There aren't any roads that are to small. I've also hauled logs out of the road, and those loggers are freaking CRAZY! As long as they think there's rock underneath, they'll take off down a rabbit trail. If the road gives out under the truck, they'll call for a skidder (or two or three) to pull them out.
As for the 'leet skills, it isn't the license that grants them. We have "truckdrivers" out there today who won't leave home without a telephone, GPS, a gaming system of some type, yada yada yada. And, many of them wouldn't recognize a road atlas if you hit them over the head with it.
Kids these days . . .
As for reading comprehension, he answered my question with a story of a man who literally got lost and trapped himself in outback nowhere. Maybe my reading comprehension isn't so far off? This is why people ask questions when they aren't sure what the poster above him meant.
Well, that's one of the nice things about Linux in general. Security through obscurity! How many times have we been told, right here on slashdot, that no one even wants to hack into a Linux machine?
And, those known security holes on on HER machine, not mine. uname tells me that I'm not on Ubuntu at all: Linux sabayon 3.1.0-sabayon Since her machine has nothing of commercial or financial interest on it, I'm not about to fight with her about updating! At most, a hacker would get some personal details, which she would probably just laugh at - as she twisted the knife in his gut.
(Have I ever mentioned on slashdot that my wife's female relatives all seem a murderous bunch? Lots of "late husbands" died under strange circumstances after pissing their wives off!)
You and I will just have to disagree. People who venture into the mountains in wintertime - anytime, for that matter - need to be prepared for the worst. If they don't prepare, they are just helping to make Darwin's point about 'survival of the fittest'.
I live in southwest Arkansas these days, far from any real mountains, and far from the real cold. Yet, all of my cars have a warm jacket in them. Whatever I die of, it probably won't be hypothermia.
"wearing tennis shoes, a jacket, and light clothing."
Darwin award, right there. Northern latitudes, winter time, higher elevations - and he has no warm clothes, no decent boots. Hell, I could have been dead a couple of times, or more, if I were stupid enough to roam through the mountains without decent clothing.
Did you say "trapped in Oregon's hinterlands out of the reach of even a 2G signal"??? What does that mean, exactly? You mean, held at gunpoint out in the woods somewhere? To a man who has navigated the continent with nothing more than a Rand McNally trucker's atlas on the jumpseat, your hysterical ranting is almost incomprehensible.
You do realize that the sun still rises in the east, and sets in the west? A compass needle still points north? Moss still grows on the north sides of trees? Rand McNally still prints atlases? And, most important of all, the state and federal governments still put mile markers and route numbers, complete with directional signs, beside all the highways!
Anyone who gets "lost" in America today doesn't deserve to be found. The gene pool really does need to be cleaned now and then.
The wife is doing fine on a three year old installation. Updating Firefox broke Pogo - or updating Java broke Pogo. One or the other. So, she nagged at me for three days to DOWNGRADE Firefox and Java, and there have been no updates on her machine since. If it breaks Pogo, it's bad, bad, BAD!
Hate Week? TFS and TFA are about American corporate software. I thought it was Hate Century. And, I got an early start in the last century!
What surprises me is that people do actually "trust" the software on their machines. Not that I have any use for kiddy diddlers, but we've read a number of stories of diddlers deleting shit off their machines, just to have Windows serve the "deleted" data up to law enforcement. If that happens to diddlers, it happens the same way to anyone else who might want to hide something.
Trust? I have nothing to "hide", really - but if I decide to delete stuff, dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda Trust? Not in this lifetime!
Yes, I know there are legitimate technical uses for all those logs that Windows keeps. Unix-likes tend to keep some of the same sort of logs. But, those logs are transparent to the users. At least to any user who isn't a total noob, or a complete ignoramus. Windows? Didn't they do away with DOS, and continue to hide more and more of the mechanisms of the operating system from the non-tech users? To even view the OS files, I have to bypass a smokescreen, telling Explorer, "Yes, I really want to view C:\Windows folder!"
I would say almost all of time before the United States was founded. Could be I exaggerate, some. But, come on - before there were those huge old clipper ships and the like, ships were small things. Ever been aboard a ship? Look at the size of the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. Had they been put to use as whaling ships, a single whale would have filled all the holds. The Mayflower was larger, maybe a half dozen whales. HMS Victory is considerably larger - had it been put to use as a whaling ship, they might have taken 10 or 15 whales in a single voyage.
Killing a whale, 300 or more years ago was a major undertaking. Once we started building those factory ships, the hardest part of killing a whale was just finding it. And, a single ship could process a hundred or more whales before returning to port.
Think my numbers are off by a lot? I'll be happy to read any citations you might find on the subject. But, no matter what numbers we might find, we'll just come back to the fact that in olden days, iron men in wooden ships went out to take a modest number of whales from the sea. Today, men go out in huge iron factory ships to process entire pods of whales.
There's a narrow line between "endangered" and "not endangered". The seas have grown barren, compared to 300 years ago. With five years of sea duty behind me, I can state that whale sightings are rare, dolphins are only somewhat less rare.
It's a bit tough to find tales of life at sea 300 or more years ago, that don't include a lot of superstitious nonsense, but it seems to have been common for ships to be constantly trailed by dolphins, and whales were common sights. With each passing decade, there are fewer and fewer.
The only two explanations for that, that make any sense, are over hunting, and pollution.
We really need to allow the ocean, and the populations found in the ocean to recover. Why wait until any given species is actually "endangered" before trying to conserve resources?
Sinking a ship would put all mariners up in arms, no matter their nationality, politics, religion, or anything at all. There are some things you just don't do, unless you're ready to declare open war. Do the whaler-chasers have a nation ready to back them up with a real navy? I don't think so . . .
Won't swear to it, but I'm pretty sure that our guns could reach higher than a drone could fly. Of course, those were navy main deck guns, and whalers don't have anything as big, or as powerful available to them.
What whalers MIGHT get hold of, are some missiles. Shoulder launched SAM missiles, if they can acquire a lock on the drone. Drones are rather stealthy, lacking a lot of the heat, radio, and/or magnetism associated with older and/or ancient aircraft. So - you rely on sight? Fly-by-wire?
But, when you get down to it, I think the Iranians have the best idea. Just use some radio equipment to jam communications, the GPS spoof it into landing on the water, recover the blasted thing yourself, and the Greenies are out one drone.
All that said - I do wish the Japanese would quit hunting whales. It's not like they are going to starve without them. Back in the day when there were tens of thousands of any given species, and mankind only captured a few dozen whales per year, things were cool. Today, the population is just to damned low, and we've become to damned efficient. Extinction threatens, and that just sucks.
Uhhh, I think that's what millions of us have been calling for in the entertainment industries. The world has changed, technology has advanced, and we're still paying for our entertainment according to some medieval scheme which supported hordes of typesetters, editors, and marketing droids. Today, half or more of an editor's job is done automagically with spell checkers, online thesuarus, and other simple tools of the trade. Typesetters? Get real - publishers haven't paid for real life typesetters in a long time. Marketing droids? I question whether they ever were necessary, but they are most certainly UNnecessary today.
Your idea of editors and authors sharing royalties sounds reasonable. How about, author takes 60%, editor takes 30%, and the remaining ten percent is divvied up between the publishing house, marketing droids, and whoever/whatever else is actually necessary? With a scheme like that, a title could sell for about ten cents, and make a profit for everyone involved. Call it 50 cents, and almost no one could bitch.
If dead tree copies are deemed to be necessary, then the author and the editor can sign a separate agreement with the publisher, in which those two individuals retain all their rights. The publisher is simply a separate contractor, providing a service - that of printing x number of copies, @ n.yy dollars per copy.
As for the idea of higher prices for libraries - I could probably live with that. Charge libraries a dollar for those fifty cent books. Hell, I'll buy my books in the name of the library, and pay the dollar, then "return" the files to the library! Everyone's a winner then!
Some of us don't do gift wrap at all. The wrapping used by UPS, Fedex, and/or the USPS is good enough. Plain brown paper, with a name and address printed on it. Or, plain brown cardboard, or a red-white-and-blue mailer. What, I'm going to UNwrap something, just to REwrap it in pretty paper? To hell with that! I may possibly tape a bow onto the package that UPS delivers.
Hello Linux Chrome Surfer xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (refered by linux.slashdot.org) from Outback Nowhere United States (33.7146N 94.3731W) Appears to be your first visit (?)
Personally, I don't much care what technology is being used, whether it's bleeding edge, or two millenia old. Tacky is tacky. I'm not curious enough to open the site in any alternative browsers.
Nice chart. It would be interesting to have people look at that chart, and pinpoint themselves on it. I'll be honest - I used to be pretty close to that "natural victim" in the center. Fortunately, when I was growing up, "Question Authority" was a popular slogan. And, I did so. Today, I'm a lot further away from the center of the chart.
Oh yeah - the intartubez have helped with that. And, that's one of the reasons I hate the concept of SOPA and any other possible censorship. When a dummy has a question, the answer should be available. Give the Catholic or the Baptist church some means to censor the intartubez, and we could find ourselves headed down the road to another inquisition!
No cappuccino, thank you. I take my caffeine American style, drip brewed with Folger's coffee. And, since the subject is units of measurement, why does Mr. Coffee think that a cup is only six ounces? WTF? I brew twelve cups of java, drink 4 (12 oz) cups, and the coffee is down to those nasty looking dregs. Seems to me that a 12 cup coffee pot should hold just about 96 ounces, which should mean that I get 6 of my (12 oz) cups of coffee, before there are nasty solids visible in the bottom.
Some people have very short memories. In fact, there is a quote for them: “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Sir Winston Churchill
Fuck the world. The more we do to please the world, the further behind we fall. I don't care that a quart of milk causes your granny to have apoplexy when she tries to convert it. Just fuck the world. We don't WANT to be like you - half the world is beating a path to our front door (back door in the case of Mexicans) because they want to be like us!
Besides which, your metrics are no less arbitrary than the length of a king's foot, or the first joint of his thumb, or any other damned unit we use.
The only thing worse than being slashdotted would be space crowbars. I don't know why cultiv8 bothered with slashdotting, when the crowbars would have been so much faster.
Well - when I read that "authorities" had recovered the sphere, I was wondering what the definition of "authorities" might be. A couple drunken redneck sheriff's deputies can be called "authority", or in Nowheremibia, a tribal witch doctor would be the "authority".
I think it safe to assume that whichever "authority" was referred to doesn't have advanced math education, or precise measurement equipment, or the training to use said precision measuring devices. Let's be grateful that they apparently used some kind of measuring device, rather than holding their hands apart to describe the size.
Uhhhh - like any other job, cops get a lot of tradeoffs. Sure, they have a SMALL chance of being killed in the line of duty - but so do truck drivers, EMT's, firemen, electricians, and school teachers. Alright, to be fair, cops probably have about ten times the mortality rate that school teachers do, but still . . . .
Oh yeah, let's not forget the perks. Joe Motorhead gets his adrenaline rush from driving fast. He grows up, goes to the academy, and then he can drive 80 through a school zone and never get a ticket.
I'm not terribly impressed with the bravery of cops pulling over unknown "suspects". Vice cops are slightly more impressive. Some of them are ballsy enough to be Marines!
I used to believe, like you, that I'm not a violent person. But, as I age, and as I look around at the placid sheep running the world, I've come to believe that I really am a violent person.
Come on, 'fess up. You're a danger to society, and to yourself. You should come with me, to get medicated and lobotomized. Maybe we can get some of that good old fashioned shock treatment too!
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There aren't any roads that are to small. I've also hauled logs out of the road, and those loggers are freaking CRAZY! As long as they think there's rock underneath, they'll take off down a rabbit trail. If the road gives out under the truck, they'll call for a skidder (or two or three) to pull them out.
As for the 'leet skills, it isn't the license that grants them. We have "truckdrivers" out there today who won't leave home without a telephone, GPS, a gaming system of some type, yada yada yada. And, many of them wouldn't recognize a road atlas if you hit them over the head with it.
Kids these days . . .
As for reading comprehension, he answered my question with a story of a man who literally got lost and trapped himself in outback nowhere. Maybe my reading comprehension isn't so far off? This is why people ask questions when they aren't sure what the poster above him meant.
Well, that's one of the nice things about Linux in general. Security through obscurity! How many times have we been told, right here on slashdot, that no one even wants to hack into a Linux machine?
And, those known security holes on on HER machine, not mine. uname tells me that I'm not on Ubuntu at all: Linux sabayon 3.1.0-sabayon Since her machine has nothing of commercial or financial interest on it, I'm not about to fight with her about updating! At most, a hacker would get some personal details, which she would probably just laugh at - as she twisted the knife in his gut.
(Have I ever mentioned on slashdot that my wife's female relatives all seem a murderous bunch? Lots of "late husbands" died under strange circumstances after pissing their wives off!)
"Expected to be spending the night"
You and I will just have to disagree. People who venture into the mountains in wintertime - anytime, for that matter - need to be prepared for the worst. If they don't prepare, they are just helping to make Darwin's point about 'survival of the fittest'.
I live in southwest Arkansas these days, far from any real mountains, and far from the real cold. Yet, all of my cars have a warm jacket in them. Whatever I die of, it probably won't be hypothermia.
"wearing tennis shoes, a jacket, and light clothing."
Darwin award, right there. Northern latitudes, winter time, higher elevations - and he has no warm clothes, no decent boots. Hell, I could have been dead a couple of times, or more, if I were stupid enough to roam through the mountains without decent clothing.
Did you say "trapped in Oregon's hinterlands out of the reach of even a 2G signal"??? What does that mean, exactly? You mean, held at gunpoint out in the woods somewhere? To a man who has navigated the continent with nothing more than a Rand McNally trucker's atlas on the jumpseat, your hysterical ranting is almost incomprehensible.
You do realize that the sun still rises in the east, and sets in the west? A compass needle still points north? Moss still grows on the north sides of trees? Rand McNally still prints atlases? And, most important of all, the state and federal governments still put mile markers and route numbers, complete with directional signs, beside all the highways!
Anyone who gets "lost" in America today doesn't deserve to be found. The gene pool really does need to be cleaned now and then.
"If you can live without update,"
The wife is doing fine on a three year old installation. Updating Firefox broke Pogo - or updating Java broke Pogo. One or the other. So, she nagged at me for three days to DOWNGRADE Firefox and Java, and there have been no updates on her machine since. If it breaks Pogo, it's bad, bad, BAD!
Hate Week? TFS and TFA are about American corporate software. I thought it was Hate Century. And, I got an early start in the last century!
What surprises me is that people do actually "trust" the software on their machines. Not that I have any use for kiddy diddlers, but we've read a number of stories of diddlers deleting shit off their machines, just to have Windows serve the "deleted" data up to law enforcement. If that happens to diddlers, it happens the same way to anyone else who might want to hide something.
Trust? I have nothing to "hide", really - but if I decide to delete stuff, dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda Trust? Not in this lifetime!
Yes, I know there are legitimate technical uses for all those logs that Windows keeps. Unix-likes tend to keep some of the same sort of logs. But, those logs are transparent to the users. At least to any user who isn't a total noob, or a complete ignoramus. Windows? Didn't they do away with DOS, and continue to hide more and more of the mechanisms of the operating system from the non-tech users? To even view the OS files, I have to bypass a smokescreen, telling Explorer, "Yes, I really want to view C:\Windows folder!"
Wow - I was off by two hundred years? Thanks for the links - I have my mind on a FreeNAS install, and probably never would have looked!
I would say almost all of time before the United States was founded. Could be I exaggerate, some. But, come on - before there were those huge old clipper ships and the like, ships were small things. Ever been aboard a ship? Look at the size of the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. Had they been put to use as whaling ships, a single whale would have filled all the holds. The Mayflower was larger, maybe a half dozen whales. HMS Victory is considerably larger - had it been put to use as a whaling ship, they might have taken 10 or 15 whales in a single voyage.
Killing a whale, 300 or more years ago was a major undertaking. Once we started building those factory ships, the hardest part of killing a whale was just finding it. And, a single ship could process a hundred or more whales before returning to port.
Think my numbers are off by a lot? I'll be happy to read any citations you might find on the subject. But, no matter what numbers we might find, we'll just come back to the fact that in olden days, iron men in wooden ships went out to take a modest number of whales from the sea. Today, men go out in huge iron factory ships to process entire pods of whales.
There's a narrow line between "endangered" and "not endangered". The seas have grown barren, compared to 300 years ago. With five years of sea duty behind me, I can state that whale sightings are rare, dolphins are only somewhat less rare.
It's a bit tough to find tales of life at sea 300 or more years ago, that don't include a lot of superstitious nonsense, but it seems to have been common for ships to be constantly trailed by dolphins, and whales were common sights. With each passing decade, there are fewer and fewer.
The only two explanations for that, that make any sense, are over hunting, and pollution.
We really need to allow the ocean, and the populations found in the ocean to recover. Why wait until any given species is actually "endangered" before trying to conserve resources?
Sinking a ship would put all mariners up in arms, no matter their nationality, politics, religion, or anything at all. There are some things you just don't do, unless you're ready to declare open war. Do the whaler-chasers have a nation ready to back them up with a real navy? I don't think so . . .
Won't swear to it, but I'm pretty sure that our guns could reach higher than a drone could fly. Of course, those were navy main deck guns, and whalers don't have anything as big, or as powerful available to them.
What whalers MIGHT get hold of, are some missiles. Shoulder launched SAM missiles, if they can acquire a lock on the drone. Drones are rather stealthy, lacking a lot of the heat, radio, and/or magnetism associated with older and/or ancient aircraft. So - you rely on sight? Fly-by-wire?
But, when you get down to it, I think the Iranians have the best idea. Just use some radio equipment to jam communications, the GPS spoof it into landing on the water, recover the blasted thing yourself, and the Greenies are out one drone.
All that said - I do wish the Japanese would quit hunting whales. It's not like they are going to starve without them. Back in the day when there were tens of thousands of any given species, and mankind only captured a few dozen whales per year, things were cool. Today, the population is just to damned low, and we've become to damned efficient. Extinction threatens, and that just sucks.
Fairy kisses? Congress gets plenty of those, judging by the newspaper articles. Unicorn farts? Hmmm - citation needed.
"Unless a new business model"
Uhhh, I think that's what millions of us have been calling for in the entertainment industries. The world has changed, technology has advanced, and we're still paying for our entertainment according to some medieval scheme which supported hordes of typesetters, editors, and marketing droids. Today, half or more of an editor's job is done automagically with spell checkers, online thesuarus, and other simple tools of the trade. Typesetters? Get real - publishers haven't paid for real life typesetters in a long time. Marketing droids? I question whether they ever were necessary, but they are most certainly UNnecessary today.
Your idea of editors and authors sharing royalties sounds reasonable. How about, author takes 60%, editor takes 30%, and the remaining ten percent is divvied up between the publishing house, marketing droids, and whoever/whatever else is actually necessary? With a scheme like that, a title could sell for about ten cents, and make a profit for everyone involved. Call it 50 cents, and almost no one could bitch.
If dead tree copies are deemed to be necessary, then the author and the editor can sign a separate agreement with the publisher, in which those two individuals retain all their rights. The publisher is simply a separate contractor, providing a service - that of printing x number of copies, @ n.yy dollars per copy.
As for the idea of higher prices for libraries - I could probably live with that. Charge libraries a dollar for those fifty cent books. Hell, I'll buy my books in the name of the library, and pay the dollar, then "return" the files to the library! Everyone's a winner then!
Some of us don't do gift wrap at all. The wrapping used by UPS, Fedex, and/or the USPS is good enough. Plain brown paper, with a name and address printed on it. Or, plain brown cardboard, or a red-white-and-blue mailer. What, I'm going to UNwrap something, just to REwrap it in pretty paper? To hell with that! I may possibly tape a bow onto the package that UPS delivers.
It seems that EVERYONE whose wife is doing an 8 foot tall Norse viking makes your mistake . . . .
Hello Linux Chrome Surfer xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (refered by linux.slashdot.org) from Outback Nowhere United States (33.7146N 94.3731W) Appears to be your first visit (?)
Personally, I don't much care what technology is being used, whether it's bleeding edge, or two millenia old. Tacky is tacky. I'm not curious enough to open the site in any alternative browsers.
Nice chart. It would be interesting to have people look at that chart, and pinpoint themselves on it. I'll be honest - I used to be pretty close to that "natural victim" in the center. Fortunately, when I was growing up, "Question Authority" was a popular slogan. And, I did so. Today, I'm a lot further away from the center of the chart.
Oh yeah - the intartubez have helped with that. And, that's one of the reasons I hate the concept of SOPA and any other possible censorship. When a dummy has a question, the answer should be available. Give the Catholic or the Baptist church some means to censor the intartubez, and we could find ourselves headed down the road to another inquisition!
No cappuccino, thank you. I take my caffeine American style, drip brewed with Folger's coffee. And, since the subject is units of measurement, why does Mr. Coffee think that a cup is only six ounces? WTF? I brew twelve cups of java, drink 4 (12 oz) cups, and the coffee is down to those nasty looking dregs. Seems to me that a 12 cup coffee pot should hold just about 96 ounces, which should mean that I get 6 of my (12 oz) cups of coffee, before there are nasty solids visible in the bottom.
It's probably a freaking FRENCH conspiracy!
Some people have very short memories. In fact, there is a quote for them: “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Sir Winston Churchill
Fuck the world. The more we do to please the world, the further behind we fall. I don't care that a quart of milk causes your granny to have apoplexy when she tries to convert it. Just fuck the world. We don't WANT to be like you - half the world is beating a path to our front door (back door in the case of Mexicans) because they want to be like us!
Besides which, your metrics are no less arbitrary than the length of a king's foot, or the first joint of his thumb, or any other damned unit we use.
The only thing worse than being slashdotted would be space crowbars. I don't know why cultiv8 bothered with slashdotting, when the crowbars would have been so much faster.
Well - when I read that "authorities" had recovered the sphere, I was wondering what the definition of "authorities" might be. A couple drunken redneck sheriff's deputies can be called "authority", or in Nowheremibia, a tribal witch doctor would be the "authority".
I think it safe to assume that whichever "authority" was referred to doesn't have advanced math education, or precise measurement equipment, or the training to use said precision measuring devices. Let's be grateful that they apparently used some kind of measuring device, rather than holding their hands apart to describe the size.
Uhhhh - like any other job, cops get a lot of tradeoffs. Sure, they have a SMALL chance of being killed in the line of duty - but so do truck drivers, EMT's, firemen, electricians, and school teachers. Alright, to be fair, cops probably have about ten times the mortality rate that school teachers do, but still . . . .
Oh yeah, let's not forget the perks. Joe Motorhead gets his adrenaline rush from driving fast. He grows up, goes to the academy, and then he can drive 80 through a school zone and never get a ticket.
I'm not terribly impressed with the bravery of cops pulling over unknown "suspects". Vice cops are slightly more impressive. Some of them are ballsy enough to be Marines!
I used to believe, like you, that I'm not a violent person. But, as I age, and as I look around at the placid sheep running the world, I've come to believe that I really am a violent person.
Come on, 'fess up. You're a danger to society, and to yourself. You should come with me, to get medicated and lobotomized. Maybe we can get some of that good old fashioned shock treatment too!