I wonder if this tool will work on other browsers as well?
Had you read this link from the posting, you would have seen that it does. In fact, the last entry, for Opera, says the following:
Note that with Opera, the fuzzer needs to be restarted frequently.
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At the end of November I posted in my journal about Tron Legacy and how it would be an overall failure. I explained to those who responded that from what I saw of the commercials, it would be explosions for the sake of explosions interspersed with blue and orange lights.
From what I've read about people's comments, I wasn't too far off in my assessment.
For any that are interested, fell free to read what I wrote.
Hey! Three Mile Island was not a disaster. It was a boon to those of us living nearby as our electric bills plunged because we no longer had to turn on our lights at night.
POF used to be decent, then they started requiring you to put up more and more information which had no relevance to anything other than to the people they were marketing the information to.
When I left, I told them exactly why (not that it mattered). I had also seen others who left for the same reason.
No, blowing up shit will always work. Doesn't matter if it's real shit or CG shit or 3D shit.
For an example of such shit, see Tron Legacy.
For an example of why special effects no longer impress, see Tron Legacy.
I'm harping on that movie because from what I've seen, it bases itself on lots of blue and orange colors intermixed with blowing shit up. The story is hackneyed, the little bit of acting I've seen is flat, and any similarity to the original Tron is based solely on the fluorescent colors and that it takes place in a computer.
Flying a flag is part of the freedom of speech. They are covered. If anything, you should be glad to run a road to them because they are exercising their Constitutional right to express themselves.
Now, compare that to the health care bill which forces people to buy something. You can't opt out of not buying health insurance and paying your neighbor's bills. You can opt out of not viewing your redneck neighbor who, by the way, pays for your defense even though you might be a socialist liberal and who thinks you should be shipped out of the country.
I'm not one of those "If it's not in the Constitution, it's not legal" deniers like Palin or O'Donnell (of course O'Donnell doesn't even know what's in the Constitution so that's maybe not a good example). The right to privacy exists even if not explicitly stated, for example.
My point is that forcing people to buy something is not within the purview of governmental powers. Further, the only ones who will benefit are the insurance companies as people like myself who don't use their insurance will have their money go to their bottom line as the cost for them to pay my medical bills is essentially zero.
People should not be fooled into thinking this will somehow miraculously make the boo boo better. One need only look at Massachusetts to see how big a money sink this program will be.
I shouldn't be forced to use my money to pay for my neighbor's health care when they think it's no big deal to smoke a pack a day or suck down a case of beer or a bottle of Wild Turkey every weekend.
Nor should I be forced to pay for my neighbor who is the spitting image of Shamu because they suck down a bottle of Pepsi and a box of Ho Hos every day.
Nor should I be forced to pay for my neighbor's health care who thinks it's great to do X, smoke some weed, or do a line or two at parties and raves.
If you want to pay for your neighbor's health care, be my guest. I shouldn't be forced to do so.
Winky: Which subatomic particles do you hope to find with your particle accelerator? Leptons? Hadrons? Maybe the particle believed to cause mass: the Higgs Boson?
Dr. Mel: Nope. I'm after the particles that are believed to cause stupidity: MORONS.
Dr. Mel: Slamming reality-show contestants together at light-speed should produce a few of them.
and last I knew, there was only one employee at the remote location that verifies the IDs.
I have already replied further up the page about the wine kiosks, but I can assure you, there has never been a time when there was only 1 person on the other end. Right now, there are at least 6 people waiting to verify someone.
In the near future, as more machines are rolled out, they plan on having nearly a dozen people.
Granted, when you only sell 1 bottle/hour, you don't need that many people, but it sounds good to say you have that many people ready to go.
finicky as they were a bit rushed after the initial trial period but seem to be improving over time.
You keep believing that. Those machines are still POS (and I don't mean point of sale).
The company who is selling them to the State, Simple Brands, is euphemistically called Simple Minds because of the (low) quality of the folks running the program. PA is the guinea pig and if they can convince other states what a rousing success these machines are, they can try to push them out elsewhere.
So, you're probably wondering how many sales these machines do. When they initially rolled out, they did fairly well. A dozen or so a day. That may seem low, but you have to remember these first two machines were in grocery stores and people had to get used to how they worked.
Currently, these machines, on a good day, might sell five bottles. It has been noted that the two machines can go days without selling a single bottle. Which of course means the people manning the wine kiosk helpdesk (as it is known) sit around doing nothing for hours every day.
It is also not well known but the state pays a "convenience feel" to the company for every bottle sold. Something like $1.24. This fee is supposed to go away at some point in the future when sales pick up. Yeah right.
Simple Brands has connections with the outgoing governor, Ed Rendell, just like Deloitte* has people who used to work for Ed during his campaigns. Thus, this program of expanding the availability of wine, but no local wines**, was pushed through in 2008-2009 so it would be well entrenched before Rendell leaves. Thus, incoming gov Corbett will have a difficult time getting rid of the program because of the costs involved. Neat, huh?
As far as PA liquor sales, the vast majority of people don't care. They can walk into a store and get their JD or Wild Turkey and they're happy. The one area that desperately needs changed are beer sales. It would take one or two changes to the law to allow beer distributors, where you can only buy cases of beer, to be able to sell six packs as well as allow bars to sell as many six packs as they wanted at one time.
The ones who complain the most are the select few who want some kind of specialty brand or the ones who live in the northern tiers where deer outnumber people (seriously, it's true). Do you think a private store would be able to survive in those locations?
I could go on, but with what I know, this message can already be traced back to me.
*Deloitte gets huge contracts from the state and the contractors stick around for years, long after the programs are done because the contracts rarely include cross-training clauses. Thus, the contractors are the only ones who know how to run/manage the systems and the state workers who are supposed to take over don't bother to learn.
This process guarantees a steady stream of revenue for Deloitte while continuing to be a burden on taxpayers. So, when budgets are tight, as they are now, who are the first to go? Did I hear someone say contractors? BWAHAHAHAHA!
**There are several wineries local to both these machines but none of them are (currently) able to get their wines in these machines because the marketing geniuses were basing their decision on what sells in the state stores instead of offering something new.
These are the same braintrusts who have pushed through a change in the name of stores. They are no longer State Liquor Stores. Instead, they are Wine & Spirit shops and have been spending madly to change their look. A store near the HQ of the LCB (Liquor Control Board) was recently renovated at a cost of $300K. How long do you think it will take to break even on those costs?
They make the lazy workers (ie: everyone else) look bad.... At best, your hard work will just result in you picking up everyone else's slack... again, for no additional compensation.
DING DING DING DING DING!!!!!! We have a winner!
I have told folks that companies don't want people who know what they're doing because if you really know what you're doing, you make the rest of the people around you look like neurotic baboons. This in turn drives down morale because you've set a high standard of work ethic which no one else wants to live up to.
As to picking up the slack of others, that's exactly what happened here at my work and I (finally) stopped doing the others work. Calls will sit in the queue until our supervisor assigns them to someone even though we're all supposed to watch the queue. I have other work that I do and my performance reviews are always exemplary, so I don't worry about being assigned a call once in a while.
why bother with attacking a plane, when it's cheaper and easier to bomb a school?
Actually, there is an easier way to cause complete chaos and panic and it involves the airports. For obvious reasons, I won't go into it but it's a well known gaping hole in the "security" of the airports.
I mentioned it previously on here and right now, during the Thanksgiving travel period, would be the perfect time to implement this plan.
And making hordes of people stay in a densely packed formation for extended periods of time does what exactly to stop someone from detonating an explosive device while they wait in line?
It's in your own house. You can't eavesdrop on your own property (excluding creepy landlords who put cameras in the showers of single women [or men] who are renting from them).
Besides, what's the burglar's defense going to be? "Yeah, I broke into the guys home. So what! That doesn't give him the right to record what I took!"
I will be willing to bet your next paycheck that the same folks who will now exclaim, "See! It's in their genes! I told you there was something wrong with liberals!" will be the same people who will deny there is a gay gene (or genes).
It's always funny to see people who deny that people are the way they are because of their genes, yet when it is shown that a person has a predisposition to something because of their genes, then it's suddenly science proving them right.
next you just start doing stuff without considering any information just to see something actually happen.
That's SOP for our management. Just a series of random edicts without any understanding of what needs to be accomplished in the vain hope that if you throw enough of them together, something wonderful will happen.
While some of what you say is true, as one who works in a forced union environment, I can tell you that currently the main goal of unions is not protection of the worker, but the protection of the lazy and incompetent so they, the unions, can continue to siphon money from the workers.
The unions will use any excuse for why someone who literally does nothing all day should not lose their job. It's job protection, pure and simple, and has nothing to do with making the workplace safer. It's to protect their own interests which is money from nothing so they can party. Period.
Please support your contentions, because right now, all I see are uninformed opinion.
Name a time in recent history when Iran attacked one of its neighbors. You can't use the Iran/Iraq war as Iraq invaded Iran. For all talk about the hated enemy Israel, for all the talk about how it has the power to inflict harm upon American naval forces, Iran has not attacked one of its neighbors in the modern era and when it did try to come after our naval forces, their speed boats were useless.
The Iranian leadership isn't stupid (ok, maybe a little). They know that despite their talk, their forces, while being able to inflict some damage, would be all but wiped out if they were to attack anyone in the region. Sure, they would gain some territory initially, but since a large portion of the world's oil supplies come from that region, just like we did when Iraq invaded Kuwait, we'll do what it takes to protect that oil supply.
While India and Pakistan still have hostilities over Kashmir, I was referring more to all out war. No two countries, that I'm aware of, have had a toe-to-toe war since obtaining nuclear weapons. Skirmishes and incidents, certainly. But nothing like the wars we've seen in the past.
North Korea and Iran would use them given the chance.
You mean like if some country were to attack them without justification? You mean use nukes (if they had them) in self defense?
What kind of nonsense is that? Who would ever want to retaliate after being attacked?
The fact of the matter is, Iran, when they get nukes, will not use them unless they are attacked, and even then that's an iffy proposition. Both (or more) of the countries involved know what will happen when the nuclear genie is used. And it ain't pretty.
Look at India and Pakistan. Two countries at each other's throats for decades after they gained their independence, yet the moment the two got nuclear weapons, suddenly hostilities ceased.
North Korea, for all their bravado, won't use them. They'd rather sacrifice their military personnel and claim they are great warriors for going against the Western devils than shoot a nuke from a distance.
Nukes are used for two things: deterrence and final retribution if the end is near. Go read The Sampson Option about Israel's nuclear weapons program.
Also, as an added note, there's a law stating that if you give up your US citizenship just to get out of this tax, you're banned from ever entering the US again.
Er, not quite. They might be barred from entering the U.S. The relevant information from the State Department: Section D
You would have to apply for a Visa just like anyone else from a foreign country or be granted a waiver from the Visa program. The relevant portion about being barred is:
If found ineligible for a visa or the VWPP to come to the U.S., a renunciant, under certain circumstances, could be barred from entering the United States.
The title says smaller than a grain of salt but the article says smaller than a grain of sand.
And what kind of salt are you talking about? Table salt, sea salt, pickling salt? Same goes for sand. Waikiki sand, Provincetown sand, Bali sand?
What would be nice is if there were some system of measurement that could be easily understood by the masses when talking about such sizes. For example, how many fractions of a Library of Congress would that be? Or maybe elephants. Elephants are always good. I once listened to a story on NPR about how much water is in the average cloud. The scientist (hydrologist?) involved used elephants to let the listener know how many elephants worth of water was being suspended above our heads when clouds are about.
Personally I prefer metric buttloads. Use that term and everyone knows what you're talking about.
Oddly enough, chimpanzees won't look (as I recall).
You are correct. That was pointed out in the show also. However, something in regards to chimps that was shown, is that if you have a treat which requires two chimps to cooperate to get, they will do it.
Now, if one chimp wants the treat and the other doesn't, while the first chimp might help for a short time, it will eventually stop. It is at that point that the second chimp appears to "encourage" the first chimp to pull its load so the second chimp can get the treat.
I believe this portion is in the third part of the series. They show a b&w film from way back demonstrating this behavior.
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I wonder if this tool will work on other browsers as well?
Had you read this link from the posting, you would have seen that it does. In fact, the last entry, for Opera, says the following:
Note that with Opera, the fuzzer needs to be restarted frequently.
At the end of November I posted in my journal about Tron Legacy and how it would be an overall failure. I explained to those who responded that from what I saw of the commercials, it would be explosions for the sake of explosions interspersed with blue and orange lights.
From what I've read about people's comments, I wasn't too far off in my assessment.
For any that are interested, fell free to read what I wrote.
The following highlights of the booklet are provided courtesy of The Vancouver Sun:
The list.
Just read this on MSNBC. The author shows what happens when trying it on basic Spanish.
Overall, not worth the money until it gets heavily reworked.
Hey! Three Mile Island was not a disaster. It was a boon to those of us living nearby as our electric bills plunged because we no longer had to turn on our lights at night.
POF used to be decent, then they started requiring you to put up more and more information which had no relevance to anything other than to the people they were marketing the information to.
When I left, I told them exactly why (not that it mattered). I had also seen others who left for the same reason.
No, blowing up shit will always work. Doesn't matter if it's real shit or CG shit or 3D shit.
For an example of such shit, see Tron Legacy.
For an example of why special effects no longer impress, see Tron Legacy.
I'm harping on that movie because from what I've seen, it bases itself on lots of blue and orange colors intermixed with blowing shit up. The story is hackneyed, the little bit of acting I've seen is flat, and any similarity to the original Tron is based solely on the fluorescent colors and that it takes place in a computer.
Flying a flag is part of the freedom of speech. They are covered. If anything, you should be glad to run a road to them because they are exercising their Constitutional right to express themselves.
Now, compare that to the health care bill which forces people to buy something. You can't opt out of not buying health insurance and paying your neighbor's bills. You can opt out of not viewing your redneck neighbor who, by the way, pays for your defense even though you might be a socialist liberal and who thinks you should be shipped out of the country.
I'm not one of those "If it's not in the Constitution, it's not legal" deniers like Palin or O'Donnell (of course O'Donnell doesn't even know what's in the Constitution so that's maybe not a good example). The right to privacy exists even if not explicitly stated, for example.
My point is that forcing people to buy something is not within the purview of governmental powers. Further, the only ones who will benefit are the insurance companies as people like myself who don't use their insurance will have their money go to their bottom line as the cost for them to pay my medical bills is essentially zero.
People should not be fooled into thinking this will somehow miraculously make the boo boo better. One need only look at Massachusetts to see how big a money sink this program will be.
I shouldn't be forced to use my money to pay for my neighbor's health care when they think it's no big deal to smoke a pack a day or suck down a case of beer or a bottle of Wild Turkey every weekend.
Nor should I be forced to pay for my neighbor who is the spitting image of Shamu because they suck down a bottle of Pepsi and a box of Ho Hos every day.
Nor should I be forced to pay for my neighbor's health care who thinks it's great to do X, smoke some weed, or do a line or two at parties and raves.
If you want to pay for your neighbor's health care, be my guest. I shouldn't be forced to do so.
Winky: Which subatomic particles do you hope to find with your particle accelerator? Leptons? Hadrons? Maybe the particle believed to cause mass: the Higgs Boson?
Dr. Mel: Nope. I'm after the particles that are believed to cause stupidity: MORONS.
Dr. Mel: Slamming reality-show contestants together at light-speed should produce a few of them.
Winky: The "Cold Particle".
and last I knew, there was only one employee at the remote location that verifies the IDs.
I have already replied further up the page about the wine kiosks, but I can assure you, there has never been a time when there was only 1 person on the other end. Right now, there are at least 6 people waiting to verify someone.
In the near future, as more machines are rolled out, they plan on having nearly a dozen people.
Granted, when you only sell 1 bottle/hour, you don't need that many people, but it sounds good to say you have that many people ready to go.
finicky as they were a bit rushed after the initial trial period but seem to be improving over time.
You keep believing that. Those machines are still POS (and I don't mean point of sale).
The company who is selling them to the State, Simple Brands, is euphemistically called Simple Minds because of the (low) quality of the folks running the program. PA is the guinea pig and if they can convince other states what a rousing success these machines are, they can try to push them out elsewhere.
So, you're probably wondering how many sales these machines do. When they initially rolled out, they did fairly well. A dozen or so a day. That may seem low, but you have to remember these first two machines were in grocery stores and people had to get used to how they worked.
Currently, these machines, on a good day, might sell five bottles. It has been noted that the two machines can go days without selling a single bottle. Which of course means the people manning the wine kiosk helpdesk (as it is known) sit around doing nothing for hours every day.
It is also not well known but the state pays a "convenience feel" to the company for every bottle sold. Something like $1.24. This fee is supposed to go away at some point in the future when sales pick up. Yeah right.
Simple Brands has connections with the outgoing governor, Ed Rendell, just like Deloitte* has people who used to work for Ed during his campaigns. Thus, this program of expanding the availability of wine, but no local wines**, was pushed through in 2008-2009 so it would be well entrenched before Rendell leaves. Thus, incoming gov Corbett will have a difficult time getting rid of the program because of the costs involved. Neat, huh?
As far as PA liquor sales, the vast majority of people don't care. They can walk into a store and get their JD or Wild Turkey and they're happy. The one area that desperately needs changed are beer sales. It would take one or two changes to the law to allow beer distributors, where you can only buy cases of beer, to be able to sell six packs as well as allow bars to sell as many six packs as they wanted at one time.
The ones who complain the most are the select few who want some kind of specialty brand or the ones who live in the northern tiers where deer outnumber people (seriously, it's true). Do you think a private store would be able to survive in those locations?
I could go on, but with what I know, this message can already be traced back to me.
*Deloitte gets huge contracts from the state and the contractors stick around for years, long after the programs are done because the contracts rarely include cross-training clauses. Thus, the contractors are the only ones who know how to run/manage the systems and the state workers who are supposed to take over don't bother to learn.
This process guarantees a steady stream of revenue for Deloitte while continuing to be a burden on taxpayers. So, when budgets are tight, as they are now, who are the first to go? Did I hear someone say contractors? BWAHAHAHAHA!
**There are several wineries local to both these machines but none of them are (currently) able to get their wines in these machines because the marketing geniuses were basing their decision on what sells in the state stores instead of offering something new.
These are the same braintrusts who have pushed through a change in the name of stores. They are no longer State Liquor Stores. Instead, they are Wine & Spirit shops and have been spending madly to change their look. A store near the HQ of the LCB (Liquor Control Board) was recently renovated at a cost of $300K. How long do you think it will take to break even on those costs?
Then its unique ID's on the internet,
No need for unique IDs when a device can be fingerprinted
They make the lazy workers (ie: everyone else) look bad. ... At best, your hard work will just result in you picking up everyone else's slack... again, for no additional compensation.
DING DING DING DING DING!!!!!! We have a winner!
I have told folks that companies don't want people who know what they're doing because if you really know what you're doing, you make the rest of the people around you look like neurotic baboons. This in turn drives down morale because you've set a high standard of work ethic which no one else wants to live up to.
As to picking up the slack of others, that's exactly what happened here at my work and I (finally) stopped doing the others work. Calls will sit in the queue until our supervisor assigns them to someone even though we're all supposed to watch the queue. I have other work that I do and my performance reviews are always exemplary, so I don't worry about being assigned a call once in a while.
why bother with attacking a plane, when it's cheaper and easier to bomb a school?
Actually, there is an easier way to cause complete chaos and panic and it involves the airports. For obvious reasons, I won't go into it but it's a well known gaping hole in the "security" of the airports.
I mentioned it previously on here and right now, during the Thanksgiving travel period, would be the perfect time to implement this plan.
And making hordes of people stay in a densely packed formation for extended periods of time does what exactly to stop someone from detonating an explosive device while they wait in line?
It's in your own house. You can't eavesdrop on your own property (excluding creepy landlords who put cameras in the showers of single women [or men] who are renting from them).
Besides, what's the burglar's defense going to be? "Yeah, I broke into the guys home. So what! That doesn't give him the right to record what I took!"
I will be willing to bet your next paycheck that the same folks who will now exclaim, "See! It's in their genes! I told you there was something wrong with liberals!" will be the same people who will deny there is a gay gene (or genes).
It's always funny to see people who deny that people are the way they are because of their genes, yet when it is shown that a person has a predisposition to something because of their genes, then it's suddenly science proving them right.
Flame away.
next you just start doing stuff without considering any information just to see something actually happen.
That's SOP for our management. Just a series of random edicts without any understanding of what needs to be accomplished in the vain hope that if you throw enough of them together, something wonderful will happen.
While some of what you say is true, as one who works in a forced union environment, I can tell you that currently the main goal of unions is not protection of the worker, but the protection of the lazy and incompetent so they, the unions, can continue to siphon money from the workers.
The unions will use any excuse for why someone who literally does nothing all day should not lose their job. It's job protection, pure and simple, and has nothing to do with making the workplace safer. It's to protect their own interests which is money from nothing so they can party. Period.
Please support your contentions, because right now, all I see are uninformed opinion.
Name a time in recent history when Iran attacked one of its neighbors. You can't use the Iran/Iraq war as Iraq invaded Iran. For all talk about the hated enemy Israel, for all the talk about how it has the power to inflict harm upon American naval forces, Iran has not attacked one of its neighbors in the modern era and when it did try to come after our naval forces, their speed boats were useless.
The Iranian leadership isn't stupid (ok, maybe a little). They know that despite their talk, their forces, while being able to inflict some damage, would be all but wiped out if they were to attack anyone in the region. Sure, they would gain some territory initially, but since a large portion of the world's oil supplies come from that region, just like we did when Iraq invaded Kuwait, we'll do what it takes to protect that oil supply.
While India and Pakistan still have hostilities over Kashmir, I was referring more to all out war. No two countries, that I'm aware of, have had a toe-to-toe war since obtaining nuclear weapons. Skirmishes and incidents, certainly. But nothing like the wars we've seen in the past.
North Korea and Iran would use them given the chance.
You mean like if some country were to attack them without justification? You mean use nukes (if they had them) in self defense?
What kind of nonsense is that? Who would ever want to retaliate after being attacked?
The fact of the matter is, Iran, when they get nukes, will not use them unless they are attacked, and even then that's an iffy proposition. Both (or more) of the countries involved know what will happen when the nuclear genie is used. And it ain't pretty.
Look at India and Pakistan. Two countries at each other's throats for decades after they gained their independence, yet the moment the two got nuclear weapons, suddenly hostilities ceased.
North Korea, for all their bravado, won't use them. They'd rather sacrifice their military personnel and claim they are great warriors for going against the Western devils than shoot a nuke from a distance.
Nukes are used for two things: deterrence and final retribution if the end is near. Go read The Sampson Option about Israel's nuclear weapons program.
Er, not quite. They might be barred from entering the U.S. The relevant information from the State Department: Section D
You would have to apply for a Visa just like anyone else from a foreign country or be granted a waiver from the Visa program. The relevant portion about being barred is:
The title says smaller than a grain of salt but the article says smaller than a grain of sand.
And what kind of salt are you talking about? Table salt, sea salt, pickling salt? Same goes for sand. Waikiki sand, Provincetown sand, Bali sand?
What would be nice is if there were some system of measurement that could be easily understood by the masses when talking about such sizes. For example, how many fractions of a Library of Congress would that be? Or maybe elephants. Elephants are always good. I once listened to a story on NPR about how much water is in the average cloud. The scientist (hydrologist?) involved used elephants to let the listener know how many elephants worth of water was being suspended above our heads when clouds are about.
Personally I prefer metric buttloads. Use that term and everyone knows what you're talking about.
Oddly enough, chimpanzees won't look (as I recall).
You are correct. That was pointed out in the show also. However, something in regards to chimps that was shown, is that if you have a treat which requires two chimps to cooperate to get, they will do it.
Now, if one chimp wants the treat and the other doesn't, while the first chimp might help for a short time, it will eventually stop. It is at that point that the second chimp appears to "encourage" the first chimp to pull its load so the second chimp can get the treat.
I believe this portion is in the third part of the series. They show a b&w film from way back demonstrating this behavior.