Hell even the single fact that when you are presented the logon screen, the pointer is on 10,10 and not at screencenter as on Windows, KDE or Gnome is an inconvenient. A little one but just a little thing here and a little thing there does a lot.
The screen center is a busy place and the pointer might not be easily visible there.
Rad-hard tags will help make international shipping safer.
When the shipping container is filled, it is sealed with a rad-hard tamper-proof RFID global shipping tag seal. It is physically impossible to open the door without breaking the seal and the RFID tag inside.
Shipping container gets to destination port. If the GST doesn't respond or gives the wrong number, that's evidence of tampering and the container gets the thorough go-over.
The unopened container can be gamma-scanned, x-rayed, and dowsed for evil. If it passes, it goes on the truck or train to its unpacking destination.
So now you know that something is actually being done about port security.
(I'm sure that every Slashdot member can and will pick holes in this scheme, but I don't know the whole story so y'all smartasses need to do research before thinking you're smarter than the dudes working on it. Yes, tags can be copied. You'd need a wafer fab to do it, and a manufacturing facility to copy the mechanical aspects of the seal-tag, and there are much easier ways of smuggling Bad Stuff into a country, so it will very much help make ports safer.)
Also, much of the stone dressing was done with other, harder stones. Granite for dressing limestone, and basalt (? like I ever see basalt) dressing granite.
"Why are we doing this at all? is the question people are asking," said Warren Stewart, policy director of VoteTrustUSA, a group critical of electronic voting systems. "We have a perfectly good system -- the paper-ballot optical-scan system."
The parent answers the question from the end of TFA. It needs to be modded up:
To understand the history of the push for e-voting, we must understand the main event sparking this push. That event is the presidential election of 2000. Several voters who lacked the most basic intelligence in comprehending the shockingly simple instructions on a paper ballot voted in Florida. These voters submitted flawed ballots that, for example, had hanging chads which should have been removed to clearly indicate which candidate should receive the vote.
Unfortunately, the idiots were too stupid to understand the instructions.
So, some good samaritans started the push to adopt e-voting machines as a way to protect people from their own stupidity. Yet, these samaritans lacked the technical good sense to understand the need for a paper trail.
That brings us here today. The old paper ballots were fine. They worked well. There was no need to replace them. More to the point, there is no need to protect a person from his own stupidity. If a person is so stupid that he cannot understand simple instructions, then his vote would likely not have been an informed vote: no vote is certainly better than an idiotic vote.
Bush is already planning to ignore what the study group says
Taking something into consideration, and then rejecting it, is not ignoring.
Amazing how many people regularly claim the ability to read minds. Because that's what you've done, crawled into the President's head and picked up the bits from his synapses, and you know he will ignore the report, and that he will not read it, has made up his mind to not read it, not the tiniest little bit of it.
The whole damned left is nothing but sideshow hucksters.
When people and goods cross a border, they can be searched.
When comms cross a border, they can be monitored.
It's easy to score points with the paranoid conspiracy nuts, "THEY ARE LISTENING TO YOU!"
Duh. They should! It's stuff crossing a border. Crossing a border. Crossing a border. (Must be repeated because leftists are stupid, leftists are stupid, leftists are stupid).
Sagan? How like a kid from New York City to know so little about green growing things.
Trees can produce several times their wooden mass in leaves over the years. Leaves fall and rot.
The rest of the tree grows, falls over, and rots.
Rotting is complicated. Some carbon goes back into the air in methane and CO2, but much of it remains biomass.
Some of the carbon in biomass washes downstream. Some sprouts wings and flies away.
In the long run, by turning under the overburden, strip-mining coal becomes carbon-neutral!
I know folks who would love for the gub'mint to pay them to plow under fields of native grasses and trash trees as often as necessary. Rural folks stand to make a killing in the new Carbon Credit markets! A cash crop that needs no pesticides, no harvesting, no shipping.
Since when did we start calling "grit", "nanoparticles"?
Since the yellow journalists went through all the trouble of learning to say and spell "nanoparticle" so they can scare their idiot readers!
I'm of split opinion on this silver test case. First opinion, it's completely stupid to waste time on it. Second opinion, this will be good because the outcome of the test case is predetermined because it's harmless ole silver, and so technology can once again progress past the ecoweenies.
"There was a hazardous materials spill of silver nanoparticles today, in which a gram of the dangerous material was released into Bouldin Creek. (A gram is roughly one-millionth the length of a football field.)"
Slashdot Mirror
Incompetent Academics
Always Blaming Hackers
To Cover Their Asses!
You mean, "turn up the dust removal too high," as that is what Adnan Hajj did, and it's quite obvious once you start counting pixels.
The screen center is a busy place and the pointer might not be easily visible there.
And after another mountain of code, you get to just say, "that language is ugly."
Related to madness in space: repeatedly changing course from Altair VI to Vulcan and back can make you spacesick (pronounced "spessik").
What makes you think that all of the tank drivers will remain loyal to the oppresors?
The purpose of school is to keep the smart kids down.
Always has been (you think the 80s were bad?), always will be.
The solution is to shut the damn places down. End public education, because most of the public is ineducable.
"A 'rich' person is anybody who makes $1 more than you." -Maharushi
Can't use hoses for crowd control, because that's politically incorrect.
Can't use tear gas because it causes flashbacks.
Can't beat 'em with sticks because it will get looped out of context on TV.
Can't use 94GHz because it's the patchouli band.
Which leaves only one weapon to use for crowd control: Slayer.
Why should the AF pay?
The consumers bought devices that work exactly the way they're supposed to. If the consumers don't know the limits, it's their own stupid damn faults.
No way, no how, do these technological illiterates get one fracking dime of my tax money.
Rad-hard tags will help make international shipping safer.
When the shipping container is filled, it is sealed with a rad-hard tamper-proof RFID global shipping tag seal. It is physically impossible to open the door without breaking the seal and the RFID tag inside.
Shipping container gets to destination port. If the GST doesn't respond or gives the wrong number, that's evidence of tampering and the container gets the thorough go-over.
The unopened container can be gamma-scanned, x-rayed, and dowsed for evil. If it passes, it goes on the truck or train to its unpacking destination.
So now you know that something is actually being done about port security.
(I'm sure that every Slashdot member can and will pick holes in this scheme, but I don't know the whole story so y'all smartasses need to do research before thinking you're smarter than the dudes working on it. Yes, tags can be copied. You'd need a wafer fab to do it, and a manufacturing facility to copy the mechanical aspects of the seal-tag, and there are much easier ways of smuggling Bad Stuff into a country, so it will very much help make ports safer.)
From last week's L&O:SUV --
Upon learning that a suspect had injected a cheatin' wife with an RFID chip, Det. Stabler quips,
"The guy just invented the Hojack."
Mostly copper tools, not much arsenic bronze, and little to no tin bronze:
t tery_tin.htm
http://nefertiti.iwebland.com/trades/tools.htm
Tin bronze is a fascinating subject
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/uc_sla
Also, much of the stone dressing was done with other, harder stones. Granite for dressing limestone, and basalt (? like I ever see basalt) dressing granite.
Robocop Banzai covered some of this on THC.
So it's the childrens' fault!
People should not have kids.
So we can save the environment.
So the kids will have a nice place to live.
Amazing how many people regularly claim the ability to read minds. Because that's what you've done, crawled into the President's head and picked up the bits from his synapses, and you know he will ignore the report, and that he will not read it, has made up his mind to not read it, not the tiniest little bit of it.
The whole damned left is nothing but sideshow hucksters.
Same reason people hate nuclear power: they don't understand it.
The exit strategy is clearly through Damascus and Tehran.
Any "strategy" that leaves IRI intact, is not strategy at all.
When people and goods cross a border, they can be searched.
When comms cross a border, they can be monitored.
It's easy to score points with the paranoid conspiracy nuts, "THEY ARE LISTENING TO YOU!"
Duh. They should! It's stuff crossing a border. Crossing a border. Crossing a border. (Must be repeated because leftists are stupid, leftists are stupid, leftists are stupid).
Want secure comms? Use good crypto.
It is called the Terrorist Surveillance Program.
It is so-called domestic spying by the enemy media.
Sagan? How like a kid from New York City to know so little about green growing things.
Trees can produce several times their wooden mass in leaves over the years. Leaves fall and rot.
The rest of the tree grows, falls over, and rots.
Rotting is complicated. Some carbon goes back into the air in methane and CO2, but much of it remains biomass.
Some of the carbon in biomass washes downstream. Some sprouts wings and flies away.
In the long run, by turning under the overburden, strip-mining coal becomes carbon-neutral!
I know folks who would love for the gub'mint to pay them to plow under fields of native grasses and trash trees as often as necessary. Rural folks stand to make a killing in the new Carbon Credit markets! A cash crop that needs no pesticides, no harvesting, no shipping.
Better than government cheese.
Since the yellow journalists went through all the trouble of learning to say and spell "nanoparticle" so they can scare their idiot readers!
I'm of split opinion on this silver test case. First opinion, it's completely stupid to waste time on it. Second opinion, this will be good because the outcome of the test case is predetermined because it's harmless ole silver, and so technology can once again progress past the ecoweenies.
Third opinion, is kill all the journalists.
"There was a hazardous materials spill of silver nanoparticles today, in which a gram of the dangerous material was released into Bouldin Creek. (A gram is roughly one-millionth the length of a football field.)"