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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
This just adds more evidence to my idea that hte late 2011 Macbook Pro was the last good one. User-replaceable 2.5" drive and ram, a keyboard that works properly, it's got everything.
Headphones jack?
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
It's still not fast enough
I haven't RTFA yet, but I wonder why it would take a leaked report. If they just published the data points, you would think that something like this would have been obvious long before now.
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@boomzilla It sure does. Headphone jack, full-size USB ports (not USB 3 though), card reader, even an optical drive.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
full-size USB ports (not USB 3 though), card reader, even an optical drive
Shit, it must be super thick
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@TimeBandit
That's why @hungrier loves it. He's always been in to T H I C C hardware.
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@izzion He should be in THC hardware. It moves everything to the cloud, even your brain
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla It sure does. Headphone jack, full-size USB ports (not USB 3 though), card reader, even an optical drive.
So, it'd need one of these, then?
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Awww shucks. Didn't manage to order mine in time!
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Awww shucks. Didn't manage to order mine in time!
I look forward to the next entry in the Fast and the Furious franchise.
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I agree
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I just blame people. Why be exclusionary?
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
I just blame people. Why be exclusionary?
Why exclude @Tsaukpaetra
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I figure if any non-person is smart enough to communicate with us, they are smart enough to implement proper security. Perhaps that is misguided.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
smart enough to communicate with us
Yeah, that part mostly work
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Wordpress themes contained backdoors/DDOS 'feature' for years and somehow no-one noticed til now.
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If Boeing isn't making like a 737 MAX currently...
The Journal report, citing unidentified people briefed on the matter, said the pilots had initially shut off the MCAS anti-stall system that was pushing the airplane’s nose down shortly after it took off from Addis Ababa.
The pilots then cranked a manual wheel in an attempt to stabilize the plane, the report said, but they eventually decided to restore power to the usual electric trim on their control yokes, likely because the manual attempt did not achieve the desired results.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
The last time someone attempted to bring the story to the big screen came 33 years ago, with director David Lynch's film. That vastly underrated movie was an unparalleled masterpiece in production design,
Did @pie_flavor write this article? I don't think I've seen the same movie.
On the other hand I've learned that David Lynch himself hates the movie, so that makes me like it a little bit more.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
The last time someone attempted to bring the story to the big screen came 33 years ago, with director David Lynch's film. That vastly underrated movie was an unparalleled masterpiece in production design,
Did @pie_flavor write this article? I don't think I've seen the same movie.
No, I would agree with that description. The sets and the costumes were really something.
On the other hand I've learned that David Lynch himself hates the movie, so that makes me like it a little bit more.
I like it a lot but you have to both already know that book and also be willing to let a lot of it go to enjoy the movie.
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I thought the movie was bizarre and didn't like it at all. Years later encouraged by praises from my friends I got the book. Hated every moment of it, couldn't get past first 100 pages.
Not my kind of thing I guess.
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"But we didn't mean us, there must be some mistake...."
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
I thought the movie was bizarre and didn't like it at all. Years later encouraged by praises from my friends I got the book. Hated every moment of it, couldn't get past first 100 pages.
Not my kind of thing I guess.The book was written in the 1960's, when the post-war communist winds were blowing in Europe, by a person infatuated with the arab culture and little grasp on technology. Sufficient suspencion of disbelief to get immersed in the story kinda requires complete technical illiteracy. And it helps if you've never seen an actual desert or a real bedouin.
I read it through, and it doesn't really get any better towards the end.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
you have to both already know that book and also be willing to let a lot of it go to enjoy the movie.
Yeah... so it's a terrible movie on its own.
Granted I only saw it once many years ago, so my memory of it is hazy.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
I thought the movie was bizarre and didn't like it at all. Years later encouraged by praises from my friends I got the book. Hated every moment of it, couldn't get past first 100 pages.
Not my kind of thing I guess.The book was written in the 1960's, when the post-war communist winds were blowing in Europe, by a person infatuated with the arab culture and little grasp on technology. Sufficient suspencion of disbelief to get immersed in the story kinda requires complete technical illiteracy. And it helps if you've never seen an actual desert or a real bedouin.
Well, there's technical illiteracy and technical illiteracy. Philip K Dick had zero grasp of technology and it's no problem at all in his books.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
you have to both already know that book and also be willing to let a lot of it go to enjoy the movie.
Yeah... so it's a terrible movie on its own.
As TFA said, it's a "masterpiece in production design."
Granted I only saw it once many years ago, so my memory of it is hazy.
They had to cut waaaay too much stuff out so if you weren't already familiar with a lot of the details from the book big parts of it didn't make sense. And then they did a weird substitute of a sound based weapon for superior mind / body conditioning.
A big problem was that Herbert was dying while they were making the movie and a lot of things were rushed to try to get it done while he was alive.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
I agree
The problem is that IT and security professionals tend to have personality types that find communicating with other people painful. This affects everything they do, including the process of persuading users to have actually good security practices, so they fall back on techniques such as banning everything non-approved, which antagonizes users (who rightly see that they're getting prevented from doing some parts of their job) and everything spirals from there.
I also find communicating with others hard. But that doesn't mean I should just not do it, or only ever do it in terms that solely use my own jargon…
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Sufficient suspencion of disbelief to get immersed in the story kinda requires complete technical illiteracy.
That is not how suspension of disbelief works, you have to disregard what you know.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
I agree
The problem is that IT and security professionals tend to have personality types that find communicating with other people painful. This affects everything they do, including the process of persuading users to have actually good security practices, so they fall back on techniques such as banning everything non-approved, which antagonizes users (who rightly see that they're getting prevented from doing some parts of their job) and everything spirals from there.
I also find communicating with others hard. But that doesn't mean I should just not do it, or only ever do it in terms that solely use my own jargon…
This product is provided without any warranty, express or implied...
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@lolwhat said in In other news today...:
If Boeing isn't making like a 737 MAX currently...
The Journal report, citing unidentified people briefed on the matter, said the pilots had initially shut off the MCAS anti-stall system that was pushing the airplane’s nose down shortly after it took off from Addis Ababa.
The pilots then cranked a manual wheel in an attempt to stabilize the plane, the report said, but they eventually decided to restore power to the usual electric trim on their control yokes, likely because the manual attempt did not achieve the desired results.
A local expert, former Boeing flight-control engineer Peter Lemme, recently predicted how the emergency procedure could fail disastrously, and he is backed up by extracts from a 1982 Boeing 737-200 Pilot Training Manual posted to an online pilot forum a month ago by an Australian pilot. [...]
But Lemme said the Ethiopian pilots most likely were unable to carry out that last instruction in the Boeing emergency procedure — because they simply couldn’t physically move that wheel against the heavy forces acting on the tail.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
Not to worry, now they'll also store your e-mail account password as well!
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Johnny Cash could not be reached for comment.
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@Mingan said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Johnny Cash could not be reached for comment.
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When I was just a baby
My Mama told me, "Son
Always be a good boy
Don't ever play with guns, "
But I shot a man in Reno
Just to watch him die
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@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
Sufficient suspencion of disbelief to get immersed in the story kinda requires complete technical illiteracy.
That is not how suspension of disbelief works, you have to disregard what you know.
If you have to disregard what you know, then it's already badly written. The good version of suspension of disbelief happens when the ideas presented only depend on advances of technology, but don't violate the laws of physics as we know them. Or, if physics must be violated to keep the story going, it should be kept brief and out of the way, not stuck in the reader's face like an STD Exchange Party ad.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Care to tell us Europeans what the charges were?
I'm getting GDPR'd.
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BENTON COUNTY, Ar - (KNWA) - Police arrested two men after they took turns shooting one another while wearing a bullet-resistant vest, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Charles Eugene Ferris, 50, and Christopher Hicks, 36, were arrested Monday in connection with an aggravated assault.
They were released on a $5,000 bond and were issued a no-contact order from the Benton County Jail on Tuesday, April 2.
Benton County Sheriff's Deputy Dorian Hendrix went to Mercy Hospital around 11 p.m Sunday, March 31, to investigate a male who had been shot multiple times while wearing a bullet-proof vest, according to the affidavit.
Hendrix interviewed Ferris, who had a red spot on his chest, the affidavit states.
Ferris told an elaborate story to try and cover up the truth.
He said someone from the edge of a tree line began shooting at him and the "asset" on Highway 12, according to the affidavit.
Ferris changed his story about the incident and said he did not want to get Hicks in trouble, so he made up his prior story, the affidavit states.
He then told police what really happened and said he had been drinking on his back deck with Hicks and wanted Hicks to shoot him with the vest on.
Hicks shot Ferris with a .22 caliber semi-automatic rifle, according to the affidavit.
The bullet hit the top left corner of the vest stopping the bullet but leaving a red mark.
Ferris told police he was "pissed" and Hicks put the vest on, the affidavit states.
Ferris then "unloaded the clip into Hicks' back," according to a police report.
No rounds from the .22 caliber semi-automatic rifle penetrated the vest.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Not to worry, now they'll also store your e-mail account password as well!
I thought they've been doing so for years?
You know, to automagically add your friends and great stuff like that.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
the ideas presented only depend on advances of technology, but don't violate the laws of physics as we know them.
I suppose fantasy novels are not your thing then...
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@izzion said in In other news today...:
Not to worry, now they'll also store your e-mail account password as well!
I thought they've been doing so for years?
You know, to automagically add your friends and great stuff like that.
That's exactly what you used to have to do before things like Oauth were invented.
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@ixvedeusi said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
the ideas presented only depend on advances of technology, but don't violate the laws of physics as we know them.
I suppose fantasy novels are not your thing then...
I've read all Ciaphas Cain novels, as well as several Star Wars books, which I enjoyed. I also found several discworld books entertaining. On the other hand, I can't stomach most WH40K books (other than the mentioned Cains).
And, lo and behold, this is still in line with my earlier statement.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I'm not sure it's worth it. I might prefer to drink some DDT.
I somehow missed this post, otherwise I would have posted "I didn't know Skrillex also made music".
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I'm not sure it's worth it. I might prefer to drink some DDT.
I somehow missed this post, otherwise I would have posted "I didn't know Skrillex also made music".
It's mostly encrypted transmissions, but everyone has tastes.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
I somehow missed this post, otherwise I would have posted "I didn't know Skrillex also made music".
ffplay skrillex.mp3 | gzip -d
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
@acrow
BENTON COUNTY, Ar - (KNWA) - Police arrested two men after they took turns shooting one another while wearing a bullet-resistant vest, according to a probable cause affidavit.Charles Eugene Ferris, 50, and Christopher Hicks, 36, were arrested Monday in connection with an aggravated assault.
They were released on a $5,000 bond and were issued a no-contact order from the Benton County Jail on Tuesday, April 2.
Benton County Sheriff's Deputy Dorian Hendrix went to Mercy Hospital around 11 p.m Sunday, March 31, to investigate a male who had been shot multiple times while wearing a bullet-proof vest, according to the affidavit.
Hendrix interviewed Ferris, who had a red spot on his chest, the affidavit states.
Ferris told an elaborate story to try and cover up the truth.
He said someone from the edge of a tree line began shooting at him and the "asset" on Highway 12, according to the affidavit.
Ferris changed his story about the incident and said he did not want to get Hicks in trouble, so he made up his prior story, the affidavit states.
He then told police what really happened and said he had been drinking on his back deck with Hicks and wanted Hicks to shoot him with the vest on.
Hicks shot Ferris with a .22 caliber semi-automatic rifle, according to the affidavit.
The bullet hit the top left corner of the vest stopping the bullet but leaving a red mark.
Ferris told police he was "pissed" and Hicks put the vest on, the affidavit states.
Ferris then "unloaded the clip into Hicks' back," according to a police report.
No rounds from the .22 caliber semi-automatic rifle penetrated the vest.
The only crime I see in all of that is lying to the police, which could have resulted in them wasting their time investigating a crime that did not happen.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I'm not sure it's worth it. I might prefer to drink some DDT.
I somehow missed this post, otherwise I would have posted "I didn't know Skrillex also made music".
It's mostly
encryptedencoded transmissions, but everyone has tastes.Pet peeve. My 56k modem sounded like that way before everyone was using https.