Cats are perfectly capable of eating in moderation. If you're going away for a week, leave your cats enough food and water for a week and they'll be fine.
What would really be useful is a version of this that dispenses dog food.
Then how did all those GPS-guided missiles find their targets?
From Wikipedia: [F]or military purposes, "Selective Deniability" may still be used to, in effect, jam civilian GPS units in a war zone or global alert while still allowing military units to have full functionality. In reality, the shortage of military GPS units and the wide availability of civilian ones among personnel resulted in disabling the Selective Availability in the time of the Gulf War.
So turning off the civilian signal does make things harder for the military -- not because you need the civilian signal to "lock onto" the military signal, but because there apparently aren't enough military GPS units to go around.
You can be sure that all of those million-dollar guided missiles are equipped with the ability to use the military signal, and are not relying on the civilian signal in any way.
"They're in the dark too" is not true at all. There's two different signals, one of which anyone can use and the other of which only the military can use. They can turn the public signal off and leave the military-only signal on. Also, they can turn off the public signal in a specific area without having to turn it off worldwide. For example, I'm pretty sure they did this in and around Iraq when they first invaded.
No, he's not. If there's enough PSPs to go around, then there might be a shortage initially, but afterwards the resellers won't be able to find enough buyers on Ebay. You'll be able to go on Ebay and get one for a little less than what it would cost in the store, and the reseller will lose money. The same thing happens all the time with sporting event tickets.
If there really AREN'T enough to go around, you'll have a hard time finding one no matter what people do on Ebay. If this happens, get mad at Sony for screwing up the distribution.
I think you're misreading that statement. What they're saying is that if you buy a product through Amazon that's actually being sold by a third party -- for example, buying a Gamecube from Toys r us through Amazon -- you don't get free shipping. The $25 super saver shipping tends to have the same restriction.
That said, what you said is absolutely right. It's just covered in a different part of the terms & conditions:
Prime members are entitled to free Two-Day shipping and $3.99 per unit One-Day shipping on all eligible purchases. If you purchase a Prime membership, you may also invite up to four eligible family members living in your household (at the same address) to register for Prime membership at no extra cost. (Please note that any member under age 18 may use the Amazon.com Web site only with involvement of a parent or guardian.) The purchaser can change and/or remove guests at any time. A guest's membership will automatically terminate if the purchaser of the membership ceases to be a member or removes the guest. This program is not available for Corporate Accounts or for customers who purchase products for business or institutional use or for the purpose of resale.
How many times are we going to debate whether or not cellphone driving is dangerous? I think the answer is, it depends. Some situations are more dangerous than others. If you're in a situation that demands a lot of attention (driving through downtown, lots of lights, lots of lane changes, whatever) you probably shouldn't be on the phone. If you're crawling along in traffic at 5mph, or driving across Nebraska on i-80, you can probably get away with making a phone call. Here's some tips:
If you're in a situation where you can't talk and drive at the same time, don't make phone calls and don't answer the phone. Your phone has voicemail and caller ID for a reason.
You are not available 24/7. If someone can't understand this, this is their problem. If it's your job to be available 24/7, get a hands free device or something.
If you have a passenger, have them make phone calls if possible.
Avoid lane changes while on the phone (unless you have tons of room). Even if it means following that truck at 60mph for a minute or two.
If you suddenly need to pay full attention to driving, do so. Being impolite is better than totalling your car.
If you were in a traffic jam, but aren't anymore, it's OK to tell the person on the other end of the line and say you need to hang up.
You still have to mouse over the link. I never said it was perfect. It's just one of several clues that a link is something you probably don't want to click on.
BTW, there's several other clues that your link is trollish:
Your user name.
Your homepage.
The "Troll" mod.
The other reply.
Knowing that Google caches almost everything, including troll sites.
The "YHBT" message you'll probably respond to me with.
But then my comment wouldn't look right! Besides, I like to keep the feature on anyway for its intended purpose of avoiding goat.cx type links, especially at work (yes, you still have to mouse over links before clicking, but it helps).
So far, the recording industry has not taken too kindly to timeshifting radio. When an enterprising XM Radio subscriber wrote an application that allowed owners of the XM PCR to timeshift and record XM Radio programming, XM killed the PC version of their product. Could the radioSHARK draw that sort of attention? In the short term, it's not likely -- there's no program listing, and while recording music is easy, carving out and sharing individual tracks would be labor intensive. Those shortcomings will likely enable the radioSHARK to fly under the radar of the recording industry.
There's also some weird stuff going on with the comments in the previous posting of this story. Maybe they reposted the article so people would have a chance to comment? Either that, or there's some weird slashcode bug causing both the missing comments and the reposting.
Huh? Google already doesn't index people's sigs, it's just that people aren't aware of this, which is why people were/are putting googlebombing links in their sigs.
Also, the people putting freeipods links in their sigs aren't trying to increase pagerank. They're trying to get Slashdot readers to click on their link. A "nofollow" tag won't do anything about that.
If you work for thirty years, paying hundreds of thousands of dollars into a 401K, and you die one month after you retire, how much money does your family get? Okay, now after putting hundreds of thousands of dollars into "Social Security", you die one month after you retire, how much does your family get? The answer to the second question is a big fat zero. See Supreme Court decisions Flemming v. Nestor and Helvering v. Davis. So you are bamboozled if you even call this stuff "Insurance."
That's not a bug, it's a feature:)
In a way, you can think of Social Security as operating like a form of reverse life insurance. The longer you live, the more money you need, and the more money you get. If you live to be 130, Social Security will pay you enough money to live on (or something like that, but that's a different discussion) until you're 130. If you only make it to 68, you get enough money to live on until you're 68. With a 401k, you get the same amount of money no matter how long you live (so you need to save up enough to live to 105 and if you don't make it, give it to your kids).
Making social security payouts the same regardless of lifespan would fix some problems and create a lot of new ones. But if the idea is to give people something to fall back on when they're older (which is what I thought the point of SS was), it makes sense to keep things the way they are. It IS insurance -- insurance against outliving your retirement savings. Sure you "lose" if you don't need it, but that's true of any form of insurance.
Mod parent up! I'm surprised there's people that read (or used to read) Nintendo Power and don't realize Nintendo publishes it, or that can't figure out how a Nintendo publication would go about getting cheat codes for Nintendo games...
Anyway, Nintendo Power also used to publish glitches, like World -1 in SMB1 or the jumping-over-the-top-of-the-screen-and-using-fairy -magic glitch in Zelda 2. Since these things wouldn't have been put in deliberately, I'm guessing these were sent in by readers. The magazine actively encouraged people to send in stuff like this, and with over a million readers, it's not hard to see how a few of them would accidentally stumble upon some glitch even if the likelihood of doing so is very low.
Bush did a great job of riling up angry blue staters, and it doesn't seem to have hurt his political career. One thing I heard a lot in 2004 was people saying "I don't really like Bush, but at least I know what he stands for." Appeasing the right wingers is not a viable strategy for the Democrats. There are some lessons we can learn from the Republicans, like how to use the internet for organizing volunteers (not just fundraising) and how to frame the issues to get our point across better (for example, the Republicans made a lot of progress getting the estate tax repealed by calling it the "death tax"). Bush didn't win because more people are conservative. He won because Karl Rove and the Republicans had a better campaign strategy than the Democrats.
Jeb? By 2016 (when Hillary is term-limited out) the twins will be old enough to run.
And before you laugh -- it's hard to imagine how they could do any worse than their father. It's hard to imagine one of them accomplishing anything while in office, but given the sorts of things Bush family members like to "accomplish," that would likely be an improvement.
So how come I've never heard of Abu Ghraib style prisoner abuse going on in civilian prisons and jails in the US? It certainly isn't lack of opportunity; the US incarcerates over 2 million people.
And what happens when a Navy ship is in port? What does it mean to "drink like a sailor?"
I don't think the military exactly qualifies as a shining example of red-state values. Or blue-state values, either.
Which probably explains why you see a lot of touchscreens on things you only use for a few minutes at a time (ATM, self checkout machine at the store, self check-in machine at the airport, etc.) but not very many on a computer you're going to be sitting at for long periods of time.
Are the touchscreens really that much more expensive these days?
Most credible people can provide credible references.
And most dishonest people can find someone they can pay $100 or so to be their "credible reference." In fact, if there were no credit bureaus, you could probably make a decent living selling your services as a "reference."
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Cats are perfectly capable of eating in moderation. If you're going away for a week, leave your cats enough food and water for a week and they'll be fine.
What would really be useful is a version of this that dispenses dog food.
Exactly. HP could go from merging with other companies to launching hostile takeovers of other companies.
Then how did all those GPS-guided missiles find their targets?
From Wikipedia: [F]or military purposes, "Selective Deniability" may still be used to, in effect, jam civilian GPS units in a war zone or global alert while still allowing military units to have full functionality. In reality, the shortage of military GPS units and the wide availability of civilian ones among personnel resulted in disabling the Selective Availability in the time of the Gulf War.
So turning off the civilian signal does make things harder for the military -- not because you need the civilian signal to "lock onto" the military signal, but because there apparently aren't enough military GPS units to go around.
You can be sure that all of those million-dollar guided missiles are equipped with the ability to use the military signal, and are not relying on the civilian signal in any way.
"They're in the dark too" is not true at all. There's two different signals, one of which anyone can use and the other of which only the military can use. They can turn the public signal off and leave the military-only signal on. Also, they can turn off the public signal in a specific area without having to turn it off worldwide. For example, I'm pretty sure they did this in and around Iraq when they first invaded.
The worms and viruses are designed to be hard to detect. People have infected machines that they don't know are infected. Out of sight, out of mind.
No, he's not. If there's enough PSPs to go around, then there might be a shortage initially, but afterwards the resellers won't be able to find enough buyers on Ebay. You'll be able to go on Ebay and get one for a little less than what it would cost in the store, and the reseller will lose money. The same thing happens all the time with sporting event tickets.
If there really AREN'T enough to go around, you'll have a hard time finding one no matter what people do on Ebay. If this happens, get mad at Sony for screwing up the distribution.
I think you're misreading that statement. What they're saying is that if you buy a product through Amazon that's actually being sold by a third party -- for example, buying a Gamecube from Toys r us through Amazon -- you don't get free shipping. The $25 super saver shipping tends to have the same restriction.
That said, what you said is absolutely right. It's just covered in a different part of the terms & conditions:
Prime members are entitled to free Two-Day shipping and $3.99 per unit One-Day shipping on all eligible purchases. If you purchase a Prime membership, you may also invite up to four eligible family members living in your household (at the same address) to register for Prime membership at no extra cost. (Please note that any member under age 18 may use the Amazon.com Web site only with involvement of a parent or guardian.) The purchaser can change and/or remove guests at any time. A guest's membership will automatically terminate if the purchaser of the membership ceases to be a member or removes the guest. This program is not available for Corporate Accounts or for customers who purchase products for business or institutional use or for the purpose of resale.
If you're in a situation where you can't talk and drive at the same time, don't make phone calls and don't answer the phone. Your phone has voicemail and caller ID for a reason.
You are not available 24/7. If someone can't understand this, this is their problem. If it's your job to be available 24/7, get a hands free device or something.
If you have a passenger, have them make phone calls if possible.
Avoid lane changes while on the phone (unless you have tons of room). Even if it means following that truck at 60mph for a minute or two.
If you suddenly need to pay full attention to driving, do so. Being impolite is better than totalling your car.
If you were in a traffic jam, but aren't anymore, it's OK to tell the person on the other end of the line and say you need to hang up.
BTW, there's several other clues that your link is trollish:
Your user name.
Your homepage.
The "Troll" mod.
The other reply.
Knowing that Google caches almost everything, including troll sites.
The "YHBT" message you'll probably respond to me with.
But then my comment wouldn't look right! Besides, I like to keep the feature on anyway for its intended purpose of avoiding goat.cx type links, especially at work (yes, you still have to mouse over links before clicking, but it helps).
So far, the recording industry has not taken too kindly to timeshifting radio. When an enterprising XM Radio subscriber wrote an application that allowed owners of the XM PCR to timeshift and record XM Radio programming, XM killed the PC version of their product. Could the radioSHARK draw that sort of attention? In the short term, it's not likely -- there's no program listing, and while recording music is easy, carving out and sharing individual tracks would be labor intensive. Those shortcomings will likely enable the radioSHARK to fly under the radar of the recording industry.
This is not always the case.
And in 2030, you'll be able to sue the NFL for millions!
There's also some weird stuff going on with the comments in the previous posting of this story. Maybe they reposted the article so people would have a chance to comment? Either that, or there's some weird slashcode bug causing both the missing comments and the reposting.
That's just the story the guy came up with when the cop asked him why he was going 80 in a 55 zone.
I could try to explain the difference, but someone else already did in the article from last month, so I'll just link to that instead:
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http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=13
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=96863&cid= 8281595
Huh? Google already doesn't index people's sigs, it's just that people aren't aware of this, which is why people were/are putting googlebombing links in their sigs.
Also, the people putting freeipods links in their sigs aren't trying to increase pagerank. They're trying to get Slashdot readers to click on their link. A "nofollow" tag won't do anything about that.
If you work for thirty years, paying hundreds of thousands of dollars into a 401K, and you die one month after you retire, how much money does your family get? Okay, now after putting hundreds of thousands of dollars into "Social Security", you die one month after you retire, how much does your family get? The answer to the second question is a big fat zero. See Supreme Court decisions Flemming v. Nestor and Helvering v. Davis. So you are bamboozled if you even call this stuff "Insurance."
:)
That's not a bug, it's a feature
In a way, you can think of Social Security as operating like a form of reverse life insurance. The longer you live, the more money you need, and the more money you get. If you live to be 130, Social Security will pay you enough money to live on (or something like that, but that's a different discussion) until you're 130. If you only make it to 68, you get enough money to live on until you're 68. With a 401k, you get the same amount of money no matter how long you live (so you need to save up enough to live to 105 and if you don't make it, give it to your kids).
Making social security payouts the same regardless of lifespan would fix some problems and create a lot of new ones. But if the idea is to give people something to fall back on when they're older (which is what I thought the point of SS was), it makes sense to keep things the way they are. It IS insurance -- insurance against outliving your retirement savings. Sure you "lose" if you don't need it, but that's true of any form of insurance.
Mod parent up! I'm surprised there's people that read (or used to read) Nintendo Power and don't realize Nintendo publishes it, or that can't figure out how a Nintendo publication would go about getting cheat codes for Nintendo games...
y -magic glitch in Zelda 2. Since these things wouldn't have been put in deliberately, I'm guessing these were sent in by readers. The magazine actively encouraged people to send in stuff like this, and with over a million readers, it's not hard to see how a few of them would accidentally stumble upon some glitch even if the likelihood of doing so is very low.
Anyway, Nintendo Power also used to publish glitches, like World -1 in SMB1 or the jumping-over-the-top-of-the-screen-and-using-fair
Bush did a great job of riling up angry blue staters, and it doesn't seem to have hurt his political career. One thing I heard a lot in 2004 was people saying "I don't really like Bush, but at least I know what he stands for." Appeasing the right wingers is not a viable strategy for the Democrats. There are some lessons we can learn from the Republicans, like how to use the internet for organizing volunteers (not just fundraising) and how to frame the issues to get our point across better (for example, the Republicans made a lot of progress getting the estate tax repealed by calling it the "death tax"). Bush didn't win because more people are conservative. He won because Karl Rove and the Republicans had a better campaign strategy than the Democrats.
Jeb? By 2016 (when Hillary is term-limited out) the twins will be old enough to run.
And before you laugh -- it's hard to imagine how they could do any worse than their father. It's hard to imagine one of them accomplishing anything while in office, but given the sorts of things Bush family members like to "accomplish," that would likely be an improvement.
So how come I've never heard of Abu Ghraib style prisoner abuse going on in civilian prisons and jails in the US? It certainly isn't lack of opportunity; the US incarcerates over 2 million people.
And what happens when a Navy ship is in port? What does it mean to "drink like a sailor?"
I don't think the military exactly qualifies as a shining example of red-state values. Or blue-state values, either.
Which probably explains why you see a lot of touchscreens on things you only use for a few minutes at a time (ATM, self checkout machine at the store, self check-in machine at the airport, etc.) but not very many on a computer you're going to be sitting at for long periods of time.
Are the touchscreens really that much more expensive these days?
Most credible people can provide credible references.
And most dishonest people can find someone they can pay $100 or so to be their "credible reference." In fact, if there were no credit bureaus, you could probably make a decent living selling your services as a "reference."