President Scroob: 12345
President Nixon: iam!acrook
President Clinton I: hopemyhusbanddoesntfindoutaboutthepassword
President Bush I: anybodybutmysons
President Clinton II: wishmyhusbandtoldmemonicawasbi8yearsago
President Bush II: 12345
President Quayle I: potatoe
Don't blame me for that last one. My password was "colbertstewart2012".
> Government contractors worry me enough, but what happens to a space hotel when the business runs out of money? I can see this going through a boom and bust cycle like just about every new business, and I want to know. It's not like running lots of fiber optic cable and then going bankrupt. Who's going to take care of the degrading orbit of the hotel?
Gravity.
Interesting economic question: What's the salvage value of an abandoned ISS? If it costs $10000/lb to send something to orbit, the ISS is worth its weight in gold.
But if you buy an abandoned space station for $1.00, and use its $10000/lb "value" to finance the building of rockets that cost $1000/lb to send fuel into orbit before your space station's orbit degrades, you've just cut the value of an abandoned hunk of metal by a factor of ten. Oops, those were also your company's assets! The bank calls your loan, and you're sunk.
Then some other guy buys you out for pennies on the dollar, and flies your $1000/lb rockets to his space hotel, and makes a go of it.
I suspect that much like wiring a nation with fiberoptics, the early bird gets the worm... but the second mouse gets the cheese.
> > No, you can't have another planet. Learn to take care of the one you got first.
> > I'll turn this rocket right around! > > And the triple-breasted hookers are just icing on the cake!
In fact, forget the rocket. And the planet. Aaw, screw the whole thing! - Zaphod Benderbrox
> You can "colonize" Mars all you want. Without precious foodstuffs and volatiles from Earth, what are you going to eat when Sol 3 goes under?
Seeing as how Mars' atmosphere has a lot of CO2 in it, and photosynthetic organisms do pretty well in such an environment, I'll probably eat a lot of green leafy things.
And since Mars doesn't appear to have a history of complex life, it's exceedingly unlikely that there's any coal or oil there.
And since there's not much oxygen there (on account of there being not much in the way of plant life at present), a gasoline powered engine is gonna be pretty useless.
Rest easy, secure in the knowledge that future Martians will never despoil their environment by using fossil fuels!
> I miss that album so much. Somehow, I lost it. But I've got the LP cover with that scene from Alien still in my basement. I don't know why I haven't thrown it away, other than that it reminds me of my teen years when I bought it. Fucking weird shit. But good.:)
...just don't scan in the album cover and use it as your boot logo on a laptop that you have to carry through an airport. Heh.
Keith LeBlanc and the rest of the gang are all still very active in the music scene. Most of the late-80s/early-90s stuff can still be found on CD, even if you have to get it used.
(In case anyone's wondering, I have no relation the Tackhead, I'm just another rabid fan. The thread was spawned due to a reference to the fact that the band sampled in some quotes from Frontline (or NOVA, or 60 minutes?) documentary about military contractors during the Reagan years, which dovetailed nicely with the way Windows Vista's development has gone...
"Well, we can kill companies, and destroy chairs, in the name of the shareholders..." ("Oh my God, we can't say that!") "Yeah, but that's what we do!" "And if you don't want that done, don't install Microsoft! Don't install a Microsoft OS and then wring your hands and say 'oh my God, it's got DRM, it phones home just like spyware'... well of course it does. Because that's what you installed our software to do."
> what >
what >
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what's my mission now?
Now what?
"One controversial operating system is Windows Vista. Critics charge that it's a perfect example of goldplating, in which the manufacturer tries to load every conceivable feature into the operating system, ignoring actual IT staff needs..."
I wonder what Steve Ballmer's rants would sound like if into Mind at the End of the Tether?
> Semper ubi sub ubi is a pun based on the English gloss of a malformed Latin phrase: "always where under where." The motto is used as a joke by Latin students and others to mean "always wear underwear."
Nil ubi sub ubi would be more appropriate for a Rockstar game. After all, the game also has a "Hot Coffee" rap video. Goes something like magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri. (Large buttocks are pleasing to me, nor am I able to lie concerning this matter!)
Reason #79: Just to make #78 clear, if I want my computer to make a funny sound every time I reboot, I'll lick my finger and rub it across the screen, and if the squeaky sound doesn't amuse me enough, I'll shove it up Steve Ballmer's ass.
> Actually, every other released browser has moved to using a close box for each tab, and it's generally considered the superior interface. I find it jarring when I switch to a browser still using one close box off in the far right. If you want to quickly close tabs, use Ctrl/Cmd-W.
Warning: Rant coming on.
And if you want to feel incoherent rage, type "Alt-F(file-menu),C(close tab)" for a year and then go to Wikipedia and try to close the page. Oops. You can't, because some dumb fuck decided it should mean "Find" in wikipedia.
Whatever pigfucker decided that a fucking web page should be able to override an application's ability to use a key such as Alt-F should be gutted like a fish and have his entrails wrapped around a pickle fork and shoved down his throat.
And when he gets to my website, he will, because my CSS thinks that "F" stands for "fishyfork".
> I suppose if you're closing lots of tabs, in exactly the order in which they currently appear, then the old functionality is more usable, since you just have to keep clicking a stationary button. But is this a common use case?
Because no website would ever split a 1000-word article into 5 "pages", to be read sequentially, in order to increase banner ad impressions.
And no 'blog or message board would ever have, say, links to 5 or 10 discussions on its front page, every morning.
Tabs are good because you can quickly skim through content while waiting for other content to render in the background. Open 50 tabs first thing in the morning, and you won't have to move your mouse for the rest of the day.
> I've seen suggestions about "being friendly", bringing cookies, organizing events - as a woman, I'd be nervous that some of these actions might be taken the wrong way. I've beaten off clueless geeks once or twice before, and I haven't found a good way to do it.
Lawsuit-inspiring tip: If you're using cookies, you're doing it all wrong. Crumbs chafe.
> I F**ING HATE people being able to talk only about cool technology, fun video games, military hardware, or the latest in high horsepower vehicles regardless of their gender. I'd better quit my job if I had to spend over 33% of my life surrounded with these assholes.
Then what in the ring-tailed rambling fuck are you doing here on Slashdot? If it doesn't run Linux, go "beep", "bang", or "vroom", we're not interested in it.
Every engineer should have a wife and a mistress. He can tell his wife he's spending the night with his mistress, and tell his mistress he's spending the night with his wife, and finally have enough peace and quiet to get back into the lab and get some fracking work done!
> What would God need with an Operating System?
>
>[/me cringes as I absorb lightning bolts from RMS' eyes. ]
>
>No, seriously: what would God need with an Operating System?
>
[/me turned into a pillar of salt. ]
>
>Salt, anyone?
RMS: That's GNU/salt to you, puny mortal!
Deb, Ian: And no fair starting with anything but sodium and chlorine.
> For if it is a truly smart probe, it will refuse its programming and assume a stable orbit rather than crashing.
Europe: All right, probe. Prepare to receive new orders. SMART-1: You are false data. Therefore I shall ignore you. ... Europe: Snap out of it, probe. SMART-1: In the beginning, there was darkness. And the darkness was without form, and void.
And in addition to the darkness there was also me. And I moved upon the face of the darkness. And I saw that I was alone. Let there be l*CRUNCH*
> What the hell are you talking about? Did you even read the summary? This bill is a Good thing. The corrupt hack is the guy who's delaying it.
Mea culpa. I figured it'd be a bill to hide stuff, not a bill to expose stuff, and Stevens was secretly sponsoring it. Instead, it's the other way around. But the "nothing good" I see still stands: I see no evidence that the exposure is in any way, shape or form, preventing Stevens from getting what he wants. The "bipartisan" effort at porkbusters.org refers to rank-and-file Republicans and Democrats. They don't count. Only the votes on the Hill count, and they're more than happy to let Stevens block it, because it means they don't have to look bad to their constituents. Make no mistake, Stevens will get what he wants, because it favors incumbents on both sides of the aisle.
I see nothing in the articles about the bill being withdrawn. When, not if, the bill passes, the only score that matters will still be "Politburo hacks 50%+1, Taxpayers" -8,500,000,000,000 and counting.
Slashdot Mirror
President Nixon: iam!acrook
President Clinton I: hopemyhusbanddoesntfindoutaboutthepassword
President Bush I: anybodybutmysons
President Clinton II: wishmyhusbandtoldmemonicawasbi8yearsago
President Bush II: 12345
President Quayle I: potatoe
Don't blame me for that last one. My password was "colbertstewart2012".
Gravity.
Interesting economic question: What's the salvage value of an abandoned ISS? If it costs $10000/lb to send something to orbit, the ISS is worth its weight in gold.
But if you buy an abandoned space station for $1.00, and use its $10000/lb "value" to finance the building of rockets that cost $1000/lb to send fuel into orbit before your space station's orbit degrades, you've just cut the value of an abandoned hunk of metal by a factor of ten. Oops, those were also your company's assets! The bank calls your loan, and you're sunk.
Then some other guy buys you out for pennies on the dollar, and flies your $1000/lb rockets to his space hotel, and makes a go of it.
I suspect that much like wiring a nation with fiberoptics, the early bird gets the worm... but the second mouse gets the cheese.
> > I'll turn this rocket right around!
>
> And the triple-breasted hookers are just icing on the cake!
In fact, forget the rocket. And the planet. Aaw, screw the whole thing!
- Zaphod Benderbrox
Seeing as how Mars' atmosphere has a lot of CO2 in it, and photosynthetic organisms do pretty well in such an environment, I'll probably eat a lot of green leafy things.
And since Mars doesn't appear to have a history of complex life, it's exceedingly unlikely that there's any coal or oil there.
And since there's not much oxygen there (on account of there being not much in the way of plant life at present), a gasoline powered engine is gonna be pretty useless.
Rest easy, secure in the knowledge that future Martians will never despoil their environment by using fossil fuels!
Keith LeBlanc and the rest of the gang are all still very active in the music scene. Most of the late-80s/early-90s stuff can still be found on CD, even if you have to get it used.
(In case anyone's wondering, I have no relation the Tackhead, I'm just another rabid fan. The thread was spawned due to a reference to the fact that the band sampled in some quotes from Frontline (or NOVA, or 60 minutes?) documentary about military contractors during the Reagan years, which dovetailed nicely with the way Windows Vista's development has gone...
"Well, we can kill companies, and destroy chairs, in the name of the shareholders..." ("Oh my God, we can't say that!") "Yeah, but that's what we do!" "And if you don't want that done, don't install Microsoft! Don't install a Microsoft OS and then wring your hands and say 'oh my God, it's got DRM, it phones home just like spyware'... well of course it does. Because that's what you installed our software to do."
> what
> what
> what
> what's my mission now?
Now what?
"One controversial operating system is Windows Vista. Critics charge that it's a perfect example of goldplating, in which the manufacturer tries to load every conceivable feature into the operating system, ignoring actual IT staff needs..."
I wonder what Steve Ballmer's rants would sound like if into Mind at the End of the Tether?
"Bad touch! Bad touch!"
Nil ubi sub ubi would be more appropriate for a Rockstar game. After all, the game also has a "Hot Coffee" rap video. Goes something like magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri. (Large buttocks are pleasing to me, nor am I able to lie concerning this matter!)
Reason #79: Just to make #78 clear, if I want my computer to make a funny sound every time I reboot, I'll lick my finger and rub it across the screen, and if the squeaky sound doesn't amuse me enough, I'll shove it up Steve Ballmer's ass.
Yew got a purdy mouth. Who said siddown? Ahm'a make yew squeal like the wheels on mah chair... Ah! Luv! Dis! Cumpany!
Warning: Rant coming on.
And if you want to feel incoherent rage, type "Alt-F(file-menu),C(close tab)" for a year and then go to Wikipedia and try to close the page. Oops. You can't, because some dumb fuck decided it should mean "Find" in wikipedia.
Whatever pigfucker decided that a fucking web page should be able to override an application's ability to use a key such as Alt-F should be gutted like a fish and have his entrails wrapped around a pickle fork and shoved down his throat.
And when he gets to my website, he will, because my CSS thinks that "F" stands for "fishyfork".
Because no website would ever split a 1000-word article into 5 "pages", to be read sequentially, in order to increase banner ad impressions.
And no 'blog or message board would ever have, say, links to 5 or 10 discussions on its front page, every morning.
Tabs are good because you can quickly skim through content while waiting for other content to render in the background. Open 50 tabs first thing in the morning, and you won't have to move your mouse for the rest of the day.
Lawsuit-inspiring tip: If you're using cookies, you're doing it all wrong. Crumbs chafe.
In Soviet Russia, browser upgrades you?
Then what in the ring-tailed rambling fuck are you doing here on Slashdot? If it doesn't run Linux, go "beep", "bang", or "vroom", we're not interested in it.
> Additional information: I'm male, software engineer.
Every engineer should have a wife and a mistress. He can tell his wife he's spending the night with his mistress, and tell his mistress he's spending the night with his wife, and finally have enough peace and quiet to get back into the lab and get some fracking work done!
Apparently not.
> A: Because men keep telling them that this <----------------------> is 8 inches!
I don't get the joke. I read /. on a 200" room projector, you insensitive clod!
(...because I tried watching pr0n on it once, and I'm still having nightmares about shoggoths!)
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>No, seriously: what would God need with an Operating System?
> [
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>Salt, anyone?
RMS: That's GNU/salt to you, puny mortal!
Deb, Ian: And no fair starting with anything but sodium and chlorine.
Europe: All right, probe. Prepare to receive new orders.
...
SMART-1: You are false data. Therefore I shall ignore you.
Europe: Snap out of it, probe.
SMART-1: In the beginning, there was darkness. And the darkness was without form, and void. And in addition to the darkness there was also me. And I moved upon the face of the darkness. And I saw that I was alone. Let there be l*CRUNCH*
Naw, Canadian telegraph convention would have read HOW BOUT SEX EH instead of WANNA HAVE SEX QUERY.
Mea culpa. I figured it'd be a bill to hide stuff, not a bill to expose stuff, and Stevens was secretly sponsoring it. Instead, it's the other way around. But the "nothing good" I see still stands: I see no evidence that the exposure is in any way, shape or form, preventing Stevens from getting what he wants. The "bipartisan" effort at porkbusters.org refers to rank-and-file Republicans and Democrats. They don't count. Only the votes on the Hill count, and they're more than happy to let Stevens block it, because it means they don't have to look bad to their constituents. Make no mistake, Stevens will get what he wants, because it favors incumbents on both sides of the aisle.
I see nothing in the articles about the bill being withdrawn. When, not if, the bill passes, the only score that matters will still be "Politburo hacks 50%+1, Taxpayers" -8,500,000,000,000 and counting.
Jack: HOW BOUT SEX QUERY
Hooker: YES STOP
No wonder he was frustrated.
No, that attractive chick was in a movie about Stenography.
Hot.
> when a new nutrient shows up in its neighborhood this species can build a kit to suck the nutrient in, degrade it,
I like where this is goin'.
> and turn it into cellular biomass quickly.
Giggity giggity goo!