Well, good luck routing around damage where your connection first reaches your ISP. If they go that far, you can't route around anything anymore, no matter what new DNS toys you have.
Well the thing is, if you add up the numbers, it's clearly a win all around! Just alternate back and forth for a while and everyone ends up with more points...
"According to a paper about the case just published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, the woman went into a decline soon after her treatment. Within three months she required dialysis, within a year one kidney had failed, and within two years she was dead. A team of Thai and Canadian researchers performed a postmortem analysis of the kidneys, and found no evidence at all that the treatment had benefited the woman–and they found strange lumps and lesions at the sites of injection. Further investigation revealed that the masses were tangled mixtures of blood vessels and bone marrow cells."
Oh man, if that's not nightmare fuel, I don't know what is.
Two and a half years doesn't sound too outrageous for me, depending on how he DDOSed them. That usually means wide-scale computer intrusion, which is a pretty massive crime. The "distributed" in DDOS means that you're going away for a while. He committed them over a pretty long stretch of time, so it's not like he said "oops I shouldn't have done that"...plus it means he'd kept control of hacked computers for a pretty darn long time. Not cool.
Me and my roommates still huddle around it to play Mario. When the gray screen and flashing light got too prevalent, I went down to my local retro game store (more NES games than you used to be able to buy in the old days!) and picked up a brand new 72-pin connector, and replaced my old one. It works like it's new again, and I got some new games, too. Wizards and Warriors is hard. All my old battery games still work, and when I bought Wizardry used, it came with the last owner's dead party members in the dungeon still. I found them and hauled them back to the surface, and now they're in my party; it's almost like I was playing Shadows of Yserbius.
My PS2 died. The only console I now own is my NES. Hell, it's the only thing I use my TV for since it doesn't get that new digital whatever (and I wouldn't watch it anyway). I beat both quests of Zelda on my NES while waiting on some long downloads and compiles over the course of a long weekend.
Yeah. In small towns, word gets around. People know who you are, people talk about people, you get a rep--even if you haven't been convicted of doing anything wrong. And I kind of think that's a good thing. The Internet means that everything is right next door...and everyone's your neighbor. Is that really such a bad thing? Don't be a twit in public.
Sure the smoke alarm goes off when I haven't cleaned the oven in a while and I'm cooking. But it doesn't normally go off when I'm in bed. I'm okay with this.
That's what I've been wondering. What metals, exactly, are more common there than down on earth, what's worth the price of getting there?
I'm having trouble imagining what could be worth the price tag...right now, at least, before we start running out of things.
If my Google account starts showing up in random places like my Facebook used to (back when I still had a Facebook account), and if I ever see a single Farmville style friend request show in my email, I'm dropping my gmail/whatever account and not looking back.
More likely, instead of being Philips itself, it was some employees who thought it would be cool and then the company said "Hey, that's awesome, keep doing that and we'll put our name on it".
Legally allowing porting to an unsupported platform sounds kind of dangerous. Let's say company A releases a game on the XBox 360 three months before they release it on PC. During the intervening period, is it "unsupported" on the PC? Portal was not available on the Mac for a couple-three years, but as of a few weeks back, it is now. Was it "unsupported" in the meantime, and could people have legally cloned it, ripped off all the assets, and distributed it for free?
I don't even think this is a slippery slope. It's something that directly follows.
Yeah...he kind of copied the trademark, and all the art wholesale. He walked right into this one, and the law is pretty squarely not on his side (which is exactly the way I feel it should be).
I find this very interesting. I have the exact same experience as parent, but clearly a lot of other responders don't. Maybe we have some kind of bug? Perhaps when Steam sees a failed connection attempt, it disqualifies you from entering offline mode...and other peoples' Steam don't try to autoconnect without a connection, while ours do?
In any case, parent is spot-on and absolutely correct for his and my own experience. I'm very happy that the rest of you have a different experience, but you might want to go check out the Steam tech support forums before marking this as flamebait: Parent's experiences are a hell of a lot more common than you'd think, tech support considers it correct behavior to NOT be able to go into offline mode without a connection, the official documentation TELLS you to go into offline mode BEFORE losing connection, etc.
Uh, yeah. They're not lies. Either that or I hallucinate wildly every time I start up my laptop and there's no wireless around. If I last shut down Steam in online mode, and there's no connection when I start it back up, it WILL NOT let me go into offline mode. I've had long conversations with Steam tech support about this, and I'm certainly no isolated case on their forums.
Flat-out wrong, at least on my computer, and I know on many others' too. I have NO idea why this happens for some and not others, but poke around the Steam forums and you'll find that this is absolutely not an isolated occurance:
When I start up my computer and discover that my wireless is down, Steam prompts me for a username and password. I can't manually run most (not all) of my games, either, because Steam is not really running from the login prompt. If I try to log in, it says it can't reach the servers, and prompts me to start up in offline mode. And when I click "start in offline mode", it says that it can not connect to the server to do that. Can not connect to server to enable offline mode. Let me say that again for emphasis: On my machine, IT NEEDS INTERNET ACCESS TO ENABLE OFFLINE MODE. PERIOD. After a whole lot of testing, believe me, this is an abolute fact for my laptop. Contacting Steam support verified that this is, indeed, correct behavior.
I LIKE Steam. It gets me to spend money on games. But this functionality is absolutely defective, and it REALLY, REALLY IS BROKEN. It's not a case of user error. Yeah, really.
Another big reason that people drive without headlights is that they believe it improves their gas mileage (after all, there's less to power, right?). I mean, it SEEMS obvious, and when gas is so expensive, why take chances?
Get a few more guys to do this, and wear goggles (or embed something into the electronic image your eye shows you) that displays what your buddies are seeing. Very distracting for the first month or so, but it's a must-have for every up-and-coming Shadowrunning team!
New discoveries are hard to make. They require a ton of specialized knowledge these days. A lot of scientific fields go pretty deep these days, and you'll have to follow them all the way down to compete.
Engineering on the other hand--coming up with a new way to use new tools--well, that's a very broad field, and the technologies are always so new that a novice can get in SOMEwhere. Some people say software engineering; if it was me, I'd look into the Makerbot project. If you can find ways to improve the production of Makerbots, or reduce the cost of their expensive components, you can help make them more ubiquitous in homes nationwide...and THAT will probably change the world a lot more than a fair number of scientific endeavors. Alternately, things like that protein folding game (Foldit?) that was mentioned on Slashdot a day or two ago could be a place to start.
Associate yourself with a team that can find a job for amateurs. Even if it's a very loose association, you'll need a support network in your field of choice...and, well, you need people to tell you when you're barking up the wrong tree. For example, if even half the backyard geniuses who try to expand on Tesla's creations had someone telling them which parts of their work had already been duplicated long, long ago, chasing them out of that line of questioning and onto another, we'd probably have mars colonies by now...
Say what you will about it being too little, too late, but I'm glad that they're going back and recognizing past mistakes and trying to do what little they can to right them. Especially so that others can see how they've changed in the meantime. Ideally it'll change the behavior of those still alive today...
Theoretically (and according to regulations), in most places in the US, tasers are to be considered a direct replacement for standard firearms--that is, you ONLY get to taser someone if the alternative would have been actually shooting them in the shoulder or the leg to drop them. Period. The idea is that tasers are still a potentially lethal weapon...they're just LESS lethal than shooting someone in a non-vital spot.
I'm sure most departments and most officers follow those regs...but from all the news stories and lawsuits you see, clearly not all of them do.
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Summary says the boom was audible in a room 50 feet away? If I tip over a chair, it's audible in a room 50 feet away...
Well, good luck routing around damage where your connection first reaches your ISP. If they go that far, you can't route around anything anymore, no matter what new DNS toys you have.
Well the thing is, if you add up the numbers, it's clearly a win all around! Just alternate back and forth for a while and everyone ends up with more points...
I would argue that it's more like:
"I didn't kill him, Your Honor, I just directed the murderer to some killers-for-hire I knew."
Seems like that clearly makes you a party to it.
The reason the US doesn't have a system like Israel's is that most flights in the US are domestic.
Seriously, this is terrible.
You kidding? I've seen an article about a crazy doctor in an ethically-vague country who already killed someone with stem cell treatments: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/06/18/danger-stem-cell-tourists-patient-in-thailand-dies-from-treatment/
"According to a paper about the case just published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, the woman went into a decline soon after her treatment. Within three months she required dialysis, within a year one kidney had failed, and within two years she was dead. A team of Thai and Canadian researchers performed a postmortem analysis of the kidneys, and found no evidence at all that the treatment had benefited the woman–and they found strange lumps and lesions at the sites of injection. Further investigation revealed that the masses were tangled mixtures of blood vessels and bone marrow cells."
Oh man, if that's not nightmare fuel, I don't know what is.
A shitload of them. That's their standard in-house development platform.
Two and a half years doesn't sound too outrageous for me, depending on how he DDOSed them. That usually means wide-scale computer intrusion, which is a pretty massive crime. The "distributed" in DDOS means that you're going away for a while. He committed them over a pretty long stretch of time, so it's not like he said "oops I shouldn't have done that"...plus it means he'd kept control of hacked computers for a pretty darn long time. Not cool.
Me and my roommates still huddle around it to play Mario. When the gray screen and flashing light got too prevalent, I went down to my local retro game store (more NES games than you used to be able to buy in the old days!) and picked up a brand new 72-pin connector, and replaced my old one. It works like it's new again, and I got some new games, too. Wizards and Warriors is hard. All my old battery games still work, and when I bought Wizardry used, it came with the last owner's dead party members in the dungeon still. I found them and hauled them back to the surface, and now they're in my party; it's almost like I was playing Shadows of Yserbius. My PS2 died. The only console I now own is my NES. Hell, it's the only thing I use my TV for since it doesn't get that new digital whatever (and I wouldn't watch it anyway). I beat both quests of Zelda on my NES while waiting on some long downloads and compiles over the course of a long weekend.
Yeah. In small towns, word gets around. People know who you are, people talk about people, you get a rep--even if you haven't been convicted of doing anything wrong. And I kind of think that's a good thing. The Internet means that everything is right next door...and everyone's your neighbor. Is that really such a bad thing? Don't be a twit in public.
Sure the smoke alarm goes off when I haven't cleaned the oven in a while and I'm cooking. But it doesn't normally go off when I'm in bed. I'm okay with this.
That's what I've been wondering. What metals, exactly, are more common there than down on earth, what's worth the price of getting there? I'm having trouble imagining what could be worth the price tag...right now, at least, before we start running out of things.
If my Google account starts showing up in random places like my Facebook used to (back when I still had a Facebook account), and if I ever see a single Farmville style friend request show in my email, I'm dropping my gmail/whatever account and not looking back.
More likely, instead of being Philips itself, it was some employees who thought it would be cool and then the company said "Hey, that's awesome, keep doing that and we'll put our name on it".
Legally allowing porting to an unsupported platform sounds kind of dangerous. Let's say company A releases a game on the XBox 360 three months before they release it on PC. During the intervening period, is it "unsupported" on the PC? Portal was not available on the Mac for a couple-three years, but as of a few weeks back, it is now. Was it "unsupported" in the meantime, and could people have legally cloned it, ripped off all the assets, and distributed it for free? I don't even think this is a slippery slope. It's something that directly follows.
Yeah...he kind of copied the trademark, and all the art wholesale. He walked right into this one, and the law is pretty squarely not on his side (which is exactly the way I feel it should be).
I find this very interesting. I have the exact same experience as parent, but clearly a lot of other responders don't. Maybe we have some kind of bug? Perhaps when Steam sees a failed connection attempt, it disqualifies you from entering offline mode...and other peoples' Steam don't try to autoconnect without a connection, while ours do?
In any case, parent is spot-on and absolutely correct for his and my own experience. I'm very happy that the rest of you have a different experience, but you might want to go check out the Steam tech support forums before marking this as flamebait: Parent's experiences are a hell of a lot more common than you'd think, tech support considers it correct behavior to NOT be able to go into offline mode without a connection, the official documentation TELLS you to go into offline mode BEFORE losing connection, etc.
Uh, yeah. They're not lies. Either that or I hallucinate wildly every time I start up my laptop and there's no wireless around. If I last shut down Steam in online mode, and there's no connection when I start it back up, it WILL NOT let me go into offline mode. I've had long conversations with Steam tech support about this, and I'm certainly no isolated case on their forums.
Flat-out wrong, at least on my computer, and I know on many others' too. I have NO idea why this happens for some and not others, but poke around the Steam forums and you'll find that this is absolutely not an isolated occurance:
When I start up my computer and discover that my wireless is down, Steam prompts me for a username and password. I can't manually run most (not all) of my games, either, because Steam is not really running from the login prompt. If I try to log in, it says it can't reach the servers, and prompts me to start up in offline mode. And when I click "start in offline mode", it says that it can not connect to the server to do that. Can not connect to server to enable offline mode. Let me say that again for emphasis: On my machine, IT NEEDS INTERNET ACCESS TO ENABLE OFFLINE MODE. PERIOD. After a whole lot of testing, believe me, this is an abolute fact for my laptop. Contacting Steam support verified that this is, indeed, correct behavior.
I LIKE Steam. It gets me to spend money on games. But this functionality is absolutely defective, and it REALLY, REALLY IS BROKEN. It's not a case of user error. Yeah, really.
Another big reason that people drive without headlights is that they believe it improves their gas mileage (after all, there's less to power, right?). I mean, it SEEMS obvious, and when gas is so expensive, why take chances?
Get a few more guys to do this, and wear goggles (or embed something into the electronic image your eye shows you) that displays what your buddies are seeing. Very distracting for the first month or so, but it's a must-have for every up-and-coming Shadowrunning team!
New discoveries are hard to make. They require a ton of specialized knowledge these days. A lot of scientific fields go pretty deep these days, and you'll have to follow them all the way down to compete.
Engineering on the other hand--coming up with a new way to use new tools--well, that's a very broad field, and the technologies are always so new that a novice can get in SOMEwhere. Some people say software engineering; if it was me, I'd look into the Makerbot project. If you can find ways to improve the production of Makerbots, or reduce the cost of their expensive components, you can help make them more ubiquitous in homes nationwide...and THAT will probably change the world a lot more than a fair number of scientific endeavors. Alternately, things like that protein folding game (Foldit?) that was mentioned on Slashdot a day or two ago could be a place to start.
Associate yourself with a team that can find a job for amateurs. Even if it's a very loose association, you'll need a support network in your field of choice...and, well, you need people to tell you when you're barking up the wrong tree. For example, if even half the backyard geniuses who try to expand on Tesla's creations had someone telling them which parts of their work had already been duplicated long, long ago, chasing them out of that line of questioning and onto another, we'd probably have mars colonies by now...
Say what you will about it being too little, too late, but I'm glad that they're going back and recognizing past mistakes and trying to do what little they can to right them. Especially so that others can see how they've changed in the meantime. Ideally it'll change the behavior of those still alive today...
Theoretically (and according to regulations), in most places in the US, tasers are to be considered a direct replacement for standard firearms--that is, you ONLY get to taser someone if the alternative would have been actually shooting them in the shoulder or the leg to drop them. Period. The idea is that tasers are still a potentially lethal weapon...they're just LESS lethal than shooting someone in a non-vital spot.
I'm sure most departments and most officers follow those regs...but from all the news stories and lawsuits you see, clearly not all of them do.