I went to VirusPalooza!!! The headliners were ShellSHOCK and Heartbleed. They were great. Also saw a bunch of others: Viruses from yesteryear like Wabbit and Creeper System, awesome viruses from the '80s CyberAIDS, Festering Hate Apple ProDOS, and Ghostball, modern stars like Stuxnet and CryptoLocker, and who could forget Y2K?!?
However, the engineer in me can't help but think of how far they can take the cyborg theme.
Are you kidding me? Imagine having one that you could just strap on for an hour, get on a treadmill, and then read a book or surf the net while your legs did their thing. I'd exercise everyday.
Sign me up!
I thought the Chinese loved duck.
They also love Go. The name should have been foolproof.
People such as moon landing hoaxers, 9/11 truthers etc. are so far gone that you could methodically tear down each and every one of their assertions, employing evidence, science, logic to beat it to a pulp and they'd still start right up with the first one again.
Sounds like a substitute for religion.
Fissle material, explosives, lubes, seals, etc all need to be refreshed from time to time
Funny. That's the same thing your mom said to me.
Is figure out why so many who are on SSRI's or had recently stopped taking them, become suicidal or go on shooting rampages, or both.
Seriously, what the fuck? What an idiotic, close minded, asshole of a comment...
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Let's not go on a rampage here.
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Sorry, I had to. For the record I agree with you.
I sure wouldn't be wanting to hang onto Amazon or Ebay stock right now (assuming either have stock, sorry I don't keep track of things like that).
If I were you, I wouldn't even take my own advice on stocks.
Fuck Off, AdMob.
All of which they are tracking you with (probably more). But I'm sure it's harmless
The whole thing seems like a clever scheme by Chinese companies and Goldman Sachs to sucker money out of U.S. investors.
It is. What do you really own with Alibaba? The websites? No.
What's really for sale: When investors buy Alibaba, they are actually purchasing shares in a Cayman Islands entity called Alibaba Group Holding Limited.
But that company -- surprise! -- doesn't actually own Alibaba. Instead, Ma and another co-founder, Simon Xie, own most of Alibaba's biggest businesses according to Chinese law. Ma and Xie are then under contract to turn profits over to the Cayman entity.
The arrangement is called a variable interest entity (VIE), and is necessary to get around China's strict foreign investment rules. But investors should be aware of the structure -- especially since Chinese courts have not clarified the legality of the arrangement.
Voting rights and control in the company? No.
So what the fuck do you actually own? Hope and promises. My ex-wife gave me those.
P.S. Even the Hong Kong stock exchange spurned Alibaba.
I've argued this in the past on Slashdot here, but I honestly don't see the appeal of physical screens.
Just like I don't 'see' the appeal of a non-physical screen. Get it?
,,, I'll just show myself out.
... ebola could mutate into some superhero bug that gives people big erections.
Just like your mom.
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
