The officer grinned and added, "Ever catch *all* the fish?"
i've always thought it dumb of three or four troopers to sit together and do a trap. if they were smart they space each other out about 2 miles, and report to the next one. the driver will feel the trooper is far enough behind him to resume speeding...
After all, when someone gets pulled over they're in a vulnerable mental state. And cops wonder why people hate them.
i'd say it has more to do with the fear they provoke than the slazyness of their actions. i'm not a 'criminal' but when i get pulled over my heart races and hands shake when i am giving my id... i know my rights, and i'm not going to jail for anything, but just their mere presence is enough to make me feel less safe.
i fully believe in profiling too. i've not been pulled over once since i've been driving a more 'novelty' car (austin mini sprite)... that and it doesn't go over 75 anyway.
by that time it will all be automated and we won't actually have to drive anymore at all. at least not on highways. really, we could do it now if we set higher standards for vehicles on major highways already. have you ever been behind a tractor? i didn't think it was leagal, but it is. (not on MAJOR highways, but state rte's and whatnot here in tennessee... )
i'd disagree with that. granted in places like nevada there is little chance of being pulled over speeding, but we have speed traps everywhere. entire towns whose income is based near exclusively on pulling people over with unfair fines for doing 5mph over. and [unfortunately] people don't seem to use the passing lane for passing, it's rather just a different perspective on the road, or because maybe the car in front of you is obstructing your view [of our purple mountains, and whatnot...] . some states (oregon) has max speed 65, and even only on the 5 outside of major cities, and the 84 when get into the more rural areas, but idaho, colorado, utah, etc is 75... 65 is an unreasonable speed to ask people to drive, when their s2000 does 140. 65 is slow. the speed limits should just be set at 'maintain traffic'... it's safest that way.
and for all the cameras and whatnot they have in england, last time i drove there (i admittingly forgot the passing lane right to left conversion...) and found myself doing 100mph 'with traffic'... i was surprised. but our troopers are camoflauged, and hide. british police cars are orange and yellow and sit up on little hills off the A's.
Which is just the sort of thing the working poor can do also.
i love the term 'working-poor' . i though i made it up myself, to describe me and the rest of us (at the time) in retail-land, but i guess not. there is something wrong with a system that sets the poverty level higher than the legal minimum wage. it seems like a conflict of interests...
I would have to disagree with that. i've run linux on a dual pII/350 box i've had since college. way back when, i had X running beautifully, remember StarOffice being released and using it, samba has always been adequate enough to work with, Eterm -t trans is 'r4d', gaim is great, firefox runs fine (more quickly than, and with more ease-of-mind-than) IE. and then, i decide the old version of slak i've been hacking to keep it semi-up-to-date is obsolete, and install fedora c2, throw in an ati with tv out and all of the sudden (near automagically, i might add) it does fullscreen mplayer on my trinitron, plus all the things it did before. i use xp for it's 'professional' grade applications, but RELY on linux for the rest of the stuff.
i use xp by choice as well... behind a solid [linux] firewall, an xp box is just as safe an secure as any other. use ssh [putty?]. use pine [thunderbird?], whatever: just not outlook. i use it for the applications (flash, 3d studio max, vegas, etc, etc)... that all have working linux alternatives, mind you, but i still like having the macromedia vesion of flash mx, yano? the linux box dhcp's the modem on eth0 and routes to eth1 : i have a linksys router which forwards port 21 and 22 only for me, to a linux box. the box does samba shares, ftp, etc, etc... for my local network. nothing really get's past it. i use windows for work primarily but i do so knowing that it is safely behind the my firewall, and never ever reads email (locally)... but i would never ever ever do what comcast/adelphia/etc says is the only way they will offer you any tech support: with the modem directly connected to the computer [xp].
Well, most users are, uh, stupid. Even if we used Linux, in order to make it simple enough to use, there will be vulnerabilities. For example, getting people to use "sudo" with a limited account makes sense to you and me, but might confuse the heck out of some newbie in Tennessee.
why tennessee? people from mississippi/alabama/arkanasa stereotypically are much dumberer than we is.
to keep it on topic: by numbers, the likelyhood of a major jpeg-vuln outbreak is much greater in say new york than (god PERSONAL backyard): greeneville, tennessee.
>eD2k rewards people for uploading, but seems to >reward people for sitting in queue better.
it rewards for not capping your upload in the software, but if you use an outgoing traffic limiting thing at the router the software knowns no different. i get the same dl speed if i'm giving my full 40k up (ack) or limiting it to 5k~10k
it really depends on if you are using something like shareconnector or something. i've found that (especially allowing 4662/et al through) that i get phenominal speeds. upwards of 150k on cable. i feel like it's good at least.
a person can be trained to do anything though... i can run my motu 828 drunk in the dark behind a nasty sound guy with a cigarette in my mouth smoke in the eyes...
it's not necessarily ease of use, it's ease of learning. my sony minidisc recorder has a big red 'record' button, a 'play/stop', and a 'next' 'prev' button. granted the ipod is phenominally easy to use, it just has to be 'easy enough to learn' yano?
but i do see a lot of tiny 1gb mp3 players that i couldn't fathom even hitting the buttons, being so small.
i feel that same way every time i go to magrit falls, here in tennessee. the town i live in is a tiny little rich republican town, but the rural areas on the road upto the mountain are awful. i get so depressed every time i go through. think: car cemetaries, and pigs and goat(se), living togetger in the front yard of a 30 year old rusted trailer. but, then i realize that happiness is all relative to how you perceive your position in the world, and i drive along to get to my waterfall. ignorance is bliss, some say.
i could handle star wars death star trivia. but you are all right, it would be a little more obsessive for someone to know so much about star wars vs simple researching nuclear power and uses.
or even better yet, have their automated linking mechanism (that puts the host in brackets after a link) also provide a link that says 'coral' to the same link, automatically. that would solve a lot of problems, methinks.
i'd thought about that myself, and found somewhere a wonderful explanation about that being the reason the arms of the turbine are so skinny and rows are staggered to minimize impact and maximize return.
Most Rotts think everyone is the Bad Guy. Not This dog. When I had a new washer delivered to my house and was home he never even barked, just watched. Everytime somebody comes around with no business being here he acts like he is going to eat them. The Goldens bark but then try and "love" you:)
there is no such thing as a bad dog, only bad owners.
yet another opportunity for me to point out that i think slashdot should mirror a site for 5 or 6 hours at least immediately as they post the link. or maybe just the images. cachedot.org
good job/. editors for plugging this thing for Sean Hamor.
News for nerds. Shills that matter.
be honest here too, if you were an owner/parter/beneficiary or company A and company A produced exclusively a linux-bases tablet PC and you are just starting, what better way to expose that device to 5 million people (in a target audience, i might add) and hear feedback almost instantly in/.'s true holier-than-thou attitude. all these comments i am sure are looked at by `Sean and every company loves to hear both sides of some feedback. What harm does providing a link to a small company wanting to sell tech-devices on a tech-based website? The article said they were 'selling' them. There was no question. Why, then, because someone is selling something, does it not make it news-worthy? I personally LIKE hearing about all the ubergeek gadgets/. 'advertises'... but moreover, i enjoy reading people's comments on them, to either validate or negate my initial thoughts on the matter.
sorry- i just get tired of people bashing the editors for 'ads', when they aren't. ad's are those things that say 'free porn' when they are not, that pop-up when you visit a shady website, and open two more when you close it. That is an ad. This is text, talking about and linking to a device that you may or may not want to look at. You have that choice*.
off topic, slightly, but the pics all included geocaching... i accidentally found one of those way deep in the mountains one time in tennessee, as at first was terrified i'd found someone's stash of something out there. but i can see where it would be useful in such an enviroment, but think of the other uses that could become:
a) business: inventory management, wedding registry type uses, internet cafe (usb kb/mouse combo?), etc. b) personal: remote control (obvious), kitchen media center... art (wall mount hack not included). c) education: moblie library reference desk, mobile mostly anything...
it should have at least two usb's though, unfortunately. i don't want to lug around a USB hub just to hook my cell into it to get cellular internet and a keyboard. or a USB external drive (and a loooooong extension cord).
and be honest, is 600MHz really enough? I might just have to spend the extra $300-$500 to get a mid-range laptop.
i can see, however, where in very specific applications it would be a godsend...
Slashdot Mirror
Man, google gives you 1GB of free space, and you want free forwarding too? poor baby.
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you haven't filled YOUR gig yet? i NEED free forwarding you isensative
"Ummm, yeah..." the startled man replied.
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The officer grinned and added, "Ever catch *all* the fish?"
i've always thought it dumb of three or four troopers to sit together and do a trap. if they were smart they space each other out about 2 miles, and report to the next one. the driver will feel the trooper is far enough behind him to resume speeding
After all, when someone gets pulled over they're in a vulnerable mental state. And cops wonder why people hate them.
... i know my rights, and i'm not going to jail for anything, but just their mere presence is enough to make me feel less safe.
... that and it doesn't go over 75 anyway.
i'd say it has more to do with the fear they provoke than the slazyness of their actions. i'm not a 'criminal' but when i get pulled over my heart races and hands shake when i am giving my id
i fully believe in profiling too. i've not been pulled over once since i've been driving a more 'novelty' car (austin mini sprite)
by that time it will all be automated and we won't actually have to drive anymore at all. at least not on highways. really, we could do it now if we set higher standards for vehicles on major highways already. have you ever been behind a tractor? i didn't think it was leagal, but it is. (not on MAJOR highways, but state rte's and whatnot here in tennessee ... )
i'd disagree with that. granted in places like nevada there is little chance of being pulled over speeding, but we have speed traps everywhere. entire towns whose income is based near exclusively on pulling people over with unfair fines for doing 5mph over. and [unfortunately] people don't seem to use the passing lane for passing, it's rather just a different perspective on the road, or because maybe the car in front of you is obstructing your view [of our purple mountains, and whatnot...] . some states (oregon) has max speed 65, and even only on the 5 outside of major cities, and the 84 when get into the more rural areas, but idaho, colorado, utah, etc is 75 ... 65 is an unreasonable speed to ask people to drive, when their s2000 does 140. 65 is slow. the speed limits should just be set at 'maintain traffic' ... it's safest that way.
... i was surprised. but our troopers are camoflauged, and hide. british police cars are orange and yellow and sit up on little hills off the A's.
and for all the cameras and whatnot they have in england, last time i drove there (i admittingly forgot the passing lane right to left conversion...) and found myself doing 100mph 'with traffic'
Which is just the sort of thing the working poor can do also.
i love the term 'working-poor' . i though i made it up myself, to describe me and the rest of us (at the time) in retail-land, but i guess not. there is something wrong with a system that sets the poverty level higher than the legal minimum wage. it seems like a conflict of interests...
I would have to disagree with that. i've run linux on a dual pII/350 box i've had since college. way back when, i had X running beautifully, remember StarOffice being released and using it, samba has always been adequate enough to work with, Eterm -t trans is 'r4d', gaim is great, firefox runs fine (more quickly than, and with more ease-of-mind-than) IE. and then, i decide the old version of slak i've been hacking to keep it semi-up-to-date is obsolete, and install fedora c2, throw in an ati with tv out and all of the sudden (near automagically, i might add) it does fullscreen mplayer on my trinitron, plus all the things it did before. i use xp for it's 'professional' grade applications, but RELY on linux for the rest of the stuff.
i use xp by choice as well ... behind a solid [linux] firewall, an xp box is just as safe an secure as any other. use ssh [putty?]. use pine [thunderbird?], whatever: just not outlook. i use it for the applications (flash, 3d studio max, vegas, etc, etc) ... that all have working linux alternatives, mind you, but i still like having the macromedia vesion of flash mx, yano? ... for my local network. nothing really get's past it. i use windows for work primarily but i do so knowing that it is safely behind the my firewall, and never ever reads email (locally) ... but i would never ever ever do what comcast/adelphia/etc says is the only way they will offer you any tech support: with the modem directly connected to the computer [xp].
...
the linux box dhcp's the modem on eth0 and routes to eth1 : i have a linksys router which forwards port 21 and 22 only for me, to a linux box. the box does samba shares, ftp, etc, etc
i'm sure a lot of you do the same
Well, most users are, uh, stupid. Even if we used Linux, in order to make it simple enough to use, there will be vulnerabilities. For example, getting people to use "sudo" with a limited account makes sense to you and me, but might confuse the heck out of some newbie in Tennessee.
why tennessee? people from mississippi/alabama/arkanasa stereotypically are much dumberer than we is.
to keep it on topic: by numbers, the likelyhood of a major jpeg-vuln outbreak is much greater in say new york than (god PERSONAL backyard): greeneville, tennessee.
>eD2k rewards people for uploading, but seems to >reward people for sitting in queue better.
it rewards for not capping your upload in the software, but if you use an outgoing traffic limiting thing at the router the software knowns no different. i get the same dl speed if i'm giving my full 40k up (ack) or limiting it to 5k~10k
it really depends on if you are using something like shareconnector or something. i've found that (especially allowing 4662/et al through) that i get phenominal speeds. upwards of 150k on cable. i feel like it's good at least.
not messed with dc though.
a person can be trained to do anything though ... i can run my motu 828 drunk in the dark behind a nasty sound guy with a cigarette in my mouth smoke in the eyes ...
it's not necessarily ease of use, it's ease of learning. my sony minidisc recorder has a big red 'record' button, a 'play/stop', and a 'next' 'prev' button. granted the ipod is phenominally easy to use, it just has to be 'easy enough to learn' yano?
but i do see a lot of tiny 1gb mp3 players that i couldn't fathom even hitting the buttons, being so small.
http://www.fatalexception.org/action_item.htmli found this comic, it's pretty gross. and this is random text to beat the lameness of this post.
i feel that same way every time i go to magrit falls, here in tennessee. the town i live in is a tiny little rich republican town, but the rural areas on the road upto the mountain are awful. i get so depressed every time i go through. think: car cemetaries, and pigs and goat(se), living togetger in the front yard of a 30 year old rusted trailer. but, then i realize that happiness is all relative to how you perceive your position in the world, and i drive along to get to my waterfall. ignorance is bliss, some say.
i could handle star wars death star trivia. but you are all right, it would be a little more obsessive for someone to know so much about star wars vs simple researching nuclear power and uses.
or even better yet, have their automated linking mechanism (that puts the host in brackets after a link) also provide a link that says 'coral' to the same link, automatically. that would solve a lot of problems, methinks.
maybe a little offtopic, but does it scare anyone else how much these cats know about nuclear explosives and such?
already?
: cruftbox.com/blog/archives/001031.html+GLAT&hl=eng oogle cache
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on the other side of that, i really like small livecd distro's that boot from the cdrom and play videos and the like.
i want a distro less than 420 megs sometimes, for specific, short-lived reasons.
i'd thought about that myself, and found somewhere a wonderful explanation about that being the reason the arms of the turbine are so skinny and rows are staggered to minimize impact and maximize return.
Most Rotts think everyone is the Bad Guy. Not This dog. When I had a new washer delivered to my house and was home he never even barked, just watched. Everytime somebody comes around with no business being here he acts like he is going to eat them. :)
The Goldens bark but then try and "love" you
there is no such thing as a bad dog, only bad owners.
yet another opportunity for me to point out that i think slashdot should mirror a site for 5 or 6 hours at least immediately as they post the link. or maybe just the images. cachedot.org
admittingly, he did mislead everyone saying 'i can't wait to get one myself... '
good job /. editors for plugging this thing for Sean Hamor.
/.'s true holier-than-thou attitude. all these comments i am sure are looked at by `Sean and every company loves to hear both sides of some feedback. What harm does providing a link to a small company wanting to sell tech-devices on a tech-based website? The article said they were 'selling' them. There was no question. Why, then, because someone is selling something, does it not make it news-worthy? I personally LIKE hearing about all the ubergeek gadgets /. 'advertises' ... but moreover, i enjoy reading people's comments on them, to either validate or negate my initial thoughts on the matter.
News for nerds. Shills that matter.
be honest here too, if you were an owner/parter/beneficiary or company A and company A produced exclusively a linux-bases tablet PC and you are just starting, what better way to expose that device to 5 million people (in a target audience, i might add) and hear feedback almost instantly in
sorry- i just get tired of people bashing the editors for 'ads', when they aren't. ad's are those things that say 'free porn' when they are not, that pop-up when you visit a shady website, and open two more when you close it. That is an ad. This is text, talking about and linking to a device that you may or may not want to look at. You have that choice*.
obligatory: * unless in soviet russia.
off topic, slightly, but the pics all included geocaching... i accidentally found one of those way deep in the mountains one time in tennessee, as at first was terrified i'd found someone's stash of something out there. but i can see where it would be useful in such an enviroment, but think of the other uses that could become:
... art (wall mount hack not included). ...
...
a) business: inventory management, wedding registry type uses, internet cafe (usb kb/mouse combo?), etc.
b) personal: remote control (obvious), kitchen media center
c) education: moblie library reference desk, mobile mostly anything
it should have at least two usb's though, unfortunately. i don't want to lug around a USB hub just to hook my cell into it to get cellular internet and a keyboard. or a USB external drive (and a loooooong extension cord).
and be honest, is 600MHz really enough? I might just have to spend the extra $300-$500 to get a mid-range laptop.
i can see, however, where in very specific applications it would be a godsend