I can barely justify the expense of having a cellphone -- and the only reason that makes the cut is because I have to be available 24/7 in case our servers go down.
If it is an essential piece of equipment for you to do your buisiness, why are you using "your" phone for it. Just junk the phone that you obviously don't need, and use the office's petty cash to buy a pre-paid mobile. Use a large marker pen to write the company name on it and "On-Call IT Dept." or something similar. When you're on the rota for answering the all of servers, you carry the phone ; when it's your deputy, you pass them the phone.
This is not rocket science. It's not even big enough to need to go through the expenses system - it's petty cash. Small beer. Loose change.
so those areas not receiving city services no longer have to pay city taxes? Yeah, that's what I thought... I'm sorry, but if you are taxing all districts at the same rate but only providing services to certain "select" districts, you ARE going to see massive lawsuits. It's called "discrimination", and public bodies aren't allowed to do it.
Sounds perfectly reasonable. "No taxation without representation" and all that terrorist/freedom-fighter guff.
So, if Detroit says "You, you and you [suburbs] ; we're no longer collecting taxes. Swim for yourselves!", then everything is going to be fine.
And people in the named suburbs are then going to have to work out how to run a modern city from scratch.
One could argue that labelling 256k "broadband" was a joke to begin with, and thus you never had broadband in the first place.
As commodore64_love says, at that time the most you could get out of a normal phone line was between 28.8k each way or sometimes 33.6k up and 56k down.
Having started on 2400bps (2.4k) modems and worked my way all the way up through all the various configurations of modems, 256k "broadband" was actually a "broad" piece of "band"-width. I watched a friend trying to start a business doing streaming training videos etc with a dedicated 128k symmetrical link that was costing him nearly all of my monthly salary (pre-tax) every month. That worked well enough to get him brought-out and move to a different part of the country.
You should try surfing on a 33.6kbps modem one of these days.
Wow, really? So, we are talking about things that can heal themselves. You with me so far?
Yes.
We are going to look at them based off of fictional items,
Why? Is retreating into objects of fantasy your normal response to science/ technology news?
Wolverine and the T-1000 who both self healed.
[SNIP]
take out Skynet.
Wolverine I understand - a character from the X-men comics which I stopped reading in the late 1970s. About the time I started to grow hair on my balls.
"T-1000", I don't remember from any comics, or from any books that I've read in the interim.
"Skynet" likewise.
Now shove your dummy back into your mouth (wipe the shit off it first, if you want) and speak English, boy! (Of course, you remember that meme, making fun of fucktard rednecks in the name of a major bank operating in pre-Fall-of-Apartheid South Africa.)
I saw this a few days ago. Is this a meme? Pedantically speaking, Palin is is a queue of one (at least!) wherever she is.
Cue the responses. Might be time for Grammar Nazis and pendants to be hunted down like Apple and Google. Is there any room left in the Assange bunker?
Errr, "woosh". I think.
Though why people are picking on the Cantab-educated globe-trotter as if he were a retarded backwoods fuckwit, I don't claim to understand.
Nice summary. Yeah, I wouldn't actually partake in the raid, myself, if I were calling for one. Instigating the raid is bad enough, really, and there's no reason to actually get your hands dirty, if dozens, hundreds, or thousands of grunts are doing it for you.
And this makes you different to (random examples) Osama bin Reagan, Ronald Thatcher, Margaret H. Bush, or either George Bush... just how?
Oh, sorry, to be fair, wasn't one of the George Bushes involved as a pilot in one war, while the other was a draft-dodging alcoholic coke-head?
I am pretty confident that you completely missed what I was implying.
Then your message failed.
BTW, I'm not sure what the fuck you mean either. Wolverine I recognise as a Marvel Comics character from the mid-70s ; the rest is probably waste-of-time internent memes from the '90s.
The only thing preventing this from being as pathetic as a "my god has a smaller dick than your god" religious war, is that it is so pathetic.
to those who want to use a "standard" keyboard : there ain't no such animal. There isn't a standard layout of the physical keys, and there ain't a standard mapping between the patterns on the key-caps and the glyphs drawn on the screen. Fucking live with it. (Anyone who normally uses a non-US keyboard will of course be utterly familiar with this. My pet bug bear is finding that today's machine has been ghosted back to out-of-the factory condition and has a US keyboard mapping on a UK pattern of key-caps. Dell, you're a bunch of useless fuckwits!)
If you can't break your company-mandated security policy to set the keyboard the way you want it to behave, hand your geek card in at the door as you leave.
Stupid people probably don't even know shift works for caps. I've seen people pressing caps just to get a single capital letter in their password.
My wife does exactly that. But since she learned to type (and later, to operate computers) in Russian, that's entirely understandable.
(For those who don't know, the visual difference between most lower case Cyrillic characters and their upper case equivalents is minor in most typefaces. So, to be confident that you've got an upper case letter where you need one, the CapsLock ; [character] ; CapsLock cycle is rational.)
Goddamn Commies finally attacked! To your bunkers, citizens!
I know that it's against the Rules of Slashdot, but if you'd RTFA, you'd see "When it first failed, Intelsat and the satellite's builder, Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va."
While it's still possible that the satellite's builders are "Reds" in some form, but with an address like that "Red neck" is more likely than "Red Star".
If you can't love and take care of an animal, don't bother having one. I guess that goes for human children as well.
But, children are animals. At least, they're not protozoans and they're not plants or fungi. So unless you've got some other classification than I've read, children are animals. Like cockroaches and adult humans.
Hmmm. I ask myself - are there any organisms which could move between "kingdoms" (in appearance, if not in biological reality) through development? I know that tunicates (chordates, like us, if not vertebrates) for a long time had their sessile adult forms described as unusual corals while their larvae are motile and (fairly obviously) chordate. There are some phyla of affinities I forget but which have developed into adults of a couple of dozen cells whose affinities as simplified "higher" animals has only recently been demonstrated ; I forget their names (Margulis' "five kingdoms" is beside the bed, but it's so deathly boring!), but they're obligate parasites on cephalopod gills.
the local parks prohibit taking their squirrels, and the ones in the forest are diseased.
What makes you think that the ones in the parks are any less diseased than the forest ones?
Are you sure that the parks prohibit the taking of "their" squirrels. Because if they assert property rights over the squirrels, then they also assume responsibility for every squirrel bite, every purloined sandwich, and every (allegedly) spread bacterium. A little bit of judicious enquiry ("I've been bitten by one of your squirrels in your park ; who do I send the writ to?") and I'm sure they'll rapidly assert that the squirrels are actually wild animals.
After that, your humane traps would surely be appreciated.
How did Uncle Tom put it?
Why don't you come with me,
And we'll poison the pigeons in the park.
And maybe we'll do
In a squirrel or two,
While we're poisoning pigeons in the park.
We'll murder them all amid laughter and merriment,
Except for the few we take home to experiment.
My pulse will be quickenin'
With each drop of strych'nine
We feed to a pigeon.
(It just takes a smidgin!)
To poison a pigeon in the park.
Covered in adequate detail at the Daily Mash.
(It's probably safe for work if your cow orkers are slow about reading, because it contains words, not pictures. But if your cow orkers can read, maybe save it for home.)
I can't see the video (firewalls at work. Is it a video?), but having seen some "fat pr0n" on Russell Whatisname's "Good News" show last night in blubbery slow motion, these girls (?) have a vista of more profitable and legal (if distasteful) work ahead of them.
Anyway changing those colours makes them clash with the rest of the stylesheet on a lot of websites.
If that's so important to the website owner that it renders the site unusable, then it probably wasn't worth using anyway.
If someone has information worth imparting and data worth considering, then they've no need to use bells and whistles other than to show off their lack of confidence in their content. Contrariwise, someone with a valueless, "me too" website is likely to disguise it's lack of content with bells and whistles.
Does this make me a bad consumer? You bet! Just thank your lucky stars that you don't have the thankless and likely unprofitable task of trying to sell to me.
Bollocks, if someone wants to kill you, the last place you want to be is in a prison. You're boxed in, surrounded by a lot of highly unpleasant people, some of whom would probably kill their own granny for a bottle of vodka and the lulz, never mind the large sums the Americans or Russians could pay.
Gut feeling would say that you're right.
See my reply to Johnny5000 shortly up-thread. Gut feeling is likely wrong. Doubly wrong where you have the death penalty available to deter the killer, who most assuredly would get caught. It's too high a profile a case to get away with accidentally putting him in a cell with the Texas Chainsaw Massacerererer (where do you stop with a word like that?)
I don't know what Swedish prisons are like, but in the US and elsewhere it doesn't seem that difficult to have someone killed in prison.
My initial response was that "In most of the civilized world, being in prison is only marginally more dangerous than being in jail." But from a brief search for statistics, I find this ("safer-in-prison-death-rates-declining.html") relevant to the US system :
Yet deaths by all causes are under 3,000 annually in prisons and under 1,000 in jails. More precisely, 3,924 died in 2002 in an incarcerated population of 2,085,620 -- less than two-tenths of one percent per year (.00188). Mortality rates for all causes have also declined precipitously for jails since 1980 and stabilized after a mid-1990s peak in prisons. So, I suspect there are real declines here, rather than simple changes in recordkeeping.
Looking at the UK system :
"Investigations were opened into 193 deaths, compared with 181 in 2008–2009. However, it is encouraging to report that the number of self-inflicted deaths fell from 65 in the last reporting year to 63." That's for a population of 70-80 thousand. I make that 0.00257%
I suspect that we've both been reacting to a fictionalised meme that doesn't have an actual basis in fact. I can only recall one alleged case of someone being murdered-to-order in prison (and I don't think that was proven in court) in the UK in quite a few years. On the other hand, murders by psycotic inmates driven by their own internal forces are a depressingly frequent occurence.
Since each such occurrence results in a lot of paperwork for the prison management involved... prices for such a contract would be high, when counted in careers.
Julian Assange is relatively safe from the US, because if the US wants to kill him, they'll want to do it either legally or secretly.
Exactly how does this pair of options make Assange sleep any easier?
You know, if he's a bright boy (and he probably is), the time could be approaching to take a short holiday in one of those nice, relatively well-protected Swedish holiday camps. You know - the ones where the sniper's bullets have several concrete walls to get through. Wouldn't make him safe in any absolute sense, but would probably make him safer.
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I can barely justify the expense of having a cellphone -- and the only reason that makes the cut is because I have to be available 24/7 in case our servers go down.
If it is an essential piece of equipment for you to do your buisiness, why are you using "your" phone for it. Just junk the phone that you obviously don't need, and use the office's petty cash to buy a pre-paid mobile. Use a large marker pen to write the company name on it and "On-Call IT Dept." or something similar. When you're on the rota for answering the all of servers, you carry the phone ; when it's your deputy, you pass them the phone.
This is not rocket science. It's not even big enough to need to go through the expenses system - it's petty cash. Small beer. Loose change.
Not good, but normal.
More people are killed on the roads.
More people are probably killed by pissed-up spouses using a legally-held hunting weapon.
Big (arms-sweeping motion). Fucking (hips thrusting motion). Deal (card dealing motion).
so those areas not receiving city services no longer have to pay city taxes? Yeah, that's what I thought... I'm sorry, but if you are taxing all districts at the same rate but only providing services to certain "select" districts, you ARE going to see massive lawsuits. It's called "discrimination", and public bodies aren't allowed to do it.
Sounds perfectly reasonable. "No taxation without representation" and all that terrorist/freedom-fighter guff.
So, if Detroit says "You, you and you [suburbs] ; we're no longer collecting taxes. Swim for yourselves!", then everything is going to be fine.
And people in the named suburbs are then going to have to work out how to run a modern city from scratch.
This is going to be fun to watch.
From a sufficient distance.
One could argue that labelling 256k "broadband" was a joke to begin with, and thus you never had broadband in the first place.
As commodore64_love says, at that time the most you could get out of a normal phone line was between 28.8k each way or sometimes 33.6k up and 56k down. Having started on 2400bps (2.4k) modems and worked my way all the way up through all the various configurations of modems, 256k "broadband" was actually a "broad" piece of "band"-width. I watched a friend trying to start a business doing streaming training videos etc with a dedicated 128k symmetrical link that was costing him nearly all of my monthly salary (pre-tax) every month. That worked well enough to get him brought-out and move to a different part of the country.
You should try surfing on a 33.6kbps modem one of these days.
Wow, really? So, we are talking about things that can heal themselves. You with me so far?
Yes.
We are going to look at them based off of fictional items,
Why? Is retreating into objects of fantasy your normal response to science/ technology news?
Wolverine and the T-1000 who both self healed.
[SNIP]
take out Skynet.
Wolverine I understand - a character from the X-men comics which I stopped reading in the late 1970s. About the time I started to grow hair on my balls.
"T-1000", I don't remember from any comics, or from any books that I've read in the interim.
"Skynet" likewise.
Now shove your dummy back into your mouth (wipe the shit off it first, if you want) and speak English, boy! (Of course, you remember that meme, making fun of fucktard rednecks in the name of a major bank operating in pre-Fall-of-Apartheid South Africa.)
Queue the Palin.
I saw this a few days ago. Is this a meme? Pedantically speaking, Palin is is a queue of one (at least!) wherever she is. Cue the responses. Might be time for Grammar Nazis and pendants to be hunted down like Apple and Google. Is there any room left in the Assange bunker?
Errr, "woosh". I think.
Though why people are picking on the Cantab-educated globe-trotter as if he were a retarded backwoods fuckwit, I don't claim to understand.
Nice summary. Yeah, I wouldn't actually partake in the raid, myself, if I were calling for one. Instigating the raid is bad enough, really, and there's no reason to actually get your hands dirty, if dozens, hundreds, or thousands of grunts are doing it for you.
And this makes you different to (random examples) Osama bin Reagan, Ronald Thatcher, Margaret H. Bush, or either George Bush ... just how?
Oh, sorry, to be fair, wasn't one of the George Bushes involved as a pilot in one war, while the other was a draft-dodging alcoholic coke-head?
I am pretty confident that you completely missed what I was implying.
Then your message failed.
BTW, I'm not sure what the fuck you mean either. Wolverine I recognise as a Marvel Comics character from the mid-70s ; the rest is probably waste-of-time internent memes from the '90s.
Self healing perhaps but I would not bet anything on the replicating part.
Parthenogenesis hasn't been shown to work in anything more advanced than a frog,
Frogs are very advanced. One could argue that they're more "advanced" than humans (in terms of anatomical specialisation).
Try saying what you (probably) mean for a change.
Pathetic discussion.
And I would assume, then to start posting the various other stuff that WikiLeaks has been working on.
That should garner them widespread support pretty fast.
Stupid people probably don't even know shift works for caps. I've seen people pressing caps just to get a single capital letter in their password.
My wife does exactly that. But since she learned to type (and later, to operate computers) in Russian, that's entirely understandable.
(For those who don't know, the visual difference between most lower case Cyrillic characters and their upper case equivalents is minor in most typefaces. So, to be confident that you've got an upper case letter where you need one, the CapsLock ; [character] ; CapsLock cycle is rational.)
Goddamn Commies finally attacked! To your bunkers, citizens!
I know that it's against the Rules of Slashdot, but if you'd RTFA, you'd see "When it first failed, Intelsat and the satellite's builder, Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va."
While it's still possible that the satellite's builders are "Reds" in some form, but with an address like that "Red neck" is more likely than "Red Star".
If you can't love and take care of an animal, don't bother having one. I guess that goes for human children as well.
But, children are animals. At least, they're not protozoans and they're not plants or fungi. So unless you've got some other classification than I've read, children are animals. Like cockroaches and adult humans.
Hmmm. I ask myself - are there any organisms which could move between "kingdoms" (in appearance, if not in biological reality) through development? I know that tunicates (chordates, like us, if not vertebrates) for a long time had their sessile adult forms described as unusual corals while their larvae are motile and (fairly obviously) chordate. There are some phyla of affinities I forget but which have developed into adults of a couple of dozen cells whose affinities as simplified "higher" animals has only recently been demonstrated ; I forget their names (Margulis' "five kingdoms" is beside the bed, but it's so deathly boring!), but they're obligate parasites on cephalopod gills.
the local parks prohibit taking their squirrels, and the ones in the forest are diseased.
What makes you think that the ones in the parks are any less diseased than the forest ones? Are you sure that the parks prohibit the taking of "their" squirrels. Because if they assert property rights over the squirrels, then they also assume responsibility for every squirrel bite, every purloined sandwich, and every (allegedly) spread bacterium. A little bit of judicious enquiry ("I've been bitten by one of your squirrels in your park ; who do I send the writ to?") and I'm sure they'll rapidly assert that the squirrels are actually wild animals.
After that, your humane traps would surely be appreciated.
How did Uncle Tom put it?
Why don't you come with me,
And we'll poison the pigeons in the park.
And maybe we'll do
In a squirrel or two,
While we're poisoning pigeons in the park.
We'll murder them all amid laughter and merriment,
Except for the few we take home to experiment.
My pulse will be quickenin'
With each drop of strych'nine
We feed to a pigeon.
(It just takes a smidgin!)
To poison a pigeon in the park.
Covered in adequate detail at the Daily Mash. (It's probably safe for work if your cow orkers are slow about reading, because it contains words, not pictures. But if your cow orkers can read, maybe save it for home.)
Profit trumps ideology any day.
Profit IS ideology.
Profit is one ideology. It is not the only ideology.
Sorry, am I being a heretic? Well, excuse me but when I look in the mirror I don't see the face of someone who gives a fuck.
As someone who has gone through the process of getting a top tier TS clearance
You and something like 3 million others. If the reporting outside the US is anything like accurate.
That's nearly as many people as America has in prison. Is this a coincidence?
I can't see the video (firewalls at work. Is it a video?), but having seen some "fat pr0n" on Russell Whatisname's "Good News" show last night in blubbery slow motion, these girls (?) have a vista of more profitable and legal (if distasteful) work ahead of them.
Anyway changing those colours makes them clash with the rest of the stylesheet on a lot of websites.
If that's so important to the website owner that it renders the site unusable, then it probably wasn't worth using anyway.
If someone has information worth imparting and data worth considering, then they've no need to use bells and whistles other than to show off their lack of confidence in their content. Contrariwise, someone with a valueless, "me too" website is likely to disguise it's lack of content with bells and whistles.
Does this make me a bad consumer? You bet! Just thank your lucky stars that you don't have the thankless and likely unprofitable task of trying to sell to me.
And a simple habit like -turning them off- when not in use could extend their ability to protect against malware.
Depressingly though, we know that is too difficult for a significant proportion of users. Quite possibly, a majority of users.
Since someone else has done the Vogon Guard, I'll Marvin : "It gives me a headache to think down to that level."
Bollocks, if someone wants to kill you, the last place you want to be is in a prison. You're boxed in, surrounded by a lot of highly unpleasant people, some of whom would probably kill their own granny for a bottle of vodka and the lulz, never mind the large sums the Americans or Russians could pay.
Gut feeling would say that you're right.
See my reply to Johnny5000 shortly up-thread. Gut feeling is likely wrong. Doubly wrong where you have the death penalty available to deter the killer, who most assuredly would get caught. It's too high a profile a case to get away with accidentally putting him in a cell with the Texas Chainsaw Massacerererer (where do you stop with a word like that?)
I don't know what Swedish prisons are like, but in the US and elsewhere it doesn't seem that difficult to have someone killed in prison.
My initial response was that "In most of the civilized world, being in prison is only marginally more dangerous than being in jail." But from a brief search for statistics, I find this ("safer-in-prison-death-rates-declining.html") relevant to the US system :
Yet deaths by all causes are under 3,000 annually in prisons and under 1,000 in jails. More precisely, 3,924 died in 2002 in an incarcerated population of 2,085,620 -- less than two-tenths of one percent per year (.00188). Mortality rates for all causes have also declined precipitously for jails since 1980 and stabilized after a mid-1990s peak in prisons. So, I suspect there are real declines here, rather than simple changes in recordkeeping. Looking at the UK system :
"Investigations were opened into 193 deaths, compared with 181 in 2008–2009. However, it is encouraging to report that the number of self-inflicted deaths fell from 65 in the last reporting year to 63." That's for a population of 70-80 thousand. I make that 0.00257%
I suspect that we've both been reacting to a fictionalised meme that doesn't have an actual basis in fact. I can only recall one alleged case of someone being murdered-to-order in prison (and I don't think that was proven in court) in the UK in quite a few years. On the other hand, murders by psycotic inmates driven by their own internal forces are a depressingly frequent occurence.
Since each such occurrence results in a lot of paperwork for the prison management involved ... prices for such a contract would be high, when counted in careers.
between the US and the Russians, a Swedish prison might be his best option.
s/best/better/
Julian Assange is relatively safe from the US, because if the US wants to kill him, they'll want to do it either legally or secretly.
Exactly how does this pair of options make Assange sleep any easier?
You know, if he's a bright boy (and he probably is), the time could be approaching to take a short holiday in one of those nice, relatively well-protected Swedish holiday camps. You know - the ones where the sniper's bullets have several concrete walls to get through. Wouldn't make him safe in any absolute sense, but would probably make him safer.