Well in California, Yes now means "Yes". I'm afraid that it's only "off" in some context you don't (aren't meant to) understand. But it's OK, it's Apple, after all --they're just backing up all of your keystrokes and swipes to the iCloud in case you forget them. After all: you might forgot how to reenable it and they only want to help.

OTOH, I've got a current Onkyo amp with a bright blue OFF light. It recently confused a friend of mine who was trying to turn off the stereo. She couldn't get both the light and the speakers off at the same time and complained that it was broken.

I agreed.

Here's a transcript of a video call I recently had with a Lead Mir Developer(*): Ahhh! Geez, over here -- it's another luzer. Look, using this is just so obvious it's painful. We write wonderful, self-documenting code and haven't had a bug in months! And it's completely compatible with X -- here, let me show you.

See? It starts up and looks and responds completely like X, but it's got our better code and much better responsiveness. All you have to do it is read the simple documentation that Joe is writing by looking at his personal copy of the source code once he finishes up with his editor. The physical book will be placed on Amazon's self-publishing area shortly for a small pittance once we finally release the production code to the world. We'll be sure to keep releasing new books as the interface changes so you can expect an continual enjoyable reading experience.

Once you see what great things we've done for you you'll just wonder how you ever put up ... Hmm, what? Joe isn't here anymore? Did he quit? No, he died?? No problem, we'll get Indu to pick up right where Joe left off; he's almost done with that nightly beginning English class. We'll let him write the SystemD hooks too, it'll be good practice for him to actually write some code for once.

Well OK, so never mind all that, it'll be out shortly. Let me show you the software: I start my system and Mir wakes up and responds exactly like X does, and you can't even tell the ... WOULD YOU STOP LOOKING over my ...what do you mean I forgot to start the Mir daemon and this actually *IS* X? Oh well duh, you're right.

So, we restart our display server and ... what the HELL is THIS? What is that screen tearing bit and that looks like the top half of a line of text with the corrupted bottom half way over there. Who wrote this junk, it just looks horrible on ... What do you mean, this is our current production code?

Ummm, yeah, it'll all be great once we're completely finished, though, it's over 90% done -- you'll wonder how you ever lived without it. Yeah, well, umm -- BRB, OK?

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(*) and if you believe this, I've got an guaranteed Ebola cure to sell you. Only $19.95 -- order now and get the second days' dose for free!

If he was IN the moon, he's either an Evil Genius in his hidden lair, or a guy struggling to breathe for a multitude of reasons.

Either way, I'd still want to know about him. ("One MILLION Dollars...")

So if a TSA person frisks someone with Ebola, does he pass it on to all of their subsequent "customers?"

I think NOT, because it's the bodily fluids that pass it on, and they're groping but not kissing all the passengers -- at least usually. If the one who's going to scan me is doing that, I want a DIFFERENT agent just on general principals.

You're NOT contagious until you're actively showing symptoms, and then you have to somehow get it on someone else. It's not going to chase down an uninfected person like a tiger on Nat Geo or magically float thru the walls like a ghost.

link

"The best means of prevention are similar to those you would practice to prevent the common cold or the flu, and it starts at your bathroom sink. Thoroughly washing your hands, and practicing good hygiene with soap and water, is a good first step to preventing infection."


The early signs and symptoms of the Ebola virus include:

1. Fever
2. Severe headache
3. Joint and muscle aches
4. Chills
5. Weakness

Symptoms may become increasingly severe over time, the Mayo Clinic said, with additional symptoms present, including:

• Nausea and vomiting
• Diarrhea (may be bloody)
• Red eyes
• Raised rash
• Chest pain and cough
• Stomach pain
• Severe weight loss
• Bleeding, usually from the eyes, and bruising (people near death may bleed from other orifices, such as ears, nose and rectum)
• Internal bleeding

Be careful, but not frightened.

Well then I guess I'm a racist cunt too, because I agree with him (amiga3D (567632)) and I think he's right on the money: friends, Mecca, NSA, Patriot Act and all.

We'll both go take our racism over there, out of your way. Have fun chatting with the highly enthusiastic Religion of Peace supporters -- but I'm afraid you'll need a piece handy if you'd like to continue the conversation for an extended period of time.

May I point you to this highly charged and offensive picture and article here. His point is that this picture is designed to offend nearly everyone, yet no one has died from it -- that's been reported. But add a picture of "Allah" in there and things might get interesting. But I'm sure all of those Muslims were all just innocently sitting in a circle singing Kumbaya because that's all they ever do, right?

ISIS would like me dead (not personally) because I'm an atheist. Yep, they're extremists. So is most everyone (I assume) at Westboro Baptist Church, but at least they haven't killed anyone.

Maybe cockroaches should inherit the Earth -- we don't seem to be doing too hot of a job lately.

Mr. Cuntness signing off.

I'll be modded TROLL for this, but it IS 9/11.

Alternatively, just reduce the number of non-Muslims in the country. And 13 years ago they started the job, if you get my drift.

Oh, you didn't? The radicals (ultra-conservatives?) want to kill the infidels. ALL of them. (Us, presumably. Or if nothing else, ME -- I'm an atheist and won't convert. [Well, I'd hope.]) They don't want to meet and chat, not have an election, nor tweet about it. You'll either convert, or you'll die, and I'm sure they'll be watching the newly converted for a decade or two.

I'm not sure what the Islamic moderates actually think, but I'm fairly sure they're scared of the radicals too. But what matters is what they actually do. "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." --Edmund Burke, maybe. It also applies to the Westboro Baptist Church.


WARNING! OFFENSIVE RELIGIOUS CARTOON PICTURE FOLLOWS! Don't click or view if you're under the age of majority in your location (usually 18-21, I think.) Gee, you're responsible for your own actions -- what a concept!

It's here.

"Following the publication of the image above, in which the most cherished figures from multiple religious faiths were depicted engaging in a lascivious sex act of considerable depravity, no one was murdered, beaten, or had their lives threatened ... Though some members of the Jewish, Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist faiths were reportedly offended by the image, sources confirmed that upon seeing it, they simply shook their heads, rolled their eyes, and continued on with their day."

Once your data leaves your direct physical possession, it's no longer yours.

You either better hope that you're not interesting or any encryption lasts for the lifetime of the data, neither of which is forever.

What was the saying a decade or so ago? "Don't publish it if you don't want to see it on the front page of tomorrows' newspaper."

(For you youngsters: "Newspaper", noun: a massively printed and delivered blog written by multiple people that other people paid for.)

"I'm sorry," and then under his breath "... that I got caught."

Louder: "There, I said it. They can just file a Google 'Forget about me' form and then it's all better. Can I go home now?"

Just wait until the self-driving cars get on the road in mass. They'll be 100% empty!

No? Right now I can email Pizza Hut and have them make me a pizza for pick-up. Automate the billing (I use a credit card to pay -- oh noes, how am I ever going to get that to them?) and have the (correct) pizza inserted in the car window, which then drives itself back home. Delivery? No thanks, I'll have my car do it. Hell, add a Coke (NOT Pepsi!) to that and I'll have the dual A/C cool it while keeping the pizza piping hot.

Upscaling that via Sams Club (Cosco), Staples, and others: right now you can place your order by internet and have it waiting on you for pickup. Now just pay a little extra for handling to have it placed in your car for you.

Why on Earth would I want to waste my time shopping (for standard items) when I can pay a small extra amount and not go at all?


Note: It'll be a cold day in hell before the self-driving car is accepted on the road for one simple reason: Liability Insurance. (Read: lawsuits and punitive damanges for the owner of the killer car, the mechanic who last worked on it, the car company that designed and built it, the programmers who worked on the software, and the sensor manufacturers. The parent/spouse of the first person hurt or killed by a self-driving car will win a large fraction of our national GDP. And if the lawyers are ambitious enough, it might even BE the GDP. My car bruised little Johnny inside who wasn't wearing a seat belt while doing an emergency stop? I don't care if the MS legal contracts say "Not for use in life-critical applications" -- you used it while building the car and software; you're libel as well.) That you might actually not be at fault has actually nothing to do with it.


And the other reason: TERRORISM! (They've won, by the way, if our government is so scared of them they're trying to control all of us.) Just think of all of the evil people who could pack the car full to the brim of explosives / radiation / anchovies and have it drive itself somewhere and explode? Think I'm joking?

Ummm: they can do that right now by adding a driver/drone who can also steer the car off-road while the car itself can't. They don't care at all about the driver; I don't think driver-LESS cars will make any difference. It'd be cheaper to buy a "normal" car and add a suicide driver than it would be to buy an "automatic" one.

Nice try, FBI and all -- but sorry, that's one's a miss. Keep trying; you can't guard against what you can't envision. Then again, remember: cost/benefit - don't guard against EVERYTHING, there is no 100.00000% safety. Ever. Anywhere. "We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security." -- Some Ignorant, Worthless Dude who Obviously didn't know Anything about Important Things.

Cool! I'll get up right now, hop into my exoskeleton and walk around some. It's pimped out with camouflage paint, A/C, a radio, AND a leather seat -- no problems for me! (No in-dash GPS though; they're too darn expensive.)

And what's more, I generate much more energy that I use when running on a treadmill!


Now if I were to ACTUALLY take this seriously, I'd be up and walking for the rest of my life since I could never sit down AGAIN. Hell, I'd better order a stand-up coffin now and avoid the rush.

Oh noes! All of the future Space Pirates are now in serious trouble!

Captain: Arrr, ye matys! Let's board that tiny hauler thair before they knows what hit them. Ther'll be treasure enough for us all!
Crewmember 1: Arrr, ey, capt'in!
(Captain runs to the gangway in order to board the other ship.) "Open port -- board and attaaaack!"
Crewmember 2: Ey ey, capt'in!
Crewmember 1: But Capt'in! Ey -- my ey! I can't see the controls to dock us! (Door slides open. Entire problem shortly solved.)

Thus, Global Warming continues unabated. The world is doomed. News at 11.
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OK, so seriously: since you ordered it from Amazon (but it wasn't in your physical possession yet), why not download it and watch from TPB in the meantime?

Or if that offends your sensibilities (since you didn't actually have the physical media and thus you haven't yet legally executed any shrink-wrap agreements), then put that copy up on the shelf and let someone else rip and encode it for you. THEY might not have a license to use or distribute, but YOU have a license to watch -- literally. Your wife wants convenience? That pirate copy will play on your Roku, Plex, HDMI, VGA, or even CGA. (You reallly want to look at that last link, it's funny.)

Going out on a limb here, you do need to purchase the show before watching it (which you've done.) But the actual device you watch the show on is immaterial, rather it be a 3" smart watch, a 11" tablet, or your brand new 19,720" TV

And if you feel you must watch your exact particular copy of bits, then visit: SlySoft which can generate a file that will (once again) play thru anything you have. Burning a new unprotected physical DVD and leaving the original untouched is what it's designed for, but I think more people (I know that *I* do) rip their copies and use the computer as a giant movie jukebox instead. The original DVDs stay in a box in the basement while the bits I actually use are getting dizzy spinning around on disks.

(And we won't even mention the evilness of this. It's a free NetFlix-like "publicly provided" movie source where the only thing missing (I think) is the legal license to distribute the source material to start with.)