Or clone the hard drive to an image and leave that somewhere so you don't need to muck about inside a laptop designed for technicians with very tiny hands and a fetish for 10 screws of varying lengths holding each component in.
"If... you were Holder and Obama, what sort of deal would you try to strike with everybody's favorite secrets-leaker?"
I'd offer him pardon on almost everything, leaving only a trivial (1-2 months) jail sentence left over. Then I'd have him murdered while he was in prison.
The intelligence community is happy because I've sent a clear message of what happens to whistleblowers, and I can continue to play innocent and act pro-whistleblower as I have for ages, letting accusations of it being an assassination fade into conspiracy theory while most of my voting base continues to ignore the problem or is glad I got rid of another "terrorist lover". Seriously, what are the pro-privacy advocates going to do? Vote against me on this issue by voting for a Republican who wants to peek into their bedrooms to make sure there's no sinning going on? Ha!
What? It's not what I personally want to see done, but then I'm not hypocritical, power-hungry, interest-beholden, and immoral enough to ever want to be President. If I were President, obviously that would not be the case.
Some years ago I was listening to a radio program where they mentioned some company in Australia(?) planning to dismantle the urban POTS and replace it with something newer. But the reasoning wasn't just for upgrading: It was because they couldn't get the parts anymore.
Some of the manufacturers had stopped making the relays and whatnot that the POTS used, so the options were to convert to a new set of POTS hardware (an expensive Red Queen's race), get a huge order of compatible components custom-made (ditto), or upgrade-and-cannibalize the urban network to get them enough parts to maintain the rural POTS for another couple of decades and hope the entire system could be upgraded before they emptied their supply.
Holy hell, William Gibson's Virtual Light is coming true! At least we don't have to worry until we see the middle class vanish and the rise of Christians who worship exclusively by watching television.
Well, at least all our jokes are still intact. After the trauma of moving from "DNF" to "Valve can't count to three" I don't think I could live through the wave of memes associated with finding another glacial publisher of a beloved property.
That's basically why I went for indie and other not-AAA games. Unless they're using Steam they're typically 100% DRM free. Currently playing Trine 2 and Gunpoint, two very different games I didn't even have to install, just unzip and go.
It's what happens when you copy a URL off a Google result page without visiting it - Google search results point at a tracking URL that then points you at the real thing. If you want the real URL, you need to click the link and copy the result out of the address bar.
It's not a big risk, but people think it is. A threat that would make a good action movie and only kills two Americans a year will get more attention in Washington than a mundane threat that kills a million.
So a malum prohibitum or civil offense is enough justification to make something blockable? That's not even a slippery slope, that's halfway down the hill. Build the infrastructure and it WILL be abused, particularly if it's all behind closed doors.
> I have read there has been a dramatic increase in bed bugs over the last decade in major urban centers. There is a very good reason why it has.
Yeah, that's where the most people are and where people move around the most. If you live in the boonies you never see people in on business trips, and you're more likely to own a house with no close neighbors instead of live in an apartment with a constantly-shifting set of neighbors. Less vectors.
> People have been told to save energy (and the environment) by using cold water to wash their laundry.
And they aren't people in the country? Got news for you: When you have your own water heater instead of a coin-op laundry, you look for ways to save hot water.
> While your laundry comes out smelling and looking clean just the same, you STILL need to use high temp wash under certain situations, like washing your bed sheets.
Wow. You're an entomologist like Rosie O'Donnell is a metallurgist. First off, the bugs don't live en masse in the sheets, so that won't halt an infestation. Second, when you're trying to kill bedbugs in fabric, it's usually recommended to DRY it on high heat and not even bother tossing it in a wash cycle unless you were going to anyway.
> I mean this is why I hate stupid green alarmists because they can't apply rational common sense to anything.
Try not to look in any mirrors. Learning the concept of self-awareness might destroy you.
Great, now all the idiots who treat the LaHaye/Jenkins literary trainwreck Left Behind like it was scripture are going to pitch a fit, because there the antichrist is the result of genetic engineering to combine sperm cells of two gay lovers which is then used to artificially inseminate a woman.
The thing I've found is for everyone one who does know how to pirate media online, there are a number of friends and family who use some variety of sneaker net to get their shows from the person in the know.
About what I've found. External hard drives get passed around a decent amount between someone who understands where to get stuff and someone who just wants to watch movies.
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You go to Hell. I've got enough Black Lotuses stashed to fund my retirement. Yeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Checking for any jack-in-the-box crime near the Magic Roundabout.
Or clone the hard drive to an image and leave that somewhere so you don't need to muck about inside a laptop designed for technicians with very tiny hands and a fetish for 10 screws of varying lengths holding each component in.
"If... you were Holder and Obama, what sort of deal would you try to strike with everybody's favorite secrets-leaker?"
I'd offer him pardon on almost everything, leaving only a trivial (1-2 months) jail sentence left over. Then I'd have him murdered while he was in prison.
The intelligence community is happy because I've sent a clear message of what happens to whistleblowers, and I can continue to play innocent and act pro-whistleblower as I have for ages, letting accusations of it being an assassination fade into conspiracy theory while most of my voting base continues to ignore the problem or is glad I got rid of another "terrorist lover". Seriously, what are the pro-privacy advocates going to do? Vote against me on this issue by voting for a Republican who wants to peek into their bedrooms to make sure there's no sinning going on? Ha!
What? It's not what I personally want to see done, but then I'm not hypocritical, power-hungry, interest-beholden, and immoral enough to ever want to be President. If I were President, obviously that would not be the case.
Some years ago I was listening to a radio program where they mentioned some company in Australia(?) planning to dismantle the urban POTS and replace it with something newer. But the reasoning wasn't just for upgrading: It was because they couldn't get the parts anymore.
Some of the manufacturers had stopped making the relays and whatnot that the POTS used, so the options were to convert to a new set of POTS hardware (an expensive Red Queen's race), get a huge order of compatible components custom-made (ditto), or upgrade-and-cannibalize the urban network to get them enough parts to maintain the rural POTS for another couple of decades and hope the entire system could be upgraded before they emptied their supply.
Great, now the extreme overclockers will be replacing the liquid in their cooling rigs with cerebrospinal fluid.
I just realized... I haven't heard "flaming" as slang for writing a vitriolic e-mail/post for, what is it, a couple years now?
Oh, shit.
Well, at least all our jokes are still intact. After the trauma of moving from "DNF" to "Valve can't count to three" I don't think I could live through the wave of memes associated with finding another glacial publisher of a beloved property.
Your rebuttal was quite succinct, but I feel it inadequately addressed your concerns with the previous poster's argument.
That's basically why I went for indie and other not-AAA games. Unless they're using Steam they're typically 100% DRM free. Currently playing Trine 2 and Gunpoint, two very different games I didn't even have to install, just unzip and go.
It's subjective. I feel the same about most sitcoms and reality TV.
And then the nude mods start showing up....
> Which makes the linked-in customers idiots.
They're not customers anymore than cattle are customers for the slaughterhouse. Their main customers are recruiters.
It's what happens when you copy a URL off a Google result page without visiting it - Google search results point at a tracking URL that then points you at the real thing. If you want the real URL, you need to click the link and copy the result out of the address bar.
The actual URL is http://www.thetreeofliberty.com/vb/showthread.php?t=142839
It's not a big risk, but people think it is. A threat that would make a good action movie and only kills two Americans a year will get more attention in Washington than a mundane threat that kills a million.
That your best argument for Al Gore is to snark on how Rush Limbaugh is worse speaks volumes about how fucked-up the American political landscape is.
I mean... wow.
So a malum prohibitum or civil offense is enough justification to make something blockable? That's not even a slippery slope, that's halfway down the hill. Build the infrastructure and it WILL be abused, particularly if it's all behind closed doors.
> I have read there has been a dramatic increase in bed bugs over the last decade in major urban centers. There is a very good reason why it has.
Yeah, that's where the most people are and where people move around the most. If you live in the boonies you never see people in on business trips, and you're more likely to own a house with no close neighbors instead of live in an apartment with a constantly-shifting set of neighbors. Less vectors.
> People have been told to save energy (and the environment) by using cold water to wash their laundry.
And they aren't people in the country? Got news for you: When you have your own water heater instead of a coin-op laundry, you look for ways to save hot water.
> While your laundry comes out smelling and looking clean just the same, you STILL need to use high temp wash under certain situations, like washing your bed sheets.
Wow. You're an entomologist like Rosie O'Donnell is a metallurgist. First off, the bugs don't live en masse in the sheets, so that won't halt an infestation. Second, when you're trying to kill bedbugs in fabric, it's usually recommended to DRY it on high heat and not even bother tossing it in a wash cycle unless you were going to anyway.
> I mean this is why I hate stupid green alarmists because they can't apply rational common sense to anything.
Try not to look in any mirrors. Learning the concept of self-awareness might destroy you.
In the real world, paying someone to get money back (and getting nothing) is a Nigerian scam.
In the music world, paying someone to get money back (and getting nothing) is business as usual.
Anyone that doesn't want cable (I'm one) cannot watch GoT legally unless you wait until February to get season 3.
Don't worry, I'm sure the Internet will be polite enough to avoid spoilers until then.
Great, now all the idiots who treat the LaHaye/Jenkins literary trainwreck Left Behind like it was scripture are going to pitch a fit, because there the antichrist is the result of genetic engineering to combine sperm cells of two gay lovers which is then used to artificially inseminate a woman.
The thing I've found is for everyone one who does know how to pirate media online, there are a number of friends and family who use some variety of sneaker net to get their shows from the person in the know.
About what I've found. External hard drives get passed around a decent amount between someone who understands where to get stuff and someone who just wants to watch movies.