Has anyone else ever seen public access crash? Once in a while the repeating program schedule thing page faults and then the Public Access channel sits there with the Windows95 error box and the default desktop is visible. Again, probably free Microsoft ads (for all you conspicacy theorists)
But, the proof of evolution is that there is no proof. That is their defense: if you can't explain it, it must be God's work. I remember watching on the news a while ago these Kansas students out on a scientific field trip. They were basically going around, picking stuff up and either saying how great it is that God put that there for them to find or how funny it is that a rock "seems" to be 4 billion years ago. Scary.
From what I know, they simply believe that everything was put here by God. So rocks that seem to be 4 billion years old are that way because God wants it that way. Why? Who are we to question and try to understand God?
It's kind of like they think they are talking to kids.
me: why? them: Because we said so. repeat until I go away.
Hey, if Mac can get the number of mouse clicks to one for everything, why can't they get rid of all mouse clicks? I love being able to program a keyboard to move and activate the pointer in fvwm2, and really love freaking out my coworkers when I switch (or pan) virtual desktops with a quick ctrl-alt-right arrow or something. Or is the keyboard going to be classified "legacy" like that stupid3.5 floppy drive?
I disagree that Windows and Unix require more mouse buttons. They just allow the use of them to access time saving features (and yes, I know Macs can do this too. One of the first 5 button mice I saw was on a friend's Mac).
I guess I just favor utility (or atleast the option of utility) over appearance.
note: using <sarcasm> put legacy in quotes... weird.
hey, any software that blocks the ACLU is fine by me. I think they should sell the old version (that blocks yellowstone and lets all porn through). bring on the porn-bots!
seriously, though, does anyone else think the version that blocked everything BUT porn was the result of a if(==){} instead of an if(!=){} statement?
just how quiet is quiet anyway? i mean, once the fans are silenced, your keyboard makes noise, your cdrom makes noise, your mouse makes (a little) noise. i'll assume you make noise (don't sneeze, cough, squeak your chair, etc.)
this would be interesting if it was a well known band (like a super-U2-zoo tv thing). Or better yet, screw music. worldwide victoria's secret show anyone?
I think we may be overlooking something. The NSA is not populated by superintelligent aliens (I have a friend who works there, so they are definately people). Everyone keeps arguing that PGP is unbreakable. But, knowing the keys would help quite a bit. I vaguely remember this was one of the reasons for the 40 bit export version of encryption. The NSA/FBI/CIA wanted to know the keys because the technology was unbreakable at the time. Here's an old article on this.
PGP must know the keys (since they give them out to see if they are factorable in distributed.net), and all they would have to do is give that list to anyone who "asks" for them. The Government is not superman, but they've got other ways to get what they want.
finally, I get to make one of my favorite quotes (and it's even relevant...) Star Trek 5, Scotty sits down to a 1990's computer and goes "Hello computer!" Techie: "No, you've got to use this." hands him the mouse. Scotty: puts mouse up to his mouth "Hello computer!" Techie: "No, use this." points at the keyboard. Scotty: "Oh. A keyboard. How quaint." proceeds to type a million wpm and gives them the formula for something to carry whales.
An unaddressed problem with all that inertia (weight, mass) is braking performance. I think we all agree that once you're in an accident you're going to be lucky to be unhurt and it's going to be expensive no matter what you're driving.
But avoiding an accident is a large part of safety. So all else being equal, my car has a lower chance of getting in an accident than any vehicle that weighs 1000 pounds more. Automotive braking distances are like 40-80 feet shorter from 60 miles an hour. So a car is less likely to plow into you from behind than an SUV (or truck). Not to mention the rollover problem that comes with a high center of gravity, as mentioned by the Bravada driver later on.
And no, adverse driving conditions do not matter. When I was living in Colorado, I saw film of just as many SUVs crashed in pileups as cars.
There are a number of points to be made for the prosecution in this case. 1. we (the consumers) have already had to go to court to have the option made available to us to NOT receive solicitation as a result of the the company selling our information that we are required to give them. 2. those checkboxes are usually easy to miss and have purposely confusing wording "Deunselect this box if you don't not want to not receive messages..." 3. Even though the company is going bankrupt, they are still acting as the company by selling their database and therefore still bound to their claim to not make this information public. In regards to your point about oral contracts, I would hope that a court would find an "I Agree" button to be atleast as binding as an oral contract, simply because the act of clicking the button is a tracable, recordable event.
It's been a while since I've done any physics, but one thing about the article bothers me: so he plans to take off and land in roughly the same place?? I mean, just the uncontrolled parachute ride from 10,000 feet could put him off course by a good bit. Can anyone do some quick math to figure out how much rotation the earth will do during his "elevator ride" to 160,000 feet? yes, I know this is purely hypothetical, since he will blow up spectacularly as soon as he lights the fuse (I hope that's metaphorical...). The only reason I ask is I am in Michigan, and don't really feel like getting squashed by some flaming idiot in a homebuild space capsule as I drive home from work or anything. jjs
that another big difference between ateroids and space ships is that asteroids are solid and space ships are hollow (and have people in them). So a little crisping of an asteroid is not a big deal, but a space craft (atleast from this planet) must come into the atmosphere just right to keep the occupants medium-rare.
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Has anyone else ever seen public access crash? Once in a while the repeating program schedule thing page faults and then the Public Access channel sits there with the Windows95 error box and the default desktop is visible. Again, probably free Microsoft ads (for all you conspicacy theorists)
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But, the proof of evolution is that there is no proof. That is their defense: if you can't explain it, it must be God's work. I remember watching on the news a while ago these Kansas students out on a scientific field trip. They were basically going around, picking stuff up and either saying how great it is that God put that there for them to find or how funny it is that a rock "seems" to be 4 billion years ago. Scary.
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From what I know, they simply believe that everything was put here by God. So rocks that seem to be 4 billion years old are that way because God wants it that way. Why? Who are we to question and try to understand God?
It's kind of like they think they are talking to kids.
me: why?
them: Because we said so.
repeat until I go away.
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Oh great. Someone's going to steal my mojo, baby! Are the cracks going to be called Mr. Bigglesworth or something funny?
Very un-shagadelic!
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Hey, if Mac can get the number of mouse clicks to one for everything, why can't they get rid of all mouse clicks? I love being able to program a keyboard to move and activate the pointer in fvwm2, and really love freaking out my coworkers when I switch (or pan) virtual desktops with a quick ctrl-alt-right arrow or something. Or is the keyboard going to be classified "legacy" like that stupid3.5 floppy drive?
I disagree that Windows and Unix require more mouse buttons. They just allow the use of them to access time saving features (and yes, I know Macs can do this too. One of the first 5 button mice I saw was on a friend's Mac).
I guess I just favor utility (or atleast the option of utility) over appearance.
note: using <sarcasm> put legacy in quotes... weird.
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hey, any software that blocks the ACLU is fine by me. I think they should sell the old version (that blocks yellowstone and lets all porn through). bring on the porn-bots!
seriously, though, does anyone else think the version that blocked everything BUT porn was the result of a if(==){} instead of an if(!=){} statement?
just how quiet is quiet anyway? i mean, once the fans are silenced, your keyboard makes noise, your cdrom makes noise, your mouse makes (a little) noise. i'll assume you make noise (don't sneeze, cough, squeak your chair, etc.)
this would be interesting if it was a well known band (like a super-U2-zoo tv thing). Or better yet, screw music. worldwide victoria's secret show anyone?
I think we may be overlooking something. The NSA is not populated by superintelligent aliens (I have a friend who works there, so they are definately people). Everyone keeps arguing that PGP is unbreakable. But, knowing the keys would help quite a bit. I vaguely remember this was one of the reasons for the 40 bit export version of encryption. The NSA/FBI/CIA wanted to know the keys because the technology was unbreakable at the time. Here's an old article on this.
PGP must know the keys (since they give them out to see if they are factorable in distributed.net), and all they would have to do is give that list to anyone who "asks" for them.
The Government is not superman, but they've got other ways to get what they want.
finally, I get to make one of my favorite quotes (and it's even relevant...) Star Trek 5, Scotty sits down to a 1990's computer and goes "Hello computer!" Techie: "No, you've got to use this." hands him the mouse. Scotty: puts mouse up to his mouth "Hello computer!" Techie: "No, use this." points at the keyboard. Scotty: "Oh. A keyboard. How quaint." proceeds to type a million wpm and gives them the formula for something to carry whales.
An unaddressed problem with all that inertia (weight, mass) is braking performance. I think we all agree that once you're in an accident you're going to be lucky to be unhurt and it's going to be expensive no matter what you're driving.
But avoiding an accident is a large part of safety. So all else being equal, my car has a lower chance of getting in an accident than any vehicle that weighs 1000 pounds more. Automotive braking distances are like 40-80 feet shorter from 60 miles an hour. So a car is less likely to plow into you from behind than an SUV (or truck). Not to mention the rollover problem that comes with a high center of gravity, as mentioned by the Bravada driver later on.
And no, adverse driving conditions do not matter. When I was living in Colorado, I saw film of just as many SUVs crashed in pileups as cars.
yeah, like your horrible spelling?
controlling a beowulf cluster with one of these?
(hey, no one else had said it yet.)
carbon based life forms are all we think about because too many people's heads would explode if they met a "superintelligent shade of the color blue."
come on, we've got TANG! the drink of the astronauts. not to mention those weird dehydrated pizzas available at better museums everywhere.
There are a number of points to be made for the prosecution in this case. 1. we (the consumers) have already had to go to court to have the option made available to us to NOT receive solicitation as a result of the the company selling our information that we are required to give them. 2. those checkboxes are usually easy to miss and have purposely confusing wording "Deunselect this box if you don't not want to not receive messages..." 3. Even though the company is going bankrupt, they are still acting as the company by selling their database and therefore still bound to their claim to not make this information public. In regards to your point about oral contracts, I would hope that a court would find an "I Agree" button to be atleast as binding as an oral contract, simply because the act of clicking the button is a tracable, recordable event.
It's been a while since I've done any physics, but one thing about the article bothers me: so he plans to take off and land in roughly the same place?? I mean, just the uncontrolled parachute ride from 10,000 feet could put him off course by a good bit. Can anyone do some quick math to figure out how much rotation the earth will do during his "elevator ride" to 160,000 feet? yes, I know this is purely hypothetical, since he will blow up spectacularly as soon as he lights the fuse (I hope that's metaphorical...). The only reason I ask is I am in Michigan, and don't really feel like getting squashed by some flaming idiot in a homebuild space capsule as I drive home from work or anything. jjs
that another big difference between ateroids and space ships is that asteroids are solid and space ships are hollow (and have people in them). So a little crisping of an asteroid is not a big deal, but a space craft (atleast from this planet) must come into the atmosphere just right to keep the occupants medium-rare.
I had a feeling you were going to say that.