I don't have anything to add. I just wanted to say that your post is probably the most well constructed essay I've ever seen on Slashdot. Have you ever given a public talk with your ideas?
I went to the website and have read through the Slashdot comments and still can't figure why this keyboard is supposed to be so great. Does it scratch your balls when you're typing an email? Does it protect from terrorism? Will it sing me a song so I can fall asleep at night? Or pour me a drink whenever I crave a martini?
Then bring it on!. The article was more about the things that you do that will get you into trouble with the law. Getting your webpage Slashdotted doesn't really rank very high on the author's list of priorities.
I was a bit confused about his views on deep linking. He must have had over 50 links in that article---all of them direct links.
One problem that Internet voting can fix is the length of time needed to vote. During the 2006 elections, I had to wait in line for over an hour just to cast my ballot. I had to stand outside (in South Florida), listen to old people bitch about everything around them, and then get harassed by the security guards---all to vote in a free election. I was lucky; I voted early (before election day), meaning that the lines were shorter. If anything, Internet voting will make voting much more convenient. I could see younger people becoming more willing to vote if they know that the whole process will take only five minutes, as opposed to 2 hours. Also, Internet voting can do away with exit polls so that results come directly from the election commission, and not T.V. personalities.
I don't see this project taking off to become what its creators dream of. Having an overly broad encyclopedia written by numerous experts is going to be tough to sustain. A better idea is to follow the trail of eMedicine, a niche group of medical articles, written by doctors, for doctors. I could envision O'Reilly developing a similar system for computer users...
Before going to med school, I got my masters in materials engineering as a segway into biomedical devices. One day I was on campus and a future doctor of America said to me, "Are you an engineer?"
ME: Yes
HER: Good. I need you to set up my wi-fi connection on my laptop.
ME: I'm not that kind of engineer
HER: Oh, I thought that they taught you guys how to work with computers.
I get pulled over quite a bit whenever I'm carrying medical equipment. I got stopped because because of my stethoscope. The guard seemed shocked that someone would actually carry it onto a plane... Well, I'm not going to let the baggage people destroy it when they throw my luggage around.
I don't know why this comment was modded as funny when it gives good advice. You should shred everything that has some kind of identifying information, including junk mail addressed to "occupant." The rule is "If it can be read, it must be shred." You should invest in a good cross-cut shredder that turns everything into confetti and then proceed to destroy everything: receipts for gasoline and the ATM, any mail that comes your way, and even (as the parent mentioned) notes that contain information that might be linked to you. All a thief has to do is go through your trash and get your address and account number from an old bill, your birth date from a greeting card, and possibly your SSN from a company that uses it as your membership number.
You should also avoid situations that get your name into a database. For example, don't sign up for supermarket savings cards. If you really feel as if you have to, at least use a fake name. For the telephone company, ask that a pseudo-name be used in the phone book or ask that your name be removed entirely. For your outgoing mail, send everything directly through a U.S. postal service drop box. For your incoming mail, get a locking mailbox so that thieves won't have access to your information.
There's a book called How to be Invisible that gives plenty of extra (yet extreme) pointers such as starting an LLC and using the company to purchase all of your high-value assets such as your house and car. That way, public records will never link those items to you.
The gold diggers are the reason for any field's popularity. Let's take an example from medicine. For the past 20 years, U.S. medical schools have had a total enrollment of 16,000 freshmen students. When med was the richest profession, over 46,000 people would apply each year to fill those precious few spots. Today, even with the growing U.S. population, we still have only enough seats to admit 16,000 students each year. However, the number of applicants has fallen to 30,000 would-be MD's. The reasons for the decline include malpractice woes and lower reimbursements from HMO's. All of the money for healthcare that used to go to the hospitals and doctors now goes into the pockets of drug companies, insurance companies, and lawyers. Once the laws change and doctors start getting rich again without the fear of getting sued, the gold diggers will back.
Deuist, MS-1
You'll never get a net increase in energy. With all of the heat and pressure that was used in making the gasoline, this process would have to violate the Second Law of Termodynamics to become usefull.
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Maxthon yet. It does all of the things that Opera does, but it has IE running in the background and can handle all of the rendering of non-standards compliant websites. With plugins I can get RSS, check the weather, upload files without having to login to websites, enable right-click, and on and on...
Sure, everything will happen by 2050: Social Security will run dry, quantum computing will become a reality, a Slashdotter will laid, and we'll be able to download our brains onto a computer. Ever notice how worthless predictions about the future are? I seem to notice a correlation between how far we predict in the future versus how likely the event will not occur.
The year 2000 has already passed. Where is my flying car? Where is my Linux box that has 50% market share? This article is total B.S. and should never have been posted to the front page. Further, with something as complicated as the brain, how can the author go about making predictions for an organ that scientists aren't even close to understanding?
Finally, if you are worried that only the wealthy will be able to afford this luxury, start a mutual fund and add $1000 to it every year. At 12% growth, the fund will reach $1.7 million by 2050. You'll be able to afford the procedure at that time.
It seems we just can't trust most of the mainstream media today. It seems that schools that teach journalism skip teaching about integrity, ethics, and the responsibility for reporters to be objective.
Here at the University of Florida, the jounalism course will give an automatic F to any student who cannot validate quotations.
I sure hope that users have fast CPU's and a butt-load of memory. With the new icon "feature" that gives a mini preview of each document in a folder, I can only imagine how long simple navigation will take. And I thought viewing My Pictures in thumbnail mode was slow.
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High on the list of features are security enhancements, improved desktop searching and organizing, and better methods for laptops to roam from one network to another.
While you're right that an installation of Windows from a CD will not work right out of the box, the vast majority of Windows users buy computers from manufactures such as Dell and Gateway where the PC's do indeed run with everything readt and installed.
They seem to be more like a bunch of intellectual kids who won the lottery and want to spend all their time coming up with neat ideas instead of actually worrying about giving returns to the shareholders who bankrolled them.
Coming up with lots of neat ideas is what's driving their stock price up and giving returns to the shareholders.
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On Court TV? I thought that kind of show only aired on Cinemax after midnight.
I don't have anything to add. I just wanted to say that your post is probably the most well constructed essay I've ever seen on Slashdot. Have you ever given a public talk with your ideas?
I thought I would be protected from that kind of torture thanks to the Geneva Conventions. I surrender! I'll talk. I'll talk!
I went to the website and have read through the Slashdot comments and still can't figure why this keyboard is supposed to be so great. Does it scratch your balls when you're typing an email? Does it protect from terrorism? Will it sing me a song so I can fall asleep at night? Or pour me a drink whenever I crave a martini?
That's got to be the dumbest fucking idea I've ever heard from my years at Microsoft.
I was a bit confused about his views on deep linking. He must have had over 50 links in that article---all of them direct links.
One problem that Internet voting can fix is the length of time needed to vote. During the 2006 elections, I had to wait in line for over an hour just to cast my ballot. I had to stand outside (in South Florida), listen to old people bitch about everything around them, and then get harassed by the security guards---all to vote in a free election. I was lucky; I voted early (before election day), meaning that the lines were shorter. If anything, Internet voting will make voting much more convenient. I could see younger people becoming more willing to vote if they know that the whole process will take only five minutes, as opposed to 2 hours. Also, Internet voting can do away with exit polls so that results come directly from the election commission, and not T.V. personalities.
I don't see this project taking off to become what its creators dream of. Having an overly broad encyclopedia written by numerous experts is going to be tough to sustain. A better idea is to follow the trail of eMedicine, a niche group of medical articles, written by doctors, for doctors. I could envision O'Reilly developing a similar system for computer users...
ME: Yes
HER: Good. I need you to set up my wi-fi connection on my laptop.
ME: I'm not that kind of engineer
HER: Oh, I thought that they taught you guys how to work with computers.
You won't believe the customer I had today. He actually ordered a white wine with the fillet mignon! ha ha
I get pulled over quite a bit whenever I'm carrying medical equipment. I got stopped because because of my stethoscope. The guard seemed shocked that someone would actually carry it onto a plane... Well, I'm not going to let the baggage people destroy it when they throw my luggage around.
You should also avoid situations that get your name into a database. For example, don't sign up for supermarket savings cards. If you really feel as if you have to, at least use a fake name. For the telephone company, ask that a pseudo-name be used in the phone book or ask that your name be removed entirely. For your outgoing mail, send everything directly through a U.S. postal service drop box. For your incoming mail, get a locking mailbox so that thieves won't have access to your information.
There's a book called How to be Invisible that gives plenty of extra (yet extreme) pointers such as starting an LLC and using the company to purchase all of your high-value assets such as your house and car. That way, public records will never link those items to you.
Yaweh, this is Buddha. Take the calm road to forgiveness and realize that everyone sins.
The gold diggers are the reason for any field's popularity. Let's take an example from medicine. For the past 20 years, U.S. medical schools have had a total enrollment of 16,000 freshmen students. When med was the richest profession, over 46,000 people would apply each year to fill those precious few spots. Today, even with the growing U.S. population, we still have only enough seats to admit 16,000 students each year. However, the number of applicants has fallen to 30,000 would-be MD's. The reasons for the decline include malpractice woes and lower reimbursements from HMO's. All of the money for healthcare that used to go to the hospitals and doctors now goes into the pockets of drug companies, insurance companies, and lawyers. Once the laws change and doctors start getting rich again without the fear of getting sued, the gold diggers will back. Deuist, MS-1
You'll never get a net increase in energy. With all of the heat and pressure that was used in making the gasoline, this process would have to violate the Second Law of Termodynamics to become usefull.
The price is $399. I don't know about a coupon.
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Maxthon yet. It does all of the things that Opera does, but it has IE running in the background and can handle all of the rendering of non-standards compliant websites. With plugins I can get RSS, check the weather, upload files without having to login to websites, enable right-click, and on and on ...
The year 2000 has already passed. Where is my flying car? Where is my Linux box that has 50% market share? This article is total B.S. and should never have been posted to the front page. Further, with something as complicated as the brain, how can the author go about making predictions for an organ that scientists aren't even close to understanding?
Finally, if you are worried that only the wealthy will be able to afford this luxury, start a mutual fund and add $1000 to it every year. At 12% growth, the fund will reach $1.7 million by 2050. You'll be able to afford the procedure at that time.
No, he didn't.
According to this month's Wired as well as Wikipedia, Lucas neither wrote nor directed The Empire Strikes Back
Here at the University of Florida, the jounalism course will give an automatic F to any student who cannot validate quotations.
I sure hope that users have fast CPU's and a butt-load of memory. With the new icon "feature" that gives a mini preview of each document in a folder, I can only imagine how long simple navigation will take. And I thought viewing My Pictures in thumbnail mode was slow.
None of which we'll see until 2006.
CutePDF printer fixes this problem. This program allows you to create PDF's from any program just by using the print command.
While you're right that an installation of Windows from a CD will not work right out of the box, the vast majority of Windows users buy computers from manufactures such as Dell and Gateway where the PC's do indeed run with everything readt and installed.
Coming up with lots of neat ideas is what's driving their stock price up and giving returns to the shareholders.