I've lived in Oklahoma my entire life. I know very well how "red" my state is, and isn't. One very selective statistic about a national election held once every four years tells you very little about a state or its people. I suppose you think all Vermonters are flaming socialists because they keep re-electing Bernie Sanders.
Gee, I was tooling around the kde.org website, seeing what they had done with the new layout, and all of a sudden I can't get to the site. I wonder what coulda happened all of a sudden...
I don't give a damn what the survey says. I'm not seeing much if any more spam because my filters are smarter than the spammers. And I do not tolerate spam at all. Period.
BPL is high frequency radio signals superimposed on power lines. It does not require the power line to be energized. It will continue to pollute the HF spectrum during a blackout.
Well said, and I agree. New Year's Eve may be a real bash as a millenium party, but I think it will be pretty much a non-event as a Y2K event.
The power grid will not go down. I work for a power company and we plan to have lots of intelligent Y2K-compliant human beings in strategic places with their hands on manual controls that night. There may be a few outages here and there, but they will be sporadic and isolated, mostly of interest to the few people who find themselves in the dark.
The banking system will not loose our money. There may be a few Y2K related glitches here and there, but they will be sporadic and isolated, mostly of interest to the few people who find themselves inconvenienced.
I'm not really worried about nukes or other weapons systems going off spontaneously. Given the extreme level of safeguards required to execute a deliberate launch, I don't think that's a real concern.
I think the relatively few real Y2K events will be overshadowed by the overreactions of the ignorants and crazies.
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Yes, NSA, we're watching you too.
What BMO said. Where's a +10 when you need it.
Heh. I really don't know, but I'll bet even Vermont has their share of Archie Bunkers.
So you're from Vermont? Do they accept immigrants from flaming red fly-over country?
I've lived in Oklahoma my entire life. I know very well how "red" my state is, and isn't. One very selective statistic about a national election held once every four years tells you very little about a state or its people. I suppose you think all Vermonters are flaming socialists because they keep re-electing Bernie Sanders.
As an Okie and a techie who's more than a little concerned about online privacy and yro, I don't know whether to be proud or horrified.
+10
at least
Gee, I was tooling around the kde.org website, seeing what they had done with the new layout, and all of a sudden I can't get to the site. I wonder what coulda happened all of a sudden...
That'll be the day.
An AT&T spokesman also said that the testimony was talking about AT&T's role as an ISP, not an advertiser."
Oh, well then, I feel much better now. NOT.
I don't give a damn what the survey says. I'm not seeing much if any more spam because my filters are smarter than the spammers. And I do not tolerate spam at all. Period.
> (annoying the user may circumvent the patent)
I can't parse that in any way that makes sense to me. What am I missing?
Am I the only one who thinks the whole concept of software patents sucks big rocks?
BPL is high frequency radio signals superimposed on power lines. It does not require the power line to be energized. It will continue to pollute the HF spectrum during a blackout.
How about this instead?
apt-get --compile source packagename
and go have a cup of coffee...
Ursula K. leGuin
Frank Herbert
Philip K. Dick
Poul Anderson
Others I would suggest have already been mentioned but I would second the nomination of Roger Zelazny.
Well said, and I agree. New Year's Eve may be a real bash as a millenium party, but I think it will be pretty much a non-event as a Y2K event.
The power grid will not go down. I work for a power company and we plan to have lots of intelligent Y2K-compliant human beings in strategic places with their hands on manual controls that night. There may be a few outages here and there, but they will be sporadic and isolated, mostly of interest to the few people who find themselves in the dark.
The banking system will not loose our money. There may be a few Y2K related glitches here and there, but they will be sporadic and isolated, mostly of interest to the few people who find themselves inconvenienced.
I'm not really worried about nukes or other weapons systems going off spontaneously. Given the extreme level of safeguards required to execute a deliberate launch, I don't think that's a real concern.
I think the relatively few real Y2K events will be overshadowed by the overreactions of the ignorants and crazies.