Troll much? You could actually read what I said rather than responding with snide remarks like
haha, yes.
Exceptions support the rule...
But you can ignore the fact that the student newspaper printed 5 times a week for a circulation over 30,000. You can also ignore that I was paid over $20k (mostly tax-free) as a student LAN admin, or that the editor-in-chief (also a student) was paid $30k.
Thats OK. You don't need the truth, you've already made up your own reality based on your perception of what I have written.
It's extremely uncommon, that is, unheard of, that they literally volunteer.
Either you are getting university credit for your internship, your internship is someplace *really* sexy, or you're getting paid.
Nobody has time for that.
I worked for the student newspaper where I did my undergrad. We had numerous student interns that were paid nothing. We weren't a very sexy place to work. And the interns were doing marketing, finance, or even IT stuff depending on which department hired them.
So we certainly found people who had time for unpaid internships. The only thing they got from it was work experience. No college credit or any other sort of secondary benefits.
Where I come from it is common to pay only a fraction of what your work is actually worth if it's called an 'internship.' Does this apply to the US as well?
Here in the states, its not uncommon for interns (especially if they are still working on their undergraduate degree) to get paid nothing. And considering how difficult it can be to hire someone who isn't a US citizen, you may want to be ready to work for "the experience" (ie, no pay) just in order to have something to put on your CV.
And then when you're done being abused here, you'll realize how much better the rest of the industrialized world treats its inhabitants.
You can buy butane lighters inside of airports? I don't smoke, so I've never looked for them. But considering at least some airports won't even sell nail clippers (IAH in particular), I figured they wouldn't sell lighters either.
And considering that most airports are smoke-free anyways, what is the rationale for selling lighters? I guess I shouldn't be surprised by this, really.
Big tubes of toothpaste and sticks of deodorant get confiscated, but they're going to let me waltz through toting a canister of (m)ethanol?
It would probably be controlled by the same idiotic 4-1-1 policy that forces women to drink their own breast milk and other travelers to through out their water. As long as your fuel cell is 4 ounces or less, security will (likely) happily let you pass... Just don't you dare carry 5 ounces or there will be hell to pay.
What is with the "Signed" tag that is appearing on pretty much every/. story at the moment? What does it mean?
The last time we had a spurt like that in tags, it came from the "don't tase me, bro" video. I suspect some goonies will probably start tagging with "dontsignmebro" tags.
The top results from youtube for "signed" are currently mostly related to Stevie Wonder. I somehow have a hard time imagining him running around applying this tag on slashdot.
Except that Enceladus is a moon of Saturn, which is in our solar system. Therefore it would be an intra- solar system war.
Assuming of course that a moon with no inhabitants somehow had a way to retaliate. But we can ignore that part for now since you were trying to be funny.
I haven't heard of this before. Sounds interesting, a 3rd party clone to run my old NES cartridges. I searched for "Victor-70" and got some guy's myspace page - I'm guessing even if he's offering NES games, I don't want anything of it.
In the netherlands the intercity trains have a quiet section.
I've never been to the Netherlands, I would be interested to know how those sections work. Is there a door between the talking and quiet sections (perhaps separate cars)? A lot of US planes have only a single non-partitioned cabin. It would be hard to contain the volume of others' conversations without some sort of physical barricade.
Yes, people talk to loud on phones.
Feel free to try to train people to talk at normal volumes on cell phones. Let me know how that goes.
the person with the phone is just a mental patient
When I took Psych 1001, our lecturer told us a story of a patient in NYC with a history of talking to the voices in his/her head. Patient (not of said lecturer) went to therapist for help with said voices. Patient was otherwise "normal", had traditional job, paid bills, lived independently, etc... But of course had a hard time fitting in while talking to voices.
Therapist suggested patient buy a used cell phone, and talk into phone (without turning it on or calling anyone) whenever the need arose to talk to the voices. It worked well, since of course society generally considers it normal to talk into cell phones.
Except the patient was also using it on the subway, where signals are apparently very hard to get. Other passengers asked the patient what service he/she was using that had usable signal down there.
I'm not sure how that would be possible, or make a difference. Considering the tight confines of an airplane (for most US trips), if you have more than 3 people talking on phones at a time they'll likely be shouting soon to hear themselves over the other conversations. At which point everyone who isn't part of those conversations can no longer hear anything but those conversations.
It should be obvious why passengers prefer other people not use cell phones in flight. There is no way to escape other peoples' calls when you have dozens to hundreds of people stuffed into a flying sardine can.
Since Sprint operates in Canada, I wonder whether this can be taken as precedent in Canada as well. I'd be glad if it did.
I guess we always figured that our companies down here, even if they operate elsewhere under the same name, tended to dish out exclusive abuses to those of us living here. Apologies if you are subjected to the same level of customer dis-service that passes as normal here.
I recall previous discussions where European cell customers were astonished that we still pay to receive calls (and text messages) here in the states.
There's our chance to lower the gas price and test if the Global warming is a myth. Import it from Saturn.
What? Are you saying you want to try to burn ethane gas instead of gasoline? I guess you could, though I wouldn't want to be anywhere near ethane storage if a leak was suspected - mixtures of 3% ethane in atmospheric air can be explosive.
And of course that's ignoring how much energy and money would be expended to try to bring it to earth from Saturn.
On another tought, how about a refuelling station there for space exploration ?
Are you planning to burn the ethane? If so, then you would still need to bring oxygen with you, as there might not be any of it there. Unless you want to try to use it as a propellant on its own...
For those not familiar with Ethane, it has a boiling point of -86.6 degrees Celsius. Interesting that a moon has cycles in the neighborhood of that temperature range. Though a trip there would make most parts of Antarctica seem like a tropical reprieve.
Is anyone else getting a banner ad on the side that is advertising the "Scientology Video Channel"? Rather amusing pairing, I suppose. Real science sharing my browser with a religion based on the writings of a third-rate science fiction author.
I don't know why that would be offtopic. It certainly can build up a sweat and burn calories - which is generally the reason why people want to exercise, isn't it?
Troll -- A Troll is similar to Flamebait, but slightly more refined. This is a prank comment intended to provoke indignant (or just confused) responses. A Troll might mix up vital facts or otherwise distort reality, to make other readers react with helpful "corrections." Trolling is the online equivalent of intentionally dialing wrong numbers just to waste other people's time.
So lets review these points against my previous comments:
Prank comment intended to provoke indignant (or just confused) responses - no
mix up vital facts or otherwise distort reality, to make other readers react with helpful "corrections" - no
Online equivalent of intentionally dialing wrong numbers just to waste other people's time - no
So then the comment deserved troll why? Apparently just stating something that a new moderator disagrees with is now the same as trolling, eh?
people don't complain when there's a Slashdot story about Perl - yet that is relevant to orders of magnitude fewer people than MySpace or Facebook do.
Actually, Perl affects at least as many (if not more) slashdot users than myspace or facebook. After all, slashdot does run on Perl. You even had to make use of a Perl script just to post your reply where you claimed that the social networking sites were somehow more relevant than the scripting language that you used to post said reply.
Slashdot Mirror
haha, yes.
Exceptions support the rule...
But you can ignore the fact that the student newspaper printed 5 times a week for a circulation over 30,000. You can also ignore that I was paid over $20k (mostly tax-free) as a student LAN admin, or that the editor-in-chief (also a student) was paid $30k.
Thats OK. You don't need the truth, you've already made up your own reality based on your perception of what I have written.
It's extremely uncommon, that is, unheard of, that they literally volunteer.
Either you are getting university credit for your internship, your internship is someplace *really* sexy, or you're getting paid.
Nobody has time for that.
I worked for the student newspaper where I did my undergrad. We had numerous student interns that were paid nothing. We weren't a very sexy place to work. And the interns were doing marketing, finance, or even IT stuff depending on which department hired them.
So we certainly found people who had time for unpaid internships. The only thing they got from it was work experience. No college credit or any other sort of secondary benefits.
Where I come from it is common to pay only a fraction of what your work is actually worth if it's called an 'internship.' Does this apply to the US as well?
Here in the states, its not uncommon for interns (especially if they are still working on their undergraduate degree) to get paid nothing. And considering how difficult it can be to hire someone who isn't a US citizen, you may want to be ready to work for "the experience" (ie, no pay) just in order to have something to put on your CV.
And then when you're done being abused here, you'll realize how much better the rest of the industrialized world treats its inhabitants.
just like butane lighters =(
You can buy butane lighters inside of airports? I don't smoke, so I've never looked for them. But considering at least some airports won't even sell nail clippers (IAH in particular), I figured they wouldn't sell lighters either.
And considering that most airports are smoke-free anyways, what is the rationale for selling lighters? I guess I shouldn't be surprised by this, really.
Big tubes of toothpaste and sticks of deodorant get confiscated, but they're going to let me waltz through toting a canister of (m)ethanol?
It would probably be controlled by the same idiotic 4-1-1 policy that forces women to drink their own breast milk and other travelers to through out their water. As long as your fuel cell is 4 ounces or less, security will (likely) happily let you pass... Just don't you dare carry 5 ounces or there will be hell to pay.
i don't think so, after all, you need a grit covered natalie portman to waive each oen of all those swatters...
At which point you have a Beowulf cluster of grit-covered Natalie Portmans?
Awesome. And as a bonus, said cluster is using systems that run Linux.
... I mean, come on, this is slashdot, we'd come up with a remote controlled robotic flyswatter that runs Linux ...
Could you do that? really? Can I order a beowulf cluster of them please? Please!!!
Wow, how bad is the fly population in your house that you need a Beowulf cluster of fly-swatters?
And would they even be useful if they didn't come with Natalie Portman (covered in grits, naturally)?
What is with the "Signed" tag that is appearing on pretty much every /. story at the moment? What does it mean?
The last time we had a spurt like that in tags, it came from the "don't tase me, bro" video. I suspect some goonies will probably start tagging with "dontsignmebro" tags.
The top results from youtube for "signed" are currently mostly related to Stevie Wonder. I somehow have a hard time imagining him running around applying this tag on slashdot.
Good way to start an inter-solar system war.
Except that Enceladus is a moon of Saturn, which is in our solar system. Therefore it would be an intra- solar system war.
Assuming of course that a moon with no inhabitants somehow had a way to retaliate. But we can ignore that part for now since you were trying to be funny.
I haven't heard of this before. Sounds interesting, a 3rd party clone to run my old NES cartridges. I searched for "Victor-70" and got some guy's myspace page - I'm guessing even if he's offering NES games, I don't want anything of it.
So can we conclude from this that Ventura==hot air?
Of course, many Minnesotans already knew that... (and others learned it the hard way)
Be careful where you use that term, or someone could trademark it and sue you for infringement.
Well, as I said, its a story that was relayed to me. I don't know the final outcome. I don't know the people directly involved.
In the netherlands the intercity trains have a quiet section.
I've never been to the Netherlands, I would be interested to know how those sections work. Is there a door between the talking and quiet sections (perhaps separate cars)? A lot of US planes have only a single non-partitioned cabin. It would be hard to contain the volume of others' conversations without some sort of physical barricade.
Yes, people talk to loud on phones.
Feel free to try to train people to talk at normal volumes on cell phones. Let me know how that goes.
the person with the phone is just a mental patient
When I took Psych 1001, our lecturer told us a story of a patient in NYC with a history of talking to the voices in his/her head. Patient (not of said lecturer) went to therapist for help with said voices. Patient was otherwise "normal", had traditional job, paid bills, lived independently, etc... But of course had a hard time fitting in while talking to voices.
Therapist suggested patient buy a used cell phone, and talk into phone (without turning it on or calling anyone) whenever the need arose to talk to the voices. It worked well, since of course society generally considers it normal to talk into cell phones.
Except the patient was also using it on the subway, where signals are apparently very hard to get. Other passengers asked the patient what service he/she was using that had usable signal down there.
I'm not sure how that would be possible, or make a difference. Considering the tight confines of an airplane (for most US trips), if you have more than 3 people talking on phones at a time they'll likely be shouting soon to hear themselves over the other conversations. At which point everyone who isn't part of those conversations can no longer hear anything but those conversations.
It should be obvious why passengers prefer other people not use cell phones in flight. There is no way to escape other peoples' calls when you have dozens to hundreds of people stuffed into a flying sardine can.
Has anyone else been perusing these postings hoping for something meaningful to come from an AC here?
And of course, as usual, I'm still waiting. Just an observation, that's all...
Since Sprint operates in Canada, I wonder whether this can be taken as precedent in Canada as well. I'd be glad if it did.
I guess we always figured that our companies down here, even if they operate elsewhere under the same name, tended to dish out exclusive abuses to those of us living here. Apologies if you are subjected to the same level of customer dis-service that passes as normal here.
I recall previous discussions where European cell customers were astonished that we still pay to receive calls (and text messages) here in the states.
There's our chance to lower the gas price and test if the Global warming is a myth. Import it from Saturn.
What? Are you saying you want to try to burn ethane gas instead of gasoline? I guess you could, though I wouldn't want to be anywhere near ethane storage if a leak was suspected - mixtures of 3% ethane in atmospheric air can be explosive.
And of course that's ignoring how much energy and money would be expended to try to bring it to earth from Saturn.
On another tought, how about a refuelling station there for space exploration ?
Are you planning to burn the ethane? If so, then you would still need to bring oxygen with you, as there might not be any of it there. Unless you want to try to use it as a propellant on its own...
For those not familiar with Ethane, it has a boiling point of -86.6 degrees Celsius. Interesting that a moon has cycles in the neighborhood of that temperature range. Though a trip there would make most parts of Antarctica seem like a tropical reprieve.
Is anyone else getting a banner ad on the side that is advertising the "Scientology Video Channel"? Rather amusing pairing, I suppose. Real science sharing my browser with a religion based on the writings of a third-rate science fiction author.
It's only Windows that doesn't give choice
I have heard that is a feature that we pay extra for.
I don't know why that would be offtopic. It certainly can build up a sweat and burn calories - which is generally the reason why people want to exercise, isn't it?
Troll -- A Troll is similar to Flamebait, but slightly more refined. This is a prank comment intended to provoke indignant (or just confused) responses. A Troll might mix up vital facts or otherwise distort reality, to make other readers react with helpful "corrections." Trolling is the online equivalent of intentionally dialing wrong numbers just to waste other people's time.
So lets review these points against my previous comments:
Prank comment intended to provoke indignant (or just confused) responses - no
mix up vital facts or otherwise distort reality, to make other readers react with helpful "corrections" - no
Online equivalent of intentionally dialing wrong numbers just to waste other people's time - no
So then the comment deserved troll why? Apparently just stating something that a new moderator disagrees with is now the same as trolling, eh?
people don't complain when there's a Slashdot story about Perl - yet that is relevant to orders of magnitude fewer people than MySpace or Facebook do.
Actually, Perl affects at least as many (if not more) slashdot users than myspace or facebook. After all, slashdot does run on Perl. You even had to make use of a Perl script just to post your reply where you claimed that the social networking sites were somehow more relevant than the scripting language that you used to post said reply.