Exactly. How many bank robbers are caught by bank security cameras? How many are apprehended by security guards? Is this a good reason to remove cameras and guards from our banks?
When I had a Razr a few years ago I got insurance on it, and the insurance company cancelled me when I dropped the third one in the toilet trying to answer it when I was taking a piss.
Here's a novel concept: Don't answer the phone while you're taking a piss...
And did you notice that the iPhone is only $30 dollars cheaper? Cell phones are ridiculously expensive. The only reason we get out of the store with one for less than $350 is because the cost is subsidized by the provider and then made up over the next two years.
The Pre runs a practically normal Linux distribution. Granted, all the applications are written in Javascript and not some compiled language using C, but I look at that as a good thing.
You realize that it doesn't matter if the device runs Linux when the development environment is locked down, right?
You don't have to hack C or C++ to make programs for this device either; PyGtk has emerged as the most popular programming platform for third party developers of Maemo software.
What Nokia is bringing to the table is completely different from Android / Palm - it's a full, open Linux, no strings attached. You can develop software using the tools you want to use, instead of sticking to Java or Javascript.
Yep. I am so excited, I can't wait to buy one of those at the Verizon store...
CRAP! Well, it sounds like a great product. Too bad that there's no way in hell my provider is going to allow me to use one.
Sorry, hand in your liberal card. That was the party-line during the Bush years. Now that democrats are in power, it is Un-American to oppose health care reform (according to Nancy Pelosi, anyway)
Terrible link on that. The author just quotes passages where Pelosi makes sensible and civilized statements, and then he calls her a liar, and in the ultimate act of hypocrisy, while criticizing her for using the word "un-american", compares her and Obama to Hitler. The only thing you can take away from that is that the author really hates Pelosi and Obama, and has a tenuous grip on reality.
As for Pelosi calling protesters un-american, she made it obvious that she's referring to people who show up with weapons and try to shout everybody else down. That isn't the exercise of free speech. That is an attempt to prevent free speech.
, and if you do, then you are an evil-monger. That is according to Harry Reid.
This is also a terrible link. Reid complained that town hall meetings accomplish little because the shouting and nutty antics by under medicated right-wingers get in the way of any true dialog. So he then decides to have a different type of meeting. The article seems to imply he is a hypocrite because of that.
As for him using the word "evil monger", I suppose he did, and that is an incredibly stupid thing to say. I would say that the people shouting "socialism", showing up with firearms, (and the suburban white girl who showed up at a Barney Frank meeting and thought it was a good idea to describe a gay jew as a Nazi), are misinformed, and robbing the debate of all dignity.
But how hypocritical can you be, when someone carries an assault rifle to a meeting with the president, or starts shouting "socialist" or "nazi", at these meetings, and you complain that nobody should say anything bad about those people? How about applying your standard to the people on your side?
It's as if the debate turned from trying to help poor people who are uninsured into some weird debate over I don't even know what.
Name-calling and misinformation. democrats want to work out some kind of agreement and their opponents want to burn the president in effigy.
I seriously look at it and have no clue exactly what problem the Democrats are trying to solve. If anyone else has an idea, please say it. As for me, it's enough to make me vote Green Party.
They are trying to cut insurance costs and provide health care for all Americans. Unfortunately, that part has been drowned out by all the vitriol.
In my opinion, you are a child molester. I think you had sex with a three year old, and it is a statement of opinion, not fact, that you painted antisemitic imagery on your bedroom wall.
recommendation systems may soon be providing you not only with books and movie tips but a happier surfing experience too
I am a little weary of making my surfing experience happier by allowing the system to do my thinking for me. Just think, "clippy" for the browser.
The article doesn't seem to say how it will be implemented, but I would assume it would be some server-side app that generates firewall (and possibly spam filter) rules.
Another possible factor is that direct deposits, online banking, debit, and credit cards, have made it so that many people do not need to carry cash. I'm curious what percent of the actual paper bills in wallets are there because that is the smartest way to pay for illegal drugs.
Two years ago, the Cleveland Clinic stopped hiring smokers. It was one part of a "wellness initiative" that has won the renowned hospital -- which President Obama recently visited -- some very nice publicity. The clinic has a farmers' market on its main campus and has offered smoking-cessation classes for the surrounding community.
Refusing to hire smokers may be more hard-nosed than the other parts of the program. But given the social marginalization of smoking, the policy is hardly shocking. All in all, the wellness initiative seems to be a feel-good story.
Which is why it is so striking to talk to Delos M. Cosgrove, the heart surgeon who is the clinic's chief executive, about the initiative. Cosgrove says that if it were up to him, if there weren't legal issues, he would not only stop hiring smokers. He would also stop hiring obese people. When he mentioned this to me during a recent phone conversation, I told him that I thought many people might consider it unfair. He was unapologetic.
Translation for reading comprehension impaired: Obama wants to kill fat people.;-)
If it isn't written on his birth certificate, I don't believe it:)
A researcher on the team suggests the finding could have considerable implications in the world of criminal justice, where such scans could one day be presented as evidence in a trial."
Isn't there some way this information can help prevent the crime, in the first place?
I believe the reason they are not more clear is because they are trying to be precise enough, when needed, and vague enough, when needed, to close off any major loopholes. . I could be wrong about that, however. The main thing is that I want to know that my elected official is deciding the general direction, but is getting the best help available when it comes to specific details. . For example, during the cap & trade discussions, did any politician ever call anyone involved in the passing of the European cap & trade bill, or any European economists, and ask what is working for them and what isn't? If they did, they have to be quiet about it, because it would be seen more like cheating on your homework, or borderline treason, than smart policy-making.
I can see it as long, as they have a few lawyers or pre-law staffers who can go over hte legal aspects of the bill. In fact, I would rather know that the laws are being written by lawyers, as opposed to the jack-ass in a cowboy hat who spends most of his days going to diners so he can kiss hands and shake babies.
Somewhere along the way, we stopped printing things out quite so much
Somebody's not living in reality here. I *wish* people were printing things out less. I could use the ~$10K I spend out of my budget every year just to feed two printers in a lot better ways, but the print count continues to climb, every single year.
That's just for single sheet- our poster printers are seeing 2x to 3x growth in use every single year.
I don't have a textbook for my course- I use one $18 trade paperback and electronic reserves for the rest of the content- book chapters, magazine articles, etc. All digital. And most everyone in the class just prints the damn things out instead of reading them online.
Sorry about that. I'm not in your class, but I know the type you're talking about. It is much easier to study by printing out a hard copy, and finding a quiet, comfortable, place to read over the notes. If I had to do all my studying in front of a computer screen, I would have gone mad.
I RTFA and its not about switching word processors. Its about moving beyond people editing files one at a time and passing them around - in printed or email form. Basically, the author just discovered the "Magical World of Wiki" and has gotten his office to adopt a wiki as their documentation system.
Why someone discovering 14 year old internet technology made the front page of/. is beyond me...
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Exactly. How many bank robbers are caught by bank security cameras? How many are apprehended by security guards? Is this a good reason to remove cameras and guards from our banks?
The judge clicked the opt-out link, but the spammer ignored it.
Here's a novel concept: Don't answer the phone while you're taking a piss...
...unless your using hands-free or bluetooth.
And did you notice that the iPhone is only $30 dollars cheaper? Cell phones are ridiculously expensive. The only reason we get out of the store with one for less than $350 is because the cost is subsidized by the provider and then made up over the next two years.
The Pre runs a practically normal Linux distribution. Granted, all the applications are written in Javascript and not some compiled language using C, but I look at that as a good thing.
You realize that it doesn't matter if the device runs Linux when the development environment is locked down, right?
You don't have to hack C or C++ to make programs for this device either; PyGtk has emerged as the most popular programming platform for third party developers of Maemo software.
What Nokia is bringing to the table is completely different from Android / Palm - it's a full, open Linux, no strings attached. You can develop software using the tools you want to use, instead of sticking to Java or Javascript.
Yep. I am so excited, I can't wait to buy one of those at the Verizon store...
CRAP! Well, it sounds like a great product. Too bad that there's no way in hell my provider is going to allow me to use one.
Sorry, hand in your liberal card. That was the party-line during the Bush years. Now that democrats are in power, it is Un-American to oppose health care reform (according to Nancy Pelosi, anyway)
Terrible link on that. The author just quotes passages where Pelosi makes sensible and civilized statements, and then he calls her a liar, and in the ultimate act of hypocrisy, while criticizing her for using the word "un-american", compares her and Obama to Hitler. The only thing you can take away from that is that the author really hates Pelosi and Obama, and has a tenuous grip on reality.
As for Pelosi calling protesters un-american, she made it obvious that she's referring to people who show up with weapons and try to shout everybody else down. That isn't the exercise of free speech. That is an attempt to prevent free speech.
, and if you do, then you are an evil-monger. That is according to Harry Reid.
This is also a terrible link. Reid complained that town hall meetings accomplish little because the shouting and nutty antics by under medicated right-wingers get in the way of any true dialog. So he then decides to have a different type of meeting. The article seems to imply he is a hypocrite because of that.
As for him using the word "evil monger", I suppose he did, and that is an incredibly stupid thing to say. I would say that the people shouting "socialism", showing up with firearms, (and the suburban white girl who showed up at a Barney Frank meeting and thought it was a good idea to describe a gay jew as a Nazi), are misinformed, and robbing the debate of all dignity.
But how hypocritical can you be, when someone carries an assault rifle to a meeting with the president, or starts shouting "socialist" or "nazi", at these meetings, and you complain that nobody should say anything bad about those people? How about applying your standard to the people on your side?
It's as if the debate turned from trying to help poor people who are uninsured into some weird debate over I don't even know what.
Name-calling and misinformation. democrats want to work out some kind of agreement and their opponents want to burn the president in effigy.
I seriously look at it and have no clue exactly what problem the Democrats are trying to solve. If anyone else has an idea, please say it. As for me, it's enough to make me vote Green Party.
They are trying to cut insurance costs and provide health care for all Americans. Unfortunately, that part has been drowned out by all the vitriol.
In my opinion, you are a child molester. I think you had sex with a three year old, and it is a statement of opinion, not fact, that you painted antisemitic imagery on your bedroom wall.
I don't think your suggestion will work.
recommendation systems may soon be providing you not only with books and movie tips but a happier surfing experience too
I am a little weary of making my surfing experience happier by allowing the system to do my thinking for me. Just think, "clippy" for the browser.
The article doesn't seem to say how it will be implemented, but I would assume it would be some server-side app that generates firewall (and possibly spam filter) rules.
religious movies and Christ-in-food sightings.
Another possible factor is that direct deposits, online banking, debit, and credit cards, have made it so that many people do not need to carry cash. I'm curious what percent of the actual paper bills in wallets are there because that is the smartest way to pay for illegal drugs.
The news actually are a cleverly disguised "Fat people are dumb".
They're also more expensive.
Quoth the article:
Translation for reading comprehension impaired: Obama wants to kill fat people. ;-)
If it isn't written on his birth certificate, I don't believe it :)
The police, as public servants
That's all you need to say. They work for us. Period.
No it isn't. "They work for us" is never an excuse to jeopardize the safety of anybody.
To what "repeatable experiments" are you referring?
There is research that suggests that nicotine completely rewires the pleasure centers of the brain (to make them dependent on nicotine)
Then again, human ingenuity knows no bounds when it comes to pleasure and nicotine. Look what Clinton and Monica managed to do with that cigar.
So did it help with her schizophrenia?
WORKSFORME
Shouldn't that also be "LATER"?
A researcher on the team suggests the finding could have considerable implications in the world of criminal justice, where such scans could one day be presented as evidence in a trial."
Isn't there some way this information can help prevent the crime, in the first place?
C:\>cat /etc/services
'cat' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Crap! Bell's hijacking has already screwed something up.
I have an old X-Box, that I have been thinking about modding for a long time, mostly to use as a network-enabled Divx/DVD player.
I believe the reason they are not more clear is because they are trying to be precise enough, when needed, and vague enough, when needed, to close off any major loopholes.
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I could be wrong about that, however. The main thing is that I want to know that my elected official is deciding the general direction, but is getting the best help available when it comes to specific details.
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For example, during the cap & trade discussions, did any politician ever call anyone involved in the passing of the European cap & trade bill, or any European economists, and ask what is working for them and what isn't? If they did, they have to be quiet about it, because it would be seen more like cheating on your homework, or borderline treason, than smart policy-making.
Come on now. I don't think you could afford both of them.
I can see it as long, as they have a few lawyers or pre-law staffers who can go over hte legal aspects of the bill. In fact, I would rather know that the laws are being written by lawyers, as opposed to the jack-ass in a cowboy hat who spends most of his days going to diners so he can kiss hands and shake babies.
Somewhere along the way, we stopped printing things out quite so much
Somebody's not living in reality here. I *wish* people were printing things out less. I could use the ~$10K I spend out of my budget every year just to feed two printers in a lot better ways, but the print count continues to climb, every single year.
That's just for single sheet- our poster printers are seeing 2x to 3x growth in use every single year.
I don't have a textbook for my course- I use one $18 trade paperback and electronic reserves for the rest of the content- book chapters, magazine articles, etc. All digital. And most everyone in the class just prints the damn things out instead of reading them online.
Sorry about that. I'm not in your class, but I know the type you're talking about. It is much easier to study by printing out a hard copy, and finding a quiet, comfortable, place to read over the notes. If I had to do all my studying in front of a computer screen, I would have gone mad.
I RTFA and its not about switching word processors. Its about moving beyond people editing files one at a time and passing them around - in printed or email form. Basically, the author just discovered the "Magical World of Wiki" and has gotten his office to adopt a wiki as their documentation system.
Why someone discovering 14 year old internet technology made the front page of /. is beyond me...
Was it published 14 years ago?
You can clean up afterward with their new vacuum; the iSuck.
You guys would bitch if MS was giving out free blowjobs. Seriously, cut them some slack. They're making an effort here.
If they were giving out free blowjobs, they would be an "express edition", and you would have to shell out another $500 to get a satisfying product.