Yeah... ever read Mutant-59 the Plastic Eaters by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis? Scientists engineer bacteria that can eat plastic, ending plastic polution -- and it turns out to be a mistake.
Note for Americans: Rugby football is the European equivalent of American football. The main differences:
Rugby players don't wear body armour, helmets, or silly breeches.
People don't watch major rugby matches for the advertising.
International rugby involves more than one country.
Yeah. I'd enjoy seeing a match up each year between the winners of the SuperBowl and the winners of the International Rugby bowl (or whatever), where they first play a game of American Football, with the standard rules and gear, then the survivors play a game of Rugby, with the standard rules and gear. It would be good entertainment for everyone, and could probably bring in a bit of cash world-wide.
Well, if you consider poker a sport then how about the video game versions of the following. Chess
One of my son's friends, my son is 17 years old, told me he could beat me in any X-Box game, and I told him that I could beat him in at least one game, if not others. So I challenged him to a nice game of chess and soundly defeated him.
What you are thinking of would be like if we played a game of chess and I started playing a boom box really loud with Vanilla Ice while every time it was your turn while a group of naked midgets danced around us.
I'm sure its not against the rules, but I think it is quite questionable.
Actually, the FIDE ( Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation) Handbook, does have rules against distractions. It is covered in Chapter 15, Ethics http://www.fide.com/official/handbook.asp?level=A0 115. Chess has been around so long, that the rules have evolved to handle just about anything.
The proscription against images of the prophet is one of the fundamental tenets of islamic religion. To muslims, pictures of the prophet are blasphemous. Having them insult the prophet on top of that is just adding insult to injury. Less inflammatory reflections on Jesus Christ have also stirred up widespread unrest. Or have you forgotten the great public outrage in the USA over The Last Temptation of Christ"?
Oh yes, I remember the "public outrage" over The Last Temptation of Christ, I don't remember how many people there were that got killed in the riots though, do you?
By the way, isn't it one of the ten commandments to "have no graven images... of anything in heaven or on earth.." or some such? There are Christians who believe that pictures, images, statues, or other likenesses of God or Jesus are "blasphemous" as well. But they don't generally riot -- Jehovah's Witnesses, for instance, believe this. Catholics, apparently, do not.
I'm going to say that you are buying a "single format license to a copyrighted work, which is embodied as a physycal artifact, the destruction of which terminates your license. The pyhsical nature of the medium affords you certain limited rights (first-sale doctrine), but the content contained therein must remain, or an infringing action has occured."
Now, you're bull-shit-o-meter should be registering pretty high right now, but I'm guessing that's what the RIAA would claim. The RIAA is claiming that the replacement cost is so low that there should be no need to back up the media.
If the replacement cost is the same, or lower than the cost to make a backup copy, then I guess they're correct...
...which is totally impractical if you have more than two or three machines.
Here's your solution to permanently solve this problem: Send out an email to all employees telling them not to open attachments from unknown people, and not to open unexpectedly received attachments from people that they do know. Then fire everyone who does open an attachment infecting their system.
Where I work, we'd be losing lots of managers if we did that, as I have noted that they seem to be the ones that get caught by these types of things...
If it doesn't get pushed out on windows update, it doesn't get installed on the machines of people who need it most. If it doesn't get installed, I can guarantee you ONE of my friends is going to come to me with a hosed computer.
There is no patch. Even Microsoft hasn't figured out how to patch human stupidity. Microsoft is releasing a removal tool. A removal tool doesn't help you if haven't already stupidly executed (installed) the trojan.
From what I've seen, the Malicious Software Removal tool gets auto-updated and executed just once a month, unless you manually download and re-execute it. So distributing it through their Autoupdate before anyone (or almost anyone) is infected will have little affect.
I know that's probably not a popular opinion around here, but wouldn't it be nice if we could rely on positive stories that no one was forced to write?
I think the U.S. is paying them to cover the positive stories that are there, and true. It would be nice if James Carville said nice things about the Republicans, and Bill O'Reily said nice things about liberals, but it isn't likely, even when those nice things are true. Paying the Iraqi press to cover positive events is just balancing their coverage. They aren't forced to do anything, they're just being paid to tell the truth. The press in the U.S. is paid too, just not by the government, and not necessarily to tell the truth.
I guess the government does pay National Public Radio (NPR), or the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) -- okay, okay, I agree, the government shouldn't be paying the press.
Let me see. Did you observe a sunrise 200 years ago? According to you, I cannot conclude that the Sun rose 200 years ago, just because it rose for the past couple of years when I was able to observe it.
Right?
You can conclude that the moon is made of green cheese, but you cannot prove past events... that is unless you've invented a time machine.
Personally, I believe that God created everything exactly as it is right now, (s)he created you with your memories, attitude, personality, the libraries with their books in them, and the internet with slashdot and everything -- God created it all about about 5 minutes ago. Prove me wrong.
Dividends are taxed as ordinary income. Capital gains are (now) taxed at a maximum (federal) rate of 28% for short term gains. Long term gains at 15%. Of course you have to pay state taxes on these things too, and some localities have personal property tax, where you have to pay an additional tax for just owning stock.
Unfortunately, it is also this motivation/reward scenario that created the term pump and dump. And landed executives in jail. And cost other shareholders millions/billions/pick a number.
If the insiders (executives) of the company in which you've invested are dumping their shares, you should too.
Oh noo.... couldn't do that, Belgium is where it all started in Antwerp in 1460, the first stock exchange was started there... to benefit evil big business, as well as all those too lazy to work for their money.
Still, who's interested in burning to dual-layer when the price of two single-layer DVDs is well below the cost of one dual-layer?
If you have a file that is larger than a single-layer DVD, it is much more convenient to back up to one dual-layer than to two single-layer DVDs. Like a Ghost of a drive for instance.
but it was in the service area of the company I do the majority of my work with. I put a meter on my home connection, checked the bit error rate on the cable modem test circuit, called the service tech that maintains the commercial connections I usually run on. The next week, two of the amps and one of the routers on the trunk out to my place were replaced and my connection went rock solid.
Can you come to my house? I have Comcast, and whenever we start really stressing the bandwidth, my broadband connection goes down, and the cable-modem can't reconnect without unplugging the power to it, waiting, and plugging it in again. Also, my Television cable connection ocasionally gets this repeated interference, making it nearly impossible to watch -- it really messes up the TiVo.
We have six computers in the house. One of them is a server hosting online gaming (Halo for the PC, up to 16 players), a web site about the online gaming, and a TeamSpeak server, for use with and during the online game.
Another has an email server and a web server on it (not for business, just for personal use).
The others are mainly used for surfing, and occasionally downloading or uploading (the legal kind).
We also have a TiVo connected to the network, although that rarely uses any bandwidth, and an X-Box with X-Box Live.
I could definitely use some more bandwidth.
Oh yeah, I forgot my wife's PDA.
Godel, Escher and Bach is a damned good book, and any self-respecting geek should have read it. Twice.
Other favourites include Capital by Marx, Crime & Punishment by Dostoeyevsky, Also Spracht Zarathustra (Nietzsche), The Fountainhead (Rand), The heart of a dog (Bulgakov) and Dubliners (Joyce).
I agree with the "Godel, Escher, Bach" recommendation. Another book by Hofstadter which is in a similar vein is "The Mind's I", which I highly recommend to anyone who enjoyed GEB.
I don't like the other selections, though (or were you joking and my sense of humor is just off). Not really all that interesting to a geeky, kinda guy.
For holiday gifts, the Dilbert books may be your best bet.
That's why the government can implement safety and employee regulations. It is also why they can tell a business that they are not allowed to discriminate.
Racial discrimination by businesses is not illegal here in the U.S., in fact it is encouraged. Oh we don't call it "Racism" though, we call it "Equal Opportunity Employment". Any law that calls out specific races is discriminatory, either for or against those races, and those laws are morally wrong.
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Yeah... ever read Mutant-59 the Plastic Eaters by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis? Scientists engineer bacteria that can eat plastic, ending plastic polution -- and it turns out to be a mistake.
Yeah. I'd enjoy seeing a match up each year between the winners of the SuperBowl and the winners of the International Rugby bowl (or whatever), where they first play a game of American Football, with the standard rules and gear, then the survivors play a game of Rugby, with the standard rules and gear. It would be good entertainment for everyone, and could probably bring in a bit of cash world-wide.
One of my son's friends, my son is 17 years old, told me he could beat me in any X-Box game, and I told him that I could beat him in at least one game, if not others. So I challenged him to a nice game of chess and soundly defeated him.
I'm sure its not against the rules, but I think it is quite questionable.
Actually, the FIDE ( Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation) Handbook, does have rules against distractions. It is covered in Chapter 15, Ethics http://www.fide.com/official/handbook.asp?level=A0 115. Chess has been around so long, that the rules have evolved to handle just about anything.
Oh yes, I remember the "public outrage" over The Last Temptation of Christ, I don't remember how many people there were that got killed in the riots though, do you?
By the way, isn't it one of the ten commandments to "have no graven images... of anything in heaven or on earth.." or some such? There are Christians who believe that pictures, images, statues, or other likenesses of God or Jesus are "blasphemous" as well. But they don't generally riot -- Jehovah's Witnesses, for instance, believe this. Catholics, apparently, do not.
Now, you're bull-shit-o-meter should be registering pretty high right now, but I'm guessing that's what the RIAA would claim. The RIAA is claiming that the replacement cost is so low that there should be no need to back up the media.
If the replacement cost is the same, or lower than the cost to make a backup copy, then I guess they're correct...
Here's your solution to permanently solve this problem: Send out an email to all employees telling them not to open attachments from unknown people, and not to open unexpectedly received attachments from people that they do know. Then fire everyone who does open an attachment infecting their system.
Where I work, we'd be losing lots of managers if we did that, as I have noted that they seem to be the ones that get caught by these types of things...
There is no patch. Even Microsoft hasn't figured out how to patch human stupidity. Microsoft is releasing a removal tool. A removal tool doesn't help you if haven't already stupidly executed (installed) the trojan.
From what I've seen, the Malicious Software Removal tool gets auto-updated and executed just once a month, unless you manually download and re-execute it. So distributing it through their Autoupdate before anyone (or almost anyone) is infected will have little affect.
So the big deal is that the processor doesn't sleep and may run your laptop battery down a tiny bit faster?
Okay, so maybe the big deal is that they were (are?) keeping this secret. If it is such a big secret, then why, and how, do we know about it?
I think the U.S. is paying them to cover the positive stories that are there, and true. It would be nice if James Carville said nice things about the Republicans, and Bill O'Reily said nice things about liberals, but it isn't likely, even when those nice things are true. Paying the Iraqi press to cover positive events is just balancing their coverage. They aren't forced to do anything, they're just being paid to tell the truth. The press in the U.S. is paid too, just not by the government, and not necessarily to tell the truth.
I guess the government does pay National Public Radio (NPR), or the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) -- okay, okay, I agree, the government shouldn't be paying the press.
Right?
You can conclude that the moon is made of green cheese, but you cannot prove past events... that is unless you've invented a time machine.
Personally, I believe that God created everything exactly as it is right now, (s)he created you with your memories, attitude, personality, the libraries with their books in them, and the internet with slashdot and everything -- God created it all about about 5 minutes ago. Prove me wrong.
Lee Iacocca did this in the late '70s and '80s as chairman of Chrysler Corporation.
That's what they say, but I'd like to find out for myself...
The IRS has http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc409.html rules for capital gains, as well as http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc404.html dividends.
Dividends are taxed as ordinary income. Capital gains are (now) taxed at a maximum (federal) rate of 28% for short term gains. Long term gains at 15%. Of course you have to pay state taxes on these things too, and some localities have personal property tax, where you have to pay an additional tax for just owning stock.
If the insiders (executives) of the company in which you've invested are dumping their shares, you should too.
Oh noo.... couldn't do that, Belgium is where it all started in Antwerp in 1460, the first stock exchange was started there... to benefit evil big business, as well as all those too lazy to work for their money.
Where do I send my résumé?
When you mouse over a link, doesn't the actual URL/Link show up in your status bar? What browser are you using?
If you have a file that is larger than a single-layer DVD, it is much more convenient to back up to one dual-layer than to two single-layer DVDs. Like a Ghost of a drive for instance.
Can you come to my house? I have Comcast, and whenever we start really stressing the bandwidth, my broadband connection goes down, and the cable-modem can't reconnect without unplugging the power to it, waiting, and plugging it in again. Also, my Television cable connection ocasionally gets this repeated interference, making it nearly impossible to watch -- it really messes up the TiVo.
We have six computers in the house. One of them is a server hosting online gaming (Halo for the PC, up to 16 players), a web site about the online gaming, and a TeamSpeak server, for use with and during the online game. Another has an email server and a web server on it (not for business, just for personal use). The others are mainly used for surfing, and occasionally downloading or uploading (the legal kind). We also have a TiVo connected to the network, although that rarely uses any bandwidth, and an X-Box with X-Box Live. I could definitely use some more bandwidth. Oh yeah, I forgot my wife's PDA.
Other favourites include Capital by Marx, Crime & Punishment by Dostoeyevsky, Also Spracht Zarathustra (Nietzsche), The Fountainhead (Rand), The heart of a dog (Bulgakov) and Dubliners (Joyce).
I agree with the "Godel, Escher, Bach" recommendation. Another book by Hofstadter which is in a similar vein is "The Mind's I", which I highly recommend to anyone who enjoyed GEB.
I don't like the other selections, though (or were you joking and my sense of humor is just off). Not really all that interesting to a geeky, kinda guy.
For holiday gifts, the Dilbert books may be your best bet.
Racial discrimination by businesses is not illegal here in the U.S., in fact it is encouraged. Oh we don't call it "Racism" though, we call it "Equal Opportunity Employment". Any law that calls out specific races is discriminatory, either for or against those races, and those laws are morally wrong.
Sony cameras come with a built in root-kit.
What he means is that no company, no matter what the size can "patch all of their bugs serious or minor" in a commercial software system.