and telling Apple, "You may BE the apple in many people's eye but WE will have your iTunes in the PALM of our hand... TALK to da HAND...be we will PALM slap you, byatch..."
a very EXCITING form of DISCHARGE. The POTENTIAL might be SHOCKING if not staggering, resulting from IONIC water. Pissing on someone on a seesaw might be felt as a new form of "waterboarding". Such a new sport could... UPEND other forms of dischage... someday, giving light to a (w)hole new form of en(d)tertainment....
All that dark chocolate might help them crap out all sorts of unhealthier things they ate months prior to the test. Hopefully, they drink enough water so they don't become a diuretic diabetic in dire need of a medic.
BagOnica or HarmPipe. Add orgies and drugs and you'll have a... HIT, in more ways than one. Bonus for learning to play the babpipe Porn-Elevator-Music (Pornavator) style. Extra points if you can avoid dizziness for continuous blows on looped "money shot" scenes.
Butt, it does give rise to a new meaning of "pocket rocket" and "pocket pool"... And, "Are you happy to see me, or is that a massive data stream in your pocket?" or "I bet your thumb drive is bigger or pack more pow than your tea spout" types of thoughts....
I thought we (or at least very developed countries) already had laws on the books to combat corruption, fraud, embezzlement, collusion, anti-competitiveness, tax evasion/avoidance, and so on. Why would the existence or viability of "Vanish" vaporize culpability or liability or such. The absence of information corroborating corruption won't be the only way to bust crooked or derelict CEOs and company. Absence of time stamps, gaps in file queues, loose lips, and other things will (or can) aid in their undoing if an investigation commences.
Besides, anyone wanting to make sure their CEOs are held to account just needs to be in IT, or have a DIRECT LAW ORDER from the federal government "YOU ARE ****EXPLICITLY**** DISALLOWED PRIVILEGE TO USE "VANISH" FOR ANY BUSINESS, COMMERCIAL, ECONOMIC, PAYROLL, PAY-FOR-WORK, MEMORANDUMS OF UNDERSTANDING, LETTERS OF INTENT, OR THEIR LOGICAL EXTENSIONS OR PREDECESSOR ACTS. END OF STORY FOR YOU."
And, then let the legal chicanery and expensive case filings begin.
I bet Dr. Gaius Baltar would want a retake of his MRI, even if it pisses of Doc Cottle to no end. ("WILL YOU STOP GOING **CRAZY** IN THERE???!!!!")
As for speaking Dutch, the drug dealers in the downtown Portland area using cells on the buses to make rendezvous or deal on the buses and getting busted by the cops listening in on the hidden/(im)planted microphones, the dealers SHOULD speak Dutch. They can probably drive the cops crazy, til they hired Dutch speakers. Then, maybe we can have a fast-tracked patented tribute to the Double Ductch "Bust". Anyone hiding crack in their butts will face the bubble butt bust on the bubble butt bus...
as terrorism goes. Anyone with resources and capable of obtaining material to build, deploy, and detonate a dirtybomb won't be interested in allowing the news and scientific community to hail the wonders of anti-rad preventative doses. They'll just launch a set of powerful dirty-trick conventional bombs in conjunction with dirty (nuc) weapons to bring down buildings. The fear or actuality of winds, pollution, disrupted infrastructure, and falling structural debris, the fires, and deprivation of clean, safe water will put an end to serious, money-making potential for pre-strike innoculations.
How many conscientious doctors and scientists will chime in (other than those standing to make shitloads of money?) Besides, lacing the dirty bombs with other lethal piggyback chemicals will just enhance the deadly immediate or near-term complications. Some meds might only end up extending the life (and continued misery) of the treated. The treated might be those deemed to have better than 80% survival chance. Expensive doses will probably be used on them, not others.
"Wait, what? Police is supposed to execute the laws which tell what people shouldn't do. It certainly isn't limited to investigating the wrongs that people have already done."
In one scene, a pregnant woman asks a visiting detective to ask her cheating husband to not harm her or her fetus. The detective replied, "Lady, we don't ASK criminals not to commit crime. We CATCH them." hehehe
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As for the people advocating leaving their ports open, I think it is nice that people are being friendly and all, but, it's not even just protecting the router owner from being abused. Some people obviously leave their routers open just to vacuum up information that isn't their damned business nor right to do so. Modern day digital peeping toms. Obviously, the police can't (or won't) just come right out and say they have (well-founded) suspicious that people are brokering information or just peeping.
And, let's not forget that the ISPs would LOVE to have everyone subscribed singly/individually by household. Someday, i bet, they'll want it down to the individual. All someone or some industry company has to do is cause the government to issue everyone a device, but compel the use of it as their only sanctioned means of non-work broadband communication. Such a move would probably be more controversial than getting rid of paper/cash in favor of trackable digital transactions.
To add to the good comments that prop is the noise introducer from other components in the shaftline, readers (who read, that is) might be interested to see this:
Now, for those wanting to know what a ship looks like under the stresses of the sea, and you think it's a huge honkin' piece of unbending steel, look at page 13 in:
But, for all of you having wet dreams about the 16% fuel savings, keep in mind it is "UP TO", it's by NO means guaranteed. Considering volatility in fuel prices and potentially unstable regimes providing oil, some circles see smaller lightweight nuc plants as a viable alternative.
Palm: Sync or swim Apple: You drown; WE SYNC. You blink; We THiNK. Palm: You STiNK, you FiNK... Apple: We JiNKED, you BLINKED. Take your palm and your PALM and rub them in the dark on something somewhere...
In his chambers, censuring the daring counsel, threatening him with disbarment (if not dismemberment, hehehe):
"You're more of a Cheney than a Mason. You should have tuned your open source defence more like MANdrake, not DRAKE man, and you'll be on the STREET because didn't ask DELLA to do the drive. You are APAULING, counsel. THIS very well could be YOUR D-Day. Your ass may be BURGER, you HAMfisted TON of Grade D daring.
I only RECENTLY (as in, say after Dec 2008) began to enjoy fully functional suspend to RAM on my laptop, partly IIRC, with PCLOS, and then Mandriva 2009.0 and currently with 2009.1. However, if i yank the USB broadband device out, I get streams of IOCTL and other errors, KPPP, and pppd won't die, even when as root i try to kill them, and reinserting the device doesn't satisfy it. On suspend attempts, i get to the BLACK display, then the backlight resumes, then i get "Resuming tasks". I end up having to reboot.
Point? If some devices hose up the system, rebooting will be necessary, so instant on is (for some here, but not necessarily me, hehehe) better than sex. Sex is ZERO, but rebooting in near-zero is nervvv..hahahaahh...nah....
It would be nice if the mobo's contained chips that would allow the owners to load their OS of choice into, and then powering on is just a split second of waiting. It would be nice if Runlevel 1 actually purged 100% of any hosed up/dev connections and a full reboot weren't necessary. But, it's nice to have my laptop behave for 28 or 29 days without rebooting. I don't need 6 months or a year -- I'm not THAT demanding.
Dirty, on ice (or, in bed) with his girl (or, with his male) would he be a quickshot from cold to boot-topping? (Yeh, i realize this is a... heady topic...)
"In a statement, Visa said the rogue charges affected "fewer than 13,000 prepaid transactions" and resulted from a "temporary programming error at Visa Debit Processing Services... [which] caused some transactions to be inaccurately posted to a small number of Visa prepaid accounts.""
I call bullshit, Visa. Don't you people have some basic QA? If, say, a monthly statement (especially on a PREPAID CARD, for frack's sake...) exceeds the spending potential of a given client, flag the statement and alert a regional or local processing center manager.
FRACK! At the very LEAST your programmers should have been told (or, if they asked, been allowed) to put QA bounding-box fields on the statements. If a monthly charge font size to be printed is longer than the width of the statement imaginary box, eject the statement from the enveloping system, then punt it to a manager.
Having even FIFTY of these things get out is unprofessional, and plain stupid. Unfortunately, some dumbos pay without checking, then may have to wait several days or weeks, only to be told they won't get a reversal, but only a credit to offset future purchases...
in her apartment, shivering, with no water, heat, or act contemplating that the rent is a crime, that the AC doesn't work in summer, and the heat doesn't work in winter... and then see says, "LORDS OF KOBOL... HEAR MY PRAYERS...HELP ME BEAT BALTAR SO I HAVE ENOUGH CUBITS TO PAY MY BILLS..."
Personally, though, i think some form of boot camp needs to be here in the US, but not just for gaming. LOTS of anti-social behaviors could be addressed. At least for those who are averse to getting away from long-session gaming. I personally broke my addictions to Half-Life, Counterstrike, Soldier of Fortune, and Longbow Apache in 2004 when i donated my joysticks, media, and pedals to Goodwill before taking my trip to Japan. I also gave away the supporting hardware. It's been QUITE a relief to not be sitting like a zombie in my chair from Friday 22200 thru Sunday 2100...
"Capricorn One", or to "It's a windy day in Arizona", hehehe...
Well, these three took their chicken coop VERY SPHERIOUSLY. But, yeh, as mentioned before, if they ate beans (or, even opened a box of natto), they would suffer from a new sphere of end-fluence...
What would make it more interesting is if the sphere were WELDED SHUT, and then put in a dunking tank. Transparent Aluminum-like ports could be in the design, but the tank would have flow-makers, and then all sorts of flotsam, veggies, effluent, or tentacular things could from time to time be introduced, of course with a life-like starfield.
To make things MORE interesting, fire it across the desert SLAC-like (Stanford Linear Accelerator) tube at about 800mph to simulate g forces, then have the "launch" terminate in the tank. 0-g might be tough, unless the tank incorporated a rotating arm undulating, and nutating as necessary, with uulating noises on the outside. Basically, TRICK these guys into thinking "simulation" was a lie, and that they are trapped in a sphere. To make things even MOOOOORE interesting, have the uulations coincide with periodic dishing in of the sphere, like crushing. Have the computer report gravimetric pressures having reduced structural integrity by 28% in the x-year duration travel. Make the comms delays longer and longer, and then break the toilet.
These 3 won't be friendly with each other for too much longer. They'll either be lovers, enemies, or frenemies. Or, LoNeMies.... Especially if they are allowed to "smell" space and think they are unmonitored and running out of time to profess their (un)dying admiration for each other while they still have fresh water (or NASA urine) to bathe with.
Slashdot Mirror
and telling Apple, "You may BE the apple in many people's eye but WE will have your iTunes in the PALM of our hand... TALK to da HAND...be we will PALM slap you, byatch..."
a very EXCITING form of DISCHARGE. The POTENTIAL might be SHOCKING if not staggering, resulting from IONIC water. Pissing on someone on a seesaw might be felt as a new form of "waterboarding". Such a new sport could ... UPEND other forms of dischage... someday, giving light to a (w)hole new form of en(d)tertainment....
All that dark chocolate might help them crap out all sorts of unhealthier things they ate months prior to the test. Hopefully, they drink enough water so they don't become a diuretic diabetic in dire need of a medic.
Viva la Fra.... Oh, wait, wrong episode...
BagOnica or HarmPipe. Add orgies and drugs and you'll have a... HIT, in more ways than one. Bonus for learning to play the babpipe Porn-Elevator-Music (Pornavator) style. Extra points if you can avoid dizziness for continuous blows on looped "money shot" scenes.
Butt, it does give rise to a new meaning of "pocket rocket" and "pocket pool"... And, "Are you happy to see me, or is that a massive data stream in your pocket?" or "I bet your thumb drive is bigger or pack more pow than your tea spout" types of thoughts....
I thought we (or at least very developed countries) already had laws on the books to combat corruption, fraud, embezzlement, collusion, anti-competitiveness, tax evasion/avoidance, and so on. Why would the existence or viability of "Vanish" vaporize culpability or liability or such. The absence of information corroborating corruption won't be the only way to bust crooked or derelict CEOs and company. Absence of time stamps, gaps in file queues, loose lips, and other things will (or can) aid in their undoing if an investigation commences.
Besides, anyone wanting to make sure their CEOs are held to account just needs to be in IT, or have a DIRECT LAW ORDER from the federal government "YOU ARE ****EXPLICITLY**** DISALLOWED PRIVILEGE TO USE "VANISH" FOR ANY BUSINESS, COMMERCIAL, ECONOMIC, PAYROLL, PAY-FOR-WORK, MEMORANDUMS OF UNDERSTANDING, LETTERS OF INTENT, OR THEIR LOGICAL EXTENSIONS OR PREDECESSOR ACTS. END OF STORY FOR YOU."
And, then let the legal chicanery and expensive case filings begin.
"Can't you see i'm burnin', yearnin'?"
""implants in their skulls""
I bet Dr. Gaius Baltar would want a retake of his MRI, even if it pisses of Doc Cottle to no end. ("WILL YOU STOP GOING **CRAZY** IN THERE???!!!!")
As for speaking Dutch, the drug dealers in the downtown Portland area using cells on the buses to make rendezvous or deal on the buses and getting busted by the cops listening in on the hidden/(im)planted microphones, the dealers SHOULD speak Dutch. They can probably drive the cops crazy, til they hired Dutch speakers. Then, maybe we can have a fast-tracked patented tribute to the Double Ductch "Bust". Anyone hiding crack in their butts will face the bubble butt bust on the bubble butt bus...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjBicU0oPZk
as terrorism goes. Anyone with resources and capable of obtaining material to build, deploy, and detonate a dirtybomb won't be interested in allowing the news and scientific community to hail the wonders of anti-rad preventative doses. They'll just launch a set of powerful dirty-trick conventional bombs in conjunction with dirty (nuc) weapons to bring down buildings. The fear or actuality of winds, pollution, disrupted infrastructure, and falling structural debris, the fires, and deprivation of clean, safe water will put an end to serious, money-making potential for pre-strike innoculations.
How many conscientious doctors and scientists will chime in (other than those standing to make shitloads of money?) Besides, lacing the dirty bombs with other lethal piggyback chemicals will just enhance the deadly immediate or near-term complications. Some meds might only end up extending the life (and continued misery) of the treated. The treated might be those deemed to have better than 80% survival chance. Expensive doses will probably be used on them, not others.
Just my thoughts...
"Wait, what? Police is supposed to execute the laws which tell what people shouldn't do. It certainly isn't limited to investigating the wrongs that people have already done."
Reminds me of Guns & Talks:
http://www.lovehkfilm.com/panasia/guns_and_talks.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_&_Talks
In one scene, a pregnant woman asks a visiting detective to ask her cheating husband to not harm her or her fetus. The detective replied, "Lady, we don't ASK criminals not to commit crime. We CATCH them." hehehe
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As for the people advocating leaving their ports open, I think it is nice that people are being friendly and all, but, it's not even just protecting the router owner from being abused. Some people obviously leave their routers open just to vacuum up information that isn't their damned business nor right to do so. Modern day digital peeping toms. Obviously, the police can't (or won't) just come right out and say they have (well-founded) suspicious that people are brokering information or just peeping.
And, let's not forget that the ISPs would LOVE to have everyone subscribed singly/individually by household. Someday, i bet, they'll want it down to the individual. All someone or some industry company has to do is cause the government to issue everyone a device, but compel the use of it as their only sanctioned means of non-work broadband communication. Such a move would probably be more controversial than getting rid of paper/cash in favor of trackable digital transactions.
Digital Transmission of MULTIPLE Orgasmim Concomitant to omnidirectional/omnidimensinoal leakage while becoming ONE with the uniwerse....
ANALglyphics.... but then i saw the image, and i felt i wnet tghruo an aanl refragtometer. My sped is heel stinning..
holders?
They are probably hoping to the holy oracle that they don't get ... SUNburned....
This might also be informative to those interested in ship energy transformation:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/7801101/High-All-Electric-Ship-Concept
warriors/ship-driver-wannabes here:
http://blog.marport.com/2009/06/
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/navy/docs/swos/eng/64b7-205.html
(read the Bleed Air section and the Prairie Air section beneath it...)
good views are in:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/systems/prairie.htm
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/navy/docs/swos/eng/index.html
To add to the good comments that prop is the noise introducer from other components in the shaftline, readers (who read, that is) might be interested to see this:
http://www.gibbscox.com/nsv.htm
Shock mounting in the hull helps absorb certain frequencies of noise that otherwise would be emitted.
This one has nice pretty colors for those who are visually-oriented.
http://metocph.nmci.navy.mil/KBay/backgroundnoise.htm
Now, for those wanting to know what a ship looks like under the stresses of the sea, and you think it's a huge honkin' piece of unbending steel, look at page 13 in:
http://www.mscsoftware.com/support/library/conf/wuc94/p01994.pdf
But, for all of you having wet dreams about the 16% fuel savings, keep in mind it is "UP TO", it's by NO means guaranteed. Considering volatility in fuel prices and potentially unstable regimes providing oil, some circles see smaller lightweight nuc plants as a viable alternative.
(From above: http://blog.marport.com/2009/06/ )
Palm: Sync or swim
Apple: You drown; WE SYNC. You blink; We THiNK.
Palm: You STiNK, you FiNK...
Apple: We JiNKED, you BLINKED. Take your palm and your PALM and rub them in the dark on something somewhere...
In his chambers, censuring the daring counsel, threatening him with disbarment (if not dismemberment, hehehe):
"You're more of a Cheney than a Mason. You should have tuned your open source defence more like MANdrake, not DRAKE man, and you'll be on the STREET because didn't ask DELLA to do the drive. You are APAULING, counsel. THIS very well could be YOUR D-Day. Your ass may be BURGER, you HAMfisted TON of Grade D daring.
(Thanks to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Mason i was able to cobble together some of my twisty humour...)
I only RECENTLY (as in, say after Dec 2008) began to enjoy fully functional suspend to RAM on my laptop, partly IIRC, with PCLOS, and then Mandriva 2009.0 and currently with 2009.1. However, if i yank the USB broadband device out, I get streams of IOCTL and other errors, KPPP, and pppd won't die, even when as root i try to kill them, and reinserting the device doesn't satisfy it. On suspend attempts, i get to the BLACK display, then the backlight resumes, then i get "Resuming tasks". I end up having to reboot.
Point? If some devices hose up the system, rebooting will be necessary, so instant on is (for some here, but not necessarily me, hehehe) better than sex. Sex is ZERO, but rebooting in near-zero is nervvv..hahahaahh...nah....
It would be nice if the mobo's contained chips that would allow the owners to load their OS of choice into, and then powering on is just a split second of waiting. It would be nice if Runlevel 1 actually purged 100% of any hosed up /dev connections and a full reboot weren't necessary. But, it's nice to have my laptop behave for 28 or 29 days without rebooting. I don't need 6 months or a year -- I'm not THAT demanding.
Too expensive to drive (out of the corner)? (Perception is EVERYthing, hehehehe...)...
Dirty, on ice (or, in bed) with his girl (or, with his male) would he be a quickshot from cold to boot-topping? (Yeh, i realize this is a ... heady topic...)
"In a statement, Visa said the rogue charges affected "fewer than 13,000 prepaid transactions" and resulted from a "temporary programming error at Visa Debit Processing Services ... [which] caused some transactions to be inaccurately posted to a small number of Visa prepaid accounts.""
I call bullshit, Visa. Don't you people have some basic QA? If, say, a monthly statement (especially on a PREPAID CARD, for frack's sake...) exceeds the spending potential of a given client, flag the statement and alert a regional or local processing center manager.
FRACK! At the very LEAST your programmers should have been told (or, if they asked, been allowed) to put QA bounding-box fields on the statements. If a monthly charge font size to be printed is longer than the width of the statement imaginary box, eject the statement from the enveloping system, then punt it to a manager.
Having even FIFTY of these things get out is unprofessional, and plain stupid. Unfortunately, some dumbos pay without checking, then may have to wait several days or weeks, only to be told they won't get a reversal, but only a credit to offset future purchases...
in her apartment, shivering, with no water, heat, or act contemplating that the rent is a crime, that the AC doesn't work in summer, and the heat doesn't work in winter... and then see says, "LORDS OF KOBOL... HEAR MY PRAYERS...HELP ME BEAT BALTAR SO I HAVE ENOUGH CUBITS TO PAY MY BILLS..."
I wonder how many died from:
-- disbelief-induced-shock
-- from laughter-induced heart attacks
OTOH, that is going to be the DOD charge to taxpayers in a few years, when they are authorized to build a gateway to escape the Hell on Earth
That parents have to deceive their kids. Then, it's a social ill that some of these games actually replace other outlets.
I first read about this last week, on the 9th (no, i never bothered submitting, because nothing i ever suggested for submission gets posted by /.)
http://www.itworld.com/internet/70777/chinese-web-addicts-get-boot-camp-therapy
Personally, though, i think some form of boot camp needs to be here in the US, but not just for gaming. LOTS of anti-social behaviors could be addressed. At least for those who are averse to getting away from long-session gaming. I personally broke my addictions to Half-Life, Counterstrike, Soldier of Fortune, and Longbow Apache in 2004 when i donated my joysticks, media, and pedals to Goodwill before taking my trip to Japan. I also gave away the supporting hardware. It's been QUITE a relief to not be sitting like a zombie in my chair from Friday 22200 thru Sunday 2100...
"Capricorn One", or to "It's a windy day in Arizona", hehehe...
Well, these three took their chicken coop VERY SPHERIOUSLY. But, yeh, as mentioned before, if they ate beans (or, even opened a box of natto), they would suffer from a new sphere of end-fluence...
What would make it more interesting is if the sphere were WELDED SHUT, and then put in a dunking tank. Transparent Aluminum-like ports could be in the design, but the tank would have flow-makers, and then all sorts of flotsam, veggies, effluent, or tentacular things could from time to time be introduced, of course with a life-like starfield.
To make things MORE interesting, fire it across the desert SLAC-like (Stanford Linear Accelerator) tube at about 800mph to simulate g forces, then have the "launch" terminate in the tank. 0-g might be tough, unless the tank incorporated a rotating arm undulating, and nutating as necessary, with uulating noises on the outside. Basically, TRICK these guys into thinking "simulation" was a lie, and that they are trapped in a sphere. To make things even MOOOOORE interesting, have the uulations coincide with periodic dishing in of the sphere, like crushing. Have the computer report gravimetric pressures having reduced structural integrity by 28% in the x-year duration travel. Make the comms delays longer and longer, and then break the toilet.
These 3 won't be friendly with each other for too much longer. They'll either be lovers, enemies, or frenemies. Or, LoNeMies.... Especially if they are allowed to "smell" space and think they are unmonitored and running out of time to profess their (un)dying admiration for each other while they still have fresh water (or NASA urine) to bathe with.