I don't browse at -1, but with that said generally replies to the -1 are normally hidden also. Not sure why, but their posts show a reply to me. I'll clear disk cache and reload the browser.
There is no need for the Government to do any such testing. People do this for free and much better. Remember when Bing came out and the huge amount of press it generated when you searched for "Microsoft Sucks" and Google showed at the top of the list? That was nothing to do with some secret Government group, that was a bunch of normal people testing the search engine's capabilities.
Look, I'm no fan of politicians, massive corporations, lobbyists, etc... Capitalism in this case is something that works very well without regulation to curb bad players. Take note, you probably can't get me to say that about any other type of business.
Paid for writing on/.? Hardly, as with the AC why not check the history of the person posting before being an ass? Oh wait, that may take thought and it's much easier to troll right?
You think that the market does not propagate losers when it comes to spewing monopoly propaganda? What got Google off the ground was the mass of proprietary search engines from the prodigy days that said "our way or screw you". Google was faster, and returned relevant results. They also did it for much less money.
Now is your beef with Google really related to the search results or something like having adverts for their other services on the top of the page? Including of course more Google services. That is a very different argument and extremely complex.
I'm not sure it weakens it at all, it more less says that it's not relevant for people to try and regulate results. If you don't like Google's answer, you are free to use a different search engine. The power of the consumer in this case ensures that Google's developers are doing the right thing. If they don't, or skew results then 'Ask', or 'Bing' would gain usage and Google would lose market share.
You can't tell me that dozens of people a day are not doing search comparisons and reporting results to see who's being naughty and who's being nice.
Wrong, applications can still change security settings and get you exploited very easily. In many cases, this is built in to software installers. It still has the absolute worse track record for security unless the only thing you base your statement on is how many security patches are released.
This flaw in architecture is not yet fixed, and probably never will be. In order to be compete they keep the browser loaded directly in the kernel.
Now, is it better than v5.5 where they introduced "active install" which allowed installation of remote binaries and plug-ins without user knowledge? Duh, hard not to be better than the biggest piece of security nightmare ever released to unknowing consumers. It is still the least secure of all the popular commercial web browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari).
The MS shills are really out in full force on this post. Trying to bump that horrible search engine and the names is all that's happening. I'm not using either name rather intentionally.
Oh, and putting internet exploder on the console is plain dumb. I give it less than a day before there is a mass zombie army of those things spamming pron advert emails. I'd be willing to guess that other console makers considered similar ideas, and rejected them because of the possibility of doing just that. MS has never cared about the consumer as much as they cared about revenues, customers are just an afterthought..
What you point at is an obvious failure by the company in determining whether or not they have a future. While probably an okay thing for a software only company, how the dynamics of this mentality is working with very large hardware industries is rather scary. Logically, if you were a stock holder would you put your investment funds long term in to a company that would be out of business if China closed the border for any reason?
This same risk game was played with the Automotive companies, Housing, Foreign Debt, and is still being played now.
I'm not saying that a portion of your assets should be in high risk categories mind you. But nearly everything is now riding at this level of risk.
Well, I guess it's okay since the US Government will just print money to give to the rich dummies who lose everyone else' money. Been doing it for quite a while now already.
It is not just the supply chain. It's the ability to tell 5000 workers that they are now on 18 hour days on a corporate whim. It's the ability to pay those same people generally a dollar a day, then take most of that back in housing and food fees because you force them to live at the factory. This, is all about profit margins and has nothing to do with supply chains.
We now have Corporate mouth pieces and politicians claiming that the US is just lazy, or it's because of better workers. Bullshit to all of it.
My simple answer to both of those is to pay the Chinese factory worker what you would pay an American worker and see what happens. Suddenly prices would also increase much higher than it would to build them in America. Shit, pay them US minimum wage and watch what happens. How about being force to treat them with the same rules as ANY Western workers have? OSHA safety laws, FMLA, ADA, required overtime restrictions, shift premiums, paid Holidays, Sick time and Vacation time. Hell, coverage for when their left arm gets burned off by a hot glue gun that blows up instead of the current "your fired because you can no longer produce" action.
Oh, for posterity.. simply because it would really mess up China I would like to see them force the pay to be American rates. Talk about a fast way to fuck up a very large economy!!
In short, you are falling for the propaganda these assholes keep spewing to make more and more and fuck everyone else over in the process of making more. History is really a great thing. Look at the end of the great Monarchies, Feudalism, and mercantilism for how things play out. If you study the history, you will get a good idea of how far we are and how fucked up we'll get before the masses start cutting people's heads off in town squares.
Wholly shit, this is Genius! Genocide + the possibility of adding organics and fertilization to Mars for later colonization! Maybe this what all the FEMA camps are for in the US?/p?
Idiom would have to be included, but that is not my main point of reference.
Let me simplify the thought a bit, and take out all of the computer jargon for a minute.
Humans that natively speak language can not properly map the language. There is no circuit that can be built to do so, hence why we have so many Linguists and Language professors and students. Look at the complexities in language rules (let alone metaphor) between say Texas and Virginia. We can not properly map those out, and without the ability to make the maps we can not create circuitry to do so.
I'll agree that some parts may be possible, but this is what has to be done in brute force. Given my first example, we could get something like.
Okay, but you think the computer can comprehend that my statement was sarcasm based on the conversation? How about if it was a humorous response and nonsense? or to a Mechanic it meant 'easy'? Does this mean anything at all to an Arabic language interpretation? This is why we employ lots of language experts in lots of fields outside of Education.
There was a different metaphor for the cigar being a Lewinski. Again, one of the many problems trying to build AI to handle metaphor. Language is very fluid, context sensitive, and tone sensitive. You can not build AI to do this, given what we have now at least.
Next, I guess we will have to pass laws that restrict all new metaphors and variations from "approved" language.
One thing I did not point out is that to do this as an anti-terrorist measure as it's being masked, you need to have the same massive database in every language. While I don't put it past some of the current political regimes to share their metaphor databases with each other (I.E. China and N. Korea) and don't discount their will to create laws restricting speech, I do not believe they would be very apt to share their metaphor databases with the US.
The problem as someone points out below is that metaphor is brute force, not natural language. It can't be done naturally. Here is an example: If I said "Installing your code is like gently pulling teeth with a screw driver" most people would get the metaphor. It's not common, so has to be brute forced into a search. Now if I change "screw driver" to "gentle tug" there is a whole new meaning.. and the Metaphor dictionary would have to be updated.
Metaphor is constantly changing, and there is no way to invent software that can keep up. Why? Our use of language changes rather drastically in very short times. How fast for example did the metaphor for a BJ change to and from "Lewinski"?
This means, someone is going to have to constantly scan text and find and log all of the metaphors. This is not just a massive task itself, but someone also has to remove the old shit metaphors that clog up the pipes.
So how do we get all of these hands on the Metaphor database without intruding on every piece of text possible? Well, illegally of course.. or at least by breaking several rules according to the US Constitution.
Though it might be fun to play with for some 3D modeling and such.
Um, Blender is one of many free 3D modelling applications that don't cost monthly fees, annual development costs, etc.. You would be better to learn modelling by going to a college course, and probably cheaper than an XBox (plus the benefit of something on your resume). AutoCad, Unigraphics, SDRC, CATIA, etc... are all trained at numerous community colleges.
Stop discounting the shills and fanbois. Who cares that they pay 15.00 a month to use it, and who cares that they have to spend money for gear to use it (or figure out how to pilfer and salvage gear form other things). The Fanbois have spoken, and an XBox is way better than anything else and way cheaper when you don't include like 99% of the operational cost of the thing!
No need to nit-pick, you back my point. Turning off wireless services does nothing to curb a terrorist plot to blow something up. Worse, when you have situations like in India where terrorists take over a facility, the people lose the ability to communicate and help the authorities.
Claiming "It can stop terrorist activities" is a bullshit.
Think about that logic for a minute. And they will detect that the explosive has a phone detonator how? And disabling a phone number, instead of blacking out the service when they find it is invalid how exactly?
Now, I really want you to do some reading (but I have doubts you will do so). How many cell phones on legitimate cell phone networks do you think are responsible for the IED explosions in Afghanistan or Iraq? Sorry, but the Jihad does not have the funding to pay for monthly phone plans.
This is propaganda for a police state, plain as day.
Oh, and 5 bucks says that the law gets drafted, fought over, then Obama signs it July 3rd at 11:59 PM.
I bought the larger one, but with that said: I read the owners manual. The PS3 sits in a well ventilated shelf in the entertainment center protected from heat vents, direct sunlight, and little in the way of dust. Pretty much the same as everyone else I know that has had a PS3 and not had any problems.
In short, your experience with a PS3 is abnormal. RTFM when connecting.. or are you the same person that was moaning a while back that their PS3 had a disk read problem after it dropped several feet to the ground?
PS3s are high quality (as were PS2, Play Station, etc..). The same can be said for the Wii (as is true for other Nintendo products prior). One can not idiot proof systems, and one can not make people read owners guides.
Quality was skipped in the Xbox for a long long time. Fanboys and Shills of course ignore that fact.
Partial correct, but why not paint the picture what it is? Hmmm?
MPAA/RIAA are suing artists not using their services and stopping their collection of rightful dues and propagation of media without their services under the DCMA. This is why many artists exploring the industry without them are so damn vocal about doing so. It's the only way they can protect themselves, not from the pirates mind you.. but the Industry that is supposed to be servicing them.
Legislation favoring their profits at the expense of our freedoms. Yes, an artist that does not sign with the MPAA... well, we know this from the Mafia right? It's called a protection racket. Because it's the movie monopolies we shake our heads yes? Really, that's not how it should work.
Lastly, there is the Robin Hood effect. When the economy is so F'd up, and the Have's keep getting more while the rest of us give up more.. the Robin Hood effect does kick in. This is true in pretty much any society in the economic state we are in.
Now, with that said. the majority of people still try to do the right thing. But when people do things that buck the elites..well I'm sure you know the stories as well as I do. Robin Hood will keep doing his thing to make it better for society as a whole.
I have a son that plays lots of games on the PS3. PS3 games never have issues, I have never had a YLOD. In fact, I know many people with a PS3 and none of them have either. Worst case, some of the older PS2 games may lock up on occasion. The PS3 resets the game just fine when that happens.
Your experience with a shitty game is not common, but hell it's a shitty game. The FF series including the last ones are amazing for graphics.
(The PS3 lost the ability to play SACDs and run PS2 games and Linux; the current Wii consoles can't play GameCube games or play MP3s.)
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PS3 still plays PS2 games just fine. PS3 never "approved" nor "shipped" any version of Linux. It was rumored long ago that Sony would sponsor this, and there were numerous hacks that let Linux run.. it was never a Sony configuration and never "approved".
As to Camecube games, that was never a feature of the Wii. Nintendo up until the Wii did do a nice job of having methods of running older games, hell even GameBoy* games on their devices.
One can not lose the ability to do something, if they never had the ability to begin with. Shit, I'd love to play Conquers Bad Fur Day on the Wii.. but alas it's a cartridge that does not fit in to the DVD drive.
Lastly, XBox has no legacy like Sony or Nintendo to support. Microsoft is already talking about no support for previous games in the next generation console. It's expensive and complex, quite honestly I don't blame them. At the same time, don't blame Sony or Nintendo for already having to feel the growing pains.
The PS3 option is only 249.00. You can add a motion detection kit if you wish, or the personal view stereo vision package. PSN is free to use. Sounds like Xbox users are getting hozed no matter what option they take to me.
Oh, and my PS3 is a first generation. Has never had a RROD, never broken, played BlueRay and DVDs without issues. So yeah, Xbox users really get bent over by Microsoft, all for the cool factor of saying they have one.
ps. Before you slam Sony for root kits, I'd suggest you read the history. It's not related to a PlayStation at all, and is old and apologized for.
While it sounds good, there is much wrong with your statement in practical terms. First point: There is well over 20 years of infrastructure to secure. Think about that for a while, laws won't fix that. Money will, and right now the US is broke. Second point: I like your idea, just like I think that the executives that got rich off the financial collapse (and continue to get richer) should be jailed. In reality, you won't pass anything of the sort. Just like there are no criminal actions against those that not only paid themselves, but stole from their "customers".
Money is the ruling party in the US, and until the people get rid of the filth we all get stuck with the stench.
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Thanks, and apologies! I killed the browser and now things show as replies to that post instead of me. Very odd
I don't browse at -1, but with that said generally replies to the -1 are normally hidden also. Not sure why, but their posts show a reply to me. I'll clear disk cache and reload the browser.
Oh shit, never showed until just now and I've been spamming refresh on this thread. Apologies to those offended (except for Bonch).
There is no need for the Government to do any such testing. People do this for free and much better. Remember when Bing came out and the huge amount of press it generated when you searched for "Microsoft Sucks" and Google showed at the top of the list? That was nothing to do with some secret Government group, that was a bunch of normal people testing the search engine's capabilities.
Look, I'm no fan of politicians, massive corporations, lobbyists, etc... Capitalism in this case is something that works very well without regulation to curb bad players. Take note, you probably can't get me to say that about any other type of business.
Paid for writing on /.? Hardly, as with the AC why not check the history of the person posting before being an ass? Oh wait, that may take thought and it's much easier to troll right?
You think that the market does not propagate losers when it comes to spewing monopoly propaganda? What got Google off the ground was the mass of proprietary search engines from the prodigy days that said "our way or screw you". Google was faster, and returned relevant results. They also did it for much less money.
Now is your beef with Google really related to the search results or something like having adverts for their other services on the top of the page? Including of course more Google services. That is a very different argument and extremely complex.
Wrong person, try checking the history of the person that posts before being a troll AC
I'm not sure it weakens it at all, it more less says that it's not relevant for people to try and regulate results. If you don't like Google's answer, you are free to use a different search engine. The power of the consumer in this case ensures that Google's developers are doing the right thing. If they don't, or skew results then 'Ask', or 'Bing' would gain usage and Google would lose market share.
You can't tell me that dozens of people a day are not doing search comparisons and reporting results to see who's being naughty and who's being nice.
Wrong, applications can still change security settings and get you exploited very easily. In many cases, this is built in to software installers. It still has the absolute worse track record for security unless the only thing you base your statement on is how many security patches are released.
This flaw in architecture is not yet fixed, and probably never will be. In order to be compete they keep the browser loaded directly in the kernel.
Now, is it better than v5.5 where they introduced "active install" which allowed installation of remote binaries and plug-ins without user knowledge? Duh, hard not to be better than the biggest piece of security nightmare ever released to unknowing consumers. It is still the least secure of all the popular commercial web browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari).
The MS shills are really out in full force on this post. Trying to bump that horrible search engine and the names is all that's happening. I'm not using either name rather intentionally.
Oh, and putting internet exploder on the console is plain dumb. I give it less than a day before there is a mass zombie army of those things spamming pron advert emails. I'd be willing to guess that other console makers considered similar ideas, and rejected them because of the possibility of doing just that. MS has never cared about the consumer as much as they cared about revenues, customers are just an afterthought..
What you point at is an obvious failure by the company in determining whether or not they have a future. While probably an okay thing for a software only company, how the dynamics of this mentality is working with very large hardware industries is rather scary. Logically, if you were a stock holder would you put your investment funds long term in to a company that would be out of business if China closed the border for any reason?
This same risk game was played with the Automotive companies, Housing, Foreign Debt, and is still being played now.
I'm not saying that a portion of your assets should be in high risk categories mind you. But nearly everything is now riding at this level of risk.
Well, I guess it's okay since the US Government will just print money to give to the rich dummies who lose everyone else' money. Been doing it for quite a while now already.
It is not just the supply chain. It's the ability to tell 5000 workers that they are now on 18 hour days on a corporate whim. It's the ability to pay those same people generally a dollar a day, then take most of that back in housing and food fees because you force them to live at the factory. This, is all about profit margins and has nothing to do with supply chains.
We now have Corporate mouth pieces and politicians claiming that the US is just lazy, or it's because of better workers. Bullshit to all of it.
My simple answer to both of those is to pay the Chinese factory worker what you would pay an American worker and see what happens. Suddenly prices would also increase much higher than it would to build them in America. Shit, pay them US minimum wage and watch what happens. How about being force to treat them with the same rules as ANY Western workers have? OSHA safety laws, FMLA, ADA, required overtime restrictions, shift premiums, paid Holidays, Sick time and Vacation time. Hell, coverage for when their left arm gets burned off by a hot glue gun that blows up instead of the current "your fired because you can no longer produce" action.
Oh, for posterity.. simply because it would really mess up China I would like to see them force the pay to be American rates. Talk about a fast way to fuck up a very large economy!!
In short, you are falling for the propaganda these assholes keep spewing to make more and more and fuck everyone else over in the process of making more. History is really a great thing. Look at the end of the great Monarchies, Feudalism, and mercantilism for how things play out. If you study the history, you will get a good idea of how far we are and how fucked up we'll get before the masses start cutting people's heads off in town squares.
Wholly shit, this is Genius! Genocide + the possibility of adding organics and fertilization to Mars for later colonization! Maybe this what all the FEMA camps are for in the US?/p?
Idiom would have to be included, but that is not my main point of reference.
Let me simplify the thought a bit, and take out all of the computer jargon for a minute.
Humans that natively speak language can not properly map the language. There is no circuit that can be built to do so, hence why we have so many Linguists and Language professors and students. Look at the complexities in language rules (let alone metaphor) between say Texas and Virginia. We can not properly map those out, and without the ability to make the maps we can not create circuitry to do so.
I'll agree that some parts may be possible, but this is what has to be done in brute force. Given my first example, we could get something like.
if(statement = $some-massive-ass-db-of-strings){similar_to = 'difficult'};
Okay, but you think the computer can comprehend that my statement was sarcasm based on the conversation? How about if it was a humorous response and nonsense? or to a Mechanic it meant 'easy'? Does this mean anything at all to an Arabic language interpretation? This is why we employ lots of language experts in lots of fields outside of Education.
There was a different metaphor for the cigar being a Lewinski. Again, one of the many problems trying to build AI to handle metaphor. Language is very fluid, context sensitive, and tone sensitive. You can not build AI to do this, given what we have now at least.
Next, I guess we will have to pass laws that restrict all new metaphors and variations from "approved" language.
One thing I did not point out is that to do this as an anti-terrorist measure as it's being masked, you need to have the same massive database in every language. While I don't put it past some of the current political regimes to share their metaphor databases with each other (I.E. China and N. Korea) and don't discount their will to create laws restricting speech, I do not believe they would be very apt to share their metaphor databases with the US.
The problem as someone points out below is that metaphor is brute force, not natural language. It can't be done naturally. Here is an example: If I said "Installing your code is like gently pulling teeth with a screw driver" most people would get the metaphor. It's not common, so has to be brute forced into a search. Now if I change "screw driver" to "gentle tug" there is a whole new meaning.. and the Metaphor dictionary would have to be updated.
Metaphor is constantly changing, and there is no way to invent software that can keep up. Why? Our use of language changes rather drastically in very short times. How fast for example did the metaphor for a BJ change to and from "Lewinski"?
This means, someone is going to have to constantly scan text and find and log all of the metaphors. This is not just a massive task itself, but someone also has to remove the old shit metaphors that clog up the pipes.
So how do we get all of these hands on the Metaphor database without intruding on every piece of text possible? Well, illegally of course.. or at least by breaking several rules according to the US Constitution.
Though it might be fun to play with for some 3D modeling and such.
Um, Blender is one of many free 3D modelling applications that don't cost monthly fees, annual development costs, etc.. You would be better to learn modelling by going to a college course, and probably cheaper than an XBox (plus the benefit of something on your resume). AutoCad, Unigraphics, SDRC, CATIA, etc... are all trained at numerous community colleges.
Stop discounting the shills and fanbois. Who cares that they pay 15.00 a month to use it, and who cares that they have to spend money for gear to use it (or figure out how to pilfer and salvage gear form other things). The Fanbois have spoken, and an XBox is way better than anything else and way cheaper when you don't include like 99% of the operational cost of the thing!
No need to nit-pick, you back my point. Turning off wireless services does nothing to curb a terrorist plot to blow something up. Worse, when you have situations like in India where terrorists take over a facility, the people lose the ability to communicate and help the authorities.
Claiming "It can stop terrorist activities" is a bullshit.
Think about that logic for a minute. And they will detect that the explosive has a phone detonator how? And disabling a phone number, instead of blacking out the service when they find it is invalid how exactly?
Now, I really want you to do some reading (but I have doubts you will do so). How many cell phones on legitimate cell phone networks do you think are responsible for the IED explosions in Afghanistan or Iraq? Sorry, but the Jihad does not have the funding to pay for monthly phone plans.
This is propaganda for a police state, plain as day.
Oh, and 5 bucks says that the law gets drafted, fought over, then Obama signs it July 3rd at 11:59 PM.
I bought the larger one, but with that said: I read the owners manual. The PS3 sits in a well ventilated shelf in the entertainment center protected from heat vents, direct sunlight, and little in the way of dust. Pretty much the same as everyone else I know that has had a PS3 and not had any problems.
In short, your experience with a PS3 is abnormal. RTFM when connecting.. or are you the same person that was moaning a while back that their PS3 had a disk read problem after it dropped several feet to the ground?
PS3s are high quality (as were PS2, Play Station, etc..). The same can be said for the Wii (as is true for other Nintendo products prior). One can not idiot proof systems, and one can not make people read owners guides.
Quality was skipped in the Xbox for a long long time. Fanboys and Shills of course ignore that fact.
Partial correct, but why not paint the picture what it is? Hmmm?
MPAA/RIAA are suing artists not using their services and stopping their collection of rightful dues and propagation of media without their services under the DCMA. This is why many artists exploring the industry without them are so damn vocal about doing so. It's the only way they can protect themselves, not from the pirates mind you.. but the Industry that is supposed to be servicing them.
Legislation favoring their profits at the expense of our freedoms. Yes, an artist that does not sign with the MPAA... well, we know this from the Mafia right? It's called a protection racket. Because it's the movie monopolies we shake our heads yes? Really, that's not how it should work.
Lastly, there is the Robin Hood effect. When the economy is so F'd up, and the Have's keep getting more while the rest of us give up more.. the Robin Hood effect does kick in. This is true in pretty much any society in the economic state we are in.
Now, with that said. the majority of people still try to do the right thing. But when people do things that buck the elites..well I'm sure you know the stories as well as I do. Robin Hood will keep doing his thing to make it better for society as a whole.
I have a son that plays lots of games on the PS3. PS3 games never have issues, I have never had a YLOD. In fact, I know many people with a PS3 and none of them have either. Worst case, some of the older PS2 games may lock up on occasion. The PS3 resets the game just fine when that happens.
Your experience with a shitty game is not common, but hell it's a shitty game. The FF series including the last ones are amazing for graphics.
(The PS3 lost the ability to play SACDs and run PS2 games and Linux; the current Wii consoles can't play GameCube games or play MP3s.)
Lies
PS3 still plays PS2 games just fine. PS3 never "approved" nor "shipped" any version of Linux. It was rumored long ago that Sony would sponsor this, and there were numerous hacks that let Linux run.. it was never a Sony configuration and never "approved".
As to Camecube games, that was never a feature of the Wii. Nintendo up until the Wii did do a nice job of having methods of running older games, hell even GameBoy* games on their devices.
One can not lose the ability to do something, if they never had the ability to begin with. Shit, I'd love to play Conquers Bad Fur Day on the Wii.. but alas it's a cartridge that does not fit in to the DVD drive.
Lastly, XBox has no legacy like Sony or Nintendo to support. Microsoft is already talking about no support for previous games in the next generation console. It's expensive and complex, quite honestly I don't blame them. At the same time, don't blame Sony or Nintendo for already having to feel the growing pains.
The PS3 option is only 249.00. You can add a motion detection kit if you wish, or the personal view stereo vision package. PSN is free to use. Sounds like Xbox users are getting hozed no matter what option they take to me.
Oh, and my PS3 is a first generation. Has never had a RROD, never broken, played BlueRay and DVDs without issues. So yeah, Xbox users really get bent over by Microsoft, all for the cool factor of saying they have one.
ps. Before you slam Sony for root kits, I'd suggest you read the history. It's not related to a PlayStation at all, and is old and apologized for.
While it sounds good, there is much wrong with your statement in practical terms. First point: There is well over 20 years of infrastructure to secure. Think about that for a while, laws won't fix that. Money will, and right now the US is broke. Second point: I like your idea, just like I think that the executives that got rich off the financial collapse (and continue to get richer) should be jailed. In reality, you won't pass anything of the sort. Just like there are no criminal actions against those that not only paid themselves, but stole from their "customers".
Money is the ruling party in the US, and until the people get rid of the filth we all get stuck with the stench.