Any programmer who let a buffer-overflow bug slip through should be sacked. On the spot. And his boss, too. As well as the numbskull bean-counter who declined the ressources to do proper checking, and the marketoid who ordered the work done by last monday should be be drawn and quartered.
Heh, is that how you figured out that the mouse was female?;)
Oh. I'm french, and in french, words have gender. "Mouse" is feminine, so we say "she" even though it's a male...
Re:Jeez, mice sure are high-tech these days
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Mine's the old style: furry and with a little tail. I give it a little water, some pellets twice a day, and it just runs around on its little wheel and is happy.
Funniest thing I ever saw in a pet-shop: a bunch of 15-20 mice were running together in a hamster wheel... But one mouse had enough of it and stopped dead in her tracks, and gripped the wheel wires, where it promptly went around and around and around while the other mice kept running... Just hilarious!!!
Not that there is a need for ergonomic mice, but that people can get hurt by mice and keyboards.
To me, it looks like an attitude problem. I've been working with computers for the last 25 years, where I've been at the keyboard/CRT/mice for hours at stretch (it's even worse since the Internet came about).
Yet, I never had the slightest problem. Perhaps it is because I never always do the same thing, but vary what I do, that is, get a book, get a printout from the printer (which is purposefully set beyond arm reach), fiddle with the radio/mp3 player, and many little things that distract from my keyboard pounding/mouse fondling.
Focusing may be good, but like anything else, too much of it is bound to be bad; I've worked with plenty of people so much focused on their stuff that they'd jump that high (no, higher than that) whenever they had the slightest interruption. And, guess what? They're the ones who get hurt with their keyboards...
I mean, it's not hard to introduce some variation in one's daily routine. For supposedly creative people, it should not make them lose too much neurons on it, no?
As always, the "invisible hand" of the almighty Holy-Market will prevail.
Like in everything, some suckers will gladly fork-over their dough for overpriced, under-achieving closed-source proprietary crap, and others will simply use open-source free software for the same result.
Solutions That Suck(tm) will simply go the way of the dodo.
The market will decide who will be the winner, thanks to the level playing field.
In other news, shares of Litton-McBee have been soaring 3%. According to industry expert Batson Dee-Seeling, this is because it is anticipated that microwave ovens (which uses magnetrons of which Litton-McBee have 33% of the market) sales will increase in the next two years.
Structured correctly, such a ban could be challenged in ecclesiastical court. It's a Catholic school. We've got our own court system.
What a bunch those fuckers are, those scatholics. They have their OWN parallel kangaroo court system, now, to better shove their brain-control down on people.
The government is supposed to be run by the community. The will of the people is supposed to be imposed by the government, under the rules of the constitution. By setting up community groups without government control you are circumventing the protection provided by the constitution. Why would you want to do that?
To please local power-grabbers and control-freaks???
You only need to go to most Countries in Europe to see just this happening, in France they control what you are allowed to play on the radio (you have to play a certain percentage of french artists per hour etc...)
It's not worse than not being allowed to say "Shit", "Piss", "Fuck", "Cunt", "Cocksucker", "Motherfucker" and "Tits" on TV...
Why? Children in Idaho need to know the exact same: Reading, Writing, Basic Math, Algebra, US History, World History, Geography, Sciences, Arts, etc. as every other kid in America. Why should each district have their own curriculum and textbooks?
Totally false.
Children in Vermont have to know how to make maple syrup,
Children in Massachussets have to know how to drink latté,
Children in New-York have to know how to avoid stares in the Subway,
Children in New-Jersey have to know how to look wierd and not mind about the garbage,
Children in Idaho have to know how to dig-out potatoes,
Children in Montana have to know how to fuck sheep,
Children in West-Virginia have to know how to fuck their cousins,
Children in Louisiana have to know how to paddle in the bayou,
Children in Florida have to know how to spam,
Children in Texas have to know how to shoot a bull,
Children in Nevada have to know how to shoot craps,
Children in Colorado have to know how to downhill ski,
Children in Utah have to know how to choose their fifth wife,
Children in California have to know how to smoke weed and
Children in Oregon have to know how to fend-off the californians coming to share the experience.
Follow the chains of control and the chains of responsibility, and you will soon find that the public school system as it is implemented is designed to fail.
It is designed to fail in the USA because the bourgeois do not want to pay for other kids' educations. In order to do so, they totally emasculated the public school school of subtance, good only to turn-out mindless sheep who will have no concept of politics, will blindingly do what their bosses tell them to do without asking if it is good or bad, and buy whatever the bourgeois will advertise to them, in order to fatten-more the bourgeois.
Meanwhile, the bourgeois send their offspring to private schools who give them a good education, enabling them to live a better life later by becoming more bourgeois.
This effectively makes wealth hereditary because no one anymore has the possibility of rising above the poverty level (like it used to be in the USA).
It is also interesting to note that societies who started egalitarian but eventually made opportunities hereditary eventually collapsed or were overwhelmed once they turned hereditary. This is simple to explain: success is NOT hereditary; witness the great fall of the robber-baron families (who hears of the Vanderbilts, Goulds, Fisk or even Rockfeller nowadays???)...
Interestingly enough though, some forms of legal pr0n (consenting adult-made) are confiscated when discovered coming across the border, yet the same pr0n is legal to make within Canada.
Oh, this is an issue with individual customs agents. This is the reason why most pr0n importers have it coming through Québec ports of entry, because french people are fare more open-minded than the english in the rest of Canada and, being recovering scatholics (until 40 years ago, we were TOTALLY under the scatholic church control - who had the constitutional blessing of the occupying britshits -, exactly like in the middle-ages -- we expedited 1000 years of History in less than 25 years), have absolutely no problem with pr0n at all...
Of course this is one of the major problems associated with federal funding of religious programs for charity or education. These charities can discriminate and there are no federal protections for these folks who are discriminated against even though the source of the funds are federal in nature. Shockingly, there have been discrimination cases based upon religion, race or appearance that are being upheld because "private" churches or schools can make any requirements on their "clubs" they want. Historically, the protection has been that any organization that receives federal funding cannot discriminate, but the new rules blow this away.
This is why anglo-saxon-style charities for social relief is BAD. There are no strict legal guidelines against private distrimination, so in effect, the charities are far less effective than governmental administration of social relief which, by law, HAS TO BE OPEN AND AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE.
Scatholicism is totally about mind-control. For the scatholic church, every human who is not a priest is a sheep, to be totally controlled by a parasitic caste of priests and bishops.
Mind-control extends all the way towards one's feelings and sensation, and anything that does not conforms to the priests' directions (never mind what the bible says - the scatholic church has fought tooth and nail against the possibility of mere persons to be able to read it directly, hence it's insistence of using a dead language until about 40 years ago) has to be harshly suppressed. This is not for nothing that protestants were deemed heretics for translating the bible: it removed the middlemen between the bible and the people.
It is not for nothing that England and other protestant countries have enacted strict discriminatory and persecutive measures against scatholics; this was to prevent the brainrot that scatholicism is from wrecking the freedom and liberty of people.
As a matter of fact, of the scourge that shritsianity is, scatholicism is by far the worse kind.
It's obvious that in reality you're some pasty-faced teenager who lives in his mother's basement and dreads any human contact whatsoever.
Odd. I'm well into my forties, and I have no shortage of human contact, sexual or otherwise.
While fantasies of mooning street preachers undoubtedly fuel your pathetic wet dreams, the waking thought of acutally doing so probably makes you physically ill.
I bike something like 30 kilometers every day to go to work, and doing so, I wear flashy spandex (which I keep at work. Pity the fuckhead who makes a comment). So I have absolutely no problem showing myself (and the exercise makes the spandex not outrageous in the least). As a matter of fact, during the summer I spend plenty of time sunbathing naked in a park near where I live.
So you can see that I don't have any american-like hangups about the human body.
I'm sure you had to reach for your inhaler several times, pausing repeatedly to unclench your throat as you typed out this amusing and fictional account of how "abnormal" you are.
Unlike you, I do not need any kind of drugs to have some fun...
No, stranger, it's clear that you are, in fact, just a total fuckwad of the normal kind.
If you prefer.
But who knows? Maybe someday you'll find the courage to wear your hate on your sleeve. Or get assfucked by street preachers.
Gimme your e-mail address so I can e-mail you naked pictures of me.
Er, you're somewhat mistaken. I'm certainly NOT normal, and I do not hesitate at being vulgar, obscene right in the people's face or even pulling down my pants on the street at a preacher (like I did two months ago). Plus, I do not need an audience to do that, as I normally walk around my house without clothes on.
Yeah, that's worked really well in all those 'socialized medicine' countries that produce a significant quantity of drug research like...
uh... like...
uh...
Canada, maybe (where an inordinate amount of pharmaceutical research is being done around Montréal)???
Should a lack of patent laws cause the death of people? Imagine that the entire world declared that for "serious disease" no one had to respect patent laws. Let's say that AIDS was declared such a disease. Would any more private sector research money (by far the most research money spent) go into finding a cure or better treatment for AIDS? Would anyone be able to write a business case to get venture money to start a new bio-tech firm looking at AIDS treatment?
What a shitload of fucking bullshit.
- Pharma croporations spend much more money on MARKETING than on research.
- Most research in drugs (especially AIDS drugs) is paid by the government using taxpayer's dollars.
- Private pharmacos have NO GODDAMMED FUCKING INCENTIVE WHATSOEVER in "researching" a cure or a vaccine for AIDS, given that they have a stronghold on AIDS patients' balls to make them pay through the nose for the drugs they sell them.
Seems that the stupid yankees are as clueless as ever. One wonders how many more airliners are going to have to be shoved in american skyscrapers before they get a clue???
The Taiwanese government, charged with the protection of their citizens, and taxing them for that very purpose, never saw fit to invest in their own safeguards against plagues like the bird flu. Nor does the Taiwanese government see fit to pay now the cost of such an investment, which Roche made for its own reasons.
So the Taiwanese government won't save its own citizens, and won't pay someone else to save its own citizens, but will gladly steal the results of someone else's work to save its own citizens. Doesn't it seem like Taiwan is behaving badly?
Only to a stupid asshat shit-for-brains yankee capitalist like you.
Jerks like you will put a price in dollars on fucking anything, even your grandmother.
And you find nothing wrong with this.
Ever wondered why people are willing to die hurling airliners into your skyscrapers????
Last i checked, this post was the definition of troll AND flamebait. Wake up slashdot - even if you disagree with religion, a lot of the practices and followings make sense. There have been definitive double-blind studies that porn is unhealthy for anyone, much less children. Studies on violence are less definitive but definitely show trends. Stop attempting to change our freedoms into license to do what you please - there IS such a thing as right and wrong.
Only for stupid people whose brains have been damaged by extensive use of religion (lemme guess, you're a southern baptist, no?).
Religion, by it's very essence, imposes a way of thinking on brains, thus dulling the brain and suppressing independent thought.
Naked people are "disgusting" only by convention. Children will be shocked by naked people ONLY IF THEY ARE TAUGHT to be shocked. This is so true that for divorcees, IN THAT BIBLE-THUMPING COUNTRY THAT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS, BRINGING CHILDREN TO A NUDIST CAMP IS NOT GROUNDS FOR LOSING CUSTODY OF CHILDREN.
Your reaction clearly indicates that you are just as prejudiced, bigoted, stupid, assinine and totally fucked-up as the priest who complained loudly about this picture when it was published in a Florida newspaper because it showed a naked little girl running around naked. But it turned out that this little girl, thanks to that very picture, stopped one of the most racist wars in the History of Mankind, a war waged by the most industrialized nation of Earth against an agrarian society that could never has presented the slightest threat to the USA (by the way, I met the "little" girl a month ago - she gave me an autograph - and I consider this the greatest moment of my life).
When you tell children that pr0n is bad, you are in effect labelling it as "forbidden", and they will eventually seek it and be ashamed of it when they will get it (often paying a ridiculous premium). When I was a kid (less than 10), I had free access to my father's pr0n magazines, and this was no fucking big deal. Nowadays, I don't recoil in horror and lose precious neurons whenever I see somebody naked or having sex.
Perhaps this is why bible-thumpers are stupid: they make themselves lose neurons for the most stupid things, and this only reinforces the clergy strongold over their brains.
It is not for nothing that the US founding fathers emphasized separation of church and State. The next logical step would be to ban religious people from voting, since religion hinders the free thought that is necessary in the political exercise.
So, in short, you think that exposing children to harsh language and sexual content (this isn't "artistic nudity" but sexually charged) is a good thing? Did you ever consider that maybe Japan's culture is wrong?
Of course, you would not think for a second that YOU would be wrong, stupid biblethumper???
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Could this be light from Milliways(TM), the Restaurant at the End of the Universe?
Again.
Any programmer who let a buffer-overflow bug slip through should be sacked. On the spot. And his boss, too. As well as the numbskull bean-counter who declined the ressources to do proper checking, and the marketoid who ordered the work done by last monday should be be drawn and quartered.
When you sail in a colander, you should not be surprised to see water leaking through.
Not that there is a need for ergonomic mice, but that people can get hurt by mice and keyboards.
To me, it looks like an attitude problem. I've been working with computers for the last 25 years, where I've been at the keyboard/CRT/mice for hours at stretch (it's even worse since the Internet came about).
Yet, I never had the slightest problem. Perhaps it is because I never always do the same thing, but vary what I do, that is, get a book, get a printout from the printer (which is purposefully set beyond arm reach), fiddle with the radio/mp3 player, and many little things that distract from my keyboard pounding/mouse fondling.
Focusing may be good, but like anything else, too much of it is bound to be bad; I've worked with plenty of people so much focused on their stuff that they'd jump that high (no, higher than that) whenever they had the slightest interruption. And, guess what? They're the ones who get hurt with their keyboards...
I mean, it's not hard to introduce some variation in one's daily routine. For supposedly creative people, it should not make them lose too much neurons on it, no?
Like in everything, some suckers will gladly fork-over their dough for overpriced, under-achieving closed-source proprietary crap, and others will simply use open-source free software for the same result.
Solutions That Suck(tm) will simply go the way of the dodo.
The market will decide who will be the winner, thanks to the level playing field.
In other news, shares of Litton-McBee have been soaring 3%. According to industry expert Batson Dee-Seeling, this is because it is anticipated that microwave ovens (which uses magnetrons of which Litton-McBee have 33% of the market) sales will increase in the next two years.
Children in Vermont have to know how to make maple syrup,
Children in Massachussets have to know how to drink latté,
Children in New-York have to know how to avoid stares in the Subway,
Children in New-Jersey have to know how to look wierd and not mind about the garbage,
Children in Idaho have to know how to dig-out potatoes,
Children in Montana have to know how to fuck sheep,
Children in West-Virginia have to know how to fuck their cousins,
Children in Louisiana have to know how to paddle in the bayou,
Children in Florida have to know how to spam,
Children in Texas have to know how to shoot a bull,
Children in Nevada have to know how to shoot craps,
Children in Colorado have to know how to downhill ski,
Children in Utah have to know how to choose their fifth wife,
Children in California have to know how to smoke weed and
Children in Oregon have to know how to fend-off the californians coming to share the experience.
Meanwhile, the bourgeois send their offspring to private schools who give them a good education, enabling them to live a better life later by becoming more bourgeois.
This effectively makes wealth hereditary because no one anymore has the possibility of rising above the poverty level (like it used to be in the USA).
It is also interesting to note that societies who started egalitarian but eventually made opportunities hereditary eventually collapsed or were overwhelmed once they turned hereditary. This is simple to explain: success is NOT hereditary; witness the great fall of the robber-baron families (who hears of the Vanderbilts, Goulds, Fisk or even Rockfeller nowadays???)...
Mind-control extends all the way towards one's feelings and sensation, and anything that does not conforms to the priests' directions (never mind what the bible says - the scatholic church has fought tooth and nail against the possibility of mere persons to be able to read it directly, hence it's insistence of using a dead language until about 40 years ago) has to be harshly suppressed. This is not for nothing that protestants were deemed heretics for translating the bible: it removed the middlemen between the bible and the people.
It is not for nothing that England and other protestant countries have enacted strict discriminatory and persecutive measures against scatholics; this was to prevent the brainrot that scatholicism is from wrecking the freedom and liberty of people.
As a matter of fact, of the scourge that shritsianity is, scatholicism is by far the worse kind.
So you can see that I don't have any american-like hangups about the human body.
Unlike you, I do not need any kind of drugs to have some fun... If you prefer. Gimme your e-mail address so I can e-mail you naked pictures of me.Er, you're somewhat mistaken. I'm certainly NOT normal, and I do not hesitate at being vulgar, obscene right in the people's face or even pulling down my pants on the street at a preacher (like I did two months ago). Plus, I do not need an audience to do that, as I normally walk around my house without clothes on.
- Pharma croporations spend much more money on MARKETING than on research.
- Most research in drugs (especially AIDS drugs) is paid by the government using taxpayer's dollars.
- Private pharmacos have NO GODDAMMED FUCKING INCENTIVE WHATSOEVER in "researching" a cure or a vaccine for AIDS, given that they have a stronghold on AIDS patients' balls to make them pay through the nose for the drugs they sell them.
Seems that the stupid yankees are as clueless as ever. One wonders how many more airliners are going to have to be shoved in american skyscrapers before they get a clue???
Jerks like you will put a price in dollars on fucking anything, even your grandmother.
And you find nothing wrong with this.
Ever wondered why people are willing to die hurling airliners into your skyscrapers????
Religion, by it's very essence, imposes a way of thinking on brains, thus dulling the brain and suppressing independent thought.
Naked people are "disgusting" only by convention. Children will be shocked by naked people ONLY IF THEY ARE TAUGHT to be shocked. This is so true that for divorcees, IN THAT BIBLE-THUMPING COUNTRY THAT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS, BRINGING CHILDREN TO A NUDIST CAMP IS NOT GROUNDS FOR LOSING CUSTODY OF CHILDREN.
Your reaction clearly indicates that you are just as prejudiced, bigoted, stupid, assinine and totally fucked-up as the priest who complained loudly about this picture when it was published in a Florida newspaper because it showed a naked little girl running around naked. But it turned out that this little girl, thanks to that very picture, stopped one of the most racist wars in the History of Mankind, a war waged by the most industrialized nation of Earth against an agrarian society that could never has presented the slightest threat to the USA (by the way, I met the "little" girl a month ago - she gave me an autograph - and I consider this the greatest moment of my life).
When you tell children that pr0n is bad, you are in effect labelling it as "forbidden", and they will eventually seek it and be ashamed of it when they will get it (often paying a ridiculous premium). When I was a kid (less than 10), I had free access to my father's pr0n magazines, and this was no fucking big deal. Nowadays, I don't recoil in horror and lose precious neurons whenever I see somebody naked or having sex.
Perhaps this is why bible-thumpers are stupid: they make themselves lose neurons for the most stupid things, and this only reinforces the clergy strongold over their brains.
It is not for nothing that the US founding fathers emphasized separation of church and State. The next logical step would be to ban religious people from voting, since religion hinders the free thought that is necessary in the political exercise.