You *already* need to take yourself apart to foil biometric ID.
Well the last time I had imprints/samples of any body-bits taken without my will or knowledge was, oh, never. Nobody hiding in an alley that I'm passing by is getting a good picture of my retina to forge. I don't believe any strangers I may have shook hands with were surreptitiously taking my fingerprints either. With an embedded RFID tag, you could be being positively identified at any time with a very minimal risk of the snooper being detected by you. With remote access, everything is right there for anyone with the right kind of snooping equipment. That's why they had to shield the covers of those RFID passports they came out with, so I guess one would have to put the thing in their wrist and then wear a shielded glove or wristband all the time to protect their privacy. Kind of defeats the purpose of the convenience, if one is at all privacy-minded.
Then again, you probably think I am one of them programmers now typing up this cover-up reply.
And you could be saying that just to throw off suspicion. But then that's too obvious, so you must be ok. But that's exactly what you want us to think isn't it? Aha! Caught you!
To my own surprise, I discovered not long ago that my bank (Royal Bank of Canada) is one of those 'other kinds'. I got a phonecall from one of their reps, who gave me a lot of good tips on how to avoid paying them more fees than I should be. No, he didn't upsell me some other package, nothing changed, just my habits. He took great lengths to tell me how to make sure his company got less of my money. That was an awesome phonecall that caught me by surprise.
Where does it imply anywhere in the article that phishers are hiring actors to make the phone system sound like the bank? That would be incredibly stupid. You've called a bank before right? You know, the way you don't get to talk to a real person until you have listened to their *recorded* menu options, and "for faster service" enter your bank card number, maybe even speak a password, etc. None of this needs to involve anything but a voicemail box with the right kind of greeting message in it, at the basic minimum. It doesn't really need to be interactive, the greeting can just explain more about the 'problem' mentioned in the email, and then: "At the tone, please enter your xx-digit bank card number, and your x-digit pin number. When you are finished, press the number sign." Convert the dtmf tones to numbers and you're in business.
Thank you Captain Obvious. Was your point to discourage people from using something that only works about 95% of the time? Yeah host files suck, don't use them, because there are sites out there going on IP address only. Yeah don't drive a car either because there are certain places where you might possibly get smacked by a drunk. Better stay inside too, there's a slight chance one of those drunks will find you on the sidewalk.
Nah, it was just a dig at the female gender in general, who seem rather well-described in that wikipedia article you link to. Particularly "confused, and often repetitious".
some of the surreal gibberish embedded in spam that still manages to defeat filters and get into my inbox, I have to think this kind of program might stands a chance
Then nobody would ever be able to get emails from wives and girlfriends anymore. Hey maybe that's a good thing actually, sign me up.
I haven't been able to understand why people feel there is no sense of accomplishment with leveling. Because the monsters get harder and have better stuff on them after you level? So what? When I level, I have been developing my character and can do more things better, that is accomplishment. Oh but now the monsters aren't weak little babies compared to me, so that reduces my accomplishment somehow? Why? If the monsters have gotten too hard, you have to start playing smarter. Any game I've enjoyed has made the game get harder as you advance, otherwise where is the challenge? I guess if your goal is just to become some uber one-hit-kill-wonder then Oblivion is not for you.
The version of Oblivion that some people seem to want to play goes something like this pencil-and-paper roleplaying session:
DM: Ok guys, got a good one planned tonight, get out your 15th level characters!
P1: I can't wait to try out my new sword of troll-slaying!
P2: I got a new spell after my last level too, this is going to rock..
DM: Ok, so, you're walking in the forest and you meet 2 kobolds.
P1:...
P2: Umm, are they really big kobolds or something?
DM: No, they're like, first level.
P1: Ok. Well I swing at one.
DM: He dies.
P2: I swing at the other one.
DM: He dies.
P1: Ok, now what?
DM: You walk along further in the forest, the air is still, you sense danger nearby.
P2: Oh good, here we go now..
DM: You hear a rustle in the bushes and out jumps... A kobold.
I still wish I had separate buttons for my map, character, skills, etc., instead of hitting tab and then clicking 45 times
You could always try reading the manual, where you would discover that F1 - F4 gets you at least to the section you want without even hitting tab. You still have to click the sub-section you want though.
Dell is so far in bed with Intel that I don't think anything will make them ever offer AMD as an option
Yet it is interesting that Dell sells AMD processors off its website, and also offer AMD systems for certain customers in the server market. Looks like Dell's been sleeping around..
Frankly, I think that's a big problem with Windows. Windows is so mythically easy to use and approachable, that the average person just assumes they are going to be having some kind of Star Trek experience where the computer can just automatically perform any little thing they feel like trying to do, without them needing to know anything. It doesn't work that way, it isn't true, and people need to start taking courses and such instead of bothering everyone around them for free support. Back in the Day, if you couldn't sit down and learn how to use a computer, then guess what? You didn't have one. They were less approachable, and that was a good thing, because anybody who comes from that era has 'l33t mad skillz today. Nobody assumes you can just hop into the pilot seat of a plane and start flying, why do they assume that a highly complex computer system doesn't require effort and learning? They need to stop assuming that. Windows needs to get less friendly, and then people who have come to depend on having computers in their lives will have no choice but to take responsibility for their use of their own bloody tools. Or live without them and be left behind in the world. It's all about choices.
I say keep Linux as it is. If it dies out as a result, it will at least die with integrity.
Option C gives them a quick answer to their question and tells them where to find more information.
And the 'where' turns out to be you, as they proceed to ask you to just give them a list of the switches with explanations of what they all do. And then it's step by step examples of how to do something specific with those switches, etc etc. People that don't want to help themselves wouldn't be asking you to begin with if they didn't want to be led by the hand through every little bit of it.
feeling it didn't simulate it all that well (considering Scotty's reaction
Aye but this is no mere mortal yer talkin' about laddie. This is Scotty, who kin tell ye which hour of the day a 60 year old scotch was bottled before the glass is off the table!
Huh? You make a comment that is prejudicial, pure knee-jerk without facts, I point that out, and now I'm the intolerant one? Welcome to the silence of the foes list, Mr Troll.
See there you are, knowing nothing of the actual nature of things (Ie: cult of 'wizards' - you couldn't be more wrong) you leap to conclusions. Thank you for proving my point that people have stupid prejudices that they will act upon without due research.
sit me down and ask me if I understood that I wasn't really casting spells...
So you had hidden your bag of, um, 'spell components' before he came in, right?
Just kidding, but actually, I had similar crap from my dad too... At one time, being into Dragonlance at the time, I had collected the ingredients and made a batch of Raistlin's Tea, which actually doesn't taste that bad, and does work well on coughs - recipe found in Leaves From the Inn of the Last Home. He found the jar of it in my room, and confronted me with it because he thought it was pot. I told him I had let my stepmother try it (true fact), so he reluctantly bought that it could actually just be tea. But it was annoying as hell.
Not that I made it easy on them anyway. I later got into Ceremonial Magick and joined the O.T.O. after I turned 18, which opened a whole new series of fears for them. Entirely unfounded, but it certainly damaged our relationship the night he suddenly stated (after having seen the dagger on my dresser - for ceremonial purposes only) that if I ever tried to hurt any of them I'd better get it right the first time because I would only get one chance. I downplayed his concern but inside I was all, "Fuck YOU you fucking retard who obviously has no clue who I am!"... I don't talk to them anymore.
From Woody's Point to Come by Chance, To good ol' Fairyland! Come take a look at Gander, Blackhead's mighty grand! Don't let the names deceive you, Newfoundland's mighty fine. So spend a night in Dildo, If you think you've got the time.
I guess the dust accumulation rate in your apartment is higher than on Mars.
I don't know about his, but it certainly is in mine. They should field-test these things in my apartment before they send them out there, they'd be indestructible! I'll only charge $30,000 per week for a testing area next to the couch. Cheap!
The original video is certainly an unfortunate thing to have been discovered. But some of the parodies are pretty good and seem to me to offer a compliment to the Kid. Most of them are just stupid and lame. But somebody put a lot of work into the "Episode III: Drunken Jedi". The lightsaber effects deflecting blaster bolts and even making sparks fly when the Kid hit the curtain behind him at one point, actually made him look cool. And whoever made that Matrix clip out of it, with the Star Wars Kid being Neo fighting off the army of Smiths, is God. Or Chuck Norris.
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You *already* need to take yourself apart to foil biometric ID.
Well the last time I had imprints/samples of any body-bits taken without my will or knowledge was, oh, never. Nobody hiding in an alley that I'm passing by is getting a good picture of my retina to forge. I don't believe any strangers I may have shook hands with were surreptitiously taking my fingerprints either. With an embedded RFID tag, you could be being positively identified at any time with a very minimal risk of the snooper being detected by you. With remote access, everything is right there for anyone with the right kind of snooping equipment. That's why they had to shield the covers of those RFID passports they came out with, so I guess one would have to put the thing in their wrist and then wear a shielded glove or wristband all the time to protect their privacy. Kind of defeats the purpose of the convenience, if one is at all privacy-minded.
Then again, you probably think I am one of them programmers now typing up this cover-up reply.
And you could be saying that just to throw off suspicion. But then that's too obvious, so you must be ok. But that's exactly what you want us to think isn't it? Aha! Caught you!
j/k for the humour-impaired..
short excerpts of some movie/tv show and share it over the Internet and then a system to automatically download all these excerpts!
I believe they call that BitTorrent.
to distribute fake Dell machines
Are you trying to imply that Dell offers real machines?
Is there any other kind?
To my own surprise, I discovered not long ago that my bank (Royal Bank of Canada) is one of those 'other kinds'. I got a phonecall from one of their reps, who gave me a lot of good tips on how to avoid paying them more fees than I should be. No, he didn't upsell me some other package, nothing changed, just my habits. He took great lengths to tell me how to make sure his company got less of my money. That was an awesome phonecall that caught me by surprise.
phishers will be losing money by paying actors
Where does it imply anywhere in the article that phishers are hiring actors to make the phone system sound like the bank? That would be incredibly stupid. You've called a bank before right? You know, the way you don't get to talk to a real person until you have listened to their *recorded* menu options, and "for faster service" enter your bank card number, maybe even speak a password, etc. None of this needs to involve anything but a voicemail box with the right kind of greeting message in it, at the basic minimum. It doesn't really need to be interactive, the greeting can just explain more about the 'problem' mentioned in the email, and then: "At the tone, please enter your xx-digit bank card number, and your x-digit pin number. When you are finished, press the number sign." Convert the dtmf tones to numbers and you're in business.
I have an unusual shape to my precentral sulcus on the left side
Just wear a lead hat and nobody will notice.
Thank you Captain Obvious. Was your point to discourage people from using something that only works about 95% of the time? Yeah host files suck, don't use them, because there are sites out there going on IP address only. Yeah don't drive a car either because there are certain places where you might possibly get smacked by a drunk. Better stay inside too, there's a slight chance one of those drunks will find you on the sidewalk.
Nah, it was just a dig at the female gender in general, who seem rather well-described in that wikipedia article you link to. Particularly "confused, and often repetitious".
some of the surreal gibberish embedded in spam that still manages to defeat filters and get into my inbox, I have to think this kind of program might stands a chance
Then nobody would ever be able to get emails from wives and girlfriends anymore. Hey maybe that's a good thing actually, sign me up.
I haven't been able to understand why people feel there is no sense of accomplishment with leveling. Because the monsters get harder and have better stuff on them after you level? So what? When I level, I have been developing my character and can do more things better, that is accomplishment. Oh but now the monsters aren't weak little babies compared to me, so that reduces my accomplishment somehow? Why? If the monsters have gotten too hard, you have to start playing smarter. Any game I've enjoyed has made the game get harder as you advance, otherwise where is the challenge? I guess if your goal is just to become some uber one-hit-kill-wonder then Oblivion is not for you.
...
The version of Oblivion that some people seem to want to play goes something like this pencil-and-paper roleplaying session:
DM: Ok guys, got a good one planned tonight, get out your 15th level characters!
P1: I can't wait to try out my new sword of troll-slaying!
P2: I got a new spell after my last level too, this is going to rock..
DM: Ok, so, you're walking in the forest and you meet 2 kobolds.
P1:
P2: Umm, are they really big kobolds or something?
DM: No, they're like, first level.
P1: Ok. Well I swing at one.
DM: He dies.
P2: I swing at the other one.
DM: He dies.
P1: Ok, now what?
DM: You walk along further in the forest, the air is still, you sense danger nearby.
P2: Oh good, here we go now..
DM: You hear a rustle in the bushes and out jumps... A kobold.
P1: I throw a rock at him.
DM: He dies.
P1: You know what? You really suck as a DM.
P2: Leave him alone man, I feel so UBER!!
I still wish I had separate buttons for my map, character, skills, etc., instead of hitting tab and then clicking 45 times
You could always try reading the manual, where you would discover that F1 - F4 gets you at least to the section you want without even hitting tab. You still have to click the sub-section you want though.
Dell is so far in bed with Intel that I don't think anything will make them ever offer AMD as an option
Yet it is interesting that Dell sells AMD processors off its website, and also offer AMD systems for certain customers in the server market. Looks like Dell's been sleeping around..
Frankly, I think that's a big problem with Windows. Windows is so mythically easy to use and approachable, that the average person just assumes they are going to be having some kind of Star Trek experience where the computer can just automatically perform any little thing they feel like trying to do, without them needing to know anything. It doesn't work that way, it isn't true, and people need to start taking courses and such instead of bothering everyone around them for free support. Back in the Day, if you couldn't sit down and learn how to use a computer, then guess what? You didn't have one. They were less approachable, and that was a good thing, because anybody who comes from that era has 'l33t mad skillz today. Nobody assumes you can just hop into the pilot seat of a plane and start flying, why do they assume that a highly complex computer system doesn't require effort and learning? They need to stop assuming that. Windows needs to get less friendly, and then people who have come to depend on having computers in their lives will have no choice but to take responsibility for their use of their own bloody tools. Or live without them and be left behind in the world. It's all about choices.
I say keep Linux as it is. If it dies out as a result, it will at least die with integrity.
Option C gives them a quick answer to their question and tells them where to find more information.
And the 'where' turns out to be you, as they proceed to ask you to just give them a list of the switches with explanations of what they all do. And then it's step by step examples of how to do something specific with those switches, etc etc. People that don't want to help themselves wouldn't be asking you to begin with if they didn't want to be led by the hand through every little bit of it.
feeling it didn't simulate it all that well (considering Scotty's reaction
Aye but this is no mere mortal yer talkin' about laddie. This is Scotty, who kin tell ye which hour of the day a 60 year old scotch was bottled before the glass is off the table!
Huh? You make a comment that is prejudicial, pure knee-jerk without facts, I point that out, and now I'm the intolerant one? Welcome to the silence of the foes list, Mr Troll.
See there you are, knowing nothing of the actual nature of things (Ie: cult of 'wizards' - you couldn't be more wrong) you leap to conclusions. Thank you for proving my point that people have stupid prejudices that they will act upon without due research.
sit me down and ask me if I understood that I wasn't really casting spells...
So you had hidden your bag of, um, 'spell components' before he came in, right?
Just kidding, but actually, I had similar crap from my dad too... At one time, being into Dragonlance at the time, I had collected the ingredients and made a batch of Raistlin's Tea, which actually doesn't taste that bad, and does work well on coughs - recipe found in Leaves From the Inn of the Last Home. He found the jar of it in my room, and confronted me with it because he thought it was pot. I told him I had let my stepmother try it (true fact), so he reluctantly bought that it could actually just be tea. But it was annoying as hell.
Not that I made it easy on them anyway. I later got into Ceremonial Magick and joined the O.T.O. after I turned 18, which opened a whole new series of fears for them. Entirely unfounded, but it certainly damaged our relationship the night he suddenly stated (after having seen the dagger on my dresser - for ceremonial purposes only) that if I ever tried to hurt any of them I'd better get it right the first time because I would only get one chance. I downplayed his concern but inside I was all, "Fuck YOU you fucking retard who obviously has no clue who I am!"... I don't talk to them anymore.
But that makes it easier to reboot into Windows, so probably not a direction Apple would want to go.
:)
And that makes it easier for me to stay with Windows, so no sale.
I dunno about that...
From Woody's Point to Come by Chance,
To good ol' Fairyland!
Come take a look at Gander,
Blackhead's mighty grand!
Don't let the names deceive you,
Newfoundland's mighty fine.
So spend a night in Dildo,
If you think you've got the time.
I guess the dust accumulation rate in your apartment is higher than on Mars.
I don't know about his, but it certainly is in mine. They should field-test these things in my apartment before they send them out there, they'd be indestructible! I'll only charge $30,000 per week for a testing area next to the couch. Cheap!
Hey now, be nice, that buys a whole tank of gas up here.
The original video is certainly an unfortunate thing to have been discovered. But some of the parodies are pretty good and seem to me to offer a compliment to the Kid. Most of them are just stupid and lame. But somebody put a lot of work into the "Episode III: Drunken Jedi". The lightsaber effects deflecting blaster bolts and even making sparks fly when the Kid hit the curtain behind him at one point, actually made him look cool. And whoever made that Matrix clip out of it, with the Star Wars Kid being Neo fighting off the army of Smiths, is God. Or Chuck Norris.
Gravity used to go the same speed as light, but then it pissed off Chuck Norris and has to go faster now to get away.