I would be willing to bet that 90% of slashdot will answer "no".
Heck, I don't browse much of the internet outside of North America, although I do occasionally browse in French, and well, France *is* still the center of that universe.
Stop trying to dredge this up, dammit!
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LOTR Jumps the Shark
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It doesn't exist! Nope! Never heard of that musical! I'm not listening! LALALALALA!
Sounds an awful lot (with emphasis on "awful") like the original cartoon. Plus they made it a musical, which I suspect makes the entire production a painful affair.
Just Friday, I started putting up a copy of LiveJournal on our webserver for internal company use (the boss says we can't trust Other People with our internal corporate communications, kind of like, um, email).
LiveJournal is an extremely NON-trivial bit of software. It's easier to build Apache with OpenSSL and Frontpage extensions. And the dependencies! Oh the dependencies!
So while the nice people at LiveJournal headquarters are getting all this "free" content, they're spending copious amounts of time making it easy enough for the web using public to make it all happen. And then there's the hardware requirements...
ordering an Alienware will no longer be like putting in an order for a car in East Germany.
You mean even terrorist sponsoring countries like... *Canada* will be able to get Alienware computers now? Wow, that would be amazing, considering you can't get them shipped up here for love or money for some bizarre reason. All the people I know that have them had them shipped to some border town where they picked them up themselves.
I'm so sick and tired of TV and the media in general making out that games are just for kids.
You mean when they're not going by the old standby and making out that games are corrupting the minds of our children and should be banned.
The next step for the media and games is to ignore them. Or perhaps even embrace them. I've noticed a lot of daily newspapers lately have started reviewing video games.
My wife and I have about 3,500 books. We can't find anything. All the books are in random order.
Okay, um, you're talking about real, paper books, right? Not e-books scattered about on your harddrive? And you've um, never been to a brick-and-mortar bookstore, or a public or school library, right?
Because the answer to your question seems so stupendously obvious, that a) I boggle at the question even being asked, and b) I boggle that it passed the/. editors. You don't need software. You don't need to program anything. You need a method for organizing your books. It's called the dewey decimal system, and it's worked for hundreds of years. They taught it to *me* when I was in 3rd grade, and it's used everywhere that they have books.
This story is a cry for help. The school system has failed the original poster, the original poster has spent his entire existence in a cave with 27 computers and a T1 connection, and I think he's lying about having a wife too.
It's because the scientists are rewriting the theology.
Nope. It's just coincidental that we've always thought that Thor brought us thunder and lightning, but the truth was utterly different.
Religion and superstition can exist only where there is ignorance and misunderstanding. But hey, I guess we can always go back to believing in Thor, now can't we?
In the next several elections, you'll be voting not just for Representatives or a President -- you'll be voting on the future, or the future decline, of your country.
You do that with every election. Choose, and choose wisely.
I could see if maybe they had big ships like we did, that they might not notice some rats on board, but for the love of god, these were outrigger canoes! The rats would have to be clinging to the underside of the canoe not to be noticed and thrown overboard!
I highly doubt they brought rats this way. It's much more likely that the rats were there first.
It's all about smearing your enemies and promoting your agenda.
Welcome to the real world. Journalists were doing that 150 years ago, they were doing it 100 years ago, they were doing it 50 years ago, and they are *still* doing it. They will always be doing it. Otherwise, what the fuck is the point of getting published in the first place, if you can't promote your agenda and smear your enemies?
We just have to educate people to be safe enough that only the most inventive criminals can get in
Have you ever tried to educate people about oh, say, viruses or spam or computer security before?
No? That's not a surprise. Or you wouldn't just say "we *just* have to educate". It's a monumental task to undertake, and perhaps only about 20% of civilians will actually take you seriously. Until that one day when *they* are forced to try to uninstall the uninstallable and infinitely irritating virus/trojan/spamware of the day.
It's slightly better when the people that need the education are supposed to be professionals of some sort, and "infinitely irritating" becomes "stuff I've spent 300 hours working on, that gets lost forever". But even if it were just a few percent that don't get it, that's still plenty when your audience numbers in the hundreds of millions. See also: spam.
The only mechanisms for making sure things get done right are automatic mechanisms that get it done right the first time. Human beings cannot be trusted.
Sure, perhaps red wine will lower your cholesterol. And more importantly, the benefits of red wine are trotted out in the press again and again, so lots and lots of people know this.
But is the real problem that human beings tend to only ever address a problem *after* it becomes a problem (thus the need for lipitor), or that drug companies try to supress this information? The fact that it's in the press a lot, and that they never rebutt that press, tells me that they're not trying very hard to suppress this information.
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I would be willing to bet that 90% of slashdot will answer "no".
Heck, I don't browse much of the internet outside of North America, although I do occasionally browse in French, and well, France *is* still the center of that universe.
It doesn't exist! Nope! Never heard of that musical! I'm not listening! LALALALALA!
Sounds an awful lot (with emphasis on "awful") like the original cartoon. Plus they made it a musical, which I suspect makes the entire production a painful affair.
Just Friday, I started putting up a copy of LiveJournal on our webserver for internal company use (the boss says we can't trust Other People with our internal corporate communications, kind of like, um, email).
LiveJournal is an extremely NON-trivial bit of software. It's easier to build Apache with OpenSSL and Frontpage extensions. And the dependencies! Oh the dependencies!
So while the nice people at LiveJournal headquarters are getting all this "free" content, they're spending copious amounts of time making it easy enough for the web using public to make it all happen. And then there's the hardware requirements...
If one throws a million darts at a dartboard, it's highly unlikely that none of them will hit the bullseye.
Heh. I don't think that a dartboard can even hold a hundred darts. That means that 99.99% of the darts can't even *hit* the dartboard.
It would be pretty funny to see though!
ordering an Alienware will no longer be like putting in an order for a car in East Germany.
You mean even terrorist sponsoring countries like... *Canada* will be able to get Alienware computers now? Wow, that would be amazing, considering you can't get them shipped up here for love or money for some bizarre reason. All the people I know that have them had them shipped to some border town where they picked them up themselves.
In my day, we put their heads on a pike and fed their bodies to the dogs, and we liked it.
Oh yeah. I'm sure *you* liked it. But what about the punished? I'm sure they were terribly upset about all that!
/bin/kill should be at the top of the list, not #9.
The only guidelines that are set are by moderators. And the moderators are the users. In essence, the asylum is run by the inmates.
No posts are ever deleted either. They may never be read, because they're scored -2 Troll, but that's different.
The flaw could allow remote attackers to take control of users' PCs.
Um, unless they mean take control of end user's PCs, what about the sendmail servers that are sending and receiving the email?
I have to wonder how far Slashdot is going with the whole "linux is da bomb for the desktop!" ccrowd.
I'm so sick and tired of TV and the media in general making out that games are just for kids.
You mean when they're not going by the old standby and making out that games are corrupting the minds of our children and should be banned.
The next step for the media and games is to ignore them. Or perhaps even embrace them. I've noticed a lot of daily newspapers lately have started reviewing video games.
*yoink!*
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Thanks. I now have a new
My wife and I have about 3,500 books. We can't find anything. All the books are in random order.
/. editors. You don't need software. You don't need to program anything. You need a method for organizing your books. It's called the dewey decimal system, and it's worked for hundreds of years. They taught it to *me* when I was in 3rd grade, and it's used everywhere that they have books.
Okay, um, you're talking about real, paper books, right? Not e-books scattered about on your harddrive? And you've um, never been to a brick-and-mortar bookstore, or a public or school library, right?
Because the answer to your question seems so stupendously obvious, that a) I boggle at the question even being asked, and b) I boggle that it passed the
This story is a cry for help. The school system has failed the original poster, the original poster has spent his entire existence in a cave with 27 computers and a T1 connection, and I think he's lying about having a wife too.
It's because the scientists are rewriting the theology.
Nope. It's just coincidental that we've always thought that Thor brought us thunder and lightning, but the truth was utterly different.
Religion and superstition can exist only where there is ignorance and misunderstanding. But hey, I guess we can always go back to believing in Thor, now can't we?
In the next several elections, you'll be voting not just for Representatives or a President -- you'll be voting on the future, or the future decline, of your country.
You do that with every election. Choose, and choose wisely.
Not that that ever happens though.
I could see if maybe they had big ships like we did, that they might not notice some rats on board, but for the love of god, these were outrigger canoes! The rats would have to be clinging to the underside of the canoe not to be noticed and thrown overboard!
I highly doubt they brought rats this way. It's much more likely that the rats were there first.
It's all about smearing your enemies and promoting your agenda.
Welcome to the real world. Journalists were doing that 150 years ago, they were doing it 100 years ago, they were doing it 50 years ago, and they are *still* doing it. They will always be doing it. Otherwise, what the fuck is the point of getting published in the first place, if you can't promote your agenda and smear your enemies?
You can't apply to jobs like that. You have to *make* them.
...just imagine them investigating a pedo case.
The spam wouldn't change a bit for *that*...
I'd be the first to vote yes to that, but I don't vote.
We just have to educate people to be safe enough that only the most inventive criminals can get in
Have you ever tried to educate people about oh, say, viruses or spam or computer security before?
No? That's not a surprise. Or you wouldn't just say "we *just* have to educate". It's a monumental task to undertake, and perhaps only about 20% of civilians will actually take you seriously. Until that one day when *they* are forced to try to uninstall the uninstallable and infinitely irritating virus/trojan/spamware of the day.
It's slightly better when the people that need the education are supposed to be professionals of some sort, and "infinitely irritating" becomes "stuff I've spent 300 hours working on, that gets lost forever". But even if it were just a few percent that don't get it, that's still plenty when your audience numbers in the hundreds of millions. See also: spam.
The only mechanisms for making sure things get done right are automatic mechanisms that get it done right the first time. Human beings cannot be trusted.
Hehehe. You go right on believing in that cliche. That'll keep you from trying. :)
Um, no.
Sure, perhaps red wine will lower your cholesterol. And more importantly, the benefits of red wine are trotted out in the press again and again, so lots and lots of people know this.
But is the real problem that human beings tend to only ever address a problem *after* it becomes a problem (thus the need for lipitor), or that drug companies try to supress this information? The fact that it's in the press a lot, and that they never rebutt that press, tells me that they're not trying very hard to suppress this information.
Yeah, I was about to say.
The trouble with that game is that girlfriends tend to object to the multi-player form.
Perhaps, but the ones that *don't*....