It's a reference to the old practice of shaking an instant (Polariod) picture to get it to dry faster. Also a now famous line from the song "Hey Ya" by OutKast and the second reason is probably why it's been tagged that way.
You are correct the gp loses. Wikipedia quotes This text Quoted below for the lazy:=
NAME: Originally, his name was pronounced COL-bert. "But my dad always wanted to be Col-BEAR... so (he) said to us, 'You can be anything you want.' And so we made a choice, and it's about half and half. The girls for the most part are like, 'Get over it, you're Colbert,' but I was so young when this choice was given to us, I think that if somebody woke me up in the middle of the night and slapped me across the face I'd still say Stephen Col-BEAR. But if people don't like what I do on this show, I say, 'That's Stephen Col-BEAR, I'm Stephen Colbert.' "
When I was having problems with broadband a few years ago I found, (via either the thinkbroadband.com or zen adsl pages) a page which showed the state of the exchanges and when BT were likely to be addressing said issue. Doubt I could find it easily now, but what struck me then, was how many exchanges were suffering issues for ages and BT had no scheduled interest to sort the problem. You could be complaining to your ISP, having checks of your line - it would all be academic.
Subs go through the Suez canal? That must really be problematic, I don't know much about navigating it but they must lose quite a bit of secrecy when entering.
If you read about the history of Faslane (and I have) it was decided to put the base there because it was away from a built up area (much more so than the other naval bases during the war) but wasn't too far away from a large population that could work there.
The UK government had to negotiate more with dockyards in the area rather than the local populace.
Plus I can't think of a place where a nuclear accident wouldn't have an impact on the population
It would be massively more exciting if they didn't keep throwing adverts and extended half time breaks in. It's a great way to lose the tension and the moment - several minutes of drinks adverts.
PS - if you need Cheerleaders, you don't have an atmosphere.
Other people have made a similar point. But I think it should be reinforced that Indymedia might not be telling the truth. So many people have been so quick to believe the story that they have neglected to ask themselves, if the story is accurate. The one thing the police have done is not trust the word of a site that might not have an honest track record. Why give the police anything if they haven't got a warrant? I wonder if the police just decided that they might still be able to get the IP because they have better hackers than Indymedia. I imagine SOCA (like the feds)would have an interest in this one.
Personally, I have never understood how utilities might wind up in a situation where their systems may be vulnerable to a malware attack. I would think that the critical systems in utilities would be offline and running some sort of highly application-specific software, but I could be wrong.
Even our (the UK's) national electricity grid (and supergrid) are administered remotely by control centres. A control centre monitors the monitoring stations and controls the various control switches around the country from afar. For this to happen everything has to be online. Although perhaps just not TCP/IP using the phone network, they still need to be online. However I must admit that the control software I saw was on Unix systems and only running the control software (apparently because it had to be real time).
Win2k is a decade old. Stable or not, you can't expect companies to go on supporting it forever.
Why not? If there are enough users (especially large businesses) and people paying for support (i.e. licensed or bespoke software) then why cut off customers?
Or to put it correctly he has been an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) Officers are one up on members (who are MBEs), there are also Commanders (CBEs) above Officers and below Knights but CBEs are rarely given to those from the world of the arts.
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Apologies.
I did wonder but I couldn't see anything facetious about the post so concluded it was serious.
You took that seriously. How lame are you?
I can't believe you posted that as AC. That deserves a Knighthood.
It's a reference to the old practice of shaking an instant (Polariod) picture to get it to dry faster. Also a now famous line from the song "Hey Ya" by OutKast and the second reason is probably why it's been tagged that way.
"Hey Ya" by OutKast. Best pop song of the new millennium, haven't found anyone yet who dislikes it.
(Apart from the freaks on here who I'm sure would love the chance to dislike)
NAME: Originally, his name was pronounced COL-bert. "But my dad always wanted to be Col-BEAR ... so (he) said to us, 'You can be anything you want.' And so we made a choice, and it's about half and half. The girls for the most part are like, 'Get over it, you're Colbert,' but I was so young when this choice was given to us, I think that if somebody woke me up in the middle of the night and slapped me across the face I'd still say Stephen Col-BEAR. But if people don't like what I do on this show, I say, 'That's Stephen Col-BEAR, I'm Stephen Colbert.' "
When I was having problems with broadband a few years ago I found, (via either the thinkbroadband.com or zen adsl pages) a page which showed the state of the exchanges and when BT were likely to be addressing said issue.
Doubt I could find it easily now, but what struck me then, was how many exchanges were suffering issues for ages and BT had no scheduled interest to sort the problem. You could be complaining to your ISP, having checks of your line - it would all be academic.
Subs go through the Suez canal?
That must really be problematic, I don't know much about navigating it but they must lose quite a bit of secrecy when entering.
As you will note[1], becoming Skynet is so frigging unlikely and demanding that it will never happen.
No. Never.
I think the parent was being sarcastic. Not that your informative post is unwelcome.
Good point - The gene pool could do with some bleach
If you read about the history of Faslane (and I have) it was decided to put the base there because it was away from a built up area (much more so than the other naval bases during the war) but wasn't too far away from a large population that could work there.
The UK government had to negotiate more with dockyards in the area rather than the local populace.
Plus I can't think of a place where a nuclear accident wouldn't have an impact on the population
I thought that too.
"I haven't noticed an increase". . . "but then I use noscript and ABP".
The winner in the browser wars is Firefox but not because of itself, because of Noscript and ABP.
It would be massively more exciting if they didn't keep throwing adverts and extended half time breaks in. It's a great way to lose the tension and the moment - several minutes of drinks adverts.
PS - if you need Cheerleaders, you don't have an atmosphere.
Other people have made a similar point. But I think it should be reinforced that Indymedia might not be telling the truth. So many people have been so quick to believe the story that they have neglected to ask themselves, if the story is accurate.
The one thing the police have done is not trust the word of a site that might not have an honest track record. Why give the police anything if they haven't got a warrant?
I wonder if the police just decided that they might still be able to get the IP because they have better hackers than Indymedia. I imagine SOCA (like the feds)would have an interest in this one.
I can't believe people still haven't heard of Noscript
It (along with adblock plus) is the reason Firefox is the most secure browser.
The MOD doesn't comment on submarines especially the nuclear boats so we will never know.
The whole of MOD and military is moving to one windows system called DII and it's costing a lot http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/11/19/228122/mods-5bn-defence-information-infrastructure-hits-major.htm
From the bottom of the article -
Some of the planned DII technologies
-Computer Associates helpdesk and service catalogue
-Windows XP and Vista
-Proxima BSM business service reporting
-HP Radia software management
-MicroMuse Netcool system management
-Computer Associates Argis system management
-Quest Active Role Server for user setup
-NDL Metascybe Active Conductor for terminal emulation
-HP protect tools; Sanctuary, NAI McAfee for security
-Veritas Netbackup for back-up/clustering
- Verity enterprise search
- Exchange and Boldon James for medium and high grade messaging
- K2.net for workflow
- Microsoft Adam for enterprise directory
Almost an exercise in doing things badly.
The MOD definitely didn't cut expenses. They are spending a hell of a lot installing XP everywhere http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2008/07/it-defence.html
But then what do you expect when EDS are involved?
Nice. Reminds me why I don't block ACs altogether.
Personally, I have never understood how utilities might wind up in a situation where their systems may be vulnerable to a malware attack. I would think that the critical systems in utilities would be offline and running some sort of highly application-specific software, but I could be wrong.
Even our (the UK's) national electricity grid (and supergrid) are administered remotely by control centres. A control centre monitors the monitoring stations and controls the various control switches around the country from afar. For this to happen everything has to be online. Although perhaps just not TCP/IP using the phone network, they still need to be online. However I must admit that the control software I saw was on Unix systems and only running the control software (apparently because it had to be real time).
Win2k is a decade old. Stable or not, you can't expect companies to go on supporting it forever.
Why not? If there are enough users (especially large businesses) and people paying for support (i.e. licensed or bespoke software) then why cut off customers?
Or to put it correctly he has been an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Officers are one up on members (who are MBEs), there are also Commanders (CBEs) above Officers and below Knights but CBEs are rarely given to those from the world of the arts.
Beautiful, I almost forgot how good b3ta images were.
I've been on these forums for a few years, and I have never seen such a concise explanation of what the hell this is all about.
Cheers for clearing up my confusion on all this.