FWIW, I believe that North Korea made some threats about sabotaging South Korea's Nuclear piles. That, to me, is a more credible reason for taking down their internet...
How can North Korea threaten to sabotage something that South Korea doesn't admit to?
"Nuclear piles" is a synonym for "nuclear reactors" and South Korea definitely have some of these.
I can't recall for sure whether or not I even saw the second one
More likely this reflects the degree of content overload to which you've subjected yourself binge-watching netflix/amazon-prime/google-play/hulu/torrent video for the past two years.
I don't now and never have used any of Netflix, Amazon Prime, Google Play*, or Hulu video. (*I've purchased one app through G-Play, a Chinese character training game.)
You didn't mention YouTube, which I do use occasionally. Although I find myself growing less comfortable with the idea of someone knowing every video I watch...
I probably watch on average 3-4 hours a week. Last 3 things I saw on YouTube that weren't just a few random song videos were Journey To The West (the 1986 version with Liu Xiao Ling Tong, freaking awesome even in Lo-Def and with crappy subtitles), Chicago's 1970 Tanglewood concert, and the original Kung Fu TV series. Current home intermittent video fare consists of the complete Three Stooges in order from 1935 onwards; I think I'm up to 1940 or so. Last 2 films I saw in a theatre were August: Osage County and Grace of Monaco. I occasionally watch the evening news and/or reruns of The Big Bang Theory or The Simpsons on Swedish TV.
Back to the main topic: I fear that my wife is probably going to make me go see this film whether I really want to or not. The things we do for love.
...but I can't recall for sure whether or not I even saw the second one. I think from that you can estimate my level of enthusiasm for seeing the third one.
But automation *has* been delivering on that promise, and for some decades now. See upstream posts concerning gas jockeys and bank tellers for a couple of examples.
Why do banks... NOT allow me to block access from other countries (and/or identify which country I'm visiting)?
A: You need to change banks.
My online banking allows me to block the use of my card to make in-store purchases or ATM withdrawals within and/or outside the country and/or EU. I can also enable or disable the use of my card for online purchases. I can also enable or disable any use of the card for other than logging into online banking from within the country--that last item takes a call to the bank. (Not sure whether not being able to lock yourself out unless you're overseas is a good or bad thing.) I can also set and change separate limits on in-store purchases, cash withdrawals, and online purchases. Doing any of these things takes about 2 minutes, and I can do any of them any time that it suits me.
Banking online with my bank also requires multiple factors--the card, a card reader issued by the bank, a government-issued personal ID number, and the PIN--and uses multiple challenge/response to confirm login and any monetary transactions, with a time limit of 4 minutes before the codes become invalid and you must start the authentication process over from scratch. I'm aware that there's no such thing as perfect security, but this seems to run pretty close.
Another thing that bothered me is that the documentation consists mostly of examples. However, if I read documentation I don't want a code fragment to copy-paste, I want to read the specification for a particular method. In particular, how it handles edge cases. That information was usually missing. Of course you can test the behavior, but there is no guarantee the next release will have the same behavior if the behavior was never documented. All in all, it didn't feel like a good platform for writing reliable applications.
As someone who works on API documentation (no, nothing to do with.NET, thank goodness), I really wish you would tell this to the marketing types at work who keep telling me, "Nobody wants... [*grimace*] specs. Just give them lots of examples to work from." And then smack them a couple of times.
Go back and read the comment I was responding to. Then read my response. Then ask yourself, "How did I manage so completely to fail to answer Zontar's question?"
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That depends on the device and how it's set up.
Here's one such report, right here on Slashdot.
FWIW, I believe that North Korea made some threats about sabotaging South Korea's Nuclear piles. That, to me, is a more credible reason for taking down their internet...
How can North Korea threaten to sabotage something that South Korea doesn't admit to?
"Nuclear piles" is a synonym for "nuclear reactors" and South Korea definitely have some of these.
I can't recall for sure whether or not I even saw the second one
More likely this reflects the degree of content overload to which you've subjected yourself binge-watching netflix/amazon-prime/google-play/hulu/torrent video for the past two years.
I don't now and never have used any of Netflix, Amazon Prime, Google Play*, or Hulu video. (*I've purchased one app through G-Play, a Chinese character training game.)
You didn't mention YouTube, which I do use occasionally. Although I find myself growing less comfortable with the idea of someone knowing every video I watch...
I probably watch on average 3-4 hours a week. Last 3 things I saw on YouTube that weren't just a few random song videos were Journey To The West (the 1986 version with Liu Xiao Ling Tong, freaking awesome even in Lo-Def and with crappy subtitles), Chicago's 1970 Tanglewood concert, and the original Kung Fu TV series. Current home intermittent video fare consists of the complete Three Stooges in order from 1935 onwards; I think I'm up to 1940 or so. Last 2 films I saw in a theatre were August: Osage County and Grace of Monaco. I occasionally watch the evening news and/or reruns of The Big Bang Theory or The Simpsons on Swedish TV.
Back to the main topic: I fear that my wife is probably going to make me go see this film whether I really want to or not. The things we do for love.
...but I can't recall for sure whether or not I even saw the second one. I think from that you can estimate my level of enthusiasm for seeing the third one.
Rock&Roll. Wish I had mod points today. :)
Hi, I'm a moron who not only enjoys bumping into trees because I don't want to know that I'm in a forest, I like to brag about it on Slashdot, too.
TFTFY.
Nouns take apostrophes for the possessive. Pronouns do not.
Now that we've completed our third-grade review lesson, can we perhaps get back to discussing DRM, or cats, or something remotely on-topic?
Cats tend to do that even when they're getting food from humans.
Please understand that the portion of the post you responded to was in fact quoted verbatim from TFS which you evidently did not bother to read.
I didn't say anything about a requirement that it happen everywhere all at once, since I don't see any.
Do you use the same excuses when you write code that doesn't compile?
But automation *has* been delivering on that promise, and for some decades now. See upstream posts concerning gas jockeys and bank tellers for a couple of examples.
And what is the incentive for the people owning the machines to give away everything they make for nothing?
Not being torn limb from limb by a hungry, homeless, and angry mob.
Man, where's that +1, Troll moderation option when you need it?
Most people who want to eat can still find food.
Why do banks ... NOT allow me to block access from other countries (and/or identify which country I'm visiting)?
A: You need to change banks.
My online banking allows me to block the use of my card to make in-store purchases or ATM withdrawals within and/or outside the country and/or EU. I can also enable or disable the use of my card for online purchases. I can also enable or disable any use of the card for other than logging into online banking from within the country--that last item takes a call to the bank. (Not sure whether not being able to lock yourself out unless you're overseas is a good or bad thing.) I can also set and change separate limits on in-store purchases, cash withdrawals, and online purchases. Doing any of these things takes about 2 minutes, and I can do any of them any time that it suits me.
Banking online with my bank also requires multiple factors--the card, a card reader issued by the bank, a government-issued personal ID number, and the PIN--and uses multiple challenge/response to confirm login and any monetary transactions, with a time limit of 4 minutes before the codes become invalid and you must start the authentication process over from scratch. I'm aware that there's no such thing as perfect security, but this seems to run pretty close.
Now you know why I quit reading Games of Thrones after the 3rd book or so, and why I've no interest in watching the series.
Another thing that bothered me is that the documentation consists mostly of examples. However, if I read documentation I don't want a code fragment to copy-paste, I want to read the specification for a particular method. In particular, how it handles edge cases. That information was usually missing. Of course you can test the behavior, but there is no guarantee the next release will have the same behavior if the behavior was never documented. All in all, it didn't feel like a good platform for writing reliable applications.
As someone who works on API documentation (no, nothing to do with .NET, thank goodness), I really wish you would tell this to the marketing types at work who keep telling me, "Nobody wants... [*grimace*] specs. Just give them lots of examples to work from." And then smack them a couple of times.
Skatteverket and I are on pretty good terms, thanks. Meanwhile, I suggest you check to see whether your sarcasm detector is plugged in.
KGFY, ignoramus.
Go back and read the comment I was responding to. Then read my response. Then ask yourself, "How did I manage so completely to fail to answer Zontar's question?"
I dream of a world in which Sony, on the sly, seeds a few torrents of the movie. Holy plausible deniability!
It'll never happen, of course...
"The true scholar prizes all drafts, early and late."
--Mr Spock
Congratulations on completely missing the point.