3) doesn't wash its hands after using the washroom
Two lawyers are walking out of a restroom in a UK courthouse. The first says "Sir, in England, we wash our hands after we urinate."
The second responds "Well, in Ireland we don't piss on our fingers!" The stupid thing is that people actually think that way. Counter arguments:
1) Assuming you weren't a total ass and you flushed you need to wash your hands because you touched the urinal/toilet 2) You should wash your hands more than just in the shower each day for cleanliness reasons (picking your nose is not 'giving your immune system a boost') 3) You may think you aren't pissing on your hands but splashback happens 4) You touched your penis. Please wash your hands before shaking my hand or touching my equipment.
how do you make a solid capacitor? Doesn't it work by keeping a charged capacitance between two nearby electrical circuits seperated by a vacuum? You're close, but I recall from my physics classes that capacitors aren't required to have a vacuum between the plates. I just checked the wikipedia entry on capacitors and found the following piece of text:
The capacitance is proportional to the surface area of the conducting plate and inversely proportional to the distance between the plates. It is also proportional to the permittivity of the dielectric (that is, non-conducting) substance that separates the plates.
So, if I understand that text correctly, you can create a smaller capacitor with the same capacity to store charge as a vacuum-gap capacitor by placing an appropriate dielectric material between the plates.
I'm about to throw Firefox and yahoo.com out a fscking window, because Firefox intermittently ignores the scroll wheel on my mouse. Also happens on Slashdot.
Sorry, I had to get that off my chest, and when the scroll wheel stopped working and I was forced to go to the elevator bar to scroll past a story about how software sucks, well...
I've noticed that when my cursor ends up hovering over something that takes mouse input (like a flash object or the floating comment indicator on the left) then the scroll wheel no longer moves the containing page. If I move the mouse over an element of the containing page (like article text) then the mouse wheel starts working again. Sometimes I have to click first. Chances are good that Mozilla isn't ignoring the scroll wheel but it's not actually getting the events.
The form makes a point. The point is that the person/group with the "brand new way to get rid of SPAM" is not the first to come up with the given idea, or that they are falling into common traps. The form lists all the traps in an attempt to (1) be funny and (2) provide a list to the people with the "new" way so maybe they won't make the same mistake again.
If you think the list has only been shown a few times then you really are new around here. It was probably first used on Usenet. Unfortunately I'm unable to even remotely guess if you're even aware of Usenet since you posted your attack anonymously, you Coward.
What in the world? First off who pays that much for broadband?! How about you read the comment in context or think about it a little before you post? The GGP said consumable content (which included TV) and then the GP said "cable/internet" which implies "combined cable TV/Internet" which means the $140 covers both TV and Internet. If you'd had to pay a combined cable internet/TV bill in the last two years that should have been obvious. The comment was probably directed at the fact that $100 of that is more than likely the cable part yet we still have to put up with a 60/40 ratio* of Show/Commercial.
Secondly don't get me started with this crap about paying for access to Internet so therefore everything on it should be free. It's completely illogical. Hell you are on Slashdot which is advertiser supported and without that support this website would not exist. Personally, I share your view that paying for access != everything should be free. However, I find most advertising to be more annoying than the blink tag. The advertisers apparently want it to be so annoying that if I browse without ad-block I want to gouge my eyes out. The only advertising I do like are little boxes with "ads by Google" or something similar on the border. Every animated graphic advertisement is blocked before it's fetched (slashdot included) because I can't stand the constantly moving annoyances (shove the monkey!) or deceptive boxes (you're broadcasting an IP address!) that pass for advertising.
Some bonehead set this batter.. er.. person's carrier frequency into the range we're letting them use! Quarantine, profile then terminate the AI that's responsible for this and make sure that mistake doesn't happen again.
Think of it more as a raid...you have to slaughter your way through fields and fields of night elves, until you finally arive at the boss mob: the cute little kitty sitting on a tree branch a few feet off the ground. Awesome.
Until that kitty jumps out of the tree and rips your throat out before you can count to 5.. er.. 3.
Disclaimer: I subscribe to the same sort of service, except through blockbuster... maybe Netflix does have this feature. My wife and I share a queue... I imagine many, many of these queues are shared. We have very, very different tastes in movies. Instead of getting recommendations that suit us both (which is next to impossible), the recommendations just get very, very confused. If I could just keep my and her recommendations from tangling, we would both have an easier time.
This problem is already solved.
With Netflix you can have multiple queues (up to one per disc-at-a-time out) and reassign the "number of discs out per queue" from 0-#out as long as the total isn't greater than #out. It also handles reassignment with discs outstanding well.
The result in my family is that we end up with independant queues and independant recommendations. If Blockbuster offers the same feature you could split your queue up and get what you want. On top of that you won't have to keep organizing your queue to get the correct movie next if someone takes time to get around to watching their movie.
Our "war on drugs" seems to me to be full of misplaced zealotry.
A lot of that probably has to do with the two minutes hate during the focus on the War On Drugs. We don't hear much now that they have a different enemy to focus on that people aren't sick of hearing about.. yet.
"We've always been at War(tm) with the terrorists.."
IPv6 uses 128 bit addresses. IPv4 uses 32 bit addresses.
I thought the same thing at first. After re-reading the summary I concluded that when they said 32 bit numbers they meant 32bit.32bit.32bit.32bit (128 bits) for ipv6 to help explain it to the laymen who is used to the 8bit.8bit.8bit.8bit representation of ipv4.
Of course, those of us familiar with ipv6 addresses realize they aren't represented that way but as:: delimeted hex.;-)
* If McDonalds coffee was really dangerous, they'd have been sued in every country around the World. Were they? Didn't think so. * And if "Third degree burns occur at this temperature in just two to seven seconds" how ever did other customers drink this coffee without burning their mouths and throats and requiring skin grafts?
Damn. You're a troll aren't you? D'Oh!
No. The GP isn't a troll and a small amount of research on your part would have shown as much.
Do a google search and you'll find the details of the case.
Personally, I have let McDonald's coffee cool off for 10-20 minutes or put cooler things (like cream) in it to bring it to a drinkable temperature. Also keep in mind that she had all of the coffee spill at once on her lap. Someone drinking it from the cup will have control over how they consume it by sipping or blowing on it. If they just went and dumped the whole damn cup down their throats then they would get burns.
Zero of those traffic deaths have been scientificly proven to be caused by pot. There are very few studies available, but those that have been done (here's one link [sciencedaily.com]) seem to show that the paranoia more than offsets the loss of attention and motor coordiantion. The US NHTSA and DOT came to similar conclusions. Of course if it were legal, it would stand to reason that there would be less paranoia of getting pulled over and this effect would reduce. In case you're curious, the DOT figures for drivers in injury accidents testing positive for pot without alchohol was 2%, no control figure was given, but I'd wager the figure for drivers on pot is a little above 2%.
I did say that counting all 17000 being attributed to pot was unreasonable.:-)
I agree that the numbers would adjust if it were legal. They probably also adjust now given the drivers age (perception of invincibility, lack of responsibility). My brother in law was run down (walking home) by an idiot high on pot at a 90 degree turn in the road.
Also, if it were legal the number of users (and hence accidents attributable) would go up but chances are they'd use some other drug to screw themselves up anyway. I expect that the number would go up temporarily then go back down and level off with the alcohol+marijuana numbers being about where they are now.
It only bothers me when people go on about how it's "fucking harmless."
Disclaimer: don't use it, just irked that I'm forced to use inferior drugs like alchohol.
I don't use either, but as with alcohol as long as people stay off the road while under the influence I couldn't care less what they do to themselves.
Too bad it is illegal.. Otherwise we would have statistics on the amount of deaths due to cancer it was caused.
Oh, I must have forgotten that driving under the influence of alcohol was legal. My mistake.
That shit puts more tar in your lungs can cigarettes.
Do you have any evidence?
Get your fucking head out of your ass, pot is as harmless as tobacco is.
Are you arguing that cigarettes should be illegal, that pot should be as legal as cigaretts, or are you just trying to piss me off with your inane head-in-the-ass comment?
Somehow, I doubt not getting your dog chipped gets you on a list of terrorists. -- Stupidity is like nuclear power, it can be used for good or evil. And you don't want to get any on you.
Go re-read the GP post and see if your comment makes sense in context.
Then realize you missed the point of the GP post entirely (TMM was talking about chipping a person, not an animal).
The "zero" number you quote is only for deaths directly related to smoking it. The number for alcohol (85000) includes car related accidents. The number of direct alcohol deaths is more like 68400 - not an insignificant number. The number of car accidents related to "illicit drug use" including Marijuana is included in the 17000 number near the bottom. If we count every incident as a "Marijuana related car accident" (which I know is unreasonable) then we still end up with a number comparable to alcohol. What that says to me is that no matter what substance you have available to let people alter their minds with there is a percentage of the population that will do stupid things like drive and take other people out.
I think it's stupid that smoking it is illegal but perhaps something a little more realistic than "it's harmless" should be the message. If you tell people its harmless and the statistics start to show more indirect deaths due explicitly to Marijuana then you risk backlash.
I'm sorry, but it has been determined by the Ministry of Truth that Slashdot is only visited by people guilty of thoughtcrime. As of 2005/12/13 it was decided that anyone posting to slashdot is guilty of thoughtcrime and must report to the nearest deten.. er.. re-education center immediately. You didn't get the memo? Too bad.
Don't get arrested, Arrest will not be necessary. You will report voluntarily or the Ministry of Truth will start sending your family and the press photos of you in "compromising positions" with various, underage, people. Why else would you be going downtown every Friday night? (we control the records and record everything, remember?) Report soon or we'll accuse your family members of other (unrelated) crimes and take them in too.
Don't cry about it. Your family won't cry. You're reporting in voluntarily so you must be guilty, right? Oh, by the way, you aren't allowed to tell anyone about this or you'll get in even worse trouble.
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Two lawyers are walking out of a restroom in a UK courthouse. The first says "Sir, in England, we wash our hands after we urinate."
The second responds "Well, in Ireland we don't piss on our fingers!" The stupid thing is that people actually think that way. Counter arguments:
1) Assuming you weren't a total ass and you flushed you need to wash your hands because you touched the urinal/toilet
2) You should wash your hands more than just in the shower each day for cleanliness reasons (picking your nose is not 'giving your immune system a boost')
3) You may think you aren't pissing on your hands but splashback happens
4) You touched your penis. Please wash your hands before shaking my hand or touching my equipment.
The capacitance is proportional to the surface area of the conducting plate and inversely proportional to the distance between the plates. It is also proportional to the permittivity of the dielectric (that is, non-conducting) substance that separates the plates.
So, if I understand that text correctly, you can create a smaller capacitor with the same capacity to store charge as a vacuum-gap capacitor by placing an appropriate dielectric material between the plates.
I totally agree that most software sucks.
I'm about to throw Firefox and yahoo.com out a fscking window, because Firefox intermittently ignores the scroll wheel on my mouse. Also happens on Slashdot.
Sorry, I had to get that off my chest, and when the scroll wheel stopped working and I was forced to go to the elevator bar to scroll past a story about how software sucks, well...
I've noticed that when my cursor ends up hovering over something that takes mouse input (like a flash object or the floating comment indicator on the left) then the scroll wheel no longer moves the containing page. If I move the mouse over an element of the containing page (like article text) then the mouse wheel starts working again. Sometimes I have to click first. Chances are good that Mozilla isn't ignoring the scroll wheel but it's not actually getting the events.The form makes a point. The point is that the person/group with the "brand new way to get rid of SPAM" is not the first to come up with the given idea, or that they are falling into common traps. The form lists all the traps in an attempt to (1) be funny and (2) provide a list to the people with the "new" way so maybe they won't make the same mistake again.
If you think the list has only been shown a few times then you really are new around here. It was probably first used on Usenet. Unfortunately I'm unable to even remotely guess if you're even aware of Usenet since you posted your attack anonymously, you Coward.
What in the world? First off who pays that much for broadband?!
How about you read the comment in context or think about it a little before you post? The GGP said consumable content (which included TV) and then the GP said "cable/internet" which implies "combined cable TV/Internet" which means the $140 covers both TV and Internet. If you'd had to pay a combined cable internet/TV bill in the last two years that should have been obvious. The comment was probably directed at the fact that $100 of that is more than likely the cable part yet we still have to put up with a 60/40 ratio* of Show/Commercial.
Secondly don't get me started with this crap about paying for access to Internet so therefore everything on it should be free. It's completely illogical. Hell you are on Slashdot which is advertiser supported and without that support this website would not exist.
Personally, I share your view that paying for access != everything should be free. However, I find most advertising to be more annoying than the blink tag. The advertisers apparently want it to be so annoying that if I browse without ad-block I want to gouge my eyes out. The only advertising I do like are little boxes with "ads by Google" or something similar on the border. Every animated graphic advertisement is blocked before it's fetched (slashdot included) because I can't stand the constantly moving annoyances (shove the monkey!) or deceptive boxes (you're broadcasting an IP address!) that pass for advertising.
*stastic pulled from the usual place (_|_)
Some bonehead set this batter.. er.. person's carrier frequency into the range we're letting them use! Quarantine, profile then terminate the AI that's responsible for this and make sure that mistake doesn't happen again.
Think of it more as a raid...you have to slaughter your way through fields and fields of night elves, until you finally arive at the boss mob: the cute little kitty sitting on a tree branch a few feet off the ground. Awesome.
Until that kitty jumps out of the tree and rips your throat out before you can count to 5.. er.. 3.
Disclaimer: I subscribe to the same sort of service, except through blockbuster... maybe Netflix does have this feature. My wife and I share a queue... I imagine many, many of these queues are shared. We have very, very different tastes in movies. Instead of getting recommendations that suit us both (which is next to impossible), the recommendations just get very, very confused. If I could just keep my and her recommendations from tangling, we would both have an easier time.
This problem is already solved.
With Netflix you can have multiple queues (up to one per disc-at-a-time out) and reassign the "number of discs out per queue" from 0-#out as long as the total isn't greater than #out. It also handles reassignment with discs outstanding well.
The result in my family is that we end up with independant queues and independant recommendations. If Blockbuster offers the same feature you could split your queue up and get what you want. On top of that you won't have to keep organizing your queue to get the correct movie next if someone takes time to get around to watching their movie.
PS: Hey slashdot, you can filter out carriage returns and newline characters and replace them with HTML br with the following perl commands.
$string =~ s/\r\n/####/isg;
$string =~s/\n/####/isg; #Where #### is the HTML br tag. Am I missing something?
Hey pizpot, use the "Plain Old Text" input type and it will already do this for you. It also allows HTML tags in the "Plain Old Text" posting format.
(Posted with Plain Old Text)
No Text
So if Americans come to Belgium, we can gang-rape them, because they have no fundamental rights? Or any other country for that matter.
How dare you use the "B" word on a public forum.
Our "war on drugs" seems to me to be full of misplaced zealotry.
A lot of that probably has to do with the two minutes hate during the focus on the War On Drugs. We don't hear much now that they have a different enemy to focus on that people aren't sick of hearing about.. yet.
"We've always been at War(tm) with the terrorists.."
IPv6 uses 128 bit addresses. IPv4 uses 32 bit addresses.
:: delimeted hex. ;-)
I thought the same thing at first. After re-reading the summary I concluded that when they said 32 bit numbers they meant 32bit.32bit.32bit.32bit (128 bits) for ipv6 to help explain it to the laymen who is used to the 8bit.8bit.8bit.8bit representation of ipv4.
Of course, those of us familiar with ipv6 addresses realize they aren't represented that way but as
And what's with commercials being twice as loud as the show you're watching!
It's a wake up call to go to the bathroom. Or, if it's significantly louder, it's a wake up call to go change your pants.
Lists of "popular people" and "losers" are for teenager high-schoolers! Grow up!!!
;)
Didn't you get the memo?
Immaturity level rising in Adults
* If McDonalds coffee was really dangerous, they'd have been sued in every country around the World. Were they? Didn't think so.
* And if "Third degree burns occur at this temperature in just two to seven seconds" how ever did other customers drink this coffee without burning their mouths and throats and requiring skin grafts?
Damn. You're a troll aren't you? D'Oh!
No. The GP isn't a troll and a small amount of research on your part would have shown as much.
Do a google search and you'll find the details of the case.
Personally, I have let McDonald's coffee cool off for 10-20 minutes or put cooler things (like cream) in it to bring it to a drinkable temperature. Also keep in mind that she had all of the coffee spill at once on her lap. Someone drinking it from the cup will have control over how they consume it by sipping or blowing on it. If they just went and dumped the whole damn cup down their throats then they would get burns.
Zero of those traffic deaths have been scientificly proven to be caused by pot. There are very few studies available, but those that have been done (here's one link [sciencedaily.com]) seem to show that the paranoia more than offsets the loss of attention and motor coordiantion. The US NHTSA and DOT came to similar conclusions. Of course if it were legal, it would stand to reason that there would be less paranoia of getting pulled over and this effect would reduce. In case you're curious, the DOT figures for drivers in injury accidents testing positive for pot without alchohol was 2%, no control figure was given, but I'd wager the figure for drivers on pot is a little above 2%.
:-)
I did say that counting all 17000 being attributed to pot was unreasonable.
I agree that the numbers would adjust if it were legal. They probably also adjust now given the drivers age (perception of invincibility, lack of responsibility). My brother in law was run down (walking home) by an idiot high on pot at a 90 degree turn in the road.
Also, if it were legal the number of users (and hence accidents attributable) would go up but chances are they'd use some other drug to screw themselves up anyway. I expect that the number would go up temporarily then go back down and level off with the alcohol+marijuana numbers being about where they are now.
It only bothers me when people go on about how it's "fucking harmless."
Disclaimer: don't use it, just irked that I'm forced to use inferior drugs like alchohol.
I don't use either, but as with alcohol as long as people stay off the road while under the influence I couldn't care less what they do to themselves.
Too bad it is illegal.. Otherwise we would have statistics on the amount of deaths due to cancer it was caused.
Oh, I must have forgotten that driving under the influence of alcohol was legal. My mistake.
That shit puts more tar in your lungs can cigarettes.
Do you have any evidence?
Get your fucking head out of your ass, pot is as harmless as tobacco is.
Are you arguing that cigarettes should be illegal, that pot should be as legal as cigaretts, or are you just trying to piss me off with your inane head-in-the-ass comment?
Somehow, I doubt not getting your dog chipped gets you on a list of terrorists.
--
Stupidity is like nuclear power, it can be used for good or evil. And you don't want to get any on you.
Go re-read the GP post and see if your comment makes sense in context.
Then realize you missed the point of the GP post entirely (TMM was talking about chipping a person, not an animal).
Alcohol: 85,000, or between 1 and 2 percent of the US population every year. Marijuana: 0. FUCKING ZERO.
Let me say up front that I'm for legalizing Marijuana as a substance similar to the way Alcohol is legal.
I checked what I believe is the source of your data:
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/causes.htm
The "zero" number you quote is only for deaths directly related to smoking it. The number for alcohol (85000) includes car related accidents. The number of direct alcohol deaths is more like 68400 - not an insignificant number. The number of car accidents related to "illicit drug use" including Marijuana is included in the 17000 number near the bottom. If we count every incident as a "Marijuana related car accident" (which I know is unreasonable) then we still end up with a number comparable to alcohol. What that says to me is that no matter what substance you have available to let people alter their minds with there is a percentage of the population that will do stupid things like drive and take other people out.
I think it's stupid that smoking it is illegal but perhaps something a little more realistic than "it's harmless" should be the message. If you tell people its harmless and the statistics start to show more indirect deaths due explicitly to Marijuana then you risk backlash.
Don't do the wrong thing,
I'm sorry, but it has been determined by the Ministry of Truth that Slashdot is only visited by people guilty of thoughtcrime. As of 2005/12/13 it was decided that anyone posting to slashdot is guilty of thoughtcrime and must report to the nearest deten.. er.. re-education center immediately. You didn't get the memo? Too bad.
Don't get arrested,
Arrest will not be necessary. You will report voluntarily or the Ministry of Truth will start sending your family and the press photos of you in "compromising positions" with various, underage, people. Why else would you be going downtown every Friday night? (we control the records and record everything, remember?) Report soon or we'll accuse your family members of other (unrelated) crimes and take them in too.
Don't cry about it.
Your family won't cry. You're reporting in voluntarily so you must be guilty, right? Oh, by the way, you aren't allowed to tell anyone about this or you'll get in even worse trouble.
Thank you,
Some Asshole (Ministry of Love)
Fresh from yesterday
Good! I'm glad it was re-posted. I didn't have computer access while
this article was posted yesterday so I'm glad I have a chance to see
it today.
I was actually out and about instead of sitting in front of the computer all day.
(awaits shocked replys)
Exactly. If a software makes $1 million. Do the developer(s) get the million? Then why should they be held responsible for the "loss" and not profit?
But your "profit" is that you get to keep your job.. at the current salary.. which reduces your buying power by (inflation)% every year.
Now get back to work you slacker! I need my gold plated shark tank!
You may want to check your own configuration and the status of any proxies between your machine and slashdot.
My live bookmark points to: http://slashdot.org/index.rss
It's been working for me all week.
By the way, the correct place to report that isn't in the middle of the forum but the "Bugs" link that's available in the side bar.
Ok, let's try reading this two different ways:
1) Your "Rights Online"
2) "Your Rights" Online
Either is appropriate. This article falls into the second category.