"International Air Transport Association demonstrated its vision for the 'checkpoint of the future' â" a series of neon-lit tunnels, each equipped with an array of eye-scanners, x-ray machines, and metal and liquid detectors."
Bomb in the lineup before you get to the neon tunnel.
"Feeling guilty? Got something to hide? A team of UK-based researchers claim to have developed a thermal lie-detection camera that can automatically spot a burning conscience."
Guilty? Hell no, I'm going to be going to Heaven as a beloved martyr in about five minutes!
So this is like the time Penny Arcade had to take down the Strawberry Shortcake strip because they were using it to parody an unrelated third party, except a lot less sexy?
With that said, gift cards are silly because it ties you to a specific store and you end up spending more than the amount on the card. Plus, it's another card to carry around, keep track of, and lose.
Which explains why they're advertised so heavily by the people who issue them.
What about the 16 y/o that sent nude photos of her/himself to another 16 y/o. One getting charged with creation of and the other distribution of 'child pornography.
My personal favorite is when they want the 16 year old who took the picture of him/herself tried as an adult for creating child pornography.
So you have an adult (assumed maturity and greater power) being charged for taking pornographic pictures of a child (assumed innocence and inability to fight back) when the adult pornographer and the violated child are THE EXACT SAME PERSON AT THE EXACT SAME TIME.
How did we develop a legal system so retarded that an argument that requires you to doublethink a single person into mature victimizer and immature victim doesn't get laughed out of court and is instead made precedent?
Trying to break things for fun in a game is like a kid with a hammer and a pane of glass.
Trying to break things for pay is like a kid with a hammer and a pane of glass, except the glass is behind an impenetrable fence and instead they have to use the hammer to hammer and then extract a nail from a board 500 times, stopping to write down how bent the nail is each time.
Wouldn't it be more efficient to have the machine do those scripted tests instead of a human?
Building a robot to open and close a DVD tray for 16 hours a day that signals when the tray fails costs a good bit of money, requires maintenance, and will ultimately be made redundant and never used again.
Building a program that plays a game nonstop for 14 hours because a bug only manifests in hour 15 would be a coding challenge more complex than the game itself.
Meanwhile, there's thousands of people who will work minimum wage and do the same thing in the vain hope that this is the way to become a developer. And when they break or obsolete, you just get rid of them and replace them with a new human, no extra costs.
What has being "green" got to do with Copyright law?
Not much. Of course, this is the party that is eager to clamp down on wifi, saying they want "Health Canada create enforceable, biologically-based regulations, that would limit human exposure to radio frequency radiation to a precautionary limit of 0.1 uw/cm2 (or 0.614 v/m ) for cumulative outdoor exposure". I thought the Sun output more than that, but I could be wrong.
Its always fun to mess with those sites just a bit. "find 'weapons grade uranium' for sale here!"
I recall one fake wiki that was supposedly a fix-your-computer site but every "wiki" page was a template using search terms to personalize the page, and they all suggested running the same EXE. Could make for some amusing pages by feeding it really disturbing strings for errors. Was loads of laughs for about 2 minutes.
As well as a button that automatically makes you say "question mark exclamation point question mark exclamation point question mark exclamation point question mark exclamation point question mark exclamation point question mark exclamation point question mark exclamation point question mark exclamation point question mark exclamation point question mark exclamation point".
This is why I have hated Dell outsourcing their tech support. Instead of a first world country answering your calls with the probability that they have their own computer at home being higher than a third world country, you get a third world country with a heavy accent and a book to read on how to proceed.
Natural progression. I worked at a first-world call center for a while and found that if you do anything but read the book word-for-word you'd get punished. So moving it to a place where there was no room for the people to improvise just dropped the number of people they had to write up for "failing to follow the mandated process".
Less than a year ago I found a similar (though not quite as grievous) flaw in a Kickstarter-like website when I mistyped the URL to my own profile page. I grabbed a handful of info with it; just a few random accounts to proof-of-concept automated grabbing, the technique for which I made note of in an e-mail to their support address. Also, I got the e-mail address of user #1 (unsurprisingly, the implementer), whom I CCed the support e-mail.
After a few e-mails of discussion about the precise nature of the flaw, I received a very grateful thank-you from the owner of the company and the head of IT, and the flaw was fixed within the hour despite it being the dead of night in their HQ's time zone.
When I see stuff like this, though, it makes me wonder if the next time I trip across something like this I should do the same thing.
I can attest that all Catholics are indoctrinated this way.
Attesting to what every member of a faith does. Want to throw some children's blood being used to bake bread in there too? Lot of people attest to that one.
I might be an ex-Catholic, but I'd like it very much if you stop pretending to speak for me and how I grew up.
Seriously America, you're worried about two male penguins hatching an egg?
You know how it is. First it's books about gay penguins, then it's rallies downtown (where they're all gay penguins, they just don't admit it), then next thing you know you're living next to a gay penguin couple and they're hatching eggs that let me tell you THEY didn't lay and then they're on the school board and maybe even teaching! Then they've got all those innocent little minds to corrupt! DO YOU WANT YOUR SON TO BE A GAY PENGUIN?
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Girl's toys: Plastic tits and the phrase "Math class is tough!"
I still haven't figured out whether dysfunctional society caused the toys or dysfunctional toys caused the society, though.
Seagate buys Samsung hard disk unit
"International Air Transport Association demonstrated its vision for the 'checkpoint of the future' â" a series of neon-lit tunnels, each equipped with an array of eye-scanners, x-ray machines, and metal and liquid detectors."
Bomb in the lineup before you get to the neon tunnel.
"Feeling guilty? Got something to hide? A team of UK-based researchers claim to have developed a thermal lie-detection camera that can automatically spot a burning conscience."
Guilty? Hell no, I'm going to be going to Heaven as a beloved martyr in about five minutes!
You have to keep voting for the less-evil of the two big parties, or the most-evil will get into power.
Of course, it could just be that both major parties are equally evil, just in different ways.
So this is like the time Penny Arcade had to take down the Strawberry Shortcake strip because they were using it to parody an unrelated third party, except a lot less sexy?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-tailed_Gull
The bird has a cat-like call, giving it its Japanese name - Umineko, "Sea cat", and Korean name - Gwaeng-yi gull, which means "cat" gull.
And even if they did switch to year numbers for Firefox at least you wouldn't see a new major version every two months.
Obligatory XKC^H^H^H 1.00FTE: http://onefte.com/2010/05/25/
Which explains why they're advertised so heavily by the people who issue them.
What about the 16 y/o that sent nude photos of her/himself to another 16 y/o. One getting charged with creation of and the other distribution of 'child pornography.
My personal favorite is when they want the 16 year old who took the picture of him/herself tried as an adult for creating child pornography.
So you have an adult (assumed maturity and greater power) being charged for taking pornographic pictures of a child (assumed innocence and inability to fight back) when the adult pornographer and the violated child are THE EXACT SAME PERSON AT THE EXACT SAME TIME.
How did we develop a legal system so retarded that an argument that requires you to doublethink a single person into mature victimizer and immature victim doesn't get laughed out of court and is instead made precedent?
Not if they're beta testing for pay they don't.
Trying to break things for fun in a game is like a kid with a hammer and a pane of glass. Trying to break things for pay is like a kid with a hammer and a pane of glass, except the glass is behind an impenetrable fence and instead they have to use the hammer to hammer and then extract a nail from a board 500 times, stopping to write down how bent the nail is each time.
Building a robot to open and close a DVD tray for 16 hours a day that signals when the tray fails costs a good bit of money, requires maintenance, and will ultimately be made redundant and never used again.
Building a program that plays a game nonstop for 14 hours because a bug only manifests in hour 15 would be a coding challenge more complex than the game itself.
Meanwhile, there's thousands of people who will work minimum wage and do the same thing in the vain hope that this is the way to become a developer. And when they break or obsolete, you just get rid of them and replace them with a new human, no extra costs.
Not much. Of course, this is the party that is eager to clamp down on wifi, saying they want "Health Canada create enforceable, biologically-based regulations, that would limit human exposure to radio frequency radiation to a precautionary limit of 0.1 uw/cm2 (or 0.614 v/m ) for cumulative outdoor exposure". I thought the Sun output more than that, but I could be wrong.
Also, there's this amusing tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/ElizabethMay/status/96091744076177409 Well, obviously she doesn't have wifi, she's got a Blackberry!
I recall one fake wiki that was supposedly a fix-your-computer site but every "wiki" page was a template using search terms to personalize the page, and they all suggested running the same EXE. Could make for some amusing pages by feeding it really disturbing strings for errors. Was loads of laughs for about 2 minutes.
Not unless you drink a good bit of it about half an hour before eating....
Because homelessness and starvation aren't on my bucket list.
As well as a button that automatically makes you say "question mark exclamation point question mark exclamation point question mark exclamation point question mark exclamation point question mark exclamation point question mark exclamation point question mark exclamation point question mark exclamation point question mark exclamation point question mark exclamation point".
This is like the head of a chain of garages saying everyone can dismantle and rebuild their own car engine because everyone who works for him can.
Natural progression. I worked at a first-world call center for a while and found that if you do anything but read the book word-for-word you'd get punished. So moving it to a place where there was no room for the people to improvise just dropped the number of people they had to write up for "failing to follow the mandated process".
Less than a year ago I found a similar (though not quite as grievous) flaw in a Kickstarter-like website when I mistyped the URL to my own profile page. I grabbed a handful of info with it; just a few random accounts to proof-of-concept automated grabbing, the technique for which I made note of in an e-mail to their support address. Also, I got the e-mail address of user #1 (unsurprisingly, the implementer), whom I CCed the support e-mail. After a few e-mails of discussion about the precise nature of the flaw, I received a very grateful thank-you from the owner of the company and the head of IT, and the flaw was fixed within the hour despite it being the dead of night in their HQ's time zone. When I see stuff like this, though, it makes me wonder if the next time I trip across something like this I should do the same thing.
Not that new. Liberace did that with plastic surgery YEARS ago.
I hereby redefine UTC as one (1) standard amount of potato chips that I (me) eat (yum) in one (1) sitting.
I can attest that all Catholics are indoctrinated this way.
Attesting to what every member of a faith does. Want to throw some children's blood being used to bake bread in there too? Lot of people attest to that one.
I might be an ex-Catholic, but I'd like it very much if you stop pretending to speak for me and how I grew up.
Yeah, but if multiple satellites point at the sun then it still gets interference.
The Sun has yet to send us an angry letter saying we're interfering with its soaps.
Seriously America, you're worried about two male penguins hatching an egg?
You know how it is. First it's books about gay penguins, then it's rallies downtown (where they're all gay penguins, they just don't admit it), then next thing you know you're living next to a gay penguin couple and they're hatching eggs that let me tell you THEY didn't lay and then they're on the school board and maybe even teaching! Then they've got all those innocent little minds to corrupt! DO YOU WANT YOUR SON TO BE A GAY PENGUIN?