A little know intergalatic terrorist organization has claimed responsibility for the plasma burst observed. Secretary of State Rice could not be reached for comment. However, President Bush is ramping up space exploration with the intention of invading the terrorists home system.
but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
And now for the insults These so-called hackers a just a bunch of bored children with nothing better to do than throw pooh. Give 'em more homework, or better yet have their parents give them more chores.
What are you talking about? Buy expensive programming languages. I use vi exclusively (not saying its better just what I'm used to) to create web content, xhtml included. Last time I checked I was human. As for the expensive programming language(!?), the validator code is readily available for free.
This would be proved as evolution if this ape could pass this on to her progeny. As it is, this is only a reaction to a change in her environment. While this is very interesting, it is NOT evolution. However, it does merit attention.
Is not to use the 'Official' channels. Somebody's got to do maintenace on the tunnels or at least the contents of such. They needed a schematic to know where to work and get in and out of the tunnels. He could have solicted one of the contractors for the plans and not get on the radar of anyone. That's how a real terrorist would have done it
And now ladies and gentlemen I myself am probably on the list of potential terrorists because I actually thought of a way to circumvent the system. Oh no, he thinks!
I haven't seen one piece of information that states that the Patriot Act or another infringement on our rights has improved our 'security'. You'll reply that we haven't had a terrorist attact in that time. You know what, you're right. You'll also notice that we've bombed or occupied most of the nations that aid these terrorist. These terrorist have also targeted sites closer to home (Israel, Saudi Arabia).
The FBI has ALWAYS had the power and authority to stop wrong-doers. What this legislation does is further remove the checks and balances that keep our government from becoming the tyranny we defeated over 200 years ago. Point: Pre-911 you want to tap a phone get an emergency warrant from a judge. Now you can just tap without impunity.
I could go on and but it will mean more if you look it up yourself!
Pardon the rant, but I'm sick and tired of the sheep hiding behind the 'its the government so its ok' or the 'if you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to hide' arguments.
We've spilled alot of our blood to secure our freedoms and now we're pissing it away in the name of security. The FBI knew about the 911 attack. The bureacracy stopped the flow of information to the necessary people. Why don't the fools in Washington legislate THAT!
Under the patriot act you can get a free trip to Guantanamo Bay (sp?) without even consulting your attorney, held indefinitely, and no one would be able to find out what happened to you because all records of your arrest and processing would be classified in the interest of National Security. So how are we going to have a case go to through the legal wranglings to get to a Federal Court?
Welcome to Orwell's world. All we need now is some guy with a helmet shaped rat cage.
I maybe overreacting, but my God someone has to.
Remember you can't kill a martyr but you can keep one from becoming.
Why couldn't we put this lab in orbit? That way we wouldn't have to compensate for so much extraneous gravitational noise. Or am I missing that fact that this equipment needs the Earth's gravity well to function.
Disclaimer: I am not a physicists, just a guy who likes science.
I think the parent post was supposed to be a joke. As for 'The best way to earn money is to reduce costs.', where is the income? Yes, you've reduced your overhead but you still aren't making money. By not having adequate and competent staff available you open yourself up to failure and/or buyout. If you can diversify and innovate, you can create a new market, thereby increasing income. To do that you have to spend a little money and ensure that the benefit outweighs the cost. It's sort of a no brainer but increasing income is the best way to make money.
Excuse me, how can a gun coded to the owners token prevent the owner from using it on him/herself. That would imply that the gun doesn't work at all. Very well thought out
Just another example of a half-assed, knee-jerk reaction to a political hot button a politician will use to win votes.
I've read the same thing about silver. It seems that silver will kill almost any bacteria. There is a documented case (forgot the url) about a doctor who contracted Lymes disease and was paralyzed from the chest down as a result. He found some old medical research about silver solutions and experimented on himself. Within in weeks he was walking. This is why 'silver'ware was created. The silver particles rubbing off in the mouth gave the user a little edge against bacteria.
IMHO, management is having a harder time selling the 'cool' new software because it costs money. Money is tight. We are in a recession. With the.bombs, the IT industry is having to return to earth. It is now just a department staffed by people with technical educations. Very similar to Engineering. (I can say that having been one). As an engineer, it is very difficult to get the things that you need because you have to justify the expense. Often, the money saved is intangible or you can't show it on a canned spreadsheet. The same can be said about software. For example (I'm just throwing this out), what money will be saved by migrating an existing application to Oracle 9 using Linux clusters. Finance has already written off the capital expense for the equipment and software in the first place. The data is being stored and people have their applications and can do their job. Why do I need to spend ~1 million dollars(US) to implement this solution? Because we won't have any down-time, says you. But we shouldn't have any down-time now, says management. Often, we being gear-heads can't explain the 'soft-money' benefits of new applications/hardware to accounting. We don't understand ROI and they don't understand what we need to 'do it right the first time'. Because we can't produce direct revenue we will be viewed as overhead and treated as second-class citizens in the corporate nation.
Slashdot Mirror
best designs have a chance of a fizzle due to premature fission
You said it brother!
A little know intergalatic terrorist organization has claimed responsibility for the plasma burst observed. Secretary of State Rice could not be reached for comment. However, President Bush is ramping up space exploration with the intention of invading the terrorists home system.
All the other links have been really bad. Just glossing over the obvious. This actually says there will be more changes coming.
it turns out I was in Ohio.
Or something like that. Blatantly stolen from 'Heathers'
but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
And now for the insults
These so-called hackers a just a bunch of bored children with nothing better to do than throw pooh.
Give 'em more homework, or better yet have their parents give them more chores.
Okay, I feel better now. Feel free to flame.
What are you talking about? Buy expensive programming languages. I use vi exclusively (not saying its better just what I'm used to) to create web content, xhtml included. Last time I checked I was human. As for the expensive programming language(!?), the validator code is readily available for free.
This would be proved as evolution if this ape could pass this on to her progeny. As it is, this is only a reaction to a change in her environment. While this is very interesting, it is NOT evolution. However, it does merit attention.
Is not to use the 'Official' channels. Somebody's got to do maintenace on the tunnels or at least the contents of such. They needed a schematic to know where to work and get in and out of the tunnels. He could have solicted one of the contractors for the plans and not get on the radar of anyone. That's how a real terrorist would have done it
And now ladies and gentlemen I myself am probably on the list of potential terrorists because I actually thought of a way to circumvent the system. Oh no, he thinks!
I haven't seen one piece of information that states that the Patriot Act or another infringement on our rights has improved our 'security'. You'll reply that we haven't had a terrorist attact in that time. You know what, you're right. You'll also notice that we've bombed or occupied most of the nations that aid these terrorist. These terrorist have also targeted sites closer to home (Israel, Saudi Arabia).
The FBI has ALWAYS had the power and authority to stop wrong-doers. What this legislation does is further remove the checks and balances that keep our government from becoming the tyranny we defeated over 200 years ago. Point: Pre-911 you want to tap a phone get an emergency warrant from a judge. Now you can just tap without impunity.
I could go on and but it will mean more if you look it up yourself!
Pardon the rant, but I'm sick and tired of the sheep hiding behind the 'its the government so its ok' or the 'if you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to hide' arguments.
We've spilled alot of our blood to secure our freedoms and now we're pissing it away in the name of security. The FBI knew about the 911 attack. The bureacracy stopped the flow of information to the necessary people. Why don't the fools in Washington legislate THAT!
Does this mean deBeers will offer graphite engagement rings?
Ducks...
Under the patriot act you can get a free trip to Guantanamo Bay (sp?) without even consulting your attorney, held indefinitely, and no one would be able to find out what happened to you because all records of your arrest and processing would be classified in the interest of National Security.
So how are we going to have a case go to through the legal wranglings to get to a Federal Court?
Welcome to Orwell's world. All we need now is some guy with a helmet shaped rat cage.
I maybe overreacting, but my God someone has to.
Remember you can't kill a martyr but you can keep one from becoming.
Why couldn't we put this lab in orbit? That way we wouldn't have to compensate for so much extraneous gravitational noise. Or am I missing that fact that this equipment needs the Earth's gravity well to function.
Disclaimer: I am not a physicists, just a guy who likes science.
All the taxes from the dubage adds up to alot of cabbage.
Seriously, we tax the hell out of tobacco and alcohol. Why not create another revenue stream.
my $.02
I think the parent post was supposed to be a joke. As for 'The best way to earn money is to reduce costs.', where is the income? Yes, you've reduced your overhead but you still aren't making money. By not having adequate and competent staff available you open yourself up to failure and/or buyout. If you can diversify and innovate, you can create a new market, thereby increasing income. To do that you have to spend a little money and ensure that the benefit outweighs the cost. It's sort of a no brainer but increasing income is the best way to make money.
Excuse me, how can a gun coded to the owners token prevent the owner from using it on him/herself. That would imply that the gun doesn't work at all. Very well thought out
Just another example of a half-assed, knee-jerk reaction to a political hot button a politician will use to win votes.
Slashdot effect???
I've read the same thing about silver. It seems that silver will kill almost any bacteria. There is a documented case (forgot the url) about a doctor who contracted Lymes disease and was paralyzed from the chest down as a result. He found some old medical research about silver solutions and experimented on himself. Within in weeks he was walking. This is why 'silver'ware was created. The silver particles rubbing off in the mouth gave the user a little edge against bacteria.
IMHO, management is having a harder time selling the 'cool' new software because it costs money. Money is tight. We are in a recession. With the .bombs, the IT industry is having to return to earth. It is now just a department staffed by people with technical educations. Very similar to Engineering. (I can say that having been one). As an engineer, it is very difficult to get the things that you need because you have to justify the expense. Often, the money saved is intangible or you can't show it on a canned spreadsheet. The same can be said about software. For example (I'm just throwing this out), what money will be saved by migrating an existing application to Oracle 9 using Linux clusters. Finance has already written off the capital expense for the equipment and software in the first place. The data is being stored and people have their applications and can do their job. Why do I need to spend ~1 million dollars(US) to implement this solution? Because we won't have any down-time, says you. But we shouldn't have any down-time now, says management. Often, we being gear-heads can't explain the 'soft-money' benefits of new applications/hardware to accounting. We don't understand ROI and they don't understand what we need to 'do it right the first time'. Because we can't produce direct revenue we will be viewed as overhead and treated as second-class citizens in the corporate nation.