You might be over-extrapolating. Work items are a set cost, but to each person, the value is variable.
Let's say you give two people $2,000 in equipment (laptop, phone, accessories, whatever). Someone making $20,000 could never afford all that stuff on their own, so they're likely to view it as valuable. Someone making $200,000 could afford it and is probably less likely to consider its intrinsic value. Someone making $2,000,000 probably scoffs at anyone ever being able to use such low-end tools.
Price is fixed; value is not. As such, the appearance of scruples might vary. To account for this, it would be required to compare items of equal relative value to each person. Are the odds of someone making high six-figures not returning a laptop equal to the odds of interns making low-five figures not returning office supplies?
Exec 1: "Now that we have Atlantis, we can cancel SG1!" Exec 2: "Oh, I couldn't bear to do that! I don't want to make Richard Dean Anderson cry again." Exec 1: "Well, we could wait until he leaves and then cancel SG1." Exec 2: "No, then he'd get all smug about how SG1 was really 'his' show." Exec 1: "How about replacing him and then canceling the show after a season or two?" Exec 2: "Brilliant! But where could we possibly find an actor willing to work on a loved but inevitably and obviously doomed series?" Exec 1: "That guy from Farscape?" Exec 2: "Perfect!"
Does anyone else think that these terrorists' true purpose is not to kill the passengers on a few planes but to inconvenience travellers for years to come?
Break into his home and disable the device. Since he can't hear it, he won't know it's broken.
Actually, since these are usually installed outside, breaking and entering may not even be required. Just don't damage the outside of the case while cutting the wires and you'll be fine.
How do you meet a quota when you're looking out for suspicious people?
The logic goes thusly:
-We want to keep tabs on the most suspicious 1% of passengers. -There are 100 people on this plane -There must be 1 person we want to keep tabs on.
Now, in fact, there is actually a 36.6% (.99^100) chance that none of the 100 people are part of the 1% that need to be monitored. But explaining that is hard. Simply picking 1 person per 100 is easy.
The homepage is up, but login is down (as was mentioned) and I still can't see my public p- I mean, I still can't see my sister's public page. *Ahem* All user pages give a "profile undergoing maintenance error".
could it actualy be the leader of the stunticons? i think his name was motormaster?
That's a really interesting thought. While Motormaster is really a flat-front truck, as seen in
this cel found online, changing him slightly would be significantly more palatable than having that be Optimus Prime.
Haven't they already made a CGI trailer, showing a giant robot on Mars? It doesn't show very much (you can't identify which TF it is), but it's still CGI.
Here's the direct link. Basically, it appears to be Independence Day 2: Transformers. They're even releasing it on the 4th of July.
When I was skipping commercials for something I had on my TiVo the other day, I caught the end of the new Mountain Dew commercial. I stopped and went back just to see the whole thing. The ending was great, though it loses something with YouTube's slightly-too-long extended version (only one I could find).
Of course, the commercial doesn't influence my decision to buy Mountain Dew, but that's a different argument altogether.
The news isn't that sex sells, it's that sex sells at a rate 280 times higher than that of its closest competitor.
The closest competitor is pharmaceuticals (e.g., ads for Viagra/Cialis/Levitra).
So it's not just that sex sells at a rate 280 times higher than that of its closest competitor, it's that sex sells at a rate 280 times higher than that of its closest competitor, which is also sex.
I'm also curious if the mainstream news media will pick this article and run with it.
Let's be honest...
The story came out on Friday, June 30th, and a Google News search doesn't yield any results beyond this Slashdot article. Furthermore, it came out on the Friday before the 4th of July. Since the 4th is a Tuesday, many people are taking the 3rd off and calling it a four day weekend. The odds of anyone paying attention right now are, sadly, quite small.
Beyond that, the likelihood of the media launching an investgation that would be characterized as a new attack on the American government over the 4th of July weekend is miniscule. It may come up in a week or so, but I'm not holding my breath.
The study's been done, and the answer is "no": the passenger usually has the sense to shut up in dangerous situations.
Someone in the same car can see oncoming dangers that the driver might not notice, especially if the passenger is looking out one of the side windows while the driver is watching forward. A simple "look out!" could prevent many, many accidents.
I don't know... "[The police and other law enforcement agencies] have fought the War on Drugs with skill, so why not the War on Piracy?" That still makes me chuckle everytime.
Oompa loompa doom-pa-dee-do
I've got a brand new computer for you
Oompa loompa doom-pa-dee-drool
Let's just face it, it looks really cool.
Haven't you seen the ads on TV?
Only old nerdy guys use PCs.
Or else your files will all get hacked
Why don't you all just get a Mac?
Then we'll let you out of there.
Oompa loompa doom-pa-dee-zod
While you are at it, get an iPod
Then you'll live in happiness too
Like the Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-do!
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Power corrupts, while absolute power corrupts absolutely.
But it rocks absolutely, too.
Malware is malicious, badware is just bad.
You might be over-extrapolating. Work items are a set cost, but to each person, the value is variable.
Let's say you give two people $2,000 in equipment (laptop, phone, accessories, whatever). Someone making $20,000 could never afford all that stuff on their own, so they're likely to view it as valuable. Someone making $200,000 could afford it and is probably less likely to consider its intrinsic value. Someone making $2,000,000 probably scoffs at anyone ever being able to use such low-end tools.
Price is fixed; value is not. As such, the appearance of scruples might vary. To account for this, it would be required to compare items of equal relative value to each person. Are the odds of someone making high six-figures not returning a laptop equal to the odds of interns making low-five figures not returning office supplies?
Did you just use your PhD to validate your argument that people who rely on their PhD to validate arguments aren't being truthful?
Because you're blowing my mind right now.
In SciFi headquarters, not too long ago...
Exec 1: "Now that we have Atlantis, we can cancel SG1!"
Exec 2: "Oh, I couldn't bear to do that! I don't want to make Richard Dean Anderson cry again."
Exec 1: "Well, we could wait until he leaves and then cancel SG1."
Exec 2: "No, then he'd get all smug about how SG1 was really 'his' show."
Exec 1: "How about replacing him and then canceling the show after a season or two?"
Exec 2: "Brilliant! But where could we possibly find an actor willing to work on a loved but inevitably and obviously doomed series?"
Exec 1: "That guy from Farscape?"
Exec 2: "Perfect!"
improvised explosives involve pretty nasty stuff that you'd be hard pressed to mix in an airplane lavatory without killing yourself in the process
You say that as if they're aren't already trying to kill themselves.
Does anyone else think that these terrorists' true purpose is not to kill the passengers on a few planes but to inconvenience travellers for years to come?
Next up: exploding pants.
Eat like locusts, breed like rabbits, taste like chicken.
Break into his home and disable the device. Since he can't hear it, he won't know it's broken. Actually, since these are usually installed outside, breaking and entering may not even be required. Just don't damage the outside of the case while cutting the wires and you'll be fine.
How do you meet a quota when you're looking out for suspicious people?
The logic goes thusly:
-We want to keep tabs on the most suspicious 1% of passengers.
-There are 100 people on this plane
-There must be 1 person we want to keep tabs on.
Now, in fact, there is actually a 36.6% (.99^100) chance that none of the 100 people are part of the 1% that need to be monitored. But explaining that is hard. Simply picking 1 person per 100 is easy.
The homepage is up, but login is down (as was mentioned) and I still can't see my public p- I mean, I still can't see my sister's public page. *Ahem* All user pages give a "profile undergoing maintenance error".
could it actualy be the leader of the stunticons? i think his name was motormaster?
That's a really interesting thought. While Motormaster is really a flat-front truck, as seen in this cel found online, changing him slightly would be significantly more palatable than having that be Optimus Prime.
Haven't they already made a CGI trailer, showing a giant robot on Mars? It doesn't show very much (you can't identify which TF it is), but it's still CGI.
Here's the direct link. Basically, it appears to be Independence Day 2: Transformers. They're even releasing it on the 4th of July.
Notice how lame Optimus Prime looks with those flames.
Has Optimus Prime ever had an extended front? Every time I've seen him in vehicle mode, it's always been a flat-front truck...
And this is appropriate material for a /. story... How exactly?
Step 1: Trade up from paperclip to house
Step 2: Move out of parents' basement
You hit the nail on the head.
When I was skipping commercials for something I had on my TiVo the other day, I caught the end of the new Mountain Dew commercial. I stopped and went back just to see the whole thing. The ending was great, though it loses something with YouTube's slightly-too-long extended version (only one I could find).
Of course, the commercial doesn't influence my decision to buy Mountain Dew, but that's a different argument altogether.
Coming Soon: Google Auctions.
Don't you mean Google Auctions beta?
The news isn't that sex sells, it's that sex sells at a rate 280 times higher than that of its closest competitor.
The closest competitor is pharmaceuticals (e.g., ads for Viagra/Cialis/Levitra).
So it's not just that sex sells at a rate 280 times higher than that of its closest competitor, it's that sex sells at a rate 280 times higher than that of its closest competitor, which is also sex.
I'm also curious if the mainstream news media will pick this article and run with it.
Let's be honest...
The story came out on Friday, June 30th, and a Google News search doesn't yield any results beyond this Slashdot article. Furthermore, it came out on the Friday before the 4th of July. Since the 4th is a Tuesday, many people are taking the 3rd off and calling it a four day weekend. The odds of anyone paying attention right now are, sadly, quite small.
Beyond that, the likelihood of the media launching an investgation that would be characterized as a new attack on the American government over the 4th of July weekend is miniscule. It may come up in a week or so, but I'm not holding my breath.
The study's been done, and the answer is "no": the passenger usually has the sense to shut up in dangerous situations.
Someone in the same car can see oncoming dangers that the driver might not notice, especially if the passenger is looking out one of the side windows while the driver is watching forward. A simple "look out!" could prevent many, many accidents.
Hasn't this been on Slashdot before, a few months ago?
You are correct, sir.
Yeah, but how many Libraries of Congress is that?
Well, Hiroshima was 15 kilotons or 6.3x10^13 J and one burning Library of Congress is 7.3×10^14 J, so ~8.5% of one LoC per meteor strike.
Yeah, I'm going to go pretend I didn't just spend part of my Friday night researching that calculation now...
Dude, that joke hasn't been funny for years.
I don't know... "[The police and other law enforcement agencies] have fought the War on Drugs with skill, so why not the War on Piracy?" That still makes me chuckle everytime.
Oompa loompa doom-pa-dee-do
I've got a brand new computer for you
Oompa loompa doom-pa-dee-drool
Let's just face it, it looks really cool.
Haven't you seen the ads on TV?
Only old nerdy guys use PCs.
Or else your files will all get hacked
Why don't you all just get a Mac?
Then we'll let you out of there.
Oompa loompa doom-pa-dee-zod
While you are at it, get an iPod
Then you'll live in happiness too
Like the Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-do!
Oompa loompa doom-pa-dee-do I've got a brand new computer for you Oompa loompa doom-pa-dee-drool Let's just face it, it looks really cool. Haven't you seen the ads on TV? Only old nerdy guys use PCs. Or else your files will all get hacked Why don't you all just get a Mac? Then we'll let you out of there. Oompa loompa doom-pa-dee-zod While you are at it, get an iPod Then you'll live in happiness too Like the Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-do!