Even then, there's a difference between a work of fiction and a threat. You would have to understand the references made in the work to know if it is a threat or a work of fiction. What do you all think is more disturbing? That a student wrote a potentially violent, threatening paper; or that nobody can find the essay in question to decide for ourselves?
Why would the authorities be afraid of releasing the essay? They only would if they had something to lose by releasing it. What could they have to lose? Their credibility?
These sort of holes in news stories are what concern me the most. How hard would it have been to quote a suspicious section?
I've never understood this need for backup software. I call it "a partition separate from the install partition". That way I can reinstall/reformat the install and keep all my files intact. Just keep a copy of all the *.exe's you install in a folder named "Software Installs" and drag/drop any save games or something over to your "Saves" folder.
You wouldn't be at all concerned about your government controlling yours and everybody's Internet access? Just wait till some legislative do-gooder slaps restrictions and monitoring on it, in the interest of national security, the Children, etc. of course. I doubt you'd be so enthusiastic about that.
And you do realize that "government-funded", you're still paying for it. You just don't know how much.
If I were you, I wouldn't be comfortable with either. Ours is going to do this anyways. Might as well do it while cutting out the requirement to make as much profit as possible off your users.
And they've never gotten minus fifty DKP. http://onyserious.ytmnd.com/ I don't know, depending on how much effort someone put into that, they very well may have been justified in being that angry. Regardless of whether or not it's a game, that guy stole something that took a lot of another player's time and energy to aquire. Appealing to the "it's a game" logic is foolish and an attempt to gloss over the time investment that person stole from another player; not to mention it backfires-- if it's just a game, why did he care enough to be such a dick to another player?
There's always two sides to a story.
Now the second audio clip not so much; there's obviously no second side to that as another Onyxia run right after the wipe is not unattainable.
Rule No. 12: Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic. Next time you're out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That's what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for "expressing yourself" with purple hair and/or pierced body parts.
Rule No. 13: You are not immortal. (See Rule No. 12.) If you are under the impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is romantic, you obviously haven't seen one of your peers at room temperature lately.
Rule No. 14: Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school's a bother, and life is depressing. But someday you'll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now. You're welcome. #14.
On the contrary, I'm only now just beginning to enjoy myself in college. School was BS most the way. Stupid people all around living their sitcom lives whining because our math teacher gave them a fork and knife instead of zooming the spoon with baby food towards their mouths ("open up!!!" \(^_^).
For once I'm being challenged with something so difficult I'm struggling for my life just to make C's [at Georgia Tech]. I'm not smart, anything but really; I'm closer to D's than I am B's. It's just primary and secondary school was such a joke, even someone of my [mediocre] caliber was bored. A waste of my and a lot of other classmates time and childhood; the others it completely ruined; they grew up thinking life was supposed to be that easy. Now I'm surrounded by brilliant students and it's heaven.
I choose who I hang out with (went to a small private school with spoiled kids who specialized in putting the different kid from the class down), I spend my time doing what I want, when I want. When my laundry and room get so dirty that I get sick of it (or my roomate says something but we're mostly cool on that front) I clean them; not arbitrarily because mother says so. My Co-op at SITA that pays $16/hour is easy hat 9 to 4:30-5, paid lunch; and I'm just working up the courage to take initiative and ask for some real work as I'm still absorbing processes and business sense from coworkers.
Sure it's hard working 5 days a week and worrying about whether or not I'm going to afford the rest of college, but you trust God with what you can't handle and just take your bites one at a time. Next bite is class this summer: sure, I'm terrified of the 4-credit-hour-but-25-hours-work-per-week classes, but at the end I get through it and know crazy cool stuff like how to program a PSTN switch or MP3 decoder in Matlab. At the end of these harder classes I KNOW I'm capable of just about anything because I had to learn just about everything. Incredible confidence boost when talking about synthesizing digital signals and manipulating them (something I learned last fall in a DSP class).
That's all I've got to say about the article. Parent is right on the money-- any time someone in the penny stock markets is having trouble selling their shares, the first thing they do is pump the stock as much as they can, get as many people interested in it as possible... "it's going through the roof!" "Hang on it's going to shoot up _fast_!" etc etc...to create demand for the stock. After all, you can't sell without demand.
How this applies here? Probably one of these two things: either they know we know the Tech market sucks and know we're looking to avoid it or get out of it (and they want to keep us in it until they're ready to dump so they can catch us off guard and run away with the money), or the Tech market really _is_ doing nicely; too nicely for the bigwigs' tastes, so they're trying to advertise this to get more people to join so they have a larger pool of cheaper labor to pull from to decrease the cost of operating the bottom line and increase their profits.
I'm unsure how Google could reliably track an individual across a time period of months or even weeks unless one of the following is true: 0) IP address is same on both visits; 1) Google retrieved cookie from previous visit; 2) User was logged on with Google Account during both visits; 3) User has Google Toolbar or some other software on top of the browser. So, if this is really a worry (and it would surely be detailed in their privacy policy), just use Google without being logged in, without any Toolbar software and clear cookies after each visit. As long as they don't deploy additional covert measures and as long as everything the do operate is outlined it the privacy policy, they 'do no evil' line cannot be called into question. They're only rolling out the search history stuff for those^^^ people.
They'll do what they always do when someone can't pay the entire sum that he owes. They'll get as large a portion as they can, by arranging personal bankrupcy, confiscation of assets with executory auction, confiscation of future income, and so on.
Debt is a serious matter. Does that include confiscating the domain and reselling it?
Damn this is the LAST thing I was thinking Microsoft was going to do. What would you expect a marketing company to do? Market the hell out of the backwards compatibility, then when you finally get them to buy the product, you slow the porting waaaaaaaay down, to just enough so you can say "we're working hard to get these games playable".
This seems entirely out of Microsoft's ordinary character. What is the world coming to?
I've been suspicious of Google's "do no evil" motto from day one, but my suspicions were confirmed when it was announced that Google Mail would be storing your emails ad-infinitum even if you deleted them. It is quite clear and obvious (and it has been for a long time) that Google is in the datamining business, the targeted advertisement part of which is only the tip of the iceberg. Anybody who's surprised by this announcement has been living in a cave... So, I've seen the thing work...in quite a spooky way...first hand...several times...
The search? Various hot women by their name. I did a search once for pics of and it came up with 3-4 pages of results, and only one or two pictures of interest.
Skip forward several months (I haven't deleted the searching history) and I do another search for Eva Longoria I think it was, and on the first page was the --entirely unrelated-- picture of that other woman I had searched for earlier. I've seen this happen on two different occassions before when searching under the same category. Very interesting, it's like they programmed it to know when you were searching for a hot celebrity and to insert previous pages you had visited under the same category in that search. Depending on how you look at it, kinda useful, but nonetheless creepy.
Wow that's incredible. Just to inform those out there not in the know, my free (this is probably the key word; they get you on the refills later) HP printer/scanner takes $20 5mL ink cartridges. Guess how many pages 5mL is! 120. I can print at the student center at school 66% cheaper than this.
You shouldn't fear people with guns, you should fear not having a gun when crazy people want to kill you.
Actually, I fear crazy people who can just walk into K-Mart and arm themselves.
You can look at this situation and say that the problem is that none of the other students had guns.
But you can just as easily look at this situation and conclude that the problem is that the nutjob DID have a gun.
So your solution is 'Give everyone a gun!'. My solution is 'Don't give crazy people guns.'
Your way the crazy guy only manages to kill 3 or 4 people before someone else shoots him. My way, nobody gets shot. And your way, nobody is free. Seriously, how do you believe this shit? Who is going to decide who is crazy and who isn't? The government? Whoa, no vested interests there. Then anybody not happy with the government will be labelled "crazy".
Why oh why do we have to keep reminding you idiots about the price of freedom? Your great great etc. grandfathers gave up their lives for rights that you want to toss right back at the government. FOOL.
Google's good at providing targeted advertising, so what I would expect to see from them would be "click to see an advertisement for xxyy" where xxyy is related to the video you watched. Funny cat videos? Click for an Iams coupon.
Especially with Googles willingness to turn over e-mail records to The Department of Fatherland Security and the FBI. You mean the same willingness that lead them to take the government to court over the order to hand over users' search data?
Using a bot to lvl or farm in wow is lame. Don't do it. Let this guy's work die on the vine.... How about: wasting your life on something you've already done once is lame. Don't do it.
Blizzard just needs to let you create maxed or almost maxed characters if you already have a level 70 instead of forcing you to level through the same material over and over. If you could start a new character at level 50, that would give plenty of room to learn how to play the class. That's all they have to do to reign in the botting. You could make all the money you need from leveling alts to 70 and then doing the quests for gold.
I think keeping phones off planes for Crowd Control reasons is a very reasonable decision. I can just imagine plenty of people (a 45 year old woman comes to mind for some reason) becoming histerical over the chance that there might be a completely safe landing coming up. Her kids in school, has to talk to her husband right this minute, has to throw a fit requiring flight attendant attention, etc; basically anything you see the women do on 24 given an unfortunate event. I'd rather she not know so the flight attendants can help the pilots with anything they need, etc.
The people here smart enough to know the technical limitations to cell phone useage on airplanes are probably also smart enough to realize it would be better for them if nobody knew there were problems.
Also I get the feeling those "satellite TV" feeds are just pre-recorded-and-played-back videos.
Anyone else think the voice is creepy? It's more realistic than other automated voice systems, but still doesn't sound human. Maybe they hit the uncanny valley.
The voice was a guy though; perhaps that's what I think is wrong. All the other automated voices I've heard (local transit system, 1-800-free-411, etc; have all used female voices. Perhaps the softness of a female voice helps gloss over the realism flaws in the voice?
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Clearly you haven't learned from the movie "Catch Me If You Can".
These people can outsmart you every minute of the day if you give them reason to. Why not just employ them and get on their side?
Oh right, this isn't about security, this is another stupid power struggle.
Why would the authorities be afraid of releasing the essay? They only would if they had something to lose by releasing it. What could they have to lose? Their credibility?
These sort of holes in news stories are what concern me the most. How hard would it have been to quote a suspicious section?
That's because you don't have packed stadiums to see 24 year-olds toss a football around either.
Lucky for you. Seriously. They have packed stadiums to watch 24 year olds whack cylinders of rubber around.
I've never understood this need for backup software. I call it "a partition separate from the install partition". That way I can reinstall/reformat the install and keep all my files intact. Just keep a copy of all the *.exe's you install in a folder named "Software Installs" and drag/drop any save games or something over to your "Saves" folder.
And you do realize that "government-funded", you're still paying for it. You just don't know how much.
If I were you, I wouldn't be comfortable with either. Ours is going to do this anyways. Might as well do it while cutting out the requirement to make as much profit as possible off your users.
http://cloudsong.ytmnsfw.com/?0bc4392e4b6b6d3618e
And they've never gotten minus fifty DKP.
http://onyserious.ytmnd.com/ I don't know, depending on how much effort someone put into that, they very well may have been justified in being that angry. Regardless of whether or not it's a game, that guy stole something that took a lot of another player's time and energy to aquire. Appealing to the "it's a game" logic is foolish and an attempt to gloss over the time investment that person stole from another player; not to mention it backfires-- if it's just a game, why did he care enough to be such a dick to another player?
There's always two sides to a story.
Now the second audio clip not so much; there's obviously no second side to that as another Onyxia run right after the wipe is not unattainable.
Rule No. 12: Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic. Next time you're out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That's what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for "expressing yourself" with purple hair and/or pierced body parts.
Rule No. 13: You are not immortal. (See Rule No. 12.) If you are under the impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is romantic, you obviously haven't seen one of your peers at room temperature lately.
Rule No. 14: Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school's a bother, and life is depressing. But someday you'll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now. You're welcome. #14.
On the contrary, I'm only now just beginning to enjoy myself in college. School was BS most the way. Stupid people all around living their sitcom lives whining because our math teacher gave them a fork and knife instead of zooming the spoon with baby food towards their mouths ("open up!!!" \(^_^).
For once I'm being challenged with something so difficult I'm struggling for my life just to make C's [at Georgia Tech]. I'm not smart, anything but really; I'm closer to D's than I am B's. It's just primary and secondary school was such a joke, even someone of my [mediocre] caliber was bored. A waste of my and a lot of other classmates time and childhood; the others it completely ruined; they grew up thinking life was supposed to be that easy. Now I'm surrounded by brilliant students and it's heaven.
I choose who I hang out with (went to a small private school with spoiled kids who specialized in putting the different kid from the class down), I spend my time doing what I want, when I want. When my laundry and room get so dirty that I get sick of it (or my roomate says something but we're mostly cool on that front) I clean them; not arbitrarily because mother says so. My Co-op at SITA that pays $16/hour is easy hat 9 to 4:30-5, paid lunch; and I'm just working up the courage to take initiative and ask for some real work as I'm still absorbing processes and business sense from coworkers.
Sure it's hard working 5 days a week and worrying about whether or not I'm going to afford the rest of college, but you trust God with what you can't handle and just take your bites one at a time. Next bite is class this summer: sure, I'm terrified of the 4-credit-hour-but-25-hours-work-per-week classes, but at the end I get through it and know crazy cool stuff like how to program a PSTN switch or MP3 decoder in Matlab. At the end of these harder classes I KNOW I'm capable of just about anything because I had to learn just about everything. Incredible confidence boost when talking about synthesizing digital signals and manipulating them (something I learned last fall in a DSP class).
But I digress; I agree with the other rules.
That's all I've got to say about the article. Parent is right on the money-- any time someone in the penny stock markets is having trouble selling their shares, the first thing they do is pump the stock as much as they can, get as many people interested in it as possible... "it's going through the roof!" "Hang on it's going to shoot up _fast_!" etc etc...to create demand for the stock. After all, you can't sell without demand.
How this applies here? Probably one of these two things: either they know we know the Tech market sucks and know we're looking to avoid it or get out of it (and they want to keep us in it until they're ready to dump so they can catch us off guard and run away with the money), or the Tech market really _is_ doing nicely; too nicely for the bigwigs' tastes, so they're trying to advertise this to get more people to join so they have a larger pool of cheaper labor to pull from to decrease the cost of operating the bottom line and increase their profits.
Sounds like a piece of sensational journalism (yeah, yeah, since when was journalism not sensation, whatever).
Such articles should be read with an eye of scrutiny and an ounce of salt.
Debt is a serious matter. Does that include confiscating the domain and reselling it?
Good luck. How exactly are they going to get someone to pay $1,000,000,000,000?
Damn this is the LAST thing I was thinking Microsoft was going to do. What would you expect a marketing company to do? Market the hell out of the backwards compatibility, then when you finally get them to buy the product, you slow the porting waaaaaaaay down, to just enough so you can say "we're working hard to get these games playable".
This seems entirely out of Microsoft's ordinary character. What is the world coming to?
The search? Various hot women by their name. I did a search once for pics of and it came up with 3-4 pages of results, and only one or two pictures of interest.
Skip forward several months (I haven't deleted the searching history) and I do another search for Eva Longoria I think it was, and on the first page was the --entirely unrelated-- picture of that other woman I had searched for earlier. I've seen this happen on two different occassions before when searching under the same category. Very interesting, it's like they programmed it to know when you were searching for a hot celebrity and to insert previous pages you had visited under the same category in that search. Depending on how you look at it, kinda useful, but nonetheless creepy.
Wow that's incredible. Just to inform those out there not in the know, my free (this is probably the key word; they get you on the refills later) HP printer/scanner takes $20 5mL ink cartridges. Guess how many pages 5mL is! 120. I can print at the student center at school 66% cheaper than this.
Same tech is used on road signs; swhy the letters are different sizes.
Actually, I fear crazy people who can just walk into K-Mart and arm themselves.
You can look at this situation and say that the problem is that none of the other students had guns.
But you can just as easily look at this situation and conclude that the problem is that the nutjob DID have a gun.
So your solution is 'Give everyone a gun!'. My solution is 'Don't give crazy people guns.'
Your way the crazy guy only manages to kill 3 or 4 people before someone else shoots him. My way, nobody gets shot. And your way, nobody is free. Seriously, how do you believe this shit? Who is going to decide who is crazy and who isn't? The government? Whoa, no vested interests there. Then anybody not happy with the government will be labelled "crazy".
Why oh why do we have to keep reminding you idiots about the price of freedom? Your great great etc. grandfathers gave up their lives for rights that you want to toss right back at the government. FOOL.
Google's good at providing targeted advertising, so what I would expect to see from them would be "click to see an advertisement for xxyy" where xxyy is related to the video you watched. Funny cat videos? Click for an Iams coupon.
Just be sure to spread the message. Stay away!
Oh ya? Well I patented all your all's keyboards so stfu already!!!
Blizzard just needs to let you create maxed or almost maxed characters if you already have a level 70 instead of forcing you to level through the same material over and over. If you could start a new character at level 50, that would give plenty of room to learn how to play the class. That's all they have to do to reign in the botting. You could make all the money you need from leveling alts to 70 and then doing the quests for gold.
I think keeping phones off planes for Crowd Control reasons is a very reasonable decision. I can just imagine plenty of people (a 45 year old woman comes to mind for some reason) becoming histerical over the chance that there might be a completely safe landing coming up. Her kids in school, has to talk to her husband right this minute, has to throw a fit requiring flight attendant attention, etc; basically anything you see the women do on 24 given an unfortunate event. I'd rather she not know so the flight attendants can help the pilots with anything they need, etc.
The people here smart enough to know the technical limitations to cell phone useage on airplanes are probably also smart enough to realize it would be better for them if nobody knew there were problems.
Also I get the feeling those "satellite TV" feeds are just pre-recorded-and-played-back videos.
Just use a copy of a dead Mac; it's not like they're hard to find.
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That was a very sneaky troll/flamebait attempt. I almost missed it.Anyone else think the voice is creepy? It's more realistic than other automated voice systems, but still doesn't sound human. Maybe they hit the uncanny valley.
The voice was a guy though; perhaps that's what I think is wrong. All the other automated voices I've heard (local transit system, 1-800-free-411, etc; have all used female voices. Perhaps the softness of a female voice helps gloss over the realism flaws in the voice?