If they would just mount a frickin' laser beam on the Shuttle, this wouldn't be a problem. They should also mount lasers on the ISS. Anything that makes it more like a Death Star is tax money well spent.
What with all the automobile modifications for running computers, the next logical step is to simply replace the windshield with a monitor.
Cameras mounted on the front of the car would provide the driver with images from the road. The rest of the 'screen' could be divided into whatever the user(s) would like.
Say the passenger wants to play Quake, he opens a window and plays it on the right side, while the screen in the middle plays The Lion King for the kids in the back.
This would also allow stronger bodies on cars, as the composite used in place of windows would be far stronger than glass.
"Excluding a color screen, what more could one want in a toy?"
- GPS
- Hologram projection device
- Grappling hook
- Uranium energy cells (no need for batteries. ever.)
- Death ray (add pistol to list of things i can stop carrying around)
- Interfaces to every type of gaming console in existence
- Quake 3
Santa's gonna get a shakedown unless he produces the goods.
This isn't original, save feeding the bugs with beer.
We used Desulfovibrio desulfuricans to treat water in the Everglades with high mercury levels.
Modified Pseudomonas aeruginosa have been used for years to clean up oil spills from the hard to get places. Like in between rocks and underneath sand.
However, just because one attempt was crushed, doesn't mean the next one will be. If anything good is to be extracted from that mess, it proved that a 'free' mentality pervades a large minority, or perhaps a timid majority.
The hard-liners are getting old. They will die soon. If you can't beat them punch-for-punch, let nature take care of the problem.
"Some youths will submerge themselves in Internet bars for long periods, playing unhealthy games and adversely affecting their development as normal students."
If porn and video games do not make for normal students, I dare say that there has never been a normal male child, ever. Sex and games occupied most of my time while I was a student.
1) Kill the actor playing Annakin
2) Take acting lessons
3) Beat out everyone else during the screen test for Episode III so *I* can be the one that gets to be Luke's father, if you catch my drift.
The deadliest was Septicemic, killing 100% of the people that contracted it. However, there had to be a very specific set of circumstances (temerature, etc.) for a person to get this type.
Just FYI, Pneumonic killed about 90% of the people that got it and Bubonic killed about 75%.
"The Internet domain name registry CentralNic who commissioned the study, claims that the most common type of password attack comes in the form of "social engineering", when a cracker poses as technical support, and contacts someone in a different department within a big corporation claiming that there is a network problem, and asks for the user's password."
Brrrnnnggg!!!
Brrrnnnggg!!!
"Good morning and thank you for calling the sales department at ACME Widget Corporation. My name is Janet. How can I help you today?"
"Good morning, ma'am. This is the tech support department. We're currently installing quizzards for the loopstep stabilizers on your PC and we need your password."
"Oh, OK. My password is J-A-N-E-T."
(tapping sounds)
"Ummm... No, ma'am. That's your login name. We need your password. The thing that you type in after your login name."
"You mean that box underneath my name?"
"Yes, ma'am. The box that says "Password" next to it..."
"Oh it's B-U-S-T-E-R. That's my puppy's name."
(tapping sounds)
"No ma'am, that isn't it either."
"Yes it is. When the 'Password' box comes up I type that in or else I can't get my e-mail."
"That's the password to your e-mail account, Janet. When you FIRST turn the computer on, a box comes up that has a text entry field... err... I mean a little white rectangular box that you can type in, underneath your login name. What do you type in that box?"
"Nothing."
(silence)
"What do you mean 'nothing'?"
"I kept forgetting my password so one of the boys from the IT department set it to Auto Save so I wouldn't have to type it in."
(silence)
"Janet, can you please transfer me to the accounting department?"
As this crowd well knows, any computer-related class worth taking is very expensive. I'm of the opinion that proper training pays for itself, but I'm also of the opinion that tech workers are some of the most disloyal employees
on the planet.
They readily jump ship to the employer down the block for stock options. So, as the employer, what are you to do? Spend $20K-$50K per year training your employees, who simply plans to get as much experience and as many certifications out of you as they can so they can go job shopping with a resumé you paid for?
Contracts are a fair way of ensuring you at least get your money back from training classes. Say for every $1000 spent on training, the employee agrees to work for a month. If the employee chooses to break the contract, he will be financially liable to repay the company the remaining cost on his contract. This would also allow an ouside company to buy out an employee's contract if they *really* wanted him/her, without financially damaging the first employer.
Personally, I hate classes. You're always stuck at the absorption speed of the middle, and often low end, of the class learning curve. I'll take a well-written book anyday.
Those conditions really aren't that bad, especially in any area that has a few tall buildings. I was the systems manager for a hotel management company that had several properties in the Miami area. Most of our buildings were over 12 stories (roughly 130 feet) and none of them were more than 10 miles apart.
You'd be surprised at how little owners know about their rooftops. We had several defunct satellite dishes up there for years, just taking up space. No one knew nor cared. On most buildings, a person could stick an antennae/satellite dish and no one would be the wiser. If enough sys admins that run the networks for large buildings got together, it would be relatively easy to pull this off in even small cities.
Brains are not a turn-off. Intelligence, used correctly, may be the fastest way to seperate a girl from her clothing. Instead of wowing your date by repeating an entire Star Trek episode from memory, why not use your considerable intellect to learn French? Girls really dig that stuff, unless of course she happens to be from France...
But anyway, you know what I mean. Use your abilities to learn things that will impress girls. Memorize every work of Mozart and Beethoven and learn to play a few. Teach yourself a spoken language. Use your brain for something other than learning another programming language or OS.
Another thing, clean up your act. Work out. Get a tan. Pay attention to your wardrobe. You know those hot little sexpots you see bouncing around with their flat stomachs and perky asses? WTF makes you think they want some slouch with a beer keg for a stomach that dresses like their little brother? Most guys can clean up their acts to a very respectable degree, if they put forth the effort. So the 'terminally ugly' defense is rarely true. You, yes YOU, can look much better than you look right now.
Is it shallow? Maybe. But so what? If it gets you what you want, mission accomplished! It's a means to an end. I promise, you'll not feel shallow the first night you bed a really attractive girl.
I was at a strip club once and was sitting at the bar drinking a Corona. The ATM was about 5 feet away from where I was sitting. These two strippers walk over to the ATM with a stumbling drunkard supporting himself on their shoulders. They, stone sober, 'helped' him use his CC to withdrawl what had to be at least $1000. The weird part about this machine was that like the one you saw, it didn't require a PIN and it only allows the person to withdrawl $200 each time. And there's a $5.00 fee everytime you used it...
I swear what I saw was like watching someone getting mugged in an alley, but because it was two hot strippers committing the crime, it didn't seem so bad:)
At my former job, e-mail was the usual cause of my headaches as the network admin. E-mail brought us the Melissa and Love Letter virrii. The USER partition was filled to capacity when one of our sales people decided to e-mail over 7 gigs of pictures to clients... And our e-mail relay server was using a 56K frame relay line... Are sales and marketing people the dumbest, whiniest group of people in every company? Ugh. I'm glad I quit.
Anyway, I agree. E-mail is incredibly overrated. What the hell is wrong with a telephone? When people that are in local calling distance send me e-mail, I reply with my phone number. I consider e-mail inferior for some types of communication.
Slashdot Mirror
If they would just mount a frickin' laser beam on the Shuttle, this wouldn't be a problem. They should also mount lasers on the ISS. Anything that makes it more like a Death Star is tax money well spent.
Talisman
Have a glass window embedded in the composite for just such an emergency. Like tanks have the vision slits.
What with all the automobile modifications for running computers, the next logical step is to simply replace the windshield with a monitor.
Cameras mounted on the front of the car would provide the driver with images from the road. The rest of the 'screen' could be divided into whatever the user(s) would like.
Say the passenger wants to play Quake, he opens a window and plays it on the right side, while the screen in the middle plays The Lion King for the kids in the back.
This would also allow stronger bodies on cars, as the composite used in place of windows would be far stronger than glass.
Talisman
"Excluding a color screen, what more could one want in a toy?"
- GPS
- Hologram projection device
- Grappling hook
- Uranium energy cells (no need for batteries. ever.)
- Death ray (add pistol to list of things i can stop carrying around)
- Interfaces to every type of gaming console in existence
- Quake 3
Santa's gonna get a shakedown unless he produces the goods.
Talisman
This isn't original, save feeding the bugs with beer.
We used Desulfovibrio desulfuricans to treat water in the Everglades with high mercury levels.
Modified Pseudomonas aeruginosa have been used for years to clean up oil spills from the hard to get places. Like in between rocks and underneath sand.
Microbes: they're not just for diseases anymore.
Talisman
The desire to be free isn't necessarily learned. Usually, it's inherent.
Even ignorant farmers can loathe being under repressive control. It's in human nature, not college textbooks.
The desire to be free isn't necessarily learned. Often, it's inherent.
I'm not sure what's confusing you.
If there is a timid majority, it means secretly they want a different government, but are too afraid, or timid, to say so.
These same people are often referred to as the "silent majority".
Indeed, they once did try, and sadly, it failed.
However, just because one attempt was crushed, doesn't mean the next one will be. If anything good is to be extracted from that mess, it proved that a 'free' mentality pervades a large minority, or perhaps a timid majority.
The hard-liners are getting old. They will die soon. If you can't beat them punch-for-punch, let nature take care of the problem.
From the article:
"Some youths will submerge themselves in Internet bars for long periods, playing unhealthy games and adversely affecting their development as normal students."
If porn and video games do not make for normal students, I dare say that there has never been a normal male child, ever. Sex and games occupied most of my time while I was a student.
And I'm plenty normal. Just ask my psychiatrist.
Talisman
Here's my plan:
1) Kill the actor playing Annakin
2) Take acting lessons
3) Beat out everyone else during the screen test for Episode III so *I* can be the one that gets to be Luke's father, if you catch my drift.
Imagine if Episode III were rated XXX...
Why this falls under the 'Humor' icon, I can't figure out.
:( icon for such things.
You need a
A video of this guy giving the local UPS delivery person a DDT would have been funny, but not a destroyed computer.
Did they specifically state that they plan on hiring you? Most of the time, they simply obsolesce your presence. It's sort of their business plan.
I'm not ragging on you, but have you gotten any assurances, in writing?
Talisman
Damn, where are my MOD points when I need them?
"The most virulent & deadly version of plague (pneumatic)..."
Actually, there were three types:
Bubonic (lymph nodes)
Pneumonic (lungs)
Septicemic (blood)
The deadliest was Septicemic, killing 100% of the people that contracted it. However, there had to be a very specific set of circumstances (temerature, etc.) for a person to get this type.
Just FYI, Pneumonic killed about 90% of the people that got it and Bubonic killed about 75%.
"The Internet domain name registry CentralNic who commissioned the study, claims that the most common type of password attack comes in the form of "social engineering", when a cracker poses as technical support, and contacts someone in a different department within a big corporation claiming that there is a network problem, and asks for the user's password."
Brrrnnnggg!!!
Brrrnnnggg!!!
"Good morning and thank you for calling the sales department at ACME Widget Corporation. My name is Janet. How can I help you today?"
"Good morning, ma'am. This is the tech support department. We're currently installing quizzards for the loopstep stabilizers on your PC and we need your password."
"Oh, OK. My password is J-A-N-E-T."
(tapping sounds)
"Ummm... No, ma'am. That's your login name. We need your password. The thing that you type in after your login name."
"You mean that box underneath my name?"
"Yes, ma'am. The box that says "Password" next to it..."
"Oh it's B-U-S-T-E-R. That's my puppy's name."
(tapping sounds)
"No ma'am, that isn't it either."
"Yes it is. When the 'Password' box comes up I type that in or else I can't get my e-mail."
"That's the password to your e-mail account, Janet. When you FIRST turn the computer on, a box comes up that has a text entry field... err... I mean a little white rectangular box that you can type in, underneath your login name. What do you type in that box?"
"Nothing."
(silence)
"What do you mean 'nothing'?"
"I kept forgetting my password so one of the boys from the IT department set it to Auto Save so I wouldn't have to type it in."
(silence)
"Janet, can you please transfer me to the accounting department?"
"Don't you want to place an orde..."
"SILENCE, DUNCE! TRANSFER ME NOW!!!"
As this crowd well knows, any computer-related class worth taking is very expensive. I'm of the opinion that proper training pays for itself, but I'm also of the opinion that tech workers are some of the most disloyal employees on the planet.
They readily jump ship to the employer down the block for stock options. So, as the employer, what are you to do? Spend $20K-$50K per year training your employees, who simply plans to get as much experience and as many certifications out of you as they can so they can go job shopping with a resumé you paid for?
Contracts are a fair way of ensuring you at least get your money back from training classes. Say for every $1000 spent on training, the employee agrees to work for a month. If the employee chooses to break the contract, he will be financially liable to repay the company the remaining cost on his contract. This would also allow an ouside company to buy out an employee's contract if they *really* wanted him/her, without financially damaging the first employer.
Personally, I hate classes. You're always stuck at the absorption speed of the middle, and often low end, of the class learning curve. I'll take a well-written book anyday.
Those conditions really aren't that bad, especially in any area that has a few tall buildings. I was the systems manager for a hotel management company that had several properties in the Miami area. Most of our buildings were over 12 stories (roughly 130 feet) and none of them were more than 10 miles apart.
You'd be surprised at how little owners know about their rooftops. We had several defunct satellite dishes up there for years, just taking up space. No one knew nor cared. On most buildings, a person could stick an antennae/satellite dish and no one would be the wiser. If enough sys admins that run the networks for large buildings got together, it would be relatively easy to pull this off in even small cities.
"...no person in extreme need has submitted to Slashdot, but if they do, how would we respond?"
:(
Pop quiz, hotshots:
HHHHEEEEELLLLLLLPPPPPPP MMMMMMMEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
ESR just broke into my house. He's naked, covered in jelly and holding a gun along with a copy of ESR's Love Tips
What will you do?
Brains are not a turn-off. Intelligence, used correctly, may be the fastest way to seperate a girl from her clothing. Instead of wowing your date by repeating an entire Star Trek episode from memory, why not use your considerable intellect to learn French? Girls really dig that stuff, unless of course she happens to be from France...
But anyway, you know what I mean. Use your abilities to learn things that will impress girls. Memorize every work of Mozart and Beethoven and learn to play a few. Teach yourself a spoken language. Use your brain for something other than learning another programming language or OS.
Another thing, clean up your act. Work out. Get a tan. Pay attention to your wardrobe. You know those hot little sexpots you see bouncing around with their flat stomachs and perky asses? WTF makes you think they want some slouch with a beer keg for a stomach that dresses like their little brother? Most guys can clean up their acts to a very respectable degree, if they put forth the effort. So the 'terminally ugly' defense is rarely true. You, yes YOU, can look much better than you look right now.
Is it shallow? Maybe. But so what? If it gets you what you want, mission accomplished! It's a means to an end. I promise, you'll not feel shallow the first night you bed a really attractive girl.
Tell him to come to Miami. We don't give ANY aliens much hassle about being here, with or without passports :)
"...anyone have any experience using one?"
:)
I was at a strip club once and was sitting at the bar drinking a Corona. The ATM was about 5 feet away from where I was sitting. These two strippers walk over to the ATM with a stumbling drunkard supporting himself on their shoulders. They, stone sober, 'helped' him use his CC to withdrawl what had to be at least $1000. The weird part about this machine was that like the one you saw, it didn't require a PIN and it only allows the person to withdrawl $200 each time. And there's a $5.00 fee everytime you used it...
I swear what I saw was like watching someone getting mugged in an alley, but because it was two hot strippers committing the crime, it didn't seem so bad
"There's no such thing as NT on the Alpha chip."
Actually, there is.
At my former job, e-mail was the usual cause of my headaches as the network admin. E-mail brought us the Melissa and Love Letter virrii. The USER partition was filled to capacity when one of our sales people decided to e-mail over 7 gigs of pictures to clients... And our e-mail relay server was using a 56K frame relay line... Are sales and marketing people the dumbest, whiniest group of people in every company? Ugh. I'm glad I quit.
Anyway, I agree. E-mail is incredibly overrated. What the hell is wrong with a telephone? When people that are in local calling distance send me e-mail, I reply with my phone number. I consider e-mail inferior for some types of communication.
I was trolled. Fuck me.