They're right! Video games *are* brainwashing your kids! Why, I have this sudden urge to run around in a darkened room and munch lots of little white pills while listening to repetitive electronic music!
Buddy, are you in for the "-1, flamebait" of your life...
I realize you're just trying to be funny and everything, but the fact of the matter is that CS is a male dominated game, and the men prefer it that way.
I would expect that a lot of those guys who got pwn3d by his wife would feel a lot like this guy did.
At first, I thought this guy was just an obnoxious jerk trying to impose his hatred for television on everyone around him. But then I realized something with this line:
Unfortunately, the TV-B-Gone website seems to have already been swamped by the Wired coverage
He's actually trying to *prevent* its release. He's making an attempt to either get the website yanked by his provider by way of a DDOS, or to keep it out of service long enough to get them to give up. Undoubtedly, he'll post the link to k5 after this.
Since the US used a little over a thousand million tons of coal in 2001*, that means roughly 1300 tons of uranium and 3200 tons of thorium were released directly into the atmosphere for your breathing pleasure that year.
Compare this to the Chernobyl accident, which released 50 tons of radioactive dust into the air. **
HTH, HAND!:)
* you can look it up here. ** source: http://www.eh.doe.gov/health/hstudies/chern_hes.ht ml
They're studying cheap ways to extract oil from the tar sands reserves in Alberta.
Emphasis on "studying". That means "we don't know how". We've also been studying ways to cure cancer for the past 100 years, and we've only got 10 or 20 years of oil left.
The fact of the matter is that oil prices will only go up from here, no matter what we do. And even if we don't, the weather will only get worse, so take your pick, eh?
This is stark evidence of the biggest thing that IT managers complain about: Everyone is clueless.
Take advantage of this. When they ask you a question, it's because they don't know the answer. Give them the answer *you* want them to have, not the real answer, or they'll just bend you over the barrel.
And when you ask your people to get work done, tell them what *you* want, not what the customer/higher ups want. If the job looks like it will take a week, tell them to do it in two or less and tell the customer it'll be done in two months. The customer doesn't need to know, and your charges don't need to know. When someone starts to get unreasonable, tell them it will cost more - that usually shuts them up. If it doesn't, then you get paid more. No problem.
Oh, and now I get to hang out with my sewer and trash collecting friends...
No. Lawyers, like bankers, only *appear* to be working from 9 to 5. Law firms are allowed to demand that their employees work in excess of 100 hours a week without extra pay. There's actually a provision in the labour laws specifically for lawyers and doctors and a few other professions. A little while ago, some numbnuts tried to add IT/programming to that list too but failed. The article was on./.
What you're thinking of is a private practice, which is much like conslutting for IT guys. Nice work if you can get it.
Actually, you can easily reduce the amount of energy your house uses by about 2/3, largely by not being a total frickin' bonehead and also taking advantage of some newish technology like programmable thermostats and compact flourescents.
Compared to that, transmission losses are nothing. I mean it.
As per your population increasing, that's a bunch of bull too. Energy consumption is increasing by about 3% per year in the US. That might not sound like a lot, but you're not able to build new power plants fast enough to keep up with that kind of growth, and after all it means that consumption will double in 34 years. Considering how much you consume now, that's completely insane and has to stop.
Kids who spend six hours a day playing video games are missing real life experiences.
Or, alternatively their "real life" experiences with their so-called peers are so painful that they don't want to have anything to do with them?
While yes, there's something wrong here in either case, it's really not necessarily the case that gaming itself is the problem. Most addictions are a symptom, not the root of the problem, and this is no different.
20 years ago? Sure. Back then you had to have a clue to be a hacker. Even a cracker. Today? God no. "Hackers" these days are typically teenaged punks that at their noblest, are out for notoriety in much the same fashion that taggers are. At their worst (and this includes the majority of them now) they're working for (or are) spammers, scammers, and the Mob. This gives me an incentive to either beat the crap out of them on the spot or make them homeless, depending on how cruel I feel at the moment.
That and most of them don't have the skill to build anything real.
We started filtering viruses from our incoming mail in November, and as the sysadmin for the mail server in question, I was nervously awaiting the first onslaught of viruses. The statistics for the first couple months were dismal, with the number of viruses canned being at only about 2-300 a day, and sometimes a lot less.
Then MyDoom came out January 28, 2004. This day will live on in infamy since I posted to usenet about it and it's in Google's cache.
We went from 300 a day to 15,000 a day in two days.
After a while though, it died down. To about 5000 a day, still more than 10 times what it used to be. Then Zafi came out on June 11th and in three days the number of virus hits hit their peak at about 110K per day.
Again, it died down, but now we're cleaning *coughcough*only*cough* 15,000 messages per day out of our mail. Yes, that's right, we're now filtering more viruses on a daily basis than at the *peak* of MyDoom.
If the people at F-Prot, or the developers of qmail-scanner are listening, thank you. You've saved a lot of people a lot of pain.
Regardless of their location or availability now, the intelligence community believed they existed and could be used to arm terrorists to attack the US.
People have short attention spans. Clearly you forget that The Secretary of Defence, Colin Powell, stood in front of a TV camera several months before 9/11/2001 and specifically said that Iraq posed absolutely no threat to the United States. Why? Because they had no weapons of mass destruction, they had no means of delivering them if they did, and the embargo that the country had been under for the past ten years had crippled any plans that Saddam Hussein had for pretty much anything.
What Iraq had (or currently has) to do with Al Quaeda is an utter mystery, since the country had a secular government, whereas Al Quaeda is a collection of religious nuts who allied themselves with other religious nuts like the Taliban. And of course, they're not even from Iraq, but from a country that has been deeply nervous about them for the past 15+ years, enough to ally themselves with a bunch of infidels.
But you know, there's lots of oil in Iraq, and America is running out of places to get it. It's quickly coming down to a choice between killing all the caribou or overthrowing regimes that they propped up in the first place. The choice just gets easier when your population is screaming for blood.
I have a ground-source (aka geothermal) heat pump in my house. I had a hard time finding a dealer to install it.... But, there was no promotion of geothermal heat pumps. There was no discussions of them in the press.
There was around here, but it wasn't all that noisy and wasn't around very long.
I'd still have to wonder how easy it is to get that done around here though. I've heard of a number of people who've done it.
Um, actually I couldn't help but notice that you pay the police to do this kind of thing.
So is it unfair to make the taxpayers pay to clean up the streets of common thugs and fraudsters? Spamhaus seems to think that the majority of our spam comes from about 200 spammers. Put a dozen of them in prison, and the rest will start to think harder about what they do and whether or not they can continue to operate.
Okay, he has a bunch of LCD screens "just lying around."
And yeah, he made some fake windows out of them so that he could have a country view in the middle of the city.
But what really takes the cake is that he has absolutely no skill with respect to interior decorating. Those windows are crooked! And the cables are sticking out! And for the love of Ghod, they look stupid and fake stuck to the wall right over the *fireplace*! Where the chimney is!
Only a true geek would make something that's supposed to look good, look bad.
Heh. Once upon a time (roughly around the bubble, I might add) there was a belief that many geeks were kinky. While this may just be FUD, I know through personal experience that many kinky people are geeks. And that my friend, is how at least a few of us get laid a lot.
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This treaty doesn't hold India or China to the same levels that the USA and EU are held to.
If one thug gets convicted of shoplifting, and another one gets convicted of murder, which one should do more time, and why?
They're right! Video games *are* brainwashing your kids! Why, I have this sudden urge to run around in a darkened room and munch lots of little white pills while listening to repetitive electronic music!
Buddy, are you in for the "-1, flamebait" of your life...
I realize you're just trying to be funny and everything, but the fact of the matter is that CS is a male dominated game, and the men prefer it that way.
I would expect that a lot of those guys who got pwn3d by his wife would feel a lot like this guy did.
Just for comparison.
Where do I get the distinct impression that she means that she likes this in much the same way as this?
At first, I thought this guy was just an obnoxious jerk trying to impose his hatred for television on everyone around him. But then I realized something with this line:
Unfortunately, the TV-B-Gone website seems to have already been swamped by the Wired coverage
He's actually trying to *prevent* its release. He's making an attempt to either get the website yanked by his provider by way of a DDOS, or to keep it out of service long enough to get them to give up. Undoubtedly, he'll post the link to k5 after this.
Parts per million is a nice number.
:)
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Since the US used a little over a thousand million tons of coal in 2001*, that means roughly 1300 tons of uranium and 3200 tons of thorium were released directly into the atmosphere for your breathing pleasure that year.
Compare this to the Chernobyl accident, which released 50 tons of radioactive dust into the air. **
HTH, HAND!
* you can look it up here.
** source: http://www.eh.doe.gov/health/hstudies/chern_hes.h
They're studying cheap ways to extract oil from the tar sands reserves in Alberta.
Emphasis on "studying". That means "we don't know how". We've also been studying ways to cure cancer for the past 100 years, and we've only got 10 or 20 years of oil left.
The fact of the matter is that oil prices will only go up from here, no matter what we do. And even if we don't, the weather will only get worse, so take your pick, eh?
This is stark evidence of the biggest thing that IT managers complain about: Everyone is clueless.
Take advantage of this. When they ask you a question, it's because they don't know the answer. Give them the answer *you* want them to have, not the real answer, or they'll just bend you over the barrel.
And when you ask your people to get work done, tell them what *you* want, not what the customer/higher ups want. If the job looks like it will take a week, tell them to do it in two or less and tell the customer it'll be done in two months. The customer doesn't need to know, and your charges don't need to know. When someone starts to get unreasonable, tell them it will cost more - that usually shuts them up. If it doesn't, then you get paid more. No problem.
Oh, and now I get to hang out with my sewer and trash collecting friends...
./.
No. Lawyers, like bankers, only *appear* to be working from 9 to 5. Law firms are allowed to demand that their employees work in excess of 100 hours a week without extra pay. There's actually a provision in the labour laws specifically for lawyers and doctors and a few other professions. A little while ago, some numbnuts tried to add IT/programming to that list too but failed. The article was on
What you're thinking of is a private practice, which is much like conslutting for IT guys. Nice work if you can get it.
Why the hell are they so terribly concerned with the porn "problem" and not in the least bit concerned with the [blink]SPAM PROBLEM[/blink]?
You forgot Street Fighter.
But then, so did a lot of people.
Actually, you can easily reduce the amount of energy your house uses by about 2/3, largely by not being a total frickin' bonehead and also taking advantage of some newish technology like programmable thermostats and compact flourescents.
Compared to that, transmission losses are nothing. I mean it.
As per your population increasing, that's a bunch of bull too. Energy consumption is increasing by about 3% per year in the US. That might not sound like a lot, but you're not able to build new power plants fast enough to keep up with that kind of growth, and after all it means that consumption will double in 34 years. Considering how much you consume now, that's completely insane and has to stop.
Kids who spend six hours a day playing video games are missing real life experiences.
Or, alternatively their "real life" experiences with their so-called peers are so painful that they don't want to have anything to do with them?
While yes, there's something wrong here in either case, it's really not necessarily the case that gaming itself is the problem. Most addictions are a symptom, not the root of the problem, and this is no different.
"The only real obscenity is war." -- Henry Miller, 1939.
20 years ago? Sure. Back then you had to have a clue to be a hacker. Even a cracker. Today? God no. "Hackers" these days are typically teenaged punks that at their noblest, are out for notoriety in much the same fashion that taggers are. At their worst (and this includes the majority of them now) they're working for (or are) spammers, scammers, and the Mob. This gives me an incentive to either beat the crap out of them on the spot or make them homeless, depending on how cruel I feel at the moment.
That and most of them don't have the skill to build anything real.
We started filtering viruses from our incoming mail in November, and as the sysadmin for the mail server in question, I was nervously awaiting the first onslaught of viruses. The statistics for the first couple months were dismal, with the number of viruses canned being at only about 2-300 a day, and sometimes a lot less.
Then MyDoom came out January 28, 2004. This day will live on in infamy since I posted to usenet about it and it's in Google's cache.
We went from 300 a day to 15,000 a day in two days.
After a while though, it died down. To about 5000 a day, still more than 10 times what it used to be. Then Zafi came out on June 11th and in three days the number of virus hits hit their peak at about 110K per day.
Again, it died down, but now we're cleaning *coughcough*only*cough* 15,000 messages per day out of our mail. Yes, that's right, we're now filtering more viruses on a daily basis than at the *peak* of MyDoom.
If the people at F-Prot, or the developers of qmail-scanner are listening, thank you. You've saved a lot of people a lot of pain.
I'd actually be more concerned about what the turnover rate for employees would be.
And by "turnover" I mean "suicide."
Regardless of their location or availability now, the intelligence community believed they existed and could be used to arm terrorists to attack the US.
People have short attention spans. Clearly you forget that The Secretary of Defence, Colin Powell, stood in front of a TV camera several months before 9/11/2001 and specifically said that Iraq posed absolutely no threat to the United States. Why? Because they had no weapons of mass destruction, they had no means of delivering them if they did, and the embargo that the country had been under for the past ten years had crippled any plans that Saddam Hussein had for pretty much anything.
What Iraq had (or currently has) to do with Al Quaeda is an utter mystery, since the country had a secular government, whereas Al Quaeda is a collection of religious nuts who allied themselves with other religious nuts like the Taliban. And of course, they're not even from Iraq, but from a country that has been deeply nervous about them for the past 15+ years, enough to ally themselves with a bunch of infidels.
But you know, there's lots of oil in Iraq, and America is running out of places to get it. It's quickly coming down to a choice between killing all the caribou or overthrowing regimes that they propped up in the first place. The choice just gets easier when your population is screaming for blood.
I have a ground-source (aka geothermal) heat pump in my house. I had a hard time finding a dealer to install it. ...
But, there was no promotion of geothermal heat pumps. There was no discussions of them in the press.
There was around here, but it wasn't all that noisy and wasn't around very long.
I'd still have to wonder how easy it is to get that done around here though. I've heard of a number of people who've done it.
I'm sorry, but the correct reference is:
;)
Smart, hot, sane. Choose any two.
Yeah, but this is slashdot.
And I've already made my choice. Smart, geeky, and kinky. My three of a kind beats your pair.
Um, actually I couldn't help but notice that you pay the police to do this kind of thing.
So is it unfair to make the taxpayers pay to clean up the streets of common thugs and fraudsters? Spamhaus seems to think that the majority of our spam comes from about 200 spammers. Put a dozen of them in prison, and the rest will start to think harder about what they do and whether or not they can continue to operate.
Heh. The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a gutter whore.
But hey, I guess you gotta start somewhere.
Next you're going to tell me that the fireplace was photoshopped in there.
Okay, he has a bunch of LCD screens "just lying around."
And yeah, he made some fake windows out of them so that he could have a country view in the middle of the city.
But what really takes the cake is that he has absolutely no skill with respect to interior decorating. Those windows are crooked! And the cables are sticking out! And for the love of Ghod, they look stupid and fake stuck to the wall right over the *fireplace*! Where the chimney is!
Only a true geek would make something that's supposed to look good, look bad.
Heh. Once upon a time (roughly around the bubble, I might add) there was a belief that many geeks were kinky. While this may just be FUD, I know through personal experience that many kinky people are geeks. And that my friend, is how at least a few of us get laid a lot.
That and we're a little older than 17.