The best thing to do in the event of a nuclear attack:
"Ladies and gentlemen, we've recently learned that [country] has expanded its nuclear program. We've decided to help them by delivering some examples of nuclear technology - at no charge, and shipped express.
"We're also working with Rand-McNally to update their product line for the new year."
And people wonder why I think the best way to secure peace is to get rid of the US...
you mother fucking idiot. There has been war for thousands of years and will continue to be as long as there are...
...people. Not everyone abides by the rules of a convention. The kinds of people who will throw acid at little girls for going to school aren't the type of people who will sit around the breakfast table to discuss their problems over a croissant.
Sometimes the only solution is violence. Done neatly, and done correctly, it can permanently fix the problem.
I have copies of Bolt and Quantum of Solace. Neither are out on DVD yet. Yes, I admit that they are pirated copies acquired through less than noble means. I had no intention of ever seeing either movie, and frankly, the rating on Bolt is a pretty big fuckup.
Neither are cam copies - they are rips of the copies sent by the studio to the Oscars for consideration. (QoS has the subtitle "For your consideration"; Bolt has "property of Disney - do not copy".)
I'm not sure why the studios are ripping their own movies and putting them in... places, but they sure aren't cam copies.
Do you think that you'd be able to create a library today if they weren't already historically entrenched?
I've been buying and selling used games since 1990. It's never been illegal or morally gray. Some licences (which I no longer have to reference) said something along the lines of "you may only sell this game if you remove all copies".
The game publishers are only squawking about it because they, like the *AA, think that every used copy is a lost sale.
I buy used games because they charge too much for new games, and almost every new game is a crappy (albeit shinier) copy of a game that came out 10 years ago.
Let's say the card systems at 5 chains have been compromised along with 2 small stores. Visa announces:
"There was a breach at Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Linens and Things, Sears, Gamestop, Beardo's Engineering Services, and Wonda's Chocolate Factory."
Which businesses will survive an announcement like that? "Holy crap," think the public, "I can't buy anything from Beardo or Wonda, but I'm sure those big chains have fixed the problem."
It's not questionable at all. Despite what CIRA has been lying about, it's perfectly legal to download music and movies in Canada.
Uploading is NOT legal.
Now paging the/. legal team: Your Law and Order training is required below my post.
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It's a long time in meatspace, too. That represents more than a whole decade of your life. In that time, I've lost 85 pounds, gained a wife and two kids, finished a degree, nearly finished my EIT time, learned to SCUBA dive, travelled, bought a house and several cars. (Only one car was anything more than "beater" class.)
In 1996, I met my wife for the first time. We'd talked over email for the last few weeks (my first reply being on Valentine's Day). We met in real life on 1 March at a choir concert. IIRC, my email was comp1560010@server.school.countryWe were married 1 1/2 years later. We met online at americansingles.com. In retrospect, we should have made a dating service because then we would be loaded.
That last paragraph isn't very good, but it's/. so most of you wouldn't know sentence structure unless Strongbad sings it to you.
Instead of thinking about this in the sense of some random hacker trying to get into your computer, think about the more probable situation of your office. Do you have, or could you easily get a good face shot of the CEO of your organization?
A picture of the CEO? Like the picture of the CEO that's on just about any company's website?
Instead of attempting to regulate the internet, which would be insane at best and totally fucktarded at worst, they're probably going to try something else.
That would be grants and tax breaks to Canadian providers of internet content. Iliad (userfriendly) might get to write off (his? her?) bandwidth as a legitimate expense. If you create a blog, you might be able to get a grant. I don't know what they're planning.
The CRTC might be a huge bloated archaic corporation, but they're not complete morons.
If you're talking about the factory conditions we had during the dark times at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, then yes, those jobs shouldn't be coming back any time soon.
These aren't factory work conditions. They're indentured servitude conditions. There are no concerns for child welfare, no worker's compensation, no OSHA standards, nothing. Yes, I realize that $1 US is worth a lot more in China than $1 US is in the US. I don't expect wage parity. What they're missing is decency parity.
If you die or lose a limb, you get replaced with no more concern than what you would give to a busted gear or a worn-out o-ring.
The reason Americans lost all the manufacturing job to China was because their government was willing to say, "Fuck worker safety - we can get that work done for $0.40 an hour. You can charge the consumers the same price and make more profit!"
I've seen pictures of guys building buildings in jeans, tshirts, and that's it. No boots, no hardhats, no vests, nothing. Human life is so poorly regarded that it's cheaper to get a new guy than it is to buy proper PPE.
There's a reason why people are emigrating from China to the US and Canada and not the other way around.
Also, the expression is "eat your cake and have it too". You can easily have cake and eat it, but you can't eat cake and have it.
I worked with a co-op students whose parents were slaves in a Chinese factory.
They live at the factory. The foreman decides when they wake up, when they eat, and when they go to the bathroom. The foreman decides when it's time to let them go to bed at the end of the day.
When you were awake and not in the bathroom or the cafeteria, you were on the assembly line.
Generally, crimes committed by engineers would be of the white-collar type. Otherwise it would be negligence, which would be dealt with in civil court, not criminal court.
For a movie, a real eye-opener for me was "Don't talk to cops".
Just google for "youtube don't talk to cops" and watch those videos. They're a little on the long side as they were both lectures for a criminology class.
It tells you how a seemingly innocent denial of guilt can lead to your incarceration. If your son is old enough to watch a crime show, he's old enough to watch that movie.
My daughter is five, so she's a little young for that.
As part of an engineering education, you take one course in law. Basically, it's an overview of contract law, the legal system, various appeals you can go through, etc. The idea is to make you realize that lawyers go through as much or more schooling as engineers do (often more), they go through an articling phase, and they're professionals at what they do.
You wouldn't get a lawyer to design a bridge, so don't try to get a "techie" to answer legal questions.
If you've got a legal question, ask your attorney. If you don't have one, get one on retainer.
If the police ask you questions, the only appropriate answer is "My lawyer's name is ____."
Ah yes, since it works on your machine then nobody else has ever had a problem. Therefore, everyone who says they have trouble with Flash on Ubuntu is clearly a sockpuppet paid by M$.
No, seriously, Flash on Ubuntu causes a lot of slowdown. Without Flashblock you can't surf because the banner ads kill your load times. If you try to do any Flash (youtube, games, etc), it just doesn't work.
For that, you could start the Flash on Ubuntu machine, boot up and install Windows 7, watch / play the Flash on Windows 7, make a sandwich, and then come back to the Ubuntu machine for the flakey jittery Flash that will have to be shut down because it doesn't work.
Doesn't really matter. If you let them vote, count all the fucking votes. It's that simple.
That's not generally how it works, at least not in Canada.
They count the votes until there's a statistical likelyhood that one candidate has an overwhelming majority. If Candidate A has 75% of the popular vote with 25% of the votes counted, they usually don't count them all. (They do count from every polling station, however.)
Only if there's no clear winner do they actually count all the votes.
The Brick printed an ad for a TV that I wanted. I called them to check stock levels and was told that it was a misprint (Notice how they never misprint too high?)
So I went to Future Shop (aka Best Buy) to get them to match the price. They went into the back to call and came back 2 minutes later.
"Sorry, this is the floor model price and we can't match that."
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The best thing to do in the event of a nuclear attack:
"Ladies and gentlemen, we've recently learned that [country] has expanded its nuclear program. We've decided to help them by delivering some examples of nuclear technology - at no charge, and shipped express.
"We're also working with Rand-McNally to update their product line for the new year."
And people wonder why I think the best way to secure peace is to get rid of the US...
you mother fucking idiot. There has been war for thousands of years and will continue to be as long as there are...
...people. Not everyone abides by the rules of a convention. The kinds of people who will throw acid at little girls for going to school aren't the type of people who will sit around the breakfast table to discuss their problems over a croissant.
Sometimes the only solution is violence. Done neatly, and done correctly, it can permanently fix the problem.
Money isn't the root of all evil.
The expression is "love of money is the root of all evil."
That's assuming you believe in arbitrary black and white distinctions of morality.
I have copies of Bolt and Quantum of Solace. Neither are out on DVD yet. Yes, I admit that they are pirated copies acquired through less than noble means. I had no intention of ever seeing either movie, and frankly, the rating on Bolt is a pretty big fuckup.
Neither are cam copies - they are rips of the copies sent by the studio to the Oscars for consideration. (QoS has the subtitle "For your consideration"; Bolt has "property of Disney - do not copy".)
I'm not sure why the studios are ripping their own movies and putting them in... places, but they sure aren't cam copies.
Do you think that you'd be able to create a library today if they weren't already historically entrenched?
I've been buying and selling used games since 1990. It's never been illegal or morally gray. Some licences (which I no longer have to reference) said something along the lines of "you may only sell this game if you remove all copies".
The game publishers are only squawking about it because they, like the *AA, think that every used copy is a lost sale.
I buy used games because they charge too much for new games, and almost every new game is a crappy (albeit shinier) copy of a game that came out 10 years ago.
Well, no.
Let's say the card systems at 5 chains have been compromised along with 2 small stores. Visa announces:
"There was a breach at Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Linens and Things, Sears, Gamestop, Beardo's Engineering Services, and Wonda's Chocolate Factory."
Which businesses will survive an announcement like that? "Holy crap," think the public, "I can't buy anything from Beardo or Wonda, but I'm sure those big chains have fixed the problem."
It's not questionable at all. Despite what CIRA has been lying about, it's perfectly legal to download music and movies in Canada.
Uploading is NOT legal.
Now paging the /. legal team: Your Law and Order training is required below my post.
It's a long time in meatspace, too. That represents more than a whole decade of your life. In that time, I've lost 85 pounds, gained a wife and two kids, finished a degree, nearly finished my EIT time, learned to SCUBA dive, travelled, bought a house and several cars. (Only one car was anything more than "beater" class.)
In 1996, I met my wife for the first time. We'd talked over email for the last few weeks (my first reply being on Valentine's Day). We met in real life on 1 March at a choir concert. IIRC, my email was comp1560010@server.school.countryWe were married 1 1/2 years later. We met online at americansingles.com. In retrospect, we should have made a dating service because then we would be loaded.
That last paragraph isn't very good, but it's /. so most of you wouldn't know sentence structure unless Strongbad sings it to you.
I was just thinking that - it's 2009. Who is still opening DOC or XLS attachments?
My grandfather doesn't open those kinds of files. Okay, admittedly, he's dead, but the point is still valid.
Instead of thinking about this in the sense of some random hacker trying to get into your computer, think about the more probable situation of your office. Do you have, or could you easily get a good face shot of the CEO of your organization?
A picture of the CEO? Like the picture of the CEO that's on just about any company's website?
Nearly impossible to get at is my guess.
Basically, yes.
Instead of attempting to regulate the internet, which would be insane at best and totally fucktarded at worst, they're probably going to try something else.
That would be grants and tax breaks to Canadian providers of internet content. Iliad (userfriendly) might get to write off (his? her?) bandwidth as a legitimate expense. If you create a blog, you might be able to get a grant. I don't know what they're planning.
The CRTC might be a huge bloated archaic corporation, but they're not complete morons.
If you're talking about the factory conditions we had during the dark times at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, then yes, those jobs shouldn't be coming back any time soon.
These aren't factory work conditions. They're indentured servitude conditions. There are no concerns for child welfare, no worker's compensation, no OSHA standards, nothing. Yes, I realize that $1 US is worth a lot more in China than $1 US is in the US. I don't expect wage parity. What they're missing is decency parity.
If you die or lose a limb, you get replaced with no more concern than what you would give to a busted gear or a worn-out o-ring.
The reason Americans lost all the manufacturing job to China was because their government was willing to say, "Fuck worker safety - we can get that work done for $0.40 an hour. You can charge the consumers the same price and make more profit!"
I've seen pictures of guys building buildings in jeans, tshirts, and that's it. No boots, no hardhats, no vests, nothing. Human life is so poorly regarded that it's cheaper to get a new guy than it is to buy proper PPE.
There's a reason why people are emigrating from China to the US and Canada and not the other way around.
Also, the expression is "eat your cake and have it too". You can easily have cake and eat it, but you can't eat cake and have it.
I worked with a co-op students whose parents were slaves in a Chinese factory.
They live at the factory. The foreman decides when they wake up, when they eat, and when they go to the bathroom. The foreman decides when it's time to let them go to bed at the end of the day.
When you were awake and not in the bathroom or the cafeteria, you were on the assembly line.
They made iPods.
Generally, crimes committed by engineers would be of the white-collar type. Otherwise it would be negligence, which would be dealt with in civil court, not criminal court.
We've got a distaste for manual labour.
For a movie, a real eye-opener for me was "Don't talk to cops".
Just google for "youtube don't talk to cops" and watch those videos. They're a little on the long side as they were both lectures for a criminology class.
It tells you how a seemingly innocent denial of guilt can lead to your incarceration. If your son is old enough to watch a crime show, he's old enough to watch that movie.
My daughter is five, so she's a little young for that.
Interesting timing on this article for me since I actually have to fly to Seattle\Tacoma airport next week...
You mean "have to fly most of the wayto Seattle\Tacoma airport next week."
Wear warm clothes.
As part of an engineering education, you take one course in law. Basically, it's an overview of contract law, the legal system, various appeals you can go through, etc. The idea is to make you realize that lawyers go through as much or more schooling as engineers do (often more), they go through an articling phase, and they're professionals at what they do.
You wouldn't get a lawyer to design a bridge, so don't try to get a "techie" to answer legal questions.
If you've got a legal question, ask your attorney. If you don't have one, get one on retainer.
If the police ask you questions, the only appropriate answer is "My lawyer's name is ____."
Ah yes, since it works on your machine then nobody else has ever had a problem. Therefore, everyone who says they have trouble with Flash on Ubuntu is clearly a sockpuppet paid by M$.
Here's a certification badge for you:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000818.html
No, seriously, Flash on Ubuntu causes a lot of slowdown. Without Flashblock you can't surf because the banner ads kill your load times. If you try to do any Flash (youtube, games, etc), it just doesn't work.
I'd like to see the Flash benchmarks.
For that, you could start the Flash on Ubuntu machine, boot up and install Windows 7, watch / play the Flash on Windows 7, make a sandwich, and then come back to the Ubuntu machine for the flakey jittery Flash that will have to be shut down because it doesn't work.
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-647743.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-647743.html
But hey, it's Adobe's fault, so mod me as a troll for pointing out a critical flaw in user-friendliness.
(Posted from an Ubuntu machine)
If a company does a web search for you, beware of what they find.
If they don't like it, you won't get called.
Doesn't really matter. If you let them vote, count all the fucking votes. It's that simple.
That's not generally how it works, at least not in Canada.
They count the votes until there's a statistical likelyhood that one candidate has an overwhelming majority. If Candidate A has 75% of the popular vote with 25% of the votes counted, they usually don't count them all. (They do count from every polling station, however.)
Only if there's no clear winner do they actually count all the votes.
The high-powered LEDs are indeed very bright. I use them for SCUBA diving; the reviews from others are "it's like a train coming at you."
My primary light has 3 x 3W LED lights. It's really bright.
Soooo we just need a drug that lowers sex drive......marketing is going to have a tought time selling that idea to the public.
It's called "Wedding Cake".
According to /. logic, if she didn't want to be raped, she should have closed her ports.
My experience with pricematching is this:
The Brick printed an ad for a TV that I wanted. I called them to check stock levels and was told that it was a misprint (Notice how they never misprint too high?)
So I went to Future Shop (aka Best Buy) to get them to match the price. They went into the back to call and came back 2 minutes later.
"Sorry, this is the floor model price and we can't match that."
They obviously never called to check.