On the other hand, "funny" can now be used as the mod you give to "epic fail" posts (e.g. dead wrong or missed the joke). It can raise those posts up above the trolls for all to see, and open the authors to public embarrassment, all the while failing to reward them with karma. It's really not an unfair use of the moderation system. Who said funny has to mean laughing with the author - can't it mean laughing at the author?
Mod AC up for wisdom, correctness, clean living and being of fine character.
(At the risk of a "whoosh"-ing) Having seen some of AC's other posts, I cannot in good conscience, mod him up for wisdom, correctness, or clean living and especially not for being of fine character.
...I've read some papers that make a fairly convincing case that Alzheimers is simply diabetes in the brain.
From that link:
(The protein, known to attack memory-forming synapses, is called an ADDL for "amyloid derived diffusible ligand.")
Wait, WHAT? Are they saying that Alzheimer's patients are just ADDL-headed? (methinks the biochem and medico geeks might be having a lend of us with that acronym)
Actually, extra mass is a problem even once it is in space. Manoeuvring all that extra mass requires greater amounts of energy, which is often somewhat in short supply.
They don't need to know where it is if it's still ice-locked. However, if they included a solar panel and a supercapacitor that could supply power to a little GPS tracker when the rubber ducky is bobbing about on the surface of the ocean, that could possibly supply some very useful data.
No, for $50 per hour, they only seem to come with their own stockings - and you probably don't want your 13 year old son to have the "extras" he's likely to get at that rate.
30 minutes or so? If you're anything like the kind of smoker I was, that'd only leave you about 15 minutes before you'd need to go and stink yourself up again!
Only if sudo is badly misconfigured! If you don't have root access, you shouldn't have sudo access to any shell, or any program which can give you a shell.
I recently discovered that Shift+Tab in Windows cycles backwards through the matches. Very handy.
But for my stupid Unix trick, I wrote a tiny program which I called curlfish (CRLF shell). All the program did was print "\n\n\n\nDOS-style linefeeds found!\nRe-transfer it in text mode or save it with Unix linefeeds.\n\n\n\n". I symlink'ed it to/bin/sh^M,/bin/ksh^M,/bin/bash^M and so on for every script interpreter on the system. From then on I never had users asking me why/bin/sh was "not found".
Yes, ha-ha, you jest! But consider this - the answer to that question need not be correct or even relevant. It needs only to match what is on record. The exchange might go something like this
Fred Nerk: I've forgotten my password and I need you to change it for me. My name Joe Bloggs, and my userid is jbloggs.
Help Desk: Certainly, Mr. Bloggs. First, I have to ask you your password reclamation question. "Is the sky blue?"
Ah yes, my answer is: "The Yongee Bongee Bo."
Thank you Mr. Bloggs, your new password is SeneVar, you will need to change it as soon as you use it.
I just had 2 fail over the weekend. I didn't lose anything vital because I had backups but everything I considered non-essential is gone (mostly just lots of VMWare images of various distros). At some point it beocmes a bitch to manage so much data.
How old were they? I would have thought that drives young enough to be around that capacity would be nowhere near their MTBF*. Is this a reflection of a general decline in manufacturing standards? Are manufacturing standards decreasing with increased capacity? Or is there something else about these high capacity drives that reduces their reliability?
* Yes I understand that the M stands for mean and that some units fail earlier than most in order to make up that particular average. Still, a few years is well below the 100's of 1000's of hours usually quoted for modern high capacity drives.
Airplane terrorism really isn't all that effective. In contrast, blow a series of holes in the Colonial Pipeline -- 5500 miles of target -- and the eastern seaboard is out of gas: http://kaznak.web.infoseek.co.jp/big/colonialpipeline.jpg
You really don't understand terrorism, do you? The true goal of terrorism is not the actual damage inflicted, its the subsequent threat of future damage (terror, if you prefer) instilled in the populace. That's why it's called terrorism.
Anyway, our response to the "attack" was to attack ourselves, our freedoms, and unrelated countries. We chose to do nothing to actually enhance security, but we have managed to spend ridiculous sums of money and create huge annoyances for ourselves.
All that because "Realistically, 9/11 affected a small number of people and the stock market"? Wow!
Many people already have a (probably irrational) fear of flying. Add a random, uncontrollable element, such as suicidal foreign extremists into the mix, and you can absolutely instill maximal fear for a comparitively small amount of initial damage. No, I'd say airplane terrorism is extremely effective!
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I put forth that is isn't the governments responsibility to save you from yourself. Part of being free is the freedom to fuck up.
I don't expect the government to protect me from myself. But it's not unreasonable to expect the government to protect society from me.
On the other hand, "funny" can now be used as the mod you give to "epic fail" posts (e.g. dead wrong or missed the joke). It can raise those posts up above the trolls for all to see, and open the authors to public embarrassment, all the while failing to reward them with karma. It's really not an unfair use of the moderation system. Who said funny has to mean laughing with the author - can't it mean laughing at the author?
Mod AC up for wisdom, correctness, clean living and being of fine character.
(At the risk of a "whoosh"-ing) Having seen some of AC's other posts, I cannot in good conscience, mod him up for wisdom, correctness, or clean living and especially not for being of fine character.
I was gonna pillage you,
But I got high.
I was gonna sack your village too,
But I got high.
I'm stuck here in this tomb, and I know why.
Because I got high, because I got high, because I got hi-igh.
...I've read some papers that make a fairly convincing case that Alzheimers is simply diabetes in the brain.
From that link:
Wait, WHAT? Are they saying that Alzheimer's patients are just ADDL-headed? (methinks the biochem and medico geeks might be having a lend of us with that acronym)
Now instead of an International sporting competition in London, 3 guys from Yorkshire will come down and play rock, paper, scissors...
Sounds somewhat dangerous to me.
Turn off "safe search".
Are you gonna complain to a giant beast with two huge curved spikes comin' out of it's face?
I for one fail to see anything trollish or off-topic in parent post. Am I new here?
Yes.
Not without a lame link to a cool comic, it isn't!
Actually, extra mass is a problem even once it is in space. Manoeuvring all that extra mass requires greater amounts of energy, which is often somewhat in short supply.
This is in China. Your opinion on "Allow or deny?" is not sought - those 500 screens simply show "Denied".
Isn't physics merely an emergent property of math?
They don't need to know where it is if it's still ice-locked. However, if they included a solar panel and a supercapacitor that could supply power to a little GPS tracker when the rubber ducky is bobbing about on the surface of the ocean, that could possibly supply some very useful data.
No, for $50 per hour, they only seem to come with their own stockings - and you probably don't want your 13 year old son to have the "extras" he's likely to get at that rate.
30 minutes or so? If you're anything like the kind of smoker I was, that'd only leave you about 15 minutes before you'd need to go and stink yourself up again!
Awww, isn't that cute? mqduck's little offhand comment has grown up into a real live business plan!
Only if sudo is badly misconfigured! If you don't have root access, you shouldn't have sudo access to any shell, or any program which can give you a shell.
I recently discovered that Shift+Tab in Windows cycles backwards through the matches. Very handy.
But for my stupid Unix trick, I wrote a tiny program which I called curlfish (CRLF shell). All the program did was print "\n\n\n\nDOS-style linefeeds found!\nRe-transfer it in text mode or save it with Unix linefeeds.\n\n\n\n". I symlink'ed it to /bin/sh^M, /bin/ksh^M, /bin/bash^M and so on for every script interpreter on the system. From then on I never had users asking me why /bin/sh was "not found".
Yes, ha-ha, you jest! But consider this - the answer to that question need not be correct or even relevant. It needs only to match what is on record. The exchange might go something like this
Fred Nerk: I've forgotten my password and I need you to change it for me. My name Joe Bloggs, and my userid is jbloggs.
Help Desk: Certainly, Mr. Bloggs. First, I have to ask you your password reclamation question. "Is the sky blue?"
Ah yes, my answer is: "The Yongee Bongee Bo."
Thank you Mr. Bloggs, your new password is SeneVar, you will need to change it as soon as you use it.
You're doin' it all wrong!
You're supposed to link to the relevant xkcd strip when you say stuff like that. Even if it's just to annoy Randall Munroe [|:)+<
I just had 2 fail over the weekend. I didn't lose anything vital because I had backups but everything I considered non-essential is gone (mostly just lots of VMWare images of various distros). At some point it beocmes a bitch to manage so much data.
How old were they? I would have thought that drives young enough to be around that capacity would be nowhere near their MTBF*. Is this a reflection of a general decline in manufacturing standards? Are manufacturing standards decreasing with increased capacity? Or is there something else about these high capacity drives that reduces their reliability?
* Yes I understand that the M stands for mean and that some units fail earlier than most in order to make up that particular average. Still, a few years is well below the 100's of 1000's of hours usually quoted for modern high capacity drives.
Walking into certain facilities waving your Second Amendment rights will get you shot!
Airplane terrorism really isn't all that effective. In contrast, blow a series of holes in the Colonial Pipeline -- 5500 miles of target -- and the eastern seaboard is out of gas: http://kaznak.web.infoseek.co.jp/big/colonialpipeline.jpg
You really don't understand terrorism, do you? The true goal of terrorism is not the actual damage inflicted, its the subsequent threat of future damage (terror, if you prefer) instilled in the populace. That's why it's called terrorism.
Anyway, our response to the "attack" was to attack ourselves, our freedoms, and unrelated countries. We chose to do nothing to actually enhance security, but we have managed to spend ridiculous sums of money and create huge annoyances for ourselves.
All that because "Realistically, 9/11 affected a small number of people and the stock market"? Wow!
Many people already have a (probably irrational) fear of flying. Add a random, uncontrollable element, such as suicidal foreign extremists into the mix, and you can absolutely instill maximal fear for a comparitively small amount of initial damage. No, I'd say airplane terrorism is extremely effective!
They'll just be put back on, after the agent has "confiscated" for "your safety" what pleases him.
There, fixed that for you!