Mal: Which one you figure tracked us? Zoe: The ugly one, sir. Mal: Could you be more specific?

'Out Of Gas'


Natter 70: Hookers and Blow  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


§ ita § - Aug 08, 2012 7:14:07 pm PDT #17506 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Do ER people really have a thing about increased activity during a full moon?

I guess I could ask actual ER people, but I think bringing that up won't help with my credibility concerns.

I am quite pro-agave. I don't know how much a difference is makes, but this a clear cut opportunity for perception being reality.

Certainly better than many of situations raised in meetings this morning. I hate defending against things that never happened. But not letting the buck pass forces a lot of that.

Technical question I'm going to bounce to buffistech, but...does anyone know how to invisibly watermark a photo? It's not even marking them as mine, because they're not. But I want a method to store a caption that's more secure than my current method of also creating a one-liner text file with similar name. Just like "David Duchovny seen eating candle-lit dinner with Nicholas Lea after sharing a box at the touring show of Evita."

I feel TiVos FF and RW lie to me, somewhat.

Did eveyrone read the most recent high level security issue: Wired writer gets Amazon social engineered, hackers segue to control over his Apple ID, which allows him to wipe off all his devices remotely, but not before he hacked into his and Gizmodo's twitter (former staffer) and posted a slew ofracist crap.

Why him? a) they could and b) his twitter handle is short. Wired was able to duplicate some of the exploits until Amazon stopped that sort of remote access, and Apple seems to be tightening ship too.

Anyone here set up so that their phone or laptop can be remotely wiped upon loss?


tommyrot - Aug 08, 2012 7:24:12 pm PDT #17507 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

My iPhone and iPad are set up so I can remotely wipe them.

I think I'll rethink this.


Zenkitty - Aug 08, 2012 7:34:24 pm PDT #17508 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Do ER people really have a thing about increased activity during a full moon?

Based on my (admittedly limited) experience, yes, as do people working in psychiatric facilities. I think it's a self-fulfilling superstition.


le nubian - Aug 08, 2012 7:47:50 pm PDT #17509 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

the real problem is that the man did not have a backup of his computer at all. So he lost a lot of stuff.


meara - Aug 08, 2012 8:16:27 pm PDT #17510 of 30001

My phone can be wiped remotely because it's a requirement to have my work email on it. I think I could do my iPad too--can you do that from the "find my idevice" thing?


Sophia Brooks - Aug 08, 2012 11:01:06 pm PDT #17511 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Nurses I know also have a full moon thing.


NoiseDesign - Aug 08, 2012 11:02:31 pm PDT #17512 of 30001
Our wings are not tired

My equipment is set for remote wiping mainly because of the NDAs that I tend to be under.


Kat - Aug 09, 2012 12:27:32 am PDT #17513 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

ita, good atul gawande article that summarizes circalunidian studies and medical stuff: [link]


Jessica - Aug 09, 2012 2:43:44 am PDT #17514 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

the real problem is that the man did not have a backup of his computer at all.

I thought it was backed up to iCloud, but the hacker wiped that too?


Stephanie - Aug 09, 2012 2:57:51 am PDT #17515 of 30001
Trust my rage

I think that is something you have to turn on?

My stuff is backed up but only because Apple makes it so totally easy. Also, while I don't have state secrets on my iPhone, I think I'll take my chances with the remote wipe as I have too many people's personal information in my files/emails/etc.