Pressurized hydrogen (aka deuterium) is supposedly inflammable, and doesn't actually become flammable until it has a proper oxygen/hydrogen ratio (at which point it returns to being H).
Dr. Nick: You mean inflammable means flammable? What a country!
I'll leave this one for the chemistry geeks in the crowd to chuckle over:)
But how about totally revolutionary physics -- the kind of thing we see in "Star Wars" or "Star Trek"?
You mean the kind of revolutionary physics that allows multi-ton objects to turn on a dime at insanely high velocities (with nothing to "push" against) without tearing themselves apart, and also without expending the energy of a small nuclear blast in order to do it?:)
So next time we're arguing, and I shoot some holes in your logic, and begin to make you feel like an ass over it, you'd prefer if I just instead kicked in your ribs, or maybe gave you a coupla black eyes?
I'll take arguing with you on Slashdot, and you flaming me, and perhaps you making a complete jackass out of me, way over you pummeling me and putting me in the hospital.
Verbal abuse can be unpleasant, and even damaging to someone, but to equate it to physical abuse makes me think you've never had the shit kicked out of you as a kid.
I got both at various times of my life, and let me tell you: you can laugh off what some jerk says. You can even go home and have a cry. But a permanent limp and blindness in one eye last forever. (Both of which happened to a friend of mine who just wasn't popular, the latter being caused in large part by what other kids thought of the former).
When I got to work on a fairly big IDS system on a 50,000+ node network, the IDS vendor released an update to their ruleset.
Someone goofed, and the rule to flag requests for things like/etc/passwd and/etc/shadow was really broadened. Every time the IDS detected a packet with the word "shadow" in it, bang! It flagged it.
In our case, it was particularly annoying because the entire intranet used a webpage template that had dozens of references to "shadow.gif" (I think it was for bordering and layout). The web devs weren't too pleased when we asked them to change several thousands pages:)
Now, extend this to an IPS which removes the offending packets. Suddenly our intranet would have been entirely offline. I could see this taking days to figure out why.
Damn, guess I'm lucky I didn't work for a company with the word "shadow" in their name:)
And for every big case you hear about an insurance company acting like asses, there are a thousand others of people fraudulently making claims.
See the other poster's reply.
I worked in insurance for over a decade, and while I don't think the system's perfect, it's nothing like how you describe it. Unfortunately, most people don't seem to understand that "sticking it to the man" in every conceivable case ISN'T always in your best interest, and we have the mess we do today.
And lawyers acting right and moral? Don't make me laugh. A lot of insurance fraud is committed with lawyer complicity.
Just think Lionel Hutz when Bart gets run over. It's so close to the truth it's scary.
Therefore, they don't want you to be able to see their price drops coming... and that's why sale info is top secret until the day the sale goes into effect, at which point it's public info.
Then maybe they shouldn't leave this information publically available on their webservers ahead of the sale.
Which, from what I've gathered, is what happened. I RTFA, and most of the comments here, and yet not one person has explained just what happened here, other than "fatwallet removed some info due to a DMCA threat by Best Buy".
Perhaps submitters could try linking to actual information instead of a message board filled with "comment removed" next time.
Man, you know you haven't been out of the house enough when... I really thought you were going somewhere else (read: worse). Son, Mom, doesn't want Dad to see...
MSN search results are "limited" is because sites that want to be "found" on MSN have to pay.
Well, couldn't one argue about inherent, deliberate bias here?
Seeing as almost all of the serious competition to Microsoft these days comes in the form of free software / OSS, and the bulk of that will never have the ability to pay for search engine results, doesn't this bias MSN's results to pretty much anyone already in the Microsoft camp?
I personally can't believe ANYONE would sell a computer that didn't have the default search page on Google, myself. The market should make vendors more wanting to give their customers the best product possible. Oh wait, anti-competitive business practices? What are those?
well its not microsofts fault you use their website. Its hard to make antitrust case against them when no one forces you to use that search engine.
Actually, it is. msn.com has been the default search engine and homepage for years in IE, which is the default browser on the default operating system on 95% of computers sold out there.
So yes, it is 100% Microsoft's fault that people use their website. The antitrust angle comes in when they use their near-monopoly (Windows) to squash competition unfairly, whether it be Netscape, Google, or what have you.
The supreme court of the USA agrees with me, I'd be curious why you find their decisions wrong.
what would happen if the moon were to suddenly start going towards the earth, or mars drifting towards us?
Kiss your ass goodbye, because the same laws of physics keeping your body on the ground have suddenly gone haywire. Hope you're not in a car when it happens:)
Smithers: Oh Mr. Burns, we'll thaw you out the second they discover the cure for... seventeen stab wounds in the back. How are we doing boys?
Professor Frink: Well, we're up to fifteen!
It also reminds me of the mentality a lot of people still have re: the environment. Destroy it now, because by the time it really matters we'll either be dead from something else, or we'll have such good technology we can fix the damage.
Actually, I can't think of anything more terrifying than the extinction of the human species. What's even scarier is that unlike most things that threaten a person's existence (beyond just getting too old), there's absolutely nothing you, nor anyone else can do to prevent this.
Do I lose sleep over it? Not really. But to me it's like contributing to a pension - you may never see it, it won't happen for decades, but you do it anyway. Because when the time comes it will be the single most important thing in your life.
When I add my life to the other 6 billion on the planet, yes, the thought of all of us dying scares me quite a bit.
You do realize that Leave it to Beaver was fiction, right? As in, no bearing on reality?
Ask any person who grew up in the 40s and 50s how many times they got beat as a child. Wally and the Beav never seemed to be disciplined. You're right, things have changed since my parents were kids. For the better, if you ask me. I'll take a 1 in 1,000,000 chance of being gunned down at school over a 1 in 2 chance of being beaten because I spilled some milk any day, thanks.
And you also of course realize that Elizabeth Smart's kidnappers would simply have removed the device, short of it being an implanted chip in her brain, right?
But that's precisely where the term "Big Brother" came from in the first place. Orwell wanted something that sounded warm and friendly (family, someone who looks out for your well being), but taken to the illogical extreme.
To me, the term fits today's paranoid parent perfectly.
And to all of those who will reply "they're my kids, I can do what I please with 'em" and "wait till you have kids and you realize just how hard it is to keep them out of trouble"?
These are the exact same arguments I heard growing up when beating your kids became child abuse. However will we discipline little Johnny if we can't give him a good whuppin? Well, sometimes abuse isn't just physical.
I think they're referring to the NT console window, by default 80x25 characters. 80*25 = 2000, 2000*1.6 = 3.2 Ghz, which is about right for high end x86 these days.
However, it's certainly not pixels. NT characters (again default) are 8x12 pixels, so you're talking 8*80 = 640 wide and 25*12 = 300 high, for a grand total of 192,000 pixels.
Well, internetweather.com just seems to talk about some corporate merger, so I'm not sure why you linked that.
Mapblast and Mapquest, to the best of my knowledge, are physical world mapping tools.
Am I missing some hidden link on these sites that takes me to "map the internet?"
Regardless, why should people stop doing it? Why do you care what other people do that doesn't affect you? And why are moderators giving +5, Informative to trolls? Many links in a post and it must be informative?
Actually viruses are [D/R]NA strands which often have a protein coat, like your definition 1.
They're not cells, hence acellular, which is how I described them.
If by "burst your bubble" you're referring to my use of the term "organisms", note that at no time did I use the word "living" - even though we still have no consensus on what life is, nor whether or not we should describe viruses as "alive". Contrary to some online dictionary, this issue is still being debated in scientific circles. To me it's semantics anyway.
Thanks, I almost Mastered in Virology. Considering the source you're quoting (note the spelling of poison and soul), don't be too cocky when you try to correct people. Especially when they're already correct:)
Then that would be the bulk of the english language, because almost none of what we use currently was "correct" english if you back more than a few centuries.
It's not like some scholars sat around one day and thought "hey, we should make a language. Let's set up the rules for it" (well, unless you're Tolkein:)
ALL languages are founded on ignorance and/or lack of education, except when the "educated" create brand new ones - and even these generally fall into common use and change over time.
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Pressurized hydrogen (aka deuterium) is supposedly inflammable, and doesn't actually become flammable until it has a proper oxygen/hydrogen ratio (at which point it returns to being H).
:)
Dr. Nick: You mean inflammable means flammable? What a country!
I'll leave this one for the chemistry geeks in the crowd to chuckle over
But how about totally revolutionary physics -- the kind of thing we see in "Star Wars" or "Star Trek"?
:)
You mean the kind of revolutionary physics that allows multi-ton objects to turn on a dime at insanely high velocities (with nothing to "push" against) without tearing themselves apart, and also without expending the energy of a small nuclear blast in order to do it?
So next time we're arguing, and I shoot some holes in your logic, and begin to make you feel like an ass over it, you'd prefer if I just instead kicked in your ribs, or maybe gave you a coupla black eyes?
Didn't think so.
I'll take arguing with you on Slashdot, and you flaming me, and perhaps you making a complete jackass out of me, way over you pummeling me and putting me in the hospital.
Verbal abuse can be unpleasant, and even damaging to someone, but to equate it to physical abuse makes me think you've never had the shit kicked out of you as a kid.
I got both at various times of my life, and let me tell you: you can laugh off what some jerk says. You can even go home and have a cry. But a permanent limp and blindness in one eye last forever. (Both of which happened to a friend of mine who just wasn't popular, the latter being caused in large part by what other kids thought of the former).
When I got to work on a fairly big IDS system on a 50,000+ node network, the IDS vendor released an update to their ruleset.
/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow was really broadened. Every time the IDS detected a packet with the word "shadow" in it, bang! It flagged it.
:)
:)
Someone goofed, and the rule to flag requests for things like
In our case, it was particularly annoying because the entire intranet used a webpage template that had dozens of references to "shadow.gif" (I think it was for bordering and layout). The web devs weren't too pleased when we asked them to change several thousands pages
Now, extend this to an IPS which removes the offending packets. Suddenly our intranet would have been entirely offline. I could see this taking days to figure out why.
Damn, guess I'm lucky I didn't work for a company with the word "shadow" in their name
And for every big case you hear about an insurance company acting like asses, there are a thousand others of people fraudulently making claims.
See the other poster's reply.
I worked in insurance for over a decade, and while I don't think the system's perfect, it's nothing like how you describe it. Unfortunately, most people don't seem to understand that "sticking it to the man" in every conceivable case ISN'T always in your best interest, and we have the mess we do today.
And lawyers acting right and moral? Don't make me laugh. A lot of insurance fraud is committed with lawyer complicity.
Just think Lionel Hutz when Bart gets run over. It's so close to the truth it's scary.
Therefore, they don't want you to be able to see their price drops coming... and that's why sale info is top secret until the day the sale goes into effect, at which point it's public info.
Then maybe they shouldn't leave this information publically available on their webservers ahead of the sale.
Which, from what I've gathered, is what happened. I RTFA, and most of the comments here, and yet not one person has explained just what happened here, other than "fatwallet removed some info due to a DMCA threat by Best Buy".
Perhaps submitters could try linking to actual information instead of a message board filled with "comment removed" next time.
Man, you know you haven't been out of the house enough when... I really thought you were going somewhere else (read: worse). Son, Mom, doesn't want Dad to see...
;)
I really need to get out of here
Seeing as you've posted a really old, probably done 1000 times on Slashdot joke, I'll follow up with the almost as old, done maybe 900 times joke:
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MSN search results are "limited" is because sites that want to be "found" on MSN have to pay.
Well, couldn't one argue about inherent, deliberate bias here?
Seeing as almost all of the serious competition to Microsoft these days comes in the form of free software / OSS, and the bulk of that will never have the ability to pay for search engine results, doesn't this bias MSN's results to pretty much anyone already in the Microsoft camp?
I personally can't believe ANYONE would sell a computer that didn't have the default search page on Google, myself. The market should make vendors more wanting to give their customers the best product possible. Oh wait, anti-competitive business practices? What are those?
well its not microsofts fault you use their website. Its hard to make antitrust case against them when no one forces you to use that search engine.
Actually, it is. msn.com has been the default search engine and homepage for years in IE, which is the default browser on the default operating system on 95% of computers sold out there.
So yes, it is 100% Microsoft's fault that people use their website. The antitrust angle comes in when they use their near-monopoly (Windows) to squash competition unfairly, whether it be Netscape, Google, or what have you.
The supreme court of the USA agrees with me, I'd be curious why you find their decisions wrong.
what would happen if the moon were to suddenly start going towards the earth, or mars drifting towards us?
:)
Kiss your ass goodbye, because the same laws of physics keeping your body on the ground have suddenly gone haywire. Hope you're not in a car when it happens
For some reason your post reminded me of this:
Smithers: Oh Mr. Burns, we'll thaw you out the second they discover the cure for... seventeen stab wounds in the back. How are we doing boys?
Professor Frink: Well, we're up to fifteen!
It also reminds me of the mentality a lot of people still have re: the environment. Destroy it now, because by the time it really matters we'll either be dead from something else, or we'll have such good technology we can fix the damage.
Actually, I can't think of anything more terrifying than the extinction of the human species. What's even scarier is that unlike most things that threaten a person's existence (beyond just getting too old), there's absolutely nothing you, nor anyone else can do to prevent this.
Do I lose sleep over it? Not really. But to me it's like contributing to a pension - you may never see it, it won't happen for decades, but you do it anyway. Because when the time comes it will be the single most important thing in your life.
When I add my life to the other 6 billion on the planet, yes, the thought of all of us dying scares me quite a bit.
Oh, you mean like this?
One-hundred hours of my time is worth about $7,000 (100 hours * 70 dollars per hour salary).
Just to clue you in to a little known fact:
The vast majority of people in developed countries make nowhere near $70 an hour.
I'd venture that a lot of the people going in for something like that probably make more in the $10-20 range.
$10,000 is a hell of a lot of money for someone just starting out, or not making $140,000 a year like yourself.
You do realize that Leave it to Beaver was fiction, right? As in, no bearing on reality?
Ask any person who grew up in the 40s and 50s how many times they got beat as a child. Wally and the Beav never seemed to be disciplined. You're right, things have changed since my parents were kids. For the better, if you ask me. I'll take a 1 in 1,000,000 chance of being gunned down at school over a 1 in 2 chance of being beaten because I spilled some milk any day, thanks.
And you also of course realize that Elizabeth Smart's kidnappers would simply have removed the device, short of it being an implanted chip in her brain, right?
You are just kidding here, right?
But that's precisely where the term "Big Brother" came from in the first place. Orwell wanted something that sounded warm and friendly (family, someone who looks out for your well being), but taken to the illogical extreme.
To me, the term fits today's paranoid parent perfectly.
And to all of those who will reply "they're my kids, I can do what I please with 'em" and "wait till you have kids and you realize just how hard it is to keep them out of trouble"?
These are the exact same arguments I heard growing up when beating your kids became child abuse. However will we discipline little Johnny if we can't give him a good whuppin? Well, sometimes abuse isn't just physical.
I think they're referring to the NT console window, by default 80x25 characters. 80*25 = 2000, 2000*1.6 = 3.2 Ghz, which is about right for high end x86 these days.
However, it's certainly not pixels. NT characters (again default) are 8x12 pixels, so you're talking 8*80 = 640 wide and 25*12 = 300 high, for a grand total of 192,000 pixels.
That'd still be one hell of a fast computer!
Please explain how one pings a web page.
C:\>ping www.slashdot.org
Pinging www.slashdot.org [66.35.250.151] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
C:\>
He's right! You can't ping web pages!
You kids are so spoiled today. Back in the 60s we used to be able to map the entire internet using nothing more than a piece of string and 2 pushpins.
Huh? 2 nodes? Why the hell should that matter?
Well, internetweather.com just seems to talk about some corporate merger, so I'm not sure why you linked that.
Mapblast and Mapquest, to the best of my knowledge, are physical world mapping tools.
Am I missing some hidden link on these sites that takes me to "map the internet?"
Regardless, why should people stop doing it? Why do you care what other people do that doesn't affect you? And why are moderators giving +5, Informative to trolls? Many links in a post and it must be informative?
Because we can.
You sure you're on the right website?
Actually viruses are [D/R]NA strands which often have a protein coat, like your definition 1.
:)
They're not cells, hence acellular, which is how I described them.
If by "burst your bubble" you're referring to my use of the term "organisms", note that at no time did I use the word "living" - even though we still have no consensus on what life is, nor whether or not we should describe viruses as "alive". Contrary to some online dictionary, this issue is still being debated in scientific circles. To me it's semantics anyway.
Thanks, I almost Mastered in Virology. Considering the source you're quoting (note the spelling of poison and soul), don't be too cocky when you try to correct people. Especially when they're already correct
Then that would be the bulk of the english language, because almost none of what we use currently was "correct" english if you back more than a few centuries.
:)
It's not like some scholars sat around one day and thought "hey, we should make a language. Let's set up the rules for it" (well, unless you're Tolkein
ALL languages are founded on ignorance and/or lack of education, except when the "educated" create brand new ones - and even these generally fall into common use and change over time.