I'm just bloody glad I shut down all external access to RDP. For a few years I was opening up RDP for some users who worked from home, but after seeing someone trying hundreds of times to get in to RDP via an Eastern European IP address I finally closed it down and require anyone wanting to use RDP to do it via our VPN.
Because our clock is based on noon, when the Sun is at its highest point in the sky. Whatever.point you choose it should be universal, and not based on "when I wake up".
Yup, the whole notion of abandoning time zones pretty much defies our biology. We're built for day-night cycles, so it's only rational that our timekeeping system reflect those cycles.
Translation: I'm a fucking moron who doesn't understand things, but loves to insist my ignorance is in fact someone else's problem, so I have no problem spouting pure idiotic bullshit, and through a combination of low IQ and high hubris factor, throw my retarded thoughts out there as if they weren't the mumblings of a halfwit.
The only people who I could reasonably see being at risk for this would be people like national leaders, diplomats and other REALLY IMPORTANT PEOPLE. I can't imagine such an attack being used against average people, and beyond that even in the case of REALLY IMPORTANT PEOPLE, it's going to have to be done pretty bloody quickly, and I still question how much data you're going to get out of it in real world conditions.
Decca rejected The Beatles after Epstein had become their manager, and had made them toss out their leather pants and such, made them get the same hairdos and wear suits on stage. It was Epstein that Decca's Dick Rowe said the "guitar bands" line to.
But to be fair to Rowe, when Epstein did manage to get those particular Liverpudlians a recording contract, it was to EMI's comedy and classical label, Parlophone, being run by the very great George Martin, who even himself was reasonably dubious of the long-term potential of the four fellows in front of him. So little weight did Martin and Parlophone hold with EMI's top brass that they couldn't even get EMI's American division; Capitol Records, to release the first singles.
Still, I can't help but imagine that Rowe kicked himself many times over the years for not signing The Beatles.
I'm using an two year old LG semi-smartphone hacked to use Opera Mini to do my away-from-office email and no small amount of surfing, and if I can handle weird renderings on some pages from that, I'm sure I'll be able to tolerate it on a tablet. I'm not expecting a keyboardless version of a notebook at all.
I'm eagerly saving my pennies to buy some sort of tablet. I'm aware they're not PCs, that I can't expect the performance or sheer utility, but I want one mainly for media consumption, which they seem perfect for. A browser, email and document editor/viewer would be nice, not to type out long messages or documents, but I've had more than a few opportunities recently where I wish I could pop up that spreadsheet.
It worked for them in the period between 1993 and 1995 when they closest they had to a 32-bit product was the Win32S API under Windows 3.1 in 386 mode. They literally vapored their way past OS/2, which was an actual existing 32 bit product that ran in real mode. I remember some of the PC magazines in Redmond's pocket actually using artist renditions of what Chicago would look like to keep the hype up.
He made the point the man had use of only one hand, which would have made using a notebook or desktop very difficult, but a tablet he could manage. I think that does say something.
I guess he can join the guy at Decca Records who rejected four young chaps from Liverpool and told their manager that "Guitar groups are on their way out."
It's irrelevant what people like or dislike, and I know of no expert who seriously believes that we're ever going to discover reserves substantial enough to substantially delay peak oil. At current rates of consumption it would be little more than a drop in the bucket. But you neatly sum up the ludicrous article of faith that the oil companies seem to live by, or at least broadcast.
The simple fact is that, when you consider the broad spectrum of uses for long-chain hydrocarbons, producing energy is the least of our worries, as we have plenty of alternatives like methane and coal to keep us going. It's all those industrial processes, materials fabrication and the like. In a century people will truly look at what we did with oil and think we were fucking morons, which of course, we are.
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I'm confused. How do you password protect a CSV file?
They sure are in Sweden!
I left because Firefox's performance has gone down the shitter, particularly on mid-age hardware like my five year old laptop.
I'm just bloody glad I shut down all external access to RDP. For a few years I was opening up RDP for some users who worked from home, but after seeing someone trying hundreds of times to get in to RDP via an Eastern European IP address I finally closed it down and require anyone wanting to use RDP to do it via our VPN.
Because our clock is based on noon, when the Sun is at its highest point in the sky. Whatever.point you choose it should be universal, and not based on "when I wake up".
Yup, the whole notion of abandoning time zones pretty much defies our biology. We're built for day-night cycles, so it's only rational that our timekeeping system reflect those cycles.
Translation: I'm a fucking moron who doesn't understand things, but loves to insist my ignorance is in fact someone else's problem, so I have no problem spouting pure idiotic bullshit, and through a combination of low IQ and high hubris factor, throw my retarded thoughts out there as if they weren't the mumblings of a halfwit.
Or fathering another sibling for you...
Mod parent up. The asswipe who says "It's only a Category 2" is the guy clinging to his roof the next day waiting for someone to rescue him.
"Why yes sir, the rotting banana peel and a mummified female index finger were part of the original packaging."
The more sensible thing at that point would be not to store it on any kind of portable computer at all, but rather on an encrypted drive of some kind.
The only people who I could reasonably see being at risk for this would be people like national leaders, diplomats and other REALLY IMPORTANT PEOPLE. I can't imagine such an attack being used against average people, and beyond that even in the case of REALLY IMPORTANT PEOPLE, it's going to have to be done pretty bloody quickly, and I still question how much data you're going to get out of it in real world conditions.
I'm putting this under "paranoid schizophrenic".
I think two kids, a wagon and a few bottle rockets could beat NASA back to manned space flight.
Decca rejected The Beatles after Epstein had become their manager, and had made them toss out their leather pants and such, made them get the same hairdos and wear suits on stage. It was Epstein that Decca's Dick Rowe said the "guitar bands" line to.
But to be fair to Rowe, when Epstein did manage to get those particular Liverpudlians a recording contract, it was to EMI's comedy and classical label, Parlophone, being run by the very great George Martin, who even himself was reasonably dubious of the long-term potential of the four fellows in front of him. So little weight did Martin and Parlophone hold with EMI's top brass that they couldn't even get EMI's American division; Capitol Records, to release the first singles.
Still, I can't help but imagine that Rowe kicked himself many times over the years for not signing The Beatles.
Because look how free the Russians were!
I'm using an two year old LG semi-smartphone hacked to use Opera Mini to do my away-from-office email and no small amount of surfing, and if I can handle weird renderings on some pages from that, I'm sure I'll be able to tolerate it on a tablet. I'm not expecting a keyboardless version of a notebook at all.
I'm eagerly saving my pennies to buy some sort of tablet. I'm aware they're not PCs, that I can't expect the performance or sheer utility, but I want one mainly for media consumption, which they seem perfect for. A browser, email and document editor/viewer would be nice, not to type out long messages or documents, but I've had more than a few opportunities recently where I wish I could pop up that spreadsheet.
I'm no fan of Apple, but to compare the very small tablet computing market that existed prior to the iPad with the market that exists now is absurd.
It worked for them in the period between 1993 and 1995 when they closest they had to a 32-bit product was the Win32S API under Windows 3.1 in 386 mode. They literally vapored their way past OS/2, which was an actual existing 32 bit product that ran in real mode. I remember some of the PC magazines in Redmond's pocket actually using artist renditions of what Chicago would look like to keep the hype up.
He made the point the man had use of only one hand, which would have made using a notebook or desktop very difficult, but a tablet he could manage. I think that does say something.
I guess he can join the guy at Decca Records who rejected four young chaps from Liverpool and told their manager that "Guitar groups are on their way out."
Appeals to authority are only fallacious if they reference people who are not authorities.
Loss of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean seems an awfully good example.
But please keep handwaving.
It's irrelevant what people like or dislike, and I know of no expert who seriously believes that we're ever going to discover reserves substantial enough to substantially delay peak oil. At current rates of consumption it would be little more than a drop in the bucket. But you neatly sum up the ludicrous article of faith that the oil companies seem to live by, or at least broadcast.
The simple fact is that, when you consider the broad spectrum of uses for long-chain hydrocarbons, producing energy is the least of our worries, as we have plenty of alternatives like methane and coal to keep us going. It's all those industrial processes, materials fabrication and the like. In a century people will truly look at what we did with oil and think we were fucking morons, which of course, we are.
And that's not even pondering what AGW will do.
You're quite right. Major brainfart there. Was thinking nucleosynthesis.