Yes yes yes, and Kevin Costner will be forced to drink his own urine, as filtered through a Mr. Coffee.
The odd thing about that scene is that urine has about the same levels of impurities as seawater, around 35-40 parts per thousand. If he could filter out the salts and urea from urine, why couldn't he filter out the salts in seawater?
My only question here is, how did this get modded up to informative? There is nothing informative about it. All this is, is a user who can't figure out how to configure his bootloader.
Welcome to Slashdot, where drawing attention to inconvenient truths get modded -1, Flamebait (like this post, probably) and unsupported assertions become +1, Informative.
BYOS. Bring your own soda. Chances are there is a nearby gas-station or perhaps your own fridge that is stocked to the gills with 20oz Mt. Dew. One of these babies will only run you $1.25 where I live [...]
Speaking of babies, a diaper bag can hold a fair amount of food hidden among the diapers, wipes, formula, etc. This goes particularly well for older kids who haven't quite become housebroken yet, where most of that space is empty anyway.
GP: Well, many of the punk tots at the time would throw human waste at patrons, rather than popcorn. It was not uncommon for a moviegoer to be hit by a wad of sperm, or even a chunk of human feces, while watching a film.
P: I know what you mean. I thought I would take my elderly mother out to a nice movie. I believe it was called Rocky Horror something. The people in the audience behaved atrociously
I think I'd go for the dancing transvestites throwing rice and toast over thrown bodily secretions.
And how do you watch an R-rated movie with the kids running around the house? Tell them it's a scary movie and to stay out of the room?
You could either not try to shelter them so much, or you can do what you'd normally do for other things you wouldn't want them to see--wait until they're asleep.
Having gone to the movies at least once every two weeks for the past 10 years (usually once a week), I have never once had a showing ruined by a phone ringing, someone's kid screaming, or someone else throwing food. I think you exaggerate the problem a bit much.
One outlying data point does not by itself indicate the general trend.
Now, I think that some of those theories are completely valid. Commercials in the theaters absolutely piss me off. If I'm going to spend 9 bucks to watch a movie, they better not force me to watch commercials before it.
Absolutely. Last weekend, when my wife and I brought our kids out to see "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", they showed a full twenty minutes of commercials in front of the feature.
Of course, there various other annoyances. Most of the staff doesn't really care about customers anymore. We were subjected to surly attitudes and plenty of apathy by the employees. And the prices are rediculous.
The cashier that served us refreshments let us believe we'd get free refills on the pop and didn't mention that it came with mediums (normally $3.70) instead of larges (normally $4.00 , thirty measly cents more). Our kids drained the pops during the twenty-minute commercial-fest, so I went for refills. The drone working there refused to refill them, of course.
On going back to the theater empty-handed, the twit manning the little counter insisted on thoroughly inspecting my ticket stub, even though I know he saw me walk past him, and gave the appearance of only grudgingly re-admitting me.
Spent much of the commercials without sound. Although it made for an almost MST3k environment, a few of us were afraid we'd have to suffer through the feature with no sound. When I walked out of the theater to call attention to it, I got a really brusque "Yeah, we're working on it!"
"Damn those stupid customers, when will they stop bugging us?!" Pretty soon, I think. The 52" HDTV at home with attached DD/DTS 5.1 surround and progressive-scan DVD increasingly seems like a better choice every time I suffer through a megaplex experience.
I personally like Dan Simmons' use of the term "Hellwhip" in the Hyperion series for any high-energy laser weapon. One could probably even come up with a DOD-approved acronym for that word.
"Gabber", huh? Would it be good or bad if it played "Invasion of the Gabber Robots" when it started up?
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It sounded like they designed the "core" version for casual gamers. Well it's the casual gamers who want to play their older games.
(1) The newer version of the XBox APIs abstracts the storage, the older version didn't. You therefore need a hard drive to property run the older games.
(2) Someone in another department (marketing or product management) designed the different market deployments of the system. Since they now had the freedom to vary the storage level on the system, it was an obvious decision to have one level with and one without the hard drive.
Only when you combine (1) and (2)--decisions made in different departments without a lot of analysis on their combination--do you get the outwardly-strange "backward compatability only works in the premium edition" thing.
So I got suspended from school for a week. For turning up the brightness. Looking back on it now, I can see that I deserved *something* for disobeying a direct order... detention perhaps, or losing computer privileges for a week...
"Mr. Urchlay, I specifically said don't touch anything. Do you believe the monitor to not be anything? Hands off."
Treating kids like delinquents and criminals for exploring their world is self-fulfilling.
You know, people manage to fill books on just about anything. And the padding usually centers around the Philosophy behind it.
I had a college philosophy course that resembled that remark.
The first couple of papers I did, I managed to convey every bit of information necessary to support my case using the minimum amount of words. I got reduced grades on these papers, as the TA said that they were too short and needed more support. I tried an experiment. For the next paper, I wrote it the way I wanted it at first. Then, I edited the paper, taking selected paragraphs and re-inserting reworded copies of them nearby. I got full marks on that paper.
This may have just been the TA and/or instructor, but I got a bad impression of philosophy from that course. Of course, it didn't help that they spent time teaching logic (to some mathematics and computer science students, no less) at the beginning of the quarter, then showed us philosophical "proofs" that jumped from deduction to deduction without any obvious support at all.
You can make a rootkit for any OS, even a minimal microkernel, unless your OS runs out of ROM or there's similiar hardware level measures in place. A rootkit is the end result of an exploit, not an exploit itself - the tricky part is getting sufficent access to install a rootkit.
Depends on whether you're talking a remote or local rootkit, doesn't it? All bets are off when you can tweak the machine directly, but an OS can be secured sufficiently to not run any code from the outside.
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I much prefer 5318008, myself.
Yes yes yes, and Kevin Costner will be forced to drink his own urine, as filtered through a Mr. Coffee.
The odd thing about that scene is that urine has about the same levels of impurities as seawater, around 35-40 parts per thousand. If he could filter out the salts and urea from urine, why couldn't he filter out the salts in seawater?
Screw the tin foil. My next house is going to be built inside a Faraday Cage!
Lining an enclosed surface with tin foil or some other conductive surface becomes a Faraday cage.
My only question here is, how did this get modded up to informative? There is nothing informative about it. All this is, is a user who can't figure out how to configure his bootloader.
Welcome to Slashdot, where drawing attention to inconvenient truths get modded -1, Flamebait (like this post, probably) and unsupported assertions become +1, Informative.
First, tin foil hats. Now, tin foil lined cupboards.
Making a joke about the economy is flamebait?
"Pope Benedict XVI" wrote: You would not believe some of the stupid things my boss has done!
I can't tell, is that blasphemy or not?
BYOS. Bring your own soda. Chances are there is a nearby gas-station or perhaps your own fridge that is stocked to the gills with 20oz Mt. Dew. One of these babies will only run you $1.25 where I live [...]
Speaking of babies, a diaper bag can hold a fair amount of food hidden among the diapers, wipes, formula, etc. This goes particularly well for older kids who haven't quite become housebroken yet, where most of that space is empty anyway.
GP: Well, many of the punk tots at the time would throw human waste at patrons, rather than popcorn. It was not uncommon for a moviegoer to be hit by a wad of sperm, or even a chunk of human feces, while watching a film.
P: I know what you mean. I thought I would take my elderly mother out to a nice movie. I believe it was called Rocky Horror something. The people in the audience behaved atrociously
I think I'd go for the dancing transvestites throwing rice and toast over thrown bodily secretions.
And how do you watch an R-rated movie with the kids running around the house? Tell them it's a scary movie and to stay out of the room?
You could either not try to shelter them so much, or you can do what you'd normally do for other things you wouldn't want them to see--wait until they're asleep.
In fact, when you're married, you'll find you always have a date waiting for you at home!
Unfortunately....it is also the same chick there all the time...
And she *still* doesn't appreciate it when you use the word "boobies" in a conversation.
Many religious beliefs would be decimated
Reduced by one tenth? Probably so.
There's a economic depression going on. That's why people are cutting back on movie ticket purchases.
Nonsense, there's plenty of jobs out there to be had. Many people even have two or three of them!
Having gone to the movies at least once every two weeks for the past 10 years (usually once a week), I have never once had a showing ruined by a phone ringing, someone's kid screaming, or someone else throwing food. I think you exaggerate the problem a bit much.
One outlying data point does not by itself indicate the general trend.
Absolutely. Last weekend, when my wife and I brought our kids out to see "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", they showed a full twenty minutes of commercials in front of the feature.
Of course, there various other annoyances. Most of the staff doesn't really care about customers anymore. We were subjected to surly attitudes and plenty of apathy by the employees. And the prices are rediculous.
- The cashier that served us refreshments let us believe we'd get free refills on the pop and didn't mention that it came with mediums (normally $3.70) instead of larges (normally $4.00 , thirty measly cents more). Our kids drained the pops during the twenty-minute commercial-fest, so I went for refills. The drone working there refused to refill them, of course.
- On going back to the theater empty-handed, the twit manning the little counter insisted on thoroughly inspecting my ticket stub, even though I know he saw me walk past him, and gave the appearance of only grudgingly re-admitting me.
- Spent much of the commercials without sound. Although it made for an almost MST3k environment, a few of us were afraid we'd have to suffer through the feature with no sound. When I walked out of the theater to call attention to it, I got a really brusque "Yeah, we're working on it!"
"Damn those stupid customers, when will they stop bugging us?!" Pretty soon, I think. The 52" HDTV at home with attached DD/DTS 5.1 surround and progressive-scan DVD increasingly seems like a better choice every time I suffer through a megaplex experience.I personally like Dan Simmons' use of the term "Hellwhip" in the Hyperion series for any high-energy laser weapon. One could probably even come up with a DOD-approved acronym for that word.
But they're non-migratory.
"Gabber", huh? Would it be good or bad if it played "Invasion of the Gabber Robots" when it started up?
It sounded like they designed the "core" version for casual gamers. Well it's the casual gamers who want to play their older games.
(1) The newer version of the XBox APIs abstracts the storage, the older version didn't. You therefore need a hard drive to property run the older games.
(2) Someone in another department (marketing or product management) designed the different market deployments of the system. Since they now had the freedom to vary the storage level on the system, it was an obvious decision to have one level with and one without the hard drive.
Only when you combine (1) and (2)--decisions made in different departments without a lot of analysis on their combination--do you get the outwardly-strange "backward compatability only works in the premium edition" thing.
AllardJ: Oh Jesus Christ why did I agree to this
This would surely have been in all lower-case, as Mr. Allard seems to have a malfunctioning SHIFT key.
So I got suspended from school for a week. For turning up the brightness. Looking back on it now, I can see that I deserved *something* for disobeying a direct order... detention perhaps, or losing computer privileges for a week...
"Mr. Urchlay, I specifically said don't touch anything. Do you believe the monitor to not be anything? Hands off."
Treating kids like delinquents and criminals for exploring their world is self-fulfilling.
Curiously, both the GP's examples now appear in the database.
You know, people manage to fill books on just about anything. And the padding usually centers around the Philosophy behind it.
I had a college philosophy course that resembled that remark.
The first couple of papers I did, I managed to convey every bit of information necessary to support my case using the minimum amount of words. I got reduced grades on these papers, as the TA said that they were too short and needed more support. I tried an experiment. For the next paper, I wrote it the way I wanted it at first. Then, I edited the paper, taking selected paragraphs and re-inserting reworded copies of them nearby. I got full marks on that paper.
This may have just been the TA and/or instructor, but I got a bad impression of philosophy from that course. Of course, it didn't help that they spent time teaching logic (to some mathematics and computer science students, no less) at the beginning of the quarter, then showed us philosophical "proofs" that jumped from deduction to deduction without any obvious support at all.
You forgot "sum". "I think waffles exist"?
You can make a rootkit for any OS, even a minimal microkernel, unless your OS runs out of ROM or there's similiar hardware level measures in place. A rootkit is the end result of an exploit, not an exploit itself - the tricky part is getting sufficent access to install a rootkit.
Depends on whether you're talking a remote or local rootkit, doesn't it? All bets are off when you can tweak the machine directly, but an OS can be secured sufficiently to not run any code from the outside.