Health care is definitely the most up-and-coming thing there is, I think, especially with the massive wave of aging baby boomers who tend to have quite a bit to spend. You can either look at it as potentially lucrative or potentially altruistic, but in any case I think the parent suggestion is great.
..but with a tiny bit of [university] acting experience as my guide, I think that what you aim at as an actor is "becoming" the person, not pretending to be them.
And that, I think, is Hayden's problem in this movie. Seems more like he's pretending to be Vader than he is becoming Vader.
Swarmstreaming, I believe kids are calling it these days..:-P
These guys claim to have such a solution; I was just researching this stuff yesterday out of curiosity. Can't find any reviews or examples of people using it in order to determine if it actually works, though.
While I completely agree with you that they shouldn't have had kids (and it's one reason why I don't intend to have any myself - they screwed me over badly as a kid), they weren't forcing you to pay for them because they didn't qualify for government aid since they always made just enough to stay out of that "poverty" bracket. Although the thought that we weren't on food stamps didn't make me feel any better when we didn't have food in the house, I can assure you.:-P
...my parents were always poor, but managed to stay _just_ above the poverty line so did not always qualify for such programs. The poverty line in the United States is set entirely too low, and hasn't really been increased in a number of years. Sociologists have been remarking on this - it's one reason why there are a lot of people struggling to survive, and one reason why it's better sometimes to go on welfare than to work - you'll actually eat better. When you're holding a minimum wage job (or two) and trying to support three kids as my parents did, it turns into a near-impossibility, especially if you make that few hundred dollars more than the poverty cutoff.
If you're able to get a job paying significantly more than minimum wage, you're probably fine, but neither one of my parents had more than a high school education, and my mom never finished 7th grade. McDonalds doesn't really pay that well if you're not a manager, and even then I've heard horror stories.
1. sand the letters off my $20 keyboard 2. put a few extra drops of glue on the random key 3. sell it for $80! 4. That's like...at least 400% profit!!!!
..but what about write limits? If I'm not mistaken, don't these types of drives usually have a limited number of times they can be written to? Samsung doesn't say anything about this.
How about a biometric system that combines single center-digit/voice/ass-print recognition? That way, you could give them the finger, the "bite my shiny metal ass," and the shiny metal ass-print for their viewing pleasure? That would be more secure, right?
The whole thing is ludicrous...for a second, I seriously thought I'd been dreaming the last month-and-a-half and that it's really April 1.
...but you'd think that enough people would eventually get burnt that there would be a collective realization that the software is flawed, and a corresponding push to use other/less-flawed software (as we've seen with even government recommending against using Internet Explorer).
I think it might be that Microsoft's PR guys do a really good job of damage control, and people never fully realize that they're so vulnerable (although there's a chance that they just don't understand that they have alternatives).
It seems like you'd pick up the keylogger if you visited questionable websites or ran insecure email software that automatically trusts every image, script, etc in your email (*cough*Default Outlook Behavior*cough*) - in other words, not really anything to worry about if you're security conscious.
Seems like yet another thing that a bit of education and/or better software architecting practices could easily reduce. The user is always the weakest link.
I run a few websites on a managed dedicated server and one of the tools that we're offered is Urchin (version 5, I believe). I generally use awstats instead. Urchin is painfully slow to use and has the most horrible date-range system for reports that I've ever had the misfortune to use.
I wonder if Google will clean it up and make it run as smoothly as the main Google search page. It might not make me wince so much to use.
Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may well vary.
All flaming aside, my point is that it's irresponsible to even suggest releasing a virus in the wild. "May" implies that it's one distinct option that people could have done.
Of course, now that the contest has been cancelled, this is all of no import.:-)
Ask a grown-up to explain the following to you:
>Your virus may be put into general circulation on the internet, if it meets the 'benign' and 'harmless' standard.
Thank you, come again.
If you think about it carefully, any such virus will be wasting bandwidth and processing time.
Worse, they aren't just proposing attacks on the specific machines, but rather that you have to put your virus into the wild. That way, it will waste EVERYONE's bandwidth and processing time while it spreads enough to infect those needles in the haystack that is the internet-at-large.
Slashdot Mirror
"I can see that you're a cartoon-watching, programming, bleeding-heart liberal who wears glasses and is a Google fanboy."
"Elementary, my dear Watsonbot."
Health care is definitely the most up-and-coming thing there is, I think, especially with the massive wave of aging baby boomers who tend to have quite a bit to spend. You can either look at it as potentially lucrative or potentially altruistic, but in any case I think the parent suggestion is great.
..but with a tiny bit of [university] acting experience as my guide, I think that what you aim at as an actor is "becoming" the person, not pretending to be them.
And that, I think, is Hayden's problem in this movie. Seems more like he's pretending to be Vader than he is becoming Vader.
Swarmstreaming, I believe kids are calling it these days..:-P
These guys claim to have such a solution; I was just researching this stuff yesterday out of curiosity. Can't find any reviews or examples of people using it in order to determine if it actually works, though.
While I completely agree with you that they shouldn't have had kids (and it's one reason why I don't intend to have any myself - they screwed me over badly as a kid), they weren't forcing you to pay for them because they didn't qualify for government aid since they always made just enough to stay out of that "poverty" bracket. Although the thought that we weren't on food stamps didn't make me feel any better when we didn't have food in the house, I can assure you. :-P
...my parents were always poor, but managed to stay _just_ above the poverty line so did not always qualify for such programs. The poverty line in the United States is set entirely too low, and hasn't really been increased in a number of years. Sociologists have been remarking on this - it's one reason why there are a lot of people struggling to survive, and one reason why it's better sometimes to go on welfare than to work - you'll actually eat better. When you're holding a minimum wage job (or two) and trying to support three kids as my parents did, it turns into a near-impossibility, especially if you make that few hundred dollars more than the poverty cutoff.
If you're able to get a job paying significantly more than minimum wage, you're probably fine, but neither one of my parents had more than a high school education, and my mom never finished 7th grade. McDonalds doesn't really pay that well if you're not a manager, and even then I've heard horror stories.
Would this mean there's someone hiding in the back seat I can't see?
...if the hot chick in the Benz starts playing "Naughty Girl" when I tune in, then I should take it as an invitation to follow her home?
This has been happening for years already. It's annoying as hell.
Yeah, my math is about as good as that keyboard;-) I think I was thinking $15 keyboard when I did the calculations. Duh.:-)
So it's:
1. sand the letters off my $20 keyboard
2. put a few extra drops of glue on the random key
3. sell it for $80!
4. That's like...at least 400% profit!!!!
..but what about write limits? If I'm not mistaken, don't these types of drives usually have a limited number of times they can be written to? Samsung doesn't say anything about this.
..when they pry it from my cold, dead fing-
:-)
Oh wait, this is a good thing. Nevermind.
...just posing as a FPS.
A massively complicated character generation process could explain how you could be "playing" within minutes of buying the game...:-)
How about a biometric system that combines single center-digit/voice/ass-print recognition? That way, you could give them the finger, the "bite my shiny metal ass," and the shiny metal ass-print for their viewing pleasure? That would be more secure, right?
The whole thing is ludicrous...for a second, I seriously thought I'd been dreaming the last month-and-a-half and that it's really April 1.
...your "pity" comment is rather insightful. Now if I just had mod points...
Seems like it's been done.
Now if we could only get everyone to shell out (Pro: $499US new user/$329US upgrade) for Office 2003, things might get better:-)
...but you'd think that enough people would eventually get burnt that there would be a collective realization that the software is flawed, and a corresponding push to use other/less-flawed software (as we've seen with even government recommending against using Internet Explorer).
I think it might be that Microsoft's PR guys do a really good job of damage control, and people never fully realize that they're so vulnerable (although there's a chance that they just don't understand that they have alternatives).
It seems like you'd pick up the keylogger if you visited questionable websites or ran insecure email software that automatically trusts every image, script, etc in your email (*cough*Default Outlook Behavior*cough*) - in other words, not really anything to worry about if you're security conscious.
Seems like yet another thing that a bit of education and/or better software architecting practices could easily reduce. The user is always the weakest link.
...s/he got the spammer grammar right:-)
" Please fill in you credit card number..."
I run a few websites on a managed dedicated server and one of the tools that we're offered is Urchin (version 5, I believe). I generally use awstats instead. Urchin is painfully slow to use and has the most horrible date-range system for reports that I've ever had the misfortune to use.
I wonder if Google will clean it up and make it run as smoothly as the main Google search page. It might not make me wince so much to use.
Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may well vary.
All flaming aside, my point is that it's irresponsible to even suggest releasing a virus in the wild. "May" implies that it's one distinct option that people could have done.
Of course, now that the contest has been cancelled, this is all of no import.:-)
Ask a grown-up to explain the following to you: >Your virus may be put into general circulation on the internet, if it meets the 'benign' and 'harmless' standard. Thank you, come again.
If you think about it carefully, any such virus will be wasting bandwidth and processing time.
Worse, they aren't just proposing attacks on the specific machines, but rather that you have to put your virus into the wild. That way, it will waste EVERYONE's bandwidth and processing time while it spreads enough to infect those needles in the haystack that is the internet-at-large.
Just brilliant.