The only part that I find confusing is that interns are usually the slaves, not the masters. Somehow, this guy thinks that a new slave can suddenly become a master just like that.
Would you be happier if they were using some sort of electronic detector instead of a dog?
The thing is, dog handlers know their dogs, and dogs know their handler. They are a well integrated team. And if the handler feels like he needs an excuse to search that car driven by those black lads, he can signal his dog via subtle body language cues that he should pretend he smelled something...
An electronic detector may (or may not...) be more difficult to manipulate.
I like the way my former VB teacher put it (and yes I use the occasional GOTO, but then again I learned in the real BASIC-Commodore BASIC) he said "The GOTO is like a chainsaw.
pot. kettle. black.
In a discussion about financial instruments, I'd never dare to quote Bernie Madoff...
I've no clue what the Men in the Black Helicopters want with a bajillion pictures of people in semi-compromising situations and a ton of half-thought out wall posts and other such drivel, but there we are.
Not necessarily MitBH. Could also be geeks looking for suitable mates to get laid.
If your glass table top is less than 4mm thick, you might run into other issues. Especially after becoming very frustrated with the subpar performance of your new mouse...
On the bright side, however, you'd have 2 companies that you could milk for tort money for your slashed fists: Logitech, and the maker of your flimsy glass table top!
Won't work. The whhaaaaaaaaambulans nurse is busy having lunch with his colleagues, trying to get their desserts by grossing them out with his "war stories".
Yes, because both parties would've been armed, so nothing bad could've possibly happened.
Something bad would have happened, but we would never have known that it was about the customer wanting to see id... And Verizon would not have had to decide whether to keep or fire the guy. And the DA would not have needed to come up with a silly excuse to let the guy go. So, a much simpler situation for everybody, indeed.
As a small kid, I once accidentally touched the hot tailpipe of our family car with my bare legs. I don't dare to image how much it would hurt to touch it with a more precious body part...
So, whoever gives his car wevils must be a very brave man indeed...
Millions of people die of AIDS in Africa without doing anything in particular to go looking for it. Thousands got AIDS in France simply by receiving tainted blood transfusions. Millions of babies get it from their mom while still in the womb. Now, please explain, how is that "lifestyle"?
This "2 second job" gave 3 alternatives for me online: 1) scrap the phone, price: free 2) return the phone unrepaired, ã70 service fee 3) repair phone (new phone ã550) I chose alternative 2, it was the only real option for me.
I hope that you paid those £70 with a credit card, and then disputed the charge. By default, credit card companies rule in favor of the customer, and then the onus is on the seller to prove that he is right.
Come to think of it, you should really have chosen 3, and proceeded similarly. Companies which rip off customers in this way deserve no better.
Strict online security in connection with login-protected content is simply not possible without a cookie
So what's wrong with HTTP authentication?
If web browsers would just encode all cookies by default, then decode them whenever sending them back to a server, that would keep spyware from reading their contents from your computer.
If the browser can decode them, so can spyware running on the same computer under the same user account.
Then, if the browsers would store a 'touched date', and automatically delete all cookies over X age (configurable by the user?), many useless cookies would go away automatically.
Well, it's not the unused cookies that are annoying, but those that are used... for instance for tracking your movements accross pages that have ad.doubleclick banners.
Finally, if cookies were only able to be read/written to by their issuing server, there would be no possibility for exploit (except to track your movements through pages which contain some content served by the issuing server, such as the much beloved doubleclick.net cookies -- which could easily be done-away-with by adding the rule that cookies cannot be accessed by any page displayed within an iframe/object/etc.)
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Only while parked :-)
I would estimate I've done it about 30 times over the last 6 months of driving.
Wow! Impressive! For me, it'd be only one or two times within the last 6 months.
I don't do it during traffic jam situation or...
Weird. I do it preferably during traffic jam situations.
... where traffic could decide to halt quickly.
Or when traffic is already halted.
Traffic jam situations provide both the opportunity of doing it, and the reason (to text whomever I'm going to see that I'll be late...)
The only part that I find confusing is that interns are usually the slaves, not the masters. Somehow, this guy thinks that a new slave can suddenly become a master just like that.
Well put!
Would you be happier if they were using some sort of electronic detector instead of a dog?
The thing is, dog handlers know their dogs, and dogs know their handler. They are a well integrated team. And if the handler feels like he needs an excuse to search that car driven by those black lads, he can signal his dog via subtle body language cues that he should pretend he smelled something...
An electronic detector may (or may not...) be more difficult to manipulate.
Carry a large USB stick. Back up your personal information (browser history, saved email, etc.) to it and put it in your pocket or even better, ...
You swine!
... mail it home to yourself at your destination before you board the airplane.
What a let-down :-(
That's why God invented the finally clause. Any cleanup that absolutely cannot be skipped goes into finally.
I like the way my former VB teacher put it (and yes I use the occasional GOTO, but then again I learned in the real BASIC-Commodore BASIC) he said "The GOTO is like a chainsaw.
pot. kettle. black.
In a discussion about financial instruments, I'd never dare to quote Bernie Madoff...
But it has gone out of its way to clear its name.
That name that they paid so dearly to have for themselves alone...
I've no clue what the Men in the Black Helicopters want with a bajillion pictures of people in semi-compromising situations and a ton of half-thought out wall posts and other such drivel, but there we are.
Not necessarily MitBH. Could also be geeks looking for suitable mates to get laid.
On the bright side, however, you'd have 2 companies that you could milk for tort money for your slashed fists: Logitech, and the maker of your flimsy glass table top!
Is higher than the Roomba, and thus doesn't go under beds. And costs more moolah.
There's a different between: "where the sun doesn't shine" and "where the satellite doesn't shine"
Won't work. The whhaaaaaaaaambulans nurse is busy having lunch with his colleagues, trying to get their desserts by grossing them out with his "war stories".
Yes, because both parties would've been armed, so nothing bad could've possibly happened.
Something bad would have happened, but we would never have known that it was about the customer wanting to see id... And Verizon would not have had to decide whether to keep or fire the guy. And the DA would not have needed to come up with a silly excuse to let the guy go. So, a much simpler situation for everybody, indeed.
Maybe in today's economy, this theory will work better than it did 2 years ago?
So, whoever gives his car wevils must be a very brave man indeed...
Is that what you tell all the girls?
No, I only tell that to other men. Girls seem to prefer monogamy...
But what if somebody sneaks a rootkit on it?
Millions of people die of AIDS in Africa without doing anything in particular to go looking for it. Thousands got AIDS in France simply by receiving tainted blood transfusions. Millions of babies get it from their mom while still in the womb. Now, please explain, how is that "lifestyle"?
You shouldn't be joking about other peoples' misery.
Phantom Scrotum Syndrome?
Well, just ask any nice lady whether she got it...
This "2 second job" gave 3 alternatives for me online: 1) scrap the phone, price: free 2) return the phone unrepaired, ã70 service fee 3) repair phone (new phone ã550) I chose alternative 2, it was the only real option for me.
I hope that you paid those £70 with a credit card, and then disputed the charge. By default, credit card companies rule in favor of the customer, and then the onus is on the seller to prove that he is right.
Come to think of it, you should really have chosen 3, and proceeded similarly. Companies which rip off customers in this way deserve no better.
it would actually just look like a picture of the sea with a couple of plastic bottles floating in it.
I wonder whether the label with the pawn icon is still affixed to them...
It can be several miles to the nearest bank and that can be in the opposite direction of the supermarket.
You mean, your supermarkets and malls don't have ATMs?
Strict online security in connection with login-protected content is simply not possible without a cookie
So what's wrong with HTTP authentication?
If web browsers would just encode all cookies by default, then decode them whenever sending them back to a server, that would keep spyware from reading their contents from your computer.
If the browser can decode them, so can spyware running on the same computer under the same user account.
Then, if the browsers would store a 'touched date', and automatically delete all cookies over X age (configurable by the user?), many useless cookies would go away automatically.
Well, it's not the unused cookies that are annoying, but those that are used... for instance for tracking your movements accross pages that have ad.doubleclick banners.
Finally, if cookies were only able to be read/written to by their issuing server, there would be no possibility for exploit (except to track your movements through pages which contain some content served by the issuing server, such as the much beloved doubleclick.net cookies -- which could easily be done-away-with by adding the rule that cookies cannot be accessed by any page displayed within an iframe/object/etc.)
They'd find another trick.