From the article about people all pumped full of uranium and the 250,000 gulf war vets on permanent disability..
Uranium is preferred over all other "ballistic" metals (e.g. lead, iron, tungsten) because it offers a set of unique metallurgical properties: it is extremely dense yet ductile metal (not brittle); it is pyrophoric (uranium dust burns spontaneously at room temperature); and, solid metal uranium is autoigniting at 170 F. Uranium metal has a very unusual property not available in any other metal; it is "self-sharpening", meaning that when it hits a target at high velocities (1 km/sec) it erodes and breaks in such a way as to continuously re-sharpen its point -- the leading points of all other warhead metals flatten or mushroom under these conditions. These properties give uranium a superior performance as a penetrating warhead alloy capable of breaching the hardest and thickest armor plating, retaining penetration capabilities at 15 % greater distances and lower speeds than the most common alternative metal, tungsten. Burning uranium is hard to extinguish, and if doused with water, it will explode. Uranium used in specially designed high velocity liquid metal penetrators can bore through 20 feet of super-reinforced concrete bunkers in classified weapons called "shaped charges" and "explosively formed penetrators". The hard (dense), resilient (ductile) and heavy (sustaining momentum) characteristics of uranium also make its optimal in the warhead of robust earth-penetrating bombs to carry them into buried targets and caves.
Of course, not even counting the residual side effects of having this stuff sitting around getting into the groundwater and such (8,000 pounds of this stuff dumped on Iraq a year since the early 90's..) It is almost too perfect for warfare..
glad to see he is running firefox. seems these days, everyone is switching over to it because running IE means that you can expect to have your computer taken over every other day.
firefox hopefully will put those anti-spyware programs at least partially out of business. and If MS is running firefox, I image the next version of IE will look familiar to those of us who have already switched away..
Have you seen the qtopia Qtopia is Trolltech's comprehensive application platform for embedded Linux based PDAs, mobile phones, web pads, and other mobile computing devices
picky picky.. do you have nothing better for you time? honestly? I had formatting on extrans or something and it did that.. sheesh, pull your head out of your ass
For reasons which are completely beyond my control, I've spent half a week writing a document in Word 98.
I have never in my life seen, heard of, or even imagined a more malodorous piece of steaming shit than this little slice of Microsoft. Words fail me, and all that follows is the faintest Platonist shadow-on- a-wall of what is, in my heart, the Ideal Peeve, perfect in its sincerity, bottomless in its depth, and unassailable in its accuracy.
This bloated, pestilent gigabyte-swamping piece of ordure takes up enough computational resources to accurately model the world's weather for the next billion years, and what do you get for it? Something that will format and display text? Don't make me fucking laugh. What you do get is a profusion of bells and whistles thrown in a careless heap, each bauble lovingly designed to make the straight path crooked, the intuitive arcane, the simple impossible.
Take the ``Help'' for example. It's not just help, it's a new friend!
I don't want a new friend, you shit-slurping choad-munching bunch of retards; I've all too many as it is. What I want is something simple where I can find a technical detail with a minimum of fuss and interruption. I don't want animation. I don't want natural-language interpretation. I don't want to be led by the fucking nose. Give me a fucking index and get the hell out of my damn face. If I dismiss a window, I want it gone. I don't want it to wave goodbye, or hesitate, or sneeze. I want it gone.
The document I was working on was very simple. No images, no tables, no nothing. One font, one style, that's it. It would be perfectly simple in other system, even earlier versions of Word, but, oh no, not in this latest magnum opus of the word processing world.
This helpless, hapless, hopeless, buggy piece of offal insisted on changing my fonts every couple of minutes for no reason. Random chunks of text, at random times. And bullet points, don't talk to me about fucking bullet points. It's a little known fact that in the bullet-point mode of Word 98 every single button on every single toolbar is the ``Fuck Me Over Now'' button. I've got bullet points going left, I've got 'em going right, and down and up, I've got 'em changing indentation, and style, you name it.
You'd think in 20 or so megabytes of RAM there'd be room for one scenario in which it doesn't actively do anything wrong, but for that you'll have to wait for Word 2023, which will have a user interface like a retarded version of ``I have no mouth, and I must scream.''
And don't try telling me that one need only configure the options to avoid these problems; I'm not a fucking moron. I quickly configured the preferences so as to minimize all this bullshit, at which point Word promptly changed them back. Lather, rinse, repeat. If you don't want fast saves, then fuck off, you're gunna have 'em. Don't want your grammar constantly corrected by some shitty little subprogram that doesn't know the first goddamn thing about grammar? Tough shit. Empty your wallet and move off to the side.
How did this come about? It can't be incompetence, at least not the usual mundane sort one is constantly immersed in simply by having to share a planet with a bunch of fucking primates. This is either some transcendent type of incompetence, or active malevolence.
My money's on malevolence. This software was obviously created by a company who's motto is ``We're Microsoft, and you, the customer, aren't worth fuck to us.'' It matters not one iota what their official motto is, watch the hands, not the mouth. Well, Microsoft, your time will come. It may not be Linux that does you in, it may not be the DoJ, it may not be this decade, but you're going to go the way of the dodo, and I for one will cavort naked on your grave, pissing effusively on your memory, and screaming, ``Animate this, you bastards!'' to the sky.
But in the here-and-now, I shall finish this document with the quiet dignity with which I have always comported myself, and then I shall un-install Word, and swear a terrible oath that I would rather daub dung on paper with a stick than write a document using a Microsoft product.
There should be a chapter in every computer book made all about backups. People don't bother to backup data.. People forget to back up data. People need to verify backups.. SyOps symlink backup data directories and cause $40,000 losses due to data not being backed up.
That is one of the best ways to "protect yourself"..
actually, no. the only html mails I get that even semi-legit are in the form of newsletters. and even most of those like the Cryptogram (from counterpane) are in plaintext. at work, nobody uses html email because most of the email readers have stopped rendering remote images and such. (images being the ones I am talking about). text formatted with some html elements, yes.. I do get a few of those. But ones formatted like a webpage.. no
pretty simple.. filtering out html email (99.9% of which for me is spam) and then all the pen1s and v1agr4 (misspelled words, particularly in small concentrations) combined with a URL.
one bad thing about all the misspellings is that the spam poetry project got messed up..
Yea, I also saw this which is about as much help. Basically, they are going to raise money to license content so they can be almost like an college-branded "iTunes buffet" service.. In that case, yea maybe.. but with strict terms I am sure of passing around the data. I will belive it when I see it..
It is very sparse in the "how exactly it is legal" areas. While stating they can download music and movies they don't own.
That would be a "grey area" and the fact they are charing for general access is even more fuel for a lawsuit.
I am not a lawyer, but I do follow the P2P stories pretty close and this touts legality without offering up anything new about how it manages to skirt around the law.
"Bryan Ajuluchukwu, a freshman economics major, is one of more than 170 students living on the third floor of Grant Towers who is testing a new downloading service. The service, called Ruckus Network, allows for those students to download music and movies."
is the equiv of posting a target on your forehead for the MPAA and the RIAA to make an "example" out of you, especially for the elusive college market (which is the one they are always, always, always after..)
Slashdot Mirror
Of course, not even counting the residual side effects of having this stuff sitting around getting into the groundwater and such (8,000 pounds of this stuff dumped on Iraq a year since the early 90's..)
It is almost too perfect for warfare..
(as tux shoots at his feet)
"In the next ten years, you're going to see more positive change than in the last ten," Ballmer said.
yea.. he will be out of a job..
glad to see he is running firefox.
seems these days, everyone is switching over to it because running IE means that you can expect to have your computer taken over every other day.
firefox hopefully will put those anti-spyware programs at least partially out of business.
and
If MS is running firefox, I image the next version of IE will look familiar to those of us who have already switched away..
no kidding..
what the hell is going on?
lets all submit our resumes as a story on slashdot and see if we can get a large audience for our job searches?
Better yet, lets submit stories that are nothing but amazon affiliate links?
sigh
come on..
you can't top that...
really..
Have you seen the
qtopia
Qtopia is Trolltech's comprehensive application platform for embedded Linux based PDAs, mobile phones, web pads, and other mobile computing devices
Looking pretty cool.
or fixes:g /
h ttp://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
http://www.gentoo.org/
http://www.vim.or
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html
picky picky..
do you have nothing better for you time?
honestly? I had formatting on extrans or something and it did that..
sheesh, pull your head out of your ass
I am wishing for ninjas
^^ you probably inspired that cartoon.
"a service to the community"
Those guys actually tried to pull that...
I wonder how much stake overture had in that.. No journalist has ever approached them to find out their role in that story.
a service indeed..
next time I loose a bone I will come back to this.
hehe.. seriously though, that is pretty cool, like that harry potter bone grow juice stuff..
the comics here:
http://third.mediaicon.org/
I have actually been laughing since I posted this about the moderators giving it +5 informative..
ahhh slashdot..
Originally from alt.rants about five years ago..
For reasons which are completely beyond my control, I've spent half a week writing a document in Word 98.
I have never in my life seen, heard of, or even imagined a more malodorous piece of steaming shit than this little slice of Microsoft. Words fail me, and all that follows is the faintest Platonist shadow-on- a-wall of what is, in my heart, the Ideal Peeve, perfect in its sincerity, bottomless in its depth, and unassailable in its accuracy.
This bloated, pestilent gigabyte-swamping piece of ordure takes up enough computational resources to accurately model the world's weather for the next billion years, and what do you get for it? Something that will format and display text? Don't make me fucking laugh. What you do get is a profusion of bells and whistles thrown in a careless heap, each bauble lovingly designed to make the straight path crooked, the intuitive arcane, the simple impossible.
Take the ``Help'' for example. It's not just help, it's a new friend!
I don't want a new friend, you shit-slurping choad-munching bunch of retards; I've all too many as it is. What I want is something simple where I can find a technical detail with a minimum of fuss and interruption. I don't want animation. I don't want natural-language interpretation. I don't want to be led by the fucking nose. Give me a fucking index and get the hell out of my damn face. If I dismiss a window, I want it gone. I don't want it to wave goodbye, or hesitate, or sneeze. I want it gone.
The document I was working on was very simple. No images, no tables, no nothing. One font, one style, that's it. It would be perfectly simple in other system, even earlier versions of Word, but, oh no, not in this latest magnum opus of the word processing world.
This helpless, hapless, hopeless, buggy piece of offal insisted on changing my fonts every couple of minutes for no reason. Random chunks of text, at random times. And bullet points, don't talk to me about fucking bullet points. It's a little known fact that in the bullet-point mode of Word 98 every single button on every single toolbar is the ``Fuck Me Over Now'' button. I've got bullet points going left, I've got 'em going right, and down and up, I've got 'em changing indentation, and style, you name it.
You'd think in 20 or so megabytes of RAM there'd be room for one scenario in which it doesn't actively do anything wrong, but for that you'll have to wait for Word 2023, which will have a user interface like a retarded version of ``I have no mouth, and I must scream.''
And don't try telling me that one need only configure the options to avoid these problems; I'm not a fucking moron. I quickly configured the preferences so as to minimize all this bullshit, at which point Word promptly changed them back. Lather, rinse, repeat. If you don't want fast saves, then fuck off, you're gunna have 'em. Don't want your grammar constantly corrected by some shitty little subprogram that doesn't know the first goddamn thing about grammar? Tough shit. Empty your wallet and move off to the side.
How did this come about? It can't be incompetence, at least not the usual mundane sort one is constantly immersed in simply by having to share a planet with a bunch of fucking primates. This is either some transcendent type of incompetence, or active malevolence.
My money's on malevolence. This software was obviously created by a company who's motto is ``We're Microsoft, and you, the customer, aren't worth fuck to us.'' It matters not one iota what their official motto is, watch the hands, not the mouth. Well, Microsoft, your time will come. It may not be Linux that does you in, it may not be the DoJ, it may not be this decade, but you're going to go the way of the dodo, and I for one will cavort naked on your grave, pissing effusively on your memory, and screaming, ``Animate this, you bastards!'' to the sky.
But in the here-and-now, I shall finish this document with the quiet dignity with which I have always comported myself, and then I shall un-install Word, and swear a terrible oath that I would rather daub dung on paper with a stick than write a document using a Microsoft product.
http://www.weird.com/~woods/ms-word.sucks.html
Firefox should be the "first" browser to full support this.. ..
They are going nuts on it
see the Technology Preview
There should be a chapter in every computer book made all about backups.
People don't bother to backup data..
People forget to back up data.
People need to verify backups..
SyOps symlink backup data directories and cause $40,000 losses due to data not being backed up.
That is one of the best ways to "protect yourself"..
"jesus saves" and all that..
Q) how to you feel about what happened?
A) Muhaahahahaha...
Q) no really?
A) glowy wormsss aress fun...
I think it just struck a little close to home for someone..
http://ackers.net/~mark/slashdot/
^^ there...
And this comic
http://ackers.net/~mark/slashdot/
illustrates the point of this article perfectly.
hehehe
actually, no.
the only html mails I get that even semi-legit are in the form of newsletters.
and even most of those like the Cryptogram (from counterpane) are in plaintext.
at work, nobody uses html email because most of the email readers have stopped rendering remote images and such. (images being the ones I am talking about).
text formatted with some html elements, yes.. I do get a few of those.
But ones formatted like a webpage.. no
That should have read ..
"filter out html and junk words."
heh..
pretty simple.. filtering out html email (99.9% of which for me is spam) and then all the pen1s and v1agr4 (misspelled words, particularly in small concentrations) combined with a URL.
one bad thing about all the misspellings is that the spam poetry project got messed up..
Yea, I also saw this which is about as much help.
Basically, they are going to raise money to license content so they can be almost like an college-branded "iTunes buffet" service..
In that case, yea maybe.. but with strict terms I am sure of passing around the data.
I will belive it when I see it..
bookmarked it in my HA profile to keep watch.
It is very sparse in the "how exactly it is legal" areas. While stating they can download music and movies they don't own.
That would be a "grey area" and the fact they are charing for general access is even more fuel for a lawsuit.
I am not a lawyer, but I do follow the P2P stories pretty close and this touts legality without offering up anything new about how it manages to skirt around the law.
Posting the following:
"Bryan Ajuluchukwu, a freshman economics major, is one of more than 170 students living on the third floor of Grant Towers who is testing a new downloading service. The service, called Ruckus Network, allows for those students to download music and movies."
is the equiv of posting a target on your forehead for the MPAA and the RIAA to make an "example" out of you, especially for the elusive college market (which is the one they are always, always, always after..)