Oh please! Okay, you tell me where you can get aborted fetuses for seventy cents on the dollar? You tell me, Chuck?...Yeah, I didn't think so-You know, I'm just like the fetuses, Chuck. I wasn't born yesterday, either. Uh huh....So are you gonna talk to me, or are we just gonna keep bull shitting each other? Breakin' my balls, Chuck.
"As far as i know, there will be no contact between them and... the rest of the world."
I think it's cruel to show them a helicoptor though. Imagine seeing that! Do they think it's a giant wasp? Do they know it's man made? Was the phototographer visible in the helicoptor? If it were me in the primitive village and I saw a marvel of human engineering, I would have to see more. I'd leave the village in search of other marvels. Showing this to them is mean and will likely break up thier society.
You gotta admit, they have balls for trying to attack a helicopter, something presumably they have never seen before. Imaging seeing a helicoper, when the most advanced thing you have ever seen is a bow and arrow.
It would be fun to show them the real world. Either that or let them shoot some arrows, then fire back a couple hellfire missles, just to let them know who's boss.
It's called assuming another identity. Technically possible, though illigal... Unless you happen to be a "person" that contains no flesh/blood/"soul"/etc.
The clicking is the best part. When you are typing up a storm, the whole office better know it. When something is broken and everyone it waiting for you to fix it, and everyone hears "CLACKITY! CLICK! CLICK! CLACK! CLACK! THUNK(spacebar)! CLACK!" the only thought in thier head is "Man he must be doing something complicated".
You just make the last line of autoexec.bat "win".
I did that on my comptuer when I was younger. You flick the switch it loads into windows, just like magic! My family loved it, as they were having trouble managing the mouse (double clicking can be a bitch), let alone the OS.
Funny you mention that, when just the other day there was an article on/. that indicated that almost 50% of US companies routinely monitor outgoing email to make sure that there are no information leaks.
I think that if the company owns the phone, and the employee (by paying them) then all communications are fair game for monitoring.
Now if they were snooping on customers, that would be a WHOLE different story...
I learned a long time ago that in the court room the judge and attorneys involved are not interested in the truth, the facts, or with dispensing justice. They are there to tell a story and put on an act to convince the jury that their side is telling a better story than the other side.
Not quite, the Lawyer and Procecutor are each telling thier side. The prosecutor goes first and tries to make the defendant seem like the most vile person ever to walk the earth. Then it's the Lawyer's turn to make the defendant look like an angel and to make the procesutor look like he doesn't know anything.
Many people at this point would think that this is silly, and nothing more than a show. It was always put to me this way: It's not a lawyers job to determine if thier client is innocent or not, that is the judge/jury's job. The lawyers job is to put the defendant in the best possible light, and to ensure that a fair trial is being conducted.
I have been using Ono for about 6 months now. When I installed it, it made very little difference at all. I usually get pretty good speeds though, with or without. I am still using the plugin now (with azureus) and am using it more because i'm too lazy to uninstall it, then for the speed increase (if any).
It sounded cool, but didn't work for me. I am curious if anyone else noticed similar findings, or if I am all alone.
Sorry but in view of the last 6 years, all I can think is "Yeah. Right.".
Well, GPS service has remained uninturrupted during those 6 years. I guess that kind of proves wikipedia's point. If you are suggesting that they put the constellation in UN hands, how likely do you think it would be that the satellites are not maintained and the service would fall apart just like the Russian system.
Anyways, they were designed for military use. They decided to *LET* civilians use thier satellites for whatever reasons. As a non US citizen, how many tax dollars did you invest in those satellites? What right do you have to them?
I, as a fellow non-US citizen totally love GPS and am glad to be allowed to use it.
Galileo is intended to provide more precise measurements to all users than available through GPS or GLONASS, better positioning services at high latitudes and an independent positioning system upon which European nations can rely even in times of war or political disagreement.
The last part is less of an issue now...
A reason given for Galileo as an independent system was that, though GPS is now widely used worldwide for civilian applications, it is a military system which as recently as 2000 had Selective Availability (SA) that could be enabled in particular areas of coverage during times of war, and therefore Galileo's proponents argue that civil infrastructure, including aeroplane navigation and landing, should not rely solely upon GPS.
On May 1, 2000, the President of the United States signed an order disabling SA, and in late 2001, the entity managing GPS confirmed that the intent is to never re-enable selective availability.[14].
Though Selective Availability still exists, on September 19 2007, the US Department of Defense announced that they would not procure any more satellites capable of implementing Selective Availability.[15] This means the next wave of Block IIF satellites launching in 2009 will no longer support SA. As older satellites are deorbited and replaced, as part of the GPS Modernization program, SA will cease to exist. The modernization program also contains standardized features that allow GPS III and Galileo systems to inter-operate, allowing a new receiver to utilize both systems to improve accuracy.
I don't disagree that POTS is oldskool, and that fibre is the future, but how long did it take to get POTS to everyone's house? 50 years? more? What makes you think that you can just wake up and BAM, you have fibre.
You talk about your ladder having wire hooks, but you are ignoring the fact that most modern communities don't have ugly telephone poles, so you have to rip up kilometers of pavement, and then repave when you are done.
Moving everyone to fibre from copper will probably take just as long as moving people from mail to twister copper pair.
Not everyone has the luxory of having fiber to the curb. In fact, MOST people do not have fiber to the curb. Your comment shows how little you know of the real world.
While DSL is not my first choice of Internet, given a choice, it is FAR from the worst invention ever. DSL used existing copper pairs to deliver multi mbit connections were only 56k was available before. Also, without DSL, there would be even less competition in an industry that is in cahoots to begin with.
Good luck with that. Companies like to have someone to blame when the software stops working. With Linux you have no one to blame becuase (for most cases) you aren't paying anything for it, so you don't really have much leverage.
There is a big different. SMS uses the control channel of the cell tower, where as IM uses the normal data channels. The control channel is limited in bandwidth, where the data channel can accomodate much, much more data.
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Oh please! Okay, you tell me where you can get aborted fetuses for seventy cents on the dollar? You tell me, Chuck? ...Yeah, I didn't think so-You know, I'm just like the fetuses, Chuck. I wasn't born yesterday, either. Uh huh. ...So are you gonna talk to me, or are we just gonna keep bull shitting each other? Breakin' my balls, Chuck.
"As far as i know, there will be no contact between them and... the rest of the world."
I think it's cruel to show them a helicoptor though. Imagine seeing that! Do they think it's a giant wasp? Do they know it's man made? Was the phototographer visible in the helicoptor? If it were me in the primitive village and I saw a marvel of human engineering, I would have to see more. I'd leave the village in search of other marvels. Showing this to them is mean and will likely break up thier society.
You gotta admit, they have balls for trying to attack a helicopter, something presumably they have never seen before. Imaging seeing a helicoper, when the most advanced thing you have ever seen is a bow and arrow.
It would be fun to show them the real world. Either that or let them shoot some arrows, then fire back a couple hellfire missles, just to let them know who's boss.
It's called assuming another identity. Technically possible, though illigal... Unless you happen to be a "person" that contains no flesh/blood/"soul"/etc.
Or, I don't know, throw out the default mouse and buy a 19.99 Microsoft Intellieye /w scroll wheel and *gasp* two whole buttons!!
The clicking is the best part. When you are typing up a storm, the whole office better know it. When something is broken and everyone it waiting for you to fix it, and everyone hears "CLACKITY! CLICK! CLICK! CLACK! CLACK! THUNK(spacebar)! CLACK!" the only thought in thier head is "Man he must be doing something complicated".
You just make the last line of autoexec.bat "win".
I did that on my comptuer when I was younger. You flick the switch it loads into windows, just like magic! My family loved it, as they were having trouble managing the mouse (double clicking can be a bitch), let alone the OS.
Funny you mention that, when just the other day there was an article on /. that indicated that almost 50% of US companies routinely monitor outgoing email to make sure that there are no information leaks.
I think that if the company owns the phone, and the employee (by paying them) then all communications are fair game for monitoring.
Now if they were snooping on customers, that would be a WHOLE different story...
I'm not your buddy, pal!
Say what you want, if it keeps the assholes around here from pissing everywhere but in the toilet/urnal, it seems like a good idea.
I'm so sick of heading to the can to take a nice shit, oney to find out that some asshole still can't aim his wee-wee after 30 odd years of practice.
'P-to-p traffic doesn't necessarily follow normal traffic flows.'
Nope it sure doesn't when you implement layer 4 filtering and then configure it to block/messwith/"delay" p2p apps. Who knew?
What did 5 1/4 drives connect with? ATA/33? Would you even be able to connect a flopppy from a 386 to a modern PC?
Software Debugging - Where doing the same thing over and over gives you different answers. Leading cause of insanity.
Not quite, the Lawyer and Procecutor are each telling thier side. The prosecutor goes first and tries to make the defendant seem like the most vile person ever to walk the earth. Then it's the Lawyer's turn to make the defendant look like an angel and to make the procesutor look like he doesn't know anything.
Many people at this point would think that this is silly, and nothing more than a show. It was always put to me this way: It's not a lawyers job to determine if thier client is innocent or not, that is the judge/jury's job. The lawyers job is to put the defendant in the best possible light, and to ensure that a fair trial is being conducted.
I have been using Ono for about 6 months now. When I installed it, it made very little difference at all. I usually get pretty good speeds though, with or without. I am still using the plugin now (with azureus) and am using it more because i'm too lazy to uninstall it, then for the speed increase (if any).
It sounded cool, but didn't work for me. I am curious if anyone else noticed similar findings, or if I am all alone.
Or simply reset the CMOS on the motherboard. BIOS passwords are useless.
Sorry but in view of the last 6 years, all I can think is "Yeah. Right.".
Well, GPS service has remained uninturrupted during those 6 years. I guess that kind of proves wikipedia's point. If you are suggesting that they put the constellation in UN hands, how likely do you think it would be that the satellites are not maintained and the service would fall apart just like the Russian system.
Anyways, they were designed for military use. They decided to *LET* civilians use thier satellites for whatever reasons. As a non US citizen, how many tax dollars did you invest in those satellites? What right do you have to them?
I, as a fellow non-US citizen totally love GPS and am glad to be allowed to use it.
Galileo is intended to provide more precise measurements to all users than available through GPS or GLONASS, better positioning services at high latitudes and an independent positioning system upon which European nations can rely even in times of war or political disagreement.
The last part is less of an issue now...
A reason given for Galileo as an independent system was that, though GPS is now widely used worldwide for civilian applications, it is a military system which as recently as 2000 had Selective Availability (SA) that could be enabled in particular areas of coverage during times of war, and therefore Galileo's proponents argue that civil infrastructure, including aeroplane navigation and landing, should not rely solely upon GPS. On May 1, 2000, the President of the United States signed an order disabling SA, and in late 2001, the entity managing GPS confirmed that the intent is to never re-enable selective availability.[14]. Though Selective Availability still exists, on September 19 2007, the US Department of Defense announced that they would not procure any more satellites capable of implementing Selective Availability.[15] This means the next wave of Block IIF satellites launching in 2009 will no longer support SA. As older satellites are deorbited and replaced, as part of the GPS Modernization program, SA will cease to exist. The modernization program also contains standardized features that allow GPS III and Galileo systems to inter-operate, allowing a new receiver to utilize both systems to improve accuracy.
I don't disagree that POTS is oldskool, and that fibre is the future, but how long did it take to get POTS to everyone's house? 50 years? more? What makes you think that you can just wake up and BAM, you have fibre.
You talk about your ladder having wire hooks, but you are ignoring the fact that most modern communities don't have ugly telephone poles, so you have to rip up kilometers of pavement, and then repave when you are done.
Moving everyone to fibre from copper will probably take just as long as moving people from mail to twister copper pair.
Wow, ignorant much?
Not everyone has the luxory of having fiber to the curb. In fact, MOST people do not have fiber to the curb. Your comment shows how little you know of the real world.
While DSL is not my first choice of Internet, given a choice, it is FAR from the worst invention ever. DSL used existing copper pairs to deliver multi mbit connections were only 56k was available before. Also, without DSL, there would be even less competition in an industry that is in cahoots to begin with.
You sir, are a waste of flesh.
Good luck with that. Companies like to have someone to blame when the software stops working. With Linux you have no one to blame becuase (for most cases) you aren't paying anything for it, so you don't really have much leverage.
I was thinking the same thing. I, personally, would not be playing with a water balloon near my life support system... But, that's just me.
There is a big different. SMS uses the control channel of the cell tower, where as IM uses the normal data channels. The control channel is limited in bandwidth, where the data channel can accomodate much, much more data.
All these stories coming from Austrailia makes me wonder: Who is more communist? Austrailia, or Russia?
No.