Um, 1 stupid criminals rob banks, or 2, really good criminals.
Um, some places in NYC are safe and others are not. Just like anything else, change the equation of how successful the criminals will be and people will decide to go elsewhere to be criminals or (ideally) decide not to be criminals.
How can a crime be PREVENTED if there is a camera? Come on! I didn't think someone that was that unintelligent would be able to figure out how to log on to slashdot, much less make a long winded post.
People commit crimes, yes. However, the expectation is that the benefit outweighs the risk. In a dark parking lot, you can steal a car radio or mug an old lady because the likiness of getting caught is less. Daylight hours, not so much.
So, what we see is that more crime is conducted during conditions that favor the criminals. If we reduce the space or times where the conditions are favorable to crimes, we can reduce the crimes. For instance, I have security cameras prominently placed on my house.... not because I want to catch someone and work with the police to identify them, but because I want a criminal to know that my house is not a favorable target. Since the cameras also face my neighbors houses (their permission and knowledge) the neighbors are not good targets either. If a crook is going to come, they will be causght and sent to jail. Most of them will know this and so the chances of being a victim are reduced. Those that don't will probably be easier to catch. (Or will be SOOO good at being criminals that my petty possesions are of little interest to them).
Also, reputation is a deterrent. Crooks telling their friends that we have cameras set up on our street will be like saying to hit other 'hoods. If thier friends are jailed because of the cameras, so much the better.
Yes, our cameras can be vandalized (but we'll catch the vandals). And strictly speaking they don't stop criminals like me sitting on the porch with a shotgun would do, or having a rabid pit bull with herpes on the lawn, but it is much better than staying in my panic room with the wool over my eyes.
We live closer to people now than the framers of our constitution did. Because of this, to afford the same protections, we would need to have a greater density of policemen than we did... but we don't. We live closer to each other and there are more people. We have dehumanized each other. People place little value on responsible communityship and so we have 3 choices... ignore it, resulting in things getting worse, move away from it, where it will follow, or to take responsible, proactive steps to reduce our problems.
And yes, we do practice the death penalty (which other 'civilized countries' don't do). I don't necessarily think this is a bad thing.... but we should have a different strategy. Make prison such a bad thing that noone would ever want to go there, embrace education and social programs so that people never HAVE to go there and if they choose that prison is still the best place to go and refuse to change (thus becoming a sever liability to society), exterminate them.... whether it is for capital crimes, or not.
I wonder if they will contact the Nigerians to get that money out for them. A major ISP might have the capital and once the money is back in the hands of its rightful owner they can stop sending me messages to help.
Besides, anyone who reads my email will know that I MUST be spending everything I make on OEM software at discount prices, prescription drugs and penis pills. That is why I have to mortgage my house so often and am always in the market for a lower rate.
I have a 2004 Volvo S60. One day, I was traveling downhill on a highway while drafting a semi. I took my foot off the gas and amazingly kept accellerating.
My 'Instant MPG' read 99MPG, but I don't believe it... I bet I was getting more than that.
dubya chose to implement this as part of his master scheme of getting reelected. You see, his only hope of reelection was as beign percieved as the only person that can make a difference in the war on terrorism. So, he wants to keep terrorism going. He does this by making sure that when Osama is surrounded, that he immediately redistributes troop strength to a part of the world that a) has no terrorists and b) will cause more terrorists to come around because they are pissed off that we are someplace we shouldn't be.
Then, he alienates our allies and really causes a stir by doing things to really drum up more anti american sentiment.
I am starting to wonder how the GOP got bush to run... wasn't quayle available that year? I am hoping at some point that the Republican party would own up to the fact that his candidacy was some big joke but that it got blown WAY out of proportion.... but it is too late now. The damage is done.
aliens put a worm hole next to a black hole 2000 years ago. Because of the time dilation, if you enter the positive end of the worm hole, you actually go back in time.
but it has already been proven
on
Testing Relativity
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· Score: 2, Funny
1000 years from now, they prove that the theory of relativity is true and then travel back in time and tell Einstein who explains the principals to us and through the act of putting it in textbooks makes us 'take their word for it' since noone can understand it.
To me, this is a very simple explanation and since the simplest explanation must be true, I think we have a winner.
I call it the 'Spears theory of enlightened time-travelers'.
So I buy personal.mail and then I sell you lastname.net.personal.mail for $1. I sell freakiedeakie.org.personal.mail to someone else for $1 and so on and so forth until I get my $2000 back?
I could hack bind so that I can throttle reverse lookups per domain so that I can keep my bandwidth low and target the small market.
Since ANYONE could do this, there is no reason to jack up the price. However, for SLA would be best-effort only (since I am not a real company)
And if I get my 2001st subscriber, I would be in the black (Woo hoo)
This is the stupidest thing I have heard in a long time. It's not useful because you have to spend 2 minutes to download it?
Forgive me for saying the obvious here, but it takes just as long to CONFIGURE a cvs repository (assuming you use some bells and whistles) as it does to download and install your JDK.
You piss and moan that some archaic distro doesn't save you 2 minutes of time? Then logically you should write all of your code in C++ because that would save you work?
I may disagree with what you say, but I'll defend with my life your right to be a moron
Imagine this:
Instead of 30 second commercials you fast forward through, all the commercials were on your Tivo as well. and tivo only recorded commercials for products that you liked (tivo commercial suggestions). That way, you don't HAVE to watch a commercial to watch a show... but Tivo makes money (and stays in business) so that I can continue to get their service while not getting commericals.... I like this a LOT
And if Tivo can make a little money from the Ad firms without impacting my viewing habits , then so be it.
The only problem I might have with it is if my Tivo had the wrong idea of what I liked and didn't like. What a horrible time I might have if my Tivo recorded only ads for feminine hygiene products....
Scenarios: 1) They didn't mean to file you as spam, but they get so much spam anyway that they are deleting it - in otherwords, they are sick of stuff they don't care about 2) They agree that your mail IS solicited, but maybe they are sick of getting it and dont' want it anymore but don't know how to unsubscribe? - solution if they don't want it, its spam, leave them alone 3) They really do think it is spam but when confronted, they realize that it IS solicited (see #2) 4) They never flag your mail as spam.
Seems like #4 is the only category that you should keep sending to?
However, #4 could be sub-categorized: 4a) they don't know how to flag as spam 4b) they don't check that mail anymore 4c) they really want your mails because they are lonely.
If it is 4a, then they probably don't know how to click your links to come buy your product If it is 4b, then they will never read the mail to click the link to buy your product If it is 4c), then go for it... they are your gold customer.
All this leads to my assertion that you should send mail to as small of an audience as necessary. For instance, your boss needs to have a general idea of what you are doing from day to day and that you are meeting deliverables. However, do you CC your boss on EVERYTHING you mail? Probably not.... so why would you do the same for your customers?
It would probably be more effective to collect the specific stats around your buyers habits and target next sales on that.... providing they don't object TOO much to that. an email from companies like:
"Hey, I see you bought X 3 months ago and we are now selling X.2 for $Y."
is much better than
"Hey, want some viagra for your small, floppy wang?"
VERY, VERY few online companies should know anything about my wang and I can therefore rule those mails out as spam very quickly.
simply put:
black hole = so big that no light can escape
star = big enough to make fire
planet = revolves around star or larger, big enough to hold atmosphere
planetoid = revolves around star. NOT big enough to hold atmosphere but big enough to be round.
moon = revolves around planet or planetoid. large enough to be round (and possibly hold atmosphere).
moonlet = revolves around planet or planetoid. not large enough to be round. does not occur in groups.
asteroid = revolves around star. Occurs in groups. Not large enough for atosphere or to be round.
comet = revolves around star. Does not occur in groups. Not large enough for atmosphere or to be round
planetary ring = groups of particles not large enough to be round. Oribt planets.
You can classify them according their orbits::= stellar object:= planetary object:= planetary-orbital object
Each of these three things are definable with physics based on the object's gravity... that is, if we make an assumption that stellar objects do not revolve around each other (but instead that their path through the universe in not a dependant but instead a codependant function of gravity in relation to other stellar objects (which is arguably the case since if 2 objects are large enough to initiate fission and are in a codependant orbital pattern, then the orbit is in fact outside of the mass of either body and is in some point between the two.
I could explain this point with math, but I just don't have the fonts.
It's business and they don't care if kids go there, adults, or horny oragutans as long as they pony up the loot.
Censor it? Naaah... it is for us as responsible netizen/parents to teach kids right from wrong and to supervise them. If you are relying on censorship so that you don't have to do any extra work parenting, then you'll guarantee that your kids grow up to be naive morons that will not be able to make their own judgements... condemning them to a life of servitude.
However, going back to the 'Miss Jackson' thing at the superbowl [I call he miss Jackson, cause she's nasty:)] That was inappropriate, not because it is wrong for the artist to be creative and edgy, but because in that case, we were tricked (or duped) into a display that was not expected in its given context but that we were forced to respond to. For instance, if you walk down the street and someone pulls our his wanker and starts stroking it, it is wrong... but if you are at a seedy strip club, at HIS home, or maybe even a neuvaeu art place, then it may be more appropriate.... the same can be said about people who do other things that are not considered 'mainstream'.
Ms Jackson has freedom of speech and freedom of artistic expression, but not when they interfere with the rights of others. Just as people can worship as they choose. I would be just as appauled if in the middle of the superbowl, there was some large religious ceremony (unless it was my particular group).
A potato is a good sound cancelling device for your car. Just stick a potato in your exhaust pipe and your car will not make any more noise.
Of course, it takes a short time for the sound waves calibrate... you have to let the car run for a few seconds before the potato builds up a good harmonic. Just be patient until you get the desired result.
Slashdot Mirror
Didn't work at all for me. Maybe I am doing something wrong:
/y /y /s
******~
nobody@localhost:> export PS1="c:> "
c:> format c:
bash: format: command not found
c:> format c:
bash: format: command not found
Um, 1 stupid criminals rob banks, or 2, really good criminals.
Um, some places in NYC are safe and others are not. Just like anything else, change the equation of how successful the criminals will be and people will decide to go elsewhere to be criminals or (ideally) decide not to be criminals.
How can a crime be PREVENTED if there is a camera? Come on! I didn't think someone that was that unintelligent would be able to figure out how to log on to slashdot, much less make a long winded post.
People commit crimes, yes. However, the expectation is that the benefit outweighs the risk. In a dark parking lot, you can steal a car radio or mug an old lady because the likiness of getting caught is less. Daylight hours, not so much.
So, what we see is that more crime is conducted during conditions that favor the criminals. If we reduce the space or times where the conditions are favorable to crimes, we can reduce the crimes. For instance, I have security cameras prominently placed on my house.... not because I want to catch someone and work with the police to identify them, but because I want a criminal to know that my house is not a favorable target. Since the cameras also face my neighbors houses (their permission and knowledge) the neighbors are not good targets either. If a crook is going to come, they will be causght and sent to jail. Most of them will know this and so the chances of being a victim are reduced. Those that don't will probably be easier to catch. (Or will be SOOO good at being criminals that my petty possesions are of little interest to them).
Also, reputation is a deterrent. Crooks telling their friends that we have cameras set up on our street will be like saying to hit other 'hoods. If thier friends are jailed because of the cameras, so much the better.
Yes, our cameras can be vandalized (but we'll catch the vandals). And strictly speaking they don't stop criminals like me sitting on the porch with a shotgun would do, or having a rabid pit bull with herpes on the lawn, but it is much better than staying in my panic room with the wool over my eyes.
We live closer to people now than the framers of our constitution did. Because of this, to afford the same protections, we would need to have a greater density of policemen than we did... but we don't. We live closer to each other and there are more people. We have dehumanized each other. People place little value on responsible communityship and so we have 3 choices... ignore it, resulting in things getting worse, move away from it, where it will follow, or to take responsible, proactive steps to reduce our problems.
And yes, we do practice the death penalty (which other 'civilized countries' don't do). I don't necessarily think this is a bad thing.... but we should have a different strategy. Make prison such a bad thing that noone would ever want to go there, embrace education and social programs so that people never HAVE to go there and if they choose that prison is still the best place to go and refuse to change (thus becoming a sever liability to society), exterminate them.... whether it is for capital crimes, or not.
I wonder if they will contact the Nigerians to get that money out for them. A major ISP might have the capital and once the money is back in the hands of its rightful owner they can stop sending me messages to help.
Besides, anyone who reads my email will know that I MUST be spending everything I make on OEM software at discount prices, prescription drugs and penis pills. That is why I have to mortgage my house so often and am always in the market for a lower rate.
I have a 2004 Volvo S60. One day, I was traveling downhill on a highway while drafting a semi. I took my foot off the gas and amazingly kept accellerating.
My 'Instant MPG' read 99MPG, but I don't believe it... I bet I was getting more than that.
Yeah, but does it run linux?
The REASON there is only a windows client is because the windows client does this:
;
while (not_infected) {
send ("Woo Hoo! I'm alive still")
}
And the server does this:
listen (client_port) {
while (get_alive_messages) {
writeGraph (noWorm);
}
ohShit(clientMachineGotWorm);
}
Not a very good solution if the clients never die now, is it?
I could make two computers have a collision easily. I duct tape them both to 2 seperate office chairs and run them into each other.
Now give me my $10k
Hmmm sounds like procmail
A bunch of people talking about problems instead of fixing them.
Viagra, anyone?
dubya chose to implement this as part of his master scheme of getting reelected. You see, his only hope of reelection was as beign percieved as the only person that can make a difference in the war on terrorism. So, he wants to keep terrorism going. He does this by making sure that when Osama is surrounded, that he immediately redistributes troop strength to a part of the world that a) has no terrorists and b) will cause more terrorists to come around because they are pissed off that we are someplace we shouldn't be.
Then, he alienates our allies and really causes a stir by doing things to really drum up more anti american sentiment.
I am starting to wonder how the GOP got bush to run... wasn't quayle available that year? I am hoping at some point that the Republican party would own up to the fact that his candidacy was some big joke but that it got blown WAY out of proportion.... but it is too late now. The damage is done.
aliens put a worm hole next to a black hole 2000 years ago. Because of the time dilation, if you enter the positive end of the worm hole, you actually go back in time.
1000 years from now, they prove that the theory of relativity is true and then travel back in time and tell Einstein who explains the principals to us and through the act of putting it in textbooks makes us 'take their word for it' since noone can understand it.
To me, this is a very simple explanation and since the simplest explanation must be true, I think we have a winner.
I call it the 'Spears theory of enlightened time-travelers'.
So I buy personal.mail and then I sell you
lastname.net.personal.mail for $1. I sell freakiedeakie.org.personal.mail to someone else for $1 and so on and so forth until I get my $2000 back?
I could hack bind so that I can throttle reverse lookups per domain so that I can keep my bandwidth low and target the small market.
Since ANYONE could do this, there is no reason to jack up the price. However, for SLA would be best-effort only (since I am not a real company)
And if I get my 2001st subscriber, I would be in the black (Woo hoo)
This is the stupidest thing I have heard in a long time. It's not useful because you have to spend 2 minutes to download it?
Forgive me for saying the obvious here, but it takes just as long to CONFIGURE a cvs repository (assuming you use some bells and whistles) as it does to download and install your JDK.
You piss and moan that some archaic distro doesn't save you 2 minutes of time? Then logically you should write all of your code in C++ because that would save you work?
I may disagree with what you say, but I'll defend with my life your right to be a moron
Imagine this:
Instead of 30 second commercials you fast forward through, all the commercials were on your Tivo as well. and tivo only recorded commercials for products that you liked (tivo commercial suggestions). That way, you don't HAVE to watch a commercial to watch a show... but Tivo makes money (and stays in business) so that I can continue to get their service while not getting commericals.... I like this a LOT
And if Tivo can make a little money from the Ad firms without impacting my viewing habits , then so be it.
The only problem I might have with it is if my Tivo had the wrong idea of what I liked and didn't like. What a horrible time I might have if my Tivo recorded only ads for feminine hygiene products....
Scenarios:
1) They didn't mean to file you as spam, but they get so much spam anyway that they are deleting it - in otherwords, they are sick of stuff they don't care about
2) They agree that your mail IS solicited, but maybe they are sick of getting it and dont' want it anymore but don't know how to unsubscribe? - solution if they don't want it, its spam, leave them alone
3) They really do think it is spam but when confronted, they realize that it IS solicited (see #2)
4) They never flag your mail as spam.
Seems like #4 is the only category that you should keep sending to?
However, #4 could be sub-categorized:
4a) they don't know how to flag as spam
4b) they don't check that mail anymore
4c) they really want your mails because they are lonely.
If it is 4a, then they probably don't know how to click your links to come buy your product
If it is 4b, then they will never read the mail to click the link to buy your product
If it is 4c), then go for it... they are your gold customer.
All this leads to my assertion that you should send mail to as small of an audience as necessary. For instance, your boss needs to have a general idea of what you are doing from day to day and that you are meeting deliverables. However, do you CC your boss on EVERYTHING you mail? Probably not.... so why would you do the same for your customers?
It would probably be more effective to collect the specific stats around your buyers habits and target next sales on that.... providing they don't object TOO much to that. an email from companies like:
"Hey, I see you bought X 3 months ago and we are now selling X.2 for $Y."
is much better than
"Hey, want some viagra for your small, floppy wang?"
VERY, VERY few online companies should know anything about my wang and I can therefore rule those mails out as spam very quickly.
Just my $.02
Just have the malicious code make the browser go to my viagra site and force the user to buy 10 cases. That would make me an ULTRA spammer.
Once I do this, I will be able to afford that sould I've been eying on eBay all week.
simply put:
:= stellar object := planetary object :=
black hole = so big that no light can escape
star = big enough to make fire
planet = revolves around star or larger, big enough to hold atmosphere
planetoid = revolves around star. NOT big enough to hold atmosphere but big enough to be round.
moon = revolves around planet or planetoid. large enough to be round (and possibly hold atmosphere).
moonlet = revolves around planet or planetoid. not large enough to be round. does not occur in groups.
asteroid = revolves around star. Occurs in groups. Not large enough for atosphere or to be round.
comet = revolves around star. Does not occur in groups. Not large enough for atmosphere or to be round
planetary ring = groups of particles not large enough to be round. Oribt planets.
You can classify them according their orbits:
planetary-orbital object
Each of these three things are definable with physics based on the object's gravity... that is, if we make an assumption that stellar objects do not revolve around each other (but instead that their path through the universe in not a dependant but instead a codependant function of gravity in relation to other stellar objects (which is arguably the case since if 2 objects are large enough to initiate fission and are in a codependant orbital pattern, then the orbit is in fact outside of the mass of either body and is in some point between the two.
I could explain this point with math, but I just don't have the fonts.
It's business and they don't care if kids go there, adults, or horny oragutans as long as they pony up the loot.
:)] That was inappropriate, not because it is wrong for the artist to be creative and edgy, but because in that case, we were tricked (or duped) into a display that was not expected in its given context but that we were forced to respond to. For instance, if you walk down the street and someone pulls our his wanker and starts stroking it, it is wrong... but if you are at a seedy strip club, at HIS home, or maybe even a neuvaeu art place, then it may be more appropriate.... the same can be said about people who do other things that are not considered 'mainstream'.
Censor it? Naaah... it is for us as responsible netizen/parents to teach kids right from wrong and to supervise them. If you are relying on censorship so that you don't have to do any extra work parenting, then you'll guarantee that your kids grow up to be naive morons that will not be able to make their own judgements... condemning them to a life of servitude.
However, going back to the 'Miss Jackson' thing at the superbowl [I call he miss Jackson, cause she's nasty
Ms Jackson has freedom of speech and freedom of artistic expression, but not when they interfere with the rights of others. Just as people can worship as they choose. I would be just as appauled if in the middle of the superbowl, there was some large religious ceremony (unless it was my particular group).
I do not think about or react to the actions of Darl McBride while on my toilet... I only make miniature copies of him
Well, if there weren't feces when I got there, there will be afterwards.
Denial of service attack is unlikely
Spamfilter is more efficient
1) I have never had a worm or virus crash my toilet
2) The do not make any of that blue junk that I can install in my computer
3) microsoft doesn't make bathroom fixtures
4) I let people go in my bathroom. Noone is allowed to drive my PC
5) Visitors understand how to use everything in my lavatory.
6) Thankfully, there is no 'undelete' function in the can
7) Seat at workstation is more comfortable. I try to perform as many biofunctions there as I can.
A potato is a good sound cancelling device for your car. Just stick a potato in your exhaust pipe and your car will not make any more noise.
Of course, it takes a short time for the sound waves calibrate... you have to let the car run for a few seconds before the potato builds up a good harmonic. Just be patient until you get the desired result.