It's not just blades that are the problem. Typical World Cup speeds in racing disciplines are: Slalom: 25 mph GS: 50 mph Super G: 80 mph Downhill: 90+ mph
You tell me if you want to hit a drone or ski over a drone at those speeds, never mind the blades. Drones need to be kept farther away from the racers and should never be directly overhead.
I've had shirataki noodles before. They are basically tasteless, which is fine for a noodle, but the texture absolutely churned my stomach. It was all that I could do to avoid vomiting.
Perhaps these wood pulp noodles will have a better mouth feel.
I've had shirataki noodles before. You can get them in small quantities from your local Asian grocery store if you just want to try them out.
My general impression of them was that there was no taste once properly rinsed, but that the texture ranged somewhere on the spectrum between nauseating and revolting.
If you can convince a user to run a malicious payload, then having an IP address exposed is the least the victim's problems.
It's not as hard as you'd think. All you have to do is convince a user to make a connection to the VPN provider's IP at a specific port.
In a common VPN use case where the VPN user doesn't want his IP known to the world, torrenting, it's pretty easy to convince a torrent client to connect to a specific IP/port: just join the swarm on that specific IP/port and wait for your target's torrent client to connect to you! It doesn't matter how savvy the computer operator is when the torrent client is a dumb piece of software.
If I were to torrent via VPN, I'd definitely be blacklisting my VPN connection's external IP address from my torrent client!
Instead of paying to avoid copyright, either actually pay for the movies you watch
I can't tell you how many times I've sat there throwing money at my television and nobody would take it. If the copyright holder won't let me buy it, then I feel no guilt about torrenting it.
(Usually something someone would call "junk food", but some douchebag somewhere will complain about any food except lettuce.)
I'm just going to be honest. From the other side of the Internet, you are coming across sounding like an asshole. Perhaps others are also being assholes, but that doesn't change the way that you come across.
My experience has been somewhat similar, but somewhat different from yours. I, too, was overweight, and my doctor was giving me a hard time about all sorts of things. Cholesterol, blood pressure, problems in my blood chemistry, and god knows what else. He said that I'd need to go on blood pressure and cholesterol meds soon.
Well, I got my weight down to healthy levels and suddenly all of my other levels were in the normal range, as well. I'm sure it's different for different people, but for me, it seemed being overweight was causing a bunch of health problems.
As for losing weight, as you note, the answer is always "eat less". But the trick bit is how do you do that? It's a simple matter to eat 1500 calories worth of potato chips and soda, yet still feel starving again in a few hours. When most people (myself included) feel hungry and there is food around, the answer is to eat the food, whatever it is. Most people lack the willpower--over the long run--to say, "I'm starving, there is food right here that will take away my pain, but I know that it will make me fat so I'm just not going to eat it." They can deny themselves once. They can deny themselves twice. But sooner or later, they will give in. Some people have above-average willpower, and it sounds like you might be one of those people. That's great for you, but it won't work for most people.
What worked for me was keeping a food log of what I ate, how much, how many calories it was, and most importantly, how long it made me feel satisfied for. Only once I had that information could I eat less without feeling hungry and irritable. And it just so happened that the foods with the highest satiety to calories ratio were high in fiber and protein. Fats also led to satiety, but tended to pack a higher calorie wallop. Anyway, those high in fiber/protein foods tended to be what most people call "health foods". Vegetables, nuts, hard cheeses, cottage cheese, etc. What most people call "junk food" was the worst. It had high calories, but did hardly sated me at all.
So in order to lose weight, I simply banished junk food from my reach and I stock health foods and water in easy reach. I drink water all day long, and when I'm hungry, I snack on high protein/fiber things.
After a while, I started doing weight training. This provides further motivation to continue with the healthy eating, as I am much happier seeing myself looking muscular than seeing my old self. Make no mistake: working out did not help in the "eat less" department. It's definitely got me eating more. But now I'm more concerned with how I look in the mirror rather than a number on a scale. I would advise people starting out in weight loss not to add in exercise as it tends to lead to overeating, and as the old saying goes, "You can't outrun your fork."
I guess my point is that, while I agree with you that eating less is the way to lose weight, I have to point out that for most people, the secret to eating less is to eat "healthy food". Apparently you did not need that, but I definitely did and still do. And for the record, I still eat junk food. But I only do so a few times a week.
The target market for the Gear VR is people who already own a Samsung smartphone. I.e. you'd buy the $99 device and plug in the phone that you already have.
If you don't already have a Samsung smartphone, you'd probably be more interested in a dedicated VR headset like the Oculus Rift that's coming out next year.
They're getting perilously close to the point where that feature will be "TV".
Already did that. I don't miss it even for one minute. Verizon Fios raised my rates by something like 50% so I just sent them all their gear back and am on Internet only. Bought a cheap antenna for digital OTA shows and I'm good to go.
It's worth it if you only use it to help you decide where to stop for gas. If you're going out of your way to pay a few cents less per gallon, you're wasting your time.
I'll use it to see which gas station of my way to work is cheapest. I know I'm stopping for gas anyway, it's just a matter of where. So why not stop at the cheapest one? Again, I'm not going out of my way. Just deciding which of 15 or so gas stations that I will pass by anyway is getting my business.
Buy the cheapest digital cable that works reliably and don't spend a dime more.
You and grandparent are saying the exact same thing. The point that GP was making is that some of the cheapest of the cheap cables don't even meet the relevant specifications and that that can cause problems.
You don't need cables made out of gold, but you often do need them to conform to the specs. I've had this problem with cheap as shit HDMI cables where my components wouldn't recognize each other until I replaced the cables with monoprice cables. So it's not like I had to spend a ton, but I did have to get actual certified cables.
Even for digital data, really cheap cables often don't meet spec, and can cause frustrating intermittent problems.
I have also experienced this with uber-cheap HDMI cables. Tried to connect components with the cheapest HDMI cables possible (they came for free with some of the components that I bought) and there were problems. I forget what it was, but I think the TV wouldn't talk to to the Blu-Ray or the Tivo or something. I don't remember, but anyway, shit wouldn't talk to each other until I replaced the crap HDMI cables with monoprice cables. Still very cheap, but at least they are tested and meet the relevant specs.
How likely do you think Trump is to end up as the Republican nominee?
In July of 2011, Michele Bachmann was in second place in the polls and closing in on Mitt Romney. I think the likelihood of Trump ending up as the Republican presidential nominee is equal to the likelihood that Bachmann was going to be the Republican nominee for the 2012 elections. It ain't gonna happen.
Nope. I have not seen a single physical server in a decade, and at this point, I run everything in AWS. If an instance has a problem, I just snapshot it, kill it, and launch a new one. Once that's done, I can take my time reviewing the logs and state from the failed instance's snapshot to try to avoid future faults.
I literally have every password in/etc/shadow set to *. There is not a single account on any system with a valid password hash in shadow (as is the default on most AWS images). This is why I give zero hoots about brute forcing passwords.
There is nothing extant better than Perl for regex. Nothing.
That may have been true 15 years ago, but it's blatantly false today. I have a client with a legacy Perl text processing job that was beginning to run too slowly to keep up (log processing was starting to take longer than the log files were generated). They were going to buy an expensive log analysis tool, so I asked them if they actually wanted the tool or if they were happy with the output of their Perl script. They preferred the output of the script. So I said, "Give me a few hours."
A few hours later, I had translated the Perl script, line-by-line, into (I shit you not) Java. Ran two orders of magnitude faster. In Java.
Yes, slashdot's favorite whipping boy of a language bested Perl by two orders of magnitude.
for one you need an MD to diagnose a bacterial vs viral infection.
Doctors do not spend 11 years of post-secondary education and training to differentiate bacterial vs. viral infections. I guarantee that you can train a person in far fewer than 11 years to follow the same process that an MD does for this specific task.
In my neck of the woods, we have convenient care clinics staffed with nurse practitioners who are trained in very specific tasks. You can go see them for cheap for simple issues which they can treat for you, but they also recognize when your particular case is not simple and will tell you you need to go see a doctor.
Honestly if you don't trust your employees don't hire them.
Trust is not a binary value. You need to be able to trust employees to do their jobs obviously, but do you need to trust each employee not to accidentally download malware from the public internet? Because I'd trust most IT professionals not to infect their machines, but would you necessarily trust your average user in marketing or HR or accounting or an admin assistant? Because that's how I'd look at it: I'd trust those people to do their jobs correctly, but I would not trust them to protect their machines from infection.
/r/coontown is still up because they stay in their own little corner and don't bother anybody. You don't like what they say? Me either. So join me in not reading that subreddit.
If they started doxxing folks, they'd be out on their asses, too.
Reddit doesn't care if you post repugnant shit as long as it's not child porn and you stay in your little corner of the Internet and don't bother others./r/CoonTown is a good example of a repository of repugnant shit, but that keeps to themselves. The only reason I even know it exists is because it comes up in discussions of horrible subreddits.
But if you spill out of your little corner of Reddit, then that's when the admins get involved. If you're harassing people on other parts of Reddit, then you see shadowbans. And if you're harassing people offline (doxxing, etc.), then the admins expect the subreddit mods to do something about it. And if the subreddit mods aren't fixing it (deleting the offending content, banning the offending users), then the admins step in and ban the subreddit.
This is a pretty reasonable policy. Some may contend that it's not being applied fairly and equally (ahem SRS), but the policy itself is reasonable.
About half the people who call my company looking for a rent house don't answer the phone when you attempt to call them or their voicemail hasn't been set up, or it is full. What am I supposed to do, keep calling them until they answer?
You take the hint and send them a text, my friend. That's why their voicemail box is full or uninitialized. They don't do voicemail.
To study in the US you need a student visa which expires after you graduate or flunk out. If you stay outside of that, without having an something like an H1B or a green card you're illegal. simple. And those are not so easy/quick to get.
I've never understood our immigration policy.
Mexican peasant who will be dependent on welfare for your whole life? Welcome to America!
Educated, ambitious, and ready to help grow the US economy? Eww! GTFO!
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It's not just blades that are the problem. Typical World Cup speeds in racing disciplines are:
Slalom: 25 mph
GS: 50 mph
Super G: 80 mph
Downhill: 90+ mph
You tell me if you want to hit a drone or ski over a drone at those speeds, never mind the blades. Drones need to be kept farther away from the racers and should never be directly overhead.
I've had shirataki noodles before. They are basically tasteless, which is fine for a noodle, but the texture absolutely churned my stomach. It was all that I could do to avoid vomiting.
Perhaps these wood pulp noodles will have a better mouth feel.
noodles made from it already taste good
I've had shirataki noodles before. You can get them in small quantities from your local Asian grocery store if you just want to try them out.
My general impression of them was that there was no taste once properly rinsed, but that the texture ranged somewhere on the spectrum between nauseating and revolting.
YMMV.
If you can convince a user to run a malicious payload, then having an IP address exposed is the least the victim's problems.
It's not as hard as you'd think. All you have to do is convince a user to make a connection to the VPN provider's IP at a specific port.
In a common VPN use case where the VPN user doesn't want his IP known to the world, torrenting, it's pretty easy to convince a torrent client to connect to a specific IP/port: just join the swarm on that specific IP/port and wait for your target's torrent client to connect to you! It doesn't matter how savvy the computer operator is when the torrent client is a dumb piece of software.
If I were to torrent via VPN, I'd definitely be blacklisting my VPN connection's external IP address from my torrent client!
Instead of paying to avoid copyright, either actually pay for the movies you watch
I can't tell you how many times I've sat there throwing money at my television and nobody would take it. If the copyright holder won't let me buy it, then I feel no guilt about torrenting it.
(Usually something someone would call "junk food", but some douchebag somewhere will complain about any food except lettuce.)
I'm just going to be honest. From the other side of the Internet, you are coming across sounding like an asshole. Perhaps others are also being assholes, but that doesn't change the way that you come across.
My experience has been somewhat similar, but somewhat different from yours. I, too, was overweight, and my doctor was giving me a hard time about all sorts of things. Cholesterol, blood pressure, problems in my blood chemistry, and god knows what else. He said that I'd need to go on blood pressure and cholesterol meds soon.
Well, I got my weight down to healthy levels and suddenly all of my other levels were in the normal range, as well. I'm sure it's different for different people, but for me, it seemed being overweight was causing a bunch of health problems.
As for losing weight, as you note, the answer is always "eat less". But the trick bit is how do you do that? It's a simple matter to eat 1500 calories worth of potato chips and soda, yet still feel starving again in a few hours. When most people (myself included) feel hungry and there is food around, the answer is to eat the food, whatever it is. Most people lack the willpower--over the long run--to say, "I'm starving, there is food right here that will take away my pain, but I know that it will make me fat so I'm just not going to eat it." They can deny themselves once. They can deny themselves twice. But sooner or later, they will give in. Some people have above-average willpower, and it sounds like you might be one of those people. That's great for you, but it won't work for most people.
What worked for me was keeping a food log of what I ate, how much, how many calories it was, and most importantly, how long it made me feel satisfied for. Only once I had that information could I eat less without feeling hungry and irritable. And it just so happened that the foods with the highest satiety to calories ratio were high in fiber and protein. Fats also led to satiety, but tended to pack a higher calorie wallop. Anyway, those high in fiber/protein foods tended to be what most people call "health foods". Vegetables, nuts, hard cheeses, cottage cheese, etc. What most people call "junk food" was the worst. It had high calories, but did hardly sated me at all.
So in order to lose weight, I simply banished junk food from my reach and I stock health foods and water in easy reach. I drink water all day long, and when I'm hungry, I snack on high protein/fiber things.
After a while, I started doing weight training. This provides further motivation to continue with the healthy eating, as I am much happier seeing myself looking muscular than seeing my old self. Make no mistake: working out did not help in the "eat less" department. It's definitely got me eating more. But now I'm more concerned with how I look in the mirror rather than a number on a scale. I would advise people starting out in weight loss not to add in exercise as it tends to lead to overeating, and as the old saying goes, "You can't outrun your fork."
I guess my point is that, while I agree with you that eating less is the way to lose weight, I have to point out that for most people, the secret to eating less is to eat "healthy food". Apparently you did not need that, but I definitely did and still do. And for the record, I still eat junk food. But I only do so a few times a week.
The target market for the Gear VR is people who already own a Samsung smartphone. I.e. you'd buy the $99 device and plug in the phone that you already have.
If you don't already have a Samsung smartphone, you'd probably be more interested in a dedicated VR headset like the Oculus Rift that's coming out next year.
It would be paid in part by efficiances[sic].
That's what they kept telling me about health insurance, but my costs have skyrocketed since ObamaCare!
They're getting perilously close to the point where that feature will be "TV".
Already did that. I don't miss it even for one minute. Verizon Fios raised my rates by something like 50% so I just sent them all their gear back and am on Internet only. Bought a cheap antenna for digital OTA shows and I'm good to go.
It's worth it if you only use it to help you decide where to stop for gas. If you're going out of your way to pay a few cents less per gallon, you're wasting your time.
I'll use it to see which gas station of my way to work is cheapest. I know I'm stopping for gas anyway, it's just a matter of where. So why not stop at the cheapest one? Again, I'm not going out of my way. Just deciding which of 15 or so gas stations that I will pass by anyway is getting my business.
Buy the cheapest digital cable that works reliably and don't spend a dime more.
You and grandparent are saying the exact same thing. The point that GP was making is that some of the cheapest of the cheap cables don't even meet the relevant specifications and that that can cause problems.
You don't need cables made out of gold, but you often do need them to conform to the specs. I've had this problem with cheap as shit HDMI cables where my components wouldn't recognize each other until I replaced the cables with monoprice cables. So it's not like I had to spend a ton, but I did have to get actual certified cables.
Even for digital data, really cheap cables often don't meet spec, and can cause frustrating intermittent problems.
I have also experienced this with uber-cheap HDMI cables. Tried to connect components with the cheapest HDMI cables possible (they came for free with some of the components that I bought) and there were problems. I forget what it was, but I think the TV wouldn't talk to to the Blu-Ray or the Tivo or something. I don't remember, but anyway, shit wouldn't talk to each other until I replaced the crap HDMI cables with monoprice cables. Still very cheap, but at least they are tested and meet the relevant specs.
If you don't like car payments, then don't finance it. Car loans are, for the most part, a pretty dumb financial decision.
Uhh, no. My car loan is 0.9%, which is less than inflation, never mind my return on the money. I'd have to have rocks in my head to pay cash.
A much better choice is to do your homework and decide on a 2-5 year old model with high reliability
I tried to do that, but nobody is selling their cars these days so the used care market is inflated. I wound up buying new instead.
How likely do you think Trump is to end up as the Republican nominee?
In July of 2011, Michele Bachmann was in second place in the polls and closing in on Mitt Romney. I think the likelihood of Trump ending up as the Republican presidential nominee is equal to the likelihood that Bachmann was going to be the Republican nominee for the 2012 elections. It ain't gonna happen.
Nope. I have not seen a single physical server in a decade, and at this point, I run everything in AWS. If an instance has a problem, I just snapshot it, kill it, and launch a new one. Once that's done, I can take my time reviewing the logs and state from the failed instance's snapshot to try to avoid future faults.
I literally have every password in /etc/shadow set to *. There is not a single account on any system with a valid password hash in shadow (as is the default on most AWS images). This is why I give zero hoots about brute forcing passwords.
Console? I've never even seen any of the servers that I currently manage. I haven't logged into a console in probably 10+ years.
Good passphrases (not "qwerty" or "admin")
I don't do passphrases. All accounts on my systems have lock-out passwords ("*"). If you want to log in, you need to use an SSH key.
There is nothing extant better than Perl for regex. Nothing.
That may have been true 15 years ago, but it's blatantly false today. I have a client with a legacy Perl text processing job that was beginning to run too slowly to keep up (log processing was starting to take longer than the log files were generated). They were going to buy an expensive log analysis tool, so I asked them if they actually wanted the tool or if they were happy with the output of their Perl script. They preferred the output of the script. So I said, "Give me a few hours."
A few hours later, I had translated the Perl script, line-by-line, into (I shit you not) Java. Ran two orders of magnitude faster. In Java.
Yes, slashdot's favorite whipping boy of a language bested Perl by two orders of magnitude.
for one you need an MD to diagnose a bacterial vs viral infection.
Doctors do not spend 11 years of post-secondary education and training to differentiate bacterial vs. viral infections. I guarantee that you can train a person in far fewer than 11 years to follow the same process that an MD does for this specific task.
In my neck of the woods, we have convenient care clinics staffed with nurse practitioners who are trained in very specific tasks. You can go see them for cheap for simple issues which they can treat for you, but they also recognize when your particular case is not simple and will tell you you need to go see a doctor.
Honestly if you don't trust your employees don't hire them.
Trust is not a binary value. You need to be able to trust employees to do their jobs obviously, but do you need to trust each employee not to accidentally download malware from the public internet? Because I'd trust most IT professionals not to infect their machines, but would you necessarily trust your average user in marketing or HR or accounting or an admin assistant? Because that's how I'd look at it: I'd trust those people to do their jobs correctly, but I would not trust them to protect their machines from infection.
/r/coontown is still up because they stay in their own little corner and don't bother anybody. You don't like what they say? Me either. So join me in not reading that subreddit.
If they started doxxing folks, they'd be out on their asses, too.
Reddit doesn't care if you post repugnant shit as long as it's not child porn and you stay in your little corner of the Internet and don't bother others. /r/CoonTown is a good example of a repository of repugnant shit, but that keeps to themselves. The only reason I even know it exists is because it comes up in discussions of horrible subreddits.
But if you spill out of your little corner of Reddit, then that's when the admins get involved. If you're harassing people on other parts of Reddit, then you see shadowbans. And if you're harassing people offline (doxxing, etc.), then the admins expect the subreddit mods to do something about it. And if the subreddit mods aren't fixing it (deleting the offending content, banning the offending users), then the admins step in and ban the subreddit.
This is a pretty reasonable policy. Some may contend that it's not being applied fairly and equally (ahem SRS), but the policy itself is reasonable.
About half the people who call my company looking for a rent house don't answer the phone when you attempt to call them or their voicemail hasn't been set up, or it is full. What am I supposed to do, keep calling them until they answer?
You take the hint and send them a text, my friend. That's why their voicemail box is full or uninitialized. They don't do voicemail.
Also (well) over 25. Everyone that I communicate with just texts or emails. I can't even remember the last time I got a voicemail.
To study in the US you need a student visa which expires after you graduate or flunk out. If you stay outside of that, without having an something like an H1B or a green card you're illegal. simple. And those are not so easy/quick to get.
I've never understood our immigration policy.
Mexican peasant who will be dependent on welfare for your whole life? Welcome to America!
Educated, ambitious, and ready to help grow the US economy? Eww! GTFO!
This country is run by fucking idiots, I swear.