Maveriks is named after a dog, Maverick, that hung out at the surfing spot (It's Maverik's spot). The apostrophe, like many other bits of grammar and style in the country, got dropped off somewhere and is probably panhandling for quarters in San Mateo.
Actually, they don't even remove it completely. The guy said I can't sign up using the same email address again, so clearly they keep at least that on file forever.
If you are surprised about that, you should turn in your Geek card and get a higher Slashdot UID.
I call bullshit. If you really work anywhere near the DOD you would have an almost intuitive understanding that doing anything that makes sense, especially if it can save money is expressly forbidden. Worse that admitting you smoked pot in the 1970's.
"Innocent until proven guilty" is a wonderful concept for our legal system. It is not a useful construct for a security system.
While I don't think the TSA's antics actually rise to the point of being a security system, happy smiley faces and peace stickers just don't work in that world.
I was rather alarmed at first - you want me to go there? There's nobody in the line. Just a couple of smiling TSA drones. What does this mean? A portal to hell? They don't want me to even get undressed. This can't be good.
I walked through the metal detector - which, for the first time since my hip replacement did NOT go off and got more confused. WTF? Alternate universe time?
Took me about a half hour to clear my head. I've been used to the old TSA 'delux package' for so long that being ignored seemed --- somehow -- wrong.
Hell, that;s easier than getting BACK in the US from Canada (Haines Highway, pretty much the prototype for Nowhere) The guy (fully armed in a bullet proof vest) asked a dozen annoying questions, became annoyed when I told him that, among other things we had bought a couple of nuts and bolts to fix the cargo carrier and wanted to see the little blue plastic water container I also picked up. He also wanted to see the friggen bolts.
Maybe he was bored, but he sure wasn't friendly. This, in contrast to the Canadians, who pretty much welcome you with open arms and basically just want to assure themselves that you have enough money to get yourself back out of Canada when the time comes.
We all knew this would happen. As soon as the government saw that the Internet was an opportunity and / or threat, they would work to get it under their control. Actually took them a bit longer than I expected, although the NSA-style snooping has likely gone on longer than we realize.
Adobe right-out says their cloud solution is not backwards compatible with their desktop products, once you convert you're stuck in it.
Huh? Adobe's "Cloud" is just a stupid marketing term for their subscription service. The only thing that is remote is a couple of gigs of storage you get to synch your application settings and to act as a half assed Dropbox clone. The applications are run locally. And most of the Creative Suite applications are pretty backwards compatible for at least two or three versions. That is the same problem that everybody has - software developers have this annoying tendency to try to improve their products which occasionally means that files created in older software will have to be changed.
No, that's not how it works. The "Cloud" is nothing but a bunch of servers somewhere else. You can have fine grained access to different servers / folders / howeveryousetitup. If you have half a brain when you set your data in the "Cloud" you have more than one password and / or other method of authentication.
The security problems with remote servers are more complicated that ones that you can physically protect but it isn't nearly as easy as you seem to make it. Further, there is plenty of data out there that isn't terribly sensitive. Looking at the several gigs I control on my workplace servers, very little of it is potentially problematic if it were to be dumped onto PirateBay. The stuff that is sensitive is encrypted. In multiple containers.
A bit of a pedantic point here, the European Center for Medium Range Forecasts weather prediction models are the most accurate of the current bunch. That said, I am not sure if this represents a sea change in how they ginned up the model or just the fact that they did it somewhat better than others (at present, anyway).
Further, I'm not sure that there is a substantive difference between European and American scientists in most scientific and engineering fields. There are roughly similar levels of Nobel Prizes, screwball research, entertaining products and outright failures on both continents. Cross your eyes a bit (or take off your glasses), and a Boeing plane looks just about like an Airbus.
In particular, European medical research is just as crappy as American attempts. But we are making progress, that's all that the scientific method gets you - moving in the 'right' direction. Slowly at times, but inexorably.
Ok then, word of advice, make sure you have daily backups of all your critical stuff. Image the drive, so that it is easy to restore when the drive fails.
Which is true for any type of drive, anywhere, anytime.
Do you crinkle in fear each time a car comes at you from the opposite direction? Every time you get on a plane?
Lots of potentially dangerous actions in your life, many other people can terminate it accidentally or on purpose. Hell, that dodgy iPhone charger you bought off of eBay - do you really trust it?
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Uh Oh. We're going recursive here.....
Try the clown shop. A bright red nose and a tank of helium and a couple of Nitrous Oxide poppers and you should be good to go.
Better living through chemistry (TM).
Maveriks is named after a dog, Maverick, that hung out at the surfing spot (It's Maverik's spot). The apostrophe, like many other bits of grammar and style in the country, got dropped off somewhere and is probably panhandling for quarters in San Mateo.
Time to resurrect the blinky tag?
Remember, you are on Internet time. Ten years was yesterday.
(What version is Chrome up to these days? 256 or something like that?)
You don't have to hack anything. Just buy the data off Experian.
All you need is a credit card and an simple bit of bullshitting.
On Slashdot 'marrying above your pay grade' usually means getting the tricked out version of a Real Doll.
Your other choices?
Haliburton? Blackwater?
Oracle?
Nah, as long as you can make Thermite from common household items, all is good.
Actually, they don't even remove it completely. The guy said I can't sign up using the same email address again, so clearly they keep at least that on file forever.
If you are surprised about that, you should turn in your Geek card and get a higher Slashdot UID.
Nothing on the Internet is deleted.
Unless, of course, you actually needed it.
"May I see your passport please?"
Senior Citizen discounts to anybody that can ID that quote.
I call bullshit. If you really work anywhere near the DOD you would have an almost intuitive understanding that doing anything that makes sense, especially if it can save money is expressly forbidden. Worse that admitting you smoked pot in the 1970's.
Bad meme, naughty meme.
"Innocent until proven guilty" is a wonderful concept for our legal system. It is not a useful construct for a security system.
While I don't think the TSA's antics actually rise to the point of being a security system, happy smiley faces and peace stickers just don't work in that world.
Trust no one and verify.
This happened to me last week, leaving Seattle.
I was rather alarmed at first - you want me to go there? There's nobody in the line. Just a couple of smiling TSA drones. What does this mean? A portal to hell? They don't want me to even get undressed. This can't be good.
I walked through the metal detector - which, for the first time since my hip replacement did NOT go off and got more confused. WTF? Alternate universe time?
Took me about a half hour to clear my head. I've been used to the old TSA 'delux package' for so long that being ignored seemed --- somehow -- wrong.
Stockholm Syndrome, I suppose.
Hell, that;s easier than getting BACK in the US from Canada (Haines Highway, pretty much the prototype for Nowhere) The guy (fully armed in a bullet proof vest) asked a dozen annoying questions, became annoyed when I told him that, among other things we had bought a couple of nuts and bolts to fix the cargo carrier and wanted to see the little blue plastic water container I also picked up. He also wanted to see the friggen bolts.
Maybe he was bored, but he sure wasn't friendly. This, in contrast to the Canadians, who pretty much welcome you with open arms and basically just want to assure themselves that you have enough money to get yourself back out of Canada when the time comes.
"Those who do not understand history are condemned to repeat it" - Santayana
We all knew this would happen. As soon as the government saw that the Internet was an opportunity and / or threat, they would work to get it under their control. Actually took them a bit longer than I expected, although the NSA-style snooping has likely gone on longer than we realize.
Nothing to see here, move along.
You do what for a living? Wake up and go back to sleep?
Sounds like fun to me.
Why? You want more things to break?
Adobe right-out says their cloud solution is not backwards compatible with their desktop products, once you convert you're stuck in it.
Huh? Adobe's "Cloud" is just a stupid marketing term for their subscription service. The only thing that is remote is a couple of gigs of storage you get to synch your application settings and to act as a half assed Dropbox clone. The applications are run locally. And most of the Creative Suite applications are pretty backwards compatible for at least two or three versions. That is the same problem that everybody has - software developers have this annoying tendency to try to improve their products which occasionally means that files created in older software will have to be changed.
No, that's not how it works. The "Cloud" is nothing but a bunch of servers somewhere else. You can have fine grained access to different servers / folders / howeveryousetitup. If you have half a brain when you set your data in the "Cloud" you have more than one password and / or other method of authentication.
The security problems with remote servers are more complicated that ones that you can physically protect but it isn't nearly as easy as you seem to make it. Further, there is plenty of data out there that isn't terribly sensitive. Looking at the several gigs I control on my workplace servers, very little of it is potentially problematic if it were to be dumped onto PirateBay. The stuff that is sensitive is encrypted. In multiple containers.
Because if Skynet had infiltrated the government web servers, then no one would have been around to spread the alarm.
Jeez, you Australians just don't understand risk management, do you?
A bit of a pedantic point here, the European Center for Medium Range Forecasts weather prediction models are the most accurate of the current bunch. That said, I am not sure if this represents a sea change in how they ginned up the model or just the fact that they did it somewhat better than others (at present, anyway).
Further, I'm not sure that there is a substantive difference between European and American scientists in most scientific and engineering fields. There are roughly similar levels of Nobel Prizes, screwball research, entertaining products and outright failures on both continents. Cross your eyes a bit (or take off your glasses), and a Boeing plane looks just about like an Airbus.
In particular, European medical research is just as crappy as American attempts. But we are making progress, that's all that the scientific method gets you - moving in the 'right' direction. Slowly at times, but inexorably.
We're all bozos on this bus.
Ok then, word of advice, make sure you have daily backups of all your critical stuff. Image the drive, so that it is easy to restore when the drive fails.
Which is true for any type of drive, anywhere, anytime.
Murphy was an optimist.
Do you crinkle in fear each time a car comes at you from the opposite direction? Every time you get on a plane?
Lots of potentially dangerous actions in your life, many other people can terminate it accidentally or on purpose. Hell, that dodgy iPhone charger you bought off of eBay - do you really trust it?