The idea that corruption, greed, and "evil" were less present, or more subdued back in the 18th Century is simply fallacious. Human nature has not changed appreciably in thousands of years, and politicians back in "the day" were every bit as questionable as they are today. That is to say, they were human. Likewise, books written several hundred years ago are no more reliable than their counterparts written today. Just because we made up new words like "spin," doesn't mean we've invented new behavior.
We do tend to glamorize the past though, especially anything older than living memory, and the founding of America and the people involved have long since made the transition from historical to mythological. There's an idea that things were always better "back then," and that we've somehow strayed from the ideal, when in fact we never reach ideals, which is why they're called such. We wrestle with the same questions today which have been debated for hundreds of years. The unerring sense of purpose and direction so evident in our forefathers is simply the result of hindsight along with a heavy dose of nostalgia, and the choices they made were only "right" because we have nothing to compare them against, and because we marginalize their failures.
Since the overwhelming majority of driving is within 10 miles of the home (90% iirc), any land mass greater than 314 sq.mi. will provide roughly equivelant annual driving distances. Case in point. (Honolulu is 1/10th the size of the UK).
I don't get it. What's so special about transformers? Maybe I'm missing something.
You must be. Let me break it down for you:
A Transformer or Transportation Former is an intelligent machine that is able to "transform", reconfiguring itself into a common and innocuous form, such as a car, aircraft, or animal. The taglines "More Than Meets the Eye" and "Robots in Disguise" reflect this ability. Additionally, this "transformation" is often accompanied by a "Wa-a-a-a" sound, not unlike the sound the lead singer makes in the song "Down With the Sickness," although several octaves lower and somewhat more synthesized-sounding.
I'm pretty sure there's some sort of relationship, if not directly proportional then close to it, between the number of people using some software and the number of people testing it. It's not as if the vulnerability testing community just rolled some dice and said "Crap, another MS product.. what are the odds?"
it's a federally protected building right above a train hub and across from the sears tower
Good thing you didn't specify which Federally protected building right above a train hub and across from the Sears tower.
"Hi internet! I live at 123 Sunset Dr., I have a 50" plasma TV, a few oz of gold ingot, and I'm gone from 8AM to 5:30PM. I have a security system and keep the doors locked, so you should know that the alarm code is 1573, and the spare key is under the gnome. No, no.. the other gnome."
I'm all for public disclosure and transparent government, but this is hardly NSA evesdropping, and if what you said is true, then you've honestly made your building less secure by posting this information. Maybe you should consider a) telling someone other than 50,000 strangers on Slashdot, and b) thinking about what you post before you post it.
The reality is that Will Wright has revolutionized the industry at least twice - and is paused to do so again.
I think you mean poised, but you're correct about everything else. The Sim style games aren't generally popular among the same crowd that plays most of the other genres, but that segment also vastly outnumbers the rest of us. Not a niche by any means. Too bad FUD gets modded up over fact.
They also had the Sega Channel, which kicked ass. For $13/mo (I think it was), you had access to 50 games, most of which were full version, and new games were added every month or so. It was perfect in college when we didn't have money to buy the actual games. Ok, that's not entirely true, but there were other priorities, like beer, which demanded the lions share of our funds. Anyway, it was a great way to get a lot of games (legally) on the cheap. The sucky part was that my roommate would always download Street Fighter II when I was asleep and I'd lose my Phantasy Star saved games. Bastard.
Not replying to you in particular, but it's funny to look at the responses getting modded up now compared to the same discussions about EQ five years ago. The same statements about the addictive qualities of these games would get modded into oblivion back then, and most of the comments getting modded up were along the lines of, "I'm not addicted, you are! I can quit any time I want."
Anyway, I went through my addictive phase in EQ.. I tried WoW, but it just seemed like the same old, with even less impetus for "social" interaction. When I played EQ though, I absolutely played fewer other games.. after all, why would I want to beat Deux Ex when I could be camping for a Hierophant's Cloak?
At the same time, I wasn't making much money back then, and part of the appeal of EQ was that it was cheap entertainment. Perhaps if major games didn't cost $50-$70 a pop, they would enjoy a wider audience.
Because the republicans are likely to impeach Bush? And before you talk about the dems pulling a majority congress out of their collective derriers in '06, you should be aware that it takes a supermajority to convict.
You also seem to forget that Clinton was aquitted.
So a company waited for problems to show up more than once before issuing a complete product recall. Why is this news? One or two could be a quirk, and "dozens," vague as it is, sounds about right.
If they legalized pot...well, I guess they wouldn't get too much tax revenue...since people could easily grow the stuff themselves.
Because people often grow their own tobacco? People are too lazy to grow their own on the whole.. only hobbyists and the cheap/poor would grow their own. And farmers of course.
I still think a great deal of opposition to legalizing pot, is from the one industry that stands to lose the most...the liquor industry.
That's like saying the liquor industry is against cigarettes. Most people will probably just do both.. the fraction of people who will give up one in favor of the other is likely negligible.
Dude.. women are the best blockers, ever. Trust me, nobody can block a popup as quickly or effectively as a woman, especially if she's the "hot one"'s friend.
Although that's still a point in favor of Firefox.
Then we'd be able to see those signals -- they'd show up on a spectrum analyzer, or similar equipment. We might not know what information was contained in the signals, but they would show up nonetheless. Essentially the theory of ESP replaces "radio waves" with X, but has no idea what X is. That would be fine, if we could see evidence of some sort of communication/precognition/whatever, and then we could try to find X, but there's not even any convincing evidence that any communication is occuring in the first place, therefore we must rationally conclude that ESP is fantasy.
I wonder how easy it is to find a MAC that is valid for a network?
Go to a "friend" / roommate / coworker / public computer and
ipconfig/all
It sounds like you'd already have to have access to the network or a computer that is authorized for the network to get the MAC.
Obviously anyone who has physical access probably already has legitimate access and just wants to cover their tracks, but many people leave their computers unlocked and/or many networks (especially educational) have public terminals.
Slashdot Mirror
The idea that corruption, greed, and "evil" were less present, or more subdued back in the 18th Century is simply fallacious. Human nature has not changed appreciably in thousands of years, and politicians back in "the day" were every bit as questionable as they are today. That is to say, they were human. Likewise, books written several hundred years ago are no more reliable than their counterparts written today. Just because we made up new words like "spin," doesn't mean we've invented new behavior.
We do tend to glamorize the past though, especially anything older than living memory, and the founding of America and the people involved have long since made the transition from historical to mythological. There's an idea that things were always better "back then," and that we've somehow strayed from the ideal, when in fact we never reach ideals, which is why they're called such. We wrestle with the same questions today which have been debated for hundreds of years. The unerring sense of purpose and direction so evident in our forefathers is simply the result of hindsight along with a heavy dose of nostalgia, and the choices they made were only "right" because we have nothing to compare them against, and because we marginalize their failures.
Since the overwhelming majority of driving is within 10 miles of the home (90% iirc), any land mass greater than 314 sq.mi. will provide roughly equivelant annual driving distances. Case in point. (Honolulu is 1/10th the size of the UK).
That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Everbody knows transformers work on AC, and alternators output DC. They're wholly incompatible!
I don't get it. What's so special about transformers? Maybe I'm missing something.
You must be. Let me break it down for you:
A Transformer or Transportation Former is an intelligent machine that is able to "transform", reconfiguring itself into a common and innocuous form, such as a car, aircraft, or animal. The taglines "More Than Meets the Eye" and "Robots in Disguise" reflect this ability. Additionally, this "transformation" is often accompanied by a "Wa-a-a-a" sound, not unlike the sound the lead singer makes in the song "Down With the Sickness," although several octaves lower and somewhat more synthesized-sounding.
Now do you get it?
News is entertainment.
by merc (115854) Alter Relationship on Sunday July 23, @11:51AM (#15764667)
(http://upt.org/lane)
Note that I did not say he was stupid, hence I post as AC.
It works better when you check the "Post Anonymously" box.
Either that, or my Matrix-like skillz allow me to instantly see through such trivial privacy protections.
But they have puppies and children on their website, how could they be bad?!
I'm pretty sure there's some sort of relationship, if not directly proportional then close to it, between the number of people using some software and the number of people testing it. It's not as if the vulnerability testing community just rolled some dice and said "Crap, another MS product.. what are the odds?"
it's a federally protected building right above a train hub and across from the sears tower
Good thing you didn't specify which Federally protected building right above a train hub and across from the Sears tower.
"Hi internet! I live at 123 Sunset Dr., I have a 50" plasma TV, a few oz of gold ingot, and I'm gone from 8AM to 5:30PM. I have a security system and keep the doors locked, so you should know that the alarm code is 1573, and the spare key is under the gnome. No, no.. the other gnome."
I'm all for public disclosure and transparent government, but this is hardly NSA evesdropping, and if what you said is true, then you've honestly made your building less secure by posting this information. Maybe you should consider a) telling someone other than 50,000 strangers on Slashdot, and b) thinking about what you post before you post it.
And a few years later we will all get Alzheimer's.
Not if Bush signs the stem cell legislation!
The reality is that Will Wright has revolutionized the industry at least twice - and is paused to do so again.
I think you mean poised, but you're correct about everything else. The Sim style games aren't generally popular among the same crowd that plays most of the other genres, but that segment also vastly outnumbers the rest of us. Not a niche by any means. Too bad FUD gets modded up over fact.
They also had the Sega Channel, which kicked ass. For $13/mo (I think it was), you had access to 50 games, most of which were full version, and new games were added every month or so. It was perfect in college when we didn't have money to buy the actual games. Ok, that's not entirely true, but there were other priorities, like beer, which demanded the lions share of our funds. Anyway, it was a great way to get a lot of games (legally) on the cheap. The sucky part was that my roommate would always download Street Fighter II when I was asleep and I'd lose my Phantasy Star saved games. Bastard.
Not replying to you in particular, but it's funny to look at the responses getting modded up now compared to the same discussions about EQ five years ago. The same statements about the addictive qualities of these games would get modded into oblivion back then, and most of the comments getting modded up were along the lines of, "I'm not addicted, you are! I can quit any time I want."
Anyway, I went through my addictive phase in EQ.. I tried WoW, but it just seemed like the same old, with even less impetus for "social" interaction. When I played EQ though, I absolutely played fewer other games.. after all, why would I want to beat Deux Ex when I could be camping for a Hierophant's Cloak?
At the same time, I wasn't making much money back then, and part of the appeal of EQ was that it was cheap entertainment. Perhaps if major games didn't cost $50-$70 a pop, they would enjoy a wider audience.
Because the republicans are likely to impeach Bush? And before you talk about the dems pulling a majority congress out of their collective derriers in '06, you should be aware that it takes a supermajority to convict.
You also seem to forget that Clinton was aquitted.
So a company waited for problems to show up more than once before issuing a complete product recall. Why is this news? One or two could be a quirk, and "dozens," vague as it is, sounds about right.
Something to prevent you from changing discs, tracks or stations unless the transmission is in park.
That's just a recipe for transmission guts getting spilled all over the freeway.
If they legalized pot...well, I guess they wouldn't get too much tax revenue...since people could easily grow the stuff themselves.
Because people often grow their own tobacco? People are too lazy to grow their own on the whole.. only hobbyists and the cheap/poor would grow their own. And farmers of course.
I still think a great deal of opposition to legalizing pot, is from the one industry that stands to lose the most...the liquor industry.
That's like saying the liquor industry is against cigarettes. Most people will probably just do both.. the fraction of people who will give up one in favor of the other is likely negligible.
I predict that copying and pasting +5 comments from the previous discussion will result in quick and easy karma.
Dude.. women are the best blockers, ever. Trust me, nobody can block a popup as quickly or effectively as a woman, especially if she's the "hot one"'s friend.
Although that's still a point in favor of Firefox.
Thanks Comcast, I'll check it out!
In my day, we used Pirates to hunt for children.
Yarrr!
Then we'd be able to see those signals -- they'd show up on a spectrum analyzer, or similar equipment. We might not know what information was contained in the signals, but they would show up nonetheless. Essentially the theory of ESP replaces "radio waves" with X, but has no idea what X is. That would be fine, if we could see evidence of some sort of communication/precognition/whatever, and then we could try to find X, but there's not even any convincing evidence that any communication is occuring in the first place, therefore we must rationally conclude that ESP is fantasy.
Obviously there's no point in taking the tests if you have to google for them.
I wonder how easy it is to find a MAC that is valid for a network?
/all
Go to a "friend" / roommate / coworker / public computer and
ipconfig
It sounds like you'd already have to have access to the network or a computer that is authorized for the network to get the MAC.
Obviously anyone who has physical access probably already has legitimate access and just wants to cover their tracks, but many people leave their computers unlocked and/or many networks (especially educational) have public terminals.
Exactly. It would have been better if their motion to withdraw was denied. Essentially they got off scott free for abusing the judicial system.