yes, i agree, Sin is ugly. The whole concept of sin, is just plain ugly. It sounds like a word that would get made up to further the power of some religious cult. And that makes it very ugly.
Of course, the things that are called "Sin" is rarely ugly. It just feels that way because you got people telling you non stop that "Sin" is bad, and if it feels good, then it's probably "Sin".
But that isn't because Sin is bad, it's because those people don't understand that that Sin is natural and healthy, so they call it ugly.
"maybe you don't infringe these seven patents. But we have 10,000 U.S. patents. Do you really want us to go back to Armonk [IBM headquarters in New York] and find seven patents you do infringe? Or do you want to make this easy and just pay us $20 million?"
A no-name company with a skeevy CEO, a custom OS instead of Android or something more well-supported? Maybe at $100, or possibly even $200. But once you get into the $300 range, you've moved beyond the impulse buy and well into the realm where I want a name-brand reputable company backing it--and an OS that I know is and will be supported.
I wish $100 & $200 stuff was an "impulse" buy for me.
Anything the government can't understand or control is a security threat.
Whats funny, is that when i was a kid and being raised by christians, i realized that everything they didn't understand or control was "of Satan".
I think it's more that Anonymous has the power to pry into the things the government doesn't want us to know, and they are scared, because they have been very bad with the power they have be given/taken/tricked their way into.
Kind of sad commentary on the fucktards who think killing innocent people is fun. Even if it is in a video game, it reflects your values.
...
I guess I'm a fucktard, because when i play games, sometimes I like to actually get in the role of my char, and lets say in a fallout 3 game, that's being evil and doing evil things. Ya, I played it as being good and helping everyone, and then I decided to be an evil bastard and play the evil side.
Does that make me a bad person? Because I can actually role play, when i'm rpging?
Dang, now i'm mad. Guess I'm going to go play a zombie in L4D2 so i can get some revenge on humans.
Since we are talking iPhones here, I think they all have gps's in them.
You could have an app that records where you left your car at. Either by pressing a button that says something like "Remember this location", so later, you can use the same app to find your way back to that location.
For the lazy, you could have it keep track of where you are, and where you been at all times, so you can retrace your steps even easier.
but no, the best solution is probably spending billions of dollars on special license plate reading cameras and whatever you use to control them. After all, no one would abuse such power.
I have this friend, and he is, well stupid like most people.
So, we are going to do some Free 2 Play games, and one of the websites wants (which is becoming very popular), your email address as your login name.
So when it comes to password, he says to me, why do they want my email address password?
I'm like, "WTF? No, they want you to make a new password for this account that is using your email address as your login name.
Needless to say, it took me like 5 mins to explain it to him. And he's not that computer stupid (though close).
So no, it doesn't surprise me that people use weak passwords, or will put in the wrong type of info (like your itunes account password) on websites that isn't iTunes.
Okay, first off your "friend" (note, we know it's not a friend, it's you or your butt/cunt buddy) needs to learn the interwebs better.
It's easy to avoid detection of "high risk" downloads. It's just not cool because it makes you a leech.
When you finish the "popular" movie/music/gay porn, then you need to stop seeding it right away.
Unless the laws changed, they can get you for seeding a fully down torrent after 24 hours.
I used to have comcast and i used to get noticed every now and then, and I kept telling them, show me the proof, which they never did.
I also switch to DSL, and i've never had a problem with DSL. Sure, my download speed is lower then comcast, but my ISP isn't owned by a big ass Media corporation either. So thus, my ISP doesn't need to bother with checking what i'm doing, because it's a waste of their money.
Here's some options, sure, they cost a little extra, but your buying piece of mind, right?
USENET
encrypted connection, boom, faster then P2P, doesn't have to worry about sharing, gets stuff fast.
Proxy server.
have all your P2P go thru a proxy server, so it's not your IP number on the torrents.
Or switch your ISP to one that isn't owned, or sleeping with a Media Corporation.
I downloaded the movie, but never could watch, it well, just sounded way too dumb.
So am I guilty?
It got deleted, never watched.
Obviously I'm somewhat guilty of having bad taste, but I deleted the movie before it damaged my mental capabilities, so does that take some of the downloading shame away?
Wait, I should sue the movie makers for putting out a movie that i wasted time downloading but not watching.
I dunno about playing both sides of the fence... I used a service very much like this to detect that my partner in my last class had plagerized all 12 pages of our research paper. I was greatful to have spent the $5 and immediately wrote a new paper from scratch. What an asshole. Am I naive to think most students would use the service this way?
First problem, you had your partner write the research. Of course he plagerized it. You were too lazy to help.
Now if you bothered to help from the start, you would of saved not only money, but you rewriting the paper yourself, because you could of had help.
Moral of your story? Don't be a lazy fuck and have your lab partner write the research.
We need to stop giving these "Hackers" such press. Oh they broke into a insecure system. They must be real Computer Geniuses. There should be far more press about the state of the hacked sites security, and less on those actual hackers. The hackers are just some dumb kids who did some quick searching around and got some silly tools. The real story is that such organizations have such a poor security.
Welcome to the media. Please note, the the "security" companies have money, stockholders, etc, while the "hackers/script kiddies" don't, so guess who's going to get the most attention?
We are just getting a historical documentry about Apollo 18 in the theatres, and they show us new pics of some older Apollo flights, but come on, let's see some Apollo 18 pics!
I'm not an idiot, but I don't want to be a cop. You don't. I think the job attracts that sort so maybe it should be eliminated...
Everyone.
Stop hiring people who want to be cops, because it's usually because they want power, not because they want to actually help people.
Let's say we changed how we did stuff, like make everyone work 20 hours a week for the government, and part of that work could be doing police work. There's a lot of work that doesn't need trained officers, that would be better handled by people in the community. People with military training, and proper police training would be eligible for the gun carrying harder stuff.
I'm not going to go on, but the way society is today, we'd be fools not to change how we do our government, build in check and balances so no one can have total power. Everyone answers to someone, and never to the same people all the time. No life long political positions, no fucking over anyone to get rich.
But ya, socialism is such a bad word, and before you bust out past examples of it not working, understand the difference between the past and what I am saying. WE PUT IN CHECKS & BALANCES SO NO ONE HAS TOTAL POWER. While I believe that man is on the whole, mostly good, man is also greedy, and we have to plan against that greed, instead of how we do it currently and reward that greed.
Oh ya, just so you understand, your other 20+ hour week can be working for whatever you want. So ya, you can still be a pro football player, as long as your doing your 20 hours of required gov work.
I got this shit figured out, somewhat, too bad no one is willing to change, and would rather risk that everything is okay, then make sure everything will be okay.
I spend most my time on the toilet or taking a shower.
I spend very little time in front of the mirror.
And, I would think if your spending time in front of your mirror, it's because your maybe shaving, grooming, putting on makeup, or watching yourself masturbate. Oh, now i see what the "magic mirror" is for, my bad...
No, but last night I had it installed when I wiped & installed a later ROM. When it got through auto-reinstalling my backed up apps from Market, Tricorder was no longer there:(
Just goes to show, ya gotta back up your software locally (In this case, the.apks); can't trust a vendor to store it for you.
Reminds me of the excellent art book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" - which talks about how we have to turn off some of the analytical features of our mind to become better artists. For example, when you look at a wheel and try to draw it, you don't want to think "wheel" and start drawing what your mind knows of a wheel: depending on the angle it may be oval instead of circle, shadows and other objects may obscure the circular shape. Instead you want to draw what your eyes see "raw", whether those shapes and shades make sense or not.
The book goes a lot further down this path, but it is fascinating to think that our brains can have power that is hindered by other parts of the brain. This guy seems to support that. I imagine there's significant talents and skills we have within us that simply don't know how to access.
I learned to drive stick in my dreams. I kid you not. Let's set the wayback machine to when I was 16 (mid 80's, save the new wave), taking drivers ed, but i had just moved out of my parents place (ya, at 16, they were crazy, no place for a kid to grow up at), anyways, that left me with only sticks to practice on. Well, 'cept my aunt (who i was staying at) didn't want me driver her big ass boat, and my sister would stress the fuck out on me trying to drive her vw.
So, pop in a dream,where i am driving stick, no problem. no stress, able to figure out how to get the ease the gas off while easing the clutch in, and shifting the stick into another gear. The next day, managed to good enough to impress the driving instructor.
You might say i knew how to do it before my dream, which is sort of true, but it took the dream for me to get the flow going and understanding it.
Also, as a side note, I have a "Dream World" that i go to when i dream. It seems like all my dreams are connected because I remember then as memories of stuff that happened, when i'm dreaming. I'm always pretty much in Seattle in my dreams, but it's a bit different then the seattle i live in, but it's always the same in dreams. There isn't a boeing, the water is warmer and has risen, and for whatever reason, I know how to get out of jail if i ever get put in it. Which seems to something that happens in my dreams on occasion.
I could go on and on, but i won't. I could talk about how i saw the convention center in my dreams years before it was built, but I won't. Sort of hard to prove. And then again, memories, are well, memories, and maybe it didn't happen like that.
But it doesn't surprise me that dude can do good paintings when he's asleep, what i wonder is what cycle he does it in, since he's body isn't being locked up like when you dream.
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... is ugly as sin ...
yes, i agree, Sin is ugly. The whole concept of sin, is just plain ugly. It sounds like a word that would get made up to further the power of some religious cult. And that makes it very ugly.
Of course, the things that are called "Sin" is rarely ugly. It just feels that way because you got people telling you non stop that "Sin" is bad, and if it feels good, then it's probably "Sin".
But that isn't because Sin is bad, it's because those people don't understand that that Sin is natural and healthy, so they call it ugly.
Old news. This happened 880 years ago.
This is slashdot, of course it's old news.
...Here is a quote by an IBM lawyer:
"maybe you don't infringe these seven patents. But we have 10,000 U.S. patents. Do you really want us to go back to Armonk [IBM headquarters in New York] and find seven patents you do infringe? Or do you want to make this easy and just pay us $20 million?"
IBM likes their patents.
Wow, the mobs should be proud of that lawyer.
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Or in short, I told you so.
A no-name company with a skeevy CEO, a custom OS instead of Android or something more well-supported? Maybe at $100, or possibly even $200. But once you get into the $300 range, you've moved beyond the impulse buy and well into the realm where I want a name-brand reputable company backing it--and an OS that I know is and will be supported.
I wish $100 & $200 stuff was an "impulse" buy for me.
Thanks for reminding me I'm poor.
Anything the government can't understand or control is a security threat.
Whats funny, is that when i was a kid and being raised by christians, i realized that everything they didn't understand or control was "of Satan".
I think it's more that Anonymous has the power to pry into the things the government doesn't want us to know, and they are scared, because they have been very bad with the power they have be given/taken/tricked their way into.
Kind of sad commentary on the fucktards who think killing innocent people is fun. Even if it is in a video game, it reflects your values.
...
I guess I'm a fucktard, because when i play games, sometimes I like to actually get in the role of my char, and lets say in a fallout 3 game, that's being evil and doing evil things. Ya, I played it as being good and helping everyone, and then I decided to be an evil bastard and play the evil side.
Does that make me a bad person? Because I can actually role play, when i'm rpging?
Dang, now i'm mad. Guess I'm going to go play a zombie in L4D2 so i can get some revenge on humans.
Since we are talking iPhones here, I think they all have gps's in them.
You could have an app that records where you left your car at. Either by pressing a button that says something like "Remember this location", so later, you can use the same app to find your way back to that location.
For the lazy, you could have it keep track of where you are, and where you been at all times, so you can retrace your steps even easier.
but no, the best solution is probably spending billions of dollars on special license plate reading cameras and whatever you use to control them. After all, no one would abuse such power.
I have this friend, and he is, well stupid like most people.
So, we are going to do some Free 2 Play games, and one of the websites wants (which is becoming very popular), your email address as your login name.
So when it comes to password, he says to me, why do they want my email address password?
I'm like, "WTF? No, they want you to make a new password for this account that is using your email address as your login name.
Needless to say, it took me like 5 mins to explain it to him. And he's not that computer stupid (though close).
So no, it doesn't surprise me that people use weak passwords, or will put in the wrong type of info (like your itunes account password) on websites that isn't iTunes.
Okay, first off your "friend" (note, we know it's not a friend, it's you or your butt/cunt buddy) needs to learn the interwebs better.
It's easy to avoid detection of "high risk" downloads. It's just not cool because it makes you a leech.
When you finish the "popular" movie/music/gay porn, then you need to stop seeding it right away.
Unless the laws changed, they can get you for seeding a fully down torrent after 24 hours.
I used to have comcast and i used to get noticed every now and then, and I kept telling them, show me the proof, which they never did.
I also switch to DSL, and i've never had a problem with DSL. Sure, my download speed is lower then comcast, but my ISP isn't owned by a big ass Media corporation either. So thus, my ISP doesn't need to bother with checking what i'm doing, because it's a waste of their money.
Here's some options, sure, they cost a little extra, but your buying piece of mind, right?
USENET
encrypted connection, boom, faster then P2P, doesn't have to worry about sharing, gets stuff fast.
Proxy server.
have all your P2P go thru a proxy server, so it's not your IP number on the torrents.
Or switch your ISP to one that isn't owned, or sleeping with a Media Corporation.
I downloaded the movie, but never could watch, it well, just sounded way too dumb.
So am I guilty?
It got deleted, never watched.
Obviously I'm somewhat guilty of having bad taste, but I deleted the movie before it damaged my mental capabilities, so does that take some of the downloading shame away?
Wait, I should sue the movie makers for putting out a movie that i wasted time downloading but not watching.
I dunno about playing both sides of the fence... I used a service very much like this to detect that my partner in my last class had plagerized all 12 pages of our research paper. I was greatful to have spent the $5 and immediately wrote a new paper from scratch. What an asshole. Am I naive to think most students would use the service this way?
First problem, you had your partner write the research. Of course he plagerized it. You were too lazy to help.
Now if you bothered to help from the start, you would of saved not only money, but you rewriting the paper yourself, because you could of had help.
Moral of your story? Don't be a lazy fuck and have your lab partner write the research.
um, subject really says it all.
At least I'll get some action now.
So I have long thick beautiful hair because I'm a fat head?
Okay, cool. I still lose more hair in 1 washing then most of you guys have on your head.
So you can call me fat head, or fatty head, and i'll just keep calling you 8-ball, dick head, and of course, baldy.
We need to stop giving these "Hackers" such press. Oh they broke into a insecure system. They must be real Computer Geniuses. There should be far more press about the state of the hacked sites security, and less on those actual hackers. The hackers are just some dumb kids who did some quick searching around and got some silly tools. The real story is that such organizations have such a poor security.
Welcome to the media. Please note, the the "security" companies have money, stockholders, etc, while the "hackers/script kiddies" don't, so guess who's going to get the most attention?
Get an LED light and some tiny starter pots and seeds.
I can help you out with that.
I think the students might smoke the pot, so you might want to bring a lot.
.... it took several such incidents for me to realize these assholes didn't just have their high-beams on.
So your saying, not only did they have high beams on, they use LED lights to blind you?
Dang.
good thing i don't drive, people are evil.
So where did this "Apollo 18" land?
We are just getting a historical documentry about Apollo 18 in the theatres, and they show us new pics of some older Apollo flights, but come on, let's see some Apollo 18 pics!
ya, but windows search still sucks badly.
thank god for everything (http://www.voidtools.com/)
Correct. Some problems can be solved by throwing money at them.
Care to name one?
Turn off notices, pay or vacate notices, give me money or i'll break your leg thugs.
I could name more, but i figured that's enough for ya.
Great idea! Little Johnny is failing math, but he can tweet like a motherfucker now!
Yet he still can't spell...
Who would they hire as replacments?
I'm not an idiot, but I don't want to be a cop. You don't. I think the job attracts that sort so maybe it should be eliminated...
Everyone.
Stop hiring people who want to be cops, because it's usually because they want power, not because they want to actually help people.
Let's say we changed how we did stuff, like make everyone work 20 hours a week for the government, and part of that work could be doing police work. There's a lot of work that doesn't need trained officers, that would be better handled by people in the community. People with military training, and proper police training would be eligible for the gun carrying harder stuff.
I'm not going to go on, but the way society is today, we'd be fools not to change how we do our government, build in check and balances so no one can have total power. Everyone answers to someone, and never to the same people all the time. No life long political positions, no fucking over anyone to get rich.
But ya, socialism is such a bad word, and before you bust out past examples of it not working, understand the difference between the past and what I am saying. WE PUT IN CHECKS & BALANCES SO NO ONE HAS TOTAL POWER. While I believe that man is on the whole, mostly good, man is also greedy, and we have to plan against that greed, instead of how we do it currently and reward that greed.
Oh ya, just so you understand, your other 20+ hour week can be working for whatever you want. So ya, you can still be a pro football player, as long as your doing your 20 hours of required gov work.
I got this shit figured out, somewhat, too bad no one is willing to change, and would rather risk that everything is okay, then make sure everything will be okay.
I spend most my time on the toilet or taking a shower.
I spend very little time in front of the mirror.
And, I would think if your spending time in front of your mirror, it's because your maybe shaving, grooming, putting on makeup, or watching yourself masturbate. Oh, now i see what the "magic mirror" is for, my bad...
No, but last night I had it installed when I wiped & installed a later ROM. When it got through auto-reinstalling my backed up apps from Market, Tricorder was no longer there :(
Just goes to show, ya gotta back up your software locally (In this case, the .apks); can't trust a vendor to store it for you.
Wow, such insight.
No wonder you have a low UID.
How much did you buy it for?
Reminds me of the excellent art book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" - which talks about how we have to turn off some of the analytical features of our mind to become better artists. For example, when you look at a wheel and try to draw it, you don't want to think "wheel" and start drawing what your mind knows of a wheel: depending on the angle it may be oval instead of circle, shadows and other objects may obscure the circular shape. Instead you want to draw what your eyes see "raw", whether those shapes and shades make sense or not.
The book goes a lot further down this path, but it is fascinating to think that our brains can have power that is hindered by other parts of the brain. This guy seems to support that. I imagine there's significant talents and skills we have within us that simply don't know how to access.
I learned to drive stick in my dreams. I kid you not. Let's set the wayback machine to when I was 16 (mid 80's, save the new wave), taking drivers ed, but i had just moved out of my parents place (ya, at 16, they were crazy, no place for a kid to grow up at), anyways, that left me with only sticks to practice on. Well, 'cept my aunt (who i was staying at) didn't want me driver her big ass boat, and my sister would stress the fuck out on me trying to drive her vw.
So, pop in a dream,where i am driving stick, no problem. no stress, able to figure out how to get the ease the gas off while easing the clutch in, and shifting the stick into another gear. The next day, managed to good enough to impress the driving instructor.
You might say i knew how to do it before my dream, which is sort of true, but it took the dream for me to get the flow going and understanding it.
Also, as a side note, I have a "Dream World" that i go to when i dream. It seems like all my dreams are connected because I remember then as memories of stuff that happened, when i'm dreaming. I'm always pretty much in Seattle in my dreams, but it's a bit different then the seattle i live in, but it's always the same in dreams. There isn't a boeing, the water is warmer and has risen, and for whatever reason, I know how to get out of jail if i ever get put in it. Which seems to something that happens in my dreams on occasion.
I could go on and on, but i won't. I could talk about how i saw the convention center in my dreams years before it was built, but I won't. Sort of hard to prove. And then again, memories, are well, memories, and maybe it didn't happen like that.
But it doesn't surprise me that dude can do good paintings when he's asleep, what i wonder is what cycle he does it in, since he's body isn't being locked up like when you dream.