Drummers have had metronomes in their headphones since at least the 70s, when Disco was king, and everyone was striving for a more rhythmic, "electronic" sound - even if they were using analog instruments. Drummers especially tried to ape drum machines before the machine even existed.
Walter M. Miller, Jr. wrote some great SF in a rather Catholic theme: A Canticle for Leibowitz. My mother introduced these to me at an early age, and I was hooked. I greatly enjoyed it when I re-read this classic later in life. There is also a posthumous follow-up novel, Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman.
I know some may be embarrassed that I am revealing this crippling exploit, but I just think that it cannot be covered up any longer. I was astonished to discover, after running many, many tests in my parents' basem...secret lab... that all browsers have this horrible bug. Clicking on any link will cause dozens of files to be downloaded automatically!!! That's right: any link you visit on the Web actually causes a complete download of its content to your computer! Think of the unwitting copyright violations! Think of the children! What's worse, these files are not in an obvious location such as your desktop. No, they are stashed away in such cryptic locations as "~/.mozilla/firefox/znf60w9b.default/Cache"
Let's analyze these components one by one.
The tilde ~ is an unusual character - many people do not even know its name, so it is difficult for tech support to help you with this over the phone!
The next part -.mozilla - is doubly insidious. Any file beginning with '.' is HIDDEN from view, you don't even need to set an extended attribute on it, most utilities are actually TRAINED to hide these files. Many of them have the ability to control all of your softwares! Secondly, 'mozilla' must be a reference to some sort of ancient mythical beast. Perhaps the virus writers are religious and do not wish to invoke the name of G-d, so instead they call him by the epithet "Moz."
The next component is obviously gibberish with a seemingly innocent '.default' tacked on for respectability!
And then "Cache" - what is this? Some mispelling of the word "cash?" As in, they want our money as ransom to fix these crippling bugs?
Nay, I say, we must rise up! Rebel against these secretive 'hackers' before they can control our desktop!
Anyone under the impression that they are "paying for bandwidth" should go read their contract, and learn what Unspecified Bit Rate means. You are merely paying for a signaling rate, and for the right to brag about how many megabits in your last mile.
It doesn't matter how big of a tube you plug into your ISP's oversold network; as a low-budget home user, you have signed away the "right" to any kind of sustained access.
I worked in the NOC of a fledgling ISP in the 1990s. We had a monitoring room with a large projection monitor and four analog electric clocks, representing the four time zones of the USA. Well, when it came time to "fall back" and reset those clocks after DST, college student Mike performed his job nicely. When Jimmy and I came in around 9am, we noticed the clocks were all properly set. Then Jimmy asked Mike, "How'd you do it? Did you take each one down and set it back an hour?" "Yep," says Mike. Well, Jimmy chuckles and explains that Mike had wasted a lot of effort - the proper way to do this was to adjust the Pacific clock to Eastern time, and move the other clocks to the left since they already showed the correct times for the other zones.
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Drummers have had metronomes in their headphones since at least the 70s, when Disco was king, and everyone was striving for a more rhythmic, "electronic" sound - even if they were using analog instruments. Drummers especially tried to ape drum machines before the machine even existed.
Would that mean that I'd have to go outside once in a while? Dangit!
Walter M. Miller, Jr. wrote some great SF in a rather Catholic theme: A Canticle for Leibowitz. My mother introduced these to me at an early age, and I was hooked. I greatly enjoyed it when I re-read this classic later in life. There is also a posthumous follow-up novel, Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman.
I know some may be embarrassed that I am revealing this crippling exploit, but I just think that it cannot be covered up any longer. I was astonished to discover, after running many, many tests in my parents' basem...secret lab... that all browsers have this horrible bug. Clicking on any link will cause dozens of files to be downloaded automatically!!! That's right: any link you visit on the Web actually causes a complete download of its content to your computer! Think of the unwitting copyright violations! Think of the children! What's worse, these files are not in an obvious location such as your desktop. No, they are stashed away in such cryptic locations as "~/.mozilla/firefox/znf60w9b.default/Cache" .mozilla - is doubly insidious. Any file beginning with '.' is HIDDEN from view, you don't even need to set an extended attribute on it, most utilities are actually TRAINED to hide these files. Many of them have the ability to control all of your softwares! Secondly, 'mozilla' must be a reference to some sort of ancient mythical beast. Perhaps the virus writers are religious and do not wish to invoke the name of G-d, so instead they call him by the epithet "Moz."
Let's analyze these components one by one.
The tilde ~ is an unusual character - many people do not even know its name, so it is difficult for tech support to help you with this over the phone!
The next part -
The next component is obviously gibberish with a seemingly innocent '.default' tacked on for respectability!
And then "Cache" - what is this? Some mispelling of the word "cash?" As in, they want our money as ransom to fix these crippling bugs?
Nay, I say, we must rise up! Rebel against these secretive 'hackers' before they can control our desktop!
Anyone under the impression that they are "paying for bandwidth" should go read their contract, and learn what Unspecified Bit Rate means. You are merely paying for a signaling rate, and for the right to brag about how many megabits in your last mile. It doesn't matter how big of a tube you plug into your ISP's oversold network; as a low-budget home user, you have signed away the "right" to any kind of sustained access.
I worked in the NOC of a fledgling ISP in the 1990s. We had a monitoring room with a large projection monitor and four analog electric clocks, representing the four time zones of the USA. Well, when it came time to "fall back" and reset those clocks after DST, college student Mike performed his job nicely. When Jimmy and I came in around 9am, we noticed the clocks were all properly set. Then Jimmy asked Mike, "How'd you do it? Did you take each one down and set it back an hour?" "Yep," says Mike. Well, Jimmy chuckles and explains that Mike had wasted a lot of effort - the proper way to do this was to adjust the Pacific clock to Eastern time, and move the other clocks to the left since they already showed the correct times for the other zones.