Progenitor of the Weird Knife Wednesday feature column. Is “column” the right word?
I make knives now, too. Why not buy one at flightlessforge.com?
Apparently mine are boring. I don’t buy a whole heck of a lot on Amazon because of the usual litany of reasons. My department profiles basically boil down to “buys knives” (you don’t fuckin’ say) and “buys 3D printer filament.”
There is also such super secret data as “likely lives in [town I live in].” Yes, that’s where my shipping address is. How much electricity did you burn connecting those two dots with your stupid AI?
If you put your blinders on and only look at that one line on the spreadsheet, it was probably “successful” in that regard. They pay fewer employees, full stop.
But that doesn’t take into account the fact that the machines themselves are extremely expensive up front, have a nontrival setup cost, require ongoing maintenance, assuredly these days come with some manner of mandatory service contract attached, and the monetary losses from theft on the machines are huge. So whether or not any large businesses actually came out ahead on the proposition as a whole is questionable, and I don’t have the data to support a conclusion there either way.
You can extract the chip’s serial number in software trivially. In Windows, from a commandline:
wmic cpu get pricessorid
I’m positive you can do the same with some Linux command, and failing that certainly with basically every vaguely modern benchmarking tool. Same deal with hard drives and probably also video cards. My BIOS/UEFI even enumerates all my connected hard drive serial numbers on screen if I interrupt its graphical boot screen.
Given that the anti-cheat schemes these competitive games are literal rootkits, I don’t think gathering the user’s hardware serial numbers in order to attempt identify them is much of a stretch.
IIRC Microban and related treatments work by coating the surface in nano sized spikes that puncture bacteria’s cell walls on contact. But the stuff is apparently not just one product, rather a range of products all lumped under that name with various compositions depending on what kind of surface they’re intended to be applied to. Sometimes the little nano-teefies do indeed contain silver.
It turns out he is a Chinese knockoff. The tag is worn and not all of it is legible:
?? Tian Hsing International Trading Co., Ltd.
?? Industry Zone, Changzhen ??ngming Town, Baoan District
Art. No. PA-12457(CN)
…And then materials and warnings. 100% polyester, don’t you know. It’s no good searching that article number, either, because it turns up exhaust pipes and not penguins. Go figure.
Thanks!
I don’t recall what kind of plushie he is. I can check the tag later. I knitted the chainmail years ago. Yes, it’s real – for a given value of real. It’s made of stainless steel wire.
Well, alright.
When am I ever going to get the perfect moment to show off this little dude again?
My old Galaxy S5 would work without the battery, including bootup. So it’s not entirely unexpected that other phones could also do so. I would say I can’t imagine who would take the time out out of their day to just talk out their ass and claim something like this wouldn’t work without trying it first. Except then I remember this is the internet, and people do that all the time.
Regardless, good on you for making this all work!
Again. Anyone remember Shoutcast?
Anyway, the old versions of Winamp work just fine for playing your local library.
It’s easy. All you have to do is work up some kind of way to have a three-letter government agency force you to stand in line to have your balls fondled before you can drive anywhere. That’s what did it for air travel.
Ah, yes. Desperately falling back on making a tone argument of all things is a sure fire indicator that somebody doesn’t have a single leg left to stand on. Sony’s decades-long pattern of behavior does not put them in a position to be able to enjoy that luxury.
In other words: Get the fuck outta here with that.
It’s fun, easy, and highly educational to build your own!
I freed up a couple of spare brain cells on that sort of thing back in the day once it was discovered around the schoolyard that Windows 95 (in addition to Office and a couple of other M$ products) would happily accept a CD key of all ones: 111-1111111. I don’t think this was applicable to the OEM versions, though. Windows 98 meanwhile would take a key of 12345-12345-12345, etc.
I still have the Windows 2000 MSDN CD key memorized. From XP onwards, the… alternative… activation methods did not require knowing license keys anymore.
One wonders what it was like to be a member of mankind in an era when all you had to memorize was actually useful information.
These come 1000 to a case. Usually on average there’s one or two in there with nothing in the wrapper at all but a couple of spoonfuls of air. At least there was some of a cookie in your package.
Fin wrapper don’t give a fuck. Fin wrapper wrap anything. Fin wrapper even wrap nothing.
At the beep, it has been 7 months and 19 days and Amazon still has not found my camera.
Beep.
I know where it is. You know where it is. Amazon shipped it loose in its manufacturer’s packaging which plainly broadcast “steal me” to the entire universe and their third party totally-not-an-employee contractor delivery driver stole it. But they’ll totally refund me any day now. Juuuuust as soon as it makes it back to their warehouse!
Instead I charged back my credit card. I’ll never make a big ticket purchase on Amazon ever again.
I thought that too for a while, but the shine has worn off of photochromics for me because all the ones I’ve owned have lasted grand total of about a year or in some cases less before they’ve worn out and no longer darken in the sun. The longest lasting chunk of the stuff I’ve ever managed to own was the visor on my motorcycle helmet, a Bell Qualifier DLX, but that also had the tradeoff of never actually getting dark enough to be useful so I had to wear normal sunglasses under it anyway which really rather defeats the purpose.
Instead when I’m feeling particularly cyberpunk these days I bust out my old pair of CTRL shades. They have their own inherent drawback though, in that even though I managed to score my pair free through my job at the time I’m still afraid to do anything heavy duty while wearing them lest I break the damn things. That’s because it’d cost me $300 for another pair.
Not if you didn’t miss.
Oh, man. He must have git got by Candlejack. I hate it when tha
You rang?
…Wait, not me?
Yeah, he’s definitely still around because he recently replied to a comment of mine using one of his alt accounts, and did so in order to confirm that said account was one of his alts. How strange.
That would be because they are the boogeymen this election cycle.