I'm sure I'll ding my karma, but why is the parent flamebait again? I mean really, that's pretty much the accepted order of things around here isn't it? Microsoft could literally, directly put food and medicine in to the hands of starving, dying people, and the posts on slashdot would rail them for it. Blame them of trying to keep people alive just to buy windows or something...
I picked up the mag conversion for my 4D cell light for about 20 bucks here in the U.S. I love it. It starts out decently brighter than the incand. bulb. And the 4D will run for nearly 2 days straight before dropping below 50% power. And for days longer it will produce at least some light. The only problem with the Mag conversions is that there isn't enough heat-sinking. The flashlight certainly doesn't get hot, but it does cause the output to drop from 100% to 55% or so rather quickly as the LED heats up. But once they drop to that, like I said, they'll run forever. Much longer than the regular incandescent bulb. And honestly the drop isn't that terrible because the incand. drops pretty quickly too as the batteries start to run out.
Plus did I mention I much prefer the slightly cold white light of LED's to the very warm light of Incand.? Plus LED's are nearly indestructible, so you won't break the "bulb" by dropping your light, or using it as a club (hey, why else buy a 4D, 2.5 pound baseball bat of a flashlight..). Also they don't get those nasty tungsten deposits (from the filament burnoff) like cheaper incand. bulbs do which causes the output to drop dramatically (Xenon bulbs also help that). And they last 1000's of hours longer than incand. bulbs.
For comparison the 4D incand. drops to 50% output after a little more than an hour, versus 42 hours for the LED. Great for disaster preparedness, when battery supply and therefore battery life can mean everything. Not to mention saving a ton of money.
For more information than you ever thought you'd want, go to http://www.flashlightreviews.com. No I don't work for them (pretty sure it's one guy actually) or have any financial stake, but it's a pretty damn good website. And no I don't own any stock in LED companies either. I guess I'm just an LED fanboy. I'm looking forward to the day they can match the output of quality xenon bulbs. Although I doubt they'll ever get to the brightness of HID.
Umm, I don't know how you live, but for many people, $3.5k can be two months salary. Hell $6 x 40 = $240. $240 x 4 = $960. So if you make $6 an hour, that's nearly 4 months pay. That would put most people I know out of their homes/apartments.
If you can stand to lose $3.5k, I could sure use it. I'm a month behind on my rent.
I'll grant you waiters and anyone handling my food. Other than that, why? I shower once daily and put my dick into a clean pair of boxers. My hands touch all sorts of dirty filthy crap during the course of the day. My johnson however (unless its a crazy day) stays tucked safely in said boxers until I take it out to pee. My johnson is probably thousands of times cleaner than my hands. If anything I should wash my hands BEFORE I touch it. But afterwards? I'm not catching anything from it, so unless I pissed all over my hands what's the point?
Jeez people, it's just skin.
Oh, and for the record, urine is generally sterile unless it picks up bacteria while exiting through the urethra. Well if you're dirty or diseased you should be washing anyway.
I assume they want someone there to actually watch it being raised and lowered for safety reasons. You wouldn't want some jackass standing on top of it as it goes up, and then falling off and suing the city. Also you wouldn't want anyone to get stuck in it as it goes down. Or possibly get something chopped off. A friend of mine worked at a place that cut various large industrial belts. Giant in-floor hydraulic cutters. Apparently the someone got their lower half caught and it just cut him in two. He had a few pictures from the security report. Gruesome.
Safety first, even for the drunks that can't find a place to piss.
3 makes perfect sense! When 4 is too many and 2 isn't enough.. Also when you're *insane*...
Why 3, was he counting from 0? Did he mean 4? Or was it one of those, we'll save 1 byte per line times X lines, the storage space spavings alone will be worth pennies! Not to mention the fractions of a second people will save! Except the poor bastards who have to update all their existing code...
Too many times I've worked at companies who forced down changes, seemingly just for the sake of change. Employees are wary of that. Often times it's easier as a group of employees to ignore the changes until people stop caring or they go away. Especially when they're ignorant and/or counter-productive.
I don't mind change, but explain to me why it's important. What happens if I don't do that way, and not just "you get fired", but a real explanation. If there is a good reason for it, and it's not just because some manager is jerking off to the latest idea he read in some industry rag --err mag--, then people will generally happily comply. Those that don't do deserve to get fired. But most of us just want to know we're doing something for a real reason, and that it's worth doing.
My 'work' concerns, if I like the job, are in this order: Myself (so I don't get screwed), protecting my ability to do my job effectively, my coworkers, and finally the company. Don't screw me, don't make my job harder for no reason, don't mess with me and my coworkers as a group, and don't do things that aren't helping the company. After all they are writing my paycheck, not some idiot in middle-management who attends meetings all day and is trying to figure out how he can get his next bonus.
I've just always answered the door naked. Usually works just fine. Then again I'm not female. I suspect that would backfire. Walking around, knocking on doors all day for a religion everyone mocks probably leads to pent up sexual frustration.
Someone finally came up with a way to bring back the subject of breaking up Microsoft. Nothing like pouring gasoline on the raging inferno of M$ hatred that is Slashdot:)
500 posts that all have some variant of "Microsloth is teh suckk!!!1one"
Replying to myself to save people the trouble of stupidity. I know they didn't single-handedly launch "Plays for Sure" but they did champion the hell out of it. On second thought it does seem like a great way to bring every one of their competitors -aside from apple- into a sub-standard system and then launch a product that competes outside of it.. Maybe I should re-think that evil thing....
Way to go Microsoft. You took the gun, loaded it, aimed it squarely at Apple and the iPod, and then turned it around and shot yourself in the foot.
I'm not an MS basher any more than saying I don't like most of their software. I don't think they're utterly evil... But wow, that takes a special commitment to poor business decisions. Launch an system called "plays for sure" and then manufacture a incompatible product. I'm impressed.
What's sad is that they'll still probably sell a few to people who can't see passed the advertising and MS hype.
Which does seem to currently be the issue. Most of the population at large either doesn't know, or doesn't care.. Then again most of them don't vote anyway.... Ahhhh America. Land of the Ignorant, home of the apathetic.
This video is truly terrifying. Especially the last 15 minutes where it's actually demonstrated, on video.
I think the best think that could happen to elections in this country would be if tomorrow one party gets 100% of the votes, I don't even care which party. Because it will prove obviously, beyond a shadow of a doubt that elections can and have been 'hacked'.
An addendum to my first post for everyone who says: yes but they could still hack the software etc..
True, but that is just as possible with paper ballots (you don't think they count those by HAND do you? They've been feeding 'em through a scanner for years now..), punch ballots, and far MORE likely with fully electronic voting. Like I said, with good software (i.e. posts what was actually tabulated for your vote, not what your vote was scanned in at, although still easily hackable) at least it would be a new take on the same process. It also opens up the process more. Heck maybe it could even be done with OSS!:)
I guess I just expected slashdot to be all over this like it was the holy writ of God/Budda/Whatever else. It's a pretty good idea. I don't know why people are faulting it for: a) not solving every single problem. Hell it solves a few, let it slide. *nix wasn't perfect instantly. or b) not understanding a very simple concept because they didn't RTFA.
I guess I was expecting far more positive comments. Silly me, I must have missed the part of 'TA' that said it came from Microsoft:P
July '01 maybe;) It just blew my mind. I would have thought that with everyone 'round here bitching about electronic voting people would have jumped on this like it was the greatest idea since sliced bread.
Good lord! How is it that 70% of people have completely missed the point?
This system DOES NOT allow ANYONE to see WHOM you voted for.
That's right. NO ONE short of the people in charge can see who you voted for. You boss can't make you prove it, nor can your spouse, or whoever else.
All the ballot half you keep records is that you voted A, B, B, A. All you can verify online is that your vote was recorded as A, B, B, A. Because the ballot choices are randomized, no one can tell who A was for your particular ballot. Ahh, but I already hear the tin-foil brigade saying: "But the people in charge can check!!" Really, how? The ID # of your ballot isn't recorded next to your name in the voter rolls, I suppose someone who had access to all the decryption keys could fingerprint each and every ballot, but anyone who can get ahold of any of the paper ballots can do that now. Is it no less secure than any traditional method of voting, and superior in a vast number of ways. As long as a few percent of people check that their votes match what they recorded, elections will be a lot closer to tamper-proof.
How did so many people fail to figure all that out?
I'm posting this all the way up here because it seems like most people have missed the entire point..
You can't verify what candidate you voted for, only which letters you picked. I'll say again, all you can verify is that when you voted, you chose: A, B, B, A, that the vote was recorded as: A, B, B, A.
As long as the letters are shuffled randomly (sounds like they are) then there is no way to prove which candidate you voted for, because since they are random no one can prove that A was bush or gore on your specific ballot.
No, I'm afraid the only thing that would happen then is that people with the money would go to certified, reputable doctors, and those without money or insurance would go to the cut rate guy without the license. In some cases he might be a great guy, but in plenty of others it would be utterly dangerous, and absurd. But hey, if you don't have much money why not at least attempt to get your testicular cancer removed by a guy for $29.95 (before tax of course..)
The other downside is that we'd be liable to get something really wacky like drive-through-dentistry...
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I'm sure I'll ding my karma, but why is the parent flamebait again? I mean really, that's pretty much the accepted order of things around here isn't it? Microsoft could literally, directly put food and medicine in to the hands of starving, dying people, and the posts on slashdot would rail them for it. Blame them of trying to keep people alive just to buy windows or something...
I picked up the mag conversion for my 4D cell light for about 20 bucks here in the U.S. I love it. It starts out decently brighter than the incand. bulb. And the 4D will run for nearly 2 days straight before dropping below 50% power. And for days longer it will produce at least some light. The only problem with the Mag conversions is that there isn't enough heat-sinking. The flashlight certainly doesn't get hot, but it does cause the output to drop from 100% to 55% or so rather quickly as the LED heats up. But once they drop to that, like I said, they'll run forever. Much longer than the regular incandescent bulb. And honestly the drop isn't that terrible because the incand. drops pretty quickly too as the batteries start to run out.
Plus did I mention I much prefer the slightly cold white light of LED's to the very warm light of Incand.? Plus LED's are nearly indestructible, so you won't break the "bulb" by dropping your light, or using it as a club (hey, why else buy a 4D, 2.5 pound baseball bat of a flashlight..). Also they don't get those nasty tungsten deposits (from the filament burnoff) like cheaper incand. bulbs do which causes the output to drop dramatically (Xenon bulbs also help that). And they last 1000's of hours longer than incand. bulbs.
For comparison the 4D incand. drops to 50% output after a little more than an hour, versus 42 hours for the LED. Great for disaster preparedness, when battery supply and therefore battery life can mean everything. Not to mention saving a ton of money.
For more information than you ever thought you'd want, go to http://www.flashlightreviews.com. No I don't work for them (pretty sure it's one guy actually) or have any financial stake, but it's a pretty damn good website. And no I don't own any stock in LED companies either. I guess I'm just an LED fanboy. I'm looking forward to the day they can match the output of quality xenon bulbs. Although I doubt they'll ever get to the brightness of HID.
But the problem is, he very rarely GETS the DUI. Usually he just gets a pat on the back and an escort home.
Umm, I don't know how you live, but for many people, $3.5k can be two months salary. Hell $6 x 40 = $240. $240 x 4 = $960. So if you make $6 an hour, that's nearly 4 months pay. That would put most people I know out of their homes/apartments.
If you can stand to lose $3.5k, I could sure use it. I'm a month behind on my rent.
No, but we probably COULD all have a pony if the ponies had more love to share. After all, if they're as common as dogs, everyone can have one.
If you want a pony, get 'em to start mating!
I'll grant you waiters and anyone handling my food. Other than that, why? I shower once daily and put my dick into a clean pair of boxers. My hands touch all sorts of dirty filthy crap during the course of the day. My johnson however (unless its a crazy day) stays tucked safely in said boxers until I take it out to pee. My johnson is probably thousands of times cleaner than my hands. If anything I should wash my hands BEFORE I touch it. But afterwards? I'm not catching anything from it, so unless I pissed all over my hands what's the point?
Jeez people, it's just skin.
Oh, and for the record, urine is generally sterile unless it picks up bacteria while exiting through the urethra. Well if you're dirty or diseased you should be washing anyway.
I assume they want someone there to actually watch it being raised and lowered for safety reasons. You wouldn't want some jackass standing on top of it as it goes up, and then falling off and suing the city. Also you wouldn't want anyone to get stuck in it as it goes down. Or possibly get something chopped off. A friend of mine worked at a place that cut various large industrial belts. Giant in-floor hydraulic cutters. Apparently the someone got their lower half caught and it just cut him in two. He had a few pictures from the security report. Gruesome.
Safety first, even for the drunks that can't find a place to piss.
3 makes perfect sense! When 4 is too many and 2 isn't enough.. Also when you're *insane*...
Why 3, was he counting from 0? Did he mean 4? Or was it one of those, we'll save 1 byte per line times X lines, the storage space spavings alone will be worth pennies! Not to mention the fractions of a second people will save! Except the poor bastards who have to update all their existing code...
Craziness.
I agree completely.
Too many times I've worked at companies who forced down changes, seemingly just for the sake of change. Employees are wary of that. Often times it's easier as a group of employees to ignore the changes until people stop caring or they go away. Especially when they're ignorant and/or counter-productive.
I don't mind change, but explain to me why it's important. What happens if I don't do that way, and not just "you get fired", but a real explanation. If there is a good reason for it, and it's not just because some manager is jerking off to the latest idea he read in some industry rag --err mag--, then people will generally happily comply. Those that don't do deserve to get fired. But most of us just want to know we're doing something for a real reason, and that it's worth doing.
My 'work' concerns, if I like the job, are in this order: Myself (so I don't get screwed), protecting my ability to do my job effectively, my coworkers, and finally the company. Don't screw me, don't make my job harder for no reason, don't mess with me and my coworkers as a group, and don't do things that aren't helping the company. After all they are writing my paycheck, not some idiot in middle-management who attends meetings all day and is trying to figure out how he can get his next bonus.
Yeah yeah.. When hit "reply" that wasn't there yet.. Silly dogs needing to go out kept from posting as quick as the other guy :P
Am I the only one who thinks they should have taught them "So long and thanks for all the fish"?
I've just always answered the door naked. Usually works just fine. Then again I'm not female. I suspect that would backfire. Walking around, knocking on doors all day for a religion everyone mocks probably leads to pent up sexual frustration.
Someone finally came up with a way to bring back the subject of breaking up Microsoft. Nothing like pouring gasoline on the raging inferno of M$ hatred that is Slashdot :)
500 posts that all have some variant of "Microsloth is teh suckk!!!1one"
Replying to myself to save people the trouble of stupidity. I know they didn't single-handedly launch "Plays for Sure" but they did champion the hell out of it. On second thought it does seem like a great way to bring every one of their competitors -aside from apple- into a sub-standard system and then launch a product that competes outside of it.. Maybe I should re-think that evil thing....
Way to go Microsoft. You took the gun, loaded it, aimed it squarely at Apple and the iPod, and then turned it around and shot yourself in the foot.
I'm not an MS basher any more than saying I don't like most of their software. I don't think they're utterly evil... But wow, that takes a special commitment to poor business decisions. Launch an system called "plays for sure" and then manufacture a incompatible product. I'm impressed.
What's sad is that they'll still probably sell a few to people who can't see passed the advertising and MS hype.
Which does seem to currently be the issue. Most of the population at large either doesn't know, or doesn't care.. Then again most of them don't vote anyway.... Ahhhh America. Land of the Ignorant, home of the apathetic.
And yes, I live here too..
This video is truly terrifying. Especially the last 15 minutes where it's actually demonstrated, on video.
:)
I think the best think that could happen to elections in this country would be if tomorrow one party gets 100% of the votes, I don't even care which party. Because it will prove obviously, beyond a shadow of a doubt that elections can and have been 'hacked'.
So calling all hackers....
Replying to myself. I know. Sin!
:)
An addendum to my first post for everyone who says: yes but they could still hack the software etc..
True, but that is just as possible with paper ballots (you don't think they count those by HAND do you? They've been feeding 'em through a scanner for years now..), punch ballots, and far MORE likely with fully electronic voting. Like I said, with good software (i.e. posts what was actually tabulated for your vote, not what your vote was scanned in at, although still easily hackable) at least it would be a new take on the same process. It also opens up the process more. Heck maybe it could even be done with OSS!
The first? haha. YOU must be new here :)
:P
I guess I just expected slashdot to be all over this like it was the holy writ of God/Budda/Whatever else. It's a pretty good idea. I don't know why people are faulting it for:
a) not solving every single problem. Hell it solves a few, let it slide. *nix wasn't perfect instantly. or
b) not understanding a very simple concept because they didn't RTFA.
I guess I was expecting far more positive comments. Silly me, I must have missed the part of 'TA' that said it came from Microsoft
July '01 maybe ;) It just blew my mind. I would have thought that with everyone 'round here bitching about electronic voting people would have jumped on this like it was the greatest idea since sliced bread.
I guess I was just shocked, that's all.
And for the record it's a pretty good idea.
Good lord! How is it that 70% of people have completely missed the point?
This system DOES NOT allow ANYONE to see WHOM you voted for.
That's right. NO ONE short of the people in charge can see who you voted for. You boss can't make you prove it, nor can your spouse, or whoever else.
All the ballot half you keep records is that you voted A, B, B, A. All you can verify online is that your vote was recorded as A, B, B, A. Because the ballot choices are randomized, no one can tell who A was for your particular ballot. Ahh, but I already hear the tin-foil brigade saying: "But the people in charge can check!!" Really, how? The ID # of your ballot isn't recorded next to your name in the voter rolls, I suppose someone who had access to all the decryption keys could fingerprint each and every ballot, but anyone who can get ahold of any of the paper ballots can do that now. Is it no less secure than any traditional method of voting, and superior in a vast number of ways. As long as a few percent of people check that their votes match what they recorded, elections will be a lot closer to tamper-proof.
How did so many people fail to figure all that out?
I'm posting this all the way up here because it seems like most people have missed the entire point..
You can't verify what candidate you voted for, only which letters you picked. I'll say again, all you can verify is that when you voted, you chose: A, B, B, A, that the vote was recorded as: A, B, B, A.
As long as the letters are shuffled randomly (sounds like they are) then there is no way to prove which candidate you voted for, because since they are random no one can prove that A was bush or gore on your specific ballot.
Is everyone so logic-impaired around here?
No, I'm afraid the only thing that would happen then is that people with the money would go to certified, reputable doctors, and those without money or insurance would go to the cut rate guy without the license. In some cases he might be a great guy, but in plenty of others it would be utterly dangerous, and absurd. But hey, if you don't have much money why not at least attempt to get your testicular cancer removed by a guy for $29.95 (before tax of course..)
The other downside is that we'd be liable to get something really wacky like drive-through-dentistry...
Well everyone knows that's just a lie so they don't have to do it