... has a job that requires him to run around and check various gauges and valves. His manager notices that he is doing an excellent job, and buys the engineer a bicycle.
The next week, the manager sees the engineer running around and pushing the bike. The manager asks, "Hey, why aren't you riding the bike? The engineer answers, "Who has time to learn how to ride a bike?"
People believing that there is only 1 inventor of an idea don't know shit about history. It's very very rare for 1 person to come up with something really unique. Patents, especially on obvious things like math (software) or a 1 click-to-buy (amazon) aren't a big problem today for the average citizen, but it won't be long before those lobbies will get a law that will also let them target the end-users.
Issac Newton and Gottfried Leibnitz both independently invented Calculus. Imagine if one or both of them patented it?
School Teacher: "Hi! Welcome to Calculus class! Your books are on your desks. Please note that they are sealed. Please read the EULA on the cover before breaking the seal and opening them."
Ken Thompson got annoyed that Unix users would call him up or email him complaining about bugs, but would refuse to give him root access to their systems to snoop around. So he added a seemingly innocuous chunk of code to the Unix source, that would be transformed by the C compiler into a backdoor for him. Then when folks called up to complain, he would instruct them to recompile the kernel, and presto, he could get in to debug.
When describing this years later, he quipped something like, "Never trust or hire a guy like me."
So the summary says, "All changes are reviewed by at least one person, and the system is easy for anyone else to look at and review your code even if you don't invite them to"
So folks can review the code . . . can they understand what it really does?
Right. Tell that to the Iranians who just lost 984 uranium-enrichment centrifuges to a US/Israeli worm.
The official explanation from the British Foreign Office stated that the centrifuges were not lost, but merely resting, after a long squawk, and were pining for the fjords.
What do you suggest, with a lightly braised mammoth steak? A Montepulciano? Aperole with champagne before the meal? And a good calvados afterwards? I am looking forward to seeing mammoth on the menu in my local restaurants!
Surely, they could have been more creative, and backronymed whatever that they are doing into NEW-HYPE instead of NEW-HIP.
Reduce weight on an airplane? I'd start with the passengers. The last few times I have flown anywhere, I have been amazed how many people are overweight. But I guess military folks are in better shape then the general population.
I knew a couple who really wanted to have kids. The woman had difficulty getting pregnant, and then she had some miscarriages. I was in tears when she told me about the experiences. Her husband is a very wealthy man from Altona, near Hamburg in Germany. The homes in Altona make Hollywood mansions look like a trailer park. She told me that she felt pressure to 'produce' a male heir.
So she took some 'fertility' pills, and a beautiful baby boy came out. But she developed breast cancer six months later, and died from it.
Back to on topic. Can you imagine the pressure of being on Mars, and expected to give birth to a child? Larry King would come back from retirement, and set up a camera team on Mars in your bedroom: "Well, the penis seems to be in the vagina, but we still don't have a pregnancy yet . .."
I think stress plays a role. When they send some folks on a one way trip to Mars, I guess we will see.
I'm not sure what to call any of this, and I'm completely torn about whether Wikileaks is good or bad, but this sure as hell isn't any normal kind of rape accusation to me. The whole thing stinks to high heaven.
One of the oldest tricks in the spy books, is using sex-traps, also called honey pots. The famous East German spy chief, Markus Wolf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_wolf , the "Man without a face" developed this into an art. He sent agents to act as Casanovas for lonely political secretaries, and the other way around.
When I first heard of the Assange allegations, I thought, "Yeah, computer geek walks into a bar, an pulls twice in four days."
Does not compute. Someone set him up with those chicks.
"Houston, I'm sending both of the other Astronauts out for a spacewalk. I found this Playmate photo here, and need some private time to have a wank. Ha! All you 'mile high club' folks can kiss my hairy ass. I'm halfway to the moon and having 'one off the wrist'! Beat that!"
Even if you want to go for a post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy to associate the two, actually Rome fell shortly after they _stopped_ holding gladiatorial combats. So, hmm, maybe actually the bad sign is when you can't even afford to have fun any more?
So, like, if the Superbowl in the US gets canceled, they are going to Hell in a handbasket?
So, sorry, but linking such shows to Rome's decline is fucking idiotic. If you want to make a historical case, do read some history first.
This is Slashdot. We don't read, we just post. Read history? Hell, most of us don't even bother to read the article summaries.
I hope that you can appreciate that I merely joking . . . but maybe not.
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... has a job that requires him to run around and check various gauges and valves. His manager notices that he is doing an excellent job, and buys the engineer a bicycle.
The next week, the manager sees the engineer running around and pushing the bike. The manager asks, "Hey, why aren't you riding the bike? The engineer answers, "Who has time to learn how to ride a bike?"
People believing that there is only 1 inventor of an idea don't know shit about history. It's very very rare for 1 person to come up with something really unique. Patents, especially on obvious things like math (software) or a 1 click-to-buy (amazon) aren't a big problem today for the average citizen, but it won't be long before those lobbies will get a law that will also let them target the end-users.
Issac Newton and Gottfried Leibnitz both independently invented Calculus. Imagine if one or both of them patented it?
School Teacher: "Hi! Welcome to Calculus class! Your books are on your desks. Please note that they are sealed. Please read the EULA on the cover before breaking the seal and opening them."
Maybe we will be able to settle this myth once and for all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_note
Ken Thompson got annoyed that Unix users would call him up or email him complaining about bugs, but would refuse to give him root access to their systems to snoop around. So he added a seemingly innocuous chunk of code to the Unix source, that would be transformed by the C compiler into a backdoor for him. Then when folks called up to complain, he would instruct them to recompile the kernel, and presto, he could get in to debug.
When describing this years later, he quipped something like, "Never trust or hire a guy like me."
So the summary says, "All changes are reviewed by at least one person, and the system is easy for anyone else to look at and review your code even if you don't invite them to"
So folks can review the code . . . can they understand what it really does?
Man, you can read some weird fucking shit on Slashdot.
"Well, Gromit, that sounds like A Grand Day Out! Whoops! The grid and the cloud have The Wrong Trousers!"
Right. Tell that to the Iranians who just lost 984 uranium-enrichment centrifuges to a US/Israeli worm.
The official explanation from the British Foreign Office stated that the centrifuges were not lost, but merely resting, after a long squawk, and were pining for the fjords.
Norwegian centrifuges stun easily.
I bet 8 in 10 of these school shooters have bicycles too. Why aren't they focused on the obvious bicycle problem?
Who will win? I will pay top dollar to watch that match . . .
Vending Machine: "Are you sure? You look like you need a razor, a box of tampons, and a coke"
I am not familiar with this kink, but it sounds like it might have potential.
Remember folks, as long as no one gets hurt, kinky sex is good, clean, wholesome Christian fun.
Hobbies?
Hell, yeah, you're hired!
So who will be the lucky lady to carry for the first Neandertal born in 25,000 years?
Actually sounds like a good idea for a reality show, when Charlie Sheen gets whored out . . . two and a half Neanderthals!
But, I guess, most women folk already have experience with living with Neanderthals.
Does this mean we'll start seeing pink mammoths too?
Bartender, I'll have another . . . and don't worry, the pink mammoth is driving . . .
lighten up and have a drink
What do you suggest, with a lightly braised mammoth steak? A Montepulciano? Aperole with champagne before the meal? And a good calvados afterwards? I am looking forward to seeing mammoth on the menu in my local restaurants!
Surely, they could have been more creative, and backronymed whatever that they are doing into NEW-HYPE instead of NEW-HIP.
Reduce weight on an airplane? I'd start with the passengers. The last few times I have flown anywhere, I have been amazed how many people are overweight. But I guess military folks are in better shape then the general population.
In fact Alan Turing himself pointed out that a mixture of alcohol and water would do the job as well as mercury (he wanted to use gin.) .
Turing failed to include a dash of Angostura . . . with enough alcohol, the computer can shoot shit out, but everyone is too trashed to give a damn.
I knew a couple who really wanted to have kids. The woman had difficulty getting pregnant, and then she had some miscarriages. I was in tears when she told me about the experiences. Her husband is a very wealthy man from Altona, near Hamburg in Germany. The homes in Altona make Hollywood mansions look like a trailer park. She told me that she felt pressure to 'produce' a male heir.
So she took some 'fertility' pills, and a beautiful baby boy came out. But she developed breast cancer six months later, and died from it.
Back to on topic. Can you imagine the pressure of being on Mars, and expected to give birth to a child? Larry King would come back from retirement, and set up a camera team on Mars in your bedroom: "Well, the penis seems to be in the vagina, but we still don't have a pregnancy yet . . ."
I think stress plays a role. When they send some folks on a one way trip to Mars, I guess we will see.
How about Kwik-E-Mart? Sounds like an App Store to me . . .
I just spent a fairly ridiculously long time staring at.
I could say the same thing about source code, but my manager would not get the joke.
... we'll get Google Davie Jones' Locker View, real soon ...
I'm not sure what to call any of this, and I'm completely torn about whether Wikileaks is good or bad, but this sure as hell isn't any normal kind of rape accusation to me. The whole thing stinks to high heaven.
One of the oldest tricks in the spy books, is using sex-traps, also called honey pots. The famous East German spy chief, Markus Wolf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_wolf , the "Man without a face" developed this into an art. He sent agents to act as Casanovas for lonely political secretaries, and the other way around.
When I first heard of the Assange allegations, I thought, "Yeah, computer geek walks into a bar, an pulls twice in four days."
Does not compute. Someone set him up with those chicks.
"Houston, I'm sending both of the other Astronauts out for a spacewalk. I found this Playmate photo here, and need some private time to have a wank. Ha! All you 'mile high club' folks can kiss my hairy ass. I'm halfway to the moon and having 'one off the wrist'! Beat that!"
Thanks I'll be here all week. Tip your waitstaff.
Try the waitress, tip the veal. Tastes better; lasts longer.
.. a gas cloud who was irradiated until recently by a now dead quasar. The irradiation excited the oxygen atoms in the cloud, making it glow green.
Well, that certainly sounds like a kink that I have not heard of yet. Exciting irradiation? With a dead quasar? Hmm ... maybe the necrophilia gang ...
It's been fucking insane.
Even if you want to go for a post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy to associate the two, actually Rome fell shortly after they _stopped_ holding gladiatorial combats. So, hmm, maybe actually the bad sign is when you can't even afford to have fun any more?
So, like, if the Superbowl in the US gets canceled, they are going to Hell in a handbasket?
So, sorry, but linking such shows to Rome's decline is fucking idiotic. If you want to make a historical case, do read some history first.
This is Slashdot. We don't read, we just post. Read history? Hell, most of us don't even bother to read the article summaries.
I hope that you can appreciate that I merely joking . . . but maybe not.