And just how would you guess/know anyones' usernames , especially without also knowing their passwords?
Personally, my bank usernames look like a chunk taken out of some top-secret military encoded spy message--pretty much like the password that goes with it... I think it's a good practice to obfuscate usernames as much as passwords. It's about as likely that stream of space born gamma rays would trigger my account as it is that an actual person or computer would.
No doubt. I have an HP 4MP that I got from an attorney's office when they were "upgrading"--and I can only imagine how many dead trees made their way through this baby, only god knows how much paperwork they produce. They were going to throw it out, it just needed a toner cart, and some cleaning... Thankfully the drum is perfect. Their loss, my gain.
HP builds some badass printers. Anything that's marketed for office use is practically bullet proof in my experience.
I've always wondered how some of these people would explain away lesbian seagulls and other homosexual activity in the animal kingdom, but I've never got a straight answer on it. Maybe god does hate figs afterall, he must've made The Artist Formerly Known as Prince. Because if he didn't, WHO DID?!
I think that some heterosexual people have fucked up their kids enough that even super-gay people would have a pretty tough time competing. If we can't have a law that prevents warped heterosexuals from reproducing I don't see why we should have a law banning a gay couple from adopting on the same premise.
That's been my experience as well... I'm just remembering in the store that I frequent that they've got drains for condensation at all of the fridges that are on the aisles, my assumption because of this was that they were standalone, with compressors for each one, and without vents to vent the exhaust to the outside.
They recently went to the closed door system for those, but they were open freezers/fridges for years and years. My guess is that they also cut the concrete for some room for vents because they had the whole place closed for a couple of weeks. With the amount of energy they use it would make sense to me that they would try to make it as efficient as possible. It would probably pay for itself within a year or two.
Oh, and the reason for the open coolers? The stores have to be air-conditioned anyway (heat does evil things to food), so it doesn't make much sense to put doors on any of the cases except the frozen products, especially when lazy people object to having to put forth the effort required to continuously open doors.
I think some of the freezers I've seen exhaust their waste heat into the ambient air in the store... With all the friction and whatnot, there would be quite a bit of net heat-energy being pumped into the rest of the store! I'm going to have to pay attention to this in my future grocery-store journeys. Chances are I'm just full of shit, because otherwise it's a tremendous oversight.
I dunno, maybe these fridges exhaust their waste heat outside--if so it makes good sense. Two birds with one stone as they say. I'd certianly hope this was taken into consideration by an engineer somewhere. It wouldn't suprise me, though, because my particular Safeway is pretty old.
Shit... My cousin is a casual user. He's not proficient on a computer. I mean, he can do stuff, knows a bit about spreadsheets and the like, but he's no genius, definitely not a geek, dosen't know what Linux or CSS is, and would probably have a bad feeling in his gut if he ever needed to reinstall Windows... However, he managed to 1) install a DVD burner, 2) rip DVDs 3) burn them, all with stuff available and understandable to casual non-geeks.
He's 40, has 3 kids, lives in a row house out in suburbia, drives a giant Ford F350 turbo diesel (and never uses it to do anything more than tote his 4 member family around), works as a maintance guy at a hospital... He is Average Joe America, and he manged to figure it out. Every DVD he lands his hands on he copies. He dosen't sell them, but he's got a sizeable collection... And if anyone else wanted a copy he'd be more than happy to oblige.
He called me up the other day to see if I wanted his used computer and stuff, 'cause he just upgraded--and the stuff he was giving away is better than mine! He also asked about setting up a RAID. Frankly, I was astonished; not only because it's so easy for non-geeks to do, but because he's actually doing it. Honestly, I'm amazed the MPAA's piracy number isn't much much larger!
And, I can't make my eyes move vertically independent of each other (can anyone?)...
Hehe, yeah, I can... I used to freak my band teacher out by doing that. I think I used to have more control over my eyes then, though. I used to do it all the time, but haven't tried for years. My friends said I could make one go up and the other go down, and also instead of crossing, go opposite directions. I never had a camera to actually see what it looked like, or to see if I was acutally doing it. Since my teacher thought I was posessed, I'm inclined to believe that I was.
Oh, yes. Let's remove a spyware infection by "wiping out the home directory" because that "would usually fix you right up." Excellent solution.
Of course I agree with your cynicism. It's not a real solution... Personally, I'd like to see something like your idea implemented at a browser level; it'd go a long way in preventing people from shooting themselves in the foot.
However, is deleting a home directory then starting off again with a known-good backup any worse than having to reinstall the whole OS? Oftentimes "Just Because", or "My computer is slow"?
I think that a child who was molested/assaulted actually might be better off dead, in the greater-good sort of way... A huge percentage of sexually abused children, confused from such an early age, later turn around and abuse children in their adulthood. I forget the actual numbers, but IIRC it's near 50%, or so they figure.
Assuming an abused child turn adult assaults 5 children, and 50% percent of them become abusers in some capacity in the future, and so on... Well, it's kind of a runaway feedback loop of pain. At some point will that pain spread around these people be equivalent to a life?
I remember there being loads more porno CDs than there ever were encyclopedias. You're right about the games though... There were only a few CD-ROM games before CDs became standard equipment. Like Return to Zork, and The 7th Guest.
Exactly! This is little different from snatching some paper out of a box labeled "math tests", and making some photocopies to sell. (as an aside) I bet we'd be horrified of the things our legislature and national leaders pulled off when they were in school...
Should he be punished? You bet. Kick him out of school for a week or two. The only reason this got any news at all is because it involved a computer.
Exactly.. I'm not a super-big fan of anime myself (I've watched a few titles), but I understand that the amatuers often beat the studio people in the accuracy of translation.
They're missing out on a pretty big market, I think; and not just among the rabid anime freaks. I imagine some of the market would spill out into the mainstream. Sometimes it takes just 0.05% of a market to make a big difference on your bottom line.
Shit, I think they aught to hire the good fan-subbers to sub whatever japanese-only works are out there so the studio can then turn around and make a DVD for that work in whatever particular market.
This would do two things: 1) Put an end to the piracy of their shows overnight. The only reason the fan-subbers are doing this is there's a demand for these shows in other languages, and this is the ONLY way to fill that demand. Many anime fans would plop down hard cash, IF they could get their grubby mitts on it in the first place. 2) Actually earn money for the studio in a market they never intended, and legit money for the subbers--and that would have the effect that the good subbers get more work, and the fans get better subs.
'Course that's too easy of a solution for any corporation.
In my experience, most of the Christians who challenge people to read the bible have never read other holy texts.
Absolutely... My experiences with Christians mirrors yours; furthermore I'd say (as an assumption based on observation) that many Christians haven't even read their own holy texts, but instead parrot what their pastor said the week before. I dunno, perhaps I'm just being pessimistic.
Try Hugin, it's an open source GUI front end to Panorama Tools, and it works wonderfully--I've used it in Win32 and under Linux, but it's also supposed to run on OS X.
The real trick is to use enblend to do the final stitching (hugin will arrange and orient the pictures then output them as individual.tiffs). It does an awesome job of blending the photos together, better than most commercial software from what I hear. Autopano is also quite the handy piece... It'll save you from killing your fingers (and eyes) selecting dozens of control points.
Dunno what NASA uses, but I'd guess it's either super expensive (isn't everything NASA buys super expensive?) or that it was done in-house.
IMO, the real hassle wouldn't be in setting the equipment up and making it work, this is easy stuff.
When you do a small ISP jobby, you make yourself the sole support contact. Everyone will bug you about every minor shit problem imaginable. I did this with my nuclear family (basically all living on the same block), and it was just pathetic. Your ass will be on line for every computer problem they can throw at you, and worst of all you're not getting paid for it. And if you don't go and fix it soon, these people know where you live, and they're going to resent it.
Really, it wasn't that these things were so problemsome, but my family is a group of procrastinators to the extreme. I try hard to avoid this, but when grandma calls dad and says that cousin susie has a computer problem and can't finish her midterm assignement the night before it's due (when in reality she's downloading cowboy music off of Kazzaa--which also means your ass is grass is she ever gets caught)... Well, you're tempted to grab the shotgun and blow shit up. Not healthy.
Having had personal experience with this issue, I'd say it's not a good idea at all, UNLESS all of your neighbors are cheap ass geeks who can fix their own problems, but are too poor to afford a cable connection on their own... Basically, It's a stupid idea, unless you want the hassle...
I, for one, am GLAD that it's not a hi-def camera. Watching home videos is bad enough, but watching stupid, ugly and fat people (my family [or anyone else's for that matter!]) on a jerky-ass high definition home video would be a hundred times worse. Where they had double chins and blemishes before, you could see the mini-Mt. Rushmore my uncle's moles have decided to sculpt, and poor Cousin Susie's zit would look like Olympus Mons. Decidedly NOT something I wish to experience!
On the other hand, it would be great to watch some oaf get his nuts creamed by his son, after he foolishly decides to let the tyke practice with his golf clubs on America's Funnies Home Videos... [movie announcer voice]IN HIGH DEFINITIONNNNNNN, WITH DOLBBBBY DIGITALLLL SURROUND SOUNNNNNND!!![/voice]
Slashdot Mirror
And just how would you guess/know anyones' usernames , especially without also knowing their passwords?
Personally, my bank usernames look like a chunk taken out of some top-secret military encoded spy message--pretty much like the password that goes with it... I think it's a good practice to obfuscate usernames as much as passwords. It's about as likely that stream of space born gamma rays would trigger my account as it is that an actual person or computer would.
No doubt. I have an HP 4MP that I got from an attorney's office when they were "upgrading"--and I can only imagine how many dead trees made their way through this baby, only god knows how much paperwork they produce. They were going to throw it out, it just needed a toner cart, and some cleaning... Thankfully the drum is perfect. Their loss, my gain.
HP builds some badass printers. Anything that's marketed for office use is practically bullet proof in my experience.
I've always wondered how some of these people would explain away lesbian seagulls and other homosexual activity in the animal kingdom, but I've never got a straight answer on it. Maybe god does hate figs afterall, he must've made The Artist Formerly Known as Prince. Because if he didn't, WHO DID?!
I think that some heterosexual people have fucked up their kids enough that even super-gay people would have a pretty tough time competing. If we can't have a law that prevents warped heterosexuals from reproducing I don't see why we should have a law banning a gay couple from adopting on the same premise.
That's been my experience as well... I'm just remembering in the store that I frequent that they've got drains for condensation at all of the fridges that are on the aisles, my assumption because of this was that they were standalone, with compressors for each one, and without vents to vent the exhaust to the outside.
They recently went to the closed door system for those, but they were open freezers/fridges for years and years. My guess is that they also cut the concrete for some room for vents because they had the whole place closed for a couple of weeks. With the amount of energy they use it would make sense to me that they would try to make it as efficient as possible. It would probably pay for itself within a year or two.
Oh, and the reason for the open coolers? The stores have to be air-conditioned anyway (heat does evil things to food), so it doesn't make much sense to put doors on any of the cases except the frozen products, especially when lazy people object to having to put forth the effort required to continuously open doors.
I think some of the freezers I've seen exhaust their waste heat into the ambient air in the store... With all the friction and whatnot, there would be quite a bit of net heat-energy being pumped into the rest of the store! I'm going to have to pay attention to this in my future grocery-store journeys. Chances are I'm just full of shit, because otherwise it's a tremendous oversight.
I dunno, maybe these fridges exhaust their waste heat outside--if so it makes good sense. Two birds with one stone as they say. I'd certianly hope this was taken into consideration by an engineer somewhere. It wouldn't suprise me, though, because my particular Safeway is pretty old.
Ah, got what you're saying--kinda got hung up on the casual computer user/copier thing.
You're absolutely right.
Shit... My cousin is a casual user. He's not proficient on a computer. I mean, he can do stuff, knows a bit about spreadsheets and the like, but he's no genius, definitely not a geek, dosen't know what Linux or CSS is, and would probably have a bad feeling in his gut if he ever needed to reinstall Windows... However, he managed to 1) install a DVD burner, 2) rip DVDs 3) burn them, all with stuff available and understandable to casual non-geeks.
He's 40, has 3 kids, lives in a row house out in suburbia, drives a giant Ford F350 turbo diesel (and never uses it to do anything more than tote his 4 member family around), works as a maintance guy at a hospital... He is Average Joe America, and he manged to figure it out. Every DVD he lands his hands on he copies. He dosen't sell them, but he's got a sizeable collection... And if anyone else wanted a copy he'd be more than happy to oblige.
He called me up the other day to see if I wanted his used computer and stuff, 'cause he just upgraded--and the stuff he was giving away is better than mine! He also asked about setting up a RAID. Frankly, I was astonished; not only because it's so easy for non-geeks to do, but because he's actually doing it. Honestly, I'm amazed the MPAA's piracy number isn't much much larger!
Honestly... Some people deserve a thumbtack enema, however, I guess stupidity is it's own punishment.
And, I can't make my eyes move vertically independent of each other (can anyone?)...
Hehe, yeah, I can... I used to freak my band teacher out by doing that. I think I used to have more control over my eyes then, though. I used to do it all the time, but haven't tried for years. My friends said I could make one go up and the other go down, and also instead of crossing, go opposite directions. I never had a camera to actually see what it looked like, or to see if I was acutally doing it. Since my teacher thought I was posessed, I'm inclined to believe that I was.
Oh, yes. Let's remove a spyware infection by "wiping out the home directory" because that "would usually fix you right up." Excellent solution.
Of course I agree with your cynicism. It's not a real solution... Personally, I'd like to see something like your idea implemented at a browser level; it'd go a long way in preventing people from shooting themselves in the foot.
However, is deleting a home directory then starting off again with a known-good backup any worse than having to reinstall the whole OS? Oftentimes "Just Because", or "My computer is slow"?
Along the lines of what the others said...
I think that a child who was molested/assaulted actually might be better off dead, in the greater-good sort of way... A huge percentage of sexually abused children, confused from such an early age, later turn around and abuse children in their adulthood. I forget the actual numbers, but IIRC it's near 50%, or so they figure.
Assuming an abused child turn adult assaults 5 children, and 50% percent of them become abusers in some capacity in the future, and so on... Well, it's kind of a runaway feedback loop of pain. At some point will that pain spread around these people be equivalent to a life?
I remember there being loads more porno CDs than there ever were encyclopedias. You're right about the games though... There were only a few CD-ROM games before CDs became standard equipment. Like Return to Zork, and The 7th Guest.
If this does come about to be true, then I forsee that book publishers would be a good place to invest.
No, it's not overclocked.. It simply has a big Type-R decal and a crookedly mounted (and disproportionately sized) spoiler. :p
Exactly! This is little different from snatching some paper out of a box labeled "math tests", and making some photocopies to sell. (as an aside) I bet we'd be horrified of the things our legislature and national leaders pulled off when they were in school...
Should he be punished? You bet. Kick him out of school for a week or two. The only reason this got any news at all is because it involved a computer.
Truely. My aunt says she hasn't had an accident ever-in the entire time she's ever drove, so probably 45+ years.
It's funny, because for as long as I've known her she absolutely would not drive on freeways. I can respect that... The rest of us are safer for it!
Exactly.. I'm not a super-big fan of anime myself (I've watched a few titles), but I understand that the amatuers often beat the studio people in the accuracy of translation.
They're missing out on a pretty big market, I think; and not just among the rabid anime freaks. I imagine some of the market would spill out into the mainstream. Sometimes it takes just 0.05% of a market to make a big difference on your bottom line.
Shit, I think they aught to hire the good fan-subbers to sub whatever japanese-only works are out there so the studio can then turn around and make a DVD for that work in whatever particular market.
This would do two things: 1) Put an end to the piracy of their shows overnight. The only reason the fan-subbers are doing this is there's a demand for these shows in other languages, and this is the ONLY way to fill that demand. Many anime fans would plop down hard cash, IF they could get their grubby mitts on it in the first place. 2) Actually earn money for the studio in a market they never intended, and legit money for the subbers--and that would have the effect that the good subbers get more work, and the fans get better subs.
'Course that's too easy of a solution for any corporation.
In my experience, most of the Christians who challenge people to read the bible have never read other holy texts.
Absolutely... My experiences with Christians mirrors yours; furthermore I'd say (as an assumption based on observation) that many Christians haven't even read their own holy texts, but instead parrot what their pastor said the week before. I dunno, perhaps I'm just being pessimistic.
Well, of course they would hold that position... I mean, they paid a metric assload for broadcasting liscenses.
The FCC is less and less about protecting and assigning segments of the RF spectrum, and more and more about protecting that precious oligopoly.
Try Hugin, it's an open source GUI front end to Panorama Tools, and it works wonderfully--I've used it in Win32 and under Linux, but it's also supposed to run on OS X.
.tiffs). It does an awesome job of blending the photos together, better than most commercial software from what I hear. Autopano is also quite the handy piece... It'll save you from killing your fingers (and eyes) selecting dozens of control points.
The real trick is to use enblend to do the final stitching (hugin will arrange and orient the pictures then output them as individual
Dunno what NASA uses, but I'd guess it's either super expensive (isn't everything NASA buys super expensive?) or that it was done in-house.
IMO, the real hassle wouldn't be in setting the equipment up and making it work, this is easy stuff.
When you do a small ISP jobby, you make yourself the sole support contact. Everyone will bug you about every minor shit problem imaginable. I did this with my nuclear family (basically all living on the same block), and it was just pathetic. Your ass will be on line for every computer problem they can throw at you, and worst of all you're not getting paid for it. And if you don't go and fix it soon, these people know where you live, and they're going to resent it.
Really, it wasn't that these things were so problemsome, but my family is a group of procrastinators to the extreme. I try hard to avoid this, but when grandma calls dad and says that cousin susie has a computer problem and can't finish her midterm assignement the night before it's due (when in reality she's downloading cowboy music off of Kazzaa--which also means your ass is grass is she ever gets caught)... Well, you're tempted to grab the shotgun and blow shit up. Not healthy.
Having had personal experience with this issue, I'd say it's not a good idea at all, UNLESS all of your neighbors are cheap ass geeks who can fix their own problems, but are too poor to afford a cable connection on their own... Basically, It's a stupid idea, unless you want the hassle...
Heh, hydrogen is great in balloons... And you'd be suprised by the boom. Take a normal balloon pop, and mutiply it by 5 or so.
The great fun is tying a ribbon to a hydrogen balloon, say 5-8ft or so, lighting the end (ribbons burn pretty good), and let it go.
Flies up for a while... Boom!
Good times.
Its a shame its not a HD-based HiDef camera
I, for one, am GLAD that it's not a hi-def camera. Watching home videos is bad enough, but watching stupid, ugly and fat people (my family [or anyone else's for that matter!]) on a jerky-ass high definition home video would be a hundred times worse. Where they had double chins and blemishes before, you could see the mini-Mt. Rushmore my uncle's moles have decided to sculpt, and poor Cousin Susie's zit would look like Olympus Mons. Decidedly NOT something I wish to experience!
On the other hand, it would be great to watch some oaf get his nuts creamed by his son, after he foolishly decides to let the tyke practice with his golf clubs on America's Funnies Home Videos... [movie announcer voice]IN HIGH DEFINITIONNNNNNN, WITH DOLBBBBY DIGITALLLL SURROUND SOUNNNNNND!!![/voice]