If you want to put your civil liberties on the line on the assumption that you can convince a jury with a cumulative IQ of under 100 that you didn’t smash it on purpose to destroy the evidence, go ahead. I mean, it’s only your right to vote, own a firearm... oh, and avoid going to prison...
Um, that was actually exactly what anyone would need to do, sometimes. The turbo button existed to slow the computer down. Necessary for running some really-old games that implemented hardware-sensitive timers and ran much too fast on “fast” computers (such as the 16 MHz box I cut my teeth on).
Great, take the one thing out that actually tells people what you’re talking about (flop, floating-point operations per second).
Why not just say “exa-flop scale”? It’s an additional, what, 5 characters? Well, depending on whether or not you hyphenate “exa-scale”, which you probably should.
If I’d signed up for an ICQ number on my 13th birthday, I could probably have got a 5-digit number, but I can’t say I particularly wanted to be a 5-digit number for my 13th birthday.
I’m actually doing it in a small sort of protest to the fact that it’s virtually impossible to get a descriptive username (on AIM, originally) without having a number tacked on the end. So I made the username as non-descriptive as possible and made the number extra big.
A self-proclaimed "hacktivist" said Tuesday he's the computer expert who knocked rogue Web site WikiLeaks offline for several hours through a distributed denial of service attack.
It doesn’t take a computer expert. It just takes a botnet.
And personally, I think anyone who spells their nick with numbers in an effort to look “leet” automatically loses the ability to be called a “computer expert”.
PDF is capable of preserving text flow if the document contains such information.... move the text cursor using the down arrow, you'll see it travel correctly among columns and paragraphs.
Minor nit-pick here, but that’s not really the complete preservation of text flow. It’s just the positioning of the lines of text within the document. Yes, the relative position of each word between its neighbouring words is preserved, but paragraphs are not preserved.
I call it a minor nit-pick because paragraphs don’t really affect the way a screen-reader scans the text.
However it does mean that (for example) there’s no way to jump to the 5th paragraph of the document. The information isn’t there. You could try to re-create the paragraph structure by judging the absolute position of each line relative to its neighbours, but that’s a hackish work-around.
I took offense to the implication that American problems don't matter because others are having problems too.
Nobody said that.
The question was why the others’ problems are pretty much ignored by a site that supposedly isn’t just anti-American. If it wasn’t just anti-American, it would, or should, expose problems without bias... but it does seem to have a bias, and that bias appears to be anti-American.
Yeah, I'm biased. I'm baised to think that issues that affect me are important. You're biased, too. Bias isn't inherently bad.
Technically, US Bank is "a major US banking firm".
Yes, the 11th largest in the list I saw. However, it still isn’t about them... unless it is... which at this point we have no more information to conclude than we have to conclude it’s any other major US banking firm. We just know it’s one of them. So I felt a clarification was in order.
Actually, no. I addressed his argument by providing examples of why America was, in fact, the juiciest target.
Your opinion. His opinion was that America isn’t – your examples notwithstanding.
And personally, my opinion is that his examples of why other countries are worthy targets blows your list out of the water. ~180-thousand dead/wounded? How many hundreds of thousands more than that died on a regular basis under Saddam Hussein? And that’s more significant than the tacitly-state-sponsored human trafficking and human rights violations that undoubtedly affect tens of millions? Begging your pardon, but your bias is showing.
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If you want to put your civil liberties on the line on the assumption that you can convince a jury with a cumulative IQ of under 100 that you didn’t smash it on purpose to destroy the evidence, go ahead. I mean, it’s only your right to vote, own a firearm... oh, and avoid going to prison...
As if anyone would not run in turbo.
Um, that was actually exactly what anyone would need to do, sometimes. The turbo button existed to slow the computer down. Necessary for running some really-old games that implemented hardware-sensitive timers and ran much too fast on “fast” computers (such as the 16 MHz box I cut my teeth on).
Is there a -1 for computing history fail?
which - though it is not a word - has it's own Wikipedia page for some unknown reason
Funny, there’s a Wiki project page for that.
You might want to check Google before you post.
I checked Webster’s. And if it means “exa-flop scale”, people should just say exa-flop scale.
Exa flop scale computers (short: exascale)
Great, take the one thing out that actually tells people what you’re talking about (flop, floating-point operations per second).
Why not just say “exa-flop scale”? It’s an additional, what, 5 characters? Well, depending on whether or not you hyphenate “exa-scale”, which you probably should.
Great, exactly why making up words is dumb. Now I’m not even sure whose interpretation of it was correct, mine or yours.
That's why I said implication [that American problems don't matter because others are having problems too], not statement.
Nobody implied it, either.
A whole dictionary full of perfectly good words and they have to make one up to mean “very large”...
If I’d signed up for an ICQ number on my 13th birthday, I could probably have got a 5-digit number, but I can’t say I particularly wanted to be a 5-digit number for my 13th birthday.
Good luck with that.
Hey, give me a break... it was mis-labeled. I thought it was “2 girls 1 cup”!
Well, I’m not doing it to appear leet.
I’m actually doing it in a small sort of protest to the fact that it’s virtually impossible to get a descriptive username (on AIM, originally) without having a number tacked on the end. So I made the username as non-descriptive as possible and made the number extra big.
But I somewhat doubt anyone cares.
A self-proclaimed "hacktivist" said Tuesday he's the computer expert who knocked rogue Web site WikiLeaks offline for several hours through a distributed denial of service attack.
It doesn’t take a computer expert. It just takes a botnet.
And personally, I think anyone who spells their nick with numbers in an effort to look “leet” automatically loses the ability to be called a “computer expert”.
Chocolate is already bitter.
That would be an excellent way to get a conviction for obstruction of justice. Which is a felony, I might add.
I mean... if they order you not to destroy any evidence, and you deliberately do...
Me too, but I’d be willing to tolerate Perl tips stamped into the chocolate or printed on the wrapper. Call it a fair compromise.
Pretty sure most of the so-called pirates weren’t making any money.
Not like there aren’t alternatives. I have a free PDF printer. The OpenOffice text editor has PDF creation built-in.
No alt-text on the main page [fremontpolice.org] either.
Um... what?
PDF is capable of preserving text flow if the document contains such information. ... move the text cursor using the down arrow, you'll see it travel correctly among columns and paragraphs.
Minor nit-pick here, but that’s not really the complete preservation of text flow. It’s just the positioning of the lines of text within the document. Yes, the relative position of each word between its neighbouring words is preserved, but paragraphs are not preserved.
I call it a minor nit-pick because paragraphs don’t really affect the way a screen-reader scans the text.
However it does mean that (for example) there’s no way to jump to the 5th paragraph of the document. The information isn’t there. You could try to re-create the paragraph structure by judging the absolute position of each line relative to its neighbours, but that’s a hackish work-around.
I took offense to the implication that American problems don't matter because others are having problems too.
Nobody said that.
The question was why the others’ problems are pretty much ignored by a site that supposedly isn’t just anti-American. If it wasn’t just anti-American, it would, or should, expose problems without bias... but it does seem to have a bias, and that bias appears to be anti-American.
Yeah, I'm biased. I'm baised to think that issues that affect me are important. You're biased, too. Bias isn't inherently bad.
I never said bias was inherently bad.
Technically, US Bank is "a major US banking firm".
Yes, the 11th largest in the list I saw. However, it still isn’t about them... unless it is... which at this point we have no more information to conclude than we have to conclude it’s any other major US banking firm. We just know it’s one of them. So I felt a clarification was in order.
Actually, no. I addressed his argument by providing examples of why America was, in fact, the juiciest target.
Your opinion. His opinion was that America isn’t – your examples notwithstanding.
And personally, my opinion is that his examples of why other countries are worthy targets blows your list out of the water. ~180-thousand dead/wounded? How many hundreds of thousands more than that died on a regular basis under Saddam Hussein? And that’s more significant than the tacitly-state-sponsored human trafficking and human rights violations that undoubtedly affect tens of millions? Begging your pardon, but your bias is showing.
Are we so jaded now that life-in-space research (even if it is just an amino acid found on a comet) is just ho-hum news?
Another amino acid found on a comet is just ho-hum news. Life in space... well, that isn’t ho-hum news, but it also hasn’t been found.
Was his last name Street too? If so, he should’ve gone to medical school.
Street, M.D. of Street, MD.