Anyone can be a journeyman in anything by just looking up the proper info. I remember the time pre-internet and pre-cell phone, and while I remembered more things back then, I didn't have the daily "putting new thoughts together" experiences that I have now. Something that would have taken me a day to answer (or calling a librarian and having her spend an hour), now takes me a couple minutes at most.
Am I the only one sick of the "zero day" buzzword?
No, but I'm only annoyed when people misuse it. Zero-day has a specific meaning that is an important distinction when talking about vulnerabilities and exploits. When I hear "Zero-day", my immediate response is: "Oh ^&@#$, who put in strange trouble tickets the last few days?" and "Yay, Overtime for out of cycle Microsoft/Adobe patching."
keep a tape recorded with junk on it in your pocket, and if you are chased by police, press eject, swap tapes, and ditch the good tape in a nearby bush or other items.
Evidence tampering? Even if you're off scott-free on the bogus charge of filming?
Maybe they're not talking about sending in crack teams of systems and network admins to quell a disaster, maybe they're instead talking about a doomsday switch (big red button) for the US Internet when it's determined there's a super-virulent worm or a picture of FLotUS in her undies.
Agreed. One of the worst webpages in existence is for my favorite game development company. Their site looks blank to me right now, and does on most of my computers. How could they not have a flash-free version? They are losing out on google/bing indexing, iPhone traffic, and some regular desktop traffic too (not everyone installs flash).
Of course, had Apple not produced a locked down, proprietary iPhone, we would have been tethering all along, and it would be easy to assign blame to AT&T. From where I sit, Apple is helping AT&T
They're not just helping AT&T, they're in a symbiotic relationship.
Full disclosure, I own an iPhone.
Apple: "Customer, dear customer, you want tethering? Well, it's in the App Store from a company called Null River."
AT&T: "No it's not."
Average iPhone Customers: "What's tethering?"
Apple: "We pulled the app for review, but will bring it back shortly."
AT&T: "No you won't"
Customers: "Want tethering even MORE now!"
Apple: "If you buy the new iPhone 3Gs you can now get tethering!"
AT&T: "No you can't."
Apple: "If you buy the new iPhone 3Gs [in a country other than USA] you can now get tethering!"
Customers: "Tethering! *frothing* Tethering!"
Apple: "We worked out a remarkable deal with AT&T, and now you can tether! Buy an iPhone 4G today!"
Customers: "Tethering! See, I knew tethering would happen if I just bought enough iPhones!"
AT&T: "Sure, it's true, you can tether, but at a rate that it will be useless for laptops. And pay more for the reduced network bandwidth losers! Ahahahahaha!"
Apple: "Look at all these iPhone moneys! We can haz cheeseburger now."
Null River: "Um, what the hell happened?"
By the way, does this mean that Thumbless Joe (the boy our woodshop teacher all warned us about during the table-saw safety lecture) can't borrow books from the library?
Thumbless Joe is going to have a problem with the law enforcement officers who grow up learning that biometric data is normal. "Look, you scumsucking dirtbag, if you didn't have anything to hide, why did you cut off your thumbs? You're going up river for a loooooong time."
People aren't dying from old age anymore, just like the Bees and Butterflies. You just don't see any creatures falling over without pity for their selves: they're dying a slow agonizing process
People have just recently started dying of old age. For thousands of years prior, it's been many other things which have killed human beings.
How much additional heat would the 15-minute per day cell phone sessions plus the phone being in "Stand-By" 24/7 produce in the hive? My guess is it might increase the temperature a couple of degrees.
Bugger all.
Does talking on the phone for 15mins heat your head up by a couple of degrees?
No.
How often do you stick your phone inside your head while you talk? Have you never used your phone as a hand-warmer in winter? I have. If I can feel the warmth, it must be more than a couple of degrees F (enough to screw with the very temperature sensitive bees).
Eh. The scammers use "stupid shit" as the bait because that's what works. If "intelligent shit" started attracted the most clicks, they'd start using that instead.
It is, however, much, much harder to create intelligent shit than stupid shit. Which is not to say it's particularly hard to create mildly intelligent shit, it's just so damn easy to create stupid shit these days. Five seconds of randomly reading Facebook will show you what I mean.
There's usually a higher alcohol content, which you can clearly smell, and they're usually pressed into cider trading. More rarely still, wine develops. I'm seeing increasing levels of wine amongst my artsy Apple friends.
Well, not exactly. A Piece of paper lying flat would require less space than a rolled up piece of paper. A book not only easier to read, but also very space efficient. Considering an Iphone is already small enough to fit in your pocket, why would you make it bulkier by putting it into a scroll?
Because tech like this allows the CPU/battery/etc to be in an iphone sized casing, and the display on a roll-out 20inch wide, 5inch tall rectangle. Try fitting a 20in/5in iphone in your pocket. All you need to increase the viewable area vs/physical space is the height of the device. Imagine an iPad sized display rolled up in the shaft of your umbrella, or just about anywhere there's a cylindrical object.
I saw a lot of my friends get hit by something just like it, including a rick-roll. Every one of them said they didn't click "like" on the rick-roll site, but it showed up as a like on facebook anyway. Who wouldn't be curious enough to want to click on a "FriendX likes you." link? Thankfully I have a habit of checking the URLs on unusual facebook links. The strange part was there were many different URLs for the "you", so it looked like a "distributed" attack (FB couldn't just search for one URL).
BP cannot use this method themselves. It requires Obama to step in and take some responsibility.
Malia: "Daddy, did you plug the hole yet?"
Obama: "After I'm done shaving, I'll put on my super-suit and get right on it....Michelle! Where's My Super Suit?!"
Heh, I just tried with konqueror and got this page:
You are using an incompatible web browser.
Sorry, we're not cool enough to support your browser. Please keep it real with one of the following browsers:
Mozilla Firefox
Safari
Microsoft Internet Explorer
WTF? Did they hire someone from 1996 to code their homepage? "Sorry, Netscape not supported."
ISPs and webmail and other such entities hold as many of people's secrets as a lawyer/doctor and should be almost treated as such.
What's the ISP/webmail/social-network equivalent of disbarment or removal of license to practice for divulging client information? Make social networks follow something like HIPAA. Soon.
After typing my password wrong a couple hours ago, I noticed the new facebook "wrong email/password pair" page does the GUI login interface: it changed my email address into my Full name and profile picture. So now random Joe can find out someone's profile picture without even having a Facebook account. Also, it ties your email address to your real name, even if you don't make your email address visible. All random Joe needs is an email address. It's not like spammers don't have millions of email addresses, and botnets to do the intentionally failed logins.
It's not as bad as some of the other crap, but this is an example of where they don't think their "ease of use" through.
Just out of curiosity, what parts of Genesis are provably wrong? And please don't say how man was made, how the earth as we know it was made or anything like that. You can show a likelihood of another explanation but none of that has been proven over anything else.
Uhm. Have you read Genesis recently? Here's an online copy; let's go through it line by line.
Okay, that will be fun! Just make sure to follow GP's rules about creation myth and miracles. Saying "miracles are unscientific, thus impossible" is like saying "peanutbutter is not meat, thus indigestible." I'm also adding chapters to your quotes. Let's begin.
* Gen 1:1: God creates the heavens and Earth. Before there is light. Meaning that the Earth was created before the Sun, or in fact before there was such a thing as electromagnetic radiation (depending on how you want to interpret it). This is objectively wrong either way.
Objectively wrong, or subjectively wrong assuming that modern astronomers are correct? Were any of us there to observe?
* Gen 1:3: God creates light. Before the Sun. This means that there's light on Earth, without the Sun. This is objectively wrong.
Lots of things make light without the Sun, my computer screen for example. Photons are not made solely by stars.
* Gen 1:7: Apparently, the sky is made out of water? Must be why all our spaceships are built like submarines and have propellers. Except they aren't, because this is objectively wrong.
Yes, apparently there was a lot of water orbiting Earth for some reason. Apparently it all fell in Genesis chapter 7.
* Gen 1:11: Seed-bearing, land based plants and trees were the first kind of life on Earth? That's objectively wrong. Keep in mind that we still don't have a sun yet, either - plants and trees were created before the Sun, though oddly enough after there was light on Earth, which is simply ridiculous (and objectively wrong).
Why ridiculous? There's barely been a few days yet. Are the plants going to die without the Sun? My grandmother uses a grow light for her violets. Remember, there's light from verse 3.
* Gen 1:14-18: We finally get the Sun! Man, now those plants have something to eat, besides this weird light that comes from nowhere. Note, however, that the moon was created after the first plant life, which is objectively wrong. Also, the Sun was created before the rest of the stars, which is objectively wrong. (oh yeah and the Earth was created before the rest of the stars as well, which is objectively wrong)
The plants have been eating already. See above. You seem to be doing a lot of "Miracles can't happen because I believe the way I see the world work is the way it always works and has worked" and you're also not focusing on anything provable unlike what GP asked. I refuse to comment further on your other points which are more of the same. In the future, when attempting to discuss whether religious texts are provably false, focus on internal inconsistencies or _recorded_ (human witnessed) historical inaccuracies.
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Anyone can be a journeyman in anything by just looking up the proper info. I remember the time pre-internet and pre-cell phone, and while I remembered more things back then, I didn't have the daily "putting new thoughts together" experiences that I have now. Something that would have taken me a day to answer (or calling a librarian and having her spend an hour), now takes me a couple minutes at most.
And my non-techy friends are buying android phones and saying they got a phone just like my iPhone. Apple failed to remain different.
Am I the only one sick of the "zero day" buzzword?
No, but I'm only annoyed when people misuse it. Zero-day has a specific meaning that is an important distinction when talking about vulnerabilities and exploits. When I hear "Zero-day", my immediate response is: "Oh ^&@#$, who put in strange trouble tickets the last few days?" and "Yay, Overtime for out of cycle Microsoft/Adobe patching."
keep a tape recorded with junk on it in your pocket, and if you are chased by police, press eject, swap tapes, and ditch the good tape in a nearby bush or other items.
Evidence tampering? Even if you're off scott-free on the bogus charge of filming?
"transfer of a human embryo into a nonhuman womb"
Good Job, Steve. You must not want future human fertility treatments.
Not being able to check Facebook does not qualify as a dire emergency.
Too true, it's actually the reverse: Being able to check Facebook qualifies as a dire emergency. Good God! It's online right now! Kill it!
Maybe they're not talking about sending in crack teams of systems and network admins to quell a disaster, maybe they're instead talking about a doomsday switch (big red button) for the US Internet when it's determined there's a super-virulent worm or a picture of FLotUS in her undies.
Agreed. One of the worst webpages in existence is for my favorite game development company. Their site looks blank to me right now, and does on most of my computers. How could they not have a flash-free version? They are losing out on google/bing indexing, iPhone traffic, and some regular desktop traffic too (not everyone installs flash).
Apple has removed the ability to purchase the iPad from the online store at this time...
WTF? I just checked the Apple Store and you CAN buy iPads online.
The 3G iPads, or just the wifi ones?
Of course, had Apple not produced a locked down, proprietary iPhone, we would have been tethering all along, and it would be easy to assign blame to AT&T. From where I sit, Apple is helping AT&T
They're not just helping AT&T, they're in a symbiotic relationship.
Full disclosure, I own an iPhone.
Apple: "Customer, dear customer, you want tethering? Well, it's in the App Store from a company called Null River."
AT&T: "No it's not."
Average iPhone Customers: "What's tethering?"
Apple: "We pulled the app for review, but will bring it back shortly."
AT&T: "No you won't"
Customers: "Want tethering even MORE now!"
Apple: "If you buy the new iPhone 3Gs you can now get tethering!"
AT&T: "No you can't."
Apple: "If you buy the new iPhone 3Gs [in a country other than USA] you can now get tethering!"
Customers: "Tethering! *frothing* Tethering!"
Apple: "We worked out a remarkable deal with AT&T, and now you can tether! Buy an iPhone 4G today!"
Customers: "Tethering! See, I knew tethering would happen if I just bought enough iPhones!"
AT&T: "Sure, it's true, you can tether, but at a rate that it will be useless for laptops. And pay more for the reduced network bandwidth losers! Ahahahahaha!"
Apple: "Look at all these iPhone moneys! We can haz cheeseburger now."
Null River: "Um, what the hell happened?"
Or you can use NoScript
On an iP[hone/ad/odtouch]?
By the way, does this mean that Thumbless Joe (the boy our woodshop teacher all warned us about during the table-saw safety lecture) can't borrow books from the library?
Thumbless Joe is going to have a problem with the law enforcement officers who grow up learning that biometric data is normal. "Look, you scumsucking dirtbag, if you didn't have anything to hide, why did you cut off your thumbs? You're going up river for a loooooong time."
Add an "H" and you'll see what I mean.
People aren't dying from old age anymore, just like the Bees and Butterflies. You just don't see any creatures falling over without pity for their selves: they're dying a slow agonizing process
People have just recently started dying of old age. For thousands of years prior, it's been many other things which have killed human beings.
How much additional heat would the 15-minute per day cell phone sessions plus the phone being in "Stand-By" 24/7 produce in the hive? My guess is it might increase the temperature a couple of degrees.
Bugger all.
Does talking on the phone for 15mins heat your head up by a couple of degrees?
No.
How often do you stick your phone inside your head while you talk? Have you never used your phone as a hand-warmer in winter? I have. If I can feel the warmth, it must be more than a couple of degrees F (enough to screw with the very temperature sensitive bees).
Eh. The scammers use "stupid shit" as the bait because that's what works. If "intelligent shit" started attracted the most clicks, they'd start using that instead.
It is, however, much, much harder to create intelligent shit than stupid shit. Which is not to say it's particularly hard to create mildly intelligent shit, it's just so damn easy to create stupid shit these days. Five seconds of randomly reading Facebook will show you what I mean.
s/Facebook/\/./
FTFY
There's usually a higher alcohol content, which you can clearly smell, and they're usually pressed into cider trading. More rarely still, wine develops. I'm seeing increasing levels of wine amongst my artsy Apple friends.
Well, not exactly. A Piece of paper lying flat would require less space than a rolled up piece of paper. A book not only easier to read, but also very space efficient. Considering an Iphone is already small enough to fit in your pocket, why would you make it bulkier by putting it into a scroll?
Because tech like this allows the CPU/battery/etc to be in an iphone sized casing, and the display on a roll-out 20inch wide, 5inch tall rectangle. Try fitting a 20in/5in iphone in your pocket. All you need to increase the viewable area vs/physical space is the height of the device. Imagine an iPad sized display rolled up in the shaft of your umbrella, or just about anywhere there's a cylindrical object.
I saw a lot of my friends get hit by something just like it, including a rick-roll. Every one of them said they didn't click "like" on the rick-roll site, but it showed up as a like on facebook anyway. Who wouldn't be curious enough to want to click on a "FriendX likes you." link? Thankfully I have a habit of checking the URLs on unusual facebook links. The strange part was there were many different URLs for the "you", so it looked like a "distributed" attack (FB couldn't just search for one URL).
BP cannot use this method themselves. It requires Obama to step in and take some responsibility.
Malia: "Daddy, did you plug the hole yet?" ...Michelle! Where's My Super Suit?!"
Obama: "After I'm done shaving, I'll put on my super-suit and get right on it.
Thanks for checking. It didn't like my other browsers.
Heh, I just tried with konqueror and got this page:
You are using an incompatible web browser.
Sorry, we're not cool enough to support your browser. Please keep it real with one of the following browsers:
Mozilla Firefox
Safari
Microsoft Internet Explorer
WTF? Did they hire someone from 1996 to code their homepage? "Sorry, Netscape not supported."
ISPs and webmail and other such entities hold as many of people's secrets as a lawyer/doctor and should be almost treated as such.
What's the ISP/webmail/social-network equivalent of disbarment or removal of license to practice for divulging client information? Make social networks follow something like HIPAA. Soon.
After typing my password wrong a couple hours ago, I noticed the new facebook "wrong email/password pair" page does the GUI login interface: it changed my email address into my Full name and profile picture. So now random Joe can find out someone's profile picture without even having a Facebook account. Also, it ties your email address to your real name, even if you don't make your email address visible. All random Joe needs is an email address. It's not like spammers don't have millions of email addresses, and botnets to do the intentionally failed logins.
It's not as bad as some of the other crap, but this is an example of where they don't think their "ease of use" through.
Just out of curiosity, what parts of Genesis are provably wrong? And please don't say how man was made, how the earth as we know it was made or anything like that. You can show a likelihood of another explanation but none of that has been proven over anything else.
Uhm. Have you read Genesis recently? Here's an online copy; let's go through it line by line.
Okay, that will be fun! Just make sure to follow GP's rules about creation myth and miracles. Saying "miracles are unscientific, thus impossible" is like saying "peanutbutter is not meat, thus indigestible." I'm also adding chapters to your quotes. Let's begin.
* Gen 1:1: God creates the heavens and Earth. Before there is light. Meaning that the Earth was created before the Sun, or in fact before there was such a thing as electromagnetic radiation (depending on how you want to interpret it). This is objectively wrong either way.
Objectively wrong, or subjectively wrong assuming that modern astronomers are correct? Were any of us there to observe?
* Gen 1:3: God creates light. Before the Sun. This means that there's light on Earth, without the Sun. This is objectively wrong.
Lots of things make light without the Sun, my computer screen for example. Photons are not made solely by stars.
* Gen 1:7: Apparently, the sky is made out of water? Must be why all our spaceships are built like submarines and have propellers. Except they aren't, because this is objectively wrong.
Yes, apparently there was a lot of water orbiting Earth for some reason. Apparently it all fell in Genesis chapter 7.
* Gen 1:11: Seed-bearing, land based plants and trees were the first kind of life on Earth? That's objectively wrong. Keep in mind that we still don't have a sun yet, either - plants and trees were created before the Sun, though oddly enough after there was light on Earth, which is simply ridiculous (and objectively wrong).
Why ridiculous? There's barely been a few days yet. Are the plants going to die without the Sun? My grandmother uses a grow light for her violets. Remember, there's light from verse 3.
* Gen 1:14-18: We finally get the Sun! Man, now those plants have something to eat, besides this weird light that comes from nowhere. Note, however, that the moon was created after the first plant life, which is objectively wrong. Also, the Sun was created before the rest of the stars, which is objectively wrong. (oh yeah and the Earth was created before the rest of the stars as well, which is objectively wrong)
The plants have been eating already. See above. You seem to be doing a lot of "Miracles can't happen because I believe the way I see the world work is the way it always works and has worked" and you're also not focusing on anything provable unlike what GP asked. I refuse to comment further on your other points which are more of the same. In the future, when attempting to discuss whether religious texts are provably false, focus on internal inconsistencies or _recorded_ (human witnessed) historical inaccuracies.