Some days something wonderful happens even in a roomful of monkeys. That's the promise of probability and is why people buy lottery tickets.
Most days you end up with a room full of monkey shit. That's the reality of probability and is why lotteries make money.
Developers should not install software, especially stuff they wrote.
The *nix software available is proof of this. All the Linux folks say it is more secure than windoze 'because' you don't have to run everything as root.
Maybe not but most all the devs I've ever seen login as root just to work. And then when they give out some piece of new software, it doesn't install OR work unless you're logged in as root
TESTING should involve testing both the software and the instructions.
Agree. MANNED AIRCRAFT Carriers are a relic. Not a single one of them could survive an attack by a swarm of drones.
That means drone carriers might be immensely useful.
And don't forget one of the main processes that Hollywood has exported to Wall Street and elsewhere: Hollywood Accounting.
Surprisingly enough (to any outside investors), there is no movie in Hollywood that has ever made a profit.
You're more likely to die from a homegrown terrorist born right here in the good ole USA (with a real birth certificate and everything;-) than to get killed by foreign terrorists. Oklahoma City, Columbine, Colo, Aurora Colo. And if you pay attention to the 'regular' shootings, you're more likely to get killed by an ex-boyfriend of some girl who works in the reception area than by any sort of terrorist.
Anyone else find it hypocritical that the Republicans want to defend your right to carry an assault rifle into a movie theater but they will not let you carry an unopened envelope into the Republican Natl Convention, much less a rifle or handgun concealed or not?
On many commercial vehicles, there is a governor that prevents going over certain speeds.
I just spent a a few minutes trailing a small pickup truck with a big bumper sticker stating it cannot go over 70.
U-Hauls were limited to 45 mph for a long time. I don't think _anybody_ wants to be hauling a boat trailer at 85.
I remember reading a similar story years ago from Yahoo emps. They hired older women. The best quote was from a lady who said the worst part of the job wasn't the pictures; it was the atrocious spelling.
Politics and divisions between people are not the cause of war. (Politics is how we operate as a society and it can be good or bad. If politics turns from good to bad and then to war, the cause of war is what caused the change from good to bad politics).
Similarly, the differences between groups, say Sunni and Shi'ite to let Americans off the hook, does not _cause_ the fighting between them. They live together side by side in other countries and they live together side by side in the same country before and after the fighting.
The root cause of war is having fewer resources per person this year than last year. How we move from less money to war is done politically and part of the politics is finding a group to place blame on, but the underlying cause is not politics or divisions between groups.
(For folks who think divisions between people should go away, consider there are 950 different Christian religions and 700 different Islamic ones. None of them, not a single one, was created by non-believers or dis-believers. All 1600 religions were created by true believers. Belief is not a solution).
If you are actually filming at the time your camera is confiscated, they don't need your password to access your phone. The legal user is already logged in.
I would clear caches and delete my files.
Then copy the entire windoze directory (or some ohter massive directory) in a new folder.
Do it again and again and again until the hard disk is full.
Delete the directory and go web-surfing for awhile and remove all your login info. Then make another copy until the hard disk is full and delete it.
And one more copy and delete should make it almost impossible to recover.
Alternative 2--buy another hard disk for that computer and take yours with you.
There are folks who say some word/concept in another language cannot be translated to English.
Bull shit.
If words actually mean things, then you can translate _any_ concept. If you don't believe this, then you'd _have_ to believe that the only way to understand the foreign concept is to be born and raised within that particular language-culture.
The people who say concepts are untranslatable don't understand English or the concept very well.
In physics, if you cannot explain the idea to the bartender, then YOU don't understand it. You don't get to blame the bartender.
How the next strain of deadly bird flu will occur is that a human will get both bird flu and swine flu at the same time and the viruses will eventually swap enough material to create a super-virus. Biologists already know this so it shouldn't be a surprise that it happens with live vaccines that are conjoined in the same body also.
That sounds way kewl. I wish our IT support group could detect which browser/os a user was using but that's apparently waaaaaaay beyond their expertise. (It requires two functions instead of one).
If the Ross Ice shelf broke off Antarctica, sea level would rise 6 inches pretty much immediately (give it a week). That would affect all ports which affects all international shipping which affects all economies.
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Some days something wonderful happens even in a roomful of monkeys. That's the promise of probability and is why people buy lottery tickets.
Most days you end up with a room full of monkey shit. That's the reality of probability and is why lotteries make money.
Developers should not install software, especially stuff they wrote.
The *nix software available is proof of this. All the Linux folks say it is more secure than windoze 'because' you don't have to run everything as root.
Maybe not but most all the devs I've ever seen login as root just to work. And then when they give out some piece of new software, it doesn't install OR work unless you're logged in as root
TESTING should involve testing both the software and the instructions.
I tell folks that freedom from pain is addictive. I think that behavior might be genetically inbred.
Agree. MANNED AIRCRAFT Carriers are a relic. Not a single one of them could survive an attack by a swarm of drones.
That means drone carriers might be immensely useful.
Your monopoly is gone. New monopolists such as Monsanto and MPIAA are taking over.
I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you.
And don't forget one of the main processes that Hollywood has exported to Wall Street and elsewhere: Hollywood Accounting.
Surprisingly enough (to any outside investors), there is no movie in Hollywood that has ever made a profit.
Does a newspaper _HAVE_ to print stuff? Seems to me if a newspaper cannot be forced to print something, then a web site cannot either.
That joke ceased being funny, 10 years ago...
There are 10,000 people a day in America turning 16 years old. It is all new to them. Sounds to me like you're moving into geezerhood already.
You're more likely to die from a homegrown terrorist born right here in the good ole USA (with a real birth certificate and everything ;-) than to get killed by foreign terrorists. Oklahoma City, Columbine, Colo, Aurora Colo. And if you pay attention to the 'regular' shootings, you're more likely to get killed by an ex-boyfriend of some girl who works in the reception area than by any sort of terrorist.
Anyone else find it hypocritical that the Republicans want to defend your right to carry an assault rifle into a movie theater but they will not let you carry an unopened envelope into the Republican Natl Convention, much less a rifle or handgun concealed or not?
braggarts? Rubrogrammers. Rude programmerz.
On many commercial vehicles, there is a governor that prevents going over certain speeds.
I just spent a a few minutes trailing a small pickup truck with a big bumper sticker stating it cannot go over 70.
U-Hauls were limited to 45 mph for a long time. I don't think _anybody_ wants to be hauling a boat trailer at 85.
"The SSN was never intended to be a secret number, just unique."
And 'they' (we) got that wrong too. If we want it to be unique and we want it to cross multiple generations, then it needs to have more than 9 digits.
I remember reading a similar story years ago from Yahoo emps. They hired older women. The best quote was from a lady who said the worst part of the job wasn't the pictures; it was the atrocious spelling.
Wait wait wait.
Can you please type slower?
I'm confused,
Obese data means being too big too fail. That's why it's such an attention-getter these days.
Politics and divisions between people are not the cause of war. (Politics is how we operate as a society and it can be good or bad. If politics turns from good to bad and then to war, the cause of war is what caused the change from good to bad politics).
Similarly, the differences between groups, say Sunni and Shi'ite to let Americans off the hook, does not _cause_ the fighting between them. They live together side by side in other countries and they live together side by side in the same country before and after the fighting.
The root cause of war is having fewer resources per person this year than last year. How we move from less money to war is done politically and part of the politics is finding a group to place blame on, but the underlying cause is not politics or divisions between groups.
(For folks who think divisions between people should go away, consider there are 950 different Christian religions and 700 different Islamic ones. None of them, not a single one, was created by non-believers or dis-believers. All 1600 religions were created by true believers. Belief is not a solution).
There isn't much difference between 'etiquette' and 'codependency.'
If you are actually filming at the time your camera is confiscated, they don't need your password to access your phone. The legal user is already logged in.
I would clear caches and delete my files.
Then copy the entire windoze directory (or some ohter massive directory) in a new folder.
Do it again and again and again until the hard disk is full.
Delete the directory and go web-surfing for awhile and remove all your login info. Then make another copy until the hard disk is full and delete it.
And one more copy and delete should make it almost impossible to recover.
Alternative 2--buy another hard disk for that computer and take yours with you.
There are folks who say some word/concept in another language cannot be translated to English.
Bull shit.
If words actually mean things, then you can translate _any_ concept. If you don't believe this, then you'd _have_ to believe that the only way to understand the foreign concept is to be born and raised within that particular language-culture.
The people who say concepts are untranslatable don't understand English or the concept very well.
In physics, if you cannot explain the idea to the bartender, then YOU don't understand it. You don't get to blame the bartender.
In other words, artificial intelligence is just as limited and varied as regular ole human intelligence.
Jeez. Who'd a thunk it?
How the next strain of deadly bird flu will occur is that a human will get both bird flu and swine flu at the same time and the viruses will eventually swap enough material to create a super-virus. Biologists already know this so it shouldn't be a surprise that it happens with live vaccines that are conjoined in the same body also.
That sounds way kewl. I wish our IT support group could detect which browser/os a user was using but that's apparently waaaaaaay beyond their expertise. (It requires two functions instead of one).
If the Ross Ice shelf broke off Antarctica, sea level would rise 6 inches pretty much immediately (give it a week).
That would affect all ports which affects all international shipping which affects all economies.