I dunno, as terrified as the average internet user is at the thought of a hacker hiding under his bed, I think Dave struck approximately the right note. Most of us here at The Dot know how few people would actually attempt to John Connor a voting machine, but to the folks in Peioria, most of us at The Dot are likely to be found hacking these voting machines from our cell phones while standing in line at the polls. Kinda like scaring people with silly religious warnings about what their god will do to them if they don't handle their food the right way because, ironically enough, that was an easier idea to sell than microscopic monsters crawling around in their gut. The danger is real, you're just telling them a more easily digestible tale of woe. Almost, but not quite, a Little White Lie(TM).
I usually research people's posting history before marking them as Foe, just to make sure they weren't simply having a bad day, that the post I saw really does accurately represent their mindset. Well let me tell you, from what I've seen you're one of the biggest whackjobs on slashdot, which is one hell of an accomplishment.
My personal favorite: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=117583&cid=994 2085
While it's not free-as-in-beer, wunderground.com is more than worth the $5 a year I pay to a) dispense with the ads, and b) get full-on animations of radar images. It's the most in-depth, technical, detailed weather site I have ever seen. Granted, different regions have different levels of detail (here in NC I get forecast of the humidity in three hours blocks, while my mom in Waikiki gets just temp for the day I think), but for my needs, it's unbeatable. A friend is a flight instructor and says that while his more technical charts and forecasts are a bit better in theory, wunderground.com does the job for him, too.
I'd left this page open in a tab so I'd remember to reply, but it was in a window buried on one of my more cluttered desktops. I didn't really have any point I just had to make in response to that, other than to say that one of us must have misunderstood the other (or both, not gonna bother checking at this point), and I agree in essence with the above. I'm not one of those lets-abolish-copyrights-and-patents-and-trademarks -and-calling-shotgun-in-the-car types; I'm just outraged over what's being done to what was a mostly functional system.
I for one would like to thank our slash-managing overlords for this new section. I'm one of those overly idealistic people who actually try to contribute fairly to the overall s/n ratio. I metamod regularly and won't hesitate to mark something unfair, or to leave something alone if I just don't get it. Although sometimes it does seem I'm alone on that one.
But seriously, good move guys. Maybe I'll even try to subscribe again (and once more be told that my credit card has too low a security score or some such).
You can get angled stands for it that purport to be effective heat sinks. That's all I know other than that I need to get a quieter power supply fan for my 533 tower.
Quoth the access_log evermore: GET http://apple.slashdot.org/ok.txt HTTP/1.0" 404 200
by extension you should be able to call any religion a superstition; do you?
Yes.
it's hard to get anyone with a thick skull to understand the definitions of faith, values,absolutes, and morals which form the basis of many religions
Faith, values, absolutes and morals are no more the exclusive property of superstition than the word "the" is; mere inclusion in various superstitious writings does not move a concept into the exclusive domain of your campfire stories.
I'm perpetually amused by the people who (sometimes) avoid doing wrong from fear of punishment after death thinking they are more moral than people such as myself, who avoid doing wrong because it's wrong. These same people will then gleefully cheer the killing of others, simply because their good book tells them it's okay. So don't talk to me about morals or absolutes. That would be like the current President lecturing on compassion, or the last President holding workshops on how to build a healthy marriage.
And yes, we are the normal ones. The guards on a lockdown ward may be in the minorty for not being able to 'see' the visions that their charges can, but that's not exactly a bad thing.
I can never remember which types of cellulose are which and all that, but U.S. currency is printed on what is essentially cotton fiber, rather than the traditional wood fiber that we think of as paper. You know those fancy papers with "rag" in their name that people tell you to print your resumé on? That stuff. That's why iodine reacts differently, although I don't recall what it does on each or specifically why (please don't tell Dave Smith that I've forgotten all that stuff, he'd kill me).
Down here in North Carolina all I'm seeing is the iodine pen being used on twenties and larger. I don't think most people really check the bill itself, they go by the pen and the feel of the paper. Of course, since acquiring the right paper (minus the colored fibers) is probably the easiest part, I don't see that as being terribly effective in the long run.
I got into desktop publishing in the late 80s, and worked in a copy shop that got the first Canon CLC in the area in 1988. Our regular tech (those things chewed through a $20,000 drum every few months) told us that it was routine to find sheets of bills laying behind the copiers in the mapmaking rooms on Army bases that were some of the very first buyers. That said, I've never spotted a fake, and a while back I ran a convenience store in the 'hood for two years, which I'd expect to be an excellent place to spot the elusive albino greenback in its native habitat. I'd love to see one for real and check it out under a loupe; I've worked with high res scans of cash doing ad design work, but I've never seen what the pros put out.
But this guy, Weber? Poor stupid bastard. Reading that story I kinda feel for him as a person, but I have to admit that he's an excellent poster child for the Three Strikes type of legislation, which I don't think much of in most cases.
The reason microsoft is building up its existing infrastructure using its outdated components is to simply compete in the market while they fine toon the technology that "could" revolutionize the market as well.
Heh. That's gotta be one of the most insightful typos I've seen in quite a while.
Holy shit. I noticed that button earlier, and had a cynical thought or two about it, but hadn't actually clicked. Even two days later, it's still essentially a 404. That is just so utterly, mind-bendingly ironic.
The principle of copyright is to encourage people to publish their works so that society may benefit.
That's a mild paraphrasing of this:
To promote the progress of science and the useful arts by securing for a limited time to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective rights and discoveries
So in light of this:
Your assertion that copyright exists to benefit society or to encourage people to publish is incorrect, then, and reflects your aspirations about how society should be organized.
I think you owe Madison, Jefferson, etc. an apology.
Your assertion that copyright exists to benefit society or to encourage people to publish is incorrect, then, and reflects your aspirations about how society should be organized.
You do realize where he's taken that wording from?
I'm just curious what G3(4) you've got that won't run 10.3. I was able to get it installed on a 7500/100 with a 500mhz PowerLogix G3. Is it a Beige G3? Has Mr. Rempel still not gotten that dealt with?
Slashdot Mirror
that's different from the current system how?
At least we're allowed to look at slashcode.
I dunno, as terrified as the average internet user is at the thought of a hacker hiding under his bed, I think Dave struck approximately the right note. Most of us here at The Dot know how few people would actually attempt to John Connor a voting machine, but to the folks in Peioria, most of us at The Dot are likely to be found hacking these voting machines from our cell phones while standing in line at the polls. Kinda like scaring people with silly religious warnings about what their god will do to them if they don't handle their food the right way because, ironically enough, that was an easier idea to sell than microscopic monsters crawling around in their gut. The danger is real, you're just telling them a more easily digestible tale of woe. Almost, but not quite, a Little White Lie(TM).
If you fools keep posting links to www.newsmax.com as if they were any sort of an actual news source, I'm gonna start using www.theonion.com.
Which, now that I think about it, might actually help. Hmm...
I usually research people's posting history before marking them as Foe, just to make sure they weren't simply having a bad day, that the post I saw really does accurately represent their mindset. Well let me tell you, from what I've seen you're one of the biggest whackjobs on slashdot, which is one hell of an accomplishment.
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My personal favorite: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=117583&cid=99
Dude. Seek help or something.
And that would be...?
While it's not free-as-in-beer, wunderground.com is more than worth the $5 a year I pay to a) dispense with the ads, and b) get full-on animations of radar images. It's the most in-depth, technical, detailed weather site I have ever seen. Granted, different regions have different levels of detail (here in NC I get forecast of the humidity in three hours blocks, while my mom in Waikiki gets just temp for the day I think), but for my needs, it's unbeatable. A friend is a flight instructor and says that while his more technical charts and forecasts are a bit better in theory, wunderground.com does the job for him, too.
I'd left this page open in a tab so I'd remember to reply, but it was in a window buried on one of my more cluttered desktops. I didn't really have any point I just had to make in response to that, other than to say that one of us must have misunderstood the other (or both, not gonna bother checking at this point), and I agree in essence with the above. I'm not one of those lets-abolish-copyrights-and-patents-and-trademarks -and-calling-shotgun-in-the-car types; I'm just outraged over what's being done to what was a mostly functional system.
Replace the third level domain in the url with whichever section's colo[u]r scheme you wanna see.
For instance, the WETA cluster for hire article becomes instantly and magically readable.
I just metamodded that Troll as unfair. Redundant I probably would have agreed with, Funny I would have left untouched.
I for one would like to thank our slash-managing overlords for this new section. I'm one of those overly idealistic people who actually try to contribute fairly to the overall s/n ratio. I metamod regularly and won't hesitate to mark something unfair, or to leave something alone if I just don't get it. Although sometimes it does seem I'm alone on that one.
But seriously, good move guys. Maybe I'll even try to subscribe again (and once more be told that my credit card has too low a security score or some such).
You can get angled stands for it that purport to be effective heat sinks. That's all I know other than that I need to get a quieter power supply fan for my 533 tower.
Quoth the access_log evermore: GET http://apple.slashdot.org/ok.txt HTTP/1.0" 404 200
by extension you should be able to call any religion a superstition; do you?
Yes.
it's hard to get anyone with a thick skull to understand the definitions of faith, values,absolutes, and morals which form the basis of many religions
Faith, values, absolutes and morals are no more the exclusive property of superstition than the word "the" is; mere inclusion in various superstitious writings does not move a concept into the exclusive domain of your campfire stories.
I'm perpetually amused by the people who (sometimes) avoid doing wrong from fear of punishment after death thinking they are more moral than people such as myself, who avoid doing wrong because it's wrong. These same people will then gleefully cheer the killing of others, simply because their good book tells them it's okay. So don't talk to me about morals or absolutes. That would be like the current President lecturing on compassion, or the last President holding workshops on how to build a healthy marriage.
And yes, we are the normal ones. The guards on a lockdown ward may be in the minorty for not being able to 'see' the visions that their charges can, but that's not exactly a bad thing.
I can never remember which types of cellulose are which and all that, but U.S. currency is printed on what is essentially cotton fiber, rather than the traditional wood fiber that we think of as paper. You know those fancy papers with "rag" in their name that people tell you to print your resumé on? That stuff. That's why iodine reacts differently, although I don't recall what it does on each or specifically why (please don't tell Dave Smith that I've forgotten all that stuff, he'd kill me).
Down here in North Carolina all I'm seeing is the iodine pen being used on twenties and larger. I don't think most people really check the bill itself, they go by the pen and the feel of the paper. Of course, since acquiring the right paper (minus the colored fibers) is probably the easiest part, I don't see that as being terribly effective in the long run.
I got into desktop publishing in the late 80s, and worked in a copy shop that got the first Canon CLC in the area in 1988. Our regular tech (those things chewed through a $20,000 drum every few months) told us that it was routine to find sheets of bills laying behind the copiers in the mapmaking rooms on Army bases that were some of the very first buyers. That said, I've never spotted a fake, and a while back I ran a convenience store in the 'hood for two years, which I'd expect to be an excellent place to spot the elusive albino greenback in its native habitat. I'd love to see one for real and check it out under a loupe; I've worked with high res scans of cash doing ad design work, but I've never seen what the pros put out.
But this guy, Weber? Poor stupid bastard. Reading that story I kinda feel for him as a person, but I have to admit that he's an excellent poster child for the Three Strikes type of legislation, which I don't think much of in most cases.
Keep up the good work.
Well, we are.
Holy shit. I noticed that button earlier, and had a cynical thought or two about it, but hadn't actually clicked. Even two days later, it's still essentially a 404. That is just so utterly, mind-bendingly ironic.
...many a flame war on various forums
Not to mention in many countries.
You left off "-so-you-can-sleep-medicine."
Discovery Channel Canada have a cool video of an octopus squeezing into a beer bottle.
Nope, it's 404. Probably for the better though. I don't know that I need to see that before lunch.
The next time I use the vending machine downstairs, my mind may well snap.
So in light of this:
I think you owe Madison, Jefferson, etc. an apology.
Your assertion that copyright exists to benefit society or to encourage people to publish is incorrect, then, and reflects your aspirations about how society should be organized.
You do realize where he's taken that wording from?
Christianity isn't mythology
How's 'superstition' work for ya, then?
I'm just curious what G3(4) you've got that won't run 10.3. I was able to get it installed on a 7500/100 with a 500mhz PowerLogix G3. Is it a Beige G3? Has Mr. Rempel still not gotten that dealt with?