So finally I follow one of these guys to see where he ended up. I honked my horn rythmically as I drove by.
Next thing I know the guy is chasing me around trying to run me off the road. I called 911 and get, I not am sh1tting you "we're really busy right now" and I'm asked to call another number where I'm put on hold listening to how my city has this great new newsletter. "Please download Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the newsletter".
You're a freaking genius.
What did you expect? If you were following me around, honking your horn. I'd corner you into a sidestreet and beat the crap out of you...
The Sims... My girlfriend and her friends LOVE the game to death.. It's like playing dollhouse. I don't argue, it keeps them away when I play Warcraft3 or CS.
This is the worst idea EVER. Yeah, I'm going to feel *real fucking safe* when suddenly the most batshit nuts, speeding drivers on the road are unexpectedly and without warning coming to sudden stops because they've triggered the "punishment light". To say nothing of the collateral damage caused by the fact that everybody on the road winds up stopping.
So, let's not even try to stop the speeders? Just let them own the road, speeding by a considerable amount over the speed limit (which is how the lights get triggered, when you drive aggressively over the limit)and leave it up to law enforcement? No, this is an excellent preventative measure. When the system is designed correctly, all stopping distances will be lenient enough to allow a slow stop to occur. What did you think, they'd throw a sensor up 1/2 block from where you're speeding, and expect you to grind to a halt in 130feet? Imagine a road with a 40 mile an hour limit. Up one mile from the intersection, a speed sensor tags you doing 95. The system knows you're a mile ahead doing 95, and has lane tags (magnetic sensors to detect vehicle movement) at half a mile so the system knows you're still on the highway. The lights are timed to immediately go red until you've come to rest at the intersection road tags for an amount of time.
The system has stopped an insane speeder down this road, and made him come to a safe stop. These will not be placed in rural areas, busy commercial areas, or anywhere that an out of control car would do considerable damage. Rather, these should be installed on trunk connectors, semi busy highway arteries and perimeter city highway systems.
I see it as a good thing. I almost died from a speeder trying to beat a red light, and spent 2 months in the hospital. At the very least, the system will deter speeders from taking these routes, and leave them safe for people like me.
humans as a whole we have many more earth bound issues that require our attention. Famine, disease, and war are way more important, and require more of our attention.
And how would any of those matter if 90% of all life were to end from one of those rare impacts? Sad but true that everyone would like to think about eliminating war which is almost always based upon religion, racism, territorial squabbles or insane political leaders. Famine and disease are already being worked on. We have seen evidence in the past of what a NEO can do when it impacts the earth.
The truth is, I would like my children and the rest of my bloodline to have a nice, blue planet to live on for another two million years at least. But the odds are against us, and we are at a pinacle in human technology. Why not protect this position from one of the most devastating and destructive forces we know about? I believe that a gravitational tractor beam and better discovery and tracking technology will be a benefit in the long run.
Come back from the film with the kernel and modules crisply compiled for you, install boot loader and enjoy.
But what really happens.. Come back from LOTR.. Look at screen..
OPERATING SYSTEM NOT FOUND
Re:I use good passwords, and here's how
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So an example phrase might be: "i love to post on slashdot"
which would become: "iltpos", but then you could replace the "o" with the digit zero (0), and the "s" with the digit five (5), so now you've got:
"iltp05"
Congratulations buddy... You've just disclosed the average slashdot reader's main password!!! I imagine total chaos will ensue, as 80% of our worlds computer and network services are destroyed..
In cases like this, I suggest yanking the ethernet cable. That's the strongest, and easiest form of security out there!! I only plug in for pr0n.:P
They all had to reformat their Windows XP installations at the same time. Hence, deleting all their mp3 files. Come on, this is Slashdot.. Doesn't take the DOJ to come up with this!!
Seeing as the flare/storm would take a couple of days to reach the Earth, I'd say pretty much 100% that it was a simple conincidence.
Actually, the X-rays produced by the flare travel at the speed of light, and would only take minutes to reach the earth. It's the ball of gases from the coronal release that take 2-4 days to reach Earth you are referring to.
Quoteth: I'll bet all my Star Wars action figures that its gonna seriously suck...wait, except Boba Fett, no matter how sure I am, I never bet the Fett Man End Quoteth
I will gladly pay $0.77 per cd so we don't end up with organizations like the RIAA in Canada, or having the RIAA in Canada. Oh, but then again, you have to hide under your bed from the RIAA for fear of lawsuits... So who has more freedom and liberty in the end? Is it worth the $0.77 per cd?
Good, and if I saw you on a flight I was on, i would politely take your cell phone, and crush it under my size 13 shoes. The well-being of myself and the 100+ people on a flight is of much more concern than your hard headedness to simple fact, and admission from professional pilots that electronic devices interfere with aeronautic instrumentation.
Hard to follow the rules huh? And you whine about not flying because we won't let you use your cell phone on a flight. Good! Stay off of our planes, we don't need people like you paying for flights, and having no second thought about the other lives on the flight.
And as if I would even want a schmutz like you beside me on a plane, tellin wifey how much you love her, or trying to troubleshoot you Linux server from 35,000 feet. Stay on the ground, we don't need your money.
So you would give up all your constitutional rights just to get the guy across the street arrested? Welcome to the United States everyone. Where your neighbors are fine with you being labelled a terrorist without any grounds.
Per chance, do you know what a terrorist is? Count your blessings, it could be your name we read about next on Slashdot, baing targetted as a terrorist without valid reason.
No, you're not reponsible (at least not totally) - I'd like to hear of one specific place or one specific instance that the person who stole the car was let off because the keys were in the car.
Well, I can cite quite a few cases where the numbnuts who left the keys in his car was not able to afford insurance again after making such a claim.
If I leave the keys in my car, that still doesn't give someone the "right" to steal it.
No, it just makes you quite a freaking idiot for leaving the keys in your car, and if I were an insurance company, I would raise your premiums 500% for being an idiot.
U.S. Patent has just issued me Patent 6,606,660, which states that I now own exclusive rights to the following keyboard keys..
Enter, Spacebar, Ctrl, Alt, Esc, all function keys, Tab, Shift (both left & right), Caps Lock, all Page Scrolling fuctions, the Numeric Pad, and directional arrows. You are still free to use alphanumeric keys without my permission.
Obviously this is sarcasm, but it's heading there... Real fast..
Slashdot Mirror
What, you think the US doesn't have the technological ability to put down DSL lines? No, they can. They just can't do it right.
So finally I follow one of these guys to see where he ended up. I honked my horn rythmically as I drove by.
Next thing I know the guy is chasing me around trying to run me off the road. I called 911 and get, I not am sh1tting you "we're really busy right now" and I'm asked to call another number where I'm put on hold listening to how my city has this great new newsletter. "Please download Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the newsletter".
You're a freaking genius.
What did you expect? If you were following me around, honking your horn. I'd corner you into a sidestreet and beat the crap out of you...
The Sims... My girlfriend and her friends LOVE the game to death.. It's like playing dollhouse. I don't argue, it keeps them away when I play Warcraft3 or CS.
The second thing, which is where the story really lies, is how this could have happened.
:P
Well it's simple... Their PIX went down for scheduled maintenance, and they threw in a Linksys router to do the deed for a few mins
This is the worst idea EVER. Yeah, I'm going to feel *real fucking safe* when suddenly the most batshit nuts, speeding drivers on the road are unexpectedly and without warning coming to sudden stops because they've triggered the "punishment light". To say nothing of the collateral damage caused by the fact that everybody on the road winds up stopping.
So, let's not even try to stop the speeders? Just let them own the road, speeding by a considerable amount over the speed limit (which is how the lights get triggered, when you drive aggressively over the limit)and leave it up to law enforcement? No, this is an excellent preventative measure. When the system is designed correctly, all stopping distances will be lenient enough to allow a slow stop to occur. What did you think, they'd throw a sensor up 1/2 block from where you're speeding, and expect you to grind to a halt in 130feet? Imagine a road with a 40 mile an hour limit. Up one mile from the intersection, a speed sensor tags you doing 95. The system knows you're a mile ahead doing 95, and has lane tags (magnetic sensors to detect vehicle movement) at half a mile so the system knows you're still on the highway. The lights are timed to immediately go red until you've come to rest at the intersection road tags for an amount of time.
The system has stopped an insane speeder down this road, and made him come to a safe stop. These will not be placed in rural areas, busy commercial areas, or anywhere that an out of control car would do considerable damage. Rather, these should be installed on trunk connectors, semi busy highway arteries and perimeter city highway systems.
I see it as a good thing. I almost died from a speeder trying to beat a red light, and spent 2 months in the hospital. At the very least, the system will deter speeders from taking these routes, and leave them safe for people like me.
humans as a whole we have many more earth bound issues that require our attention. Famine, disease, and war are way more important, and require more of our attention.
And how would any of those matter if 90% of all life were to end from one of those rare impacts? Sad but true that everyone would like to think about eliminating war which is almost always based upon religion, racism, territorial squabbles or insane political leaders. Famine and disease are already being worked on. We have seen evidence in the past of what a NEO can do when it impacts the earth.
The truth is, I would like my children and the rest of my bloodline to have a nice, blue planet to live on for another two million years at least. But the odds are against us, and we are at a pinacle in human technology. Why not protect this position from one of the most devastating and destructive forces we know about? I believe that a gravitational tractor beam and better discovery and tracking technology will be a benefit in the long run.
Lindashes to ashes
Lindust to dust
Quit tryin to play
Micros*ft's bluff!
Just name the fricken thing LedHat or Lebian.. or even better... Loppix!! Or how about Lackware?
This is not McDonalds or Burger King where you can order a side of something with your lawsuit... Sheesh...
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire...
My nutz are roasting under a 64bit AMD laptop...
Call the fire department!
But we all know what question needs to be answered...
How many VW Beetles is it to the Sloan Great Wall?
Come back from the film with the kernel and modules crisply compiled for you, install boot loader and enjoy.
But what really happens.. Come back from LOTR.. Look at screen..
OPERATING SYSTEM NOT FOUND
So an example phrase might be: "i love to post on slashdot"
:P
which would become: "iltpos", but then you could replace the "o" with the digit zero (0), and the "s" with the digit five (5), so now you've got:
"iltp05"
Congratulations buddy... You've just disclosed the average slashdot reader's main password!!! I imagine total chaos will ensue, as 80% of our worlds computer and network services are destroyed..
In cases like this, I suggest yanking the ethernet cable. That's the strongest, and easiest form of security out there!! I only plug in for pr0n.
How do we know that you didn't have a purple dragon in your garage for about one billionth of a trillionth of a second?
Oh no.. I fell for this at a party once.. There was a heavy "beauty quark" when I opened the door last. Why don't you open the door and show us?
They all had to reformat their Windows XP installations at the same time. Hence, deleting all their mp3 files. Come on, this is Slashdot.. Doesn't take the DOJ to come up with this!!
Seeing as the flare/storm would take a couple of days to reach the Earth, I'd say pretty much 100% that it was a simple conincidence.
Actually, the X-rays produced by the flare travel at the speed of light, and would only take minutes to reach the earth. It's the ball of gases from the coronal release that take 2-4 days to reach Earth you are referring to.
Quoteth:
I'll bet all my Star Wars action figures that its gonna seriously suck...wait, except Boba Fett, no matter how sure I am, I never bet the Fett Man
End Quoteth
Ohh a Family Guy lover!! NEVER bet the Fett Man!!
I will gladly pay $0.77 per cd so we don't end up with organizations like the RIAA in Canada, or having the RIAA in Canada. Oh, but then again, you have to hide under your bed from the RIAA for fear of lawsuits... So who has more freedom and liberty in the end? Is it worth the $0.77 per cd?
Good, and if I saw you on a flight I was on, i would politely take your cell phone, and crush it under my size 13 shoes. The well-being of myself and the 100+ people on a flight is of much more concern than your hard headedness to simple fact, and admission from professional pilots that electronic devices interfere with aeronautic instrumentation.
Hard to follow the rules huh? And you whine about not flying because we won't let you use your cell phone on a flight. Good! Stay off of our planes, we don't need people like you paying for flights, and having no second thought about the other lives on the flight.
And as if I would even want a schmutz like you beside me on a plane, tellin wifey how much you love her, or trying to troubleshoot you Linux server from 35,000 feet. Stay on the ground, we don't need your money.
So you would give up all your constitutional rights just to get the guy across the street arrested? Welcome to the United States everyone. Where your neighbors are fine with you being labelled a terrorist without any grounds.
Per chance, do you know what a terrorist is? Count your blessings, it could be your name we read about next on Slashdot, baing targetted as a terrorist without valid reason.
How about sexy women wearing hiking boots, and lumberjack jackets with matching skirts, drinking beer.. as in free.. as in good beer...
Heck, M$ could pay for the bill
Would you fly on a spacecraft sponsored by M$? What if it bluescreened on takeoff or landing? or tried to divide by zero?
No, you're not reponsible (at least not totally) - I'd like to hear of one specific place or one specific instance that the person who stole the car was let off because the keys were in the car.
Well, I can cite quite a few cases where the numbnuts who left the keys in his car was not able to afford insurance again after making such a claim.
If I leave the keys in my car, that still doesn't give someone the "right" to steal it.
No, it just makes you quite a freaking idiot for leaving the keys in your car, and if I were an insurance company, I would raise your premiums 500% for being an idiot.
U.S. Patent has just issued me Patent 6,606,660, which states that I now own exclusive rights to the following keyboard keys..
Enter, Spacebar, Ctrl, Alt, Esc, all function keys, Tab, Shift (both left & right), Caps Lock, all Page Scrolling fuctions, the Numeric Pad, and directional arrows. You are still free to use alphanumeric keys without my permission.
Obviously this is sarcasm, but it's heading there... Real fast..
You suck. You suck purely because you didn't tell me where I can order one of those t-shirts at!
Well to get a T-shirt, just send a $699 introductory priced license fee for each T-Shirt to:
Darl McBride
123 SCO Lane
Cayman Islands
90210
Better hurry, once the promotion is over, licensing fee for each t-shirt goes to $1399.