It's a known trait of sociopaths that they do not recognize themselves as such.
No it's not. The primary trait of sociopaths is that they have little or no empathy for the suffering of others, and feel little in the way of emotion at all. Very intelligent sociopaths are usually aware of their condition and often go to great lengths to hide it by intentionally mimicking "normal" behavior. What sociopaths do not recognize is that their condition is abnormal. Any conforming they choose to do is for their own convenience.
As I recall, the Aloha Air accident is thought to have been caused by stress fractures initially which released a small break-away area of skin, but due to corrosion and further strees around rivets it basically unzipped half the aircraft's roof. A stewardess was sucked out, but the aircraft (or rather what was left of it) made an otherwise safe landing, I don't recall if anybody else was lost in the accident, I don't think so.
In the Aloha Air incident, the hole was actual fairly small, but it was the body of the stewardess getting sucked into it and actually acting as a zipper pull that forced the hole open far enough for the air to catch it and rip the section off. Had the flight attendant not been so unfortunately situated as to be sucked in, the hole would not have opened beyond a few inches. If you read the accident report, it's pretty gruesome. The seats next to where the hole opened are soaked in blood, as the edge of the hole the flight attendant was sucked into basically sawed through her neck and shoulder fairly slowly as it opened up-- definitely not in any way "explosive".
The "shooting into water" segment was just silly; there are water tanks constructed specifically for bullet recovery and the specs on bullet penetration in water are pretty easy to obtain.
Bullet recovery tanks require the use of low-power underloaded ammunition. Their purpose is for recovering a good sample of the rifling marks on the projectile, not analyzing the performance of projectiles in water. I suspect the extent of the water penetration data they have WRT recovery tanks amounts to a chart that says "do not exceed X amount of powder, for Y weight of bullet, at Z caliber".
Indeed... he might just be *gasp* shy and anal. God forbid such people should exist and not have some sort of "condition".
Oh no, that can't be it. My skill at maintaining a network, but inability to get along with people is clearly Asperger's. The notion that I am simply a very skilled and intelligent jackass is simply not possible. See, I have a condition which makes me act like a dick...
Apt-get is a great idea with an overly conservative back end. 4 out of 5 times you go to install something (TWiki, for example) you find that its dependencies are a full year or more ahead of what apt-get considers "up to date". Subsequently, you end up having to troll the web for the latest tar.gz and manually install it. It's a shame apt-get doesn't have something like a switch to select between "guaranteed stable", "probably stable", and "bleeding edge".
I never realized that being a 'mall guard' goon was such a rough lifestyle.
"Security guard" is an awful job, health wise. It involves mostly sitting on your ass watching monitors and eating out of boredom (no reading allowed), punctuated by occasional long walks on hard surfaces wearing bad shoes and carrying 20lbs excess weight gained from spending so much time sitting and eating.
but... but... Segway is going to change the world. Were going to build entire cities around this device!
Heh. I always liked that "quote", and how Segway nuts latched on to it. It's a perfect illustration of the power of enthusiasm over sense. The more rational way to look at the same thing is "cities would need to be purpose-built from scratch with the Segway in mind for this contraption to be useful".
"1/2400 as much data as can be fit on today's largest capacity 1-inch hard drives"
Really now, that is almost completely uninformative since most people have no idea what the capacity is of today's largest 1 inch hard drive. I know that it is cool and all how much storage has shrunk, but I think just saying 8 megs (or whatever the storage capacity was) tells people more than saying a fraction of an obscure unit.
Yeah might as well go for the "sidewalks to the moon" or "statue of liberty on is side" comparisons. "1 inch drive * 2400" is less informative than even the usual "libraries of congress".
From the DNC registry FAQ:
33. Are telemarketing calls from overseas covered?
Yes. Any telemarketers calling U.S. consumers are covered, regardless of where they are calling from. If a company within the U.S. solicits sales through an overseas professional telemarketer, that U.S. company may be liable for any violations by the telemarketer. The FTC can initiate enforcement actions against such companies.
Pity in that the Times used to be a pretty decent newpaper.
Pfff! When was that? I've lived in Los Angeles for 30+ years and it's the same as it's ever been, as far as I can tell.
Re:Ok but pretending all races are the same is stu
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This is one of those discussions that makes me think I am on another planet. Calling latino people "hot-blooded" is retrograde and offensive.
See, one of the problems we have here is that nobody can decide whether we're talking about "race" or "culture". Take the term "latino" itself: it has fuck-all to do with race; it has everything to do with being colonized by Spain. A "Latino" can be a full-blooded Mexica, a pure lilly-white Spaniard, or any degree of mestizo, pretty much as long as they speak Spanish. It's only in the United States that the term has come to have a racial connotation. That being said, I question the notion that it's racist to observe that Latin cultures tend to exhibit a greater degree of passionate expression than (say) Germanic cultures. Seriously, if you've ever seen a traffic accident in Italy, then one in Germany, and compared how those involved discuss culpability, you'd be forced to the same conclusion.
I don't know exactly what cablecard is, I presume it's just a CAM. In which case, mythtv supports DVB cards with CAM slots in them, so yes, encrypted broadcasts can be legally received on a homebrew HTPC.
Of course, one provider is refusing to provide a CAM for their encryption format, but many other providers have easily available CAMs.
Yes this is all very nice if you live in Europe where the DVB standard is already in place. At present there does not exist a CableCard compatible PCI capture card. Legality is not the issue.
Any idea why satellite is not regulated by FCC and cable companies are? Seems strange, especially since it to my mind, should be the other way around since satellites are using radio spectrum, and cable is not...
The premise behind the FCC regulating the broadcast spectrum is that there is a limited amount of bandwidth available and they can't just have terrestrial broadcasts be a free-for-all where the guy who builds the biggest transmitter wins. Satellite broadcasts are a different story. The signal is so weak that if you don't have a collector dish pointed right at the satellite in it's geosynchronous orbit, you don't even get the signal, much less have trouble with interference. Basically, you could conceivably have fifty satellites in various orbits, all transmitting on the same frequency and not one of them would interfere with another.
Well....yeah, in this context. People also think fatal motor vehicle incidents are funny:
Q:What's the difference between a dead snake in the road and a dead lawyer in the road?
A:There are skid marks in front of the snake
See, humor results from the creation of a novel paradox in the brain. Conflict between acceptable situations and normally unacceptable situations. Seriously, do you really need someone to explain the mechanics of humor to you?
They're still not "entering your property", are they?... It is most definitely not fucking trespass
Hacking into someone else's computer is considered "criminal electronic trespass". I'm sorry if you think the word should only apply to someone hopping a fence and walking across the lawn, but it has a much wider meaning.
I thought the post office broke away from the government and that's why prices keep increasing. Also isn't that why its http://www.usps.com/ instead of http://www.usps.gov?
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Well.....sort of. They are separated from the government in that they are not subsidized by federal tax money, being required to support themselves on what they bring in. But at the same time, they are a tentacle of the federal government and can't raise postal rates without Uncle Sugar's permission, and you will still go to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison for robbing a mail carrier.
Of course, MS isn't a "big org", and knows so much more about education than, say, educators.
MS isn't there to tell them how to educate. Educators don't need to learn how to educate. They already know that. What educators seem to need but their own education completely ignored is how to manage.
Why are you making the comments on Slashdot then?
Do you tend to complain about the poor service of a restaurant on the bulletin boards in your laundry room as well?
If the bulletin board contains an ongoing discussion of the restaurant, why shouldn't he? What do you think the subject of this/. discussion is here? Tennis?
hink about that for a moment. Consider exactly how software should ever be capable of crashing the operating system, the very platform on which it is running. If poorly-written (or malicious) applications can crash the entire operating system, the operating system is quite simply not doing its job.
It's easy to be purely theoretical about how an OS should never "allow" software to cause a crash, but in doing that you hand-wave the the necessity of giving certain types of software direct access to hardware via drivers. So now you've got 3rd party software interacting with a 3rd party hardware driver. Exactly what is it you think the OS should be doing to prevent badly written software from asking a potentially badly written driver to do with the hardware? You want full abstraction? Meticulous bounds checking? There's unfortunately no easy way to mitigate bad software occasionally kicking the hardware in the crotch without incurring a significant performance penalty. When the OS depends on that hardware for basic function (e.g. video card), there's generally no adequate recourse but a core dump and reboot.
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Ironically, over on the front page of digg right now is a story about a little-known OSX shortcut that has no UI to tell people it exists.
I find it strange that Gnome seems to be held to a completely different standard than OSX.
Here's a hint as to the difference:
Secret key combo to bring up a handy little dictionary window = a bit of hidden candy
Secret key combo to access critical information (i.e. current file path) = obfuscated core functionality
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This was basically taken wholesale from the way macs save files...I hated it to start with though using my mac daily along with gnome I really wouldn't trade it. It's just got this easyness to it that sucks you in and hey...even my mother likes it/can use it.
Sorry, but I'm not sure I understand why you actually prefer not being informed of the full file path. I can understand getting used to it, but getting to the point where you "wouldn't trade it"? Do you find the full file path irritating now? Is there some advantage to not knowing where you are?
the global avaerage temperature was also 2 to 3 times higher as well.
Tangent here, but you can't say temperatures are a multiple of other temperatures unless you are using a measuring system where the baseline is at absolute zero. For example, note how it is not rational to say:
20 degrees Centigrade is four times as hot as 5 degrees Centigrade
because
25 degrees Centigrade would then necessarily be negative five times as hot as -5 degrees Centigrade.
If you want to talk about multi-fold temperature differences, you must convert to Kelvin first.
If that were true then you would see a steady pattern over 800,000 years showing uniform CO2 decrease/increase.
Unless it decreased rapidly until it reached some equilibrium point with some minor variation after (say) 100 years. Then you'd see high CO2 in the first bit on top, followed by a precipitous drop and scores of feet of low CO2. I'm not saying this is what happened, I'm just saying that your counter-analysis is a wee bit oversimplified.
Step 3) Go to brick n mortor library and get free microfiche version
This is the point that will determine whether Google's idea will make money. How much is it worth to someone to not have to make a trip to the library? If Google charges $100 per article, the library will nearly always win. If Google charges $1 per article, the library will nearly always lose. Not everyone is such a cheap bastard that they'd rather waste two hours of their day to save $1.
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From the DNC registry FAQ:
33. Are telemarketing calls from overseas covered?
Yes. Any telemarketers calling U.S. consumers are covered, regardless of where they are calling from. If a company within the U.S. solicits sales through an overseas professional telemarketer, that U.S. company may be liable for any violations by the telemarketer. The FTC can initiate enforcement actions against such companies.
Q:What's the difference between a dead snake in the road and a dead lawyer in the road?
A:There are skid marks in front of the snake
See, humor results from the creation of a novel paradox in the brain. Conflict between acceptable situations and normally unacceptable situations. Seriously, do you really need someone to explain the mechanics of humor to you?
Secret key combo to bring up a handy little dictionary window = a bit of hidden candy
Secret key combo to access critical information (i.e. current file path) = obfuscated core functionality
20 degrees Centigrade is four times as hot as 5 degrees Centigrade
because
25 degrees Centigrade would then necessarily be negative five times as hot as -5 degrees Centigrade.
If you want to talk about multi-fold temperature differences, you must convert to Kelvin first.