Nah it'll be a string bass getting progressively faster and louder. With ticking it could go off at any time.

In your analogy your car would not be stolen. It would be copied and you would only know because you saw the guy driving it around.

Also your car would be parked in a gated parking garage and the parking attendant was the guy who copied it and made his copy available in the public parking lot.

Of course if you left your car unlocked and it got stolen I would most likely blame you for being so irresponsible but the attendant had elevated privileges to your car and should be held to a higher standard since he had been entrusted with your property.

I didn't realize badanalogyguy had another account.

In your scenario bithammer would be you taking out a hammer and hitting the guy with the bucket until he stopped taking food most likely due to the fact he is now dead.

I read the summary and imagined Soulskill hunched over his/her keyboard rubbing his hands together as he let out an evil giggle just before he hit return to publish michaelcole's submission. Knowing what hell was about to be unleashed on this poor soul.

They use all the CPU overhead in your PC to run UPlay to make sure the crappy experience is consistent across platforms.

For many other Mint users such as myself it's the inclusion of the non-free stuff that Ubuntu avoids due to licensing issues. I use my laptop to listen to music and watch videos. I can install everything I need on Ubuntu but it's a hassle and takes considerably more time than just installing Mint and running updates. I was installing Slackware and RH in 1994. Hell I've even built several Gentoo boxes over the years. As others have eluded I have grown weary of starting from scratch. Call me the anti-neckbeard if you will.

I'm just here for the entertainment. Now where are those villagers with pitchforks?

IIRC it was Cisco.

Forget the teens...I see soccer moms and jerks every day all day with their heads in their laps cluelessly driving down the freeway. The look of indignation when I honk and "wave" are priceless. It's that "I'm a responsible driver. I know how to text and drive safely. How dare you!" look. This should be a night in jail mandatory sentence for depraved indifference IMO. A couple of those and it might start to change. But with cops being just as big offenders that's not likely to happen.

You never questioned the multiple $300+ calls to Ecuador, El Salvador, or Mexico at 3 A.M.?

There is a standard in place (HIPAA EDI). That they aren't using it seems to be on EPIC.

This sounds a lot like building apps with LabView using flowcharts. Or perhaps building apps in Visual Basic using widgets. Was there something revolutionary about SWIFT in this regard?

The news of Delphi's death has been greatly exaggerated.

Please don't put IE in a post recommending a security replacement for the web. It scares me.

Sorry, but simply by adding "By entering this vehicle you are agreeing to be monitored" is all that is needed.