"Even after the events of the last year, government in general still seems to have the resources to be a greater threat to us than all the Islamic malcontents in the the world put together. "
You don't live in New York City do you?
Let's have a vote: Everyone here from NYC, would you rather trust the government to not crash planes into your remaining skyscrapers, or the terrorists?
Everyone from Oklahoma City, similar question.
Everyone else in the US, who do you trust more, Uncle Sam or Osama?
Everyone not in the US, and not a terrorist?
Finally, all the terrorists reading Slashdot, who do you trust more to ensure you get to live to 100 years old? Osama picked 19 schmucks, and convinced them to not live to 50.
If they don't acknowledge your message within a day, resend it to them. Do so for a week's time. If still no acknowlegement, let them know if they don't respond, you will make sure your 'research partner' at BugTrak is aware of the existance of a bug/weakness, unless they reply to you. This way, you are not disclosing any information to anyone, but are only threatening to do so. They will certainly respond to you for that. But you still are not 'disclosing' the info, you are simply working on the project with another person, since two heads are better than one.
That being said, why on Earth would they pull a such a stupid stunt as "freezing the clock" by not acknowledging your message? They know as well as anyone how much flak Microsoft, Borland, etc, get when they try to pull that stunt. And since integrity and trust are essential to their existence, they will be ethical about it, if only out of self-preservation.
How many Packard Bell computers do you have at home? Because anyone dumb enough to say it would be better to have MIR than the ISS must be dumb enough to go dumpster diving behind every Goodwill store for the treasures they would rather throw out than sell.
Of course NASA should be focusing more on getting out of the gravity well of Earth, but the funding is centered on that gravity well. A better solution would be to give them a guaranteed 3 billion dollars a year specifically for going beyond the moon. Not have them begging each year for a bigger budget.
This is the only post so far to actually answer the original Ask Slashdot question. Instead of the fifty redundant posts saying "Get a lawyer", and the other ten saying "That's not open source", RudeDude actually gave a relevant response. Good grief, what was he thinking? That's not the way to karma whore.
I decided to finally become a full Slashdotter, and start making Friends. Congrats on being the first on my list. It may be a mixed blessing for you, as I have been told my political/social beliefs are bad. But, what the hell, eh?
Several of the big movies lately have been ruined for me because of the previews. They show too much of the good parts, usually that being the two good explosions, and all three really funny lines in the whole movie. Why waste $30 when I already saw the best five scenes?
So, yeah, some of us don't need the visual crack of trailers (I still hate that word). But we are obviously either a small portion of the population, or just really quiet.
In the final scene, Darth Vader faces R2D2 and C3PO. Darth Vader waves his hand in front of the droids and says, "I am not the Sith Lord you are looking for."
C3PO: "You are not the Sith Lord we are looking for."
R2D2: "Beep beep beep, whirr."
Vader, waving again: "You must find Her Eminence Ellen Feiss."
3PO: "Yes, R2, we now must find Her Eminence Ellen Feiss, for the switch."
I'm still trying to figure out what this has to do with a dog.
Although I was always a Lassie fan. From the puzzle I had as a child. Never saw the tv show until later. And only saw Rin TinTin in ads in the comic books, sliding down a line by holding a pulley handle in his mouth.
Still don't know what everyone is getting so excited about.
I read the series when I was a teenager, and have held off reading it again recently because I want to be surprised during the movie. I don't want to hear the details of major scenes of any of them before I see them in the theater either.
Too bad everyone one else who replied wants to see every detail in the trailers months before the movie even comes out. And for all the movies they watch, not just LotR. Probably learn all the cheat codes for their games before starting to play too. Lame.
And, unfortunately, this is the Lone Gunmen Are Dead site. Possibly spoiling someone's enjoyment of a widely anticipated event is what they feed on somedays.
But, if the journey hadn't been so damned long, maybe Frodo could have cast the Ring away, without losing a finger.
Just writing that reminds me how many miles I have walked around malls with the wife, when we only went there to get one thing. By the end, I'm delusional too.
Well, now that the Harry Potter folks are looking for a replacement for Professor Dumbeldore, maybe Mr Stallman should go for the role. He would have a great advantage over others, 1,000,000 people waiting to slashdot the movie theaters on opening night.;^)
Well, it was a launch pad, but it wasn't supposed to be the folding kind. It was an aluminum plate. Apparently the thrust kicked it up, folded it over, and flattened it to the ground. Kind of like it did to the rocket too.
"Its defense mechanism is to jump straight up when frightened, and adults can jump three to four feet into the air. "...
So the rocket is named after an animal that can launch itself in the air, up to a few times its own height, then crashes back to earth, possibly causing massive destruction and carnage.
You have confused the cause and effect of the "I have nicer feathers" sexual rituals. Take the obvious case of the peafowl. Imagine two peacocks, named Tom and George, that are trying to mate with a peahen, named Sally. Tom has bright tail feathers, all whole and clean. George has duller tail feathers, half of them are broken off, and the rest are damaged. George also is thinner than Tom.
Sally is going to mate with Tom, and George will probably die a lonely death. Lonely if you don't count the animal that eats him. Sally isn't going to mate with Tom because she likes his feathers. She is a peahen for crying out loud, how much reasoning or emotion do you expect her to possess? She will mate with Tom because her instincts make her.
Sally's instincts choose Tom over George. While George may be kind, compassionate, intelligent, and brave, he really isn't because he is a peacock with no more reasoning or emotion than Sally. The fact is Tom has survived in the same area as George, but has eaten much better, hence the brighter colors and better muscular build, and has had fewer close calls with predators, hence nicer tail feathers.
So the "I have nicer feathers" ritual helps ensure species survival because the 'winner' is the one who can better find food while avoiding becoming food. That is what a peacock's tail display means.
Just because some species never developed similar patterns, doesn't mean it's not relevant in those that did.
(On a side note, do you notice when someone makes a comment such as, "Giraffes evolved longer necks to reach leaves untouched by other animals."? Like it was a concious decision. I hear statements like this about insects, fish, and birds all the time on show on Discovery or The Learning Channel. It always sounds like there was a meeting millions of years ago, where all the members of that species got together and decided to do a little genetic manipulation to add features that may help them survive. Like: A"You know, if we had wings, we could fly all around and eat more insects that we can while sitting on the ground." B"Don't be silly, bats don't have wings. And if walking was good enough for my grandpa, it's good enough for me." C"Besides, everyone knows that there are no flying mammals. Idiot!" D"Wait a minute, I think the lad may be onto something. Hold out your forelegs. Stretch out the paws. If only we could cause this skin to stretch more, it could form a membrane that would form a wing." C"Yes. I see what you mean. We wouldn't have feathers, but it may work. We will just engineer the genes that control the entire structure of our forelimbs to produce wings. I love it." B"I still say meddling with nature is horrible. My family will not be part of this diabolic plan."
Yes, the power of the human brain = 1 BP (brainpower).
But that's the American system. The rest of the world uses Metric, and not even NASA can remember the conversion ratio. I seem to remember something about subtracting 32, but it's getting foggy.
Yes, I am sure Microsoft tested Service Pack 2 for Windows NT real thouroughly. And how about all those Windows Update patches, those have _never_ caused problems, because MS tests them too. Yeah, OK. Whatever.
As far as I can remember, no one returned their "Batman" tapes because they were pissed about the Coke ad at the beginning. Besides, since MOST people see SOME movies in the theaters, rather than just downloading them, we are used to sitting still through several minutes of that stuff anyway. And I don't mean just previews (I hate that word "trailers". Trailers are what you tow boats on, or what my poorer cousins live in.)(And, yes, I might be a redneck.), but also ads, warnings, theater rules, etc.
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Take the basic service fee amount of $14 and compare it to the taxes amount of $10. Which is bigger? Which amount will be over 50% of the total?
It doesn't take a calculator to figure out the taxes make up less than half the total.
I liked your pic on your Magic card. Johan was great too. **sniff** Those were the days.
"Even after the events of the last year, government in general still seems to have the resources to be a greater threat to us than all the Islamic malcontents in the the world put together. "
You don't live in New York City do you?
Let's have a vote:
Everyone here from NYC, would you rather trust the government to not crash planes into your remaining skyscrapers, or the terrorists?
Everyone from Oklahoma City, similar question.
Everyone else in the US, who do you trust more, Uncle Sam or Osama?
Everyone not in the US, and not a terrorist?
Finally, all the terrorists reading Slashdot, who do you trust more to ensure you get to live to 100 years old? Osama picked 19 schmucks, and convinced them to not live to 50.
If they don't acknowledge your message within a day, resend it to them. Do so for a week's time. If still no acknowlegement, let them know if they don't respond, you will make sure your 'research partner' at BugTrak is aware of the existance of a bug/weakness, unless they reply to you. This way, you are not disclosing any information to anyone, but are only threatening to do so. They will certainly respond to you for that. But you still are not 'disclosing' the info, you are simply working on the project with another person, since two heads are better than one.
That being said, why on Earth would they pull a such a stupid stunt as "freezing the clock" by not acknowledging your message? They know as well as anyone how much flak Microsoft, Borland, etc, get when they try to pull that stunt. And since integrity and trust are essential to their existence, they will be ethical about it, if only out of self-preservation.
How many Packard Bell computers do you have at home? Because anyone dumb enough to say it would be better to have MIR than the ISS must be dumb enough to go dumpster diving behind every Goodwill store for the treasures they would rather throw out than sell.
Of course NASA should be focusing more on getting out of the gravity well of Earth, but the funding is centered on that gravity well. A better solution would be to give them a guaranteed 3 billion dollars a year specifically for going beyond the moon. Not have them begging each year for a bigger budget.
This is the only post so far to actually answer the original Ask Slashdot question. Instead of the fifty redundant posts saying "Get a lawyer", and the other ten saying "That's not open source", RudeDude actually gave a relevant response. Good grief, what was he thinking? That's not the way to karma whore.
I decided to finally become a full Slashdotter, and start making Friends. Congrats on being the first on my list. It may be a mixed blessing for you, as I have been told my political/social beliefs are bad. But, what the hell, eh?
Several of the big movies lately have been ruined for me because of the previews. They show too much of the good parts, usually that being the two good explosions, and all three really funny lines in the whole movie. Why waste $30 when I already saw the best five scenes?
So, yeah, some of us don't need the visual crack of trailers (I still hate that word). But we are obviously either a small portion of the population, or just really quiet.
Star Wars: Episode 3: Reboot of the Droids
In the final scene, Darth Vader faces R2D2 and C3PO. Darth Vader waves his hand in front of the droids and says, "I am not the Sith Lord you are looking for."
C3PO: "You are not the Sith Lord we are looking for."
R2D2: "Beep beep beep, whirr."
Vader, waving again: "You must find Her Eminence Ellen Feiss."
3PO: "Yes, R2, we now must find Her Eminence Ellen Feiss, for the switch."
R2: "Brr, arrrrrgh."
3PO: "Yes, it is a bummer."
I'm still trying to figure out what this has to do with a dog.
Although I was always a Lassie fan. From the puzzle I had as a child. Never saw the tv show until later. And only saw Rin TinTin in ads in the comic books, sliding down a line by holding a pulley handle in his mouth.
Still don't know what everyone is getting so excited about.
I don't want their tripe either, but if they are giving away sausage, I'll take a couple pounds. Maybe they can throw in a dozen eggs as well. ;^)
I read the series when I was a teenager, and have held off reading it again recently because I want to be surprised during the movie. I don't want to hear the details of major scenes of any of them before I see them in the theater either.
Too bad everyone one else who replied wants to see every detail in the trailers months before the movie even comes out. And for all the movies they watch, not just LotR. Probably learn all the cheat codes for their games before starting to play too. Lame.
And, unfortunately, this is the Lone Gunmen Are Dead site. Possibly spoiling someone's enjoyment of a widely anticipated event is what they feed on somedays.
I have a couple friends who didn't know Anikin was Anikin, fer crying out loud.
"Hey, why doesn't Luke remember all this during the original movie, when he's older?"
I damn near had a heart attack, trying to not laugh in my friend's face. He was honestly trying to figure this out.
But, if the journey hadn't been so damned long, maybe Frodo could have cast the Ring away, without losing a finger.
Just writing that reminds me how many miles I have walked around malls with the wife, when we only went there to get one thing. By the end, I'm delusional too.
Well, now that the Harry Potter folks are looking for a replacement for Professor Dumbeldore, maybe Mr Stallman should go for the role. He would have a great advantage over others, 1,000,000 people waiting to slashdot the movie theaters on opening night. ;^)
Oh, come on. Don't you know the Borg were simply a cheap rip off of the Berserkers?
Well, it was a launch pad, but it wasn't supposed to be the folding kind. It was an aluminum plate. Apparently the thrust kicked it up, folded it over, and flattened it to the ground. Kind of like it did to the rocket too.
"Its defense mechanism is to jump straight up when frightened, and adults can jump three to four feet into the air. "...
So the rocket is named after an animal that can launch itself in the air, up to a few times its own height, then crashes back to earth, possibly causing massive destruction and carnage.
Guess they picked the right animal after all.
You have confused the cause and effect of the "I have nicer feathers" sexual rituals. Take the obvious case of the peafowl. Imagine two peacocks, named Tom and George, that are trying to mate with a peahen, named Sally. Tom has bright tail feathers, all whole and clean. George has duller tail feathers, half of them are broken off, and the rest are damaged. George also is thinner than Tom.
Sally is going to mate with Tom, and George will probably die a lonely death. Lonely if you don't count the animal that eats him. Sally isn't going to mate with Tom because she likes his feathers. She is a peahen for crying out loud, how much reasoning or emotion do you expect her to possess? She will mate with Tom because her instincts make her.
Sally's instincts choose Tom over George. While George may be kind, compassionate, intelligent, and brave, he really isn't because he is a peacock with no more reasoning or emotion than Sally. The fact is Tom has survived in the same area as George, but has eaten much better, hence the brighter colors and better muscular build, and has had fewer close calls with predators, hence nicer tail feathers.
So the "I have nicer feathers" ritual helps ensure species survival because the 'winner' is the one who can better find food while avoiding becoming food. That is what a peacock's tail display means.
Just because some species never developed similar patterns, doesn't mean it's not relevant in those that did.
(On a side note, do you notice when someone makes a comment such as, "Giraffes evolved longer necks to reach leaves untouched by other animals."? Like it was a concious decision. I hear statements like this about insects, fish, and birds all the time on show on Discovery or The Learning Channel. It always sounds like there was a meeting millions of years ago, where all the members of that species got together and decided to do a little genetic manipulation to add features that may help them survive. Like:
A"You know, if we had wings, we could fly all around and eat more insects that we can while sitting on the ground."
B"Don't be silly, bats don't have wings. And if walking was good enough for my grandpa, it's good enough for me."
C"Besides, everyone knows that there are no flying mammals. Idiot!"
D"Wait a minute, I think the lad may be onto something. Hold out your forelegs. Stretch out the paws. If only we could cause this skin to stretch more, it could form a membrane that would form a wing."
C"Yes. I see what you mean. We wouldn't have feathers, but it may work. We will just engineer the genes that control the entire structure of our forelimbs to produce wings. I love it."
B"I still say meddling with nature is horrible. My family will not be part of this diabolic plan."
[Peppermint Patty][wake]50!! The answer is fifty![/wake][/Peppermint Patty]
With a random set of 100 integers, that's the safest answer.
Yes, the power of the human brain = 1 BP (brainpower).
But that's the American system. The rest of the world uses Metric, and not even NASA can remember the conversion ratio. I seem to remember something about subtracting 32, but it's getting foggy.
Just had to be a prick about this...
The bug's been out since IE was released. You meant the exploit's been out for hardly 2 weeks.
But even then, the exploits been out for a couple months. MS was given a chance to fix it over a month ago, and decided 2 weeks ago to ignore it.
"(vendors don't release untested patches) "
Yes, I am sure Microsoft tested Service Pack 2 for Windows NT real thouroughly. And how about all those Windows Update patches, those have _never_ caused problems, because MS tests them too. Yeah, OK. Whatever.
As far as I can remember, no one returned their "Batman" tapes because they were pissed about the Coke ad at the beginning. Besides, since MOST people see SOME movies in the theaters, rather than just downloading them, we are used to sitting still through several minutes of that stuff anyway. And I don't mean just previews (I hate that word "trailers". Trailers are what you tow boats on, or what my poorer cousins live in.)(And, yes, I might be a redneck.), but also ads, warnings, theater rules, etc.
I was totally clueless what your point was until the "Uh, sorry Goose." line. Then I was thinking, "who the hell is Goose?"
:^)
Anyway, thanks for brightening up an afternoon, you karma whore.