Well, I'm not here to flame you. Many roads just require a high level of competency, but there are still a ton of drivers who will not learn a specialized manuever unless it is required. The real problem with a group of excellent drivers is that there is little room for mistakes. If everyone maintains tight following distances, drives fast around corners etc, you can't make a last second lane switch. Of course this is usually more a problem with the roads, but that wont stop others from blaming you.
So I guess to answer your question: highly congested areas are bad for any level of driving expertise. That problem aside, there are so many people who think that unless you are a professional in something your trips away from the norm are dangerous, malicious, and unfeeling.
Under normal condidtions Mercury is a liquid. Still toxic, but not breatable. If the tube breaks open it will be exposed to regular atmospheric pressure and should return to liquid state.
Still, if you can get $35 for a piece of junk go for it.
The problem with this idea is often the click reciever will lie about what gets ordered. This is especailly the case with non-trustworthy businesses. Credit card applications are by far the most prevalent example I can think of now. You are solicited to apply, but whatever they promised to you you will only get if you are accepted. The big problem here is not that the referring site didn't do their job, the problem is the recieving site didn't have a good enough deal.
I'm sure pricewatch.com does not charge their advertisers on a per sale basis because there's just too many sites that lie about price, shipping, item condition, stock, etc.
Please note I don't really have any better ideas, but pay per click seems to be the best available now.
I went to see Jose Canseco speak. He can read, but he certainly can't write. Of course Jocks aren't the only people who easily find themselves in a nice career without working, but they are the most profound. Especially with the new trend of looking for foreigners before domestic players on the count of "potential" we are facing a real problem. These people suddenly have power and influence without any knowlege, which means they can mess things up without even trying. Of course increasing academic standards might help, while we are keeping high school kids from playing in the NFL we might as well start testing incoming athletes against stupidity (or any other sport for that matter).
Your whole comment is bloated, You're just rambling on about violence. By taking this look exclusivly you are showing yourself to be explicitly secular (remember secular means worldly, or in the flesh), and biased. Answer me this, how can you (or any of these poor threatened heathens) justify removing GOD from our Nation under God?
Ok, that was a little optimistic. Odds are you don't understand the question so here's an easy one. How many hands would it take for you to enumerate things worse than death? Be careful with that answer, I'll flame you silly if you respond without thinking.
My only complaint, and the complaint of many others is with usability. Sure it's stable, but that doesn't matter if you can't do what you want to do. The other problem that was pointed out by an earlier poster is that OO.o doesn't really do anything better. They follow microsoft around trying to copy a piece of software that is lame by definition.
Well the problem is, unless you have a bulletproof memory you'll still have to write passwords down if you want to be secure. Trying to remember 50 secure 16 character passwords is pretty hard, so if you are using passwords that long, odds are they're the same password. The problem here is that the owner of xyzsite.com may now have your password to abcsite.com. Of course odds are nobody will check, but if you use that argument there's no real point in using passwords.
Your school cutting its CS degree program brings the choice of moving or finishing. Changing majors really would have to be brought in from another viewpoint. Are your CS teachers as irritating as mine? If you are really contemplating changing majors it's either because you don't like the subject, you like another subject better, or you don't like your teachers.
If switching schools is truely an option by all means take it. If I had the option, I would have left my school by now.
..this was supposed to be for previous holders of registered trademarks. Who decided that some entrepenuer had a trademark on tickets, job, or hotels? Is this just some dirty politics, or is the mechanism to block regular users (until april) completely ineffective?
I'm glad you pointed that out. EFF just praised sony BMG for releasing a "fix" so quickly, when in fact they created the problem. The rootkit has been known for well over a month now, and when the problem was planned, it's hardly nobel of them to move so quickly and write a patch in a whole month.
It's sad, sometimes you don't have to be paranoid to be cynical.
Your average Wal-Mart employee doesn't know the price of their stuff. You're supposed to get the price that's listed on the shelf, but unless you complain about it, the cashier wont do anything. I went to buy a t-ball bat and the shelf price was around $9, I get to the checkout and its $30. That's about as bad as an ipod for $5.
Maybe this fraud on the part of the customer will encourage the retail stores to keep track of their prices. Hopefully they wont have to be taken too many times to figure it out.
First, I could drive to the hospital twice before an ambulance could get to my house. I live outside town, and I dont ever see ambulances driving by. They don't know the area.
plus the vast majority of motorists do allow ambulances the right of way, which is something they aren't going to afford to some crazy guy speeding and weaving through lanes.
Not true. People see an emergency and often do the most stupid thing possible. I've seen many times where a idiot moves to the left lane and stops after they see an emergency vehicle. Everyone else moved to the right, now how is the cop/firetruck/ambulance supposed to get through? In high traffic conditions yeilding the right of way is either impossible or non-productive. Everyone is so busy trying to get out of the way, and the emegency vehicle is still stopped. In short, YIELD doesn't work when you have idiots designing street systems, and idiots driving on them.
Let me reiterate that this is an argument about ability, not choice. Your vehicle should not be limited just because many people dont know how to drive. There are drivers more experienced, and more talented than people who drive ambulances; Many of these people drive regular cars.
I was trying to emphasize the difference between both situations, not saying it's ok to speed because you are late for work. A fracture probably isn't too time intensive, but there are a lot of arteries in the left arm.
Back to the slow vehicle example... There are a lot of people who don't know what they're supposed to do when their car is running poorly. Many drive with their hazards on, and more still just ignore the long line of cars behind them. Crawling along behind the offending vehicle will just encourage aggressive drivers to double pass (which is illegal, but hardly ever enforced. I witnessed a tractor trailer double pass in the presence of a law enforcement vehicle, and the patrol car did not engage in persuit.)
So much of driving safely is anticipating what others will do, and compensating for their incompetence. This viewpoint along with quick reflexes has saved my body (I'm not so sure about my sanity) a few times. I can't judge your drivng style by your opinion expressed here, but hopefully I can encourage you to not neglect your opportunity to excel in driving instead of just doing everything according to the drivers ed textbook.
When you are driving to work in the morning and you woke up 10 minutes too late safety is remaining calm and ignoring your mad boss.
When your kid falls out of a tree and fractures his left arm safety is driving double the speed limit to ensure the livelyhood of your child.
The problem isn't just in traffic, we are seeing a set of governments that deem all their citizens idiots who can't hurt themselves except with intention. Everything has to be taken away from the citizens at large so nobody gets hurt. The problem with this agenda is that there is no significant reason to trust those who enforce this set of rules.
Psychologically limiting your population doesn't make sense so finding a situation where doing so would be stupid is not necessary. It's stupid to persue these measures in the first place.
Ok, so you have a little trouble understanding things (like slashdot moderation for example). There just isn't any substitute to being able to look at a figure on your screen, then print it out, show it to your boss/family etc. Personally I'm afraid that I'll end up shouting at the brain dead foriegner on the other end of the line.
BTW, over/under rated modeations are used mostly to combat posts that look right out of context. Most of your MM's will not read 3-4 level parent comments to figure out what's going on, when they can just look at the target post in the MM page. I'm sure any seasoned slashdotter has had their comment moderated overrated because some idiot doesn't like their point of view, but for the most part this mod is essential for keeping slashdot together.
Sure, to get rid of copywrite completely would be a great way to go, and as you point out it doesn't seem possible. That doesn't mean you can't fix the problem though. Why not just limit copywrites to the original 4 years? Books are driven by popularity, so doing so wouldn't hurt new sales.
Your data is convincing but it doesn't address the problem that travel agencies are facing. How do you contact someone who has been exposed to infection?
The worst case answer is you can't, which really says more about the inefficiency of the FCC (at least in the US, where communication is probably worst) than anything else.
Cellular phone companies can implement just about anything they want, as long as they extract huge taxes from their customers. They can lock their phones, charge extra for key features (like SMS, voice messages). You cannot reliably contact someone by their cellular phone.
Of course even though there is no protection of cellular users many people are dropping landline service. Pair that with telephone companies charging for voicemail, and the lack of good answering machines, and you really can't reliably contact someone by their POTS phone.
In my personal experience the average joe/jane doesn't know their own email address. They might give you a aol screen name, or they might leave out symbols. Email addresses are usually too long, and too complex for dumb people to write down.
As it happens there is no solution to the email problem. If everyone and their brother wants to use gmail, the government can't stop them. Average IQ's are getting worse, so dumb people aren't likely to wise up and understand their own email.
The solution must be with cellular phones and home phones. It's high time the FCC had done something to justify their exuberant taxes, and clean up some phone systems. As usual I dont expect this to happen. They'll probably ask for about 6 forms of contact, none of them being reliable (or fast in the case of USPS) enough, and assume that one will work.
While I'm on a rant, why not crack down on some email spam so people can trust their inbox?
Your experience with firefox eating all your ram is not the general rule. Every once in a while the mozilla foundation either misses big bugs, or they just put off the fix to the next version. My guess is that your system is heavily riddled with spyware (that can happen overnight if you are targeted and unfirewalled on an Win32/IE system). This may or may not be the cause for firefox performing poorly though, and you should probably report the problem to bugzilla.
For some reason you're not my friend but I have to agree with you on this one just because I don't like doctors either. Having some jerk/idiot who doesn't care about anything but academics yell in your ear is hard enough for 2 years. Try taking it on for 8,12... (how long is the average stay to get surgeon status?) years, and I imagine you wouldn't much care what anyone says.
That's not to take the guilt away from sloppy doctors. I'll just stay sick, thank you very much. Oh yeah, don't get me started on orthodontists.
The comment about $55 for PS, cables, and controller really proved that to me. The analysis done by TA is obviously considering retail prices. It's possible however that microsoft doesn't get the whole $400 that the console sells for, so I'd guess their losses closer to $30/console.
Best is probably not the word here. Buying their content, ripping it, putting it on every p2p network you know of, then resealing it and returning it to the music store would be the best option. That, or a anti-trust lawsuit would do much more than a 1 individual boycott.
Don't forget about that resealing comment. People who have already bought these discs likely cannot return them even though they had no idea the disc came with a rootkit.
Security isn't something you can just dump in to your program. It's a mindset you use to build a good program. Problem is if you build a brick wall on quicksand, your efforts are nearly useless. Compensation is not achievable.
When the rooted computer posts the mp3 to a p2p network they can sue themselves. If Sony is not willing to protect their customers, they are neither allowed nor capable of protecting themselves. Why would you suggest such a dumb solution? Sony will obviously follow it, and even more dumb users will be hurt by it.
He used a parenthesis, but there is no true meaning to the first sentence of the article. Is the United States on in the UK until 2012? His second sentence is even worse. Judgecorp realized attaching the random fragments together didn't work, but he just used a dash instead of rewriting the sentence to get something sensible. Ironically Judgecorp recognized the complete lack of importance of his post by acknowleging that nobody cares.
Only on slashdot can you beg to keep your post from being selected and still get in two catagories and the front page.
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Well, I'm not here to flame you. Many roads just require a high level of competency, but there are still a ton of drivers who will not learn a specialized manuever unless it is required. The real problem with a group of excellent drivers is that there is little room for mistakes. If everyone maintains tight following distances, drives fast around corners etc, you can't make a last second lane switch. Of course this is usually more a problem with the roads, but that wont stop others from blaming you.
So I guess to answer your question: highly congested areas are bad for any level of driving expertise. That problem aside, there are so many people who think that unless you are a professional in something your trips away from the norm are dangerous, malicious, and unfeeling.
Under normal condidtions Mercury is a liquid. Still toxic, but not breatable. If the tube breaks open it will be exposed to regular atmospheric pressure and should return to liquid state.
Still, if you can get $35 for a piece of junk go for it.
The problem with this idea is often the click reciever will lie about what gets ordered. This is especailly the case with non-trustworthy businesses. Credit card applications are by far the most prevalent example I can think of now. You are solicited to apply, but whatever they promised to you you will only get if you are accepted. The big problem here is not that the referring site didn't do their job, the problem is the recieving site didn't have a good enough deal.
I'm sure pricewatch.com does not charge their advertisers on a per sale basis because there's just too many sites that lie about price, shipping, item condition, stock, etc.
Please note I don't really have any better ideas, but pay per click seems to be the best available now.
I went to see Jose Canseco speak. He can read, but he certainly can't write. Of course Jocks aren't the only people who easily find themselves in a nice career without working, but they are the most profound. Especially with the new trend of looking for foreigners before domestic players on the count of "potential" we are facing a real problem. These people suddenly have power and influence without any knowlege, which means they can mess things up without even trying. Of course increasing academic standards might help, while we are keeping high school kids from playing in the NFL we might as well start testing incoming athletes against stupidity (or any other sport for that matter).
Your whole comment is bloated, You're just rambling on about violence. By taking this look exclusivly you are showing yourself to be explicitly secular (remember secular means worldly, or in the flesh), and biased. Answer me this, how can you (or any of these poor threatened heathens) justify removing GOD from our Nation under God?
Ok, that was a little optimistic. Odds are you don't understand the question so here's an easy one. How many hands would it take for you to enumerate things worse than death? Be careful with that answer, I'll flame you silly if you respond without thinking.
My only complaint, and the complaint of many others is with usability. Sure it's stable, but that doesn't matter if you can't do what you want to do. The other problem that was pointed out by an earlier poster is that OO.o doesn't really do anything better. They follow microsoft around trying to copy a piece of software that is lame by definition.
Well the problem is, unless you have a bulletproof memory you'll still have to write passwords down if you want to be secure. Trying to remember 50 secure 16 character passwords is pretty hard, so if you are using passwords that long, odds are they're the same password. The problem here is that the owner of xyzsite.com may now have your password to abcsite.com. Of course odds are nobody will check, but if you use that argument there's no real point in using passwords.
Your school cutting its CS degree program brings the choice of moving or finishing. Changing majors really would have to be brought in from another viewpoint. Are your CS teachers as irritating as mine? If you are really contemplating changing majors it's either because you don't like the subject, you like another subject better, or you don't like your teachers.
If switching schools is truely an option by all means take it. If I had the option, I would have left my school by now.
..this was supposed to be for previous holders of registered trademarks. Who decided that some entrepenuer had a trademark on tickets, job, or hotels? Is this just some dirty politics, or is the mechanism to block regular users (until april) completely ineffective?
I'm glad you pointed that out. EFF just praised sony BMG for releasing a "fix" so quickly, when in fact they created the problem. The rootkit has been known for well over a month now, and when the problem was planned, it's hardly nobel of them to move so quickly and write a patch in a whole month.
It's sad, sometimes you don't have to be paranoid to be cynical.
Your average Wal-Mart employee doesn't know the price of their stuff. You're supposed to get the price that's listed on the shelf, but unless you complain about it, the cashier wont do anything. I went to buy a t-ball bat and the shelf price was around $9, I get to the checkout and its $30. That's about as bad as an ipod for $5.
Maybe this fraud on the part of the customer will encourage the retail stores to keep track of their prices. Hopefully they wont have to be taken too many times to figure it out.
Not true. People see an emergency and often do the most stupid thing possible. I've seen many times where a idiot moves to the left lane and stops after they see an emergency vehicle. Everyone else moved to the right, now how is the cop/firetruck/ambulance supposed to get through? In high traffic conditions yeilding the right of way is either impossible or non-productive. Everyone is so busy trying to get out of the way, and the emegency vehicle is still stopped. In short, YIELD doesn't work when you have idiots designing street systems, and idiots driving on them.
Let me reiterate that this is an argument about ability, not choice. Your vehicle should not be limited just because many people dont know how to drive. There are drivers more experienced, and more talented than people who drive ambulances; Many of these people drive regular cars.
I was trying to emphasize the difference between both situations, not saying it's ok to speed because you are late for work. A fracture probably isn't too time intensive, but there are a lot of arteries in the left arm.
Back to the slow vehicle example... There are a lot of people who don't know what they're supposed to do when their car is running poorly. Many drive with their hazards on, and more still just ignore the long line of cars behind them. Crawling along behind the offending vehicle will just encourage aggressive drivers to double pass (which is illegal, but hardly ever enforced. I witnessed a tractor trailer double pass in the presence of a law enforcement vehicle, and the patrol car did not engage in persuit.)
So much of driving safely is anticipating what others will do, and compensating for their incompetence. This viewpoint along with quick reflexes has saved my body (I'm not so sure about my sanity) a few times. I can't judge your drivng style by your opinion expressed here, but hopefully I can encourage you to not neglect your opportunity to excel in driving instead of just doing everything according to the drivers ed textbook.
When you are driving to work in the morning and you woke up 10 minutes too late safety is remaining calm and ignoring your mad boss.
When your kid falls out of a tree and fractures his left arm safety is driving double the speed limit to ensure the livelyhood of your child.
The problem isn't just in traffic, we are seeing a set of governments that deem all their citizens idiots who can't hurt themselves except with intention. Everything has to be taken away from the citizens at large so nobody gets hurt. The problem with this agenda is that there is no significant reason to trust those who enforce this set of rules.
Psychologically limiting your population doesn't make sense so finding a situation where doing so would be stupid is not necessary. It's stupid to persue these measures in the first place.
Ok, so you have a little trouble understanding things (like slashdot moderation for example). There just isn't any substitute to being able to look at a figure on your screen, then print it out, show it to your boss/family etc. Personally I'm afraid that I'll end up shouting at the brain dead foriegner on the other end of the line.
BTW, over/under rated modeations are used mostly to combat posts that look right out of context. Most of your MM's will not read 3-4 level parent comments to figure out what's going on, when they can just look at the target post in the MM page. I'm sure any seasoned slashdotter has had their comment moderated overrated because some idiot doesn't like their point of view, but for the most part this mod is essential for keeping slashdot together.
Sure, to get rid of copywrite completely would be a great way to go, and as you point out it doesn't seem possible. That doesn't mean you can't fix the problem though. Why not just limit copywrites to the original 4 years? Books are driven by popularity, so doing so wouldn't hurt new sales.
The team of surgeons deny that The Silence of the Lambs played any influence in their technique.
Your data is convincing but it doesn't address the problem that travel agencies are facing. How do you contact someone who has been exposed to infection?
The worst case answer is you can't, which really says more about the inefficiency of the FCC (at least in the US, where communication is probably worst) than anything else.
Cellular phone companies can implement just about anything they want, as long as they extract huge taxes from their customers. They can lock their phones, charge extra for key features (like SMS, voice messages). You cannot reliably contact someone by their cellular phone.
Of course even though there is no protection of cellular users many people are dropping landline service. Pair that with telephone companies charging for voicemail, and the lack of good answering machines, and you really can't reliably contact someone by their POTS phone.
In my personal experience the average joe/jane doesn't know their own email address. They might give you a aol screen name, or they might leave out symbols. Email addresses are usually too long, and too complex for dumb people to write down.
As it happens there is no solution to the email problem. If everyone and their brother wants to use gmail, the government can't stop them. Average IQ's are getting worse, so dumb people aren't likely to wise up and understand their own email.
The solution must be with cellular phones and home phones. It's high time the FCC had done something to justify their exuberant taxes, and clean up some phone systems. As usual I dont expect this to happen. They'll probably ask for about 6 forms of contact, none of them being reliable (or fast in the case of USPS) enough, and assume that one will work.
While I'm on a rant, why not crack down on some email spam so people can trust their inbox?
Your experience with firefox eating all your ram is not the general rule. Every once in a while the mozilla foundation either misses big bugs, or they just put off the fix to the next version. My guess is that your system is heavily riddled with spyware (that can happen overnight if you are targeted and unfirewalled on an Win32/IE system). This may or may not be the cause for firefox performing poorly though, and you should probably report the problem to bugzilla.
For some reason you're not my friend but I have to agree with you on this one just because I don't like doctors either. Having some jerk/idiot who doesn't care about anything but academics yell in your ear is hard enough for 2 years. Try taking it on for 8,12... (how long is the average stay to get surgeon status?) years, and I imagine you wouldn't much care what anyone says.
That's not to take the guilt away from sloppy doctors. I'll just stay sick, thank you very much. Oh yeah, don't get me started on orthodontists.
The comment about $55 for PS, cables, and controller really proved that to me. The analysis done by TA is obviously considering retail prices. It's possible however that microsoft doesn't get the whole $400 that the console sells for, so I'd guess their losses closer to $30/console.
Best is probably not the word here. Buying their content, ripping it, putting it on every p2p network you know of, then resealing it and returning it to the music store would be the best option. That, or a anti-trust lawsuit would do much more than a 1 individual boycott.
Don't forget about that resealing comment. People who have already bought these discs likely cannot return them even though they had no idea the disc came with a rootkit.
Security isn't something you can just dump in to your program. It's a mindset you use to build a good program. Problem is if you build a brick wall on quicksand, your efforts are nearly useless. Compensation is not achievable.
When the rooted computer posts the mp3 to a p2p network they can sue themselves. If Sony is not willing to protect their customers, they are neither allowed nor capable of protecting themselves. Why would you suggest such a dumb solution? Sony will obviously follow it, and even more dumb users will be hurt by it.
He used a parenthesis, but there is no true meaning to the first sentence of the article. Is the United States on in the UK until 2012? His second sentence is even worse. Judgecorp realized attaching the random fragments together didn't work, but he just used a dash instead of rewriting the sentence to get something sensible. Ironically Judgecorp recognized the complete lack of importance of his post by acknowleging that nobody cares.
Only on slashdot can you beg to keep your post from being selected and still get in two catagories and the front page.