Yeah, great idea... then they come looking for the guy who did it, and you’re looking at years in a Federal prison for putting something into someone’s bag at an airport...
Actually, I’m hoping they’ll reverse a lot of the asinine decisions made by the extreme-left-wing 9th Circuit Court of Appeals there in CA. Such as this:
recent ruling by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals saying it's legal for law enforcement to secretly place a tracking device on a suspect's car without getting a warrant, even if the car is parked in a private driveway
Actually, they did. The wire was the antenna, and antennae have the peculiar tendency to not work when they’re hidden really well inside metal structures. He said he’d have never found it if it wasn’t for the antenna sticking out.
Usually the FBI hides things like this pretty well. I wonder if he had a reason to go looking for it?
RTFA...
Afifi... took his car to a local garage for an oil change. When a mechanic at Ali’s Auto Care raised his Ford Lincoln LS on hydraulic lifts, Afifi saw a wire sticking out near the right rear wheel and exhaust.
All that and it didn’t even occur to you to point out how much easier it’d be to just double check to make sure the domain name in the URL in the address bar was correct; barring the possibility of DNS poisoning it’d be just as safe...
Same here (on both counts). One guy I filtered from my newsfeed because of the daily status updates about how happy he was about his girlfriend (yeah... okay dude, we get it. Where’s the obligatory XKCD?). As far as removing friends, I’ve only done that for certain fallings-out or if they made complete asses of themselves in arguments. If they want to post their opinion, fine, we’ll all post our opinions and then we can shut up. Some people can’t let it go, though. Seriously, arguing via facebook? I have better things to do. Like arguing via slashdot... at least here the article is locked after 2 weeks...
As far as ignoring the majority of the pointless drivel, well, that’s easy enough... I ignore about 90% of the news feed updates anyway, only stopping to read the ones that particularly happen to catch my eye.
Actually this is one of the things that pisses me off, too. This, and changing your name to some made-up name that has nothing to do with your real name. Your profile picture should be really you. Your name should be really your name. This makes it so that people can find you, and it makes it so that when you show up in my friend feed I’m not sitting there going “who the fuck is this?” and forced to visit your profile and check the photos of them to figure out who they are. Yes, I actually know who all of my friends are, and if someone adds me and I don’t know who they are I won’t add them back...
I currently have somebody with 8 mutual friends awaiting friend confirmation because I don’t know who they are. Rather than clicking ignore, I figured I might ask one of the mutual friends if they know who the person is next time I see them. In the meantime... they can wait.
There is... they’re called Friend lists... and all you have to do is click the name of the list to see only the updates from friends in that list. Bookmark it or get it associated with “f...” in the Awesome bar.
Oh... you were making an issue of the fact that it defined “machine” and then called a screw a simple machine, then pinkushun just called it a “machine”. Yeah, that’s pretty pedantic... I’d say that a simple machine is still a machine by definition, if only a simple one.
Machine: an assemblage of parts that transmit forces, motion and energy in a predetermined manner.
Simple Machine: any of various elementary mechanisms having the elements of which all machines are composed. Included in this category are the lever, wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane, wedge and the screw.
I was actually going to ask the same thing but red-green colourblind people should still be able to tell the difference between green and gray, so I assumed he was fully colourblind (or at least some weird sort of colourblind) and figured he’d be the wrong person to ask anyway.
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology had something like that not too long ago to display a.gif clock that updated every second for x number of seconds (specified in a URL parameter). They got rid of that, though: now they have either a Java applet or a static (non-updating) gif.
No... didn’t you take high school physics? A machine doesn’t have to be an assemblage of parts; besides which, some classifications I have seen (though not Wikipedia) consider a screw to be a compound machine (i.e. it is an assemblage of parts): depending on the head and the shape of the screw, it could consist of a wheel and axle (e.g. a bolt head) and/or a wedge (if it’s tapered) in addition to the inclined plane.
A machine is a device that uses energy to perform some activity.... A simple machine is a device that transforms the direction or magnitude of a force without consuming any energy.
Just pick any of the scores of.exe files masquerading as cracks on LimeWire. You’ll have to turn off the AV and executable file filter to download it, of course...
Yeah, I was thinking a mouse made of memory foam like those beds or pillows. It actually seems like it’d be really comfortable and less trouble to mess with than trying to adjust this.
Slashdot Mirror
So I attached a hundred dollar bill to your car. It has my name on it
Timothy Geithner, is that you?
Yeah, great idea... then they come looking for the guy who did it, and you’re looking at years in a Federal prison for putting something into someone’s bag at an airport...
It’s the 9th Circuit Court... nothing that comes out of there could possibly be idiotic enough to surprise me.
Actually, I’m hoping they’ll reverse a lot of the asinine decisions made by the extreme-left-wing 9th Circuit Court of Appeals there in CA. Such as this:
recent ruling by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals saying it's legal for law enforcement to secretly place a tracking device on a suspect's car without getting a warrant, even if the car is parked in a private driveway
Then you’re liable to get in trouble with the game warden...
Actually, they did. The wire was the antenna, and antennae have the peculiar tendency to not work when they’re hidden really well inside metal structures. He said he’d have never found it if it wasn’t for the antenna sticking out.
Usually the FBI hides things like this pretty well. I wonder if he had a reason to go looking for it?
RTFA...
Take a wild guess.
Facebook already had group pages. What’s this new groups thing?
And what the hell is with the bizarre claim that you can be added to a group without your consent? Stupidest idea ever!
No, no, no... graveyard = night... they have to wait for the daytime to send it to the sun. Everyone knows the sun goes out at night.
Whoosh.
All that and it didn’t even occur to you to point out how much easier it’d be to just double check to make sure the domain name in the URL in the address bar was correct; barring the possibility of DNS poisoning it’d be just as safe...
Same here (on both counts). One guy I filtered from my newsfeed because of the daily status updates about how happy he was about his girlfriend (yeah... okay dude, we get it. Where’s the obligatory XKCD?). As far as removing friends, I’ve only done that for certain fallings-out or if they made complete asses of themselves in arguments. If they want to post their opinion, fine, we’ll all post our opinions and then we can shut up. Some people can’t let it go, though. Seriously, arguing via facebook? I have better things to do. Like arguing via slashdot... at least here the article is locked after 2 weeks...
As far as ignoring the majority of the pointless drivel, well, that’s easy enough... I ignore about 90% of the news feed updates anyway, only stopping to read the ones that particularly happen to catch my eye.
Actually this is one of the things that pisses me off, too. This, and changing your name to some made-up name that has nothing to do with your real name. Your profile picture should be really you. Your name should be really your name. This makes it so that people can find you, and it makes it so that when you show up in my friend feed I’m not sitting there going “who the fuck is this?” and forced to visit your profile and check the photos of them to figure out who they are. Yes, I actually know who all of my friends are, and if someone adds me and I don’t know who they are I won’t add them back...
I currently have somebody with 8 mutual friends awaiting friend confirmation because I don’t know who they are. Rather than clicking ignore, I figured I might ask one of the mutual friends if they know who the person is next time I see them. In the meantime... they can wait.
There is... they’re called Friend lists... and all you have to do is click the name of the list to see only the updates from friends in that list. Bookmark it or get it associated with “f...” in the Awesome bar.
Oh... you were making an issue of the fact that it defined “machine” and then called a screw a simple machine, then pinkushun just called it a “machine”. Yeah, that’s pretty pedantic... I’d say that a simple machine is still a machine by definition, if only a simple one.
Machine: an assemblage of parts that transmit forces, motion and energy in a predetermined manner.
Simple Machine: any of various elementary mechanisms having the elements of which all machines are composed. Included in this category are the lever, wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane, wedge and the screw.
if they are so offended that blocking isn't enough (lol)
Blocking seems more severe than defriending, actually... IMO, anyway...
In order of least drastic to most,
ignore < hide from news feed < remove friend < block
I was actually going to ask the same thing but red-green colourblind people should still be able to tell the difference between green and gray, so I assumed he was fully colourblind (or at least some weird sort of colourblind) and figured he’d be the wrong person to ask anyway.
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology had something like that not too long ago to display a .gif clock that updated every second for x number of seconds (specified in a URL parameter). They got rid of that, though: now they have either a Java applet or a static (non-updating) gif.
http://www.time.gov/
No... didn’t you take high school physics? A machine doesn’t have to be an assemblage of parts; besides which, some classifications I have seen (though not Wikipedia) consider a screw to be a compound machine (i.e. it is an assemblage of parts): depending on the head and the shape of the screw, it could consist of a wheel and axle (e.g. a bolt head) and/or a wedge (if it’s tapered) in addition to the inclined plane.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine
A machine is a device that uses energy to perform some activity. ... A simple machine is a device that transforms the direction or magnitude of a force without consuming any energy.
Simple machines: Inclined plane, Wheel and axle, Lever, Pulley, Wedge, Screw
jebus, I wouldn't even know what to buy anymore.
Well, that’s easy, at least. ESET NOD32.
Just pick any of the scores of .exe files masquerading as cracks on LimeWire. You’ll have to turn off the AV and executable file filter to download it, of course...
Pff, spoken by someone who has obviously never had their CAT5 catch their mouse by the tail. It’s quite irritating.
Just don’t let the CAT5 near it, and you’ll be fine...
Um, I think I’ve heard of that... and I’m pretty sure that was a home-made dildo kit.
I’d say it was for the girlfriend, but none of us has a girlfriend...
Yeah, I was thinking a mouse made of memory foam like those beds or pillows. It actually seems like it’d be really comfortable and less trouble to mess with than trying to adjust this.