After a recent article on Slashdot regarding Lego Machine Guns, there has been a proliferation of violence connected with small plastic blocks in our society. Indeed, the Anarchist's Cookbook has added several chapters on Lego Weaponry, including a simple example of how to create a critical mass of certain Legos with intent to create cold fusion as a power source for a Lego rail-gun. There are record numbers of children in our schools that have been impaled with these ordinarily "fun" toys since this last report.
Several ofthe most extreme cases involve a preschool and an airplane. Little Private Burrito (an unfortunate name) went to preschool one day, with great expectations of play time, only to be struck repeatedly with high-speed Legos from his (former) friend Humis' Lego gun. Several other children were bloodied, and almost 90% of the class wet their pants during this event. We cannot continue to allow such things in the hands of babes...
But in the hands of adults, Legos are even more dangerous. Jaques Strappe recently hijacked an airliner, with over 75 people on board, using a modified rapid-fire semi-automatic Lego Gun. Though no passengers were hurt, several first class travelers were apparently shouting such things as "Golly!" and "Lordy, Lordy!". After he was apprehended, Strappe claimed to have found the plans for his weapon on the Internet. No lawsuits have been filed against Lego or Slashdot/Andover/VA as of yet, but you can be sure that there are many to come...
8^) Yeah... well, I work on an AIX (OB-JFS-PLUG) box now, so my nutri-grain bar and mountain dew breakfast combo gets me all sorts of ready to go in the morning. Mmmm... forbidden Donut.
3% margin of error.... not counting the 44% cluelessness factor (probably higher than thta, really). The combination of loaded questions, poor sampling, and use of the responses from admittedly uninformed people makes for a lot of posts on this story *^)
>The 27% piracy rate in the United States costs the economy 130,000 jobs per year.
Ah yes... those extra 130,000 extra jobs would have made it so much easier to get the bugs out of Window$.
Plus, 15% of that piracy is all of those people downloading "free" software from such know W4r3Z sitez as ftp.redhat.com and ftp.kernel.org... how *dare* they... 8^)
Who think they know everything often find their way here, too... in fact, they are the very ones who moderate based on unfounded opinions on stories they know nothing about. (-2; Offtopic Flamebait).
But really, the 5% who think they know what they are doing are just as likely to be the ones who don't turn on the printer...
Why does the "ThinkGeek" link point to http://slashdot.org????????
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Exactly - we just aren't put together for impressive displays of physical prowess. Horses, dogs, cats (and many others) can run at high speeds through rough terrain due to the extra legs, leg alignment, and the fact that they don't need these huge, floppy feet that get caught on everything... Great for extra balance (and a little bit of extra thrust), but again, quite a hinderance.
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Hmmm... well, according to some random article in one of these mags I have around here, the cheetah will hunt in a 25 or larger mile radius around its home - note that 'home' can move during extended hunts. I suppose if you put a cheetah on an airplane, it would have very good range, indeed 8^) The point of a bike sort of proves my first argument that many animals are more *naturally* efficient than us physically. We still have a small edge in the thinking area, tho...
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Well, a smaller robot on litle rails (like the library ladders) would be more effective than one on two legs... Two legs is, in general, not that much of an advantage for most activities, and creates far more problems than it solves. Far more balance is required, and given the length/power ratios of our limbs, we are amazingly not efficient. Look at a pet cat - a leap from a floor to the top of the counter, window sill, or fridge. Now think about it. You should be able to leap to the top of a two story house with that same little effort. Or just the following: Top Speeds: Man(10-20mph); Cheetah(60-70mph)
Two legs are a problem for most practical designs, not a solution.
Hmmm, I'm pretty sure they don't have one... the FIC board you mention is probably the PC-133 DRAM, AGP 4x board... AMD is still working with other vendors to produce the chipset...
yeah, though the throughput at RPI was better pre-firewall, and pre-freshmen with laptops (hey, I've graduated and am off far away now...). They finally put in some new switches around campus so the local mp3/mpegvid traffic wouldn't slow everything down quite so much... Helped some though. Oh well... the other side was usually the limiting factor, though...
Hehe - you are gonna have a tought time when you get an HDTV (in widescreen format)... "Now even Wheel of Fortune is cut off on the top and bottom!!! There's not even any screen there!!!" Oh well - trying to explain things to people who don't want to understand can be quite difficult. Drawing pictures helps though - maybe grab one of those explanation pages out of a Crutchfield or some other mag to show them what you mean...
Yup... as a recent college grad, when I put together my home system I bought a DVD player - I don't OWN a VHS player, and don't plan on buying one for the purpose of watching a often poorly rendered Jar-Jar in less resolution... Last time I checked, my old VCRs really didn't have a digital out for 5.1, and weren't THX certified;-) Oh, well - I can wait a couple of years to see the best lightsaber fight ever made...
Actually, many college phones don't allow you to dial the 10-10 #s, since they charge back to the dialing number, which resolves to the main PBX(or whatever) # of the college (at RPI, for example, all outgoing calls appear to be coming from 276-6000 (I had someone trace my call when I was talking to him...). At one point, these numbers weren't disabled, and some calls were made without the proper people getting billed... guess the school picked up the tab for that one. 1-800 numbers I can't see being blocked, but the 10-10 numbers certainly can be and are (and I don't really disagree with that).
Ah yes, but my campus was owned by Pepsi... pepsi products everywhere, with Coke only available in one fairly independant store. This was no surprise, since they had the Knickerbocker arena renamed, too, and the new scoreboard in the fieldhouse (hockey) has more pepsi info than game info on it (but hey, it was free)...
Maybe I'll write ITS/CIS/ACS or whatever our computing service is now called (I no longer pay attention) and ask them to ban all coke urls so that I can be assured of further infiltration by pepsi. I won't be happy until the faucets in the dorms flow with Dew!!!
Well, the AMD question was really answered in the earlier answers, if you look at it. If they have to test everything, right down to the memory chips to make that everything is fully linux stable, then the testing of (still immature) Athlon motherboards is going to take a lot of time, manpower == $. Not to mention that there isn't a dual-proc solution out the for the Athlon yet - I want one, though 8^) The BIOSs for the majority of the Althlon boards could be better, and with the history of the BX chipsets compared with the ever-revisionizing (not a word) AMD chipsets, you have to look at it as a Good Buisness Decision for right now. In a while, things might become as stable, but the number of things to retest (every card, memory stick, etc) with a new board would be quite cost prohibitive...
Actually, this is part truth and part myth... Plants do produce much less O2 during the nighttime, but they do not consume it - they do actually continue the process. Without the added energy of the sun/light source they can only keep this up for so long, but if you check out a book that does a good in depth analysis of photosynthesis and the Kreb's cycle, you should be able to get all of the info there.
Though it used to be common practice in hospitals to remove plants from the patients rooms at night for the very reason you mention - the newer, more accurate research has led to the repeal of these actions.
Jon Katz's Hellmouth writings be listed under the 'Cluestick Award for FUD in Journalism' award??? It would seem a much more appropriate place for it than 'Best Slashdot Story'. Though he may not be up with the ranks of the MS lawyers/marketing and Jesse Berst, since he does write some thought provoking stuff now and then, the Hellmouth series was just about as bad as it can get - almost as bad as the "Please Die" series, which don't strike me as anything worthy of posting...
Don't get me wrong, I don't hate the guy, but not everything that comes off of his pen (keyboard) is golden...
Slashdot Mirror
(another special from Jon Dogz)
After a recent article on Slashdot regarding Lego Machine Guns, there has been a proliferation of violence connected with small plastic blocks in our society. Indeed, the Anarchist's Cookbook has added several chapters on Lego Weaponry, including a simple example of how to create a critical mass of certain Legos with intent to create cold fusion as a power source for a Lego rail-gun. There are record numbers of children in our schools that have been impaled with these ordinarily "fun" toys since this last report.
Several ofthe most extreme cases involve a preschool and an airplane. Little Private Burrito (an unfortunate name) went to preschool one day, with great expectations of play time, only to be struck repeatedly with high-speed Legos from his (former) friend Humis' Lego gun. Several other children were bloodied, and almost 90% of the class wet their pants during this event. We cannot continue to allow such things in the hands of babes...
But in the hands of adults, Legos are even more dangerous. Jaques Strappe recently hijacked an airliner, with over 75 people on board, using a modified rapid-fire semi-automatic Lego Gun. Though no passengers were hurt, several first class travelers were apparently shouting such things as "Golly!" and "Lordy, Lordy!". After he was apprehended, Strappe claimed to have found the plans for his weapon on the Internet. No lawsuits have been filed against Lego or Slashdot/Andover/VA as of yet, but you can be sure that there are many to come...
8^) Yeah... well, I work on an AIX (OB-JFS-PLUG) box now, so my nutri-grain bar and mountain dew breakfast combo gets me all sorts of ready to go in the morning. Mmmm... forbidden Donut.
3% margin of error.... not counting the 44% cluelessness factor (probably higher than thta, really). The combination of loaded questions, poor sampling, and use of the responses from admittedly uninformed people makes for a lot of posts on this story *^)
>The 27% piracy rate in the United States costs the economy 130,000 jobs per year.
Ah yes... those extra 130,000 extra jobs would have made it so much easier to get the bugs out of Window$.
Plus, 15% of that piracy is all of those people downloading "free" software from such know W4r3Z sitez as ftp.redhat.com and ftp.kernel.org... how *dare* they... 8^)
or cold grits...
or petrified grits...
mmm.... Krusty Metal-O's
Who think they know everything often find their way here, too... in fact, they are the very ones who moderate based on unfounded opinions on stories they know nothing about. (-2; Offtopic Flamebait).
But really, the 5% who think they know what they are doing are just as likely to be the ones who don't turn on the printer...
According to recent polls, 99.44% of all poll data is irrelevant 8^)
His post started as a 2, it wasn't moderated up. You can see the moderation done to a comment by clicking on the comment #.
Why does the "ThinkGeek" link point to http://slashdot.org????????
Exactly - we just aren't put together for impressive displays of physical prowess. Horses, dogs, cats (and many others) can run at high speeds through rough terrain due to the extra legs, leg alignment, and the fact that they don't need these huge, floppy feet that get caught on everything... Great for extra balance (and a little bit of extra thrust), but again, quite a hinderance.
Hmmm... well, according to some random article in one of these mags I have around here, the cheetah will hunt in a 25 or larger mile radius around its home - note that 'home' can move during extended hunts. I suppose if you put a cheetah on an airplane, it would have very good range, indeed 8^) The point of a bike sort of proves my first argument that many animals are more *naturally* efficient than us physically. We still have a small edge in the thinking area, tho...
Well, a smaller robot on litle rails (like the library ladders) would be more effective than one on two legs... Two legs is, in general, not that much of an advantage for most activities, and creates far more problems than it solves. Far more balance is required, and given the length/power ratios of our limbs, we are amazingly not efficient. Look at a pet cat - a leap from a floor to the top of the counter, window sill, or fridge. Now think about it. You should be able to leap to the top of a two story house with that same little effort. Or just the following:
Top Speeds: Man(10-20mph); Cheetah(60-70mph)
Two legs are a problem for most practical designs, not a solution.
hmmm, this site comes up as complete gibberish under Netscraper 4.6 on AIX, so I guess I'm safe 8^)
nope.... 1/11/3111
Hmmm, I'm pretty sure they don't have one... the FIC board you mention is probably the PC-133 DRAM, AGP 4x board... AMD is still working with other vendors to produce the chipset...
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yeah, though the throughput at RPI was better pre-firewall, and pre-freshmen with laptops (hey, I've graduated and am off far away now...). They finally put in some new switches around campus so the local mp3/mpegvid traffic wouldn't slow everything down quite so much... Helped some though. Oh well... the other side was usually the limiting factor, though...
The Cube was thought-provoking, but I wouldn't reccomend it... not really worth watching more than once. Better than Jar-Jar, I'll give you that...
Hehe - you are gonna have a tought time when you get an HDTV (in widescreen format)... "Now even Wheel of Fortune is cut off on the top and bottom!!! There's not even any screen there!!!" Oh well - trying to explain things to people who don't want to understand can be quite difficult. Drawing pictures helps though - maybe grab one of those explanation pages out of a Crutchfield or some other mag to show them what you mean...
Just my $.0004^.5
Yup... as a recent college grad, when I put together my home system I bought a DVD player - I don't OWN a VHS player, and don't plan on buying one for the purpose of watching a often poorly rendered Jar-Jar in less resolution... Last time I checked, my old VCRs really didn't have a digital out for 5.1, and weren't THX certified ;-) Oh, well - I can wait a couple of years to see the best lightsaber fight ever made...
Actually, many college phones don't allow you to dial the 10-10 #s, since they charge back to the dialing number, which resolves to the main PBX(or whatever) # of the college (at RPI, for example, all outgoing calls appear to be coming from 276-6000 (I had someone trace my call when I was talking to him...). At one point, these numbers weren't disabled, and some calls were made without the proper people getting billed... guess the school picked up the tab for that one. 1-800 numbers I can't see being blocked, but the 10-10 numbers certainly can be and are (and I don't really disagree with that).
Ah yes, but my campus was owned by Pepsi... pepsi products everywhere, with Coke only available in one fairly independant store. This was no surprise, since they had the Knickerbocker arena renamed, too, and the new scoreboard in the fieldhouse (hockey) has more pepsi info than game info on it (but hey, it was free)...
Maybe I'll write ITS/CIS/ACS or whatever our computing service is now called (I no longer pay attention) and ask them to ban all coke urls so that I can be assured of further infiltration by pepsi. I won't be happy until the faucets in the dorms flow with Dew!!!
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Well, the AMD question was really answered in the earlier answers, if you look at it. If they have to test everything, right down to the memory chips to make that everything is fully linux stable, then the testing of (still immature) Athlon motherboards is going to take a lot of time, manpower == $. Not to mention that there isn't a dual-proc solution out the for the Athlon yet - I want one, though 8^) The BIOSs for the majority of the Althlon boards could be better, and with the history of the BX chipsets compared with the ever-revisionizing (not a word) AMD chipsets, you have to look at it as a Good Buisness Decision for right now. In a while, things might become as stable, but the number of things to retest (every card, memory stick, etc) with a new board would be quite cost prohibitive...
Actually, this is part truth and part myth...
Plants do produce much less O2 during the nighttime, but they do not consume it - they do actually continue the process. Without the added energy of the sun/light source they can only keep this up for so long, but if you check out a book that does a good in depth analysis of photosynthesis and the Kreb's cycle, you should be able to get all of the info there.
Though it used to be common practice in hospitals to remove plants from the patients rooms at night for the very reason you mention - the newer, more accurate research has led to the repeal of these actions.
In your .sig:
>Important Proir cases effecting DECSS, a must read
affecting, not effecting is correct here...
(this particular mistake is one of my pet peeves - really makes people sound/look uneducated. Almost as bad as "your/you're" problems)
Jon Katz's Hellmouth writings be listed under the 'Cluestick Award for FUD in Journalism' award??? It would seem a much more appropriate place for it than 'Best Slashdot Story'. Though he may not be up with the ranks of the MS lawyers/marketing and Jesse Berst, since he does write some thought provoking stuff now and then, the Hellmouth series was just about as bad as it can get - almost as bad as the "Please Die" series, which don't strike me as anything worthy of posting...
Don't get me wrong, I don't hate the guy, but not everything that comes off of his pen (keyboard) is golden...