I'd like to see Cox.net, but figure they are also in the red for most of this. There are a bunch of other providers that aren't on the list either: T-Mobile, Sprint, Time Warner, etc.
I hate 99.9999% of the ads on Hulu. They are always the same ads, way-over-played, and the fact that I pay to watch ads pisses me off more than the ads themselves. I know Hulu has capabilities of training the ad chooser what ads you don't wish to see, but that never seems to help anything.
However, one ad that was growing on me was the VPI commercial with the dog driving at the end. It is over-played, and annoying, but I chuckled every time I watched it. So one evening, I joined friends at a restaurant for dinner, and the discussion came up about funny ads. I jumped on youtube, found the ad, and played it for everyone, who chuckled when they saw it and complained about never seeing that ad on television.
I was really surprised the ad was on youtube, but was happy to find it. For those ads that I do find funny, I often share them with others just to get a check on my own humor settings.
Honestly, encrypting internal network traffic is pretty extreme. I doubt you do it at home yourself. Yes, we can say that they should have done it in the first place, but there honestly was no reason to believe that content was at risk, since it was all internal and not directly connected to the internet.
Not to mention it adds considerable overhead. Keeping the back-channels unencrypted reduces the bandwidth and speeds the traffic considerably. Adding encryption to anything slows it down (though that can be managed.) For most websites using back-channel connections to databases, if encryption is turned on, they run the risk of DoS if there are a high number of queries against the database, and most will turn off the encryption, especially if using local sockets/pipes, even if someone sitting on the machine can compromise these, just to keep everything smooth.
I'd go even further on your statement that it wasn't considered a hole...Until the NSA was found to have a backdoor in their network, anyone who would have suggested that they would encrypt all their out-of-bound/back-channel comms would likely (and quite reasonably) have been fired.
Of course, I also won't be buying anything from them ever.
There is one flaw in this plan. How will you ever know they are a service not to be trusted if you don't hear about it from someone else and haven't had any experience with it yourself?
I have complained before about vendors, mainly because I too wasn't receiving the help I needed from the vendors themselves to rectify the problem I was having. I am tired of buying stuff that a vendor promised would meet my needs, only to find out that they lied or misstated their selling points. Usually I'd contact the vendor first, but in some cases, I couldn't contact the vendor because they didn't publish any way to get in touch with them.
In most cases, vendors will go out of their way to help, even when it is obvious that I am the problem in the equation, but I've run into vendors who don't care; they have my money and even though their product never worked as advertised or has serious flaws which require much more effort on my part to fix, they aren't interested in me any more. Putting poor reviews online which explain the problem, my steps to try to fix it, and how unresponsive the vendor is helps me air my problems and in some cases gets the right people to help me out, but it also helps the community to know what problems may exist with the product and/or vendor.
I've had equally good experiences with companies, and sadly, they tend to not get the praise because everything works fine or they help resolve the problem quickly. While each experience is unique, sometimes just having a heads-up helps when dealing with a company you've never worked with before.
Somebody needs to tell the geniuses in the intelligence community that if someone removes the battery from their cell phone, there is no way, in Hell, that government intelligence agencies can turn your phone back on, through malware or otherwise.
CMOS? A second, much smaller battery contained in the device which powers vital memory functions, kept topped off by the main battery but which can function when the main battery is removed for a limited period of time.
Just a guess. I have no real way of knowing if this is possible, but I don't think it is so cut and dry and I'd never say never in this case.
I'd make it shut off the next time the car was turned off, so you just wouldn't be able to start it again.
Making it absolutely imperative that you don't make any trips to the wrong side of town.
Would hate to have to leave your car running while you are stopping in the hood for your BBQ fix at the best BBQ in town that just happens to be located in the wrong area. Even worse if you live in a town that closes at 5pm and becomes a really dangerous part of town after everyone shuts down shop.
It would be better to have some sort of GPS to know it is in your front yard before it decides not to start up again. Would be tragic if one of your side trips to the Bronx or South-side of Chicago should happen to result in an error on the part of the vendor and your attempting to escape unharmed without your car.
The space ship and River clued me in but I admit I had to look up Vera. Forgot about that name.
Sorry, I couldn't miss it even though it was off-topic. One of my most favorite quotes from that show was when River came in and told Jayne "and also, I can kill you with my mind."
I wish we could have at least had two seasons of that show.
As long as I get to hang out with River, I'm ok with that. Just an occupational hazard I guess. Bonus if I get to hang out on a space ship and play with Vera.
So...how could you struggle through a shorter book but not the longer ones? If you were struggling about the plot...just off the top of my head it's about SPOILERS
I was mostly struggling with the six chapters of Princess Irulan speaking in a meeting with the others about poisoning Paul. Half of the shortest book was people talking to one another.
But other than that, I loved the series, and really enjoyed Children of Dune.
So when I called him an asshat but supported it was that ad hominem or filed under truth hurts?
I am quite confused as well. An ad hominem attack is to dismiss a message based on the messenger. So if I was to say I don't believe anything that Hansmeier says because he is an asshat would be both an ad hominem attack and a smart move on my part (given his history.)
Hansmeier can't really even claim libel or slander in this case, because neither exist if the statement is true, and based on the statements and the proof determined by other courts, the statements sure seem true.
It's just "we'll be using these so don't be worried." In terms of dealing with Bergeron's multiple experiences with the TSA, it's about as useless as a 404 page.
I'd argue that an error 404 page is far more useful. Error 404 tells you that the page you are looking for doesn't exist on the server. It is straight to the point, and while you are still angry that you can't find the page that was there long enough for Google to find, you know that either the web admin/company deleted the information, moved it to another location, or Google inventoried it wrong.
This would be more like a blank page appearing whenever you looked for information on a web server... You don't know whether the page is gone, the server borked, or the NSA swapped out the information while you weren't looking.
I was just pointing out the logical inconsistency between, one one hand allowing citizens to carry guns and on the other having a zero tolerance policy regarding kids drawing guns.
Actually, there are only a handful of states that allow citizens to carry guns, and that number is sadly, dwindling. Many states require a permit to carry a gun. All states allow a citizen to own a gun (with restrictions,) but concealed carry and even open carry laws exist in quite a few states. A bunch of states outlaw a loaded carry. Like the "old west" stories, the belief that everyone in the US is armed, and can legally be armed all the time is sadly a myth.
The problem is, the criminals don't follow the laws, so they have absolutely no problem carrying loaded firearms, regardless to the laws.
I believe that, in the US at least, people are too casual about guns, which ends up resulting in tragic deaths that could easily be avoided. That is due to poor gun handling education, in my opinion.
I actually believe the exact opposite, but agree with you 100%. People in the US are too uptight about guns. I know people who say they would be happy to live out the rest of their lives never seeing a gun. They don't own them, and never want to own them, and never want to handle them. To me, that is absolutely fine, but everyone should receive education on how guns work, and how they should be treated safely and respectfully. If all people get as an education on how to treat guns is what they see on television or in the movies, that is where we have major problems (since very few movies/television shows accurately depict their safe usage...how many shows are there where the good guy has his finger on the trigger when he has no intention to fire the gun...not safe, you only put your finger on the trigger when you intend to fire a bullet!)
Bullshit! on Gun Control is apropos here. Most people have such a small and distorted understanding on guns that I am far more concerned about my safety around someone who has never shot a gun than someone who spends a couple hours a week, month, or even a year in a gun range.
lol! I think it is a "Good Thing" but I've been wrong before...
Thanks Ben. I couldn't resist...the money was just too good.
The sad thing is that I do tend to watch CNN far more than I should (even if it is background noise,) and when Jon did that bit, my ribs and side were hurting.
Anyone care to bet on how long it takes before the NSA and GCHQ start accusing Google of 'enabling and aiding terrorists by interfering with legal* surveillance efforts'?
I'm actually happy all this has happened, as it has gotten me to think about how I do the back-end stuff too. Protecting the front-end left me with an M&M security model...soft chewy center with a hard shell. Even though my back-end was limited to lo0, and never touched the net, I am now working to encrypt all of my lo0 traffic. It increases latency, but in the long run, if the state can do it, it is only a short matter of time before bad-guys figure out how to do the same.
Valve runs sales midweek and weekends, over the holidays, and sometimes daily (why not hourly??).
Anecdotal but relevant, I spend most of my money on GoG during sales (and often spend quite a bit more than I should.) I pick up games all the time, either that I really want to play or that I had in the past and would like to play again, but won't run on my environment (there is a lot of stuff that just won't run properly on Wine/Linux/DOSBOX from the original Windows9x CDs, but runs perfectly fine from GoG.) But when there is a sale, I'll tend to pick up games I never would have purchased full price for.
I'd be interested in seeing someone do a serious study on how much more they spend during a sale versus during normal prices, since know I am not alone.
You'd like to read the book but won't pay the price. Doesn't that mean you don't value the book at the price they're selling it?
Not to answer for Ninja, but I would answer yes.
But then again, I bought the book (both in physical and in electronic form) for full price. It is an awesome book, and well worth the price. It and Ready Player One are the most recent books I've read that I enjoyed and would pay full price for.
However, there are quite a few books in my wishlist that I'd like to read, but am not willing to pay the price they are asking for an intangible item that can, theoretically (but not in practice,) be taken away from me if the vendor/publisher decides that they don't want me to own the book any more. (And interestingly enough, some of those books I have read before, in physical form, and would like to add to my collection of e-books so I can read them again in my chosen format.)
"Everything you see on iReport starts with someone in the CNN audience. The stories here are not edited fact-checked or screened before they post."
But what I really want to know is, is this a good thing or a bad thing? That's all I ever really want to know about a story from CNN when I am waiting for my airplane.
Here In San Francisco shady lawyers pair up with ethical challenged disability sufferers.
In San Diego, not to be out-done, we actually have a ethically challenged disability sufferer who is also a lawyer by the name of Thomas Pinnock, who has done more to kill respect for the ADA then anywhere else (it was even featured on the Bullshit Disability episode!) He sued an entire town for not being wheelchair friendly, and had filed over 2100 suits before the state bar yanked his license for being a douche.
Hopefully Hansmeier does what Pinnock couldn't do...make such an ass of himself that Congress has no choice but to relook at the law and close the private lawsuit madness loophole in the law (or better yet, scrap the law and come up with something that helps disabled folks integrate better into society while not making it a legal lottery for the lawyers.
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I'd like to see Cox.net, but figure they are also in the red for most of this. There are a bunch of other providers that aren't on the list either: T-Mobile, Sprint, Time Warner, etc.
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Ads on Hulu, a personal story...
However, one ad that was growing on me was the VPI commercial with the dog driving at the end. It is over-played, and annoying, but I chuckled every time I watched it. So one evening, I joined friends at a restaurant for dinner, and the discussion came up about funny ads. I jumped on youtube, found the ad, and played it for everyone, who chuckled when they saw it and complained about never seeing that ad on television.
I was really surprised the ad was on youtube, but was happy to find it. For those ads that I do find funny, I often share them with others just to get a check on my own humor settings.
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Not to mention it adds considerable overhead. Keeping the back-channels unencrypted reduces the bandwidth and speeds the traffic considerably. Adding encryption to anything slows it down (though that can be managed.) For most websites using back-channel connections to databases, if encryption is turned on, they run the risk of DoS if there are a high number of queries against the database, and most will turn off the encryption, especially if using local sockets/pipes, even if someone sitting on the machine can compromise these, just to keep everything smooth.
I'd go even further on your statement that it wasn't considered a hole...Until the NSA was found to have a backdoor in their network, anyone who would have suggested that they would encrypt all their out-of-bound/back-channel comms would likely (and quite reasonably) have been fired.
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There is one flaw in this plan. How will you ever know they are a service not to be trusted if you don't hear about it from someone else and haven't had any experience with it yourself?
I have complained before about vendors, mainly because I too wasn't receiving the help I needed from the vendors themselves to rectify the problem I was having. I am tired of buying stuff that a vendor promised would meet my needs, only to find out that they lied or misstated their selling points. Usually I'd contact the vendor first, but in some cases, I couldn't contact the vendor because they didn't publish any way to get in touch with them.
In most cases, vendors will go out of their way to help, even when it is obvious that I am the problem in the equation, but I've run into vendors who don't care; they have my money and even though their product never worked as advertised or has serious flaws which require much more effort on my part to fix, they aren't interested in me any more. Putting poor reviews online which explain the problem, my steps to try to fix it, and how unresponsive the vendor is helps me air my problems and in some cases gets the right people to help me out, but it also helps the community to know what problems may exist with the product and/or vendor.
I've had equally good experiences with companies, and sadly, they tend to not get the praise because everything works fine or they help resolve the problem quickly. While each experience is unique, sometimes just having a heads-up helps when dealing with a company you've never worked with before.
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CMOS? A second, much smaller battery contained in the device which powers vital memory functions, kept topped off by the main battery but which can function when the main battery is removed for a limited period of time.
Just a guess. I have no real way of knowing if this is possible, but I don't think it is so cut and dry and I'd never say never in this case.
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Making it absolutely imperative that you don't make any trips to the wrong side of town.
Would hate to have to leave your car running while you are stopping in the hood for your BBQ fix at the best BBQ in town that just happens to be located in the wrong area. Even worse if you live in a town that closes at 5pm and becomes a really dangerous part of town after everyone shuts down shop.
It would be better to have some sort of GPS to know it is in your front yard before it decides not to start up again. Would be tragic if one of your side trips to the Bronx or South-side of Chicago should happen to result in an error on the part of the vendor and your attempting to escape unharmed without your car.
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Sorry, I couldn't miss it even though it was off-topic. One of my most favorite quotes from that show was when River came in and told Jayne "and also, I can kill you with my mind."
I wish we could have at least had two seasons of that show.
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As long as I get to hang out with River, I'm ok with that. Just an occupational hazard I guess. Bonus if I get to hang out on a space ship and play with Vera.
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I was mostly struggling with the six chapters of Princess Irulan speaking in a meeting with the others about poisoning Paul. Half of the shortest book was people talking to one another.
But other than that, I loved the series, and really enjoyed Children of Dune.
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I'd venture to guess that there are quite a few that have read Dune. I struggled through Dune Messiah, but enjoyed the series immensely.
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I am quite confused as well. An ad hominem attack is to dismiss a message based on the messenger. So if I was to say I don't believe anything that Hansmeier says because he is an asshat would be both an ad hominem attack and a smart move on my part (given his history.)
Hansmeier can't really even claim libel or slander in this case, because neither exist if the statement is true, and based on the statements and the proof determined by other courts, the statements sure seem true.
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Error 404 Page
I'd argue that an error 404 page is far more useful. Error 404 tells you that the page you are looking for doesn't exist on the server. It is straight to the point, and while you are still angry that you can't find the page that was there long enough for Google to find, you know that either the web admin/company deleted the information, moved it to another location, or Google inventoried it wrong.
This would be more like a blank page appearing whenever you looked for information on a web server... You don't know whether the page is gone, the server borked, or the NSA swapped out the information while you weren't looking.
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Actually, there are only a handful of states that allow citizens to carry guns, and that number is sadly, dwindling. Many states require a permit to carry a gun. All states allow a citizen to own a gun (with restrictions,) but concealed carry and even open carry laws exist in quite a few states. A bunch of states outlaw a loaded carry. Like the "old west" stories, the belief that everyone in the US is armed, and can legally be armed all the time is sadly a myth.
The problem is, the criminals don't follow the laws, so they have absolutely no problem carrying loaded firearms, regardless to the laws.
I believe that, in the US at least, people are too casual about guns, which ends up resulting in tragic deaths that could easily be avoided. That is due to poor gun handling education, in my opinion.
I actually believe the exact opposite, but agree with you 100%. People in the US are too uptight about guns. I know people who say they would be happy to live out the rest of their lives never seeing a gun. They don't own them, and never want to own them, and never want to handle them. To me, that is absolutely fine, but everyone should receive education on how guns work, and how they should be treated safely and respectfully. If all people get as an education on how to treat guns is what they see on television or in the movies, that is where we have major problems (since very few movies/television shows accurately depict their safe usage...how many shows are there where the good guy has his finger on the trigger when he has no intention to fire the gun...not safe, you only put your finger on the trigger when you intend to fire a bullet!)
Bullshit! on Gun Control is apropos here. Most people have such a small and distorted understanding on guns that I am far more concerned about my safety around someone who has never shot a gun than someone who spends a couple hours a week, month, or even a year in a gun range.
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Thanks Ben. I couldn't resist...the money was just too good.
The sad thing is that I do tend to watch CNN far more than I should (even if it is background noise,) and when Jon did that bit, my ribs and side were hurting.
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I'm actually happy all this has happened, as it has gotten me to think about how I do the back-end stuff too. Protecting the front-end left me with an M&M security model...soft chewy center with a hard shell. Even though my back-end was limited to lo0, and never touched the net, I am now working to encrypt all of my lo0 traffic. It increases latency, but in the long run, if the state can do it, it is only a short matter of time before bad-guys figure out how to do the same.
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Anecdotal but relevant, I spend most of my money on GoG during sales (and often spend quite a bit more than I should.) I pick up games all the time, either that I really want to play or that I had in the past and would like to play again, but won't run on my environment (there is a lot of stuff that just won't run properly on Wine/Linux/DOSBOX from the original Windows9x CDs, but runs perfectly fine from GoG.) But when there is a sale, I'll tend to pick up games I never would have purchased full price for.
I'd be interested in seeing someone do a serious study on how much more they spend during a sale versus during normal prices, since know I am not alone.
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Not to answer for Ninja, but I would answer yes.
But then again, I bought the book (both in physical and in electronic form) for full price. It is an awesome book, and well worth the price. It and Ready Player One are the most recent books I've read that I enjoyed and would pay full price for.
However, there are quite a few books in my wishlist that I'd like to read, but am not willing to pay the price they are asking for an intangible item that can, theoretically (but not in practice,) be taken away from me if the vendor/publisher decides that they don't want me to own the book any more. (And interestingly enough, some of those books I have read before, in physical form, and would like to add to my collection of e-books so I can read them again in my chosen format.)
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But what I really want to know is, is this a good thing or a bad thing? That's all I ever really want to know about a story from CNN when I am waiting for my airplane.
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In San Diego, not to be out-done, we actually have a ethically challenged disability sufferer who is also a lawyer by the name of Thomas Pinnock, who has done more to kill respect for the ADA then anywhere else (it was even featured on the Bullshit Disability episode!) He sued an entire town for not being wheelchair friendly, and had filed over 2100 suits before the state bar yanked his license for being a douche.
Hopefully Hansmeier does what Pinnock couldn't do...make such an ass of himself that Congress has no choice but to relook at the law and close the private lawsuit madness loophole in the law (or better yet, scrap the law and come up with something that helps disabled folks integrate better into society while not making it a legal lottery for the lawyers.
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