Notice of revocation
It has come to the notice of the geek-police that you have violated the terms of your parole from real life on the following counts
1. Complying with directives of alleged wife
2. Abusing your technical skills in
(a) Home improvement - cleaning category
(b) Home improvement - construction category
(c) Home improvement - interiors category
3. Idle appreciation of Rocks in water
You are hereby directed by competent authority to hand in your geek card immediately and go back out to the asylum that wonko the sane lives outside.
To protect and serve
Correction:
Two guys decide they want your laptop. So:
1. They both get in front of you.
2. Person A (in the lead) moves through security a little slower than normal.
3. Person B takes extra time moving through security (change, belt buckle, keys on person) after you drop your case on the belt.
4. Person A grabs your laptop that is conveniently outside your case in a separate plastic tray, and leaves.
There - fixed that for you for every one of the 19 airports I have been through in the last year.
Very relevant and nearly insightful comment there - I am in full agreement with your sentiments.
Except for the closing...
Why in the world would you expect better from Texas? Or from Maine? Or Massachussets? It doesn't matter whether your state is Red or Blue or a delicate shade of purple, the people we elect are all cut from the same cloth. And increasingly, its fiber is less than good.
Many road-warriors I know have no administrative access to their company issue laptops - this effectively puts them at risk at a border checkpoint as they will be unable to "open" folders/files restricted to them by the local security policy.
One of the best text adventure games I have ever played is T-Zero, and given this is/. I assume I am not alone.
Apart from being extremely literary (puzzle references to Prufrock's love song among other things), this game was incredibly complex in it's movement across past, future and present. And the slow light flashlight was the icing on the cake - it illuminated an object with light from the objects past, enabling the player to view what the object WAS - it would be scary and exciting if this was a step towards making the SlowLight real.
And you can shine it on aging body-parts to recapture past buff-ness:)
Very likely it cost in time, effort and expense, a lot more than 90 bucks amortized over 10 years to accomplish this alleged saving.
Not to mention that the environment, instead of being impacted over 10 years, got impacted now because of the raw material/resources/energy needed to manufacture said replacements - and the accompanying collateral contamination - you don't really think fluirescent lamps have benign contents do you?
Haven't laid eyes on a 3.25 inch floppy since gawd-knows-when. Damn, now, I'll have to root through my attic to find my valuable backups of the original Duke Nukem...
Multiple posters are in agreement that the means is what is being punished - since those means have the potential to be used for more damaging acts. Being smart isn't so much of an evolutionary advantage now, is it? Hopefully, some day, we won't look back at this as the point at which possessing knowledge is equated to possessing lockpicks.
Not unusual for most people to remember with inordinate fondness the times past that they have lived through. I doubt that WOz would be waxing poetic if he remembered the jockeying and bickering and the easing out of the scene that happened when Jobs effectively obliterated him from the pantheon. Jobs was arguably better suited to "lead" Apple beyond it's enbryonic days - but still.....
While a bad use of tax-payer money, delivering nothing is the benign outcome of this whole fiasco - if they did deliver a half-assed electronic magic 8-ball of sorts. That would be a Really Bad Thing (TM). I shudder to think of the consequences of a government making choices on use of peoples lives and deployment of deadly force based on this.
OF course, no doubt, by some weird law of self-fulfilling prophecies - it will predict the end of the world and it shall be so!
This should satisfy even the most paranoid security services : Tracking number, personal history and permanent record in a 2-d matrix picto-code - tattooed on the inside of the left forearm. After all this is not the antiquated 1940s when they uses a single alpha and 6 digit numeric designator.
Brrrr - someone just stomped all over my grave in hobnailed jackboots.
Leaving aside the obvious questions of why this either a surprise, or even news, this highlights the unintended consequences of technological advance.
Firewalls and content inspection technology owe their origin to defensive uses - and continuing improvements in these have been driven largely by the increase in sophistication of the attack/penetration/exploit methods used by the bad guys. The resulting state-of-the art sudenly turns out to be incredibly powerful, capable not only of applying fine grain control based on endpoints, applications and content, but frighteningly able to provide loads of information that can be used to identify the people behind the keyboards. The fruits of defensive protection ripened to be picked by big-brother type regimes across the world - some for protectionist regulatory purposes (some countries use these to block VoIp to the benefit of state-run telcos), many for paranoiac surveillance (need I say more), some to prevent information flow across boundaries (Chine, Burma, etc.) - in short, multifarious nefarious usees of a technology suite intended to protect! Someone should list all the companies that make and sell such equipment to repressive/exploitative regimes - that would be a whos who of the industry....:(
Being underground gets you closer to the "Focus" of the earthquake - the epi-center is the point on the Earth surface directly above the focus.
If the mine is in the liquefaction zone - you can put your head between your knees and kiss yourself goodbye. Yes, they were lying to you.
On the other hand, a smaller hole deep underground might actually facilitate survival, and come out unscathed much like a bubble in a votex. YMMW:)
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Since you already have a detailed factual explanation as a reply - let me pull out that other meme...You must be new here!
...You insensitive clod!
Notice of revocation It has come to the notice of the geek-police that you have violated the terms of your parole from real life on the following counts 1. Complying with directives of alleged wife 2. Abusing your technical skills in (a) Home improvement - cleaning category (b) Home improvement - construction category (c) Home improvement - interiors category 3. Idle appreciation of Rocks in water You are hereby directed by competent authority to hand in your geek card immediately and go back out to the asylum that wonko the sane lives outside. To protect and serve
Correction:
Two guys decide they want your laptop. So:
1. They both get in front of you.
2. Person A (in the lead) moves through security a little slower than normal.
3. Person B takes extra time moving through security (change, belt buckle, keys on person) after you drop your case on the belt.
4. Person A grabs your laptop that is conveniently outside your case in a separate plastic tray, and leaves.
There - fixed that for you for every one of the 19 airports I have been through in the last year.
"FTC Rounding up Identity theft victims"
Except for the closing...
Why in the world would you expect better from Texas? Or from Maine? Or Massachussets? It doesn't matter whether your state is Red or Blue or a delicate shade of purple, the people we elect are all cut from the same cloth. And increasingly, its fiber is less than good.
A wonderful place for whom? Or for what? If you didn't exist, how would you know? Just saying...
the part about geographical restrictions had me flummoxed - yes, I confess to have actually WTFV.
Guess it's time to refuse business travel!
Shouldn't that foot be clad in a jackboot or something!?
Apart from being extremely literary (puzzle references to Prufrock's love song among other things), this game was incredibly complex in it's movement across past, future and present. And the slow light flashlight was the icing on the cake - it illuminated an object with light from the objects past, enabling the player to view what the object WAS - it would be scary and exciting if this was a step towards making the SlowLight real.
And you can shine it on aging body-parts to recapture past buff-ness :)
And oh! almost forgot Duke Nukem Forever.
...I, for one, welocme our synthetic Bio-Lego-lical overlords!
Not to mention that the environment, instead of being impacted over 10 years, got impacted now because of the raw material/resources/energy needed to manufacture said replacements - and the accompanying collateral contamination - you don't really think fluirescent lamps have benign contents do you?
As a battle-scarred product manager in telecom/networking and security, I beg to differ. It is Always About Revenue. Period.
Haven't laid eyes on a 3.25 inch floppy since gawd-knows-when. Damn, now, I'll have to root through my attic to find my valuable backups of the original Duke Nukem...
Multiple posters are in agreement that the means is what is being punished - since those means have the potential to be used for more damaging acts. Being smart isn't so much of an evolutionary advantage now, is it? Hopefully, some day, we won't look back at this as the point at which possessing knowledge is equated to possessing lockpicks.
Not unusual for most people to remember with inordinate fondness the times past that they have lived through. I doubt that WOz would be waxing poetic if he remembered the jockeying and bickering and the easing out of the scene that happened when Jobs effectively obliterated him from the pantheon. Jobs was arguably better suited to "lead" Apple beyond it's enbryonic days - but still.....
OF course, no doubt, by some weird law of self-fulfilling prophecies - it will predict the end of the world and it shall be so!
Brrrr - someone just stomped all over my grave in hobnailed jackboots.
Leaving aside the obvious questions of why this either a surprise, or even news, this highlights the unintended consequences of technological advance. Firewalls and content inspection technology owe their origin to defensive uses - and continuing improvements in these have been driven largely by the increase in sophistication of the attack/penetration/exploit methods used by the bad guys. The resulting state-of-the art sudenly turns out to be incredibly powerful, capable not only of applying fine grain control based on endpoints, applications and content, but frighteningly able to provide loads of information that can be used to identify the people behind the keyboards. The fruits of defensive protection ripened to be picked by big-brother type regimes across the world - some for protectionist regulatory purposes (some countries use these to block VoIp to the benefit of state-run telcos), many for paranoiac surveillance (need I say more), some to prevent information flow across boundaries (Chine, Burma, etc.) - in short, multifarious nefarious usees of a technology suite intended to protect! Someone should list all the companies that make and sell such equipment to repressive/exploitative regimes - that would be a whos who of the industry....:(
I wonder what they mounted it on! And yes, I did not RTFA - this is /., you insensitive clod
Being underground gets you closer to the "Focus" of the earthquake - the epi-center is the point on the Earth surface directly above the focus. If the mine is in the liquefaction zone - you can put your head between your knees and kiss yourself goodbye. Yes, they were lying to you. On the other hand, a smaller hole deep underground might actually facilitate survival, and come out unscathed much like a bubble in a votex. YMMW :)
...or at least a bowl of petunias!?
...not "devise". Pah!