Heartbleed the BUG would still exist, but Hearbleed the EXPLOIT would not exist, had they not been overcome with NIH syndrome for dynamic memory handling.
Thank god for Let's plays on Youtube. If I happen to find that the reviewers are right, I don't need to buy it and if I find that I disagree, I can order it after having watched a bit of gameplay. In that case, sure, I have to replay already viewed scenes, but it doesn't top the amount of frustration I get from having spent good money on yet another crappy game...
No wonder game companies are trying to get let's play videos taken down with DMCA claims.
Maybe not, but at least eSports don't artificially limit the potential performance of participants that don't happen to have the magical combination of freak athleticis genes that conventional sports require to make it big.
In this escalation of weaponry, I need to make some kind of reinforced tube where I can propel Milk Duds at 1300 feet per second from some small controlled explosion.
That may be the case, but they allow plenty of broken cards to be printed; cards that end the game by sending the rules into an infinite loop,
I don't think you've actually played Magic in the last 15 years.
or cards that end up in nearly every deck for a given color.
That's not an indication of the game being broken.
I think the real reason Magic wins the card game race is simple momentum. When your choices are playing a new game that no one else is playing, or playing an established game with an enormous player base, there really isn't much of a decision to make.
When you're at the top, the top is there to lose. And yet there's currently a CCG boom, with Magic at the helm, well in progress. (Some may call it a bubble and I wouldn't immediately disagree.)
Looking at some pictures of the stock 290X heatsink, you will be well served by removing, lapping, and replacing the thermal grease with some decent stuff. Even more if you decide to spring for an aftermarket heatsink, but you may have to do a little leg work to figure out which ones will work and which ones won't.
Funny how iPhone battery falls 20-30% faster and the phone runs substantially hotter when running 'official' benchmark apps, but xcode apps by lone developers that try to hit the hardware as hard don't have anywhere near the effect. Apple betrayed by the only thing they can't control, the laws of physics.
Can you source any of that? I would like to know more.
The really interesting thing here in my opinion is why all of those things have been ineffectual. It seems to start when the anti-gun lobby proposes a law with the intent of doing nothing other than hassling gun owners (safety is almost always given lip service but never actually intended). Then the pro-gun lobby shows up and strips the teeth out of the law, even if by sheer random chance it happens to make sense. The end result is a mess of really stupid and confusing gun laws that don't actually accomplish anything other than confusing everyone.
It's not actually very interesting at all. Every compromise between "shall not" and "may" initiated by "shall not" is always a win for "shall not" and always a loss for "may".
It doesn't matter if it's gun rights, abortion rights, voting rights, or anything else, really.
The worst part about third party installers like sourceforge is that it will ask you "I agree to the terms of agreement to install Ask.com toolbar" and then you uncheck it and it installs anyways. This almost never fails, and it's not fishy English, they install it regardless and blame it on a technical glitch.
The technical glitch was letting you uncheck it at all.:)
This is exactly right, and those kinds of geeks are not "good" geeks. They are a kind of evil themselves.
Your rocket scientist reference is both correct and a good example of that: Oppenheimer famously replied to someone asking if he was bothered by the fact that his work was being used to kill lots of innocent people and his response was that his only worry was getting them to go up. It was someone else's job to worry about where they come down.
That's pure evil, right there.
What a shock: when we grant a monopoly on snuffing out liberties to the state, the only people who are attracted to working for the state are those with desires to snuff out liberties.
At this point, no "good" geek would work for the NSA.
It's a little bit like the police. No good human being would ever join at this point (maybe generations past). These days it's only those looking for a legal sanction of their bullying fantasies.
I am surprised that law enforcement allowed it to be shut down in the first place. They should have taken it over, and run it for a few months, track every transaction, and then come down hard on all the dealers.
Or just sit back and bust the top seller every month. Someone else will always step up to fill the gap, and some smart cop looks like a hero to his/her superiors.
The problem with those ideas, of which the police and politicians are most certainly aware, is that any extremely effective method of catching bad guys will eventually put themselves out of business right along with the criminals. They need to only be effective enough to steal enough people away into The System (of prisons, poverty, indentured servitude into perpetuity for themselves and their offspring in a cycle), but not so effective that the reaction stops breeding.
True. The freakiest thing I saw when taking a look at SR was large amounts of cyanide from one vendor. I haven't heard about mass-poisonings, but making it that easy for a crazy to hurt a lot of people is very worrying.
Does cyanide have no uses other than poisoning? I don't know, but I presume someone who does know and is interested in playing with the stuff would rather pick it up black market than try to procure it legally and be added to a watch list somewhere.
Nvidia has been holding VERY profitable meetings with every possible technical site, explaining in detail just how they should trash the new AMD cards in their forthcoming reviews.
It's not uncommon for competitors to run "debunking" presentations for their partners and vendors in anticipation of their competition's releases.
I can pickup a 24-27" LED display for my desk for under $300. My old 19" CRT cost something like $500-$600 at the cheapest. Plus it weighed in at 70-80lbs and consumed 120-150W of power. And used up a ton of desk space.
On the other hand, I used to reheat cheeseburgers on the back of my monitor during my college days, when I would buy a sackful from McDonalds on 29c Wednesdays.
These days? I'd have to put them on the video card.
It's only called "Superstorm Sandy" because of the pathetic response of government and the self-centered hubris of nor-easters. It was just a hurricane; the Southeastern US getting far stronger storms much more often.
Yep...wait till a Katrina or Andrew hits your ass and then you can call it a "super" storm.
Funny you mention that, I lived in South Florida during Andrew.
Bad hurricane? Yes. Hit the ground at Category 5. Tore up Homestead. Made a mockery of the infrastructure. Eventually lead to shoring up building codes and projects putting power lines underground. But even then, nobody had the arrogance to call it "superstorm". Calling it "Superstorm Sandy" is branding conjured up by self-centered New Yorkers.
An interesting fact about firing squads is one person has a blank.
"One of the sharpshooters is secretly armed with a blank round, which means that each shooter can rest comfortably in the knowledge that there is a 20% chance that she never shot the prisoner." Firing Squad History
Strange how much effort we put into trying to relieve the guilt of those carrying out the murderous orders of the state.
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Heartbleed the BUG would still exist, but Hearbleed the EXPLOIT would not exist, had they not been overcome with NIH syndrome for dynamic memory handling.
Thank god for Let's plays on Youtube. If I happen to find that the reviewers are right, I don't need to buy it and if I find that I disagree, I can order it after having watched a bit of gameplay. In that case, sure, I have to replay already viewed scenes, but it doesn't top the amount of frustration I get from having spent good money on yet another crappy game...
No wonder game companies are trying to get let's play videos taken down with DMCA claims.
Every first-past-the-post voting system eventually turns into votes out of fear of the other guy. It's a mathematical certainty.
Maybe not, but at least eSports don't artificially limit the potential performance of participants that don't happen to have the magical combination of freak athleticis genes that conventional sports require to make it big.
In this escalation of weaponry, I need to make some kind of reinforced tube where I can propel Milk Duds at 1300 feet per second from some small controlled explosion.
That may be the case, but they allow plenty of broken cards to be printed; cards that end the game by sending the rules into an infinite loop,
I don't think you've actually played Magic in the last 15 years.
or cards that end up in nearly every deck for a given color.
That's not an indication of the game being broken.
I think the real reason Magic wins the card game race is simple momentum. When your choices are playing a new game that no one else is playing, or playing an established game with an enormous player base, there really isn't much of a decision to make.
When you're at the top, the top is there to lose. And yet there's currently a CCG boom, with Magic at the helm, well in progress. (Some may call it a bubble and I wouldn't immediately disagree.)
...failed to pass modifications that would address the growing prevelance[sic] of plastic firearms
Welcome to Fantasy-Horrorland, where the imagined bogeyman is EVERYWHERE.
Turn left to head towards Tomorrowland, with a full surveillance state.
Looking at some pictures of the stock 290X heatsink, you will be well served by removing, lapping, and replacing the thermal grease with some decent stuff. Even more if you decide to spring for an aftermarket heatsink, but you may have to do a little leg work to figure out which ones will work and which ones won't.
Funny how iPhone battery falls 20-30% faster and the phone runs substantially hotter when running 'official' benchmark apps, but xcode apps by lone developers that try to hit the hardware as hard don't have anywhere near the effect. Apple betrayed by the only thing they can't control, the laws of physics.
Can you source any of that? I would like to know more.
I don't know why they can't work. We seem to be capable of registering moter vehicles and recording their sales between private parties.
And how did this stop someone who saw fit to drive into a boardwalk with the intent to kill?
The really interesting thing here in my opinion is why all of those things have been ineffectual. It seems to start when the anti-gun lobby proposes a law with the intent of doing nothing other than hassling gun owners (safety is almost always given lip service but never actually intended). Then the pro-gun lobby shows up and strips the teeth out of the law, even if by sheer random chance it happens to make sense. The end result is a mess of really stupid and confusing gun laws that don't actually accomplish anything other than confusing everyone.
It's not actually very interesting at all. Every compromise between "shall not" and "may" initiated by "shall not" is always a win for "shall not" and always a loss for "may".
It doesn't matter if it's gun rights, abortion rights, voting rights, or anything else, really.
Considering the way the pedophilia moral panic will ruin your life and the lives of all your relatives, I would call death the lucky option.
If you've never used Facebook, don't start.
If you're using Facebook, stop it.
If you have friends that use Facebook, tell them to stop.
Don't worry about deleting stuff, the odds that deletes are actually not soft-deletes are probably nil.
Just quit it.
The worst part about third party installers like sourceforge is that it will ask you "I agree to the terms of agreement to install Ask.com toolbar" and then you uncheck it and it installs anyways. This almost never fails, and it's not fishy English, they install it regardless and blame it on a technical glitch.
The technical glitch was letting you uncheck it at all. :)
This is exactly right, and those kinds of geeks are not "good" geeks. They are a kind of evil themselves.
Your rocket scientist reference is both correct and a good example of that: Oppenheimer famously replied to someone asking if he was bothered by the fact that his work was being used to kill lots of innocent people and his response was that his only worry was getting them to go up. It was someone else's job to worry about where they come down.
That's pure evil, right there.
What a shock: when we grant a monopoly on snuffing out liberties to the state, the only people who are attracted to working for the state are those with desires to snuff out liberties.
At this point, no "good" geek would work for the NSA.
It's a little bit like the police. No good human being would ever join at this point (maybe generations past). These days it's only those looking for a legal sanction of their bullying fantasies.
The NSA is looking for a few evil geeks.
My thoughts exactly.
I am surprised that law enforcement allowed it to be shut down in the first place. They should have taken it over, and run it for a few months, track every transaction, and then come down hard on all the dealers.
Or just sit back and bust the top seller every month. Someone else will always step up to fill the gap, and some smart cop looks like a hero to his/her superiors.
The problem with those ideas, of which the police and politicians are most certainly aware, is that any extremely effective method of catching bad guys will eventually put themselves out of business right along with the criminals. They need to only be effective enough to steal enough people away into The System (of prisons, poverty, indentured servitude into perpetuity for themselves and their offspring in a cycle), but not so effective that the reaction stops breeding.
True. The freakiest thing I saw when taking a look at SR was large amounts of cyanide from one vendor. I haven't heard about mass-poisonings, but making it that easy for a crazy to hurt a lot of people is very worrying.
Does cyanide have no uses other than poisoning? I don't know, but I presume someone who does know and is interested in playing with the stuff would rather pick it up black market than try to procure it legally and be added to a watch list somewhere.
Nvidia has been holding VERY profitable meetings with every possible technical site, explaining in detail just how they should trash the new AMD cards in their forthcoming reviews.
It's not uncommon for competitors to run "debunking" presentations for their partners and vendors in anticipation of their competition's releases.
Watch out, it's got fluoride!
the summarized portion at least completely ignores the fact that faster gpu's and cpu's can push more to the screen.
I can't keep up with antialias in latest games.. so, yeah, I would see a benefit from a faster gpu.
If you have enough pixels on your display, is anti-aliasing really needed?
I can pickup a 24-27" LED display for my desk for under $300. My old 19" CRT cost something like $500-$600 at the cheapest. Plus it weighed in at 70-80lbs and consumed 120-150W of power. And used up a ton of desk space.
On the other hand, I used to reheat cheeseburgers on the back of my monitor during my college days, when I would buy a sackful from McDonalds on 29c Wednesdays.
These days? I'd have to put them on the video card.
Yep...wait till a Katrina or Andrew hits your ass and then you can call it a "super" storm.
Funny you mention that, I lived in South Florida during Andrew.
Bad hurricane? Yes. Hit the ground at Category 5. Tore up Homestead. Made a mockery of the infrastructure. Eventually lead to shoring up building codes and projects putting power lines underground. But even then, nobody had the arrogance to call it "superstorm". Calling it "Superstorm Sandy" is branding conjured up by self-centered New Yorkers.
I now carry a copy of all the Bear Grylls episodes on my smartphone, just in case.
All the episodes? I just need a little note telling me to drink piss.
An interesting fact about firing squads is one person has a blank.
"One of the sharpshooters is secretly armed with a blank round, which means that each shooter can rest comfortably in the knowledge that there is a 20% chance that she never shot the prisoner."
Firing Squad History
Strange how much effort we put into trying to relieve the guilt of those carrying out the murderous orders of the state.