> Students are out in the open for a much longer period of time than in the US
Wow, that sounds so degenerated. I easily survived 13 years of walking / biking to school in Germany as did most of my friends.
The only person of our school who got raped and killed was raped and killed by her uncle. Four people died in car accidents - while sitting IN the car.
The most dangerous people to your children are not the people on the street but your family. That's statistically evident.
> tags with their full name and the school's name on it which must be worn at all times.
Where I live parents teach there children their name, address and telephone number.
> it's hard for students to go someplace after school that they're not supposed to be, and this is part of the point.
This is soooooo wrong. When are they supposed to learn to make use of freedom and to make their own decisions if they don't have the chance to do so as a child?
"chance of soldiers dying due to a security violation" Stupid propaganda phrases to justify security measures as a smoke screen.
The chance of soldiers dying due to breach of international law or ignoring the Geneva Convention seems quite bigger.
Banning iPods etc. is not effective and gives a false feeling of security. There are still thousands of ways an employee could smuggle out valuable data, but people will feel safe because of the obvoius security hassle.
Just ensure that you have loyal employees, give them a good pay check and treat them respectfully.
We don't need no f*ckin' environment We don't care about sustainability I don't care about anything but my own, fat ass I don't even care about my children's future Anything that would require me to think about my position is leftish
These answers look exactly as insightful as the ones a five year old could give. On the other hand: this is slashdot:-)
Please don't consider this posting being anti-american per se but could somebody please explain this to me:
Why is stopping the wasting of energy (ac/ SUV/ electrical heating etc. pp.) and starting to save energy as a possible solution such an incredibly frightning idea especially to US-Americans?
I work for a hospital that sends excel files containing data of HIV positive patients unencrypted over SMTP to an external mailserver and receives this mail by (unencrypted) password-authorized POP3. To top this the POP3 password is the same as the one you need to access the hospital's database system. The complete network is a single subnet populated with some hundreds of Win2Kpro boxes, that are usually never updated and just waiting for the next virus/worm to distribute sensitive data.
But they have very good locks at the doors...
Sometimes I could cry about this level of ignorance, but since I'm just a freelancer and don't want to be told about their insecurity...
They use collaborative filtering techniques, which means that there is no human deciding which books to offer to a potential democrat or a potential republican but a computer program looking for people with similar behavior.
That is: you would be offered the same books as people who donated $5 to each candidate bought. (if you had no history of purchases at Amazon yet)
This is why collaborative filtering can be so dangerous: If you have a huge database and know a person you have data about is (libertarian|anti-war|republican|gay|whatever) you can just ask the system to show you people with similar purchasing behavior - and now "know" a lot about them.
so with your guess our best chance to find beagle is spotting a crater on mars. Somebody should have raked the surface of Mars before landing a probe...
since Mars Express - which I'd consider to be the most important part of the project - is working perfectly, there will be a stereo-camera with a resolution of 2m (Meters) orbiting the planet. This might be enough to see what happened to the poor little doggie.
There are a lot of great instruments aboard Mars Express, you can find all the information about them on The ESA Site
So Ralph J. Yarro III is a member of both. Doesn't that mean that we should get rid of Qt in all open souce projects?
Maybe it'd be a good idea to not only avoid "business" with SCO and their boardmembers but even any business related to the other companies whos boards they occupy.
to copy my digital camera's SD-Cards to my iPod to have sufficient storage for longer trips.
(Media Reader)
But since I can not be sure that Belkin does not choose to inform me about a product I might not (want to) know on every other picture instead of saving it I won't buy it.
"And this is me at the Eiffel-Tower and this is the funny guy we met when... oh, wait... no this is the new product of Belkin I didn't know about. There goes my weekend in Paris!"
> The only agenda the US has is a world were all countries > have some form of democratically elected government > and a homegrown form of capitalism.
Thank you, this is just the funniest claim I read on slashdot this year.
And all the dictators the US installed and all the democratically elected presidents the US helped to bring down are just beacons of democracy and freedom to be erected in every country; by the leader of the axis of ignorance and hypocrisy.
Actually the US only does what is in its own regime's very shortsighted interest. "America first". And if fscking you badly is in their interest, they will happily fsck you.
Just to point it out: Since Remote Login is disabled by default, OSX is _only_ vulnerable if you switched it on. And since it's PPC it doesn't seem very likely that there will be an exploit available before Apple releases a fix - or did I get something wrong?
So don't panic, just use SoftwareUpdate as soon as the patch is available.
as far as I know mostly all AF-Systems are guessing the optimum focus by maximising the contrast. (blurry areas == badly focussed).
Different systems are detecting different contrasts (horizontal vs. vertical areas) and by that have different shortcomings but no camera I know except ancient Polaroid cameras uses ultrasonic AF.
k2r
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> like hike Europe, without having to worry about her > glucose meter running out of batteries somehwere > remote or whether she could get more insulin should > the need arise
It's not like we didn't have batteries over here, neither we have to shoot diabetics because we do not know about insuline yet.
You might be amazed, we even have public health care in some countries...
Hiking Europe should be no bigger problem than hiking US.
Don't make the mistake to do things just to stay in shape.
Some examples: You don't need a negative-list but a positive-list. Enjoy fresh fruit and vegetable instead of snacks. Try new stuff, fruits you didn't know, vegetable you never ate raw before etc. Carrots make a pretty good snack, bananas are great, too. Figure out, what you might like, there's so much you can eat that hasn't been processed by Kraft before.
Learn cooking and prepare your meals yourself. The deep-freezer at home and the microwave in the office are your friends. Vary and be creative. Be brave and try vegetarian meals, Indian dishes, whatever. Care about the quality of your food and be interested into the ingredients. Don't stick to recipes, cooking is fun and can be like meditation.
Enjoy walking. Try to walk whereever possible. Use public transport systems. Try to walk different ways. It's fun spending some time on getting from A to B. Maybe take your digital camera with you to take pictures of whatever you like.
Avoid escalators. Try to avoid elevators if the building is not too high. Again: Give yourself time to get from the basement to the buildings top, have a look out of the windows on the way there or whatever.
Maybe, if you really started enjoying having a body with parts that you can move not only to get you another beer of the refrigerator, try doing some sports, maybe swimming with some friends, maybe coworkers in the morning before work. It just shouldn't feel like "sport".
Actually, I don't think that you can be successful if you only do things just to stay in shape. But if you figure out what's fun for you, you will do just the things you like and still stay in shape.
Don't get religious about food and sports, this would work for some months but you'll be back to square one in no time.
k2r (Although I'm sitting and standing in front of a computer for about 10 hours per day, I'm still in a pretty good shape, prepare most of my meals myself and do kickboxing and swimming because I enjoy it.)
it's not me who brought up sex as a topic in this discussion. Or what's "fag" about? Actually, I think that homophobia, somebody's lack of confidence in his own masculinity and somebody's sexual defecites (sp?) have a lot to do with each other.
That's why I was pushing that guy from this side. Homophobe idiots often shut up if you doubt their sexual performance, it's funny.
I'm not really interested in WHY there are no worms that try to infect my Mac. Actually the fact THAT there are no worms capable of infecting my Mac is absolutely sufficient to make me a happy customer.
And - by the way - since the SystemUpdate on MacOSX works close to absolute flawlessly*, I doubt that there is a significant percentage of unpatched Macs out there.
Compared to the heaps of unpatched Windows-PCs AND Linux-Boxen I know of. (But am not responsible for.)
k2r
* Of course the no-login-button bug in the last update was funny, but since most people use the return-key to finish entering their password, it didn't matter.
> I think this (along with all of the studies, etc.) is direct > proof that exposure to scenes of violence is > âoedesensitizingâ.
Though I tend to agree to the thesis of violence on TV causing violence in society somehow, please keep in mind that your interesting example might prove only that exposure to violence on TV is "desensitizing" to violence on TV - if it proves anything.
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> Students are out in the open for a much longer period of time than in the US
Wow, that sounds so degenerated.
I easily survived 13 years of walking / biking to school in Germany as did most of my friends.
The only person of our school who got raped and killed was raped and killed by her uncle. Four people died in car accidents - while sitting IN the car.
The most dangerous people to your children are not the people on the street but your family. That's statistically evident.
> tags with their full name and the school's name on it which must be worn at all times.
Where I live parents teach there children their name, address and telephone number.
> it's hard for students to go someplace after school that they're not supposed to be, and this is part of the point.
This is soooooo wrong. When are they supposed to learn to make use of freedom and to make their own decisions if they don't have the chance to do so as a child?
k2r
"chance of soldiers dying due to a security violation"
Stupid propaganda phrases to justify security measures as a smoke screen.
The chance of soldiers dying due to breach of international law or ignoring the Geneva Convention seems quite bigger.
Banning iPods etc. is not effective and gives a false feeling of security. There are still thousands of ways an employee could smuggle out valuable data, but people will feel safe because of the obvoius security hassle.
Just ensure that you have loyal employees, give them a good pay check and treat them respectfully.
k2r
all of the answers say:
:-)
We don't need no f*ckin' environment
We don't care about sustainability
I don't care about anything but my own, fat ass
I don't even care about my children's future
Anything that would require me to think about my position is leftish
These answers look exactly as insightful as the ones a five year old could give. On the other hand: this is slashdot
Wow, I didn't want to know it that precisely.
k2r
Please don't consider this posting being anti-american per se but could somebody please explain this to me:
Why is stopping the wasting of energy (ac/ SUV/ electrical heating etc. pp.) and starting to save energy as a possible solution such an incredibly frightning idea especially to US-Americans?
I just don't get it.
k2r
I work for a hospital that sends excel files containing data of HIV positive patients unencrypted over SMTP to an external mailserver and receives this mail by (unencrypted) password-authorized POP3.
To top this the POP3 password is the same as the one you need to access the hospital's database system.
The complete network is a single subnet populated with some hundreds of Win2Kpro boxes, that are usually never updated and just waiting for the next virus/worm to distribute sensitive data.
But they have very good locks at the doors...
Sometimes I could cry about this level of ignorance, but since I'm just a freelancer and don't want to be told about their insecurity...
k2r
They use collaborative filtering techniques, which means that there is no human deciding which books to offer to a potential democrat or a potential republican but a computer program looking for people with similar behavior.
That is: you would be offered the same books as people who donated $5 to each candidate bought. (if you had no history of purchases at Amazon yet)
This is why collaborative filtering can be so dangerous: If you have a huge database and know a person you have data about is (libertarian|anti-war|republican|gay|whatever) you can just ask the system to show you people with similar purchasing behavior - and now "know" a lot about them.
k2r
Hi Simon,
so with your guess our best chance to find beagle is spotting a crater on mars. Somebody should have raked the surface of Mars before landing a probe...
k2r
Hi,
since Mars Express - which I'd consider to be the most important part of the project - is working perfectly, there will be a stereo-camera with a resolution of 2m (Meters) orbiting the planet.
This might be enough to see what happened to the poor little doggie.
There are a lot of great instruments aboard Mars Express, you can find all the information about them on The ESA Site
k2r
So Ralph J. Yarro III is a member of both.
Doesn't that mean that we should get rid of Qt in all open souce projects?
Maybe it'd be a good idea to not only avoid "business" with SCO and their boardmembers but even any business related to the other companies whos boards they occupy.
k2r
But since I can not be sure that Belkin does not choose to inform me about a product I might not (want to) know on every other picture instead of saving it I won't buy it.
"And this is me at the Eiffel-Tower and this is the funny guy we met when ... ... no this is the new product of Belkin I didn't know about. There goes my weekend in Paris!"
oh, wait
k2r
> The only agenda the US has is a world were all countries
> have some form of democratically elected government
> and a homegrown form of capitalism.
Thank you, this is just the funniest claim I read on slashdot this year.
And all the dictators the US installed and all the democratically elected presidents the US helped to bring down are just beacons of democracy and freedom to be erected in every country; by the leader of the axis of ignorance and hypocrisy.
Actually the US only does what is in its own regime's very shortsighted interest. "America first". And if fscking you badly is in their interest, they will happily fsck you.
k2r
Just to point it out: Since Remote Login is disabled by default, OSX is _only_ vulnerable if you switched it on.
And since it's PPC it doesn't seem very likely that there will be an exploit available before Apple releases a fix - or did I get something wrong?
So don't panic, just use SoftwareUpdate as soon as the patch is available.
k2r
Hi mensa-member,
as far as I know mostly all AF-Systems are guessing the optimum focus by maximising the contrast.
(blurry areas == badly focussed).
Different systems are detecting different contrasts (horizontal vs. vertical areas) and by that have different shortcomings but no camera I know except ancient Polaroid cameras uses ultrasonic AF.
k2r
> like hike Europe, without having to worry about her
> glucose meter running out of batteries somehwere
> remote or whether she could get more insulin should
> the need arise
It's not like we didn't have batteries over here, neither we have to shoot diabetics because we do not know about insuline yet.
You might be amazed, we even have public health care in some countries...
Hiking Europe should be no bigger problem than hiking US.
k2r
Actually SCO's IP seem to be as real as Saddam Hussein's WMD.
Maybe they are able to show us their IP within 45 Minutes, too?
Anyhow, we need a department of IP-security, now!
k2r
Don't make the mistake to do things just to stay in shape.
Some examples:
You don't need a negative-list but a positive-list.
Enjoy fresh fruit and vegetable instead of snacks. Try new stuff, fruits you didn't know, vegetable you never ate raw before etc. Carrots make a pretty good snack, bananas are great, too. Figure out, what you might like, there's so much you can eat that hasn't been processed by Kraft before.
Learn cooking and prepare your meals yourself. The deep-freezer at home and the microwave in the office are your friends. Vary and be creative. Be brave and try vegetarian meals, Indian dishes, whatever. Care about the quality of your food and be interested into the ingredients. Don't stick to recipes, cooking is fun and can be like meditation.
Enjoy walking. Try to walk whereever possible. Use public transport systems. Try to walk different ways. It's fun spending some time on getting from A to B. Maybe take your digital camera with you to take pictures of whatever you like.
Avoid escalators. Try to avoid elevators if the building is not too high.
Again: Give yourself time to get from the basement to the buildings top, have a look out of the windows on the way there or whatever.
Maybe, if you really started enjoying having a body with parts that you can move not only to get you another beer of the refrigerator, try doing some sports, maybe swimming with some friends, maybe coworkers in the morning before work. It just shouldn't feel like "sport".
Actually, I don't think that you can be successful if you only do things just to stay in shape. But if you figure out what's fun for you, you will do just the things you like and still stay in shape.
Don't get religious about food and sports, this would work for some months but you'll be back to square one in no time.
k2r
(Although I'm sitting and standing in front of a computer for about 10 hours per day, I'm still in a pretty good shape, prepare most of my meals myself and do kickboxing and swimming because I enjoy it.)
> Your obsession with sex is quite interesting.
Dear Eliza,
it's not me who brought up sex as a topic in this discussion. Or what's "fag" about?
Actually, I think that homophobia, somebody's lack of confidence in his own masculinity and somebody's sexual defecites (sp?) have a lot to do with each other.
That's why I was pushing that guy from this side. Homophobe idiots often shut up if you doubt their sexual performance, it's funny.
k2r
> Grammar checker in OpenOffice - for all the Non
> native English speakers
A grammar Checker for languages with a more complex grammar than English (eg: German) is just a ridiculous piece of crap.
I do not know anybody who uses the built-in grammar checker of MS-Word for German.
It might be different for English, but on the other hand, English grammar seems complex enough, too.
k2r
> So what you're saying is that you're a fag?
> I hope next time you'll make sure that "Post
> Anonymously" checkbox is indeed checked!
So basically, what you're saying is that you would have posted anonymously?
Wow, how masculine. Is that why you never get laid?
k2r
> 9 "Dear Apple, I'm a homosexual" posts.
You forget to mention
1 "Dear Slashdot, I'm a heterosexual homophobe troll who doesn't get laid, so please mod up me as funny at least" post by yourself.
k2r
> Tell me this is a troll. Please!
Yes, your posting is a troll.
Do you feel any better now?
k2r
> You can bet your ass that if
I'm not really interested in WHY there are no worms that try to infect my Mac.
Actually the fact THAT there are no worms capable of infecting my Mac is absolutely sufficient to make me a happy customer.
And - by the way - since the SystemUpdate on MacOSX works close to absolute flawlessly*, I doubt that there is a significant percentage of unpatched Macs out there.
Compared to the heaps of unpatched Windows-PCs AND Linux-Boxen I know of. (But am not responsible for.)
k2r
* Of course the no-login-button bug in the last update was funny, but since most people use the return-key to finish entering their password, it didn't matter.
Hi,
> I think this (along with all of the studies, etc.) is direct
> proof that exposure to scenes of violence is
> âoedesensitizingâ.
Though I tend to agree to the thesis of violence on TV causing violence in society somehow, please keep in mind that your interesting example might prove only that exposure to violence on TV is "desensitizing" to violence on TV - if it proves anything.
k2r
> I pity the foo who has to settle for 135th superpower.
> Oh, BTW, negative superpowers are evil.
Actually, I declare myself [me.person] the complex superpower (i).
Actually I don't do anything special.
But engineers need me.
k2r
> Cat people are, of course, ;-) smarter than dog people
Too bad that O'Reilly prints dogs on any book on MacOSX. Nobody will buy these books, so O'Reilly is doomed.
k2r