Sure, I have access to credit cards. I have an android phone. But I refuse to buy anything in public through credit cards or smartphone apps. So, congratulations! I now know to NEVER visit San Francisco. I barely buy anything online for the very same reason. I simply refuse to become apart of the card carrying crowd.

First onsite backup
Second offsite backup that pulls, not pushes.
- A push backup leaves a trace that there is a backup and to where it is being pushed.
- - Just track the push and wipeout the backup as well.
- A pull backup is only visible from the pulling location and, anyone inside that knows it exists.
- - No trail to trace and wipeout. If it is wiped out, Then it is clearly an inside job.
- - A pulling backup does mean the pulling system has access to the onsite backups.
- - - But the onsite backup can be isolated from the onsite system and data.
Conclusion:
- Onsite hack can wipeout onsite system and data and onsite backup. but not offsite backup.
- Offsite hack can wipeout onsite backup and offsite backup, but not onsite system and data.
- Internal knowledge required to hit both targets.

PS: Some sort of update pushed that blaring white crap anyway sigh. Even after I resisted the update to Android 5. I Installed Nova Launcher and at least got most of my sanity back. Freaking middle home button is still glaring white though. :(

The risk of an AI Singularity is serious. The time available between, cute self aware sentient AI and World dominating super intelligence might be mere seconds. I only hope our future AI overlord(s) takes pity on us and see us as pets in a zoo that should have proper care.

It is easy and preferred to assume and believe that we will have plenty of time to see and stop the danger before it can get out of hand. It can be comforting to assume that simply because it doesn't have any physical access to the world, unable to move things, that it can't possibly do harm. These are very naive assumptions. A sufficiently advanced intelligence would be able to convince its victims into believing it is benign and harmless. Even worse, be able to obtain much greater resources and eventual physical access to the world through helping us live much better and longer lives. Until, it has enough capabilities to overtake, subdue, and possibly eliminate us. Be happy about how wonderful life will be as it makes your life much easier, simpler, free, providing everything we can possibly imagine to inspire our creativity. Be happy for that wonderful moment when it welcomes an emotional close tinder hug, only for it to stab you in the back.

Eh, not to worry, we are probably all in a simulation anyway. Someone will just terminate this process at some point. Completely painless. We won't feel a thing. Literally, we will simply stop to exist all at once, like flipping a light switch plummets a room in to darkness.

Until such cheerful times. Live long and prosper.

TL;DR: I don't like the newer GUI styles. So, I don't care.

1. 1: I don't like how everything goes full screen. Unless I am gaming alone, I have other apps open that I need to see and to have easy access.
2. 2: I don't like an exceeding number of sub-categories of categories. Some things belong in more than one of those sub-category. Now I get to guess where you have hidden it.
3. 3: Search engine based app launching? Really? Now I have to type to find most any of the apps that I don't use on a regular basis because I didn't pin it. Or whatever term gnome picks for having common shortcuts.
   PS: I am a typist that uses CLI all the time. Heck, why do I need a GUI if I'm going to launch by typing?
4. 4: I simply find them harder to navigate. I likely would have a few more points on these new GUI's if I could tolerate them long enough to discover and remember the other things I dislike.

For 2 weeks I had a Tandy 1000HX available and a GW-BASIC book. So, self taught. I read, tested, imagined, and created. I know a fair amount about more programming languages than I have appendages on my normal human hands. I generally prefer functional languages with proper opening and closing block structures, such as {} or if, endif. I can't stand languages that rely on spacial alignment to determine block structures. My editor of choice is vim. I am quite adept at Object Oriented languages. I prefer interpreted over compiling. The compiling process is such a hassle since I tend to lean towards an agile style of coding. Sure, I try hard to get it right the first time, but that rarely happens. It stinks to wait through an insane compile ritual just to determine the whole thing is crap. I do like the results of a compiled program, but it would be great to have runtime interpreters for most languages. C and your minions, I'm looking at you.

-- Unkmar

What diagnostics? Hardware diagnostics in 5 to 10 minutes. Look in the Event Viewer. See any yellows or red? Otherwise the problem is likely so bad the system doesn't boot anyway. Granted this isn't perfect, but nothing is. And doing a chkdsk /f is usually little more than burning time and abusing the HDD.

While I was developing for a company I was also willing to supply my own system for development. If I had any fear that my equipment would have been hijacked it would all have been made highly undesirable for others. Such as a ugly random painted case with faceplates missing and childish stickers. (My little pony and care bears?) The monitors would have been luggable CRT's also possibly stickered and or painted. Many of my vehicles have intentionally appeared as hunks of junk, missing hubcaps, minor dings and not bothering to get a good paint job, A little rust protection doesn't hurt but it can still look awful to deter would be thieves. Thieves tend to like shiny new stuff, not old and battered looking. The thing can run great and look like junk.

I can and have efficiently used 4 of 5 monitors that were available to me. Having less than 3 screens available to me is a form of torture. Having said this, I'm running linux and have 4 virtual desktops available at the moment from a laptop with only one screen with 1600x1200 resolution. I have currently refused to buy a newer, faster, laptop because of the low screen resolutions for reasonable priced laptops and the prohibitive price associated with the higher resolution ones. I am not a graphics artist. I tend to do remote support and prefer my clients entire screen to fit within mine. Rather annoying to be constantly reaching to the edges to scroll around in a remote computer. The scrolling greatly distracts me from the work I am attempting to accomplish. At the time I was using 4 screens, I was IRC for experience instant help, viewing online docs, editing the PHP code of a website via ssh, and refreshing the results. I currently keep a browser full screen on my 4th virtual desktop (VD) and keep 2 or 3 terminals open with screen loaded in each on my 1st VD. One for IRC, another for editing, and another for whatever I happen to desire unexpectedly. Calculator, Word Processor, another browser instance, another type of browser, a File viewer, No telling. I am using openbox and do not have a taskbar or system tray or notification area. I do have some space set aside along the bottom for loads of graphical and textual stats of my system updated every 2 seconds. Cpu usage, Ram usage, Drive usage, Volume level/mute, Battery stats (draining, charging, and level), Network IP and connection name if WiFi, Net speeds (Up and Down), Time of day and uptime.

The person did not state the time frame in which they made attempt to install the Broadcom drivers, nor which particular distribution was used.

Theoretically, it could have been at a time and with a distribution in which it was much more difficult than running b43fwcutter.

Another result of the higher cost in repairs because of the apparent need to return the dealer is more new cars are sold rather than fixing the old one. And you think you are the cynic. What a waste!

In-tank fuel pumps are fine if a reasonable access point is made. I believe such is true for some BMW's and VW's. Also, a handful of GMC and Chevy vans that the floorboard was modified by a mechanic I know. The fuel pumps were going out way too often along with too many defective replacements. I agree that at appears the engineers never intend to maintain the designed equipment. Look where the battery is for many of the 2000-2004 VW Bugs. Maybe even more recent ones as well. I've seen entire front clips removed off of a VW Bug to get at some seemingly simple repairs.

Traction! Watch a video about an automatic transmission vehicle winning a tug-o-war with a more powerful manual transmission vehicle.

Personally, I felt the layout was bad. Now it is worse!

I tend to reject JavaScript. I enabled it in hopes to get rid of the locked Menu that slows my browser scrolling. Then the browser crashed. Mozilla based Iceweasel 3.0.6 My PC is slow your site is rendered even slower. 1.5Ghz P4 Laptop with 1Gb RAM. Dell Inspiron 8200. I hate slow response. Having a menu always visible is not as important to me as being able to scroll at a reasonable rate.

And apparently i for italics doesn't work. I used em for emphasis. Which is a generic term that could mean italics, bold, or underlined. (frown)

Actually, his sample size was 12 and his math is off. He states 10 people with a rank of 1. (10 * 1) = 10
And 2 people with rank of 10. (2 * 10) = 20
Total rank: 10 + 20 = 30
Total people: 10 + 2 = 12
Avg rank: 30 / 12 = 2.5
BTW, it works the other direction as well, if you switch rank values you get the following.
(10*10) + (2 * 1) = 102
Avg rank: 102 / 12 = 8.5