My wife teaches first grade, and says that the kids have zero imagination. Halfway through one of their stories, she realizes that they are just regurgitating a movie or TV show. When she asks them to use their imagination, they think that are...
One of the students wrote a story about how a new kid moved into the neighborhood named "Legoras".
That's when we decided our kids will have omish toys--big blocky wooden stuff with wheels. Or maybe Legos. If they want to have fun, they'll have to invent it.
If you are interested in the research behind all this, see Chenxi Wang's dissertation. Here's a paper on it. The approach recognizes the fact that security is about raising the bar high enough to make it too much work for hackers. By changing the code on the fly, the hackers have to start reverse engineering it all over again.
Is a ball of 100 human embryo cells a human being? One woman on the program was claiming - yes, this is so. I personally think that this is a bit extreme, almost "every sperm is sacred" extreme.
It's simple--if the thing could become a person without our meddling, it's worth protecting. Sperm doesn't count. Preemies do, even if current technology couldn't actually help them live outside the mother. (e.g. a ball of 100 cells)
Kimberly Wasson taught a class in forensic investigation at UVa last year. For example, they would dig into NTSB reports to find the computer causes for airline crashes.
Maybe the problem isn't the keyboard, but the mouse. I had an office mate who would kill himself trying to use a mouse on a low desk.
Personally, I think half these ergonomics folks are full of it. I think it's better to have your tendons straight, for both mouse and keyboard. So instead of dropping my keyboard and mouse, I raise them and lower my chair until my arms are nearly straight on my desk.
BTW, Gateway laptops have a much worse keyboard than Dell ones. The Fn key is the outermost left key, with Ctrl next to it, then Win, then Alt. I want Ctrl and Alt to be the outermost. And the Home, PgUp, PgDown, End group is a straight line on the right side instead of a cluster up in the top right. Ug!
Military aircraft are not built using standard parts. Everything is custom. So everything is brutally expensive. Cut back on the custom nature of this hardware, and you'd save a lot of money. Cut back on unilateral foreign wars, and you'd save even more.
Check out Harmony Remotes. I like them because (1) they look like a remote (2) I can use them by touch (unlike touchscreen remotes) (3) they are activity-based and (4) they know the state of your system. Activity-based remotes with state information know how your system is currently configured, and what it should do to do something else. For example, if you are watching a DVD and want to watch a VHS, it knows that the TV is already on and won't send an on/off IR signal.
Folks setting up a home theater should get these instead of the traditional all-in-one remotes just for the WAF (wife acceptance factor).
One feature I miss in my Linksys 802.11b device is the ability to reserve dynamically allocated IPs for certain computers. This means that I can't easily use DHCP and static name resolution because there is no guarantee that the computer will have the same IP address. (i.e. I'd have to run a DNS server.)
As the Economist said, taking Saddam down is worth doing, just based on who he is and what he's done. Unfortunately, Bush felt the need to "do something" about terrorism, and fix daddy's mistake (not going all the way to Baghdad).
My problem is that there are plenty of Bad Men in the world. I guess Castro is just too easy, and Kim Jong Il could actually defend North Korea.
What I hope is that Bush is actually smarter than we think, and that this is his way of dealing with unrest in the middle east. Topple a dictatorship and set up a moderate democracy in the region. Hopefully one by one each of the countries will become more like Jordan and less like Saudi Arabia.
Of course, you can't come out and say that your middle east policy is based on pseudo-imperialism. I'm hoping that Bush was willing to take the criticism about terrorism/WMDs for the much bigger goal of peace in the middle east.
Losing the magnetic field would cause some big problems. First, the magnetic field acts as a shield which diverts the solar wind to the poles. (That's the aurora we see.) I don't know about you, but I don't want to wear sunblock every day.
Second, much of our electronic communications would be interrupted without this protection. For more information see this FAQ
So that means he can be charged in federal court, too, since his crime involves multiple states, doesn't it? Or does it have to be shown that his email crossed into multiple states in order to take it to federal court?
I think Law and Order has taught me that the feds have to actually have a federal law which has been violated. I don't think there is a federal spam law (yet).
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My wife teaches first grade, and says that the kids have zero imagination. Halfway through one of their stories, she realizes that they are just regurgitating a movie or TV show. When she asks them to use their imagination, they think that are...
One of the students wrote a story about how a new kid moved into the neighborhood named "Legoras".
That's when we decided our kids will have omish toys--big blocky wooden stuff with wheels. Or maybe Legos. If they want to have fun, they'll have to invent it.
Anyone else have the mental image of sliding down miles of ice in a toboggan?
Mod the parent up. Remember Elisabeth Shue as a nuclear scientist/cheerleader in The Saint? >shiver< They'll probably use Alicia Silverstone. ;)
The Walgreens and Chicago incidents make me wonder if you are female. It sounds like sexual harassment stuff...
If you are interested in the research behind all this, see Chenxi Wang's dissertation. Here's a paper on it. The approach recognizes the fact that security is about raising the bar high enough to make it too much work for hackers. By changing the code on the fly, the hackers have to start reverse engineering it all over again.
Bob: Looks like we have 15 cars to inspect today.
Ed: It's my turn. Pass the fifth of scotch.
How much ya got? I'm planning a trip to Edinburgh and could use the cash.
Kimberly Wasson taught a class in forensic investigation at UVa last year. For example, they would dig into NTSB reports to find the computer causes for airline crashes.
Are you saying an iPod wouldn't make you think of her every 15 minutes?
Heh. You missed the point. Your girlfriend gift was exercise, not an umbrella. :)
Personally, I think half these ergonomics folks are full of it. I think it's better to have your tendons straight, for both mouse and keyboard. So instead of dropping my keyboard and mouse, I raise them and lower my chair until my arms are nearly straight on my desk.
BTW, Gateway laptops have a much worse keyboard than Dell ones. The Fn key is the outermost left key, with Ctrl next to it, then Win, then Alt. I want Ctrl and Alt to be the outermost. And the Home, PgUp, PgDown, End group is a straight line on the right side instead of a cluster up in the top right. Ug!
I thought you had to be a Brit to be knighted? Guess not...
They're trying. Why do you think they're running submarines with Windows NT? <shiver>
Folks setting up a home theater should get these instead of the traditional all-in-one remotes just for the WAF (wife acceptance factor).
One feature I miss in my Linksys 802.11b device is the ability to reserve dynamically allocated IPs for certain computers. This means that I can't easily use DHCP and static name resolution because there is no guarantee that the computer will have the same IP address. (i.e. I'd have to run a DNS server.)
So does this mean we can sue SCO if our systems crash?
As the Economist said, taking Saddam down is worth doing, just based on who he is and what he's done. Unfortunately, Bush felt the need to "do something" about terrorism, and fix daddy's mistake (not going all the way to Baghdad).
My problem is that there are plenty of Bad Men in the world. I guess Castro is just too easy, and Kim Jong Il could actually defend North Korea.
What I hope is that Bush is actually smarter than we think, and that this is his way of dealing with unrest in the middle east. Topple a dictatorship and set up a moderate democracy in the region. Hopefully one by one each of the countries will become more like Jordan and less like Saudi Arabia.
Of course, you can't come out and say that your middle east policy is based on pseudo-imperialism. I'm hoping that Bush was willing to take the criticism about terrorism/WMDs for the much bigger goal of peace in the middle east.
Second, much of our electronic communications would be interrupted without this protection. For more information see this FAQ
I think Law and Order has taught me that the feds have to actually have a federal law which has been violated. I don't think there is a federal spam law (yet).
Pine has threading if you patch it. Mutt also has threading. In Perl programming, Mial::Box supports them.
How the hell do you say your last name?
Well it's no wonder that Gore's all upset about voting methods. Look what happened to him in the last presidential election!
They'll probably have to change the name though...
So what is a massively small form factor? A minitower or a full tower?