To be at all funny, an April Fools item has to have some potential to actually fool somebody. Having a special icon would make that impossible. Not that it matters, since the basic joke is so worn out, nobody is ever fooled anyway.
That's why I thought the first few shouldn't have the icon. In the past, the editors here have usually used the trickiest ones first. After that, it's just a show of the tricks everyone else is doing. My favorite April Fool's jokes are on NPR's All Things Considered. They understand the technique.
You really can fool people on April 1st. I've done it many times. The trick is to start with a really believable story. I suggest a true story for that. Then let the story gradually get out of hand. Don't do it in one crazy blow (like most Slashdot ones), but let the story get gradually crazier and crazier. If you do it just right, they will follow you the entire way. I think it says a lot about the way we think.
I love all the April Fools stories, but it would be nice if they had an icon for it, so people could drop the stories if they are bothered. Of course the first few would be posted with out the icon, just for fun. What icon should be use? I nominate Darl.
US law requires it. Such laws are designed to make people feel safer. If people feel safer, it's good for the economy. Anyway, it's not like the question hurts anyone (other than it's a waste of time).
Do I sound like a cynic looking for a silver lining?
I'm not picking on you, really. I also wrote about 10x more than I expected when I started.
This kind of thing is pretty much because Dell started serving business first. We never have these kinds of problems. Unlike you, we always get a quote before ordering (required) and ask delivery time. There's always someone at the front desk. We have no problems at all with Dell; even warranty support is a breeze. Of course our organization is registered at the website and well all have individual logins. If I'm not building it myself, I always buy Dell. That's about 50% of my commodity hardware. I say commodity, because we buy some pretty pricey scientific hardware. I've spent $10K for a digitizer board.
I also recommend Dell to most first time computer buyers. I've never heard anyone say they had a problem, but that's only a handful of computers. Dell has been rated very high on every survey I've seen. Some companies I used to love are now always on the bottom, but I left them before they fell too far, because I could feel the service getting worse. I'm sure Dell will fail me someday, but advances in information technologies has made good service very cheap these days.
I'll drop Dell in an instant if I'm not happy. I agree that you should. I just hope it never happens to me. I had a serious problem with Sun support. They were never straight with me. Later there was lots of talk online about these problems and after years of weekly reboots a BIOS update fixed everything. We only did the update to go from 32 to 64 bits, since no one ever admitted our product line had the same problems. I never bought another Sun.
These bugs can also be used to catch war drivers. Another trick I've seen in a white paper was to transmit fake traffic from an unused IP address and watch for reverse DNS lookups.
I've seen sociopaths resort to compulsive obsessive revenge mode, but I agree that they generally don't consider most people to be worthy of it. I think the Petswarehouse guy is a good example of a sociopath losing it and going on a legal rampage. I've also seen spammers lose it and go for revenge.
(Is he still around? I said that I think it is an example, but I'm not saying I know it is.)
Michael was very articulate and calm during the interview. He appears convinced of what he says and advertises.
Sociopaths are dangerous people.
Tracking them down is fine, but be careful if you decide to tangle with one. Some will dedicate their life to revenge.
At a recent science conference everyone was
passing files on USB drives. Yes, they want
them back. I'm not sure if we are really
past those days.
People seem to prefer them to burning CDs.
I think the fact that the DVD is pure information and a car is a physical object, not subject to casual duplication, might be a difference, but who knows?
It's funny you would say that, after I read
this in the article.
Automakers are fighting the legislation; they believe the real goal is to obtain proprietary "calibration codes" that are the blueprints for how parts are made. With that information, Territo said, independent mechanics and parts manufacturers could duplicate major components such as fuel injectors that automakers have spent millions of dollars developing.
The magnet in an MRI machine has a frequency of 0 Hz. If you want to hear sound from you speakers, the frequency of the magnetic field need to be higher. The frequency is simply how many times the field cycles (reverses and back again). Static magnetic fields have uses, but are a subset of useful magnetic fields.
As you increase the frequency of the magnetic field, all magnetic materials stop behaving like magnetic materials. This article is about pushing that envelope higher.
I'm a computer geek with an interest in RF. I'm by no means an expert, but I find this field of research very exciting and most of the comments here have been along the lines of "So What?" and "Huh?", so I'll explain how I see it.
Over the years the useful frequencies for radio waves have gotten shorter and shorter. Shorter frequencies have a lot of benefits and drawbacks. The biggest benefit is almost unlimited bandwidth. Drawbacks include range and lack of technology. Even with the drawbacks, we see higher and higher frequencies used in everyday devices.
Both light and radio are electromagnetic waves (EM). There's a gap between light and radio. It's between infrared and microwaves. These are the terahertz frequencies. You can do neat things with terahertz. It's a little like light, a little like radio.
The problem is the technology. It's still hard to do anything at those frequencies. This article is about closing that gap. Closing it from the low frequency (radio) side where magnetism plays a larger roll.
Not that dumb. It's true that Microsoft
only has $6.4 billion (June 2003) in cash, but they
have $42.6 billion in short-term investments.
That's pretty close to $50 billion in liquid
assets.
No, because that suggest that rights are inherant and humans are breaching them, rather than what actually happens, which is that humans decide what the rights are in the first place.
Not everyone agrees with you.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Seeing as any changes the NSA make are presumably only used internally by the agency, they are under no obligation to release the source. So this is quite a community spirited move on their part.
Not just for the reason you said. Last time Microsoft complained to congress about the government competing with private industry. I'm glad to see the tactic didn't work this time.
Did you look at the video? I thought it looked really low quality. I assume that was ideal conditions for viewing. A baby photo on a coin? Can't you find anything there? I guess you're not much of a smartass.
While I think it's really lame, I'm excited anyway. The EU lets each member state control only one side of the coin, the other is fixed. I see this as an opening shot. I look forward to the next member state that tries to do better than the Dutch. I like this better than when they used to kill each other.
So what? Your grandma gets investigated.
She has nothing to hide. So after
months of jumping through hoops and being
accused of all kinds of thing she finally
provides enough documentation to call off
the hounds. I don't seen any problem with
this kind of system, neither does Johnnie Thomas.
I'm so sick of hearing the "nothing to hide" argument. I don't think most people really understand
what it will be like to live under constant
government monitoring. We'll have to not only
obay the law, but a secret set of rules to
avoid being accused of breaking the law.
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This is offtopic. Just because it says IRS doesn't mean it's time for a debate on taxes. Not that the poster had the guts to write anything.
Yes, this comment is offtopic too, I wish I could mod it down myself. Seriously.
No one would ever forget Make Penis Fast after reading it. No male that is.
I don't know if the link was broken before, but it worked fine for me. I hope it's worth the $150, just to find out if they'll send something.
That's why I thought the first few shouldn't have the icon. In the past, the editors here have usually used the trickiest ones first. After that, it's just a show of the tricks everyone else is doing. My favorite April Fool's jokes are on NPR's All Things Considered. They understand the technique.
You really can fool people on April 1st. I've done it many times. The trick is to start with a really believable story. I suggest a true story for that. Then let the story gradually get out of hand. Don't do it in one crazy blow (like most Slashdot ones), but let the story get gradually crazier and crazier. If you do it just right, they will follow you the entire way. I think it says a lot about the way we think.
You can, but that would lead to DOS by TCP resource starvation.
I love all the April Fools stories, but it would be nice if they had an icon for it, so people could drop the stories if they are bothered. Of course the first few would be posted with out the icon, just for fun. What icon should be use? I nominate Darl.
US law requires it. Such laws are designed to make people feel safer. If people feel safer, it's good for the economy. Anyway, it's not like the question hurts anyone (other than it's a waste of time).
Do I sound like a cynic looking for a silver lining?
This kind of thing is pretty much because Dell started serving business first. We never have these kinds of problems. Unlike you, we always get a quote before ordering (required) and ask delivery time. There's always someone at the front desk. We have no problems at all with Dell; even warranty support is a breeze. Of course our organization is registered at the website and well all have individual logins. If I'm not building it myself, I always buy Dell. That's about 50% of my commodity hardware. I say commodity, because we buy some pretty pricey scientific hardware. I've spent $10K for a digitizer board.
I also recommend Dell to most first time computer buyers. I've never heard anyone say they had a problem, but that's only a handful of computers. Dell has been rated very high on every survey I've seen. Some companies I used to love are now always on the bottom, but I left them before they fell too far, because I could feel the service getting worse. I'm sure Dell will fail me someday, but advances in information technologies has made good service very cheap these days.
I'll drop Dell in an instant if I'm not happy. I agree that you should. I just hope it never happens to me. I had a serious problem with Sun support. They were never straight with me. Later there was lots of talk online about these problems and after years of weekly reboots a BIOS update fixed everything. We only did the update to go from 32 to 64 bits, since no one ever admitted our product line had the same problems. I never bought another Sun.
These bugs can also be used to catch war drivers. Another trick I've seen in a white paper was to transmit fake traffic from an unused IP address and watch for reverse DNS lookups.
(Is he still around? I said that I think it is an example, but I'm not saying I know it is.)
Sociopaths are dangerous people. Tracking them down is fine, but be careful if you decide to tangle with one. Some will dedicate their life to revenge.
At a recent science conference everyone was passing files on USB drives. Yes, they want them back. I'm not sure if we are really past those days. People seem to prefer them to burning CDs.
It's funny you would say that, after I read this in the article.
Automakers are fighting the legislation; they believe the real goal is to obtain proprietary "calibration codes" that are the blueprints for how parts are made. With that information, Territo said, independent mechanics and parts manufacturers could duplicate major components such as fuel injectors that automakers have spent millions of dollars developing.
If I was king, all the codes would be public.
Interestingly, they don't list any 13-year broods in 2004 (unlike CNN).
As you increase the frequency of the magnetic field, all magnetic materials stop behaving like magnetic materials. This article is about pushing that envelope higher.
Over the years the useful frequencies for radio waves have gotten shorter and shorter. Shorter frequencies have a lot of benefits and drawbacks. The biggest benefit is almost unlimited bandwidth. Drawbacks include range and lack of technology. Even with the drawbacks, we see higher and higher frequencies used in everyday devices.
Both light and radio are electromagnetic waves (EM). There's a gap between light and radio. It's between infrared and microwaves. These are the terahertz frequencies. You can do neat things with terahertz. It's a little like light, a little like radio.
The problem is the technology. It's still hard to do anything at those frequencies. This article is about closing that gap. Closing it from the low frequency (radio) side where magnetism plays a larger roll.
Not that dumb. It's true that Microsoft only has $6.4 billion (June 2003) in cash, but they have $42.6 billion in short-term investments. That's pretty close to $50 billion in liquid assets.
One advantage for SCO is that Autozone has stores in Utah (can be sued there), but it's lawyers are in Memphis. I don't think that's an accident.
Not everyone agrees with you.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
You are not required to vote in the Senate, but I checked and Kerry did vote yea .
Not just for the reason you said. Last time Microsoft complained to congress about the government competing with private industry. I'm glad to see the tactic didn't work this time.
People have been using aluminum foil to get away with shoplifting for decades. I don't see any advantage with this RSA technology.
While I think it's really lame, I'm excited anyway. The EU lets each member state control only one side of the coin, the other is fixed. I see this as an opening shot. I look forward to the next member state that tries to do better than the Dutch. I like this better than when they used to kill each other.
It needs batteries for when it passes through Earth's shadow.
I'm so sick of hearing the "nothing to hide" argument. I don't think most people really understand what it will be like to live under constant government monitoring. We'll have to not only obay the law, but a secret set of rules to avoid being accused of breaking the law.