Enjoy traveling by airplane. Get on an airplane without taking off my shoes. Believe that America would never torture anyone, and everyone received due process. Click on a odd ball link about terrorism and wonder if I am being put in a database somewhere. Bring a screwdriver or nail clippers with me on an airplane. Use the word terrorist in a post and wonder if I am being put in a database somewhere. Believe my communications were not monitored.
Have faith in the election process.
Feel proud to be an American Citizen.
You must live in a cave if your life has not been impacted by this president.
No, it has more to do with how much data the snoops can store per person per month, so they are trying to limit it somehow. Their copy of all your data takes a lot of disk space, even with compression. This is a sign they can't keep up.
My MacBook Pro came with BootCamp and OS X and Windows installed. I booted into Windows once. Something is just wrong with seeing the windows desktop framed in an apple laptop bezel cover. I reminded myself why I got a Mac in the first place, rebooted, and eventually nixed the Windows install, no pun intended.
I would argue that with a central bank, a plot of your market over time looks like a sinewave with a slight uptrend. Without a central bank, it's just the uptrend. You don't get booms, but you don't get busts either. A truly free market constantly corrects itself. Where would the money for a boom come from if it can't just be created out of thin air?
I've never done anything like that either, but I have heard of people leaving a.txt file in the startup folder telling people their systems are hacked and telling them to run windows update.
At the border yes, but I recall sniffing direct connections to Verizon (and others) and there are usually several systems on your netblock infected with something and you will see probes from them.
Even my parents and friends without a clue often need to use file sharing.
And I'll bet they use the modern version of sneaker-net: USB drives. If they are without clue, I seriously doubt they would be able to get two systems talking on a network. Windows is so damn finicky between versions that I usually end up firing up the FTP server if I don't have a USB drive. Muck with this enough "to get it working" and parental users end up having their whole drive shared with guest access.
And it's just great to know that there are these huge gaping holes that have obviously been seen in the wild but not made public yet. I think in the old days, black hats wrote worms that made a huge splash in the news. Now, when there are vulnerabilities found, the underground keeps it quiet, and abuses the hell out of it stealthily. Why go for headlines when you can steal identities?
Can you imagine finding the source of how someone keeps owning your boxen, then realizing the magnitude of the hole? After reporting it to Microsoft there are probably weeks where you have a wide-open backdoor to every Windows system connected to the internet. Just click the pi...
We used to dream of having a battery! We had to make bits with magnets strapped to our teeth, stand outside in a bucket of icewater, and the colder it was the faster we could download!
Someone once posted a link to this wiki article. Without reading the article, just looking at the caption and the main graphic, I instantly realized I had a justification for never playing WoW again. I don't want to be that rat. I was being that rat. I never touched it again, sadly they have got an extra month of fees from me because I don't want to go near it to cancel.
Rather fitting though, it was all the slashdot articles that made me go, "WTF is this WoW all about anyways?" So it's only fitting that a slashdot comment provides the antidote. Thankfully it didn't eat any more of my life.
Maybe they are buying firewalls from China. This is not unprecedented by any means. But luckily, since a lot of the internet is across an undersea cable, you won't notice an extra 10ms of latency while all your data is filtered.
You do have a distinct geographical disadvantage, being a continent and all. Avian carriers could make a comeback though.
That's what all my plants do. I thought they were supposed to. They are just like cut flowers, but they last a few weeks longer, right? I love my golden bonsai!
Don't you get it yet? The shopping season is all about taxes. You file your income taxes by april so the govt can count/collect it all by summer, then in winter they make up a holiday that convinces everyone to spend spend spend so they can collect tax revenues. It might be reversed for you Aussies, when do you pay taxes?
And did you notice that every store has a frickin holiday section now, it just goes xmas to valentines to easter to mothers day to dads and grads to cheap chinese summer toys to Halloween to thanksgiving and repeat.
And your last comment is the icing on the cake, the star on the xmas tree, the big box under the tree. You are actually feeling guilty for talking that way! You assume that everyone will negatively paint you a "Scrooge" if you don't participate in the scam. That's why it's such a great scam. And that is why even though people can't afford it and they really don't need it, they BUY it anyways, and the cycle continues.
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Enjoy traveling by airplane. Get on an airplane without taking off my shoes. Believe that America would never torture anyone, and everyone received due process. Click on a odd ball link about terrorism and wonder if I am being put in a database somewhere. Bring a screwdriver or nail clippers with me on an airplane. Use the word terrorist in a post and wonder if I am being put in a database somewhere. Believe my communications were not monitored.
Have faith in the election process.
Feel proud to be an American Citizen.
You must live in a cave if your life has not been impacted by this president.
is the verb "laughing my ass off?"
No, it has more to do with how much data the snoops can store per person per month, so they are trying to limit it somehow. Their copy of all your data takes a lot of disk space, even with compression. This is a sign they can't keep up.
Why not just use the fieggen shoelace knot itself?
Why wasn't I taught this when I was younger? All these damn posts and not one about a new way to tie your shoes.
My MacBook Pro came with BootCamp and OS X and Windows installed. I booted into Windows once. Something is just wrong with seeing the windows desktop framed in an apple laptop bezel cover. I reminded myself why I got a Mac in the first place, rebooted, and eventually nixed the Windows install, no pun intended.
I would argue that with a central bank, a plot of your market over time looks like a sinewave with a slight uptrend. Without a central bank, it's just the uptrend. You don't get booms, but you don't get busts either. A truly free market constantly corrects itself. Where would the money for a boom come from if it can't just be created out of thin air?
> ...the model changed in the real world - and the computer models the analysts made didn't.
Duh! Haven't you heard there is a shortage of COBOL programmers!??
I've never done anything like that either, but I have heard of people leaving a .txt file in the startup folder telling people their systems are hacked and telling them to run windows update.
At the border yes, but I recall sniffing direct connections to Verizon (and others) and there are usually several systems on your netblock infected with something and you will see probes from them.
If you disconnect from the network, you are no longer vulnerable!
Yeah but you only get half-duplex unless you learn circular breathing...
Even my parents and friends without a clue often need to use file sharing.
And I'll bet they use the modern version of sneaker-net: USB drives. If they are without clue, I seriously doubt they would be able to get two systems talking on a network. Windows is so damn finicky between versions that I usually end up firing up the FTP server if I don't have a USB drive. Muck with this enough "to get it working" and parental users end up having their whole drive shared with guest access.
And it's just great to know that there are these huge gaping holes that have obviously been seen in the wild but not made public yet. I think in the old days, black hats wrote worms that made a huge splash in the news. Now, when there are vulnerabilities found, the underground keeps it quiet, and abuses the hell out of it stealthily. Why go for headlines when you can steal identities?
Can you imagine finding the source of how someone keeps owning your boxen, then realizing the magnitude of the hole? After reporting it to Microsoft there are probably weeks where you have a wide-open backdoor to every Windows system connected to the internet. Just click the pi...
We used to dream of having a battery! We had to make bits with magnets strapped to our teeth, stand outside in a bucket of icewater, and the colder it was the faster we could download!
Yeah, and WTF am I supposed to do with all these AppleTalk connectors?!?
If you need firewire, get a mac that has it.
If you need to bitch, bitch about macs not having frickin serial ports.
Or maybe they could only identify 56 beyond reasonable doubt.
Someone once posted a link to this wiki article. Without reading the article, just looking at the caption and the main graphic, I instantly realized I had a justification for never playing WoW again. I don't want to be that rat. I was being that rat. I never touched it again, sadly they have got an extra month of fees from me because I don't want to go near it to cancel.
Rather fitting though, it was all the slashdot articles that made me go, "WTF is this WoW all about anyways?" So it's only fitting that a slashdot comment provides the antidote. Thankfully it didn't eat any more of my life.
No, but it does explain where Half-Elves come from.
Killed a bunch of those on my balcony. They last a lot longer though.
Maybe they are buying firewalls from China. This is not unprecedented by any means. But luckily, since a lot of the internet is across an undersea cable, you won't notice an extra 10ms of latency while all your data is filtered.
You do have a distinct geographical disadvantage, being a continent and all. Avian carriers could make a comeback though.
> Maybe this robot will inspire people to go the extra step and get a real one...
Kinda like how the Sims helped me figure out where all the flies were coming from.
Sunlight, silly. In one way or another, it's all sunlight.
That's what all my plants do. I thought they were supposed to. They are just like cut flowers, but they last a few weeks longer, right? I love my golden bonsai!
Don't you get it yet? The shopping season is all about taxes. You file your income taxes by april so the govt can count/collect it all by summer, then in winter they make up a holiday that convinces everyone to spend spend spend so they can collect tax revenues. It might be reversed for you Aussies, when do you pay taxes?
And did you notice that every store has a frickin holiday section now, it just goes xmas to valentines to easter to mothers day to dads and grads to cheap chinese summer toys to Halloween to thanksgiving and repeat.
And your last comment is the icing on the cake, the star on the xmas tree, the big box under the tree. You are actually feeling guilty for talking that way! You assume that everyone will negatively paint you a "Scrooge" if you don't participate in the scam. That's why it's such a great scam. And that is why even though people can't afford it and they really don't need it, they BUY it anyways, and the cycle continues.
I hate it, but I appreciate it for its elegance.
"It's all plumbing and electrical work."
And here I was thinking it was like rocket science.
Hey babe, wanna go for a ride in a fighter jet?
vs.
Hey babe, wanna go see my collider?
Fighter jet wins.