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some of these are seriously hilarious...like "Darwin Award" hilarious... http://hubpages.com/hub/Ten-Things-Not-to-Do-While-Driving

(chimps get big and very strong, some have been known to outright beat up their handlers)

Or eat their face [NSFL]

Hilarious as always.

An oldie, but a goody.

http://hubpages.com/hub/How-To-Play-MKV-Files-On-Playstation-3

Really, googling "Play MKV on PS3" isn't that hard - it just removes the container format and puts it all back into native VOB.

This is completely offtopic, but I think your sig should be:

They whose government reduces their essential liberties for temporary security, receive neither liberty nor security.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Grammar_Mishaps__Neither-Nor_and_Either-Or

Here is an article that talks about some amazing possibilities for the iPad. I for one think that this is a great thing and if it is used and marketed properly it can mean huge strides toward green living and environmental friendliness for everyone. Read the article here http://hubpages.com/hub/Daily-E-Newspapers-and-E-Magazines-for-Apple-iPad-or-eBook-Readers

What do the negotiations matter? ...What counts is the ratification.

Even if ACTA requires ratification (which it does not), even if it did you are still assuming there will be a debate before ratification. History is littered with examples where nation changing laws and resolutions have been ratified without any meaningful debate or opposition, because powerful entrenched interested parties made sure it happened that way. For example see first link, under "The Incredible Timeline".

http://hubpages.com/hub/Astonishing_Interview_with_Aaron_Russo_who_met_with_Nick_Rockefeller

Read that and you all decide.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Astonishing_Interview_with_Aaron_Russo_who_met_with_Nick_Rockefeller

Read that and you all decide.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Astonishing_Interview_with_Aaron_Russo_who_met_with_Nick_Rockefeller

Read that and you all decide.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Astonishing_Interview_with_Aaron_Russo_who_met_with_Nick_Rockefeller

Read that and you all decide.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Astonishing_Interview_with_Aaron_Russo_who_met_with_Nick_Rockefeller

Read that and you all decide.

Finally! It's about time that international police and anti-crime resources put the same effort in stopping online cross border crime that they do for offline!

Kudos to Microsoft for helping. Heck, I would accept help from Satan himself, if it reduce the spam and online crime.

Well, I suspect that even though the tech is not fully deployed yet, these sites were already showing up as scam sites in Firefox and the latest versions if IE.

I suspect the Nigerian police snarfed up the already useless sites and shut them down in a halfhearted show of being proactive even while on the take. Probably took the opportunity to get rid of a few competitors as well.

These guys have been operating there for so long that only a corrupt police force could have missed them. There is plenty of evidence these guys are less than squeaky clean: http://hubpages.com/hub/Nigerian-Police--bribe-and-fraud and http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=76458 etc.

I am not sure what you mean. They don't have any extradition treaty that I know of with Cuba, so technically the US doesn't HAVE to extradite him

The US does have an extradition treaty with Venezuela, signed in 1922, and it was them that requested his extradition not Cuba.

I think its a pretty hypocritical move to NOT extradite him. Then again, its a pretty hypocritical move to participate in torture prosecutions for waterboarding and then use it on someone else too. Especially hypocritical to claim to respect the law and uphold the law, and NOT fully investigate claims of illegal torture....

Ooh I agree. What torture advocates don't know, or won't admit, is that even Genera George Washington forbid his troops from torturing prisoners. And waterboarding is torture, even the NAZIs and Japanese found it effective in WWII.

to harbor a criminal who was useful to the powers that be... seems about par for the course.

I agree again. The US even supported mass murderers.

Falcon

Reminds me of this Farside cartoon.

With what we currently know, the Google Chrome OS is as much a competitor to Windows as Google Docs and Gmail is to Microsoft Office and Outlook/Exchange.

You seem to be a bit behind the times on this issue.

I use both Outlook/Exchange and Gmail on a daily basis and I admin an Exchange server (and used to admin Sendmail and Qmail). It's not news to me that you can migrate from Outlook/Exchange to Gmail; I've investigated it. Gmail provides a fresh interface and much faster searching, however the calendar functionality doesn't come close to Outlook. I won't rehash all the cloud computing issues and how a web app is often clumsy when compared to a native application, but the issues are still there.

Your link doesn't address Google Docs versus M$ Office. I use both as well. Google Docs is sufficient for only the most basic word processing and spreadsheets. If one tries to do multipage spreadsheets with formulas, graphs, lookups, macros (Business 101 stuff), Google Docs spreadsheets are painful to use and just doesn't have much of the functionality needed.

You might be able to replace my coffee with Folger's crystals, but not the gas in my car. The same goes with open source/web apps/cloud computing apps and my business applications.

With what we currently know, the Google Chrome OS is as much a competitor to Windows as Google Docs and Gmail is to Microsoft Office and Outlook/Exchange.

You seem to be a bit behind the times on this issue.

Just to play devil's advocate... there actually is something you can do about cancer...

Maybe I'm too much of a man, or maybe I'm sex starved 'coz I'm married (if you're married, you know what I mean), but the title Beautiful Security made me think of something else entirely.

And finally, just to annoy you some more, there's a split infinitive in the first sentence of this post.

Are you trying to taunt PitaBred into further pedantry? I'm sure that you are familiar with Fowler's discussions of split infinitives, e.g.,Robert Allen, ed (2002). "Split infinitive". Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage. Oxford University Press, quoted in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_infinitive

No other grammatical issue has so divided English speakers since the split infinitive was declared to be a solecism in the 19c: raise the subject of English usage in any conversation today and it is sure to be mentioned.

as well as his latter division of English-speakers into four classes with regard to their opinions regarding split infinitives, quoted in full in "Fowler on the Split Infinitive," http://hubpages.com/hub/splitinfinitive. See also James Thurber's sexist but hilarious discussion of the topic at http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~heycock/thurber-split.html.

It doesn't support .mkv because that's the preferred format of pirates. So don't use .mkv, convert directly to a PS3 supported format. It's kind of like how there's all those sites that serve flash video when they should just be using h264 directly, as god intended. These might help your mkv problem:

http://hubpages.com/hub/How-To-Play-MKV-Files-On-Playstation-3
http://www.bitburners.com/articles/convert-mkv-files-for-playstation-3-using-mkv2vob/4022/

As for large 4GB+ video files, does burning them to disc work?

Even if you don't have RSX access in Linux you can play 720p or less quite well, and some have reported that 1080i/1080p plays okay, depending on file format, media player and what desktop enviroment they run.

The phrase "to better say it" is awkward. However, pedantry in the critique of a long, semi-professionally presented, and ostensibly edited, piece of journalism is not the same sin that it is in the context of a Slashdot post. Furthermore, a split infinitive is not always ungrammatical.

The problem lies in the software we're running on said hardware. The software has gotten so big and so bloated, it just "looks like" the hardware hasn't gotten any better. 30 gigabytes of HD space, a 256MB Graphics Card, and 2GB of RAM just to run an operating system? Absolutely unnecessary.

Mac Plus vs. AMD DualCore

The reason we bash Microsoft is because we're not brainwashed into thinking that Windows is the only game in town. We've used Linux, Mac, and BSD. We know that they're all viable operating systems that do what Windows does, and in many cases, do it better. Is Vista a viable choice? Sure it is. Is Vista the best choice? That depends on who you are, what your goals are, and what your mindset is.

Another problem is that MS has a one-size-fits-all approach. Some people like the Aero interface, and others want the UI to be as slim as possible (See Ubuntu+Compiz, Gnome, KDE vs. Flux/Open/Black Box, Enlightenment, JWM) With Vista the most streamlined you can get is a Win2K-like look.

http://hubpages.com/profile/Hal+Licino

No he is far worse... Read some of his articles and weep.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Is_the_husband_the_Master_of_the_wife

I swear everytime I hear comments about the bible by some christians they sound like some backup in a Robin Hood movie or something. Also notice the comments on the botttom - of wedded women understanding and agreeing that they enjoy and will continue to submissively honor their husband in the same way. As a man who will never become a servant of a myth, I would never follow the morals that it teaches when it comes to women. I find the belief that every human is equal, no matter what factors they have or don't have, and the holy bible disagrees with my, and many people's humanist philosophy.

now we have something to water the asparagus with.

Or use a rocket that's both really big and really cheap.

"then you have to choose which you would prefer."

This assumes that you believe that government violation of one right will not lead to government violation of another right. From my experience that would be a bad assumption to make.

"Frankly, I don't give a damn about your bank account, but I do care about my right to be free from government spying and confiscation of physical property."

You do realize that government services that violate your privacy have to be funded, correct? And as long as you give the government a blank check, they can take as much of your income as they like to fund these rights violations. If you curtail the funding by demanding that your property rights be upheld, then they won't be able to maintain those services that violate your privacy. They will have to rollback their functions to the most fundamental: courts and law enforcement to uphold rights.

As for your distinction between a "bank account" and "physical property" - there is no difference. A bank account is simply a representation of your productivity. You spend hours of your day working, in exchange for currency that represents your physical labor. You can then trade that currency for other people's physical labor. Forced taxation is taking away a percentage of your physical labor; rather than working to your own ends, you are working for the government. Check out this article on "Tax Freedom Day" - if starting on January 1st you worked exclusively for the government to pay off your taxes, then "Tax Freedom Day" would be the day of the year when you no longer have to work for the government and will start earning 100% of your income for your labor. Last year, Tax Freedom Day fell on July 11th...

But cmon, they are still the safest for the people inside, haul a ton of shit, are the best cars to drive from Los anegels to vegas in with a group of people, etc. Would I buy one? No way... but It's naive to just do all this "im so practical" talk... it doesnt aknowledge the real market reasoning.

Given the extensive literature about rollover issues, the above misapprehensions are inexcusable. But, then, the laziness required to maintain such a point of view in the face of the literature is not surprising. It dovetails nicely with irresponsibility on the part of the manufacturers -- such as the decision of Mercedes-Benz to sell SUV's that were particularly destructive when involved in auto accidents. They caused greater damage to the other car and greater injury to the occupants of the other car than other SUV's. See Of Monstrous Proportions - The Dangers of SUVs for more on the subject.

In short, SUV's are built by self-centered manufacturers for sale to self-centered buyers. Neither the manufacturer nor the buyer is thinking about the consequences for third parties of their decisions.

This means not only more portable code, but overall faster than compiled execution speeds for programs. So far the VMs have been under performing, but they are improving and at a faster rate than gcc and friends.

I think the VMs are improving towards the speed of static compliation. Sure there are benefits such that we could potentially see faster VM code - but there's also layers and layers of cruft that comes about because of VM abstractions. I think projects like LLVM will eventually produce code faster than any VM, with architecture independence. The project is comparatively young, and I think it will have a bright future.

The JVM, and CLR kinda symbolise the heavy-weight approach of modern software design. A hello-world xaml application uses 40 megs of memory!

With per-core CPU speeds capping, I'd like to see a more cut-down approach to software development. A brand new computer might by 1000 times faster than a similar product 20 years ago, and it seems we write software that's 1000 times slower.

At the very least, Microsoft's Live Hotmail doesn't scan your email like Gmail does.

I think all of these content-generating sites have some form of revenue-sharing..

HuPages: http://hubpages.com/
Squidoo: http://www.squidoo.com/
Gather: http://www.gather.com/

This is pretty much what HubPages does, except that HubPages publishers have make do with 60% of the revenue after the advertisers (mostly adsense) have already taken their 50%. Google will be able to pass on the entire amount, and also give premium search placement to knols.

I think these guys need help and they should have to visit Duvet Dollars review.

The thing is, the Guardian of Forever that appeared in Harlan Ellison's scripts was very, very different than what appeared in the episode.

And he HATED the version that was ultimately produced. But now it's all his.

See also this interesting account.

I think it's obvious where they got the idea for the design of the robot. Just compare the two images, similarities are obvious:

http://file.shanghaidaily.com/News/Image//2007/2007-11/2007-11-08/20071108_337360_01.jpg

http://hubpages.com/u/49849_f260.jpg

he is a furry though.. http://hubpages.com/u/42895_177.jpg

might have something to do with it

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