Read a book, get outside and go for a hike, go on a date, catch some live music
...read/.all day...
;-)
Just to let you know, there ARE some good things on television. It just boggles me that people watch the crap when they're bored. You dont' read crappy books or go to shitty websites when you're bored...well maybe if you're REALLY bored but that may indicate other problems, heh.
Good stuff on TV:
Family Guy (new episodes end of this year!)
The Daily Show
Simpsons
That show on SpikeTV with the asian game show that's overdubbed...MXC or something
Sometimes there is good serious stuff on TV too, like documentaries and whatnot, but it's becomming rare, which is a shame.
The fact that you can so easily send an e-mail with a fake address and untracable return path is a problem as well. Now, it can be argued that the snail mail system is the same way, what guarentees the letter I'm dropping in the mailbox on the street (the open relay) has the actual return address to myself, and not someone I'd like blamed for the contents?
Well, nothing.
The point is, technology can fix this. That won't stop spam, but we can always then choose to ignore who ever is responsible for it.
The car should be programmed to discover any problems under the bonnet, then send a message to the garage to let them know.
The mechanics would then contact the women directly to invite them over.
They should add this to the kernel to help geeks get dates.
I took my car to Jiffy Lube, not wanting to "fix it myself". The changed my oil and my transmission fluids...with the wrong kind. My transmission burnt up on the road. I tried to sue and it was thrown out of court, citing i couldn't "prove" if they had used the right fluid or not (funny, it worked perfectly until they did that, and the next day it wouldn't shift properly and then died up before I could get it home). I had to spend $1500 on a new transmission.
Now i change my own fluids. Havent' had a problem since. You can go ahread and live your spoon-fed life, but I LIKE to get my hands a little dirty every now and then and fix my car. That way, I know exactly what's being done to it.
By the way, the extra time the mechanic has to spend unscrewing the hood of your car or whatever he has to do, and the special Volvo training, tool, and license he'll have to get to do it means you're going to pay more. Enjoy, I have better things to spend my money on, like movies to enjoy or books to read after I've changed my oil and spark plugs.
It would take about 10,000 tosses before a casual observer would become aware of such a small bias, Diaconis says. "Maybe that's why society hasn't noticed this before," he says.
I noticed when I was about 6, but I just thought that I knew how to toss the coin just right! As it turns out, I'm really lousy at coin tossing!:-D
I don't even know where to find that "Top 1000" list or what kind of companies even qualify for it... I figured if Google was getting large enough to go public and since they're pretty much the search engine, perhaps they'd be up there.
Oh well, I can sleep a little better tonight, cool.
Is all my time, skill, and training worth nothing? Absolutely not.
The real question should be: How much is it worth to me to make the world a better place for everyone by writing software under an Open Source license?
We don't know if he planned to expand his assult to a larger scale or not -- if he gave it even the slightest thought, then he's a terrorist.
Absolutely wrong. If he gave it the slighest thought, he's still only guilty of what he actually did. You can't arrest someone for something they thought they where going to do.
If he planned to screw up the 911 system on paper (especially if he involved other people), he's a conspirator, and should recieve closer to (or perhaps the maximum) penalty under law for the crimes he has already commited, including applicable conspiracy laws if a group of people is involved.
If he actually began execution of his plan, perhaps then he would be a terrorist, depending on his motives. If it was done to draw attention to his group of political or religious extremists through the immediate and high-profile use of fear and death, I would consider it terrorism. While it may cause some lives to be lost among confusion while 911, the phone company, and WebTV deal with this problem, it isn't exactly flying a plane into the WTC, or even walking into a resteraunt with a bomb strapped to your chest. It is most certainly criminal, and quite a major offense at that...but terrorism? Absurd.
It doesn't exactly strike "terror" into my heart that the 911 switchboard isn't working reliably, I can always call 411 and get patched directly to the Police, who can use their radios to call in other emergency services for assistance.
The sad thing is, the threat of terrorism is just as real as it has always been, but now people feel as if they HAVE to be overly paranoid, and we all know where that is going to lead us.
Please. I admit the guy is a criminal, what he did was completely wrong and he should be arrested, prosecuted, and if/when found guilty, sentenced appropriately.
Ladies and Gentlemen, calling this act "Cyberterrorism" likens it to the electronic equivelent of a suicide bombing. For some reason, I don't think this was a politically motivated attack designed to gain a high profile for the extremist political/religious beliefs of this man, and therefore, to consider it terrorism is a gross misuse of the legal system.
If it holds up as is, this will be a sad day for America.
Too often I have asked a Linux or BSD user "how do I do this?" and they show me a complicated, backwards ass method to acomplish something. I say to them "That's stupid, why isn't it just under (obvious thing to someone who has never done it before)" and they say "Jesus, it's fine! Read the f**king manual!"
Short and to the point: You'll never get popular if the inferface isnt' self-explanitory. The manual is for power users. If I can't change my screen resolution without an RTFM, I'm buying Windows, where I can do it with a right-click. The market is that simple, cater to it, and ye shall taste success.
With CD walkman's so cheap and durable now (for years, I've been able to literally shake any portable CD player in my hands and the music doesn't skip) using nothing but two AA batteries, I see no reason why a handheld drive for an even smaller disc wouldn't be possible in the next few years for a new Gameboy system.
Because that smaller disc is a DVD. More fragile, more accuracy is needed and I'm sure the laser/reader isn't as cheap on power as a CD is, either. Skip protection? We're talking much more storage space required, which means either poor performance or $$$. Not to mention that the Nintendo discs spin backwards, which means custom parts, or more $$$. It can probably be done, but I don't see it happeneing cheaply (or with any kind of quality).
When the SNES was out, nobody thought a portable SNES was possible either, but the GBA is even more powerful than the SNES. Just takes time for technology to catch up!
Exactly, but I'm wondering if that time is yet apon us. Don't get me wrong, I'd be ecstatic if Nintendo pulls it off, they are after all my favorate game system company. I'm just not sure that 4 AAs will power a 128MB skip-protected full-color dual-screen reverse-spooled mini-DVD reader for 8 hours....yet.:-D
The right way: The UK blocks the website from all sections of their network. This has it's own questions, such as exactly what such a capability will be used for.
The wrong way: The UK sends police to shut down the site at it's origin in some other country, thus extending UK law to where it has no bearing. This has happened before, but I'd prefer the frist option. I'd rather not get arrested by China in the US by saying I oppose something about their government's actions, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
;-)
Just to let you know, there ARE some good things on television. It just boggles me that people watch the crap when they're bored. You dont' read crappy books or go to shitty websites when you're bored...well maybe if you're REALLY bored but that may indicate other problems, heh.
Good stuff on TV:
- Family Guy (new episodes end of this year!)
- The Daily Show
- Simpsons
- That show on SpikeTV with the asian game show that's overdubbed...MXC or something
Sometimes there is good serious stuff on TV too, like documentaries and whatnot, but it's becomming rare, which is a shame....call me, eh?
Most Canadian-stereotype-admitting-commercials award, 2001. Can anyone from up north shut me down on that one?
That is a half truth.
The fact that you can so easily send an e-mail with a fake address and untracable return path is a problem as well. Now, it can be argued that the snail mail system is the same way, what guarentees the letter I'm dropping in the mailbox on the street (the open relay) has the actual return address to myself, and not someone I'd like blamed for the contents?
Well, nothing.
The point is, technology can fix this. That won't stop spam, but we can always then choose to ignore who ever is responsible for it.
And you're a flamebaiting little troll who doesn't have a sense of humor. You're part of an entirely different and much more annoying problem.
*ring*
"Tech support"
"Hi, My Internet Explorer isn't working, and neither is My Outlook!'"
"Sorry ma'am, but we've been Slashdotted and our pipe is full at the moment."
"What on Earth does the plumbing in your building have to do with My Computer?"
...true story.
*rimshot*
I took my car to Jiffy Lube, not wanting to "fix it myself". The changed my oil and my transmission fluids...with the wrong kind. My transmission burnt up on the road. I tried to sue and it was thrown out of court, citing i couldn't "prove" if they had used the right fluid or not (funny, it worked perfectly until they did that, and the next day it wouldn't shift properly and then died up before I could get it home). I had to spend $1500 on a new transmission.
Now i change my own fluids. Havent' had a problem since. You can go ahread and live your spoon-fed life, but I LIKE to get my hands a little dirty every now and then and fix my car. That way, I know exactly what's being done to it.
By the way, the extra time the mechanic has to spend unscrewing the hood of your car or whatever he has to do, and the special Volvo training, tool, and license he'll have to get to do it means you're going to pay more. Enjoy, I have better things to spend my money on, like movies to enjoy or books to read after I've changed my oil and spark plugs.
Family Guy is rumored to be working on a new season...any truth to that?
The ball reaction depends highly on elastic collisions, and metal doesn't flex nearly enough...
Ertainly, uh a thing wuld make Englih language a bit dd.
I don't even know where to find that "Top 1000" list or what kind of companies even qualify for it... I figured if Google was getting large enough to go public and since they're pretty much the search engine, perhaps they'd be up there.
Oh well, I can sleep a little better tonight, cool.
...for watching porn all day.
SCO didn't even write it but claim ownership to it.
...this is why Google delayed it's IPO?
DISCLAIMER: Complete and total speculation.
Is all my time, skill, and training worth nothing? Absolutely not.
The real question should be: How much is it worth to me to make the world a better place for everyone by writing software under an Open Source license?
"...more than money."
If he planned to screw up the 911 system on paper (especially if he involved other people), he's a conspirator, and should recieve closer to (or perhaps the maximum) penalty under law for the crimes he has already commited, including applicable conspiracy laws if a group of people is involved.
If he actually began execution of his plan, perhaps then he would be a terrorist, depending on his motives. If it was done to draw attention to his group of political or religious extremists through the immediate and high-profile use of fear and death, I would consider it terrorism. While it may cause some lives to be lost among confusion while 911, the phone company, and WebTV deal with this problem, it isn't exactly flying a plane into the WTC, or even walking into a resteraunt with a bomb strapped to your chest. It is most certainly criminal, and quite a major offense at that...but terrorism? Absurd.
It doesn't exactly strike "terror" into my heart that the 911 switchboard isn't working reliably, I can always call 411 and get patched directly to the Police, who can use their radios to call in other emergency services for assistance.
The sad thing is, the threat of terrorism is just as real as it has always been, but now people feel as if they HAVE to be overly paranoid, and we all know where that is going to lead us.
Please. I admit the guy is a criminal, what he did was completely wrong and he should be arrested, prosecuted, and if/when found guilty, sentenced appropriately.
Ladies and Gentlemen, calling this act "Cyberterrorism" likens it to the electronic equivelent of a suicide bombing. For some reason, I don't think this was a politically motivated attack designed to gain a high profile for the extremist political/religious beliefs of this man, and therefore, to consider it terrorism is a gross misuse of the legal system.
If it holds up as is, this will be a sad day for America.
;-)
Code carefully.
So....you can't write an Open Source version of a TCP/IP stack then?
Too often I have asked a Linux or BSD user "how do I do this?" and they show me a complicated, backwards ass method to acomplish something. I say to them "That's stupid, why isn't it just under (obvious thing to someone who has never done it before)" and they say "Jesus, it's fine! Read the f**king manual!"
Short and to the point: You'll never get popular if the inferface isnt' self-explanitory. The manual is for power users. If I can't change my screen resolution without an RTFM, I'm buying Windows, where I can do it with a right-click. The market is that simple, cater to it, and ye shall taste success.
Quite simply, you're fucking up the Internet. Quit your bitching, and go to Hell. Thank you.
Signed:
Everyone.