(once the massive die-off subsides, assuming civil order re-emerges out of the chaos that event will cause)
Don't be so morbid.
Market forces will make alternative fuel systems available in plenty of time before oil runs out. They already are. Real progress is being made on hybrid systems, electric, hydrogen, biodiesel, and other Flexible Fuel Vehicles. Toss in the current and coming progress on fusion for eventual cheap energy, and the situation becomes a lot less bleak.
Perhaps we won't be able to have black tires on our cars anymore, but I don't think that's a definite cause for civil unrest.
I also greet this news warmly. (Why do I feel like I'm welcoming an overlord?)
I've got a Treo 650 on Verizon Wireless, and I implemented shadowmite's Bluetooth DUN hack on it. I don't do much gaming, and it kinda sucks for bittorrent, but I'll pull down between 300-400 MB of data some nights, and I usually connect at around 112kb. Plus, I can still get text messages and make phone calls. Not really fast, but it's certainly usable, and I pay for the unlimited data plan. Bundled with a voice plan on the Treo 650 it's 80 bucks a month.
My entire world funnels through my Treo. I'm not sure if I would be so brave as to try to install Linux on it, but it does appeal to me nonetheless. Hmm. I did pay for the extra insurance. I wonder if it covers death by Linux?
But remember, others tried to swim in it as well, and couldn't do so. They simply bashed themselves on the surface on the attempt. Therefore, Uncle Scrooge must be able to destabilize his molecular structure to be able to pass through it.
No wonder he's so rich! He can just pass through bank walls to steal money!
To put things into perspective, a columnist during the past election cycle quoted her child as having said to her 'John Kerry wants to make medicine out of babies.'
My mom has told me a story about when I was little. At my first experience at a wake, we went up to view the body; the young man had been killed in a motorcycle accident. I was young at the time, but old enough for the experience. There was a woman in front of us, and she started to cry at the casket. When my mom and I went up next, I started to cry as well. The man's head was covered in a bandage and the lower part of the casket cover was lowered.
We walked back to our seats and after a few minutes I asked "where the man's legs were". This was the reason for my crying. The thought of the man's legs being removed when his body was put in the casket was a bit unsettling for me. She explained the reality of it, and I understood. It was a good thing that I had asked the question, because she initially had the impression that it was just the woman in front of us. Monkey see monkey do, or something.
My point is this. Young kids see the world through *very* different eyes, without the benefit of life's experiences to draw from. I'm not taking either side in this debate, but not everything can be reduced to the innocent view of a child.
Nice to see the moderation objectivity of my fellow slashdot posters.
And that's exactly the reason that I browse with Troll at +5. Makes for some NSFW stuff sometimes, but I'll find objective stuff that is actually insightful but doesn't jive with the/. group-think. I wonder how many there are that do that? I've seen one other at least. Plus, a few of those Troll posts are hilarious!
Wait, they're all ghosted out!! And I'm logged in as an Administrator.
Maybe they are ghosted out because your sysadmin at work doesn't want you messing with them? Even if you are a local admin of your machine the options can be unavailable.
With a combination of Active Directory settings and SUS, you get some measure of automated patching, without any interaction (interference?) from end users. Maybe this is your situation if this is your work computer. If so, someone else is taking care of it, don't worry too much.
If I had mod points, I'd mod you up just for your insanely low UID.
And that pretty much sums up the reason I campaigned against mfh and others.
Another person bought the account.
Unfortunately, the ebay auction is gone now, since it was a while ago. Slashdot UID level is not a valid reason to mod up or down. For better or worse, I don't care anymore. If anything, I'm more interested in what the current owner of mfh has to say. For me, my foes get +1 when I read slashdot, since they've gotten my attention in the past.
Oh, and the ability to still get the Zaurus in the US is cool, but...eh. More Linux handhelds are coming down the line.
The problem I have with it is that it sets a precedent. It continues the push of not taking responsibility for one's own actions.
Is the "victim's" family going to be able to sue Rockstar for wrongful death? Assuming the company loses, it directly translates into a cost to society. Either the company lays off employees because they have to restructure, or the price of their games goes up, or their stock price falls. The destruction of personal responsibility is not good.
Of course, gravity wells may act as anchors in space-time, assuring you may stay "on average" near Earth's crust. I think you would want a flying vehicle, and calculations that put your relative position farther from Earth's center of gravity, so you don't intersect with Earth's mass. It's difficult to say exactly where the average center of gravity, your anchor position, would be since it could vary slightly, or more as your temporal distance grows longer. You know, since that 3 million tons of concrete (and the small amount of gravity its mass exerts) wasn't there 50 years ago when that city didn't exist in your timeline.
I know nothing about this topic. I just had a thought. Probably from seeing too much Star Trek. Curse you Berman. Curse you!
Tell them nothing. I'm dead serious. I used to work as a school district admin, and I can tell you that it won't make a difference. If they are at the point where they have stupidly simple password policies in effect, anything you tell them will be beyond the level of the staff. It will require real hours and real money that the district doesn't have.
I mean, password policies are so, uh, obvious. Do they really have staff that would understand the output of a Snort IDS? An ethereal dump? Nessus?
I dealt with this exact same thing at the end of when I went to HS. Unfortunately for me, I ended up getting a job there. After years of wrestling with management and trying to fix things to make them right, I get the shaft and lose my job. I'm pretty sure that students were selling grades when I left. Passwords in cleartext? It's an inconvenience to IT and staff to change passwords at all? To even allow staff to change them! We'll fuck! Won't fund an upgrade to get CC data off an old NT Server that takes hours of babysitting a week? Shit! Don't believe me when I warn of the shitstorm coming because for some reason I'm the only one in IT that even knows what Apache, MySQL, or Snort are?
A school district can bring the pain if they think you're the cause of the eventual problems because you told them about the issues and they couldn't fix them. And of course you must have told the students in the systems now.
Fucking losers.
"MSN for XBox360" is more likely. Although that might bring up some anti-competitive business suits, so it might need to be compatible with more than just MSN.
I dunno, my approach so far has been to shout at customers, poke them with sticks and let them know that they aren't smart enough to know what they want.
It hasn't paid off yet, but any day now I'm sure it will. people respect honesty.
No, see, your problem is basically that you just have to do it with a smile and a laugh. Gain the customer's trust. Make them think that you are on their side. The thing is, people know that they aren't smart enough to know what they want. They just want someone to be able to tell them in a way that isn't condescending and makes them feel OK about it, that's all.
But seriously, the sad part is that this is very true for quite a few people.
U.S: We wish to disarm Iraq.
Iraq: Bzzt. We're sorry, but in order to disarm our weapons, you must disarm your weapons too.
U.S.: Ok, we'll call your bluff. We disarm.
Iraq: Happy day. We disarm.
North Korea: U.S. - all your base are belong to us, or we nuke you.
Iran: Me too.
Others: Us too.
Iraq: HA! I fooled you! We are arming up. Got a problem? They nuke you. Piss up a rope UN.
Good luck getting inspectors into places in the US.
If only there were someone with a camera with enough balls/stupidity/both to try that out? Michael Moore anyone?
Look at the GP post.
"Mann quoted Simon Davies of Privacy International, a London-based nonprofit that monitors civil liberties issues: "The totalitarian regime is the regime that would like to know everything about everyone but reveal nothing about itself," Mann said."
We're talking about civil liberites and privacy, not weapons. Global deweaponization has nothing to do with this story, only an illogical reasoning based on a thinly veiled dislike for the U.S. I see you're moderated Troll right now, though. That's wrong. Offtopic, maybe, but not Troll. I feel for you. Maybe I should start complaining about Slashdot's suppression of Free Speech by the mods.
That's nothing. Quantum computers will compile for you before you even type "ma".
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A few paintballs?
Well, he remembered the next time we got together. He didn't go home to get it. But he did go off the field after he collapsed with a piercing shriek following the third one.
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Not electricity, but my buddy learned to not forget his nut cup after getting shot in the balls with a few paintballs. Learned real quick.
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Don't be so morbid.
Market forces will make alternative fuel systems available in plenty of time before oil runs out. They already are. Real progress is being made on hybrid systems, electric, hydrogen, biodiesel, and other Flexible Fuel Vehicles. Toss in the current and coming progress on fusion for eventual cheap energy, and the situation becomes a lot less bleak.
Perhaps we won't be able to have black tires on our cars anymore, but I don't think that's a definite cause for civil unrest.
I've got a Treo 650 on Verizon Wireless, and I implemented shadowmite's Bluetooth DUN hack on it. I don't do much gaming, and it kinda sucks for bittorrent, but I'll pull down between 300-400 MB of data some nights, and I usually connect at around 112kb. Plus, I can still get text messages and make phone calls. Not really fast, but it's certainly usable, and I pay for the unlimited data plan. Bundled with a voice plan on the Treo 650 it's 80 bucks a month.
My entire world funnels through my Treo. I'm not sure if I would be so brave as to try to install Linux on it, but it does appeal to me nonetheless. Hmm. I did pay for the extra insurance. I wonder if it covers death by Linux?
What? I thought that the music was never created; it had just always been there...
No wonder he's so rich! He can just pass through bank walls to steal money!
Right.
Besides, I'm not sure if any president is going to concern himself/herself with Doors, let alone opening it.
My mom has told me a story about when I was little. At my first experience at a wake, we went up to view the body; the young man had been killed in a motorcycle accident. I was young at the time, but old enough for the experience. There was a woman in front of us, and she started to cry at the casket. When my mom and I went up next, I started to cry as well. The man's head was covered in a bandage and the lower part of the casket cover was lowered.
We walked back to our seats and after a few minutes I asked "where the man's legs were". This was the reason for my crying. The thought of the man's legs being removed when his body was put in the casket was a bit unsettling for me. She explained the reality of it, and I understood. It was a good thing that I had asked the question, because she initially had the impression that it was just the woman in front of us. Monkey see monkey do, or something.
My point is this. Young kids see the world through *very* different eyes, without the benefit of life's experiences to draw from. I'm not taking either side in this debate, but not everything can be reduced to the innocent view of a child.
Alright moderators! Out with the Offtopic and Underrated mods!
Only around the middle...
And that's exactly the reason that I browse with Troll at +5. Makes for some NSFW stuff sometimes, but I'll find objective stuff that is actually insightful but doesn't jive with the /. group-think. I wonder how many there are that do that? I've seen one other at least. Plus, a few of those Troll posts are hilarious!
Maybe they are ghosted out because your sysadmin at work doesn't want you messing with them? Even if you are a local admin of your machine the options can be unavailable.
With a combination of Active Directory settings and SUS, you get some measure of automated patching, without any interaction (interference?) from end users. Maybe this is your situation if this is your work computer. If so, someone else is taking care of it, don't worry too much.
And that pretty much sums up the reason I campaigned against mfh and others.
Another person bought the account.
Unfortunately, the ebay auction is gone now, since it was a while ago. Slashdot UID level is not a valid reason to mod up or down. For better or worse, I don't care anymore. If anything, I'm more interested in what the current owner of mfh has to say. For me, my foes get +1 when I read slashdot, since they've gotten my attention in the past.
Oh, and the ability to still get the Zaurus in the US is cool, but...eh. More Linux handhelds are coming down the line.
Is the "victim's" family going to be able to sue Rockstar for wrongful death? Assuming the company loses, it directly translates into a cost to society. Either the company lays off employees because they have to restructure, or the price of their games goes up, or their stock price falls. The destruction of personal responsibility is not good.
I know nothing about this topic. I just had a thought. Probably from seeing too much Star Trek. Curse you Berman. Curse you!
Ah HA! With this new information, I suggest that you should blow their minds.
I mean, password policies are so, uh, obvious. Do they really have staff that would understand the output of a Snort IDS? An ethereal dump? Nessus?
I dealt with this exact same thing at the end of when I went to HS. Unfortunately for me, I ended up getting a job there. After years of wrestling with management and trying to fix things to make them right, I get the shaft and lose my job. I'm pretty sure that students were selling grades when I left. Passwords in cleartext? It's an inconvenience to IT and staff to change passwords at all? To even allow staff to change them! We'll fuck! Won't fund an upgrade to get CC data off an old NT Server that takes hours of babysitting a week? Shit! Don't believe me when I warn of the shitstorm coming because for some reason I'm the only one in IT that even knows what Apache, MySQL, or Snort are?
A school district can bring the pain if they think you're the cause of the eventual problems because you told them about the issues and they couldn't fix them. And of course you must have told the students in the systems now. Fucking losers.
Get out of there, and don't look back.
If you have some time, making your own wheat bread for those sandwiches can be cheaper than buying it. Plus, you get that freshly baked bread aroma.
Hmm. I wonder if Apple got word of this and "accidentally" shipped a few boxes of Tiger early to one-up Microsoft.
I know you're making a joke; you have to be, but I don't get it.
"MSN for XBox360" is more likely. Although that might bring up some anti-competitive business suits, so it might need to be compatible with more than just MSN.
Yep. Only now it will be falling, then crashing into your second or third floor bedroom.
It hasn't paid off yet, but any day now I'm sure it will. people respect honesty.
No, see, your problem is basically that you just have to do it with a smile and a laugh. Gain the customer's trust. Make them think that you are on their side. The thing is, people know that they aren't smart enough to know what they want. They just want someone to be able to tell them in a way that isn't condescending and makes them feel OK about it, that's all.
But seriously, the sad part is that this is very true for quite a few people.
Iraq: Bzzt. We're sorry, but in order to disarm our weapons, you must disarm your weapons too.
U.S.: Ok, we'll call your bluff. We disarm.
Iraq: Happy day. We disarm.
North Korea: U.S. - all your base are belong to us, or we nuke you.
Iran: Me too.
Others: Us too.
Iraq: HA! I fooled you! We are arming up. Got a problem? They nuke you. Piss up a rope UN.
Good luck getting inspectors into places in the US. If only there were someone with a camera with enough balls/stupidity/both to try that out? Michael Moore anyone?
Look at the GP post.
"Mann quoted Simon Davies of Privacy International, a London-based nonprofit that monitors civil liberties issues: "The totalitarian regime is the regime that would like to know everything about everyone but reveal nothing about itself," Mann said."
We're talking about civil liberites and privacy, not weapons. Global deweaponization has nothing to do with this story, only an illogical reasoning based on a thinly veiled dislike for the U.S. I see you're moderated Troll right now, though. That's wrong. Offtopic, maybe, but not Troll. I feel for you. Maybe I should start complaining about Slashdot's suppression of Free Speech by the mods.
That's nothing. Quantum computers will compile for you before you even type "ma".
Well, he remembered the next time we got together. He didn't go home to get it. But he did go off the field after he collapsed with a piercing shriek following the third one.
Not electricity, but my buddy learned to not forget his nut cup after getting shot in the balls with a few paintballs. Learned real quick.