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For such a cute character, she doesn’t seem to get much screen-time in the anime… Unless I haven’t been looking hard enough.
From Konachan.
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Clara: In the same note as the previous Railgun picture… Though I would be surprised if Kuroko wore a sukumizu, she doesn’t favour such fashion sense~
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You may have a feel for the owners of this account now – so for my own wallpaper.
I haven’t changed my wallpaper since I set it after Ruben helped me reinstall Mac OS X from scratch on a brand new SSD. He says Yuki reminds him of me, but for me, Yuki reminds me of him. I could only wish to be half as epic as a character such as her though~
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Pokémon guide from an early 2000s Australian computer magazine. Memories!
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I never really got into Love Live, but Sonoda Umi is clearly Best Girl.
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Clara: Slightly earlier in the… process… than this Sasara fig is? XD
Ruben: She’s Around The Seaside!
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When you crop an otherwise epic background of a sukumizu girl cuddling a cat plushie (how epic can you get!?), and only just within frame… pantsu. GAH!
I actually know very little about Fairy Tail, other than a certain allegedly disgraced seiyuu voices one of the characters, and the art is reminiscent of One Piece. I’d better not let a certain member of Anime@UTS know that!
Don’t you love headlines that can be answered so easily? From Infoworld, one of my favourite sources of whitepapers which I read for a hobby because I’m a nerd:
The Ponemon Institute’s research study, entitled “The TCO of Software vs. Hardware-based Full Disk Encryption,” claims to provide an answer. The study, conducted last year, polled more than 1,300 IT and IT security professionals in four countries — the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan — for detailed information about their use of and expectations for hardware-based full-disk encryption.
Perhaps it’s because I had a long day, but I reread that paragraph at least five times, and I kept seeing “Pokémon Institute”.
The results, recently reanalyzed with new insights provided in a follow-up paper, showed that full-disk encryption came at a fair cost, in big part because of the time and labor involved in deploying it. But the perceived benefits for using full-disk encryption far outweighed those costs.
An interesting read, but nothing surprising. Whole drive encryption would have added tremendous computational overhead to already slow machines back in the day, but today there really aren’t any good [technical] reasons for eschewing (gesundheit) it.
From an enterprise perspective, the biggest arguments I’ve heard against it have been those initial deployment costs, and the added potential complexity for data recovery. That’s not a problem though, because everyone backs up. R-right?
Then there’s the issue of vendor support, or lack thereof. Mac OS X, the BSDs and all major Linux distributions ship with whole drive encryption as a configuration option, but Microsoft’s BitLocker is only offered on the non-consumer flavours of Vista, 7 and 8.
It’s regrettable Microsoft places more importance on artificial product differentiation than the privacy of their home customers’ data. No catching ‘em all today.
Whenever you ask a question on a forum or answer site, invariably you’ll be told to RTFM, to Google it, or have your intelligence questioned by someone hiding behind an anonymous pseudonym as they sit there in their home in their pyjamas with the Cheetos stains on them. Or whoever they are.
Oh sure, they’ll provide reasons for these callous responses. They’re tired of answering the same questions. There really are answers on Google if you try hard enough. If you haven’t bothered to demonstrate you’ve done some research, why should they help you? Personally, none of these reasons justify being a rude douchebag, but that’s just me.
Perhaps because I do perform searches, demonstrate research and ask politely, but I haven’t had a reply like this in a long time. Instead, I have answers like these to contend with on a regular basis:
Why would you want to do such a thing?
This. In a nutshell. Is what’s wrong with answer sites.
No matter what you’re doing, there will always, always be people who either can’t understand why you want to do something, or see it as an opportunity to be patronising. If they’ve never had to do something, clearly you shouldn’t have to either!
A quick tip for people who answer questions on answer sites. Offer alternative suggestions for sure, but if your only contribution is a condescending why? question, you haven’t contributed anything. Congratulations, you’re just as useless as those people who ask bad questions!
Remember my post earlier this week about Julia Gillard and Labor cutting university education spending in Australia? An excerpt from an article in The Age, retweeted by @Sebasu_tan on Twitter:
But [opposition leader] Mr Abbott said he would maintain the changes to university funding which the government announced earlier this month as a way of paying for the increased money that it wants to give to primary and secondary schools.
“I don’t think anyone should expect those cuts to be reversed,” Mr Abbott said.
Surprising no one.
The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, told Fairfax Media that Mr Abbott was locking children into “being left behind”.
Rich.
