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It'd be easier just to paste more zeroes on the right-hand side.

Really? You sure that isn't only you? For me the comment box ends around--Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters"---"Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters"-------"Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters"------------here

Heres a picture to prove it: http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p149/warll/Wide-eh.jpg

This isn't news.

Well, you're right about that at least. The whole thing is a joke. Here is the evidence (consider yourself saved from 3 pages of ads):

Exhibit A
Exhibit B

So somebody found (probably) a SQL injection vulnerability in an obscure Microsoft-hosted site and changed a few submission titles and comments? This is news? It's not like they defaced microsoft.com or anything else even slightly significant.

They couldn't even do something creative with the hole they found. Kids these days...

This isn't news.

Well, you're right about that at least. The whole thing is a joke. Here is the evidence (consider yourself saved from 3 pages of ads):

Exhibit A
Exhibit B

So somebody found (probably) a SQL injection vulnerability in an obscure Microsoft-hosted site and changed a few submission titles and comments? This is news? It's not like they defaced microsoft.com or anything else even slightly significant.

They couldn't even do something creative with the hole they found. Kids these days...

Only study i could find on book reading: http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r155/xaiver_888/newspaper.jpg
I'll point out that the study i was laughing at was saying that reading books on occult meant you were occult.

This was one of the largest reasons why I had left EVE. I was in a fairly large alliance. (SMASH) and I had partaken in my fair share of large battles, but we had one with around 400 people total in one system. The game was just in agony trying to run all that.

I actually saved an image of the fight.

http://s219.photobucket.com/albums/cc252/Drakin030/?action=view&current=MassiveFight.jpg

You will notice to the right, the list of players was cut at the top, the client started to bug out. Also during the battle you really had no control over what was going on. The speed was about a frame every 15-30 seconds. After each from you could be dead....Or another part of your HUD/Overview was missing.

It was battles like that in which I look forward to, but it was to the point where whoever hit the fire button first won, because if you got caught in the stream of lag before you enabled your guns, you would not fire a shot.

I'm glad to see that they are working hard on the performance, I just hope it's good enough to sustain at least a 400 man fight.

GIMP is not... Adobe Photoshop

Yeah, and GNU's Not UNIX. Have you SEEN these two apps?
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/neotheawakening/FreeTutsPhotoshopToolbox1.jpg
http://math.hws.edu/eck/cs324/s04/lab1/gimp_toolbox.png
The marquee, lasso, magic wand, eyedropper, mgnifying glass, paint bucket, pencil, brush, eraser, airbrush, clone, blur, dodge, and smudge tools all look remarkably similar. (This was even moreso the case a few years ago before both apps got more stylized.) Some, like a rectangular marquee, are generic, others, like the paint bucket, pen, lasso, are quite specific. And even if Susan Kare made them for MacPaint in the first place, there are other differences. Look at the exact arrangement of the color-choosing items: the foreground, background, default, and switch icons and their arrangement are IDENTICAL.

(I happen to live in Venezuela)
You can see how good the Venezuelan poor have been treated so far here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
Not much of a change, is it? You may notice that some of the unfortunate characters are wearing baseball caps and t- Please don't take the PR spin at face value; some good has been done, but it's akin to treating pneumonia with aspir
Regarding "hysterical screeching", just take a look here, here, here, here, here, here and here. At any rate, there's not much socialism here, but rather statism.

This is an unmodified screen capture of an actual Windows dialogue box. I have no idea what program triggered it.

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg109/splorpdotorg/whatwouldyoudo.jpg

(I left it onscreen until I rebooted -to be fair, this was Windows 98SE).

...and people who look like this, too.

Bullshit.

Steam is annoying as hell and frequently stops me using games I own.

I paid money for that game so I own it. When I double-click on the icon, it is not a "request" for it to run. The game is fully installed, and doesn not need to be connected to Steam to run. Cracked versions work without the DRM-enforced waits.

If the game does not start immediately, every time, it is broken.

I believe in things. I have faith. I have religion. Science is my religion. I have faith in science. I believe in science. I understand. And I do not believe that most people automatically group religion with superstition, and I actually believe them to be very different things. I was just saying that the same idea behind what made superstitions once valuable is also what made religion once valuable. I will admit it may be a little flamebait-ish of me to mention Republicans, but the fact is that Republicans tend to be much more religious and place much more value on their religious beliefs than Democrats do. They also tend to be much more conservative and cling to older, more traditional beliefs, which are usually in the process of becoming obsolete, and replaced, if they haven't already been, while Democrats seem more open minded to trying out new ideas and are more focused towards making the future a much different and more evolved place than it is today. You're correct that right now humans are in a bit of an inbetween stage, but I'm actually in the process of changing that. I've figured out what I call an "Understanding of Existence" that builds on the theory of evolution, and then based on that I have figured out the Meaning of Life, and then based on both of those I have developed a perfect theory of moral philosophy. I am writing my book right now and will be distributing it next summer. Keep an eye out for it. The cover will have this picture on it: http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b62/kabronyrecords/Nebulabrot.jpg

http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc7/_D3MO_/1220699909412.jpg

You can't have a pony

No, more like this

Pics or it didn't happen

Here you go.

HeRE!

Ninja Gaiden is an illustration of how this can go wrong. For me, it was very, very hard.

Ack! You forgot the link! http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k195/MF29/Guides/ninja-gaiden-black-dog-days-2005-1.jpg

I'm supprised noone else spotted this

Open the new Suggested Sites menu.
The default search is for Microsoft Corporation
Number 5 in the list of returned sites is Apple

Screenshot

You mean it had nothing to with this?

Wow! You could make several of them in different colors, and your beowulf cluster would look like a gigantic Rubik's Cube! Cool!

...as evidenced by this photo of an early Dalek prototype:
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j236/Stryc_9/Daleks/Dalek_stairs.jpg

Luckily, the problem was eventually solved with the power of rockets:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2b/Remembranceofthedaleks.jpg

i was thinking closer to Roujin-Z when i first read the title.

(in case you can't figure out what screencap shows, it's a renegade robotic hospital bed going on an Akira-styled rampage through the streets of Tokyo)

Found it on some guy's photobucket: http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk226/jonhsnyder/pdfvspedophile-500x400.jpg

You know who I thank for that? Hank Scorpio!

Wrong again.

You are severely underestimating the strength of massive steel structural beams that were designed to withstand the impact of a Boeing 707 and still keep the building upright.

Here's a link to a picture of a pancake collapse. The floors remain fairly recognizable stacked one on top of another. There is rubble but there is no pulverization.

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b108/janedoe444/trouble/24_pancake.jpg

There's only one way debris of the WTC building gets atomized into the fine ash that covered Lower Manhattan on 9/11. Massive amounts of explosives being detonated.

Perhaps obscure, but perhaps also obligatory: what about using the Resonator to see these dimensions? Humans are such easy prey...

You know what's even simpler (and doesn't require legible handwriting)? Something like this, or this. Yes, god forbid people should have to actually make a checkmark inside of a circle, or draw a line to connect a broken arrow...

http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr308/daldredge/Untitled.jpg http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr308/daldredge/Untitled2.jpg Just so you know Vista only runs on two platforms.

http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr308/daldredge/Untitled.jpg http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr308/daldredge/Untitled2.jpg Just so you know Vista only runs on two platforms.

What else is a drone supposed to look like?

In any event, there is plenty of prior art.

Now, we're both gay

Pics or it didn't happen!

http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb219/gigi4808/siegfried_roy_tiger_1_r.jpg/

On topic, I didn't post this and I do not have a tiger on my lap.

You get the prize for the most on-topic sig this week! For those who have sigs turned off, here it is --

When a dog looks in the mirror

Even better: how about a strip of heads from a platters center to its perimeter (i.e. radius) --no moving read head! Taking into account that the density of the read heads would be insufficient for the number of tracks, simply stager the heads (my diagram). Surely this is feasible?!

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C:\WINDOWS\system32\lusrmgr.exe

To hell with my karma. This may very well be the dumbest argument I've ever seen anyone make. And I've worked with a lot of complete douchebags that will argue about the most meaningless and stupid things.

The story didn't change. A bunch of people walked in a circle. NBC showed you a bunch of people walking in a circle. If it had been edited to look like the fireworks displays were going off when the American team came in, or to look like Nicolas Sarkozy was falling asleep when the Chinese team came on (instead of Uzbekistan or whatever it was), sure, what you are saying might be reasonable. But as it stands, you are making me wish slashdot had [img] tags so I could do better than just link to this. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v340/cowcowmoomoo1/arguingOnTheInternet.jpg

They should maintain a list of recently closed pool's, so a person can see if they've swum in one and need to get tested.

Also you have as a certain truth: "Pool's Closed" due to AIDS.

People must respect us now.

O RLY? How about this, you dirty little slope.

Since /. was adding pictures, Farking them is only a natural extension of expression. Supercomputer Dialysis Machine

Brilliant :)

Since /. was adding pictures, Farking them is only a natural extension of expression. Supercomputer Dialysis Machine

So it was you all along!

I had the chance to try out a Segway a few years ago, and the salesman told me they were pitching it at three main market segments:

1. The elderly. As has already been mentioned in this discussion, a Segway can be used as a "hipper wheelchair". For elderly folk with limited mobility (i.e. they no longer have the energy required to pedal their bikes through possibly hilly areas) a Segway provides a faster, more elegant, and, yes, cooler alternative to an electronic wheelchair.

2. Large factories / industrial complexes. I don't know how many of you have been on larger industrial sites, but there are some fsking huge complexes out there: BASF's 10 sqkm Ludwigshafen site springs to mind. They get around that having several thousand bikes for the employees to ride, but a high level manager may not want to arrive to his/her next meeting hot and sweaty from having biked from one side of the complex to the other. Plus, a Segway clearly outranks a bike (while still being more convenient / environmentally friendly than a chauffeured car).

3. Celebrities. Seriously, how cool do people look on Segways, huh? Tell me Gob isn't at his sexiest when he makes his entrance on one of these babies.

So, notwithstanding that I made that last reason up, there are at least two valid markets for the Segway as a product.

The main problems, according to the salesman, were – aside from the cost – the unfamiliarity of people with the concept of two-wheeled vehicles that don't require you to do the balancing*, and the ambiguous legal classification: is it a bike? Is it a car? Can you use it on the footpath, or are you relegated to the streets? Given the responsiveness of the Segway and the target market, the makers were hoping to get it allowed on the footpath, but a combination of the its weight and speed nixed that idea, and it's too exposed for the roads. Thus, at least in Australia, Segways are illegal on both footpaths and roads – a wonderful precondition for commercial success!

However, once the regulatory problems are solved, and people get over the "WTF is that?" factor, I foresee a great future in these kind of devices (if not the Segway itself, since it'll probably be outdated by that time). I'm a little baffled by the Segway's negative image, to be honest, but I'm also baffled at the relative unpopularity of Tablet PCs, which I consider to be the bees knees.

The Segway and its ilk provide the short-range mobility of a bicycle, with close to zero effort. And folks – convenience sells.

*Most people get on and immediately try and adjust for the Segway, leaning forwards or backwards. Since the Segway adjusts for the user, and responds to leaning by accelerating in that direction, these people finding themselves on a 'bucking' Segway until they figure out they have to stand still to.. well, stand still. I had very little problems with this, but I've got good balance (and great hair. But never mind that.)
What I found insufferable was the way the turning trigger was toggled: roll your left hand forwards and you turn left; roll it backwards, and you turn left. This struck me as being incredibly counter-intuitive, perhaps also because I'd met the salesman in the park when I was riding home from work and your wrists roll the other way on a bicycle (though also on a steering wheel).

Its been very popular in China for centuries and obviously works quite well, given the number of old people you see doing it in droves there.

Erm to be fair, in China don't you see people doing everything in droves?

For example this "Job Fair"

This. Slashdotters don't know fitness, and the mods are no better if the posts marked "informative" are any indication.

http://www.stumptuous.com/cms/index.php

That's the first place you should be. It says "women's training," but almost all of it applies equally to men, experienced or not. It'll give you a grounding in lifting theory, proper nutrition, and some of the more common gym mistakes. If you ever decide to join to a gym, you'll want someone to show you the correct form for freeweight and cable exercises so you don't dodder yourself into a pulled muscle, impingement, imbalance, asymmetry, or any of a dozen maladies that befall novice lifters.

To more directly answer your question, you can get a decent upper-body workout at home. Legs, not so much. Not without additional weights, though lunges and calf-raises are a start.

Pushups are the default shoulder/chest/tricep movement. The height of your legs and the position of your hands and elbows dictate the particular muscle groups involved. Elbows in, hands low, feet low, and it's mostly shoulders and lower chest. Elbows out, hands higher, feet elevated, and it's mostly upper chest. With hands together and elbows out, triceps are more heavily implicated. Changing the positions, sets (3-8), reps (8-25), and tempo (0.5-5s lowering) will provide all the variation you need.

Pullups are the standard movement for lats (latissimus dorsi; Google it) and biceps. If you can't do any, practice lowering yourself for 5 seconds at a clip. If you don't have porch stairs or some equivalently sturdy implement to hang from, buy a bar that'll wedge in a doorframe. They're cheap and effective. Before your workouts, pick a number between 20 and 40. Do that many (or lower yourself that many times), no matter how many sets it takes. Raise the number as you become stronger.

Crunches are the basic ab movement. Situps will work your hip flexors as well. If you can do more than 20 of these untrained, you're probably doing them wrong. Practice flexing your abs at the top of the movement. Tempos, like all these movements, should be something like 0.5s second up, hold for a 0.5s, down for 2s, 0s pause. See here for notes on form:

http://www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html

To work the rear musculature of your shoulders and upper back, pick up a set of elastic resistance bands. You don't need many; three is plenty, two perfectly adequate. You're looking to do reverse flyes. They aren't a long-term substitute for proper rows, but they'll at least prevent you from getting the cro-magnon posture that's so prevalent among the curling and benching crowd.

When you bore with all that, you should either buy yourself a gym membership, or a squat rack, a barbell, weights, and an adjustable bench. Alternately, assemble yourself a set of parallettes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallettes

Gymnasts use them to keep in shape when they're away from the gym. I have a set. They're a fantastic workout, and they add a lot of variety and resistance to the sorts of exercises you can do on your own. Surely you wouldn't mind looking like a gymnast?

http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee6/trickwire/2007%20August/RajBhavsar2.jpg

Can't resist:
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c192/twinop/cant-have-a-pony.png

>Apple is Microsoft's "research division". Has been for years.

Bullshit. Windows Mobile is much older than iphone and was orignially designed for little PDAs. It was later integrated with phones, several years before the iphone was a twinkle in Job's eye. How can it be a "Me Too" when it predates the iphone by several years?

Is all that MS does is steal from Apple then where is Apple's Sharepoint or Office or the slew of dozens of applications Apple doesnt bother offering and will never offer?

Look, I know its cool to dismiss MS as just ripping of all ideas from everyone, but its not factual. This is also cool:

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l119/laura235_2006/guido.jpg

The moderators really are inconsistent on that site. Some are just useless, some are assholes, rarely do they do anything useful

Welcome to Fark...

Seriously, if you've spent a significant amount of time there, what else would you expect from Fark? There was a thread yesterday about a missing woman. Someone posted pictures of her. The rest of the thread was a debate over who would or wouldn't hit it.

And in keeping with the spirit of THIS thread, you don't smell.

(You stink.)

I don't buy the "space alien" story for the simple reason that the "Area 51" aliens look too much like us.

The aliens don't have to find you if they put you on your planet.

Or intelligently designed you ;-) Hey, I've heard wilder theories.

relatively big lumps that were mostly stopped by the hairs in the nose (as any Londoner knows).

Hey, I've been to London, sometimes the REALLY big clumbs get blocked bot by your nose hair, but my your geezer teeth.

"Hummer off road racing" (on his hat). Are you sure he isn't American, like these girls?

relatively big lumps that were mostly stopped by the hairs in the nose (as any Londoner knows).

Hey, I've been to London, sometimes the REALLY big clumbs get blocked bot by your nose hair, but my your geezer teeth.