USE LIGHTS: Lights on your bike are to BE SEEN, even in daylight
Bike lights are next to useless at night, useless in a city at night (any secondary reflection of a shop light will get noticed 100 times better) and just plain invisible and a waste in daylight.
Personally I find mirrors on bikes annoying. Back road advice is the best. Another thing of note is that in many european countries, in case of bike/car collision, the car driver is automatically guilty. It may seem unfair, but it's no different than the right of way for boats. And it forces drivers to pay more attention.
I've also ridden bikes in Europe and the US, but noticed that in Colorado it's not too scary. It breaks down to this: if people have ridden bikes before, they pay more attention while driving. I currently live in a place where the roads are very narrow, there are thousands of bikers in summer, but very few accidents. A solution: force (?) everyone to ride bikes periodically, for instance when they are students...
Something related to that which pissed me off royally is the following logic: a teenage friend of mine had an accident with his first car (in the US); conclusion of the parents: let's buy him the biggest car around so he won't get hurt next time. In that case a gigantic (but slow) '70s oldsmobile. What kind of a sick mind or education draws conclusions like this ? I've even seen it on SUV advertisement, which can be summed up as "you may not have more accidents with our SUV, but if you do, we'll make sure you kill the other guy from sheer inertia. Better than the opposite, right? So buy our Lincoln Titanagator"
Like a fiend of mine said: "Best auto safety device? A giant pointy stick in the middle of the steering wheel. Just WATCH how carefully people would drive."
I spent last year in a tiny outpost up on the high Antarctic plateau where we had no web access, but limited email (two coms a day, only small messages). I managed to do everything important with email, even reading slashdot (thanks to email-to-web portals) and updating my website. I've been using email for exactly 20 years and it would be very hard to give up this regular contact with friends and family, even though spammers are really ruining it for everyone, including me (I had to dispose of my original address because of excess spam).
nearly everyone knowledgeable here (even IT guys) went over the damn thing to see what was wrong
Why is it that people waste time looking ? A rootkit can manipulate the user interface of the US anywhich way it wants. Plug the disk out, put it as a slave into another (clean or linux) machine, and scan from there. It's the simplest and fastest way to solve this kind of issue.
Well... not necessarily... Get a new computer and start reinstalling all the stuff you were using on the old one... until the prog you got on IRC to do whatever reinstalls the same spyware and you are screwed back to square one.
Sorry to barge in a bit late on the discussion, but I have recently posted some pics about the Epica drilling project which is quoted by the article. I was part of the team working up at Concordia station in 2005 and I was there when the drilling reached bedrock (or almost) in december 2004. We celebrated by using some million-year old ice into our drinks ! (tastes like drill fluid)
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Well, that's why you have an 'excluded' category of words. I guess after the first match, the images are fed again into the system, with that word being denied, forcing the players to find another match. Good way to avoid everyone putting 'image' as a tag.
I put a note on our fridge saying "find what I peed in and win $1", roomates though it was funny, but a couple friends of ours refused to have some applejuice.
If you don't want anyone touching your food in the communal fridge, just wrap it in a condom...
Now if we could just figure out who's been stealing the cofee money out of the box, it would be an improvement. I tought about putting a webcam with motion sensor there.
A Faraday cage needs a metal mesh around the space you want to isolate, with the meshes at most of the size of the wavelength you want to stop AND it needs to be GROUNDED. Otherwise all it does is dampen the signal (the metal mesh absorbs it, then radiates it again like an antenna). So that precludes things like 'Faraday wallets' and... tinfoil hats (unless you attach a metal chain to it and drag it on the ground...)
Law enforcement agencies shouldn't be allowed to troll. There are many countries where it is explicitely illegal (ie in France for instance). In the US there are many cases where the cops troll you and arrest you if you take the bait. Want examples ? Remember car-maker DeLorean of 'Back to the Future' fame ? He was offered a case of coke for a cheap price. When he said 'sure', he was arrested.
Also a friend of mine on a work visit in a US city, got out at night trying to have some good time, was asked by a guy if he wanted to meet girls, said 'sure', the guy arrested him for 'solicitation of prostitution' (there were no girls in sight and that's _not_ what he had in mind). Spent the night in jail and had to shell 1000$ to a lawyer for him to get off the hook while still technically guilty. Try explaining that to your boss the next day.
So if some FBI/Hacker acts all sexy in IRC and then finally say: 'BTW, I'm 16, do you still wanna meet ?' where is the fault there ?
[...] fancy laptop privacy screens with the limited viewing angle [...]
I've always wondered if the viewing angle limitation is somewhat changeable on the fly. Imagine a laptop with not only a brightness cursor, but also a [Privacy] cursor. Watching a movie with some friends: set the laptop on the table with the widest angle. Working on a secret report in an airplane or watching pr0n in bed while you significant other is reading Kant next to you: set it to 'very narrow'... Maybe there's a patent somewhere in there.
Most of the other 25% are directly related to water somehow getting on the motherboard
We have an old 600MHz Gateway laptop which worked great for everything (even videos). My wife once spilled her full cup of tea on the keyboard (and hence on the mobo) while working on it. Did it fry ? Nope. After careful cleaning it was still working, if somewhat unreliably. Then while we were on vacation, a pipe burst into the apartment above and water came down right onto the computer for a night. Well, this time it died, until I spent some time on ebay, found a replacement mobo for 35$ and that's it, back to life. In the process I wiped Win2K off the still alive disk for Ubuntu. All the PCMCIA cards, screen, etc still worked.
Everyone is fired, the assets are auctioned off and the proceeds (after all the corporation's debts are paid) goes to the shareholders
No.
The shareholders are supposed to oversee how a company work. If they don't do that or theyare just as guilty. Majority shareholders absolutely, as well as anyone who can be proven to have voted in that wrong direction at the previous shareholder's meeting, if there's any provable connection between the wrongdoing and the shareholders.
For one thing it will force shareholders to not ignore anymore what's going on and impose some honesty on companies.
One can dream...
You think it's bad now, imagine when Google has an AI model of what you want to find such that it tailors the search results for you alone
Yeah, I can see that. I made the mistake of ordering two baby books off Amazon as a gift for expecting friends. I was then bombarded with baby-related adds from Amazon for years afterwards although I can't care less about those creepy smelly things.
I wonder what extremely skilled individuals have an entire year to spa
...well, the kind that enjoys this kind of situation. Great work can be done. I recently came back from my second winterover in Antarctica where the situation was very similar to this: 13 people for 10 months, no bail out, conditions so harsh (-80C, high altitude) that it's just the same as wearing a spacesuit... There are a few important differences psychologically: we were doing something useful by building a new station and not playing around in a simulation (kind of depressing, all the pain of the real mission, none of the gain); and good pay. When I saw the slashdot blurb, I thought "that's a job for me". But I stopped reading at "no pay". Unless there's a free ticket on the first real flight...
There used to be some in Antarctica, used to power Automated Weather Stations and the like, but they've been banned by the Antarctic Treaty (_no radioactive device allowed_) and replaced by big (1 cubic meter batteries and solar panels + wind generators to last the long winter night). Yup, I work there.
Thanks for the suggestion, as my own kbd is getting old (lots of typing this year). Do you have to shift for the number keys on the spanish keyboard ? I've used italian keyboards as well and it's only marginally better than the horrible french ones.
Then you have to explain to me how. I use a US keyboard because I'm a programmer and I can't stand programming with a french keyboard ('{' and '}' are not even on it so no luck in C/PHP, and you need to shift to use number, argh !). So that when I need to type accented letters I just know by heart all the ALT codes for éàêè... This is very annoying. I want a keyword with a whole bunch of extra programmable keys on top for all those accented chars and missing char, like '' which takes a tiring 5 keys to type: ALT-0176
Just to say that I don't see what the CAPS LOCK key has to do with that.
The problem with this trick is that you should scan your negatives _fast_ after doing it as the grease and acidity in the sweat will eat at the film gelatin substrate (not the celluloid, but the side that actually has the colors). A few days later you can already see it turn clearer. If you have some scratched slides/negatives, the best old-fashioned way to remove them is to dip them in Tetenal Repolisan for a few seconds. This works great if the scratch is on the celluloid, but not that much if it's on the gelatin side (the information is gone anyway). Hmmm, maybe I should give it a try on scratched CDs too... Otherwise get a scanner with ICE.
As well as some, but not too many, stupid questions I get through my website (most people are just impolite), I sometimes grep the access.log file for "$how|$why|$when|$where" and get surprisingly funny results. I haven't done this in a while, but some of the best older results are here.
This being said, for an instant trial, there are some OpenMosix LiveCDs, such as Quantian or other variants of Knoppix. Put the Quantian DVD in the 1st PC, boot, enable the remote boot option, boot the other computers over the network. Here: you have an operational cluster.
I think there may also be Rocks LiceCDs but haven't tried them. And remember your electricity bill when playing with clusters !
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Personally I find mirrors on bikes annoying. Back road advice is the best. Another thing of note is that in many european countries, in case of bike/car collision, the car driver is automatically guilty. It may seem unfair, but it's no different than the right of way for boats. And it forces drivers to pay more attention.
I've also ridden bikes in Europe and the US, but noticed that in Colorado it's not too scary. It breaks down to this: if people have ridden bikes before, they pay more attention while driving. I currently live in a place where the roads are very narrow, there are thousands of bikers in summer, but very few accidents. A solution: force (?) everyone to ride bikes periodically, for instance when they are students...
Something related to that which pissed me off royally is the following logic: a teenage friend of mine had an accident with his first car (in the US); conclusion of the parents: let's buy him the biggest car around so he won't get hurt next time. In that case a gigantic (but slow) '70s oldsmobile. What kind of a sick mind or education draws conclusions like this ? I've even seen it on SUV advertisement, which can be summed up as "you may not have more accidents with our SUV, but if you do, we'll make sure you kill the other guy from sheer inertia. Better than the opposite, right? So buy our Lincoln Titanagator"
Like a fiend of mine said: "Best auto safety device? A giant pointy stick in the middle of the steering wheel. Just WATCH how carefully people would drive."
I spent last year in a tiny outpost up on the high Antarctic plateau where we had no web access, but limited email (two coms a day, only small messages). I managed to do everything important with email, even reading slashdot (thanks to email-to-web portals) and updating my website. I've been using email for exactly 20 years and it would be very hard to give up this regular contact with friends and family, even though spammers are really ruining it for everyone, including me (I had to dispose of my original address because of excess spam).
Sorry to barge in a bit late on the discussion, but I have recently posted some pics about the Epica drilling project which is quoted by the article. I was part of the team working up at Concordia station in 2005 and I was there when the drilling reached bedrock (or almost) in december 2004. We celebrated by using some million-year old ice into our drinks ! (tastes like drill fluid)
Well, that's why you have an 'excluded' category of words. I guess after the first match, the images are fed again into the system, with that word being denied, forcing the players to find another match. Good way to avoid everyone putting 'image' as a tag.
Now if we could just figure out who's been stealing the cofee money out of the box, it would be an improvement. I tought about putting a webcam with motion sensor there.
A Faraday cage needs a metal mesh around the space you want to isolate, with the meshes at most of the size of the wavelength you want to stop AND it needs to be GROUNDED. Otherwise all it does is dampen the signal (the metal mesh absorbs it, then radiates it again like an antenna). So that precludes things like 'Faraday wallets' and... tinfoil hats (unless you attach a metal chain to it and drag it on the ground...)
Also a friend of mine on a work visit in a US city, got out at night trying to have some good time, was asked by a guy if he wanted to meet girls, said 'sure', the guy arrested him for 'solicitation of prostitution' (there were no girls in sight and that's _not_ what he had in mind). Spent the night in jail and had to shell 1000$ to a lawyer for him to get off the hook while still technically guilty. Try explaining that to your boss the next day.
So if some FBI/Hacker acts all sexy in IRC and then finally say: 'BTW, I'm 16, do you still wanna meet ?' where is the fault there ?
Yes, see here. Sorry, don't have the time to comment right now.
The shareholders are supposed to oversee how a company work. If they don't do that or theyare just as guilty. Majority shareholders absolutely, as well as anyone who can be proven to have voted in that wrong direction at the previous shareholder's meeting, if there's any provable connection between the wrongdoing and the shareholders.
For one thing it will force shareholders to not ignore anymore what's going on and impose some honesty on companies.
One can dream...
There used to be some in Antarctica, used to power Automated Weather Stations and the like, but they've been banned by the Antarctic Treaty (_no radioactive device allowed_) and replaced by big (1 cubic meter batteries and solar panels + wind generators to last the long winter night). Yup, I work there.
Thanks for the suggestion, as my own kbd is getting old (lots of typing this year). Do you have to shift for the number keys on the spanish keyboard ? I've used italian keyboards as well and it's only marginally better than the horrible french ones.
Then you have to explain to me how. I use a US keyboard because I'm a programmer and I can't stand programming with a french keyboard ('{' and '}' are not even on it so no luck in C/PHP, and you need to shift to use number, argh !). So that when I need to type accented letters I just know by heart all the ALT codes for éàêè... This is very annoying. I want a keyword with a whole bunch of extra programmable keys on top for all those accented chars and missing char, like '' which takes a tiring 5 keys to type: ALT-0176
Just to say that I don't see what the CAPS LOCK key has to do with that.
Download and install CapsUnlock. Problem solved. And you can still use it if you really want.
This is from an assyrian stone tablet, circa 2800 bc... Puts things in perspective, doncha think ?
The problem with this trick is that you should scan your negatives _fast_ after doing it as the grease and acidity in the sweat will eat at the film gelatin substrate (not the celluloid, but the side that actually has the colors). A few days later you can already see it turn clearer. If you have some scratched slides/negatives, the best old-fashioned way to remove them is to dip them in Tetenal Repolisan for a few seconds. This works great if the scratch is on the celluloid, but not that much if it's on the gelatin side (the information is gone anyway). Hmmm, maybe I should give it a try on scratched CDs too... Otherwise get a scanner with ICE.
As well as some, but not too many, stupid questions I get through my website (most people are just impolite), I sometimes grep the access.log file for "$how|$why|$when|$where" and get surprisingly funny results. I haven't done this in a while, but some of the best older results are here.
This being said, for an instant trial, there are some OpenMosix LiveCDs, such as Quantian or other variants of Knoppix. Put the Quantian DVD in the 1st PC, boot, enable the remote boot option, boot the other computers over the network. Here: you have an operational cluster.
I think there may also be Rocks LiceCDs but haven't tried them. And remember your electricity bill when playing with clusters !