That's because to them, we are the Merlins of the modern world. We make magic happen. They don't care to understand the how or why, just that it is done and it works. I don't even think they can comprehend the how or the why, to be honest.
Honestly, someone smarter than I am could probably turn all of the esoteric things found in IT into a major world religion and make serious bank doing so.
If it worked for goatherders, carpenters, and fishermen in ancient days, and some hack novelist in the 1950s/1960s, it can be done with even greater panache today.
This is one of the reasons I still use Chrome, even though some people question the use thereof (I have no issues with Google providing me targeted advertising, as they do it in text-link only form for the services of theirs that I use). Click-to-Play is the new IWin button. I was able to ditch Flashblock finally (thus saving up tons of resources). Click-to-Play works on more than just Flash as well, it works for all media content types that use browser plugins (Flash, Shockwave, Quicktime, etc).
I coupled this with turning off Location services, etc in the browser settings, and presto.
They are perfectly happy to allow you to rent ESPN separately of Disney Channel. What they won't do, is rent you Disney Channel without also renting ESPN, and that is where they get you, if you're a sports-loving parent of young children.
Not just a lot of them, most of them, to the point that my former contract rolled their own due to flaky controllers, etc put out by the SSD manufacturers. Yes, they found it cheaper and more efficient to make their own SSD drives, and to incinerate the ones that failed in a blast furnace than rely on the crap the manufacturers are currently foisting on the market.
If it was a drive being used to read schematics for CNC for instance, there isn't a manufacturer out there that currently offers a machine-tied UPS for the CNC machine. If the CNC machine loses power, then so does the drive, and vice versa, since it's all on the same circuit (usually you'll find the power stuff hidden in a cabinet along a nearby wall, and that stuff takes power directly from the mains).
I can confirm this, my cableco only offers up to 8m down 512k up anyhow. There's no reason to do other than I do, which is pay for the 5m/512k service, because like you said, it's shared by every subscriber on the node in my neighborhood, and you never actually see the 8m down rate unless it's like 4am.
You know they are going far off when even Samsung contracts with ARM to make CPUs (which it has done, for both server-class and general), and ties themselves even closer in with Android at the same time.
My prediction of the rather near future: Smart tvs that aren't really tvs, but PCs with an oversized monitor running a custom version of Android/ChromeOS. Notice that they've been shoving all kinds of USB ports, etc into them the last few years, and I think it's an incremental step. I've come across a few that when you remove a small panel, have PS/2 inputs as well, and several models that accept wireless input devices. It's no accident they are loading them up with these things.
Why sit in the office chair at home, or worry about dropping your tablet in the toilet, when you can sit on your couch, and play games, etc right on your giant 75" tv? No more fiddling with a cable box, with a touchy laptop, a tiny phone, or an HTPC.
Not only that, but I am quite certain some employees probably have the "work from home" thing in their employment contract, because they do in fact, live in some place like Wisconsin or Alaska. For them to unilaterally declare this puts Yahoo in breach of legal contracts, and lawyers for employees will eat this shit up.
Why everyone keeps focusing on regular cookies is beyond me. Advertisers have already moved on long ago to using "web 2.0" tricks, etc to put their tracking stuff in using Flash LSOs and HTML5 cache tricks that doesn't get erased by any browser by default, even if you select "Clear Private Data".
"We don't like the fact that so-called 3rd World nations are starting to catch up to, and surpass us, we must form a working group in Congress for the sole purpose of guaranteeing profits for dinosaur companies for centuries into the future!"
All except I keep finding mail with forged headers in my inbox, mail that originated from Hotmail, GMail, Yahoo, and several others, and yet claimed they came from some other place such as Paypal, Blizzard or eBay.
Not only that, but it could be the result of a blown fuse. Quite a few manufacturers couple the TPM with a fuse system, that will blow if the BIOS update fails a checksum at any point, or the BIOS update fails. There is usually a microcode program contained somewhere on the board that solely checks if the TPM has been tampered with and tells the fuse to blow if it thinks something is wrong. Some even put a double-fuse system in, where if the TPM was disabled by fuse, then the motherboard itself will also be disabled after a certain amount of attempts to boot, and access the TPM successfully.
Yes, Venus has large amounts of gaseous CO2, but is also has vast amounts of liquid and gaseous methane. Part of the reason Venus is so hot, is because each molecule of methane will retain approximately 40x the heat energy of every CO2 molecule. It also causes negative reinforcement feedback loops, with the interactions it has with solar radiation, oxygen, nitrogen and CO2.
Atmospheric methane is a sink for chlorine, but reacts with CO2 to create volatile and non-volatile organic compounds and with the nitrous oxide in the atmosphere to create ammonia compounds. The ammonia compounds then enter a feedback loop with the chlorine molecules where it creates hydrochloric acid, which tends to interact in non-pleasant ways with the O3 and H2O molecules that are also present.
As far as methane cycles go, there is no more such thing as a normal methane cycle for some of the reasons I've previously mentioned. It was known as far back as 1913 that the "natural" methane cycles would be toast because of ever increasing rice production, let alone in the current period, when we're adding in many metric tons of methane into the atmosphere directly as a byproduct of natural gas extraction. The Alaskan-Canadian-Siberian permafrost areas are also now releasing their stored methane (and CO2) into the atmosphere at ever increasing rates.
It's interesting to note that in the 25 years prior to 1993, rice production had increased 47%, and that the current estimates of production from 1993 onward to 2020, will increase by approximately 156%.
As far as timescales go, it's hard to tell, we've already done more damage in 200 years as a species than anyone could have possibly imagined. One of the earlier climate researchers (about 1989 or so) theorized that in those short 200 years, we had already pushed the human-habitable lifespan of the planet 3/4ths of the way to completion.
1) Game rental companies like Gamefly either go completely out of business or become mobile/PC only.
2) Gamestop goes completely out of business, after spending all of their money in court suing the big three.
3) Sales for all of the next-gen consoles never rise to the levels of the previous generations.
4) Many customers that were unaware of this "feature" become very irate when they run into it, and return the consoles in droves for refunds.
5) There are lawsuits against the big three (and make no mistake, where Sony and Microsoft go, Nintendo will follow) for violating the Right of First Sale (similar to US First Sale Doctrine, only without the numerous loopholes that favor corporations) in the EU. The European Court of Justice has already determined in a large case involving Oracle that it doesn't matter if the software comes on physical media, or is downloaded, the original purchaser has the right of resale. The EU will spank the big three if they attempt to enforce these restrictions.
I used Venus as an example for two reasons: To illustrate exactly what all of this methane can do when we're this close to the sun (along with the other greenhouse gases common to both Venus and Earth), and because Venus has vast amounts of methane in its atmosphere, giving us a pretty accurate picture of what can happen with the current accelerating rates of methane gas release (methane geysers in the sea bed, expanding rice fields, larger cattle herds, hydro-fracking).
Methane is a far worse greenhouse-type gas than CO2
To deny what is happening is beyond ridiculous. This planet now has less ice being formed at the caps and in glaciers and more water vapor, methane, etc in the atmosphere than it did even five years ago. The average temperatures for water at the caps alone is rising at an alarming rate.
I've actually gone to places where historically, there have been glaciers solidly covering the ground for well over 25,000+ years, and there was nothing but bare rock, with the glaciers having receded more than five+ miles up the valley towards the mountain tops.
Some of these particular glaciers, only receded that far within the last fifteen years.
The last time we've had these particular conditions occurring, there were tropical and sub-tropical forests and swamps in places where they are in no way currently found (aka when some dinosaurs still roamed).
What is happening, is our pollution is compounding on the natural cooling and warming cycles, and pushing us much farther into a warming cycle than we've ever dealt with in recorded history.
What is scary, is the CO2 we've pushed into the atmosphere in record tonnage, is melting permafrost layers in Canada, Alaska, Siberia and other places, releasing several hundred thousand metric tons of methane into the atmosphere every day, which is MANY times worse than CO2 (picture Venus), and just reinforces and pushes the global temperature rise even further.
It will be built with security in mind, and won't use Javascript or PHP in any fashion, or allow modules that involve them to interact with the software in question.
Some of the biggest problems I've seen over the years involving compromised forums have almost always involved issues with those two (with the 3rd most common being they were run on Microsoft's web services).
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That's because to them, we are the Merlins of the modern world. We make magic happen. They don't care to understand the how or why, just that it is done and it works. I don't even think they can comprehend the how or the why, to be honest.
Honestly, someone smarter than I am could probably turn all of the esoteric things found in IT into a major world religion and make serious bank doing so.
If it worked for goatherders, carpenters, and fishermen in ancient days, and some hack novelist in the 1950s/1960s, it can be done with even greater panache today.
Clinton was already in his law-defined second term (strange that we have Presidents and some Governors with limits, but not any of the rest).
I was. India easily has the potential to quickly transform into the next "Nigeria" once their internet penetration gets large enough.
Combine millions of people in poverty with easy and less than honest ways to quickly swipe money from some "rich" foreigner?
We won't even get into their law enforcement practices.
This is one of the reasons I still use Chrome, even though some people question the use thereof (I have no issues with Google providing me targeted advertising, as they do it in text-link only form for the services of theirs that I use). Click-to-Play is the new IWin button. I was able to ditch Flashblock finally (thus saving up tons of resources). Click-to-Play works on more than just Flash as well, it works for all media content types that use browser plugins (Flash, Shockwave, Quicktime, etc).
I coupled this with turning off Location services, etc in the browser settings, and presto.
They are perfectly happy to allow you to rent ESPN separately of Disney Channel. What they won't do, is rent you Disney Channel without also renting ESPN, and that is where they get you, if you're a sports-loving parent of young children.
Not just a lot of them, most of them, to the point that my former contract rolled their own due to flaky controllers, etc put out by the SSD manufacturers. Yes, they found it cheaper and more efficient to make their own SSD drives, and to incinerate the ones that failed in a blast furnace than rely on the crap the manufacturers are currently foisting on the market.
If it was a drive being used to read schematics for CNC for instance, there isn't a manufacturer out there that currently offers a machine-tied UPS for the CNC machine. If the CNC machine loses power, then so does the drive, and vice versa, since it's all on the same circuit (usually you'll find the power stuff hidden in a cabinet along a nearby wall, and that stuff takes power directly from the mains).
I can confirm this, my cableco only offers up to 8m down 512k up anyhow. There's no reason to do other than I do, which is pay for the 5m/512k service, because like you said, it's shared by every subscriber on the node in my neighborhood, and you never actually see the 8m down rate unless it's like 4am.
You know they are going far off when even Samsung contracts with ARM to make CPUs (which it has done, for both server-class and general), and ties themselves even closer in with Android at the same time.
My prediction of the rather near future: Smart tvs that aren't really tvs, but PCs with an oversized monitor running a custom version of Android/ChromeOS. Notice that they've been shoving all kinds of USB ports, etc into them the last few years, and I think it's an incremental step. I've come across a few that when you remove a small panel, have PS/2 inputs as well, and several models that accept wireless input devices. It's no accident they are loading them up with these things.
Why sit in the office chair at home, or worry about dropping your tablet in the toilet, when you can sit on your couch, and play games, etc right on your giant 75" tv? No more fiddling with a cable box, with a touchy laptop, a tiny phone, or an HTPC.
Not only that, but I am quite certain some employees probably have the "work from home" thing in their employment contract, because they do in fact, live in some place like Wisconsin or Alaska. For them to unilaterally declare this puts Yahoo in breach of legal contracts, and lawyers for employees will eat this shit up.
Why everyone keeps focusing on regular cookies is beyond me. Advertisers have already moved on long ago to using "web 2.0" tricks, etc to put their tracking stuff in using Flash LSOs and HTML5 cache tricks that doesn't get erased by any browser by default, even if you select "Clear Private Data".
"We don't like the fact that so-called 3rd World nations are starting to catch up to, and surpass us, we must form a working group in Congress for the sole purpose of guaranteeing profits for dinosaur companies for centuries into the future!"
Most web sites aren't written with security in mind, but pageviews, rankings, and advertising revenue. News at 11.
How about that NASCAR race?
Just run a portable version of Firefox from a USB stick, the one I use has the browser cache on the stick as well.
All except I keep finding mail with forged headers in my inbox, mail that originated from Hotmail, GMail, Yahoo, and several others, and yet claimed they came from some other place such as Paypal, Blizzard or eBay.
Do absolutely nothing to block/prevent the use of programs that intercept and modify calls to DirectX instead of modifying RAM or game files.
The end result: There are always some who will get away with cheating even after numerous complaints.
Not only that, but it could be the result of a blown fuse. Quite a few manufacturers couple the TPM with a fuse system, that will blow if the BIOS update fails a checksum at any point, or the BIOS update fails. There is usually a microcode program contained somewhere on the board that solely checks if the TPM has been tampered with and tells the fuse to blow if it thinks something is wrong. Some even put a double-fuse system in, where if the TPM was disabled by fuse, then the motherboard itself will also be disabled after a certain amount of attempts to boot, and access the TPM successfully.
Yes, Venus has large amounts of gaseous CO2, but is also has vast amounts of liquid and gaseous methane. Part of the reason Venus is so hot, is because each molecule of methane will retain approximately 40x the heat energy of every CO2 molecule. It also causes negative reinforcement feedback loops, with the interactions it has with solar radiation, oxygen, nitrogen and CO2.
Atmospheric methane is a sink for chlorine, but reacts with CO2 to create volatile and non-volatile organic compounds and with the nitrous oxide in the atmosphere to create ammonia compounds. The ammonia compounds then enter a feedback loop with the chlorine molecules where it creates hydrochloric acid, which tends to interact in non-pleasant ways with the O3 and H2O molecules that are also present.
As far as methane cycles go, there is no more such thing as a normal methane cycle for some of the reasons I've previously mentioned. It was known as far back as 1913 that the "natural" methane cycles would be toast because of ever increasing rice production, let alone in the current period, when we're adding in many metric tons of methane into the atmosphere directly as a byproduct of natural gas extraction. The Alaskan-Canadian-Siberian permafrost areas are also now releasing their stored methane (and CO2) into the atmosphere at ever increasing rates.
It's interesting to note that in the 25 years prior to 1993, rice production had increased 47%, and that the current estimates of production from 1993 onward to 2020, will increase by approximately 156%.
As far as timescales go, it's hard to tell, we've already done more damage in 200 years as a species than anyone could have possibly imagined. One of the earlier climate researchers (about 1989 or so) theorized that in those short 200 years, we had already pushed the human-habitable lifespan of the planet 3/4ths of the way to completion.
1) Setup a postal address in the EU, with forwarding to your address in Africa.
2) Use a proxy to order from Amazon.
3)?
4) Profit!
(And yes, this works, my aunt and cousin had to do exactly this when they were in Africa for two months.)
Some things that would happen:
1) Game rental companies like Gamefly either go completely out of business or become mobile/PC only.
2) Gamestop goes completely out of business, after spending all of their money in court suing the big three.
3) Sales for all of the next-gen consoles never rise to the levels of the previous generations.
4) Many customers that were unaware of this "feature" become very irate when they run into it, and return the consoles in droves for refunds.
5) There are lawsuits against the big three (and make no mistake, where Sony and Microsoft go, Nintendo will follow) for violating the Right of First Sale (similar to US First Sale Doctrine, only without the numerous loopholes that favor corporations) in the EU. The European Court of Justice has already determined in a large case involving Oracle that it doesn't matter if the software comes on physical media, or is downloaded, the original purchaser has the right of resale. The EU will spank the big three if they attempt to enforce these restrictions.
Sony is already considering this, only using RFID chips embedded in the Blu-Ray game discs instead of using activation codes.
I used Venus as an example for two reasons: To illustrate exactly what all of this methane can do when we're this close to the sun (along with the other greenhouse gases common to both Venus and Earth), and because Venus has vast amounts of methane in its atmosphere, giving us a pretty accurate picture of what can happen with the current accelerating rates of methane gas release (methane geysers in the sea bed, expanding rice fields, larger cattle herds, hydro-fracking).
Methane is a far worse greenhouse-type gas than CO2
To deny what is happening is beyond ridiculous. This planet now has less ice being formed at the caps and in glaciers and more water vapor, methane, etc in the atmosphere than it did even five years ago. The average temperatures for water at the caps alone is rising at an alarming rate.
I've actually gone to places where historically, there have been glaciers solidly covering the ground for well over 25,000+ years, and there was nothing but bare rock, with the glaciers having receded more than five+ miles up the valley towards the mountain tops.
Some of these particular glaciers, only receded that far within the last fifteen years.
The last time we've had these particular conditions occurring, there were tropical and sub-tropical forests and swamps in places where they are in no way currently found (aka when some dinosaurs still roamed).
What is happening, is our pollution is compounding on the natural cooling and warming cycles, and pushing us much farther into a warming cycle than we've ever dealt with in recorded history.
What is scary, is the CO2 we've pushed into the atmosphere in record tonnage, is melting permafrost layers in Canada, Alaska, Siberia and other places, releasing several hundred thousand metric tons of methane into the atmosphere every day, which is MANY times worse than CO2 (picture Venus), and just reinforces and pushes the global temperature rise even further.
...after reading through the comments on this shiny turd, I vote Atwood should rebrand this new Discourse software to "Coding Horror".
It relies on Javascript, so it's nothing but a security nightmare for anyone to implement.
It will be built with security in mind, and won't use Javascript or PHP in any fashion, or allow modules that involve them to interact with the software in question.
Some of the biggest problems I've seen over the years involving compromised forums have almost always involved issues with those two (with the 3rd most common being they were run on Microsoft's web services).