Hmmm, maybe I should've worded my original thing a little better. What I intended to suggest was that maybe locked doors would have changed the nature of the attack, but there would have been an attack in either case. Maybe not flying into buildings.
Anyways, for the record... I only combined all those adjectives into a "fightin' words" phrase because I thought we're supposed to be inflammatory here on slashdot.
I'm sure you're not "little":P
Here's a suggestion: 9-11 could have been prevented with locks on the cockpit door.
Everyone's a snide little clever genius after the fact.
Here's a suggestion: no, it could not have been prevented with locks on the cockpit door. It would have likely been a somewhat different attack, but it still would have happened.
Meanwhile, people still catch colds despite having a supply of tissue in the house.
I use Thunderbird, and before that I used Eudora, both of which allow me to manage dozens of email address "personalities" into a single inbox. On the mail server side of things I configure things in virtualmailrc and a few scripts to help automate stuff. So, when I bought a DVD drive for my PC years ago from Dell.com and then was surprised to see that, within a couple weeks, my largest influx of spam was addressed to the unique address I provided to Dell... Well, I complained a couple times but knew it wouldn't help. So, I changed my config to direct all incoming mail addressed to that address back to cs@dell.com. I never see it. I don't log it. I don't care... their problem. I'm sure they don't care either. Too bad there isn't a simple way to make them feel some pain.
"Mike Elgan has had it with useless lights on gadgets and computers."
Mike Elgan is wrong about useless lights on gadgets and computers. Dude. They are cool. So what if they don't serve any purpose other than looking cool. I've had it with other useless things, such as the hair on Mike Elgan's head. I want my gadgets and computers to look like something out of a sci-fi action movie. More LEDs, and add sound, too. Also, some green women.
Who is buying TurboTax? Don't you people remember the DRM fiasco? Did you forgive and forget? Why? You people still piss around about how evil Circuit City is because of their Divx fiasco and refuse to shop there. Why forgive Intuit but not others? There are choices... exercise your ability to vote with your dollars. Geez. Last night I was digging around for my HUD-1 statement on a house sale so that I could finish up the last bit on my taxes and file at the last possible moment in true procrastinator fashion. But, some sell-on-eBay burglars broke into the new construction houses across the street and I had to call 911, give a statement, identify the dudes, etc... took a long time. So, I ended up e-filing an extension at 11:48PM. No problems encountered. TurboTax? No, sir. I used TaxCut. Not because I like it, but because I do remember the Intuit DRM fiasco. Sure, TaxCut has its own problems (eg. Schedule A will not print correctly on an Epson printer last year, or this year), but I'm happy to avoid Intuit when I do have choices.
I think the listened too much to the critics who liked them touching "real issues" and now they have gone overboard on the "real issues" and the story and characters seem to be suffering
That's because the writers are mere TV show writers. They aren't experts, they aren't political pundits... no great minds. Anything they might have to say in some effort to make the show 'topical' is going to be plain average at best.
The demographic for this show crosses over in part with the same demographic that watches "The Daily Show" for its primary source of news and current events. Why the heck don't these people watch 'mainstream' and 'respectable' news instead of 'fake news'? Because real news is boring. Making BSG become a source for op-ed on the real news is making it boring for the same reasons to the same crowd.
Then again, even if you hired true experts it would tank. Imagine Henry Kissinger as a consultant to the BSG writers. The only smart path is to leave the 'topical' crap out of it nearly altogether.
Stargate started out kinda weak, mostly OK. But over time it became more and more simple and fun. No big deal, just fun. Atlantis has also been mostly fun.
I'm not one to miss shows because... it's just TV crap, no matter how good. But, I'm sure I'll find myself wishing for something like SG1. If not, then I'll just be another to watch less and less TV and play some PC game instead.
Anyways, true, keep the topical politics out of it! It's not like the writers are giant minded pundits... whatever attempt they make at making it topical is going to be just dumb.
"Although Battlestar Galactica has been going down in ratings and has yet to get picked up for another season"
Here's a tip... move the story along already!!
I pretty much gave up on the slow moving show but then decided to give it one more chance. So, the next time I caught an episode... I see an hour of retarded boxing? Dear Lord, how boring can they force the show to be?? At least that stupid Kat vs Starbuck bickering is finally gone.
"All this hullabaloo makes me want neither side to win. If only I didn't desperately crave HD content on my TV!"
Honestly I don't crave it and don't see why any one would care. I'm just feeling kinda "done" with media. I can't watch almost anything on TV anymore without going insane and see so few movies since so many just suck now days. Why would I care to upgrade all my crap just to watch bad movies with a little more visual detail? You know what, maybe if they want to convince me to watch any of the crap they'll have to send me some free equipment and some money for my time.
It is also possible to falsify the numbers dialed.
I wonder how many defense lawyers are curious about that bit.
Limited to certain categories, not really
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"Wikified items seem to be limited to certain categories, DVDs being one un-wikied realm."
Not really. It's scheduled for all categories, but the launch of this feature may temporarily conflict with the launch of others, thus it is dormant in some categories until various experiments settle.
Don't be harsh on this contractor, man... maybe they are just preparing for when the contract is up and they have something to fall back on, like competing with www.ZabaSearch.com. I think it's retarded that collecting info in this manner is illegal for the government but perfectly acceptable for everyone else in the world. My own attitude is that all the info collectors of the world should be hung by their balls.
A good company will have an effective helpdesk (no no, don't laugh). When I worked at Attachmate we had a helpdesk that evaluated new software before putting it on the approved list. This was the practice there, in part, because it was the practice in the firms we sold to (I'm talking multi-thousand seat firms). The annual challenge for Attachmate was to get onto the "approved vendor list" at these major firms. From the helpdesk perspective this makes good sense: you can better support fewer things, and you know those things actually do work if installed properly.
Anyways, this dude here is asking for suggestions... Symantec's (retarded) 'workaround' is not an option for him because they manage clients over WAN links hundreds of miles away. Sounds like he dropped the ball on the evaluation period. Later he says "It seems that more and more software is rushing out the door with glaring errors". Well, mon, if they are so glaring, how did you get to a point of comfort with the idea of installing them hundreds of miles away??
BTW, although this dude was boneheaded, Symantec is not blameless in this... They do put out komplete krunk from time to time. Anyone remember the Norton Utilities for Mac back when Apple introduced HFS+... and Norton Utilities actually hosed drives bad instead of helping them. Most recently, when I last upgraded my NAV at home I was disappointed to have to completely disable the email scanning. It just plain hoses up the POP3...the proxy doesn't verk. If it's going to hose up anything email related I would *much* prefer that it hose up SMTP, not POP3!
Oh well. I'm going to dust off one of my Apple ][+ boxes...
"Being a Computer Science student, this is great news for me, meaning I may be in demand in the future."
Keep telling yourself that. Then, take an online course to get your Real Estate license...
All these people who say stuff like "Kerry would have led America in a better direction" are foolish. What direction? He never said anything of substance except to offer countless silly euphemisms and re-hashed catch phrases. He is a liar, plain and simple.
And, for all the non-Americans out there boo-hooing about our election... shut the heck up you pinkos. Go brush your bad teeth.
"Yahoo is running a Reuters story in which Arthur Thompson, the head of the NASA 'rover' missions, says that people could be landing on Mars in the next twenty or thirty years. If that is true, I estimate that within 50 years, Mars will need women."
You can wait 20 to 30 years ?!?!?!
Take a job at Amazon.com... you'll soon be on a 5 minute refresh.
1) read seattle.craigslist.com/tec/
2) read slashdot.org
3) add features to your game server admin scripts, or something that doesn't depress you
4) repeat to 1)
So how will they make this fit with the Classic Trek episode Balance of Terror, in which we learned that no human ever saw the face of a Romulan during the Romulan Wars?"
That was the Romulan's "baroque" period. They all went around holding masks up to their faces on little sticks.
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Hmmm, maybe I should've worded my original thing a little better. What I intended to suggest was that maybe locked doors would have changed the nature of the attack, but there would have been an attack in either case. Maybe not flying into buildings. Anyways, for the record... I only combined all those adjectives into a "fightin' words" phrase because I thought we're supposed to be inflammatory here on slashdot. I'm sure you're not "little" :P
you're sticking with your story? wow! It *would* have happened. Come on now. Admit your error and move along.
Here's a suggestion: 9-11 could have been prevented with locks on the cockpit door.
Everyone's a snide little clever genius after the fact.
Here's a suggestion: no, it could not have been prevented with locks on the cockpit door. It would have likely been a somewhat different attack, but it still would have happened.
Meanwhile, people still catch colds despite having a supply of tissue in the house.
I use Thunderbird, and before that I used Eudora, both of which allow me to manage dozens of email address "personalities" into a single inbox. On the mail server side of things I configure things in virtualmailrc and a few scripts to help automate stuff. So, when I bought a DVD drive for my PC years ago from Dell.com and then was surprised to see that, within a couple weeks, my largest influx of spam was addressed to the unique address I provided to Dell... Well, I complained a couple times but knew it wouldn't help. So, I changed my config to direct all incoming mail addressed to that address back to cs@dell.com. I never see it. I don't log it. I don't care... their problem. I'm sure they don't care either. Too bad there isn't a simple way to make them feel some pain.
"Mike Elgan has had it with useless lights on gadgets and computers."
Mike Elgan is wrong about useless lights on gadgets and computers. Dude. They are cool. So what if they don't serve any purpose other than looking cool. I've had it with other useless things, such as the hair on Mike Elgan's head. I want my gadgets and computers to look like something out of a sci-fi action movie. More LEDs, and add sound, too. Also, some green women.
Who is buying TurboTax? Don't you people remember the DRM fiasco? Did you forgive and forget? Why? You people still piss around about how evil Circuit City is because of their Divx fiasco and refuse to shop there. Why forgive Intuit but not others? There are choices... exercise your ability to vote with your dollars. Geez. Last night I was digging around for my HUD-1 statement on a house sale so that I could finish up the last bit on my taxes and file at the last possible moment in true procrastinator fashion. But, some sell-on-eBay burglars broke into the new construction houses across the street and I had to call 911, give a statement, identify the dudes, etc... took a long time. So, I ended up e-filing an extension at 11:48PM. No problems encountered. TurboTax? No, sir. I used TaxCut. Not because I like it, but because I do remember the Intuit DRM fiasco. Sure, TaxCut has its own problems (eg. Schedule A will not print correctly on an Epson printer last year, or this year), but I'm happy to avoid Intuit when I do have choices.
Dude... like I said... we don't file returns here.
Looks like Washington-staters won't be able to fib on their tax returns about internet purchases, starting in 2008.
Dude... we don't do tax returns.
I think the listened too much to the critics who liked them touching "real issues" and now they have gone overboard on the "real issues" and the story and characters seem to be suffering
That's because the writers are mere TV show writers. They aren't experts, they aren't political pundits... no great minds. Anything they might have to say in some effort to make the show 'topical' is going to be plain average at best.
The demographic for this show crosses over in part with the same demographic that watches "The Daily Show" for its primary source of news and current events. Why the heck don't these people watch 'mainstream' and 'respectable' news instead of 'fake news'? Because real news is boring. Making BSG become a source for op-ed on the real news is making it boring for the same reasons to the same crowd.
Then again, even if you hired true experts it would tank. Imagine Henry Kissinger as a consultant to the BSG writers. The only smart path is to leave the 'topical' crap out of it nearly altogether.
Stargate started out kinda weak, mostly OK. But over time it became more and more simple and fun. No big deal, just fun. Atlantis has also been mostly fun. I'm not one to miss shows because... it's just TV crap, no matter how good. But, I'm sure I'll find myself wishing for something like SG1. If not, then I'll just be another to watch less and less TV and play some PC game instead. Anyways, true, keep the topical politics out of it! It's not like the writers are giant minded pundits... whatever attempt they make at making it topical is going to be just dumb.
"Although Battlestar Galactica has been going down in ratings and has yet to get picked up for another season"
Here's a tip... move the story along already!!
I pretty much gave up on the slow moving show but then decided to give it one more chance. So, the next time I caught an episode... I see an hour of retarded boxing? Dear Lord, how boring can they force the show to be?? At least that stupid Kat vs Starbuck bickering is finally gone.
"All this hullabaloo makes me want neither side to win. If only I didn't desperately crave HD content on my TV!"
Honestly I don't crave it and don't see why any one would care. I'm just feeling kinda "done" with media. I can't watch almost anything on TV anymore without going insane and see so few movies since so many just suck now days. Why would I care to upgrade all my crap just to watch bad movies with a little more visual detail? You know what, maybe if they want to convince me to watch any of the crap they'll have to send me some free equipment and some money for my time.
It is also possible to falsify the numbers dialed.
I wonder how many defense lawyers are curious about that bit.
"Wikified items seem to be limited to certain categories, DVDs being one un-wikied realm."
Not really. It's scheduled for all categories, but the launch of this feature may temporarily conflict with the launch of others, thus it is dormant in some categories until various experiments settle.
Don't be harsh on this contractor, man... maybe they are just preparing for when the contract is up and they have something to fall back on, like competing with www.ZabaSearch.com. I think it's retarded that collecting info in this manner is illegal for the government but perfectly acceptable for everyone else in the world. My own attitude is that all the info collectors of the world should be hung by their balls.
A good company will have an effective helpdesk (no no, don't laugh). When I worked at Attachmate we had a helpdesk that evaluated new software before putting it on the approved list. This was the practice there, in part, because it was the practice in the firms we sold to (I'm talking multi-thousand seat firms). The annual challenge for Attachmate was to get onto the "approved vendor list" at these major firms. From the helpdesk perspective this makes good sense: you can better support fewer things, and you know those things actually do work if installed properly.
... and Norton Utilities actually hosed drives bad instead of helping them. Most recently, when I last upgraded my NAV at home I was disappointed to have to completely disable the email scanning. It just plain hoses up the POP3...the proxy doesn't verk. If it's going to hose up anything email related I would *much* prefer that it hose up SMTP, not POP3!
Anyways, this dude here is asking for suggestions... Symantec's (retarded) 'workaround' is not an option for him because they manage clients over WAN links hundreds of miles away. Sounds like he dropped the ball on the evaluation period. Later he says "It seems that more and more software is rushing out the door with glaring errors". Well, mon, if they are so glaring, how did you get to a point of comfort with the idea of installing them hundreds of miles away??
BTW, although this dude was boneheaded, Symantec is not blameless in this... They do put out komplete krunk from time to time. Anyone remember the Norton Utilities for Mac back when Apple introduced HFS+
Oh well. I'm going to dust off one of my Apple ][+ boxes...
"Being a Computer Science student, this is great news for me, meaning I may be in demand in the future." Keep telling yourself that. Then, take an online course to get your Real Estate license...
SCO's vice president Chris Sontag says that 20 to 30 organisations worldwide have purchased these licenses
20 to 30? What, he doesn't know how many? He has trouble counting such a large number?
I'll bet that "20 to 30" actually means something closer to 15.
Well said!!!!
All these people who say stuff like "Kerry would have led America in a better direction" are foolish. What direction? He never said anything of substance except to offer countless silly euphemisms and re-hashed catch phrases. He is a liar, plain and simple.
And, for all the non-Americans out there boo-hooing about our election... shut the heck up you pinkos. Go brush your bad teeth.
"Yahoo is running a Reuters story in which Arthur Thompson, the head of the NASA 'rover' missions, says that people could be landing on Mars in the next twenty or thirty years. If that is true, I estimate that within 50 years, Mars will need women." You can wait 20 to 30 years ?!?!?!
Take a job at Amazon.com... you'll soon be on a 5 minute refresh.
1) read seattle.craigslist.com/tec/
2) read slashdot.org
3) add features to your game server admin scripts, or something that doesn't depress you
4) repeat to 1)
oh geez! you clever people!
:)
you all ever see that episode of Brady Bunch where Bobby takes everything so literally?? Wasn't that stinking annoying?
Exactly. Geeks who think they are so smart are stinking annoying.
Thank you, friedegg, for noticing the intent of my post... and not simply massaging your ego.
Who gets the Google-bucks from the Google Ads?? Dang, now I wish I wrote that adbar thingy...
So how will they make this fit with the Classic Trek episode Balance of Terror, in which we learned that no human ever saw the face of a Romulan during the Romulan Wars?"
That was the Romulan's "baroque" period. They all went around holding masks up to their faces on little sticks.
dude, you've been into your gay porn too much.