Every news story about every spammer refers to the guy as the "Spam King". It doesn't seem like this guy was a particularly notable offender.
Escaping was a bizarrely stupid move, though. Being a fugitive seems like a lower quality of life than what he had in prison, and it's not like he was facing a huge term.
...a blend of the best of Snow Crash and the Baroque Cycle
Hopefully that means "just like Snow Crash, except with an ending". A blend of the best of Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon would be jaw-dropping on the order of Connie Willis' best books, though.
It also seems like they're trying to sell to a market that's obsessed with customizability with a device that's designed to give you exactly one narrowly-defined way to do any given task.
"Arguably these are all short-term measures, just designed to control air quality for the time when the Olympics are on," says Dr Andy Jones.
Ummm, no kidding? What does he mean, "arguably"? It's like how Athens temporarily incarcerated the city's thousands of stray dogs and then turned them all loose when the Games ended.
Fortunately for us, people like you are willing to deal with your house exploding while the rest of us use candles for a few months more while the bugs in gas lighting are being sorted out. Having the latest 1337 illumination technology is more important to you than it is to us, so it's a win-win situation.
It's totally down Microsoft's alley to trick Firefox into screaming "LittleGuy.com suxxors t3rr0rIsts" while IE cruises along, users shrug and say "uhh... well, works for me when I use MS..."
Hard to say which is a more implausible conspiracy theory: this or the guy on the AMD story speculating that AMD's earnings report is a news plant from Intel.
But the Israeli group *did* exist, they *were* given the autonomy to do that work, the management *did* recognize the merits of it and decide to change course, and the production people *did* make it happen! That's not luck! If you don't understand how remarkable all of that is, you've never worked for a huge company.
What you people all seem to be arguing for, putting all your eggs in one basket and having it work out as you'd planned -- *that* is luck!
One of Intel's development teams in Israel saw the huge potential that the old Pentium III architecture had to be fast and power-efficient, when coupled with a more modern manufacturing process. In the end, the low-end power-efficient chips began to outperform their power-hungry Pentium 4 desktop offerings, and Intel quietly rebranded the line, and began to offer the Core chips as their flagship desktop offering.
I'd hesitate to call that luck, let alone "really, really, really lucky". It sounds like terrific teamwork by engineering, production and management.
My money would definitely be on the Joker or Riddler against a "professor of kinesiology and neuroscience (and a 26-year practitioner of Chito-Ryu karate-do)".
Perhaps, but I always confuse "it's" and "its", link perfectly obvious words to Wikipedia and conclude with an idiotic "question" like "Could this be the end of x86 on the desktop?" Is there anything I'm missing?
Anyway, my point was less to complain about my submissions than to respond to the OP's conspiracy theory. TerraSoft makes genuinely interesting stuff, and I certainly don't think they're getting too much attention here!
I've submitted a number of those stories, and from my side I've been surprised at how little interest there is in them compared to yet-another-video-card and vaporware stories, let alone throwing-raw-meat-to-the-mob stuff about SCO and the RIAA.
Anyway, there's a huge difference between a distro specifically designed for a platform and some half-assed port. I don't have a PS3, but can tell you that there was no comparison between Yellow Dog and things like SuSE PPC that maybe could install a bunch of recompiled packages and then boot you into a useless environment.
The concern isn't that research groups will have to "dumb down science to give women a leg up". It's that given the reality of few female candidates in certain fields, they'll have to be unselective about which ones they take in order to meet a quota. It doesn't mean that women are incapable of meeting the standards.
"Felony" doesn't necessarily imply the severity ("murder or rape") that you seem to think it does. IIRC, in California the cutoff for felony theft is $1000, with much lower thresholds for certain items (chickens, kelp, nuts, avocados, milk crates). What this guy did more than qualifies for felony status.
It's possible that DeBakey was indeed some sort of "geek", even a consummate one, but that's not indicated by anything mentioned here or in the link. I've never quite understood the logic by which anime-obsessed, Monty Python-incessantly-quoting dweebs attach themselves onto everyone else's technical achievements.
Also, while I mostly spent Auto Shop getting beaten up so may have missed something important, isn't that heat what makes a normal engine work?
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Besides the fact that guy obviously isn't a native English speaker, "several" and "maybe a dozen" seem pretty in line to me. His point seems to be that Google isn't being as tight with it as they are with YouTube, which is certainly true (although I'd suspect that's a result of pre-takeover YouTube policies being carried on by Google). It's not a matter of any concern to me, but its his opinion. And it's not like adding keyboard shortcuts would eliminate mouse usage, as you seem to think.
Us geeks from Slashdot should write to them and POLITELY let them know about the aforementioned contradiction and why it is of importance.
There is no "contradiction" and this is merely New York Country Lawyer's daily serving of disingenuous idiocy. He's confusing a claim of technical expertise in properly acquiring evidence with a denial of using non-standard means of accessing files.
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Every news story about every spammer refers to the guy as the "Spam King". It doesn't seem like this guy was a particularly notable offender.
Escaping was a bizarrely stupid move, though. Being a fugitive seems like a lower quality of life than what he had in prison, and it's not like he was facing a huge term.
Hopefully that means "just like Snow Crash, except with an ending". A blend of the best of Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon would be jaw-dropping on the order of Connie Willis' best books, though.
It also seems like they're trying to sell to a market that's obsessed with customizability with a device that's designed to give you exactly one narrowly-defined way to do any given task.
Ummm, no kidding? What does he mean, "arguably"? It's like how Athens temporarily incarcerated the city's thousands of stray dogs and then turned them all loose when the Games ended.
Fortunately for us, people like you are willing to deal with your house exploding while the rest of us use candles for a few months more while the bugs in gas lighting are being sorted out. Having the latest 1337 illumination technology is more important to you than it is to us, so it's a win-win situation.
Hard to say which is a more implausible conspiracy theory: this or the guy on the AMD story speculating that AMD's earnings report is a news plant from Intel.
But the Israeli group *did* exist, they *were* given the autonomy to do that work, the management *did* recognize the merits of it and decide to change course, and the production people *did* make it happen! That's not luck! If you don't understand how remarkable all of that is, you've never worked for a huge company.
What you people all seem to be arguing for, putting all your eggs in one basket and having it work out as you'd planned -- *that* is luck!
I'd hesitate to call that luck, let alone "really, really, really lucky". It sounds like terrific teamwork by engineering, production and management.
My money would definitely be on the Joker or Riddler against a "professor of kinesiology and neuroscience (and a 26-year practitioner of Chito-Ryu karate-do)".
Anyway, my point was less to complain about my submissions than to respond to the OP's conspiracy theory. TerraSoft makes genuinely interesting stuff, and I certainly don't think they're getting too much attention here!
Anyway, there's a huge difference between a distro specifically designed for a platform and some half-assed port. I don't have a PS3, but can tell you that there was no comparison between Yellow Dog and things like SuSE PPC that maybe could install a bunch of recompiled packages and then boot you into a useless environment.
The concern isn't that research groups will have to "dumb down science to give women a leg up". It's that given the reality of few female candidates in certain fields, they'll have to be unselective about which ones they take in order to meet a quota. It doesn't mean that women are incapable of meeting the standards.
Translation of this story: "Hey, let's laugh at that mentally ill person!"
"Felony" doesn't necessarily imply the severity ("murder or rape") that you seem to think it does. IIRC, in California the cutoff for felony theft is $1000, with much lower thresholds for certain items (chickens, kelp, nuts, avocados, milk crates). What this guy did more than qualifies for felony status.
I suppose that with enough rendering power, we'll eventually get an alternative that frees us from having to worry about what women want.
I'm glad I posted the original comment, both for your response itself and for the "interesting" mod it raked in.
It's possible that DeBakey was indeed some sort of "geek", even a consummate one, but that's not indicated by anything mentioned here or in the link. I've never quite understood the logic by which anime-obsessed, Monty Python-incessantly-quoting dweebs attach themselves onto everyone else's technical achievements.
Yes, that would be quite the red flag if the former CIO of Citigroup and GE were found to have a lot of money in his bank account!
We're talking about iPhones. The grievance is that things cost **less** than they used to!
C'mon, moderators -- both of these were funny, and certainly inoffensive.
My p-chem is even sketchier than my brake repair, but are there other examples of combustion that aren't noticeably exothermic?
Also, while I mostly spent Auto Shop getting beaten up so may have missed something important, isn't that heat what makes a normal engine work?
Besides the fact that guy obviously isn't a native English speaker, "several" and "maybe a dozen" seem pretty in line to me. His point seems to be that Google isn't being as tight with it as they are with YouTube, which is certainly true (although I'd suspect that's a result of pre-takeover YouTube policies being carried on by Google). It's not a matter of any concern to me, but its his opinion. And it's not like adding keyboard shortcuts would eliminate mouse usage, as you seem to think.
There is no "contradiction" and this is merely New York Country Lawyer's daily serving of disingenuous idiocy. He's confusing a claim of technical expertise in properly acquiring evidence with a denial of using non-standard means of accessing files.
I'd cite Strange Brew as a precedent, you hoser, but I guess those weren't actually robots.