More important than RFID, they need a quick way to identify aliens. In most states, minors have their driver licenses superimposed with big red letters that say "MINOR", which is a quick way to filter people by age. When issuing licences to non-citizens, all states should be required to have the word "ALIEN" likewise superimposed. That way, it would be a quick and easy to filter people who need a higher level of scrutiny.
So, just because I am not American, I automatically deserve more "scrutiny" huh? Out here in TN we get different coloured "driving certificates" which are specifically marked as "not ID" so that they know that they are dealing with a vicious thug like me.
Do you know what the funny thing is? By lumping me - a completely law abiding person - together with the likes of Atta all they have succeeded in doing is piss me off. If you piss off enough people this way eventually you will piss off somebody who will feel more sympathetic to their cause.
On a side note, do you think Timothy McVeigh should have gotten a different ID?
When google launched their image search I emailed them the suggestion to name this search Go Ogle. I think it might be even more appropriate for blind date searching.
Can't we just deal with this already (Score:2, Interesting)
by gelfling (6534) Neutral on 2004.09.22 12:06 (#10319989)
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I like a good practical joke as much as the next person. Can we just track down one of these people, drag him/her outside chop them up with bolo knives hunt down their families, rape mutiliate and murder them set fire to their houses, kill their dogs and piss all over the corpses already?
I figure 10, 20 thousand of these losers tops and the problem will go away.
Anyone can program a computer given enough books to read.
I have tried to teach numerous people in the past because I thought the same as you. What I found, however, was that some people simply didn't not think the right way to be able to program a computer. I am also not talking about technically illiterate people here either. My brother-in-law who can fix anything mechanical simply cannot string together more than about 5 lines of code.
Your comment and profile as been added to the database thanks for helping us make this country more secure. From now on please call in advance your lawyer and prepare yourself for a full orifice search if you plan to take the plane, the bus or ride a bicycle on the street cause it will be hell to you.
The day I see an article titled "Attracting women to the garbage collection industry" then I will start believing in "equality". At the moment, however, it appears ok to leave those jobs as male dominated, but jobs which pay well and are performed in nice environments for some reason cannot be male dominated. Give me a break.
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The idea of this kid working anywhere is laughable. He doesn't even mention cars or driving and to the best of my knowledge doesn't know what a girl is (and I check his browser cache when he leaves so we're not even talking about hitting the porn here).
So what does the kid read when he is online? Maybe you can use this knowledge to tear him away from the PC for a while?
IBM made/makes a keyboard with a zero travel mouse (I think they call it a trackpoint?) in the middle between g and h.
I used one of those for a year on my thinkpad. It eventually made my wrist hurt so much that I had to get a wrist support. After moving off the Thinkpad for two months my wrist was OK again.
There aren't a lot of choices to insure your privacy here. Most of us can't realistically choose not to fly.
How about this? Nobody needs to know my Name, Address or any other information about me to make the flight safer. If they search properly at the terminal and employ properly trained people to look out for people acting wierdly, then it would be possible for me to fly as safely as I do today, but in complete anonymity.
I am not an American and each time I book a flight with a non-US credit card then I get frisked. When I use my US credit card then I walk through with the same treatment that everybody else gets around me. Was the plane safer because I was frisked the first time around? No, because not only did I not have any intentions to do anything on that flight (which they cannot determine with any amount of data), but I also didn't have any devices with me to take over the aircraft.
So, by targeting me for a useless search because of my foreign credit card, they didn't have time to search the next guy in the line who might be walking on the plane with some perspex knives in his jacket.
Actually it isn't. The handbasket(patent pending) is not available for licensing as a transportation device to hell yet due to litigation issues with the shopping basket(tm) owners.
Of course the world is still going to hell, but this means that we will have carry each piece there by hand.
Actually, for paying customers they have removed the adverts as well.
Thus, right now, today, I am sitting with a 2 gig mailbox with no adverts. Google will have to get their product out the door sharpish to overcome the inertia that Yahoo is creating right now.
For example, one of the test cases is implementing "grep". The sh version of this case simply calls grep (after validating the arguments, I guess), which seems like a really big cop-out.
Maybe that's why it is called a Scripting language?
With your C analogy (IAAACP - I am also a C programmer) we'd look at lots of snippets of code identify differences between them, date them (except there is no scientific method for dating code) and hypothesise as to what changes and why.
Archaeology is not a science, certainly not an 'arcane science'. It's a discipline which employs (amongst other things) scientific techniques, such as C-14 dating.
Tsk. Tsk. Sure you can. Similar to the Carbon 14 dating you mention, you could date computer code as it switches from C to C++.
Here, however, is the real kicker. Look at the paragraph above. The first recorded legitimate use of the words "computer code" and "dating" in the same sentence.
This should be renamed to the Mail User Agreement License.
You hereby agree to the MAUL imposed with this message. If you do not agree to this MAULing and continue reading then we will send somebody around for a Better Educated Assessment Test (BEATing).
Uh, maybe because I'm paying for their services? I'm not paying them to mess with my connection to their own advantage. If they started doing this I'd be on my way to another provider in a heartbeat.
Yes, because most of us live in an area with more than one (1) broadband provider. That way we always have the option of switching to a competitor if the current company shafts us.
Seriously, for most people it is a case of putting up with whatever nonsense their current broadband provider decides to shove their way or go back to dialup.
Outlawing guns does make society safer, because it means we can arrest people with guns *before* they kill people with them.
Oh shut up! The swiss are required by law to have guns in their homes as part of their national service. How often do you hear of random Swiss guys running around the streets shooting other people?
Yeah, I thought so. Owning a gun does not translate automatically to going around killing people.
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More important than RFID, they need a quick way to identify aliens. In most states, minors have their driver licenses superimposed with big red letters that say "MINOR", which is a quick way to filter people by age. When issuing licences to non-citizens, all states should be required to have the word "ALIEN" likewise superimposed. That way, it would be a quick and easy to filter people who need a higher level of scrutiny.
So, just because I am not American, I automatically deserve more "scrutiny" huh? Out here in TN we get different coloured "driving certificates" which are specifically marked as "not ID" so that they know that they are dealing with a vicious thug like me.
Do you know what the funny thing is? By lumping me - a completely law abiding person - together with the likes of Atta all they have succeeded in doing is piss me off. If you piss off enough people this way eventually you will piss off somebody who will feel more sympathetic to their cause.
On a side note, do you think Timothy McVeigh should have gotten a different ID?
If you have flying cars you no longer need to build roads.
When google launched their image search I emailed them the suggestion to name this search Go Ogle. I think it might be even more appropriate for blind date searching.
Your sig:
e-had - a purely electronic holy war; i-had - much like an e-had, but it's portable
Would that make a jihad a Java implementation of an i-had?
Can't we just deal with this already (Score:2, Interesting)
by gelfling (6534) Neutral on 2004.09.22 12:06 (#10319989) ( http://slashdot.org/ )
I like a good practical joke as much as the next person. Can we just track down one of these people, drag him/her outside chop them up with bolo knives hunt down their families, rape mutiliate and murder them set fire to their houses, kill their dogs and piss all over the corpses already?
I figure 10, 20 thousand of these losers tops and the problem will go away.
This is marked as interesting? Wow.
H-1B have hurt salaries for engineers.
Really? I am H-1B. Last year I took home a shade over $135 000. Which engineers did I hurt?
Anyone can program a computer given enough books to read.
I have tried to teach numerous people in the past because I thought the same as you. What I found, however, was that some people simply didn't not think the right way to be able to program a computer. I am also not talking about technically illiterate people here either. My brother-in-law who can fix anything mechanical simply cannot string together more than about 5 lines of code.
Your comment and profile as been added to the database thanks for helping us make this country more secure. From now on please call in advance your lawyer and prepare yourself for a full orifice search if you plan to take the plane, the bus or ride a bicycle on the street cause it will be hell to you.
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Wow. Ted Kennedy posts on
Now I have truly seen everything.
Google Cache after slashdotting... http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:YHGDB5MH4e0J:r pow.net/+&hl=en
Shouldn't that be Google Cache after POWing?. Hey, couldn't resist after seing the acronym POW (Piece of Work) on the website once too often.
Come to think of it, this could turn into a new saying. "You're a real POW aren't you?"
The day I see an article titled "Attracting women to the garbage collection industry" then I will start believing in "equality". At the moment, however, it appears ok to leave those jobs as male dominated, but jobs which pay well and are performed in nice environments for some reason cannot be male dominated. Give me a break.
The idea of this kid working anywhere is laughable. He doesn't even mention cars or driving and to the best of my knowledge doesn't know what a girl is (and I check his browser cache when he leaves so we're not even talking about hitting the porn here).
So what does the kid read when he is online? Maybe you can use this knowledge to tear him away from the PC for a while?
I just bought the 2004.1 CDs!!!!!
Damn these dialup connections.
IBM made/makes a keyboard with a zero travel mouse (I think they call it a trackpoint?) in the middle between g and h.
I used one of those for a year on my thinkpad. It eventually made my wrist hurt so much that I had to get a wrist support. After moving off the Thinkpad for two months my wrist was OK again.
There aren't a lot of choices to insure your privacy here. Most of us can't realistically choose not to fly.
How about this? Nobody needs to know my Name, Address or any other information about me to make the flight safer. If they search properly at the terminal and employ properly trained people to look out for people acting wierdly, then it would be possible for me to fly as safely as I do today, but in complete anonymity.
I am not an American and each time I book a flight with a non-US credit card then I get frisked. When I use my US credit card then I walk through with the same treatment that everybody else gets around me. Was the plane safer because I was frisked the first time around? No, because not only did I not have any intentions to do anything on that flight (which they cannot determine with any amount of data), but I also didn't have any devices with me to take over the aircraft.
So, by targeting me for a useless search because of my foreign credit card, they didn't have time to search the next guy in the line who might be walking on the plane with some perspex knives in his jacket.
The world's going to hell in a handbasket.
Actually it isn't. The handbasket(patent pending) is not available for licensing as a transportation device to hell yet due to litigation issues with the shopping basket(tm) owners.
Of course the world is still going to hell, but this means that we will have carry each piece there by hand.
Actually, for paying customers they have removed the adverts as well.
Thus, right now, today, I am sitting with a 2 gig mailbox with no adverts. Google will have to get their product out the door sharpish to overcome the inertia that Yahoo is creating right now.
For example, one of the test cases is implementing "grep". The sh version of this case simply calls grep (after validating the arguments, I guess), which seems like a really big cop-out.
Maybe that's why it is called a Scripting language?
With your C analogy (IAAACP - I am also a C programmer) we'd look at lots of snippets of code identify differences between them, date them (except there is no scientific method for dating code) and hypothesise as to what changes and why.
Archaeology is not a science, certainly not an 'arcane science'. It's a discipline which employs (amongst other things) scientific techniques, such as C-14 dating.
Tsk. Tsk. Sure you can. Similar to the Carbon 14 dating you mention, you could date computer code as it switches from C to C++.
Here, however, is the real kicker. Look at the paragraph above. The first recorded legitimate use of the words "computer code" and "dating" in the same sentence.
This should be renamed to the Mail User Agreement License.
You hereby agree to the MAUL imposed with this message. If you do not agree to this MAULing and continue reading then we will send somebody around for a Better Educated Assessment Test (BEATing).
"fork, knife and spoon" (in German we call it "Besteck" but I know that the english language has no equivalent for it)?
The english equivalent of Besteck is cutlery.
In the USA they refer to it as silverware. (Even if it is made out of white plastic.)
Uh, maybe because I'm paying for their services? I'm not paying them to mess with my connection to their own advantage. If they started doing this I'd be on my way to another provider in a heartbeat.
Yes, because most of us live in an area with more than one (1) broadband provider. That way we always have the option of switching to a competitor if the current company shafts us.
Seriously, for most people it is a case of putting up with whatever nonsense their current broadband provider decides to shove their way or go back to dialup.
Outlawing guns does make society safer, because it means we can arrest people with guns *before* they kill people with them.
Oh shut up! The swiss are required by law to have guns in their homes as part of their national service. How often do you hear of random Swiss guys running around the streets shooting other people?
Yeah, I thought so. Owning a gun does not translate automatically to going around killing people.
How do you put the phones in test mode? I have a Nokia 6610. What is the point of putting it in test mode?
Your next will be a Nissan (KY) or a Honda (OH)?
Nissan is based in Tennessee and Mississipi.
Positively! We'll need to touch base first to...
Touch base dude? I think the phrase you were looking for was. "We'll need to collaborate on this..."