You do NOT know how smart 9-year-old girls really are. If you were a parent, or a 9-year-old boy or girl, you would know the correct answer: 9-year-old girls are geniuses with tech. Seriously, what's so hard about opening transmission? It comes preinstalled on Linux distributions. Open up firefox, hit a magnet link, and it asks "do you want to open this link with 'transmission'?" It also gives you the option of switching the default torrent app to Ktorrent.;>P
It's so fvkcing easy to click on links in the browser and get a torrent download started, even an ADULT could do it. Any child can do it without a problem. The trick is sometimes finding the torrent or magnet link in the first place.
She can't be that smart... she got caught didn't she?:)
Also, you'll likely find kids with parents who can't or won't help them on the computer can be a bit better at it too. My kids always want to take the easy way out and get dad to do it for them, but it's amazing what they can do when they really want something done and you won't help them right now.
Had your home router sync'd with such a server and been rebooted, it would have booted with the wrong time, and then wouldn't have accepted the corrected time when the error was fixed...
Why would it have accepted the big skew the first time, but not the second?
A home router would typically not have a battery backed clock, and so on boot would simply accept whatever time it was given by the ntp server. Once it's up and running though it shouldn't accept a 12 year skew. My home router (openwrt) boots to something like 1/1/1970 I think.
did happen. The Y2K disaster did not thanks to a lot of money and a lot of people working to fix the bug.
Yet lots of other people did absolutely nothing, and the disaster didn't happen for them either. I worked on Y2K. When we were testing, we tried booting early versions of MSDOS, Windows, OS/2, Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS. The older the better. None of these had a problem when the date transitioned. Or at least (in the case of Windows 3.0), nothing that a reboot wouldn't fix. The situation was similar with applications. We found a few applications that needed to be restarted after the date transitioned, but there were no show stoppers.
Y2K was hyped up by the press and by software vendors peddling "critical" upgrades.
the realtime clock in your PC bios in that era stored the date in BCD form (4 bits per digit) and often either had a problem at transition, or just didn't work. Easily fixable with a boot-time patch or something, but still a problem that needed to be addressed.
The satellite images at www.bom.vic.gov.au showed the year as 19100 for a while. Again, not a show stopper but still an indication that someone didn't fix a problem that should have been fixed.
Governments are harmful. That they may provide a benefit for some people in some situations ignores the fact that they had to use force to obtain that benefit from others.
Close. Harmful governments are harmful, just like obvious troll is obvious.
And end-user systems certainly don't accept that large a skew. ntpd on end-user systems would just have been unable to sync their time while the servers were affected.
Had your home router sync'd with such a server and been rebooted, it would have booted with the wrong time, and then wouldn't have accepted the corrected time when the error was fixed...
I can do this. I remember as a kid having to write out the numbers 1-100 in a 10x10 grid so I just started doing it and got almost immediately distracted thinking about something else and the next thing I know it's done, sort of. For some reason, I managed to skip a few numbers here and there and had to rub it out and do it again, painstakingly trying not to get distracted.
Same with the maths question sheets they used to give us in primary school. Done with barely a conscious thought, but riddled with off-by-one and forgot-to-carry-the-seven errors.
Simply dropping something heavy or even coughing would do, and could circumvent the arrest if you did it the right way.
If I was the TSA agent, i'd be asking you a couple of questions about the device if I really thought it might be a bomb, before I opened it. I'd also make you open it too:). I'm guessing you are a cleanshaven white male too, or the story might have been a bit different (unless the TSA agent was completely different to the actors in any of the other stories i've heard about airport security)
And Apple is possibly not even hit by this theft directly
They are hit directly, but not like you think. Firstly, someone is now out a few boxes of iPads, so they have to be replaced. More money for Apple. Also, assuming these iPads get sold and the new "owners" start buying apps, there are now even more app sales. Even more money for Apple.
It might be in the insurers interest to brick these stolen devices and make them unusable, but it's not in Apples interest.
Data is data. It doesn't matter if it's goatse or the local church newsletter.
You won't be saying that if those packets get transposed... some poor guy will sit down for a quiet evening of contemplating goatse and instead will be confronted with the word of god!
I'm uncomfortably reminded of the Facilitated Communication scam, except replacing holding their hand with an fMRI scanner. I'd hope no one dies based on cutting edge research into interpreting brain scans.
I'm more worried about someone being unnecessarily kept alive and hogging all those delicious organs...
Except that gigabytes per month does not reasonably convert to business costs.
A ruling that means they can only charge for 80% of the volume that they were previously charging for does convert perfectly to a business cost though.
Including ATM overhead, and probably even just the AAL5 overhead, would probably be grounds for a lawsuit because that overhead is an artifact of AT&T's network design that is invisible to the user and out of the user's control. What would you do if a shipper charged you by the pound to ship a box and then also billed you for the weight of a hand truck that they decided to send along for their own convenience in handling your package?
I'd complain, and then the shipper would subtract the weight of the hand truck (20% of the weight of the box) and then mark up their per weight prices by 30% saying their had been an increase to the cost of doing business. Which is more-or-less what AT&T will end up doing if they need to adjust the way they calculate usage.
Why are you defending this practice? Lets face it, once they have the infrastructure in place, they dont need to charge extra for it. Sure bandwidth costs may increase as usage increases, but so what.. they are charging for it. Why is everyone so complacent about this crap?
If you didn't use so much traffic downloading your movies they wouldn't need to spend so much extra money on infrastructure. Why should my internet costs go up to support your browsing habits??
That was my thought too. I am able to jump and stay in the air for a short amount of time, therefore it is only a matter of time before I can stay in the air indefinitely.
Most of these "privacy concern" articles are things that can be handled by simply going home to your wife and kids when you are supposed to. Sounds like a lot of folks with these "privacy concerns" are just trying to hide their marital affairs.
This is the problem with privacy. People take one very narrow slice of the pie and run with it. If you're cheating on your spouse and exposing him/her to disease etc then you get what you deserve, so I agree with you there, but what if you secretly liked to dress up in women's clothes and go dancing in the middle of the night, or attend late night screenings of Alan Smithee productions? Those are the sort of things that society in general would frown on but are really nobodies business but your own and your right to privacy should be protected.
That said, if you wear one of these while doing any of the above and then share that information with the world, you're an idiot.
If you wear the thing on your wrist and it detects motion then I would have thought that the excuse "I woke up in the middle of the night and was thinking about you" would have been plausible...
Kind of like infinity, but just a little bit less.
I've been doing a bit of work with pacemaker clusters lately, and infinity there is defined to be 1000000, so I guess "almost infinite" is around 999998.
More likely, "almost infinite" means that obviously they know it's not actually infinite, but there are more than they'll ever get to analyse in their lifetimes so the difference doesn't have any meaning.
That's fine, as long as all parties involved are aware of the situation. I guess you were so excited at the prospect of TWO girls that you forgot about that bit. This guy didn't have two girlfriends, he had a wife and a secret lover. There are enough diseases floating around these days that if i was the wronged partner i'd be pretty pissed off on that basis alone, and that's before you bring all the trust issues into it.
If you would violate the trust of someone you made a marriage vow to, I wouldn't trust you with state secrets. All the enemy has to do is set a few hot babes onto you and you'd cave instantly.
The original Elite was such a great space game for it's day, I played it on the C64 when I was in my twenties. The game used a unique copy protection, a clear plastic prism-like lens that you had to hold up to the screen at just the right distance, which made the obscured code understandable to be typed in to start the game loading. What a huge pita it was to use! I lost the lens and drove to the company's New Jersey office, walked right into the second floor offices (there was no need yet for security in the 80's), where about 20 smiling, happy people were using actual modern IBM computers in a very pleasant office enviornment. I explained to the manager why I was there, was given a little tour of the place, and he reaches into an open cardboard box that had hundreds of those precious decoder lenses, and gave me two of them, in case I lost another. I hope they can live up to the original when they do this remake, but please, lose the "lens based" copy protection!
Lenslock(sp?) seemed to work okay on the Amstrad CPC 8 bit computers but they must have been crap on any computer that could use a TV as a display (Amstrad came with its own monitor so the dots were a known size)
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You do NOT know how smart 9-year-old girls really are. If you were a parent, or a 9-year-old boy or girl, you would know the correct answer: 9-year-old girls are geniuses with tech. Seriously, what's so hard about opening transmission? It comes preinstalled on Linux distributions. Open up firefox, hit a magnet link, and it asks "do you want to open this link with 'transmission'?" It also gives you the option of switching the default torrent app to Ktorrent. ;>P
It's so fvkcing easy to click on links in the browser and get a torrent download started, even an ADULT could do it. Any child can do it without a problem. The trick is sometimes finding the torrent or magnet link in the first place.
She can't be that smart... she got caught didn't she? :)
Also, you'll likely find kids with parents who can't or won't help them on the computer can be a bit better at it too. My kids always want to take the easy way out and get dad to do it for them, but it's amazing what they can do when they really want something done and you won't help them right now.
Destroy badge, get expelled for destruction of school property.
Almost... try "_Get caught_ destroying badge, get expelled for destruction of school property."
Had your home router sync'd with such a server and been rebooted, it would have booted with the wrong time, and then wouldn't have accepted the corrected time when the error was fixed...
Why would it have accepted the big skew the first time, but not the second?
A home router would typically not have a battery backed clock, and so on boot would simply accept whatever time it was given by the ntp server. Once it's up and running though it shouldn't accept a 12 year skew. My home router (openwrt) boots to something like 1/1/1970 I think.
did happen. The Y2K disaster did not thanks to a lot of money and a lot of people working to fix the bug.
Yet lots of other people did absolutely nothing, and the disaster didn't happen for them either. I worked on Y2K. When we were testing, we tried booting early versions of MSDOS, Windows, OS/2, Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS. The older the better. None of these had a problem when the date transitioned. Or at least (in the case of Windows 3.0), nothing that a reboot wouldn't fix. The situation was similar with applications. We found a few applications that needed to be restarted after the date transitioned, but there were no show stoppers.
Y2K was hyped up by the press and by software vendors peddling "critical" upgrades.
the realtime clock in your PC bios in that era stored the date in BCD form (4 bits per digit) and often either had a problem at transition, or just didn't work. Easily fixable with a boot-time patch or something, but still a problem that needed to be addressed.
The satellite images at www.bom.vic.gov.au showed the year as 19100 for a while. Again, not a show stopper but still an indication that someone didn't fix a problem that should have been fixed.
Governments are harmful. That they may provide a benefit for some people in some situations ignores the fact that they had to use force to obtain that benefit from others.
Close. Harmful governments are harmful, just like obvious troll is obvious.
And end-user systems certainly don't accept that large a skew. ntpd on end-user systems would just have been unable to sync their time while the servers were affected.
Had your home router sync'd with such a server and been rebooted, it would have booted with the wrong time, and then wouldn't have accepted the corrected time when the error was fixed...
I can do this. I remember as a kid having to write out the numbers 1-100 in a 10x10 grid so I just started doing it and got almost immediately distracted thinking about something else and the next thing I know it's done, sort of. For some reason, I managed to skip a few numbers here and there and had to rub it out and do it again, painstakingly trying not to get distracted.
Same with the maths question sheets they used to give us in primary school. Done with barely a conscious thought, but riddled with off-by-one and forgot-to-carry-the-seven errors.
I can do this, just not very well.
Simply dropping something heavy or even coughing would do, and could circumvent the arrest if you did it the right way.
If I was the TSA agent, i'd be asking you a couple of questions about the device if I really thought it might be a bomb, before I opened it. I'd also make you open it too :). I'm guessing you are a cleanshaven white male too, or the story might have been a bit different (unless the TSA agent was completely different to the actors in any of the other stories i've heard about airport security)
Take that Freedom and creativity!
That's curious... if I was your enemy that's exactly what i'd want to take from you.
And Apple is possibly not even hit by this theft directly
They are hit directly, but not like you think. Firstly, someone is now out a few boxes of iPads, so they have to be replaced. More money for Apple. Also, assuming these iPads get sold and the new "owners" start buying apps, there are now even more app sales. Even more money for Apple.
It might be in the insurers interest to brick these stolen devices and make them unusable, but it's not in Apples interest.
Data is data. It doesn't matter if it's goatse or the local church newsletter.
You won't be saying that if those packets get transposed... some poor guy will sit down for a quiet evening of contemplating goatse and instead will be confronted with the word of god!
I'm uncomfortably reminded of the Facilitated Communication scam, except replacing holding their hand with an fMRI scanner. I'd hope no one dies based on cutting edge research into interpreting brain scans.
I'm more worried about someone being unnecessarily kept alive and hogging all those delicious organs...
Except that gigabytes per month does not reasonably convert to business costs.
A ruling that means they can only charge for 80% of the volume that they were previously charging for does convert perfectly to a business cost though.
Including ATM overhead, and probably even just the AAL5 overhead, would probably be grounds for a lawsuit because that overhead is an artifact of AT&T's network design that is invisible to the user and out of the user's control. What would you do if a shipper charged you by the pound to ship a box and then also billed you for the weight of a hand truck that they decided to send along for their own convenience in handling your package?
I'd complain, and then the shipper would subtract the weight of the hand truck (20% of the weight of the box) and then mark up their per weight prices by 30% saying their had been an increase to the cost of doing business. Which is more-or-less what AT&T will end up doing if they need to adjust the way they calculate usage.
Why are you defending this practice?
Lets face it, once they have the infrastructure in place, they dont need to charge extra for it.
Sure bandwidth costs may increase as usage increases, but so what.. they are charging for it.
Why is everyone so complacent about this crap?
If you didn't use so much traffic downloading your movies they wouldn't need to spend so much extra money on infrastructure. Why should my internet costs go up to support your browsing habits??
And the cloak only does it from one direction? ... so ... multiple cloaks?
No, the cloak only prevents you being seen by a currently popular boy band.
That was my thought too. I am able to jump and stay in the air for a short amount of time, therefore it is only a matter of time before I can stay in the air indefinitely.
Most of these "privacy concern" articles are things that can be handled by simply going home to your wife and kids when you are supposed to. Sounds like a lot of folks with these "privacy concerns" are just trying to hide their marital affairs.
This is the problem with privacy. People take one very narrow slice of the pie and run with it. If you're cheating on your spouse and exposing him/her to disease etc then you get what you deserve, so I agree with you there, but what if you secretly liked to dress up in women's clothes and go dancing in the middle of the night, or attend late night screenings of Alan Smithee productions? Those are the sort of things that society in general would frown on but are really nobodies business but your own and your right to privacy should be protected.
That said, if you wear one of these while doing any of the above and then share that information with the world, you're an idiot.
If you wear the thing on your wrist and it detects motion then I would have thought that the excuse "I woke up in the middle of the night and was thinking about you" would have been plausible...
Infinity is not a quantity.
Does that make "almost infinity" == "almost not a quantity"?
What does "almost infinite" even mean?
Kind of like infinity, but just a little bit less.
I've been doing a bit of work with pacemaker clusters lately, and infinity there is defined to be 1000000, so I guess "almost infinite" is around 999998.
More likely, "almost infinite" means that obviously they know it's not actually infinite, but there are more than they'll ever get to analyse in their lifetimes so the difference doesn't have any meaning.
They don't fail to run because of incompatibility, they fail to run because win 8 includes defender by default which detects and blocks them.
oh come on. I wrote that I didn't read the article, or the summary, and even included a smiley at the end. Obvious Troll could be no more Obvious.
If current malware won't even run on windows 8, are my regular applications going to fare even better?
I haven't read TFA, or the summary, but the headline tells me that Windows 8 has some _serious_ compatibility problems!
SOME guys get to have TWO girlfriends...
That's fine, as long as all parties involved are aware of the situation. I guess you were so excited at the prospect of TWO girls that you forgot about that bit. This guy didn't have two girlfriends, he had a wife and a secret lover. There are enough diseases floating around these days that if i was the wronged partner i'd be pretty pissed off on that basis alone, and that's before you bring all the trust issues into it.
If you would violate the trust of someone you made a marriage vow to, I wouldn't trust you with state secrets. All the enemy has to do is set a few hot babes onto you and you'd cave instantly.
The original Elite was such a great space game for it's day, I played it on the C64 when I was in my twenties. The game used a unique copy protection, a clear plastic prism-like lens that you had to hold up to the screen at just the right distance, which made the obscured code understandable to be typed in to start the game loading. What a huge pita it was to use! I lost the lens and drove to the company's New Jersey office, walked right into the second floor offices (there was no need yet for security in the 80's), where about 20 smiling, happy people were using actual modern IBM computers in a very pleasant office enviornment. I explained to the manager why I was there, was given a little tour of the place, and he reaches into an open cardboard box that had hundreds of those precious decoder lenses, and gave me two of them, in case I lost another. I hope they can live up to the original when they do this remake, but please, lose the "lens based" copy protection!
Lenslock(sp?) seemed to work okay on the Amstrad CPC 8 bit computers but they must have been crap on any computer that could use a TV as a display (Amstrad came with its own monitor so the dots were a known size)