I think you hit on it already. WW2 is a big factor as to why Europe has a different infrastructure. In the US it was never destroyed so completely like much of Europe's. They had a chance to rebuild with more modern techniques (the cities were never originally laid out with power in mind, or roads as large as are common).
More modern areas in the US do get to benefit, like my neighborhood. Everything is buried for me. In the hurricane last year, every other neighborhood nearby that had overhead lines, was without power.
I'm forced to use IE7 at work. Yes, it's old and it would be nice if I could upgrade but I can't. This is a news blog with some forum functionality though. I expected it to at least let me read without a crazy layout. The change from last summer meant I was no longer able to moderate with that machine, and now with this TV icon, it's entirely unusable. Can someone enlighten me as to what all these changes improved? Visually the site isn't much different, green with white and black text. Links on the left, info on the right, posts in the middle. I never thought I'd be posting one of these "but... slashdot sucks now..." posts, but here I am. Please change it back.
This is very similar to a store that's right on the border of Virginia and North Carolina. On the Virginia side you can get delicious BBQ, but on the North Carolina side, you can select and pay for fireworks which are not legal in most parts of south eastern Virginia.
They also pay you $100 up front and $20 dollars a month for up to a year. For a low income family that could nearly cover the cost of their broadband internet.
I think I remember reading about how they wanted his birth year to sync up with either his father's or Kim Il Sung's in order to preserve some of the cult of personality they have.
I come to these articles for the spooky and edgy "Anonymous" posts that describe the group as some sort of comic book super friends community that lurks in the darkness. It always feels very much like the first Hackers movie, but without Angelina Jolie. In every one of these articles, there is at least one "Anonymous is everyone and no-one" style post. Those Anonymous Cowards... never disappoint.
In the case of the Kent State shootings, I remember reading about how they found that a handgun was in fact fired before the National Guard opened fire. Of course, the article I was reading was suggesting that someone was purposely firing it to get the National Guard to begin firing on them. Aha! I found the article!
I urge anyone interested in the Manning case to read the chat logs between him and Lamo. After doing so, I could no longer believe Manning did it for the good of anyone. He was angry and dealing with many different emotional issues and made a grab for any and all information he could leak. His expression of worry for being caught was not that he'd be jailed or all over the news... it's that he'd be all over the news referred to as "him" and not "her" or "she". Lamo egged him on at every chance as well, completely using Manning in my opinion. Everyone that comes within ten feet of a military computer account knows what is expected of them. I simply don't understand people pressing the idea that he's "not guilty" simply because they don't have a readily available instance of any harm caused by the release.
The point is not whether it was harmful, the point is that you don't release classified information at all. You signed legally binding documents stating this before you were granted access. Further, he did not know what he was releasing. Sure he found the video of the helicopter shooting, but he certainly didn't know what else could have been in the quick mass grab of information he did.
Think of this in other terms. Isn't wreckless endangerment still a crime? You may not have harmed or killed a child, but putting them in a situation that could have done that is enough for charges to be brought and executed against you.
Just my two cents, I'd like to hear a reasonable argument why not.
Still, DMC in Humble Texas does just that and makes a decent living at it. You can update the parts of course, but nothing stops you from having one built with all original parts.
Near the beginning of my IT career I did a lot of field work. I went onsite to a company who had a server failure for their access databases and a few other mission critical applications.
Upon asking the manager if they had backups, he proudly produced a box full of CD's and exclaimed that they fastidiously backed up every night and had records for the last three years.
He informed me that while he knew how to back up all of his applications, he didn't know how to make sure they all were correctly put back in.
Long story short, he'd spent the last three years "backing up" by simply grabbing the shortcuts of important apps and documents from the desktop and dragging them to the writeable CD. Somehow he never noticed that the file sizes were tiny.
Antibiotics are not the only problem we have of being over perscribed. Does anyone else find it weird that different medication is advertised on television directly to people?
Perhaps in some cases it helps for people to be "educated" on what's there but isn't that what we visit doctors for? I can't count how many times I've had relatives tell stories about badgering doctors for certain drugs they see on TV because they think they know better than the doctor about what they need.
In the council held in Rivendell they actually discussed giving Tom Bombadil the ring to safeguard, but they discounted that idea since Tom would have seen it as just a trinket and would likely lose it (as mentioned before he would have no use for such a ring, having a unique power all his own to begin with).
I remember back in the 90's when ABC arranged to give out 3D glasses so viewers could watch a few of their shows in 3D. I don't remember the other shows, but the main one showcasing it was Home Improvement. They made a couple of gags with it to show it off, but mainly stuck to standard content. It was a novelty at the time and fun to play with but I couldn't imagine watching much on it, headaches aside.
I like Luis CK's comedy. Still, I usually don't buy comedy specials, I watch them on Comedy Central or Netflix. When I saw his plans for this though, I made sure to buy a copy. It was 5 dollars. I had throw-away money in my paypal that easily covered it. I was glad I did. With that 5 bucks I got both a standard def and a high def digital copy, and I streamed it with my chromebook in bed one night before I went to sleep. What's better... he had a very fat pipe feeding his downloads and stream. My 35/35 fiber line was maxed out, and for a normal website to do that is rare. Yes, I was even getting those speeds at the peak of the sales for this show.
I see a new trend locally in the theaters here. For many years the shiny new theaters we had popping up were just extensions of the old idea of what a good theater was... more screens, bigger screens. In the last five years I've noticed a very pleasant change. Every new theater we have now is a "dinner and a movie" style place.
We have three brand new theaters, all in this format. You can order real food at all of them, and a wait staff brings it to you. I recently saw the latest Twighlight movie at a Cinebistro here and it was by far the best movie experience I have ever had. The theater was upscale and modern. It had a section with a full bar, a billiard room, and even a small bowling alley. Everything was high tech and modern. The movie "posters" were actually digital displays that moved. When you purchase your tickets, you select and reserve your seats. A waitress takes you to your seat ahead of time and takes your order. The seats were really comfortable and had convenient tables that swing out. The food was very good. It made going to the theater a full experience rather than just watching a movie (which I do alot of at home... I watch far more movies than I do television). If you live in an area with a Cinebistro http://cobbcinebistro.com/ I can't recommend it highly enough.
I have to agree with this. Also, if he has so much downtime, does that mean he does nothing at work since it isn't "his job", but then works on his own projects at home?
How would they believe he really did it at home on his own time if he has so much downtime there?
I have to put in a vote for Patrick Rothfuss's Kingkiller series, starting with The Name Of The Wind. He describes the fantasy world so well you really don't even need to stretch to see it in your minds eye. The story is excellent and the characters are really interesting.
I'd also like to recommend a series on the more silly side... Jig The Goblin by Jim C Hines. It's classic fantasy style, but told from the point of view of a Goblin, one of the races that most stories treat as cannon fodder. It's interesting and pretty funny at the same time.
Vamped by David Sosnowski was a nice take on the world being run by vampires. It's fairly short... perfect for a flight. It's funny, interesting, and the author turns a good phrase.
For non-fiction I tend to go in bursts. I always love WWII Airborne biographies and autobiographies. Don Burgett is my very favorite autobiographer. I post on his forum, and he has one of the best memories of any of the vets I've read. Further, his first few were written shortly after the war, when it was all still fresh.
Another WWII Airborne author I love is Mark Bando. He has interviewed more WWII Airborne vets than anyone else, ever. Nobody could hope to catch up to him either, since unfortunately most have now passed.
Lately I've been on a North Korea kick. I've recently read Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick. It contains accounts from former North Koreans who escaped to South Korea. Very interesting.
Yeah, I remember dropping my mom off at the airport and seeing her to the gate (pre TSA). The security guy saw the swiss army knife I dropped in the bucket before going through the metal detector, said "Oh, cool!", and proceeded to pretend to stab his coworker with it.
The last time I flew, in 2007, they took a small bottle of hair gel from me.
Companies have been using artistic renderings of products and people using or wearing those products for a very long time. Never have the depictions of those people included misshapen, obese, or otherwise less than perfect forms. The vast majority are closer to the "Barbie Doll" variety with proportions that are nearly impossible to be born with. I don't believe that the fact that these are more realistic looking changes anything. I'm surprised this made any new at all, unless as pointed out before, it was just to make headlines somehow.
A sad fact that I have learned from working in several different government agencies and military branches, is that many of them rush to spend their money at the end of the year because if they have money left over, they will get less the next fiscal year. They didn't need the money. In fact, they blow it on just about anything just so it gets spent.
They rush to spend the full amount for no reason other than they don't want to get less in their budget for the next fiscal year.
When this is how departments and agencies are handling their finances, it is no wonder that spending never decreases.
Did anyone else read the Manning/Lamo chat logs? After reading them you get a very different picture of Manning (and Lamo). In my view, Manning was revealed to be a troubled and hurt kid with really strong gender identity issues. He even expressed worry to Lamo that if he was caught, he'd be referred to as "He" instead of "Her". He had anger problems stemming from his confusion and a fight he had that ended in him being demoted (he punched a co-worker). He was definitely not stable and I just don't believe he released this stuff out any desire to serve the "common good". He simply made a grab for as many files as he could get, never actually reviewing them himself.
Lamo came across as a selfish user, begging Manning to sponsor him so he can have a.mil account, even during the times when Manning was trying to share his worries with him. Clearly Lamo just egged him on, and he probably knew he was going to turn this all over in the end.
If you haven't read them, you might find them informative.
Is their goal to prevent anyone from wanting to use any sort of public transportation anymore? It seems like now the only way to avoid these ridiculous searches is to drive your own vehicle somewhere. Too many agencies are allowed to decide their own scopes of authority and (seemingly?) dictate their own budgets.
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I think you hit on it already. WW2 is a big factor as to why Europe has a different infrastructure. In the US it was never destroyed so completely like much of Europe's. They had a chance to rebuild with more modern techniques (the cities were never originally laid out with power in mind, or roads as large as are common).
More modern areas in the US do get to benefit, like my neighborhood. Everything is buried for me. In the hurricane last year, every other neighborhood nearby that had overhead lines, was without power.
I'm forced to use IE7 at work. Yes, it's old and it would be nice if I could upgrade but I can't. This is a news blog with some forum functionality though. I expected it to at least let me read without a crazy layout. The change from last summer meant I was no longer able to moderate with that machine, and now with this TV icon, it's entirely unusable. Can someone enlighten me as to what all these changes improved? Visually the site isn't much different, green with white and black text. Links on the left, info on the right, posts in the middle. I never thought I'd be posting one of these "but... slashdot sucks now..." posts, but here I am. Please change it back.
I'm very proud of my local hackerspace, 757 Labs. They always have classes and projects going on, and they've done some pretty cool things.
757 Labs on Hackerspace
This is very similar to a store that's right on the border of Virginia and North Carolina. On the Virginia side you can get delicious BBQ, but on the North Carolina side, you can select and pay for fireworks which are not legal in most parts of south eastern Virginia.
Check out the screenshotshere. There is another part of the program that is a lot more lucrative, based on a router.
They also pay you $100 up front and $20 dollars a month for up to a year. For a low income family that could nearly cover the cost of their broadband internet.
I think I remember reading about how they wanted his birth year to sync up with either his father's or Kim Il Sung's in order to preserve some of the cult of personality they have.
I come to these articles for the spooky and edgy "Anonymous" posts that describe the group as some sort of comic book super friends community that lurks in the darkness. It always feels very much like the first Hackers movie, but without Angelina Jolie. In every one of these articles, there is at least one "Anonymous is everyone and no-one" style post. Those Anonymous Cowards... never disappoint.
In the case of the Kent State shootings, I remember reading about how they found that a handgun was in fact fired before the National Guard opened fire. Of course, the article I was reading was suggesting that someone was purposely firing it to get the National Guard to begin firing on them. Aha! I found the article!
I urge anyone interested in the Manning case to read the chat logs between him and Lamo. After doing so, I could no longer believe Manning did it for the good of anyone. He was angry and dealing with many different emotional issues and made a grab for any and all information he could leak. His expression of worry for being caught was not that he'd be jailed or all over the news... it's that he'd be all over the news referred to as "him" and not "her" or "she". Lamo egged him on at every chance as well, completely using Manning in my opinion. Everyone that comes within ten feet of a military computer account knows what is expected of them. I simply don't understand people pressing the idea that he's "not guilty" simply because they don't have a readily available instance of any harm caused by the release.
The point is not whether it was harmful, the point is that you don't release classified information at all. You signed legally binding documents stating this before you were granted access. Further, he did not know what he was releasing. Sure he found the video of the helicopter shooting, but he certainly didn't know what else could have been in the quick mass grab of information he did.
Think of this in other terms. Isn't wreckless endangerment still a crime? You may not have harmed or killed a child, but putting them in a situation that could have done that is enough for charges to be brought and executed against you.
Just my two cents, I'd like to hear a reasonable argument why not.
Still, DMC in Humble Texas does just that and makes a decent living at it. You can update the parts of course, but nothing stops you from having one built with all original parts.
Near the beginning of my IT career I did a lot of field work. I went onsite to a company who had a server failure for their access databases and a few other mission critical applications.
Upon asking the manager if they had backups, he proudly produced a box full of CD's and exclaimed that they fastidiously backed up every night and had records for the last three years.
He informed me that while he knew how to back up all of his applications, he didn't know how to make sure they all were correctly put back in.
Long story short, he'd spent the last three years "backing up" by simply grabbing the shortcuts of important apps and documents from the desktop and dragging them to the writeable CD. Somehow he never noticed that the file sizes were tiny.
Antibiotics are not the only problem we have of being over perscribed. Does anyone else find it weird that different medication is advertised on television directly to people?
Perhaps in some cases it helps for people to be "educated" on what's there but isn't that what we visit doctors for? I can't count how many times I've had relatives tell stories about badgering doctors for certain drugs they see on TV because they think they know better than the doctor about what they need.
In the council held in Rivendell they actually discussed giving Tom Bombadil the ring to safeguard, but they discounted that idea since Tom would have seen it as just a trinket and would likely lose it (as mentioned before he would have no use for such a ring, having a unique power all his own to begin with).
I'm assuming in this case, Hawking is simply quoting his favorite movie, Back To The Future II, in which Doc Brown states the exact same line.
I remember back in the 90's when ABC arranged to give out 3D glasses so viewers could watch a few of their shows in 3D. I don't remember the other shows, but the main one showcasing it was Home Improvement. They made a couple of gags with it to show it off, but mainly stuck to standard content. It was a novelty at the time and fun to play with but I couldn't imagine watching much on it, headaches aside.
I like Luis CK's comedy. Still, I usually don't buy comedy specials, I watch them on Comedy Central or Netflix. When I saw his plans for this though, I made sure to buy a copy. It was 5 dollars. I had throw-away money in my paypal that easily covered it. I was glad I did. With that 5 bucks I got both a standard def and a high def digital copy, and I streamed it with my chromebook in bed one night before I went to sleep. What's better... he had a very fat pipe feeding his downloads and stream. My 35/35 fiber line was maxed out, and for a normal website to do that is rare. Yes, I was even getting those speeds at the peak of the sales for this show.
I see a new trend locally in the theaters here. For many years the shiny new theaters we had popping up were just extensions of the old idea of what a good theater was... more screens, bigger screens. In the last five years I've noticed a very pleasant change. Every new theater we have now is a "dinner and a movie" style place.
We have three brand new theaters, all in this format. You can order real food at all of them, and a wait staff brings it to you. I recently saw the latest Twighlight movie at a Cinebistro here and it was by far the best movie experience I have ever had. The theater was upscale and modern. It had a section with a full bar, a billiard room, and even a small bowling alley. Everything was high tech and modern. The movie "posters" were actually digital displays that moved. When you purchase your tickets, you select and reserve your seats. A waitress takes you to your seat ahead of time and takes your order. The seats were really comfortable and had convenient tables that swing out. The food was very good. It made going to the theater a full experience rather than just watching a movie (which I do alot of at home... I watch far more movies than I do television). If you live in an area with a Cinebistro http://cobbcinebistro.com/ I can't recommend it highly enough.
I have to agree with this. Also, if he has so much downtime, does that mean he does nothing at work since it isn't "his job", but then works on his own projects at home?
How would they believe he really did it at home on his own time if he has so much downtime there?
I have to put in a vote for Patrick Rothfuss's Kingkiller series, starting with The Name Of The Wind. He describes the fantasy world so well you really don't even need to stretch to see it in your minds eye. The story is excellent and the characters are really interesting.
I'd also like to recommend a series on the more silly side... Jig The Goblin by Jim C Hines. It's classic fantasy style, but told from the point of view of a Goblin, one of the races that most stories treat as cannon fodder. It's interesting and pretty funny at the same time.
Vamped by David Sosnowski was a nice take on the world being run by vampires. It's fairly short... perfect for a flight. It's funny, interesting, and the author turns a good phrase.
For non-fiction I tend to go in bursts. I always love WWII Airborne biographies and autobiographies. Don Burgett is my very favorite autobiographer. I post on his forum, and he has one of the best memories of any of the vets I've read. Further, his first few were written shortly after the war, when it was all still fresh.
Another WWII Airborne author I love is Mark Bando. He has interviewed more WWII Airborne vets than anyone else, ever. Nobody could hope to catch up to him either, since unfortunately most have now passed.
Lately I've been on a North Korea kick. I've recently read Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick. It contains accounts from former North Koreans who escaped to South Korea. Very interesting.
Yeah, I remember dropping my mom off at the airport and seeing her to the gate (pre TSA). The security guy saw the swiss army knife I dropped in the bucket before going through the metal detector, said "Oh, cool!", and proceeded to pretend to stab his coworker with it. The last time I flew, in 2007, they took a small bottle of hair gel from me.
Companies have been using artistic renderings of products and people using or wearing those products for a very long time. Never have the depictions of those people included misshapen, obese, or otherwise less than perfect forms. The vast majority are closer to the "Barbie Doll" variety with proportions that are nearly impossible to be born with. I don't believe that the fact that these are more realistic looking changes anything. I'm surprised this made any new at all, unless as pointed out before, it was just to make headlines somehow.
A sad fact that I have learned from working in several different government agencies and military branches, is that many of them rush to spend their money at the end of the year because if they have money left over, they will get less the next fiscal year. They didn't need the money. In fact, they blow it on just about anything just so it gets spent.
They rush to spend the full amount for no reason other than they don't want to get less in their budget for the next fiscal year.
When this is how departments and agencies are handling their finances, it is no wonder that spending never decreases.
Did anyone else read the Manning/Lamo chat logs? After reading them you get a very different picture of Manning (and Lamo). In my view, Manning was revealed to be a troubled and hurt kid with really strong gender identity issues. He even expressed worry to Lamo that if he was caught, he'd be referred to as "He" instead of "Her". He had anger problems stemming from his confusion and a fight he had that ended in him being demoted (he punched a co-worker). He was definitely not stable and I just don't believe he released this stuff out any desire to serve the "common good". He simply made a grab for as many files as he could get, never actually reviewing them himself.
.mil account, even during the times when Manning was trying to share his worries with him. Clearly Lamo just egged him on, and he probably knew he was going to turn this all over in the end.
If you haven't read them, you might find them informative.
Lamo came across as a selfish user, begging Manning to sponsor him so he can have a
http://http//www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/manning-lamo-logs/
Is their goal to prevent anyone from wanting to use any sort of public transportation anymore? It seems like now the only way to avoid these ridiculous searches is to drive your own vehicle somewhere. Too many agencies are allowed to decide their own scopes of authority and (seemingly?) dictate their own budgets.