A very smelly man came to set up my in-laws' satellite dish system. He was competent, but he literally smelled up any room he sat in for more than 30 seconds. He was overweight and he had a sheen of sweat on his skin. He had an amazingly pungent body odor, as if he had not washed in weeks. They had to open the doors for an hour after he left.
Just because you know high tech, doesn't mean you know how to operate the common shower.
Sure, Star Wars was a simple, black-and-white tale. But that's what made it good!
I think many academics and current thinkers would agree that the Star Wars story has entered into our current mythology -- it's become one of our Deep Stories.
Of course, no sequels, prequels, whatever, could ever measure up to the original. It was the Brothers Grimm, it was Homer, it was Myth.
"A team of organized criminals is installing equipment...The team sits nearby in a car..."
That means our British friends were probably followed home by some Organized Crime Thugs, and they will probably end up washing up on the shore of the Thames somewhere down-river.
Yikes. Slashdotting is the least of their worries..
I've bought a pair of these glasses, actually, and I was disappointed.
They were being sold by a company I found in a comic book I was reading.
When I finally received my Lie Detector Glasses, they turned out to be cheap plastic, with cardboard "lenses" with big red and yellow swirls printed on them. They had small holes in the middle of each "lens" and you could look through them... and they didn't work. Not at all.
Chosen Realm reeked of political grandstanding (thinly veiled War on Terrorism propaganda) and bordered on outright prejudice, by creating a straw-man religious zealot who spouted totally inane drivel so that the rational, scientific Archer and his crew could shake their collective heads at these miguided fools.
Also, come on, Trek writers, you can't just delete an entire database with a couple of keystrokes. Especially not such a critical system. They've got to have backups, or something! Every Slashdot geek knows that!
Those lights are really dim, so you'd still need a lot of them to light a room.
To give you an idea, the average 60w light bulb gives off 860 lumens. Those LEDs you linked to only give off 80! You'd need 10 of them just to get close to a 60w bulb! If each of those LEDs are $30 as you say (there are no prices on the website), that's $300 per 60w bulb!!!
Those 15w mini-twister flourescent bulbs give off 900 lumens. They also last for 6000 hours. Seems to be the reasonable way to go for now...
Good point. Plugins are not images, and it's hard to treat plugins as images when the browser doesn't include that plugin by default.
I think Mozilla should allow blocking of all non-text data from specified servers. Even better, the user should be able to specify different levels:
1) Block this server entirely 2) Allow only unformatted text 3) Allow only text 4) Block specific things: 4a) Block images 4b) Block plugins 4c) Block scripts / java
As a footnote, I think Mozilla mail (and its descendants) should block all non-text from all servers, unless specified by the user. Images in e-mails are a big security risk.
I just want to mention that Mozilla and Firebird are ready to do some deadly-serious ad-blocking, out of the box with no plugins. You can block picture ads with a right mouse-click, and Mozilla's popup blocking is legendary by now.
The one addition I have to put into every Mozilla profile I set up is a bookmarklet which zaps plugins to eliminate those annoying Flash ads.
Why doesn't "block images from this server" also block Flash from that server? Huh? Why not?
Zeropaid was crawling yesterday when I submitted this story to Slashdot. It probably didn't take much to push it over the edge.
As an interesting corollary, you'll notice that if you search for Kazaa or Kazaa Lite on Google, you get "In response to a complaint we received under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 2 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint for these removed results."
IM really helped me stay in touch with co-workers and friends when I was working from home for more than 5 years. I've changed jobs and I'm back in a cubicle, but I'm still using IM to stay in touch with them!
smith copied himself onto bane, an unplugged character -then- uploaded himself through the hardline. putting himself in bane's shoes initially is the actual leap in science for scifi fans. how could Smith do that when in M1 it was established that agents could only jump into plugged-in people?
The agents can take over plugged-in people, ie, overwrite their cranial software, REMOTELY. So they can upload themselves into any plugged-in entity by simply choosing a human to copy over.
Smith is a rogue agent, unplugged from the agent's network himself, but he can upload his software into any other being in the Matrix. The catch is that he has to actually TOUCH the other being, like a virus. This allows him to upload into unplugged humans, because he doesn't need to upload over the agent's network.
The irony is clear -- in the first episode, Smith compared humans to viruses, and now he literally IS a software virus, with an even more deadly ability, the ability to upload into the human brain's software.
The question this raises for me is why not download machine intelligence into every human's brain as children, then the machines wouldn't have to worry about rebellious humans?
If you use P2P software like eMule and a service like ShareReactor, you can download all your favorite TV series (well, actually, all of THEIR favorite series, but geeks tend to like a certain subset of TV shows) with no commercials and all ready for watching on your computer or burning to VCD for convenient watching on your DVD player.
This is especially appealing for those of us in Canada who can download legally and don't have TiVo available.
There is no news here. I mean, the article itself says this:
"...he first noticed the use of autotuners a few years ago when he took his daughter to see Britney Spears in Toronto."
Reminds me of a Rolling Stone article on Slashdot a few months ago that trumpeted the use of digital recording systems as this "new thing".. Oooh! Big name bands are being digitally produced! What is the world coming to?;-)
(In other news, Intel releases the Pentium! It runs at a blinding 166 mHz!!)
As a Canadian, I thought your "DMCA-type of law for guns" comment was clever. Most of us (except for some cowboys in Alberta;) don't even consider gun ownership an issue, let alone a right...
By the huge gun argument you started, it would seem that there are lots of geeks in the NRA.
Well, you can take my P2P... out of my cold, dead hands!!!
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A very smelly man came to set up my in-laws' satellite dish system. He was competent, but he literally smelled up any room he sat in for more than 30 seconds. He was overweight and he had a sheen of sweat on his skin. He had an amazingly pungent body odor, as if he had not washed in weeks. They had to open the doors for an hour after he left.
Just because you know high tech, doesn't mean you know how to operate the common shower.
How do they determine who has computer skills?
:-(
My feeling is that they'll probably look for folks with MSCE or some other certifications.
Thankfully, it's a lot tougher to nail us down than health professionals. We don't have to have a MD, RN, or PT after our names.
Yet another reason to avoid certification...
They should know that there's no such thing as "tamper proof" anyway! Only "tamper resistant".
Sure, Star Wars was a simple, black-and-white tale. But that's what made it good!
I think many academics and current thinkers would agree that the Star Wars story has entered into our current mythology -- it's become one of our Deep Stories.
Of course, no sequels, prequels, whatever, could ever measure up to the original. It was the Brothers Grimm, it was Homer, it was Myth.
... and then hit them on the head? Bawl them out for being Bad People? End up dead because you messed with the Mob?
Nah, call the police, maybe.
But probably the fraudsters were across the street watching. Then they followed our British friends home, and they'll probably "disappear"...
"A team of organized criminals is installing equipment...The team sits nearby in a car..."
That means our British friends were probably followed home by some Organized Crime Thugs, and they will probably end up washing up on the shore of the Thames somewhere down-river.
Yikes. Slashdotting is the least of their worries..
IANAL... ...But I play one on TV!
Here's the non-Australian version of the same article.
> but with something as (I'm assuming) well written as their code, doesn't that point to a memory problem?
Well, you seem to be right about the memory problem.
I've bought a pair of these glasses, actually, and I was disappointed.
They were being sold by a company I found in a comic book I was reading.
When I finally received my Lie Detector Glasses, they turned out to be cheap plastic, with cardboard "lenses" with big red and yellow swirls printed on them. They had small holes in the middle of each "lens" and you could look through them... and they didn't work. Not at all.
If a woman thinks an erection is a good way of knowing that a man loves her, then she probably believes he'll still respect her in the morning, too!
I would say "funny", but irony can be insightful too, I guess.
Chosen Realm reeked of political grandstanding (thinly veiled War on Terrorism propaganda) and bordered on outright prejudice, by creating a straw-man religious zealot who spouted totally inane drivel so that the rational, scientific Archer and his crew could shake their collective heads at these miguided fools.
Also, come on, Trek writers, you can't just delete an entire database with a couple of keystrokes. Especially not such a critical system. They've got to have backups, or something! Every Slashdot geek knows that!
Those lights are really dim, so you'd still need a lot of them to light a room.
To give you an idea, the average 60w light bulb gives off 860 lumens. Those LEDs you linked to only give off 80! You'd need 10 of them just to get close to a 60w bulb! If each of those LEDs are $30 as you say (there are no prices on the website), that's $300 per 60w bulb!!!
Those 15w mini-twister flourescent bulbs give off 900 lumens. They also last for 6000 hours. Seems to be the reasonable way to go for now...
Good point. Plugins are not images, and it's hard to treat plugins as images when the browser doesn't include that plugin by default.
I think Mozilla should allow blocking of all non-text data from specified servers. Even better, the user should be able to specify different levels:
1) Block this server entirely
2) Allow only unformatted text
3) Allow only text
4) Block specific things:
4a) Block images
4b) Block plugins
4c) Block scripts / java
As a footnote, I think Mozilla mail (and its descendants) should block all non-text from all servers, unless specified by the user. Images in e-mails are a big security risk.
I just want to mention that Mozilla and Firebird are ready to do some deadly-serious ad-blocking, out of the box with no plugins. You can block picture ads with a right mouse-click, and Mozilla's popup blocking is legendary by now.
The one addition I have to put into every Mozilla profile I set up is a bookmarklet which zaps plugins to eliminate those annoying Flash ads.
Why doesn't "block images from this server" also block Flash from that server? Huh? Why not?
I gave mine away 3 years ago to some deserving friends.
Zeropaid was crawling yesterday when I submitted this story to Slashdot. It probably didn't take much to push it over the edge.
As an interesting corollary, you'll notice that if you search for Kazaa or Kazaa Lite on Google, you get "In response to a complaint we received under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 2 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint for these removed results."
IM really helped me stay in touch with co-workers and friends when I was working from home for more than 5 years. I've changed jobs and I'm back in a cubicle, but I'm still using IM to stay in touch with them!
It's almost as good as a water cooler.
smith copied himself onto bane, an unplugged character -then- uploaded himself through the hardline. putting himself in bane's shoes initially is the actual leap in science for scifi fans. how could Smith do that when in M1 it was established that agents could only jump into plugged-in people?
The agents can take over plugged-in people, ie, overwrite their cranial software, REMOTELY. So they can upload themselves into any plugged-in entity by simply choosing a human to copy over.
Smith is a rogue agent, unplugged from the agent's network himself, but he can upload his software into any other being in the Matrix. The catch is that he has to actually TOUCH the other being, like a virus. This allows him to upload into unplugged humans, because he doesn't need to upload over the agent's network.
The irony is clear -- in the first episode, Smith compared humans to viruses, and now he literally IS a software virus, with an even more deadly ability, the ability to upload into the human brain's software.
The question this raises for me is why not download machine intelligence into every human's brain as children, then the machines wouldn't have to worry about rebellious humans?
If you use P2P software like eMule and a service like ShareReactor, you can download all your favorite TV series (well, actually, all of THEIR favorite series, but geeks tend to like a certain subset of TV shows) with no commercials and all ready for watching on your computer or burning to VCD for convenient watching on your DVD player.
This is especially appealing for those of us in Canada who can download legally and don't have TiVo available.
There is no news here. I mean, the article itself says this:
.. Oooh! Big name bands are being digitally produced! What is the world coming to? ;-)
"...he first noticed the use of autotuners a few years ago when he took his daughter to see Britney Spears in Toronto."
Reminds me of a Rolling Stone article on Slashdot a few months ago that trumpeted the use of digital recording systems as this "new thing"
(In other news, Intel releases the Pentium! It runs at a blinding 166 mHz!!)
Wow,
;) don't even consider gun ownership an issue, let alone a right...
... out of my cold, dead hands!!!
As a Canadian, I thought your "DMCA-type of law for guns" comment was clever. Most of us (except for some cowboys in Alberta
By the huge gun argument you started, it would seem that there are lots of geeks in the NRA.
Well, you can take my P2P
...except for the lord of the rings. I can't give that up, sorry; it's kind of a family thing...
What, you're an elf or something? Or are you related to Tolkein or somebody in a pair of rubber feet in the movie?
Um,
It was King Henry VIII who broke the Anglican church away from the Roman church.
King James authorized a Bible. Or is that authoriSed?