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Comment Re:All your tweets (Score 1) 92

I am the master of the twit.

Remember this fucking face. Whenever you see twit, you'll see this fucking face. I make that shit work.

It does whatever the fuck I tell it to. No one rules the twit like me. Not this little fuck.

None of you little fucks out there. I AM THE twit COMMANDER! Remember that, commander of all twits! When it comes down to business, this is what I do

Comment Re:How come... (Score 3, Insightful) 680

You know, I've always heard that, but it took some perspective as an adult to realize what unrealistic crap that is.

Unless you happen to live in an area with an excellent public transportation system, and also happen to work somewhere with one, it seems like driving is positively necessary to, you know, pay the bills and all.

You might argue that one could walk or ride a bicycle or something, but that simply does not reflect the way that the vast majority of people get around. The average commute in the US is 16 miles. That is a distance that is not casually covered in anything but a motor vehicle.

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Submission + - The Economics of Targeted Attacks (threatpost.com)

Trailrunner7 writes: Researchers and security vendors have been telling us for years now that attackers have developed sophisticated, targeted attacks designed to separate victims from their money as quickly and cleanly as possible. If that's so, why aren't all of us being compromised on a regular basis? A researcher from Microsoft Research posited at the WEIS 2010 workshop Tuesday that the answer is simple economics.

The amount of time and money it takes to send out 10 million phishing emails versus five million emails is negligible once the attacker has his infrastructure in place. As a result, these attacks are still quite prevalent, despite their diminishing economic return. But even with relatively low returns per attack, these kinds of scalable attacks yield a high profit for professionals, said Cormac Herley of Microsoft Research."Non-scalable attacks have to be selective attacks. Every attack costs you something," Herley said. "If the non-scalable attacks can't match the return of the scalable attacks, she should change tactics. At equal costs, she needs a way better yield. But competing on yield makes no sense because when she extracts the same value per victim, there's too much effort."

Comment Re:How come... (Score 3, Insightful) 680

That reason being what?

I'm not trying to troll here, it just seems to me that there are many reasons a jurisdiction might set a speed limit to a specific number.

I don't imagine that it is outside the realm of possibility that a jurisdiction might set an artificially low speed limit to:

1. Generate ticket income.

2. Increase gas mileage.

3. Reduce CO2 emissions.

4. Encourage use of public transportation.

Comment Re:No Verizon but.... T-Mobile? (Score 1) 1184

T-Mobile has one thing that none of the other carriers seem to, which is UMA support.

While I agree that they seem to have the smallest network footprint among the three or four "Major Carriers" in the US, the fact that I can use WiFi instead of the cellular network overcomes pretty much all of those concerns for me.

For example, when I'm home (in a rural part of Chester County, PA), my cell signal from T-Mobile is only around 1 bar (of 5), but as I have a WiFi network at home, it doesn't matter at all. Also, I travel overseas quite a bit, and the fact that a call from, say, France, is treated as a local call (so long as I'm connected via UMA) overcomes just about any reticence I'd have over using T-Mobile.

The real shame is that none of the other carriers seem to offer this option, and the majority of the T-Mobile phones no longer offer it either. I've stuck with my Blackberry mainly because of its UMA compatibility. If any of the Android phones (notably the Nexus One) or the iPhone offered this, I'd take it in a heartbeat.

Comment Noticed something (Score 1) 332

I don't know how (or IF) this would skew the numbers involved, but if you just navigate to the page and start it up, then switch tabs or whatever, PacMan moves one dot to the left and gets stuck on a wall.

I've had it running with this in the same position for several hours now, and the ghosts circle but NEVER kill it.

Comment Re:A point to note (Score 1) 565

Yes, but that misses the point.

The four people you listed didn't do the things they did BECAUSE they were Atheists or to advance an Atheistic viewpoint, they did it to advance their own cause, which usually equals "Staying alive and in total control".

OTOH, the far-right "Batshit Crazy" evangelicals (Be they Muslims, Christians or Jews) seem to take the positions that they do precisely BECAUSE, in their view, their religion requires them to take the action(s) that they do. If they weren't "Batshit Crazy", they wouldn't do the things that they do or advocate the things that they advocate.

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