So then someone with an axe to grind and a bit of perl programming know-how could pretty much remove a porn studio from the internet using the same DMCA scorched-earth tactic that these studios are, getting links to all their pages removed from all the major search engines?
The contracts for those houses typically state that you can't sell the house unless the buyer agrees to be in the HOA, so you'd just not be buying that house. But it's not such a problem -- the real estate web sites list whether they're in HOAs or not, so you can just exclude the ones that are. There are plenty of good houses out there without having to get involved with the crab people.
Couple years ago when I was in the market, I looked at 11 houses in one day. Funnily, not a single one of them was in an HOA. I made sure of that. I got an awesome house in an awesome neighborhood -- there's a guy a block away who painted his house purple, and has a car that matches the color. Part of what gives the neighborhood its character is that we don't have to worry about a bunch of fucking crab people getting up in our shit. Maybe they should build a bunch of fucking crab people next to their tardis.
If enough people were to infiltrate the HOA, could the HOA vote to disband itself? That might be a fun hobby...
He would endorse that. In the movie Water World, Bill Gates pees into what appears to be a Mr. Coffee, gets what appears to be water out of it and drinks it.
They've got Master of Orion. Ok I'm just going to close up this story, walk away and pretend I didn't see it, before I go looking for Star Control and lose the next 4 months of my life to those games again.
Gadget wanted an upgrade anyway and it failing is just a convenient excuse. My current TV's a good example. It's a 42" CRT I got with a tax refund back in '99. It's an early HDTV that doesn't have HDMI connectors. I'm just waiting for it to die for the excuse to upgrade to a larger 1080p flat panel. The only reason I haven't already is I'd want to do my entire media platform in the living room, which is really more effort than I care to put in until I have to.
Oh, I totally agree. Maybe I didn't make that clear. I'm pretty sure Comcast would send a mail to my Comcast E-mail address, which I never check. There could be a dozen such notices in there right now for all I know. I'm pretty sure the court must feel the same way -- the notice from Comcast is not sufficient notification of a lawsuit. If they felt otherwise, they might then have dinged this guy. He had the drive recycled a couple months before receiving what the court considered to be an official notification.
The reason I thought he probably had evidence backing up the dates is the court seemed to accept them without a whole lot of argument. *shrug*
Basically it works out that he'd recycled the drive prior to being aware that he personally was being sued for copyright infringement. He also didn't run out and recycle all his drives as soon as he got a letter from Comcast saying that some sort of lawsuit was in progress. I assume the guy had some evidence to back up the dates in his claims. There's no discussion about whether they asked him for the backups he had or anything. In a nutshell, I wouldn't want to have to bet my ass on the court coming to the conclusion it did in any particular case.
Opportunistic end-to-end encryption was originally in the IPv6 Sec. Somewhere along the way it went missing. Along with the FreeSwan project which had it working pretty well for IPV4 a decade and a half ago.
They've made some decisions recently that have surprised me. The whole letting the gays get married thing, I didn't really see that coming. IIRC they've also consistently said that police can't stop private citizens from taking video of them in public places. But I still hold the cynical view that they'll always come down on the side of law enforcement, even if the decision is in blatant contradiction to the constitution and standing law. I guess we'll see.
Is there a word for wanting to punch someone in the dick because they invented a stupid new word? Because payback is still required for "blog", "twerk" and "phablet". Someone might need to get punched in the dick twice for "phablet." I'm sure the Germans probably have a word for it...
I'll see your cores and raise you your boss strangling all your cores by forcing you to get all the data you were planning to process from NFS shares on 100 megabit LAN connections. Because your developers and IT department, with all the competence of a 14-year-old who just got his hands on a copy of Ruby on Rails, can't figure out how to utilize disk that every fucking machine in the company doesn't have read access to.
So install Cyanogenmod and take some of that stuff back. It's a lot nicer than the vendor-supplied bullshit that comes with your phone by default. I had to install it last time around so I could make full use of my SD card again.
MS DOS, Windows 3.1, NT, OS/2 and Linux are all close-to or past that 20 year mark too. IIRC (It's been a REALLY long time) I started playing with Linux in '95 or '96. Not to mention a lot of the more moldy older UNIXes, VMS, the IBM mainframe OSes, etc.And of course the fan fiction I wrote about a homoerotic encounter between Captain Picard and Q, which you can still find on the internet if you dig around a bit!
Yeah, I was just thinking, how are our outsourced contractors going to plagiarize code for their employers if India blocks all those web sites? Just when I was beginning to think the quality of work from those contractors couldn't get any worse...
I came to the conclusion that macs really don't handle heat very well after some research online when my old Mac Pro desktop burned up its ATI video card. There were a lot of posts out there from people who'd had the same problem, as well as a lot of people having heat-related issues with their Mac laptops. The solution at the time was to crank the fans up until the whole thing sounded like a 747 taking off. After that machine burned up its replacement video card 6 months later, I ended up slapping a lower-end nvidia card on it. It never had a problem after that -- the nvidia card couldn't get hot enough to burn itself up. That machine's going to get repurposed as a linux-running file server real soon now.
Not that I'm trying to slam Apple. They were actually really good about replacing a board in a 13" PowerPC Macbook Pro I'd purchased with their extended warranty plan some years later after I'd handed the machine down to my room mate. She'd started having problems with the screen going off and took it in to the local Apple store. They checked their computer and said the machine had the extended warranty plan (I'd forgotten I'd even purchased with it) and did the repair for free. We were both ready to write the machine off but she got another couple of years of use out of it. I'm still using a 17" Macbook pro from 2006 on a regular basis, too. it still works great for what it needs to do and nothing I could upgrade it to really seems as nice as that machine is.
Guy I never heard of thinks he can tell the company that's worth more than all the organs of every single human being in his home city how their business process sucks. Thanks, guy I never heard of! I'm sure company that's worth more than all the organs in your home city will take that to heart and start doing what you think they should be doing immediately!
Most of my data is infrequently-accessed video files. I edit them down and upload them to youtube but I keep the raw video around for future projects. A 4TB rotational drive should do me for a few years worth of videos, but I'm still tempted to set up a storage server on my network so I can play around with Hadoop's hdfs.
Well yeah. Why aren't we doing that? California's doing that, everyone else is like "No! We LIKE drunk driving!" or something. Hence my brave stand! I don't like drunk driving! I want to be able to drive home from a session in the wind tunnel (Which is in NO WAY a euphemism!) on a Friday night and not have to worry about getting T-Boned by some twat with 16 DUI convictions and a suspended license! I know that's really asking a lot, but by God that's what I'm asking for!
I have a limited sample size and haven't made a study of it. I can only draw conclusions from what I observed personally. The football obsession in the south really felt like a white culture thing. Most of the administrators and teachers were white, and they were the ones pushing it. But my point was that the academic focus of the educational system does have a significant impact on the students they produce. That system that I went through up north wanted its kids to go to college and it made that clear from the moment you walked into the building. Everything they did flowed from that, and it made a difference in a million little ways. You can add time to a system if you want to, but if the underlying system is bad, that will be pointless.
Race doesn't figure into it. The kids who had to go through the two southern schools that I attended were victims. We were all victims. I know there are plenty of good schools in the south. My sister got married and settled down in Alabama and made damn sure her kids went to good schools there. Just not the ones I went to. I've been successful in life not because of my time there, but in spite of it.
As for Michael Brown, I saw the story and thought to myself, "There can be no rest, as long as a mother must fear for her child's life every time he leaves the house." More recently I also thought, "There can be no rest as long as a wife must fear for her husband's life every time he puts on his uniform to go out on patrol." I used to think that humanity could outgrow these problems, but my increasingly-cynical view is that the only way humanity's suffering will end is when humanity ends. I still hope humanity proves me wrong. I assume this is because I was also brought up on Disney, and Disney princesses always get their Prince Charming. The rest of us probably aren't getting diddly.
I going to make a brave stand on the anti-drunk-driving side here, but I think that's a lot better than the alternative we have now of being powerless to stop them again and again until they kill someone. Seems like every few months I hear about a DUI fatality where the driver had multiple citations DUIs and for driving with a suspended license. At some point we should be able to realize that person is going to kill someone and do whatever we need to do to stop that from happening. I'm not necessarily suggesting that we lock 'em away for 5-10 years on the first citation, sometimes that's just the wakeup call someone needs to get their shit together, but I think the penalties should ramp up much more quickly and harshly than they do now.
Haha nope. Undiagnosed asthma and poor eyesight saved me from a few years of concussions. Years later Lasik fixed the latter and the former is mostly under control. Technically right now I believe I qualify as an extreme athlete. That'd blow the minds of some PE coaches from a couple decades ago, I'm sure.
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So then someone with an axe to grind and a bit of perl programming know-how could pretty much remove a porn studio from the internet using the same DMCA scorched-earth tactic that these studios are, getting links to all their pages removed from all the major search engines?
The contracts for those houses typically state that you can't sell the house unless the buyer agrees to be in the HOA, so you'd just not be buying that house. But it's not such a problem -- the real estate web sites list whether they're in HOAs or not, so you can just exclude the ones that are. There are plenty of good houses out there without having to get involved with the crab people.
If enough people were to infiltrate the HOA, could the HOA vote to disband itself? That might be a fun hobby...
They've got Master of Orion. Ok I'm just going to close up this story, walk away and pretend I didn't see it, before I go looking for Star Control and lose the next 4 months of my life to those games again.
Gadget wanted an upgrade anyway and it failing is just a convenient excuse. My current TV's a good example. It's a 42" CRT I got with a tax refund back in '99. It's an early HDTV that doesn't have HDMI connectors. I'm just waiting for it to die for the excuse to upgrade to a larger 1080p flat panel. The only reason I haven't already is I'd want to do my entire media platform in the living room, which is really more effort than I care to put in until I have to.
The reason I thought he probably had evidence backing up the dates is the court seemed to accept them without a whole lot of argument. *shrug*
Basically it works out that he'd recycled the drive prior to being aware that he personally was being sued for copyright infringement. He also didn't run out and recycle all his drives as soon as he got a letter from Comcast saying that some sort of lawsuit was in progress. I assume the guy had some evidence to back up the dates in his claims. There's no discussion about whether they asked him for the backups he had or anything. In a nutshell, I wouldn't want to have to bet my ass on the court coming to the conclusion it did in any particular case.
Opportunistic end-to-end encryption was originally in the IPv6 Sec. Somewhere along the way it went missing. Along with the FreeSwan project which had it working pretty well for IPV4 a decade and a half ago.
They've made some decisions recently that have surprised me. The whole letting the gays get married thing, I didn't really see that coming. IIRC they've also consistently said that police can't stop private citizens from taking video of them in public places. But I still hold the cynical view that they'll always come down on the side of law enforcement, even if the decision is in blatant contradiction to the constitution and standing law. I guess we'll see.
Is there a word for wanting to punch someone in the dick because they invented a stupid new word? Because payback is still required for "blog", "twerk" and "phablet". Someone might need to get punched in the dick twice for "phablet." I'm sure the Germans probably have a word for it...
A mix of Spanish and Mandarin with, oddly, a hint of Innuit. That due to global warming melting the permafrost and revealing The Artifact in 2044.
I'll see your cores and raise you your boss strangling all your cores by forcing you to get all the data you were planning to process from NFS shares on 100 megabit LAN connections. Because your developers and IT department, with all the competence of a 14-year-old who just got his hands on a copy of Ruby on Rails, can't figure out how to utilize disk that every fucking machine in the company doesn't have read access to.
Seems like your employer should issue you a phone for it, then.
So install Cyanogenmod and take some of that stuff back. It's a lot nicer than the vendor-supplied bullshit that comes with your phone by default. I had to install it last time around so I could make full use of my SD card again.
MS DOS, Windows 3.1, NT, OS/2 and Linux are all close-to or past that 20 year mark too. IIRC (It's been a REALLY long time) I started playing with Linux in '95 or '96. Not to mention a lot of the more moldy older UNIXes, VMS, the IBM mainframe OSes, etc.And of course the fan fiction I wrote about a homoerotic encounter between Captain Picard and Q, which you can still find on the internet if you dig around a bit!
Yeah, I was just thinking, how are our outsourced contractors going to plagiarize code for their employers if India blocks all those web sites? Just when I was beginning to think the quality of work from those contractors couldn't get any worse...
There were some other heat related problems with Mac laptops around that time, as well.
Not that I'm trying to slam Apple. They were actually really good about replacing a board in a 13" PowerPC Macbook Pro I'd purchased with their extended warranty plan some years later after I'd handed the machine down to my room mate. She'd started having problems with the screen going off and took it in to the local Apple store. They checked their computer and said the machine had the extended warranty plan (I'd forgotten I'd even purchased with it) and did the repair for free. We were both ready to write the machine off but she got another couple of years of use out of it. I'm still using a 17" Macbook pro from 2006 on a regular basis, too. it still works great for what it needs to do and nothing I could upgrade it to really seems as nice as that machine is.
Guy I never heard of thinks he can tell the company that's worth more than all the organs of every single human being in his home city how their business process sucks. Thanks, guy I never heard of! I'm sure company that's worth more than all the organs in your home city will take that to heart and start doing what you think they should be doing immediately!
I think we should name the NSA's jabber chatroom for them! I was going to throw "SexyFederalAgents" out there, but it's really not my best work.
Most of my data is infrequently-accessed video files. I edit them down and upload them to youtube but I keep the raw video around for future projects. A 4TB rotational drive should do me for a few years worth of videos, but I'm still tempted to set up a storage server on my network so I can play around with Hadoop's hdfs.
Well yeah. Why aren't we doing that? California's doing that, everyone else is like "No! We LIKE drunk driving!" or something. Hence my brave stand! I don't like drunk driving! I want to be able to drive home from a session in the wind tunnel (Which is in NO WAY a euphemism!) on a Friday night and not have to worry about getting T-Boned by some twat with 16 DUI convictions and a suspended license! I know that's really asking a lot, but by God that's what I'm asking for!
Race doesn't figure into it. The kids who had to go through the two southern schools that I attended were victims. We were all victims. I know there are plenty of good schools in the south. My sister got married and settled down in Alabama and made damn sure her kids went to good schools there. Just not the ones I went to. I've been successful in life not because of my time there, but in spite of it.
As for Michael Brown, I saw the story and thought to myself, "There can be no rest, as long as a mother must fear for her child's life every time he leaves the house." More recently I also thought, "There can be no rest as long as a wife must fear for her husband's life every time he puts on his uniform to go out on patrol." I used to think that humanity could outgrow these problems, but my increasingly-cynical view is that the only way humanity's suffering will end is when humanity ends. I still hope humanity proves me wrong. I assume this is because I was also brought up on Disney, and Disney princesses always get their Prince Charming. The rest of us probably aren't getting diddly.
I going to make a brave stand on the anti-drunk-driving side here, but I think that's a lot better than the alternative we have now of being powerless to stop them again and again until they kill someone. Seems like every few months I hear about a DUI fatality where the driver had multiple citations DUIs and for driving with a suspended license. At some point we should be able to realize that person is going to kill someone and do whatever we need to do to stop that from happening. I'm not necessarily suggesting that we lock 'em away for 5-10 years on the first citation, sometimes that's just the wakeup call someone needs to get their shit together, but I think the penalties should ramp up much more quickly and harshly than they do now.
Haha nope. Undiagnosed asthma and poor eyesight saved me from a few years of concussions. Years later Lasik fixed the latter and the former is mostly under control. Technically right now I believe I qualify as an extreme athlete. That'd blow the minds of some PE coaches from a couple decades ago, I'm sure.