Re: Answer: I'm working from home.
"Working from home"
Mitchell and Webb... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co_DNpTMKXk
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"Working from home"
Mitchell and Webb... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co_DNpTMKXk
I remember one of the early cam sites, back in the early 2000s had a supposedly big non-smutty section where you could chat to people about hobbies, cooking, astrology, etc.
I doubt the family-friendly section ever made much money, and was retired, I think, by the mid 00's.
I used to have an offline Windows 7 box - after a few months of not talking to Microsoft it would declare the legitimate version of Windows to be a counterfeit copy and replace the wallpaper with a counterfeit label until it connected to Microsoft to realise it was a real version.
I take some of that back - in the 'Best Sci-Fi films never made' article in 2011 by the much missed Lester Haines, no less than 6 Niven or Niven/Pournelle books are listed.
Someone must have got the hint as some of Lester's list have since been filmed.
Apparently more options are now available for reaching the top shelf...
http://www.selfridges.com/GB/en/cat/gravity-industries-jet-suit-series-3_5161-10212-GRAVITYJETSUIT/
kids are perfectly aware that porn films are about as true-to-life as any Hollywood action flick, designed to entertain, not emulate.
I wouldn't be so sure about that - certainly not the Hollywood action flicks anyway.
'Netflix warns viewers against Bird Box challenge meme: 'Do not end up in hospital'
The streaming giant has cautioned those mimicking Sandra Bullock’s character by walking around blindfolded to try not to injure themselves'
The only reasonable route is to have mandatory content filters set to on by default, and then you ring up your Internet provider to set them to off.
I thought that was how things were supposed to have been for the past 4 or 5 years - I remember when that came in having to update my accounts to unlock content on Virgin and EE.
One of my school friends had a cunning plan to get around the local newsagent's age verification system.
He would come to school with a large brown envelope and type on the school computer (which in those days consisted of a PDP8-e and a couple of teletypes):
"Dear newsagent, unfortunately I cannot get to your shop today so I have sent my son instead with the money. Please could I purchase the latest copy of Penthouse. So that my son does not see the pictures, please could you seal the magazine in the brown envelope before handing it over."
Of course, a lurking rootkit installer could sit in the background and watch for a valid attempt to update flash memory, and then add its payload before you've had time to switch off writes again.
As you said 'undefined value of safe' - 'safer' as it could protect against hit-and-run attacks but there could still be ways around it.
Although that wouldn't solve the problem of a sleeper rootkit that might get backed up without you realising it was there.
It would however make sense if PCs were supplied with a fall-back BIOS in non-rewritable ROM that could be copied back, if possible without CPU intervention, if the flash version is found to be compromised.
It sounds not so much like a conventional word processor as some governmental document processor where you feed in documents at one end, it analyses them for anything in the least bit sensitive and produces a version with vast swathes of it blacked out at the other.
Typical usage: "Fire up the Redactron, Hammond, we can't let the public see these budget cuts."
The thing about a capsule based coffee maker is that I can choose which coffee I want and have it ready within a minute.
Naturally, after writing this, the next coffee capsule I used split and I had to spend the next five minutes mopping up hot water and coffee sludge from the machine and kitchen worktop.
More of a mess than this ---------------------->
The thing about a capsule based coffee maker is that I can choose which coffee I want and have it ready within a minute.
I'm not sure that having a capsule based beer maker, where you have to choose which preset beer you want to drink in two weeks is such a great idea - I'd rather pop out to the 24-hour Tesco* round the corner and see what's in their beer section. If it gave you more choice to select and mix your ingredients, as breadmakers do, drinking your own creation would have more appeal.
*better beer shops are available, but they're more than 3 minutes from my house.