Maybe, but if I want to get a bank account, or start anything but the most casual job I have to show either a passport or a driving license to verify my identity.
Passports and driving licenses act like an ID card in all but name, these days.
A touch offtopic, but where in the US is it 64f at the moment? From what I can work out this is going to be around the LA latitude (that is to say, not Maine, which is at a similar latitude to London, without the gulf stream)
At the moment it's 60f in London, and the blossom is appearing on some trees before the leaves have fully fallen off others. Is 64 the normal temperature in these places?
I doubt the authenticity of this comment. Using the British meaning of the word I'm quite sure using a 'fanny paddle' would have been quite illegal, even in the 1940s'.
Brilliant, I can picture the scene now. I shut down windows only to be greeted by a 35 minute piece incorporating 13 minutes of silence (interrupted by the occasional triangle, or burst of bassoon) and incorporating works by Holst playe on the mellotron.
This is all very well and good, but why can't the BBC make available the countless parts of their catalogue that are utterly unavailable on DVD/VHS or it seems anywhere else.
Two cases in point <a href=http://www.15storeyshigh.net/>15 Storeys High</a> and <a href=http://www.astleybakerdavies.com/bk.htm>The Big Knights</a>. Both high quality, original comedy programme, both with episodes unreleased. I only managed to catch the final two episodes of the underpromoted, poorly slotted second series of 15 storeys high. It's impossible to find (and even harder to actually download) on p2p networks, and impossible to buy and <i>I payed for it</i>!!
The MONOPOLY game is so much a part of today's popular culture that my lawyers have trademarked many of its graphic elements. The tokens, Railroad, COMMUNITY CHEST, CHANCE, and Title Deed designs, as well as BOARDWALK and all four gameboard corners are legally protected.
It's a bit slashdotinteresting isn't it? If it's that much a part of popular culture, when will it be public domain? I could print out my own monopoly money! Whoopee!!
When I was at high school I said to one of the IT teachers. You know, your network is incredibly insecure, he huffed and puffed. "Shall I show you?", says I, "Yes, please do" says he. I show him, he sends me to the headmaster, I get suspended for three days and the network remains broken. A fine reaction, best for all parties!
This situation seems rather similar, people working for the school paper hack without malicious intent, an embarassed institution moves into oppressive mode. Although a law may have technically been breached, surely this wasn't against the spirit of it. They were not explicitly hoping to steal information, and they reported exactly what they found.
These people are not being punished for breaking the security of the network, but their disclosure thereof. A stupid reaction, by what purports to be an intelligent instituation.
If you, for example, install debian off the net you simply download the packages you require. No need to "patch", as a correctly configured install will get all the patched applications for you. So the load is similar to a normal install. With more people having broadband I'd imagine this to be ever more reasonable. It would be nice if maybe windows refused to remove it's internet connection firewall before it had recieved certain patches (maybe patches with a certain flag or something) and would make sure that the firewall was actually up before doing anything on the network at all. At least a checkbox to this effect enabled by default to satisfy corporate users, home users would certainly gain more than they suffer from this.
Must say, there are other dangers though. I knew this fellow, "crazy nick". When I first met him (at a party in a squat) he told me how he got a new gold card 2 days ago and had since maxed it out with his dealer. He then proceeded to tell me how he had given up crack for 2 whole hours.
Further stories consisted of Piers Morgan (editor of British tabloid the Daily Mirror... sacked a few weeks ago for rubbish fake Iraqi abuse photos) giving him orgasms by remote control using mobile phone antennae. By your logic this man would be safe, you'd think. But *NO* it seems not, for later on in the night he'd fallen asleep somewhere in a ketamine haze and someone tagged him! They got out their pens and their spray paint, and did piecework all over him.
I still have a leaflet he'd constructed on the remote orgasm thing, I'm sure that posted to the right topic it would score highly on slashdot.
I know it might be an uncommon configuration, but the thing that really put me off fedora/redhat was that it, up to FC1 at least didn't have support for multiple sound cards. It simply detected one fairly arbitrarily and told you that was what sound card you have. I found redhat a little hard to hack so I went back to debian and was happy. Windows allows me to use multiple sound cards and prioritise them... why can't RH/fedora?
If you're just wanting to play records for the sake of recording them, a belt-driven Numark 1550 will do you just fine. Less than $100.
That seems entirely tangental to the point I was making, that the de-facto DJ turntable. Certainly the most common turntable for most hobbyist DJs does not go anywhere near supporting 78rpm. If I choose to get some flashy deck from vestax the 50% "ultra" pitch control on 45rpm will only take me to 67.5rpm. And I'm sure it'd be incredibly infrequent for the DJ to bust out his old 78s anyway.
I know there are all sorts of DJ turntables out there, but I thought the de-facto standard was the Technics SL-1200 and similar models. These only having 33/45 rpm with some pitch control, not enough to take it to 78.
I have to say, that microsoft have pushed this one a bit. Ignoring the joys of MS Bob, it all started with that bloody office paperclip. It's all sneaking on too, until I turn it off windows XP boxes present me with a helpful dog to sniff out my files. Lord!
People are going to dismiss me as a lunatic for finding this sinister, but really I do. I've always thought a key part of microsofts monopoly is keeping users ignorant by maintaining an unnessecary seperation between the machine and the user.
I don't want this to degenerate into a GUI/CLI argument, that is not what I am considering here. All I am saying is that we want the best link between cognition and application. The very last thing we want to do to foster this link is to start putting anthropomorphised dogs to "sniff out" your files. To get the most out of a computer the very first thing that you must do is to accept that it is a cold, hartless machine (the second thing is often accepting that it's a cold, hartless, imperfectly implemented machine).
There are so many people who are near paralysed at a computer. This paralasys is in the main caused by fear. Putting fluffy animals into the GUI in no way aids anyone in using a computer, it simply puts another barrier between the user and successful use of the computer (not least in the clock cycles it eats). What we need to do is help people gain a good conceptual understanding of their computers, the various aspects of hardware and software and to help them feel confident in keeping this knowledge up to date.
Wave after wave of internet worms have shown us that, and half the culprit is that the business strategy of microsoft at least is interely dependant on keeping its users to some extent ignorant. Those users get less out of technology, and everyone suffers the fallout from this ignorance, it's good for nobody other than those selling the tools to maintain it.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe, but if I want to get a bank account, or start anything but the most casual job I have to show either a passport or a driving license to verify my identity.
Passports and driving licenses act like an ID card in all but name, these days.
A touch offtopic, but where in the US is it 64f at the moment? From what I can work out this is going to be around the LA latitude (that is to say, not Maine, which is at a similar latitude to London, without the gulf stream)
At the moment it's 60f in London, and the blossom is appearing on some trees before the leaves have fully fallen off others. Is 64 the normal temperature in these places?
I'm English, living in England and I can assure you that the site doesn't lie. Check dict.org etc.
I doubt the authenticity of this comment. Using the British meaning of the word I'm quite sure using a 'fanny paddle' would have been quite illegal, even in the 1940s'.
Brilliant, I can picture the scene now. I shut down windows only to be greeted by a 35 minute piece incorporating 13 minutes of silence (interrupted by the occasional triangle, or burst of bassoon) and incorporating works by Holst playe on the mellotron.
I think it would be more appropriate for there to be some King Crimson inspired wallpaper
My local train station always used to play classical music at night, and I always wondered why. It was rather remeniscent of Auschwitz, though.
I love the way you posted his phone-number on the internet. Deeply ironic
This is all very well and good, but why can't the BBC make available the countless parts of their catalogue that are utterly unavailable on DVD/VHS or it seems anywhere else.
Two cases in point <a href=http://www.15storeyshigh.net/>15 Storeys High</a> and <a href=http://www.astleybakerdavies.com/bk.htm>The Big Knights</a>. Both high quality, original comedy programme, both with episodes unreleased. I only managed to catch the final two episodes of the underpromoted, poorly slotted second series of 15 storeys high. It's impossible to find (and even harder to actually download) on p2p networks, and impossible to buy and <i>I payed for it</i>!!
I always imagined lawyers to taste like the large juicy rump steak of a fat, well fed, organic, free range cow.
I love steak, I think I'd eat lawyer steak raw and steaming.
You missed the best bit:
The MONOPOLY game is so much a part of today's popular culture that my lawyers have trademarked many of its graphic elements. The tokens, Railroad, COMMUNITY CHEST, CHANCE, and Title Deed designs, as well as BOARDWALK and all four gameboard corners are legally protected.
It's a bit slashdotinteresting isn't it? If it's that much a part of popular culture, when will it be public domain? I could print out my own monopoly money! Whoopee!!
Invented at SRI, causes RSI. Heh
I must say, that article reads like the Hutton report.
He's talking about crashes, not rendering bad code, someone mod this down please.
When I was at high school I said to one of the IT teachers. You know, your network is incredibly insecure, he huffed and puffed. "Shall I show you?", says I, "Yes, please do" says he. I show him, he sends me to the headmaster, I get suspended for three days and the network remains broken. A fine reaction, best for all parties!
This situation seems rather similar, people working for the school paper hack without malicious intent, an embarassed institution moves into oppressive mode. Although a law may have technically been breached, surely this wasn't against the spirit of it. They were not explicitly hoping to steal information, and they reported exactly what they found.
These people are not being punished for breaking the security of the network, but their disclosure thereof. A stupid reaction, by what purports to be an intelligent instituation.
If you, for example, install debian off the net you simply download the packages you require. No need to "patch", as a correctly configured install will get all the patched applications for you. So the load is similar to a normal install. With more people having broadband I'd imagine this to be ever more reasonable.
It would be nice if maybe windows refused to remove it's internet connection firewall before it had recieved certain patches (maybe patches with a certain flag or something) and would make sure that the firewall was actually up before doing anything on the network at all. At least a checkbox to this effect enabled by default to satisfy corporate users, home users would certainly gain more than they suffer from this.
Must say, there are other dangers though. I knew this fellow, "crazy nick". When I first met him (at a party in a squat) he told me how he got a new gold card 2 days ago and had since maxed it out with his dealer. He then proceeded to tell me how he had given up crack for 2 whole hours.
... sacked a few weeks ago for rubbish fake Iraqi abuse photos) giving him orgasms by remote control using mobile phone antennae. By your logic this man would be safe, you'd think. But *NO* it seems not, for later on in the night he'd fallen asleep somewhere in a ketamine haze and someone tagged him! They got out their pens and their spray paint, and did piecework all over him.
Further stories consisted of Piers Morgan (editor of British tabloid the Daily Mirror
I still have a leaflet he'd constructed on the remote orgasm thing, I'm sure that posted to the right topic it would score highly on slashdot.
I know it might be an uncommon configuration, but the thing that really put me off fedora/redhat was that it, up to FC1 at least didn't have support for multiple sound cards. It simply detected one fairly arbitrarily and told you that was what sound card you have. I found redhat a little hard to hack so I went back to debian and was happy. Windows allows me to use multiple sound cards and prioritise them ... why can't RH/fedora?
The pitch control on that deck is 60%, still only cranking me to 72RPM
If you're just wanting to play records for the sake of recording them, a belt-driven Numark 1550 will do you just fine. Less than $100.
That seems entirely tangental to the point I was making, that the de-facto DJ turntable. Certainly the most common turntable for most hobbyist DJs does not go anywhere near supporting 78rpm. If I choose to get some flashy deck from vestax the 50% "ultra" pitch control on 45rpm will only take me to 67.5rpm. And I'm sure it'd be incredibly infrequent for the DJ to bust out his old 78s anyway.
I know there are all sorts of DJ turntables out there, but I thought the de-facto standard was the Technics SL-1200 and similar models. These only having 33/45 rpm with some pitch control, not enough to take it to 78.
> examine cardboard box
There is a knife in the cardboard box
It is sharp
You Are Bleeding
You Are Dead
Your score is 10 out of 800
Quit/Load/Restart (Q/L/R)?
It's also your right to vote. If you use that right I would consider it your duty to be informed.
I have to say, that microsoft have pushed this one a bit. Ignoring the joys of MS Bob, it all started with that bloody office paperclip. It's all sneaking on too, until I turn it off windows XP boxes present me with a helpful dog to sniff out my files. Lord!
People are going to dismiss me as a lunatic for finding this sinister, but really I do. I've always thought a key part of microsofts monopoly is keeping users ignorant by maintaining an unnessecary seperation between the machine and the user.
I don't want this to degenerate into a GUI/CLI argument, that is not what I am considering here. All I am saying is that we want the best link between cognition and application. The very last thing we want to do to foster this link is to start putting anthropomorphised dogs to "sniff out" your files. To get the most out of a computer the very first thing that you must do is to accept that it is a cold, hartless machine (the second thing is often accepting that it's a cold, hartless, imperfectly implemented machine).
There are so many people who are near paralysed at a computer. This paralasys is in the main caused by fear. Putting fluffy animals into the GUI in no way aids anyone in using a computer, it simply puts another barrier between the user and successful use of the computer (not least in the clock cycles it eats). What we need to do is help people gain a good conceptual understanding of their computers, the various aspects of hardware and software and to help them feel confident in keeping this knowledge up to date.
Wave after wave of internet worms have shown us that, and half the culprit is that the business strategy of microsoft at least is interely dependant on keeping its users to some extent ignorant. Those users get less out of technology, and everyone suffers the fallout from this ignorance, it's good for nobody other than those selling the tools to maintain it.
Am I the only person who has noticed that this Valerie is showing an awful lot of leg?
Linux is *not* user friendly, and until it is linux will stay with >1% marketshare.
I was hoping linux would keep its marketshare above 1% anyway.