I bought drugs. It was super sketchy. It was very stupid but I was young. We were in a taxi driving who the fuck knows where. It wasn't even a road. We ended up in an alley in a ghetto where we bought the driest, shittiest Mexican dirt weed I've ever seen. We went to a strip club after that. The other person with me drank a little too much and got scammed by some girl. The night ended with the bouncers taking us to an ATM where he had to empty his account. In a separate incident, we were held up at gunpoint by some paramilitary guys in camo. I ended up getting really sick on that trip too. I went to a doctor who gave me a shot in the ass of something. It hurt like hell and didn't make me feel better. I had to come home early and get antibiotics. I would rate it a 0/10. In retrospect, I'm lucky I didn't end up kidnapped for ransom or dead. Not one of my finer moments.
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I think I will put in a support ticket about it just for the hell of it. They have time for petty shit like this but still haven't fixed the automatic wipers that have been broken since August. Automatic wipers are actually a necessity in this car because the only way to operate them manually is with a few clicks on the touchscreen. It's dangerous. They kept closing my support requests for it until I gave them the number for the NHTSA complaint I filed. I'm so sick of this turd and his shitty companies.
Maybe play something else. The combat is satisfying, but it’s the whole of the combat, progression, world, story and characters that make it a good game. I grew to really like some of the characters and I became invested in the story even though I typically don’t care for story games.
You have to do missions to level up and get new abilities. Most of them are “go to a place and kill bad guys”, fetch quests, and running around to talk to people. You will have bursts of action and then running or driving from place to place in between. If you are skipping out on the story, the characters, and the world then I think the remaining gameplay loop is kind of boring.
Ha! I remember that. I watched it once or twice for the novelty of it. I seem to recall that it was very bland except for the naked women. According to Wikipedia, they are still around and I think that may be more shocking than this AI news.
This is wild. I almost wonder if it’s actually a real thing or an elaborate hoax. It’s impressive in either case.
As far as the concept of AI news, there are obvious drawbacks but also some advantages. In particular, the anchors are less animated and emotional, which eliminates quite a bit of bias. Cable news anchors with their incredulity, snide remarks, and expressions have done a lot to help ruin the news. That alone can easily undermine a story or a guest in a way that causes the audience to pick a side.
The idea of using AI to scour public records and create stories is another really cool idea. There’s so much out there and not enough reporters with the time or inclination to investigate everything.
I’m not too keen on the AI generated imagery, although traditional news outlets essentially do the same thing. It’s a dangerous thing to be presented with artificial pictures and videos in a news format. Before long, you can’t distinguish between reality and artificial, which is more or less the same problem a significant portion of the country has had since the 2016 election. In that case, they were mostly fed stupid memes and fabricated stories on social media. This is a completely different level. In the wrong hands, this is a weapon of mass destruction.
This whole thing stinks. It’s the kind of lawsuit where you wish both parties could lose. The whole walled garden concept sucks, but this doesn’t exactly benefit consumers. Nobody wants a dozen different app stores where we need to set up accounts and payment info - not consumers and not small to medium size developers.
If Epic gets what they’re asking for it sure as hell won’t be what they want. Google still controls the OS so they can just make some shitty third party app store API with requirements just as onerous as IAP that puts everyone else at a disadvantage. If I’m Google, my new motto is “Android’s not done until Fortnite won’t run”.
Ok, maybe not that one.
I’m not a fan of either team, although I would have preferred the Chiefs in this game. This is blatantly offsides. How could they not call it? I get that Mahomes was fired up during the game and may not have had the benefit of replay, but he needs to go watch the film and then chill. It didn’t impact the play, but unless the ref is blind, this is getting called every time. This is basic stuff.
Sam Rockwell is cast perfectly in just about everything. Phenomenal actor. Kinda surprised we don’t see him more.
They have put out good laser printers within the past several years. They probably still do. Those things are like tanks. You will replace every other piece of equipment - probably twice - before you have to do any real maintenance with one of those old laser printers. The one I have takes cheap third party toner cartridges. It’s got over 30k prints and I haven’t done anything but replace toner a couple times.
Their inkjet printers are horrible. Those things suck up so much ink that you spend more on that than you do the printer. You end up at the store looking at a $50 cartridge and a new printer right next to it for $60. Then you walk out with a new printer, in the hopes it might be better, before realizing you got fooled again about a 80 pages later.
Streets of Rage looks awesome. I’m also excited about Golden Axe. I spent so many hours playing that on Sega Genesis. I hope the remake turns out good.
In all fairness, 13 days is a fairly quick turnaround for patching in the enterprise. The breach was only 6 days after disclosure. They were almost certainly in the planning stages already when this happened.
I used to be the head of IT in a large organization that worked with clients in highly regulated sectors. They all performed regular audits of our security posture. Across the board, they expected a 30 day patch policy. For high profile vulnerabilities like this one, they would often send an alert and expected imminent action within a commercially reasonable time frame. We would get it done anywhere from 24 hours to days later depending on the situation and whether there were complications. It was usually easy for us because we were patching every device and application on the network every couple weeks anyway. A hotfix is much easier to deploy when everything is up to date already and there are no prerequisite service packs. We knew we were much faster than most and it took a lot of work to get there. Thirteen days is a little slow for a 0-day by our standards but nowhere near unreasonable.
The reality is many enterprises don't patch at all or don't do it completely. They may patch servers but not workstations. They may patch the OS but not the applications. It's common to find EOL software in critical areas. A friend of mine did some work for a railroad company that had XP machines controlling the track switches. There are typically glaring holes throughout the company when it comes to security. Most breaches go unreported.
Look, I hate Comcast as much as anyone. They suck. But taking 13 days to patch isn't unreasonable. Instead, people should be asking why there weren't other security layers in place to mitigate the vulnerability.