Posts by DropBear 4735 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Mar 2013
Most people yearn to have a sense of purpose. Many don't really get to have one. Which is why some who stumble upon a cause they can (mis)appropriate proceed to wield it so fiercely and fanatically - deep down they know full well they are basically naked without their chosen mantle, and that's not something they can ever afford to admit, even to themselves - so they cling to it with all the force they've got.
"I like the idea of pizza delivering mole robots."
I love that idea too, but I think there have been trial runs with something similar and it didn't end all that well...
Oh, I have a sure-fire idea - so the sky is a problem because airplanes and the ground is a problem because cars and pedestrians? Clearly, what we need is an army of parkour-bots delivering stuff jumping from rooftop to rooftop! In most places, that space has no traffic whatsoever - problem solved!
" Nevertheless, I have great respect and genuine empathy for those who do and I really see no need or justification to claim or imply that my position in this matter is in any way better than anyone else's."
Good on you. I don't. Having to respect one's right to his own religion is one thing, respecting someone in spite of what he chooses to believe is quite another, and it's not an obligation whatsoever. You're welcome to believe in whatever you want as long as that doesn't interfere with the physical integrity of my person, possessions or rights, but what my opinion of you will be based on what you choose to believe is not for you to decide.
"Why would you store porn??"
That's so not a valid question it's not even funny. THIS IS WHY!
Actually, there is every difference between those two. Doctors kinda tend to be _actually_ bound by the Hippocratic oath they take and a whole bunch of other rules regulating their trade, including patient confidentiality. As a "hey mate please fix my PC would ya" victim, IT people are not actually bound by any of the above or indeed anything whatsoever at all. Except their conscience, that is. And that's why these sort of incidents tend to highlight what kind of person you are - exactly because there's nothing restraining your worst. Or best, as applicable.
"So yes, it has everything to do with how an air[o]foil works"
Yes, and let's not forget that utter bullshit how "the air has to meet up at the trailing edge". It's clearly all Bernoulli's doing, all of it, as evidenced by the fact that a) no aircraft can keep flying upside down and b) no model aircraft has ever flown with wings made of a single FLAT sheet of material.
...oh wait...
You wouldn't even need a broom, just a speaker - I'm sure you have all seen videos where uniformly sprinkled dust gathers up along fixed lines when a speaker starts shaking the plate; with a bit of smarts one might even devise a changing sound pattern that pushes the accumulation lines closer and closer to the edge like a conveyor belt, until the dust just falls off...
Waaay ahead of you, Firefox - I stopped updating the millisecond they started also asking for permission to use the microphone and precise location (and everything else under the sun). It's actually almost funny how many app developers think "but I know I'm perfectly honest and square - why would anyone not trust me completely?!?"
As opposed to "how many wheelbarrows of dirt have you moved today", white-collar industries have yet to invent any performance measurement system that isn't utter shite and just a blunt tool for the HR acolytes to bludgeon people they don't like with. So you will excuse me for not enthusiastically supporting a move to anything like that.
"And the accumulated trackers were discovered because the vehicle was leaning a bit and suffered from the dread barnacle accumulation."
Not quite, considering that out of the final total of 27 trackers found in the car, 19 were actually co-sharing the same piece of hardware - the owner's GPS-enabled smartphone...
Come on, everybody knows how wrong that is. The proper way to do that is "sudo make me a sandwich"...
"...would be to create a bunch of these and NOT give out decryption keys."
I have a better idea. Create a bunch of these that totally do the whole encryption thing right up to the ransom note, but make actual payments impossible (looks the part, but it fails / it's fake). Then, after exactly 24 hours they put up a different note telling you this time you got lucky as this was only a "drill" asking you how would it feel to have this happen to you for real - then they should proceed to nicely decrypt everything exactly as they found it. I believe going without your files for 24 hours would be worth the price of the education received...
Actually, it turns out I was thinking about the "Howie scream", but thanks for the tip, it made it easy to find...
"whose scream is used to suggest the wilderness in the wildlife documentary"
I swear there is only exactly one recording of that sound ever, and it must come pinned to the "top ten foley fx quick list" of every damn mixing software (only to be topped by the "fwoooosh" sound and that "eeeeeeaaaaurgh" sound - also a single sample ever existing of each of those)...
@chris 17 and you need better sources than a user guide with "facts". All currently existing iPhones are vulnerable, and the "enforced" delay is software-controlled.
"No you're missing the point. The barge video is not an operational priority."
Once upon a time there was a fairly well known guy in my country who once wrote something roughly along the lines "if you bother doing something, you really should make the effort to do it properly". Musk is of course under no obligation whatsoever to get a live video feed working - but I'm with that first guy: get it right, or just don't bother.
Exactly. Now guess what happens when Firefox loads a tab and the DNS server pretends it never heard the query...? That's exactly right, NOTHING HAPPENS, in any of the tabs, because everything is frozen up worse than the tundra permafrost! How the f@#$% $%$%&* in a $#@& %$&^'s ass does this pass for acceptable coding standards in 2016?!?
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