I think you'd be very surprised. Also, I suspect it'd be worth a try to ask for their password, too, in exchange for two burgers maybe.
Too lazy to google, but I seem to recall something in the last months about a similar thing, where people were offered a bar of chocolate or something in exchange for their password.
Don't think they verified the accuracy of the passwords, though; but if you said that you can offer them a free burger in exchange for their mcdonals.com user and password - to verify that they're a member, of course ! - you might get a surprising number of working ones.
It is not by your taxes that they are public servants working in your name, but by dint of your vote. If you did not vote, then I agree that they do not directly work "in your name", but you are still partly responsible simply because you didn't provide a vote to someone else.
If you *did* vote for one not elected, however, you can succesfully argue that they are not yours in any way. That doesn't mean that they're not acting in the name of "the people", though - just not you specifically.
It's wide-open in the post, of course. You do realise that the password box only displays stars or dots to you ? We're on the other side of the slashdot servers,so we see it in plain text.
If I recall my ISP days correctly, upgrades mostly happen when the old stuff dies, period. That, or it becomes so dysfunctional it impacts baseline. Five years doesn't really enter into it, although support cost does to some measure.
Heh. Posting to undo moderations as I missed that, too. Must be too early yet. 25 weeks of summer is indeed quite unlikely, but I guess there are places where you get that much summer-like weather.
Quite. They really should invent a way to transport information without the need of some form of connectivity or maybe even electricity. I dunno, if you could, say, bleach plant fibers and combine them into some form of sheet, and then mayby apply some kind of darker pigment in a meaningful way; maybe that stuff squid spout might be useful. I can see it right in front of me, I'll call them "books".
> Also, a lot of religious people have objected to same-sex marriages on the grounds that they believe marriage should only be between people capable of having children together. This will resolve that road-block so they can be okay with same-sex marriage.
No, I suspect that the majority of those will quickly change their thinking to "naturally have children", and join the ranks of those crusading against stem cell research, abortion and whatnot.
The only reason that the word "natural" wasn't in there yet is that the two forms were equal until now.
True. Belgium is also having a bit of a cold spell the last two weeks, and we did have a rather chilly winter last year, too - even ran out of road salt then - but at the same time, the meteorological institute is reporting that 2010 has been one of the warmest years ever - depending on what December does it may even become THE warmest.
Don't be fooled by local phenomena. The climate is definitely changing, but I for one think that neither side of the debate really knows where we're headed. The best we can do is try to limit our own impact and see what happens.
Well, someone at Oracle didn't quite get "it", I think: the T-series was very specifically designed with high parallelism in mind, and sacrificing some single-threaded performance for the purpose. The series was aimed and marketed specifically at applications that benefit more from threadcount than from pure mips. It got marketed at us like that, too, but we decided we needed more generic performance so we went for a different line of processors.
And, before someone starts hawking about lintel, I'm talking M-5000 series and up, not desktops. Bring your hardware, and we'll do the famous Sun shotgun commercial. If it survives, we'll talk.
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I think you'd be very surprised. Also, I suspect it'd be worth a try to ask for their password, too, in exchange for two burgers maybe.
Too lazy to google, but I seem to recall something in the last months about a similar thing, where people were offered a bar of chocolate or something in exchange for their password.
Don't think they verified the accuracy of the passwords, though; but if you said that you can offer them a free burger in exchange for their mcdonals.com user and password - to verify that they're a member, of course ! - you might get a surprising number of working ones.
If you're unemployed, however, is there no cheaper way of feeding yourself than fastfood. Like, say, shopping carefully and cooking yourself ?
You mean, like IMAP ?
Or also remote applications, like Citrix ? Or like XDMCP before that ? Sunrays ?
There's not much new under the sun, mostly just new marketeers who don't know their history.
It is not by your taxes that they are public servants working in your name, but by dint of your vote. If you did not vote, then I agree that they do not directly work "in your name", but you are still partly responsible simply because you didn't provide a vote to someone else.
If you *did* vote for one not elected, however, you can succesfully argue that they are not yours in any way. That doesn't mean that they're not acting in the name of "the people", though - just not you specifically.
Isn't that pretty much the modus operandi of most American "news" sources, not to mention government institutions and politicians ?
It's wide-open in the post, of course. You do realise that the password box only displays stars or dots to you ? We're on the other side of the slashdot servers,so we see it in plain text.
You are stereotypically accusing slashdot of stereotypically attacking Microsoft. Go figure.
The Haggis Boson ? Sounds delectable, if not quite detectable.
If I recall my ISP days correctly, upgrades mostly happen when the old stuff dies, period. That, or it becomes so dysfunctional it impacts baseline. Five years doesn't really enter into it, although support cost does to some measure.
Heh. Posting to undo moderations as I missed that, too. Must be too early yet. 25 weeks of summer is indeed quite unlikely, but I guess there are places where you get that much summer-like weather.
Quite. They really should invent a way to transport information without the need of some form of connectivity or maybe even electricity. I dunno, if you could, say, bleach plant fibers and combine them into some form of sheet, and then mayby apply some kind of darker pigment in a meaningful way; maybe that stuff squid spout might be useful. I can see it right in front of me, I'll call them "books".
So does the site, from what I've seen.
Cue Roddenberry's money-free society.
Honestly, how many of you had never heard of free6 and now went and had a look ? I very nearly did, but I'm at work :-)
In the same vein, -site: removes a given site.
No, not really. This is Europe, not America.
> Also, a lot of religious people have objected to same-sex marriages on the grounds that they believe marriage should only be between people capable of having children together. This will resolve that road-block so they can be okay with same-sex marriage.
No, I suspect that the majority of those will quickly change their thinking to "naturally have children", and join the ranks of those crusading against stem cell research, abortion and whatnot.
The only reason that the word "natural" wasn't in there yet is that the two forms were equal until now.
True. Belgium is also having a bit of a cold spell the last two weeks, and we did have a rather chilly winter last year, too - even ran out of road salt then - but at the same time, the meteorological institute is reporting that 2010 has been one of the warmest years ever - depending on what December does it may even become THE warmest.
Don't be fooled by local phenomena. The climate is definitely changing, but I for one think that neither side of the debate really knows where we're headed. The best we can do is try to limit our own impact and see what happens.
Meaningful content is often (no, not always) text. So is most layout - CSS. Ads are usually flash or images. What do you think ?
Good, but I still want that thing kept as far away as possible from my wood.
It was still Sun then, and we still bought Sun, just not the T-series - for that particular project single-thread performance was more important.
So they recently phased in autoturrets because of a 1976 incident ? Talk about swift action.
Confusius was a philosopher, not a ruler, you idiot.
Well, someone at Oracle didn't quite get "it", I think: the T-series was very specifically designed with high parallelism in mind, and sacrificing some single-threaded performance for the purpose. The series was aimed and marketed specifically at applications that benefit more from threadcount than from pure mips. It got marketed at us like that, too, but we decided we needed more generic performance so we went for a different line of processors.
And, before someone starts hawking about lintel, I'm talking M-5000 series and up, not desktops. Bring your hardware, and we'll do the famous Sun shotgun commercial. If it survives, we'll talk.
Cue a mail from kde@microsoft.com.