Forget all that weird tech AR goggle stuff, I want to buy that protected silver circle she's standing in! It looks like it's indestructible! *ALL* homes near the coast should have one.
Some numbers... would have been nice. We've never had [one].
Stark, it's stark, they don't have much / any. Just hear-say rumors, that's all. That's *ALL* they've got, do you get me?
And be very nice to the man from Stark Industries when he comes around saying "... Shame if something were to happen here", else your outfit might start having lithium-ion battery fires, even in the Plastic-Only section.
OK, I'll byte. How many times? I haven't heard of that song at all before, but I also don't have kids.
And now I'm scared to even go find it!
Oh, and be aware: when I was a teenager, there was a song on the radio that I just HATED. It was horrible. Every time it came on I immediately changed the station.
But of course I had to hear the opening notes, and it look a second or two to reach the station control knob. After a while, it became 3 or 4, and then 5 and 6. Pretty soon I actually liked the entire song.
You Too will Soon Go To Sleep and Become One with the Pod People. Or the Borg. Or the SJWs or the Nazis; whatever is the current monster of the year.
Hey Anon. I can't email you, so I'm hoping you'll read this. Could you email me at -1@mailnesia.com (YEP, that's right.) I'd like to ask about "services are heavily firewalled" vs "plex ports open to the world."
In particular, do you actualy trust Plex with open ports? Or do you have them somewhat firewalled? I'm using the Plex redirection relay service -- I don't have / care about Full 8K Video; having limited resolution is worth it to me to NOT have a port open. Besides my upload bandwidth speed isn't that great to start with.
It's not that I don't trust them, but I don't trust them to never have a incoming attack problem. And if *I* as the administrator can't hit the port, YOU as an outside user certainly can't. (Well, you hack Plex.TV or my account there or hack my client, but you can't attack a server port that's not open.)
Troll? How the hell is the parent a troll? "Maybe you never leave your basement" -- that's not the kindest thing in the world I've ever heard, but from the previous inane statement not a bad assumption for him to make.
It's one thing to have everything local configured exactly how you like it on devices you directly control and own. Now (literally) take it outside of your basement (oops, guess I'm a troll now too!) and run it on random devices owned by other people you can't control with random connection speeds and random port restrictions with random codec support. Oh, did I mention that you've only got 3 minutes to get it working with just the hardware on hand -- just enough time for your audience to go make a sandwich or chips and dip before they come back?
NOW let's see how easy it is to use your home file server to play a file and still expect a modicum of security.
they would not be allowed to recoup the extra costs, since NC has price control laws
So anti-market laws were the reason for the shortage.
Hey, we're the government. Anything we can do, just ask -- we're here to help (Ourselves if possible.)
Unintended consequences? No worries, we'll just pass another law. That way you don't have to worry, you'll always be guilty of something. And what more can your government do than provide you with that nice, warm feeling of being wanted?
but their "lead market position," makes it hard to produce cheaper tractors.
Oh, you're just racist against smart farm equipment and Gigantic Corporations. You Luddite, you... you... I can't even say the words in polite company. (Heh, company -- get it?) Go find and pick on someone slightly or greatly smaller than you, like WE do. It's easier that way.
Corporations (AKA People v2) have feelings, too! "Hey, that's MY rube you're fleecing! Go away and find your own!"
I worked for a company: different people, servers, functions, time zones, all that. But Production Control had a special group that everyone (EVERYONE) kowtowed to: the EEC (Emergency something Control.) PC had monitoring hooks into everything, and had change control info for outages. Anything that broke that wasn't on their list got people paged anytime of the day or night to fix it.
Depending on the type of outage or if the busted-item tech asked for assistance, EEC woke up and starting calling in resources from supporting groups. You couldn't refuse and you couldn't hang up. And if they needed help, it went recursive. If enough time passed, they'd even start grabbing upper-level executives. You'd watch your stuff to make sure it was working correctly, respond to suggestions and make your own, but otherwise put them on mute and just listen to the background babble. You ONLY got to hang up when they let you go. (or your phone died, and they gave you a few minutes to find a second one.)
It was extremely wasteful of people's time but had one redeeming quality -- the problem got FIXED because all of the people with moving parts were either on the call or could be added. Spent many a night listening to weird problems obviously not my fault, others "next door" where I could have affected them, and a few times where I (or equipment) *WAS* the problem and even a time when I started the call.
I've yet to see a single study, or even anyone claiming, those ads and fake news reports actually had an effect on the election, i.e., convinced voters to choose one candidate over another. Isn't that something that should be studied?
It only seems to be the Democrats haranguing about Russian this and Russian that. Perhaps it's because they expect that their voters would respond to it, or they're way too smart and assume the OTHER voters would respond to that.
In any case, I treat ads (and news now-a-days) just like Wikipedia -- a great starting place to learn about things, but not the end-all and be-all of all knowledge. Hell, at time it's not that grand of a starting point.
Same with "The Science Has Been Settled" -- no, that's suddenly dogma, science is NEVER settled. Else let's all just go back to a simpler time when the Church persecuted Galileo and be done with it. If it's all settled: medicine, computers, electricity, transportation, water treatment, sewers -- let's behead and get rid of them all, because "No one expects the Spanish Inquisition". Seriously.
I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens. Proof Positive: A talking head on TV.
And this is why Trump wants a space force -- Space Alien Terrorists. Or Astronaut
Terrorists, same thing, just inside out. OR: an ISS Astronaut is actually an ALIEN -- that's even worse, They're Already Here.
First they travel here to get our technology, then our women, and then our water. We're in trouble!
What does bitcoin represent that is mutually valued?
Hype. If I can get you really excited about it, then maybe you'll buy in too. And that means I can exit the game of musical money and let you become the next hype-master.
It's a bloomin' widespread, non-changeable ledger. PERIOD. And it takes a lot of CPU power, Watts, and connectivity to make it work. There's the 51% problem as well as throughput issues: VisaNet: 56K transaction messages/sec. And then there's just so MANY to choose from, kinda like religion. Hell, JUST like religion.
*-COIN is the One True Coin, while all the rest are poor, evil heathens. Did I mention poor? So BUY *-COIN NOW and secure your way to Coin Heaven. Hurry, the supplies of hype are limited!
This is so google will know when / where to display mobile insurance ads?
No, you misunderstand -- you sell insurance to people that WON'T use it. If you sell to people that use it and over-saturate (not enough unaffected people to cover the affected ones), you're screwed. You hopefully have one outgoing payment hit and a whole lotta misses, which translate to a whole lotta income that you keep or have a whole bunch of hits and go broke. The whole point of insurance (from the insurance company's standpoint) is that the customer will pay for it and then NOT use it.
OTOH if you mean that once you've had an earthquake you think you're not going to have more for a few years (decades/centuries) then you're exactly right -- strike while the iron is hot, people are actively thinking about it and scared, while you're literally betting it won't happen again anytime soon.
Can I interest you in a Golden Bridge that you'll never use? How about some invisible clothes previously owned by a King? I bet they'll fit you perfectly!
it would be crazy to upload my private sensitive documents to randos on the Internet and assume that they'll never be seen.
?? I thought if you uploaded it to the internet you WANTED it to be seen, that was the whole POINT. Otherwise what's it doing up there?
Oh, you want security? Keep it directly under your control then and watch it. Better yet, encrypt it at rest and watch out for temp files and bad janitors and evil maids.
(I thought that a bad janitor forgot to empty the trash and an evil maid put the horse head in the bed in Godfather. Live and learn.)
Huh? They don't. Unless it's being sold to us, then it's easily for sale behind a wall of friendly IP. (Not v4 or v6, v$.) Better hope it doesn't wear out (analog) or the company goes out of business (digital.)
"Grimms' Fairy Tales" is a reworked TV show. When's the last time you saw a movie from Edgar Allen Poe? It's out there, but well known. And besides, where are the jump scares, blood, special effects, and action? No zombies? Who IS this loser, anyway?
I live on a farm. I've got cows. (OK, I rent and THEY'VE got cows.) My mom milked along with her parents; I've still got the butter churn. I can recognize a cow on good days, she's usually on the milk-carton with a daisy around her head. (The Logo.) I remember her telling me things and I've got decommissioned physical objects (a great-cousin's spinning wheel along with a picture of her and it) but I haven't the foggiest. And what stories I remember I can't pass on to anyone else, since I never had kids. So a little of my family history will go to my cousin, and that's it. (Only child of only child. The family tree is sparse out my way.)
Our culture, the public domain, is being obtained, packaged, and resold to us, with the original forgotten or becoming a copyright infringement. Thanks to Sonny (and Cher), Walt, and many other helpers.
We're all too busy looking at moving, shiny objects and text, and worried about losing out (getting behind) to worry about the old, small things. And the old, small, boring people too, for that matter.
Stay off my lawn, or I'll rise as a zombie and chase you off it. Kids.
Don't support Linux, and you'll be dead in the long run.
Huh?? SUPPORT Linux, and "you'll be dead in the long run." You'll be dead in the long run ANYWAY, it's the short (usually every quarter for public companies) and maybe mid-run that usually gets people's attention.
BTW, the dinosaurs didn't support Linux either, and look where it got THEM -- they're all dead. So I guess you're right after all.
I think it's great, doing a good job and they need to fund it. It needs an expiration date though, just like John McCain and everyone else has. If it's still doing a good job and nothing else has appeared to replace it, then extending it for another X years seems easily sensible. If SkyNet earlier appeared and always fixes all bugs everywhere, the maybe it's time to disband it.
Once Elon and Jeff have become the Borg, THEN we'll see about never-ending committee entities. (Like the ones we already have.)
Or does eventual existence renewal make things become political? Actually asking here. Also,
Japan
Exactly what AT command from the 1980s Hayes smartmodems does one use to "perform screen unlocks" or "inject touch events" into a device, let alone "exfiltrate sensitive device information"?
Where have YOU been? You've seen the movies: "AT Do-What-I-Want" by banging away on the keyboard like a Shakespeare monkey. Every good hacker knows that.
Really though, I'm surprised to see they've enhanced the command set this much.
Sheldon walks out of the room and turns off the light. The screen goes black, and then slowly dissolves into a fuzzy pattern, then a dimly-lit ceiling. The camera reframes, and you see Wernher von Braun in bed with his wife.
He wakes her up and says, "Honey, wake up, you won't believe the nightmare I just had." Link
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Forget all that weird tech AR goggle stuff, I want to buy that protected silver circle she's standing in! It looks like it's indestructible! *ALL* homes near the coast should have one.
MAN -- I could even go scuba walking with that!
but the anecdotal evidence is stark.
Some numbers ... would have been nice. We've never had [one].
Stark, it's stark, they don't have much / any. Just hear-say rumors, that's all. That's *ALL* they've got, do you get me?
And be very nice to the man from Stark Industries when he comes around saying "... Shame if something were to happen here", else your outfit might start having lithium-ion battery fires, even in the Plastic-Only section.
OK, I'll byte. How many times? I haven't heard of that song at all before, but I also don't have kids. And now I'm scared to even go find it!
Oh, and be aware: when I was a teenager, there was a song on the radio that I just HATED. It was horrible. Every time it came on I immediately changed the station.
But of course I had to hear the opening notes, and it look a second or two to reach the station control knob. After a while, it became 3 or 4, and then 5 and 6. Pretty soon I actually liked the entire song.
You Too will Soon Go To Sleep and Become One with the Pod People. Or the Borg. Or the SJWs or the Nazis; whatever is the current monster of the year.
NOOOoooOOOO, that's not right. At least be honest here.
It's "Because I Can."
Hey Anon. I can't email you, so I'm hoping you'll read this. Could you email me at -1@mailnesia.com (YEP, that's right.) I'd like to ask about "services are heavily firewalled" vs "plex ports open to the world."
In particular, do you actualy trust Plex with open ports? Or do you have them somewhat firewalled? I'm using the Plex redirection relay service -- I don't have / care about Full 8K Video; having limited resolution is worth it to me to NOT have a port open. Besides my upload bandwidth speed isn't that great to start with.
It's not that I don't trust them, but I don't trust them to never have a incoming attack problem. And if *I* as the administrator can't hit the port, YOU as an outside user certainly can't. (Well, you hack Plex.TV or my account there or hack my client, but you can't attack a server port that's not open.)
Troll? How the hell is the parent a troll? "Maybe you never leave your basement" -- that's not the kindest thing in the world I've ever heard, but from the previous inane statement not a bad assumption for him to make.
It's one thing to have everything local configured exactly how you like it on devices you directly control and own. Now (literally) take it outside of your basement (oops, guess I'm a troll now too!) and run it on random devices owned by other people you can't control with random connection speeds and random port restrictions with random codec support. Oh, did I mention that you've only got 3 minutes to get it working with just the hardware on hand -- just enough time for your audience to go make a sandwich or chips and dip before they come back?
NOW let's see how easy it is to use your home file server to play a file and still expect a modicum of security.
they would not be allowed to recoup the extra costs, since NC has price control laws
So anti-market laws were the reason for the shortage.
Hey, we're the government. Anything we can do, just ask -- we're here to help (Ourselves if possible.)
Unintended consequences? No worries, we'll just pass another law. That way you don't have to worry, you'll always be guilty of something. And what more can your government do than provide you with that nice, warm feeling of being wanted?
but their "lead market position," makes it hard to produce cheaper tractors.
Oh, you're just racist against smart farm equipment and Gigantic Corporations. You Luddite, you ... you ... I can't even say the words in polite company. (Heh, company -- get it?) Go find and pick on someone slightly or greatly smaller than you, like WE do. It's easier that way.
Corporations (AKA People v2) have feelings, too! "Hey, that's MY rube you're fleecing! Go away and find your own!"
It's called Cincinnati. All the big city advantages with none of the big city drawbacks. [And other advantages.]
And it's got WKRP as a radio station!
imagine how much stupider it would look to be taking the picture with the camera on a laptop.
If only there were a small device that only took pictures and could then transfer them to the laptop.
Is this a different boat... ... than this?
No. Why do you ask?
and reeks of Microsoft in the 90's.
Just what are you saying? Microsoft missed the internet way back when, WE didn't. It's our Internet, we just let you play in it.
-- Google.
they wanted known-to-be-corrupt, feckless person like Clinton
Hey -- HEY!! Quit throwing around bad terms at people. You're going to taint feckless much worse than it really is.
I see a lot of these comments, and when I read them I hear a Russian accent.
So you're admitting that you're Russian? My God, you're famous -- you're the Russian troll everyone's talking about!
Inquiring minds want to know!
Not your every-day conference call.
I worked for a company: different people, servers, functions, time zones, all that. But Production Control had a special group that everyone (EVERYONE) kowtowed to: the EEC (Emergency something Control.) PC had monitoring hooks into everything, and had change control info for outages. Anything that broke that wasn't on their list got people paged anytime of the day or night to fix it.
Depending on the type of outage or if the busted-item tech asked for assistance, EEC woke up and starting calling in resources from supporting groups. You couldn't refuse and you couldn't hang up. And if they needed help, it went recursive. If enough time passed, they'd even start grabbing upper-level executives. You'd watch your stuff to make sure it was working correctly, respond to suggestions and make your own, but otherwise put them on mute and just listen to the background babble. You ONLY got to hang up when they let you go. (or your phone died, and they gave you a few minutes to find a second one.)
It was extremely wasteful of people's time but had one redeeming quality -- the problem got FIXED because all of the people with moving parts were either on the call or could be added. Spent many a night listening to weird problems obviously not my fault, others "next door" where I could have affected them, and a few times where I (or equipment) *WAS* the problem and even a time when I started the call.
I've yet to see a single study, or even anyone claiming, those ads and fake news reports actually had an effect on the election, i.e., convinced voters to choose one candidate over another. Isn't that something that should be studied?
It only seems to be the Democrats haranguing about Russian this and Russian that. Perhaps it's because they expect that their voters would respond to it, or they're way too smart and assume the OTHER voters would respond to that.
In any case, I treat ads (and news now-a-days) just like Wikipedia -- a great starting place to learn about things, but not the end-all and be-all of all knowledge. Hell, at time it's not that grand of a starting point.
Same with "The Science Has Been Settled" -- no, that's suddenly dogma, science is NEVER settled. Else let's all just go back to a simpler time when the Church persecuted Galileo and be done with it. If it's all settled: medicine, computers, electricity, transportation, water treatment, sewers -- let's behead and get rid of them all, because "No one expects the Spanish Inquisition". Seriously.
I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens. Proof Positive: A talking head on TV.
And this is why Trump wants a space force -- Space Alien Terrorists. Or Astronaut Terrorists, same thing, just inside out. OR: an ISS Astronaut is actually an ALIEN -- that's even worse, They're Already Here.
First they travel here to get our technology, then our women, and then our water. We're in trouble!
What does bitcoin represent that is mutually valued?
Hype. If I can get you really excited about it, then maybe you'll buy in too. And that means I can exit the game of musical money and let you become the next hype-master.
It's a bloomin' widespread, non-changeable ledger. PERIOD. And it takes a lot of CPU power, Watts, and connectivity to make it work. There's the 51% problem as well as throughput issues: VisaNet: 56K transaction messages/sec. And then there's just so MANY to choose from, kinda like religion. Hell, JUST like religion.
*-COIN is the One True Coin, while all the rest are poor, evil heathens. Did I mention poor? So BUY *-COIN NOW and secure your way to Coin Heaven. Hurry, the supplies of hype are limited!
This is so google will know when / where to display mobile insurance ads?
No, you misunderstand -- you sell insurance to people that WON'T use it. If you sell to people that use it and over-saturate (not enough unaffected people to cover the affected ones), you're screwed. You hopefully have one outgoing payment hit and a whole lotta misses, which translate to a whole lotta income that you keep or have a whole bunch of hits and go broke. The whole point of insurance (from the insurance company's standpoint) is that the customer will pay for it and then NOT use it.
OTOH if you mean that once you've had an earthquake you think you're not going to have more for a few years (decades/centuries) then you're exactly right -- strike while the iron is hot, people are actively thinking about it and scared, while you're literally betting it won't happen again anytime soon.
Can I interest you in a Golden Bridge that you'll never use? How about some invisible clothes previously owned by a King? I bet they'll fit you perfectly!
it would be crazy to upload my private sensitive documents to randos on the Internet and assume that they'll never be seen.
?? I thought if you uploaded it to the internet you WANTED it to be seen, that was the whole POINT. Otherwise what's it doing up there?
Oh, you want security? Keep it directly under your control then and watch it. Better yet, encrypt it at rest and watch out for temp files and bad janitors and evil maids.
(I thought that a bad janitor forgot to empty the trash and an evil maid put the horse head in the bed in Godfather. Live and learn.)
Huh? They don't. Unless it's being sold to us, then it's easily for sale behind a wall of friendly IP. (Not v4 or v6, v$.) Better hope it doesn't wear out (analog) or the company goes out of business (digital.)
"Grimms' Fairy Tales" is a reworked TV show. When's the last time you saw a movie from Edgar Allen Poe? It's out there, but well known. And besides, where are the jump scares, blood, special effects, and action? No zombies? Who IS this loser, anyway?
I live on a farm. I've got cows. (OK, I rent and THEY'VE got cows.) My mom milked along with her parents; I've still got the butter churn. I can recognize a cow on good days, she's usually on the milk-carton with a daisy around her head. (The Logo.) I remember her telling me things and I've got decommissioned physical objects (a great-cousin's spinning wheel along with a picture of her and it) but I haven't the foggiest. And what stories I remember I can't pass on to anyone else, since I never had kids. So a little of my family history will go to my cousin, and that's it. (Only child of only child. The family tree is sparse out my way.)
Our culture, the public domain, is being obtained, packaged, and resold to us, with the original forgotten or becoming a copyright infringement. Thanks to Sonny (and Cher), Walt, and many other helpers.
We're all too busy looking at moving, shiny objects and text, and worried about losing out (getting behind) to worry about the old, small things. And the old, small, boring people too, for that matter.
Stay off my lawn, or I'll rise as a zombie and chase you off it. Kids.
Don't support Linux, and you'll be dead in the long run.
Huh?? SUPPORT Linux, and "you'll be dead in the long run." You'll be dead in the long run ANYWAY, it's the short (usually every quarter for public companies) and maybe mid-run that usually gets people's attention.
BTW, the dinosaurs didn't support Linux either, and look where it got THEM -- they're all dead. So I guess you're right after all.
has no foreseeable end date.
So, just like most government entities.
I think it's great, doing a good job and they need to fund it. It needs an expiration date though, just like John McCain and everyone else has. If it's still doing a good job and nothing else has appeared to replace it, then extending it for another X years seems easily sensible. If SkyNet earlier appeared and always fixes all bugs everywhere, the maybe it's time to disband it.
Once Elon and Jeff have become the Borg, THEN we'll see about never-ending committee entities. (Like the ones we already have.)
Or does eventual existence renewal make things become political? Actually asking here. Also, Japan
Exactly what AT command from the 1980s Hayes smartmodems does one use to "perform screen unlocks" or "inject touch events" into a device, let alone "exfiltrate sensitive device information"?
Where have YOU been? You've seen the movies: "AT Do-What-I-Want" by banging away on the keyboard like a Shakespeare monkey. Every good hacker knows that.
Really though, I'm surprised to see they've enhanced the command set this much.
Sheldon walks out of the room and turns off the light. The screen goes black, and then slowly dissolves into a fuzzy pattern, then a dimly-lit ceiling. The camera reframes, and you see Wernher von Braun in bed with his wife.
He wakes her up and says, "Honey, wake up, you won't believe the nightmare I just had." Link