It took me a moment to find your most recent post - I'd neglected to add you previously. I'm not sure if you recall a conversation we had (about selling my business, having some access to capital, relationships, life changes, expectations, the universe, etc.) but I figured I'd find some way to drop you a line and say that I've found a way to act on your suggestion - to some extent. I am out doing my wanderlust thing again (I do this every couple of years, or so it seems) and I'm just driving around at random. I am in Buffalo, NY, and traipsing along with absolutely no goals or destination. I have no designated time to return. I have nobody specific to meet.
I am just going where the road leads and, if life should grant me interesting choices then I'll make those choices when I come to them. I am not, specifically, searching for anything - when asked I am simply seeking to discover real America and where I belong in it. My journey brings me to places where I have not been and to to places where I have been many times already.
The goal is not to meet someone or anything like that. The goal is just to be out there. I left the RV at home and I'm not even staying in particularly nice hotels. In fact, I'm in an EconoLodge on the outskirts of Buffalo at the moment, not far from the arena, and went to Niagara yesterday. Who knows? Maybe I'll meet some hitchhiker that is meandering the globe or country and headed exactly nowhere - just like I? Maybe I'll stumble into someone at a club, bar, a diner? *shrugs*
It would probably be easier if I drank but I'm not wiling to go down that road. If I drank then I'd be able to enjoy the time spent in bars or clubs more. So far, I've gone to a couple and met some interesting people but I've not actually met anyone that piques my interests enough to stick around. I'm thinking that I should spend more time in libraries and the likes. I'm really not suited for bars and clubs.
I did limit myself to packing only two suits. The rest of the time I'm in reasonably casual clothing. That way, I at least look fairly normal. I think a reasonable summary might be that we all have issues of some type. In my case, strange as it may sound, finding someone that's reasonably trustworthy could be difficult. I don't feel I'm being dishonest. I've not made anyone think anything that is not true nor have I been dishonest with anyone.
Anyhow, I figured I'd say hello and update you. It's a strange thing for strangers to be doing on Slashdot but I've done stranger. Life is too short to be worried about conventions and, quite frankly, I'm not exactly doing anything better with my time. So, we'll see where it goes from here. Having no specific goals, I really don't, means I'm not expecting anything so it will be nearly impossible for me to be let down.
If something interesting or amusing does happen then, well, life is good. If not then I have a place in Henderson and can just go up and buy a hooker.
Finally, as always, I'm enjoying the drive. I do this whole "wanderlust thing" fairly often and have since my youth. Whilst I miss the comforts of home, the familiarity, there's something equally familiar about going nowhere and sleeping in random hotels. I'm thinking that I may seek a nice tourist area that is mostly shut down due to the season being slow. Perhaps I'll seek a nice bed and breakfast or rent a small cottage and hang around for a while.
I am thinking of something along the lines of a small town with a general store that has a hardware store attached, a diner, a small bar, and plenty of broadband. I can stay for a week or two and see what local culture rubs off on me and meet new and interesting people.
So, thanks. We'll see where it goes from here. The ubiquity of the internet has made life so much more simple. The geek in me is insisting on connecting through my own desktop, many miles away, to ensure that I've truly got a reasonably secure connection. I'm playing with varied apps on my phone, things I'd never do at home. I've also found myself opening up an IDE at night and tweaking and poking - things I've not done in ages. Life is good, no? Alas, we've all got our problems.
Do you mean "incidentaloma," perhaps? I was unable to find your word at The Free Dictionary or at the OED site. What does this have to do with finding a tumor without having exhibited signs or, basically, by accident? I'm assuming they'd not just be doing this sort of testing at random or anything but will be limiting its use to just those who appear to be suffering from viral infections. (Is it considered an infection if it is viral and not bacterial?)
After the 'review' button, well, this reply looks as if I'm attempting to be snarky. I'm not, really. I simply don't get it. Also, using a reasonable approximation of good grammar while having the option to show the domain name enabled is rather confusing. Oh well, hopefully you can parse it. I don't think it's that confusing. This subject is, however, confusing to me, at least. Woohoo! I'll just shotgun those commas. No, no I haven't slept.
I like the way you think. I really do. Which made me think of an answer to this non-question.
The answer is no, we don't need special regulation. What we need are intelligent and informed persons. Eventually, and this doesn't discount closed source, we could have open and interoperability-built standards that are published, vetted, and agreed on - or at least published and open. The idea being that, yeah, smart people would select to use such instead of insisting on reliance on closed and mysterious. This doesn't mean that the code, itself, can't be proprietary but the communications methods that it uses should be - they should be open, available, and free to use, even for commercial means. In this case, using this example, I'd suggest relying on the standards IPv6 and TCP/IP (or UDP, if applicable - does UDP support error correction?).
If there's any benefit to this new, proprietary, communication format then, by all means, share it with the world so that it can be reviewed, improved on, standardized, and benefit others. It's not like it will do anything more than help the company's bottom line to do so. If anything, it will increase their visibility and market share. Perhaps, I guess, they could license it for commercial use but, honestly, I don't think that will help. If anything, and this is important to me - at least, it's a municipal project (from the looks of things) and thus it should be open.
The summary mentions that it will be hacked, and it will be, so having other companies that can layer on security (if needed) or perform repairs prevents lock in and price gouging. There's a vested interest, from the people, to insist that these types of things remain open and rely on commonly accepted (i.e. standardized even if unratified and informally) and readily available information. Should this company go out of business then the tax payer will have to keep them afloat just to insure they can read electrical usage meters? Surely you jest... When a security flaw is discovered, and it will be, who is going to repair it and how much is it going to cost? Truly, I can think of no benefit to this being proprietary but, perhaps, I'm missing something.
Ah well... I should be sleeping, though I've called the desk and have paid for another night so I'll not have to be out of the hotel by 10:00 in the morning. What an ungodly hour to insist that I check out. I'll be in Buffalo for another night and that means I get to spend a little bit of time online. Yay...
The lowest amount of RAM I have, in any box that gets used on a regular basis, is 16 GB. The rest are around 32 and my regular desktop (which I'm sort of using at the moment) has 64. I'm not really using the desktop, I guess, but am connected via VNC and using the desktop remotely (I'm on hiatus/wanderlust for an undetermined duration and want to maintain my own encrypted connection and I like this route).
I guess my point is that, yeah, as I save fewer and fewer things (I often don't even use the OS that is installed but just poke around with a Live USB/DVD/CD - usually the former) anywhere and I'm more a passive consumer, I really have, sort of, replaced HDD/SSDs with RAM. I might save a document, not often enough to matter. I usually don't even save many of those locally. Those get saved on a NAS that gets backed up to HDDs and, eventually, to SSDs that sit off-site and on-site in a backup scheme that a friend and I utilize. It's all automated and I don't really touch anything.
To be frank, I'd really kind of sort of like to get back into using Remote Profiles. I don't use many Windows products (not any at the moment) but, honestly, it was easier for me to do with Windows. It's nice to just be able to have the compute power to be able to do things locally but also have the availability of a remote profile.
I digress...
Anyhow, in some ways, I have actually begun using RAM as my HDD. I know, it's pretty hybrid as I'm still loading the OS into RAM from a disk drive but it stays that way. Hell, I've got enough RAM that I no longer even bother with a/swap at all. I've yet to have any issues though, again, I am a much more passive user than I once was. A proper suspend state means that I don't even have to worry about keeping the USB drive in place. I've got enough RAM to throw at the problem. (I've never had this much compute power, these many resources, so readily available - my desktop that I'm connected through has more resources than many servers that I've used.)
I kind of want a couple of them to put in my home server and, maybe, one in a laptop and a couple in a desktop. I've had good luck buying and using enterprise rated equipment for home use. It has meant a much lower MTBF and a higher ROI if I've done the math properly. Because of my choices, I still have hardware that is older than most and, often, am able to donate it to a worthy cause when I'm no longer using it and don't want to keep it as an example.
That's not the most logical argument. Freedoms and rights are not the same. I am free to kill you, I do not have a right to do so. Just because you're free to do so does not mean you have an inalienable right to do so. If you don't understand this then keep drinking, I've spelled it out as clearly as it can be.
A friend of mind owns a few theaters, the closest one is in [redacted]. I often go down as they're closing and go watch a few movies by myself or with a few friends. I no longer drink but I used to get really trashed while I was there. We'd use one of the smaller rooms off to the side and often ended up chilling in the projection booth for a while to do other things. I usually pay a handsome sum for the various snacks and they make a fresh thing of popcorn before they leave. The owner, his wife, or the manager will generally participate in the event. I'd say I average a month or two between visits. I am 100% certain I could set up and record. I am also certain I needn't pay but I feel obligated to. We do clean up after ourselves and have even helped staff clean up other parts of the theater so they could leave early. Under no circumstances would I record the movie even if I could get away with it.
In hindsight, I'm sure this is illegal as all hell (though he 'sells' us tickets - it's sure to break the contract which is likely a civil (or even criminal) offense. So, because of that - and that there's but one theater in that town, I've redacted the name of the theater. I've even 'sneaked' in the night before a new release was going to be shown and there were people already in line. I just walked in with the employees and a few of my friends went in with me. I don't feel bad, really, but it was kind of mean. I'm sure the agency that he gets the films for would be really pissed if they knew - so, yeah, that's the main reason for the redaction I guess.
I've thought about doing a remodel and having a screening room put in - you can actually get a license to get the full movies while they're still in the theaters though it's a bit pricey. I'm not that much of a movie buff and it's more an event than anything. I think I'd not use it much if it were in my home.
I am not 100% certain of the nomenclature but I believe it goes like this:
"oldfag is oldfag. teh cancer that iz killin/b/ haz been here since tiem immemorial. lulz will be had by all - except u cuz u is newfag w/knickerz in knotz! lulz. now tits or gtfo, newfag. also ur mom"
Promptly followed with, "stfu, ur mom iz teh cancerz. fgt!"
A witty riposte will be sure to follow and it will, quite likely, be akin to, "no u!" (Accompanied with a picture of gore or the OP's penis.)
I am not entirely fluent, yet, but I've been parsing the language for a while. There are a number of colloquialisms and dialects with much variance. In short, they're mostly harmless and doing much the same what any of us curious folks did when we were young. Lulz, it's an important subject. I'm not in the field but I'd be interested in writing a paper on it if I weren't so damned lazy.
Q. What did Abraham Lincoln say after he freed the slaves? A. I did it for the lulz. trollface.jpg
Sometimes I think that/b/ should be the front page of the internet. Why? Because it would really, really, piss them off. What good is a hornet's nest if you can't kick it once in a while? Bears sleep just so the curious can poke them, after all.
I should have said this further up the thread but, oh well...
Stop using TOR as a proxy, assholes. (I do not mean you, specifically.) Stop downloading torrents through it, assholes. TOR is fine so long as you remain on the.onion domains - as soon as you go into the clear-net you are subject to monitoring. They can, and will, be able to use traffic shaping and timing to determine who you are and where you are going. It has been like this since the start and will remain like this forever.
It was not meant to use for browsing the regular web. It sure as shit wasn't meant so that you could go to Facebook. It sure as hell isn't meant for torrents. Use it for browsing.onion sites. That is all.
You can use it to bypass some filters. That's fine. You'll still be subject to tracking.
I suspect you mean, where do they go? Where they come from, normally, is a fine higher learning institution. I, myself, attended such an institute and was exposed to many brilliant people. A number of mathematicians remain in academia, some go into the private sector, and some of the best work in the government (which is what I expect you were looking for). However, I've no numbers for this, but I can assure you that there are a great many remaining in the other sectors - many of whom are quite capable.
Seeing as you asked, or insinuated that one should, I figure you may as well get an answer from someone who is actually a mathematician. I suspect you're attempting to claim that the best mathematicians go to work in the government. This is not entirely true. I, personally, ended up modeling traffic and working for the government (contractually) much of the time. My company, however, was privately owned and did not work exclusively with a single government and also expanded into pedestrian traffic models.
Also, I am nearly done with my vacation/wanderlust. Not that is important but I felt it was something worth adding.
I found a neat show when I was in the UK last but I've forgotten the title so I can't really tell you much. It's about some guy who's a detective. He's from Norway, Denmark, or Sweden. It was dubbed in English and aired on channel 4 maybe??? I've also seen Lilyhammer and, for some reason, the two seem similar. I tend to travel a little and one of the silly things I do is watch local television even though I don't really watch it here at home. I'm not sure what made the show seem similar, to be honest, as Lilyhammer is about a gang and the other is about a detective. I think it was the writing style.
Anyhow, I caught Lilyhammer in Norway, as I recall, and later found it had popped up on Netflix and watched a few more episodes. It's not a bad show at all. I wish I could remember the name of the other show... You might like it. *sighs* I don't know if you're from Norway or not but, if you are, you have a very beautiful country. I spent most of my time, during both trips, in a rented RV just traveling around and hitting the various quiet places while occasionally staying in an inn or a hotel. As I attempt to ski, badly, and do a little snowboarding it was a really nice place to visit and I got to watch a neat snowboarding competition whose name has also been lost to the fog of an addled brain.
If you do live there you've got an excellent country full of good people. Your beer sucks though. I've been there twice now and kind of sort of want to buy some property there but I don't think I'd use it enough to actually warrant the expense. As I no longer drink, well a single beer here and there, I guess I can forgive the local beer crafting. I visited in 2009 and again in 2013. I intend to visit again within the next two years only I wish to stay for longer than two weeks and to do some fishing if I'm allowed to. Some of those streams looked like they'd make great places to fish but I have put exactly zero effort into learning about this so I have no idea what I'd be fishing for. Hopefully they've got some trout and I can fly fish (badly) and mostly scare the poor fish away while getting lucky often enough to keep me amused and moderately well fed.
I mention this because, well, Norway's one of the exceptional places that I have visited and I've been pretty much everywhere at one time or another. The people remind me a lot of the people in South America. In general they are exceptionally kind and outgoing once you get to know them a little bit. There's a huge educational disparity between the two groups but education doesn't always correlate with intelligence I've found.
As an aside, and to add to my long and rambling post, my son's found South America to be the same and is just as fascinated with it as I. He's not returning to school this semester (yes, wasted money) and has opted to remain in Peru for the time being as he seeks to get his girlfriend an extended visa though he doesn't want to marry just to get on the fast-track immigration route. Smart kid, really. When I do return to Norway next I have already planned on trying to coerce my son into joining his old man on the trip. If I can stop him from falling in love with the natives then your daughters are safe. The mothers are not so safe... What? I'm single...
It's a female, lesbian, Muslim, with a handicap, who wants to participate in a male dominated environment. Dude... That will get a certain demographic, and a large and vocal demographic, by default even if it was written by someone as inept as myself. I can think of a dozen regular members of this site who will not only watch it faithfully but will espouse their moral superiority for watching it and strive to find converts to watch it with them. It'd be a hit on tumbler, twitter, fark, reddit, etc...
You should submit that script and run with it. You'll be a millionaire in weeks. You'll have to sell your soul to the devil but you'll be filthy rich with even an ounce of creativity. Just thinking about it and I can come up with a few quick script ideas in the short time I've spent writing this.
I don't usually advocate piracy but, well, if you can't get it in Oz then I'd suggest looking into kat.cr or thepiratebay.se and finding the content there. There's a few sites that do television shows for streaming. You may find it on zmovies.tw (they may have changed the URL - just search for zmovies) shush.se, and watchseries-online.ch for you to look into. One of those may have what you seek. I don't really have any ethical qualms about people accessing content that's not available to them because of the country they reside in. Pirate the hell out of it.
I don't watch much television, none at home actually - I own a nice TV but it is for movies and don't even know if I get OTA programming up here, but I was reading about television shows recently and one of the things the article mentioned was that the standard is 48 minutes of program (including credits etc.) and 12 minutes of commercials. So 20% or 1/5 of the hour is spent on commercials. I believe the article mentioned that it was 22 minutes for a 30 minute program so nearly 30% of a half hour show is apparently dedicated to advertising.
I've become so acclimated to not seeing ads that I don't even like, to the point where I hate them and actively do something else to avoid them, the ads on Hulu. Why, as a paid member, am I subjected to ads??? Which is why, to explain, I was reading said article in the first place. I think someone linked to it from a Slashdot comment actually? This was not a long time ago, within the past month as I recall, so I doubt that it has changed.
In my recent, and ongoing, bad movie kick I watched a Uwe Boll movie called Tunnel Rats. It's actually pretty good and on Hulu though you may need a paid account in order to view it though I'm sure you can find it if you wanted it bad enough. It had far fewer explosions than I expected. It ended just as I expected but it went to the ending in a very unexpected way. I was hoping for a worse movie but ended up with a good one. It was surprisingly well done. I was expecting more explosions given the theme.
Why the hell are you doing that? I mean, yeah, I'm a HUGE fan of really bad movies - I mean unintentionally bad (ironic bad is not fun) but those have an ending. I don't really watch television but I can't really understand putting yourself through repeated episodes of shows you don't like in hopes that they get better.
I am glad I scrolled down prior to commenting. I'm not a big fan of him but I did enjoy that song. Strangely, even though I'm not a big fan, I went on a Boss kick recently and listened to a bunch of his music. I guess I wanted to hear what he said and how he changed throughout the years. All-in-all I have to say I prefer his older material.
I'm not sure why people still get emotionally invested in television shows. I did that once. They canceled it. I've not been a fan of television since, really. I don't even have OTA television (I don't think? I might. I've yet to try.). The show in question was Misfits of Science. It was awesome in every way.
So you're saying that they do no good or just aren't as good as you would supposedly do if you were in their shoes? Or? An accusation doesn't carry much weight without a bunch of evidence. I can understand being suspect but I've yet to see them doing anything that I find horrific and no, no I'm posting this from Linux if that matters - I'm not some sort of crazed Bill Gates fan.
Isn't Tizen, I've never used it - obviously, considered to be pretty much the absolute worst programming target/language in common use and has zero redeeming qualities? I seem to recall that they had lousy help documents, a crappy SDK, and required esoteric knowledge for zero gain. I was reading about this a few months ago as I recall. I seem to recall some of the rants led me to the daily WTF site. I don't recall a single person defending it.
I want my GPS to have a screen saver that I can modify. I'd make it a bobble-head Jesus. Once, while taking a break and driving randomly around the southern part of the United States I searched high and low for a bobble-head Jesus. I could not find one. When I stopped at various Christian book stores and asked, including that giant-ass cross outside of Amarillo, TX, they looked at me as if I were a heretic. I suppose I am but a bobble-head Jesus would be most awesome.
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It took me a moment to find your most recent post - I'd neglected to add you previously. I'm not sure if you recall a conversation we had (about selling my business, having some access to capital, relationships, life changes, expectations, the universe, etc.) but I figured I'd find some way to drop you a line and say that I've found a way to act on your suggestion - to some extent. I am out doing my wanderlust thing again (I do this every couple of years, or so it seems) and I'm just driving around at random. I am in Buffalo, NY, and traipsing along with absolutely no goals or destination. I have no designated time to return. I have nobody specific to meet.
I am just going where the road leads and, if life should grant me interesting choices then I'll make those choices when I come to them. I am not, specifically, searching for anything - when asked I am simply seeking to discover real America and where I belong in it. My journey brings me to places where I have not been and to to places where I have been many times already.
The goal is not to meet someone or anything like that. The goal is just to be out there. I left the RV at home and I'm not even staying in particularly nice hotels. In fact, I'm in an EconoLodge on the outskirts of Buffalo at the moment, not far from the arena, and went to Niagara yesterday. Who knows? Maybe I'll meet some hitchhiker that is meandering the globe or country and headed exactly nowhere - just like I? Maybe I'll stumble into someone at a club, bar, a diner? *shrugs*
It would probably be easier if I drank but I'm not wiling to go down that road. If I drank then I'd be able to enjoy the time spent in bars or clubs more. So far, I've gone to a couple and met some interesting people but I've not actually met anyone that piques my interests enough to stick around. I'm thinking that I should spend more time in libraries and the likes. I'm really not suited for bars and clubs.
I did limit myself to packing only two suits. The rest of the time I'm in reasonably casual clothing. That way, I at least look fairly normal. I think a reasonable summary might be that we all have issues of some type. In my case, strange as it may sound, finding someone that's reasonably trustworthy could be difficult. I don't feel I'm being dishonest. I've not made anyone think anything that is not true nor have I been dishonest with anyone.
Anyhow, I figured I'd say hello and update you. It's a strange thing for strangers to be doing on Slashdot but I've done stranger. Life is too short to be worried about conventions and, quite frankly, I'm not exactly doing anything better with my time. So, we'll see where it goes from here. Having no specific goals, I really don't, means I'm not expecting anything so it will be nearly impossible for me to be let down.
If something interesting or amusing does happen then, well, life is good. If not then I have a place in Henderson and can just go up and buy a hooker.
Finally, as always, I'm enjoying the drive. I do this whole "wanderlust thing" fairly often and have since my youth. Whilst I miss the comforts of home, the familiarity, there's something equally familiar about going nowhere and sleeping in random hotels. I'm thinking that I may seek a nice tourist area that is mostly shut down due to the season being slow. Perhaps I'll seek a nice bed and breakfast or rent a small cottage and hang around for a while.
I am thinking of something along the lines of a small town with a general store that has a hardware store attached, a diner, a small bar, and plenty of broadband. I can stay for a week or two and see what local culture rubs off on me and meet new and interesting people.
So, thanks. We'll see where it goes from here. The ubiquity of the internet has made life so much more simple. The geek in me is insisting on connecting through my own desktop, many miles away, to ensure that I've truly got a reasonably secure connection. I'm playing with varied apps on my phone, things I'd never do at home. I've also found myself opening up an IDE at night and tweaking and poking - things I've not done in ages. Life is good, no? Alas, we've all got our problems.
Do you mean "incidentaloma," perhaps? I was unable to find your word at The Free Dictionary or at the OED site. What does this have to do with finding a tumor without having exhibited signs or, basically, by accident? I'm assuming they'd not just be doing this sort of testing at random or anything but will be limiting its use to just those who appear to be suffering from viral infections. (Is it considered an infection if it is viral and not bacterial?)
After the 'review' button, well, this reply looks as if I'm attempting to be snarky. I'm not, really. I simply don't get it. Also, using a reasonable approximation of good grammar while having the option to show the domain name enabled is rather confusing. Oh well, hopefully you can parse it. I don't think it's that confusing. This subject is, however, confusing to me, at least. Woohoo! I'll just shotgun those commas. No, no I haven't slept.
I like the way you think. I really do. Which made me think of an answer to this non-question.
The answer is no, we don't need special regulation. What we need are intelligent and informed persons. Eventually, and this doesn't discount closed source, we could have open and interoperability-built standards that are published, vetted, and agreed on - or at least published and open. The idea being that, yeah, smart people would select to use such instead of insisting on reliance on closed and mysterious. This doesn't mean that the code, itself, can't be proprietary but the communications methods that it uses should be - they should be open, available, and free to use, even for commercial means. In this case, using this example, I'd suggest relying on the standards IPv6 and TCP/IP (or UDP, if applicable - does UDP support error correction?).
If there's any benefit to this new, proprietary, communication format then, by all means, share it with the world so that it can be reviewed, improved on, standardized, and benefit others. It's not like it will do anything more than help the company's bottom line to do so. If anything, it will increase their visibility and market share. Perhaps, I guess, they could license it for commercial use but, honestly, I don't think that will help. If anything, and this is important to me - at least, it's a municipal project (from the looks of things) and thus it should be open.
The summary mentions that it will be hacked, and it will be, so having other companies that can layer on security (if needed) or perform repairs prevents lock in and price gouging. There's a vested interest, from the people, to insist that these types of things remain open and rely on commonly accepted (i.e. standardized even if unratified and informally) and readily available information. Should this company go out of business then the tax payer will have to keep them afloat just to insure they can read electrical usage meters? Surely you jest... When a security flaw is discovered, and it will be, who is going to repair it and how much is it going to cost? Truly, I can think of no benefit to this being proprietary but, perhaps, I'm missing something.
Ah well... I should be sleeping, though I've called the desk and have paid for another night so I'll not have to be out of the hotel by 10:00 in the morning. What an ungodly hour to insist that I check out. I'll be in Buffalo for another night and that means I get to spend a little bit of time online. Yay...
The lowest amount of RAM I have, in any box that gets used on a regular basis, is 16 GB. The rest are around 32 and my regular desktop (which I'm sort of using at the moment) has 64. I'm not really using the desktop, I guess, but am connected via VNC and using the desktop remotely (I'm on hiatus/wanderlust for an undetermined duration and want to maintain my own encrypted connection and I like this route).
I guess my point is that, yeah, as I save fewer and fewer things (I often don't even use the OS that is installed but just poke around with a Live USB/DVD/CD - usually the former) anywhere and I'm more a passive consumer, I really have, sort of, replaced HDD/SSDs with RAM. I might save a document, not often enough to matter. I usually don't even save many of those locally. Those get saved on a NAS that gets backed up to HDDs and, eventually, to SSDs that sit off-site and on-site in a backup scheme that a friend and I utilize. It's all automated and I don't really touch anything.
To be frank, I'd really kind of sort of like to get back into using Remote Profiles. I don't use many Windows products (not any at the moment) but, honestly, it was easier for me to do with Windows. It's nice to just be able to have the compute power to be able to do things locally but also have the availability of a remote profile.
I digress...
Anyhow, in some ways, I have actually begun using RAM as my HDD. I know, it's pretty hybrid as I'm still loading the OS into RAM from a disk drive but it stays that way. Hell, I've got enough RAM that I no longer even bother with a /swap at all. I've yet to have any issues though, again, I am a much more passive user than I once was. A proper suspend state means that I don't even have to worry about keeping the USB drive in place. I've got enough RAM to throw at the problem. (I've never had this much compute power, these many resources, so readily available - my desktop that I'm connected through has more resources than many servers that I've used.)
I kind of want a couple of them to put in my home server and, maybe, one in a laptop and a couple in a desktop. I've had good luck buying and using enterprise rated equipment for home use. It has meant a much lower MTBF and a higher ROI if I've done the math properly. Because of my choices, I still have hardware that is older than most and, often, am able to donate it to a worthy cause when I'm no longer using it and don't want to keep it as an example.
That's not the most logical argument. Freedoms and rights are not the same. I am free to kill you, I do not have a right to do so. Just because you're free to do so does not mean you have an inalienable right to do so. If you don't understand this then keep drinking, I've spelled it out as clearly as it can be.
A friend of mind owns a few theaters, the closest one is in [redacted]. I often go down as they're closing and go watch a few movies by myself or with a few friends. I no longer drink but I used to get really trashed while I was there. We'd use one of the smaller rooms off to the side and often ended up chilling in the projection booth for a while to do other things. I usually pay a handsome sum for the various snacks and they make a fresh thing of popcorn before they leave. The owner, his wife, or the manager will generally participate in the event. I'd say I average a month or two between visits. I am 100% certain I could set up and record. I am also certain I needn't pay but I feel obligated to. We do clean up after ourselves and have even helped staff clean up other parts of the theater so they could leave early. Under no circumstances would I record the movie even if I could get away with it.
In hindsight, I'm sure this is illegal as all hell (though he 'sells' us tickets - it's sure to break the contract which is likely a civil (or even criminal) offense. So, because of that - and that there's but one theater in that town, I've redacted the name of the theater. I've even 'sneaked' in the night before a new release was going to be shown and there were people already in line. I just walked in with the employees and a few of my friends went in with me. I don't feel bad, really, but it was kind of mean. I'm sure the agency that he gets the films for would be really pissed if they knew - so, yeah, that's the main reason for the redaction I guess.
I've thought about doing a remodel and having a screening room put in - you can actually get a license to get the full movies while they're still in the theaters though it's a bit pricey. I'm not that much of a movie buff and it's more an event than anything. I think I'd not use it much if it were in my home.
I am not 100% certain of the nomenclature but I believe it goes like this:
"oldfag is oldfag. teh cancer that iz killin /b/ haz been here since tiem immemorial. lulz will be had by all - except u cuz u is newfag w/knickerz in knotz! lulz. now tits or gtfo, newfag. also ur mom"
Promptly followed with, "stfu, ur mom iz teh cancerz. fgt!"
A witty riposte will be sure to follow and it will, quite likely, be akin to, "no u!" (Accompanied with a picture of gore or the OP's penis.)
I am not entirely fluent, yet, but I've been parsing the language for a while. There are a number of colloquialisms and dialects with much variance. In short, they're mostly harmless and doing much the same what any of us curious folks did when we were young. Lulz, it's an important subject. I'm not in the field but I'd be interested in writing a paper on it if I weren't so damned lazy.
Q. What did Abraham Lincoln say after he freed the slaves?
A. I did it for the lulz. trollface.jpg
Sometimes I think that /b/ should be the front page of the internet. Why? Because it would really, really, piss them off. What good is a hornet's nest if you can't kick it once in a while? Bears sleep just so the curious can poke them, after all.
I should have said this further up the thread but, oh well...
Stop using TOR as a proxy, assholes. (I do not mean you, specifically.) Stop downloading torrents through it, assholes. TOR is fine so long as you remain on the .onion domains - as soon as you go into the clear-net you are subject to monitoring. They can, and will, be able to use traffic shaping and timing to determine who you are and where you are going. It has been like this since the start and will remain like this forever.
It was not meant to use for browsing the regular web. It sure as shit wasn't meant so that you could go to Facebook. It sure as hell isn't meant for torrents. Use it for browsing .onion sites. That is all.
You can use it to bypass some filters. That's fine. You'll still be subject to tracking.
I suspect you mean, where do they go? Where they come from, normally, is a fine higher learning institution. I, myself, attended such an institute and was exposed to many brilliant people. A number of mathematicians remain in academia, some go into the private sector, and some of the best work in the government (which is what I expect you were looking for). However, I've no numbers for this, but I can assure you that there are a great many remaining in the other sectors - many of whom are quite capable.
Seeing as you asked, or insinuated that one should, I figure you may as well get an answer from someone who is actually a mathematician. I suspect you're attempting to claim that the best mathematicians go to work in the government. This is not entirely true. I, personally, ended up modeling traffic and working for the government (contractually) much of the time. My company, however, was privately owned and did not work exclusively with a single government and also expanded into pedestrian traffic models.
Also, I am nearly done with my vacation/wanderlust. Not that is important but I felt it was something worth adding.
I found a neat show when I was in the UK last but I've forgotten the title so I can't really tell you much. It's about some guy who's a detective. He's from Norway, Denmark, or Sweden. It was dubbed in English and aired on channel 4 maybe??? I've also seen Lilyhammer and, for some reason, the two seem similar. I tend to travel a little and one of the silly things I do is watch local television even though I don't really watch it here at home. I'm not sure what made the show seem similar, to be honest, as Lilyhammer is about a gang and the other is about a detective. I think it was the writing style.
Anyhow, I caught Lilyhammer in Norway, as I recall, and later found it had popped up on Netflix and watched a few more episodes. It's not a bad show at all. I wish I could remember the name of the other show... You might like it. *sighs* I don't know if you're from Norway or not but, if you are, you have a very beautiful country. I spent most of my time, during both trips, in a rented RV just traveling around and hitting the various quiet places while occasionally staying in an inn or a hotel. As I attempt to ski, badly, and do a little snowboarding it was a really nice place to visit and I got to watch a neat snowboarding competition whose name has also been lost to the fog of an addled brain.
If you do live there you've got an excellent country full of good people. Your beer sucks though. I've been there twice now and kind of sort of want to buy some property there but I don't think I'd use it enough to actually warrant the expense. As I no longer drink, well a single beer here and there, I guess I can forgive the local beer crafting. I visited in 2009 and again in 2013. I intend to visit again within the next two years only I wish to stay for longer than two weeks and to do some fishing if I'm allowed to. Some of those streams looked like they'd make great places to fish but I have put exactly zero effort into learning about this so I have no idea what I'd be fishing for. Hopefully they've got some trout and I can fly fish (badly) and mostly scare the poor fish away while getting lucky often enough to keep me amused and moderately well fed.
I mention this because, well, Norway's one of the exceptional places that I have visited and I've been pretty much everywhere at one time or another. The people remind me a lot of the people in South America. In general they are exceptionally kind and outgoing once you get to know them a little bit. There's a huge educational disparity between the two groups but education doesn't always correlate with intelligence I've found.
As an aside, and to add to my long and rambling post, my son's found South America to be the same and is just as fascinated with it as I. He's not returning to school this semester (yes, wasted money) and has opted to remain in Peru for the time being as he seeks to get his girlfriend an extended visa though he doesn't want to marry just to get on the fast-track immigration route. Smart kid, really. When I do return to Norway next I have already planned on trying to coerce my son into joining his old man on the trip. If I can stop him from falling in love with the natives then your daughters are safe. The mothers are not so safe... What? I'm single...
Wait... What was the subject again?
It's a female, lesbian, Muslim, with a handicap, who wants to participate in a male dominated environment. Dude... That will get a certain demographic, and a large and vocal demographic, by default even if it was written by someone as inept as myself. I can think of a dozen regular members of this site who will not only watch it faithfully but will espouse their moral superiority for watching it and strive to find converts to watch it with them. It'd be a hit on tumbler, twitter, fark, reddit, etc...
You should submit that script and run with it. You'll be a millionaire in weeks. You'll have to sell your soul to the devil but you'll be filthy rich with even an ounce of creativity. Just thinking about it and I can come up with a few quick script ideas in the short time I've spent writing this.
I don't usually advocate piracy but, well, if you can't get it in Oz then I'd suggest looking into kat.cr or thepiratebay.se and finding the content there. There's a few sites that do television shows for streaming. You may find it on zmovies.tw (they may have changed the URL - just search for zmovies) shush.se, and watchseries-online.ch for you to look into. One of those may have what you seek. I don't really have any ethical qualms about people accessing content that's not available to them because of the country they reside in. Pirate the hell out of it.
I don't watch much television, none at home actually - I own a nice TV but it is for movies and don't even know if I get OTA programming up here, but I was reading about television shows recently and one of the things the article mentioned was that the standard is 48 minutes of program (including credits etc.) and 12 minutes of commercials. So 20% or 1/5 of the hour is spent on commercials. I believe the article mentioned that it was 22 minutes for a 30 minute program so nearly 30% of a half hour show is apparently dedicated to advertising.
I've become so acclimated to not seeing ads that I don't even like, to the point where I hate them and actively do something else to avoid them, the ads on Hulu. Why, as a paid member, am I subjected to ads??? Which is why, to explain, I was reading said article in the first place. I think someone linked to it from a Slashdot comment actually? This was not a long time ago, within the past month as I recall, so I doubt that it has changed.
You call "reality tv" shows 'documentaries?"
In my recent, and ongoing, bad movie kick I watched a Uwe Boll movie called Tunnel Rats. It's actually pretty good and on Hulu though you may need a paid account in order to view it though I'm sure you can find it if you wanted it bad enough. It had far fewer explosions than I expected. It ended just as I expected but it went to the ending in a very unexpected way. I was hoping for a worse movie but ended up with a good one. It was surprisingly well done. I was expecting more explosions given the theme.
Why the hell are you doing that? I mean, yeah, I'm a HUGE fan of really bad movies - I mean unintentionally bad (ironic bad is not fun) but those have an ending. I don't really watch television but I can't really understand putting yourself through repeated episodes of shows you don't like in hopes that they get better.
I am glad I scrolled down prior to commenting. I'm not a big fan of him but I did enjoy that song. Strangely, even though I'm not a big fan, I went on a Boss kick recently and listened to a bunch of his music. I guess I wanted to hear what he said and how he changed throughout the years. All-in-all I have to say I prefer his older material.
I'm not sure why people still get emotionally invested in television shows. I did that once. They canceled it. I've not been a fan of television since, really. I don't even have OTA television (I don't think? I might. I've yet to try.). The show in question was Misfits of Science. It was awesome in every way.
So you're saying that they do no good or just aren't as good as you would supposedly do if you were in their shoes? Or? An accusation doesn't carry much weight without a bunch of evidence. I can understand being suspect but I've yet to see them doing anything that I find horrific and no, no I'm posting this from Linux if that matters - I'm not some sort of crazed Bill Gates fan.
Their engineering degree? Well, I suspect they don't have one.
Shh! Nobody is supposed to know that.
Isn't Tizen, I've never used it - obviously, considered to be pretty much the absolute worst programming target/language in common use and has zero redeeming qualities? I seem to recall that they had lousy help documents, a crappy SDK, and required esoteric knowledge for zero gain. I was reading about this a few months ago as I recall. I seem to recall some of the rants led me to the daily WTF site. I don't recall a single person defending it.
I want my GPS to have a screen saver that I can modify. I'd make it a bobble-head Jesus. Once, while taking a break and driving randomly around the southern part of the United States I searched high and low for a bobble-head Jesus. I could not find one. When I stopped at various Christian book stores and asked, including that giant-ass cross outside of Amarillo, TX, they looked at me as if I were a heretic. I suppose I am but a bobble-head Jesus would be most awesome.
So you're saying that they do no good?