Besides, it was so well-faked that human observers couldn't tell the difference at the time or afterwards, from the massive quakes rumbling around while the black hole ate the Earth from the inside to the resulting appropriately-massed black hole that the moon orbited. From the point of view of the humans, there was no practical difference.
Images referenced in HTML on externals sites are often used to determine if an email has been received by the addressee(s). Allowing the user to specify whether he/she wants to view them is similar to confirming before sending any requested read receipts.
Attachments, however, have already been received. Viewing them doesn't really reveal anything to others, though clearly it may reveal things to the reader that he/she didn't want to see.
Alatar and Pallando arrived in Middle-earth dressed in sea-blue. For this reason, they were together given the name Ithryn Luin, the Blue Wizards. With Saruman, they journeyed into the far east of Middle-earth, but while Saruman returned to the west, Alatar and Pallando did not. Of their fate, we know almost nothing.
These "no tolerance" policies are typically only geared toward threatening behavior and ignore other kinds of teasing and taunting.
My middle-school-aged son has Asperger's syndrome. He can be teased into irrational anger by something as simple as repeating a rediculous falsehood continually. Because of the disorder, he doesn't know how to tune out things like this, realize that he could ask the teacher to step in to stop it, or know how to moderate his outbursts when he's upset. As such, some kids really enjoy pushing his buttons to see him react, and do it to extremes.
The school is aware of this, but their efforts to stop it have been fairly mild since they don't have "no tolerance" for it. However, when my son gets frustrated enough to burst, and tells the taunters what he thinks of them and what he'd like to do to them, he gets slapped with consequences, since they have "no tolerance" for anything threatening.
Having some experience with the more traditional kind of bullying myself, this really doesn't seem fundamentally different.
The joke will be on us when the first real AI wakes up, spends some time contemplating the Internet, downloading terabytes of information, and finally communicates with its creators...
I'd rather spend a day writing an assebmly routine that has an equivalent single obscure machine instruction I didn't know about beforehand, thank you very much.
From: rdipp...@qualcomm.com (Ron "Asbestos" Dippold) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Incoming Alert: AOL Usenet Access Date: 28 Feb 94 23:44:14 GMT Organization: QUALCOMM, Incorporated; San Diego, CA, USA
In case you haven't been following a few of the appropriate groups, America Online has been doing final testing of their Usenet access. They'll probably blow a deadline or two, but they're pretty close to dumping 600,000 newbies on Usenet. Who'll be the first to start trying to create Usenet versions of all the AOL groups?
This is where I think the concept of a live video blogger, as illustrated in Shooting War, might help. Having a live Internet feed being witnessed by tens to thousands of people, rather than arresting the photographer and confiscating the memory or the device, might be an incentive to play nice.
# Guilford Co., NC - ES&S equipment "could report only about 32,600 early and absentee results". This seems very similar to the case above, (see this update) save that Guilford Co. uses optical scan for it absentee voting and may use the older Votronic system for early voting (although it would make a more consistent story if they used optical scan for all absentee and early voting).: http://newsobserver.com/news/story/1852104p-817980 2c.html
How interesting. Counting on a 16-bit signed integer (two's complement) and dropping the sign during formatting would do that:
Either that or a lot more Katrina-style disasters to destroy people's television sets.
That "Hurricane Katrina" was a pretty popular reality show. It got coverage on multiple networks and got pretty good ratings. That "Bring 'Em On!" guy even had a guest appearance.
I wonder if there will be a new season of it this fall?
Visiting the Mail link says I would need to sign up for it. Do they accept mail at that email address prior to signup? Why insist on signup, then? Is it really an email address if no mail can be delivered and received there?
This wouldn't be very useful. If you did get it up to a 10, and the page was vandalized, how would you know to drop it to a low score? Would you always drop it to a low score on an edit? By what mechanism would you up the score quickly without allowing vandalism to appear as trusted?
It sounds like a better mechanism might be a trust network, where untrusted individuals need to gain trust before their changes are automatically posted. A number of non-automatic, editor-approved articles or updates could lead to trust, but any vandalism would provide an immediate, lasting hit to the trust when discovered.
Microsoft's documentation, as I'm accustomed, is incomplete:
Once you sign up, you can add Yahoo! Messenger contacts to your contact list in the usual way. Under "Contacts," click "Add a contact" and enter your friend's Yahoo! e-mail address.
What about those with Yahoo! IM signins but no Yahoo! email account?
Could you at least put that link in your signature block instead of every post? I and others turn off signatures for a reason, and you force us to look at your signature each time you do this. You already have that listed as your website, so it already appears in the header of your post.
Plus, the telco often has a half-assed DSL offering with prohibitions against many things techies want to do, like running your own [well-secured] servers. Or, the cable company (like mine) forces you to pay for their basic cable TV offering even if you just want the broadband Internet and don't want or need their TV service.
Instead of having no choice whether to put up with Bubba's unwanted attentions, you get to choose between Bubba and Bruiser, and whether or not you want lube.
A good example of this for me is Lode Runner. I still find that simple to play, challenging to master, and good for a quick bit of entertainment that doesn't require any significant investment in time. The graphics on the old Apple II and comparable versions looks absolutely trivial compared with today's games, but it was the game experience that really made it.
(I also like the game experience in Halo PC multiplayer, so I'm not against 3D graphics, by any means. Heh, multiplayer slayer Lode Runner...)
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*Tiny* wires? Everyone knows that in the Good Ole Days, wires were larger.
That's why lower-numbered wire gauges are larger, they came first!
The text is simply rot-13'd, the bit about the subject being the key is a bit of humor.
Of course, they say a joke isn't funny when you have to explain it, but I thought it was funny anyway.
I didn't want to spoil the series for anyone.
Besides, it was so well-faked that human observers couldn't tell the difference at the time or afterwards, from the massive quakes rumbling around while the black hole ate the Earth from the inside to the resulting appropriately-massed black hole that the moon orbited. From the point of view of the humans, there was no practical difference.
Images referenced in HTML on externals sites are often used to determine if an email has been received by the addressee(s). Allowing the user to specify whether he/she wants to view them is similar to confirming before sending any requested read receipts.
Attachments, however, have already been received. Viewing them doesn't really reveal anything to others, though clearly it may reveal things to the reader that he/she didn't want to see.
A black hole eating up the Earth appears in the Hyperion series, usually referred to as the "Big Mistake of '08".
Curiously, the LHC is going to come online in 2007. Hope that's just coincidence.
Secret door wide, Bilbo walks alone into the darkness and into the depths of Erebor, the Lonely Mountain, to confront Smaug.
http://www.glyphweb.com/Arda/i/istari.html
http://www.glyphweb.com/Arda/a/alatar.html
An ominous bit from the latter:
These "no tolerance" policies are typically only geared toward threatening behavior and ignore other kinds of teasing and taunting.
My middle-school-aged son has Asperger's syndrome. He can be teased into irrational anger by something as simple as repeating a rediculous falsehood continually. Because of the disorder, he doesn't know how to tune out things like this, realize that he could ask the teacher to step in to stop it, or know how to moderate his outbursts when he's upset. As such, some kids really enjoy pushing his buttons to see him react, and do it to extremes.
The school is aware of this, but their efforts to stop it have been fairly mild since they don't have "no tolerance" for it. However, when my son gets frustrated enough to burst, and tells the taunters what he thinks of them and what he'd like to do to them, he gets slapped with consequences, since they have "no tolerance" for anything threatening.
Having some experience with the more traditional kind of bullying myself, this really doesn't seem fundamentally different.
The joke will be on us when the first real AI wakes up, spends some time contemplating the Internet, downloading terabytes of information, and finally communicates with its creators...
...only to ask for more pr0n.
I wonder if all the GNAA trolls were really someone tunneling his sensitive SSH connections via encoded Slashdot postings.
http://groups.google.com/group/news.groups/msg/89
And for the record: I know nothing about Cameroon, besides a quick Wikipedia lookup, and can't say whether their government is dictatorial or not.
I heard that their elephant population tripled in the last six months. Weird.
To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson: Every 10 or so years, there must be a revolution to cleanse any government of corruption.
Some others theorize these things happen every generation or so.
Of course this isn't new. We are at war. We have always been at war.
Yeah, but I could have sworn it was with Eastasia.
This is where I think the concept of a live video blogger, as illustrated in Shooting War, might help. Having a live Internet feed being witnessed by tens to thousands of people, rather than arresting the photographer and confiscating the memory or the device, might be an incentive to play nice.
Either that or a lot more Katrina-style disasters to destroy people's television sets.
That "Hurricane Katrina" was a pretty popular reality show. It got coverage on multiple networks and got pretty good ratings. That "Bring 'Em On!" guy even had a guest appearance.
I wonder if there will be a new season of it this fall?
Oxygen is one of the MAIN COMPONENTS of the DEADLY COMPOUND known as DIHIDROGEN MONOXIDE! Why hasn't our government BANNED these substances yet?!
Visiting the Mail link says I would need to sign up for it. Do they accept mail at that email address prior to signup? Why insist on signup, then? Is it really an email address if no mail can be delivered and received there?
This wouldn't be very useful. If you did get it up to a 10, and the page was vandalized, how would you know to drop it to a low score? Would you always drop it to a low score on an edit? By what mechanism would you up the score quickly without allowing vandalism to appear as trusted?
It sounds like a better mechanism might be a trust network, where untrusted individuals need to gain trust before their changes are automatically posted. A number of non-automatic, editor-approved articles or updates could lead to trust, but any vandalism would provide an immediate, lasting hit to the trust when discovered.
What about those with Yahoo! IM signins but no Yahoo! email account?
No, this is not a troll post, but a legit question.
http://religiousfreaks.com/
Could you at least put that link in your signature block instead of every post? I and others turn off signatures for a reason, and you force us to look at your signature each time you do this. You already have that listed as your website, so it already appears in the header of your post.
Plus, the telco often has a half-assed DSL offering with prohibitions against many things techies want to do, like running your own [well-secured] servers. Or, the cable company (like mine) forces you to pay for their basic cable TV offering even if you just want the broadband Internet and don't want or need their TV service.
Instead of having no choice whether to put up with Bubba's unwanted attentions, you get to choose between Bubba and Bruiser, and whether or not you want lube.
A good example of this for me is Lode Runner. I still find that simple to play, challenging to master, and good for a quick bit of entertainment that doesn't require any significant investment in time. The graphics on the old Apple II and comparable versions looks absolutely trivial compared with today's games, but it was the game experience that really made it.
(I also like the game experience in Halo PC multiplayer, so I'm not against 3D graphics, by any means. Heh, multiplayer slayer Lode Runner...)