"Manalapan's town council authorized $60,000 in security upgrades last week after three burglaries this winter robbed residents of $400,000 in jewelry"
$60,000 isn't much for one of the richest communities in the U.S. to spend.
What bothers me is that three people left over $100k in jewelry out. Come on rich people, buy a damn safe.
You're right, oil companies don't have nukes. But George Bush and Dick Chaney both spent their entire business careers in the oil industry. They do have control of nuclear weapons.
Step 1: Build a chrystal chandelier that displays SMS messages. Step 2: Sell for tons of money. Step 3: Profit!
Makes perfect sense. The profit margins on luxury items are sweet.
I think the chandelier is really cool. Upscale nightclubs probably spend several hundred thousand on interior design. Since you can buy a $6 beer anywhere, those kind of clubs need something unique to draw customers.
Casinos might use something like this. Instead of allowing people to send messages, they would advertise shows and events with it. Casinos like flashy new things and have virtually unlimited budgets.
Only the conspiracy folks are suggesting that Diebold is actively working to rig elections. The president of Diebold's fund raising efforts and promises of delivering electoral votes aren't helping to calm those fears.
The problem is that Diebold's incompetence and inability to follow even the most basic commercial security practices leaves the door open for other people to rig elections. And since the systems are un-auditable, we would all just be stuck with the winners of a rigged election as our leaders.
Federal HIPAA regulations use a 2" thick binder to describe in great detail what computer security procedures must be followed for handling private health information. Aren't elections slightly more important?
"Do we really have to wait until someone is caught rigging a major election before real efforts are undertaken to stop it?"
Because these machines don't produce a paper trail, it will be almost impossible to catch someone rigging an election. Whatever numbers the computer spits out are the final numbers, that's it. Even when the number of votes is 10 times the number of voters (as in Evansville, IN) there is no way to recount.
There is circumstantial evidence showing election fraud here in Georgia in 2002. Our incumbent Democratic Governor and a Dem incumbent Senator both had 10% leads in the polls the week of the election. Both lost. Warehouse employees have reported that Diebold patched thier systems after the elections board had certified the software on them. Diebold certainly isn't doing the rigging themselves, but their incompetence may be letting someone else do it.
I recently read a great quote from that champion of Democracy, Joseph Stalin - "The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do."
Frats have retarded secrets like hand shakes and secret mottos. Some Ivy League frats have a secret president. Everyone tells their girlfriend all the stuff because nobody really cares.
The problem with recycling cars is that they're made from too many different materials. It's easy to recycle a can or bottle because it's a pure substance. What they do with cars is put them through a shredder. It's a massive machine that rips a car into pieces the size of a quarter. The pieces are then sorted and recycled. It's not super efficient, but it's better than what they used to do. In the 70s, scrap yards would buy dead cars, pour gasoline on them and burn off the plastic parts.
I can't be the only Slashdotter to have cracked open a dead hard drive. Those magnets are very very strong. Could someone with a better physics background than I please explain how a drive based on tiny fluctuations in a magnetic field can operate next to such a powerful magnet?
You're a little late. Valenti is retiring this year after 30+ years as head of the MPAA. He's so old that he oversaw the creation of the ratings system.
That's what I thought about the last few years. This season has been really good. The ninja weapons one and the special olympics episode were awesome. I just saw the Jennifer Lopez hand puppet episode, which I think was part of season 7. That was one of the funniest episodes ever.
"what do they do if something is only just available?"
They hire the person that lies and says they've been doing it for 10 years. If the HR dept is clueless enough to ask for 10 years of experience with young technology, then they're not going to be smart enough to call you on it.
I guess you could point out that they're requirements are not possible. They'll probably think you're jealous of the 4 guys who interviewed before you that lied about it.
I've never seen an N-gage outside of a store, but I've seen thier TV ads. They advertise that using the mobile phone, you can download other people's best race times and race against thier shadow. I can think of few things LESS fun than racing against an preset shadow. If there's a phone in my handheld gaming system, I want to call a friend 500 miles away and play bubble bobble or something head to head.
"What ever happened to a plain phone, that rings, vibrates and stores contact information"
They're getting rarer and rarer. My small monochromoe phone broke. The equipment replacement plan replaced it with an "equivalent" phone that was twice as big and with a color screen.
Even the older one didn't come with any basic ringtones. It's a scam. They give you a phone with obnoxious ringtones and give you a free trial to download new ones. Unless you cancel that option, it starts costing you 12 bucks a month. My office phone has 15 different ringers based on different tones and patterns. That's all I want.
That's the important thing to remember. These are multi-billion dollar corporations. They are not going to risk massive lawsuits and terribly damaging publicity to "get" Kazaa. It's the same reason that keeps casinos from cheating you. They don't need to risk it. They just sit back and count their money.
You're missing an important thing about peer pressure. You have to care what your peers think for it to work. In heavy traffic in a large city, people do obnoxious shit all the time. They do it because nobody they'll ever speak to will see it.
I heard a related funny story a few weeks ago. The police have these trailer units that detect speed and usually just show the number to make people aware of how fast they're going. The new ones check if you're speeding and take a picture of the back of the car as it passes and the owner of that license plate is issued a ticket (they do the same thing with stoplight mounted systems, but these are mobile for smaller towns). Someone with huge brass ones stole the license plate off of the back of the trailer. They put the plate on their own car and drove in front of the trailer a dozen times at 100 MPH. The next week a dozen reckless driving tickets were delivered to the police department. I hope it's true.
All this stuff is just another step towards our 24 hour survailance. "If you're not a criminal, then you won't have anything to hide."
The only cool part about the book was the mech suits that the mobile infantry wore. I have no idea why the film left them out. Instead they show a bunch of retards fighting with futuristic weapons and using World War One tactics. I spent most of the hour and a half yelling "Spread Out!" at the screen.
Private industry won't do it because there's absolutely no return on investment. The moon is a airless dust ball and Mars is an airless rock ball. The only good scientific question involved is "was there once life on Mars". That can be answered best by unmanned probes.
George Bush made his "moon base then mars" initiative for a few reasons: 1) Make it seem like he has a grand vision of anything during the election year. 2) The media will compare it to JFKs moon speech. 3) His friends in the defense contractor industry will see tens of billions of dollars.
If Bush actually had any vision, he would announce a Space Elevator iniative and try to fundamentally change how we get people and supplies into space.
"That is because even under the most liberal counting system, Bush still won Florida"
As long as you don't worry about the thousands of people, mostly black men, who were "accidentally" labeled as felons and were turned away from the polls.
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"Manalapan's town council authorized $60,000 in security upgrades last week after three burglaries this winter robbed residents of $400,000 in jewelry"
$60,000 isn't much for one of the richest communities in the U.S. to spend.
What bothers me is that three people left over $100k in jewelry out. Come on rich people, buy a damn safe.
-B
It would make a great gift for one of the remaining dotcom billionaires to buy for an out of work friend.
"Happy birthday, buddy. How would you like to move your blog to Lycos.com?"
-B
You're right, oil companies don't have nukes. But George Bush and Dick Chaney both spent their entire business careers in the oil industry. They do have control of nuclear weapons.
-B
Alchemists accidentally stumbled into modern chemistry.
-B
Step 1: Build a chrystal chandelier that displays SMS messages.
Step 2: Sell for tons of money.
Step 3: Profit!
Makes perfect sense. The profit margins on luxury items are sweet.
I think the chandelier is really cool. Upscale nightclubs probably spend several hundred thousand on interior design. Since you can buy a $6 beer anywhere, those kind of clubs need something unique to draw customers.
Casinos might use something like this. Instead of allowing people to send messages, they would advertise shows and events with it. Casinos like flashy new things and have virtually unlimited budgets.
-B
It's Ludacris...Chris Bridges...Luda-cris...get it.
-B
Only the conspiracy folks are suggesting that Diebold is actively working to rig elections. The president of Diebold's fund raising efforts and promises of delivering electoral votes aren't helping to calm those fears.
The problem is that Diebold's incompetence and inability to follow even the most basic commercial security practices leaves the door open for other people to rig elections. And since the systems are un-auditable, we would all just be stuck with the winners of a rigged election as our leaders.
Federal HIPAA regulations use a 2" thick binder to describe in great detail what computer security procedures must be followed for handling private health information. Aren't elections slightly more important?
-B
Because these machines don't produce a paper trail, it will be almost impossible to catch someone rigging an election. Whatever numbers the computer spits out are the final numbers, that's it. Even when the number of votes is 10 times the number of voters (as in Evansville, IN) there is no way to recount.
There is circumstantial evidence showing election fraud here in Georgia in 2002. Our incumbent Democratic Governor and a Dem incumbent Senator both had 10% leads in the polls the week of the election. Both lost. Warehouse employees have reported that Diebold patched thier systems after the elections board had certified the software on them. Diebold certainly isn't doing the rigging themselves, but their incompetence may be letting someone else do it.
I recently read a great quote from that champion of Democracy, Joseph Stalin - "The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do."
News of the GA 2002 election:
wired.com
scoop.co.nz
-B
Frats have retarded secrets like hand shakes and secret mottos. Some Ivy League frats have a secret president. Everyone tells their girlfriend all the stuff because nobody really cares.
-B
10 years? Will we have flying cars and eat all our meals in pill form, too?
-B
The problem with recycling cars is that they're made from too many different materials. It's easy to recycle a can or bottle because it's a pure substance. What they do with cars is put them through a shredder. It's a massive machine that rips a car into pieces the size of a quarter. The pieces are then sorted and recycled. It's not super efficient, but it's better than what they used to do. In the 70s, scrap yards would buy dead cars, pour gasoline on them and burn off the plastic parts.
-B
Some of the cars made in Soviet Russia made the Pinto look like a Ferrari.
-B
Something else that makes no sense but is going to get someone a research grant.
-B
I can't be the only Slashdotter to have cracked open a dead hard drive. Those magnets are very very strong. Could someone with a better physics background than I please explain how a drive based on tiny fluctuations in a magnetic field can operate next to such a powerful magnet?
-B
You're a little late. Valenti is retiring this year after 30+ years as head of the MPAA. He's so old that he oversaw the creation of the ratings system.
-B
That's what I thought about the last few years. This season has been really good. The ninja weapons one and the special olympics episode were awesome. I just saw the Jennifer Lopez hand puppet episode, which I think was part of season 7. That was one of the funniest episodes ever.
-B
"what do they do if something is only just available?"
They hire the person that lies and says they've been doing it for 10 years. If the HR dept is clueless enough to ask for 10 years of experience with young technology, then they're not going to be smart enough to call you on it.
I guess you could point out that they're requirements are not possible. They'll probably think you're jealous of the 4 guys who interviewed before you that lied about it.
-B
I've never seen an N-gage outside of a store, but I've seen thier TV ads. They advertise that using the mobile phone, you can download other people's best race times and race against thier shadow. I can think of few things LESS fun than racing against an preset shadow. If there's a phone in my handheld gaming system, I want to call a friend 500 miles away and play bubble bobble or something head to head.
-B
"What ever happened to a plain phone, that rings, vibrates and stores contact information"
They're getting rarer and rarer. My small monochromoe phone broke. The equipment replacement plan replaced it with an "equivalent" phone that was twice as big and with a color screen.
Even the older one didn't come with any basic ringtones. It's a scam. They give you a phone with obnoxious ringtones and give you a free trial to download new ones. Unless you cancel that option, it starts costing you 12 bucks a month. My office phone has 15 different ringers based on different tones and patterns. That's all I want.
-B
Why did the bananas explode?
-B
"because they have too much to lose"
That's the important thing to remember. These are multi-billion dollar corporations. They are not going to risk massive lawsuits and terribly damaging publicity to "get" Kazaa. It's the same reason that keeps casinos from cheating you. They don't need to risk it. They just sit back and count their money.
-B
You're missing an important thing about peer pressure. You have to care what your peers think for it to work. In heavy traffic in a large city, people do obnoxious shit all the time. They do it because nobody they'll ever speak to will see it.
I heard a related funny story a few weeks ago. The police have these trailer units that detect speed and usually just show the number to make people aware of how fast they're going. The new ones check if you're speeding and take a picture of the back of the car as it passes and the owner of that license plate is issued a ticket (they do the same thing with stoplight mounted systems, but these are mobile for smaller towns). Someone with huge brass ones stole the license plate off of the back of the trailer. They put the plate on their own car and drove in front of the trailer a dozen times at 100 MPH. The next week a dozen reckless driving tickets were delivered to the police department. I hope it's true.
All this stuff is just another step towards our 24 hour survailance. "If you're not a criminal, then you won't have anything to hide."
-B
The only cool part about the book was the mech suits that the mobile infantry wore. I have no idea why the film left them out. Instead they show a bunch of retards fighting with futuristic weapons and using World War One tactics. I spent most of the hour and a half yelling "Spread Out!" at the screen.
-B
Private industry won't do it because there's absolutely no return on investment. The moon is a airless dust ball and Mars is an airless rock ball. The only good scientific question involved is "was there once life on Mars". That can be answered best by unmanned probes.
George Bush made his "moon base then mars" initiative for a few reasons:
1) Make it seem like he has a grand vision of anything during the election year.
2) The media will compare it to JFKs moon speech.
3) His friends in the defense contractor industry will see tens of billions of dollars.
If Bush actually had any vision, he would announce a Space Elevator iniative and try to fundamentally change how we get people and supplies into space.
-B
"That is because even under the most liberal counting system, Bush still won Florida"
As long as you don't worry about the thousands of people, mostly black men, who were "accidentally" labeled as felons and were turned away from the polls.
-B