No mention of anthropomorphizing machinery is complete without a reference to Masahiro Mori's Uncanny Valley: n. Feelings of unease, fear, or revulsion created by a robot or robotic device that appears to be, but is not quite, human-like.
This is what I hate about slashdot: the rampant agism. Everyone thinks that a computer user who's between the ages of 12 and 15 is automatically a script kiddie. That is just completely false. I don't know the first thing about being a script kiddie, only about programming and teaching people to program (when it comes to computers, that is). This is really annoying how everyone prejudices people like me (I'm 14) to be arrogant, stupid crackers.
Well, look at it this way: When someone describes someone else as a "14 year old skript kiddie", they're actually impugning all 14 year olds, but rather "skript kiddies" who act like the worst examples of 14 year olds. Just as saying "he screamed like a two year old all day" doesn't really mean to indict the behavior of all two year olds, just the screaming kind. Also, it's more of a "mental maturity" sort of insult. The 13-14 year span is about the time when the average slob becomes aware of adult culture, but is still fairly firmly rooted mentally in the child culture. Subsequently, you see a lot of "hybrid" expressions, such as ill-informed sex talk using words from the "poopoo and weenie" lexicon. Many people, such as yourself perhaps, make the transition much earlier than 13-14. The real insult of calling some 20 or 30 year old dork on IRC "14 years old" is the implication that they never made the transition into adulthood.
Good luck on manufacturing a uranium neutron reflector!
U-238 tamper/reflector in the center and for the outside Buy Beryllium Here!
Of course, wrapping your implosion target in foil probably doesn't count as "manufacturing" and probably won't work...
I can't wait to see what happens when they discover newsgroups. Man, their heads will pop.;)
Heh. Newsgroups are less interactive, so I bet they wouldn't be as impressed. They can't watch live conversations between skript kiddiez and warez d00dz, so it'll have less "punch". Personally, that's what I like about newsgroups-- not having to talk to a 14 year old doofus and stroke his tiny ego enough to give me what I'm looking for is worth the spam-wading.
If this law only applies to NY, and is worth $50million, how much unpaid royalties exist that should be directed to the other states?
NY = 1 state = 50million "lost"
Other = 49 States = 50 * 49 = 2.45 billion?
Even if the percentage is lower, this is only the tip of the iceberg.
Note: I'm not american, but doesn't this sound at least reasonable?
The state that holds the money in escrow is determined by where the entity owing the money is located. Quite a few RIAA labels are headquartered in NY, so NY will have quite a bit of cash in escrow. Probably the only other state with a significant amount would be California.
Perhaps NY is only holding moneys for people who have family in NY or a last known address there, the article wasn't clear.
Unclaimed property like this is really, very, very simple. If entity X owes money to person Y and they cannot find person Y, the money goes to the state where entity X is located. They already know person Y doesn't live at his last known address, and person Y's family has no claim on the money till person Y is dead.
You can pretty much forget about finding decent Acrobat/PDF support for anything handheld. Ansyr has a PDF viewer for Pocket PC ($75), but from what I hear development pretty much ceased for it when Ansyr was acquired in Oct 2001. There are plenty of PDF-to-(whatever) converters out there, but you might as well abandon any hope of directly viewing PDF on anything smaller than a laptop.
You forgot the third possibility. Suppose the power indicator LED is orange: it's hard to tell if we're in a superposition of states or merely oscillating very rapidly.
...or that some bonehead wired the unit up to 24VAC instead of DC....
Have you tried disabling the monitor's power button, just for shits and giggles?
Wow. I read the instructions. Is that an actual intutive set of steps, or is it a "Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, B, A, Select, Start" kind of easter-eggy thing? Sucks if they actually HID the "enable touch switch" checkbox like that. Makes you wonder how many other useful things they've hidden!
It's got to be an overlay - otherwise, you'd see a camera in the reflection.
Only if the person was actually lookin' at theyself in the mirror. If the person looking into the mirror is seeing a reflection of the camera, it'd look like the picture. They do it in movies all the time.
Well, you could always go to the other extreme. Install a stick of dynamite in the steering wheel of all cars. Have a detector that will detonate it in any crash. Let people know that this is the case. Let people know that they should drive very carefully.
Heh. What about the poor bastard toodling conscientiously through an intersection who T-bones, or gets T-boned by, a guy blowing through the red light? That'd suck.
Three huge monster battles and a death scene which would have all the Hollywood action heroes scratching each other's eyes out for the chance to show they are serious actors, really.
Yeah, but you know the casting office would end up doing something as stupid as... oh, I don't know... Brad Pitt as fucking Achilles.
homer.ingrave(rotating) == true
I think the original poster was making a point about the need for physical security in data centers, and the that post just happened to deal with VeriSign.
Cripes, why is it that everyone is so literal. Think, people, THINK!
Yeah, you're right. I'm so used to seeing the verizon/verisign interchange that I totally misparsed this one. Didn't help that it's a "see I told U so!" post with a link to a post somewhere else. My bad.
Is it an important part of the internet as it pertains to a significant chunk of the population?
YES.
Does it really matter who the fuck owns it if it can be waltzed into by any fucktard off the street and taken down so easily?
NO.
STFU, whiner.
Earth to jackass: when someone proudly points to this article about Verizon's colo as verification of VeriSign's lack of security, it's not WHINING to point out that they're being an IDIOT.
I suggest a safe deposit box for storing data and passwords. Many people have posted saying one should use a SAFETY deposit box, but this is a bad idea, as there is NO SUCH THING as a safety deposit box. Cripes, it's a box deposited in a safe, hence the name "safe deposit box". I know that when one speaks that phrase it sounds like "safety posit box", but take my word for it: it's actually a safe deposit box.
They are selling us movies over the internet now: [http://movielink.com/]
Wow. So they are. Five bucks for one movie for one day is a bit steep, particularly compared to rental. I guess the future is here today! Of course, Windows Media Player is Microsoft's testing ground for DRM, so it's no surprise it's happened already.
Under what circumstance does this enable anything by the consumer?
It "enables" us to pay for things in a format that, at present, they dare not sell to us because we're a bunch of dirty thieves. If they sold us a movie over the internet NOW we might think that we should be allowed to watch it a second time for FREE.
I'm reminded of the MythBusters episode where they leave toothbrushes in their bathroom for a month to look for fecal coloform bacteria and find it on every brush, inclusing a control brush they didn't touch the entire time in their kitchen.
You left out the most important part: the results. They found fecal coliform growing on ALL the brushes, including the two brushes kept covered in another room. It's also important to note what the bacteriologist said after he told them it was on ALL the brushes: fecal coliform is everywhere, so don't worry about it. If you're healthy, you can handle it.
The world we live in is much cleaner in terms of organic residue then ever before, and the legions of bacteria on your shower curtain have not spontaneously appeared out of the ether, so calm down, take a deep breath, and stop panicing.
Yeah, go back 150 years and you'd be surprised at the level of filth. A lot of starnge beliefs, like "getting your feet wet causes a cold" came from a time when any minor occurence that lowered your resistence to infection was highly likely to result in illness. I was recently reading the autobiography of Mark Twain and, at one point, he expressed guilt for having allowed his infant son's blanket to slip partly off on a carriage ride, resulting in the child coming down with something and dying. His daughter died at age 24 from meningitis, as I recall, and he himself nearly died from measels when he was a boy.
Personally, I'll take the shower curtain over anything the past had to offer. We got it easy.
I dislike shower curtains...too difficult to clean. My shower has a germ infected glass door. As for the germs, the article fails to make a case that exposure to germs on shower curtains cause disease. Personally, I think limited exposure to germs helps keep the immune system in tune. I think I will continue to take showers despite the grave hazard that the exposure to germs entails.
I've heard it posited that, with all the germ phobia spawned disinfecting products, the only thing that keeps many people's immune systems up to par is regular exposure to the bacteria-laden aerosolizations emanating from the toilet upon flushing, and running the garbage disposal in the kitchen sink. Now, perhaps, we can add the shower to the list.
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No mention of anthropomorphizing machinery is complete without a reference to Masahiro Mori's Uncanny Valley: n. Feelings of unease, fear, or revulsion created by a robot or robotic device that appears to be, but is not quite, human-like.
Well, look at it this way: When someone describes someone else as a "14 year old skript kiddie", they're actually impugning all 14 year olds, but rather "skript kiddies" who act like the worst examples of 14 year olds. Just as saying "he screamed like a two year old all day" doesn't really mean to indict the behavior of all two year olds, just the screaming kind. Also, it's more of a "mental maturity" sort of insult. The 13-14 year span is about the time when the average slob becomes aware of adult culture, but is still fairly firmly rooted mentally in the child culture. Subsequently, you see a lot of "hybrid" expressions, such as ill-informed sex talk using words from the "poopoo and weenie" lexicon. Many people, such as yourself perhaps, make the transition much earlier than 13-14. The real insult of calling some 20 or 30 year old dork on IRC "14 years old" is the implication that they never made the transition into adulthood.
U-238 tamper/reflector in the center and for the outside Buy Beryllium Here!
Of course, wrapping your implosion target in foil probably doesn't count as "manufacturing" and probably won't work...
Nitpick...nitpick...you are, of course, correct. My terminology was inaccurate.
Heh. Newsgroups are less interactive, so I bet they wouldn't be as impressed. They can't watch live conversations between skript kiddiez and warez d00dz, so it'll have less "punch". Personally, that's what I like about newsgroups-- not having to talk to a 14 year old doofus and stroke his tiny ego enough to give me what I'm looking for is worth the spam-wading.
The state that holds the money in escrow is determined by where the entity owing the money is located. Quite a few RIAA labels are headquartered in NY, so NY will have quite a bit of cash in escrow. Probably the only other state with a significant amount would be California.
Unclaimed property like this is really, very, very simple. If entity X owes money to person Y and they cannot find person Y, the money goes to the state where entity X is located. They already know person Y doesn't live at his last known address, and person Y's family has no claim on the money till person Y is dead.
The money goes to the state where the entity collecting the money is based.
What if I live in Nebraska?
If they can't find you to send you the money, how would they know to send it to Nebraska?
You can pretty much forget about finding decent Acrobat/PDF support for anything handheld. Ansyr has a PDF viewer for Pocket PC ($75), but from what I hear development pretty much ceased for it when Ansyr was acquired in Oct 2001. There are plenty of PDF-to-(whatever) converters out there, but you might as well abandon any hope of directly viewing PDF on anything smaller than a laptop.
Wow. I read the instructions. Is that an actual intutive set of steps, or is it a "Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, B, A, Select, Start" kind of easter-eggy thing? Sucks if they actually HID the "enable touch switch" checkbox like that. Makes you wonder how many other useful things they've hidden!
Only if the person was actually lookin' at theyself in the mirror. If the person looking into the mirror is seeing a reflection of the camera, it'd look like the picture. They do it in movies all the time.
Heh. What about the poor bastard toodling conscientiously through an intersection who T-bones, or gets T-boned by, a guy blowing through the red light? That'd suck.
True, but so would the addition of DVD playback, and we had to pay for that thru the OS 10.2 upgrade. Well, my boss paid, anyway...
This made me laugh hard enough to pee my pants. Thanks!
Yeah, but you know the casting office would end up doing something as stupid as... oh, I don't know... Brad Pitt as fucking Achilles.
homer.ingrave(rotating) == true
Yeah, you're right. I'm so used to seeing the verizon/verisign interchange that I totally misparsed this one. Didn't help that it's a "see I told U so!" post with a link to a post somewhere else. My bad.
Earth to jackass: when someone proudly points to this article about Verizon's colo as verification of VeriSign's lack of security, it's not WHINING to point out that they're being an IDIOT.
Dude, Verizon is not VeriSign.
Cripes, why is it any time one company comes up, someone thinks we're talking about the other? Read, people, READ!
I suggest a safe deposit box for storing data and passwords. Many people have posted saying one should use a SAFETY deposit box, but this is a bad idea, as there is NO SUCH THING as a safety deposit box. Cripes, it's a box deposited in a safe, hence the name "safe deposit box". I know that when one speaks that phrase it sounds like "safety posit box", but take my word for it: it's actually a safe deposit box.
Wow. So they are. Five bucks for one movie for one day is a bit steep, particularly compared to rental. I guess the future is here today! Of course, Windows Media Player is Microsoft's testing ground for DRM, so it's no surprise it's happened already.
It "enables" us to pay for things in a format that, at present, they dare not sell to us because we're a bunch of dirty thieves. If they sold us a movie over the internet NOW we might think that we should be allowed to watch it a second time for FREE.
You left out the most important part: the results. They found fecal coliform growing on ALL the brushes, including the two brushes kept covered in another room. It's also important to note what the bacteriologist said after he told them it was on ALL the brushes: fecal coliform is everywhere, so don't worry about it. If you're healthy, you can handle it.
Yeah, go back 150 years and you'd be surprised at the level of filth. A lot of starnge beliefs, like "getting your feet wet causes a cold" came from a time when any minor occurence that lowered your resistence to infection was highly likely to result in illness. I was recently reading the autobiography of Mark Twain and, at one point, he expressed guilt for having allowed his infant son's blanket to slip partly off on a carriage ride, resulting in the child coming down with something and dying. His daughter died at age 24 from meningitis, as I recall, and he himself nearly died from measels when he was a boy.
Personally, I'll take the shower curtain over anything the past had to offer. We got it easy.
I've heard it posited that, with all the germ phobia spawned disinfecting products, the only thing that keeps many people's immune systems up to par is regular exposure to the bacteria-laden aerosolizations emanating from the toilet upon flushing, and running the garbage disposal in the kitchen sink. Now, perhaps, we can add the shower to the list.