One of the news sites said that the guy who took the photos of the rally was heading back to the market to see whether he could find any of the posters.
I wonder what they'll be going for on eBay in a year or five or ten.
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> A search for "bin laden" shows Bert and Osama on the second page of pictures. If the protestors made their collage out of that, it would explain a lot.
Tomorrow, somewhere on the Web, we'll see a doctored pic of the 22 most wanted men, which will have a picture of Bert added as the 23rd.
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Wonder what the FBI thinks about half the geeks in the country suddenly starting to hit their search engines with OBL's name as the search string, and furiously mailing messages mentioning OBL to all their friends.
And of course, the FBI/NSA computers are suddenly going to start popping out someone named "Bert" in traffic about OBL.
> Why it's hard to take anti-US feelings seriously.. [gamla.org.il]
Hope everyone clicks your.sig. It's about what I thought earlier in the week when they showed the videos of OBL & cronies hanging around in front of two sport model pickup trucks, with "PICK UP" painted in huge letters on the side.
Did anyone recognize the model? I'm only supposing that they came from the Great Satan's oppressive factories. (Anyone got a link to the pix?)
> I did a presentation skills course. One of the rules was not to use slides at all unless you really need them. You simply don't need a slide that says we sold 100 000 units if you can just tell them.
I disagree. Some people absorb what they hear better than they absorb what they see, but for others it is just the opposite.
> Powerpoint - like a lot of modern software - reverses this rule by making the user subordinate to the software.
Yes. In particular, PP tempts presenters to add piles of useless and distracting bells and whistles to their presentations, with the result that the audience's comprehension goes down.
Comes to mind the story from last(?) year, where the Pentagon cracked down on presentations because all the audio files for machinegun fire in the background of PP presentations was eating up all their disk space. I have difficulty imagining any presentation that would be helped by the sound of machinegun fire.
However, the problem is not so much PowerPoint, but rather the stupidity of the average PP user.
> We have COUNTLESS and i repeat COUNTLESS studies demonstrating that prayer to God...
> With this body of evidence demonstrate that prayer works... is it too much to inject into the creation of the universe debate the thought that PERHAPS God did create the universe like he claims to have done.
Even granting your prayer claims for the sake of argument... by what leap of logic do you invoke the (purported) medical efficacy of prayer to conclude that some particular diety created the universe?
Also, tell us more about prayer and bacteria. Are we praying for bacteria and then measuring the effect it has on them? Are we praying to the bacteria and getting good results? Or is it the bacteria that are doing the praying?
Finally, with prayer being so effective, what model of the system explains why people in one part of the world suffer drought while people in another part suffer flood, and they strave and drown simultaneously despite having prayed their saintly arses off?
> Since our government represenatatives seem to be somewhat lacking in basic know-how of technology, is there anything planned to somehow educate them of the existing and future technology
Hey! Let's schedule an installfest in the Rotunda!
> A few months ago we tried to move the 15 non-technical employees (receptionists, accounting, etc.) to a Linux desktop... The result? They hated it, and productivity went down fast.
Fire their asses. I know lots of dumbfuk secretaries who used to do just fine running their applications from a DOS prompt. Ditto for clerks working from a VMS prompt. Anyone who can't deal with the spiffy new Linux desktops is suffering from a bad case of dont-want-to.
> We couldn't find a non-IE browser that would work with our bank's site
Sounds like you need to talk to your banker. They're not very technically adept, but they do understand things like "take our account to another bank".
> I think that icann should stop bullying people around and let some of the rouge TLD's in.
Yes, but if they allow rouge now they'll end up having to allow all kind of other crazy colors later, so they need to hold the line as long as they can.
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> Therefore part of the "joke" is that he is the Taliban's favorite broadcaster.
Ehrm, yeah. "Liberal Left" just jumps immediately to mind whenever I hear the word "Taliban".
> The CIA finally gets someone close to bin Laden and you slashdotty bastards blow his cover!
He should have a great career in action movies after this, especially now that Rambo is getting a bit long in the tooth.
One of the news sites said that the guy who took the photos of the rally was heading back to the market to see whether he could find any of the posters.
I wonder what they'll be going for on eBay in a year or five or ten.
> A search for "bin laden" shows Bert and Osama on the second page of pictures. If the protestors made their collage out of that, it would explain a lot.
Tomorrow, somewhere on the Web, we'll see a doctored pic of the 22 most wanted men, which will have a picture of Bert added as the 23rd.
Wonder what the FBI thinks about half the geeks in the country suddenly starting to hit their search engines with OBL's name as the search string, and furiously mailing messages mentioning OBL to all their friends.
And of course, the FBI/NSA computers are suddenly going to start popping out someone named "Bert" in traffic about OBL.
> Why it's hard to take anti-US feelings seriously.. [gamla.org.il]
Hope everyone clicks your
Did anyone recognize the model? I'm only supposing that they came from the Great Satan's oppressive factories. (Anyone got a link to the pix?)
If you don't know whether you are "athiest" or "none", aren't you an agnostic?
Does that mean we can buy the Sacred Action Figures tax-free now?
> Personally, I'd rate it as:
> Erector Set > Capsula > Legos > Tinker Toys > Lincoln Logs
How 'bout a poll?
> Sure it's fair, I just think it's a bad idea.
Agreed. Many people will think AMD is being deceitful in order to hide some shortcoming in their chips. This will probably do more harm than good.
Also, it makes me worry that the marketroids have taken over the reins at AMD (like they have at Intel).
> "True to form, AMD has released the new Athalon XP today"
> I really hate when it gets spelled that way for some reason.
That's the athaletic spelling. Athaletes need computers too, you know.
> I did a presentation skills course. One of the rules was not to use slides at all unless you really need them. You simply don't need a slide that says we sold 100 000 units if you can just tell them.
I disagree. Some people absorb what they hear better than they absorb what they see, but for others it is just the opposite.
> Powerpoint - like a lot of modern software - reverses this rule by making the user subordinate to the software.
Yes. In particular, PP tempts presenters to add piles of useless and distracting bells and whistles to their presentations, with the result that the audience's comprehension goes down.
Comes to mind the story from last(?) year, where the Pentagon cracked down on presentations because all the audio files for machinegun fire in the background of PP presentations was eating up all their disk space. I have difficulty imagining any presentation that would be helped by the sound of machinegun fire.
However, the problem is not so much PowerPoint, but rather the stupidity of the average PP user.
> If a story about a vulnerability in Microsoft created software is considered news.:)
Yeah, I've been trying to get Rob to just provide a "Top 10 Microsoft Exploits" slashbox, to free up the headlines for stuff that matters.
> We have COUNTLESS and i repeat COUNTLESS studies demonstrating that prayer to God...
> With this body of evidence demonstrate that prayer works... is it too much to inject into the creation of the universe debate the thought that PERHAPS God did create the universe like he claims to have done.
Even granting your prayer claims for the sake of argument... by what leap of logic do you invoke the (purported) medical efficacy of prayer to conclude that some particular diety created the universe?
Also, tell us more about prayer and bacteria. Are we praying for bacteria and then measuring the effect it has on them? Are we praying to the bacteria and getting good results? Or is it the bacteria that are doing the praying?
Finally, with prayer being so effective, what model of the system explains why people in one part of the world suffer drought while people in another part suffer flood, and they strave and drown simultaneously despite having prayed their saintly arses off?
Inquiring minds want to know.
> Since our government represenatatives seem to be somewhat lacking in basic know-how of technology, is there anything planned to somehow educate them of the existing and future technology
Hey! Let's schedule an installfest in the Rotunda!
> liveprayer.com <--- accused MAPS of being an agent of Satan
I'll bet that flew high in the courtroom.
Wonder if Satan countersued?
Is this the same -Wall whose name scrolls past so many times when you recompile your kernel?
> "it's incumbent on Microsoft, being in the leadership position we're in"
Funny, but I've never heard the concept of loss leader applied to security before.
> A few months ago we tried to move the 15 non-technical employees (receptionists, accounting, etc.) to a Linux desktop... The result? They hated it, and productivity went down fast.
Fire their asses. I know lots of dumbfuk secretaries who used to do just fine running their applications from a DOS prompt. Ditto for clerks working from a VMS prompt. Anyone who can't deal with the spiffy new Linux desktops is suffering from a bad case of dont-want-to.
> We couldn't find a non-IE browser that would work with our bank's site
Sounds like you need to talk to your banker. They're not very technically adept, but they do understand things like "take our account to another bank".
Besides,
> I think that icann should stop bullying people around and let some of the rouge TLD's in.
Yes, but if they allow rouge now they'll end up having to allow all kind of other crazy colors later, so they need to hold the line as long as they can.
"On 16 August 2001 the W3C made public a proposal to substantially change their patent policy framework. Amongst the changes is support for a new licensing model (called RAND) that legitimises the W3C's role in developing and promoting standards that could require the payment of royalties."
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> Wow. So they can automatically put stuff on your computer that will disable software they don't like
Yeah, it's called "Windows".
> How long does everyone think it'll take for someone to find a way around this?
I think so for a long, long time.
> I am ready to frigging quit and become an English Teacher fuck the money!
Read up on "run-on sentences" before you quit your day job.