No. He wasn't referring to the movie. You do know there was a book before the "movie", right? The book came out in, like-- the 60s or something, way before the Roman empire. Caesar stole the idea from Heinlein, just like Stephanie Meyers did.
I thought text in Streetview was blurred out by design in the same way that faces were-- automatically and for security reasons (read: so Google doesn't get sued by crazy OMG I'M ON TEH INTERNET people).
I'd actually prefer if they un-blurred all street numbers and signs. It's fine to rely on Map's street number location when you're in a huge city, and the difference between 123 fake street and 125 fake street is ten feet or so. But last time I planned a road trip, the difference between 123 Country Side Road and 200 Country Side Road could be dozens of kilometers or more. Often I'll get a recommendation to visit Out Of The Way Restaurant that has the red sign, just keep an eye out for it. I'll go into Street View, "drive" along my intended route looking for that sign-- and pass by dozens of little buildings with red signs that read "{&o/// &&6$#q blurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry".
I do like this idea, but I worry that it'll breed a whole new vector for phishing. Put up a wifi spot with a fake login page, and collect the accounts of "roaming wifi" users. Then use their airtime elsewhere, or worse-- make it seem like they've connected OK, but keep a MITM to sniff all their traffic.
It's just like Pong, except everytime you start a game, it connects to the DLC server and randomly grabs a new set of rules. It hashes the ruleset, so you can never get the same set twice. Users can add rules into the global pool as often as they like.
You are not informed of the rules prior to starting.
And I'm not generally optimistic about human nature. But cell phone usage, I just don't see how this can go on very much longer as it is -- I mean, it's raw uncut assholishness, all the time, and everyone KNOWS it, but for now, they all DO IT anyway.
I wish I could believe, brother-- but for fuck's sake, look at cars. We've had over a hundred years for manners to catch up. Every single person on the road right now was born into and steeped in a culture of cars. and the road is still filled with assholes. Never mind a peaceful bus ride, that's when LIVES are at stake.
Those of you wondering, this article offers some answers to the question of why so many of these scams originate from this area.
Actually, it doesn't. It just wonders about the answers. From TFA:
This column is not a master's thesis on why Nigeria is "scam central" in today's world. I've only outlined why I think it is, based upon the facts presented.
What about Bit-Torrent, Napster, Limewire, etc? I've got no doubt they've done more to spread the joy of music, especially those who couldn't afford it...
They already had a copy of the award three days before the Grammys
the ship that carried two of each of the millions of known species that currently exists
Oh, that one's easy! Noah only took two of each animal that existed at the time, which wasn't many. There was only, like, one type of dog. After he landed, speciation occurred, and now there's all sorts of different dogs!
What they've got is some/btard or the like who named the router that for amusement value, and succeeded in trolling the public beyond his wildest dreams.
TODO: Stock up on clearance 802.11b routers. Change SSID to offensive slogans. Hide anywhere there's an AC plug an some cover. Enjoy hijinks.
I can see this being EXTREMELY useful for emergency situations that involve inattention or sleep. Say you're on a shuttle to Mars, sleeping away. Suddenly, there's a hull breach! You have seconds to get into your pressure suit before you pass out and die. You might burn half your time just on hearing the alarm, waking up, processing what's going on, and fumbling towards the suit locker.
If you're wearing your Robo Attachments, it can detect the alarm, and immediately start moving you towards the suit locker until you're able to take over manual control. And even when you do, it still might be able to guide you through the process, given your hazy state of mind.
Replace "shuttle to Mars" with "submarine" and you get the same jist.
Not to mention a surgeon wearing one of these-- if they sneeze or slip, the robot can freeze their arm to prevent an accidental nick of the artery.
If you are looking to visit a haunt, or connect with other haunters for building tips, check your local listings:
Canada: Canadian Haunter's Association
US: hauntworld.com/haunted_houses, hauntedhouse.com
My wife and I run a free haunt every year. If you're in Newmarket, Ontario, stop on by: houghtonhaunt.com
Forget jump scares or loud music-- the key to any good haunt is the lighting. You can make any prop, scene, actor, etc look amazing with a standard garden flood light from the local hardware store. I've been to professional haunts that used little to no lighting, and it was a shame. You couldn't see any of the detail work that went into their sets, and usually it was so dark you couldn't even see the jump scares. Just a few extra lumens would have made a world of difference.
I've added a few smoke-and-mirror tricks this year, but what I've learned the most from doing this is carpentry. The first year was drapes held up by duct tape. Since then I've learned about blocking, wall building, power tools, and why duct-tape doesn't hold up walls. =)
4) Full-text search. Rather than searching for "pages are an abomination" on one page, and finding your post-- I'd have to repeat that search on each page until I found the page with your post.
And no, murdering them won't help, either.... Until we actually go after the root economic problem behind spam, we won't see a real change in the matter. Spam is an economic problem, and requires an economic solution.
The root economic problem is that there's a demand for spammed products, and thus money flowing to people who supply those demands.
So we should compromise between murder and economics. We should take his customer list, and mail everyone on it a free sample packets of cyanide labeled "ur free V!AGR@ sampel!"
"Accidentally" write a program that will replace the camera's video stream with a constant loop of 2 Girls, with some subliminal flashes of goatse for good measure. Let them monitor that one.
(For additional fun, try to "accidentally" get the program to detect when the monitoring by a human begins, and start to stream some webcam porn instead. For 15 seconds. Then when you know you have their attention-- see above)
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No. He wasn't referring to the movie. You do know there was a book before the "movie", right? The book came out in, like-- the 60s or something, way before the Roman empire. Caesar stole the idea from Heinlein, just like Stephanie Meyers did.
I thought text in Streetview was blurred out by design in the same way that faces were-- automatically and for security reasons (read: so Google doesn't get sued by crazy OMG I'M ON TEH INTERNET people).
I'd actually prefer if they un-blurred all street numbers and signs. It's fine to rely on Map's street number location when you're in a huge city, and the difference between 123 fake street and 125 fake street is ten feet or so. But last time I planned a road trip, the difference between 123 Country Side Road and 200 Country Side Road could be dozens of kilometers or more. Often I'll get a recommendation to visit Out Of The Way Restaurant that has the red sign, just keep an eye out for it. I'll go into Street View, "drive" along my intended route looking for that sign-- and pass by dozens of little buildings with red signs that read "{&o /// &&6$#q blurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry".
I do like this idea, but I worry that it'll breed a whole new vector for phishing. Put up a wifi spot with a fake login page, and collect the accounts of "roaming wifi" users. Then use their airtime elsewhere, or worse-- make it seem like they've connected OK, but keep a MITM to sniff all their traffic.
It's just like Pong, except everytime you start a game, it connects to the DLC server and randomly grabs a new set of rules. It hashes the ruleset, so you can never get the same set twice. Users can add rules into the global pool as often as they like.
You are not informed of the rules prior to starting.
Most games will end in fists.
He's got 99999 problems but a server name ain't one.
I wish I could believe, brother-- but for fuck's sake, look at cars. We've had over a hundred years for manners to catch up. Every single person on the road right now was born into and steeped in a culture of cars. and the road is still filled with assholes. Never mind a peaceful bus ride, that's when LIVES are at stake.
If I recall correctly, back in 1983, Facebook didn't have Farmville yet, so no one was using the Internet.
Actually, it doesn't. It just wonders about the answers. From TFA:
I've been looking to migrate to a Canadian-based hosting company. May I ask which company you chose, and are you happy with them?
They already had a copy of the award three days before the Grammys
And when it does happen, the government is completely powerless to investigate or prosecute it.
oh wait..
Oh, that one's easy! Noah only took two of each animal that existed at the time, which wasn't many. There was only, like, one type of dog. After he landed, speciation occurred, and now there's all sorts of different dogs!
What do you mean a breed is not a species? Now you're just being difficult on purpose.
That way, someone can easily discover "Hey, you're my cousin's best friend from highschool!"
TODO: Stock up on clearance 802.11b routers. Change SSID to offensive slogans. Hide anywhere there's an AC plug an some cover. Enjoy hijinks.
Everyone knows only old people use iPhones.
Will Google and Sloosh be doing a livestream of the event, like last time?
They call that move a "Reverse Waldo". It'll cost you.
I can see this being EXTREMELY useful for emergency situations that involve inattention or sleep. Say you're on a shuttle to Mars, sleeping away. Suddenly, there's a hull breach! You have seconds to get into your pressure suit before you pass out and die. You might burn half your time just on hearing the alarm, waking up, processing what's going on, and fumbling towards the suit locker.
If you're wearing your Robo Attachments, it can detect the alarm, and immediately start moving you towards the suit locker until you're able to take over manual control. And even when you do, it still might be able to guide you through the process, given your hazy state of mind.
Replace "shuttle to Mars" with "submarine" and you get the same jist.
Not to mention a surgeon wearing one of these-- if they sneeze or slip, the robot can freeze their arm to prevent an accidental nick of the artery.
If you are looking to visit a haunt, or connect with other haunters for building tips, check your local listings:
Canada: Canadian Haunter's Association US: hauntworld.com/haunted_houses, hauntedhouse.com
My wife and I run a free haunt every year. If you're in Newmarket, Ontario, stop on by: houghtonhaunt.com
Forget jump scares or loud music-- the key to any good haunt is the lighting. You can make any prop, scene, actor, etc look amazing with a standard garden flood light from the local hardware store. I've been to professional haunts that used little to no lighting, and it was a shame. You couldn't see any of the detail work that went into their sets, and usually it was so dark you couldn't even see the jump scares. Just a few extra lumens would have made a world of difference.
I've added a few smoke-and-mirror tricks this year, but what I've learned the most from doing this is carpentry. The first year was drapes held up by duct tape. Since then I've learned about blocking, wall building, power tools, and why duct-tape doesn't hold up walls. =)
Awesome tool! Not looking forward to tonight's dreams, though. =)
4) Full-text search. Rather than searching for "pages are an abomination" on one page, and finding your post-- I'd have to repeat that search on each page until I found the page with your post.
Facebook, Twitter want to Monitor India.
The root economic problem is that there's a demand for spammed products, and thus money flowing to people who supply those demands.
So we should compromise between murder and economics. We should take his customer list, and mail everyone on it a free sample packets of cyanide labeled "ur free V!AGR@ sampel!"
But, but.. doesn't he wear a mask? How's anyone going to tell he's black? (Or, for that matter, how could anyone tell Peter Parker wasn't?)
"Accidentally" write a program that will replace the camera's video stream with a constant loop of 2 Girls, with some subliminal flashes of goatse for good measure. Let them monitor that one.
(For additional fun, try to "accidentally" get the program to detect when the monitoring by a human begins, and start to stream some webcam porn instead. For 15 seconds. Then when you know you have their attention-- see above)