Freedom of speech? I know that might not be that important to some people, but there must be some reason the Founders decided to make it the first one of those amendment thingies in the Bill of Rights.
It could be considered a piece of art, much like pictures of the Virgin Mary smeared with feces could be considered art, and art has over and over again been held up as something worthy of protection under that amendment. You and I might find it distasteful, but no one was directly harmed in its creation, so why should it be illegal?
The sad part (or is it the elegant part?) is the troll is so completely transparent, and yet so many bite on it without thinking about whether or not it could be a troll.
It somehow manages to push so many buttons that people who should know better reply to it before engaging their brains.
Now that I think about it, your post may also be a troll, and maybe it's so elegant that I've failed to recognize it as such prior to replying to it. Perhaps now I'm feeding a troll that was itself replying to a previous troll. Whoa. I think I need to go lay down, my mind has just been totally blown.
So I should make sure I get a good list of porn torrents before taking the quiz, so as not to waste any of the precious little time I get.
As for your little suggestion to "RTFA", you must be new here. I have an allergy to articles posted on Slashdot. Reading them gives me hives or, in this case, uncontrollable blind rage. So you see, it's best for everyone if I avoid reading them.
The rack-mounted chassis is what costs more than the normal PC parts, so just re-use the one you already have and order the rest of it from anywhere. You should be able to buy what you're looking for for less than $400 if you don't have to order the chassis.
Yah, I too live in a small town that Google Street View will never get to. But what I really like about our little town is how much personality it has! I mean, just the other day I saw a couple of college kids driving around down in a little car with this big metal pole with a weird round black thing on top of it sticking out the middle of the roof . Those crazy kids! Must've been some weird fraternity prank or something.
If Hawking wants to get money for this sort of thing, he needs to make it into a reality show and get a TV network on board. Some ideas:
Africa's Next Top Physicist. Every week, contestants will be tasked with solving a major problem in physics. Their efforts will be judged by a panel led by Hawking, using Tyra Banks as a body double. The loser will be eliminated from the competition and thrown into the African savanna, where he will be eaten by a lion.
African Idol: Physics edition. Auditions will be held in various tribal areas throughout Africa. Hilarity will ensue as the ever-caustic Hawking mocks contestants' failures to adequately explain string theory. Losers will be thrown into the African savanna, where they will be eaten by lions.
Deriving With the Physicists. Contestants will be paired up with professional physicists and tasked to derive the Unified Field Theory. Each week, progress will be gaged by a panel of judges. Losers will be thrown into the African savanna, where the lions, fully sated from contestants from the earlier shows, will ignore them. They will then be shot by poachers.
Survivor: Africa. Contestants will spend the entire show dealing with extreme heat, drought, and the ever-present threat of starvation and disease while trying to scrape up enough money to attend school while keeping his family fed and not dying from malaria. The one who can manage to survive long enough to attend a post-graduate physics program wins.
Are you crazy?! Payment devices like PIN pads are cesspools of dangerous germs! They have 3,000 times more germs than a toilet seat, and touching them quintuples your chances of contracting horrible diseases like West Nile virus or the Bubonic Plague.
PIN pads are the next great threat facing your health and the health of your children. Did you hear me? These things could KILL your CHILDREN! You mustn't touch them! You must carry around the econo-size hand sanitizer and use it every time you come within 30 feet of a PIN pad or anyone who has recently used a PIN pad.
For more on this and other everyday items that can KILL your CHILDREN, watch Action News at 10, with weather from Skip Stormy and the DopplerXtreme 6000.
Why do people always think solving problems on Earth means you have to ignore space? We are a huge country, and an even bigger planet, with lots of resources. We have enough brainpower and enough resources to take on Earthly problems while still putting more effort into exploring space. Trying to find a cure for cancer does not mean we have to stop trying to find a cure for AIDs.
Our problem has never been lack of resources, it's poor allocation of those resources.
Sounds like you could use some sort of "free network" to get around your employer's attempts at censorship. Unfortunately, as you've just discovered, no such thing exists.
You could just as easily say that no one really believes their Monster cables make their stereos sound better. And yet, that company is still in business.
I think for most people there is a psychological relationship between how expensive something is and how good it is. If these things cost $20, no one would even consider the idea that they would make anyone play better, even if they were built exactly the same. At $300, though, people are more likely to believe it.
Yes, that first picture is the one from the article, and it actually answers a question I posed in my earlier post because the second picture is of the platters. The platters, other than some dust, look remarkably intact. Given the overall good condition of the platters, it's not that impressive that they could recover the majority of the data, although the fact that they got 99% of it (from your link) is pretty cool.
I think when you're intending to launch something into space using a couple of giant rockets, you might be concerned about vibration shaking normal bolts loose.
As for the condition of the drive, it's hard to say. The exterior was obviously fried, but it was still basically drive-shaped, and from the picture it's impossible to say how damaged the platters were. If the outside was messed up but the platters were still intact, I would think recovery would be fairly simple. Would have been nice to include a picture of the interior of the drive, or maybe even multiple pictures as they took it apart.
I used to envy park rangers, but not anymore. Apparently, these days the job is mostly dealing with dangerous drug runners either growing pot or stashing other drugs out in the boonies of the national parks. Also, the drug runners have guns and the rangers don't.
Then there's dealing with the general public and their disrespect for the park. I actually got to work with a park ranger once, and it was thrilling. It was at Carlsbad Caverns. I got to hold his flashlight while he climbed down to pick up some garbage some jackass had thrown from the trail inside the cave. I would imagine having to do that sort of thing day in and day out would make you develop a healthy hatred for humanity, and I have enough disdain for people in general as it is.
Sure, and we have multiple layers of security with armed guards posted both outside of the gated parking lot and outside and inside the building itself. That would stop most armed robbers, although if you had a Die Hard type of situation with a whole gang of highly sophisticated thieves, I doubt you could do a whole lot to stop them, short of having Bruce Willis on speed dial.
It blows my mind that people who have a raised floor, and presumably go down into the raised floor all the time in order to run cable or whatever, wouldn't realize that people could get under a cage through the same mechanism.
At the data center where I work, all of the cages are extended beyond the raised floor down to the concrete. Sure, if you had a heavy enough set of bolt cutters you could get through, but the metal detectors and security guards should keep you from getting something like that into the building. Plus, the fact that you would have disappeared under the raised floor for several minutes while you cut through the cage should be noticed.
Granted, I work in a Tier IV data center (getting through security is like going to the airport every morning) and don't expect such a high level of security everywhere, but I would think extending the cages beyond the raised floors (and dropped ceilings if present) would be a no-brainer and would be done at very little cost. In addition, I would think at the very least having cameras on and recording 24/7 shouldn't be that big of an expense.
I don't see that as relevant because nothing compels you to open spam either. You can set up filters to automatically remove it, unlike postal mail. However, also unlike postal mail, even if the spam is caught and removed by your spam filter, you have still incurred some cost by the time it gets that far. The spammer has used your bandwidth and your CPU cycles, even if you never see the message.
I would think that the first amendment definitely covers advertisements. If we decide the first amendment covers all speech except for the speech we find annoying, it isn't very useful.
However, in the case of spam, the spammer is forcing the recipient to pay for his speech without consent. That is why spam should be illegal, not because it's trying to sell something.
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Just make sure you always masturbate with the OTHER hand.
Trust me on this one.
Freedom of speech? I know that might not be that important to some people, but there must be some reason the Founders decided to make it the first one of those amendment thingies in the Bill of Rights.
It could be considered a piece of art, much like pictures of the Virgin Mary smeared with feces could be considered art, and art has over and over again been held up as something worthy of protection under that amendment. You and I might find it distasteful, but no one was directly harmed in its creation, so why should it be illegal?
The sad part (or is it the elegant part?) is the troll is so completely transparent, and yet so many bite on it without thinking about whether or not it could be a troll.
It somehow manages to push so many buttons that people who should know better reply to it before engaging their brains.
Now that I think about it, your post may also be a troll, and maybe it's so elegant that I've failed to recognize it as such prior to replying to it. Perhaps now I'm feeding a troll that was itself replying to a previous troll. Whoa. I think I need to go lay down, my mind has just been totally blown.
So I should make sure I get a good list of porn torrents before taking the quiz, so as not to waste any of the precious little time I get.
As for your little suggestion to "RTFA", you must be new here. I have an allergy to articles posted on Slashdot. Reading them gives me hives or, in this case, uncontrollable blind rage. So you see, it's best for everyone if I avoid reading them.
So how many seconds will it take for someone to write a script to automatically take this quiz for you every 6 hours?
The rack-mounted chassis is what costs more than the normal PC parts, so just re-use the one you already have and order the rest of it from anywhere. You should be able to buy what you're looking for for less than $400 if you don't have to order the chassis.
Yah, I too live in a small town that Google Street View will never get to. But what I really like about our little town is how much personality it has! I mean, just the other day I saw a couple of college kids driving around down in a little car with this big metal pole with a weird round black thing on top of it sticking out the middle of the roof . Those crazy kids! Must've been some weird fraternity prank or something.
If Hawking wants to get money for this sort of thing, he needs to make it into a reality show and get a TV network on board. Some ideas:
Africa's Next Top Physicist. Every week, contestants will be tasked with solving a major problem in physics. Their efforts will be judged by a panel led by Hawking, using Tyra Banks as a body double. The loser will be eliminated from the competition and thrown into the African savanna, where he will be eaten by a lion.
African Idol: Physics edition. Auditions will be held in various tribal areas throughout Africa. Hilarity will ensue as the ever-caustic Hawking mocks contestants' failures to adequately explain string theory. Losers will be thrown into the African savanna, where they will be eaten by lions.
Deriving With the Physicists. Contestants will be paired up with professional physicists and tasked to derive the Unified Field Theory. Each week, progress will be gaged by a panel of judges. Losers will be thrown into the African savanna, where the lions, fully sated from contestants from the earlier shows, will ignore them. They will then be shot by poachers.
Survivor: Africa. Contestants will spend the entire show dealing with extreme heat, drought, and the ever-present threat of starvation and disease while trying to scrape up enough money to attend school while keeping his family fed and not dying from malaria. The one who can manage to survive long enough to attend a post-graduate physics program wins.
We can't have glowing humans because they would piss everyone off at movie theatres.
Actually, we're currently technically not capable of sending a man to the moon. Check back around 2020 though, then we can start saying that again.
Are you crazy?! Payment devices like PIN pads are cesspools of dangerous germs! They have 3,000 times more germs than a toilet seat, and touching them quintuples your chances of contracting horrible diseases like West Nile virus or the Bubonic Plague.
PIN pads are the next great threat facing your health and the health of your children. Did you hear me? These things could KILL your CHILDREN! You mustn't touch them! You must carry around the econo-size hand sanitizer and use it every time you come within 30 feet of a PIN pad or anyone who has recently used a PIN pad.
For more on this and other everyday items that can KILL your CHILDREN, watch Action News at 10, with weather from Skip Stormy and the DopplerXtreme 6000.
It's easy to generate campaign money. All you have to do is become a shill, shyster, or despot and the money comes rolling in.
Why do people always think solving problems on Earth means you have to ignore space? We are a huge country, and an even bigger planet, with lots of resources. We have enough brainpower and enough resources to take on Earthly problems while still putting more effort into exploring space. Trying to find a cure for cancer does not mean we have to stop trying to find a cure for AIDs.
Our problem has never been lack of resources, it's poor allocation of those resources.
Looks like most of us have been getting screwed repeatedly for a long time. That seems to be the primary cause of the problem.
Sounds like you could use some sort of "free network" to get around your employer's attempts at censorship. Unfortunately, as you've just discovered, no such thing exists.
Oh well, back to the grind.
You have more faith in humanity than I do.
You could just as easily say that no one really believes their Monster cables make their stereos sound better. And yet, that company is still in business.
I think for most people there is a psychological relationship between how expensive something is and how good it is. If these things cost $20, no one would even consider the idea that they would make anyone play better, even if they were built exactly the same. At $300, though, people are more likely to believe it.
Yes, that first picture is the one from the article, and it actually answers a question I posed in my earlier post because the second picture is of the platters. The platters, other than some dust, look remarkably intact. Given the overall good condition of the platters, it's not that impressive that they could recover the majority of the data, although the fact that they got 99% of it (from your link) is pretty cool.
I think when you're intending to launch something into space using a couple of giant rockets, you might be concerned about vibration shaking normal bolts loose.
As for the condition of the drive, it's hard to say. The exterior was obviously fried, but it was still basically drive-shaped, and from the picture it's impossible to say how damaged the platters were. If the outside was messed up but the platters were still intact, I would think recovery would be fairly simple. Would have been nice to include a picture of the interior of the drive, or maybe even multiple pictures as they took it apart.
I used to envy park rangers, but not anymore. Apparently, these days the job is mostly dealing with dangerous drug runners either growing pot or stashing other drugs out in the boonies of the national parks. Also, the drug runners have guns and the rangers don't.
Then there's dealing with the general public and their disrespect for the park. I actually got to work with a park ranger once, and it was thrilling. It was at Carlsbad Caverns. I got to hold his flashlight while he climbed down to pick up some garbage some jackass had thrown from the trail inside the cave. I would imagine having to do that sort of thing day in and day out would make you develop a healthy hatred for humanity, and I have enough disdain for people in general as it is.
Sure, and we have multiple layers of security with armed guards posted both outside of the gated parking lot and outside and inside the building itself. That would stop most armed robbers, although if you had a Die Hard type of situation with a whole gang of highly sophisticated thieves, I doubt you could do a whole lot to stop them, short of having Bruce Willis on speed dial.
It blows my mind that people who have a raised floor, and presumably go down into the raised floor all the time in order to run cable or whatever, wouldn't realize that people could get under a cage through the same mechanism.
At the data center where I work, all of the cages are extended beyond the raised floor down to the concrete. Sure, if you had a heavy enough set of bolt cutters you could get through, but the metal detectors and security guards should keep you from getting something like that into the building. Plus, the fact that you would have disappeared under the raised floor for several minutes while you cut through the cage should be noticed.
Granted, I work in a Tier IV data center (getting through security is like going to the airport every morning) and don't expect such a high level of security everywhere, but I would think extending the cages beyond the raised floors (and dropped ceilings if present) would be a no-brainer and would be done at very little cost. In addition, I would think at the very least having cameras on and recording 24/7 shouldn't be that big of an expense.
Except every one of these machines is capable of running Windows, and most of them come with XP installed, either as standard or as an add-on option.
So yah, MS is really getting their asses kicked on this one.
I don't see that as relevant because nothing compels you to open spam either. You can set up filters to automatically remove it, unlike postal mail. However, also unlike postal mail, even if the spam is caught and removed by your spam filter, you have still incurred some cost by the time it gets that far. The spammer has used your bandwidth and your CPU cycles, even if you never see the message.
I would think that the first amendment definitely covers advertisements. If we decide the first amendment covers all speech except for the speech we find annoying, it isn't very useful.
However, in the case of spam, the spammer is forcing the recipient to pay for his speech without consent. That is why spam should be illegal, not because it's trying to sell something.
Yes, we should all be very careful not to post spoilers about a 67 year old movie.
By the way, I saw the movie after having heard the "spoiler" many many times, and still thought it was one of the best movies I'd ever seen.