I agree that the mother over reacted by calling the police. Marching up to the guy and giving a major scolding is more likely effective.
Oh, come on, now, you're being completely unreasonable. We're trying to build a society here where one can completely abdicate personal responsibility and avoid personal confrontations at all costs.
I often balk at the sentences our judicial system hands down (too much punishment for minor offenses, too little for major offenses), but in this case I think the punishment fits the crime.
Be careful with 'our'. In New Hampshire, this kind of sentence would likely be unconstitutional as it would not take 17 years to reform this guy. Imprisonment for the purposes of punishment is illegal here.
Windows gets lots of scrutiny - much more than competing OS
You figure the Windows source is getting more people doing better security reviews than Linux? If that's the case, then we'd have to assume that Microsoft isn't heeding the results. I'm not sure which is worse.
It's possible there's a case for military office workers to use Windows. But for vertical applications - well, the NSA went through this evaluation and wrote SELinux.
At least most of the embedded systems projects at the DoD are linux-based.
It's not a bad idea. Having the military prepare for 'cyberwarfare' is as smart as a company getting the guy who sits in the parking lot booth to do its firewall work.
Are they going to be tasked with 'financial warfare' and 'PR wars' next? How about the 'war on poverty' or the 'war on drugs'? Oh, wait, they are trying to bomb their way out of the medical problem. I guess we can expect core router closets to be bombed if there's ever a 'cyberattack' too.
(I now use Intel chips... I very much appreciate the whole "bolted to the motherboard" thing they've got going).
Which socket did you AMD have? Newer/better AMD sockets (e.g. G34) also bolt down. My Phenom II x6 (in my office server) had some sort of bracket that was a pain in the ass but also connected positively.
The Intel Core2 line's plastic clips are like what you describe. I have a box full of Intel fans that came in retail kids for which I went out to Best Buy (I know, surprised myself) and got the kind of fan that needs to be bolted from the bottom of the mobo. Squeezed some Artic Silver down with those bad boys.
So, basically by keeping the air gap very thin (30 microns), and by substantially shearing/mixing this thin air disk, its thermal conductivity can be sufficient to transfer heat up into the rotating fins. Overall a rather clever design.
I'm suspicious that this air gap is what's going to get plugged up with dust. Sure, a micro-fine particle will go right through and up the 'chimney', but a little dust bunny that dislodges will probably block the intake and then accumulate more dust.
One of them publish how to hurt men against their will using sex. Clearly she knew what she was doing,
Gosh, did the CIA just Google for an agent when it knew Assange was in Sweden? Is this the one who was doing the anti-regime intelligence work in Cuba, or the other one?
he Republicans want us to buy less-efficient bulbs so we can waste power on light and A/C
I have a lamp on an end table that probably gets used a half hour a day on average. I finally found a nice 3-way CFL for it last month. It fit the lamp, had a good color temperature, and the 3-way feature mostly worked (it had a good high/low distinction anyhow - I really only need 2-way. $9.97 at the store, but the box said I'd save $112 over the life of the bulb.
My 4-year old knocked the lamp on the floor two weeks after I installed it. He probably got a good whiff of mercury vapor from it.
From now on, CFL's only go on lamps that are fixed and out of reach. I have lots of them all over the house, but I'm going to stock up on incandescents too before they're gone. News flash for Congress: Americans tend to have children. News update: millions of people making financial decisions infinitely outclasses the societal engineering you're failing at.
I tried adding my Facebook e-mail address to a 'status slaves' circle, and then included it for updates.
Facebook is truncating them at 50 characters, apparently only when they come from Google's servers.
If there's somebody at the FTC who's been wanting to poke his bureaucratic nose up in Facebook's business, they sure are making it easy.
The Proprietary Phase is over. Facebook needs to participate in confederation if they're to survive. But it looks like they're going to take the 'kicking and screaming' approach.
I once heard 'Mr. Java' talk about how Oak was going to run on television remote controls and make them better. It may be that one of the reasons for Android's success is that Google was finally able to build a very good Java runtime for mobile. Or perhaps the hardware just finally got powerful enough, but it's a far cry from the microcontroller or 'java processor' design concept.
now, how do we get the rest of the dumb-fucks who live in this country to see that?
In a properly functioning government, it would be irrelevant what the 'dumb-fucks' think because the government wouldn't have enough power to screw things up so badly.
Alas, it appears that it's impossible to have a Government-type organization that doesn't spiral out of control eventually. Time to use modern technology to make that 1700's model obsolete. Remember, Jefferson only called for the People "to provide new Guards for their future security", not necessarily provide a new Government.
Do a search on the torrent sites. I've contributed some of my old Run, Enter, and Computer language magazines, and a great fellow scanned them. I help seed the torrents.
Reading a few years of those should give you a good taste of what life was like when we had to work the bellows to do our computing.
you SHOULD be right, but it depends on the locale. some believe that once you put it on curbside, the collections company (who you do NOT want to run up against) owns it.
There could be State statute that defines property thusly, but if there are any, I haven't seen them. Sounds like a local ordinance trying to redefine property rights. Any State that allows this doesn't deserve to have a population.
As far as I can tell, neither Chrome nor IE has suffered from this to anything like the same extent for literally years.
Yeah, Firefox has had a single-threaded UI forever, and it's apparently too hard to fix. Google saw this and made Chrome use a multi-process model instead (the unix way).
There's talk about Firefox going to this model too, but they've been talking about a threaded UI since at least 2001 (holy crap, that's a decade), so talk is cheap. As I said, apparently too hard, so one would expect Firefox to wilt on the vine before its UI becomes parallel. May even be cause and effect.
oblig: go to utube and search for 'dont talk to cops' part1 and part2. must-see viewing. this explains WHY you never want to speak up. never. never ever. its never in your best interests.
^this, this, and this.
Also watch the Flex Your Rights recent series, the one aimed at urban youth.
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I agree that the mother over reacted by calling the police. Marching up to the guy and giving a major scolding is more likely effective.
Oh, come on, now, you're being completely unreasonable. We're trying to build a society here where one can completely abdicate personal responsibility and avoid personal confrontations at all costs.
I'm against the death penalty, only because I see how the rest of government performs and can't believe the judicial system is any better.
It's not, and maybe worse. Donate to The Innocence Project - they're saving innocent people from imprisonment and execution.
I often balk at the sentences our judicial system hands down (too much punishment for minor offenses, too little for major offenses), but in this case I think the punishment fits the crime.
Be careful with 'our'. In New Hampshire, this kind of sentence would likely be unconstitutional as it would not take 17 years to reform this guy. Imprisonment for the purposes of punishment is illegal here.
Windows gets lots of scrutiny - much more than competing OS
You figure the Windows source is getting more people doing better security reviews than Linux? If that's the case, then we'd have to assume that Microsoft isn't heeding the results. I'm not sure which is worse.
It's possible there's a case for military office workers to use Windows. But for vertical applications - well, the NSA went through this evaluation and wrote SELinux.
At least most of the embedded systems projects at the DoD are linux-based.
It's not a bad idea. Having the military prepare for 'cyberwarfare' is as smart as a company getting the guy who sits in the parking lot booth to do its firewall work.
Are they going to be tasked with 'financial warfare' and 'PR wars' next? How about the 'war on poverty' or the 'war on drugs'? Oh, wait, they are trying to bomb their way out of the medical problem. I guess we can expect core router closets to be bombed if there's ever a 'cyberattack' too.
The glass and vapors are probably contained (good) but the bul bwould still be destroyed ($10 down the drain).
How did you get from my characterization of government as obsolete to the Constitution being precious to me?
(I now use Intel chips... I very much appreciate the whole "bolted to the motherboard" thing they've got going).
Which socket did you AMD have? Newer/better AMD sockets (e.g. G34) also bolt down. My Phenom II x6 (in my office server) had some sort of bracket that was a pain in the ass but also connected positively.
The Intel Core2 line's plastic clips are like what you describe. I have a box full of Intel fans that came in retail kids for which I went out to Best Buy (I know, surprised myself) and got the kind of fan that needs to be bolted from the bottom of the mobo. Squeezed some Artic Silver down with those bad boys.
So, basically by keeping the air gap very thin (30 microns), and by substantially shearing/mixing this thin air disk, its thermal conductivity can be sufficient to transfer heat up into the rotating fins. Overall a rather clever design.
I'm suspicious that this air gap is what's going to get plugged up with dust. Sure, a micro-fine particle will go right through and up the 'chimney', but a little dust bunny that dislodges will probably block the intake and then accumulate more dust.
If only he could rise to the ethical standards of 1990s Microsoft. Yeah, it's gotten that bad.
When you fight someone, you take on that person's qualities. You become that person. You become your enemy. And your enemy wins because now there's another one of him in the world.
All of Jobs's wanna-be John Lennon-isms are apparently just part of the facade - he wants to 'win', at all costs.
I'm glad SleazyRidr posted the next paragraph.
It appears that you were selectively quoting the article in an attempt to mislead your fellow Slashdotters. How do you answer this charge?
I'm about the last person to defend libertarians, since it's clear to me that under corporate rule
Characterization fail - libertarians want to do away with corporations (government-created entities).
One of them publish how to hurt men against their will using sex. Clearly she knew what she was doing,
Gosh, did the CIA just Google for an agent when it knew Assange was in Sweden? Is this the one who was doing the anti-regime intelligence work in Cuba, or the other one?
he Republicans want us to buy less-efficient bulbs so we can waste power on light and A/C
I have a lamp on an end table that probably gets used a half hour a day on average. I finally found a nice 3-way CFL for it last month. It fit the lamp, had a good color temperature, and the 3-way feature mostly worked (it had a good high/low distinction anyhow - I really only need 2-way. $9.97 at the store, but the box said I'd save $112 over the life of the bulb.
My 4-year old knocked the lamp on the floor two weeks after I installed it. He probably got a good whiff of mercury vapor from it.
From now on, CFL's only go on lamps that are fixed and out of reach. I have lots of them all over the house, but I'm going to stock up on incandescents too before they're gone. News flash for Congress: Americans tend to have children. News update: millions of people making financial decisions infinitely outclasses the societal engineering you're failing at.
I tried adding my Facebook e-mail address to a 'status slaves' circle, and then included it for updates.
Facebook is truncating them at 50 characters, apparently only when they come from Google's servers.
If there's somebody at the FTC who's been wanting to poke his bureaucratic nose up in Facebook's business, they sure are making it easy.
The Proprietary Phase is over. Facebook needs to participate in confederation if they're to survive. But it looks like they're going to take the 'kicking and screaming' approach.
I once heard 'Mr. Java' talk about how Oak was going to run on television remote controls and make them better. It may be that one of the reasons for Android's success is that Google was finally able to build a very good Java runtime for mobile. Or perhaps the hardware just finally got powerful enough, but it's a far cry from the microcontroller or 'java processor' design concept.
now, how do we get the rest of the dumb-fucks who live in this country to see that?
In a properly functioning government, it would be irrelevant what the 'dumb-fucks' think because the government wouldn't have enough power to screw things up so badly.
Alas, it appears that it's impossible to have a Government-type organization that doesn't spiral out of control eventually. Time to use modern technology to make that 1700's model obsolete. Remember, Jefferson only called for the People "to provide new Guards for their future security", not necessarily provide a new Government.
Do a search on the torrent sites. I've contributed some of my old Run, Enter, and Computer language magazines, and a great fellow scanned them. I help seed the torrents.
Reading a few years of those should give you a good taste of what life was like when we had to work the bellows to do our computing.
you SHOULD be right, but it depends on the locale. some believe that once you put it on curbside, the collections company (who you do NOT want to run up against) owns it.
There could be State statute that defines property thusly, but if there are any, I haven't seen them. Sounds like a local ordinance trying to redefine property rights. Any State that allows this doesn't deserve to have a population.
Chrome was doing this ... FF ... changed it for no great reason
See, you just contradicted yourself.
As far as I can tell, neither Chrome nor IE has suffered from this to anything like the same extent for literally years.
Yeah, Firefox has had a single-threaded UI forever, and it's apparently too hard to fix. Google saw this and made Chrome use a multi-process model instead (the unix way).
There's talk about Firefox going to this model too, but they've been talking about a threaded UI since at least 2001 (holy crap, that's a decade), so talk is cheap. As I said, apparently too hard, so one would expect Firefox to wilt on the vine before its UI becomes parallel. May even be cause and effect.
Hopefully Adobe updates Square as it is still at version 10.1.
Well, they finally committed to a 64-bit release on Linux this year, so yeah, Windows ought to be up soon.
oblig: go to utube and search for 'dont talk to cops' part1 and part2. must-see viewing. this explains WHY you never want to speak up. never. never ever. its never in your best interests.
^this, this, and this.
Also watch the Flex Your Rights recent series, the one aimed at urban youth.
The devs are going to run jobs while the machine is idle to corner the Bitcoin market.
But, wow, from the perspective of getting the Boss to buy awesome hardware for your pet projects - hey, we're not worthy.