"In addition, the average IQ level is higher, as is the average education level."
Considering how the DoD keeps lowering standards for recruiting (High School diploma optional, minor felonies are OK, Blood, Crip, Latin Kings, MS13 membership is not a problem, et al, etc.), that statement is likely no longer operative.
And really, if they ARE the Best and the Brightest, why are they using Windows, and why are they getting their machines infected? No one knows about AV software?
Apple should produce a line of camo-clad laptops.
In this case, MacBook Pro takes on a whole new meaning!
...who was a computer forensics expert/consultant.
He said that if one is going to use one's computer as an aid to their criminal career, use a Mac. The RCMP and all the rest were completely ignorant when it came to the Mac OS as well as everything else not Windows.
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If neutrinos can and do interact with particles...
Uh, yes. So what? No one was talking about neutrinos.
It's called an analogy. Much like your very lame pool ball analogy. Except mine makes sense.
If neutrinos, virtually massless particles with no charge, can interact with matter to an extent they are routinely detectable, then these super high energy particle generated in the upper atmosphere, it's likely in that in 4.5 billion years, at some point, that quantum black holes have been formed and that your so-called "evil particles" have also been formed, interacted with matter and NOTHING happened. Hasn't happened to Earth, nor Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
Hasn't happened to the Sun, either. Nor, as far as can be determined, any other star we can observe.
If it hasn't happened via natural phenomina, it ain't a gonna happen in the LHC somewhere under France/Switzerland.
If neutrinos can and do interact with particles, I.E. pure water in the diverse detectors worldwide, then it appearsthat in the 4.5 billion years or so that there has been an Earth made of solid matter, and the 3 billion or so years there's been an atmosphere of one kind and another, there has yet to have been an "evil particle" that has interacted with terrestrial matter or atmosphere.
Apparently, that "small chance" you posit is so small, as to be effectively zero.
Thanks for playing! Vanna has some lovely parting gifts for you!
"or even stop a very dangerous experiment at LHC."
You DO know that particles with much higher velocities and energy levels than the LHC could ever produce interact with other particles every second in the upper atmosphere of Earth, and that no planet devouring quantum black holes have appeard and devoured the Earth, nor have any "strangelets" converted the Earth to its component bits.
Oh, wait. Apparently no, you DON'T know.
Stop listening to Art Bell (or whoever is in the chair at his radio program these days) and read more Hawking and other physicists.
"This is NEWS! We are a NEWSPAPER! We are supposed to PRINT THE NEWS!"
Newspapers did indeed once print the news. The Pentagon Papers (NY TIMES) and the Woodward/Bernstein investigations into the Watergate Affair (Washington POST), for example.
Now it's Tom Tomorrow outing Trent Lott as a racist, not the TIMES.
When even a cartoonist using his website does a better job of investigative reporting and disseminating the news than does the NY TIMES, I think that says more about the TIMES than the "disruptive" power of the Web and the Internet.
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Add to the list the wired telephone.
As long as the wire from the central switch to my telephone is intact, I have phone service.
The cell phone is a glorified cordless phone. When the backup batteries at the local cell tower die, so does your phone. Oh, and when the battery in your phone dies, game over, man.
The wired POTS also runs on batteries. Kept charged by the local power distribution network. When that drops out for whatever reason, the batteries keep working, as the local generators at the central switch fire up.
As long as the phoneco keeps the diesel fuel flowing into the generators faster than it gets burned, the phone network stays up.
The phone by my computer is a Western Electric 2500 "desk" set. It was made in 1982. Works as well as it did when it was built 26 years ago. It'll likely still be working as well as it did when it was built in another 26 years.
...just how fsking stupid the average Windows user is.
Apparently, according to most of the commentors , the average Windows/iTunes user, upon seeing the Update Safari" checkbox, are too stupid, too ignorant, too docile and conditioned by Windows to do anything other than click the "install" button.
They can't be bothered to read the EULA, or even make the effort to wonder what the heck this here "Safari" thing is.
Now, I am NOT making ANY judgements whatsoever about the average Windows user.
I AM observing that the preponderence of comments/commentators ARE making judgements about the average Windows user.
I am also speaking as one who uses Firefox as his default browser under Mac OS X 10.4.11.
"NASA: Lets just make a bunch of giant robots with giant wrench arms and a giant Canadian phallus and put them in space. What could possibly go wrong?"
Nothing could go wrong! There is nothing not absolutely perfect about Giant Robots In Space.
This is but the BEGINNING of the way the FUTURE MUST BE!
OK, no one, NO ONE has said that a dust removal mechanism is
an insurmountable space engineering problem.
The design criteria for such a device, vs. the financial budget for the mission as a whole vs. the weight budget for the mission as a whole vs. the power budget for the mission as a whole vs. the science investigation budget for the mission as a whole is the deciding factor.
Is the money and the weight and the power there? If not, what gets sacrificed.
It's not a matter of a few pounds extra and few more volts and a few hundred dollars.
The Rovers were designed with a criteria of saving ounces and millivolts so that one more sensor and one more tool and another few square inches of solar cell could be included.
But, as you're a slashdot poster, you, of course, know more about designing for the mixed environments of Earth's gravity and atmosphere, storing the Rovers until they move to Florida, transporting the Rovers to Florida, launch phase, cruise phase, entry phase, descent phase, landing phase, deployment phase, rolloff phase and the Martian surface environment, than the thousands of people who had a hand in designing, building, testing, launching and operating the Rovers.
Please submit your resume to NASA/JPL ASAP, where it will receive the appropriate attention!
Picked up a 4 pack of AA alkalines and fired up my original GameBoy. Yep, still works just fine. I have a GBC that is the main portable time waster. At some point, I'll eBay a GBA SP.
Other tough tech I own:
RCA 19" color television. Bought in the early 1980s, its only now needing a bit of alignment to sharpen up the focus.
Apple Extended Keyboard. 20 years old, works like it just came off the assembly line. Best. (Apple)Keyboard. EVER!
Real keyswitches. None of this conductive polymer dome contact crap. After using this keyboard, every other "modern" keyboard feels like I'm poking at a slab of Silly Putty.
HP-35/45. I own one of each. The 45 gets used multiple times daily. NICE tactile feedback keys. The calculator that will not die!
Western Electric telephones. I've 4 of them hooked up here. There's not a one of them that's less than 25 years old. The red 2500 by the computer has been retrofitted with a 16 button AUTOVON pad, WeCo "Beehive" ring indicator lamp, WeCo amplified handset, noise cancelling transmitter/mouthpiece, and matching red WeCo Touch-A-Matic autodialer and 4A SpeakerPhone.
I fully expect that the keyboard, HP calculators and Western Electric telephones will outlive me. I would not be surprised if the GameBoy outlives me as well. The TV will also likely last quite a few more years. Even though I have cable, I'll be getting the digital to analog converter box. Just in case I'll need it in future.
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So do what I do. Buy only USED DVDs, preferably from local, independently owned shops. eBay is also a good source for used DVDs. Most libraries also have DVDs you can borrow, although, according to the Libertarians, borrowing a DVD from the library is exactly like a breadline in Stalinist RUSSIA!!!1!ELEVENTY!!
.avi format are proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy!
Or, there's ALWAYS the Internet. BitTorrent and the
"In addition, the average IQ level is higher, as is the average education level."
Considering how the DoD keeps lowering standards for recruiting (High School diploma optional, minor felonies are OK, Blood, Crip, Latin Kings, MS13 membership is not a problem, et al, etc.), that statement is likely no longer operative.
And really, if they ARE the Best and the Brightest, why are they using Windows, and why are they getting their machines infected? No one knows about AV software?
Apple should produce a line of camo-clad laptops.
In this case, MacBook Pro takes on a whole new meaning!
I did say it was "some years ago".
Of course, it would be very unpatriotic of me to suggest that the FBI might be lying.
Again.
...who was a computer forensics expert/consultant.
He said that if one is going to use one's computer as an aid to their criminal career, use a Mac. The RCMP and all the rest were completely ignorant when it came to the Mac OS as well as everything else not Windows.
"American "Genuine" Budweiser, aka Bud, that's urine."
You mean "horse urine".
Why do you think the Clydesdale horse is their symbol?
Let's see. The Feds use Windows almost exclusively.
DHS/Customs employs idiots almost excusively.
A folder filled with every Windows virus known to man, all titled "hot_naked_lesbo_sex.jpg" on yout laptop.
Hilarity ensues!
You know what they say about arguing on the Internet and the Special Olympics?
YOU WIN!
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If neutrinos can and do interact with particles...
Uh, yes. So what? No one was talking about neutrinos.
It's called an analogy. Much like your very lame pool ball analogy. Except mine makes sense.
If neutrinos, virtually massless particles with no charge, can interact with matter to an extent they are routinely detectable, then these super high energy particle generated in the upper atmosphere, it's likely in that in 4.5 billion years, at some point, that quantum black holes have been formed and that your so-called "evil particles" have also been formed, interacted with matter and NOTHING happened. Hasn't happened to Earth, nor Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
Hasn't happened to the Sun, either. Nor, as far as can be determined, any other star we can observe.
If it hasn't happened via natural phenomina, it ain't a gonna happen in the LHC somewhere under France/Switzerland.
If neutrinos can and do interact with particles, I.E. pure water in the diverse detectors worldwide, then it appearsthat in the 4.5 billion years or so that there has been an Earth made of solid matter, and the 3 billion or so years there's been an atmosphere of one kind and another, there has yet to have been an "evil particle" that has interacted with terrestrial matter or atmosphere.
Apparently, that "small chance" you posit is so small, as to be effectively zero.
Thanks for playing! Vanna has some lovely parting gifts for you!
"or even stop a very dangerous experiment at LHC."
You DO know that particles with much higher velocities and energy levels than the LHC could ever produce interact with other particles every second in the upper atmosphere of Earth, and that no planet devouring quantum black holes have appeard and devoured the Earth, nor have any "strangelets" converted the Earth to its component bits.
Oh, wait. Apparently no, you DON'T know.
Stop listening to Art Bell (or whoever is in the chair at his radio program these days) and read more Hawking and other physicists.
"This is NEWS! We are a NEWSPAPER! We are supposed to PRINT THE NEWS!"
Newspapers did indeed once print the news. The Pentagon Papers (NY TIMES) and the Woodward/Bernstein investigations into the Watergate Affair (Washington POST), for example.
Now it's Tom Tomorrow outing Trent Lott as a racist, not the TIMES.
When even a cartoonist using his website does a better job of investigative reporting and disseminating the news than does the NY TIMES, I think that says more about the TIMES than the "disruptive" power of the Web and the Internet.
Add to the list the wired telephone.
As long as the wire from the central switch to my telephone is intact, I have phone service.
The cell phone is a glorified cordless phone. When the backup batteries at the local cell tower die, so does your phone. Oh, and when the battery in your phone dies, game over, man.
The wired POTS also runs on batteries. Kept charged by the local power distribution network. When that drops out for whatever reason, the batteries keep working, as the local generators at the central switch fire up.
As long as the phoneco keeps the diesel fuel flowing into the generators faster than it gets burned, the phone network stays up.
The phone by my computer is a Western Electric 2500 "desk" set. It was made in 1982. Works as well as it did when it was built 26 years ago. It'll likely still be working as well as it did when it was built in another 26 years.
Have your company IT people put a bigass PC in your cubicle. Maybe bolt it down with big heavy chains.
Sync the laptop to it when necessary.
Oh, it's too much trouble?
Find another job, then.
Or, suck it up, stop whining and be a fsking professional.
...just how fsking stupid the average Windows user is.
Apparently, according to most of the commentors , the average Windows/iTunes user, upon seeing the Update Safari" checkbox, are too stupid, too ignorant, too docile and conditioned by Windows to do anything other than click the "install" button.
They can't be bothered to read the EULA, or even make the effort to wonder what the heck this here "Safari" thing is.
Now, I am NOT making ANY judgements whatsoever about the average Windows user.
I AM observing that the preponderence of comments/commentators ARE making judgements about the average Windows user.
I am also speaking as one who uses Firefox as his default browser under Mac OS X 10.4.11.
Fan service all the way! And greatly appreciated, too!
I loved how they retconned a happy ending for "Jurassic Bark".
It was great seeing Seymour again. And seeing him happy and with Fry.
"Your plastic pal who's fun to be with!"
"NASA: Lets just make a bunch of giant robots with giant wrench arms and a giant Canadian phallus and put them in space. What could possibly go wrong?"
Nothing could go wrong! There is nothing not absolutely perfect about Giant Robots In Space.
This is but the BEGINNING of the way the FUTURE MUST BE!
"NICE!"
Coop, Kiva, Jaimie, and MEGAS. Gone, but not forgotten!
I note that you neither addressed nor even attempted to refute a single one of the points I mentioned in my previous message.
Good Show! You have mastered the Slashdot Way of Discussion:
Ignore everything even vaguely relating to the issue at hand, maintain an arrogant know it all attitude and toss in a few gratuitous obscenities.
You would make an excellent GOP/Neocon politician.
The design criteria for such a device, vs. the financial budget for the mission as a whole vs. the weight budget for the mission as a whole vs. the power budget for the mission as a whole vs. the science investigation budget for the mission as a whole is the deciding factor.
Is the money and the weight and the power there? If not, what gets sacrificed.
It's not a matter of a few pounds extra and few more volts and a few hundred dollars.
The Rovers were designed with a criteria of saving ounces and millivolts so that one more sensor and one more tool and another few square inches of solar cell could be included.
But, as you're a slashdot poster, you, of course, know more about designing for the mixed environments of Earth's gravity and atmosphere, storing the Rovers until they move to Florida, transporting the Rovers to Florida, launch phase, cruise phase, entry phase, descent phase, landing phase, deployment phase, rolloff phase and the Martian surface environment, than the thousands of people who had a hand in designing, building, testing, launching and operating the Rovers.
Please submit your resume to NASA/JPL ASAP, where it will receive the appropriate attention!
<sound of toilet flushing>
Picked up a 4 pack of AA alkalines and fired up my original GameBoy. Yep, still works just fine. I have a GBC that is the main portable time waster. At some point, I'll eBay a GBA SP.
Other tough tech I own:
RCA 19" color television. Bought in the early 1980s, its only now needing a bit of alignment to sharpen up the focus.
Apple Extended Keyboard. 20 years old, works like it just came off the assembly line. Best. (Apple)Keyboard. EVER!
Real keyswitches. None of this conductive polymer dome contact crap. After using this keyboard, every other "modern" keyboard feels like I'm poking at a slab of Silly Putty.
HP-35/45. I own one of each. The 45 gets used multiple times daily. NICE tactile feedback keys. The calculator that will not die!
Western Electric telephones. I've 4 of them hooked up here. There's not a one of them that's less than 25 years old. The red 2500 by the computer has been retrofitted with a 16 button AUTOVON pad, WeCo "Beehive" ring indicator lamp, WeCo amplified handset, noise cancelling transmitter/mouthpiece, and matching red WeCo Touch-A-Matic autodialer and 4A SpeakerPhone.
See it here
I fully expect that the keyboard, HP calculators and Western Electric telephones will outlive me. I would not be surprised if the GameBoy outlives me as well. The TV will also likely last quite a few more years. Even though I have cable, I'll be getting the digital to analog converter box. Just in case I'll need it in future.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWcEgRQVJo0&feature=related
Great Comment! Right On!
Click here to see Jeri Ryan (7 of 9!) stolen sex tape!
Just pump "her" up a few more times than usual. Vinyl is somewhat elastic, after all.
Or are you actually claiming on Slashdot to have a real live flesh and blood girlfriend?
That ain't a bottle of Moxie(TM) in that brown paper bag in his right hand.
Feel safer, now?