I saw that. Doesn't it make you want to move to Alabama?
I saw that. Doesn't it make you want to move to Alabama?
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
Are you sure that was him that went to one in the first place? His memory is disappearing at an alarming rate at the moment.Originally Posted by Veldan Rath
He can't even remember sporting a hard rifle between his crotch back in the day.
That's just crazy.A new study of 3,000 women conducted by Superdrug found that one in three women refuse to go out in public without wearing makeup. As in, they can't even run out to the grocery store or to pick up their kid without makeup on. Really? Nearly half of all women say they prefer to wear cosmetics than to show their bare face. But what's the most shocking of all: one in ten women polled said they would never ever let their partner see them without a full face of makeup on.
Maybe I should wear make-up more often. Apparently it's a necessity.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
makeup wouldn't be an issue for most women if they went with thinner and whiter tshirts.
It wouldn't be any kind of issue if they ditched the t-shirt altogether
Where is Baxter when you need him?It wouldn't be any kind of issue if they ditched the t-shirt altogether
Faith is Hope (see Loki's sig for details)
If hindsight is 20-20, why is it so often ignored?
Sony's PS3 has been hacked. So whats the best way to fightback?
Sue everyone for everything 3 weeks after it all hits the internet.
For years, EFF has been warning that the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act can be used to chill speech, particularly security research, because legitimate researchers will be afraid to publish their results lest they be accused of circumventing a technological protection measure. We've also been concerned that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act could be abused to try to make alleged contract violations into crimes.
We've never been sorrier to be right. These two things are precisely what's happening in Sony v. Hotz. If you have missed this one, Sony has sued several security researchers for publishing information about security holes in Sony’s PlayStation 3. At first glance, it's hard to see why Sony is bothering — after all, the research was presented three weeks ago at the Chaos Communication Congress and promptly circulated around the world. The security flaws discovered by the researchers allow users to run Linux on their machines again — something Sony used to support but recently started trying to prevent. Paying lawyers to try to put the cat back in the bag is just throwing good money after bad. And even if they won — we'll save the legal analysis for another post — the defendants seem unlikely to be able to pay significant damages. So what's the point?
The real point, it appears, is to send a message to security researchers around the world: publish the details of our security flaws and we'll come after you with both barrels blazing. For example, Sony has asked the court to immediately impound all "circumvention devices" — which it defines to include not only the defendants' computers, but also all "instructions," i.e., their research and findings. Given that the research results Sony presumably cares about are available online, granting the order would mean that everyone except the researchers themselves would have access to their work.
Not content with the DMCA hammer, Sony is also bringing a slew of outrageous Computer Fraud and Abuse Act claims. The basic gist of Sony's argument is that the researchers accessed their own PlayStation 3 consoles in a way that violated the agreement that Sony imposes on users of its network (and supposedly enabled others to do the same). But the researchers don't seem to have used Sony's network in their research — they just used the consoles they bought with their own money. Simply put, Sony claims that it's illegal for users to access their own computers in a way that Sony doesn't like. Moreover, because the CFAA has criminal as well as civil penalties, Sony is actually saying that it's a crime for users to access their own computers in a way that Sony doesn't like.
That means Sony is sending another dangerous message: that it has rights in the computer it sells you even after you buy it, and therefore can decide whether your tinkering with that computer is legal or not. We disagree. Once you buy a computer, it's yours. It shouldn't be a crime for you to access your own computer, regardless of whether Sony or any other company likes what you're doing.
Finally, even if the researchers had used Sony's network, Sony's claim that it's a crime to violate its terms of use has been firmly rejected by courts in cases like United States v. Drew and Facebook v. Power Ventures. As those courts have recognized, companies like Sony would have tremendous coercive power if they could enforce their private, unilateral and easy-to-change agreements with threats of criminal punishment.
Sony's core arguments — that it can silence speech that reveals security flaws using the DMCA and that the mere fact of a terms of use somewhere gives a company permanent and total control over what you do with a device under pain of criminal punishment — are both sweeping and frightening, and not just for gamers and computer researchers. Frankly, it's not what we expect from any company that cares about its customers, and we bet it's not what those customers expect, either.
Isn't this standard operating procedure for Sony, though? Was anyone really surprised? They did the same sort of thing with the PSP, didn't they?
I know they sued Datel for releasing hardware that broke the security on the PSP 3000. Going after someone attempting to profit with a physical product? That I understand, especially when you do it before the product comes to market.
But all these guys did was make the research public, much the same way the hi-def DVD master key was pass around online.
But I do agree this isn't surprising for Sony, "Sony is Exhibit A in the abuse of intellectual- property laws by corporations that believe they have all the rights -- including how products may be used after sale -- with users and purchasers having no rights at all." Rootkit anyone?
We were cleaning up the lab today. While washing the floor under the sink, a labmate noticed a small vial that had somehow fallen behind the fume hood. He tried to get it, but it was just outside his reach. It took a while to pull it out with forceps from the narrow space behind the fume hood.
When we finally got it out, we looked at the label on the vial. It was labeled "behind".
Carthāgō dēlenda est
Did you return it to it's rightful place? Did you need the forceps for this as well? Have others before you fallen for this joke as well?
The worst job in the world is better than being broke and homeless
A man in central Florida has been charged with child neglect after authorities say he let his 15-year-old son drive because the man was too drunk.
Hillsborough County deputies stopped 41-year-old Darran Foraker's Dodge Caravan on Saturday night because its brake lights were out. An arrest report says that's when they discovered the minivan was being driven by Foraker's son.
The arrest report says the father told deputies he was too drunk to drive and didn't have money to stay at a hotel because he spent it all on alcohol. He also told deputies he was too drunk to care for the teen.
Deputies arrested the man and took him to the Hillsborough County Jail, where he was held on $2,000 bail.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
Did Egypt attempt to shut down their internet?
and they think this is going to help the problem?
EDIT:
Shutting down domestic texting, water and power? What exactly is the leadership expecting the public to tomorrow if they take all their other activities away?
Presumably make it harder for them to coordinate.
Hope is the denial of reality
Watching CNN and Aljazeera right now...I don't think their attempt to break up coordination worked to well. Its interesting watching it, the army rolled in, and the areas are under curfew, but no one seems to care, and the army isn't acting to enforce it.
It's generally the police and paramilitary groups that break these up. The military generally doesn't want to get involved.
Hope is the denial of reality
this topic deserves it's own thread in D&D. Even though I'm wondering WTF is going to happen next. Are the Yemen revolts still happening?
The worst job in the world is better than being broke and homeless
http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home...valentines-dayKen is on a mission this year. He wants Barbie back.
He's sporting a new Justin Bieber-like look, and a new name: Sweet Talkin Ken.
And he's not holding back in his quest to woo Barbie back — by Valentine's Day.
Here's the scoop.
Don't be surprised if you see billboards in New York and Los Angeles with Ken professing his renewed love for his ladydoll, declaring "Barbie, you are the only doll for me."
Even better, "Barbie, we may be plastic but our love is real."
Ken and Barbie fans may also have picked up on the famous exes flirting on Facebook, or noted that Ken checked in on Foursquare at the famous Magnolia Bakery in New York to get special cupcakes for his favorite girl.
Ken's thinks he's the ultimate boyfriend but Barbie fans will have to wait a few more weeks to find out if he succeeds in his quest.
I didn't know Ken and Barbie split. I'm pretty sure they're together in a basket up in my linen closet.
My daughter never had any interest at all in playing with Barbies. Maybe in 30ish years she'll have a daughter who is girly and will appreciate them.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
Is it sad to admit that I can't wait until K is old enough to play with them? I've already scouted out the Barbie aisle several times at Toys R Us.
Except, now that she has smaller boobs my old Barbie clothes won't fit her right. Hooray for political correctness.
They're on Facebook and Foursquare.
Nah.Is it sad to admit that I can't wait until K is old enough to play with them? I've already scouted out the Barbie aisle several times at Toys R Us.
Except, now that she has smaller boobs my old Barbie clothes won't fit her right. Hooray for political correctness.
I've been fighting the urge to go get my Barbies out so I can play with them.
I have some that I dyed the hair pink and purple on, too.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
A valuable pedigreed cat that went missing from its New Zealand home turned up two days later a little different - it had been surgically castrated.
Owner Michelle Curtis said she was furious when Buddy, her prized Siamese-Bengal cross, came home "fixed."
"I couldn't believe someone took my cat and got him fixed. I don't know why they would do that," Curtis told Bay of Plenty Times newspaper in an article Thursday. "It really was quite bizarre. I mean, who just takes someone's cat and gets them neutered?"
Curtis said she had owned Buddy for almost two years and was considering using him as a stud cat.
"What am I supposed to do now? I can't exactly get someone to sew them back on," she told the newspaper.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
No idea how valuable a pedigreed Siamese-Bengal cross is but I can't imagine they come cheap. Why would someone do that to someone else's cat?
WTF is the name of those little Russian dolls that fit into one another, housed in one big figure?
Nesting dolls
Matrusjka dolls (but spelling may be different)
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
A matryoshka doll, or babushka doll is a Russian nesting doll which is a set of dolls of decreasing sizes placed one inside the other.
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