It seems like a knife-versus-club sort of thing, comparing a nanometers-wide quark to a millimeters-wide bullet. But you may still be right. This thing would have enough mass to destroy a few cells, and it might transfer some of it's (considerable) momentum into them, causing them to then go around wreaking havoc on other cells like a game of pool.
Consider this: if you fire a.22 round into an apple, the hole where it enters the apple is the size of the bullet, but the hole where it exits the apple is, say, 5x as big. That's only 5 cells. I think you'd be OK.
As the quark matter is traveling at a much higher speed versus the bullet, my above analogy may be highly flawed. But I don't think too much of it's energy would be transferred--if it causes earthquakes when it passes through the Earth, it's because of the above-mentioned chain-reaction where it transfers energy to matter it collides with. It has thousands of miles to disrupt particles, if it passes through your body, it has only about a foot. or so.
I'd say spammers rank right below (with above being better) people who won't get out of the left lane. A mere annoyance--rarely a hazard or a threat, but it happens that they annoy many people in this slight way, whereas serial snipers inconvenience a few people in a much more extreme manner. Send a million messages a day, average 2 seconds of wasted time per message, that's the equivalent of 23 days' worth of work. A day. That's what you're costing the world in productivity. Net gain for you? Maybe 5 responses?
Just because the work of reading and deleting the e-mail is spread over a large number of people doesn't mean that they're not a parasite on the world. If they cost the world 23 days worth of productivity every day--and that's based on 24-hour days, mind you--that's a huge loss.
There are ways to make money that hurt people, and this is one of them. The fact that it is not explicitly illegal notwithstanding, it is hurtful, and the people who do it are scum. Lower than the people who won't get out of the left-hand lane, certainly, but just because somebody killed people and you just waste their time, I'm not going to forgive you because they did something worse. (not MacAndrew you, spammers you)
PS: Maybe I misinterpreted your post, but what do you have against squeegee men?
I say they revoke the certificate anyway, and re-issue the other controls with new certificates. Inconvenient? Yes. But it would fix the problem, and that's job #1 for them. If, as others have said, heads are rolling over this one, I think revoking the certificate is the least they could do.
I say make 'em get pilots' licences, or some modified form thereof. That'll cut down on the soccer moms and grandparents and who(m?)ever else causes all the problems on the roads today.
Sorry, but fucking intellectual property isn't going to stop me from using my own damn name.
Here's what it comes down to: if Writer Wyman wouldn't have gotten the job were it not for his name, then there may, may be a case. If he just happens to have the name and that's it, if he hasn't gotten any special privileges or benefits because of it, then that's it. No case.
If he really is freeloading off the name by making people think that he is the musician, then he should cease and desist. But it doesn't sound like that is the case.
Then where does wealth come from? Does money spring into existence from nothingness? Granted, goods and services are not zero-sum, there are always more around, but posessing these things does not make one wealthy, in the strict sense. If I threaten to beat you up unless you give me your lunch money, then I become rich as you become poor. In this example, wealth is zero-sum, is it not? So, give me an example of how wealth is non-zero-sum.
Here's what it is. The Music Industry doesn't realize that some of it's customer base has changed. Most still buy LPs, tapes, and CDs, but some are looking for more. They want to sample music, they want to buy individual songs over the internet. Because it would be more convenient. The Music Industry doesn't comply, so we protest by setting up a sort of free-for-all situation rampant with piracy. They should simply see that those people who would rather download music than buy it at the store are a target they should aim for. We're willing to spend money on music, but please, give us something we want. We don't want CDs any more.
I always thought Slashdot should have a boss button.
I don't need one.
Remember that article about the Worm with the EULA? Well, today, my company got that. Mailstorm. It spread like a regular e-mail virus would. 10,000 users x an average of 100 e-mails per user = a lot of mail to our poor servers. I had someone read me the link in the e-mail (people called in saying "I just got 15 e-mails about a greeting card") and I remembered it from Slashdot. So I looked up the article and found the link to Symantec's website about the worm and figured out what was going on. They ended up adding the installed executable to the virus definitions(not my dept, thank you), and all the users had to do was reboot, and their machines would be cleaned.
Thanks Slashdot. Proud to spend my time at work with you.:)
Fact: Species change over time. Theory: Traits are inherited from parents with occasional mutations. Environmental pressures cause certain traits to be more successful than others.
Traits are inherited from parents? That's a theory? And that's your excuse for creationism? Okay...
1. ATI leaks Doom 3 demo 2. ATI currently has fastest video card, that demo was demo'd on. Game runs ass-slow on your GF2 MX. 3. You buy a Radeon 4. Profit! (for ATI, not you)
Sounds like a good business decision for ATI, possibly at the cost of their relationship with ID. Maybe ID will get pissed off and take their revenge by optimizing for nVidia cards in the final release...
Hey man, BET has Comic View, cut them a little slack.
My cable company (Adelphia, assholes!) currently has The Golf Channel (I swear to god, there is a golf channel), but 3 months ago dropped the Sci-Fi channel. My MST3K Tivos suddenly became 1.5 hours of snow. I stopped paying for cable TV, and have since taken to downloading episodes of MST3K off the 'net, via my cable modem. <nelson> HA, ha! </nelson>
Actually, life without cable TV isn't bad. I go to a friend's house to watch football on Sundays and I find other things to do. Surprisingly, I don't miss it. I've actually given serious thought to dropping my cable modem, but I think I'd get bored. Plus, I love gaming over the internet, and that's no good with a 56k.
And no, I don't get free TV because I have cable internet, you can be sure that I checked.
Suffice to say, if those buckets get knocked over(they're tied together, but are they secured to something?), your job security is in question. Unless you can explain how 4 gallons of water got dumped on your servers?
In all seriousness though, the backup tapes would probably survive a quick dousing, they look to be in plastic containers.
I wonder what Southwest's motivation was for taking this to court. Alt tags alone would be very simple to implement, so is it possible that they saw a need to take a stand and did so, Oliver North style?
If you really feel you are in the right, is it your duty to do as Southwest did, and make them follow up on their threat to "take you to court" if you don't do what they want? Certainly, their lawyers charged SW a pretty penny, maybe more than their web people would have, so do you think they weighed the cost and just said, "aw, screw it, let's give the blind what-for!"
I guess the real question would be, what would one cost them versus the other, and did they act in the best interests of their stockholders, or did they do what they thought was right?
Final thought: If, after this is all over, they made their website blind-accessible, what a great statement would that be?
Okay, people, please, just move on. You could be writing a letter to your mother, or going for a walk, or reading a book. You're arguing about non-existent code here. Get a grip!
If my phone could play.wav files, I would make all my friends record themselves saying something like "hey, it's Chris, pick up the phone!" I think that would be cool.
Hey, I saw this PC in Colorado Springs at the last EverLAN. I was walking by, smelled coffee, and I'll be damned if this guy wasn't brewing someone a cup. Smelled good.
You don't necessarily have to sell the house. Take out a second mortgage if you need to get some money out of it for down payment on a new house, but you can keep it and rent it out. If you have a good renter, and the rent they pay covers the mortgage payment... Voila, investment! The problem with buying homes is that people always try to buy somthing that "speaks to" them. Which is fine and well, but they become emotionally attached, and end up paying more than they should. Even if you have the perfect place picked out, if the price isn't right, drop it. Buying a house as an investment is a better strategy.
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A pink four-door Kia minivan.
Perhaps its speed was slowed a significant amount as it traveled through the earth?
It seems like a knife-versus-club sort of thing, comparing a nanometers-wide quark to a millimeters-wide bullet. But you may still be right. This thing would have enough mass to destroy a few cells, and it might transfer some of it's (considerable) momentum into them, causing them to then go around wreaking havoc on other cells like a game of pool.
.22 round into an apple, the hole where it enters the apple is the size of the bullet, but the hole where it exits the apple is, say, 5x as big. That's only 5 cells. I think you'd be OK.
Consider this: if you fire a
As the quark matter is traveling at a much higher speed versus the bullet, my above analogy may be highly flawed. But I don't think too much of it's energy would be transferred--if it causes earthquakes when it passes through the Earth, it's because of the above-mentioned chain-reaction where it transfers energy to matter it collides with. It has thousands of miles to disrupt particles, if it passes through your body, it has only about a foot. or so.
IANAP/A (I am not a physicist/astronomer)
I'd say spammers rank right below (with above being better) people who won't get out of the left lane. A mere annoyance--rarely a hazard or a threat, but it happens that they annoy many people in this slight way, whereas serial snipers inconvenience a few people in a much more extreme manner. Send a million messages a day, average 2 seconds of wasted time per message, that's the equivalent of 23 days' worth of work. A day. That's what you're costing the world in productivity. Net gain for you? Maybe 5 responses?
Just because the work of reading and deleting the e-mail is spread over a large number of people doesn't mean that they're not a parasite on the world. If they cost the world 23 days worth of productivity every day--and that's based on 24-hour days, mind you--that's a huge loss.
There are ways to make money that hurt people, and this is one of them. The fact that it is not explicitly illegal notwithstanding, it is hurtful, and the people who do it are scum. Lower than the people who won't get out of the left-hand lane, certainly, but just because somebody killed people and you just waste their time, I'm not going to forgive you because they did something worse. (not MacAndrew you, spammers you)
PS: Maybe I misinterpreted your post, but what do you have against squeegee men?
I say they revoke the certificate anyway, and re-issue the other controls with new certificates. Inconvenient? Yes. But it would fix the problem, and that's job #1 for them. If, as others have said, heads are rolling over this one, I think revoking the certificate is the least they could do.
When I'm driving, I go the speed limit. On my bike however, I do what's called "double plus ten".
I say make 'em get pilots' licences, or some modified form thereof. That'll cut down on the soccer moms and grandparents and who(m?)ever else causes all the problems on the roads today.
Sorry, but fucking intellectual property isn't going to stop me from using my own damn name.
Here's what it comes down to: if Writer Wyman wouldn't have gotten the job were it not for his name, then there may, may be a case. If he just happens to have the name and that's it, if he hasn't gotten any special privileges or benefits because of it, then that's it. No case.
If he really is freeloading off the name by making people think that he is the musician, then he should cease and desist. But it doesn't sound like that is the case.
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Wealth is not a zero-sum game.
Then where does wealth come from? Does money spring into existence from nothingness? Granted, goods and services are not zero-sum, there are always more around, but posessing these things does not make one wealthy, in the strict sense. If I threaten to beat you up unless you give me your lunch money, then I become rich as you become poor. In this example, wealth is zero-sum, is it not?
So, give me an example of how wealth is non-zero-sum.
Here's what it is. The Music Industry doesn't realize that some of it's customer base has changed. Most still buy LPs, tapes, and CDs, but some are looking for more. They want to sample music, they want to buy individual songs over the internet. Because it would be more convenient. The Music Industry doesn't comply, so we protest by setting up a sort of free-for-all situation rampant with piracy. They should simply see that those people who would rather download music than buy it at the store are a target they should aim for. We're willing to spend money on music, but please, give us something we want. We don't want CDs any more.
I always thought Slashdot should have a boss button.
:)
I don't need one.
Remember that article about the Worm with the EULA? Well, today, my company got that. Mailstorm. It spread like a regular e-mail virus would. 10,000 users x an average of 100 e-mails per user = a lot of mail to our poor servers. I had someone read me the link in the e-mail (people called in saying "I just got 15 e-mails about a greeting card") and I remembered it from Slashdot. So I looked up the article and found the link to Symantec's website about the worm and figured out what was going on. They ended up adding the installed executable to the virus definitions(not my dept, thank you), and all the users had to do was reboot, and their machines would be cleaned.
Thanks Slashdot. Proud to spend my time at work with you.
Speak for yourself, lefty.
A 20 gig HD coupled with a Crusoe would make for a nifty phone/computer.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of them.
Wait, where have I heard that before?
Fact: Species change over time.
Theory: Traits are inherited from parents with occasional mutations. Environmental pressures cause certain traits to be more successful than others.
Traits are inherited from parents? That's a theory? And that's your excuse for creationism? Okay...
1. ATI leaks Doom 3 demo
2. ATI currently has fastest video card, that demo was demo'd on. Game runs ass-slow on your GF2 MX.
3. You buy a Radeon
4. Profit! (for ATI, not you)
Sounds like a good business decision for ATI, possibly at the cost of their relationship with ID.
Maybe ID will get pissed off and take their revenge by optimizing for nVidia cards in the final release...
Support the SSSCA! Down with bandwidth caps!
Hey man, BET has Comic View, cut them a little slack.
My cable company (Adelphia, assholes!) currently has The Golf Channel (I swear to god, there is a golf channel), but 3 months ago dropped the Sci-Fi channel. My MST3K Tivos suddenly became 1.5 hours of snow. I stopped paying for cable TV, and have since taken to downloading episodes of MST3K off the 'net, via my cable modem. <nelson> HA, ha! </nelson>
Actually, life without cable TV isn't bad. I go to a friend's house to watch football on Sundays and I find other things to do. Surprisingly, I don't miss it. I've actually given serious thought to dropping my cable modem, but I think I'd get bored. Plus, I love gaming over the internet, and that's no good with a 56k.
And no, I don't get free TV because I have cable internet, you can be sure that I checked.
nice post.
Suffice to say, if those buckets get knocked over(they're tied together, but are they secured to something?), your job security is in question. Unless you can explain how 4 gallons of water got dumped on your servers?
In all seriousness though, the backup tapes would probably survive a quick dousing, they look to be in plastic containers.
I wonder what Southwest's motivation was for taking this to court. Alt tags alone would be very simple to implement, so is it possible that they saw a need to take a stand and did so, Oliver North style?
If you really feel you are in the right, is it your duty to do as Southwest did, and make them follow up on their threat to "take you to court" if you don't do what they want? Certainly, their lawyers charged SW a pretty penny, maybe more than their web people would have, so do you think they weighed the cost and just said, "aw, screw it, let's give the blind what-for!"
I guess the real question would be, what would one cost them versus the other, and did they act in the best interests of their stockholders, or did they do what they thought was right?
Final thought: If, after this is all over, they made their website blind-accessible, what a great statement would that be?
"Scientists at Caltech are reporting a slashdotting of 7.4 on the POSA* scale, centered under poorslashdottedbastard.com. Film at 11."
"Scientists estimate the site recieved upwards of 4,000 hits in two minutes, or 3,451 hits metric."
Okay, people, please, just move on. You could be writing a letter to your mother, or going for a walk, or reading a book. You're arguing about non-existent code here. Get a grip!
If my phone could play .wav files, I would make all my friends record themselves saying something like "hey, it's Chris, pick up the phone!" I think that would be cool.
Hey, I saw this PC in Colorado Springs at the last EverLAN. I was walking by, smelled coffee, and I'll be damned if this guy wasn't brewing someone a cup. Smelled good.
You don't necessarily have to sell the house. Take out a second mortgage if you need to get some money out of it for down payment on a new house, but you can keep it and rent it out. If you have a good renter, and the rent they pay covers the mortgage payment... Voila, investment!
The problem with buying homes is that people always try to buy somthing that "speaks to" them. Which is fine and well, but they become emotionally attached, and end up paying more than they should. Even if you have the perfect place picked out, if the price isn't right, drop it. Buying a house as an investment is a better strategy.