Grind down your keys and fit them into a cheap leatherman. You only use one at a time anyways, so flick it out like any other blade and presto! There is a blog somewhere about it. Much more pocket friendly, and if done right, looks very nice.
of someone coming around and issuing a number that can identify each and every individual in the country? I'm sorry, but last time I checked we already had a national database of (nearly) all of our (mostly) legal residents. Seems like nobody is scared of a social security number given to your children at birth, but we've been using them since what, the 30s? I think we are used to the idea of non-privacy now.
Granted, you can't really take a SSN and determine sex and current address from that number alone, but you can check state of birth, and have a reasonable idea of when they were born. Given the right knowledge and "1337 skillz" one can also phone up their local office and request the information on a given number at any given time. Now then... don't you feel even more secure about your special super secret only to me(and everyone I want to do business with) ID number?
Also, just to step on both sides of the fence for a minute, you are not required to get a social security number in the US. Your parents did you the favor, so they can claim you on their taxes. Granted, without a SSN, you'll be hard pressed to get a job that doesn't involve picking fruit or disposing of bodies. Good luck getting a bank to look at you for very long either. Even though there is no law requiring you to show proof of a SSN, without one you might as well kiss anything that requires money goodbye.
I'm just trying to think of how I would react, knowing that a computer was going to take 3 years to finish a task.
Can you imagine staring at the status bar for that?
"Overall, we've learned and continue to learn from open source development principles. These are making their way into the mindset, development practices, and ultimately into the products we bring to market."
They may have learned a few key points about open source and its effectiveness, but they are leaving out one important part. The OPEN SOURCE.
Then again, I'm not too sure if I would even want to look at their source codes.
now I'm going to have to worry about keeping my computer happy as well as my girlfriend. One of them is going to have to go. Luckily, I have another 21 years to decide.
/Using Linux involves tradeoffs./
Yes, it does... but I am more then willing to sacrifice two hours of researching how to change my screensaver settings and learning more about the OS in the process then I am to plop down a couple of mouse-clicks in Vista and have it freeze trying to figure out what I want to do next.
Force degrading the music beyond the mp3 compression issue!
I've been waiting for the day I can listen to current-day music with pops and scratches just like my old vinyl collection! I just can't get audacity to bring out the "spilled coffee on my 7 inch" sound realistically enough. Metallica always sounds better with a little sugar and creamer.
Since I heard this story I have kept believing that it was some drunken college kid throwing french-fries at the Panthera tigris and subsequently losing the rest of his fries when disemboweled. I think my original quote was "Hey! Let's see what will happen when I throw a french-fry at a tiger! Make sure to put it on YouTube!"
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Grind down your keys and fit them into a cheap leatherman. You only use one at a time anyways, so flick it out like any other blade and presto! There is a blog somewhere about it. Much more pocket friendly, and if done right, looks very nice.
of someone coming around and issuing a number that can identify each and every individual in the country? I'm sorry, but last time I checked we already had a national database of (nearly) all of our (mostly) legal residents. Seems like nobody is scared of a social security number given to your children at birth, but we've been using them since what, the 30s? I think we are used to the idea of non-privacy now.
Granted, you can't really take a SSN and determine sex and current address from that number alone, but you can check state of birth, and have a reasonable idea of when they were born. Given the right knowledge and "1337 skillz" one can also phone up their local office and request the information on a given number at any given time. Now then... don't you feel even more secure about your special super secret only to me(and everyone I want to do business with) ID number?
Also, just to step on both sides of the fence for a minute, you are not required to get a social security number in the US. Your parents did you the favor, so they can claim you on their taxes. Granted, without a SSN, you'll be hard pressed to get a job that doesn't involve picking fruit or disposing of bodies. Good luck getting a bank to look at you for very long either. Even though there is no law requiring you to show proof of a SSN, without one you might as well kiss anything that requires money goodbye.
I'm just trying to think of how I would react, knowing that a computer was going to take 3 years to finish a task. Can you imagine staring at the status bar for that?
"Overall, we've learned and continue to learn from open source development principles. These are making their way into the mindset, development practices, and ultimately into the products we bring to market."
They may have learned a few key points about open source and its effectiveness, but they are leaving out one important part. The OPEN SOURCE.
Then again, I'm not too sure if I would even want to look at their source codes.
Where is the page listing each of the bad sites? I'd like to get started on my Virus Aquarium
"Fractal Crystal No. 1" vs "The Sierpinski Penis Game"
now I'm going to have to worry about keeping my computer happy as well as my girlfriend. One of them is going to have to go. Luckily, I have another 21 years to decide.
... and thanks for all the fish! Perhaps now we can use the freed bandwidth for more usefull things such as a free public WiFi.
/Using Linux involves tradeoffs./ Yes, it does... but I am more then willing to sacrifice two hours of researching how to change my screensaver settings and learning more about the OS in the process then I am to plop down a couple of mouse-clicks in Vista and have it freeze trying to figure out what I want to do next.
Force degrading the music beyond the mp3 compression issue! I've been waiting for the day I can listen to current-day music with pops and scratches just like my old vinyl collection! I just can't get audacity to bring out the "spilled coffee on my 7 inch" sound realistically enough. Metallica always sounds better with a little sugar and creamer.
Since I heard this story I have kept believing that it was some drunken college kid throwing french-fries at the Panthera tigris and subsequently losing the rest of his fries when disemboweled. I think my original quote was "Hey! Let's see what will happen when I throw a french-fry at a tiger! Make sure to put it on YouTube!"