And I'm sure I'll be out-geeked here by some guy who's first computer used punch-cards.
Well, my first one was an abacus... Do I win? No, because an abacus is not programmable. Also, we all know you didn't have an abacus, but rather were vainly attempting humor... by repeating a joke that has been used many times before... and was not particularly funny even when it was novel.
Did you just call the jews living in Nazi concentration camps wretched creatures? So what if he did? "Wretched" is not necessarily a derogatory adjective. His use of it clearly fits the definition of "deeply afflicted, dejected, or distressed in body or mind". His usage indicates he's fairly literate. Your judgmental comments do not say the same of you.
True... even so, I'd be loathe to dismiss any missile launch that close to me. Seriously, you people are arguing a moot point. The nature of defensive missile systems is such that there is no chance whatsoever that a launch would be confused with a nuke. Anti ballistic missile systems are all about being FAST. As such they are small, lightweight, and usually don't even have (nor have they the capacity to carry) a warhead. Their launch physics are totally unlike those of an SRBM or ICBM.
One of the most annoying things about google for me is how it interprets queries with strange characters common to almost all programming languages. A google search for "ruby <<" returns no results related to the ruby append operator. A Simple search for "<<", by itself returns ZERO results. Yes, well you see that's a problem common to most search systems. Non-alphanumeric characters tend to be reserved for search logic. It would indeed be nice if there was a way to force literals into the search terms, but for now we just have to make do the way we always have: search for ruby append instead, or (if you don't know what it's called) search for ruby string operators and find out.
Congrats, this has got to be the most successful troll I've seen. And to think I thought the one about the CD-store owner not being able to buy his daughter good clothes was overdone... Why don't you google a random fragment of the Record Store Troll, count the number of hits, the try a fragment from her story and see how many hits you get. Hmmmm.... not the same sort of troll at all. For one thing, it has showed up only once. For another, it was posted by an established slashdot user and not an AC. Third, she gives too much specific detail and replies to too many posters to fit the "troll" profile. What is your doubt based on? The fact that you've never been the victim of the "Public Safety community" helping one of its own at the expense of a random outsider? Small-peanuts corruption like this is quite common. Prick cops and asshole DA's are in unpleasantly large supply. In both cases, it's the nature of the job. Agreeable, pleasant people generally feel no drive to become authority figures.
Does this have the appearance of a prewritten tale to anyone? No, because I'm not a fucktard like you, too stupid to take a likely unique string from the story and plug it into google and figure out this is the first time it's been posted. Dumbass.
Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please. As a half-breed Chinaman myself, I have to ask: do you call Kofi Anan an "african-american"?
Yes, I realize all that, but I still don't see the difference. As long as the action isn't illegal in the place where the company is located, what's the problem? It may be a problem if employees of the company ever travel to the country where these things are illegal (like what happened to Dmitry), but that's about it I would think. If any part of your business involves shipping stuff to the UK, then you're out of business. All your crap will be seized at customs and thrown to the pigs.
It's a tricky issue for a libertarian-leaning capitalist like myself.... On the other, property rights should be respected. The first thing that'll help you with this argument is the realization that "Intellectual Property" is not property. Copyright is an artificial construct of government, whereby certain entities are granted a limited time monopoly on the copying of their creative works. This monopoly is actually a restriction on the rights of everyone else. Now, this monopoly can be sold as property, but that's hardly relevent. "Respecting their property" has nothing to do with "respecting copyright". The work itself is irreversibly part of our common culture once it's revealed.
My understanding from the article is that he did try to give them away but nobody would take them. Which, if true, is indeed a sad reflection on our times. That this is occurring at the same time the Hay on Wye Festival is taking place (one of the largest and most important literary festivals, in a town where you can't move for book stores) makes it positively sick and twisted. Some books are literally not worth the paper they're printed on. Like "a bound report from the Fourth Pan-American Conference held in Buenos Aires in 1910", for a specific example from TFA. Saving books just because they're printed words bound into a cover is overly reverent of print for print's sake. How about saving every newspaper ever printed? Magazines? Catalogs? Monumental stacks of how-to books for defunct software (Lotus 1-2-3 for Dummies [DOS])? Where do you draw the line?
It was probably books from their bargain section, which never sold and have been collecting dust in the backfroom for 10+ years. Some books are worth more as kindling:
1. Windows 98 for Dummies
2. My Awakening by David Duke
3. Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard
4. The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich
5. anything by Dan Brown
6. Das Kapital by Karl Marx
7. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
IF the signature can be altered by a signal why could it not be re-alligned by another? Is the frequency somehow damaging the medium that holds the signature?
If you expose magnetic media to random magnetic forces you lose data... but it does not destroy the medium itself.
OTOH if you pass a Sensormatic EAS tag through an EMF it destroys the medium.
Why would you make a key like that? What's going on here? Who's running this show? I'm just idly speculating, but it's perfectly plausible that the device is "programmed" at the time of manufacture by direct wire connection, then the device is cast into the plastic key head later. From the sound of it, the keys are the unfortunate victims of near-field radiation. Near-field effects include surprisingly strong magnetic induction, which could reasonably be expected to fustigate a badly designed transponder circuit such as one would find in a key like this.
Somehow the tinfoil beanie types who worry about brain damage are seeming less tinfoil beanie-ish these days... No, the "brain damage" idiots are still idiots. That RF induction can cause trouble on sensitive electronics within nearfield range is obvious. To say it lends credence to the ravings of the tinfoil hatters is an illogical leap.
A week ago they changed the layout of their home page which made it JavaScript dependent Their home page shows up exactly the same in plain HTML if you turn of JS. It's not JS "dependent".
The snide response to that is "why isn't the full-time professional army winning in Iraq?" The response to comments like that is "it is winning, just not quickly, overwhelmingly, or cheaply".
Now, look at the "Los Angeles Times". Every bit of news and opinion at the "Times" is free. Why would anyone subscribe to the "Times" when she can get the news for free? The LA Times is notorious here for telemarketing. For years we've had to put up with repeated sales calls offering us "great deals" on that horrid rag, and no argument short of hanging up would get the tenacious phone-mill slave off your phone. Until now, that is. When you tell them "I read it online, for free", they simply have no answer beyond "Oh....OK....thank you for your time". Victory at last.
I wonder what using olive oil as lighter fluid would do to the taste. hmm.. Burnt olive oil tastes nasty too. The soot it makes is just as crapulent as the soot from burning meat grease.
US was unscathed after WWII... I would add the word "relatively" to the above, due to the 418,500 dead folks. It wasn't like Poland, which lost 20% of its population, but still...
...in reality Cringely was a succession of journalism interns working for minimum wage. Only after 1995, and only at Infoworld. Mark Stephens, the man who wrote as Cringely from 87-95, left and continued to write as Cringely for PBS.
InfoWorld became irrelevant and they sold the Cringely thingy to the American taxpayer at National Government Radio because they needed the bucks. There have been at least a dozen hires at NPR writing under the Cringely moniker, all of them low paid or unpaid interns. Do not confuse PBS (which has Mark Stephens), with NPR (which is an outlet for Infoworld's Cringely random intern rumor mill).
Note that TFA is at pbs.org
TFA is garbage from a known source: Mark Stephens.
One amusing thing that I've found while reading further on the issue is that the 19 pound difference Pentagon wankers came up with is a comparison of the IBA vest without side plates, size MEDIUM; and the Dragon Skin full coverage vest, size X-LARGE. When you compare the IBA size MEDIUM with side plates to the Dragon Skin full coverage size MEDIUM, the IBA is actually.05 pounds heavier! No wonder they were afraid to make too much noise about it. Personally, I was perfectly happy in the IBA--- but I never got shot at directly.
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That's not so bad. Try going into a bar in Dublin and saying how much you love that part of the UK.
Or the perennial favorite:in a Scottish or Irish pub, "Bah! Scottish, Irish--- what's the difference?"
1. Windows 98 for Dummies
2. My Awakening by David Duke
3. Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard
4. The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich
5. anything by Dan Brown
6. Das Kapital by Karl Marx
7. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Heck, one could go on for hours...
If you expose magnetic media to random magnetic forces you lose data... but it does not destroy the medium itself.
OTOH if you pass a Sensormatic EAS tag through an EMF it destroys the medium.
Why would you make a key like that? What's going on here? Who's running this show?
I'm just idly speculating, but it's perfectly plausible that the device is "programmed" at the time of manufacture by direct wire connection, then the device is cast into the plastic key head later. From the sound of it, the keys are the unfortunate victims of near-field radiation. Near-field effects include surprisingly strong magnetic induction, which could reasonably be expected to fustigate a badly designed transponder circuit such as one would find in a key like this.
No, the "brain damage" idiots are still idiots. That RF induction can cause trouble on sensitive electronics within nearfield range is obvious. To say it lends credence to the ravings of the tinfoil hatters is an illogical leap.
The fact that they've chosen the courts rather than basic web services shows what technological idiots they are.
Have you ever even seen anyone actually have a seizure? There are a whole spectrum of symptoms.
I'm pretty sure having a cop close on your tail with lights flashing is not a symptom of a sudden seizure.
...in reality Cringely was a succession of journalism interns working for minimum wage.Only after 1995, and only at Infoworld. Mark Stephens, the man who wrote as Cringely from 87-95, left and continued to write as Cringely for PBS.
InfoWorld became irrelevant and they sold the Cringely thingy to the American taxpayer at National Government Radio because they needed the bucks. There have been at least a dozen hires at NPR writing under the Cringely moniker, all of them low paid or unpaid interns. Do not confuse PBS (which has Mark Stephens), with NPR (which is an outlet for Infoworld's Cringely random intern rumor mill).
Note that TFA is at pbs.org
TFA is garbage from a known source: Mark Stephens.
One amusing thing that I've found while reading further on the issue is that the 19 pound difference Pentagon wankers came up with is a comparison of the IBA vest without side plates, size MEDIUM; and the Dragon Skin full coverage vest, size X-LARGE. When you compare the IBA size MEDIUM with side plates to the Dragon Skin full coverage size MEDIUM, the IBA is actually .05 pounds heavier! No wonder they were afraid to make too much noise about it. Personally, I was perfectly happy in the IBA--- but I never got shot at directly.