Nah I bet they go to a net cafe in Belgium or somewhere totally unrelated.
And then defect the second thier plane lands... I somehow can't see the country letting thier smartest people actually get on a plane from which they probably are never going to willingly return.
can anybody possibly point us to the evidence for Iraq's possession of WsMD, given that the Guardians of World Peace (TM) used them as their sole justification for starting a war?
Pshaaw! We only used WMD as ONE justification for starting the war... You are forgetting about the other one, the one that we found TONS and TONS and TONS of when we went over there... OIL!
Well, one way to make sales would be to post on slashdot mentioning that you might be wavering on your belief that MP3 sharing may not be all it's cracked up to be... Ahh, I see, you're way ahead of me!
I have a great idea for fixing a problem that's been plagueing us all. By simultaenously implementing IPv6 world-wide, converting the US to metric, adding mass transit to rural areas, teaching everyone Esperanto, and making Linux ready for even the most stubborn grandmother, all the worlds problems will be solved. There's just this problem of implementation, i.e., how do I do it? I'm sure some clever/. can come up with a solution. Thanks!
Response: I have a Simpson's quote that might help you out, will that be enough?
I live in the US of A. I am under no obligation to write software that counts ballots correctly for any other country. In fact, I would have no problem whatsoever altering teh ballots for another country if paid a signifigantly large sum of money. Or perhaps I would be willing to change them on my own personal whims, and tell nobody. The moral of the story is:
Don't trust your nations's government to people who are not under it's influence!
If you do, you'll be sorry. I don't work for any of the ballot companies now, but I'm always keeping my eyes out. One of these days I'll get a job there and, I make this promise to you now, your government will never be selected by it's people ever again.
The military better watch itself -- if they start relying too heavily on technology, soldiers will lose the fundamental skills that make them unique.
I hear this a lot, but it's never valid. Much in the same way that 99.999999% of the population in the world today has lost the ability to flake proper flint knives for use in spear hunting the buffalo, so too will the military lose it's ability to fight bloody ugly wars with thier bare fists. Reliance on technology is what humans are meant to do... and should that technology fail? Well then the answer is more, berrter, faster technology!
Instead of denying access when someone's keypressed don't match, which is a perfectly possible thing that could happen in a number of situations, just use the keypress score to alter how the system audits the user's actions. If he's under the threshhold, you can send a page to your beeper, just notifying that it happened, if he's way off, then grant him only basic privledges, no root, but if he's only a little off then let him have normal access, but turn the logging on for every action he does. Most of the time he won't be an intruder, just someone who was a little sleepy that morning, but when it is an intruder, you'll be able to watch more closely and roll back any changes he makes.
Forgive me if this is off topic, but this is the first time I've seen "The Lemon" before... After seeing thier little "Desperate Personals" and trying to place where I have seen that same kind of thing before I began thinking: Am I correct in thinking that this is, in fact, a parody of a parody?
There was a time when I thought the internet could be no more ironic... I beleive I was wrong in that assumption.
Well, if Tim Berners-Lee had only held on to his "world wide web" then we'd probably all be speaking his name now... but we all know what happened to his empire, don't we:
"Cats becomes sole proprietor of all your base. Every Zig moved."
This same system would work even better with paper. Little paper "coins" could be printed on the fly, as needed, in any denomination. If you had to pay $2.41 for something, you wouldn't have to pull out some wierd mix of coins and paper, you just type that into your little money printing maching and print yourself a $2.41 bill!
So, from what I read, it seems like an aweful lot of "wor" to not actually do any work. Manipulating the screen from your hand-held, sneaking around flipping on and off lights, printing phantom documents to the printer... It seems like you are doing just as much work as you would actually being in the office, except it's relativly unproductive...
It seems to me the way to go would to be use virtual offices where people can do REAL work from the coffee shop or from home without having to feel guilty that they aren't in a cubicle. Why is that concept so hard for many companies to understand and implement?
Well, abortion isn't a topic for discussion on slashdot, but as long as we are here, why not bring out the geek solution to the entire debate... Cryogenics! Freeze the fetuses for later. Nobody dead potential babies, they just get "time shifted". And, just to give the more rabid anti-abortionists a little reality check, the female members are free to have one of the little buggers implanted in thier womb!
This works until someone makes operator(--) map to operator(++) and bury it into some obscure library. Then you'll be looking at the code for weeks and never get why it's not working. Java may be verbose to write, but reading it is fairly clear.
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Nah I bet they go to a net cafe in Belgium or somewhere totally unrelated.
And then defect the second thier plane lands... I somehow can't see the country letting thier smartest people actually get on a plane from which they probably are never going to willingly return.
Nonsense.
According to RIAA, the other 40% is used by students using all other available protocols to download copyrighted material.
Well, since it's broadband, and thus faster than "normal" connection speeds, that 40% actually counts as 134%.
So a virus that rewrites your DNS to point Pheonex's servers to itself will allow it to destroy an entire company in one fell swoop... Excellent.
can anybody possibly point us to the evidence for Iraq's possession of WsMD, given that the Guardians of World Peace (TM) used them as their sole justification for starting a war?
Pshaaw! We only used WMD as ONE justification for starting the war... You are forgetting about the other one, the one that we found TONS and TONS and TONS of when we went over there... OIL!
"Defining" it would be like defining pi as 3.
Which is perfectly valid when counting in base 1/3pi.
The computer I'm using now has 71+29/32 watzes.
Are those watzen in UK frushes or US frushi? Ah, man this is so confusing! I say we all go back to counting in base-L.
Well, one way to make sales would be to post on slashdot mentioning that you might be wavering on your belief that MP3 sharing may not be all it's cracked up to be... Ahh, I see, you're way ahead of me!
(Spoilers, duh)
Watch closer, and tell me if you don't see these two subtle hints in the second one of an even deeper plot:
a) There is no "outside the matrix". It's all matrix, all simulated, even the people who "escape" the matrix are still in the matrix.
b) Trinity, not the oracle, is the "intuative program" that found teh true answer to the problem of teh anomolies.
Watch it again (and watch the first one too), whith those two ideas in mind and things will start to click into place.
Dear Slashdot,
/. can come up with a solution. Thanks!
I have a great idea for fixing a problem that's been plagueing us all. By simultaenously implementing IPv6 world-wide, converting the US to metric, adding mass transit to rural areas, teaching everyone Esperanto, and making Linux ready for even the most stubborn grandmother, all the worlds problems will be solved. There's just this problem of implementation, i.e., how do I do it? I'm sure some clever
Response: I have a Simpson's quote that might help you out, will that be enough?
I live in the US of A. I am under no obligation to write software that counts ballots correctly for any other country. In fact, I would have no problem whatsoever altering teh ballots for another country if paid a signifigantly large sum of money. Or perhaps I would be willing to change them on my own personal whims, and tell nobody. The moral of the story is:
Don't trust your nations's government to people who are not under it's influence!
If you do, you'll be sorry. I don't work for any of the ballot companies now, but I'm always keeping my eyes out. One of these days I'll get a job there and, I make this promise to you now, your government will never be selected by it's people ever again.
But how would you set the alpha channel?
Hammers.
Having ants learn how to sort tiny screws would actually come in handy in this case...
The military better watch itself -- if they start relying too heavily on technology, soldiers will lose the fundamental skills that make them unique.
I hear this a lot, but it's never valid. Much in the same way that 99.999999% of the population in the world today has lost the ability to flake proper flint knives for use in spear hunting the buffalo, so too will the military lose it's ability to fight bloody ugly wars with thier bare fists. Reliance on technology is what humans are meant to do... and should that technology fail? Well then the answer is more, berrter, faster technology!
Instead of denying access when someone's keypressed don't match, which is a perfectly possible thing that could happen in a number of situations, just use the keypress score to alter how the system audits the user's actions. If he's under the threshhold, you can send a page to your beeper, just notifying that it happened, if he's way off, then grant him only basic privledges, no root, but if he's only a little off then let him have normal access, but turn the logging on for every action he does. Most of the time he won't be an intruder, just someone who was a little sleepy that morning, but when it is an intruder, you'll be able to watch more closely and roll back any changes he makes.
um, that was actually a joke, you'll note the part about Cats moving every zig?
Forgive me if this is off topic, but this is the first time I've seen "The Lemon" before... After seeing thier little "Desperate Personals" and trying to place where I have seen that same kind of thing before I began thinking: Am I correct in thinking that this is, in fact, a parody of a parody?
There was a time when I thought the internet could be no more ironic... I beleive I was wrong in that assumption.
Well, if Tim Berners-Lee had only held on to his "world wide web" then we'd probably all be speaking his name now... but we all know what happened to his empire, don't we:
"Cats becomes sole proprietor of all your base. Every Zig moved."
I stayed up until 11 and look through the channel listings, but I guess I somehow missed the film. Could somone post it onto Kazaa for me?
This same system would work even better with paper. Little paper "coins" could be printed on the fly, as needed, in any denomination. If you had to pay $2.41 for something, you wouldn't have to pull out some wierd mix of coins and paper, you just type that into your little money printing maching and print yourself a $2.41 bill!
So, from what I read, it seems like an aweful lot of "wor" to not actually do any work. Manipulating the screen from your hand-held, sneaking around flipping on and off lights, printing phantom documents to the printer... It seems like you are doing just as much work as you would actually being in the office, except it's relativly unproductive...
It seems to me the way to go would to be use virtual offices where people can do REAL work from the coffee shop or from home without having to feel guilty that they aren't in a cubicle. Why is that concept so hard for many companies to understand and implement?
Now i've got images of the California rasin characters in latex singing "I heard it through the grapevine" in bullet-time.
Well, abortion isn't a topic for discussion on slashdot, but as long as we are here, why not bring out the geek solution to the entire debate... Cryogenics! Freeze the fetuses for later. Nobody dead potential babies, they just get "time shifted". And, just to give the more rabid anti-abortionists a little reality check, the female members are free to have one of the little buggers implanted in thier womb!
May 10, 2004 ... The day that the golden pringles can finally links the Union Pacific and Central Pacific kazaa servers through 802.11b.
"Woh! What was that?"
"Dunno... kinda bright though"
"Dude... I think this is bad"
"Yup"
"BBFN"
I read the last line as "Be Back Friggin Never"
This works until someone makes operator(--) map to operator(++) and bury it into some obscure library. Then you'll be looking at the code for weeks and never get why it's not working. Java may be verbose to write, but reading it is fairly clear.