription forbid the reselling of bandwidth, But with net neutrality, and encryption, they shouldn't be able to tell if you're sharing some bandwidth or using your own phone at home and voip.
After them selling a lot of their tech to this router company/cross licensing patents, knew this was only going to be a matter of time.
Look forward to someone tearing down these routers to see if there's anything else interesting about them over a regular router.
And after the first dozen accidents, Apple will trot out experts who claim that the 'drivers' were 'sitting in it wrong' and iCar 8 will fix the problems current drivers are having, but you'll need a new car to get the benefits.
Plus, you won't be able to drive and listen to music at the same time, and if you buy the car with an AT&T plan, you'll only be able to drive 50 miles a week before you have to pay for more mileage.
Hmm, would it help if remoting to a datacenter in the NorthWest being powered/cooled by hydro? Ok, still the comms gear local but perhaps we can shift resources to where the power is with a bit of smarts. Sync'd machines over the US to take advantage of where the sun/wind/hydro is most efficient!
Makes little sense in small scales, but scaling up, doable perhaps (depending on the tasks).
Not after playing with Win10 for the last day and a half. This isn't running smooth at all, the app store is down more than it's up (fair enough, everyone will be hitting it hard for updates, but even so, timeouts for this? odd for MS to not have the machine/bandwidth, unless it's others trying to mess MS about).
At this point, to just have a box that plays games without having to fix windows permissions/dcom/registry tweaks, and connect upto the gaming rig that's doing nothing but run steam? I'm tempted.
And without him to show up the lies, there'd be a huge procession of insiders lining up to say that what he released wasn't actually true. The spin would go into full force and 2 years from that date, 99% of citizens would believe he stole fake information and that there was no spying on everyone.
Wasn't sure about him fleeing at first, but the amount of trash thrown at the wall to try and stick, only to be proved wrong by him later revealing further leaks proved what was going on, showed he did the right thing for the people to stay outside the reach of the US law.
One day he'll get a medal, but it'll be awarded posthumously.
Totally. I'll be running Titan X on my gaming rig, but a small NUC/media/remote to stream box? Sure, tweak up the gfx a bit for lightweight gaming. Having this as the 'bottom end' of gfx, will at least let game devs know what's likely to be out there for the huge amount of dell boxes being shifted.
I'm also curious how having these sorts of gfx chips will let DX12 + higher end gfx card work. Can they add a few extra frames per second without judder?
What's the law agency above an Attorney General? This seems to be a fairly clear corruption case surely? Why WAS this AG following orders from the MPAA? Was monies given to him for.. election? (dunno how it works, I'm a Brit). And if there's not a state law on these kind of shenanigans, surely there has to be something higher up?
No idea what law technically is being broken here, but if this had gone through, Billions knocked off Google's stock price, who could they sue over this? Or is that why it was being done this way, as the AG is immune from lawsuits?
Someone/somewhere will put a large firework on a drone and fly it around.
Then someone will put firecrackers.
Then someone will put a grenade/IED.
Kinda inevitable, bad guys will put bad things to kill people. A drone can get further range than throwing. Rockets work but can you get them into the spot you'd want to take someone out?
Only surprise to me is if Hollywood hasn't done it yet. They've shown it a few times with a radio controlled toy car (Dead Pool I think).
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This might just be due diligence by the FBI to get everything lined up before going after Hillary. And/or they're after the emails she's scrubbed if this guy has copies.
Cuddling and Fondling?
Aye, spin up an AWS instance in whatever region you need, run Chrome, and chrome remote the screen to your real machine/tablet/phone anywhere in the world. Heck, if Netflix is now running using AWS, it's probably a couple of racks over it needs to get to, decent ping rate! "It's already in the house!!!"
True, as for most people, it's /really/ hard to find that reversed ?. Needs to be an existing punctuation mark but in a different place, and most charsets support the !
Excellent, italics is a great way to give a hint, we need something to give a clue that what's being written should be looked at different. We use a ? at the end to show we meant a question, and that use can instantly let you know that the sentence was different. When the character set doesn't support italics (like some emails?) I still think using a marker at the BEGINNING of the sentence is a solid way to let the reader know that what is about to follow should be read with a sarcastic tone (as you need to know in advance to be useful, the question mark works as you can just 'go up in pitch' for that last word and it works, but we need more with sarcasm. No need for new fonts, italics, just use a '!' at the beginning. !no one would EVER get that confused. Can still use a ? at the ned to make a sarcastic question; !did you mean to drop all that ? and as far as I'm aware, it's not used elsewhere in any existing language, we just get to use an existing glyph in a new way. And that this is a techy site, you can see it as the 'not' operator. Dunno what to call it though, a Sarcalic?
The Manager and my manager follow me into the workspace and hover over my shoulder as I plug it in, power it on, do the usual updates/driver checks/system info/clear temp folders/scan disk/defrag, the sort of stuff you do before you really start putting your trouble shooting head on. /doubleclick expecting some random lightweight boobs juggling.
me "oh, what's this I see here?" as I find a hidden folder in the root folder called 'sex'.
tits.mpg
No, full on animal stuff, some chick being rogered by a horse.
the room went very silent very fast. "so.. uhm.. what did you say the problem was again?" "it's ok, as long as it turns on and runs eh? just pop it back in it's box, I'll take it back to him.
Then the MD who retired was having trouble with his computer, top end kit that he'd ordered for himself just before retiring to have at home. He'd bring it in every month for some new problem where he'd installed something and the malware had knocked something else out, the usual stuff, happened often. What was different was that he was well into using usenet. Not often I saw anyone with that, and probably where he was getting all the viruses from, lets have a quick look, and... oh. uhm, OH! Right, uhm... "Oh, that's ok, don't worry about it, I have a friend we try to out do each other which who can find the strangest things on the internet." Well, I think he won all right. Luckily no kiddie stuff, just lots of (again) animal stuff, and interracial gay stuff, all perfectly normal! We'd had a big project to get everyone sorted with email. At the time, company being around 125 people, 6 locations, I found it odd they'd not had email a long time before, but as a haulage/shipping company, they lived on crazy amounts of faxes, but were a bit behind the times before they realised they needed an IT department and had hired my boss and then me. Still, they didn't like spending money, and instead of doing it right and spending even half the budget they could end up spending in the pub for a 'management meeting', we did it really on the cheap. 28kbaud dial up modem. Internal emails flew around obviously, but the model was 'dial up every hour, send out, receive, drop the connection' Then changed to 'every 30minutes' as the quickly got hooked on email. But basically, from the moment it first dialed up in the morning, it never dropped it's connection, the amount of 'emails' quickly saturated the slow link. Head bean counter saw the phone bill and wondered what was going on, my manager used it as an excuse to get an ISDN line paid for, but still the bean counter wanted to know what was going on. Especially as we'd had a few virus breakouts that had brought a couple of departments down for an hour as we sorted things out. So we stayed late one night, head bean counter included, to go around each machine and see what was going on.
well.. being a shipping/haulage company, with there being a few firings for some of the drivers running pr0n importing businesses on the side, it was obvious what we found. Hundreds of megabytes per machine filled with sick and depraving stuff. Wasn't anything mild, it was all intense fetish(where did her arm go?)/gangbanging/animals again. Head beancounter was not happy, that we found so much of this in the SENT folder to external addresses, he was flipping his lid that there was a huge liability/legal issue that so much sick stuff had been sent out from our company. He flew up to his office to send out a company wide email/print out a memo posted everywhere to warn people that this was it, last chance, firings and police involvement if done again. Now, we never got all the machines cleared out in the evening, so we carried on in the m
Reminds me... BMW i3 Wifey hates me tootling around in my Smart Car, and for some reason though the BWM i3 would be better. Went to the showroom, and... so unintentionally hilarious. Sales guy is smooth, he's got the answers to all the obvious questions, the range, the option of the small gas motor for extra range, the 'if all your doing is driving 10 miles there and back, you'll be fine' stuff. And we got to the 'gas cap' thing, the cover over the power socket that you actually plug the power into. It's electrically operated. The showroom car was totally flat, "err, how do you open the power cap thingy if it's battery operated but the battery is flat?" "hmm, that's odd, but let me show you the... " "no, hang on, this is kinda a bit design issue for me, if I can't open the cap..." "yes, yes of course, let me look into that for you while we get you a test drive" and he calls over the other sales guy to handle that, as he then goes crazy at the 'youngsters' "I WAS AWAY TWO WEEKS, YOU HAD ONE JOB, ONE JOB! MAKE SURE THE ELECTRIC CAR WAS PLUGGED IN! If any of you idiots lose me this sale, you're all fired" lots of arm waving, wildly gesturing, probably thought we couldn't hear him outside through the glass, but the whole showroom was watching, and I was offering helpful commentary. We went for a test drive, back in 15-20 minutes and 5 young sales associates and the first guy were clambering all over the car, pushing/prodding everything you could thing of, all the optional extras were on the floor as they continued to look. The test drive sales guy realises what's happening and takes us to look at the different models, and one last look over the shoulder see's the 5 people still all over the car, one of them underneath the car, as the head sales guy is flipping furiously through the think manual. 10 minutes later, we're back, the port is open and the power cable is plugged in, no lights on the car yet, they must have /really/ let it drain out "oh, all sorted?" "oh yes, no problem at all really, there's just a tiny hidden button behind the rear seat that you need to press, no problem at all really..."
Sure everyone in that showroom knows where the manual cover pop open button is now though.
I think a few people are ok with it as long as they use that UI shell thing called... uhm.. Android? Yeah, that's the name, Android. Seems to work fine for a Billion users.
I find it odd to wear a watch these days when my phone is next to me when I'm out and about, and when I'm at the desk, in the lower right corner there's the time/date as needed.
Wife wears a broken watch that looks pretty as the phone is practically glued to her hand, and the moto 360 I bought her was worn for a week, then added to the tech junkpile that's my desk.
Perhaps we just don't need watches these days? Like we don't need a PDA and a phone. The phones ARE the pocket watches of old that do everything.
They should have a view different to the usual Star Fleet. Perhaps a small bunch of misfits trying to avoid the Federation, just making a living doing whatever needs to be done, keeping a low profile. But one of their members is more than they appear, and the Federation REALLY wants their living weapon back.
I know, I know, it'd be easy to create Firefly lite in the Star Trek universe, we had a bit of a bash tabletoping such a thing a solid 10+ years before firefly, but we had Ferengi/Romulans and a tank/Klingon. The cloaking device always needed topping up, but it was a fun campaign. When Firefly came out, we were sure the writers had been sat in some of our sessions, even some of the dialogue sounded familiar ("I'll be in my pillow fort")
But... I'm just bored of the sparkly feds, the honourable klingons, the sneaky ferengi blah blah blah, I want to see a different view of what we're used to. Firefly could almost have worked in the ST universe. Almost. Hopefully we get that, and not the filler episodes we had so much of in the past.
Sure there'll be another TIP agreement that it gets tweaked a bit, and because of harmonisation, it'll get knocked up. Again.
One off payment for that much bandwidth, that improves the world's communications? Yes, I would. One of the best uses for taxpayer cash I can think of. Let the US own the world's internet hardware infrastructure, or at least have a backup to sell/lease to private companies in case their links get cut/broken.
Ah, I think you've hit the nail on the head. I can't be 100% sure, but I think it's the machines without Office on that have been a bit more spammy. I'll keep an eye out to see if this holds up.
You will. One machine (win7 upgrade), no messages at all, all the others, yeah, the 365, the store, the 'new features to windows 10' (really? a couple of weeks after installing, NOW you're telling me all the cool things I've already been using?). The notifications window could/SHOULD be a thing of wonder, same as it works on Android, but I suspect it's going to be the next vector for mass amounts of spam (that Android USED to get until better controls for managing were added, MS will get around to it eventually). Not seen the Bing message yet though, maybe a bit more time.
*edit I had a huge post that on re-reading before hitting submit, was close to a 'Get Off my Lawn' post. But... I hear ya. /comfort.
Slablet, I think that name's going to stick.
Exactly what a few of us were commenting on. That it's go so many antennae for 2.4 that goes further, I'd expect these routers to be standard for Google Fiber installations to start throwing cell phone wifi coverage further out for people to hop on, and scatterings around other places too. One router patch away. Probably the sell would be 'earn extra data on YOUR Fi bandwidth if you share a small % of your home bandwidth out when you're not using it, here's some helpful friendly charts showing you how it'll work and how little it'll impact you". The main sticking point for non-Google Fiber will be the existing ISP's who as part of your subscription forbid the reselling of bandwidth, But with net neutrality, and encryption, they shouldn't be able to tell if you're sharing some bandwidth or using your own phone at home and voip. After them selling a lot of their tech to this router company/cross licensing patents, knew this was only going to be a matter of time. Look forward to someone tearing down these routers to see if there's anything else interesting about them over a regular router.
And after the first dozen accidents, Apple will trot out experts who claim that the 'drivers' were 'sitting in it wrong' and iCar 8 will fix the problems current drivers are having, but you'll need a new car to get the benefits. Plus, you won't be able to drive and listen to music at the same time, and if you buy the car with an AT&T plan, you'll only be able to drive 50 miles a week before you have to pay for more mileage.
Hmm, would it help if remoting to a datacenter in the NorthWest being powered/cooled by hydro? Ok, still the comms gear local but perhaps we can shift resources to where the power is with a bit of smarts. Sync'd machines over the US to take advantage of where the sun/wind/hydro is most efficient! Makes little sense in small scales, but scaling up, doable perhaps (depending on the tasks).
Not after playing with Win10 for the last day and a half. This isn't running smooth at all, the app store is down more than it's up (fair enough, everyone will be hitting it hard for updates, but even so, timeouts for this? odd for MS to not have the machine/bandwidth, unless it's others trying to mess MS about). At this point, to just have a box that plays games without having to fix windows permissions/dcom/registry tweaks, and connect upto the gaming rig that's doing nothing but run steam? I'm tempted.
And without him to show up the lies, there'd be a huge procession of insiders lining up to say that what he released wasn't actually true. The spin would go into full force and 2 years from that date, 99% of citizens would believe he stole fake information and that there was no spying on everyone.
Wasn't sure about him fleeing at first, but the amount of trash thrown at the wall to try and stick, only to be proved wrong by him later revealing further leaks proved what was going on, showed he did the right thing for the people to stay outside the reach of the US law. One day he'll get a medal, but it'll be awarded posthumously.
Totally. I'll be running Titan X on my gaming rig, but a small NUC/media/remote to stream box? Sure, tweak up the gfx a bit for lightweight gaming. Having this as the 'bottom end' of gfx, will at least let game devs know what's likely to be out there for the huge amount of dell boxes being shifted. I'm also curious how having these sorts of gfx chips will let DX12 + higher end gfx card work. Can they add a few extra frames per second without judder?
What's the law agency above an Attorney General? This seems to be a fairly clear corruption case surely? Why WAS this AG following orders from the MPAA? Was monies given to him for.. election? (dunno how it works, I'm a Brit). And if there's not a state law on these kind of shenanigans, surely there has to be something higher up? No idea what law technically is being broken here, but if this had gone through, Billions knocked off Google's stock price, who could they sue over this? Or is that why it was being done this way, as the AG is immune from lawsuits?
Someone/somewhere will put a large firework on a drone and fly it around. Then someone will put firecrackers. Then someone will put a grenade/IED. Kinda inevitable, bad guys will put bad things to kill people. A drone can get further range than throwing. Rockets work but can you get them into the spot you'd want to take someone out? Only surprise to me is if Hollywood hasn't done it yet. They've shown it a few times with a radio controlled toy car (Dead Pool I think).
If I can throw this in a machine with 2 SLI'd Titan X's for another 5 frames per second, it'll still sell.