Hate to break it to you Anonymous Coward, but those aren't the "terrorists" to which our government is referring.
You're right, I don't live in and wasn't in Oklahoma City. But I *was* in Kingman, Arizona and I *saw* the miles-long military reinforcements to the National Guard Armory roll into town. I *saw* the FBI setup camp and investigate everything that moved.
I also saw our military punch holes in the home of American citizens in Waco, Texas as chimney vents for the fire they started moments later.
"Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the people by its example."
They got a tip that a dark-skinned person was taking pictures and notes. If they had *not* followed up and those locks were bombed next month, would you want their heads? I bet you'd be outraged.
It's worth noting that those locks are a military installation run by the US Army Corps of Engineers.
So what if people calling in tips to the DHS use profiling? I don't recall any WHITE people bombing us. When someone says the word terrorist, you know, like when we're at a heightened security alert, what mental image do YOU form? Thought so.
It sells newspapers to write about being oppressed by THE MAN and to paint conspiracy theories about the "Homeland Security Overlords".
Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, lieutenant Taco? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Spiers, and you curse the Department of Homeland Security. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know -- that Spier's questioning, while tragic, probably saved lives; and my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives.
I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it.
I would rather that you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand the post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you're entitled to!
Except that the government has never come out and said "the people on the airplane crashed it". People who live in that area, however, report several other planes in the area, including fighter jets such as f-16s.
Face it, we shot down that airliner. Everyone was focusing on New York City and little attention was paid to the Pennsylvania field. Cheney and Rumsfeld had already authorized shooting down any of the hijacked airplanes and there was plenty of time for armed fighter jets to intercept it from Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, or Kentucky.
Jefe: We have scanned many newspaper stories for your slashdot background material! El Guapo: How many newspaper stories? Jefe: Many newspaper stories, many! El Guapo: Jefe, would you say I have a plethora of newspaper stories? Jefe: Yes, El Guapo. You have a plethora. El Guapo: Jefe, what is a plethora?
You may want to look into the connection between caffeine, particularly when consumed as coffee or tea, and pregnancy. It seems many women have fertility and even miscarriages from this so-called harmless drug.
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art12110.asp
One study found that women trying to get pregnant who drank a cup of coffee each day had a 55% less chance of conceiving than women who did not drink. Those who drank 1-3 cups almost doubled their danger rate, and women who drank over 3 cups a day tripled their risk for not having a successful conception.
Also, women who drank 2 or more cups of coffee each day doubled their risk of miscarriage, once they did become pregnant.
It seems fairly obvious that the sun is being tugged on by the planets. We have been detecting planetary systems surrounding stars by measuring this wobble.
Surely some scientist studying our observations of apparents cycles in the sun has evaluated the effects of the planets. Jupiter, for instance, has an orbital period of ~11 years.
In the beginning of the movie, Will and Deanna are to be married and as everyone knows from the episode where Troi's mother gets married on ST:TNG, the participants in Betazed weddings are nude.
So the whole movie, we're waiting to see how much better plastic surgery has become in the 24th century as Troi has grown a full two bust sizes since the beginning of TNG. Instead, we get stuck looking at the shiny heads and crooked teeth of Picard and his evil clone.
Star Trek writers, listen up: more nudity, sex, and explosions, in that order and you'll have a box office success. Some Klingon orgies would guarantee at least a few more movies. And stop with the 'holier-than-thou' moral of the story in these movies. Go out and explore shit.. go where no man has gone before and bag one for the team, eh?
No, actually they're only good until you turn 60. Mine expires in 2036 and is just a flimsy laminated license. I've refused to get the new one with the holograms, PDF417 2D barcode on the front, and magstripe on the back. No one has complained yet.
And Here's an EBay auction for a 5-gallon container of it.
Heat transfer fluid, 3M, FC-72, 5 gallon can, Fluorinert, boiling pt. 56 deg C; pour pt -90 deg C; e mail for complete specs; for thermal shock testing, burn-in component testing. Company checks ok, all others guaranteed funds. See other equipment at http://www.heritageequipment.com
He's trying to build job security. Post an article to Slashdot asking how to secure a satellite and conveniently mention that most satellites have no security.
Most readers are interested but never think about it again. A few actively seek out further information and work towards compromising the satellites. And they eventually do.
Now this guy is in demand.
It's just like the anti-virus folks hiring someone to write a virus.. hell, probably Phalcon/Skism.. and the products begin to sell themselves. Or the security consulting firms whose employees release exploits to increase the demand for their services (among other reason).
> The Fellowship actors' tattoos all depict the
> Tengwar symbol for 9.
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness band them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
This has been done to a point. I know that Frontier/Electric Lightwave uses SRP's existing fiber network in Phoenix, Arizona. I'm sure there are others...
Actually, the pogo.com games are Java based so he has to be capturing regions of the screen and comparing the blob to a set of blobs he has representing the entire deck to determine which cards were dealt.
I was playing at pogo.com for a while and wrote a short and sweet little program in Perl that would continuously play the spooky slots and keno. Ended up with several hundred thousand tokens that I ended up being too lazy to do anything with.. hrmm./me goes to enter the contests..
I had thought about trying to expand to the Poker games and actually did a little work on it using Image::Magick but hit a wall somewhere and/or lost interest..
Too bad there wasn't more information about how the "AI" learned to play better. The pogo.com, gamesville.com, and iwin.com games probably have exploitable flaws with randomness or maybe some easter eggs from the programmer.:)
The idea of using this kind of thing to play "for money" online casinos is rediculous though. The amount of cheating by the house going on at these sites must be mind boggling.
The TI/99-4a speech synthesizer could produce "obscene" words. They weren't in the default dictionaries though. You had to learn about phonetics and piece the sounds together yourself until it sounded just right.
Why don't we just use the RT (route-through) resource record? It's been around for ages, is supported by bind et al, and could allow nearly unlimited use of existing address space.
1) put multiple versions in the same box. The datafiles are the same. We're not talking about adding that many more bytes to the disc.
If that is a problem for some reason, fine. Let the Linux user buy the Win32 version and download the binaries.
2) Sell the linux version online. My q3a tin sits on the bookshelf collecting dust. What a waste.
Yeah, it'd be a pain and a bandwidth hog to download some new huge game but it seems like it would ultimately increase profits for the developer. They can charge the same price and don't have to outlay anything for packaging.
I've read the post that our telescopes are not powerful enough to image the LEM or other junk on the surface of the moon. What about that US Military satellite that went looking for water? It only went to the poles?
Hrm, well, how about the next time we send a probe to an asteroid or something we send it out past the moon and take some damn aerial photographs of all the stuff.
Of course those could be faked too..
What ever happened to the folks that were going to launch telepresence robots to the moon and let people control the buggy and visit the Apollo flag and rover and whatnot?
So, uhmm, the idea here is to waste a bunch of bandwidth for 10GB of storage. Hell, I just bought a 46GB drive for $150. And what happens when there's more demand on the circuits? Do they start deleting data?
Hands down, the most influential teacher I had with regard to computers was my sixth grade computer teacher, Steve Ray.
He taught middle school computer classes in the mid to late 80s. The school had a lab full of Apple IIe computers. In a later class they obtained an Apple IIgs which was the desire of many a student.
A primary goal of the class was to teach the students how to type. There was an interactive Apple program that took the student through a series of lessons and then allowed him to practice until he became proficient with that set of keys. Mr. Ray immediately recognized my potential when I consistantly topped the list of typing speed.
The challenge of becoming the fastest typist was second only to beating the typing games. Before I knew it, I was typing 40wpm. My parents had already recognized that I possessed a natural musical ability and some piano lessons may have paved the way for my typing success.
While my typing abilities gained his attention, it was the algorithms I wrote in LOGO that convinced him I had "the knack". I remember sitting in other classes writing LOGO routines on paper and anxiously waiting for computer class or visiting the computer lab at lunch and after school to try out my creations.
At some point, he moved me to the AppleIIgs which was connected to a large TV monitor for demonstration purposes. During class, I would type in what he was teaching the rest of the class. He loaned me an IBM compatible version of LOGO so I could install it on my XT at home (which never did quite work as well as the apple version).
The ultimate gift from this teacher, beyond his innate ability to challenge me and keep me interested while other students struggled with the primary assignment, was a recommendation to NCR that I be given a scholarship to a summer computer camp. This act singlehandedly paved the way for my thirst for knowledge and understanding.
I traveled to the NCR Headquarters in Dayton, Ohio every day for several weeks in the summer of 1988 where I learned BASIC, core principles of logic, and how to approach problems to be solved programmatically. We were given tours of fault tolerant computer centers that had swipe cards, concrete walls that could withstand natural and manmade disasters, and computing resources that boggled the mind at that time. A general comradarie flourished among me and the other young people there as we discovered the magic of computers.
My future was given a push in the right direction. Where I am now, not only as a respected programmer and systems/network administrator, but life as a whole, is a direct result of the mind expanding, think out of the box mentoring I received at this camp and in Mr. Ray's classes. I feel that as I began to question how things worked and comprehend what, at first glance, seemed intractable my thought processes and perceptions about everyday life changed as well.
Many teachers are disillusioned and downright apathetic. I've had my share of teachers who teach out of the book and offer nothing to guide and gently push a student who shows promise. Mr. Ray truly cared not only about his student's understanding of the core lessons of the class but also made extra efforts to provide encouragement to those who quickly grasped the basic concepts and sought to explore more. While I'm sure his love for computers was deep, his actions, and my immediate recognitition of his presence in my development, suggest that he was an overall top-notch and generally nice guy.
Mr. Ray was an Air Force reservist and was called back to active duty at the end of my 8th grade year. I believe he went to an Air Force base in Colorado Springs. My attempts to locate him about a year ago failed. While I have been unable to thank him personally, maybe some day he will stumble upon this message and have a sense of satisfaction of the role he played in my life.
Thank you, Mr. Ray. You inspired me and surely countless others.
I was a little peeved at first run 486SX chips as intentionally FPU-disabled DXs. While I don't know all the technical details surrounding it, the issue still hangs around in the back of my head.
As I remember it, they made a whole batch of 486DX chips, disabled the FPUs, and then sold the SX for significantly less than the DX even though the SX took more work to make. I do remember hearing that this FPU-disabling process was eventually replaced and DX/SX chips were made in seperate runs. Too bad they couldn't have sold the DXs at SX prices (or cheaper!).
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Hate to break it to you Anonymous Coward, but those aren't the "terrorists" to which our government is referring.
You're right, I don't live in and wasn't in Oklahoma City. But I *was* in Kingman, Arizona and I *saw* the miles-long military reinforcements to the National Guard Armory roll into town. I *saw* the FBI setup camp and investigate everything that moved.
I also saw our military punch holes in the home of American citizens in Waco, Texas as chimney vents for the fire they started moments later.
"Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher.
For good or for ill it teaches the people by its example."
They got a tip that a dark-skinned person was taking pictures and notes. If they had *not* followed up and those locks were bombed next month, would you want their heads? I bet you'd be outraged.
It's worth noting that those locks are a military installation run by the US Army Corps of Engineers.
So what if people calling in tips to the DHS use profiling? I don't recall any WHITE people bombing us. When someone says the word terrorist, you know, like when we're at a heightened security alert, what mental image do YOU form? Thought so.
It sells newspapers to write about being oppressed by THE MAN and to paint conspiracy theories about the "Homeland Security Overlords".
Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, lieutenant Taco? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Spiers, and you curse the Department of Homeland Security. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know -- that Spier's questioning, while tragic, probably saved lives; and my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives.
I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it.
I would rather that you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand the post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you're entitled to!
Except that the government has never come out and said "the people on the airplane crashed it". People who live in that area, however, report several other planes in the area, including fighter jets such as f-16s.
Face it, we shot down that airliner. Everyone was focusing on New York City and little attention was paid to the Pennsylvania field. Cheney and Rumsfeld had already authorized shooting down any of the hijacked airplanes and there was plenty of time for armed fighter jets to intercept it from Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, or Kentucky.
Jefe: We have scanned many newspaper stories for your slashdot background material!
El Guapo: How many newspaper stories?
Jefe: Many newspaper stories, many!
El Guapo: Jefe, would you say I have a plethora of newspaper stories?
Jefe: Yes, El Guapo. You have a plethora.
El Guapo: Jefe, what is a plethora?
You may want to look into the connection between caffeine, particularly when consumed as coffee or tea, and pregnancy. It seems many women have fertility and even miscarriages from this so-called harmless drug.
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http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art12110.as
One study found that women trying to get pregnant who drank a cup of coffee each day had a 55% less chance of conceiving than women who did not drink. Those who drank 1-3 cups almost doubled their danger rate, and women who drank over 3 cups a day tripled their risk for not having a successful conception.
Also, women who drank 2 or more cups of coffee each day doubled their risk of miscarriage, once they did become pregnant.
It seems fairly obvious that the sun is being tugged on by the planets. We have been detecting planetary systems surrounding stars by measuring this wobble.
Surely some scientist studying our observations of apparents cycles in the sun has evaluated the effects of the planets. Jupiter, for instance, has an orbital period of ~11 years.
newb
That would only matter if you had some opportunity to get laid, which you don't.
In the beginning of the movie, Will and Deanna are to be married and as everyone knows from the episode where Troi's mother gets married on ST:TNG, the participants in Betazed weddings are nude.
So the whole movie, we're waiting to see how much better plastic surgery has become in the 24th century as Troi has grown a full two bust sizes since the beginning of TNG. Instead, we get stuck looking at the shiny heads and crooked teeth of Picard and his evil clone.
Star Trek writers, listen up: more nudity, sex, and explosions, in that order and you'll have a box office success. Some Klingon orgies would guarantee at least a few more movies. And stop with the 'holier-than-thou' moral of the story in these movies. Go out and explore shit.. go where no man has gone before and bag one for the team, eh?
Or maybe we should genetically engineer the starving third-world people so they cannot reproduce.
No, actually they're only good until you turn 60. Mine expires in 2036 and is just a flimsy laminated license. I've refused to get the new one with the holograms, PDF417 2D barcode on the front, and magstripe on the back. No one has complained yet.
And Here's an EBay auction for a 5-gallon container of it.
:)
Heat transfer fluid, 3M, FC-72, 5 gallon can, Fluorinert, boiling pt. 56 deg C; pour pt -90 deg C; e mail for complete specs; for thermal shock testing, burn-in component testing. Company checks ok, all others guaranteed funds. See other equipment at http://www.heritageequipment.com
Only $750!
Here you go: 3M Flourinert
s /s ubmersion/submersion.html
Completely submerge your PC in an inert liquid and lower the temperature of the entire volume.
http://www.octools.com/index.cgi?caller=article
He's trying to build job security. Post an article to Slashdot asking how to secure a satellite and conveniently mention that most satellites have no security.
Most readers are interested but never think about it again. A few actively seek out further information and work towards compromising the satellites. And they eventually do.
Now this guy is in demand.
It's just like the anti-virus folks hiring someone to write a virus.. hell, probably Phalcon/Skism.. and the products begin to sell themselves. Or the security consulting firms whose employees release exploits to increase the demand for their services (among other reason).
> The Fellowship actors' tattoos all depict the
> Tengwar symbol for 9.
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness band them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
This has been done to a point. I know that Frontier/Electric Lightwave uses SRP's existing fiber network in Phoenix, Arizona. I'm sure there are others...
Actually, the pogo.com games are Java based so he has to be capturing regions of the screen and comparing the blob to a set of blobs he has representing the entire deck to determine which cards were dealt.
/me goes to enter the contests..
:)
I was playing at pogo.com for a while and wrote a short and sweet little program in Perl that would continuously play the spooky slots and keno. Ended up with several hundred thousand tokens that I ended up being too lazy to do anything with.. hrmm.
I had thought about trying to expand to the Poker games and actually did a little work on it using Image::Magick but hit a wall somewhere and/or lost interest..
Too bad there wasn't more information about how the "AI" learned to play better. The pogo.com, gamesville.com, and iwin.com games probably have exploitable flaws with randomness or maybe some easter eggs from the programmer.
The idea of using this kind of thing to play "for money" online casinos is rediculous though. The amount of cheating by the house going on at these sites must be mind boggling.
The TI/99-4a speech synthesizer could produce "obscene" words. They weren't in the default dictionaries though. You had to learn about phonetics and piece the sounds together yourself until it sounded just right.
Ahh, the memories.
Why don't we just use the RT (route-through) resource record? It's been around for ages, is supported by bind et al, and could allow nearly unlimited use of existing address space.
There are a couple of solutions to this:
1) put multiple versions in the same box. The datafiles are the same. We're not talking about adding that many more bytes to the disc.
If that is a problem for some reason, fine. Let the Linux user buy the Win32 version and download the binaries.
2) Sell the linux version online. My q3a tin sits on the bookshelf collecting dust. What a waste.
Yeah, it'd be a pain and a bandwidth hog to download some new huge game but it seems like it would ultimately increase profits for the developer. They can charge the same price and don't have to outlay anything for packaging.
I've read the post that our telescopes are not powerful enough to image the LEM or other junk on the surface of the moon. What about that US Military satellite that went looking for water? It only went to the poles?
Hrm, well, how about the next time we send a probe to an asteroid or something we send it out past the moon and take some damn aerial photographs of all the stuff.
Of course those could be faked too..
What ever happened to the folks that were going to launch telepresence robots to the moon and let people control the buggy and visit the Apollo flag and rover and whatnot?
So, uhmm, the idea here is to waste a bunch of bandwidth for 10GB of storage. Hell, I just bought a 46GB drive for $150. And what happens when there's more demand on the circuits? Do they start deleting data?
Hands down, the most influential teacher I had with regard to computers was my sixth grade computer teacher, Steve Ray.
He taught middle school computer classes in the mid to late 80s. The school had a lab full of Apple IIe computers. In a later class they obtained an Apple IIgs which was the desire of many a student.
A primary goal of the class was to teach the students how to type. There was an interactive Apple program that took the student through a series of lessons and then allowed him to practice until he became proficient with that set of keys. Mr. Ray immediately recognized my potential when I consistantly topped the list of typing speed.
The challenge of becoming the fastest typist was second only to beating the typing games. Before I knew it, I was typing 40wpm. My parents had already recognized that I possessed a natural musical ability and some piano lessons may have paved the way for my typing success.
While my typing abilities gained his attention, it was the algorithms I wrote in LOGO that convinced him I had "the knack". I remember sitting in other classes writing LOGO routines on paper and anxiously waiting for computer class or visiting the computer lab at lunch and after school to try out my creations.
At some point, he moved me to the AppleIIgs which was connected to a large TV monitor for demonstration purposes. During class, I would type in what he was teaching the rest of the class. He loaned me an IBM compatible version of LOGO so I could install it on my XT at home (which never did quite work as well as the apple version).
The ultimate gift from this teacher, beyond his innate ability to challenge me and keep me interested while other students struggled with the primary assignment, was a recommendation to NCR that I be given a scholarship to a summer computer camp. This act singlehandedly paved the way for my thirst for knowledge and understanding.
I traveled to the NCR Headquarters in Dayton, Ohio every day for several weeks in the summer of 1988 where I learned BASIC, core principles of logic, and how to approach problems to be solved programmatically. We were given tours of fault tolerant computer centers that had swipe cards, concrete walls that could withstand natural and manmade disasters, and computing resources that boggled the mind at that time. A general comradarie flourished among me and the other young people there as we discovered the magic of computers.
My future was given a push in the right direction. Where I am now, not only as a respected programmer and systems/network administrator, but life as a whole, is a direct result of the mind expanding, think out of the box mentoring I received at this camp and in Mr. Ray's classes. I feel that as I began to question how things worked and comprehend what, at first glance, seemed intractable my thought processes and perceptions about everyday life changed as well.
Many teachers are disillusioned and downright apathetic. I've had my share of teachers who teach out of the book and offer nothing to guide and gently push a student who shows promise. Mr. Ray truly cared not only about his student's understanding of the core lessons of the class but also made extra efforts to provide encouragement to those who quickly grasped the basic concepts and sought to explore more. While I'm sure his love for computers was deep, his actions, and my immediate recognitition of his presence in my development, suggest that he was an overall top-notch and generally nice guy.
Mr. Ray was an Air Force reservist and was called back to active duty at the end of my 8th grade year. I believe he went to an Air Force base in Colorado Springs. My attempts to locate him about a year ago failed. While I have been unable to thank him personally, maybe some day he will stumble upon this message and have a sense of satisfaction of the role he played in my life.
Thank you, Mr. Ray. You inspired me and surely countless others.
I hereby request a manual recount of the decisions by the Supreme Court justices.
I was a little peeved at first run 486SX chips as intentionally FPU-disabled DXs. While I don't know all the technical details surrounding it, the issue still hangs around in the back of my head.
As I remember it, they made a whole batch of 486DX chips, disabled the FPUs, and then sold the SX for significantly less than the DX even though the SX took more work to make. I do remember hearing that this FPU-disabling process was eventually replaced and DX/SX chips were made in seperate runs. Too bad they couldn't have sold the DXs at SX prices (or cheaper!).
Synaptic