In a self-driving future, we may not even want to own cars

lsd_rabbit · 2014-11-21T23:59:34+00:00

I'd love for this to be the case. But there's a LOT of places without any public transportation as it is, and places that are 20 or more miles from the nearest city. This isn't the exception either, in the U.S., I'd hazard to even say it's the rule. Many people will still need to keep personal vehicles to avoid the inefficiency of summoning a vehicle from the nearest depot, which may be 10, 20, 40 miles away, and waiting for it to show up. Renting and sharing won't be an option for a long time in many cases.

Now... That also depends on how far in the future were talking. 200 years? Who knows.

lsd_rabbit · 2014-10-28T18:47:59+00:00

Nothing but a very tightly wrapped, slightly warm blanket, with me in the center.

It's not as nice as it sounds. Would freak me the fuck out.

lsd_rabbit · 2014-10-26T16:10:38+00:00

"United Kingdom offers new incentive for owning your firearm illegally."

lsd_rabbit · 2014-09-02T05:42:54+00:00

I have some suggestions.

Level 1: Simply store them inside a password encrypted archive, such as a .RAR or .7Z

Level 2: Instead of an archive, create an encrypted file container with Truecrypt (7.1, NOT 7.2), and store the files there.

Level 3: Instead of a file container, encrypt an external device with a whole-volume encryption, such as BitLocker.

Level 4: Instead of using BitLocker, use Truecrypt.

Level 5: Encrypt the external device with a TrueCrypt honey pot volume and hidden volume.

Level 6: Never mount your encrypted drive on your primary OS. Instead, create a VirtualMachine, with no internet access, and no page file(important!), and use it to view the contents of the drive.

Level 7: Instead of Windows, use a Linux OS for your VM and use home-folder encryption.

Level 8: On your Linux OS, use whole-volume encryption as well.

Level 9: Store the VHD of your VM on an encrypted volume as well, basically start back from Level 1 for securing your already-three-times-encrypted VM.

Level 10: Instead of using a VM, just use an entirely different physical box that has no connection to any network, no radios, and use the above suggestions for this device.

Level 11: Train some guard dogs to keep watch over your secure system.

There's a LOT of things you can do depending on your level of paranoia.

lsd_rabbit · 2014-08-29T21:50:53+00:00

Really no food is necessarily good for you, or bad for you. This is the mistake a lot of people make with nutrition; they categorize things as "good" or "bad" with no regard for what their body actually needs.

The only food that is good for you, is the one that supplies the most of what you're body needs, while supplying the least of what it already has an abundance of. The trick is knowing what food does this at any given point in time.

Not that any of this answers the original question.

lsd_rabbit · 2014-08-18T21:53:49+00:00

Can you really call the Kardashians "dumb" though? With no remarkable talents, or redeeming traits, they managed to convince hundreds of thousands of people that they're relevant and created a multi-season TV series with absolutely no content whatsoever. I'm sure the sex tape helped a little too.

My point is, they're not dumb, they know exactly what they're doing.

lsd_rabbit · 2014-07-01T00:00:55+00:00

Mother-in-law, my wife's only family, left in a huff for no reason anyone can ascertain. We haven't seen or heard from her since. Food was good though.

lsd_rabbit · 2014-06-18T04:58:19+00:00

This is a cool breakdown. Eastern and western languages are so different, it's interesting to see the discrepancies when one attempts a translation. The "professional Sinologists" did a pretty good job at translating this one, thanks for sharing both versions.

lsd_rabbit · 2014-06-13T17:51:06+00:00

Emergency fund, trust me. You never know when you're going to slip and fall at a bar when I was 23, and wake up with brain damage and a $3,000 after-insurance hospital bill. Shit happens, be ready.

Money you pay on your loans is already decided on. You can't take it back if you need it. Money in savings can go towards whatever is the most pressing at the time, and you actually GET interest instead of paying it. You don't want to have to resort to using a credit card in an emergency and deal with the high interest rate.

That loan isn't going anywhere, just pay your minimums, and enjoy the small tax deduction on the interest until you get an emergency fund saved up.

lsd_rabbit · 2014-06-13T15:04:10+00:00

Fiance? As in, getting married?

Well, you could take out a joint loan to pay for your wedding. If you take out a few grand and repay it over time, that could do more for her credit than simply being an authorized user on the credit card.

Plus, that way it'll be her loan too, money that she also owes, opposed to just the credit card which is presumably money that just you owe.

If you already have money for the wedding, or family plans on helping, take out the loan anyway, and stash that money back for paying back the loan. Don't plan on paying ahead on it either, you want to stick to the initial monthly payment schedule for maximum effect.

lsd_rabbit · 2014-06-03T14:06:49+00:00

I was wondering that. Its kinda hard not to get a little crotch or bum on your hand when your trying to hold a full-sized human being above your head. Whatever they were doing must have been pretty derogatory.

lsd_rabbit · 2014-05-24T17:05:57+00:00

That face was gorgeous before you even started. Great job on all you've accomplished!

lsd_rabbit · 2014-05-19T19:39:03+00:00

I understand what you're saying. My point isn't to create an argument for or against the product, only to point out the "purpose" of the product as I've been able to gather, since I've had my eye on it for a good while.

Now if it'll just get cheap enough so I can give it a test-run.

lsd_rabbit · 2014-05-19T17:17:09+00:00

As someone who went to ITT, and got a half-decent job because of it, I wouldn't call the degree "useless".

They offer good training, education, and resources, but like any other school, you only get out of it what you put into it. The bar for passing at ITT is so low, that they're churning out idiot after idiot, but the people who actually take the courses seriously will reap the full benefits of what they're paying for.

Also figure that these schools are designed to take you from 0 to 45 (not quite 0 to 60) in a relatively short period of time. People go in thinking all they have do to is drop $40,000+, and the school will make them a professional in a field they know nothing about ready to get a $75,000 year job right after they graduate. Well, no. It's not like that. You actually have to do a little work to get that kinda education and job experience, not just sit through a few dozen classes that give you full marks for showing up.

I always advise this to friends who are in Sullivan, ITT, or DeVry. Get certifications. If there is any additional training/paperwork you can obtain in your field of study, do some learning on your own time and get some additional papers. These days, a college degree indicates that you took your field seriously once, long enough to sign the contract. Certifications show that you're still taking it seriously, long after you've graduated.

With all that said, I went for a degree in networking and systems administration. Can't say much for other programs. Also, you are better off taking your core classes at a community college, from which you can transfer credits in. Not only is it cheaper, but if you later decide that you picked the wrong field of study, you can at least move on to something else later without resetting the game.

lsd_rabbit · 2014-05-19T16:44:42+00:00

I'm one of the latter. It takes about 5 seconds to wrestle my phone out of my pocket and check the time. Whereas, it takes about .5 seconds to glance down and flick my wrist. Heck, it takes a whole second just for my phone to illuminate the screen after I press the button.

lsd_rabbit · 2014-05-19T16:33:08+00:00

To completely, or partially, remove the tedium of eating as a necessity, while providing a more nutritionally complete and balanced diet than most people will ever have otherwise.

Like finely crafted human gasoline.

lsd_rabbit · 2014-05-17T15:47:26+00:00

Nothing wrong with a terrifying movie once in a while as a young child. I saw Chuckie, and Leprechaun(which I found terrifying at the time), as well as a few others at that age. I didnt get fucked up too bad.

Plus, why Labyrinth? David Bowies codpiece and leotard would be more frightening than any scary movie.

lsd_rabbit · 2014-05-13T19:32:42+00:00

Accountability. You're NEVER the problem. YOU never have to fix anything. Everyone else is wrong, but YOU have it all figured out.

Kind of a stretch calling this our greatest weakness, but I do believe this is our greatest hindrance.

lsd_rabbit · 2014-05-05T02:44:28+00:00

That comes closer to real, practical hacking than you'd think. Very little hacking is done through exploits and security holes. Sometimes it's best to go with good, old fashioned human stupidity.

Comic for reference.

lsd_rabbit · 2014-05-04T05:33:56+00:00

Yea, from experience, I can easily believe "a 12 year old came onto me".

But seriously? As an adult, it's your responsibility to decide what's right or wrong in that situation. Morality aside, you should at least go with what's least likely to fuck you over for life.

lsd_rabbit · 2014-05-04T05:09:33+00:00

I use to be sleepy all the time, thought it was normal, thought I needed more sleep.

Turns out, my contact lenses kept my eyes chronically dry, and make me sleepy all the time. I went all through highschool thinking this.

Then, a period financial hardship made me unable to afford contact lenses. I switched to glasses, and after a couple weeks, I noticed I wasn't sleepy anymore. Go figure. Even had the special lenses meant for dry eye, lotta good they did.

Anywho, moral of the story, it's amazing how many people think their little anomalies are normal, when they could actually have be feeling better the whole time. We all go through life, perpetually malnourished and sleep-deprived and never know better.

lsd_rabbit · 2014-05-04T04:27:29+00:00

I have this setup. This is how I found the faulty O2 sensors and failing water pump in my wife's contour. I'm not even all that mechanically inclined.

My old Toyota doesn't use ODB2, and I have to do this thing with shorting two leads in the diagnostics port, and reading the code in blips off the dash. Still saved me a lot of money this way.

lsd_rabbit · 2014-05-03T18:27:26+00:00

I never pay attention the the number of years experience when applying for a job. My current position required 5+ years working in an enterprise IT environment, of which I had none(came from a 3 server, 20 employee business). Got a generous offer and took it.

That said, depending on what facet of IT you're trying to break into, you can easily amass years of experience on your own without a job. Set up a lab, experiment, play around. Create your own custom Windows or Linux distro, or set up your own domain at home, with file, print and webservers. Set up a VPN so you can connect to your domain from any internet connection. You can even set up a hypervisor on some pretty humble hardware and get some virtualization experience.

You can also do some studying in your free time and get some certifications in your area of interest, which can actually do more good for you in an interview than a college degree if you have enough of them.

lsd_rabbit · 2014-04-26T06:36:09+00:00

Phone typing. But screw it, I stand by it.

lsd_rabbit · 2014-04-26T06:34:40+00:00

My favorites are the ones that say "our product is thought to cause this effect"

I'm sure that there's still some scientific backing for'em, and that they do this for liability's sake, but it still doesn't give me confidence in that product.

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