"Seperate planes first, seperate neighbourhoods next. Why not just round them all up and put them all in a ghetto now?"
All I gotta say to this is - Can do.
And when they come for you? To put you in your little ghetto too? Who will you turn to for help then?
People like you make me sick. You espouse all these reasons why you're society is so great because it's built upon the guarantee of personal freedom but you're all for taking those freedoms away from whole swathes of society just because of the actions of a few extremists.
Well, next time some white 15-year old loner decides to shoot up half his class because nobody liked him, I'll be listening out for you shouting for all white teenagers to be rounded up and put into camps too.
Next time, there's a mother who kills her young kids before running off to start a life with her new boyfriend, I'll be listening out for you shouting for all mothers with young kids to be rounded up and treated like the lowest of the low.
You can't have your cake and eat it. If you want to live in a free society, learn how to cherish the freedoms of others as much as your own.
Red is the colour of blood and, since the time of cavemen, has been the accepted colour for danger.
Green is the colour of most safe to eat plant-life (most ripe vegetation is green, dead vegetation tends to go black, etc), hence it's the natural choice to indicate safety.
Look around you everywhere, this red/green usage is almost universal. Traffic signs, emergency vehicles, motor sports, etc.
"Nuts to adopt yet more color codes"? I don't think so - red = bad and green = good is something that even small kids can understand. Why would you want to get away from the simplicity of that?
My eyes never roll back as far as they do when I hear about somebody complaining about "racial profiling". Apparently, these people forgot that all 19 of the 9/11 hijackers were young, middle-eastern men, so that's who they should be looking at the closest (aaaand duh).
First of all, the Oklahoma City bombers were all white Americans. The Unabomber was a white American. Clearly, not all terrorists are "young, middle-eastern men". The sooner you get out of that mindset the better.
Using September 11th as an excuse to treat people with darker skin or of middle-eastern origin differently to everyone else is the slippery slope. What next, make them travel on seperate planes? (And, lest we forget, there was plenty of "get that Arab off the plane before you get us off the ground" hysteria amongst a lot of American passengers in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.)
Seperate planes first, seperate neighbourhoods next. Why not just round them all up and put them all in a ghetto now?
What you fail to realise, living with your head in the sand, is that by treating people differently just because of what they look like, where they come from or what faith they follow you rather are doing exactly what Osama bin Laden and other religous fundamentalists (Islamic and Christian) want you to do.
Al Qaeda's main objective on 9/11 wasn't to kill a few thousand people or to blow up some buildings, it's main objective was to promote conflict between Islamic cutures and western ones. The sooner you absorb that information the better.
GSM-crack paper online morcheeba writes "Copies of the GSM-crack paper described in last week's Slashdot article are now available online (PDF) thanks to John Young's Cryptome"
I dunno what's the world coming to?
You can buy crack rock on the street and get crack paper online so what's next, crack scissors from your local hardware store?
When your stuck on grammer, post to slashdot and let all the pedants do the proofreading for you. Don't forget to through or in a t-shirt to for all the criticism
That's "grammar", not "grammer". D'oh!
It's pretty sad when the "proofreaders" need proofreaders too...
When your stuck on how to code something.... run a competition and let others do the coding for you.
oh and don't forget to through in a t-shirt or to for all the hard work
And lather, rinse, repeat if you're after some original designs for t-shirts for your website...
To be honest, I like the idea of this Google competition. I'm not going to be winning it (my programming skills aren't fantastic) but it's a great way of fostering relationships between you and your user base, finding good coders (and potential future employees), getting some good code and/or code ideas and, above all, having a little bit of fun with the community as a whole.
If all companies were like Google then we'd all be happy as Jay and Silent Bob at a weedfest.
Ooh, you're good. Now can you tell me where my keys are?
Uhhh, I can't use my telepathy to tell you where they are because you don't know yourself. And if you don't know where you left them then how am I supposed to read that info from your mind?
However, I can use my clairvoyance to tell you where they will be. They'll be in the last place that you look.
I must have read an article earlier about this same thing, probably by this same guy. Can anybody confirm that?
Thanks to my well-developed powers of telepathy, I can tell you that you have read a previous article on the topic by the same author. So I'm happy to confirm that for you.
I can also tell you, thanks to my equally well-honed powers of clairvoyance, that this post will soon be modded up as funny.
(Sheesh. And I thought that some recent "Ask Slashdot" questions were dumb.)
Why would any geek buy all four? Doesn't one t-shirt last a lifetime?
And what's the deal with the "Mainline Geek Culture" t-shirt being only available in white? How the hell is that going to hide the pizza and jolt stains?
Can't they insulate all the sensitive equipment from the passenger section? Maybe have a layer of lead between the cockpit and the rest of the plane?
Uhhh, there are sensitive electronics all over the aircraft, not just in the cockpit, and they are where they are for a reason - you can't move all the landing gear and flaps to the cockpit and so the associated electronics can't go there either.
Lining half the aircraft with lead is hardly practical, not unless you want to reduce passenger numbers and increase flight times too - unless you've been living in a cave you'll have noticed that lead is rather heavy and, to be an effective EM shield, you'd need a lot of it.
If things are really that bad, they're going to have to do something to address this, and soon. They need to harden the equipment against interference, and do it NOW.
They are doing something about it. Boeing, Airbus et al aren't just sitting on their collective arses, you know. But R&D takes time and, for now, they have a perfectly workable fix that solves the problem until their solutions can be implemented into future aircraft and retrofitted to the existing ones.
Unfortunately, that temporary solution - not using the devices that are a possible source of interference - is too much for some people. It takes a certain level of stupidity to put being able to read your email above personal safety when you're flying in a tin can several miles above the earth.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: when you're travelling from A to B, the most important thing is getting to B safely. Anything else is secondary to that.
Yes, but your pirate DVD was manufactured locally, at a fraction of the cost that it would take to manufacture that same disc in the developed world, had minimal shipping costs, paid no royalties, etc to any copyright holders and was sold in a store where the staff earn a fraction of their US counterparts.
If the staff were paid $7.50 an hour then the store wouldn't be selling any DVDs, pirate or otherwise, for $2. Etc, etc.
Yes, but he was also trying to "prove" that buying CDs and DVDs is a rip-off in the UK. If you've got half a brain then it's just as cheap (if not cheaper) than anywhere else.
Anyone who shops online at HMV.co.uk is crazy. Try Play.com or CD-WOW.com if you're a UK consumer shopping online.
CD-WOW concentrates on more popular music (not just mainstream) and doesn't have either item but Play.com has your Josie and the Pussycats CD at 9.99 pounds and the DVD at 6.99 pounds. So why you'd ever pay over twice as much for either item is beyond me.
Seriously, only an idiot would shop at HMV UK's online store. With a few exceptions, its prices are set to match those in its stores, so people who want to know how much a CD, DVD or whatever will cost can browse the site before they head to their local HMV.
Pointing out that HMV.co.uk is expensive is as revolutionary as saying "the sky is blue" or "it's cold in the North Pole". Similarly, using it as a comparison shopping example ("hey, look at how expensive everything is here in Britain!") is equally stupid, as you've picked an expensive retailer to start with, failed to point out that VAT (sales tax) of 17.5% is included in those prices, etc.
If the movie was any good it would have made a reasonable profit in theatres and the DVD should be able to be released at $3.00 a copy 18 months later. Anything else is a rip off. At least CDs have a production cost to recoup. DVDs have recouped by the time they are released.
You obviously have no idea about how much of the pie is taken up by the retailer, distributor, manufacturing, etc.
Typically, 25-40 percent of the price you'll pay in store goes to the retailer. So, on a $20 DVD that's $5-$8, which pays the rent, the wages, the electricity bills, covers shoplifting losses, etc. Turn that $5-$8 into $.75-$1.20 and watch stores go bankrupt in weeks. That's assuming that you could make and distribute a DVD title (whilst covering the cost of DVD extras, advertising, royalties, etc) for around $2 to acheive your mythical $3 price point.
Frankly, even large scale DVD pirates (who obviously don't have to worry about half the costs the original publishers have to deal with) would struggle to make any money selling DVDs at $3.
Time for you to come back from never-never land and learn that there's more to making and selling a DVD than you realise.
And just how long will it be before someone finds out that one or both of those video card manufacturers has been "tweaking" their benchmarks to improve the acheived frame rate?
Anyhow, just who runs Half-Life or anything with all the eye candy maxed up? No serious gamers that I know of, that's for sure. At the settings that hardcore FPS addicts play at, the frame rate delivered by any card currently being shipped either ATi or nVidia will be sufficient (assuming that the rest of the system isn't subpar).
Once again, for those of us without money to burn the smart buy is that $100-$200 card that cost $600 a few months ago, not the one that costs $600 now (and which will be down to $100-$200 just as fast).
All my asian college friends can no longer send me a suggestions on how to increase my breast/penis/bank acount. I guess there are always Carribian islands.
Hey, I'm not from a "Carribian" island but I bet you'd like to buy a dictionary. I can sell you one that won't put too big a dent in your bank "acount" - or your breast/penis "acount", whatever either of those may be.
Don't buy a used Palm IIIxe off of eBay from this guy. Unless, of course, you want to get cooties...
The last 30 years haven't been for nothing...
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The Return of Apollo?
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One thing's been learnt (even if it was learnt the hard way), and that's that the risks associated with going into space shouldn't be taken lightly.
NASA beaurocrats got real complacent and lazy, perhaps not with Challenger but definitely so with Columbia. In future, they'll be less reluctant to listen to the advice of their engineering teams and will take fewer risks with the lives of their astronauts.
The lives lost on Challenger and Columbia won't be the last but, hopefully, they won't have been lost in vain.
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"Seperate planes first, seperate neighbourhoods next. Why not just round them all up and put them all in a ghetto now?"
All I gotta say to this is - Can do.
And when they come for you? To put you in your little ghetto too? Who will you turn to for help then?
People like you make me sick. You espouse all these reasons why you're society is so great because it's built upon the guarantee of personal freedom but you're all for taking those freedoms away from whole swathes of society just because of the actions of a few extremists.
Well, next time some white 15-year old loner decides to shoot up half his class because nobody liked him, I'll be listening out for you shouting for all white teenagers to be rounded up and put into camps too.
Next time, there's a mother who kills her young kids before running off to start a life with her new boyfriend, I'll be listening out for you shouting for all mothers with young kids to be rounded up and treated like the lowest of the low.
You can't have your cake and eat it. If you want to live in a free society, learn how to cherish the freedoms of others as much as your own.
Nutshell Power in a Nutshell.
I'm guessing it'd have a monkey on the cover. Or perhaps, sticking with the power plant theme, a picture of Homer Simpson eating nuts.
I know I'd pay good money for that book.
Red is the colour of blood and, since the time of cavemen, has been the accepted colour for danger.
Green is the colour of most safe to eat plant-life (most ripe vegetation is green, dead vegetation tends to go black, etc), hence it's the natural choice to indicate safety.
Look around you everywhere, this red/green usage is almost universal. Traffic signs, emergency vehicles, motor sports, etc.
"Nuts to adopt yet more color codes"? I don't think so - red = bad and green = good is something that even small kids can understand. Why would you want to get away from the simplicity of that?
"This information will include names, travel routes, credit card numbers, and possible special meals."
From now on, if you order a vegitarian meal on your flight you're that much more likely to be labelled a terrorist.
Makes me glad that I'm a carnivore.
My eyes never roll back as far as they do when I hear about somebody complaining about "racial profiling". Apparently, these people forgot that all 19 of the 9/11 hijackers were young, middle-eastern men, so that's who they should be looking at the closest (aaaand duh).
First of all, the Oklahoma City bombers were all white Americans. The Unabomber was a white American. Clearly, not all terrorists are "young, middle-eastern men". The sooner you get out of that mindset the better.
Using September 11th as an excuse to treat people with darker skin or of middle-eastern origin differently to everyone else is the slippery slope. What next, make them travel on seperate planes? (And, lest we forget, there was plenty of "get that Arab off the plane before you get us off the ground" hysteria amongst a lot of American passengers in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.)
Seperate planes first, seperate neighbourhoods next. Why not just round them all up and put them all in a ghetto now?
What you fail to realise, living with your head in the sand, is that by treating people differently just because of what they look like, where they come from or what faith they follow you rather are doing exactly what Osama bin Laden and other religous fundamentalists (Islamic and Christian) want you to do.
Al Qaeda's main objective on 9/11 wasn't to kill a few thousand people or to blow up some buildings, it's main objective was to promote conflict between Islamic cutures and western ones. The sooner you absorb that information the better.
GSM-crack paper online morcheeba writes "Copies of the GSM-crack paper described in last week's Slashdot article are now available online (PDF) thanks to John Young's Cryptome"
I dunno what's the world coming to?
You can buy crack rock on the street and get crack paper online so what's next, crack scissors from your local hardware store?
Canada's in Star Wars?
When your stuck on grammer, post to slashdot and let all the pedants do the proofreading for you. Don't forget to through or in a t-shirt to for all the criticism
That's "grammar", not "grammer". D'oh!
It's pretty sad when the "proofreaders" need proofreaders too...
When your stuck on how to code something....
run a competition and let others do the coding for you.
oh and don't forget to through in a t-shirt or to for all the hard work
And lather, rinse, repeat if you're after some original designs for t-shirts for your website...
To be honest, I like the idea of this Google competition. I'm not going to be winning it (my programming skills aren't fantastic) but it's a great way of fostering relationships between you and your user base, finding good coders (and potential future employees), getting some good code and/or code ideas and, above all, having a little bit of fun with the community as a whole.
If all companies were like Google then we'd all be happy as Jay and Silent Bob at a weedfest.
Ooh, you're good. Now can you tell me where my keys are?
Uhhh, I can't use my telepathy to tell you where they are because you don't know yourself. And if you don't know where you left them then how am I supposed to read that info from your mind?
However, I can use my clairvoyance to tell you where they will be. They'll be in the last place that you look.
Glad to be of assistance.
...does anybody else think this sounds familar?
I must have read an article earlier about this same thing, probably by this same guy. Can anybody confirm that?
Thanks to my well-developed powers of telepathy, I can tell you that you have read a previous article on the topic by the same author. So I'm happy to confirm that for you.
I can also tell you, thanks to my equally well-honed powers of clairvoyance, that this post will soon be modded up as funny.
(Sheesh. And I thought that some recent "Ask Slashdot" questions were dumb.)
Why would any geek buy all four? Doesn't one t-shirt last a lifetime?
And what's the deal with the "Mainline Geek Culture" t-shirt being only available in white? How the hell is that going to hide the pizza and jolt stains?
Can't they insulate all the sensitive equipment from the passenger section? Maybe have a layer of lead between the cockpit and the rest of the plane?
Uhhh, there are sensitive electronics all over the aircraft, not just in the cockpit, and they are where they are for a reason - you can't move all the landing gear and flaps to the cockpit and so the associated electronics can't go there either.
Lining half the aircraft with lead is hardly practical, not unless you want to reduce passenger numbers and increase flight times too - unless you've been living in a cave you'll have noticed that lead is rather heavy and, to be an effective EM shield, you'd need a lot of it.
If things are really that bad, they're going to have to do something to address this, and soon. They need to harden the equipment against interference, and do it NOW.
They are doing something about it. Boeing, Airbus et al aren't just sitting on their collective arses, you know. But R&D takes time and, for now, they have a perfectly workable fix that solves the problem until their solutions can be implemented into future aircraft and retrofitted to the existing ones.
Unfortunately, that temporary solution - not using the devices that are a possible source of interference - is too much for some people. It takes a certain level of stupidity to put being able to read your email above personal safety when you're flying in a tin can several miles above the earth.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: when you're travelling from A to B, the most important thing is getting to B safely. Anything else is secondary to that.
...and look forward to his 70 virgins that Allah[0] will be handing over...
Actually, it's 72. That's 72 more than most programmers get in a lifetime.
Yes, but your pirate DVD was manufactured locally, at a fraction of the cost that it would take to manufacture that same disc in the developed world, had minimal shipping costs, paid no royalties, etc to any copyright holders and was sold in a store where the staff earn a fraction of their US counterparts.
If the staff were paid $7.50 an hour then the store wouldn't be selling any DVDs, pirate or otherwise, for $2. Etc, etc.
Yes, but he was also trying to "prove" that buying CDs and DVDs is a rip-off in the UK. If you've got half a brain then it's just as cheap (if not cheaper) than anywhere else.
Anyone who shops online at HMV.co.uk is crazy. Try Play.com or CD-WOW.com if you're a UK consumer shopping online.
CD-WOW concentrates on more popular music (not just mainstream) and doesn't have either item but Play.com has your Josie and the Pussycats CD at 9.99 pounds and the DVD at 6.99 pounds. So why you'd ever pay over twice as much for either item is beyond me.
Seriously, only an idiot would shop at HMV UK's online store. With a few exceptions, its prices are set to match those in its stores, so people who want to know how much a CD, DVD or whatever will cost can browse the site before they head to their local HMV.
Pointing out that HMV.co.uk is expensive is as revolutionary as saying "the sky is blue" or "it's cold in the North Pole". Similarly, using it as a comparison shopping example ("hey, look at how expensive everything is here in Britain!") is equally stupid, as you've picked an expensive retailer to start with, failed to point out that VAT (sales tax) of 17.5% is included in those prices, etc.
If the movie was any good it would have made a reasonable profit in theatres and the DVD should be able to be released at $3.00 a copy 18 months later. Anything else is a rip off. At least CDs have a production cost to recoup. DVDs have recouped by the time they are released.
You obviously have no idea about how much of the pie is taken up by the retailer, distributor, manufacturing, etc.
Typically, 25-40 percent of the price you'll pay in store goes to the retailer. So, on a $20 DVD that's $5-$8, which pays the rent, the wages, the electricity bills, covers shoplifting losses, etc. Turn that $5-$8 into $.75-$1.20 and watch stores go bankrupt in weeks. That's assuming that you could make and distribute a DVD title (whilst covering the cost of DVD extras, advertising, royalties, etc) for around $2 to acheive your mythical $3 price point.
Frankly, even large scale DVD pirates (who obviously don't have to worry about half the costs the original publishers have to deal with) would struggle to make any money selling DVDs at $3.
Time for you to come back from never-never land and learn that there's more to making and selling a DVD than you realise.
And just how long will it be before someone finds out that one or both of those video card manufacturers has been "tweaking" their benchmarks to improve the acheived frame rate?
Anyhow, just who runs Half-Life or anything with all the eye candy maxed up? No serious gamers that I know of, that's for sure. At the settings that hardcore FPS addicts play at, the frame rate delivered by any card currently being shipped either ATi or nVidia will be sufficient (assuming that the rest of the system isn't subpar).
Once again, for those of us without money to burn the smart buy is that $100-$200 card that cost $600 a few months ago, not the one that costs $600 now (and which will be down to $100-$200 just as fast).
All my asian college friends can no longer send me a suggestions on how to increase my breast/penis/bank acount. I guess there are always Carribian islands.
Hey, I'm not from a "Carribian" island but I bet you'd like to buy a dictionary. I can sell you one that won't put too big a dent in your bank "acount" - or your breast/penis "acount", whatever either of those may be.
(Laugh, stupid. It's a joke.)
Don't buy a used Palm IIIxe off of eBay from this guy. Unless, of course, you want to get cooties...
One thing's been learnt (even if it was learnt the hard way), and that's that the risks associated with going into space shouldn't be taken lightly.
NASA beaurocrats got real complacent and lazy, perhaps not with Challenger but definitely so with Columbia. In future, they'll be less reluctant to listen to the advice of their engineering teams and will take fewer risks with the lives of their astronauts.
The lives lost on Challenger and Columbia won't be the last but, hopefully, they won't have been lost in vain.
...because the first thing I thought of when I saw his picture was, boy, that guy looks as if he's been in the sun too long.
Somehow, whilst typing at your PC, you forgot to add the computer to your list.
That noise you hear in the background is Charles Babbage spinning in his grave...
You get the giant stepladder and I'll get the big bucket and scales...