You could put a list of passwords in a safety deposit box in a bank, with instructions in your will as to who gets the contents of said box upon your death.
The only other thing I can think of is to pick one other person whom you trust totally.
I do not click on a "Receive Mail" button. The crap just floods my inbox. I click on my "email" button, but I don't recall giving my address out to anybody nor do I recall giving permission to anybody to send me an email, but somehow I still have email. (This is an account I set up but never used.)
And you are still not catching on to the difference between a public site that thrives on interaction and a private company that uses the Internet to provide a service to their clients. If you really think that AOL or Earthlink (ISPs) are comparable to/. in their services and responsibilities, than I have no idea how I could possibly show you how this comparison is wrong.
If Tom Cruise ever showed up at my door and accused me of "thinking", I'd remind him of Scientology and breaking up with Nicole Kidman, and then bitchslap him with a salmon and then an aardvark.
Main problem with red light cameras is that they don't take a pic of your face, only your license plate. Even if you were not driving the car, well too bad, you were _probably_ driving the car and therefore you are guilty.
No I'm going through a NJ EasyPass toll both, and the sensor registers me going 110Mph. Unless you somehow get a toll both worker that remembers my car, license plate, and my face, you just have to rely on the sensor. Did it malfuntion? Well, it probably didn't malfunction, so I'm probably guilty.
This is the point- without actually human interaction at the time of the crime, you DON'T know who did it (this is for car stuff where they don't get your face, not where robbing the 7-11 and getting your mug on camera with you holding the gun).
As the guy said, with the traffic stuff, you're screwed.
1) The environment is fucked due to the US and global warming will drown us all in 10 years.
2) The environment is pretty bad, but if we revert to a caveman society we can survive.
3) The environment is bad, but with some tough cuts in pollution and quality of life we can recover.
4) The environment is getting better, but we need to do more to avert a global meltdown.
5) The environment is ok, we can stay at the status quo.
6) The environment is degrading, but we are working on alternative green energy.
7) What a bunch of crap, the US is destroying the entire world.
Ok, if I could I would have made that into a survey, but I do not have that power (curse you Cowboy Neil!). Seriously though, if you read the posts at 0 you will get all of the above idealogies in a very strange sorta-Bell curve.
Anyway, it's kinda neat to see all these differing opinions clash it out. (Personally, I think I should be God-Emperor of the world, but I'm only one guy)
A great idea, and one I would love to back. One big problem- re-elections. 1/3 of Senators every 2 years, all Congress-dudes and Pres every 4 years. Unless you somehow get a party majority in all 3 for multiple terms, there is no way that any agenda past say, maybe 8 years, will ever last. Especially if you get another Pres like Clinton, who passed many stupid executive orders that threw back progess in many areas by about 20 years or so.
The only way true long term goals can be sought and hopefully achieved is through private citizens and businesses. See the book "Firestar" by Michael(?) Flynn for an example. Politicos are only interested in getting elected again so they can increase their power that bit more.
Robert A. Heinlein's political system in the book "Starship Troopers" is looking better every day...
Even better is since my company buys a fair number of Sun machines per year, we got put in some category that gives us automatic discounts. I called to get some quotes once, gave 'em our contract number, and they started rattling off the discounts. %15 for a SCSI cable, %20-25 for a disc pack, %40 for an Ultra 2. I should have asked for a server discount %, just for kicks.
Also, I haven't looked at the page yet, but has anyone noticed if they offer volume licensing?
Once done with all 6 edisodes, he would go back and make themed versions. Say, replace the Ewoks with Cabbage Patch kids! Or switch the Gungans with the stormtroopers. R rated version with topless Portman and Fisher (maybe even in the same scene!). Star Wars: The Celebrity Version- latest boy band as Jedis, latest girl singer as lead female, couple of rappers as bad guys, etc. My favorite switch would be to switch Admiral Ackbar with Captain Picard, but leave the voice the same.
On topic- Lucas has always said he thinks of movies as never being done, they are abandoned. Though I think one can end up tinkering too much and screwing up (Jedi's new end song didn't do it for me).
How about resticting any story about raising children to people who actually are/have raising children.
I have seen many "They should do that" posts from people that are 13-17 years old. The whole idea is to try and gleam knowledge from your elders. [And here is the eternal problem- young people ALWAYS know better than every elder; regardless if the elder went through the exact same thing]
I know that both the eld and young both will ignore me, but I post this in the hope that maybe one, just one, person will actually think about the morality of the stories they convey to their children. Maybe stories of lore, where honor actually meant something? (For the young here, the word "honor" meant that what you said is what you would do, no matter what. If you said you would heal your mortal enemy, you would, and then send him home to his family.) Because "honor" is now second place to "winning".
And our world shudders.
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So what is your point- you did go off and break all kinds of laws (besides the ones you already admitted to), or that you didn't break those laws?
Just because you are a poor excuse for a person (ie- breaking laws, getting detention, doing drugs, etc), is not really a good excuse for anything.
I do have one question, though- how many laws are you still breaking today?
For the record, I broke a few, and I did that for really sad reasons, I wrought myself from that lifestyle.
Don't go spreading your pathetic lifestyle when it is complete non-sense.
"Mr. Congressman, I slept with you wife last week, and now I have these ichy boils, I was wondering if you could elaborate on their origins?"
But to be serious, I have emailed my Congress-critters and Senators a couple of times about different topics related to tech (minus the wife part!). I get varried responses from each person for each topic, so they seem to DO care about certain topics. It must vary from person to person, but I got a couple of hand signed letters for some things before, so don't despair that everything you send is totally disregarded.
Having not been in the market for new hardware for the past 2 years, would someone be kind enough to explain the differences between the different kinds of RAM mentioned in all the replies? PC2100, PC3200, DDRxx, etc.? Just a quick primer would be great. Thanks.
And don't tell me my Ford Pinto is lousy because when I rev it up to 10k RPMs I get the same performance as a Ford Taurus at 2k RPM! I thought Slashdot embraced the simple and elegant approach instead of the brute force method?
So what you are saying is that the P4 has a flawed architecture, but they overcome that by ramping up the speed to 6GHz (and 1.2MW heat dissipation)? I'm not seeing how this is a plus in any way. Most people consider good design to be able to do more (processing, executions per clock cycle, memory movement) with less (voltage, energy, heat).
As I said, I want to leave the rest of the world alone. But how far do you go back? The Gulf war, Vietnam, Korea, WWII, WWI, Spanish war, the Revolutionary War? At some point nearly every country has screwed with some other country. When can we just call it all even and just stop?
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You could put a list of passwords in a safety deposit box in a bank, with instructions in your will as to who gets the contents of said box upon your death.
The only other thing I can think of is to pick one other person whom you trust totally.
Except this cable is on the bottom of the ocean in an armored casing.
Well, with 500,000 registered users the odds are pretty good that with each zdnet story there is going to be someone who hasn't seen it before.
I do not click on a "Receive Mail" button. The crap just floods my inbox. I click on my "email" button, but I don't recall giving my address out to anybody nor do I recall giving permission to anybody to send me an email, but somehow I still have email. (This is an account I set up but never used.)
/. in their services and responsibilities, than I have no idea how I could possibly show you how this comparison is wrong.
And you are still not catching on to the difference between a public site that thrives on interaction and a private company that uses the Internet to provide a service to their clients. If you really think that AOL or Earthlink (ISPs) are comparable to
If Tom Cruise ever showed up at my door and accused me of "thinking", I'd remind him of Scientology and breaking up with Nicole Kidman, and then bitchslap him with a salmon and then an aardvark.
Main problem with red light cameras is that they don't take a pic of your face, only your license plate. Even if you were not driving the car, well too bad, you were _probably_ driving the car and therefore you are guilty.
No I'm going through a NJ EasyPass toll both, and the sensor registers me going 110Mph. Unless you somehow get a toll both worker that remembers my car, license plate, and my face, you just have to rely on the sensor. Did it malfuntion? Well, it probably didn't malfunction, so I'm probably guilty.
This is the point- without actually human interaction at the time of the crime, you DON'T know who did it (this is for car stuff where they don't get your face, not where robbing the 7-11 and getting your mug on camera with you holding the gun).
As the guy said, with the traffic stuff, you're screwed.
1) The environment is fucked due to the US and global warming will drown us all in 10 years.
2) The environment is pretty bad, but if we revert to a caveman society we can survive.
3) The environment is bad, but with some tough cuts in pollution and quality of life we can recover.
4) The environment is getting better, but we need to do more to avert a global meltdown.
5) The environment is ok, we can stay at the status quo.
6) The environment is degrading, but we are working on alternative green energy.
7) What a bunch of crap, the US is destroying the entire world.
Ok, if I could I would have made that into a survey, but I do not have that power (curse you Cowboy Neil!). Seriously though, if you read the posts at 0 you will get all of the above idealogies in a very strange sorta-Bell curve.
Anyway, it's kinda neat to see all these differing opinions clash it out. (Personally, I think I should be God-Emperor of the world, but I'm only one guy)
A great idea, and one I would love to back. One big problem- re-elections. 1/3 of Senators every 2 years, all Congress-dudes and Pres every 4 years. Unless you somehow get a party majority in all 3 for multiple terms, there is no way that any agenda past say, maybe 8 years, will ever last. Especially if you get another Pres like Clinton, who passed many stupid executive orders that threw back progess in many areas by about 20 years or so.
The only way true long term goals can be sought and hopefully achieved is through private citizens and businesses. See the book "Firestar" by Michael(?) Flynn for an example. Politicos are only interested in getting elected again so they can increase their power that bit more.
Robert A. Heinlein's political system in the book "Starship Troopers" is looking better every day...
Except for the fact that you and everyone who is reading this voluntarily came to this site and clicked on this article to read it.
/. has consented by 1) allowing, even encouraging, people to post replies; and 2) visitor's now see ads, or pay to not see them.
And
And I don't recall that creating an email account somehow made me liable for all unsolicitated email that I receive.
Good job! Nice to see niceness on the 'net once in a while.
Even better is since my company buys a fair number of Sun machines per year, we got put in some category that gives us automatic discounts. I called to get some quotes once, gave 'em our contract number, and they started rattling off the discounts. %15 for a SCSI cable, %20-25 for a disc pack, %40 for an Ultra 2. I should have asked for a server discount %, just for kicks.
Also, I haven't looked at the page yet, but has anyone noticed if they offer volume licensing?
Once done with all 6 edisodes, he would go back and make themed versions. Say, replace the Ewoks with Cabbage Patch kids! Or switch the Gungans with the stormtroopers. R rated version with topless Portman and Fisher (maybe even in the same scene!). Star Wars: The Celebrity Version- latest boy band as Jedis, latest girl singer as lead female, couple of rappers as bad guys, etc. My favorite switch would be to switch Admiral Ackbar with Captain Picard, but leave the voice the same.
On topic- Lucas has always said he thinks of movies as never being done, they are abandoned. Though I think one can end up tinkering too much and screwing up (Jedi's new end song didn't do it for me).
When do we get to see doctored nude photos of Bill Gates...
...never mind
(shudder)
Thanks! Damn marketing weenies...
How about resticting any story about raising children to people who actually are/have raising children.
I have seen many "They should do that" posts from people that are 13-17 years old. The whole idea is to try and gleam knowledge from your elders. [And here is the eternal problem- young people ALWAYS know better than every elder; regardless if the elder went through the exact same thing]
I know that both the eld and young both will ignore me, but I post this in the hope that maybe one, just one, person will actually think about the morality of the stories they convey to their children. Maybe stories of lore, where honor actually meant something? (For the young here, the word "honor" meant that what you said is what you would do, no matter what. If you said you would heal your mortal enemy, you would, and then send him home to his family.) Because "honor" is now second place to "winning".
And our world shudders.
So what is your point- you did go off and break all kinds of laws (besides the ones you already admitted to), or that you didn't break those laws?
Just because you are a poor excuse for a person (ie- breaking laws, getting detention, doing drugs, etc), is not really a good excuse for anything.
I do have one question, though- how many laws are you still breaking today?
For the record, I broke a few, and I did that for really sad reasons, I wrought myself from that lifestyle.
Don't go spreading your pathetic lifestyle when it is complete non-sense.
"Mr. Congressman, I slept with you wife last week, and now I have these ichy boils, I was wondering if you could elaborate on their origins?"
But to be serious, I have emailed my Congress-critters and Senators a couple of times about different topics related to tech (minus the wife part!). I get varried responses from each person for each topic, so they seem to DO care about certain topics. It must vary from person to person, but I got a couple of hand signed letters for some things before, so don't despair that everything you send is totally disregarded.
Having not been in the market for new hardware for the past 2 years, would someone be kind enough to explain the differences between the different kinds of RAM mentioned in all the replies? PC2100, PC3200, DDRxx, etc.? Just a quick primer would be great. Thanks.
And don't tell me my Ford Pinto is lousy because when I rev it up to 10k RPMs I get the same performance as a Ford Taurus at 2k RPM! I thought Slashdot embraced the simple and elegant approach instead of the brute force method?
So what you are saying is that the P4 has a flawed architecture, but they overcome that by ramping up the speed to 6GHz (and 1.2MW heat dissipation)? I'm not seeing how this is a plus in any way. Most people consider good design to be able to do more (processing, executions per clock cycle, memory movement) with less (voltage, energy, heat).
Wow- it's like a crippled laptop!
Woo hoo, woopee doo..... ok idea, but I would hardly call this "cool shit".
With the wings, and the gnashing of teeth, oh flavin!
(Burning karma like it's nobody's business!)
Ha ha. I only get to meta-mod nowadays. Just because you disagree with my opinions is not a reason to call my intelligence into question.
Have a good day!
As I said, I want to leave the rest of the world alone. But how far do you go back? The Gulf war, Vietnam, Korea, WWII, WWI, Spanish war, the Revolutionary War? At some point nearly every country has screwed with some other country. When can we just call it all even and just stop?
They were unlucky enough to be born in a country where the leader likes to place SAM sites in school courtyards.