Considering how dependent we are to things that require electricity, perhaps we are lucky we squeaked by...
However, there will always be this threat It is just the nature of the universe. Perhaps it would be wise to consider ways to mitigate or minimumize damage done if such an event happened again. Yeah, it'd be costly to do. However, it certainly would beat the lives lost and damage done if doing the usual "Wait till it happens and then run around like a chicken with their head cut off while pointing fingers at others" approach as these events are not just foreseeable, but inevitable.
1) Tell the NSA to GTFO. They are officially ban hammered.
2) The government, ISPs, MAFIAAs, etc. keep their damned hands off the internet. Any attempt to meddle with it gains them a horse whipping that gets televised for the whole world to see.
3) Any ISP getting a hair-brained notion to do crap like "two-tiered" internet gets everybody from the CEO down to the janitor horse whipped. Severely. On Television.
4) Everybody and anybody can get internet and has more than one ISP to chose from. If an ISP has a monopoly, they either get a competitor or get a horse whipping that puts the one in #3 to shame every day until they do. Televised, of course.
Seven hours all at once? I agree with Al Billings and he did good by breaking it into sections. That way I can watch it over time or skip parts I don't want to watch.
How many "free" clones of Flappy Bird has emerged since the maker RAEGQUIT? Out of that number: How many are actually good and aren't complete shit or buggier than a roach motel?
How many "free" games are just a clone of another game that is a clone of another game? (Hint: Bazinga... err... Zynga games and King Games are nefariously bad at making a clone of a clone of a clone... ad infinitum.) How many of those clone's only difference from the original game is that you have to pay RL cash in order to continue despite it's bogus clam that you don't have to pay to continue?
How many "free" games are nothing more than a HS Student's feeble attempt at making a game?
Long story short: Free doesn't always equal good. There is always a catch and sometimes you get what you pay for. So if you paid shit for something, don't complain about the smell you got in return.
Generally speaking: Win8 is nothing more than Microsoft's attempt to push their phone OS onto PCs.
The huge, glaring, fatal error of it all is the simple, yet so obvious you can see it on Pluto fact that both the Microsoft phone and it's OS are shit and had no business being on PCs/laptops. They were trying to create a demand for something nobody wants and will never want.
They can run a billion ads. They can spend billions on ads that compare Win8 to the second coming of Jebus and dancing clowns in hipster attire. They can make tablets that are light-years inferior to Android/IPad tablets all they want. They can have Balmer sweat, run around like a loon on fire and chuck a billion chairs on national/international/intergalactic TV. They can even make every OS from 7 down to MS-DOS suddenly not work. At the end of the day: Win8, Microsoft Phones, and Surface are all shit or below shit. The sooner they wake up and realize that and take actions to correct it, the better off they will be.
Fact remains that even moderate PCs today outperform both the PS4 and Xbox One at a similar price point.
Yeah. In the same way a Ferrari 458 outperforms a standard run-of-the-mill family car.
However, there are far more family cars out on the roads than Ferrari 458s. Mostly because of the fact nobody buys a 458 for family trips, commutes to work, and pick up/drop off kids from school.
The same is true for PCs vs Consoles. Most people buy PCs for multiple uses (work, business, Failbooking, etc.) and buy consoles for games. PC Game machines is only a niche market that caters to those small number of people that play PC games. Considering that most people don't want to or have the knowledge to upgrade some part inside the machine every week or two to play some game that alleges will "revive PC games" (How many times have we heard this? Enough for me to just shake my head and walk away to be honest) only weeks later for it to come out on PS3/PS4 or XBox 360/ XBox One.
Consoles were never designed to compete with PCs as far as power goes because they are fixed in specs. Even these new consoles are just an upgrade from their predecessor. However, most people buy the consoles strictly for its gaming capacities and couldn't care less about its performance compared to a similar costing PC. People stick with consoles because they know they won't have to buy new hardware parts every time the minimum requirements for a specific game goes up.
Here is the problem: In these virtual scenarios, there is a binary choice and in both choices somebody dies.
However, in reality people try to find alternative solutions that none of these tests take into account. In these scenarios the viewer cannot attempt to warn or alert the victims. The victims idly reside to their fates and make no attempt to protect or preserve their lives.
In other words: These tests do little to prove anything. Most of the viewers taking these tests know that it is VR. How does the tests take into account people knowing this and not considering the choices "moral" but rather a video game score?
1) Freezing. (40F to 32F)
2) Fucking Freezing.(32F to 0F)
3) Freezing my balls off. (0F to -10F)
4) Freezing my ass off. (-10F to -20F)
5) Freezing my ass and balls off. (-20F to -40F)
6) Freezing my...(words froze before entire sentence could be completed)(-40F to You are frozen in place like Han Solo in Carbonite).
I think it all boils down to the question: what is Facebook?
An advertising space with no privacy whatsoever for everybody from Coca Cola to Nigerian Bank Scammers to solicit their wares and the NSA's wet dream become real.
Listing possible things blocking a uber big drill from drilling:
1) The TARDIS
2) An "ancient" alien ship.
3) Those ET 2600 cartridges from the '80s.
4) Microsoft Surfaces that were wrote off.
5) A big rock that nobody had the foresight to see.
My girlfriend and her folks cannot get any DSL where they live. Good old 56k, baby!.
Now imagine my frustration and complete impatience whenever I have to fix their computers out there in the sticks. (I'm not just their future son-in-law, I am their round the clock, personal Geek Squad). I would kill for low speed DSL there. Imagine how I have to hear it when they whine about the 'nets running slow because Winblows has to get Balmer's weekly update gifts. (They have to have it on because of what her mom does). Before you say "Satellite": That would be a viable option if it wasn't for the blasted data caps, costs, and weather causing issues.
Cry me a fucking river with your First World problems. Some people have it way worse than you!
Slashdot Mirror
Considering how dependent we are to things that require electricity, perhaps we are lucky we squeaked by...
However, there will always be this threat It is just the nature of the universe. Perhaps it would be wise to consider ways to mitigate or minimumize damage done if such an event happened again. Yeah, it'd be costly to do. However, it certainly would beat the lives lost and damage done if doing the usual "Wait till it happens and then run around like a chicken with their head cut off while pointing fingers at others" approach as these events are not just foreseeable, but inevitable.
If I was the maker of Bitcoin, I'd want privacy too.
I am sure interested parties (Read: NSA/CIA/FBI/DEA/etc.) would love to question (Read: Guantanamo Bay) the makers of this almost anonymous currency.
How about the following:
1) Tell the NSA to GTFO. They are officially ban hammered.
2) The government, ISPs, MAFIAAs, etc. keep their damned hands off the internet. Any attempt to meddle with it gains them a horse whipping that gets televised for the whole world to see.
3) Any ISP getting a hair-brained notion to do crap like "two-tiered" internet gets everybody from the CEO down to the janitor horse whipped. Severely. On Television.
4) Everybody and anybody can get internet and has more than one ISP to chose from. If an ISP has a monopoly, they either get a competitor or get a horse whipping that puts the one in #3 to shame every day until they do. Televised, of course.
Seven hours all at once? I agree with Al Billings and he did good by breaking it into sections. That way I can watch it over time or skip parts I don't want to watch.
How many "free" clones of Flappy Bird has emerged since the maker RAEGQUIT? Out of that number: How many are actually good and aren't complete shit or buggier than a roach motel?
How many "free" games are just a clone of another game that is a clone of another game? (Hint: Bazinga... err... Zynga games and King Games are nefariously bad at making a clone of a clone of a clone... ad infinitum.) How many of those clone's only difference from the original game is that you have to pay RL cash in order to continue despite it's bogus clam that you don't have to pay to continue?
How many "free" games are nothing more than a HS Student's feeble attempt at making a game?
Long story short: Free doesn't always equal good. There is always a catch and sometimes you get what you pay for. So if you paid shit for something, don't complain about the smell you got in return.
Generally speaking: Win8 is nothing more than Microsoft's attempt to push their phone OS onto PCs.
The huge, glaring, fatal error of it all is the simple, yet so obvious you can see it on Pluto fact that both the Microsoft phone and it's OS are shit and had no business being on PCs/laptops. They were trying to create a demand for something nobody wants and will never want.
They can run a billion ads. They can spend billions on ads that compare Win8 to the second coming of Jebus and dancing clowns in hipster attire. They can make tablets that are light-years inferior to Android/IPad tablets all they want. They can have Balmer sweat, run around like a loon on fire and chuck a billion chairs on national/international/intergalactic TV. They can even make every OS from 7 down to MS-DOS suddenly not work. At the end of the day: Win8, Microsoft Phones, and Surface are all shit or below shit. The sooner they wake up and realize that and take actions to correct it, the better off they will be.
...to see this stupid kid's face when she discovered her Failbook post cost her parent's the lawsuit and thus her trip to Europe. It'd be priceless!
If they pay me $15, I'll take a copy. Don't want it on any device I own or use though...
They couldn't pay me enough to put WinBlows 8.1 on anything.
Name it Google's Schrödinger's Cat. Guaranteed to post Cat pics at 1.000 images a second!
Bazinga!
HeadCrab 2.0
Fact remains that even moderate PCs today outperform both the PS4 and Xbox One at a similar price point.
Yeah. In the same way a Ferrari 458 outperforms a standard run-of-the-mill family car.
However, there are far more family cars out on the roads than Ferrari 458s. Mostly because of the fact nobody buys a 458 for family trips, commutes to work, and pick up/drop off kids from school.
The same is true for PCs vs Consoles. Most people buy PCs for multiple uses (work, business, Failbooking, etc.) and buy consoles for games. PC Game machines is only a niche market that caters to those small number of people that play PC games. Considering that most people don't want to or have the knowledge to upgrade some part inside the machine every week or two to play some game that alleges will "revive PC games" (How many times have we heard this? Enough for me to just shake my head and walk away to be honest) only weeks later for it to come out on PS3/PS4 or XBox 360/ XBox One.
Consoles were never designed to compete with PCs as far as power goes because they are fixed in specs. Even these new consoles are just an upgrade from their predecessor. However, most people buy the consoles strictly for its gaming capacities and couldn't care less about its performance compared to a similar costing PC. People stick with consoles because they know they won't have to buy new hardware parts every time the minimum requirements for a specific game goes up.
Me and my GF just love to target practice!
This should be an indication of how obsolete this model is.
Seriously? Who uses clocks anymore with hands? It should have been upgraded to digital a long time ago!
It is nothing new. Happens all the time in other industries.
Only difference is that other industries aren't as vast as Apple or Google and aren't in bed with the NSA.
You know what they say" "Fix Or Repair Daily"? Now it is "Find Or Record Data".
Here is the problem: In these virtual scenarios, there is a binary choice and in both choices somebody dies.
However, in reality people try to find alternative solutions that none of these tests take into account. In these scenarios the viewer cannot attempt to warn or alert the victims. The victims idly reside to their fates and make no attempt to protect or preserve their lives.
In other words: These tests do little to prove anything. Most of the viewers taking these tests know that it is VR. How does the tests take into account people knowing this and not considering the choices "moral" but rather a video game score?
Cold comes in many ranges:
1) Freezing. (40F to 32F)
2) Fucking Freezing.(32F to 0F)
3) Freezing my balls off. (0F to -10F)
4) Freezing my ass off. (-10F to -20F)
5) Freezing my ass and balls off. (-20F to -40F)
6) Freezing my...(words froze before entire sentence could be completed)(-40F to You are frozen in place like Han Solo in Carbonite).
My GF loves to hunt. So now I have a reason to join her! She can hunt the deer and I can kill the drones!
Hayden said the NSA is "infinitely" weaker as a result of Snowden's leaks.
Bullshit.
Your group is still alive and still doing its highly unconstitutional antics. I'd call that anything but "infinitely weaker".
I think it all boils down to the question: what is Facebook?
An advertising space with no privacy whatsoever for everybody from Coca Cola to Nigerian Bank Scammers to solicit their wares and the NSA's wet dream become real.
Great. Another attempt by Apple to squash Samsung. What is this? Their third time? I lost count.
You know, you are making it increasingly difficult to like you Apple.
13) A hour's worth of crack rock for Rob Ford
Listing possible things blocking a uber big drill from drilling:
1) The TARDIS
2) An "ancient" alien ship.
3) Those ET 2600 cartridges from the '80s.
4) Microsoft Surfaces that were wrote off.
5) A big rock that nobody had the foresight to see.
My girlfriend and her folks cannot get any DSL where they live. Good old 56k, baby!.
Now imagine my frustration and complete impatience whenever I have to fix their computers out there in the sticks. (I'm not just their future son-in-law, I am their round the clock, personal Geek Squad). I would kill for low speed DSL there. Imagine how I have to hear it when they whine about the 'nets running slow because Winblows has to get Balmer's weekly update gifts. (They have to have it on because of what her mom does). Before you say "Satellite": That would be a viable option if it wasn't for the blasted data caps, costs, and weather causing issues.
Cry me a fucking river with your First World problems. Some people have it way worse than you!