- It would be The Definitive Terrorist Target - And it would be a catastrophe waiting to happen, when (not if) it snaps and rains megatons of carbon cable down upon the ground below.
Then we'll just put the earth attachment point right next to Mecca. Two birds, one stone, or somthing.
I got out of graduate school in 1999 and found myself in the market for a new car. I didn't shop around, I thought I knew what I wanted -- a new 2000 Saturn SC2, black. I found that dream car sitting on the lot, and bought it (well, a bank helped me).
UGH! 1999 was a bad year for car paint, for all small cars.
That's anout the time that environmental regulations made traditional caustic paint impossible to use, and paint manufactureres coulden't make the good stuff inexpensive.
Hence, all sub $25,000 cars, with darker paint, around that time have cruddy paint.
Case in point - My '92 Olds has beautifull paint and it's 192,000 miles and 11 years old, I've seen (same model) '98 versions with washed-out chaulky colors.
It's also not a GM thing, my Dad '99 Toyota Camery (built in Japan, with a J in the VIN) is looking rather dark-purplish in direct sun. It's alost a peice of junk, but that's another story.
Chedit checks are very valuable - basically they show if someone is a overspender who can't pay his bills on time, or is a sensable spender who can send a few checks on time, once a month.
Now, that out of the way, only a STUPID employer would have a blanket poilicy of rejecting pepole with lousy credit. I know a few smart people 'round here, that I could trust with my life, who can barly dress themselves and probably have horrible credit scores.
Dr. Michael Brent has designed a novel algorithm for discovering new Slashdot stories by factoring out commonalities between the sotries of diferent days. Using the algorithm to compare the sories of today and of a few days ago, he and his collegues have already discovered over a thousand Slashdot stories that haven't even been noticed.
Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion is written in this style. Eatch section has is own viepoint of the central story - sometimes it's dialog, sometimes it's sureal. Sometimes the same event is playedout but with diferent outcomes depending on who's viewpoint.
It's a good read as well, and an "English Teacher's" favorite so beware - there's a ton of symbolism if you choose to read into it a bit too much.
This was true arount the time of that hot-side-hot cold-side-cold burget that you put together. It was on the nutrition information pamphlet.
Also, the FDA won't let them put undisclosed ingredients into their food.
That's sot of true, but they disguise the ingredients with normal sounding names. There was a famous lawsuit that a Hindi (Vegan) man filed against McDonalds - turn out the the 'flavor enhancer' in the french fries was actually rendered beef fat.
McDonalds quickly changed their ways and everybody was happy.
That five years from now, the wife of one of the astornauts will one day look up and see the bright stars, and smile.
That ten years from now, one of the children of the astronauts will pick up one of the dusty flight-manuals out of a dusty box, and read one.
That fifteen years from now, one of the husbands will look across the breakfast table at his daughter be proud, knowing that his daughter is entering flight school - just like her mom.
That 20 years from now, there will be a small memoral, to the fallen. Placed on the soil of Mars.
Plus active directory is something we use so that people from all over the country can go to any other facility, log in, and have everything work just as it did at their desk.
Feh...
UNIX has been doing this for years. Correctly. It's called The XWindows System.
Just beacuse MS has finally made their toy OS do somthing usefull, doesen't make it novel. Chances are we've done it before. Like last decade.
Good troll, but you're 100% wrong. [microsoft.com]. One command will do it.
Not if your using Windows ME.won't support an peice of software that people paind $200 for, and it's only 18 months old.
Form MS website: Hfnetchk does not operate on Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition, or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition.
pg is great, but it still requires a shutdown to perform a backup (pg_dump and dumpall are exports, not backups).
pg_dump works fine on a running database, and guess what: the output of pg_dump contains the entire database in SQL format. Pipe that to gzip and presto, you have a compressed backup file ready for the tape. Automate the who thing with cron and you can have hourly backups.
Hey, Mr. Cheney! I didn't know you had a Slashdot account!
The best thing about being Mr. Cheney, is that after CmdrTaco bitch-slaped my account for my popular "Yes! War for Oil!" post, I had the Secret Service go over and leave their "Secret Sauce" in his anus. The hard way.
They should move their operations to the USA where they will be elligible for huge tax breaks.
Alot of people don't know about these tax breaks: I was going broke paying taxes on my small consultimg firm, when we found about one of the better tax-breaks avaialbe:
All we had to do was kill a new-born baby harp seal for every hour of billable time, and presto! No taxes for us!
We get special credit for killing only the cute seals, the deformed ones have less of a tax-break.
It's good for the environemnt too, because we only want cute seals, we cut the six-pack rings each and every time. We woulden't want one to cause a deformation in one of the seals - there'd go money right down the drain!
It's a win for us: no taxes It's a win for the governemtn: keep the seal hords ay bay It's a win for the seals: the get to see fun-time sparkles in the back of their eyes when we bludgon them.
The version of Dragon that I'm familiar with uses plain old text files for the imput for it's training session. I'd imagine you could replace them with somthing that it also avaiable in brail.
The real scarry part of the article is about, what he called, "Spam of the Future". It's really interesting. Basically, is a spam message that has a lot of seemingy normal text, that won't get caught in the spam filter. Because it IS normal text. It's then followed by a link - ususally to a porn site.
This sort of exists already:
There are really neet libraries that abstract the OS to a vague blur. I forget somtimes that I'm using Emacs/Cygwin a Widnows XP-based laptop to code for a Unix/Mac/Windows client that communicaes to a SQL server that could be on any OS.
Increasingly, the OS is becoming irelivent.
MS knows this and wants to push their own abstratios laywer, with a new set of lockin :.NET and all of the.NET Microsoft Libraries.
UPDATE forum SET comment = form.comment WHERE messageID = form.messageID
To reiterate the 'injection' bug: insead of form.messageID being comthing sane like #1212, nasy people could return (DELETE * FROM Users). This then gets evaluated by your SQL database if you're not carefull.
No matter show secure the "FI"delity is stated, I get about the same warm fuzzies transmitting anything of any value over such a system as I would shopping online at an internet cafe.
Do wha I do: Make a secure tunnel from your laptop to an OpenBSD server you have hanging off the net and set up as a gateway. They can grab all the wireless packets they want, but it ain't gonna' get them anywhere.
Could it be a point of argument that removing pay phones reduces access to 911 emergency services for those economically disadvantaged who don't have cell phones?
'round here, the only people who use pay-phones are the local drug dealers. I've had visions of smashing all the pay-phones with a sledge hammer and forcing the local bastards into getting a real job.
It's always the same crowd: Oil-spewing '70's car, with a crack-baby or two in the back seat, pulled up close to the pay-phone at the local kwicky-mart. Just stiiting there, waiting for a call. Oh, and their fucking car isen't even in a parking space. And get this, the fuckers bread like crazy. According to Darwin, there more fit for their environment. And I get stuck with the bills for their Section-8 housing and 'gubment cheese.
The question now is if the USA ITSELF is increasingly a threat.
Yeah! America has a horrid tack-record of invading happy-fun-loving-peacifull countries, amung them:
The Terribly Nice Nazi Germany
The Splendidly Fun Imperial Japan
The Peace Loving North Korea/Happy-Fun-Time Mao'est China
The Nifty Faciest Italians
The Swimmingly-Wonderfull Iraqies.
I believed the hype at first, but eventually concluded that djb is one very, very disturbed person.
DJB is darn smart, but his software is not truly 'open', and as such, has a dubious future. His license, is just as much of a dead-end as propiatary software, so I chose to use Postfix and haven't regretted it at all.
Postfix is simple, sane and easy to chain to other cool programs. It's quite easy to get Postfix to hand off an peice email for processing and retrive it at almost any point in the delivery chain.
Slashdot Mirror
- It would be The Definitive Terrorist Target
- And it would be a catastrophe waiting to happen, when (not if) it snaps and rains megatons of carbon cable down upon the ground below.
Then we'll just put the earth attachment point right next to Mecca. Two birds, one stone, or somthing.
s knowing that I can get a segway in shiny bright purple. ...and but a warning-sticker on it: "Keep 10 Feet Away From Gay Little Scooter"
(opologies to The Onion)
I got out of graduate school in 1999 and found myself in the market for a new car. I didn't shop around, I thought I knew what I wanted -- a new 2000 Saturn SC2, black. I found that dream car sitting on the lot, and bought it (well, a bank helped me).
UGH! 1999 was a bad year for car paint, for all small cars.
That's anout the time that environmental regulations made traditional caustic paint impossible to use, and paint manufactureres coulden't make the good stuff inexpensive.
Hence, all sub $25,000 cars, with darker paint, around that time have cruddy paint.
Case in point - My '92 Olds has beautifull paint and it's 192,000 miles and 11 years old, I've seen (same model) '98 versions with washed-out chaulky colors.
It's also not a GM thing, my Dad '99 Toyota Camery (built in Japan, with a J in the VIN) is looking rather dark-purplish in direct sun. It's alost a peice of junk, but that's another story.
Chedit checks are very valuable - basically they show if someone is a overspender who can't pay his bills on time, or is a sensable spender who can send a few checks on time, once a month.
Now, that out of the way, only a STUPID employer would have a blanket poilicy of rejecting pepole with lousy credit. I know a few smart people 'round here, that I could trust with my life, who can barly dress themselves and probably have horrible credit scores.
Dr. Michael Brent has designed a novel algorithm for discovering new Slashdot stories by factoring out commonalities between the sotries of diferent days. Using the algorithm to compare the sories of today and of a few days ago, he and his collegues have already discovered over a thousand Slashdot stories that haven't even been noticed.
Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion is written in this style. Eatch section has is own viepoint of the central story - sometimes it's dialog, sometimes it's sureal. Sometimes the same event is playedout but with diferent outcomes depending on who's viewpoint.
It's a good read as well, and an "English Teacher's" favorite so beware - there's a ton of symbolism if you choose to read into it a bit too much.
Perhaps slashdot could tie the friend/foe system with the web-of-trust system. Just a thought.
I doubt this is true.
This was true arount the time of that hot-side-hot cold-side-cold burget that you put together. It was on the nutrition information pamphlet.
Also, the FDA won't let them put undisclosed ingredients into their food.
That's sot of true, but they disguise the ingredients with normal sounding names. There was a famous lawsuit that a Hindi (Vegan) man filed against McDonalds - turn out the the 'flavor enhancer' in the french fries was actually rendered beef fat.
McDonalds quickly changed their ways and everybody was happy.
McDocnalds use to add seaweed juice to their hamburger meet. They claimed that it helped bind the random chunks of meet to each other.
Interesting enough, most forms of seeweed contain MSG - a rather potent flavor enhancer.
I don't know if their seeweed preperation contained the MSG from the plant , and I don't know if they still use it.
I hope,
That five years from now, the wife of one of the astornauts will one day look up and see the bright stars, and smile.
That ten years from now, one of the children of the astronauts will pick up one of the dusty flight-manuals out of a dusty box, and read one.
That fifteen years from now, one of the husbands will look across the breakfast table at his daughter be proud, knowing that his daughter is entering flight school - just like her mom.
That 20 years from now, there will be a small memoral, to the fallen. Placed on the soil of Mars.
Plus active directory is something we use so that people from all over the country can go to any other facility, log in, and have everything work just as it did at their desk.
Feh...
UNIX has been doing this for years. Correctly. It's called The XWindows System.
Just beacuse MS has finally made their toy OS do somthing usefull, doesen't make it novel. Chances are we've done it before. Like last decade.
Good troll, but you're 100% wrong. [microsoft.com]. One command will do it.
Not if your using Windows ME.won't support an peice of software that people paind $200 for, and it's only 18 months old.
Form MS website:
Hfnetchk does not operate on Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition, or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition.
pg is great, but it still requires a shutdown to perform a backup (pg_dump and dumpall are exports, not backups).
pg_dump works fine on a running database, and guess what: the output of pg_dump contains the entire database in SQL format. Pipe that to gzip and presto, you have a compressed backup file ready for the tape. Automate the who thing with cron and you can have hourly backups.
Hey, Mr. Cheney! I didn't know you had a Slashdot account!
The best thing about being Mr. Cheney, is that after CmdrTaco bitch-slaped my account for my popular "Yes! War for Oil!" post, I had the Secret Service go over and leave their "Secret Sauce" in his anus. The hard way.
They should move their operations to the USA where they will be elligible for huge tax breaks.
Alot of people don't know about these tax breaks: I was going broke paying taxes on my small consultimg firm, when we found about one of the better tax-breaks avaialbe:
All we had to do was kill a new-born baby harp seal for every hour of billable time, and presto! No taxes for us!
We get special credit for killing only the cute seals, the deformed ones have less of a tax-break.
It's good for the environemnt too, because we only want cute seals, we cut the six-pack rings each and every time. We woulden't want one to cause a deformation in one of the seals - there'd go money right down the drain!
It's a win for us: no taxes
It's a win for the governemtn: keep the seal hords ay bay
It's a win for the seals: the get to see fun-time sparkles in the back of their eyes when we bludgon them.
The version of Dragon that I'm familiar with uses plain old text files for the imput for it's training session. I'd imagine you could replace them with somthing that it also avaiable in brail.
The real scarry part of the article is about, what he called, "Spam of the Future". It's really interesting. Basically, is a spam message that has a lot of seemingy normal text, that won't get caught in the spam filter. Because it IS normal text. It's then followed by a link - ususally to a porn site.
Here is your opt-in FREE! porn!
This sort of exists already:
.NET and all of the .NET Microsoft Libraries.
There are really neet libraries that abstract the OS to a vague blur. I forget somtimes that I'm using Emacs/Cygwin a Widnows XP-based laptop to code for a Unix/Mac/Windows client that communicaes to a SQL server that could be on any OS.
Increasingly, the OS is becoming irelivent.
MS knows this and wants to push their own abstratios laywer, with a new set of lockin :
Beware.
UPDATE forum
SET comment = form.comment
WHERE messageID = form.messageID
To reiterate the 'injection' bug: insead of form.messageID being comthing sane like #1212, nasy people could return (DELETE * FROM Users). This then gets evaluated by your SQL database if you're not carefull.
You muct be one those grown up stupid ass crack-babies. Where in the fuck did I mention race.
Get you panties out of a bunch and go watch your credit-card-financed big screen TV.
No matter show secure the "FI"delity is stated, I get about the same warm fuzzies transmitting anything of any value over such a system as I would shopping online at an internet cafe.
Do wha I do: Make a secure tunnel from your laptop to an OpenBSD server you have hanging off the net and set up as a gateway. They can grab all the wireless packets they want, but it ain't gonna' get them anywhere.
Could it be a point of argument that removing pay phones reduces access to 911 emergency services for those economically disadvantaged who don't have cell phones?
'round here, the only people who use pay-phones are the local drug dealers. I've had visions of smashing all the pay-phones with a sledge hammer and forcing the local bastards into getting a real job.
It's always the same crowd: Oil-spewing '70's car, with a crack-baby or two in the back seat, pulled up close to the pay-phone at the local kwicky-mart. Just stiiting there, waiting for a call. Oh, and their fucking car isen't even in a parking space. And get this, the fuckers bread like crazy. According to Darwin, there more fit for their environment. And I get stuck with the bills for their Section-8 housing and 'gubment cheese.
The question now is if the USA ITSELF is increasingly a threat.
Yeah! America has a horrid tack-record of invading happy-fun-loving-peacifull countries, amung them:
The Terribly Nice Nazi Germany
The Splendidly Fun Imperial Japan
The Peace Loving North Korea/Happy-Fun-Time Mao'est China
The Nifty Faciest Italians
The Swimmingly-Wonderfull Iraqies.
I believed the hype at first, but eventually concluded that djb is one very, very disturbed person.
DJB is darn smart, but his software is not truly 'open', and as such, has a dubious future. His license, is just as much of a dead-end as propiatary software, so I chose to use Postfix and haven't regretted it at all.
Postfix is simple, sane and easy to chain to other cool programs. It's quite easy to get Postfix to hand off an peice email for processing and retrive it at almost any point in the delivery chain.