So if I have a hardware firewall in my router is a software firewall useful as a last ditch defense? Or is it nothing more than an annoyance and resource hog?
Yea what is up with that? It is almost as bad as that guy who would post his own blog which linked off to the actual stories just so he could get ad revenue.
Of course they could just think that, for some reason, the Slashdot community would be interested in pr0n.
To be fair, evolution does not disprove of A god...
But it does kinda reduce the likelihood that there is a PERSONAL god who is intimately concerned with all of our activities, and so is a reason to behave in a moral way and more importantly, to then worship that god and tithe to the church who claims to be the bridge between man and god.
Personally, I feel like events such as hurricane Katrina, the tsunami in the indian ocean, and September 11th offer a much stronger proof of the lack of a personal god.
Interestingly, other people look at the same events and come to the exact opposite conclusion.
Even better, if you click on the author's name you will find that Gundeep Hora is the Editor-in-Chief of CoolTechZone. Zoinks! I think the Editor-in-Chief needs an editor. Perhaps one of the Slashdot editors could help him out.
Don't know about other countries, but more than 50% of the US is considered obese. Not getting enough exercise, and poor health in general, hardly seems to be a problem confined to geekdom.
Actually I was only joshing, too. I personally hate the so-called-rule of not ending a sentence with a preposition. It can lead to some awfully strange constructions...
Anything that distracts from that, I want to chop out. If you're a blogger, definitely listen to the part of Taco's "review" that talks about making generic comments like "I found this" or "Let's get these guys!" I hate blogs that write these little side comments. If I go to a site because of an opinion, I like to stick with sites that offer non-fluff text written by the opinion writer. I've seen newspaper columns that are all fluff content like that, and it drives me crazy.
And yet Taco also talks about how he likes to interject his own opinion just to fill up space if the submission is too short. Isn't this exactly the sort of text he stripping out in some cases because it "distracts".
I guess it only distracts if it is not the editors opinion.
One of the things that drives me crazy is when the Slashdot article reads something like "Soandso writes 'blah blah blah etc etc blah blah blah'..." However, on closer inspection one sees that Soandso did not actually write the original text "blah blah blah" but rather pulled it directly from the linked article without paraphrasing.
This may seem a small thing, but I work in a field where one lives and dies by one's word and original ideas. It is anthama to take someone elses words and I would hope that the editors here try and correct the attributions whenever it is at all possible.
Remember back in the days of the Timex Sinclair ZX81? I remember one of the Sinclairs (not sure which) was billed as the first home computer to break the $100 price barrier. I learned first programming on a ZX81.
Who are all the court jester schmucks in the video standing around doing nothing, do the get to do that all day, why aren't they sitting on the funky red couch, and how much do they get paid?
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So if I have a hardware firewall in my router is a software firewall useful as a last ditch defense? Or is it nothing more than an annoyance and resource hog?
and then I got rid of it.
Fricken' batteries dieing all the time. Who needs it?
That's a "wavelength demultiplexer". It is wrong in the original article.
question : "Does this mean the end of complex Monopoly games where I charge grandma interest to borrow money?"
answer : "purists can still purchase the original version."
I've seen e-mail as a freebie for people who expound ad nauseum
:)
Much like slashdot posts. (I kid, I kid
I believe the real problem with email can be summed up in two statements.
People don't read carefully.
People don't write carefully.
Yea what is up with that? It is almost as bad as that guy who would post his own blog which linked off to the actual stories just so he could get ad revenue.
Of course they could just think that, for some reason, the Slashdot community would be interested in pr0n.
Cool. The Wall Street Journal is submitting their own articles to Slashdot now. Nothing like a little free advertising.
And in other news, people who don't like certain viewpoints tend to supress those viewpoints...
As evidenced by the tagging of this story as flamebait.
To be fair, evolution does not disprove of A god...
But it does kinda reduce the likelihood that there is a PERSONAL god who is intimately concerned with all of our activities, and so is a reason to behave in a moral way and more importantly, to then worship that god and tithe to the church who claims to be the bridge between man and god.
Personally, I feel like events such as hurricane Katrina, the tsunami in the indian ocean, and September 11th offer a much stronger proof of the lack of a personal god.
Interestingly, other people look at the same events and come to the exact opposite conclusion.
Wierd, no?
Even better, if you click on the author's name you will find that Gundeep Hora is the Editor-in-Chief of CoolTechZone. Zoinks! I think the Editor-in-Chief needs an editor. Perhaps one of the Slashdot editors could help him out.
Don't know about other countries, but more than 50% of the US is considered obese. Not getting enough exercise, and poor health in general, hardly seems to be a problem confined to geekdom.
one of the defining characteristics of sheep is that they think that everyone else is a sheep except them...
Me? I'm a total sheep, I realize that there's really no way of escaping it, and get on with my life
Your self-awareness of your sheepishness, by your definition, seems to exlude you from the sheep herd.
Doh! Logical conundrum...
Actually I was only joshing, too. I personally hate the so-called-rule of not ending a sentence with a preposition. It can lead to some awfully strange constructions...
Effected means to have actioned. Affected means influenced by.
Self-styled pedants should be more careful about ending sentences wit prepositions.
Note: I am not a pedant.
1) Price. AllofMP3 charges by the bit, not by the song.
2) Download time.
3) Lack of storage space.
Lots of compelling reason for buying a CD in compressed format, even when a lossless version is available at the same time.
Yeah, well, I graduated to the Vic 20 from my Timex Sinclair ZX-81. Take that!
Considering that the word "Crackpots" is in the article's URL, I would say you have been trolled.
When installing Quintessential Media Player one can choose not to install the media library.
Problem solved.
Not to mention the fact that it can record more tv than it is physically possible to actually watch.
One who works "in a field where one lives and dies by one's word" should know that anthama is spelled anathema.
You live and die by one's word, not one word.
Anything that distracts from that, I want to chop out.
If you're a blogger, definitely listen to the part of Taco's "review" that talks about making generic comments like "I found this" or "Let's get these guys!" I hate blogs that write these little side comments. If I go to a site because of an opinion, I like to stick with sites that offer non-fluff text written by the opinion writer. I've seen newspaper columns that are all fluff content like that, and it drives me crazy.
And yet Taco also talks about how he likes to interject his own opinion just to fill up space if the submission is too short. Isn't this exactly the sort of text he stripping out in some cases because it "distracts".
I guess it only distracts if it is not the editors opinion.
One of the things that drives me crazy is when the Slashdot article reads something like "Soandso writes 'blah blah blah etc etc blah blah blah'..." However, on closer inspection one sees that Soandso did not actually write the original text "blah blah blah" but rather pulled it directly from the linked article without paraphrasing.
This may seem a small thing, but I work in a field where one lives and dies by one's word and original ideas. It is anthama to take someone elses words and I would hope that the editors here try and correct the attributions whenever it is at all possible.
Remember back in the days of the Timex Sinclair ZX81? I remember one of the Sinclairs (not sure which) was billed as the first home computer to break the $100 price barrier. I learned first programming on a ZX81.
Who are all the court jester schmucks in the video standing around doing nothing, do the get to do that all day, why aren't they sitting on the funky red couch, and how much do they get paid?
In other news, scientists are reportedly close to devloping the long-anticipated perpetual motion machine.
Commercial versions are expected in late quarter 2008.