Of course they aren't paying any attention. People just aren't knowledgeable enough about the threat of cybersecurity to give a shit
As evidenced by the recent slashdot articles on 20,000 zombies up for sale and the average survival time being 20 minutes for a fresh computer on the internet.
Is this really news to anyone? I watched only a small clip of the speech and said "Bush's speechwriters wrote that speech.
I missed it, did it have about 100 "uh"s in it?
no, no, take out the part about the prisoner abuse and practically leveling a city of friendlies to get Sadr and put in heroical things that make us look good
Getting back onto topic, I wonder what sort of materials something like this would be made out of, it seems like something without rigidity would be more susceptible to micrometeorite punctures?
At the velocity anything is moving foam rubber or carbon fibre would be the same thing. After what a paint chip did to sone of the shuttle windows (what, 8" of layered safety glass?) I'd be more worried about larger bits and how to disperse their kinetic energy rather than try to put something rigid in the path (keep in mind, if it's facing away from the Sun it could have a very low surface temperature, thus more brittle.)
Maybe like one beachball inside another beachball with a layer of sand between...
I'll have you know I regularly ride a bike over 100 miles each weekend. It's amazing how much you can totally geek out on GPS/HR monitor/Cadence/Altimeter, etc. Check out out he HAC4.
My ultimate apartment was next to the hardware store, within walking distance of grocery and many restaurants and across the street from a theater with stadium seating. Too bad it was about 40 miles from all the cool electronics shops in Silicon Valley.
Three most important points to consider when buying a house (or renting an apartment):
.. if only to shout "Leonard Bernstein" at this point.
I don't get it... Did Leonard Bernstein conduct REM or toss Michael Stipe into a volcano?
Mostly we have earthquakes here in central California, but looks like the west coast is getting the east coast treatment. Two sets of earth quakes in 24 hours, centered around Parkfield (earthquake capitol of California, they say, dunno about you, but that sounds like a ringing endorsement for a place to live if ever there was one) plus another one near Bakersfield and I figure Mt. St. Helens has got nothing on us. Shakes to the left, magma to the right, it's more like Fins, but Volcano is probably more fitting. (BTW this new lameness minimum line-length thing is a real bugbear, how's someone supposed to post something valid without adding piles of unnecessary comments just to bloat the thing out to some arbitrary average length? It's the kind of thing Pythons careers were born lampooning. Were we not once criticized for writing run-on sentences and paragraphs -- maybe I should review Dead Poets Society stuff for measuring proper enjoyment of a poem with a ruler.) Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 39.6).Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 39.6). It's like telling someone they're house is on fire, but they won't hear you properly unless you use proper manners (Excuse my interruption, kind sir, but your house is a great inferno and I beg you consider your options regarding the welfare of your family and posessions, like, totally forsooth and stuff like that there.)
[this is for the lameness filter which utterly blows and encourages lots of unnecessary text to be inserted into a comment by some inexplicable logic to reign in people who do puny posts or obscene artwork, but is really a drag if you're trying to post a quote or some code which is formatted. I hope you enjoy this interlude as much as I did typing it.]
Volcano -- Jimmy Buffett (Words and music)
Now I don't know, I don't know I don't know where I'm a gonna go When the volcano blow
Let me say now I don't know, I don't know I don't know where I'm a gonna go When the volcano blow
Ground she's movin' under me Tidal waves out on the sea Sulphur smoke up in the sky Pretty soon we learn to fly
Let me hear ya now I don't know, I don't know I don't know where I'm a gonna go When the volcano blow
Now my girl quickly say to me Mon you better watch your feet Lava come down soft and hot You better lava me now or lava me not
Let me say now I don't know, I don't know I don't know where I'm a gonna go When the volcano blow
Mr Utley... (Michael Utley plays a piano instrumental)
No time to count what I'm worth 'Cause I just left the planet earth Where I go I hope there's rum Not to worry mon soon come
Now I don't know, I don't know I don't know where I'm a gonna go When the volcano blow
One more now I don't know (ah he don't know) I don't know (he don't know, mon) I don't know where I'm a gonna go When the volcano blow
But I don't want to land in New York City Don't want to land in Mexico (no no no) Don't want to land on no Three Mile Island Don't want to see my skin aglow (no no no)
Don't want to land in Commanche Sky park Or in Nashville, Tennessee (no no no) Don't want to land in no San Juan airport Or the Yukon Territory (no no no)
Don't want to land no San Diego Don't want to land in no Buzzards Bay (no no no) Don't want to land on no Ayotollah I got nothing more to say
I don't know, I don't know I don't know where I'm a gonna go When the volcano blow
Just a one more, I don't know (he don't know) I don't know (I don't know, man) I don't know where I'm a gonna go When the volcano blow
One major bug still exists -- the bot cannot separate news from opinion and other trash. It's a sloppy orgy of miscellaneous content that should somehow be more carefully organized before being released.
It's worse than that. Often headlines include (UPDATED) and first letters of articles are missing, possibly because they are a graphic capital letter.
Still, I go there before I go anywhere. Beats the heck out of CNN.
Am I reading it wrong, or is the title of that Wired article (Google News: Beta Not Make Money) really bad grammar? Do they have editors over there?
Journalists seem to think they're funnier than everyone else and come up with stupid puns and plays on words far too often. IMHO it enforces the opinion they don't take writing the articles very seriously, either. Maybe they're all trying to get mentioned by Jay Leno on his cure for insomnia show.
Laser pointers would be almost impossible to use against aircraft because the beam diverges so quickly. At 10 feet you might damage someone's retina, but at 1000 feet, the beam will have spread significantly:
I was watching a college bowl game a couple years back and noticed a light spot, about 5 ft diameter following one of the team coaches. It occured to me that some sh!t for brains in the stands was trying to blind the coach with a laser pointer. I wonder if they check for these when frisking people entering stadiums now.
In Clancy's Debt of Honor the crew of a 747 was blinded by agents with a high intensity light and it certainly occured to me that near an airport such a thing could post a considerable hazard.
Brooks' key collaborator on writing Spaceballs was Ronny Graham, who passed away in 1999. Maybe Mel is still good enough, but without a good collaborating writer it could be a bomb. Brooks gave a lot of the credit for the success of Spaceballs to Graham's writing.
I bought the DVD, and its definately worth it, regardless of other peoples' opinions.
I got it, too, and over the weekend (while recovering from my usual bike rides) watched them. By and large Lucas' changes added nothing to the story for whatever expense it took to include them. Some of the added CGI looks utterly hokey and provides a distraction to the story. In a nutshell, a bad business decision, as fans were going to buy the sets anyway, but when you're George Lucas and have George Lucas' bank account, you can indulge yourself. Maybe on his headbed we'll hear him apologize, but don't count on it.
I'd be hard pressed to yield 1000 words on the DVD set.
There's still Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid that will need to be paid out. Our deferred liabilities in these dwarf the national debt.
Actually they're about half of it. See those Intragovernmental Holdings? That's the non-publicly held share, which is borrowed from all those nice things that are supposed to take care of us in our old age or infirmity.
While the Fed rate was low the interest payments on debt went down, but don't expect that bargain to last.
Where they can live: What in the heck does this have to do with Gay marrage? Seriously!
Remember when there were neighborhoods that wouldn't let blacks or irish or catholics or basically anyone derermined objectionable to the homogenous makeup of the neighborhood move in?
Ya know, this is modded "funny", but it would be pretty interesting to see something like this in practice...
The electoral college was established due to the speed of communications of the time.
Now that nearly everyone has accecess to the internet it's approaching possibility that the president could be directed by a daily poll, which may even have legal binding if we get such laws passed. i.e. the president suggests we invade Cuba, and many exiles in Florida say, 'Yes', meanwhile the rest of the country says 'No' so we don't invade Cuba. That sort of thing.
What with Diebold's flaws though I'm not sure we'll see this for a bit. It would need to be absolutely secure, lest we get hijacked by an interest unethical enough to hack it.
It's also possible it would paralyze the government. People would really need to be better informed before polling on issues which could seriously harm the economy, education, environment, etc.
I've been watching the weather and all sorts of neat stuff on the NOAA GEOS site for years.
Not great for spying on your city, but great animations for tracking weather and hurricanes
Most African Americans are against gay marriage (more than whites) and they don't appreciate this comparison being made, for the record. They are not the same thing at all. You have the right to get married, but unless its a man-woman relationship, it is not a marriage. Get a clue.
It's not about race, but about one group telling another group how they should live, who they can marry, where they can live, what is acceptable behaviour, etc.
The constitution is not about limiting peoples rights, but limiting the involvement of government in the lives of the people.
. I got my mod points *this* week. Unless they're giving mod points to all (for fairness);)
Either way, I bet a lot of people will metamoderate that week.
Mr. President,
Should citizens be able to moderate and metamoderate presidential orders?
Killed auto emissions bill (-1 Troll)
Proposed flag burning amendment (-1 Flamebait)
9/11 speech (4 insightful)
Tax cuts (3 Interesting)
Tell everyone to go out and spend that $300 right away (5 Funny)
Record deficit spending (-1 Troll)
Invade Afghanistan in pursuit of al qaeda (5 Interesting)
Mr. President, Do you believe the government should decide who should marry who?
Let me begin by saying that prior to moving to California I was considerably less sympathetic to gays and lesbians. Having worked side-by-side with many with alternative lifestyles, I've come to appreciate they are no less human and no less entitled to all rights and privileges because of their choice of partners. Some I even consider good friends. How could I suggest withholding certain liberties to friends?
I associate this issue strongly with the civil rights struggles of african americans, who even had caucasians telling them who they could and could not marry, lest some harm come to them. The issue is effectively the same, a fundamental civil right of people who marry who they choose, without threat of physical harm or legal injunction.
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are not for the chosen or political elite, but everyone.
The ultimate tax cut will be when there is no further servicing, paying interest on, the national debt. US tax payers would need only pay
about 50% of what they currently do for approximately the same level of service from the federal government. Further, the extra money left to taxpayers
would amount to considerable investment and consumer spending. The federal government
has cut tax revenue and returned to deficit spending rather than hold spending below revenue and retire the debt. How would you address balancing the federal budget and
paying down the debt, so americans will pay far less in taxes?
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As evidenced by the recent slashdot articles on 20,000 zombies up for sale and the average survival time being 20 minutes for a fresh computer on the internet.
There is, of course, a problem with this. The guy I bulk order my Tin Foil Hats from won't accept them. Maybe this guy will take them.
I missed it, did it have about 100 "uh"s in it?
no, no, take out the part about the prisoner abuse and practically leveling a city of friendlies to get Sadr and put in heroical things that make us look good
At the velocity anything is moving foam rubber or carbon fibre would be the same thing. After what a paint chip did to sone of the shuttle windows (what, 8" of layered safety glass?) I'd be more worried about larger bits and how to disperse their kinetic energy rather than try to put something rigid in the path (keep in mind, if it's facing away from the Sun it could have a very low surface temperature, thus more brittle.)
Maybe like one beachball inside another beachball with a layer of sand between...
This must be an enormous disappointment to MegaMaid, I'm sure she would have had something else in mind.
'She's gone from suck to blow'
I'll have you know I regularly ride a bike over 100 miles each weekend. It's amazing how much you can totally geek out on GPS/HR monitor/Cadence/Altimeter, etc. Check out out he HAC4.
My ultimate apartment was next to the hardware store, within walking distance of grocery and many restaurants and across the street from a theater with stadium seating. Too bad it was about 40 miles from all the cool electronics shops in Silicon Valley.
Three most important points to consider when buying a house (or renting an apartment):
Location
Location
Location
I don't get it... Did Leonard Bernstein conduct REM or toss Michael Stipe into a volcano?
Mostly we have earthquakes here in central California, but looks like the west coast is getting the east coast treatment. Two sets of earth quakes in 24 hours, centered around Parkfield (earthquake capitol of California, they say, dunno about you, but that sounds like a ringing endorsement for a place to live if ever there was one) plus another one near Bakersfield and I figure Mt. St. Helens has got nothing on us. Shakes to the left, magma to the right, it's more like Fins, but Volcano is probably more fitting. (BTW this new lameness minimum line-length thing is a real bugbear, how's someone supposed to post something valid without adding piles of unnecessary comments just to bloat the thing out to some arbitrary average length? It's the kind of thing Pythons careers were born lampooning. Were we not once criticized for writing run-on sentences and paragraphs -- maybe I should review Dead Poets Society stuff for measuring proper enjoyment of a poem with a ruler.) Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 39.6).Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 39.6). It's like telling someone they're house is on fire, but they won't hear you properly unless you use proper manners (Excuse my interruption, kind sir, but your house is a great inferno and I beg you consider your options regarding the welfare of your family and posessions, like, totally forsooth and stuff like that there.) [this is for the lameness filter which utterly blows and encourages lots of unnecessary text to be inserted into a comment by some inexplicable logic to reign in people who do puny posts or obscene artwork, but is really a drag if you're trying to post a quote or some code which is formatted. I hope you enjoy this interlude as much as I did typing it.]
It's worse than that. Often headlines include (UPDATED) and first letters of articles are missing, possibly because they are a graphic capital letter.
Still, I go there before I go anywhere. Beats the heck out of CNN.
Journalists seem to think they're funnier than everyone else and come up with stupid puns and plays on words far too often. IMHO it enforces the opinion they don't take writing the articles very seriously, either. Maybe they're all trying to get mentioned by Jay Leno on his cure for insomnia show.
Actually it is Debt of Honor.
I was watching a college bowl game a couple years back and noticed a light spot, about 5 ft diameter following one of the team coaches. It occured to me that some sh!t for brains in the stands was trying to blind the coach with a laser pointer. I wonder if they check for these when frisking people entering stadiums now.
In Clancy's Debt of Honor the crew of a 747 was blinded by agents with a high intensity light and it certainly occured to me that near an airport such a thing could post a considerable hazard.
Brooks' key collaborator on writing Spaceballs was Ronny Graham, who passed away in 1999. Maybe Mel is still good enough, but without a good collaborating writer it could be a bomb. Brooks gave a lot of the credit for the success of Spaceballs to Graham's writing.
I got it, too, and over the weekend (while recovering from my usual bike rides) watched them. By and large Lucas' changes added nothing to the story for whatever expense it took to include them. Some of the added CGI looks utterly hokey and provides a distraction to the story. In a nutshell, a bad business decision, as fans were going to buy the sets anyway, but when you're George Lucas and have George Lucas' bank account, you can indulge yourself. Maybe on his headbed we'll hear him apologize, but don't count on it.
I'd be hard pressed to yield 1000 words on the DVD set.
"Luke..." ... is ... ano..ther...dir...ect..tors...cut."
"Luke there
Coffee mug: 10
T Shirt: 15
Mouse pad: 5
Slashdotting the site: Priceless
The evil empire which denounced Open Source... Sysiphus, put down that snowball!
Actually they're about half of it. See those Intragovernmental Holdings? That's the non-publicly held share, which is borrowed from all those nice things that are supposed to take care of us in our old age or infirmity.
While the Fed rate was low the interest payments on debt went down, but don't expect that bargain to last.
Personal Telephoney Objectionable Object Immediate Eradication
SPam Eradication Wirelessly
Highly Unwanted Reduction Logic
+++ MELON MELON MELON +++
+++ Out of Cheese error +++
+++ Reinstall Universe +++
+++ Redo from start +++
[ANT HILL INSIDE]
Man, I suck at that, how about Cripple Mr. Onion?
Remember when there were neighborhoods that wouldn't let blacks or irish or catholics or basically anyone derermined objectionable to the homogenous makeup of the neighborhood move in?
The electoral college was established due to the speed of communications of the time.
Now that nearly everyone has accecess to the internet it's approaching possibility that the president could be directed by a daily poll, which may even have legal binding if we get such laws passed. i.e. the president suggests we invade Cuba, and many exiles in Florida say, 'Yes', meanwhile the rest of the country says 'No' so we don't invade Cuba. That sort of thing.
What with Diebold's flaws though I'm not sure we'll see this for a bit. It would need to be absolutely secure, lest we get hijacked by an interest unethical enough to hack it.
It's also possible it would paralyze the government. People would really need to be better informed before polling on issues which could seriously harm the economy, education, environment, etc.
I've been watching the weather and all sorts of neat stuff on the NOAA GEOS site for years. Not great for spying on your city, but great animations for tracking weather and hurricanes
It's not about race, but about one group telling another group how they should live, who they can marry, where they can live, what is acceptable behaviour, etc.
The constitution is not about limiting peoples rights, but limiting the involvement of government in the lives of the people.
It doesn't begin 'We, some of the People'
Mr. President,
Should citizens be able to moderate and metamoderate presidential orders?
Killed auto emissions bill (-1 Troll)
Proposed flag burning amendment (-1 Flamebait)
9/11 speech (4 insightful)
Tax cuts (3 Interesting)
Tell everyone to go out and spend that $300 right away (5 Funny)
Record deficit spending (-1 Troll)
Invade Afghanistan in pursuit of al qaeda (5 Interesting)
Invade Iraq (-1 Flamebait)
Gay marriage ban amendment (-1 Flamebait)
Let me begin by saying that prior to moving to California I was considerably less sympathetic to gays and lesbians. Having worked side-by-side with many with alternative lifestyles, I've come to appreciate they are no less human and no less entitled to all rights and privileges because of their choice of partners. Some I even consider good friends. How could I suggest withholding certain liberties to friends?
I associate this issue strongly with the civil rights struggles of african americans, who even had caucasians telling them who they could and could not marry, lest some harm come to them. The issue is effectively the same, a fundamental civil right of people who marry who they choose, without threat of physical harm or legal injunction.
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are not for the chosen or political elite, but everyone.
The ultimate tax cut will be when there is no further servicing, paying interest on, the national debt. US tax payers would need only pay about 50% of what they currently do for approximately the same level of service from the federal government. Further, the extra money left to taxpayers would amount to considerable investment and consumer spending. The federal government has cut tax revenue and returned to deficit spending rather than hold spending below revenue and retire the debt. How would you address balancing the federal budget and paying down the debt, so americans will pay far less in taxes?