I must confess through my naiveness it took me nearly four years to make it through the PDP-11 Zork, The Great Underground World. I still have all my old maps and some Dungeon FORTRAN code from a later Infocom version. Dungeon was truly remarkable.
sexybomber (740588) wrote:
What about music students? Dummy! I wrote nobody has COME FORWARD attempting to justify their needs, not that there is a lack of credible arguments.
Don't know where y'all get your information to make some of these outrageous claims. I've asked at my university how I should respond to those RIAA takedown notices and they were unwilling to put up much of a fight as our administration legal advisors don't see it as a wise use of diminishing resources to ignore the orders. Students who allegedly "pirate" RIAA protected material are clearly not in compliance with our campus computing policy. Personally, I'm in no mood to help the recording industry and I always wrote back to them that we would gladly comply with any DMCA-compliant requests. Their messages were more intimidating and never complied with the specific takedown notice requirements. We were quite happy they helped us identify network utilization hogs so we could cut them off.
To those of you who think our university should provide free and unfettered access so students can do anything they want might want to consider how that activity infringes on other educational and business activities of the institution. Those who want to collect and or otherwise make available MP3s are welcome to do so at their personal expense on their home networks. To date, nobody has come forward attempting to justify a bona fide educational need for collecting or sharing MP3s, et al.
jfengel (409917) wrote:
He [Knuth] wanted to get students to be good at paper debugging. Unfortunately, this is a lost art form and partially explains why today's software is so buggy. Many of today's CS students and employed programmers haven't clue what paper debugging means. Knuth is anything but a luddite; he's a serious researcher and furthered the cause of algorithm development and measuring efficiency more than anyone else.
Where's the male version? Certainly many iPod toting teens would be thrilled to add this feature. If AnnSummers came out with a male version, I might actually shell out $300 for my first iPod.
So what do you do with the fungi after they "eat" the radiation? You get a bunch of radioactive fungi. It's not as though the fungi break down beta particles.
An Anonymous Coward wrote (19174343):
not true for every bank. Wells Fargo claimed they'd cover any fraud or stolen use over the first $50 on the debit card just as if it was a credit card. Have you ever heard those Visa Debit Card commercials with David Spade or Donald Trump? They say you're never liable for fraudulent CHARGES (non-verbal inflection on that word). You COULD be liable for fraudulent ATM or POS transactions (gas pumps, vending machines). Read the fine print.
Osty (16825) wrote:
What you don't need:
1. Multiple cards from the same label. There's no reason to carry around multiple Visas or Master Cards. You may think you need to because of credit limits, but you're better off using a single card with a higher limit (fewer rotating credit accounts allows for a higher limit on the ones you really need). Respectfully disagree with that advice. I carry two MasterCards NOT because of any credit limit (both are around $20K) but because if one is declined or has been co-opted by an identity thief, I have the second card as a fall back. When traveling outside of the country, or even domestically, it's pretty difficult to obtain an instant replacement card.
Not the way I was taught. Always ask for a photo ID for a transaction that doesn't involve cash. (Check and credit...with the DL# being written on the check.) Just because you were taught something does not make it so. California law expressly forbids merchants from writing DL or CC numbers on checks.
Something about the number 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 really strikes me as awesome. Because you find that number so awesome, I created a fun puzzle in the style of those grammar school word search puzzles. See how many times you can find that number in this puzzle. It can appear in horizontal or vertical succession, forwards or backwards, or it may appear diagonally. As an ENTJ and former math major I find great enjoyment playing with numbers and puzzles.
I gave up my free subscription to PC Week and every other Ziff-Davis publication more than 15 years ago when they refused to publish anything critical of Microsoft. It was amazing how every PC Week laboratory test, Microsoft came out on top. Their evaluation criteria were always written with a Microsoft bias. In this modern era of corporate FUD and directors malfeasance, one must maintain a skeptical outlook.
You're plain wrong. They have switched to "e-prescribing" as I did not take a traditional 4x6 prescription not to the pharmacy. It was all by computer!
Granted, I wish I could opt out of paying for any medical and get the money in hand and pay my own, rare, expenses but I don't have that option. It would be cheaper for me to get the money and pay when I go to a visit than it is to piss away money every paycheck and not use it. Your message sounds to me as though you're fairly young. Have you ever checked insurance premium charts? The cost to cover a 20-something is about half the cost of someone in their late 40s and above. The whole idea of HMOs and group insurance was to spread the risk among huge patient pools so no one patient would ever face large medical bills for the unexpected. So while 20-somethings fuss over $400 monthly premiums deducted from their paycheck, keep in mind that the level amount deducted from all employees keeps costs the same for older employees. Or would you like to argue against level-premium risk pools?
This 45-year old lifetime Kaiser patient believes the media frenzy has blown this out of proportion. Kaiser Permanente undertook the monumental task of converting its patient records system into an electronic information system. Converting the hundreds of paper records for each of millions of patients is truly a monumental task and some problems will occur.
Let me tell you of my experience visiting my doctor yesterday (Thursday). During my visit, my doctor pulled up recent lab results on the exam room console. He was able to prescribe new medication and schedule follow-up lab test through the system (no paper). I went down the hall to get a tetanus booster, then walk downstairs to pick up my prescription. All with no paperwork. I believe their system is phenomenally successful. I won't dispute the cost of this project.
I've undergone a number of procedures and consumed considerable medical resources during the past year. All of my records are computerized and information is easily shared among their medical professionals. The doctors, nurses, lab technicians have access to information required to deliver quality medical care to me.
-CRUDE HUMOR ON- Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch! Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead. Wake up - sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed. Wake up, the Wicked Witch is dead. She's gone where the goblins go, Below - below - below. Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out. Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low. Let them know The Wicked Witch is dead! -CRUDE HUMOR OFF-
Rest in peace, Jack. You made a lot of people happy and gave us the wonderful GMRX rating system! Many thanks for the Hollywood Blacklist too!
US chocolate standards are the lowest in the world. US-FDA requires dark chocolate to contain 35% cocoa solids. EU standards require over 50%. If you want quality chocolate, get a 100g bar of Valrhona.
This is the same FDA that in spring 2006 bowed to industry pressure to change labeling requirements for carmine coloring. Look at a bottle of Listerine Citrus Burst. It has an ingredient called cochineal extract. Sounds kinda exotic like vanilla extract. FDA proposed labeling standard requiring manufacturers to say "cochineal extract (insect derived)" but food manufacturers argued that would turn off consumers so they deleted the insect derived portion. Cochineal extract is a red food coloring derived from crushing pregnant cochineal beetles. They also use it in Wonka (Nestle) Pixy Stix. This isn't for health reasons or flavor enhancement. Cochineal extract (insect derived) is used purely for aesthetic purposes. Just remember the next time you rinse with Listerine Citrus Burst that you're swishing crushed dead pregnant beetles in your mouth.
Gosh, I went searching for information on tornadoes but because I misspelled the search term, all this porn kept popping up. It was awful!
And all week long, your Plain City youth'll be fritterin' away I say, your young men'll be fritterin' Fritterin' away their noontime, suppertime, choretime, too Turn the wireless on and surf for porn
Oh, ya got lots and lots o' trouble I'm thinkin' of the kids in the knickerbockers shirttails, young ones surfin' the web from free wireless hot spots Ya got trouble, folks, right here in Plain City and Provo too Trouble with a capital "T"and that rhymes with "P" and that stands for "porn"
I'll reiterate since you missed the point of my post. You can make up whatever rules you want. You don't have to follow any rules. However, if you work for a newspaper/magazine, you have to follow their style guide. If you want to submit a thesis to earn a graduate degree, you'll need to follow the APA or MLA style guide. These are the two major authorities governing manuscript production in the US. It's not a law and you won't go to jail for violation. However, your thesis review board will probably send you home to retype your thesis until it complies with APA or MLA.
Impy the Impiuos Imp (442658) wrote: Who the f*** decided that sentences on the Internet shall no longer be formatted with two spaces after a period?! The American Psychological Association Manual of Style which governs manuscript production for many college students. Feel free to read this book if you want to learn what rules authors must follow to be considered by journal editors or thesis review committees. You're welcome to follow any rules and suffer the consequences for failure to conform with manuscript style guides.
The type of people who have got the wherewithal to set up TrueCrpyt are not the market this was aiming for. This seems like a product made for the techno-clueless PHB types who just want to buy something off the shelf they can stick in their magic computer box and have it "just work," and who see that high a price on a simple 1-gig USB stick not as an obvious ripoff, but as a measure of how much good computer magic it must surely contain. So they designed a flawed product. Slashdot folks tend to complain about how companies keep coming out with crummy products. Is it realistic to expect one billion MS Windows (tm) users to get a CS degree so they understand its shortcomings and are able to recognize these crummy products. Maybe it is time to switch to Apple products so you don't have to worry about trojan horse AUTORUN.EXE flaws in Windows. Corporate IT professionals were hired to help free users from the burden of maintaining their PCs much like automobile owners can take their cars to a mechanic. With so many PCs out there what has the Slashdot community done to help protect ordinary users who don't read this website?
On-line websites have been a major source of information security breaches. A few years ago I was able to perform reverse-directory lookups on Verizon customers. Their DSL registration website was one such problem. After a customer entered his/her telephone number to verify DSL availability, the website displayed the corresponding customer's name and billing address, asking "is your information correct?"
the e-mail servers I administer my personal WebMail news.google.com www.latimes.com www.bloomberg.com (Oil and Treasuries) Does anyone else invest? www.fidelity.com (check my portfolio) www.treasurydirect.gov/RI/OFBills (Auction results) www.nytimes.com www.slashdot.org mail.yahoo.com (check on spam) gmail.com (more spam)
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I must confess through my naiveness it took me nearly four years to make it through the PDP-11 Zork, The Great Underground World. I still have all my old maps and some Dungeon FORTRAN code from a later Infocom version. Dungeon was truly remarkable.
So when will they start charging everyone who has used Picassa these new annual fees? I'm sure a lot of people will gladly pay hosting fees.
their needs, not that there is a lack of credible arguments.
Don't know where y'all get your information to make some of these outrageous claims. I've asked at my university how I should respond to those RIAA takedown notices and they were unwilling to put up much of a fight as our administration legal advisors don't see it as a wise use of diminishing resources to ignore the orders. Students who allegedly "pirate" RIAA protected material are clearly not in compliance with our campus computing policy. Personally, I'm in no mood to help the recording industry and I always wrote back to them that we would gladly comply with any DMCA-compliant requests. Their messages were more intimidating and never complied with the specific takedown notice requirements. We were quite happy they helped us identify network utilization hogs so we could cut them off.
To those of you who think our university should provide free and unfettered access so students can do anything they want might want to consider how that activity infringes on other educational and business activities of the institution. Those who want to collect and or otherwise make available MP3s are welcome to do so at their personal expense on their home networks. To date, nobody has come forward attempting to justify a bona fide educational need for collecting or sharing MP3s, et al.
today's software is so buggy. Many of today's CS students and
employed programmers haven't clue what paper debugging means.
Knuth is anything but a luddite; he's a serious researcher
and furthered the cause of algorithm development and measuring
efficiency more than anyone else.
Where's the male version? Certainly many iPod toting teens would be thrilled to add this feature. If AnnSummers came out with a male version, I might actually shell out $300 for my first iPod.
So what do you do with the fungi after they "eat" the radiation? You get a bunch of radioactive fungi. It's not as though the fungi break down beta particles.
1. Multiple cards from the same label. There's no reason to carry around multiple Visas or Master Cards. You may think you need to because of credit limits, but you're better off using a single card with a higher limit (fewer rotating credit accounts allows for a higher limit on the ones you really need). Respectfully disagree with that advice. I carry two MasterCards NOT because of any credit limit (both are around $20K) but because if one is declined or has been co-opted by an identity thief, I have the second card as a fall back. When traveling outside of the country, or even domestically, it's pretty difficult to obtain an instant replacement card.
You should find eight of them
Gosh how I love those hidden-word search puzzles (-;
I gave up my free subscription to PC Week and every other Ziff-Davis publication more than 15 years ago when they refused to publish anything critical of Microsoft. It was amazing how every PC Week laboratory test, Microsoft came out on top. Their evaluation criteria were always written with a Microsoft bias. In this modern era of corporate FUD and directors malfeasance, one must maintain a skeptical outlook.
You're plain wrong. They have switched to "e-prescribing" as I did not take a traditional 4x6 prescription not to the pharmacy. It was all by computer!
This 45-year old lifetime Kaiser patient believes the media frenzy has blown this out of proportion. Kaiser Permanente undertook the monumental task of converting its patient records system into an electronic information system. Converting the hundreds of paper records for each of millions of patients is truly a monumental task and some problems will occur.
Let me tell you of my experience visiting my doctor yesterday (Thursday). During my visit, my doctor pulled up recent lab results on the exam room console. He was able to prescribe new medication and schedule follow-up lab test through the system (no paper). I went down the hall to get a tetanus booster, then walk downstairs to pick up my prescription. All with no paperwork. I believe their system is phenomenally successful. I won't dispute the cost of this project.
I've undergone a number of procedures and consumed considerable medical resources during the past year. All of my records are computerized and information is easily shared among their medical professionals. The doctors, nurses, lab technicians have access to information required to deliver quality medical care to me.
-CRUDE HUMOR ON-
Ding Dong! The Witch is dead.
Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch!
Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.
Wake up - sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed.
Wake up, the Wicked Witch is dead.
She's gone where the goblins go,
Below - below - below.
Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out.
Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low.
Let them know The Wicked Witch is dead!
-CRUDE HUMOR OFF-
Rest in peace, Jack. You made a lot of people happy and gave us the wonderful GMRX rating system! Many thanks for the Hollywood Blacklist too!
This is the same FDA that in spring 2006 bowed to industry pressure to change labeling requirements for carmine coloring. Look at a bottle of Listerine Citrus Burst. It has an ingredient called cochineal extract. Sounds kinda exotic like vanilla extract. FDA proposed labeling standard requiring manufacturers to say "cochineal extract (insect derived)" but food manufacturers argued that would turn off consumers so they deleted the insect derived portion. Cochineal extract is a red food coloring derived from crushing pregnant cochineal beetles. They also use it in Wonka (Nestle) Pixy Stix. This isn't for health reasons or flavor enhancement. Cochineal extract (insect derived) is used purely for aesthetic purposes. Just remember the next time you rinse with Listerine Citrus Burst that you're swishing crushed dead pregnant beetles in your mouth.
Gosh, I went searching for information on tornadoes but
because I misspelled the search term, all this porn kept
popping up. It was awful!
And all week long, your Plain City youth'll be fritterin' away
I say, your young men'll be fritterin'
Fritterin' away their noontime, suppertime, choretime, too
Turn the wireless on and surf for porn
Oh, ya got lots and lots o' trouble
I'm thinkin' of the kids in the knickerbockers shirttails,
young ones surfin' the web from free wireless hot spots
Ya got trouble, folks, right here in Plain City and Provo too
Trouble with a capital "T"and that rhymes with "P" and that stands for "porn"
I'll reiterate since you missed the point of my post. You can make up whatever rules you want. You don't have to follow any rules. However, if you work for a newspaper/magazine, you have to follow their style guide. If you want to submit a thesis to earn a graduate degree, you'll need to follow the APA or MLA style guide. These are the two major authorities governing manuscript production in the US. It's not a law and you won't go to jail for violation. However, your thesis review board will probably send you home to retype your thesis until it complies with APA or MLA.
On-line websites have been a major source of information security breaches. A few years ago I was able to perform reverse-directory lookups on Verizon customers. Their DSL registration website was one such problem. After a customer entered his/her telephone number to verify DSL availability, the website displayed the corresponding customer's name and billing address, asking "is your information correct?"
the e-mail servers I administer
my personal WebMail
news.google.com
www.latimes.com
www.bloomberg.com (Oil and Treasuries) Does anyone else invest?
www.fidelity.com (check my portfolio)
www.treasurydirect.gov/RI/OFBills (Auction results)
www.nytimes.com
www.slashdot.org
mail.yahoo.com (check on spam)
gmail.com (more spam)