It's far less creepy than mannequins with faces. Years back I walked by a display with several mannequins and a saleswoman that had the exact same body type it was really creepy.
As far as this nontroversy goes, I'd like to see some actual evidence that the mass media actually causes these problems. If it's really that serious a threat, I'd like to know why it isn't being taken more seriously with regards to unhealthy images of men. But, more to the point, I'd like to know how they explain incidences of similar disorders that predate the mass media or exist in countries where women aren't exposed at all to images of other women.
Encrypting the data before it goes over the wire goes a long way towards securing it. Admittedly, that's not perfect and you still have to trust the client software, but for things like backup they shouldn't be commingling data anyways.
The services to really watch are things like email, photosharing and any site that allows you to view your data directly through a web browser. Typically they'll have to be able to decrypt that data locally for that to work.
The fact that they let you create your own backup is pretty strong evidence that whomever they entrusted with the responsibility of backing up the systems was either incompetent or not provided with adequate resources. I'm guessing it's the latter but I can't rule out the former. Any competent admin is going to go looking for new work in a situation like that, it's more or less inevitable that major data loss will result and that's not going to make it easy to find a new job.
Yes, but I'm not really sure what the big deal is, it's not like that data isn't already being tracked and downloaded by 3rd parties like Google. Now, if Twitter is providing information that wasn't already public to the LoC, then that would be a big deal.
Otherwise, I'd just chalk this up to being mindful about what one does in public.
Why does that necessitate screwing around with grep? I can sort of see modifying diff, but with grep if you need that data you'd write a new program to parse it and pipe it.
That was my thought, I have a desktop and a laptop on my desk. Unless of course they come over to the employees house randomly to make sure that there aren't any unapproved of computing devices, in which case I'd be more concerned with that.
That's something people forget about. At some point it starts to make more sense to just pull some overtime or get a second job than it does to run around trying to save a few bucks.
Unless you're writing nonfiction or are already a successful author nobody pays an advance on a book that hasn't been through at least one draft. The whole notion that I can take my idea for a novel to any publisher large and small and get an advance before I've done the work to complete at least the first draft is pure fantasy. There may be a small number of celebrities that get away with that by virtue of having enough name recognition to sell a book on that alone, but for people that have to worry about bills it's not going to happen.
That's not true, care to provide some form of citation? The advance is based upon what their experts estimate that a book of that type is likely to make and is generally pretty conservative. If it ultimately doesn't sell enough copies to pay for the advance what generally happens is they don't sign you for another book. No reputable publisher is going to ask for the advance back.
Unlike the MPAA and the RIAA the deals that publishers sign with authors are pretty transparent and well tested in court.
More or less, probably the easiest way of doing it would be to boot a CDROM and load the home directory over the network if need be. I haven't gotten it figured out, but you can load ISOs directly from disk using GRUB2 if need be. http://www.panticz.de/MultiBootUSB
Yes, I can do whatever the fuck I want with things that I buy. That's the purpose of ownership. Now there are a small number of things that the government tells me I can't do with my property, but those are typically things which affect other people.
If Sony doesn't like people doing what they will with the hardware, then they have the option of not selling it. They can rent it to people or they can withdraw completely from the market. They can't have it both ways either they're selling it or they aren't. Selling a unit but retaining ownership rights is fraudulent to say the least.
Typically in cases like that it would likely wind up as a class action suit. And you'd still get basically nothing, if you're lucky you would get some trinket which is of little value to you several years later.
The issue is that if they had selected a sane DRM scheme they shouldn't have to do anything special in order to support Linux. It's just that they've chosen a DRM method that's not compatible with any particular standard that's causing the problem.
Fundamentally it's no different than in the past when websites would be completely unviewable on Linux due to requiring Flash.
The bigger issue is that Blockbuster has fewer copies in total and that the USPS seems to discriminate in its service. Sort of like how mysteriously all those Gamefly discs were being damaged in shipment even though Netflix was getting a free hand sort of all those discs.
I can't help but wonder if something similar is going on here, it takes markedly longer for discs to get here with Blockbuster than it did with Netflix.
Of course not. They might be nice people with great attitudes, I don't know them, I do however know that they didn't make such blatantly offensive comments during a recession. People are hurting and the stupid fuck implies that we should have that kind of money around to just hand over for nothing of value. My parents have the money, but switched anyways because Netflix wasn't offering anything for the extra money, nothing at all and no promise of improved selection.
Somehow that doesn't surprise me. AT&T is significantly worse than Sprint. With Sprint their customer service sucked, but I'd get a signal in more parts of the city than with any of the other carriers. AT&T by contrast can't even cover the city. It's embarrassing to be in a major city and have to worry about cell service in most parts of the city.
I don't even bother with 3G anymore because the service was so spotty. For whatever reason going between 3G and EDGE would cause timeouts, and my service was constantly going between the two unless I was sitting still. Ultimately I get much better speed by turning off the 3G completely.
Now, if Sprint or Verizon would see the light and allow phones with SIM cards on their networks like CDMA carriers do in other countries I'd almost certainly switch. Most likely T-Mobile will be getting my service next time I need domestic cell service.
Probably, but it's still no excuse, especially considering that you can't change the battery yourself. Now, if you could change the battery yourself and bring a spare it would probably be a reasonable battery life. I doubt most people need more than 10 hours at a stretch, but those that do probably would want a spare battery.
The ones I was thinking of are Lenovos. I'll do you one better, this one gets up to 23 hours on a charge. If my laptop is any indication their estimate is probably pretty accurate.
My laptop only gets 5 hours, but I do know that there are Intel based ones that get approximately 10. Given that Apple is using an ARM chip, it seems kind of embarrassing that they're only able to get 10 hours out of it.
You might not be, but I've seen all manner of lies being propagated as reasons to switch to Chrome. Personally, I'll be switching to Opera and possibly IE before Chrome as I'm not interested in being treated like an idiot.
If people need to lie about the bloat in Firefox and claim that there are memory leaks that haven't been fixed for years, that's really their thing. But the reality is that on pretty much every memory benchmark I've seen for the last few years, Firefox is consistently ahead of pretty much all the other browsers, and always ahead of Chrome.
You do realize that Noscript does a lot of other things as well, right? That and just because pretty quickly everything gets enabled doesn't make noscript worthless. It just means that you don't receive as much protection. I personally find it to be quite helpful when I click a link from a search engine and end up somewhere I don't want to be.
I've noticed that. When I'm using noscript I tend to spend most of my time enabling things on sites as I often times can't even see the site. I've found that request policy is a lot easier to use in many ways, but unfortunately lacks any sort of black list so you're limited in what you can do as far as blocking portions of a site's javascript collection.
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It's far less creepy than mannequins with faces. Years back I walked by a display with several mannequins and a saleswoman that had the exact same body type it was really creepy.
As far as this nontroversy goes, I'd like to see some actual evidence that the mass media actually causes these problems. If it's really that serious a threat, I'd like to know why it isn't being taken more seriously with regards to unhealthy images of men. But, more to the point, I'd like to know how they explain incidences of similar disorders that predate the mass media or exist in countries where women aren't exposed at all to images of other women.
Encrypting the data before it goes over the wire goes a long way towards securing it. Admittedly, that's not perfect and you still have to trust the client software, but for things like backup they shouldn't be commingling data anyways.
The services to really watch are things like email, photosharing and any site that allows you to view your data directly through a web browser. Typically they'll have to be able to decrypt that data locally for that to work.
The fact that they let you create your own backup is pretty strong evidence that whomever they entrusted with the responsibility of backing up the systems was either incompetent or not provided with adequate resources. I'm guessing it's the latter but I can't rule out the former. Any competent admin is going to go looking for new work in a situation like that, it's more or less inevitable that major data loss will result and that's not going to make it easy to find a new job.
Yes, but I'm not really sure what the big deal is, it's not like that data isn't already being tracked and downloaded by 3rd parties like Google. Now, if Twitter is providing information that wasn't already public to the LoC, then that would be a big deal.
Otherwise, I'd just chalk this up to being mindful about what one does in public.
Why does that necessitate screwing around with grep? I can sort of see modifying diff, but with grep if you need that data you'd write a new program to parse it and pipe it.
That was my thought, I have a desktop and a laptop on my desk. Unless of course they come over to the employees house randomly to make sure that there aren't any unapproved of computing devices, in which case I'd be more concerned with that.
That's something people forget about. At some point it starts to make more sense to just pull some overtime or get a second job than it does to run around trying to save a few bucks.
Unless you're writing nonfiction or are already a successful author nobody pays an advance on a book that hasn't been through at least one draft. The whole notion that I can take my idea for a novel to any publisher large and small and get an advance before I've done the work to complete at least the first draft is pure fantasy. There may be a small number of celebrities that get away with that by virtue of having enough name recognition to sell a book on that alone, but for people that have to worry about bills it's not going to happen.
That's not true, care to provide some form of citation? The advance is based upon what their experts estimate that a book of that type is likely to make and is generally pretty conservative. If it ultimately doesn't sell enough copies to pay for the advance what generally happens is they don't sign you for another book. No reputable publisher is going to ask for the advance back.
Unlike the MPAA and the RIAA the deals that publishers sign with authors are pretty transparent and well tested in court.
More or less, probably the easiest way of doing it would be to boot a CDROM and load the home directory over the network if need be. I haven't gotten it figured out, but you can load ISOs directly from disk using GRUB2 if need be.
http://www.panticz.de/MultiBootUSB
Yes, I can do whatever the fuck I want with things that I buy. That's the purpose of ownership. Now there are a small number of things that the government tells me I can't do with my property, but those are typically things which affect other people.
If Sony doesn't like people doing what they will with the hardware, then they have the option of not selling it. They can rent it to people or they can withdraw completely from the market. They can't have it both ways either they're selling it or they aren't. Selling a unit but retaining ownership rights is fraudulent to say the least.
Then again, you're a troll so kiss my ass.
Typically in cases like that it would likely wind up as a class action suit. And you'd still get basically nothing, if you're lucky you would get some trinket which is of little value to you several years later.
The issue is that if they had selected a sane DRM scheme they shouldn't have to do anything special in order to support Linux. It's just that they've chosen a DRM method that's not compatible with any particular standard that's causing the problem.
Fundamentally it's no different than in the past when websites would be completely unviewable on Linux due to requiring Flash.
The bigger issue is that Blockbuster has fewer copies in total and that the USPS seems to discriminate in its service. Sort of like how mysteriously all those Gamefly discs were being damaged in shipment even though Netflix was getting a free hand sort of all those discs.
I can't help but wonder if something similar is going on here, it takes markedly longer for discs to get here with Blockbuster than it did with Netflix.
Of course not. They might be nice people with great attitudes, I don't know them, I do however know that they didn't make such blatantly offensive comments during a recession. People are hurting and the stupid fuck implies that we should have that kind of money around to just hand over for nothing of value. My parents have the money, but switched anyways because Netflix wasn't offering anything for the extra money, nothing at all and no promise of improved selection.
Really? Last time I checked Verizon wasn't allowing phones to be used that they didn't specifically authorize. I do hope that that's changed.
At the risk of sounding like an after-school special, I think we learned who the real animal was today.
Somehow that doesn't surprise me. AT&T is significantly worse than Sprint. With Sprint their customer service sucked, but I'd get a signal in more parts of the city than with any of the other carriers. AT&T by contrast can't even cover the city. It's embarrassing to be in a major city and have to worry about cell service in most parts of the city.
I don't even bother with 3G anymore because the service was so spotty. For whatever reason going between 3G and EDGE would cause timeouts, and my service was constantly going between the two unless I was sitting still. Ultimately I get much better speed by turning off the 3G completely.
Now, if Sprint or Verizon would see the light and allow phones with SIM cards on their networks like CDMA carriers do in other countries I'd almost certainly switch. Most likely T-Mobile will be getting my service next time I need domestic cell service.
Probably, but it's still no excuse, especially considering that you can't change the battery yourself. Now, if you could change the battery yourself and bring a spare it would probably be a reasonable battery life. I doubt most people need more than 10 hours at a stretch, but those that do probably would want a spare battery.
The ones I was thinking of are Lenovos. I'll do you one better, this one gets up to 23 hours on a charge. If my laptop is any indication their estimate is probably pretty accurate.
http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/thinkpad/x-series/x220/
My laptop only gets 5 hours, but I do know that there are Intel based ones that get approximately 10. Given that Apple is using an ARM chip, it seems kind of embarrassing that they're only able to get 10 hours out of it.
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You might not be, but I've seen all manner of lies being propagated as reasons to switch to Chrome. Personally, I'll be switching to Opera and possibly IE before Chrome as I'm not interested in being treated like an idiot.
If people need to lie about the bloat in Firefox and claim that there are memory leaks that haven't been fixed for years, that's really their thing. But the reality is that on pretty much every memory benchmark I've seen for the last few years, Firefox is consistently ahead of pretty much all the other browsers, and always ahead of Chrome.
You do realize that Noscript does a lot of other things as well, right? That and just because pretty quickly everything gets enabled doesn't make noscript worthless. It just means that you don't receive as much protection. I personally find it to be quite helpful when I click a link from a search engine and end up somewhere I don't want to be.
I've noticed that. When I'm using noscript I tend to spend most of my time enabling things on sites as I often times can't even see the site. I've found that request policy is a lot easier to use in many ways, but unfortunately lacks any sort of black list so you're limited in what you can do as far as blocking portions of a site's javascript collection.