Help with identifying 'tags': Tags are the distinctive signatures used by people who cause graffiti. The government has set up 'Operation Scrub-it', a partnership between the British Transport Police, Crimestoppers and transport providers. It aims to create a national database to record graffiti tags that would help prosecute frequent graffiti offenders. The reporting of graffiti is encouraged and there will be rewards for information leading to successful convictions. The public have been invited to help the authorities in identifying these tags and thus in fighting the graffiti problem.
Better add Smirnoff to the list.
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Unfortunately, far too many of the people seeing the movie are clearly taking the entire movie at face value.
What's your point?
If "too many" people can't think for themselves, too bad for them. Is that a reason to not show the whole movie? Face it, we live in a world where much of what hits our senses is unjust, untrue, disgusting, whatever. It is each of our jobs to use our crap filter and not take everything as gospel. The world has always been like this, I believe, and is unlikely to ever change.
The only negative thing I can see about this software is its creator, Microsoft, but that does not bother me in the slightest.
Maybe when you have to buy 50 legitimate licenses you will add one more negative thing to your list. MSOffice is expensive. If you've got a pirated copy, cheap student edition, or 2nd hander from ebay, of course you're not complaining.
What they need to do to come clean is pop up a dialog when you insert the CD that says "Click OK to install Digital Restriction Management software on your computer. This is required to play the CD on your computer. Click Cancel to quit without playing the CD"
I'm curious about you including this in your signature. You know, or should know, that he never said that and that quote has been widely debunked. Why do you try to continue its legacy?
The quote went on far too long unchallenged for it to be debunked. If Gates says he didn't say it, do you really believe him? Who can prove it either way? I made it my sig because I think it's funny. Plus, it gets Microsoftie's all in a huff.
What if a doctor were to go watch a movie and one of his patients started dying and he needed to be contacted?
Presumably the doctor has someone else to cover for him while he is not on duty. If he is on duty or on call, then perhaps he should not be in a movie theatre? Besides, who has the right to say doctor's can accept calls during a movie but nobody else?
Just try to use the vibrate or silent mode.
Yes, but I don't think that is the issue here. The issue is being an annoyance to others. If your phone rings or you talk on the phone, you are being a nuisance. If your phone vibrates and you leave the cinema to take the call, then you are being respectful. If you for some reason can't take a call because cell phones are blocked, then you would know this beforehand and would avoid the theatre if you were expecting an important call.
I can deal with people forgetting to turn their phones off in a movie (though I myself have the courtesy to turn mine off), as long as they don't yack on them in the theater.
All recent movies I've been to actually tell the audience to turn off their phones and pagers. "Forgetting" is unexcusable. More like "ignoring" the request.
I'm sick of all these "modern style" actors who think every intense emotion should be conveyed either by tense whispers or hoarse shouting.
While we're on the subject... I am *so* tired of actors/actresses who think that stuttering a word makes their delivery sound more natural. They do this over and over again... "I-I-I mean... ah. I-I-I just can't understand it, you know?"
When's the last fricking time you've heard someone talk like that? Hugh Grant is the best example I can give. Extremely annoying.
Also, if you're using sticky notes, they tend to pile up and clutter your desk or whatever you stick them on. Plus, if you keep your todo list electronic, it's easy to cut and paste into a status report.
I've got a Kodak DX4900 and my biggest gripes are the LCD screen is washed out in bright sunlight and the rechargeable battery is almost useless - go with non-rechargeable or you'll only get a few pics before the camera shuts off. Nice camera otherwise, though.
I have a feeling not many people will jump to GMail to have 1GB email rather than 100MB. Changing your email address is a pain in the butt. I don't think Yahoo will retain most of their paying customers, though. Most paying customers were paying for 25MB or 100MB which you have to assume was sufficient. Well, now that same amount of space is free. Why pay for 2GB when you don't need it? What I feel Yahoo's move will do is keep people at their service, at the expense of many paying customers opting for the free plan.
Maybe when we get *really* desperate to find alien life, we will start packaging a "Faster than Light Airship HOWTO" on the side of every space probe. That'll get the stupid ones off their asses.
Read the entire paragraph quoted from the article:
Data overwritten once or twice may be recovered by subtracting what is expected to be read from a storage location from what is actually read. Data which is overwritten an arbitrarily large number of times can still be recovered provided that the new data isn't written to the same location as the original data (for magnetic media), or that the recovery attempt is carried out fairly soon after the new data was written (for RAM). For this reason it is effectively impossible to sanitise storage locations by simple overwriting them, no matter how many overwrite passes are made or what data patterns are written. However by using the relatively simple methods presented in this paper the task of an attacker can be made significantly more difficult, if not prohibitively expensive.
So it sounds like if you are overwriting your data in the exact same physical location which it currently exists, it should be possible to make the original copy unrecoverable given enough overwrites.
Don't most agreements with service companies include verbage like "conditions are subject to change [with|without] notice.."? In addition to often disclaiming that they aren't to blame if they don't actually provide adequate service or reliability. Agreements that are subject to change are fairly useless and all too common. But, we accept them.
I really can't see any good reason for Sun to open Java or Solaris.
Me neither. Where the hell is the value in their company? Solaris doesn't have the greatest market share, and I see Java as their biggest strength. They want to give it away why? Don't they have a responsibility to the shareholders?
People run all kinds of Microsoft-made technologies and don't gripe. What's with the shitstorm about Java not being open source? Who cares?
As I've said before, user input needs to be treated like gold. You can't just go overwriting it. With Windows, I can copy something to the clipboard and not worry that something will overwrite it without my direct action. With Linux distro's, they are getting better, but user input is still not treated like gold. It gets overwritten easily and unintentionally. This needs to be changed.
Now here we have the powers that be granting patents based on how we move or interact? One more reason Patenting process should be thoroughly revised.
Next thing someone will patent how to use a steering wheel in a car. I don't see how this patent is any different. The whole world is being abused by the fucking legal system. We need only a few laws, including (1) don't be an asshole, and (2) be good to each other.
Yes, and then what, it disappears? Plants take in CO2 and then it is effectively in the ground. I read the link you provided and it raises many more questions than it answers, and does not refute my post.
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From the Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003:
Help with identifying 'tags': Tags are the distinctive signatures used by people who cause graffiti. The government has set up 'Operation Scrub-it', a partnership between the British Transport Police, Crimestoppers and transport providers. It aims to create a national database to record graffiti tags that would help prosecute frequent graffiti offenders. The reporting of graffiti is encouraged and there will be rewards for information leading to successful convictions. The public have been invited to help the authorities in identifying these tags and thus in fighting the graffiti problem.
Better add Smirnoff to the list.
Unfortunately, far too many of the people seeing the movie are clearly taking the entire movie at face value.
What's your point?
If "too many" people can't think for themselves, too bad for them. Is that a reason to not show the whole movie? Face it, we live in a world where much of what hits our senses is unjust, untrue, disgusting, whatever. It is each of our jobs to use our crap filter and not take everything as gospel. The world has always been like this, I believe, and is unlikely to ever change.
The only negative thing I can see about this software is its creator, Microsoft, but that does not bother me in the slightest.
Maybe when you have to buy 50 legitimate licenses you will add one more negative thing to your list. MSOffice is expensive. If you've got a pirated copy, cheap student edition, or 2nd hander from ebay, of course you're not complaining.
It's a Trojan.
What they need to do to come clean is pop up a dialog when you insert the CD that says "Click OK to install Digital Restriction Management software on your computer. This is required to play the CD on your computer. Click Cancel to quit without playing the CD"
Exactly! Just another way to police the American citizens and make them feel more and more powerless, indirectly.
In case dude doesn't get enough donations, I've thought of some other ways he can collect some dough through this experience:
1) Become an official bubble wrap tester for Federal Express.
2) Become a mispackaged items claims expert at eBay.
3) Charge neighbourhood kids $3 each to see their favourite He-Man or Pokeemon toy smashed to smitherines from 200 feet.
And speaking of COBOL....
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what better time for a Real Programmers list?
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I'm curious about you including this in your signature. You know, or should know, that he never said that and that quote has been widely debunked. Why do you try to continue its legacy?
The quote went on far too long unchallenged for it to be debunked. If Gates says he didn't say it, do you really believe him? Who can prove it either way?
I made it my sig because I think it's funny. Plus, it gets Microsoftie's all in a huff.
When are people going to realize that blogs are the equivalent of public urination on the web.
That would explain the spotty coverage.
Evidently you guys need more brainwashing. Repeat after me.
Monopoly! Monopoly! Monopoly!
Monopoly! Monopoly! Monopoly!
(now speak softer and get that crazy look in your eye)
Monopoly! Monopoly! Monopoly!
Monopoly! Monopoly! Monopoly!
Now you got it!
What if a doctor were to go watch a movie and one of his patients started dying and he needed to be contacted?
Presumably the doctor has someone else to cover for him while he is not on duty. If he is on duty or on call, then perhaps he should not be in a movie theatre? Besides, who has the right to say doctor's can accept calls during a movie but nobody else?
Just try to use the vibrate or silent mode.
Yes, but I don't think that is the issue here. The issue is being an annoyance to others. If your phone rings or you talk on the phone, you are being a nuisance. If your phone vibrates and you leave the cinema to take the call, then you are being respectful. If you for some reason can't take a call because cell phones are blocked, then you would know this beforehand and would avoid the theatre if you were expecting an important call.
I can deal with people forgetting to turn their phones off in a movie (though I myself have the courtesy to turn mine off), as long as they don't yack on them in the theater.
All recent movies I've been to actually tell the audience to turn off their phones and pagers. "Forgetting" is unexcusable. More like "ignoring" the request.
I'm sick of all these "modern style" actors who think every intense emotion should be conveyed either by tense whispers or hoarse shouting.
While we're on the subject... I am *so* tired of actors/actresses who think that stuttering a word makes their delivery sound more natural. They do this over and over again...
"I-I-I mean... ah. I-I-I just can't understand it, you know?"
When's the last fricking time you've heard someone talk like that? Hugh Grant is the best example I can give. Extremely annoying.
Hell they had to write a "Data goes crazy" episode every now and again, I reckon that was just to keep Brent Spiner sane.
I appreciated those episodes. It showed the range of acting that he was able to do which was really interesting and fun to watch.
Also, if you're using sticky notes, they tend to pile up and clutter your desk or whatever you stick them on.
Plus, if you keep your todo list electronic, it's easy to cut and paste into a status report.
I've got a Kodak DX4900 and my biggest gripes are the LCD screen is washed out in bright sunlight and the rechargeable battery is almost useless - go with non-rechargeable or you'll only get a few pics before the camera shuts off. Nice camera otherwise, though.
I've seen the same joke once a week for 4 damn years. I'm just sick of it.
In Soviet Russia the world revolves around YOU!
"He's sick of the jokes boys. Let's shut 'em down." -- Chief Wiggum
I have a feeling not many people will jump to GMail to have 1GB email rather than 100MB. Changing your email address is a pain in the butt.
I don't think Yahoo will retain most of their paying customers, though. Most paying customers were paying for 25MB or 100MB which you have to assume was sufficient. Well, now that same amount of space is free. Why pay for 2GB when you don't need it?
What I feel Yahoo's move will do is keep people at their service, at the expense of many paying customers opting for the free plan.
Maybe when we get *really* desperate to find alien life, we will start packaging a "Faster than Light Airship HOWTO" on the side of every space probe. That'll get the stupid ones off their asses.
Read the entire paragraph quoted from the article:
Data overwritten once or twice may be recovered by subtracting what is expected to be read from a storage location from what is actually read. Data which is overwritten an arbitrarily large number of times can still be recovered provided that the new data isn't written to the same location as the original data (for magnetic media), or that the recovery attempt is carried out fairly soon after the new data was written (for RAM). For this reason it is effectively impossible to sanitise storage locations by simple overwriting them, no matter how many overwrite passes are made or what data patterns are written. However by using the relatively simple methods presented in this paper the task of an attacker can be made significantly more difficult, if not prohibitively expensive.
So it sounds like if you are overwriting your data in the exact same physical location which it currently exists, it should be possible to make the original copy unrecoverable given enough overwrites.
Don't most agreements with service companies include verbage like "conditions are subject to change [with|without] notice.."? In addition to often disclaiming that they aren't to blame if they don't actually provide adequate service or reliability. Agreements that are subject to change are fairly useless and all too common. But, we accept them.
Damn, WTF! I still want Seinfeld to come out on DVD. Anyone got an inside scoop on this? Will it ever happen?
I really can't see any good reason for Sun to open Java or Solaris.
Me neither. Where the hell is the value in their company? Solaris doesn't have the greatest market share, and I see Java as their biggest strength. They want to give it away why? Don't they have a responsibility to the shareholders?
People run all kinds of Microsoft-made technologies and don't gripe. What's with the shitstorm about Java not being open source?
Who cares?
As I've said before, user input needs to be treated like gold. You can't just go overwriting it. With Windows, I can copy something to the clipboard and not worry that something will overwrite it without my direct action. With Linux distro's, they are getting better, but user input is still not treated like gold. It gets overwritten easily and unintentionally. This needs to be changed.
Now here we have the powers that be granting patents based on how we move or interact? One more reason Patenting process should be thoroughly revised.
Next thing someone will patent how to use a steering wheel in a car. I don't see how this patent is any different. The whole world is being abused by the fucking legal system. We need only a few laws, including (1) don't be an asshole, and (2) be good to each other.
You're kidding, right?
Carbon cycle
Hint: Plants take in CO2.
Yes, and then what, it disappears? Plants take in CO2 and then it is effectively in the ground.
I read the link you provided and it raises many more questions than it answers, and does not refute my post.