A friend's father has a problem similar to this from a car accident. TV shows aren't that interesting to him - commercials are about all he can tolerate. He can't remember anything long enough to enjoy a 30-minute show, but 30 seconds are pretty tolerable.
Not only did he post a blog entry from a known troll on the front page, but the summary posted isn't a summary - it's a straight rip from the first paragraph of the blog entry. So much work must have gone into both the/. article submission and the editing.
I wish I could get paid so little for doing so much.
If it's anything like the PC version, your stumbling block won't be your processor, it will be your video card. (I know very little about Mac hardware, I don't know if there's a standard video card that goes into every notebook or if there's a wide variation.)
MANY of us are seeing a Cheshire Cat/Dark Terrain bug where the talking heads appear with only floating eyeballs and teeth, and the terrain is black (which makes exploration virtually impossible). There's been no word on whether this is a software issue or a hardware issue, but it does seem to happen more frequently to laptop users with video that doesn't support T&L than to desktop users (although people without T&L support have been seeing it occasionally too). My less-than-a-year-old laptop with 64-meg video can't run the game. There's also an issue cropping up with systems with ATI video cards, but I think a patch was released today to address this.
Fortunately with Macs, the coders' job is made easier by the fact that there are a limited number of hardware configurations, so it's easier to cover all (or most) of the bases.
I think this particular case is the exception rather than the rule, or we'd be hearing about it much more often. The whole incident lasted less than ten hours, and the guy did have some previous (albeit circumstantial) incidents in his record that led the police to follow up with an arrest. The British justice system does not have an automatic presumption of innocence, which I think exacerbated the situation, along with the police not being familiar with some tech stuff the police didn't understand.
The police did drop the charges, and apologized. I think this was a pretty speedy resolution. It would be fortunate if he hadn't been under suspicion, but considering he was I think things were resolved rather quickly.
There's a difference between being 'at risk for an attack' and 'a victim of a particular attack that could have been prevented'. We'll always be at risk for attacks, but that doesn't mean measures shouldn't be taken to try to prevent the attacks that can be prevented.
My blonde-haired, blue-eyed, fair-skinned yuppie lawyer sister-in-law got pulled aside for a detailed check over half the time when she was commuting weekly between Kansas City and New Orleans over a year's time. Anecdotal evidence is not evidence.
It's not as dangerous as you might think - yersinia pestis has not been eradicated by any means. There are still problems with it in rodent populations - for instance, Boulder County, CO has had a problem with it just this summer in the groundhog population.
The route of transmission to humans is
rodent > flea > human
(if it turns into pneumonia in a human it can be passed human to human, otherwise not).
Since fleas aren't nearly the problem they were in the middle ages, and we don't have travelers trekking on foot (and picking up fleas) through areas that have a high incidence of yersinia pestis in the rodent population, it just doesn't spread as quickly as it used to. There still end up being a few cases of bubonic plague every year in the US, but it doesn't have the opportunity to spread the way it used to.
I got caught in a nice 'it's the other state's responsibility to investigate' situation - we moved from Kansas to Colorado between the time of the accident and the insurance rate raise happened in Colorado. I just switched insurance companies, haven't had any problems since then. Even when I had an accident a year and a half ago, that WAS my fault, our insurance rates only went up by about $30 a month.
One of my co-workers called her insurance agent because she had insurance with Farmers too, and her agent actually told her all rates were going to go up threefold due to lawsuits. Needless to say, that never happened.
Funny thing is, I probably wouldn't have sued, but the driver of the other car was a complete ass about the whole thing - despite several witnesses that she made a left turn without the right of way, she told the police that I had gunned it out of a driveway (I hadn't), and told the insurance company that I admitted fault (I hadn't) and that I received the ticket (I hadn't). She also told the police that she was on no medications, but I had heard her tell the EMT she was on a depressant. (She had already been discharged from the ER when the police talked to me.) When I was talking to the claims adjuster about getting reimbursed for my car, they said it was unlikely that they would drop her unless I filed a claim for damages beyond simple medical too, even though he really wanted to drop her - she had yanked him around too, calling his boss and saying he should be fired for questioning her while she was on pain medication.
I have no warm feelings toward Farmers either - I had Farmers car insurance several years ago, was in an accident with someone else who also had Farmers insurance - the accident was ruled 100% the other driver's fault. When I filed my claim for damages after all my medical stuff was over a year later (had to have knee surgery), Farmers TRIPLED our rates from $150 to $470. It was auto-debited, and I either didn't receive a notice or didn't bother reading it that month, since our rates had been the same for ages.
Actually, it seems like most of what gets rebuilt along frequent tornado paths are trailer parks. Don't know exactly how it happens, it just seems like the same trailer parks (I have lived in Oklahoma and Kansas) keep getting hit every so many years. It's bad enough that trailer parks in Kansas are required by law to have tornado shelters on property - and I believe a law was recently passed banning convicted sex offenders from using the tornado shelters.
Another big difference between tornadoes and hurricanes: Hurricanes give you days and days of notice that they are coming. Tornadoes (and especially gustnadoes) give little to no warning that they are coming.
My husband and I lived in the back end of a small apartment complex in Wichita, KS, and my husband's friend lived next door. My husband went over to let his friend know he was ready to carpool to work. While he was standing outside waiting for his friend to open the door, tornado sirens started going off. We found out later that the gustnado was passing in front of the apartment complex about the time that the tornado sirens went off - it had already torn the roof off of a grocery store and proceeded on to demolish a small strip mall.
On a rather sad side note, the city of Wichita had just completed a deal a few weeks ago (using eminent domain) to buy and demolish a beautiful Catholic church just on the other side of the street the strip mall was on, for the purpose of expanding the street. If they had waited a few weeks, they probably could have scored quite a bargain on the former strip mall, and the church would still be standing.
Does public domain give someone a right to lift something without credit? If I presented Shakespeare's work, word for word, as my own, would it still be plagiarism?
The wiki article lists the CDC article as a resource, but not as THE SOURCE. Big difference between research and outright lifting. If a student outright copied the wiki article or the CDC factsheet and presented it as their own work, you bet they'd be busted for plagiarism.
The really fun thing about this is, Fred Phelps (head of the Westboro Baptist Church, the guy protesting at soldiers' funerals), is a Democrat. Personally invited to both of Clinton's inaugurations.
Here are some nice photos of him cozied up with Al and Tipper.
I guess he's just doing his own special part to oppose the war.
I have an Inspiron 1150, and while it doesn't get hot near the groin area, I have suffered first degree burns more than once on my right leg just above the knee from using the laptop while wearing shorts. These weren't extended computing sessions, either - I've had it happen in less than an hour. It's bad enough that I'm going to send it in to have it looked at when I have a couple of days when I don't need my laptop (ha, when does that happen?).
Perhaps after you have been in a successful, happy marriage for a long time (they'd been married longer than many slashdotters have been alive) you will understand that it is possible to fully trust your spouse to give appropriate care to your children, whether or not you are around.
The software writers and companies are being denied their profit from the service they provide. No one would expect a plumber to come and snake your drains for free, even though it doesn't really 'cost' them anything other than their time, their initial outlay for tools, and the gas to get to your house. (Similar to the costs that it costs any service provider, including coders, doctors, lawyers, etc., to provide their services.)
Just because it's a service doesn't mean you shouldn't have to reimburse the service provider.
It's one thing to be able to read, it's a totally different thing to be able to spell.
And I don't read my coins when I'm counting change, I know what they are from the size, shape, color, and weight. At some point I may have read them - but my two-year-old can also identify coins and he sure as heck isn't reading the names off the coins, he can't read his own name.
Require the person to enter the amount in words as well as digits (just like in a personal cheque).
So now you're going to require them to know how to spell as well as trade stock? If their employees have the spelling skills of most Slashdot readers, their work would NEVER get done...
"Let's see - buy 100 shares...Wun hundert...One hunderd...On hunndred..."
That's where they got the video of the guy smashing his monitor...
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I wonder if the stock price was affected by the office fire earlier this week? It gives 'burning through cash' a whole different meaning.
Or maybe the stock price had something to do with the office fire...
And was I the only one that was surprised that Hot Coffee didn't result in a huge sales boom?
A friend's father has a problem similar to this from a car accident. TV shows aren't that interesting to him - commercials are about all he can tolerate. He can't remember anything long enough to enjoy a 30-minute show, but 30 seconds are pretty tolerable.
Not only did he post a blog entry from a known troll on the front page, but the summary posted isn't a summary - it's a straight rip from the first paragraph of the blog entry. So much work must have gone into both the /. article submission and the editing.
I wish I could get paid so little for doing so much.
If it's anything like the PC version, your stumbling block won't be your processor, it will be your video card. (I know very little about Mac hardware, I don't know if there's a standard video card that goes into every notebook or if there's a wide variation.)
MANY of us are seeing a Cheshire Cat/Dark Terrain bug where the talking heads appear with only floating eyeballs and teeth, and the terrain is black (which makes exploration virtually impossible). There's been no word on whether this is a software issue or a hardware issue, but it does seem to happen more frequently to laptop users with video that doesn't support T&L than to desktop users (although people without T&L support have been seeing it occasionally too). My less-than-a-year-old laptop with 64-meg video can't run the game. There's also an issue cropping up with systems with ATI video cards, but I think a patch was released today to address this.
Fortunately with Macs, the coders' job is made easier by the fact that there are a limited number of hardware configurations, so it's easier to cover all (or most) of the bases.
It just means there won't be graphic sex. Violence isn't enough to get anyone in trouble anymore.
I think this particular case is the exception rather than the rule, or we'd be hearing about it much more often. The whole incident lasted less than ten hours, and the guy did have some previous (albeit circumstantial) incidents in his record that led the police to follow up with an arrest. The British justice system does not have an automatic presumption of innocence, which I think exacerbated the situation, along with the police not being familiar with some tech stuff the police didn't understand.
The police did drop the charges, and apologized. I think this was a pretty speedy resolution. It would be fortunate if he hadn't been under suspicion, but considering he was I think things were resolved rather quickly.
There's a difference between being 'at risk for an attack' and 'a victim of a particular attack that could have been prevented'. We'll always be at risk for attacks, but that doesn't mean measures shouldn't be taken to try to prevent the attacks that can be prevented.
My blonde-haired, blue-eyed, fair-skinned yuppie lawyer sister-in-law got pulled aside for a detailed check over half the time when she was commuting weekly between Kansas City and New Orleans over a year's time. Anecdotal evidence is not evidence.
From TFA: "The infected files have now been removed, but it took some time."
very immediate response time.
That's funny, all my friends that are fans of homeopathy are extreme lefties.
I'm not too worried about plaque ruling, I visit the dentist regularly.
The fatality rate if you don't get treated is 50-90%, but that drops to 15% if you are treated.
It's not as dangerous as you might think - yersinia pestis has not been eradicated by any means. There are still problems with it in rodent populations - for instance, Boulder County, CO has had a problem with it just this summer in the groundhog population.
The route of transmission to humans is
rodent > flea > human
(if it turns into pneumonia in a human it can be passed human to human, otherwise not).
Since fleas aren't nearly the problem they were in the middle ages, and we don't have travelers trekking on foot (and picking up fleas) through areas that have a high incidence of yersinia pestis in the rodent population, it just doesn't spread as quickly as it used to. There still end up being a few cases of bubonic plague every year in the US, but it doesn't have the opportunity to spread the way it used to.
I got caught in a nice 'it's the other state's responsibility to investigate' situation - we moved from Kansas to Colorado between the time of the accident and the insurance rate raise happened in Colorado. I just switched insurance companies, haven't had any problems since then. Even when I had an accident a year and a half ago, that WAS my fault, our insurance rates only went up by about $30 a month.
One of my co-workers called her insurance agent because she had insurance with Farmers too, and her agent actually told her all rates were going to go up threefold due to lawsuits. Needless to say, that never happened.
Funny thing is, I probably wouldn't have sued, but the driver of the other car was a complete ass about the whole thing - despite several witnesses that she made a left turn without the right of way, she told the police that I had gunned it out of a driveway (I hadn't), and told the insurance company that I admitted fault (I hadn't) and that I received the ticket (I hadn't). She also told the police that she was on no medications, but I had heard her tell the EMT she was on a depressant. (She had already been discharged from the ER when the police talked to me.) When I was talking to the claims adjuster about getting reimbursed for my car, they said it was unlikely that they would drop her unless I filed a claim for damages beyond simple medical too, even though he really wanted to drop her - she had yanked him around too, calling his boss and saying he should be fired for questioning her while she was on pain medication.
Dude, your title bar is misspelled on every page.
I have no warm feelings toward Farmers either - I had Farmers car insurance several years ago, was in an accident with someone else who also had Farmers insurance - the accident was ruled 100% the other driver's fault. When I filed my claim for damages after all my medical stuff was over a year later (had to have knee surgery), Farmers TRIPLED our rates from $150 to $470. It was auto-debited, and I either didn't receive a notice or didn't bother reading it that month, since our rates had been the same for ages.
Your moderation must have come from one of the staff. I agree, it is an incredibly ugly color scheme.
Every time I see the "It is what IT is" slogan, I think, "What, feces?" But not so politely worded.
Actually, it seems like most of what gets rebuilt along frequent tornado paths are trailer parks. Don't know exactly how it happens, it just seems like the same trailer parks (I have lived in Oklahoma and Kansas) keep getting hit every so many years. It's bad enough that trailer parks in Kansas are required by law to have tornado shelters on property - and I believe a law was recently passed banning convicted sex offenders from using the tornado shelters.
Another big difference between tornadoes and hurricanes: Hurricanes give you days and days of notice that they are coming. Tornadoes (and especially gustnadoes) give little to no warning that they are coming.
My husband and I lived in the back end of a small apartment complex in Wichita, KS, and my husband's friend lived next door. My husband went over to let his friend know he was ready to carpool to work. While he was standing outside waiting for his friend to open the door, tornado sirens started going off. We found out later that the gustnado was passing in front of the apartment complex about the time that the tornado sirens went off - it had already torn the roof off of a grocery store and proceeded on to demolish a small strip mall.
On a rather sad side note, the city of Wichita had just completed a deal a few weeks ago (using eminent domain) to buy and demolish a beautiful Catholic church just on the other side of the street the strip mall was on, for the purpose of expanding the street. If they had waited a few weeks, they probably could have scored quite a bargain on the former strip mall, and the church would still be standing.
Does public domain give someone a right to lift something without credit? If I presented Shakespeare's work, word for word, as my own, would it still be plagiarism?
The wiki article lists the CDC article as a resource, but not as THE SOURCE. Big difference between research and outright lifting. If a student outright copied the wiki article or the CDC factsheet and presented it as their own work, you bet they'd be busted for plagiarism.
I wonder if Wikipedia plagiarized the article from the CDC, or the other way around? It looks like the Wiki article was modified more recently...
The really fun thing about this is, Fred Phelps (head of the Westboro Baptist Church, the guy protesting at soldiers' funerals), is a Democrat. Personally invited to both of Clinton's inaugurations.
Here are some nice photos of him cozied up with Al and Tipper.
I guess he's just doing his own special part to oppose the war.
This one's less than a year old. We have an Inspiron that's 4 or 5 years old too, and I never had problems with it frying my leg.
I have an Inspiron 1150, and while it doesn't get hot near the groin area, I have suffered first degree burns more than once on my right leg just above the knee from using the laptop while wearing shorts. These weren't extended computing sessions, either - I've had it happen in less than an hour. It's bad enough that I'm going to send it in to have it looked at when I have a couple of days when I don't need my laptop (ha, when does that happen?).
Perhaps after you have been in a successful, happy marriage for a long time (they'd been married longer than many slashdotters have been alive) you will understand that it is possible to fully trust your spouse to give appropriate care to your children, whether or not you are around.
You can stop yelling now.
The software writers and companies are being denied their profit from the service they provide. No one would expect a plumber to come and snake your drains for free, even though it doesn't really 'cost' them anything other than their time, their initial outlay for tools, and the gas to get to your house. (Similar to the costs that it costs any service provider, including coders, doctors, lawyers, etc., to provide their services.)
Just because it's a service doesn't mean you shouldn't have to reimburse the service provider.
It's one thing to be able to read, it's a totally different thing to be able to spell.
And I don't read my coins when I'm counting change, I know what they are from the size, shape, color, and weight. At some point I may have read them - but my two-year-old can also identify coins and he sure as heck isn't reading the names off the coins, he can't read his own name.
Require the person to enter the amount in words as well as digits (just like in a personal cheque).
So now you're going to require them to know how to spell as well as trade stock? If their employees have the spelling skills of most Slashdot readers, their work would NEVER get done...
"Let's see - buy 100 shares...Wun hundert...One hunderd...On hunndred..."
That's where they got the video of the guy smashing his monitor...