A friend of mine who works mostly blue-collar jobs has been told by more than one foreman on a work site: "If you fall from rigging, your employment is terminated before you hit the ground." Apparently this is how they sidestep safety regulations -- I'm not responsible for that guy, he wasn't my employee.
...and is the manager's employment terminated before the back of his head hits the ground as the result of blunt force trauma to the front of his face?
Unless it's all off the books (which in itself can be tracked), how does a foreman deny someone on the job site that's been paid is a worker?
Yet ANOTHER story about how many Facebook users are not particularly interested in hiding personal information. I mean. come on! This is some sort of News Flash? Is anyone unaware that Facebook is primarily a platform for sharing personal information?
Ha! Your love is feeble, my friend. For my wife I just stole roughly $1.2 million worth of intellectual property. (downloaded her a Beatle's album via torrent)
That's just so wrong! Your wife doesn't need it. Just think. If you set up your unlimited Internet connection just right you could download enough merchandise to end World poverty by Wednesday!!!
I have seen many outstanding programmers who struggled with calculus and never really got it.
The summary is not absolutely clear on who makes this statement, but the article attributes it to "a professor". I don't know where this professor works, but the outstanding programmers I know can all do calculus in their sleep. Not all programmers, or even all good programmers, but the outstanding ones..
Well if you phrase things like that I can't argue with that because the definition of a great programmer vs a very good one is subjective and you can always shift the goal posts. However I can say without doubt that there are famous and noteworthy programmers that aren't mathematically inclined, and that many of them would be rusty on Calculus even if they were able to do it very well at some point. I don't consider myself outstanding in the sense you describe, but I do know that while Calculus doesn't scare me and I could pick it up and even teach it (and have even coded the Runge–Kutta method for a university project), right at this point in my life I would need to brush up first.
If that really is a true story, did you ever consider just RENAMING the system? If anyone asked your boss could truthfully tell them it was to avoid confusion with the film of the same name. Those who didn't ask might assume its a newer better system your boss is now raving about.
Ah, in true slashdot spirit the summary "forgets" a few things from the story. First of all, he wasn't banned from playing the game. He bought the game from EA online store and because he was banned, the installer didn't work. And to be honest, for me that sounds more like a bug than EA trying to ban him from a single player game.
I bought the Battlefield 2 Booster Packs and could not get the installers to accept my valid keys no matter what I did, and I had not been banned from anything. Bought from a legitimate store so I returned them for a refund (after much hassle and some paperwork). I haven't bought an EA game since. I was very disappointed - while I was never a hardcore BF2 gamer, and I never got very good, running around and blowing shit up was lots of fun and a good way to blow off some steam. What I got with these booster packs was nothing but an increase in blood pressure. EA Games: Ruin Everything indeed. I am completely unsympathetic to IDIOT software publishers who install draconian DRM that actually prevents legitimate use. They can take the effort and expense of developing a title and store it where the sun doesn't shine.
Grab the torrents for each distro, and see how many people are downloading it at any one time. Maintain totals over the year, and that should give you a half-decent number. cycles.
Not everyone uses torrents so that's no better than distrowatch.
What's openSUSE's future look like? Since Novell is slowly dying, are we going to see openSUSE fade from being the #2 / #3 distro?
According to distrowatch it's number 5, with about half the hits per day of Ubuntu which is number 1. I can't tell you it's future, but I do think this distro is high quality and arguably undervalued. If it fails it will be due to politics rather than on technical merits. It's good to have good technically competent alternatives (though possibly not as many as we have now!!!). It's certainly not a distro I want to see disappear.
You may be willing to allow corporations to perform uncontrolled data mining of your online habits but I prefer to have control over that information since the information is open to abuse. There is no legitimate justification for corporations to collect this information other than to use it for their benefit. They are certainly not collecting it to help you as a consumer.
This move won't give you that. In fact it does the exact opposite. Corporations are going to force you to sign EULA that includes allowing them to track you for EVERYTHING. Think of Google requiring login (no anonymous searches). The first thing you're going to have to do no matter what URL you type in, is log in.
Does the EU do anything apart from make things harder for people? This effectively means no anonymous cookies. I'm guessing it's more about controling and monitoring citizens than about protecting their privacy. The thing is there are lots of legitimate uses for anonymous or one time cookies for which consent.isn't practical, so if this flies, it will detract from the Internet as we know it. And not just in the intended ways.
I'm in 2 minds about it. On the one hand I think he should be paid. On the other my only recollection of using Trumpet Winsock was in my very earliest days connecting to uni on an old machine and I think it was actually shareware (quickly replaced by win95). And I'm not sure if paying someone who's trying to live off work done a couple of decades ago is particularly moral. I think I'd rather pay for a more recent product.
You know what really sucks? The fact that I have as many or more issues setting up a machine today than I did back then. Today everything is buggy bloatware that wants to dial home and every time you blink you find some strange windows error that requires googling to find a solution. My latest laptop - a Qosmio X500 I had to downgrade Zonealarm, Virtualbox and the Antivirus. Zonealarm broke remote desktop. Virtualbox broke local network sharing. Antivirus is too new (version 2 of MS Security Essentials) to be recognised as valid to log into a VPN I use AND turns on Windows update for you without asking.
If I walked up to a guy and said "Nice shoes, wanna fuck?" -- there's a chance he'll say yes, despite this being one of the worst ways to go about it.
If you're even remotely attractive (Lets say, shy of disfigured), I'd say there's a very good chance. If the gender roles are reversed, there's a very good chance of getting slapped. I don't know if that's societal or biological, but I suspect it's societal.
It's not societal. Women have traditionally had the most to lose. Birth control is a relatively new invention and if you're female having some unattached and emotionally uninvested idiot leave you having to raise a child on your own makes your chance of survival and the child's much lower. Sure things changed with birth control, but that doesn't undo all the evolutionary pressure before that point. Even today if her birth control fails, while the woman is less likely to starve to death or be eaten by wild animals the years raising your child on her own without financial or physical won't be much fun.
...deterrence is obsolete. If people are so brainwashed by their religion that they think that they're going to be greeted by 17 virgins and everything will be better once this life is over, all bets are off.
Religion is the biggest threat to the survival of our species, folks. Time to wake up. Time to stand up to the "let's not offend the Muslims" crowd. Every time they claim to be offended by people in the western world exercising their western rights (whether it's to draw cartoons or write novels) we should tell them to go fuck themselves.
Sounds like an excellent way to start a war and help justify their point of view and turn more to their cause.
There is a reason diplomats tend to be older. It requires a cool head....and it's a pity you resorted to that argument because your intiial point and your overall argument aren't bad or wrong - just this one last point on which you complelely lost me.
How should we react? With tact. We should explain that our own beliefs do not allow us to permit theirs to encroach in our own world. That every time they try to we will defend our citizens. At the same time we shouldn't be encouraging people to offend those beliefs purely for the shock value or book or newspaper sales. The only way you eliminate religion is to make it redundant by giving people something better to hold on to. It requires good education and an informed public. How do you expect to explain modern science to an ignorant person. (And I've met some very ignorant people who are suppose to be educated). You can't leave them ignorant then wonder why they prefer their myths over the complexity of reality.
Actually, according to the summary, it's not Hulu and Netflix that cause the problem -- it's interactivity which is to blame (video games, SMS, Facebook, Twitter, etc.).
So is watching porn before bed interactive or not?;-)
Yes but minimising your sleep will minimise your awareness. So sacrificing a few hours of extra sleep in order to be even more alert in your wakeful hours is often a good idea.
There have certainly been intelligent politicians who understand, but unfortunately all politicians know how to use people to their advantage or they'd never have succeeded. So they're easily corruptable and will happily do whatever will gain them money and power. The more intelligent the more likely to recognise an opportunity. A lot of politicians "act dumb" because it's convenient but truly aren't. It's a cut-throat world for them, and most would not last a minute if they were as dumb as they pretend. For them the choice is be paid $X milllion dollars to minimise and dismiss the science issue (say global change), or fight everyone else who's being bribed and end up out on your rear. What more effective way of minimising something than playing dumb and prentending you don't believe. Rinse and repeat similarly for any issue where science plus morality is involved from drugs to abortion to genetic foods to distribution of entertainment (music and movies).
Your app is signed with an expired certificate from Microsoft though it is coming from Australia. Enabling appropriate security restrictions and trying to run it anyway creates a bomb with a security exception. It may be clever and fun, but no one is going to run that.
My applet (not app) is completely unsigned, so I have no idea what you're talking about. I suggest you check your own security software, because I've been able to run it on several windows XP PCs without issue.
The source code is available in the directory. It is a modification of someone else's work (clearly attributed)
The problem is that if you don't respond and add them to an ignore list, they end up with free reign to say anything they like.
Well, yes, but who cares? I don't because once I've added him to my ignore list I'm not going to see his blather, am I? And, if everybody else in the channel does the same he'll just be a voice, shouting in the wilderness with nobody listening. Works for me!
That's not how it works. The troll will convince some of the board he's won. Newbies will take on the trolls ideas as valid, since no one will disagree with them. Log on later without your ignore list and your board looks like a place for cranks and nutjobs.
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A friend of mine who works mostly blue-collar jobs has been told by more than one foreman on a work site: "If you fall from rigging, your employment is terminated before you hit the ground." Apparently this is how they sidestep safety regulations -- I'm not responsible for that guy, he wasn't my employee.
...and is the manager's employment terminated before the back of his head hits the ground as the result of blunt force trauma to the front of his face?
Unless it's all off the books (which in itself can be tracked), how does a foreman deny someone on the job site that's been paid is a worker?
Yet ANOTHER story about how many Facebook users are not particularly interested in hiding personal information. I mean. come on! This is some sort of News Flash? Is anyone unaware that Facebook is primarily a platform for sharing personal information?
Huh? I thought it was a farming simulator!
Ha! Your love is feeble, my friend. For my wife I just stole roughly $1.2 million worth of intellectual property. (downloaded her a Beatle's album via torrent)
That's just so wrong! Your wife doesn't need it. Just think. If you set up your unlimited Internet connection just right you could download enough merchandise to end World poverty by Wednesday!!!
I have seen many outstanding programmers who struggled with calculus and never really got it.
The summary is not absolutely clear on who makes this statement, but the article attributes it to "a professor". I don't know where this professor works, but the outstanding programmers I know can all do calculus in their sleep. Not all programmers, or even all good programmers, but the outstanding ones. .
Well if you phrase things like that I can't argue with that because the definition of a great programmer vs a very good one is subjective and you can always shift the goal posts. However I can say without doubt that there are famous and noteworthy programmers that aren't mathematically inclined, and that many of them would be rusty on Calculus even if they were able to do it very well at some point. I don't consider myself outstanding in the sense you describe, but I do know that while Calculus doesn't scare me and I could pick it up and even teach it (and have even coded the Runge–Kutta method for a university project), right at this point in my life I would need to brush up first.
If that really is a true story, did you ever consider just RENAMING the system? If anyone asked your boss could truthfully tell them it was to avoid confusion with the film of the same name. Those who didn't ask might assume its a newer better system your boss is now raving about.
But it's not exactly like we can say Bobby Prince wrote the engine, so someone has to take the credit, I guess.
I can think of someone who's looking for work and might be interested:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peW2p4GVt98
Ah, in true slashdot spirit the summary "forgets" a few things from the story. First of all, he wasn't banned from playing the game. He bought the game from EA online store and because he was banned, the installer didn't work. And to be honest, for me that sounds more like a bug than EA trying to ban him from a single player game.
I bought the Battlefield 2 Booster Packs and could not get the installers to accept my valid keys no matter what I did, and I had not been banned from anything. Bought from a legitimate store so I returned them for a refund (after much hassle and some paperwork). I haven't bought an EA game since. I was very disappointed - while I was never a hardcore BF2 gamer, and I never got very good, running around and blowing shit up was lots of fun and a good way to blow off some steam. What I got with these booster packs was nothing but an increase in blood pressure. EA Games: Ruin Everything indeed. I am completely unsympathetic to IDIOT software publishers who install draconian DRM that actually prevents legitimate use. They can take the effort and expense of developing a title and store it where the sun doesn't shine.
Grab the torrents for each distro, and see how many people are downloading it at any one time. Maintain totals over the year, and that should give you a half-decent number. cycles.
Not everyone uses torrents so that's no better than distrowatch.
I grant you distrowatch is far from perfect, but it's a better indication than none at all. If you know a better way to compare, I'm all ears.
What's openSUSE's future look like? Since Novell is slowly dying, are we going to see openSUSE fade from being the #2 / #3 distro?
According to distrowatch it's number 5, with about half the hits per day of Ubuntu which is number 1. I can't tell you it's future, but I do think this distro is high quality and arguably undervalued. If it fails it will be due to politics rather than on technical merits. It's good to have good technically competent alternatives (though possibly not as many as we have now!!!). It's certainly not a distro I want to see disappear.
You may be willing to allow corporations to perform uncontrolled data mining of your online habits but I prefer to have control over that information since the information is open to abuse. There is no legitimate justification for corporations to collect this information other than to use it for their benefit. They are certainly not collecting it to help you as a consumer.
This move won't give you that. In fact it does the exact opposite. Corporations are going to force you to sign EULA that includes allowing them to track you for EVERYTHING. Think of Google requiring login (no anonymous searches). The first thing you're going to have to do no matter what URL you type in, is log in.
Does the EU do anything apart from make things harder for people? This effectively means no anonymous cookies. I'm guessing it's more about controling and monitoring citizens than about protecting their privacy. The thing is there are lots of legitimate uses for anonymous or one time cookies for which consent.isn't practical, so if this flies, it will detract from the Internet as we know it. And not just in the intended ways.
And I don't put anything out there that I wouldn't be ashamed of my mom seeing.
Friend your mom like I did and your problem is solved! :)
You friended HIS mom?!?!? Duuuude, that's soooo wrong!
An 80% success rate is good for two things:
1. Exculpatory evidence. 2. Narrowing the suspect list.
Sounds more like a good way to misdirect your effort because you're chasing the wrong guy after incorrectly excluding the right one.
Why oh why does this feel like astroturfing?
http://www.trumpet.com.au/
I'm in 2 minds about it. On the one hand I think he should be paid. On the other my only recollection of using Trumpet Winsock was in my very earliest days connecting to uni on an old machine and I think it was actually shareware (quickly replaced by win95). And I'm not sure if paying someone who's trying to live off work done a couple of decades ago is particularly moral. I think I'd rather pay for a more recent product.
You know what really sucks? The fact that I have as many or more issues setting up a machine today than I did back then. Today everything is buggy bloatware that wants to dial home and every time you blink you find some strange windows error that requires googling to find a solution. My latest laptop - a Qosmio X500 I had to downgrade Zonealarm, Virtualbox and the Antivirus. Zonealarm broke remote desktop. Virtualbox broke local network sharing. Antivirus is too new (version 2 of MS Security Essentials) to be recognised as valid to log into a VPN I use AND turns on Windows update for you without asking.
If I walked up to a guy and said "Nice shoes, wanna fuck?" -- there's a chance he'll say yes, despite this being one of the worst ways to go about it.
If you're even remotely attractive (Lets say, shy of disfigured), I'd say there's a very good chance. If the gender roles are reversed, there's a very good chance of getting slapped. I don't know if that's societal or biological, but I suspect it's societal.
It's not societal. Women have traditionally had the most to lose. Birth control is a relatively new invention and if you're female having some unattached and emotionally uninvested idiot leave you having to raise a child on your own makes your chance of survival and the child's much lower. Sure things changed with birth control, but that doesn't undo all the evolutionary pressure before that point. Even today if her birth control fails, while the woman is less likely to starve to death or be eaten by wild animals the years raising your child on her own without financial or physical won't be much fun.
'cause, assuming a standard rate, 72 virgins would only take a couple of months to get through, and I'm told eternity is much longer than that...
Apparently not if you're Charlie Sheen. You'd be lucky if they lasted 72 minutes.
...deterrence is obsolete. If people are so brainwashed by their religion that they think that they're going to be greeted by 17 virgins and everything will be better once this life is over, all bets are off.
Religion is the biggest threat to the survival of our species, folks. Time to wake up. Time to stand up to the "let's not offend the Muslims" crowd. Every time they claim to be offended by people in the western world exercising their western rights (whether it's to draw cartoons or write novels) we should tell them to go fuck themselves.
Sounds like an excellent way to start a war and help justify their point of view and turn more to their cause.
There is a reason diplomats tend to be older. It requires a cool head. ...and it's a pity you resorted to that argument because your intiial point and your overall argument aren't bad or wrong - just this one last point on which you complelely lost me.
How should we react? With tact. We should explain that our own beliefs do not allow us to permit theirs to encroach in our own world. That every time they try to we will defend our citizens. At the same time we shouldn't be encouraging people to offend those beliefs purely for the shock value or book or newspaper sales. The only way you eliminate religion is to make it redundant by giving people something better to hold on to. It requires good education and an informed public. How do you expect to explain modern science to an ignorant person. (And I've met some very ignorant people who are suppose to be educated). You can't leave them ignorant then wonder why they prefer their myths over the complexity of reality.
Actually, according to the summary, it's not Hulu and Netflix that cause the problem -- it's interactivity which is to blame (video games, SMS, Facebook, Twitter, etc.).
So is watching porn before bed interactive or not? ;-)
Yes but minimising your sleep will minimise your awareness. So sacrificing a few hours of extra sleep in order to be even more alert in your wakeful hours is often a good idea.
There have certainly been intelligent politicians who understand, but unfortunately all politicians know how to use people to their advantage or they'd never have succeeded. So they're easily corruptable and will happily do whatever will gain them money and power. The more intelligent the more likely to recognise an opportunity. A lot of politicians "act dumb" because it's convenient but truly aren't. It's a cut-throat world for them, and most would not last a minute if they were as dumb as they pretend. For them the choice is be paid $X milllion dollars to minimise and dismiss the science issue (say global change), or fight everyone else who's being bribed and end up out on your rear. What more effective way of minimising something than playing dumb and prentending you don't believe. Rinse and repeat similarly for any issue where science plus morality is involved from drugs to abortion to genetic foods to distribution of entertainment (music and movies).
"Shatner said in a prerecorded message." Historic event, he almost considered waking up for it.
Well, what do you expect. He's an old man now! It should be !@#$ my GRANDad says.
Your app is signed with an expired certificate from Microsoft though it is coming from Australia. Enabling appropriate security restrictions and trying to run it anyway creates a bomb with a security exception. It may be clever and fun, but no one is going to run that.
My applet (not app) is completely unsigned, so I have no idea what you're talking about. I suggest you check your own security software, because I've been able to run it on several windows XP PCs without issue.
The source code is available in the directory. It is a modification of someone else's work (clearly attributed)
The problem is that if you don't respond and add them to an ignore list, they end up with free reign to say anything they like.
Well, yes, but who cares? I don't because once I've added him to my ignore list I'm not going to see his blather, am I? And, if everybody else in the channel does the same he'll just be a voice, shouting in the wilderness with nobody listening. Works for me!
That's not how it works. The troll will convince some of the board he's won. Newbies will take on the trolls ideas as valid, since no one will disagree with them. Log on later without your ignore list and your board looks like a place for cranks and nutjobs.