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If I browse adult stuff at work on works PC and Internet connection, work can be held libel.
If I browse adult stuff on the iPhone at work using my own Internet connect, it is less likely that work can be held libel.

I think you mean liable. Libel is something different entirely.

In any event, it's easy for corporations to disable USB and Bluetooth use. Having a phone with tethering capability is a non-issue.

No, extragalactic is a specific term that means outside of OUR galaxy, not outside of any galaxy.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extragalactic
http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/extragalactic.html
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/extragalactic
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/extragalactic
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/extragalactic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extragalactic_astronomy

I had no idea what a BOFH was, so here's some google entries.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/odds/bofh/

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

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/BOFH

I just had a flash back from my Newtonian Mechanics class: A Spider lands on the center of a record player rotating at 45rpm's. The Spider attaches a web to the center of the record and begins to walk to the edge of the record looking for a way off. Given the weight of the spider, speed of the record; How far will the spider travel before being thrown off?

Doesn't that depend on the tensile strength of the spider silk line? And more comprehensively, you'd want to consider the strength of the join between the silk and the center of the record, the strength of the join between the silk and the spider... and if you really wanted to be a jerk, you'd probably demand to know how much static friction there is between the spider's feet and the record (which may be considerable, if the feet are in any way sticky).

Just to stay on the subject a bit, this of course applies to this scenario because gravity plays the role of the web, and we know exactly how strong the gravitational force is, without messy material sciency complications. Considering how slow the Earth's rotation is (relatively speaking), and the strength of gravity, I don't think a 100-200 km tower is going to provide much of an advantage, but I could be wrong.

I just had a flash back from my Newtonian Mechanics class: A Spider lands on the center of a record player rotating at 45rpm's. The Spider attaches a web to the center of the record and begins to walk to the edge of the record looking for a way off. Given the weight of the spider, speed of the record; How far will the spider travel before being thrown off?

I RTFA; but some of the details seemed a little fuzzy, like the density of the outside with respect to the inside of the tube, load bearing. Maybe a 3D Real Time Model could be fashioned in something like Blender3D. If the math proves out, cool. But if not, then maybe the model could be applied to some other similar engineering solution. That in itself would be a worthy engineering accomplishment.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/myriad
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/myriad

It also means 10 thousand. Obviously, though, in this context, it just means "a large number." This usage is a rhetorical device commonly called "hyperbole."

See this.

FARE! It will FARE better! FARE as in FAREWELL.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fare#Verb

Sorry, had to stop the stupid before someone else caught it.

Umm, just curious, what does being a butler again have to do with this article or the body of your post?

And how exactly does one re-buttle?

Well he said not to, but don't let the facts interfere with a choleric rant.

Uh what? None of your post makes any sense, especially since Buttfscking said it was "okay" and "safe enough."

The last part of your post is downright trollish.

Choleric:

1. Easily becoming angry.

2. Showing or expressing anger.

Rant:

1. A criticism done by ranting (To speak or shout at length in an uncontrollable anger).

2. A wild, incoherent, emotional articulation.

Well he said not to, but don't let the facts interfere with a choleric rant.

Uh what? None of your post makes any sense, especially since Buttfscking said it was "okay" and "safe enough."

The last part of your post is downright trollish.

Choleric:

1. Easily becoming angry.

2. Showing or expressing anger.

Rant:

1. A criticism done by ranting (To speak or shout at length in an uncontrollable anger).

2. A wild, incoherent, emotional articulation.

sap in German is derogatory

I'm German, fairly literate, have never heard of a German word "sap", and I'm not alone.

Well, a cult is where a group of followers attempt to "care for" a god (always one, though one can join multiple cults) in the hope that the god will do things for them. A religion is where a group of followers attempt to follow a set of rules (e.g. 1 2 3 4) in the hope that their god (or gods) will not do things to them (eg. 1 2/3 4. Sure, it's not a pefect distinction, but when one realizes that most modern cults (as opposed to the classical ones that worshiped Jupiter Optimus Maximus and such) set their founder up as the deity, it matches up pretty well.

What word... "meme"?

meme (plural memes)

1. (philosophy) Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another. Examples include thoughts, ideas, theories, practices, habits, songs, dances and moods and terms such as race, culture, and ethnicity.

We are reducing the number
of extra vowels used by many English speaking countries in
their spelling, and are saving them up for an air drop over
Poland, a country which is in desperate need of vowels.

You should rather ask the Finns, or, better yet, Estonians. I hear they have no shortage of vowels over there.

Actually, the feminine form also has the accent: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fianc%C3%A9e.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cromulent

I'm so confused now... troll? Not troll? Will the world ever know?

The first thing that comes to mind when reading "Oh God no, a tweaker" is "What does methamphetamine have to do with Gentoo?"

But on second thought, I suppose it probably has a lot to do with it.

I'm sure Starfleet would institute something.

And keep in mind, we're talking about a civilization not only several hundred years in the future, who likely have much better education programs than we do (there was one episode of TNG where a six year old was complaining about having to take calculus), but also spans dozens, if not hundreds, of star systems, with hundreds of billions of individuals to recruit from. I'm sure they could keep their standards high and still have millions of potential recruits pounding on the doors.

I know it is not the most reliable source for English, but http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spacecraft says that both forms are correct you may write spacecrafts as well as spacecraft.

By the way when all (or at least a large group) people who speak some sort of English start to use words differetly then this becomes the standard.

It is like the s indicating genitive case in German. For example it was "Toms Buchladen" (TomÂs Bookshop) and nowadays you can also write "Tom's Bookshop" which I find completely dumb.

And languages are changing all the time, which is good because we use it for communication and so we adapt it to our needs. In this case a plural s is allways a better solution to indicate a plural form than nothing. So I think the s is a good invention.

Strangely enough...

From wiktionary

The long-term manifestations of weather and other atmospheric conditions in a given area or country, now usually represented by the statistical summary of its weather conditions during a period long enough to ensure that representative values are obtained (generally 30 years).

And man i thought you were saying that climate had nothing to do with the weather.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/DNF

the influenza virus manages to dysregulate the immune system, allowing other infections to thrive in the body

Is this some veiled commentary on deregulation of the financial industry? ;)

Deregulation causes swine flu!

Apparently dysregulate and its derived terms are perfectly cromulent.

I believe that the word you are looking for is "corporatism", which is often a component of--but not fully synonymous with--fascism.

And the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plane.

I think you mean "plain ," unless you think Spain is covered in aircraft or woodworking tools. Hoisted by your own petard, eh?

Perhaps the GP was referring to a flat unbounded surface defined by a point and a normal vector? (Not that I've actually seen one of those in Spain, you understand...)

And the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plane.

I think you mean "plain ," unless you think Spain is covered in aircraft or woodworking tools. Hoisted by your own petard, eh?

hynie (the word for a little girl's private parts).

You perverted, idiotic pædophile. If that's too harsh, substitute the word 'uninformed.'

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That isn't what the word means. Hindquarter is a very relevant term.
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Please, get psychiatric help before another young girl turns up missing.

FYI, I'm pretty sure you mean a by-your-leave. Although your original makes for an interesting study in customer service.

To boil it down, it sounds like the biggest single problem once you actually HAVE a machine is keeping juice to it consistently.

Yep. Power is the single biggest problem faced by rural ICT-related projects in my part of the world. It's dead easy to find someone to donate equipment. It's incredibly hard finding someone willing to pay you to run it.

The answer to the power question is horses for courses, I'm afraid. Some places have great power generation possibilities, either through solar, small-scale hydro or wind. Some projects just find the cash to keep a generator running. Most don't.

In every case, reducing your power footprint only makes sense. Batteries are hugely expensive and difficult to transport, so the less power storage you need, the better. Running off low-voltage DC is great, because it's much more efficient over short distances.

Solid-state is your friend. It's more resistant to heat, dust and other environmental factors. Small form factors also help, because buildings are often rudimentary at best. Being able to stick everything in a seal-able, easily transported box makes everyone's life easier.

In many cases, the right answer is actually to reduce the amount of automation in your work. Human labour is cheap and time is plentiful, whereas power and equipment are not. Building the right amount of inefficiency into your system is a counter-intuitive but often rewarding approach.

This:

In my country it is voluntary or forced for certain crimes...

and this:

There is definitely no coercion or strong selling, but having said that, the lure of cigarettes turn hardened criminals in to teddy bears.

...make me have to ask which country are you live in. It is not obvious to me from either post where you are from. :-)

I'm just curious, no troll or flaming intended. Really, just curious.

BTW, I also wondered about 'Voluntary' as did 'bargainsale (1038112)', but you are completlyon-target, and correct.

Yes, he apparently is using/spelling the word correctly.

From the link:

Etymology
From Middle English *voluntarie - Old French volontaire - Latin voluntarius ("'willing, of free will'") - voluntas ("'will, choice, desire'") - volens, ppr. of velle ("'to will'"). [...]Derived terms
* voluntarily

That one also tripped my grammar flag and my spel czekker, so I checked. :-)

BTW, I was going to reply to an earlier post of yours when that side tracked me.

Or do you suppose that the police never arrest the innocent?
Perhaps in your country ...

LOL! That was well done, sir. [see below]**

From earlier...It made me think. *ouch!*

Such a shame that the mother of democracies should come to this.
Be warned by our bad example

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Funny how all three of us close cousins seem to be in a neck to neck race to the bottom. You pull ahead, then at the next turn, we pull ahead...ad nauseam. Australia, obviously is the third. My northern, Canadian cousins seem to be in the race also. Just wondering why, mind you...WTF?!?!?

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dreist

1. audacious (impudent)

Oh it is, is it Mr AC?

I've never heard that one before, is it some kind of racist comment?

It's an English idiom, but a less common one. See here.

Here's a good definition of "engineer" from Wiktionary: "A person who, given a problem and a specific set of goals and constraints, finds a technical solution to the problem that satisfies those goals within those constraints. The goals and constraints may be technical, social, or business related."

Given that definition, there absolutely are software engineers. My degree in Engineering is not in "Network Engineering," but I call myself a "Network Engineer" because that's what I do.

English is also not derived from Latin (although it does borrow a large amount of words from Latin.) Swedish and English actually come from the same language family (Germanic) and share a large number of words.

Not only that. A lot more English words than you think are borrowed from old Norse, the root of Swedish, Danish , Icelandic and Norwegian, and this because we Vikings invaded a thousand years ago.

Don't believe me, check out the etymology on the word window, which means eye to the wind. (Swedish has since borrowed the German word Fenster into the word fönster, but that is beside the point. Norwegian still uses vindue)

Think about that next time you see for instance Microsoft's trademark on a +1000 year old Norse word, vindauga.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/massacre
"The intentional killing of a considerable number of human beings, under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people."
high kills can mean massacre, but technically war is civilized.

having an unbalanced kill ratio doesn't mean shit. it can mean many things, for instance:
one aside has better
- training
- weapons
- tactics
- body armor
- etc

if you generally compare modern wars to each other, you'll notice how western countries take less and less casualties and it's all thanks (to the greater part) to new and improved body armor. The KIA toll in afghanistan or Iraq would be much higher if GIs still had Vietnam-era flak-jackets. Nowadays we get more (multiple) amputees than anything else.
furthermore, and this is the actual kicker, there were over 600 WIA (wounded in action) in Falluja.
I hope this sheds more light on the matter.

Martin Luther King's legendary 1963 speech on the steps of the Lincoln memorial appears in the Guardian's Twitterised archive as 'I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by,' eliminating the waffle and bluster of the original.

I couldn't find anything when googling for "waffle and bluster" aside from this story so I looked up each of the words.

waffle

Speech or writing that is vague, pretentious or evasive. Example: "This interesting point seems to get lost a little within a lot of self-important waffle."

bluster

Pompous, officious talk.

I guess we think more highly of Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. in the states.

Martin Luther King's legendary 1963 speech on the steps of the Lincoln memorial appears in the Guardian's Twitterised archive as 'I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by,' eliminating the waffle and bluster of the original.

I couldn't find anything when googling for "waffle and bluster" aside from this story so I looked up each of the words.

waffle

Speech or writing that is vague, pretentious or evasive. Example: "This interesting point seems to get lost a little within a lot of self-important waffle."

bluster

Pompous, officious talk.

I guess we think more highly of Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. in the states.

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If a nude picture is designed [...] to appeal specifically to sexual gratification, is it porn?

Yes, by definition.

1. The explicit depiction of sexual subject matter, especially with the sole intention of sexually exciting the viewer.

A picture doesn't even need to be nude; it could be argued that most modern music videos are "porn", in the sense that they're designed specifically to arouse prurient interest even if the actors are fully clothed.

That was obviously a typo, your post obviously a joke, but it's rather ironic that the parent poster's use of the word 'apology' was not actually incorrect, merely archaic.

An apology is a defense or justification of something. Probably the most notable example would be Plato's Apology for Socrates.

Main Entry: -fold
Function: suffix
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English -feald; akin to Old High German -falt -fold, Latin -plex, -plus, Old English fealdan

1 : multiplied by (a specified number) : times --in adjectives "a sixfold increase" and adverbs "repay you tenfold"
2 : having (so many) parts "threefold aspect of the problem"

see also: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-fold
http://www.yourdictionary.com/fold-suffix
or many of the links here.

It has nothing to do with folding things in half.

I know you're all fighters of justice and whistle blowing immoral activities happening around you, but why can't you be brave for once and say what you want in the open? Or are you using anonymity only for hate messages, kiddie porns, and copyright infringements?

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he uses exploits for profit. The GP is completely right- this guy is a black hat.

Oh really? Profiting from an exploit means you're a black hat?

white hat hacker: (emphasis mine)

A hacker who is ethically opposed to the abuse of computer systems.

A hacker who is legally authorized to use otherwise illegal means to achieve objectives critical to the security of computer systems, for example, someone hired to execute a penetration test upon a network to produce a report for its administrator about vulnerabilities and solutions to the networks security.

Hired? You mean HE PROFITED FROM IT? Isn't that EVIL?

ZOMG, WHITE HAT HACKERS ARE NOW BLACK HAT HACKERS! The world is coming to an end!

nazi grammar fail

However some would rightly say it foetuses.

Sorry, how can you possibly link an aborted fetus to pornography?

Because it's grotesque. Pornography doesn't just mean sex, it also covers extreme violence. Basically it's anything that the mainstream find objectionable but some minority might find fascinating or exciting. For example, the photos of Princess Diana after the car crash are pornographic in the second meaning here.

That's a new one. I didn't take latin for long, but I do remember that plurals were /much/ more complicated than replacing "us" with "i." And indeed, see wiktionary.

The whole idea of importing the plural from the language of origin is very misguided pedantry, esp. considering how you're not transposing the various cases (nominative, accusative, etc.)