1) After mentioning "tough, edgy, funny and completely loveable" they couldn't throw in a "Radical", "Bodacious", or "Tubular", for shame. 2) Reminds me of the Simpsons when the make a new toon for itchy and scratchy called "Poochy". Though I believe even he was "in your face", "edgy", as well as "Radical" 3) Have you seen "TMNT: The Movie"? It was fscking HORRIBLE. If this is a reboot, it is a VERY low bar to exceed. I have no doubt that Bay can make a better movie. Hell just about anyone could.
Besides, samurai mutants might be a little "too soon" after fukushima... Aliens might be a bit more consumable.
Vernor Vinge talks about this stuff in 2006 in his book Rainbows End. Everything is made from sealed parts no one has access to. In one moment of desperation the protagonist rips apart a car to see what is inside, only to find, more sealed parts.
I've seen the future friends, and its turtles all the way down.
Meh. I am not too worried about speed. They increase every so often, however if you are dealing with 10TB you are either using archive data, or some crazy source that isn't really "consumer" anymore anyhow. SSD seems to be picking up the slack there, where you have fast processing drive VS a straight storage drive. I assume that at some point a hybrid that will come along to remove the necessity of buying two drives and will store dynamically what you need where you appropriately need it.
Although I can say the same thing about SSD. A lifespan of more then 6 months would be nice.
People might not have to move such volumes of data all the time, if their drives weren't failing so often!
As much as I love stories about X company being able to stuff Y capacity into storage device, the last few years have proven instructive.
1) How about doing it and producing it in such a way so that it is cheaper, not more expensive than last year? 2) How about making them at least a little bit reliable. I know you just want us to consume more and more of your drives, but lets get back to 5 year warranty's already. This one year BS is BS. 3) Maybe rather than doing the R&D to find a 60TB HD you do the R&D to find a building lot not on a fscking flood plain?
Thanks,
From everyone that bought a HD in the last year or so...
Before going the route of DarthVader, would they not see if they can't do a full hand transplant. I seem to recall a successful one being accomplished already in the not so distant past.
The guy should count his lucky stars. Not to be harsh, but if the gay guy in question was so distraught about the whole situation that he killed himself, it likely isn't such a far jump to move the victim from oneself to that of the jerk at the root of it all. He should feel very lucky that that guy didn't have murder in him, as it might been the gay roommate on trial, and the other jerk just dead.
Hell, if some asshole made me feel so horrible that I felt that killing myself was the only option, I'd make damn well sure that person was coming with me.
So I guess the moral of the story I am trying to get at, is be nice to one another and be respectful, as their may be repercussions for your actions. The "be very careful" bit, is that those repercussions will be dependent on the individual which may very wildly from person to person.
Sort of makes me think of the movie "Billy Madison" where he calls to apologize after many years to a kid he picked on and bullied. Who played by Steve Buscemi crosses his name off his "People to Kill" list.
I love how at this point in the conversion you have already started playing the odds in who might actually be more realistic to be caught having sex...
And? So does the US... In fact I would wager that the US has more in the way of Oil, and pretty much EVERY natural resource than Norway does.
What else do they have in abundance? Oh yeah millions of slave labor Mexicans willing to do just about anything for a job. That and a greedy corporate elite. Great combination that.
Actually if you think about it, by natural selection it will happen naturally.
Already most family's comprise of two full time working adults.
If in order to have a family and as a result have children and procreate, is ultimately dependent on the ability of the adults to be able to afford to do so, and in order for that to happen, an ever increasing work week. Only those that are able to handle longer work weeks will have offspring, and only those offspring who do the same... etc...
Fast Forward many generations, and you are looking at a worker breed.
Unless they have some really new mathematical, never released to the public, trick, or have somehow developed a time traveling device to some distant future where we have fully functional Quantum Super Computers available for purchase this is a colossal waste of money.
Using a normal computer, trying to break a 15 random key, using moderately good publicly available crypto software it would take approximately the heat death of the universe to brute force. If you have a super computer you can break it 4 times as fast!
Now assemble hundreds of thousands or even millions of those to break.
Have fun with that. I guess that might be what you call the ultimate job security! However if you have to file progress reports, they might be a bit depressing.
Granted if you use really weak encryption, a dictionary word of 6, you might be able to break it in a somewhat reasonable time. It would still likely be measured in months if not years. Add on top of that the fact that no one that is trying to really hide anything important is going to be that stupid. You might find Johnny's dirty pictures on Dad's computer that way, but if you are looking to unlock the secret plans of some terrorist cabal you are going to be out of luck.
I would say that 99% of people that have their accounts "hacked" are not having some computer evil genius brute forcing their crypto, they are simply having it stolen using know software vulnerabilities that people in the know can take advantage of. Then they just type in your password. Real crypto is pretty hard as I understand it. I am not sure simply "buying more computers" to throw at the problem is going to solve it. The issue is that crypto has advanced to the point that it is much easier to create it, than it is to defeat it by several hundred magnitudes.
If they really want to save money, they should STOP trying to have ISP's spy on their clients for governments or for Hollywood, or the music industry. Because as soon as you do, you will be opening Pandora's Box (which can NEVER be closed), in that people will just turn to cryptographic means to ensure their basic privacy. Once everyone starts using real and decent crypto, they will be screwed, as they will not even have the abilities and methods they have now to spy on people.
Encarta was a POS. If it killed anything it must have been almost dead anyway. If it is guilty of anything it is of wasting a perfectly good CD. My parents got if for me when I was in high school in the 90's, I think it got used twice before collecting dust on a shelf someplace. I would rather look something up in a book.
If ANYTHING killed Brittanica it was the fact that households didn't need their own personal library for use anymore. The public system of libraries got good enough that people could simply visit their local library and you know, read a real book on a subject, rather than the 3 sentence blurb that Brittanica would give you. Heck if the library didn't have it, they could order it from another one in the same network...
Anyway I am sure the publishers would love to use THAT as an argument of why libraries are evil, and sharing books is bad and reduces innovation etc...
I think one of the big differences may have been attributable to either strength of personality or intelligence or even political savvy. It seemed to me that Bush for all his bluster was basically a puppet that all his handlers used for various interests they wanted to see done. Whereas Harper seems more the opposite, where he wants to get something done, and he manipulates and controls everyone around him to that end.
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OK 3 things:
1) After mentioning "tough, edgy, funny and completely loveable" they couldn't throw in a "Radical", "Bodacious", or "Tubular", for shame.
2) Reminds me of the Simpsons when the make a new toon for itchy and scratchy called "Poochy". Though I believe even he was "in your face", "edgy", as well as "Radical"
3) Have you seen "TMNT: The Movie"? It was fscking HORRIBLE. If this is a reboot, it is a VERY low bar to exceed. I have no doubt that Bay can make a better movie. Hell just about anyone could.
Besides, samurai mutants might be a little "too soon" after fukushima... Aliens might be a bit more consumable.
that gave me violent tendencies was "Ninja Gaiden: Black" for the Xbox.
I got so freaking angry at that game I nearly threw my Xbox out of a window. Those save points were just cruel and unusual punishment.
However not limited to video games, online video games, particularly of the console variety with voice is the cause of stuff:
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
They don't want their kid educated, they want a babysitter.
Vernor Vinge talks about this stuff in 2006 in his book Rainbows End. Everything is made from sealed parts no one has access to. In one moment of desperation the protagonist rips apart a car to see what is inside, only to find, more sealed parts.
I've seen the future friends, and its turtles all the way down.
Greece beats them to it...
Ba dump bump Spish!
And here I assumed nothing existed before I starting perceiving things...
My quantum computer is full of cats. maybe.
Meh. I am not too worried about speed. They increase every so often, however if you are dealing with 10TB you are either using archive data, or some crazy source that isn't really "consumer" anymore anyhow. SSD seems to be picking up the slack there, where you have fast processing drive VS a straight storage drive. I assume that at some point a hybrid that will come along to remove the necessity of buying two drives and will store dynamically what you need where you appropriately need it.
Although I can say the same thing about SSD. A lifespan of more then 6 months would be nice.
People might not have to move such volumes of data all the time, if their drives weren't failing so often!
As much as I love stories about X company being able to stuff Y capacity into storage device, the last few years have proven instructive.
1) How about doing it and producing it in such a way so that it is cheaper, not more expensive than last year?
2) How about making them at least a little bit reliable. I know you just want us to consume more and more of your drives, but lets get back to 5 year warranty's already. This one year BS is BS.
3) Maybe rather than doing the R&D to find a 60TB HD you do the R&D to find a building lot not on a fscking flood plain?
Thanks,
From everyone that bought a HD in the last year or so...
Before going the route of DarthVader, would they not see if they can't do a full hand transplant. I seem to recall a successful one being accomplished already in the not so distant past.
I bet you could make a mean sweater...
The guy should count his lucky stars. Not to be harsh, but if the gay guy in question was so distraught about the whole situation that he killed himself, it likely isn't such a far jump to move the victim from oneself to that of the jerk at the root of it all. He should feel very lucky that that guy didn't have murder in him, as it might been the gay roommate on trial, and the other jerk just dead.
Hell, if some asshole made me feel so horrible that I felt that killing myself was the only option, I'd make damn well sure that person was coming with me.
So I guess the moral of the story I am trying to get at, is be nice to one another and be respectful, as their may be repercussions for your actions. The "be very careful" bit, is that those repercussions will be dependent on the individual which may very wildly from person to person.
Sort of makes me think of the movie "Billy Madison" where he calls to apologize after many years to a kid he picked on and bullied. Who played by Steve Buscemi crosses his name off his "People to Kill" list.
Can't we all just learn from Billy Madison?
"...filming your parents together..."
I love how at this point in the conversion you have already started playing the odds in who might actually be more realistic to be caught having sex...
And? So does the US... In fact I would wager that the US has more in the way of Oil, and pretty much EVERY natural resource than Norway does.
What else do they have in abundance? Oh yeah millions of slave labor Mexicans willing to do just about anything for a job. That and a greedy corporate elite. Great combination that.
Actually if you think about it, by natural selection it will happen naturally.
Already most family's comprise of two full time working adults.
If in order to have a family and as a result have children and procreate, is ultimately dependent on the ability of the adults to be able to afford to do so, and in order for that to happen, an ever increasing work week. Only those that are able to handle longer work weeks will have offspring, and only those offspring who do the same... etc...
Fast Forward many generations, and you are looking at a worker breed.
Unless they have some really new mathematical, never released to the public, trick, or have somehow developed a time traveling device to some distant future where we have fully functional Quantum Super Computers available for purchase this is a colossal waste of money.
Using a normal computer, trying to break a 15 random key, using moderately good publicly available crypto software it would take approximately the heat death of the universe to brute force. If you have a super computer you can break it 4 times as fast!
Now assemble hundreds of thousands or even millions of those to break.
Have fun with that. I guess that might be what you call the ultimate job security! However if you have to file progress reports, they might be a bit depressing.
Granted if you use really weak encryption, a dictionary word of 6, you might be able to break it in a somewhat reasonable time. It would still likely be measured in months if not years. Add on top of that the fact that no one that is trying to really hide anything important is going to be that stupid. You might find Johnny's dirty pictures on Dad's computer that way, but if you are looking to unlock the secret plans of some terrorist cabal you are going to be out of luck.
I would say that 99% of people that have their accounts "hacked" are not having some computer evil genius brute forcing their crypto, they are simply having it stolen using know software vulnerabilities that people in the know can take advantage of. Then they just type in your password. Real crypto is pretty hard as I understand it. I am not sure simply "buying more computers" to throw at the problem is going to solve it. The issue is that crypto has advanced to the point that it is much easier to create it, than it is to defeat it by several hundred magnitudes.
If they really want to save money, they should STOP trying to have ISP's spy on their clients for governments or for Hollywood, or the music industry. Because as soon as you do, you will be opening Pandora's Box (which can NEVER be closed), in that people will just turn to cryptographic means to ensure their basic privacy. Once everyone starts using real and decent crypto, they will be screwed, as they will not even have the abilities and methods they have now to spy on people.
If they're whites, respect their rights?
If they're whites, don't hinder their flights?
If their white, security light?
If their white, no security fight?
If their white, fly like a kite?
Man a lot of stuff rhymes with "white"...
Speculation on chocolate rations is a violation of goodthought. A re-education squad will be visiting you and your family shortly.
Also they are like Hydra, destroy one head, and two more will appear...
Only fire will work. Preferably that which is nuclear fire, delivered from orbit. It be the only way to be sure!
Great movie. Also I smile while reading slashdot and a passage reminds me of a particular quote (which you have to hear to get it):
"TROOOOOLLLLLL!!!"
Dutch people have iPads now? Neat.
Encarta was a POS. If it killed anything it must have been almost dead anyway. If it is guilty of anything it is of wasting a perfectly good CD. My parents got if for me when I was in high school in the 90's, I think it got used twice before collecting dust on a shelf someplace. I would rather look something up in a book.
If ANYTHING killed Brittanica it was the fact that households didn't need their own personal library for use anymore. The public system of libraries got good enough that people could simply visit their local library and you know, read a real book on a subject, rather than the 3 sentence blurb that Brittanica would give you. Heck if the library didn't have it, they could order it from another one in the same network...
Anyway I am sure the publishers would love to use THAT as an argument of why libraries are evil, and sharing books is bad and reduces innovation etc...
I think one of the big differences may have been attributable to either strength of personality or intelligence or even political savvy. It seemed to me that Bush for all his bluster was basically a puppet that all his handlers used for various interests they wanted to see done. Whereas Harper seems more the opposite, where he wants to get something done, and he manipulates and controls everyone around him to that end.
Bush was an idiot. Harper is not. In some ways that is very good, and in others very bad...
Have you seen how they reproduce?
In another 10,000 years everyone will be the Orange People of New Jersey...
If the Red Deer people had any writing, it was probably pointing out how stupid Homo Sapiens were and how much more intelligent they were.
Then they froze to death, were killed by Homo Sapiens, or were eaten by a Grue.