So a person gets his salary docked for sending a legal e-mail depicting a women with a german shephard using government facilities. Does something about this not seem right to other people? I have two questions:
1) If distributing porn via a web server is illegal in Australia, how come this isn't?
Think about time zones. Where I am, it is 11:23 PM April 1. This is the central time zone. Don't forget that many of the slashdot stories for parties are what not occur on the west coast-Pacific Time. They have enough time left on their April Fool's clocks.
Up to this point in time there have been only three primary colors, red, blue, and yellow, the basic building blocks of every rainbow. All other hues are made from combinations of these primaries. The secondary color green is formed from a mix of the primaries blue and yellow, for example. Violet from red and blue, and so on.
This article contradicts itself. The three primary colors are not red, blue, and yellow, and in no way can they be. For light, or color by addition, the primary colors are red, green and blue, like the pixels on a TV or a computer monitor. These primary colors add only one color of light to an otherwise black background. Red and blue form magenta, blue and green form cyan, and red and green form yellow; those are the three secondary colors for light. All three of them form white light.
For color by subtraction, or the filtering of colors used in dyes, paints, inks, etc, the primary and secondary colors are reversed. The primary colors subtract, or filter out, one color of light from an otherwise white background. Magenta, cyan, and yellow are the three primaries. Magenta and cyan form blue, cyan and yellow form green (not blue and yellow like they teach in elementary school!), and magenta and yellow form red. All three of them combine to make black.
Also, come on people, "However, in a most interesting sidelight, pure squant has also proven to be the only color, primary or otherwise, to carry its own unique scent with it. The odor of squant is apparently also difficult to describe by comparison to known odors because it is a primary odor." This is obviously another/. April Fool's joke.
This article has a few tips that I would agree with, but please don't base your entire dating strategy off of it. For me, I love computer geeks (more specifically, my computer geek.) I find his ability to learn and to apply it to something practical is much more attractive than the stereotypical "hunk" who walks around without his shirt. From my experience, those types of males tend to attract the more shallow women; those who only care for looks. I would bet that most geeks would prefer a woman who can carry on a decent conversation, so bulking up and showing off your body isn't necessarily the way to go for you. Intelligence and its applications are the best way to attract intellectual females.
I also don't agree with the long hair comment made on the "How To Be Sexy" page. Long hair can be nice on a few males. A selective few, IMO. It definately isn't the be all and end all of sexiness.
On the other hand, I agree that it is incredibly sexy when men take what they have and "clean up," even just a nice pair of khakis and clean shirt.
This also doesn't exactly solve the problem... if I have a one-retailer use card set up for Amazon.com, someone can still steal that and buy stuff in my name from Amazon...
This could be avoided with the way the system is supposedly set up. In order to use this permanent one use card, the thief would still need to have access to your password from the credit card company - not Amazon.com.
"If hackers broke in, they couldn't use the virtual number without your password -- which the merchant doesn't have -- and it couldn't be circulated to other sites."
Kind of ironic. Just before reading this article, I saw a link in someone's sig about getting paid for unused CPU cycles by ProcessTree. I looked at their site, and they offer you micropayments with either e-gold, an on-line retailer, or will send you a check when you earn enough money. I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on whether or not these are legitimate, whether or not anyone has gotten paid, and how much can one earn using this?
Let's look at this logically. There are both pros and cons to hiring a convicted cracker/hacker.
Pros:
It's obvious that they know what they're doing - since they've been convicted for it.
They know a lot about security, and how to get around it. They could easily find the flaws with your system, and would most likely be able to fix them.
Cons:
They are a convicted criminal. It's that simple. Being convicted criminals, they might be more apt to do dishonest things in your company, such as stealing or other things.
Again, they know a lot about security and how to get around it. They could probably very easily screw up your system if they had no particular loyalties to your company.
Whether or not one should hire convicted criminals is completely up to the employer. It basically depends on whether or not you think you can trust them. It's obvious that they have the experience and knowledge, but whether or not you can trust them with your system is a whole other matter.
This "nice big rock" is one-half of a kilometer in diameter. In perspective, that is not very big compared to the earth. To what extent would there be damage if a rock of this size actually did hit earth, and wasn't a miss of a mere.0317 AU's? (The asteroid, btw, is a very long distance away - about 12 times as far away as the moon, hardly what I'd call near.)
"We expect it to probe such mysteries as the birth of galaxies in the early universe, the birth of stars and the chemical composition of interstellar dust and gas. These are the very elements created in the universe that eventually become the stuff of biological systems."
This is an interesting quotation. What I'm curious about is how it is going to probe these mysteries about the birth of galaxies. Also, this person (Rita Colwell, the director of the National Science Foundation) seems to think that other biological systems will form, and this radio telescope will help unravel that mystery. Can anyone tell me how this telescope will do that?
I have been a fan of anime and Toonami for some time now. However, when they recently added the new season of Sailor Moon (SMS) I no longer watched Sailor Moon. They changed the voices of so many characters, I just could not stand them. Ami's voice was changed from an intelligent sounding voice, to one more remeniscent of a valley-girl. Other than that, I am looking forward to the new season of DBZ, the Android saga. Hooray for Cartoon Network bringing us our anime. ^_^
are there geeks who don't like getting drunk or getting laid? After reading many of these posts, it seems like people are just curious about the alcohol that will be there as well as the prospect of women being there. As for me, I can't say that a party of people getting drunk looking for "Linux Chicks" appeals to me. It always seems to me that geeks are respected - even for how much society mocks us. However, I don't know how much respect we deserve if we seek to just get drunk and get laid. Parties are great...but there are better things to do than drink. Just my thoughts.
Personally, I don't know how comfortable these could be. There would be bulges everywhere. How comfortable can it be to have a remote control attached to your arm, a cell phone at your side, and an mp3 player by your shoulder?
Admittedly, it's an interesting idea, but I honestly can't see people wearing them. Maybe something with a microphone in the collar for a cell phone, but I think anything much more than that would be too bulky or heavy.
Also, I disagree with the BBC's calling this "geek chic." Just because we're geeks and like technology doesn't mean that we want to look stupid and uncomfortable. These things just won't work IMHO.
Lain is one of my favorite anime series, and with regards to whether or not it should be posted on/., there's nothing wrong with it being posted. I, for one, enjoy it when there is an anime post on/. I consider myself a geek, and I think that many geeks do enjoy their anime. I am careful to say that not all geeks enjoy anime - as they all don't - which is shown by many of the "Stop posting this sh*t on/." posts. However, I think there are as many people who enjoy anime posts as there are people who enjoy Space posts, and who enjoy posts about games for Linux./. posts many things for many different people and their interests.
Anyway, back to my subject - Lain. Cafe-Lain is a nice site for people who enjoy Lain as well as other anime. I highly recommend it.
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So a person gets his salary docked for sending a legal e-mail depicting a women with a german shephard using government facilities. Does something about this not seem right to other people? I have two questions:
1) If distributing porn via a web server is illegal in Australia, how come this isn't?
2) Why does this matter?
this was posted on April 2
Think about time zones. Where I am, it is 11:23 PM April 1. This is the central time zone. Don't forget that many of the slashdot stories for parties are what not occur on the west coast-Pacific Time. They have enough time left on their April Fool's clocks.
Up to this point in time there have been only three primary colors, red, blue, and yellow, the basic building blocks of every rainbow. All other hues are made from combinations of these primaries. The secondary color green is formed from a mix of the primaries blue and yellow, for example. Violet from red and blue, and so on.
/. April Fool's joke.
This article contradicts itself. The three primary colors are not red, blue, and yellow, and in no way can they be. For light, or color by addition, the primary colors are red, green and blue, like the pixels on a TV or a computer monitor. These primary colors add only one color of light to an otherwise black background. Red and blue form magenta, blue and green form cyan, and red and green form yellow; those are the three secondary colors for light. All three of them form white light.
For color by subtraction, or the filtering of colors used in dyes, paints, inks, etc, the primary and secondary colors are reversed. The primary colors subtract, or filter out, one color of light from an otherwise white background. Magenta, cyan, and yellow are the three primaries. Magenta and cyan form blue, cyan and yellow form green (not blue and yellow like they teach in elementary school!), and magenta and yellow form red. All three of them combine to make black.
Also, come on people, "However, in a most interesting sidelight, pure squant has also proven to be the only color, primary or otherwise, to carry its own unique scent with it. The odor of squant is apparently also difficult to describe by comparison to known odors because it is a primary odor." This is obviously another
This article has a few tips that I would agree with, but please don't base your entire dating strategy off of it. For me, I love computer geeks (more specifically, my computer geek.) I find his ability to learn and to apply it to something practical is much more attractive than the stereotypical "hunk" who walks around without his shirt. From my experience, those types of males tend to attract the more shallow women; those who only care for looks. I would bet that most geeks would prefer a woman who can carry on a decent conversation, so bulking up and showing off your body isn't necessarily the way to go for you. Intelligence and its applications are the best way to attract intellectual females.
I also don't agree with the long hair comment made on the "How To Be Sexy" page. Long hair can be nice on a few males. A selective few, IMO. It definately isn't the be all and end all of sexiness.
On the other hand, I agree that it is incredibly sexy when men take what they have and "clean up," even just a nice pair of khakis and clean shirt.
This also doesn't exactly solve the problem... if I have a one-retailer use card set up for Amazon.com, someone can still steal that and buy stuff in my name from Amazon...
This could be avoided with the way the system is supposedly set up. In order to use this permanent one use card, the thief would still need to have access to your password from the credit card company - not Amazon.com.
"If hackers broke in, they couldn't use the virtual number without your password -- which the merchant doesn't have -- and it couldn't be circulated to other sites."
Kind of ironic. Just before reading this article, I saw a link in someone's sig about getting paid for unused CPU cycles by ProcessTree. I looked at their site, and they offer you micropayments with either e-gold, an on-line retailer, or will send you a check when you earn enough money. I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on whether or not these are legitimate, whether or not anyone has gotten paid, and how much can one earn using this?
Pros: Cons: Whether or not one should hire convicted criminals is completely up to the employer. It basically depends on whether or not you think you can trust them. It's obvious that they have the experience and knowledge, but whether or not you can trust them with your system is a whole other matter.
This "nice big rock" is one-half of a kilometer in diameter. In perspective, that is not very big compared to the earth. To what extent would there be damage if a rock of this size actually did hit earth, and wasn't a miss of a mere .0317 AU's? (The asteroid, btw, is a very long distance away - about 12 times as far away as the moon, hardly what I'd call near.)
"We expect it to probe such mysteries as the birth of galaxies in the early universe, the birth of stars and the chemical composition of interstellar dust and gas. These are the very elements created in the universe that eventually become the stuff of biological systems."
This is an interesting quotation. What I'm curious about is how it is going to probe these mysteries about the birth of galaxies. Also, this person (Rita Colwell, the director of the National Science Foundation) seems to think that other biological systems will form, and this radio telescope will help unravel that mystery. Can anyone tell me how this telescope will do that?
I have been a fan of anime and Toonami for some time now. However, when they recently added the new season of Sailor Moon (SMS) I no longer watched Sailor Moon. They changed the voices of so many characters, I just could not stand them. Ami's voice was changed from an intelligent sounding voice, to one more remeniscent of a valley-girl. Other than that, I am looking forward to the new season of DBZ, the Android saga. Hooray for Cartoon Network bringing us our anime. ^_^
are there geeks who don't like getting drunk or getting laid? After reading many of these posts, it seems like people are just curious about the alcohol that will be there as well as the prospect of women being there. As for me, I can't say that a party of people getting drunk looking for "Linux Chicks" appeals to me. It always seems to me that geeks are respected - even for how much society mocks us. However, I don't know how much respect we deserve if we seek to just get drunk and get laid. Parties are great...but there are better things to do than drink. Just my thoughts.
Personally, I don't know how comfortable these could be. There would be bulges everywhere. How comfortable can it be to have a remote control attached to your arm, a cell phone at your side, and an mp3 player by your shoulder?
Admittedly, it's an interesting idea, but I honestly can't see people wearing them. Maybe something with a microphone in the collar for a cell phone, but I think anything much more than that would be too bulky or heavy.
Also, I disagree with the BBC's calling this "geek chic." Just because we're geeks and like technology doesn't mean that we want to look stupid and uncomfortable. These things just won't work IMHO.
Lain is one of my favorite anime series, and with regards to whether or not it should be posted on /., there's nothing wrong with it being posted. I, for one, enjoy it when there is an anime post on /. I consider myself a geek, and I think that many geeks do enjoy their anime. I am careful to say that not all geeks enjoy anime - as they all don't - which is shown by many of the "Stop posting this sh*t on /." posts. However, I think there are as many people who enjoy anime posts as there are people who enjoy Space posts, and who enjoy posts about games for Linux. /. posts many things for many different people and their interests.
Anyway, back to my subject - Lain. Cafe-Lain is a nice site for people who enjoy Lain as well as other anime. I highly recommend it.
"could have weighed up to 150 tons." Didn't they just change measuring system there? Shouldn't they measure it in pounds or something *G*
They did, sort of, measure in pounds. 1 ton=2,000 lbs. So, this animal could have weighed up to 300,000 lbs. and that's pretty darn heavy.