It's a request for ideas. Like "this is our idea, how would you build on it", not "hey check out our new browser that with each new day is coming out in exactly 6 months".
And it sounds like the party is more for the sake of throwing a party. I mean sure, they're giving it a reason, maybe it's not a good one, but who needs a good reason to throw a party?
It's not just a pay rate change. It's changing from salaried to a wage system. I don't see why they can't just pay them salaried minimum wage, but that seems to be the problem.
The problem with this system is it does not take into account the individuality of candidates. It assumes that all members of party A have exactly the same viewpoints, that no member of party B can ever have a change of heart and decide to vote in line with party A, etc. It also doesn't take into account local politics; it assumes that we all vote nationally, and the representatives from each party are chosen based on percentages (and who chooses which representatives from Party A we send? In this system, it's no longer the people). It also leaves local interests completely out of the federal government. While this is a good thing in some people's minds (no more pork, they'll say), what you'll end up with is a ridiculous amount of money going to where the lawmakers' live (DC, maybe south florida, california), and the rest of the people getting shafted.
A system like you describe may work in a smaller country, but there are too many problems with it to work in ours.
Midori is a code name, meaning it won't be named that when it's released. It's a pretty common word, as it means "Green" in Japanese. It's also the name of a common Melon Liquer. Chill out, not everything they do is evil, it's just a name.
It's 5 dollars a month, unlimited use. I can't stand it when people bitch and moan about it being "more expensive than Hubble", and quoting what amounts to an overage charge. Here's an experiment, go over your included minutes on your phone plan, and see how much they charge you. Hint: It's a shit ton.
All the bitching that goes on here about texts is ridiculous. It's 5 dollars, guys. Just pay the money and move on with your lives. You might actually like texting, it really is a good way to communicate with people you don't feel like talking to.
BuckCherry is a fairly popular band. Slashdot is not a crowd that habitually listens to new music, so you can't say that "no one" has heard of them. No one on slashdot has heard of them, which means absolutely nothing to the real world. Consider them like Ubuntu. It's popular in the slashdot world, but no one else has ever heard of it.
Their most popular song is probably "Crazy Bitch", which anyone who listens to rock stations on the radio has heard. Their newest is "I'm sorry", which is a pretty catchy ballad.
Wow...RTFA...I was way off. But I don't quite understand what would make Java open these image files... Do they have ".jar" extensions? shouldn't facebook and the like be...I don't know...not allowing those?
Security through obscurity does, in fact, keep things secure for a period of time. Hell, password protection is security through obscurity.
This is sort of a weak attack, if I understand what they're doing. The web browser sees the file as an image when you upload it. The server, on the other hand, sees it as a JAR file, and when it is accessed the next time, executes it. If it works, this is a pretty decent hack, but to actually get user information, you'd need a bit more info. First, they need the JVM installed on the server (which they probably have, but it's not a given). They also need a database schema, an open hole to get the information back to the hacker, and most importantly, DB passwords. So, even if this comes out 0-day, your myspace profile is probably safe.
I thought about writing this game a year or so ago. The Wiimote is suited perfectly.
Where I come from, Beer Pong is played with paddles. The proper name for the game in question is Beirut (Bey-root). I've been playing it for probably 8 years now. It's the game of the people, at my university.
We have 2 monumental games here at State Tech. Beirut is the Game of the People. Anyone can play, and even a lucky new person can feasably win. Our other game is Beer Die, which is the Game of the Gods. Typically, you won't win a game (without a very skilled partner), for at least your first 20 games, and that's if you're a quick learner.
I wanted to write these for the Wii, because the Wiimote fits both quite well. Unfortunately, I missed my chance. Multiplayer would be sweet if you couldn't find a suitable sized table to play IRL.
BTW, we do have lots of other games we play. These are just the 2 games that have some sort of status. I don't know if that makes sense. I'm drunk right now.
2 days ago, I found a bug in cuil. You couldn't search for anything if you put a period (.) in the front of a word. For example, searching for ".NET" has 0 results(>5 billion results on google). I sent this to their feedback e-mail, and hadn't heard anything out of it. Testing it now, it seems they fixed the problem. I'm impressed with their agility.
Cuil has now been on slashdot twice, but it's also been in the NYT and on CNN, so the mainstream media has picked this up. The general consensus on/. seems to be that Cuil is not that great of a search engine. I tend to agree with this sentiment (I can't find anything useful in my searches). However, my inclination is that/.ers may search for things that the rest of the world would never. Is it possible that Cuil's search engine is better at finding useful sites for searches like "best food for puppies", and not so good at "gentoo install man"?
Yes, I know, a real/.er would never have to search for the gentoo install man. I apologize for my insolence.
weight of me right now + weight of food = weight of me after digestion. There's no way I could ever gain *more* weight than the things that I put into my body. I count the water I drink as a food, in this case.
Botox does this, so if you want to get botox in your sweatiest areas you'd be good to go.
Or just look for showers. I live by the beach, so every beach access has an outdoor shower. Wear board shorts while you're riding to work, hit the closest beach access and shower off before you walk in, change when you get there.
This is actually the reason I hate seeing people on the Atkins diet, or the South Beach Diet, or the "I just don't eat churros anymore" diet. One thing people really like, and have liked for thousands of years, is bread. Giving up bread (integral to the Atkins diet) is a difficult task for most people, because it takes away something they like eating. You can't easily sustain this for the rest of time: You're going to crack and start eating the things you like again eventually, purely because at some point you realize you really like bread.
This is why I've started proposing the "put down the fork" diet. It's really simple: eat whatever you want. Just don't eat so damn much of it. I don't count calories (though I do look at the packaging to see what I'm taking in at any one time. If I really like a food, I don't care what the calories are, but if I could take it or leave it, I'll eat something lower in calories), but I do notice the weight of the things I put in my body. The law of conservation of mass says that I can't gain any more weight than what I actually put in, and curbing weight gain is a good start into promoting weight loss. It's helped me lose 25 pounds so far, and I'm not any more hungry than I was. I'm less lethargic (as I'm not constantly digesting food), and can now do more exercise to keep myself losing and get down to a better fighting weight.
Also, table sugar really isn't that bad for you. If your plan is to just switch from using sugar to Splenda, you're not gaining much unless you're eating WAY too much sugar to begin with. So if you like sugar in your coffee, just use sugar.
For your comparison, I'm 6'4", ~250lbs. At my worst I was 277, which is where I realized I needed to stop eating so damn much.
I've been training in aikido for ~12 years now. It can be a real workout. I can tell everyone the secret though, you don't need to ever go to an Aikido class to get the Aikido workout. The same aerobics can be achieved by the following:
1. Fall Down
2. Get Up
3. Repeat
Sure, there is weapons training to strengthen your arms, and other things to make it a class rather than a romper room, but the actual aerobics are from falling down and getting back up ad infinitum.
Honestly, the Sync System works well. You have to press a button on the steering wheel to do voice commands, so your kids can't just sit there screaming words. The interface leaves something to be desired, but I can't think of a better way to do voice activation for all those systems together. You press the button, say what system you want to work with (phone, radio, music player), then say what you want to do with it (call name, play- artist- The Strokes, etc), and it just does it. Works pretty well.
As an aside, the superstition is that rain on your wedding day is good luck. It's an ironic superstition, and pretty much the only example of irony in that song.
God I hate these arguements about the definition of ironic...
Irony is defined by a situation in which the intention (or the expected results) of an action and the action's result are different. So, as applied to the above statement:
Situation: Pro-privacy group receives thousands of e-mails.
The intention: Pro-privacy group works for the privacy of the users of these e-mail addresses
Apparent result: E-mails are sold to a commercial entity, having the pro-privacy group give up the privacy of its members.
This is the definition of irony. In fact, most hypocritical actions are, in fact, ironic.
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It's a request for ideas. Like "this is our idea, how would you build on it", not "hey check out our new browser that with each new day is coming out in exactly 6 months".
And it sounds like the party is more for the sake of throwing a party. I mean sure, they're giving it a reason, maybe it's not a good one, but who needs a good reason to throw a party?
No, extortion is "pay me, or I burn down your house". This is "pay me $5 a month or $0.10 a text message, or don't get text messages".
Designing an Iron Man suit. Though that was 3D.
It's not just a pay rate change. It's changing from salaried to a wage system. I don't see why they can't just pay them salaried minimum wage, but that seems to be the problem.
The problem with this system is it does not take into account the individuality of candidates. It assumes that all members of party A have exactly the same viewpoints, that no member of party B can ever have a change of heart and decide to vote in line with party A, etc. It also doesn't take into account local politics; it assumes that we all vote nationally, and the representatives from each party are chosen based on percentages (and who chooses which representatives from Party A we send? In this system, it's no longer the people). It also leaves local interests completely out of the federal government. While this is a good thing in some people's minds (no more pork, they'll say), what you'll end up with is a ridiculous amount of money going to where the lawmakers' live (DC, maybe south florida, california), and the rest of the people getting shafted.
A system like you describe may work in a smaller country, but there are too many problems with it to work in ours.
XmlHttpRequest.
Done.
Midori is a code name, meaning it won't be named that when it's released. It's a pretty common word, as it means "Green" in Japanese. It's also the name of a common Melon Liquer. Chill out, not everything they do is evil, it's just a name.
It's 5 dollars a month, unlimited use. I can't stand it when people bitch and moan about it being "more expensive than Hubble", and quoting what amounts to an overage charge. Here's an experiment, go over your included minutes on your phone plan, and see how much they charge you. Hint: It's a shit ton.
All the bitching that goes on here about texts is ridiculous. It's 5 dollars, guys. Just pay the money and move on with your lives. You might actually like texting, it really is a good way to communicate with people you don't feel like talking to.
BuckCherry is a fairly popular band. Slashdot is not a crowd that habitually listens to new music, so you can't say that "no one" has heard of them. No one on slashdot has heard of them, which means absolutely nothing to the real world. Consider them like Ubuntu. It's popular in the slashdot world, but no one else has ever heard of it.
Their most popular song is probably "Crazy Bitch", which anyone who listens to rock stations on the radio has heard. Their newest is "I'm sorry", which is a pretty catchy ballad.
Wow...RTFA...I was way off. But I don't quite understand what would make Java open these image files... Do they have ".jar" extensions? shouldn't facebook and the like be...I don't know...not allowing those?
Security through obscurity does, in fact, keep things secure for a period of time. Hell, password protection is security through obscurity.
This is sort of a weak attack, if I understand what they're doing. The web browser sees the file as an image when you upload it. The server, on the other hand, sees it as a JAR file, and when it is accessed the next time, executes it. If it works, this is a pretty decent hack, but to actually get user information, you'd need a bit more info. First, they need the JVM installed on the server (which they probably have, but it's not a given). They also need a database schema, an open hole to get the information back to the hacker, and most importantly, DB passwords. So, even if this comes out 0-day, your myspace profile is probably safe.
I thought about writing this game a year or so ago. The Wiimote is suited perfectly.
Where I come from, Beer Pong is played with paddles. The proper name for the game in question is Beirut (Bey-root). I've been playing it for probably 8 years now. It's the game of the people, at my university.
We have 2 monumental games here at State Tech. Beirut is the Game of the People. Anyone can play, and even a lucky new person can feasably win. Our other game is Beer Die, which is the Game of the Gods. Typically, you won't win a game (without a very skilled partner), for at least your first 20 games, and that's if you're a quick learner.
I wanted to write these for the Wii, because the Wiimote fits both quite well. Unfortunately, I missed my chance. Multiplayer would be sweet if you couldn't find a suitable sized table to play IRL.
BTW, we do have lots of other games we play. These are just the 2 games that have some sort of status. I don't know if that makes sense. I'm drunk right now.
2 days ago, I found a bug in cuil. You couldn't search for anything if you put a period (.) in the front of a word. For example, searching for ".NET" has 0 results(>5 billion results on google). I sent this to their feedback e-mail, and hadn't heard anything out of it. Testing it now, it seems they fixed the problem. I'm impressed with their agility.
Cuil has now been on slashdot twice, but it's also been in the NYT and on CNN, so the mainstream media has picked this up. The general consensus on /. seems to be that Cuil is not that great of a search engine. I tend to agree with this sentiment (I can't find anything useful in my searches). However, my inclination is that /.ers may search for things that the rest of the world would never. Is it possible that Cuil's search engine is better at finding useful sites for searches like "best food for puppies", and not so good at "gentoo install man"?
/.er would never have to search for the gentoo install man. I apologize for my insolence.
Yes, I know, a real
weight of me right now + weight of food = weight of me after digestion. There's no way I could ever gain *more* weight than the things that I put into my body. I count the water I drink as a food, in this case.
Yeah, that's completely incorrect.
Does this happen often? We don't really hear about it over here. Are there many criminals in the US that the UK wishes to have extradited?
;).
I was always under the assumption that the people of the United States don't commit crimes worthy of extradition
Botox does this, so if you want to get botox in your sweatiest areas you'd be good to go.
Or just look for showers. I live by the beach, so every beach access has an outdoor shower. Wear board shorts while you're riding to work, hit the closest beach access and shower off before you walk in, change when you get there.
This is actually the reason I hate seeing people on the Atkins diet, or the South Beach Diet, or the "I just don't eat churros anymore" diet. One thing people really like, and have liked for thousands of years, is bread. Giving up bread (integral to the Atkins diet) is a difficult task for most people, because it takes away something they like eating. You can't easily sustain this for the rest of time: You're going to crack and start eating the things you like again eventually, purely because at some point you realize you really like bread.
This is why I've started proposing the "put down the fork" diet. It's really simple: eat whatever you want. Just don't eat so damn much of it. I don't count calories (though I do look at the packaging to see what I'm taking in at any one time. If I really like a food, I don't care what the calories are, but if I could take it or leave it, I'll eat something lower in calories), but I do notice the weight of the things I put in my body. The law of conservation of mass says that I can't gain any more weight than what I actually put in, and curbing weight gain is a good start into promoting weight loss. It's helped me lose 25 pounds so far, and I'm not any more hungry than I was. I'm less lethargic (as I'm not constantly digesting food), and can now do more exercise to keep myself losing and get down to a better fighting weight.
Also, table sugar really isn't that bad for you. If your plan is to just switch from using sugar to Splenda, you're not gaining much unless you're eating WAY too much sugar to begin with. So if you like sugar in your coffee, just use sugar.
For your comparison, I'm 6'4", ~250lbs. At my worst I was 277, which is where I realized I needed to stop eating so damn much.
Always nice to see another Aikidosha. :)
I've been training in aikido for ~12 years now. It can be a real workout. I can tell everyone the secret though, you don't need to ever go to an Aikido class to get the Aikido workout. The same aerobics can be achieved by the following:
1. Fall Down
2. Get Up
3. Repeat
Sure, there is weapons training to strengthen your arms, and other things to make it a class rather than a romper room, but the actual aerobics are from falling down and getting back up ad infinitum.
Good luck with your training.
It's not just a truck you can dump things on....
It's a house, that you can add things to...apparently for free.
I almost cracked my stoic demeanor at work, god damnit. People are supposed to think I'm working.
Seriously, almost died at "Mind. Fucking. Blown."
Honestly, the Sync System works well. You have to press a button on the steering wheel to do voice commands, so your kids can't just sit there screaming words. The interface leaves something to be desired, but I can't think of a better way to do voice activation for all those systems together. You press the button, say what system you want to work with (phone, radio, music player), then say what you want to do with it (call name, play- artist- The Strokes, etc), and it just does it. Works pretty well.
As an aside, the superstition is that rain on your wedding day is good luck. It's an ironic superstition, and pretty much the only example of irony in that song.
God I hate these arguements about the definition of ironic... Irony is defined by a situation in which the intention (or the expected results) of an action and the action's result are different. So, as applied to the above statement:
Situation: Pro-privacy group receives thousands of e-mails.
The intention: Pro-privacy group works for the privacy of the users of these e-mail addresses
Apparent result: E-mails are sold to a commercial entity, having the pro-privacy group give up the privacy of its members.
This is the definition of irony. In fact, most hypocritical actions are, in fact, ironic.