$750k a month is better than I think 99.9% of this entire world's population. And to think... only 9 years in jail.
You're the second person in this thread who expresses this point of view. Interesting (and sad) society we live in were it's deemed an acceptable option to serve time in jail as a paid job...
Personally, I'd rather starve in the street than go one minute in jail. I couldn't bear the shame...
who just got a 9-year jail term recommendation from the state jury
9 years in the slammer getting unsolicited gifts from Bubba? Wow! I bet at least one of the jurors purchased a penis enlarger and, let's say, wasn't totally satisfied with the results...
they are actively considering disconnecting their main systems from the internet altogether and only using a dedicated machine for access
They should also consider going off the power grid and start using oil lamps and petrol space heaters. Never know where those 3vi1 h4x0rs might hit you from...
In other news: ispel-fo 0.2.18 was released today. ispell-fo is a faroese dictionary for ispell based on Føroyski orðalistin til rættlestur (The Faroese Spellchecking Dictionary). Massive rejoicing of computer hackers on Capitol Hill was not reported.
As a challenge, I'd like to submit that myself and a partner be the first couple to conceive a child in space. If this is Sigourney Weaver - then that can be my prize.
In case Sigourney isn't available, the second prize is a good hard shag in zero-gee in the Alien's station wagon. Still interested?
"Hey look folks, we're in a bit of a fix: we have a $15.5bn/yr budget, but we're stuck with this stupid space station, and we're also afraid to do anything in case we screw up again, and we're a big fat brain-dead administration. So, like, can we give one of you a teensy little big of our big pile of cash to give us some ideas? Thank you in advance!"
... because the more money the US military wastes on this kind of mumbo-jumbo, the safer the rest of the world will be. I'd far rather they have remote viewing specialists, psychic teleporters and experts in yogic flying than even more guns and bombs.
Bzzt... wrong answer. If the US military needs money, either taxes go up, meaning more americans go into poverty or into debt, or less is spent on educating america's youth. And if need be, the federal reserve just prints more money, devaluating the dollar and threatening the US economy. Nothing reassuring for the rest of the world really...
No, nobody wants your data, get that through your head!
You my friend need to do a reality check. People out there want your data. However meaningless items of data. *BAD*.
* Spammers want your email, as you point out * Marketdroids want your consuming habits * Health insurance folks want your latest medical checkup and your average cigarette consumption * Car insurance companies want your tickets and warnings * Pedophiles want your kids' school timetables * The IRS want your overseas banking records * Bubba from da 'hood wants to know when you take holidays
If you want to protect yourself, always ask your bank, medical clinic, etc. whether it outsources information processing to China or India. If the answer is "yes", then find another place to do business.
Are you really this naive?
Your bank will answer "Sir, we are doing everything in our power to protect your privacy", or "the contractors with work with are fully accredited by us to handle your personal data" or something sybilline like this. They'd never admit flatly that they outsource to a shitty data center in a third world country. If they did, there'd be no problem since people would walk out the door without a second thought.
I read the title as "NASA Plans Robotic Lunar Scots" Was wondering what kind of kilts the robots would have.
And here folks, we have a perfect example of method #34 of getting a +1:Funny rating on Slashdot. Let's detail a generic recipe for this method: 1 - Quickly peruse the blurb, lift a sentence out of it
2 - Quote the sentence in your post, pretend you read something else, presumably funny, by changing whatever word you want to anything you want.
3 - Make some witty comment about what you supposedly thought, or wondered, or believed, by supposedly mis-reading the sentence.
4 - Don't forget to indicate, somewhere in your post or in the title, that you're tired, you need coffee or you generally need rest, to explain why you would mis-read the sentence in the first place
Voilà, no need to find a genuine sentence that's funny, just make up your own with some context and watch yourself be modded up!
That, people, concludes the Slashdot lesson for the day...
Leave it to the private companies, they've given ample evidence of capability superior to NASA's
Some dude flying a light aircraft at 360,000 ft for several seconds in 2004 doesn't even remotely qualify as proving superior to NASA's putting tons of men and equipment on another planet and bringing back many pounds of samples back on earth in 1969, sorry.
You know what level and type of war the US is involved in by looking at their activities on the moon. For example:
* Decades-long cold war with soviet block --> man on the moon * Months long warlet in Iraq --> robot on the moon * In time of peace --> gazing at the moon
The real good news is, Roland Piquepaille will be forced to follow the new blogging trend to stay cool, and therefore whoever hosts his lame blog now (Primidi, it seems) will make him pay dearly for the bandwidth at the first sign of self-redirected Slashdot traffic, therefore negating the advertising revenues he derives from the activity.
When was the last time you saw an infant? FYI, infants do something early in life called "saying their first word". When that happens, they've just learned one single word, and it usually turns out to be pretty hard to conjugate with itself...
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$750k a month is better than I think 99.9% of this entire world's population. And to think... only 9 years in jail.
You're the second person in this thread who expresses this point of view. Interesting (and sad) society we live in were it's deemed an acceptable option to serve time in jail as a paid job...
Personally, I'd rather starve in the street than go one minute in jail. I couldn't bear the shame...
who just got a 9-year jail term recommendation from the state jury
9 years in the slammer getting unsolicited gifts from Bubba? Wow! I bet at least one of the jurors purchased a penis enlarger and, let's say, wasn't totally satisfied with the results...
they are actively considering disconnecting their main systems from the internet altogether and only using a dedicated machine for access
They should also consider going off the power grid and start using oil lamps and petrol space heaters. Never know where those 3vi1 h4x0rs might hit you from...
It directs a laser beam by speedy changing of its tilting angle
Your dog may speak German, but it sure doesn't speak english. FYI, it's called a friggin' laser beam.
"Linux is something that we'll have to interoperate with because it may exist far beyond whatever Solaris turns out to be"
meaning, SunOS/Solaris has no future, Linux does, so we'll morph the former into the latter.
Hmm.. what could Zope be ? Lemme guess ?
DukeNukem 3 beta release ?
Can't be, they only took 3 years to release it.
In other news: ispel-fo 0.2.18 was released today. ispell-fo is a faroese dictionary for ispell based on Føroyski orðalistin til rættlestur (The Faroese Spellchecking Dictionary). Massive rejoicing of computer hackers on Capitol Hill was not reported.
As a challenge, I'd like to submit that myself and a partner be the first couple to conceive a child in space. If this is Sigourney Weaver - then that can be my prize.
In case Sigourney isn't available, the second prize is a good hard shag in zero-gee in the Alien's station wagon. Still interested?
"Hey look folks, we're in a bit of a fix: we have a $15.5bn/yr budget, but we're stuck with this stupid space station, and we're also afraid to do anything in case we screw up again, and we're a big fat brain-dead administration. So, like, can we give one of you a teensy little big of our big pile of cash to give us some ideas? Thank you in advance!"
I say it's pathetic...
... because the more money the US military wastes on this kind of mumbo-jumbo, the safer the rest of the world will be. I'd far rather they have remote viewing specialists, psychic teleporters and experts in yogic flying than even more guns and bombs.
Bzzt... wrong answer. If the US military needs money, either taxes go up, meaning more americans go into poverty or into debt, or less is spent on educating america's youth. And if need be, the federal reserve just prints more money, devaluating the dollar and threatening the US economy. Nothing reassuring for the rest of the world really...
My sister wås bitten by å møøse ønce...
Sue this MPAA!
No, nobody wants your data, get that through your head!
You my friend need to do a reality check. People out there want your data. However meaningless items of data. *BAD*.
* Spammers want your email, as you point out
* Marketdroids want your consuming habits
* Health insurance folks want your latest medical checkup and your average cigarette consumption
* Car insurance companies want your tickets and warnings
* Pedophiles want your kids' school timetables
* The IRS want your overseas banking records
* Bubba from da 'hood wants to know when you take holidays
Please get real...
If you want to protect yourself, always ask your bank, medical clinic, etc. whether it outsources information processing to China or India. If the answer is "yes", then find another place to do business.
Are you really this naive?
Your bank will answer "Sir, we are doing everything in our power to protect your privacy", or "the contractors with work with are fully accredited by us to handle your personal data" or something sybilline like this. They'd never admit flatly that they outsource to a shitty data center in a third world country. If they did, there'd be no problem since people would walk out the door without a second thought.
To me all the outsourcing problems can be resumed to a simple allegory : cooking.
That's right: I just had papadams, lamb vindaloo and a kingfisher tonight and I can really feel outsourcing going on in my tummy!
cannot be complete without chapter 11.
the traditional predictions of the end of Moore's Observation
Thank you for correctly not calling Moore's observation "Moore's law". It's refreshing once in a while.
I read the title as "NASA Plans Robotic Lunar Scots"
Was wondering what kind of kilts the robots would have.
And here folks, we have a perfect example of method #34 of getting a +1:Funny rating on Slashdot. Let's detail a generic recipe for this method:
1 - Quickly peruse the blurb, lift a sentence out of it
2 - Quote the sentence in your post, pretend you read something else, presumably funny, by changing whatever word you want to anything you want.
3 - Make some witty comment about what you supposedly thought, or wondered, or believed, by supposedly mis-reading the sentence.
4 - Don't forget to indicate, somewhere in your post or in the title, that you're tired, you need coffee or you generally need rest, to explain why you would mis-read the sentence in the first place
Voilà, no need to find a genuine sentence that's funny, just make up your own with some context and watch yourself be modded up!
That, people, concludes the Slashdot lesson for the day...
Leave it to the private companies, they've given ample evidence of capability superior to NASA's
Some dude flying a light aircraft at 360,000 ft for several seconds in 2004 doesn't even remotely qualify as proving superior to NASA's putting tons of men and equipment on another planet and bringing back many pounds of samples back on earth in 1969, sorry.
Hell, they couldn't find the remains of my land rover last time I left it parked in south central, so nevermind on the moon...
Just wait till they send the girl scouts, then you'll get the moon cookies...
You know what level and type of war the US is involved in by looking at their activities on the moon. For example:
* Decades-long cold war with soviet block --> man on the moon
* Months long warlet in Iraq --> robot on the moon
* In time of peace --> gazing at the moon
Sure sure, and next thing you know they'll tell you they'll send a man on the moon. Sheesh...
The real good news is, Roland Piquepaille will be forced to follow the new blogging trend to stay cool, and therefore whoever hosts his lame blog now (Primidi, it seems) will make him pay dearly for the bandwidth at the first sign of self-redirected Slashdot traffic, therefore negating the advertising revenues he derives from the activity.
When was the last time you saw an infant? FYI, infants do something early in life called "saying their first word". When that happens, they've just learned one single word, and it usually turns out to be pretty hard to conjugate with itself...