Without a doubt, zipcodes are public or at lease should be public. The USPS is shortsighted by not distributing the list freely in an open source manner. One day when UPS releases their superior upscode format in a open-source manner, zip codes will become archaic and obsolete and the post office will quickly be regretting their selfish ways.
Yeah, but isn't that what fucking Rosie O'Donald did when she refused to do any more KMart TV Ads unless they stopped selling guns! It's bullshit. Maybe she's afraid someone will mistake her for a fat goose this Christmas!
Oh boy, you just nailed my life. But for me surfing Slashdot is more of a career move than a project, a CLM that is:)
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Maybe in order to be more profitable, Slashdot should start selling article space? Why not, this is a capitalist world right and everybody is selling out? Why not sell the articles to the highest bidder! And how much more benefit to RedHat would a article praising their new release than a silly banner ad? So why not charge for it? Hell, the board of directors might demand it!
I've got to say (ashamedly) that when I first read this headline I thought it said, "Scientists manage interspecies breeding", but thankfully they have left that to the farmers and sheepherders.
I agree. The best way to avoid porn spam is to have a human eye look it over before it is published. This ties in with another slashdot article regarding the growing of human eyes in a petri dish. If we could put these eyes to work, say connect them to an old EyeBM Mainframe, we could some day have factories of these eyes filtering out the porn spam.
Of course, an eye alone could not determine whether a site was a porn site or not. We would have to attach these eyes to something else, say maybe a penis. The EyeBM mainframe could then just run a simple logic test, "If penis is erect, filter out site".
Of course, an eye and a penis alone could not determine whether a site was a porn site or not. We would have to attach...
This is the dreaded Athlon killer that is going to put AMD out of business. Sell your AMD stock now and enjoy the profits while you can, Chipzilla is on a rampage!
There is some damn good reasons to investigate Mars.
1) It's closer, so it's cheaper to send probes to and the public will see results faster.
2) I believe it's possible that Mars was once much like Earth is now. It might someday become the most famous archeology site in the solar system! What if sentient beings created cities and such on Mars and these remnants are just waiting for us to discover and explore? We just don't know what might have been before Mars "died", and who knows what's under a 1000 feet of Martian dust for us to discover!
That's so funny... That quote was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw this article. I almost posted it without looking at the messages, but thought I better check in case thought the exact same ting and they did. Great minds do think alike I guess!
Not only should everybody be able to see it, but it ought to look nice to everybody
I'm not saying that you shouldn't throw in advanced features for users that can take advantage of it. I'm simply saying that they should not call the web site "finished" until everybody, even those with mosaic, 640x480 on a B&W monitor can have a good experience on it. I'm not saying "lowest common denominator", I'm saying "include everybody" and make it as nice as you can considering the limitations of the browser.
It sounds like they just need to fire their web developers. A web site for a company like Fox is like a brochure. Not only should everybody be able to see it, but it ought to look nice to everybody; that's what marketing is all about, appealing to as many people as possible. They should just get some decent developers and this problem won't come up!
I agree. I think using my mouse bothers me more than using my "Natural keyboard". I guess the wrist pain doesn't bother me that much. I would expect that kind of pain from anything that I abuse so much. I am a programmer by day for 10 hours pounding the keys. Then I go home and after my wife falls asleap I usually work on my own projects to 3-4 AM in the morning. In fact, that's why I'm typing this now. I'm just about to go to bed, and let me tell you, my right wrist is really sore. Oh well, I will have 5 hours to let it recover!
If God gave us the capability to create, then why should we not be able to use our God-given gift? Every time I hear this "playing god is bad" argument, I get a little ruffled. This is EXACTLY what the fuck everybody was telling those crazy geniuses from the Renaissance. If we have the talent and capability, why shoulndn't we create the damn fuckingest coolest creature that God never thought of. In fact, if we work hard enough, we might even be able to create him. Look, if Prometheus hadn't have played with the fire, we'd still all be sitting around picking parasites off of one-another.
People often say we're the smartest of species, but I disagree. For, if we truly were, we wouldn't be the only species on earth who kills its own for pleasure.
You are joking right? Once a week, my cat brings me a dead rat or bird. He doesn't eat it. He just brings it over to show me how proud he is. You should see the way he teases it before he gives it the fatal blow. Sometimes he tortures it for hours. And this is a FUCKING HOUSE CAT! Man, believe me, is capable of a hell of a lot more (of both bad and good unfortunately). You can't choose to have one or the other. The power to have one requires the power to have either.
It can't be worse than the 1000 years of darkness religion cost us in the Dark Ages (roughly 0 to 1000 A.C.) where man made no notable progress thanks to overt, oppressive, Christianity.
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"SUN stock is going down"
What planet are from? On my planet SUNW just split for the second time this year and went up 10% today. It is a monster stock that is outperforming Microsoft.
Prosecuted by who? It is a foreign corporation running in a foreign land (probably Antigua) not subject to U.S. laws. It least most are. I don't know of any that actually operate in the U.S.
I don't really think this makes a hamster's salt-lick of difference. One of the best things Java has going for it is Sun. JAVA==SUN. Sun is smart enough to know they have to raise the product above any organized "Standards". They are in a much better position if they more or less completely control the direction of Java because:
1) So far they've been doing a hell of a job in the 3+ years of its existance.
2) They can sink an endless heap of money into it.
3) From what I have seen of programming language standards, (C++ for example), revision becomes slow as sin. Keeping it within Sun allows for fast revision as is necessary of a product that is growing and improving this rapidly.
Sorry, it is a server eat server world out there. You are either speeding down the freeway or getting wiped off it. Week servers will die off like the week antelope that are the first ones picked off by the predators. Getting Slashdotted is an honor, a badge of courage. It's not something that can be whoosed out of.
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I think the server is totally dead. I can't get within two pings of it.
No, No. Sorry you got the wrong intended message from the following: "I'm not just some drone.. Come to my website.. Come to my website.." I was trying to say, "I'm not just some low-life scum pushing his website all day long. I really have something to say."
I admit now after re-reading it that I could and should have been much clearer.
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This guy is just stupid. Stupid is as stupid does.
Without a doubt, zipcodes are public or at lease should be public. The USPS is shortsighted by not distributing the list freely in an open source manner. One day when UPS releases their superior upscode format in a open-source manner, zip codes will become archaic and obsolete and the post office will quickly be regretting their selfish ways.
Yeah, but isn't that what fucking Rosie O'Donald did when she refused to do any more KMart TV Ads unless they stopped selling guns! It's bullshit. Maybe she's afraid someone will mistake her for a fat goose this Christmas!
Shouldn't they change that to "Person of the Year" these days to be politically correct?
So when is this one unexpectedly to crash back into Earth or go hurdling off into space?
Oh boy, you just nailed my life. But for me surfing Slashdot is more of a career move than a project, a CLM that is :)
Maybe in order to be more profitable, Slashdot should start selling article space? Why not, this is a capitalist world right and everybody is selling out? Why not sell the articles to the highest bidder! And how much more benefit to RedHat would a article praising their new release than a silly banner ad? So why not charge for it? Hell, the board of directors might demand it!
I've got to say (ashamedly) that when I first read this headline I thought it said, "Scientists manage interspecies breeding", but thankfully they have left that to the farmers and sheepherders.
I agree. The best way to avoid porn spam is to have a human eye look it over before it is published. This ties in with another slashdot article regarding the growing of human eyes in a petri dish. If we could put these eyes to work, say connect them to an old EyeBM Mainframe, we could some day have factories of these eyes filtering out the porn spam.
Of course, an eye alone could not determine whether a site was a porn site or not. We would have to attach these eyes to something else, say maybe a penis. The EyeBM mainframe could then just run a simple logic test, "If penis is erect, filter out site".
Of course, an eye and a penis alone could not determine whether a site was a porn site or not. We would have to attach...
This is the dreaded Athlon killer that is going to put AMD out of business. Sell your AMD stock now and enjoy the profits while you can, Chipzilla is on a rampage!
Be afraid, be very afraid... of chip "errata"!
There is some damn good reasons to investigate Mars.
1) It's closer, so it's cheaper to send probes to and the public will see results faster.
2) I believe it's possible that Mars was once much like Earth is now. It might someday become the most famous archeology site in the solar system! What if sentient beings created cities and such on Mars and these remnants are just waiting for us to discover and explore? We just don't know what might have been before Mars "died", and who knows what's under a 1000 feet of Martian dust for us to discover!
That's so funny... That quote was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw this article. I almost posted it without looking at the messages, but thought I better check in case thought the exact same ting and they did. Great minds do think alike I guess!
Not only should everybody be able to see it, but it ought to look nice to everybody
I'm not saying that you shouldn't throw in advanced features for users that can take advantage of it. I'm simply saying that they should not call the web site "finished" until everybody, even those with mosaic, 640x480 on a B&W monitor can have a good experience on it. I'm not saying "lowest common denominator", I'm saying "include everybody" and make it as nice as you can considering the limitations of the browser.
It sounds like they just need to fire their web developers. A web site for a company like Fox is like a brochure. Not only should everybody be able to see it, but it ought to look nice to everybody; that's what marketing is all about, appealing to as many people as possible. They should just get some decent developers and this problem won't come up!
I agree. I think using my mouse bothers me more than using my "Natural keyboard". I guess the wrist pain doesn't bother me that much. I would expect that kind of pain from anything that I abuse so much. I am a programmer by day for 10 hours pounding the keys. Then I go home and after my wife falls asleap I usually work on my own projects to 3-4 AM in the morning. In fact, that's why I'm typing this now. I'm just about to go to bed, and let me tell you, my right wrist is really sore. Oh well, I will have 5 hours to let it recover!
If God gave us the capability to create, then why should we not be able to use our God-given gift? Every time I hear this "playing god is bad" argument, I get a little ruffled. This is EXACTLY what the fuck everybody was telling those crazy geniuses from the Renaissance. If we have the talent and capability, why shoulndn't we create the damn fuckingest coolest creature that God never thought of. In fact, if we work hard enough, we might even be able to create him. Look, if Prometheus hadn't have played with the fire, we'd still all be sitting around picking parasites off of one-another.
People often say we're the smartest of species, but I disagree. For, if we truly were, we wouldn't be the only species on earth who kills its own for pleasure.
You are joking right? Once a week, my cat brings me a dead rat or bird. He doesn't eat it. He just brings it over to show me how proud he is. You should see the way he teases it before he gives it the fatal blow. Sometimes he tortures it for hours. And this is a FUCKING HOUSE CAT! Man, believe me, is capable of a hell of a lot more (of both bad and good unfortunately). You can't choose to have one or the other. The power to have one requires the power to have either.
It can't be worse than the 1000 years of darkness religion cost us in the Dark Ages (roughly 0 to 1000 A.C.) where man made no notable progress thanks to overt, oppressive, Christianity.
Isn't that how Dr. Frankenstein got started?
"SUN stock is going down"
What planet are from? On my planet SUNW just split for the second time this year and went up 10% today. It is a monster stock that is outperforming Microsoft.
Prosecuted by who? It is a foreign corporation running in a foreign land (probably Antigua) not subject to U.S. laws. It least most are. I don't know of any that actually operate in the U.S.
Wrong, the casino wins :)
I don't really think this makes a hamster's salt-lick of difference. One of the best things Java has going for it is Sun. JAVA==SUN. Sun is smart enough to know they have to raise the product above any organized "Standards". They are in a much better position if they more or less completely control the direction of Java because:
1) So far they've been doing a hell of a job in the 3+ years of its existance.
2) They can sink an endless heap of money into it.
3) From what I have seen of programming language standards, (C++ for example), revision becomes slow as sin. Keeping it within Sun allows for fast revision as is necessary of a product that is growing and improving this rapidly.
Sorry, it is a server eat server world out there. You are either speeding down the freeway or getting wiped off it. Week servers will die off like the week antelope that are the first ones picked off by the predators. Getting Slashdotted is an honor, a badge of courage. It's not something that can be whoosed out of.
I think the server is totally dead. I can't get within two pings of it.
No, No. Sorry you got the wrong intended message from the following:
"I'm not just some drone.. Come to my website.. Come to my website.."
I was trying to say, "I'm not just some low-life scum pushing his website all day long. I really have something to say."
I admit now after re-reading it that I could and should have been much clearer.