Not quite. In fact I will hereby reveal to the world the exact beginning and the exact ending of the 47th Mersenne prime (not just the 45th or the 46th, really the 47th!) as written in binary notation.
Not kidding, dead serious, this is the real thing:
"Welcome to my website! By the way, would you like me and my biker friends to pay you a visit at your home on Small Street? Or else, if you prefer, how about you help fill my tip jar? $50 will be fine."
This is perfect for when IPv6 takes off, with its built-in MAC address. Then my website can scare people shitless by greeting them with a note saying exactly where they live.
-- There should be a license that you pay for only if you're interested, and if you pay this license you're allowed to download music.
By subscribing to the license, you make a legally binding promise to follow certain simple rules that apply for this license.
-- If you also want to make music available for others to download, you indicate this when you subscribe to the license. This again involves a legally binding promise to follow rules that apply for this kind of license.
-- When you make music available for others to download, you must use software that is approved for this purpose. Getting such software approved should be very easy, because the requirements are simple.
One requirement is that this software record and report statistics about how many times each song is downloaded. The money from the license fees gets distributed to artists and music companies based on these statistics.
Another requirement on this software is that it make an automatic check that the software that requests the download displays a currently valid license.
With this scheme, regular Joes who provide music for others have no economic incentive to trick the system. That's important. It means that lots of software can be easily approved.
Music companies do have an incentive to trick the system, so as to inflate their own statistics. Checks against this will be needed. In addition, because of this, the statistics should probably be arranged in such a way that any number of downloads from the same license counts as a single download.
One solution might be to get both a cat and a dog.
Contrary to some people's beliefs, cats and dogs will get along very nicely once they get to know each other. The easiest way to achieve this is to let them grow up together from a very young age.
with a search reading "tab%20mix%20plus", which comes up with 0 results. Looks like you typed "tab mix plus" rather than "tabmix plus". That "%20" between "tab" and "mix" represents a space character.
It's not meant to be funny. It's meant to evoke thoughts of how badly things could go wrong.
If you don't interpret it as humor, you'll realize that it isn't bad humor, or any humor at all.
I suffer with you, indeed all sane slashdotters suffer, when a repetitive minority endlessly repeats its already-ten-thousand-times-repeated "jokes". But this tag is not one of them.
I could find no [...] privacy policy of how my name and e-mail would be used, If you don't insist too heavily that it be called privacy policy, and can instead accept a privacy notice, you'll find one if you click the words "Privacy Notice" at the bottom of the form page.
almost every page I open requests a master password. The first time you get this prompt, regardless whether you want to log in on that particular site or not, enter the master password. Once you've done that, the prompt won't pop up again during that session with Firefox. From that point on, all sites with a login will be filled out, but not submitted unless you click the login button on the web page.
At least that's how it worked last time I checked (but that was some time ago).
You should probably leave at least one Firefox window open all the time until you're done for the day, to avoid ending the session and then starting a new session, giving you a new prompt. But if you leave your computer and other people can access it, you should probably close all Firefox windows, so other people don't use your Firefox session to log in on your accounts.
Of course you should never let Firefox remember important logins like your bank.
administrators in europe saw the impeding power gap and dove into that and are slowly taking over authority about important international questions. I like the sound of that.
Let's hope some day, not too far in the future, we get to a point where the US and Europe work together in important international matters. Together, without trying to be identical. Rather, each having its own strong points, and filling in for each other as appropriate. Working in different ways toward a shared goal of democracy and peace.
Maybe I sound very dreamy, but I really don't think it's necessarily unrealistic, if a new US administration introduces a vision where the US is more multilaterally cooperative rather than bullying, willing to lead where leading is called for, and willing to cooperate where cooperation is called for.
(Presumably Europe has to modify its ways too, but I find it more difficult to pinpoint how.)
Or, with an analogy, how will new computers hold up vs the current computers? If something was wrong with the current computers, you would think they should have built the new ones to start with.
(I do realize I'll be hanged for making an analogy without cars in it on Slashdot. But the argument is already about cars! Adding more cars into the analogy would probably cause a pile-up crash or something.)
FTA:
The images that the material can capture are almost as sharp as those broadcast on US television. My god! Does American television look like the article illustration? No wonder you people are ill-informed about the world!
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although they lack a good pre-built distro like Ubuntu.
They do have a good pre-built distro. It's called PC-BSD. It's very good in my experience, very nice. And it's a breeze to install, just like Ubuntu.
I like Ubuntu even better. But PC-BSD is very fine, really, it deserves recognition. It's well worth trying.
Not quite. In fact I will hereby reveal to the world the exact beginning and the exact ending of the 47th Mersenne prime (not just the 45th or the 46th, really the 47th!) as written in binary notation.
Not kidding, dead serious, this is the real thing:
11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 ... ... ... 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111
Mersenne numbers are by definition 2^n-1, which means that in binary notation every such number is a sequence of ones.
No problem, you can opt out. As long as a few thousand people do pay me each year, I don't mind a few opting out.
Just don't complain when we come to visit.
IPv6 does support anonymity — see RFC 3041. But I ignored that since it would spoil my nice joke.
Traceable IP numbers would not help against spam and DOS, because that's perpetrated through botnets, not through direct contact.
"Welcome to my website! By the way, would you like me and my biker friends to pay you a visit at your home on Small Street? Or else, if you prefer, how about you help fill my tip jar? $50 will be fine."
This is perfect for when IPv6 takes off, with its built-in MAC address. Then my website can scare people shitless by greeting them with a note saying exactly where they live.
The solution:
-- There should be a license that you pay for only if you're interested, and if you pay this license you're allowed to download music.
By subscribing to the license, you make a legally binding promise to follow certain simple rules that apply for this license.
-- If you also want to make music available for others to download, you indicate this when you subscribe to the license. This again involves a legally binding promise to follow rules that apply for this kind of license.
-- When you make music available for others to download, you must use software that is approved for this purpose. Getting such software approved should be very easy, because the requirements are simple.
One requirement is that this software record and report statistics about how many times each song is downloaded. The money from the license fees gets distributed to artists and music companies based on these statistics.
Another requirement on this software is that it make an automatic check that the software that requests the download displays a currently valid license.
With this scheme, regular Joes who provide music for others have no economic incentive to trick the system. That's important. It means that lots of software can be easily approved.
Music companies do have an incentive to trick the system, so as to inflate their own statistics. Checks against this will be needed. In addition, because of this, the statistics should probably be arranged in such a way that any number of downloads from the same license counts as a single download.
One solution might be to get both a cat and a dog.
Contrary to some people's beliefs, cats and dogs will get along very nicely once they get to know each other. The easiest way to achieve this is to let them grow up together from a very young age.
True indeed. But you know what bugs me even more? When a semantics nazi can't distinguish between grammar and semantics.
(Subject line.)
Of course there is this law that says that on the Internet every correction must contain an error...
IAWTP
It's not meant to be funny. It's meant to evoke thoughts of how badly things could go wrong.
If you don't interpret it as humor, you'll realize that it isn't bad humor, or any humor at all.
I suffer with you, indeed all sane slashdotters suffer, when a repetitive minority endlessly repeats its already-ten-thousand-times-repeated "jokes". But this tag is not one of them.
At least that's how it worked last time I checked (but that was some time ago).
You should probably leave at least one Firefox window open all the time until you're done for the day, to avoid ending the session and then starting a new session, giving you a new prompt. But if you leave your computer and other people can access it, you should probably close all Firefox windows, so other people don't use your Firefox session to log in on your accounts.
Of course you should never let Firefox remember important logins like your bank.
Yet another Perpetual Motion Device, brought to you by Slashdot, the perfect Perpetual Immobility Device.
It sounds to me like you'd get more energy from this material by having strips of it fluttering in the wind.
Let's hope some day, not too far in the future, we get to a point where the US and Europe work together in important international matters. Together, without trying to be identical. Rather, each having its own strong points, and filling in for each other as appropriate. Working in different ways toward a shared goal of democracy and peace.
Maybe I sound very dreamy, but I really don't think it's necessarily unrealistic, if a new US administration introduces a vision where the US is more multilaterally cooperative rather than bullying, willing to lead where leading is called for, and willing to cooperate where cooperation is called for.
(Presumably Europe has to modify its ways too, but I find it more difficult to pinpoint how.)
Poor Microsoft, always under attack from all sides. How is the poor little thing to survive? Won't someone please think of the corporation?
It's called product development.
Or, with an analogy, how will new computers hold up vs the current computers? If something was wrong with the current computers, you would think they should have built the new ones to start with.
(I do realize I'll be hanged for making an analogy without cars in it on Slashdot. But the argument is already about cars! Adding more cars into the analogy would probably cause a pile-up crash or something.)
Thanks for the encouragement!
What about *BSD? This contest is grossly unfair unless a *BSD is included!
Hehe. Let's see them try to pwn that one.
Your taste in porn is, um, different from mine.
Judging by the article illustration its primary use will be to create Hollywood-style zombies.
Funny how they write about a Mach 5 airliner precisely when Slashdot crawls down to something like Mach 5e-55.