Look into the business FIOS. They specifically mention running web servers as one of the reasons to get business FIOS. It *is* more expensive than residential.
I agree that neither is really permanent. However, using that logic, bulldozing the building wouldn't be permanent either. All you have to do is rebuild it, and it is back again! No big deal;-)
When I said that defacing a website isn't as permanent as spray paint, I was acknowledging that both could be fixed. However fixing the wall *should* be much more costly and difficult. So much so that it becomes an unreasonable comparison.
Of course, if your admin is a moron and there are no backups, restoring your website could be a major pain. However, I believe a significant portion of the blame for that should be on the admin.
I can't restore a backup of my building and have it back the way it was before the graffiti. With a website, I can (or I should be able to). While I don't condone defacing websites, it isn't quite as permanent as spray paint.
Civil liberties aren't just "politics" that can be set aside for crimes that are *really* bad. That kind of thinking leads to innocent people riding in cattle cars to special camps.
In the example you gave, civil liberties were not set aside. It just wasn't an issue. If someone invites another person to look at their hard disk drive, and the other person sees evidence of a crime, he can report it to authorities. Likewise, if someone offers you a ride in their car, and you see a big bag of pot in the back seat, you can tell the police, and they can arrest the guy.
On the other hand, if the police come up to you and ask you to go through some guy's hard disk to look for child porn, I think that evidence would get thrown out. I believe that in the US they would need a warrant to conduct the search, even if they have you do it.
At least, I think they would need a warrant. These days I'm not too sure. They might have erased that part of the constitution.
Picture my family sitting around the corpse of my grandfather. He didn't want a funeral or burial. He was going to be cremated. We were there to say good-bye. My father (his son) said, "Wouldn't you shit if he sat up and said 'April Fool!'" (it was April 1st). We all had a good laugh.
My wife, an optometrist, dreamed of having her own practice. She has had her own practice for ten years and it remains a dismal failure. We are scratching and crawling out from under the debt we incurred, and eventually we'll reach the point where we'll be able to more or less survive. I'll never be able to retire. Neither will she. We won't be able to send our kids to college the way our parents sent us. Nevertheless, it is a constant source of humor. If we didn't joke about it, I think we would lose our minds.
People *do* joke about the suffering and loss of their loved ones, they joke about having their own dreams crushed. So, when you say you don't think anyone does, you're wrong. Maybe not everyone. But people do, and it is valid. In fact, it is just as valid for someone not directly involved.
I think back to visiting the film library at the hospital where I work. It was the day after one of the debates between Bush & Kerry. The folks in the film library were all planning on voting for Bush. Their reason: Kerry used too many words in the debate.
> The "you talk about homosexuals so much, you must be one yourself" argument is pretty much the > same as accusing the people behind those anti-smoking TV ads of being closet pack-a-day smokers.
Never forget the lengths the manager will go to to keep an irate customer out of the store.
I bought a fridge from Best Buy when I bought my house. At the time, they were doing a promotion in which the fridge got an ice maker installed. We bought the fridge, it was delivered. No ice maker. I called Best Buy and they said that the ice maker wasn't included because I didn't fill out the form asking for the free ice maker. I told them no one told me about the form. They said I had to speak to the manager. He confirmed that there was no way I could get the free ice maker because I didn't fill out the free ice maker form when I bought the fridge. I told him no one said I had to fill out the form. He suggested my memory was faulty because his sales droids would never make such a mistake.
I may have gotten a bit irate. However, the manager stood his ground. There was absolutely no way I could get the ice maker.
I told him I'd be at the store in 10 minutes to discuss it with him in person. He said he'd send someone to install the ice maker the next day.
It doesn't always work like that. I was hanging out with my brother and his wife and we ordered some chinese food. When it arrived there was a cockroach in it. I know, I know, there *always* is, but this one wasn't chopped up and blended in. It was just lying on top.
We called them up and told them they would need to give us our money back. They said they'd need to pick up the food. The delivery guy came to pick it up, but he said we'd have to go to the take-out place to get the cash. So, my sister-in-law heads there. She gets there before the delivery guy gets back. The lady at the restaurant doesn't want to give her money back. She actually allowed my sister-in-law to argue with her about the cockroach in the food in front of the customers picking up and ordering their food. The whole time they are arguing, customers are streaming out. The lady is claiming she has to see the roach before she'll return the money. The delivery guy comes back empty handed. The lady asks him where the food was, and he says "I threw it away, there was a cockroach in it!"
She returned the money. We ended up ording pizza. The cockroaches were ground up real fine in the pizza so everyone was happy.
Of course, the web site got it wrong, too. The title says "Brain implants", but the article specifies skin implants.
See, it isn't only slashdot editors that screw up.
Of course, I'm assuming the editor of the Harvard University Gazette decided on the title for the article. It would be more disturbing if the author of the article didn't know enough about what he wrote to get the title right.
Not that it changes the situation that much, but they're actually talking about taking skin cells from the patient, genetically modifying them, then putting them back in the patient's skin. No brain surgery required, and if it works out badly the removal is probably easier than removing a wart.
Congratulations. You managed to guess the truth. It might have been easier to just read the article, but you managed to figure out what was going on anyway.
The second sentence in the article:
"Melissa Mills arrived at Edmonton's Stollery Children's Hospital last year after a sudden illness made her critically ill and a candidate for a heart transplant."
It wouldn't be slashdot if people didn't ask questions that were answered by the article;-)
They can use stock footage to show the sorts of things that the astronauts are doing when the shuttle isn't transmitting video. You just have to explain that the shuttle can't transmit, but here is video recorded during the last landing to give you an idea of what the astronauts are doing. Slap the recorded date at the bottom of the screen and show something other than an empty landing strip.
No, this is how it will work: In a few years the use of carbon in electronics will start to cause shortages. Plants will start to die because they don't have the carbon dioxide they need for photosynthesis. Because electronic devices will *still* end up going to landfills no one will be reclaiming the carbon they use. Scientists will start talking about how we need to burn more fossil fuels to release more CO2.
Then there will be a long awaited marble revolution in computing.
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Look into the business FIOS. They specifically mention running web servers as one of the reasons to get business FIOS. It *is* more expensive than residential.
Crap. They know I don't have any friends.
I agree that neither is really permanent. However, using that logic, bulldozing the building wouldn't be permanent either. All you have to do is rebuild it, and it is back again! No big deal ;-)
When I said that defacing a website isn't as permanent as spray paint, I was acknowledging that both could be fixed. However fixing the wall *should* be much more costly and difficult. So much so that it becomes an unreasonable comparison.
Of course, if your admin is a moron and there are no backups, restoring your website could be a major pain. However, I believe a significant portion of the blame for that should be on the admin.
Do they take off only the paint you want to remove?
I can't restore a backup of my building and have it back the way it was before the graffiti. With a website, I can (or I should be able to). While I don't condone defacing websites, it isn't quite as permanent as spray paint.
Considering that their browser is open source, how do they release the fix and still hold back on the details?
Civil liberties aren't just "politics" that can be set aside for crimes that are *really* bad. That kind of thinking leads to innocent people riding in cattle cars to special camps.
In the example you gave, civil liberties were not set aside. It just wasn't an issue. If someone invites another person to look at their hard disk drive, and the other person sees evidence of a crime, he can report it to authorities. Likewise, if someone offers you a ride in their car, and you see a big bag of pot in the back seat, you can tell the police, and they can arrest the guy.
On the other hand, if the police come up to you and ask you to go through some guy's hard disk to look for child porn, I think that evidence would get thrown out. I believe that in the US they would need a warrant to conduct the search, even if they have you do it.
At least, I think they would need a warrant. These days I'm not too sure. They might have erased that part of the constitution.
> an honest political candidate
Sorry, that doesn't parse. What is this thing you mention?
Picture my family sitting around the corpse of my grandfather. He didn't want a funeral or burial. He was going to be cremated. We were there to say good-bye. My father (his son) said, "Wouldn't you shit if he sat up and said 'April Fool!'" (it was April 1st). We all had a good laugh.
My wife, an optometrist, dreamed of having her own practice. She has had her own practice for ten years and it remains a dismal failure. We are scratching and crawling out from under the debt we incurred, and eventually we'll reach the point where we'll be able to more or less survive. I'll never be able to retire. Neither will she. We won't be able to send our kids to college the way our parents sent us. Nevertheless, it is a constant source of humor. If we didn't joke about it, I think we would lose our minds.
People *do* joke about the suffering and loss of their loved ones, they joke about having their own dreams crushed. So, when you say you don't think anyone does, you're wrong. Maybe not everyone. But people do, and it is valid. In fact, it is just as valid for someone not directly involved.
We might not be such fools, but most people are.
I think back to visiting the film library at the hospital where I work. It was the day after one of the debates between Bush & Kerry. The folks in the film library were all planning on voting for Bush. Their reason: Kerry used too many words in the debate.
He used too many words...in a debate...
I sort of lost all hope then.
Err... s/brak/break/
Sorry, forgot how to spell...
> It's not so funny when it happens to you or your family.
...
> Wait until someone you know gets it. You won't be laughing anymore.
Actually, it was still funny. Heartbraking, sad, and still funny.
If you can't laugh at the funny parts, you'll go nuts. Perhaps it's too late. Maybe you should unclench and try to see the humor.
I'll never forget the last conversation I had with my grandmother. I was home from school and working in my parent's yard.
G: What are you up to?
M: Planting some flowers for Mom.
G: How're you doing in school?
M: Pretty good. One more year to go.
G: Are you enjoying it?
M: Yeah.
[pause]
G: So, what are you up to?
M: Um, planting flowers for mom.
G: How're you doing in school?
It was the easiest conversation I ever had.
Still don't see it as the same.
> The "you talk about homosexuals so much, you must be one yourself" argument is pretty much the
> same as accusing the people behind those anti-smoking TV ads of being closet pack-a-day smokers.
How?
Yeah. I would expect much more professional behavior from someone named Zonk.
Never forget the lengths the manager will go to to keep an irate customer out of the store.
I bought a fridge from Best Buy when I bought my house. At the time, they were doing a promotion in which the fridge got an ice maker installed. We bought the fridge, it was delivered. No ice maker. I called Best Buy and they said that the ice maker wasn't included because I didn't fill out the form asking for the free ice maker. I told them no one told me about the form. They said I had to speak to the manager. He confirmed that there was no way I could get the free ice maker because I didn't fill out the free ice maker form when I bought the fridge. I told him no one said I had to fill out the form. He suggested my memory was faulty because his sales droids would never make such a mistake.
I may have gotten a bit irate. However, the manager stood his ground. There was absolutely no way I could get the ice maker.
I told him I'd be at the store in 10 minutes to discuss it with him in person. He said he'd send someone to install the ice maker the next day.
It doesn't always work like that. I was hanging out with my brother and his wife and we ordered some chinese food. When it arrived there was a cockroach in it. I know, I know, there *always* is, but this one wasn't chopped up and blended in. It was just lying on top.
We called them up and told them they would need to give us our money back. They said they'd need to pick up the food. The delivery guy came to pick it up, but he said we'd have to go to the take-out place to get the cash. So, my sister-in-law heads there. She gets there before the delivery guy gets back. The lady at the restaurant doesn't want to give her money back. She actually allowed my sister-in-law to argue with her about the cockroach in the food in front of the customers picking up and ordering their food. The whole time they are arguing, customers are streaming out. The lady is claiming she has to see the roach before she'll return the money. The delivery guy comes back empty handed. The lady asks him where the food was, and he says "I threw it away, there was a cockroach in it!"
She returned the money. We ended up ording pizza. The cockroaches were ground up real fine in the pizza so everyone was happy.
Of course, the web site got it wrong, too. The title says "Brain implants", but the article specifies skin implants.
See, it isn't only slashdot editors that screw up.
Of course, I'm assuming the editor of the Harvard University Gazette decided on the title for the article. It would be more disturbing if the author of the article didn't know enough about what he wrote to get the title right.
Not that it changes the situation that much, but they're actually talking about taking skin cells from the patient, genetically modifying them, then putting them back in the patient's skin. No brain surgery required, and if it works out badly the removal is probably easier than removing a wart.
Congratulations. You managed to guess the truth. It might have been easier to just read the article, but you managed to figure out what was going on anyway.
;-)
The second sentence in the article:
"Melissa Mills arrived at Edmonton's Stollery Children's Hospital last year after a sudden illness made her critically ill and a candidate for a heart transplant."
It wouldn't be slashdot if people didn't ask questions that were answered by the article
They can use stock footage to show the sorts of things that the astronauts are doing when the shuttle isn't transmitting video. You just have to explain that the shuttle can't transmit, but here is video recorded during the last landing to give you an idea of what the astronauts are doing. Slap the recorded date at the bottom of the screen and show something other than an empty landing strip.
You have a calculator?
It may have been easier, but it would not have been correct ;-)
1/1277 = 0.08% is correct.
1/1277 * 100 = 8%
That's why I pointed out that the '%' means '/100'
What you said could be written as:
1/1277 * 100 = 0.08/100
1/1277 = 0.0008
0.0008 would be 0.08%
Remember that the '%' stands for '/100' That's why it's a percent. "Per Centum". So,
0.08% = 0.08/100 = 0.0008
No, this is how it will work: In a few years the use of carbon in electronics will start to cause shortages. Plants will start to die because they don't have the carbon dioxide they need for photosynthesis. Because electronic devices will *still* end up going to landfills no one will be reclaiming the carbon they use. Scientists will start talking about how we need to burn more fossil fuels to release more CO2.
Then there will be a long awaited marble revolution in computing.
One of the cons is that it isn't scalable. One of the pros is that it is scalable. Stupid articles.