They _are_ comfortable with emacs in a text window, right? That's what _I_ boot into:-)
::Pop quiz:: If the customs officials have no clue what your computer is doing, their likely reaction would be to:
A) Pat you on the back, apologize for wasting your time, and send you on your way. B) Put you in a holding cell while they spent hours attempting to figure out your notebook.
How does appearing like you have something to hide help you at all? Best to make it boot into an innocuous windows partition.
And then reopen everything you closed when you shut-down.
It's not 1998 anymore. Almost all contemporary computers have a hibernate feature. I'm more concerned with re-opening all the defunct putty sessions and other network connections.
I think the proper way to deal with this is to have MySpace take the page down. Then at the next school assembly ask the perpetrator to come forward. Explain that if the responsible party owns up they will receive a rather light punishment however, if no one owns up an investigation will be done and, if the responsible party is found, a serve punishment will be given.
It is important for kids to learn that their actions have consequences and to take responsibility. If the kid who did it gets away cleanly under the noses of the entire student body you have just taught the entire school a bad life lesson.
To be fair CNN had dug up and aired all of the clips of Cheney's previous comments and they interviewed the CIA analyst, who's questions led Cheney to deny that he had previously claimed that there was a link between Al-Quaeda and IRAQ. They did all this BEFORE the daily even aired that night.
USAGE NOTE Aggravate comes from the Latin verb aggravre, which meant "to make heavier," that is, "to add to the weight of." It also had the extended senses "to annoy" and "to oppress." Some people claim that aggravate can only mean "to make worse," and not "to irritate," on the basis of the word's etymology. But in doing so, they ignore not only an English sense in use since the 17th century, but also one of the original Latin ones. Sixty-eight percent of the Usage Panel approves of its use in It's the endless wait for luggage that aggravates me the most about air travel.
Actually, microwaves can be way better than that. My microwave has a really cool interface. Rather than a keypad it has a wheel that you rotate to indicate the time. Time increases in 10 seconds increments. The wheel is speed and acceleration sensitive. When the microwave is running simply spin the wheel to add or substract time. Popcorn not quite done? Spin the wheel and add 30 seconds. Want to use it in the dark? It's a giant wheel with two buttons next to it "start" and "stop".
It's so simple that a completely blind person could use it. Simply rotate the wheel slowly and listen for the very soft audiable "clicks" that indicate and increase in time.
Also, this particular model has a builtin convection oven. The perfect microwave.
I thought the Canadian census went pretty well. I filled out the form online and despite that the Canadian Goverment had the genuine deceny pay for a gorgeous girl to comeover and tell me that I had an apartment "B" attached to my house when clearly I didn't (The must have noticed that I indicated I was "single" on the form). I invited her to share some wine in the garden with me and we are now both very thankfull to the Canadian goverment. Thanks guys....
We have something called the "Police Commisioner" in British Columbia. It is a provincial comission that has power over municipal police and provincial forces. Not sure how effective they really are but I will find out shortly.
I treat everyone, friends and strangers alike, with respect until they give me a reason to do otherwise. Unfortunately, regardless of your own actions if you are in the wrong place at the wrong time and look the wrong part you are occasionally disrepected by the police. Not a huge problem.
The bigger problem is that ALL the "good" cops just look the other way. The police have perfected the prisoner's delima. They call it a "blue brotherhood" or whatever. Basically the police have figured out that if they all keep quiet then nobody will ever get in trouble.
Granted, the trend in many places seems to be getting better. Cops no longer cover each other on blatant criminal activity (profiteering, murders etc). But it still seems to be OK to routinely abuse your power and nobody will speak up.
Well Einstien was German and it was found that his brain was different from a "normal" persons. His parietal operculum region was missing and, to compensate, his inferior parietal lobe was 15% wider than normal. Maybe germans have more of these people than other populations?
Absolutely true, just to add a very visible example; there was a case of the police in an Albertan city (edmonton?) whom had a regular policy of picking up native americans and dropping them off outside the city limits. This continued until one man froze to death 20 miles outside the city in freezing cold winter weather.
It's not so rosey up here in Canada. This past Canada Day the Victoria police instituted a policy of manditory searches on all buses heading downtown. They can get away with this because, on Canada Day, the bus is used mostly by young people going to clubs. I objected to being searched thinking that I would simply not be allowed back on the bus. Instead, to my complete surprise, the officer began to become very verbally abusive and I was arrested for "Drunk and Disorderly Conduct".
No breathalizer, no soberiety test, nothing. 100% soley based upon the officers "observation". I was processed and thrown into a dirty cement holding cell that lacked even toilet paper let alone a bed. As it stands the Victoria police can arest anyone at anytime under the charge of "Drunk and Disorderly" with no evidence and no soberiety test.
I can't wait for the day when *I* can video tape everything. That should provide a little balance to things.
Dude, not everybody is as smart as you. A lot of people who seems lazy are actually just a little stupid. Half the people have below average IQ. Yes it's true. Simple things like highschool can be difficult and overwelming for some people and as a result they seem lazy to you. A grade 11 math course for them may be the equivilent of fully understanding string theory for you. Imagine if in order to make above minimum wage, you had to fully comphrened advanced theoretical particle physics? If you had an IQ of 83 that's what life might be like for you.
A country as rich as the USA should give people a strong incentive to work hard but also take care of all those less fortunate. It's a shame that there are hungry people without medical care in the world's richest country.
Unless the hydrogen fuel cell simply isn't capable of providing enough enegery to achieve maximum acceleration. In that case energy from the battery and the fuel cell would be required to accelerate and the relatively low output fuel cell would charge the battery during less demanding periods.
The fuel cell would only need two states on and off. On, during acceleration and when the battery is low on charge and, off, when enegery demand is low and the battery is nearly fully charged. This way you could get away with using a relatively small fuel cell that is always running at it's most efficient output current. Seems smart to me.
You should try pineapples again. I've noticed that the qaulity has drastically improved in the last three or four years. Probably the result of improved logistics and shipping.
Yes, but you are married and not in college (I assume). You *should* be past the stage of going out and getting plastered. You should have a collection of like minded professionals whom you have over for backyard barbeques and dinner parties while discussing politics, current events, sports or whatever you are into. Which I'm sure you do, but these other posters seem to think that the only thing "friends" are good for is going out to bar and getting hammered. Otherwise you might as well sit home and "hang out" on slashdot. This is probably the case because the average slashdotter doesn't find that they have much in common with the average person.
There are two solutions to that. Find like minded people with whom you can discuss your hobbies or maybe even help you with one of your projects (like that girlfriend you've been building in the basement). Or, alternatively, you can grow from that flat unidemensional person that you have become into a multidemensional person with lots of interests and hobbies. Take a dance class or some martial arts, go skydiving, join a chessclub, just once take home the ugliest girl in the bar, whatever floats your boat, just come out of the shoebox and live life.....and make some friends.
It would be rediculously easy to game the system. Simply create a bot that that reads a comment's score and moderates inline with that. Bingo, prop up the hegemony, fall inline like a good sheep (or bot) and you are rewarded with maximum influence. Hmmmm.
How about the complete opposite, you can moderate a topic only if you leave a short explantion of your reasoning. Meta-mods can choose to view your moderation AND explanation and agree/disagree with you. I am always worried about modding an unfactual post down (my only choice being "overated") for fear that a meta-mod simply won't understand, or do the work to uncover, the true facts. I'd like to be able to Mod (-1, Unfactual) for the following reasons: xyz.
Why don't people understand that you don't fuck with stuff you don't understand?
Wow, if we as a sepecies followed this "insightful" advice you'd be living in a cave digging for roots and bugs with a stick.
I think people like you are the worst kind. You are dumb but you don't realize you are dumb. A dumb person who realizes it is pretty well off. He knows enough to keep his mouth shut regarding things he doesn't understand and he knows enough to listen to people smarter than himself and, therefore, avoids trouble. A dumb person who doesn't *know* he's dumb is constantly walking around making inane remarks like the one above and getting himself into bad situations.
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A lot of my friends here, in canada, think it is illegal and that they may get "caught". They still download anyway.
If you are were running linux you could check /var/log/[syslog|messages] etc and see when the laptop was booted and shutdown...
They _are_ comfortable with emacs in a text window, right? That's what _I_ boot into :-)
::Pop quiz::
If the customs officials have no clue what your computer is doing, their likely reaction would be to:
A) Pat you on the back, apologize for wasting your time, and send you on your way.
B) Put you in a holding cell while they spent hours attempting to figure out your notebook.
How does appearing like you have something to hide help you at all? Best to make it boot into an innocuous windows partition.
And then reopen everything you closed when you shut-down.
It's not 1998 anymore. Almost all contemporary computers have a hibernate feature. I'm more concerned with re-opening all the defunct putty sessions and other network connections.
1) Throw in a knoppix cd /etc/passwd OR /etc/shadow and delete the garbled text between colons
2) boot
3) vi
4) eject cd drive
5) reboot
I think the proper way to deal with this is to have MySpace take the page down. Then at the next school assembly ask the perpetrator to come forward. Explain that if the responsible party owns up they will receive a rather light punishment however, if no one owns up an investigation will be done and, if the responsible party is found, a serve punishment will be given.
It is important for kids to learn that their actions have consequences and to take responsibility. If the kid who did it gets away cleanly under the noses of the entire student body you have just taught the entire school a bad life lesson.
To be fair CNN had dug up and aired all of the clips of Cheney's previous comments and they interviewed the CIA analyst, who's questions led Cheney to deny that he had previously claimed that there was a link between Al-Quaeda and IRAQ. They did all this BEFORE the daily even aired that night.
USAGE NOTE Aggravate comes from the Latin verb aggravre, which meant "to make heavier," that is, "to add to the weight of." It also had the extended senses "to annoy" and "to oppress." Some people claim that aggravate can only mean "to make worse," and not "to irritate," on the basis of the word's etymology. But in doing so, they ignore not only an English sense in use since the 17th century, but also one of the original Latin ones. Sixty-eight percent of the Usage Panel approves of its use in It's the endless wait for luggage that aggravates me the most about air travel.
Actually, microwaves can be way better than that. My microwave has a really cool interface. Rather than a keypad it has a wheel that you rotate to indicate the time. Time increases in 10 seconds increments. The wheel is speed and acceleration sensitive. When the microwave is running simply spin the wheel to add or substract time. Popcorn not quite done? Spin the wheel and add 30 seconds. Want to use it in the dark? It's a giant wheel with two buttons next to it "start" and "stop".
It's so simple that a completely blind person could use it. Simply rotate the wheel slowly and listen for the very soft audiable "clicks" that indicate and increase in time.
Also, this particular model has a builtin convection oven. The perfect microwave.
You left out some important information; what's the name of your product? what does it do? and where can I download the crack?
I thought the Canadian census went pretty well. I filled out the form online and despite that the Canadian Goverment had the genuine deceny pay for a gorgeous girl to comeover and tell me that I had an apartment "B" attached to my house when clearly I didn't (The must have noticed that I indicated I was "single" on the form). I invited her to share some wine in the garden with me and we are now both very thankfull to the Canadian goverment. Thanks guys....
We have something called the "Police Commisioner" in British Columbia. It is a provincial comission that has power over municipal police and provincial forces. Not sure how effective they really are but I will find out shortly.
I treat everyone, friends and strangers alike, with respect until they give me a reason to do otherwise. Unfortunately, regardless of your own actions if you are in the wrong place at the wrong time and look the wrong part you are occasionally disrepected by the police. Not a huge problem.
The bigger problem is that ALL the "good" cops just look the other way. The police have perfected the prisoner's delima. They call it a "blue brotherhood" or whatever. Basically the police have figured out that if they all keep quiet then nobody will ever get in trouble.
Granted, the trend in many places seems to be getting better. Cops no longer cover each other on blatant criminal activity (profiteering, murders etc). But it still seems to be OK to routinely abuse your power and nobody will speak up.
Well Einstien was German and it was found that his brain was different from a "normal" persons. His parietal operculum region was missing and, to compensate, his inferior parietal lobe was 15% wider than normal. Maybe germans have more of these people than other populations?
Absolutely true, just to add a very visible example; there was a case of the police in an Albertan city (edmonton?) whom had a regular policy of picking up native americans and dropping them off outside the city limits. This continued until one man froze to death 20 miles outside the city in freezing cold winter weather.
I have mod points but I'd rather post.
It's not so rosey up here in Canada. This past Canada Day the Victoria police instituted a policy of manditory searches on all buses heading downtown. They can get away with this because, on Canada Day, the bus is used mostly by young people going to clubs. I objected to being searched thinking that I would simply not be allowed back on the bus. Instead, to my complete surprise, the officer began to become very verbally abusive and I was arrested for "Drunk and Disorderly Conduct".
No breathalizer, no soberiety test, nothing. 100% soley based upon the officers "observation". I was processed and thrown into a dirty cement holding cell that lacked even toilet paper let alone a bed. As it stands the Victoria police can arest anyone at anytime under the charge of "Drunk and Disorderly" with no evidence and no soberiety test.
I can't wait for the day when *I* can video tape everything. That should provide a little balance to things.
Dude, not everybody is as smart as you. A lot of people who seems lazy are actually just a little stupid. Half the people have below average IQ. Yes it's true. Simple things like highschool can be difficult and overwelming for some people and as a result they seem lazy to you. A grade 11 math course for them may be the equivilent of fully understanding string theory for you. Imagine if in order to make above minimum wage, you had to fully comphrened advanced theoretical particle physics? If you had an IQ of 83 that's what life might be like for you.
A country as rich as the USA should give people a strong incentive to work hard but also take care of all those less fortunate. It's a shame that there are hungry people without medical care in the world's richest country.
Unless the hydrogen fuel cell simply isn't capable of providing enough enegery to achieve maximum acceleration. In that case energy from the battery and the fuel cell would be required to accelerate and the relatively low output fuel cell would charge the battery during less demanding periods.
The fuel cell would only need two states on and off. On, during acceleration and when the battery is low on charge and, off, when enegery demand is low and the battery is nearly fully charged. This way you could get away with using a relatively small fuel cell that is always running at it's most efficient output current. Seems smart to me.
Please don't wreck me for the formatting, I forgot how anal /. is... God, it's like a bunch of linux nerds run this place!
I know, but there is one thing I can't understand. Why do they have that preview button? A real linux nerd would never use it. Oh wait...
You should try pineapples again. I've noticed that the qaulity has drastically improved in the last three or four years. Probably the result of improved logistics and shipping.
Yes, but you are married and not in college (I assume). You *should* be past the stage of going out and getting plastered. You should have a collection of like minded professionals whom you have over for backyard barbeques and dinner parties while discussing politics, current events, sports or whatever you are into. Which I'm sure you do, but these other posters seem to think that the only thing "friends" are good for is going out to bar and getting hammered. Otherwise you might as well sit home and "hang out" on slashdot. This is probably the case because the average slashdotter doesn't find that they have much in common with the average person.
There are two solutions to that. Find like minded people with whom you can discuss your hobbies or maybe even help you with one of your projects (like that girlfriend you've been building in the basement). Or, alternatively, you can grow from that flat unidemensional person that you have become into a multidemensional person with lots of interests and hobbies. Take a dance class or some martial arts, go skydiving, join a chessclub, just once take home the ugliest girl in the bar, whatever floats your boat, just come out of the shoebox and live life.....and make some friends.
It would be rediculously easy to game the system. Simply create a bot that that reads a comment's score and moderates inline with that. Bingo, prop up the hegemony, fall inline like a good sheep (or bot) and you are rewarded with maximum influence. Hmmmm.
How about the complete opposite, you can moderate a topic only if you leave a short explantion of your reasoning. Meta-mods can choose to view your moderation AND explanation and agree/disagree with you. I am always worried about modding an unfactual post down (my only choice being "overated") for fear that a meta-mod simply won't understand, or do the work to uncover, the true facts. I'd like to be able to Mod (-1, Unfactual) for the following reasons: xyz.
Why don't people understand that you don't fuck with stuff you don't understand?
Wow, if we as a sepecies followed this "insightful" advice you'd be living in a cave digging for roots and bugs with a stick.
I think people like you are the worst kind. You are dumb but you don't realize you are dumb. A dumb person who realizes it is pretty well off. He knows enough to keep his mouth shut regarding things he doesn't understand and he knows enough to listen to people smarter than himself and, therefore, avoids trouble. A dumb person who doesn't *know* he's dumb is constantly walking around making inane remarks like the one above and getting himself into bad situations.
At first I thought having the word 'Nano' in my nick sounded cool and high tech
Wow, you are really cool. You can have a job at my company, CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet. We can synergise together.
Florida or Germany!