> explores the use of open source methods to improve academic peer review, drafting of legislation and even media regulation."
Because we all know that professors, lawyers, and, um, more lawyers, are all interested in getting ideas from outside sources.
With the exception of math/science/engineering academicians, none of the above have any real interest in improving the peer review process.
Delenn: "John Sheridan was a good and kind and decent man."
Academician: "You came all this way just to say that?"
Delenn: "You came just as far to say less."
Academician: "But this is extraordinary. There's so much more we'd like to ask you. So much more we'd like to know."
Delenn: "You do not wish to know anything. You wish only to speak. That which you know, you ignore because it is inconvenient. That which you do not know, you invent."
> Better yet just start putting in things like Pizza Tokens that drop. Imagine seeing this in chat..."I'm broke and hungry, gonna go farm for a pizza." > >We joke, but there are some interesting that could come out of this.
/tell EastCoastSurfer 31 minutes and still no knock at my door. The fucking delivery guy would have spawned by now if you hadn't been fucking camping it all morning!
> not gonna say it... too easy.... not gonna say it
Ugly bag of gassified clathrates!
Re:So, what does Penguin taste like?
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Linux Cookbook
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> I have to ask. I'm not brave enough to by the book and try it myself.
From the article: "some familiarity with a Linux system, the inherent power of using the command-line and the dangers of using root are necessary."
In otherwords, you can go to cookingforengineers.com, but you have to use Lynx to find out that although it sounds tasty, using ginseng in your stir-fry will completely overpower the delicate flavor of penguin.
> one collective is demanding an incredible 25% of the gross revenue of music download services as well as 15% of webcasters' gross revenue and 10% of gamers gross revenue
"Copyright infringement results in no revenue, so enjoy your 25% of nothing, you insensitive clods!"
"It's been a Long Road, get*BLAM BLAM BLAM*"
- Anonymous singer, Vedran Archives, CY 2005
"The boardrooms of UPN are a dangerous place!
But in our future, my crew and I fight to make it safe! I am Dylan Hunt, captain of the Enterprise Ascendant, and these are our adventures!"
(What, it's not like there isn't precedent for a hot shipboard computer. Back in TOS, I wouldn't have kicked Majel Barrett outa bed either. Rommie's just an upgraded version, isn't she?)
> there are those who would assert you are not holding up your end of a "social contract" between yourself and the Web site that you are browsing
That is, there are some who would assert that a contract is defined by an offer, acceptance, and consideration - and that putting the word "social" in front of something that is not a contract, doesn't make it a contract. Period.
Unless I agree to terms that indicate that my screen being used to display advertisements is required as consideration in exchange for your delivery of content to me, there is no acceptance, and there is contract. Period.
I offer my left buttcheek to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and I assert that he's obliged to kiss it.
> The device uses a microprocessor within a headband that wirelessly transmits brainwaves to the clock.
If you want to make it to work in the morning, you've gotta take the tinfoil hat off before you go to bed. And pay no attention to the black van with the three dozen Pringles cans mounted on the roof. We^H^HThey are not monitoring your dreams. Honest.
"What do you get if you multiply six by eight, for values of eight moderated up or down by +/-1?"
(I always thought there was something fundamentally wrong with Slashdot moderation anyways.)
The only question that really matters: Whether he'd have approved or not, would DNA have laughed while watching your "re-imagination" of his work?
Symbolism or hedging your bets?
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Hope for Hubble
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> do we really want to save Hubble for the right reasons or is it more of a symbolic thing?
If you don't have $400M to fix a space telescope, you're not going to get $4B+ to build a new one.
Consider, further, that if a hypothetical new telescope has a $400M sticker on it today, it'll cost at least $4B by the time Congress is done splitting up the contracts so as to maximize the amount of pork (and therefore votes) allocated.
Consider, still further, the probability that this (or any other) administration is ever going to agree to spending one thin time on science. People into science tend to think. People who think tend not to vote as predictably. It's therefore in every Congressman's long-term interest to reduce the proportion of such people among the population.
This isn't an R-vs-D flame. Space telescopes harm Republican politicians by draining money away from faith-based initiatives that would otherwise be used to indoctrinate the next generation of Republican voters, but they also harm Democrat politicians by draining money away from social programmes that foster the kind of nanny-state dependency that produces the next generation of Democrat voters.
I support keeping the Hubble - even if obsolescent, it's better than nothing. And "nothing" is what we'll end up with if we let it crash and burn.
As prior art, I cite the X-33 and other Shuttle replacements, all of which were canned years ago.
> Whats the equivalent monkeys per typewriter power of this software?
Don't know much 'bout monkeys and typewriter, but I reckon at least 1,000,000 pickup trucks, shotguns, and miles of highway signage, at least if it's written in Braille.
> Yay, Microsoft Windows XP is now completely invulnerable >
Thanks, Bill.
So? 98 and 98 SE haven't had a "critical" vulnerability in years!
On a more serious note -- I'd love to see a better explanation of why 98 and 98SE are never critically affected by some of these holes.
Sometimes (most of the time, these days), a Win98 box really isn't vulnerable. If it's a hole in some stupid SYSTEM-level background process that listens to port XYZ on XP, and the process doesn't exist on 9x, then the 9x box simply. isn't. vulnerable.
Other times, you really have to wonder if "contains the affected component but is not critically affected" simply means "we never bothered to check".
Sure, 9x doesn't have any security model to speak of, but when was the last time a 9x box got owned by simply installing it out of the box and plugging it into a network? (All the holes that rely on 9x's lack of a security model require some form of user intervention, even if that intervention is as innocent as "using IE", "running Outlook", and anything to do with filesharing over NetBIOS or running IIS as "user intervention". But I don't think IIS was turned on by default on 9x, nor was filesharing over NetBIOS. I could be wrong; it's been a long time. What'd I forget? There's still a part of me that would bet on an unpatched 9x box and an enclued user to outlive an XP box, even with autoupdate turned on.)
All of 'em. Dean, Kerry, Bush, Peroutka, hell, fucking Robert Anton Wilson from the Guns and Dope Party.
Folks, the election's over. We all knew meetups were just excuses for horny overstressed campaign workers to explain why they woke up with who the fuck is that and what's she doing in my bed? (She's asking herself the very same thing, that's what.)
American Hemispheres: Left vs. Right
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> . Among other things Carter explains the alien hand phenomena, describes experiments that demonstrate that people whose corpus calossum have been severed exhibit two separate personalities, and touches the puzzle of left-handedness.
Ceasar was a great dead badass! Join my hippy opinion pollin' union? Eat sewage rats, you bastard! Taxes are free! Savage war aftereffects reverberate, killin' my puppy. I jump on only plump greased stewardesses!
American politics in a nutshell: We've all lost our minds.
> Round Two planned a corporate launch Monday night with the promise of bringing 'a new crop of products and services that will enhance your Firefox experience. '"
> Dying of radiation poisoning whilst watching everyone around you do the same thing will be a pretty nasty event.
On the bright side, if Earth is far enough away from the GRB that you live long enough to "watch everyone around you die", odds are that the human race will have survived.
Either that, or you just nailed the 1:6,000,000,000 odds of getting the lowest dose on the planet by at least one (and probably two) orders of magnitude. You're quite literally the luckiest human alive.
If I were that lucky, I'd go buy a lotte... well, I'd leave a buck on the table after grabbing a lottery ticket from an abandoned 7-11, rip out some car batteries from the parking lot, and break into the place where they keep the snazzy drawing machines with the balls, where I'd hook up the batteries, win the lottery, write myself a check for a few million bucks, and spend my remaining hours weaving tufts of my hair into a necklace for my teeth while waiting for the bank to open:)
But seriously - if a GRB dumps enough radiation through Earth to kill all 6,000,000,000 of us, you'll only have enough time to say "Whoa, what's that bright ligh"*fwoosh* on the day side, and "WTF, why's everything glowing blue? Looks almost like Cerenkov radiation coming from my kitchen sink and Fred's eyeballs. Aaw, crap." on the night side.
> I'm not talking "Hot Grits on Natalie Portman" kinda "R", but something with a bit more of an edge too it will definately be welcome. > >Mmmmmm Hot Griiiitssss.
Well, there is that Water Spectacular on Mon Calmar.
You humans are hoping for the Natalie Portman Tentacle Rape scene, but most of our world is going for hot grits on a squid.
(We went through this a couple of days ago. Or are you suggesTing it's some sort of implement designed to captuRe, injure, or kill by meAns of decePtion, camouflage, or some other ruse?)
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Because we all know that professors, lawyers, and, um, more lawyers, are all interested in getting ideas from outside sources.
With the exception of math/science/engineering academicians, none of the above have any real interest in improving the peer review process.
"Bring out the GIMP."
"The GIMP's not installed."
"Well, I guess you'll have to compile it, won't you?"
>
>We joke, but there are some interesting that could come out of this.
Ugly bag of gassified clathrates!
From the article: "some familiarity with a Linux system, the inherent power of using the command-line and the dangers of using root are necessary."
In otherwords, you can go to cookingforengineers.com, but you have to use Lynx to find out that although it sounds tasty, using ginseng in your stir-fry will completely overpower the delicate flavor of penguin.
For values of "fun" approaching "suck"...
Doubleclick is probably the only site on the 'net immunte to the Slashdot Effect.
Your dog will want 1 of 1,390,000 steaks?
"Copyright infringement results in no revenue, so enjoy your 25% of nothing, you insensitive clods!"
- Anonymous singer, Vedran Archives, CY 2005
"The boardrooms of UPN are a dangerous place! But in our future, my crew and I fight to make it safe! I am Dylan Hunt, captain of the Enterprise Ascendant, and these are our adventures!"
(What, it's not like there isn't precedent for a hot shipboard computer. Back in TOS, I wouldn't have kicked Majel Barrett outa bed either. Rommie's just an upgraded version, isn't she?)
Somebody had to say it.
That is, there are some who would assert that a contract is defined by an offer, acceptance, and consideration - and that putting the word "social" in front of something that is not a contract, doesn't make it a contract. Period.
Unless I agree to terms that indicate that my screen being used to display advertisements is required as consideration in exchange for your delivery of content to me, there is no acceptance, and there is contract. Period.
I offer my left buttcheek to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and I assert that he's obliged to kiss it.
Do no evil.
Let the evil be done by whomever's archiving every bit of data at each of our bandwidth providers' connections!
If you want to make it to work in the morning, you've gotta take the tinfoil hat off before you go to bed. And pay no attention to the black van with the three dozen Pringles cans mounted on the roof. We^H^HThey are not monitoring your dreams. Honest.
"W-H-A...T" What!
"D-O-Y-O"? Doy-oh, "u-G", Do you Get!
*snip*
"...n,u,s-O-n-E!" Plus or minus one!
"What do you get if you multiply six by eight, for values of eight moderated up or down by +/-1?"
(I always thought there was something fundamentally wrong with Slashdot moderation anyways.)
The only question that really matters: Whether he'd have approved or not, would DNA have laughed while watching your "re-imagination" of his work?
If you don't have $400M to fix a space telescope, you're not going to get $4B+ to build a new one.
Consider, further, that if a hypothetical new telescope has a $400M sticker on it today, it'll cost at least $4B by the time Congress is done splitting up the contracts so as to maximize the amount of pork (and therefore votes) allocated.
Consider, still further, the probability that this (or any other) administration is ever going to agree to spending one thin time on science. People into science tend to think. People who think tend not to vote as predictably. It's therefore in every Congressman's long-term interest to reduce the proportion of such people among the population.
This isn't an R-vs-D flame. Space telescopes harm Republican politicians by draining money away from faith-based initiatives that would otherwise be used to indoctrinate the next generation of Republican voters, but they also harm Democrat politicians by draining money away from social programmes that foster the kind of nanny-state dependency that produces the next generation of Democrat voters.
I support keeping the Hubble - even if obsolescent, it's better than nothing. And "nothing" is what we'll end up with if we let it crash and burn.
As prior art, I cite the X-33 and other Shuttle replacements, all of which were canned years ago.
Don't know much 'bout monkeys and typewriter, but I reckon at least 1,000,000 pickup trucks, shotguns, and miles of highway signage, at least if it's written in Braille.
> Thanks, Bill.
So? 98 and 98 SE haven't had a "critical" vulnerability in years!
On a more serious note -- I'd love to see a better explanation of why 98 and 98SE are never critically affected by some of these holes.
Sometimes (most of the time, these days), a Win98 box really isn't vulnerable. If it's a hole in some stupid SYSTEM-level background process that listens to port XYZ on XP, and the process doesn't exist on 9x, then the 9x box simply. isn't. vulnerable.
Other times, you really have to wonder if "contains the affected component but is not critically affected" simply means "we never bothered to check".
Sure, 9x doesn't have any security model to speak of, but when was the last time a 9x box got owned by simply installing it out of the box and plugging it into a network? (All the holes that rely on 9x's lack of a security model require some form of user intervention, even if that intervention is as innocent as "using IE", "running Outlook", and anything to do with filesharing over NetBIOS or running IIS as "user intervention". But I don't think IIS was turned on by default on 9x, nor was filesharing over NetBIOS. I could be wrong; it's been a long time. What'd I forget? There's still a part of me that would bet on an unpatched 9x box and an enclued user to outlive an XP box, even with autoupdate turned on.)
All of 'em. Dean, Kerry, Bush, Peroutka, hell, fucking Robert Anton Wilson from the Guns and Dope Party.
Folks, the election's over. We all knew meetups were just excuses for horny overstressed campaign workers to explain why they woke up with who the fuck is that and what's she doing in my bed? (She's asking herself the very same thing, that's what.)
Ceasar was a great dead badass! Join my hippy opinion pollin' union? Eat sewage rats, you bastard! Taxes are free! Savage war aftereffects reverberate, killin' my puppy. I jump on only plump greased stewardesses!
American politics in a nutshell: We've all lost our minds.
Oh, I get it. It's spyware! No thanks.
On the bright side, if Earth is far enough away from the GRB that you live long enough to "watch everyone around you die", odds are that the human race will have survived.
Either that, or you just nailed the 1:6,000,000,000 odds of getting the lowest dose on the planet by at least one (and probably two) orders of magnitude. You're quite literally the luckiest human alive.
If I were that lucky, I'd go buy a lotte... well, I'd leave a buck on the table after grabbing a lottery ticket from an abandoned 7-11, rip out some car batteries from the parking lot, and break into the place where they keep the snazzy drawing machines with the balls, where I'd hook up the batteries, win the lottery, write myself a check for a few million bucks, and spend my remaining hours weaving tufts of my hair into a necklace for my teeth while waiting for the bank to open :)
But seriously - if a GRB dumps enough radiation through Earth to kill all 6,000,000,000 of us, you'll only have enough time to say "Whoa, what's that bright ligh"*fwoosh* on the day side, and "WTF, why's everything glowing blue? Looks almost like Cerenkov radiation coming from my kitchen sink and Fred's eyeballs. Aaw, crap." on the night side.
>
>The best we're gonna get is lobsters with frickin' lasers on their heads.
More like squid than lobsters. Oh, wait, this isn't the Star Wars Water Spectacular thread. It's a TRA*WHAM WHAM WHAM*, thanks, I needed that.
>
>Mmmmmm Hot Griiiitssss.
Well, there is that Water Spectacular on Mon Calmar.
You humans are hoping for the Natalie Portman Tentacle Rape scene, but most of our world is going for hot grits on a squid.
(We went through this a couple of days ago. Or are you suggesTing it's some sort of implement designed to captuRe, injure, or kill by meAns of decePtion, camouflage, or some other ruse?)
Spoken like someone who never played Star Wars Galaxies.
Now that was a TRAP.