I forget whose theory it was, but I read a theory once that every person you see in a dream is really just an image of yourself. Something about how the concept of "one and only one you" was too much of a base truth to compromise by seeing your "twin" in a dream (incidentally, I wonder if twins see their twin siblings in dreams??). After I read it I would assume it was true for fun when interpreting my own dreams, and it made perfect sense in a lot of cases. So maybe the people that aren't acting themselves in your dreams are really you acting some facet of yourself in another body.
In my experience dreams like this (almost exactly like this, actually) can always be paired with some real-life guilt that I am feeling at the time of the dream. The real life guilt is always for something petty like calling into work sick when I'm not really that sick or forgetting to call my sister on her birthday, but it never fails - there is always something. Seems more classic Freudian than anything else, I think a lot of dreams are just amplified subconscious versions of emotions that we are currently experiencing in our real consciousness. It should be noted that I have a very guilty conscience, maybe you do too? Did you step on a spider or something recently?
That's interesting, thanks for the info. I guess the point remains that any money spent on fraud/ID theft insurance is directly attributable to the fraud and ID theft in the first place, and buyers of this insurance should be considered indirect victims of the crime. Perhaps a secondary crime is banks offering overpriced insurance, which is a problem you seem to have avoided.
Aha, so let's say you pay $10/month for your "calamity" insurance - which means over the last 5 years you've paid $600 for it and counting. Might as well drop the insurance and learn your $10 lesson with the rest of the "morons".
Who is the real victim of internet phishing? YOU ARE!!!
I can't wrap my mind around it, but it seems that there is some relationship to this phenomenon and that of $7.8 Billion in unused gift cards (just this year!!)
The end result is the same, some group (in this case retail store executives) is getting billions of dollars in exchange for exactly nothing.
Can't beat NES Metroid music (not me in video), particularly "Kraid's theme" - 2:03 in video.
Re:Leaving money on the table is not always bad
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I would take it a step further than "not always bad" and say for a companies like IBM it is probably perfectly logical and necessary in a lot of cases. With the sheer size in terms of resources and infrastructure of IBM the overhead costs must be enormous. The cost/benefit ratio probably starts to even out long before a project gets down to $25,000 (from TFA).
So it is not that the huge vendors are doing the little guys a favor by passing on small deals, it's that it just doesn't make any sense for them to pick them up. Small vendors fill a niche that large vendors can't afford to.
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Why was this modded troll? Is there something I don't know about "r33b.net"?
If my machine is botted because I couldn't stop looking at the hypnotoad for two and a half hours I'm going to be pissed. Then again, it would still be worth it...back I go!!
Does this mean we can bring back the Shoe-Fitting Fluoroscope? But seriously:
One of the more serious injuries linked to the operation of these machines involved a shoe model who received such a serious radiation burn that her leg had to be amputated (Bavley 1950). I can't believe the Simpsons never parodied this thing, it's right in their wheelhouse...
The most valuable skill I learned during my short time as a field consultant was how to "manage expectations" (pardon the bullshit bingo term). It's not the customer that is being unreasonable, it is that they have somehow adopted unreasonable expectations of what you can provide them. In other words, it's all your company's fault.
If a customer buys a support contract that explicitly states that 1 week is a reasonable turnaround time for an issue you'll be amazed to find out how pleased the customer is when you fix a problem in 72 hours. If some asshole salesman tells them that they can expect solutions to any issue in 2 hours, well, get ready to deal with an "unreasonable customer".
I unreasonably expect this post to be modded +5 insightful.
Check out my journal, there's a text twist cheat program in there. They keep their dictionary in plain text on your drive in a weird "trie" representation. I never use it, was just fun to figure out the trie.
It's interesting that this point has never come up in one of the endless Windows vs. Linux threads, but what you have laid out here as a necessary steps for running a secure linux machine is far beyond the grasp of 99% of typical home users - presumably the target audience for a sweeping Linux-on-the-desktop revolution.
Touché. I once strayed from the Valentine's day best practices and paid dearly for it. That's the time I learned "hockey tickets" don't exactly do it for them either...
Just in case there's anyone out there that thinks this will get them laid, be warned - she'll likely laugh you out of the room and reject you with extreme prejudice. If she doesn't, be warned again - she's too desperate to get involved with.
Seriously though, this has to be one of the lamest ideas I've ever heard of. I know as little about women as the next guy (and I'm married), but I do know they can smell assembly line romance from a mile away - and they hate it.
I completely agree with you, but the difference is at least with the Times there has been some accountability. I've heard reporters admit mistakes, even shame in some cases, about the handling of the pre-Iraq war coverage. Blogs and bloggers have no accountability, no overriding ethos that would cause them to re-examine their reporting let alone admit mistakes.
I think the trend of print media succumbing to the "blogosphere" makes some sense for tech media like those discussed in TFA but I don't like where it's heading when it comes to the standard news print media.
I read articles in the New York Times and other major newspapers with a warm and fuzzy notion that the journalist that wrote the piece - even if not totally unbiased - has done some honest, well-funded research and has some authority on the topic at hand. If the news print media were to vanish and be replaced by endless streams of blogs filled with non-objective opinions I think we'd really be sunk.
Maybe a few major newspapers could continue to pull in enough online ad revenue to fund the kinds of journalism they can now, but many small market papers could not. We would then be stuck with an ever-shrinking pool of objective reporters giving us our news, and an exponentially growing pool of acid tongued, uninformed opinion spewers. Not to mention the fact that online crossword puzzles just aren't the same...
That struck me as odd too...according to the article it's due to the amount of "bad news" that oceanographers have to deal with (overfishing, pollution, etc.):
With so much going on, there's plenty of work for oceangoing scientists--if they can stomach bad news. That's a stretch in my book, *everybody* has to deal with that bad news, the oceanographers just deliver it - while cruising the world's oceans on state of the art research vessels...
Neil deGrasse Tyson is contributing quite a bit with his role on Nova and appearances elsewhere. Not nearly as hands on as Mr. Wizard, Bill Nye, or even the MythBusters but he has a nice way of explaining things in a way just about anybody can understand - including of course children.
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I forget whose theory it was, but I read a theory once that every person you see in a dream is really just an image of yourself. Something about how the concept of "one and only one you" was too much of a base truth to compromise by seeing your "twin" in a dream (incidentally, I wonder if twins see their twin siblings in dreams??). After I read it I would assume it was true for fun when interpreting my own dreams, and it made perfect sense in a lot of cases. So maybe the people that aren't acting themselves in your dreams are really you acting some facet of yourself in another body.
In my experience dreams like this (almost exactly like this, actually) can always be paired with some real-life guilt that I am feeling at the time of the dream. The real life guilt is always for something petty like calling into work sick when I'm not really that sick or forgetting to call my sister on her birthday, but it never fails - there is always something. Seems more classic Freudian than anything else, I think a lot of dreams are just amplified subconscious versions of emotions that we are currently experiencing in our real consciousness. It should be noted that I have a very guilty conscience, maybe you do too? Did you step on a spider or something recently?
That's interesting, thanks for the info. I guess the point remains that any money spent on fraud/ID theft insurance is directly attributable to the fraud and ID theft in the first place, and buyers of this insurance should be considered indirect victims of the crime. Perhaps a secondary crime is banks offering overpriced insurance, which is a problem you seem to have avoided.
Aha, so let's say you pay $10/month for your "calamity" insurance - which means over the last 5 years you've paid $600 for it and counting. Might as well drop the insurance and learn your $10 lesson with the rest of the "morons".
Who is the real victim of internet phishing? YOU ARE!!!
I can't wrap my mind around it, but it seems that there is some relationship to this phenomenon and that of $7.8 Billion in unused gift cards (just this year!!)
The end result is the same, some group (in this case retail store executives) is getting billions of dollars in exchange for exactly nothing.
Can't beat NES Metroid music (not me in video), particularly "Kraid's theme" - 2:03 in video.
I would take it a step further than "not always bad" and say for a companies like IBM it is probably perfectly logical and necessary in a lot of cases. With the sheer size in terms of resources and infrastructure of IBM the overhead costs must be enormous. The cost/benefit ratio probably starts to even out long before a project gets down to $25,000 (from TFA).
So it is not that the huge vendors are doing the little guys a favor by passing on small deals, it's that it just doesn't make any sense for them to pick them up. Small vendors fill a niche that large vendors can't afford to.
Why was this modded troll? Is there something I don't know about "r33b.net"?
If my machine is botted because I couldn't stop looking at the hypnotoad for two and a half hours I'm going to be pissed. Then again, it would still be worth it...back I go!!
The most valuable skill I learned during my short time as a field consultant was how to "manage expectations" (pardon the bullshit bingo term). It's not the customer that is being unreasonable, it is that they have somehow adopted unreasonable expectations of what you can provide them. In other words, it's all your company's fault.
If a customer buys a support contract that explicitly states that 1 week is a reasonable turnaround time for an issue you'll be amazed to find out how pleased the customer is when you fix a problem in 72 hours. If some asshole salesman tells them that they can expect solutions to any issue in 2 hours, well, get ready to deal with an "unreasonable customer".
I unreasonably expect this post to be modded +5 insightful.
Check out my journal, there's a text twist cheat program in there. They keep their dictionary in plain text on your drive in a weird "trie" representation. I never use it, was just fun to figure out the trie.
It's interesting that this point has never come up in one of the endless Windows vs. Linux threads, but what you have laid out here as a necessary steps for running a secure linux machine is far beyond the grasp of 99% of typical home users - presumably the target audience for a sweeping Linux-on-the-desktop revolution.
Buck up little camper! I've come up with a foolproof alternative to a speedy death when the endgame hits high gear: a new life under the sea!!
I only hope Zapp Brannigan plays a major role - he steals the show in my book. Best Shatner parody ever.
Touché. I once strayed from the Valentine's day best practices and paid dearly for it. That's the time I learned "hockey tickets" don't exactly do it for them either...
Just in case there's anyone out there that thinks this will get them laid, be warned - she'll likely laugh you out of the room and reject you with extreme prejudice. If she doesn't, be warned again - she's too desperate to get involved with.
Seriously though, this has to be one of the lamest ideas I've ever heard of. I know as little about women as the next guy (and I'm married), but I do know they can smell assembly line romance from a mile away - and they hate it.
I completely agree with you, but the difference is at least with the Times there has been some accountability. I've heard reporters admit mistakes, even shame in some cases, about the handling of the pre-Iraq war coverage. Blogs and bloggers have no accountability, no overriding ethos that would cause them to re-examine their reporting let alone admit mistakes.
I think the trend of print media succumbing to the "blogosphere" makes some sense for tech media like those discussed in TFA but I don't like where it's heading when it comes to the standard news print media.
I read articles in the New York Times and other major newspapers with a warm and fuzzy notion that the journalist that wrote the piece - even if not totally unbiased - has done some honest, well-funded research and has some authority on the topic at hand. If the news print media were to vanish and be replaced by endless streams of blogs filled with non-objective opinions I think we'd really be sunk.
Maybe a few major newspapers could continue to pull in enough online ad revenue to fund the kinds of journalism they can now, but many small market papers could not. We would then be stuck with an ever-shrinking pool of objective reporters giving us our news, and an exponentially growing pool of acid tongued, uninformed opinion spewers. Not to mention the fact that online crossword puzzles just aren't the same...
Slashdotters on Mardi Gras?
I just threw up a little bit in my mouth...thanks :)
For giggles, here's the list:
A giant prehistoric penguin could have constituted another best seller: "Beak". The suspenseful movie music would have to be slightly altered though:
Doo-bie....Doo-bie....Doobie Doobie Dooo
Neil deGrasse Tyson is contributing quite a bit with his role on Nova and appearances elsewhere. Not nearly as hands on as Mr. Wizard, Bill Nye, or even the MythBusters but he has a nice way of explaining things in a way just about anybody can understand - including of course children.