I actually don't understand how people can get that excited about a burger, let alone fast food garbage. It's like when people go ape shit over hot dogs or pizza. It's crap food I'll eat on the go. If I want a good piece of meat I'll have a steak.
Also, whoa, fuck China based on this thing. I have it Chromecast up on my big TV now as a background display.
There's some "fast food" places, like the ones mentioned in this thread, where the burgers rival if not beat those of other chain sit down joints. That's where we get excited. Put Freddy's steakburger and their fries on a generic restaurant plate, serve it with some potato skins a selection of microbrews, and all the sudden it has a 35 minute wait on weeknights. I'm not arguing that McD, or Burger King, or Wendy's, or Jack-n-the-Box, or any of those major chains deserve a place on the Mt. Rushmore of burgers. But when you're talking about the best burger your working-class joe has access to, outside of your specialty restaurants, you gotta talk about In-n-Out, Whataburger, Freddy's, Five Guys, et. al.
There are a TON of major network hubs in places like Virginia, etc., where a ton of large online companies have huge co-locations... think Amazon Web Services, AOL, Yahoo, Azure, Google, etc.
So this map basically shows the location of one person (or, at least, one server) sending a DDOS attack to another server's location, correct? And if that's the case... how can this many people hate each other? Or more generally, how can this many people have nothing else to do but to send DDOS attacks? And if this stuff is available to the average person, I only wonder what the FBI was looking at when they implicated north korea in the sony attacks.
It's not that I have something against burgers. It's just if I want a really good meal it's not what's going to come to my mind.
This isn't one person. When you go and browse your gay midget scat porn sites, those "viruses" that you get on your computer can contain "remote control" software, basically adding your computer to a larger BOTNET. What you then have is one or more people that are controlling vast armies (in the tens or hundreds of thousands, if not millions) of remote control computers at their control. Or you have large groups with serious hardware of their own (as in racks and racks of gear and serious network connectivity) that can amass those resources against whomever they want... usually for money. For instance, that's how most spam networks work. This isn't you sitting in your mom's basement "giving it to the man", regardless of what TV or the movies may tell you. I've worked for a few targets of this kind of thing (online gambling site that they tried to blackmail, EA, etc). In the case of XBox or PSLive, it's probably a case of one small, weak, part of the system that is targeted for attack, and can't withstand the barrage. For instance, the weak spots are usually the authentication server, because it's usually the only thing you can't really shard/segment now that everyone has gone to single accounts for everything (your XBox Live account, or EA Origin, etc). If you fake hundreds of millions of authentication requests to these systems you'll melt the authentication servers/databases and nobody will get any response, locking you out of everything you "own" online, because you can't authenticate or gain access to the systems. The actual game and content servers are huge and can usually withstand this kind of onslaught, it'll just cost them $$$ in services (they pay for networks, etc), but to effectively kill the service, it just takes a small, surgical strike in the right place.
The more and more I read about this, the more and more I am convinced that "cyberwars" are in the near future, and that the tech security industry is about to get a MASSIVE boom. I'm not at the point of paying for everything in cash, but I think NK let the genie out of the box.
If you ever get to the north side of DFW by some strange reason check out Bakers. Order the double burger with chili cheese fries and large tea. You'll be doing cardio for three days to work it off, but it's like having an orgasm in your mouth. You sir have not lived until you've had an elk or bison burger from Twisted Root. The quality of ingredients and freshness is unbeatable. They make everything fresh the moment you order it and they have all sorts of delicious meats you can try such as kangaroo, elk, alligator, boar, llama, venison, etc.
Here's something fun: After decades of playing music at all sorts of levels of fucked up, I'm having to relearn to play sober. The muscle memory is there in my hands, but it's all but impossible for me to turn off my brain and just play. A friend asked me to lay down some guitar tracks for him the other night and I kept fucking up. Over and over and over. For hours. Finally I sucked down a bottle of Baileys and 8 beers. I nailed it in one take. What the fuck?
I have tried all of the above. You have NOT lived unless you have drunkenly gorged on deep fried alligator with very spicy cocktail sauce. And elk is just an experience. Elksperience? There's no other way to describe it than with the definition including the meat itself.
It's called getting up in your head. When you're "relaxed" you don't give a shit, you just play. When you're sober, you think too hard. SRV did a great, long interview on exactly that when he sobered up for his last album.
I love elk. However, a friend served me some farm raised elk a few years ago. Yuck. As with all meat, the taste depends a great deal on what their diet was. The farm raised elk I was served ate alfalfa and it was just bland.
There's a reason why the greatest artists -- in any medium, in any generation -- have been alcohol/drug/both addicts. It's amazing how many subconscious notions of "act this way" or "only say that" we have ingrained in our minds from birth. So get a little wine in ya, start not giving a shit about that, and all the sudden those heavy chords start coming back. All the your mind starts writing the lyrics you always figured were in you.
This type of shit pisses me off. It's like when you pretend to know about something and you don't. With lean meat -- like elk, and vinison -- the taste actually depends on the marinade/time and temp of cooking. Every meat is not to be cooked like beef. They don't abide by the same rules. In fact, in most cases, red meats are vastly different as far as cooking times and temps. You're right in that SOME depends on what the diet of the animal is, but so much goes into the pre-prep (read: how you cut the meat), the actual prep (marinade, though I prefer dry rubs for game), the cooking (again, time and temp), and the rest (like steaks, you must let game rest before serving to keep the juices in). After all that is said and done, and I taste it on my plate, I can't tell if an elk was on alfalfa or borracho beans. But I CAN tell you if the cook knows what he was doing.