No, no, no, no! MacGyver would never use such an obvious and unconcealable tool. But if he had a Swiss Army Knife, he could make a low yield nuclear device from a smoke detector.
Iris Scanners? The author of this article needs to go back to school and relearn the anatomy of an eye. It is the retina which is scanned because the pattern of blood vessels are as unique at fingerprints. The iris is the membrane with the opening called the pupil that expands or contracts to control the amount of light entering the eye. Come on I learned this in 7th grade science back in the 80's.
Interesting title but somewhat misleading, and I use "somewhat" very loosely. I am a bit confused as to how the a sat-nav device, GPS for the rest of us can even be compared to google. I loath GPS for land navigation because it empowers lazy people that can't or won't read a map. And the example experiment comparing two groups of people and a particular puzzle, one group had good software and the other not so good. The conclsuions are inaccurate and misses the real problem.
It is not the tool that creates the problem, it is the sheer and utter lack of personal responsibility and complacency. It is human nature to blame those things which are incapable of independent action instead of the real culprit, our selves.
Google is a wonderful tool and makes it easier than going to the library especially late at night when the library is closed. But Google and the library have one thing in common, they don't always have the information you are looking for. Unless you know what you are looking for it could take hours to find.
So let me see if I can get this right. This school wants to monitor what the kids are eating by making them memorize a four digit pin code. Lets see when I was five I was in Kindergarden, I was just starting to learn how to read and write. I had a hard time remembering which stop to get off at on the bus which is why I had a tag for the bus monitor to read and let me know I had to get off at the next stop.
This program has to be costing a fortune in public funds. A four digit pin code means that they are tracking each individual students dietary habits. Which of course requires more record keeping and analysis, for what purpose? Are they going to institute the fat police and call the student into the principal's office if they discover little Jimy isn't eating right and give him detention because he wanted a hamburger, fries, ketchup, and chocolate milk? Or do they intend to call a parent teacher conference to discuss their child's unhealthy eating habits? Or perhaps they are going to stop them in the lunch line, and tell little Suzzy that she can"t have that brownie because she's too fat?
If they really are concerned about the child's eating habbits they can monitor that by simple inventory control and observation of the caffeteria trash cans. They can even set up trash cans so that certain items go in certain cans. Milk cartons here, food there, etc. Much simplier, less expensive and less invasive upon the students. This isn't rocket science, hell it isn't even science. Maybe if we put a rocket scientist in charge of the school lunch program then they can get it all straightened out.
WARNING: The Sergeon General has determined that ciggarette smoke may cause cancer and increased risk of some birth defects.
Warning: Use of this product may be hazzardous to your health. This product contains sacarin which has been known to cause cancer in labratory animals.
There is a pleathora of warnings out there and people still ignore them, the point? You can not legislate common sense into people. Tray as you might there will always be that one moron that will think he's found a pack of chicklets in the box his new stereo came in.
I would say that people who don't drink are also worries. Did I close the door. Have I done all my homework. Are people going to like these shoes. How can I hide that I sleep around from my church. That sort of thing. People who drink may also spend less time worrying about the little details, and therefore have happier longer lives. Probably not, but maybe.
I don't know about all of that, but I do know that after 3 drinks I don't care about a damn thing. Damn I sure do miss my Jack and Cokes.
Welcome to the wonderful world of do as I say not as I do. But since I lead a wonderfully boring life of driving to work; coming home; driving to the eagles and ocming home; driving out some place to eat; coming home; going to the uper market and ocming home; driving to wal mart and you guest it coming home, etc. etc. ad naseum. I volunteer for them to put a gps on my pick up so when I get lost I can call them up and ask where am I.
When they have the video technology of the Minority Report and can dynamically update a news paper, then I will be impressed and maybe just a bit nervous.
Of course, when someone in America believes in a crazy theory we get an avalanche of posts excoriating the American educational system for producing such a person, American culture for being so anti-intellectual, American politics, etc., which we don't seem to get when any other countries' conspiracy theorists get mentioned.
He's a certifiable wack job, there you happy. I believe his theory about as much as I beleive my wife's theory about rockets causing the earth's tilt on it's axis. Which is to say that I don't.
A more plausible theory which I am not subscribing to merely pointing out that it is more believable than an environmentl weapon or rockets being launch into space. Our moon is slowly getting further and further away. It is a scientific face that the Earth natuarally wobbles and the moon keeps that wobble in check. Call it a gravitational tug of war if you will. With the moon getting further and further away the Earth can tilt more and more and eventually causing a polar shift. The scary part of this whole theory if true is that there is absolutely nothing we can do about it. (Insert evil sadistic laugh here)
Oh, barring any unforseen natural disaster, celestial event, act of God or a global thermo nuclear war, the world will not end in 2012. I can't wait until December 31, 2012 when I will broad cast my don't you feell stupid for believing in that stupid prophesy editorial.
"Besides Wi-Fi signals, could there possibly be any other logical explanation for kids having more symptoms of illness on school days than at home on weekends or in the summer?"
Um, being in school doesn't count as a reason?
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
It's not just your observation there really are way too many stupid people in the world. I have been exposed to wifi signlas for several years, nearly 24 hours a day. I have yet to experience "wifi sickness" the whole idea of it makes me want to puke. No wait that's the really bad coffee I'm drinking, but seriously wifi sickness?
I have a wifi router at home that runs 24/7, I manage a hotel and it's wifi network. The only time I have experienced any of these so-called symptoms is when I haven't been eating right or drinking enough water. The most common cause of a head ache is dehydration. The best cure is as my Drill Sergeant use to say, "Drink water!!!!"
Every single one of those symptoms can be explained as dehydration: head aches, dizziness, nausea, racing heart rates, all symptoms of dehydration! Also: skin rashes, memory loss, night sweats, insomnia, trouble concentrating; again dehydration and also possible mal-utrition! But what do I know, I'm just an over weight hotel manager with a computer addiction I couldn't possibly be talking from a personal experience point of view now could I.
Well that took long enough. Real life's had this ever since cyanide.
The sad part is that those the choose the delete option just don't realize that their information is still there in the facebook back ups. In fact the deleted accounts are still on the servers where they previously reside just waiting for someone with the right privileges to undelete.
He'd better not say that too loud or make too much noise about his epiphany or he may just be getting a visit Education Mafia. Can't have millions of "Uneducate" people thinking all they really need is some training in the field they want to be in. That would just bankrupt the whole education system. (Feel free to insert sarcasm any place you like)
As for the other idea, I don't see how Kevin Costner can claim to have developed an oil separator that has been in use by US Navy ships since before the early eighties.
I realize this is Slashdot, but if you RTFA you will find that he got his hands on the design and spent $20M or so of his own money on having them improved to the point that they were useful for processing a mess into CLEAN water AND clean OIL. Nowhere is it claimed that he invented the centrifugal separator.
Quite right it also said that he plans to donate 80% of the proceeds to struggling parishes trying to cope with the economic loss that this mess has cost them. BP comitted to 32 of these devices which would only equal 12.8 million to the parishes in the Gulf reagion. A drop in the bucket sure, but at least he is trying to do more than just line his own pockets.
I have XP Pro on all of my personal computers, 4 and counting. At work Vista Ultimate, yuk, yuk and tripple yuk. At the Eagles Lodge where I am an Officer, we have Windows 7. All of these computers run 24/7 and of these the one running Vista needs a restart no less than twice a week to combat slowness in operation. My personal computers running XP only need to be restared periodically once every month or so, or after an update. In the six months that my Eagles Lodge has had the new computer with Windows 7, I have only had to restart it once and that was after an update. My only complaint with XP is the ungodly amount of updates after Service Pack 3. I do a lot of reinstalls for other people and it makes it tedious to say the least to install the updates, but I thank the computer gods for softwarepatch.com and my littel command line script that installs these updates for me.
I did experiment with slip streaming to make the process easier but decided that it was better to go with the command line script because it was simpler to change the script than it was to redo the slipstreamed cd. I like XP, it's more or less stable and I also like Windows 7 so far. As for Vista it should go the way of Windows ME.
If Limewire is smart, they will not try to argue this amount down. they should keep letting the lawyers demand 1.5 trillion. It will help shine light on how excessive and non-realistic the penalties are.
Limewire should just laugh at them and say, "Yeah we will pay on the second Tuesday of next week. What the RIAA needs to do is build a better mouse trap and the world will beat a path to their door. But will they do this? No they will continue to go after the users of better mouse traps and the builders of the better mouse traps.
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What are we going to do tonight Brain? The same thing we do every night Pinky, try to take over the world!
Y'know, this guy can make back his $90 and then some by putting ads on the site. The PD must have already setup links everywhere, all he has to do it set it up, sit back, and collect a check.
What are the chances this guy will be sued?
The City has better ways to deal with clever numbskulls than court action. They control his water, sewer and garbage pick ups and I'm pretty sure that they can turn his electricity off too. I'm fairly certain that afrter a week or so without these services he will be sufficently convinced to hand over the web domain.
While I'm not going to debate the issue of speed cameras, he would not have gotten the ticket if he had not been speeding. Of course the ignorance excuse won't work in court but the city could limit the number of those types of excuses by placing signs to the effect that speed is monitored by speed cameras near those places where they are set up. Much like the signs I see at the city limits that say speed monitored by radar as I am driving into those cities.
People walk on busy highways without sidewalks and think they're going to be perfectly safe? Why on earth would a thinking person even consider going by that route?
If Google had put a disclaimer such as: Google shall not be held liable for random or momentary lapses of common sense. Use of or products and services constitutes acceptance of this policy.
Serious? Our eyes and minds are being sold to advertisers and you don't find that troubling? We are not the consumers any more, we are the product. If society mimicked Facebook you're damned right there'd be privacy concerns. If I stop by a motorcycle shop to buy some oil and they sold that information to other distributors without my consent so they could bombard me with unwanted solicitations there would be hell to pay.
Privacy is an illusion that we make our selves to feel comfortable. Every time you fill out a form and click the send button you give up your privacy. If you can't stand the heat get out of the hotbox. You give your consent by virtue of clicking send.
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I bet MacGyver could do it with only a crowbar.
No, no, no, no! MacGyver would never use such an obvious and unconcealable tool. But if he had a Swiss Army Knife, he could make a low yield nuclear device from a smoke detector.
Iris Scanners? The author of this article needs to go back to school and relearn the anatomy of an eye. It is the retina which is scanned because the pattern of blood vessels are as unique at fingerprints. The iris is the membrane with the opening called the pupil that expands or contracts to control the amount of light entering the eye. Come on I learned this in 7th grade science back in the 80's.
Interesting title but somewhat misleading, and I use "somewhat" very loosely. I am a bit confused as to how the a sat-nav device, GPS for the rest of us can even be compared to google. I loath GPS for land navigation because it empowers lazy people that can't or won't read a map. And the example experiment comparing two groups of people and a particular puzzle, one group had good software and the other not so good. The conclsuions are inaccurate and misses the real problem. It is not the tool that creates the problem, it is the sheer and utter lack of personal responsibility and complacency. It is human nature to blame those things which are incapable of independent action instead of the real culprit, our selves. Google is a wonderful tool and makes it easier than going to the library especially late at night when the library is closed. But Google and the library have one thing in common, they don't always have the information you are looking for. Unless you know what you are looking for it could take hours to find.
Off with their heads!
Yup illegal as in felony.
So let me see if I can get this right. This school wants to monitor what the kids are eating by making them memorize a four digit pin code. Lets see when I was five I was in Kindergarden, I was just starting to learn how to read and write. I had a hard time remembering which stop to get off at on the bus which is why I had a tag for the bus monitor to read and let me know I had to get off at the next stop.
This program has to be costing a fortune in public funds. A four digit pin code means that they are tracking each individual students dietary habits. Which of course requires more record keeping and analysis, for what purpose? Are they going to institute the fat police and call the student into the principal's office if they discover little Jimy isn't eating right and give him detention because he wanted a hamburger, fries, ketchup, and chocolate milk? Or do they intend to call a parent teacher conference to discuss their child's unhealthy eating habits? Or perhaps they are going to stop them in the lunch line, and tell little Suzzy that she can"t have that brownie because she's too fat?
If they really are concerned about the child's eating habbits they can monitor that by simple inventory control and observation of the caffeteria trash cans. They can even set up trash cans so that certain items go in certain cans. Milk cartons here, food there, etc. Much simplier, less expensive and less invasive upon the students. This isn't rocket science, hell it isn't even science. Maybe if we put a rocket scientist in charge of the school lunch program then they can get it all straightened out.
Use it or loose it, that's the mentality.
So what you are saying is that Robo Maid has been switch from suck to blow.
WARNING: The Sergeon General has determined that ciggarette smoke may cause cancer and increased risk of some birth defects. Warning: Use of this product may be hazzardous to your health. This product contains sacarin which has been known to cause cancer in labratory animals. There is a pleathora of warnings out there and people still ignore them, the point? You can not legislate common sense into people. Tray as you might there will always be that one moron that will think he's found a pack of chicklets in the box his new stereo came in.
I would say that people who don't drink are also worries. Did I close the door. Have I done all my homework. Are people going to like these shoes. How can I hide that I sleep around from my church. That sort of thing. People who drink may also spend less time worrying about the little details, and therefore have happier longer lives. Probably not, but maybe.
I don't know about all of that, but I do know that after 3 drinks I don't care about a damn thing. Damn I sure do miss my Jack and Cokes.
Using Gates in place of Kirk, make your own cool Star Trek: Wrath of Khan movie quotes! Discuss...
You want to know something Spock?... Everybody uses Windows.
I...find that remark...insulting.
Welcome to the wonderful world of do as I say not as I do. But since I lead a wonderfully boring life of driving to work; coming home; driving to the eagles and ocming home; driving out some place to eat; coming home; going to the uper market and ocming home; driving to wal mart and you guest it coming home, etc. etc. ad naseum. I volunteer for them to put a gps on my pick up so when I get lost I can call them up and ask where am I.
When they have the video technology of the Minority Report and can dynamically update a news paper, then I will be impressed and maybe just a bit nervous.
Of course, when someone in America believes in a crazy theory we get an avalanche of posts excoriating the American educational system for producing such a person, American culture for being so anti-intellectual, American politics, etc., which we don't seem to get when any other countries' conspiracy theorists get mentioned.
He's a certifiable wack job, there you happy. I believe his theory about as much as I beleive my wife's theory about rockets causing the earth's tilt on it's axis. Which is to say that I don't.
A more plausible theory which I am not subscribing to merely pointing out that it is more believable than an environmentl weapon or rockets being launch into space. Our moon is slowly getting further and further away. It is a scientific face that the Earth natuarally wobbles and the moon keeps that wobble in check. Call it a gravitational tug of war if you will. With the moon getting further and further away the Earth can tilt more and more and eventually causing a polar shift. The scary part of this whole theory if true is that there is absolutely nothing we can do about it. (Insert evil sadistic laugh here)
Oh, barring any unforseen natural disaster, celestial event, act of God or a global thermo nuclear war, the world will not end in 2012. I can't wait until December 31, 2012 when I will broad cast my don't you feell stupid for believing in that stupid prophesy editorial.
"Besides Wi-Fi signals, could there possibly be any other logical explanation for kids having more symptoms of illness on school days than at home on weekends or in the summer?"
Um, being in school doesn't count as a reason?
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
It's not just your observation there really are way too many stupid people in the world. I have been exposed to wifi signlas for several years, nearly 24 hours a day. I have yet to experience "wifi sickness" the whole idea of it makes me want to puke. No wait that's the really bad coffee I'm drinking, but seriously wifi sickness? I have a wifi router at home that runs 24/7, I manage a hotel and it's wifi network. The only time I have experienced any of these so-called symptoms is when I haven't been eating right or drinking enough water. The most common cause of a head ache is dehydration. The best cure is as my Drill Sergeant use to say, "Drink water!!!!" Every single one of those symptoms can be explained as dehydration: head aches, dizziness, nausea, racing heart rates, all symptoms of dehydration! Also: skin rashes, memory loss, night sweats, insomnia, trouble concentrating; again dehydration and also possible mal-utrition! But what do I know, I'm just an over weight hotel manager with a computer addiction I couldn't possibly be talking from a personal experience point of view now could I.
Let's see here.. I'm going to go with: 4+3+2=(21/3*981727612785316256514034236^0)+2
So what you are saying is that x = 49^1/2
Well that took long enough. Real life's had this ever since cyanide.
The sad part is that those the choose the delete option just don't realize that their information is still there in the facebook back ups. In fact the deleted accounts are still on the servers where they previously reside just waiting for someone with the right privileges to undelete.
He'd better not say that too loud or make too much noise about his epiphany or he may just be getting a visit Education Mafia. Can't have millions of "Uneducate" people thinking all they really need is some training in the field they want to be in. That would just bankrupt the whole education system. (Feel free to insert sarcasm any place you like)
As for the other idea, I don't see how Kevin Costner can claim to have developed an oil separator that has been in use by US Navy ships since before the early eighties.
I realize this is Slashdot, but if you RTFA you will find that he got his hands on the design and spent $20M or so of his own money on having them improved to the point that they were useful for processing a mess into CLEAN water AND clean OIL. Nowhere is it claimed that he invented the centrifugal separator.
Quite right it also said that he plans to donate 80% of the proceeds to struggling parishes trying to cope with the economic loss that this mess has cost them. BP comitted to 32 of these devices which would only equal 12.8 million to the parishes in the Gulf reagion. A drop in the bucket sure, but at least he is trying to do more than just line his own pockets.
I have XP Pro on all of my personal computers, 4 and counting. At work Vista Ultimate, yuk, yuk and tripple yuk. At the Eagles Lodge where I am an Officer, we have Windows 7. All of these computers run 24/7 and of these the one running Vista needs a restart no less than twice a week to combat slowness in operation. My personal computers running XP only need to be restared periodically once every month or so, or after an update. In the six months that my Eagles Lodge has had the new computer with Windows 7, I have only had to restart it once and that was after an update. My only complaint with XP is the ungodly amount of updates after Service Pack 3. I do a lot of reinstalls for other people and it makes it tedious to say the least to install the updates, but I thank the computer gods for softwarepatch.com and my littel command line script that installs these updates for me. I did experiment with slip streaming to make the process easier but decided that it was better to go with the command line script because it was simpler to change the script than it was to redo the slipstreamed cd. I like XP, it's more or less stable and I also like Windows 7 so far. As for Vista it should go the way of Windows ME.
If Limewire is smart, they will not try to argue this amount down. they should keep letting the lawyers demand 1.5 trillion. It will help shine light on how excessive and non-realistic the penalties are.
Limewire should just laugh at them and say, "Yeah we will pay on the second Tuesday of next week. What the RIAA needs to do is build a better mouse trap and the world will beat a path to their door. But will they do this? No they will continue to go after the users of better mouse traps and the builders of the better mouse traps.
-- What are we going to do tonight Brain? The same thing we do every night Pinky, try to take over the world!
Y'know, this guy can make back his $90 and then some by putting ads on the site. The PD must have already setup links everywhere, all he has to do it set it up, sit back, and collect a check. What are the chances this guy will be sued?
The City has better ways to deal with clever numbskulls than court action. They control his water, sewer and garbage pick ups and I'm pretty sure that they can turn his electricity off too. I'm fairly certain that afrter a week or so without these services he will be sufficently convinced to hand over the web domain.
While I'm not going to debate the issue of speed cameras, he would not have gotten the ticket if he had not been speeding. Of course the ignorance excuse won't work in court but the city could limit the number of those types of excuses by placing signs to the effect that speed is monitored by speed cameras near those places where they are set up. Much like the signs I see at the city limits that say speed monitored by radar as I am driving into those cities.
People walk on busy highways without sidewalks and think they're going to be perfectly safe? Why on earth would a thinking person even consider going by that route?
If Google had put a disclaimer such as: Google shall not be held liable for random or momentary lapses of common sense. Use of or products and services constitutes acceptance of this policy.
Serious? Our eyes and minds are being sold to advertisers and you don't find that troubling? We are not the consumers any more, we are the product. If society mimicked Facebook you're damned right there'd be privacy concerns. If I stop by a motorcycle shop to buy some oil and they sold that information to other distributors without my consent so they could bombard me with unwanted solicitations there would be hell to pay.
Privacy is an illusion that we make our selves to feel comfortable. Every time you fill out a form and click the send button you give up your privacy. If you can't stand the heat get out of the hotbox. You give your consent by virtue of clicking send.
By continuing to use this site constitutes acceptance of any and all policies regarding this site regardless of whether or not you actually read said policies. All policies subject to change with or without notice.
Zettabyte, pettabyte...pish pah, When they come up with the Teraquad then I will be impressed.