You know, just the fear of it going to court at all can be enough to coerce many people. People lead busy lives and the prospect of trying to wedge a scary court case into it is enough to just say fuck it and agree to the search so you can go home.
Which, ya know, it's not so hot that we're so afraid of our legal system sucking away our lives, even if we are perfectly innocent.
I believe by "undetectable" they mean something more like "indistinguishable from surrounding material using current techniques". But apparently even that seems questionable as a number of others in this thread have claimed that these things should still be showing up distinctly on x-ray.
What I think is tragic is that something like Google Glass has some awesome potential for driving. Perhaps a "Car Mode" that locks out internet and displays maps, road conditions, maybe even work out some sexy little indicator for cars in your blind spot. However, you can't enforce "Car Mode" in any non-big-brother way so people are just going to drive in "Facebook Mode".
That is, it appears to be a tool with the potential for great good as well as great disaster. However, history shows that people tend towards the great disaster choice (because what if that cute girl from class "likes" one of your posts? YOU NEED TO KNOW NOW!).
Why don't they just give you a NAT'ed address and be done with it forever.
Which is what my ISP did. And they're damned proud of it, too. Even have a webpage dedicated to telling people how awesome and safe this whole NATing thing is. A big problem is that the tier 1 techs have no idea what that even means. I reckon they have to have some incentive to resolve issues themselves as opposed to escalating tickets because they fight tooth and nail to hold onto your issue, even if they're not authorized to resolve it ("Can I get a public IP?", "I need a new modem provisioned", etc.).
I have mod points and it took every ounce of my being to not abuse them on this post. There is no '-1 Disagree"...
Seriously, though. A plant based diet can and does work, but it's needlessly difficult if you don't have any ethical hangups about animal products. That is, in order to fill the nutrient gap left by omitting animal products you have to do a fair bit of globe trotting to import all of those plants capable of doing so. This can be prohibitively expensive and is really not something that would have been casually possible before globalization (I think it's kind of silly to claim that our bodies will collapse unless we adopt a diet that has become possible only in the past 100 years).
The saturated fat and exogenous cholesterol dogmas are byproducts of a 40+ year old hypothesis that has never once been corroborated in a clinical study. The best it has gotten is a handful of cherry-picked epidemiological studies (while ignoring a good number of epidemiological studies that disagree with it). In fact, I believe that the "low-fat" diet has been pretty damning to our health as a society. Fat is not just an energy source, we absolutely do use it for other processes such as cell construction and hormone production (cholesterol, specifically, is a precursor to EVERY hormone your body makes). Fat and protein also tend to go hand-in-hand in nature, thus haphazardly cutting fat tends to drastically decrease protein intake as well. So we're down to low-fat intake and low-protein intake but we need those 2k calories a day somehow. Now the average low-fat dieter is cornered into an extremely high carbohydrate diet just to get through the day. Are carbohydrates the devil? Heavens, no. But 500+ grams a day for years, if not decades, in a row? Well...T2 diabetes seems to be a new standard in the developed world.
If you do the research, find the producers and can pay the bill then a low-fat, plant based, diet can absolutely work. Most dieters, however, don't, won't and can't. They're not eating quinoa and avocados. Instead they end up replacing otherwise benign animal products with low-fat snack cakes, bagel after bagel, massive plates of daily pasta and other crap.
Bah, this was a bit of a disjointed rant. Just stick to the outer edges of the grocery store (the produce, meat, dairy and seafood sections) and stay away from products with more than 2-3 ingredients on the label. Also, stop eating stuff you're allergic to. Seriously. If you're fat, sick, constipated and asthmatic then maybe that daily glass of milk and scoop of peanut butter isn't do you the favors you thought it was.
You misunderstand. People are being NATed BEFORE it reaches their own equipment. Providers doing this claim it is to fight off the dwindling IPv4 supply. It also makes it impossible to get any services through without begging the provider. I'm experiencing this right now as my router is pulling a 10.x.x.x/8 address on its WAN. No amount of port forwarding on my pfSense box is going to work around that. I have a ticket open with my ISP to request a public IP but I have no idea if they're going to tell me to sod off or not.
Christ, it really puts into perspective the rate at which these things have gained destructive power since their inception. The difference between the effects of "Little Boy" and the Tsar Bomba on Hiroshima are...jarring.
Seriously, how many people are going to switch to Linux over this?
Well...me, for one. I had used Slackware for my day to day desktop from 2004 to 2010. In 2010 I decided that Windows 7 was "good enough" and that I was tired of dualbooting to get to a handful of games and apps and didn't care to emulate or virtualize. I still use CentOS for my server but for my day to day use I've enjoyed Windows 7 just fine on my desktop. In the coming month I'll be purchasing a new laptop as I return to school for software engineering. Had Windows 8 not been such a disaster, and 8.1 not looking too rosey itself, I may have considered keeping the original install on the laptop but now it's a complete non-decision. I'll be wiping it almost as soon as I get it and likely be installing Fedora onto it (really, I'm open to this and am experimenting to find what I like. I'm up for whatever works best for a software student's laptop. Any insights on this?).
I'll continue to use Windows 7 on my desktop, but as that ages and loses support I can see myself jumping back to Linux on the desktop in the future to avoid a Windows 8 upgrade. Microsoft had my attention for several years there, but they're really trying to drive me away again.
CyanogenMod is posting across social networks that this is just the opinion of some of the devs, but is not the stance of project.
Found on G+ just now:
Let’s start with the simplest form of this: CyanogenMod does not pre-announce support or lack of support for devices. Ever. Even for the Nexus 4, we did not announce support until a nightly build was available. Further, any announcement regarding the ‘dropping’ of device support will be communicated via this Google+ page, Twitter, Facebook, our blog, or a combination of those; it will not be something buried in a forum post.
This morning, a comment from a CM collaborator on XDA was taken to be as an ‘absolute’ in regards to support of the S4. He offered the opinion of four TeamHacksung maintainers, their frustrations and lack of interest in supporting the S4. What’s seemingly lost on those reading this is that his comments as an individual do not speak for CyanogenMod as an organization.
As for the team’s stance on the S4, there isn’t one at this time, and most definitely won’t be one before the device is sold at retail.
Indeed there is often plenty of talk of "refeeds" or its more sinister cousin the "cheat day". You mention leptin which, if like you, you don't buy into then the purpose of these meals is the psychological reward. This reward can be both powerful AND damning. We're humans and we love rewards. We respond well to them. However, having one eye on that end of the week reward can be torture for some. Check out Martin Berkhan's article on the Marshmallow Test for some decent thoughts on such an effect.
I'm not really an advocate of rewarded nor strict as it's really up to how the individual can handle either. Both have the potential for great benefits and both have the potential for cataclysmic failure, and it's all dependent on the individual. Eventually give up because there is just no reward in sight? Fail. Concentrate so hard on that reward that you completely sabotage yourself? Fail. Which kind of person are you? Can you power on without, relatively, immediate results? Can you trust yourself with the reward system? Both can work, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a fairly even split between then number of people who would succeed with one method and fail with the other.
Of course there are always n=1 as you point out (it worked for you, but that's just one data point). I do try to steer away from blanket statements such as that, especially in the diet and fitness world, but it can be difficult at times. There are general things that you can say about these sort of things but they are never 100% spot on for everyone.
Really, I'm just trying to warn people away from the "I can eat this 10" pizza and beer by myself because I did an hour on the elliptical today" mentality. Basically, the pitfall of rewarding your one step forward by taking two steps back.
...a fairly sedentary life consisting most on fritos, tab, and mountain dew.
Most people in this thread are likely to focus on the highlighted part. And they are certainly good in doing so. Spending 45-60 minutes, 3 times a week, picking up heavy things off of the ground is one of the greatest things I have ever done for my strength and physique. It has been great for building muscle and cardiovascular health. However, when you say "fit" I assume you meant fat loss, first and foremost. And when it comes to fat loss that is done in the kitchen.
Well, here's my angle. Exercise is for strength, endurance and health. That is, when you lift you should be lifting to increase your strength and what you should be counting is the weight lifted and the reps repped. When you cardio, what you should be counting is miles ran/sprinted/biked. However, what many do is count the calories burned instead. And you do burn calories. You burn calories during the activity itself, you usually get a metabolic "afterburner" effect and you burn calories when your body rebounds (this also has the effect of partitioning a portion your dietary protein and fat towards tissue and hormone construction instead of just flat energy). And that's great. But you just CANNOT out train a shitty diet. Saying to yourself that you can eat/drink X today because you did Y is such a dead end, terrible, philosophy that gets many in trouble. The freedom to eat something because "you earned it" just leads to heartbreak for many. If you're going to exercise, exercise for the sake of your body's strength and health, but don't think that it will suddenly make that sugary coffee and bagel a non-factor in your obesity/diabetes.
That said, I honestly believe that the "fritos, tab, and mountain dew" part is the real core of the issue here. Refined sugars and grains coupled with modern fats (seed oils, trans-fats) are the bane of many peoples' lives. Insulin resistance, leptin resistance, celiac disease, IBS, SIBO, etc.. Simply switching to whole foods can almost entirely bypass this issue. Learn to cook your own meats, find tasty vegetable recipes, use fruits and nuts as calorie/nutrient dense desserts. When you do this the trans-fats disappear, the refined sugars and HFCS disappear, the 600+ grams of carbs a day disappear. You will learn the role that protein, fats and carbohydrates play in your body and how blindly trying to cut one of them to zero is a poor decision (seriously, when did we decide that we DIDN'T need dietary fat for healthy tissue and hormone production?). Your hunger will likely diminish as well as these foods tend to be VERY satiating.
It's funny when people ask how to get in shape that they will jump up and be ready to run in place for hours on end per week, but if you tell them that they will HAVE to cook their own meals, well, suddenly they're deers in headlights. People seem more willing to spend hours on end spinning away in their spin classes than spending a few minutes in the kitchen.
In summary: Exercise = Strength, endurance, health Diet = Fat loss, disease control, health
Do them together, but don't think you're going to get strong just through eating or that you're going to lose fat just through running.
And there it is, folks. The real agenda. Spend until you're so far under water that you can't breathe, then jack income tax up to 75%.
And there it is, folks. The real agenda. Spend until you're so far under water that you can't breathe, then refuse to pay for it under some bullshit libertarian/conservative guise.
Well...yes, you are lucky. I know people similar to your situation that managed to get the right positions and connections early on such that the empty college line on their resume was inconsequential. I also know college graduates like the one mentioned in the summary who seem stuck in an endless loop of shit jobs that they're constantly laid off from (not fired).
The way I see it it's all about how you get your foot in the door. Some people find their connections out of high school and others require that college degree.
The first character that came to MY mind in this question is Doctor Who. A good chunk of storylines start off with the local populace being terrorized by ghosts/vampires/curses/etc. and the Doctor always shrugs off these ridiculous superstitions in order to find out what's really going on. Of course in the end it's aliens, but the point still stands - "supernatural" is given a grain a salt and the investigation begins.
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All internet that they have control over. Don't be obtuse.
Thank you for pointing that out.
I don't plan on becoming a felon any time soon, but I am not sure I like the whole de-citizenizing we do to felons.
You know, just the fear of it going to court at all can be enough to coerce many people. People lead busy lives and the prospect of trying to wedge a scary court case into it is enough to just say fuck it and agree to the search so you can go home.
Which, ya know, it's not so hot that we're so afraid of our legal system sucking away our lives, even if we are perfectly innocent.
Taxes are DUE by April 15th, but the tax season starts at the turn of the calendar which, yes, is just around the corner.
My experience may be outdated...
I see what you did there.
I believe by "undetectable" they mean something more like "indistinguishable from surrounding material using current techniques". But apparently even that seems questionable as a number of others in this thread have claimed that these things should still be showing up distinctly on x-ray.
Nah, I'm too busy drinking the beer that makes me feel good.
God, that sounds like extortion.
"It'd be a shame if we told the user that your software might maybe sorta kinda be malware."
What I think is tragic is that something like Google Glass has some awesome potential for driving. Perhaps a "Car Mode" that locks out internet and displays maps, road conditions, maybe even work out some sexy little indicator for cars in your blind spot. However, you can't enforce "Car Mode" in any non-big-brother way so people are just going to drive in "Facebook Mode".
That is, it appears to be a tool with the potential for great good as well as great disaster. However, history shows that people tend towards the great disaster choice (because what if that cute girl from class "likes" one of your posts? YOU NEED TO KNOW NOW!).
Get a Ticket With Google Glass: Get a Slightly Larger Ticket (maybe)
Which is what my ISP did. And they're damned proud of it, too. Even have a webpage dedicated to telling people how awesome and safe this whole NATing thing is. A big problem is that the tier 1 techs have no idea what that even means. I reckon they have to have some incentive to resolve issues themselves as opposed to escalating tickets because they fight tooth and nail to hold onto your issue, even if they're not authorized to resolve it ("Can I get a public IP?", "I need a new modem provisioned", etc.).
I have mod points and it took every ounce of my being to not abuse them on this post. There is no '-1 Disagree"...
Seriously, though. A plant based diet can and does work, but it's needlessly difficult if you don't have any ethical hangups about animal products. That is, in order to fill the nutrient gap left by omitting animal products you have to do a fair bit of globe trotting to import all of those plants capable of doing so. This can be prohibitively expensive and is really not something that would have been casually possible before globalization (I think it's kind of silly to claim that our bodies will collapse unless we adopt a diet that has become possible only in the past 100 years).
The saturated fat and exogenous cholesterol dogmas are byproducts of a 40+ year old hypothesis that has never once been corroborated in a clinical study. The best it has gotten is a handful of cherry-picked epidemiological studies (while ignoring a good number of epidemiological studies that disagree with it). In fact, I believe that the "low-fat" diet has been pretty damning to our health as a society. Fat is not just an energy source, we absolutely do use it for other processes such as cell construction and hormone production (cholesterol, specifically, is a precursor to EVERY hormone your body makes). Fat and protein also tend to go hand-in-hand in nature, thus haphazardly cutting fat tends to drastically decrease protein intake as well. So we're down to low-fat intake and low-protein intake but we need those 2k calories a day somehow. Now the average low-fat dieter is cornered into an extremely high carbohydrate diet just to get through the day. Are carbohydrates the devil? Heavens, no. But 500+ grams a day for years, if not decades, in a row? Well...T2 diabetes seems to be a new standard in the developed world.
If you do the research, find the producers and can pay the bill then a low-fat, plant based, diet can absolutely work. Most dieters, however, don't, won't and can't. They're not eating quinoa and avocados. Instead they end up replacing otherwise benign animal products with low-fat snack cakes, bagel after bagel, massive plates of daily pasta and other crap.
Bah, this was a bit of a disjointed rant. Just stick to the outer edges of the grocery store (the produce, meat, dairy and seafood sections) and stay away from products with more than 2-3 ingredients on the label. Also, stop eating stuff you're allergic to. Seriously. If you're fat, sick, constipated and asthmatic then maybe that daily glass of milk and scoop of peanut butter isn't do you the favors you thought it was.
You misunderstand. People are being NATed BEFORE it reaches their own equipment. Providers doing this claim it is to fight off the dwindling IPv4 supply. It also makes it impossible to get any services through without begging the provider. I'm experiencing this right now as my router is pulling a 10.x.x.x/8 address on its WAN. No amount of port forwarding on my pfSense box is going to work around that. I have a ticket open with my ISP to request a public IP but I have no idea if they're going to tell me to sod off or not.
Christ, it really puts into perspective the rate at which these things have gained destructive power since their inception. The difference between the effects of "Little Boy" and the Tsar Bomba on Hiroshima are...jarring.
Huh, are these d2att stable builds not what you're looking for?
For those running Cyanogenmod this has been patched in 10.1.1.
Seriously, how many people are going to switch to Linux over this?
Well...me, for one. I had used Slackware for my day to day desktop from 2004 to 2010. In 2010 I decided that Windows 7 was "good enough" and that I was tired of dualbooting to get to a handful of games and apps and didn't care to emulate or virtualize. I still use CentOS for my server but for my day to day use I've enjoyed Windows 7 just fine on my desktop. In the coming month I'll be purchasing a new laptop as I return to school for software engineering. Had Windows 8 not been such a disaster, and 8.1 not looking too rosey itself, I may have considered keeping the original install on the laptop but now it's a complete non-decision. I'll be wiping it almost as soon as I get it and likely be installing Fedora onto it (really, I'm open to this and am experimenting to find what I like. I'm up for whatever works best for a software student's laptop. Any insights on this?).
I'll continue to use Windows 7 on my desktop, but as that ages and loses support I can see myself jumping back to Linux on the desktop in the future to avoid a Windows 8 upgrade. Microsoft had my attention for several years there, but they're really trying to drive me away again.
CyanogenMod is posting across social networks that this is just the opinion of some of the devs, but is not the stance of project.
Found on G+ just now:
Indeed there is often plenty of talk of "refeeds" or its more sinister cousin the "cheat day". You mention leptin which, if like you, you don't buy into then the purpose of these meals is the psychological reward. This reward can be both powerful AND damning. We're humans and we love rewards. We respond well to them. However, having one eye on that end of the week reward can be torture for some. Check out Martin Berkhan's article on the Marshmallow Test for some decent thoughts on such an effect.
I'm not really an advocate of rewarded nor strict as it's really up to how the individual can handle either. Both have the potential for great benefits and both have the potential for cataclysmic failure, and it's all dependent on the individual. Eventually give up because there is just no reward in sight? Fail. Concentrate so hard on that reward that you completely sabotage yourself? Fail. Which kind of person are you? Can you power on without, relatively, immediate results? Can you trust yourself with the reward system? Both can work, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a fairly even split between then number of people who would succeed with one method and fail with the other.
Of course there are always n=1 as you point out (it worked for you, but that's just one data point). I do try to steer away from blanket statements such as that, especially in the diet and fitness world, but it can be difficult at times. There are general things that you can say about these sort of things but they are never 100% spot on for everyone.
Really, I'm just trying to warn people away from the "I can eat this 10" pizza and beer by myself because I did an hour on the elliptical today" mentality. Basically, the pitfall of rewarding your one step forward by taking two steps back.
Most people in this thread are likely to focus on the highlighted part. And they are certainly good in doing so. Spending 45-60 minutes, 3 times a week, picking up heavy things off of the ground is one of the greatest things I have ever done for my strength and physique. It has been great for building muscle and cardiovascular health. However, when you say "fit" I assume you meant fat loss, first and foremost. And when it comes to fat loss that is done in the kitchen.
Well, here's my angle. Exercise is for strength, endurance and health. That is, when you lift you should be lifting to increase your strength and what you should be counting is the weight lifted and the reps repped. When you cardio, what you should be counting is miles ran/sprinted/biked. However, what many do is count the calories burned instead. And you do burn calories. You burn calories during the activity itself, you usually get a metabolic "afterburner" effect and you burn calories when your body rebounds (this also has the effect of partitioning a portion your dietary protein and fat towards tissue and hormone construction instead of just flat energy). And that's great. But you just CANNOT out train a shitty diet. Saying to yourself that you can eat/drink X today because you did Y is such a dead end, terrible, philosophy that gets many in trouble. The freedom to eat something because "you earned it" just leads to heartbreak for many. If you're going to exercise, exercise for the sake of your body's strength and health, but don't think that it will suddenly make that sugary coffee and bagel a non-factor in your obesity/diabetes.
That said, I honestly believe that the "fritos, tab, and mountain dew" part is the real core of the issue here. Refined sugars and grains coupled with modern fats (seed oils, trans-fats) are the bane of many peoples' lives. Insulin resistance, leptin resistance, celiac disease, IBS, SIBO, etc.. Simply switching to whole foods can almost entirely bypass this issue. Learn to cook your own meats, find tasty vegetable recipes, use fruits and nuts as calorie/nutrient dense desserts. When you do this the trans-fats disappear, the refined sugars and HFCS disappear, the 600+ grams of carbs a day disappear. You will learn the role that protein, fats and carbohydrates play in your body and how blindly trying to cut one of them to zero is a poor decision (seriously, when did we decide that we DIDN'T need dietary fat for healthy tissue and hormone production?). Your hunger will likely diminish as well as these foods tend to be VERY satiating.
It's funny when people ask how to get in shape that they will jump up and be ready to run in place for hours on end per week, but if you tell them that they will HAVE to cook their own meals, well, suddenly they're deers in headlights. People seem more willing to spend hours on end spinning away in their spin classes than spending a few minutes in the kitchen.
In summary:
Exercise = Strength, endurance, health
Diet = Fat loss, disease control, health
Do them together, but don't think you're going to get strong just through eating or that you're going to lose fat just through running.
And there it is, folks. The real agenda. Spend until you're so far under water that you can't breathe, then refuse to pay for it under some bullshit libertarian/conservative guise.
Well...yes, you are lucky. I know people similar to your situation that managed to get the right positions and connections early on such that the empty college line on their resume was inconsequential. I also know college graduates like the one mentioned in the summary who seem stuck in an endless loop of shit jobs that they're constantly laid off from (not fired).
The way I see it it's all about how you get your foot in the door. Some people find their connections out of high school and others require that college degree.
The first character that came to MY mind in this question is Doctor Who. A good chunk of storylines start off with the local populace being terrorized by ghosts/vampires/curses/etc. and the Doctor always shrugs off these ridiculous superstitions in order to find out what's really going on. Of course in the end it's aliens, but the point still stands - "supernatural" is given a grain a salt and the investigation begins.