"The idea is that it may have greater effects [in beer than in wine]," he added. "The amount of red wine you'd need to drink to get the same results they get with rats in labs is about half a bottle a day."
So until this beer is in production I will have to endure drinking half a bottle of red wine every day, for health's sake!:p
*I* don't like to have to pay a lot of money to dispose of someone else's huge pile of old tyres, kitchen appliances and broken furniture because they're too much of an inconsiderate cunt to pay for disposal themselves.
I wonder what costs more - paying for disposal or buying all this CCTV equipment, storage equipment, hiring people that actually watch the CCTV videos and finally tracking down the culprits.
I agree that waste dumping is a bloody nuisance, but maybe there is a better way of dealing with it. How about education, reducing the cost of waste disposal, tougher fines...?
What I find ever more concerning is not only the amount of spying, but how contrived the use of spying equipment has become.
Thanks to the The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, originally intended to prevent crime and stop terrorism, state bodies and councils are now authorised to use spying equipment almost at their volition.
According to an article on bloomberg, such use includes tracking down dog owners who fail to clean up after their four-legged friends, as well as catching people who are dumping waste etc.
The dewy Democrat rolled along smartly in his new "change-mobile." Then,
under pressure from the knuckleheads in his own party, he reversed to pick
up that babbling hack, Joe Biden, as his running mate - and ran right into
his own fraud. Biden is to Obama what Monica Lewinsky's blue dress was to
Bill Clinton - the dumb thing that reveals the spoken lie.
Biden demolished his own presidential campaign in 1987 by pretending to be
British Labor politician Neil Kinnock. Not only did he recite Kinnock's
lines about being the first in his family to go to university, he also stole
his identity, claiming that his father had worked in the coalmines. His own
father was actually a polo-playing car salesman from Baltimore. But if the
media hadn't stopped him, he probably be collecting Kinnock's pension by
now.
Apparently, the better you know Biden, the less you like him. In his home
state, 97% of voters refused to back him in the presidential primary. But
that was Biden in the '80s. In the '00s, Biden is, supposedly, on the ticket
because he knows who Saakashvili is. In truth, he's there because the old
nags in the Democratic Party wanted someone they could trust on the ticket -
a real go-along, get-along backslapper. They turned to Biden, in other
words, not for change, but to avoid it. And now, Obama and Biden are
trailing in the polls. Americans don't mind a liar in high office; but
they're suspicious of one who can't keep his lies straight.
Meanwhile, over in the Republican camp, that tough old salt, McCain, has
come about smartly, outmaneuvering the Dems by choosing a baroque woman from
Alaska as his #2. But here too, he's run into his own humbug. If military
experience were so important to the nation's top office, you'd think he - at
72 years old - would want a serious chief mate to take command if he were
struck down. Ms. Palin's military experience is limited to 22 months as
captain of the Alaska National Guard. Then again, she might be an
improvement over McCain anyway.
His right to rule, McCain says, comes from his superior command of the
military situation. But the claim looks counterfeit. During his tour of duty
McCain, lost five U.S. Navy aircraft, four in accidents, one in combat. The
first one went down in Corpus Christi Bay when he was practicing landings.
The second crash occurred over Spain, when he was flying too low. He took
out some power lines and bailed out. Number three was wrecked when he was
flying into Philadelphia for an Army-Navy football game. The fourth one, at
least, was not his fault. An accidentally-fired rocket hit his plane when he
was waiting to take off. The resulting explosion killed 134 sailors,
destroyed 20 aircraft and nearly sank the ship. Finally, in 1967, he got
shot down, roughed up.and then, by his own admission, collaborated with the
enemy in order to save his skin. Maybe getting shot down was just bad luck
too, but sailors are a superstitious lot. They'd probably give the heave-ho
to this right Jonah rather than set sail with him as captain.
Here are some good reasons why slashdotters would want to put their money into a foreign bank account, even if they can't evade paying capital gains tax in their own country, and even if they can't use their account for money laundering:
They want to have added financial security by spreading their money across different banks and countries in case of a crisis
The banking system in their own country is too unstable to be trusted with their own savings
The country they live in may have an unstable regime and they don't want to wake up one day with nothing
The country they live in may currently have a stable regime, but they want to protect themselves from future political changes
It boils down to this: successful scientific workhorses simply don't have the time to socialize.
I am sure that this can be extrapolated to other professions as well -- especially anything that demands a lot of concentration.
On the upside highly successful scientists doesn't regret being singletons, after all they are successful because they are passionate about what they are doing, so no sacrifice here I'd say.
I have heard rumours about fraudulent bank employees selling confidential information about customers to third parties.
I heard about this through a friend who never lost or misplaced their HSBC credit card, and who suddenly received entries in their monthly bills that did not correspond to past activity. But since this friend was very cautious about using the credit card and it was used very rarely indeed, it was virtually impossible for someone to steal this information physically.
If this is true then banks should definitely improve their in-house security.
I think one of the main reasons acronyms are frequently used on slashdot boils down to the pressure of posting a slashdot comment as early as possible.
After all, the longer it takes to post a comment, the more comments it will be competing with and the chances of it being read (modded up) dwindle.
In fact, even if this was a great comment by now the chances of it reaching +5 Insightful are pretty slim.
Maybe great late comments do deserve more generous attention though.
It should be noted that the Linux version of Acrobat Reader seems fairly antiquated compared with its Windows counterpart. The last time I used acroread I was unable to fill PDF forms with it.
This is similar to Skype for Linux vs Skype for Windows. Skype for windows has supported video calls for ages and has generally been ahead by a full version number.
Things are getting better for the Linux world though, eg there's a Skype beta version that offers video streaming in Linux. And one can argue that the Linux versions of these programs are definitely not bloated.
One thing I'd personally like to see is a 64-bit Flash player for Linux, it's about time.
I personally would like to see an open source version of tomtom's mapshare. But for that it's first of all necessary to have open source software to make it easy to record such data.
It would be great to simply press 'record' and then drive along a new road and upload that road straight away. I'm quite sure it's not that complicated, with something like subversion at the backend.
Isn't it great to see that punishment has been served, and now a strong example has been set as a deterrent!
Screw the woman's life, and scare the living flesh out of all those evil filesharers that have committed similar crimes.
Now we can all sleep better knowing that the artists and their friendly record companies can survive in the Land Of The Fees. And thank god that the record industry does not have to deal with many artists like Prince... obviously artists like that don't get by, and what about the industry!?
I'm sure pretty much everybody who is running a Linux server (or any server as a matter of fact), especially with services like SSH enabled, is currently subject to brute force attacks.
When I looked at my auth log I noticed a huge amount of brute force attacks for all my servers, so I installed denyhosts, which seems to work fine.
I guess the problem is also that in many distributions SSH servers are configured to allow root logins, and if nobody looks at the log files these go totally unnoticed.
One of the problems is, I don't see, how the IP address is a privacy related data
In theory you can use the IP address together with the time of visit to determine where the visitor came from, provided that you can follow the IP address all the way to its origin. Needless to say this can be difficult, especially if the visitor used a proxy or even a chain of proxies.
If storing IP addresses is considered a privacy violation, then what about cookies? And what about forums, after all they store and display messages from users, normally together with the user alias for god knows how long!
In the interest of everyone's privacy, it's about time to make the Web 2.0 illegal, and indeed databases of any kind should be banned! Or alternatively, since only the government and fraudsters might be interested in using your private data, how about banning these groups from having webservers?:-p
Pandora does not play classical music, so musical tastes for Pachelbel and friends would not be satisfied.
Classical music set aside, it does do a very good job of running along your criteria regarding music, and introducing you to artists and albums that A - you like, and B - you probably would have never come across otherwise.
I have a feeling that Pandora does a lot more than just picking songs from a genre, unless it has more genres than I am familiar with, because I found that it can run quite narrow criteria.
I would find it a pity to see this service disappear, because I really like the idea of it.
After implementing a few minor tweaks to paq8hp12 and incorporating your grammar optimisation algorithm I managed to compress the above text amazingly to a single character: '&'.
Now you figure out which one it was and how to decompress it.
For people who hate comments, writing descriptive field names is often the only means to make their code understandable. Pseudo-code to make it clearer:
aVeryLongClassName { public function crasilyLongFunctionName(arg1, arg2,..., arg10) { ... } }
Great strategy - quenching every drop of increased processing speed from your apple. Still it looks like it won't be quite enough to make a decent cider...
Another somebody gets paid for implementing a technology that definitely does not offer any real solution to the piracy problem and probably makes life for the law-abiding end-user a little more difficult.
Just like those fantastic copy-protected CDs that were so safe that pirates managed to copy them instantly, while many CD players failed to read them (not to mention the reduction in sound quality)!
Instead of paying all these experts to come up with the solution, maybe prices for digital products should be lowered so much that it would no longer be worthwhile to download a pirated version.
People, people, calm down. You are taking this all the wrong way.
I for one welcome our private data collecting and protecting overlords!
Seriously, I am so grateful that Microsoft are putting all this effort into collecting my private data - this way I know they are doing their best at making my Windows experience even more pleasant and productive, which is a difficult task, as you all will surely agree.
I am also grateful that I don't even need to consent to every little transmission of my private data... after all I trust my friends at Redmont and could think of no better place to store this data. Actually, maybe there is one better place. But then again, the RIAA do not write operating systems yet.
I am so glad that above this fabulous article there were Google ads pointing me right to the best place for buying Vista. I just have to buy a few more copies now, how thoughtful of them - now I know where to get them!
So cheer up folks, just relax. The private data of Vista users is in good hands.
Some more info about the Neo 1973 Linux phone. Interestingly it can run Windows Mobile, too.
It would be nice to have the option to install Linux on other smartphones too. The only interesting project I know at the moment is Xanadux, but since most phones have to be reverse-engineered, development is much slower than it could be.
According to the LINA whitepaper, LINA encourages migration to Linux, because commerical OS users will be introduced to countless Linux applications.
I just wonder - if LINA became incredibly popular - would Windows and Mac users really feel compelled to change to Linux? I mean if you could run the vast majority of Linux programs, but still have a few favourite programs that are not supported in Linux (and assuming these don't even run using Wine) then it might be more attractive to keep using LINA and never touch Linux in itself.
Just think of all those people who started using Linux only to have amarok.
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So until this beer is in production I will have to endure drinking half a bottle of red wine every day, for health's sake! :p
*I* don't like to have to pay a lot of money to dispose of someone else's huge pile of old tyres, kitchen appliances and broken furniture because they're too much of an inconsiderate cunt to pay for disposal themselves.
I wonder what costs more - paying for disposal or buying all this CCTV equipment, storage equipment, hiring people that actually watch the CCTV videos and finally tracking down the culprits.
I agree that waste dumping is a bloody nuisance, but maybe there is a better way of dealing with it. How about education, reducing the cost of waste disposal, tougher fines...?
What I find ever more concerning is not only the amount of spying, but how contrived the use of spying equipment has become.
Thanks to the The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, originally intended to prevent crime and stop terrorism, state bodies and councils are now authorised to use spying equipment almost at their volition.
According to an article on bloomberg, such use includes tracking down dog owners who fail to clean up after their four-legged friends, as well as catching people who are dumping waste etc.
Really? I had the impression it was a continent...
...you'll need a pointer first.
Here are some good reasons why slashdotters would want to put their money into a foreign bank account, even if they can't evade paying capital gains tax in their own country, and even if they can't use their account for money laundering:
It boils down to this: successful scientific workhorses simply don't have the time to socialize.
I am sure that this can be extrapolated to other professions as well -- especially anything that demands a lot of concentration.
On the upside highly successful scientists doesn't regret being singletons, after all they are successful because they are passionate about what they are doing, so no sacrifice here I'd say.
I have heard rumours about fraudulent bank employees selling confidential information about customers to third parties.
I heard about this through a friend who never lost or misplaced their HSBC credit card, and who suddenly received entries in their monthly bills that did not correspond to past activity. But since this friend was very cautious about using the credit card and it was used very rarely indeed, it was virtually impossible for someone to steal this information physically.
If this is true then banks should definitely improve their in-house security.
I think one of the main reasons acronyms are frequently used on slashdot boils down to the pressure of posting a slashdot comment as early as possible.
After all, the longer it takes to post a comment, the more comments it will be competing with and the chances of it being read (modded up) dwindle.
In fact, even if this was a great comment by now the chances of it reaching +5 Insightful are pretty slim.
Maybe great late comments do deserve more generous attention though.
It should be noted that the Linux version of Acrobat Reader seems fairly antiquated compared with its Windows counterpart. The last time I used acroread I was unable to fill PDF forms with it.
This is similar to Skype for Linux vs Skype for Windows. Skype for windows has supported video calls for ages and has generally been ahead by a full version number.
Things are getting better for the Linux world though, eg there's a Skype beta version that offers video streaming in Linux. And one can argue that the Linux versions of these programs are definitely not bloated.
One thing I'd personally like to see is a 64-bit Flash player for Linux, it's about time.
I personally would like to see an open source version of tomtom's mapshare. But for that it's first of all necessary to have open source software to make it easy to record such data.
It would be great to simply press 'record' and then drive along a new road and upload that road straight away. I'm quite sure it's not that complicated, with something like subversion at the backend.
Isn't it great to see that punishment has been served, and now a strong example has been set as a deterrent!
Screw the woman's life, and scare the living flesh out of all those evil filesharers that have committed similar crimes.
Now we can all sleep better knowing that the artists and their friendly record companies can survive in the Land Of The Fees. And thank god that the record industry does not have to deal with many artists like Prince... obviously artists like that don't get by, and what about the industry!?
China blocks access to a service. People find a way to get around it.
I'm sure pretty much everybody who is running a Linux server (or any server as a matter of fact), especially with services like SSH enabled, is currently subject to brute force attacks.
When I looked at my auth log I noticed a huge amount of brute force attacks for all my servers, so I installed denyhosts, which seems to work fine.
I guess the problem is also that in many distributions SSH servers are configured to allow root logins, and if nobody looks at the log files these go totally unnoticed.
If the dollar continues its current trend then it will be even more affordable, maybe the project will be renamed to NLPC!
In theory you can use the IP address together with the time of visit to determine where the visitor came from, provided that you can follow the IP address all the way to its origin. Needless to say this can be difficult, especially if the visitor used a proxy or even a chain of proxies.
If storing IP addresses is considered a privacy violation, then what about cookies? And what about forums, after all they store and display messages from users, normally together with the user alias for god knows how long!
In the interest of everyone's privacy, it's about time to make the Web 2.0 illegal, and indeed databases of any kind should be banned! Or alternatively, since only the government and fraudsters might be interested in using your private data, how about banning these groups from having webservers? :-p
Pandora does not play classical music, so musical tastes for Pachelbel and friends would not be satisfied.
Classical music set aside, it does do a very good job of running along your criteria regarding music, and introducing you to artists and albums that A - you like, and B - you probably would have never come across otherwise.
I have a feeling that Pandora does a lot more than just picking songs from a genre, unless it has more genres than I am familiar with, because I found that it can run quite narrow criteria.
I would find it a pity to see this service disappear, because I really like the idea of it.
After implementing a few minor tweaks to paq8hp12 and incorporating your grammar optimisation algorithm I managed to compress the above text amazingly to a single character: '&'.
Now you figure out which one it was and how to decompress it.
For people who hate comments, writing descriptive field names is often the only means to make their code understandable. Pseudo-code to make it clearer:
..., arg10) {
...
y LongArg1, crazilyLongArg2, ..., crazilyLongArg10);
...,
aVeryLongClassName {
public function crasilyLongFunctionName(arg1, arg2,
}
}
longResultValue = aVeryLongClassName.crasilyLongFunctionName(crazil
looks better on one line than writing:
longResultValue =
aVeryLongClassName.crasilyLongFunctionName(
crazilyLongArg1,
crazilyLongArg2,
crazilyLongArg10);
I've seen some pretty nasty examples where the 80 column limit was obeyed but the result was code that was definitely unpleasant to read.
Great strategy - quenching every drop of increased processing speed from your apple. Still it looks like it won't be quite enough to make a decent cider...
Another somebody gets paid for implementing a technology that definitely does not offer any real solution to the piracy problem and probably makes life for the law-abiding end-user a little more difficult.
Just like those fantastic copy-protected CDs that were so safe that pirates managed to copy them instantly, while many CD players failed to read them (not to mention the reduction in sound quality)!
Instead of paying all these experts to come up with the solution, maybe prices for digital products should be lowered so much that it would no longer be worthwhile to download a pirated version.
People, people, calm down. You are taking this all the wrong way.
I for one welcome our private data collecting and protecting overlords!
Seriously, I am so grateful that Microsoft are putting all this effort into collecting my private data - this way I know they are doing their best at making my Windows experience even more pleasant and productive, which is a difficult task, as you all will surely agree.
I am also grateful that I don't even need to consent to every little transmission of my private data... after all I trust my friends at Redmont and could think of no better place to store this data. Actually, maybe there is one better place. But then again, the RIAA do not write operating systems yet.
I am so glad that above this fabulous article there were Google ads pointing me right to the best place for buying Vista. I just have to buy a few more copies now, how thoughtful of them - now I know where to get them!
So cheer up folks, just relax. The private data of Vista users is in good hands.
Some more info about the Neo 1973 Linux phone. Interestingly it can run Windows Mobile, too.
It would be nice to have the option to install Linux on other smartphones too. The only interesting project I know at the moment is Xanadux, but since most phones have to be reverse-engineered, development is much slower than it could be.
According to the LINA whitepaper, LINA encourages migration to Linux, because commerical OS users will be introduced to countless Linux applications.
I just wonder - if LINA became incredibly popular - would Windows and Mac users really feel compelled to change to Linux? I mean if you could run the vast majority of Linux programs, but still have a few favourite programs that are not supported in Linux (and assuming these don't even run using Wine) then it might be more attractive to keep using LINA and never touch Linux in itself.
Just think of all those people who started using Linux only to have amarok.