I agree it would be the best process to review code before it gets committed. Sometimes adopting this standard is harder to adhere to when you have too little manpower to face the deadlines you have looming. That's when a real challenge begins to try and catch the organization and restore order before it falls headlong down a flight of stairs.
What I find to be important is to have a diverse staff. You can no more have a coding staff full of "superstars" than have a football team full of quarterbacks and wide-receivers. What I find a lot of people mean when they're asking for "superstars" is, "someone who produces a lot of code". Which sometimes is needed, a person that come hell or high water gets the problem solved. But I've also found that a lot of those people leave a path of uncommented and undocumented destruction in their path. In which case you need other talent that can polish their code or influence them to come back later and pickup the pieces. Those people are usually a little more academic, they might be as slow as Christmas and if you counted solely on them to get the product out the door... It would never get done.
As far as where you find higher quality people, I've had the best luck being involved in user groups, professional societies and getting leads from friends.
So you'll see the savings in about 5 years... Hold onto the money or buy a carbon credit. This is a feel good purchase in the first round, the best part about buying it now would be voting with your dollars that this is a technology you want to see more developed.
Professional political candidates do exist, and I don't think that they're that great of a thing. I think a leader should have experiences outside of government from which to draw upon to make them more effective. The problem I have with someone attacking a candidate simply for being an actor is in this case two-fold. First of all, Thompson has been an attorney and lobbyist which means that he has held other careers which give him direct insight into dealing with government... But most of all...
The first comment effectively is the same thing as "You're a drama geek, you can't be smart, and you cannot be trusted." What the heck is that?! Do we neccesarily need a governement full of professional statesmen, plumbers, or car mechanics? I'm sure no one here would endorse a government full of lawyers. So why look at someone's job and make a snap judgement on what kind of leader they would be?
The majority of the Slashdot community would all be insulted if someone said... You work in IT... You're a geek... You're ugly... probably live with your parents, don't have a girlfriend... you're going to die alone... and you don't make a difference in anyone's life. Those statements wouldn't be any less outrageous if you replaced IT with carpentry, banking, or any other profession including acting.
I love the fact that my original comment has been moderated "over-rated" by most of the people out there. I guess some people are more interested in censoring good discussion and thinking that makes them "right".
"On the Democratic side, the least dishonest politicians are Hillary Clinton, Dennis Kucinich, and Barack Obama."
Clinton, Kucinich and Obama are the least dishonest? Could you please give us access to the database of truth and lies from which you're pulling this bullshit statement?
"Of course, Fred Thompson has an excellent chance to win. Nothing is more superficial and flashy than an actor."
Nevermind the fact that Thompson has spent more time in elected office than Clinton or Obama... You pick on the fact that he's been an actor. That's really substantive... judging a book by it's cover. Thompson has been part of the Federal government scene since he was an Assistant US Attorney in the late sixties and early seventies. Thanks for the knee-jerk reaction though... you just reminded all of us in the center what disgusts us about partisan douchebags!
Notice how they call their form "secureapp.html" in order to give someone a false sense of security so they can go ahead and fill out the form with their social security number. Then submit it to an unencrypted action.
A.safe domain will give scammers and idiots more ammo and less reason to actually care about security.
I was skeptical until I actually saw it with my own eyes. What kind of genius works for them and pulls a bonehead move like that? Switch your nameservers and set up your own placeholder you lazy bastards. I wonder if the idea of pre-lawsuit settlement violates a GoDaddy TOS...
Registrant:
RIAA
14 8th Street NE
Washington, District of Columbia 20002
United States
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: P2PLAWSUITS.COM
Created on: 23-Jan-07
Expires on: 23-Jan-10
Last Updated on:
Administrative Contact:
Lamy, Jonathan lkennedy@riaa.com
RIAA
14 8th Street NE
Washington, District of Columbia 20005
United States
(202) 775-0101
Technical Contact:
Lamy, Jonathan lkennedy@riaa.com
RIAA
14 8th Street NE
Washington, District of Columbia 20005
United States
(202) 775-0101
Domain servers in listed order:
PARK9.SECURESERVER.NET
PARK10.SECURESERVER.NET
I hate spam, but traditional jail is excessive for anyone that sells e-mail or private information. I view jail as a place we should send people if the crime can actually cause physical harm to someone's life or limb. Then it makes sense for them to be physically seperated from society. If they commit a crime that's going to cost someone financially, drop a big punitive fine on their ass. Someone who sold private information so they could live the high life with a luxury car and a high rise penthouse should at worst face an entire life of paying back debts. They can live in a fleabag apartment and drive a pinto.
However, I wouldn't be opposed to say a sentence that put them in jail every weekend for two years. They can still try to earn an honest buck, and get a solid reminder of what they did wrong.
Aviation geeks have web sites they like to or have to look at every day. This advertisement is meant to target those people, and then creep out and get a few eyes outside of the aviation community. Someone looking at flight plans for aircraft in the Midwest would probably get a kick out of it.
It's kind of the same situation if you had someone outside of the tech community look at a review for a bright and shiny $5,000 PC. We all know it's excessive, expensive, and something a non-tech will hardly understand. However, it gets us thinking about the components, and the capabilities of some of the hardware in that PC. We then want to either pony up and buy it if we're well funded. Or we buy the components and try to build something similar. If we can't do that, we can buy a budget model from the same manufacturer.
Gulfstream was saying, "Hey look at our technology, the avionics, and the pilots that fly our aircraft." We can fly out of an airport and using our Garmin G1000 suite to carve a precise course and get to our destination relatively quickly. Compare that to, "Dual core processors make your database server retrieve data more quickly".
The $5,000 PC and the $50,000,000 both use up an obscene amount of resources... no doubt about that. But people flying these aircraft need practice too... They're not just the people flying billionaires around. Some of them fly commercial aircraft too. They have to get up there and learn how to use the systems and conduct long cross country flights before they're trusted with many human lives. If they throw in an advertising ploy in between... Hey... they're killing two birds with one stone. You wouldn't like it if someone came in and unplugged your PC while you were playing a game or reading Slashdot because you were, "Using up energy that was contributing to global warming", would you?
Having a regular phone line doesn't save you from possible the future of junk calls. The barrier is that people initiating the call up until now have had to spend a lot of money. If they can call a POTS line from overseas and not spend a boatload of cash, they'll call you sooner and more often considering your number is probably listed... Unlike most VOIP providers.
The hypothetical scenario described is extremely weak... I don't know of any people who have their address book that tightly integrated into their VOIP software/service. Even if they did, con-artists are like any other good engineer... lazy... they'll go for the low hanging fruit and defraud grandma by simply talking to her.
I wrote him an e-mail, but in the end I did want to post it here too.
Frank,
My situation was a little different than yours, but similar enough to compel me to seriously comment on your questions rather than fire off something on Slashdot.
I was dating a girl at the end of college and ended up in a situation in which the girl I was dating got pregnant and moved back home. There were details that were not entirely explainable and it later turned out, there was another man involved in her life. It did turn out that she had a boy, my son, and continues to live in her home state with him to this day.
Over a year it looked like things might be worked out to provide at least a happy arrangement in which we would travel back and forth and I would get to see him regularly. Then over Christmas holidays in 2004 his mother expressed that she "never loved me" and her attitude went from warm to cold very quickly. Since then we have had one visit together which occurred later that spring. Since then it has been a string of hurtful episodes and a lot of unanswered questions. I tried to visit in the fall of 2005 and spring of 2006 when I had time off from work, and when I had a business trip that took me to the midwest. Both times his mother either "had no time", or reduced the window of time that she had available to make seeing him impossible. Yet I know that not a month after I traveled up to that area she took a vacation and went to a concert within 5 miles of my house. She didn't say she was coming, she didn't offer to bring my son... I only found out through an errant message on MySpace a month after she had been here.
I don't think my job played into our separating, but I have encountered a couple of relationships, including one that lasted a year and ended this week... some people demand lots of your time. They can be the person that you spend the most time with in the world, and treasure more than anyone, and still not see that you love them. While it is your choice to spend that time with them or not, it is also up to them to love you for who you are and let you grow as a person. Both my ex-girlfriends had a similar statement that they once made, "A serious relationship is spending all the time you possibly can with that other person." and, "People in a serious relationship see each other more than two nights a week."
I always thought a "serious relationship" was about how you felt about someone and not punching a clock to be with them when they expect you to. Especially when I see the extremes in my clients. Married entertainment business couples spend weeks apart or fly home on weekends only. There are also the couples that work together and spend ALL there time together. No one can say which is better or worse, but one thing is for certain... Time is not the most important factor in a world where both types of these relationships can exist.
My hardest challenge is everyday knowing all the things that I am missing in his life. My greatest comfort is knowing that every time I have seen him in person or in photographs... he is happy and he is healthy. I worry when I hear that he has another ear infection, or that he has been sick.
Being an IT dad, I set him up an e-mail account... He's two, he can't even read... but one day he will read the notes and the letters... and hopefully watch the video if I find a good app the use with this crazy MacBook... Hopefully he will get to know his dad, and what he was/is really about.
I can hope that the situation gets better, and I do every day. The most important thing that I would say if the relationship between your ex is not amicable... get someone in the middle to act as a buffer. My son's mother wants to meet everything head on with a great deal of conflict in every encounter. If I press to see him, she questions why a
I went and checked out the 13.3" Macbook in black with the matte finish today. I think that it will hold up as well as the aluminum. (All the iBooks I have seen scratch like crazy) The keyboard is nice, and I would say it's neither better nor worse than that of my 12" PowerBook. I think it's a little crazy to charge an extra $150 for a black versus white finish... However, market demands it... I even bought a black iPod.
After getting my hands on it, I think I will eventually buy a black one. But still...
I wish that they had a 13.3 Pro coming out with a matte screen, backlit keyboard, and the extra little perks that the 15 and 17 Pro's have... But that would probably end up costing as much as the 15...
I agree with some of the other points in your post, however:
An interesting and very, very sad tidbit. The country is in a war it never should have entered, China is financing USA debt, which will give it tremendous leverage, while the president continues to boost 'defense' spending at the expense of social programs, Iran is spearheading a move away from the Dollar for petroleum trading, and a lot more. It's only taken 5 years for some people to come around to the facts that this is not a forthcoming or particularly well run government. Thanks Fox News, you've helped make that possible by bluring corporate interference in the news room, info-tainment and politics.
You just blamed a news outlet for starting a war, causing a trade deficit, budgetary and foreign relations problems and mistakes... at the behest of corporations?
Clarfiy this, is your whole jumpsuit made of tinfoil or is it just your hat?
News media tends to be a mirror of the public at large, and there are dissenting views in other outlets. You just said that you tend to trust those outlets. What you're doing in that last statement is trying to assign a "face" to the millions of people that simply don't agree with you. All media slants facts with opinion, so you're doing the right thing by cross checking news organizations to see that they are providing the facts... Which is what news is about... News organizations don't stay in business when they blatently lie and misrepresent the core facts of an issue.
I tend to find it "very, very sad" that less people vote than they should... I am also pissed off that Iran says that they're going to attack Israel if anyone moves against them... I am upset that my stocks went down in the market today... but blame NBC, CBS, CNN, Fox, and ABC... I'm not that crazy.
The lightweight prototype, called Strider URL Tracer, builds on the work within Microsoft's Cybersecurity and Systems Management group to keep tabs on a sophisticated typosquatting scheme that uses multilayer URL redirection to make money from Google's AdSense for domains program.
And then... Build a spider that hits every single one of those URLs driving Hoodia merchants into debt.
If you go to Dell and buy a laptop, you're for the most part, able to customize nearly everything to suit your needs.
Excellent! I'm off to order an Inspiron with the highly requested "Meat Thermometer" option.
I think that this will eventually end up being a lot like the Pentium III serial number fiasco. There will be some way to shut it off... People do eventually get frustrated and tired of technology that gets in their way. If this stuff is going to keep people from watching their movies at full resolution because they don't have a new and special monitor... They're going to complain until the software changes, find a way around it like DeCSS, or look for an alternative technology.
Think Dell can make me a laptop with backwards printed keys?
If you are intelligent and well spoken... call your local news and make a case for this being a bad idea.
Or, if you want to be an ineffective lump, go ahead and sit back and shut up... If you're going to complain, for god's sake aim your mouth in the right direction.
I challenge every voting Slashdot reader to actually do something about this one and send a fax in tomorrow. E-mail can be filtered and ignored, but choking the phone lines that serve them will serve as an ironic way of showing how unhappy we are with the prospect of this merger.
I am a customer of these organizations and I want this stopped in it's tracks.
Thanks for being such a fucking smartass. This is a discussion board, and sometimes you have to go out and do a little bit of research.
What is your objection to having to take an extra 2 minutes to get cold medicine? Especially when that small step has made it harder for someone to kill themselves or others? You give me one good reason...
These labs can be concealed, whether in the woods or in an apartment building. I am not so upset by the drug use and the crimes that users commit outside the manufacturing. The reason we have a check on the QUANTITY of this medicine purchased is so that it makes it harder to manufacture. Manufacturing meth is an extremely dangerous process, and it was getting out of hand.
I have seen numerous apartment fires due to meth labs. About one a week at the peak of the problem. People have been burned, people have died, and the lucky innocents in a neighboring apartment might just end up homeless. Pseudoephedrine is still legal, you just have to walk five more feet to counter to buy the medicine.
It is a simple fix, in between making this a prescription only drug and having it on the shelves. I do admit it sets a bad precedent for tracking what people purchase, and it could be abused. We have to keep the system honest, and that is possible... So please don't reach for your tinfoil hat just yet.
Since these laws, I have seen less fires, and have heard less about people losing their llves and property.
Slashdot Mirror
I agree it would be the best process to review code before it gets committed. Sometimes adopting this standard is harder to adhere to when you have too little manpower to face the deadlines you have looming. That's when a real challenge begins to try and catch the organization and restore order before it falls headlong down a flight of stairs.
What I find to be important is to have a diverse staff. You can no more have a coding staff full of "superstars" than have a football team full of quarterbacks and wide-receivers. What I find a lot of people mean when they're asking for "superstars" is, "someone who produces a lot of code". Which sometimes is needed, a person that come hell or high water gets the problem solved. But I've also found that a lot of those people leave a path of uncommented and undocumented destruction in their path. In which case you need other talent that can polish their code or influence them to come back later and pickup the pieces. Those people are usually a little more academic, they might be as slow as Christmas and if you counted solely on them to get the product out the door... It would never get done.
As far as where you find higher quality people, I've had the best luck being involved in user groups, professional societies and getting leads from friends.
So you'll see the savings in about 5 years... Hold onto the money or buy a carbon credit. This is a feel good purchase in the first round, the best part about buying it now would be voting with your dollars that this is a technology you want to see more developed.
Who could afford the diamond studded butt plug that inspired "Can You Feel the Love Tonight"?
"Always trust sofware from FBI.gov" is turned on by default in some browsers?
Spent on a sophisticated solution for detecting your IP address, and the FBI has integrated THIS into CIPAV.
Professional political candidates do exist, and I don't think that they're that great of a thing. I think a leader should have experiences outside of government from which to draw upon to make them more effective. The problem I have with someone attacking a candidate simply for being an actor is in this case two-fold. First of all, Thompson has been an attorney and lobbyist which means that he has held other careers which give him direct insight into dealing with government... But most of all...
The first comment effectively is the same thing as "You're a drama geek, you can't be smart, and you cannot be trusted." What the heck is that?! Do we neccesarily need a governement full of professional statesmen, plumbers, or car mechanics? I'm sure no one here would endorse a government full of lawyers. So why look at someone's job and make a snap judgement on what kind of leader they would be?
The majority of the Slashdot community would all be insulted if someone said... You work in IT... You're a geek... You're ugly... probably live with your parents, don't have a girlfriend... you're going to die alone... and you don't make a difference in anyone's life. Those statements wouldn't be any less outrageous if you replaced IT with carpentry, banking, or any other profession including acting.
I love the fact that my original comment has been moderated "over-rated" by most of the people out there. I guess some people are more interested in censoring good discussion and thinking that makes them "right".
"On the Democratic side, the least dishonest politicians are Hillary Clinton, Dennis Kucinich, and Barack Obama."
Clinton, Kucinich and Obama are the least dishonest? Could you please give us access to the database of truth and lies from which you're pulling this bullshit statement?
"Of course, Fred Thompson has an excellent chance to win. Nothing is more superficial and flashy than an actor."
Nevermind the fact that Thompson has spent more time in elected office than Clinton or Obama... You pick on the fact that he's been an actor. That's really substantive... judging a book by it's cover. Thompson has been part of the Federal government scene since he was an Assistant US Attorney in the late sixties and early seventies. Thanks for the knee-jerk reaction though... you just reminded all of us in the center what disgusts us about partisan douchebags!
Kind of like these people:
.safe domain will give scammers and idiots more ammo and less reason to actually care about security.
http://finalizetoday.com/secureapp.html
Notice how they call their form "secureapp.html" in order to give someone a false sense of security so they can go ahead and fill out the form with their social security number. Then submit it to an unencrypted action.
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<!JOKETYPE humor PUBIC "-//W3C//DTD YOURMOTHERML 1.0 Sarcastic//EN" "http://www.wtf.org/TR/yourmotherml1/DTD/yourmothe rml1-sarcastic.dtd">
<attitude>
<zinger>Learn to terminate a tag, jackass!</zinger>
<ps>j/k</ps>
</attitude>
I was skeptical until I actually saw it with my own eyes. What kind of genius works for them and pulls a bonehead move like that? Switch your nameservers and set up your own placeholder you lazy bastards. I wonder if the idea of pre-lawsuit settlement violates a GoDaddy TOS...
Registrant:
RIAA
14 8th Street NE
Washington, District of Columbia 20002
United States
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: P2PLAWSUITS.COM
Created on: 23-Jan-07
Expires on: 23-Jan-10
Last Updated on:
Administrative Contact:
Lamy, Jonathan lkennedy@riaa.com
RIAA
14 8th Street NE
Washington, District of Columbia 20005
United States
(202) 775-0101
Technical Contact:
Lamy, Jonathan lkennedy@riaa.com
RIAA
14 8th Street NE
Washington, District of Columbia 20005
United States
(202) 775-0101
Domain servers in listed order:
PARK9.SECURESERVER.NET
PARK10.SECURESERVER.NET
I hate spam, but traditional jail is excessive for anyone that sells e-mail or private information. I view jail as a place we should send people if the crime can actually cause physical harm to someone's life or limb. Then it makes sense for them to be physically seperated from society. If they commit a crime that's going to cost someone financially, drop a big punitive fine on their ass. Someone who sold private information so they could live the high life with a luxury car and a high rise penthouse should at worst face an entire life of paying back debts. They can live in a fleabag apartment and drive a pinto.
However, I wouldn't be opposed to say a sentence that put them in jail every weekend for two years. They can still try to earn an honest buck, and get a solid reminder of what they did wrong.
Aviation geeks have web sites they like to or have to look at every day. This advertisement is meant to target those people, and then creep out and get a few eyes outside of the aviation community. Someone looking at flight plans for aircraft in the Midwest would probably get a kick out of it.
It's kind of the same situation if you had someone outside of the tech community look at a review for a bright and shiny $5,000 PC. We all know it's excessive, expensive, and something a non-tech will hardly understand. However, it gets us thinking about the components, and the capabilities of some of the hardware in that PC. We then want to either pony up and buy it if we're well funded. Or we buy the components and try to build something similar. If we can't do that, we can buy a budget model from the same manufacturer.
Gulfstream was saying, "Hey look at our technology, the avionics, and the pilots that fly our aircraft." We can fly out of an airport and using our Garmin G1000 suite to carve a precise course and get to our destination relatively quickly. Compare that to, "Dual core processors make your database server retrieve data more quickly".
The $5,000 PC and the $50,000,000 both use up an obscene amount of resources... no doubt about that. But people flying these aircraft need practice too... They're not just the people flying billionaires around. Some of them fly commercial aircraft too. They have to get up there and learn how to use the systems and conduct long cross country flights before they're trusted with many human lives. If they throw in an advertising ploy in between... Hey... they're killing two birds with one stone. You wouldn't like it if someone came in and unplugged your PC while you were playing a game or reading Slashdot because you were, "Using up energy that was contributing to global warming", would you?
Having a regular phone line doesn't save you from possible the future of junk calls. The barrier is that people initiating the call up until now have had to spend a lot of money. If they can call a POTS line from overseas and not spend a boatload of cash, they'll call you sooner and more often considering your number is probably listed... Unlike most VOIP providers.
The hypothetical scenario described is extremely weak... I don't know of any people who have their address book that tightly integrated into their VOIP software/service. Even if they did, con-artists are like any other good engineer... lazy... they'll go for the low hanging fruit and defraud grandma by simply talking to her.
"Open Source PattyMail..." - Homer Simpson (drools)
with Spam... take that Hormel.
I wrote him an e-mail, but in the end I did want to post it here too.
Frank,
My situation was a little different than yours, but similar enough to compel me to seriously comment on your questions rather than fire off something on Slashdot.
I was dating a girl at the end of college and ended up in a situation in which the girl I was dating got pregnant and moved back home. There were details that were not entirely explainable and it later turned out, there was another man involved in her life. It did turn out that she had a boy, my son, and continues to live in her home state with him to this day.
Over a year it looked like things might be worked out to provide at least a happy arrangement in which we would travel back and forth and I would get to see him regularly. Then over Christmas holidays in 2004 his mother expressed that she "never loved me" and her attitude went from warm to cold very quickly. Since then we have had one visit together which occurred later that spring. Since then it has been a string of hurtful episodes and a lot of unanswered questions. I tried to visit in the fall of 2005 and spring of 2006 when I had time off from work, and when I had a business trip that took me to the midwest. Both times his mother either "had no time", or reduced the window of time that she had available to make seeing him impossible. Yet I know that not a month after I traveled up to that area she took a vacation and went to a concert within 5 miles of my house. She didn't say she was coming, she didn't offer to bring my son... I only found out through an errant message on MySpace a month after she had been here.
I don't think my job played into our separating, but I have encountered a couple of relationships, including one that lasted a year and ended this week... some people demand lots of your time. They can be the person that you spend the most time with in the world, and treasure more than anyone, and still not see that you love them. While it is your choice to spend that time with them or not, it is also up to them to love you for who you are and let you grow as a person. Both my ex-girlfriends had a similar statement that they once made, "A serious relationship is spending all the time you possibly can with that other person." and, "People in a serious relationship see each other more than two nights a week."
I always thought a "serious relationship" was about how you felt about someone and not punching a clock to be with them when they expect you to. Especially when I see the extremes in my clients. Married entertainment business couples spend weeks apart or fly home on weekends only. There are also the couples that work together and spend ALL there time together. No one can say which is better or worse, but one thing is for certain... Time is not the most important factor in a world where both types of these relationships can exist.
My hardest challenge is everyday knowing all the things that I am missing in his life. My greatest comfort is knowing that every time I have seen him in person or in photographs... he is happy and he is healthy. I worry when I hear that he has another ear infection, or that he has been sick.
Being an IT dad, I set him up an e-mail account... He's two, he can't even read... but one day he will read the notes and the letters... and hopefully watch the video if I find a good app the use with this crazy MacBook... Hopefully he will get to know his dad, and what he was/is really about.
I can hope that the situation gets better, and I do every day. The most important thing that I would say if the relationship between your ex is not amicable... get someone in the middle to act as a buffer. My son's mother wants to meet everything head on with a great deal of conflict in every encounter. If I press to see him, she questions why a
I went and checked out the 13.3" Macbook in black with the matte finish today. I think that it will hold up as well as the aluminum. (All the iBooks I have seen scratch like crazy) The keyboard is nice, and I would say it's neither better nor worse than that of my 12" PowerBook. I think it's a little crazy to charge an extra $150 for a black versus white finish... However, market demands it... I even bought a black iPod.
After getting my hands on it, I think I will eventually buy a black one. But still...
I wish that they had a 13.3 Pro coming out with a matte screen, backlit keyboard, and the extra little perks that the 15 and 17 Pro's have... But that would probably end up costing as much as the 15...
I agree with some of the other points in your post, however:
An interesting and very, very sad tidbit. The country is in a war it never should have entered, China is financing USA debt, which will give it tremendous leverage, while the president continues to boost 'defense' spending at the expense of social programs, Iran is spearheading a move away from the Dollar for petroleum trading, and a lot more. It's only taken 5 years for some people to come around to the facts that this is not a forthcoming or particularly well run government. Thanks Fox News, you've helped make that possible by bluring corporate interference in the news room, info-tainment and politics.
You just blamed a news outlet for starting a war, causing a trade deficit, budgetary and foreign relations problems and mistakes... at the behest of corporations?
Clarfiy this, is your whole jumpsuit made of tinfoil or is it just your hat?
News media tends to be a mirror of the public at large, and there are dissenting views in other outlets. You just said that you tend to trust those outlets. What you're doing in that last statement is trying to assign a "face" to the millions of people that simply don't agree with you. All media slants facts with opinion, so you're doing the right thing by cross checking news organizations to see that they are providing the facts... Which is what news is about... News organizations don't stay in business when they blatently lie and misrepresent the core facts of an issue.
I tend to find it "very, very sad" that less people vote than they should... I am also pissed off that Iran says that they're going to attack Israel if anyone moves against them... I am upset that my stocks went down in the market today... but blame NBC, CBS, CNN, Fox, and ABC... I'm not that crazy.
The lightweight prototype, called Strider URL Tracer, builds on the work within Microsoft's Cybersecurity and Systems Management group to keep tabs on a sophisticated typosquatting scheme that uses multilayer URL redirection to make money from Google's AdSense for domains program.
And then... Build a spider that hits every single one of those URLs driving Hoodia merchants into debt.
That... would actually be pretty cool.
Jesus Just Left Chicago...
t ist=&qdisc=&qtrack=Jesus+Just+Left+Chicago&n=10&x= 0&y=0u s+Just+Left+Chicago&allfields=NO&fields=track&allc ats=YES&grouping=none
http://gracenote.com/music/search-adv.html?q=&qar
http://www.freedb.org/freedb_search.php?words=Jes
See:
l avor=archive&list=ruby&id=20050914155500
http://www.linuxuniversity.org/cgi-bin/mail.cgi?f
So go have a pony parade today!
If you go to Dell and buy a laptop, you're for the most part, able to customize nearly everything to suit your needs.
Excellent! I'm off to order an Inspiron with the highly requested "Meat Thermometer" option.
I think that this will eventually end up being a lot like the Pentium III serial number fiasco. There will be some way to shut it off... People do eventually get frustrated and tired of technology that gets in their way. If this stuff is going to keep people from watching their movies at full resolution because they don't have a new and special monitor... They're going to complain until the software changes, find a way around it like DeCSS, or look for an alternative technology.
Think Dell can make me a laptop with backwards printed keys?
Where is the line to start the fight?
Fax or Call your Congressional Representatives.
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cdirectory/index.html
Drop these guys a line.
http://ftc.gov/
If you are intelligent and well spoken... call your local news and make a case for this being a bad idea.
Or, if you want to be an ineffective lump, go ahead and sit back and shut up... If you're going to complain, for god's sake aim your mouth in the right direction.
I challenge every voting Slashdot reader to actually do something about this one and send a fax in tomorrow. E-mail can be filtered and ignored, but choking the phone lines that serve them will serve as an ironic way of showing how unhappy we are with the prospect of this merger.
I am a customer of these organizations and I want this stopped in it's tracks.
Let me help you find it:
a ri&rls=en&q=Methamphetamine+Fire&btnG=Search/
Look up "meth fire" or "methamphetamine fire" and see how many articles you find from across the country.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&client=saf
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8769919/site/newsweek
http://www.rid-meth.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methamphetamine
Thanks for being such a fucking smartass. This is a discussion board, and sometimes you have to go out and do a little bit of research.
What is your objection to having to take an extra 2 minutes to get cold medicine? Especially when that small step has made it harder for someone to kill themselves or others? You give me one good reason...
These labs can be concealed, whether in the woods or in an apartment building. I am not so upset by the drug use and the crimes that users commit outside the manufacturing. The reason we have a check on the QUANTITY of this medicine purchased is so that it makes it harder to manufacture. Manufacturing meth is an extremely dangerous process, and it was getting out of hand.
I have seen numerous apartment fires due to meth labs. About one a week at the peak of the problem. People have been burned, people have died, and the lucky innocents in a neighboring apartment might just end up homeless. Pseudoephedrine is still legal, you just have to walk five more feet to counter to buy the medicine.
It is a simple fix, in between making this a prescription only drug and having it on the shelves. I do admit it sets a bad precedent for tracking what people purchase, and it could be abused. We have to keep the system honest, and that is possible... So please don't reach for your tinfoil hat just yet.
Since these laws, I have seen less fires, and have heard less about people losing their llves and property.