Well, assuming for the sake of argument that iBackup's site isn't any more protected than theirs, if iBackup goes south, they still have their own stuff; if their own stuff goes south, they have iBackup. It'd take two catastrophes in different locations to lose all their data. Duh - isn't this Backup 101?
Interstellar Pig - that was a CYOA? I thought it was a more traditional book, but the protagonists were sort of stuck in a CYOA game that bled into reality, or something?
The Soviets didn't use it correctly, actually, and we managed to break several pads by exploiting weaknesses in the way they generated their random characters.
I visited an internet cafe once where this was happening. And by internet cafe, I mean "half a dozen computers in the back room of a coffee shop that the employees never bother to look at or fix". Goatse on several, "close-up" pictures on the others. Blech. Almost got myself banned for life just for telling the barista.
I've found a bunch of fan movies on BT. Star Wars: Revelations is one, and I believe it's unofficially smiled upon by LucasFilms. Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning is another. Star Trek: The New Voyages.
I suspect the Blender/Maya/3d-animation communities also have torrentable media available, as do various machinima communities.
Another possibility is backup. Bittorrent is a semi-decent protocol for moving a shitload of stuff from one computer to another; in that case, you're not taking advantage of a swarm, you're just taking advantage of the fact that resumability, NAT traversal, etc., are made simpler (if you don't want to deal with, or have access to, something like rsync). I've moved my iTunes library that way a few times.
I would assume they're able to pull the images off the fighters. Otherwise, the whole issue is moot. But they can compile and reinstall, or compile, and compare those binaries' sums to the sums of the images they pull off the fighters.
Or maybe they will what they think is all of the code...
They'd have to be fools not to compile and install themselves - or at least compile and compare checksums. I mean, I do that with software I put on my home PC - you think my security standards are better than the RAF's?
For the record, that last one is important. I had a debit card that was Visa-branded (no longer - now it's MasterCard. I really should check their policies) from my local bank. You could use it as a debit card with a PIN, or as a "credit card" with no credit - just took money straight from your checking account. The only difference was, if you used the PIN, there wasn't as much liability coverage (not sure there was any, actually).
ASBOs are Anti-Social Behaviour Orders. Basically, you can be punished for anti-social behaviour. For instance, kids who repeatedly throw bricks through their neighbours' windows. Not so scary when it's not a meaningless acronym, is it?
Most of your post is dead on, but... what was wrong with the old system where we punished things like destruction of property, vandalism, and so on? I mean, ASBO covers a lot of things, the vast majority of which are already taken care of by one law or another, right? Call me paranoid, but I want my laws to be clear and specific.
I have never, ever had a problem with file transfer after opening port 5190 (or whichever it is), and I'm using Adium - which is a frontend to libgaim. The biggest hassle I've ever had with it was setting up Zephyr, and that's pretty understandable, given the way the protocol works.
Technically, they have every right to filter what goes through the connection you lease from them (barring contractual violations - not sure if that applies here). But then they run the risk of losing common carrier status. IANAL, of course.
I've been on cipro (oral and otic both) more than once, and never noticed any side effects (well, nausea once, but that was mild, and I don't know if it was the cipro or the secondary infection I had) that aren't also associated with 'weaker' drugs like amoxicillin, levaquin, etc. Can you elaborate? Cipro is also not a drug of last resort - it's actually a lot more common than most people think. Vancomycin is, though.
Every couple of days? So the doctor should wash his hands between each patient, replace the speculum on the otoscope (insert analogous piece of equipment here) after each patient or orifice... but a piece of clothing only needs to be washed every few days?
You're assuming that the man is always at fault. While it's certainly true that domestic violence is a problem, it's not always men attacking women. Sometimes it's women attacking men; sometimes it's women attacking women or men attacking men; sometimes there's more than two people involved; sometimes accusations are made specifically to cause problems for the accused. Domestic violence is not a simple situation.
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Well, assuming for the sake of argument that iBackup's site isn't any more protected than theirs, if iBackup goes south, they still have their own stuff; if their own stuff goes south, they have iBackup. It'd take two catastrophes in different locations to lose all their data. Duh - isn't this Backup 101?
Interstellar Pig - that was a CYOA? I thought it was a more traditional book, but the protagonists were sort of stuck in a CYOA game that bled into reality, or something?
The Soviets didn't use it correctly, actually, and we managed to break several pads by exploiting weaknesses in the way they generated their random characters.
I visited an internet cafe once where this was happening. And by internet cafe, I mean "half a dozen computers in the back room of a coffee shop that the employees never bother to look at or fix". Goatse on several, "close-up" pictures on the others. Blech. Almost got myself banned for life just for telling the barista.
I've found a bunch of fan movies on BT. Star Wars: Revelations is one, and I believe it's unofficially smiled upon by LucasFilms. Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning is another. Star Trek: The New Voyages. I suspect the Blender/Maya/3d-animation communities also have torrentable media available, as do various machinima communities. Another possibility is backup. Bittorrent is a semi-decent protocol for moving a shitload of stuff from one computer to another; in that case, you're not taking advantage of a swarm, you're just taking advantage of the fact that resumability, NAT traversal, etc., are made simpler (if you don't want to deal with, or have access to, something like rsync). I've moved my iTunes library that way a few times.
So ... now Riven is fair game for LARPers?
It's like a pyramid scheme, except the last guy wins. Actually, they have a word for it. Maybe this specific case could be called a pr0ntine?
I would assume they're able to pull the images off the fighters. Otherwise, the whole issue is moot. But they can compile and reinstall, or compile, and compare those binaries' sums to the sums of the images they pull off the fighters.
Or maybe they will what they think is all of the code...
They'd have to be fools not to compile and install themselves - or at least compile and compare checksums. I mean, I do that with software I put on my home PC - you think my security standards are better than the RAF's?
The Caves of Steel/Under the Naked Sun/Robots of Dawn trilogy touched on the Zeroth Law briefly.
Could Phil microwave a burrito so hot even Jon couldn't eat it?
For the record, that last one is important. I had a debit card that was Visa-branded (no longer - now it's MasterCard. I really should check their policies) from my local bank. You could use it as a debit card with a PIN, or as a "credit card" with no credit - just took money straight from your checking account. The only difference was, if you used the PIN, there wasn't as much liability coverage (not sure there was any, actually).
ASBOs are Anti-Social Behaviour Orders. Basically, you can be punished for anti-social behaviour. For instance, kids who repeatedly throw bricks through their neighbours' windows. Not so scary when it's not a meaningless acronym, is it?
... what was wrong with the old system where we punished things like destruction of property, vandalism, and so on? I mean, ASBO covers a lot of things, the vast majority of which are already taken care of by one law or another, right? Call me paranoid, but I want my laws to be clear and specific.
Most of your post is dead on, but
Narf! I think so, Brain, but where are we going to find two pairs of epileptic mice at this time of night?
Would you mind posting a link to your stylesheet? I'd like to take a look.
I have never, ever had a problem with file transfer after opening port 5190 (or whichever it is), and I'm using Adium - which is a frontend to libgaim. The biggest hassle I've ever had with it was setting up Zephyr, and that's pretty understandable, given the way the protocol works.
Technically, they have every right to filter what goes through the connection you lease from them (barring contractual violations - not sure if that applies here). But then they run the risk of losing common carrier status. IANAL, of course.
Why should Vonage get special treatment? After all, it's not like Comcast does a decent job carrying *anybody's* bits.
Cipro is no fun either
I've been on cipro (oral and otic both) more than once, and never noticed any side effects (well, nausea once, but that was mild, and I don't know if it was the cipro or the secondary infection I had) that aren't also associated with 'weaker' drugs like amoxicillin, levaquin, etc. Can you elaborate? Cipro is also not a drug of last resort - it's actually a lot more common than most people think. Vancomycin is, though.
Every couple of days? So the doctor should wash his hands between each patient, replace the speculum on the otoscope (insert analogous piece of equipment here) after each patient or orifice ... but a piece of clothing only needs to be washed every few days?
"Gets real lonely out there in the black ..."
mentally disabled
Physically disabled, too. Not so much in the concentration camps (although that was a factor as well), but in the Tiergartenstrasse 4 program.
bloody thing doesn't actually *display* in base 10
For the record, this is called BCD, or Binary Coded Decimal.
You're assuming that the man is always at fault. While it's certainly true that domestic violence is a problem, it's not always men attacking women. Sometimes it's women attacking men; sometimes it's women attacking women or men attacking men; sometimes there's more than two people involved; sometimes accusations are made specifically to cause problems for the accused. Domestic violence is not a simple situation.
Pedanticness here ... "I said nothing" is the usual translation, but "I was silent" is actually more accurate.