> > if google were to go into the telecommunications business they could make a killing if they did it properly.
> >
So though Global Crossing, MediaOne, RSN blah blah blah. I highly doubt Google has the hubris to think it can succeed where so many before (with access to so much venture/stock cash) have failed.
An proverb about being first-to-market:
The early bird gets the worm.
The second mouse gets the cheese.
> i hear the goverment over there have lots of experience in "monitoring" its "public" networks
> > perhaps they may have some ideas for your FBI
Where the fuck do you think we're running the live beta and the scalability tests? Soviet Russia?:)
I'm only half in jest. Soviet Russia was the alpha test for both the surveillance system and the sociopolitical system. It failed - two coups, and economic collapse.
China was the beta. It succeeded. One attempted coup - crushed instantly, because the Chinese learned how to deal with dissidents. Political stability is rock-solid, and economic growth is stellar.
The full system goes live, planet-wide, within 10 years. You're free to choose whether or not to buy in now, but it's a limited time offer.
I bought in because steak tastes better than dog food, a plasma-screen TV made by slave labor beats making plasma-screen TVs for $0.01/h, and because winning is just plain more fun than losing.
I kinda like your slogan. "Try China". I did. And I liked it.
> Anywhere from 26% to 40% of U.S. employees refer to their work as stressful or very stressful. So it's not too surprising that the business motivation and self-improvement market, which includes books, courses, training seminars, etc. generates $5.7 billion a year.
I'd be stressed out too, if I were spending $5.7B a year trying to do more or better work.
Thank God there's Slashdot.
(I only cut the cheese. Don't ask me why CmdrTaco wanted to move it.)
Re:Most surprising prediction...
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In the Year 2020
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· Score: 2, Funny
> President Jenna Bush?!? WTF!!!
You were expecting President Schwarzenegger? (Support the 61st Amendment!)
> Having run to rave reviews in the UK, the new series is darker and grittier than the original, and showrunner Ron Moore aims for a more adult narrative with comments on issues such as terrorism, security, freedom, religion and what it means to be human in a series which is essentially one long story arc.
...puncutated every five minutes by (whups, gotta make out with my imaginary Cylon chick) segments showing Baltar's imaginary Cylon chick (ahem, fap fap fap) screwing around with his mind (oooh, she said "screw") by intruding into the plot line at least once per segment (and her spine glows, which is why we need to interrupt the plot for another gratuitous shot of this half-naked Cylon chick) with a simulated sex scene.
Hey, Baltar, I've got your Cylon detector right here. (pause to make out with Cylon chick) It's called a blacklight. (hang on, gotta fap again) If your pants are glowing with stains from busting one out every five minutes (damn, that feels great!) and everyone else on the ship is grossed out by it, odds are you're under Cylon influence.
Now if you'll pardon me, I've gotta go boink this hot imaginary chick in the red dress again. See you after the commercial.
> Yeah, but today's high end > > will be low-end by the time [Longhorn] actually gets released.
Yeah, but the Open Source and Free Software drivers for video cards will still be stuck at the level of the Radeon 7500 when it comes to 3D acceleration, due to the (unfortunately, for valid competitive-analysis-type business reasons) concerns of video hardware manufacturers (namely ATI vs. nVIDIA) when it comes to disclosing specifications.
And then Gates and Jobs will both be able to point at a Linux box and say "See, its user interface has just barely gotten to the point of XP".
That's fine if you're a server administrator, but if your goal is Linux World [Desktop] Domination, it's gonna hurt.
> What, they want to take the joy out of life? What about all past gloating; surely there is enough of that - enough to more than make up for any future gloating deficit.
Yeah. I mean, if we can't gloat, how are we supposed to talk about Firefox/Thunderbird's UI versus that of Bloatus notes. Unless Mitch Kapor's around.
There's a joke in there somewhere, and if I could only get goddamn window focus back from this rogue application, I'd type it up and send it to someone. And if they were using the same email client as I was, they could see my witty one-liner buried between several dozen kilobytes of "stationery" attachments in.BMP format.
> Won't it make you look like the crazy bum at the park?
Crazy? Don't fuck with the Hawkman. All his shootin's be drive-bys.
Then up ahead cold chilling in the street,
six motherfuckers from MIT.
I flick off the safety, check my grip,
and load a dum-dum clip.
I glance at the Doom to make sure he's packed,
his fingers on the trigger of his baby Mac.
Time to give a Newtonian demonstration,
of a bullet its mass and its acceleration.
MC Hawking, busting more shit than an incontinent man at a chili cook-off.
> Then they get a picture of a big freaking rock with a bunch of wierd holes, sitting there in the middle of a windblown plain. Not covered in dust like everything else... even the wind patterns in the dust around it look new.
Goddamn battlecrabs.
> What do you think the first guy to get that picture said when he looked, and then looked again, and realized that this wasn't going to be just another day on Mars?
Probably something like "Yeah yeah. Thousands of years ago... Look, Delenn, I know you have to say this for the benefit folks just tuning in, but the rest of us know already!"
Only to be smacked down with the fact that only one producer has survived a confrontation with Time-Warner and lived to tell about it.
> a 38-year-old was arrested in Hong Kong for uploading Daredevil, Red Planet and Miss Congeniality via a BitTorrent client. Hong Kong laws provide for a maximum of 4 years in prison and $6,400 fine for every copy distributed without copyright owner's permission.
...lawyers for the suspect have expressed gratitude to the authorities for choosing not to proceed with charges of having egregiously bad taste in cinema.
> Erm, maybe I'm missing your joke. Either way, it only makes sense to talk about % increase in heat with respect to degrees K.
Precisely my point (which, evidently, the other mods also missed). If you're misrepresenting statistics in order to advance your agenda, you use whatever units produce the biggest (or smallest) percentage increase (degC or degF), even though it's mathematically incorrect to do so in either case.
If you're using Kelvins, you're doing so because you're worried about in scientific accuracy, not about generating headlines for either side of the agenda. The irony is that the instant you're allowed to use percentages (because you're measuring heat, not temperature), you become "right" -- and your percentages immediately become so small that you'll never get to use 'em in a headline, regardless of which "side" of the issue your paper comes down on. (Guess the irony was lost on the mods too:)
> > The first installment lets us know that somewhere between 0 and 1 Billion (or more)
> >Excellent, it's nice to know that a negative number of people won't die.
Well, if you'd been paying attention, the Tsunami was caused by global warming.
Since 1900, temperatures have risen by 1 degree.
That means it's either less than 1% hotter, or more than 4% hotter, depending on whether you use Fahrenheit or Celsius. (Those of us who use Kelvins aren't worried.)
And I ain't talking about the EFFing quote from the article in which some EFF dude said: > "We're in a world where more and more of our activities can be viewed in public and...be correlated and linked together."
Well, of course. But if we had 100,000,000 cops on duty, they could follow you and trade notes, and no warrant would be required.
GPS is merely a force multiplier. If the EFF guy has a problem with this, I'd encourage him to Read The Fucking Fourth Amendment, and actually pay attention to what it says about what you can poke at without a warrant:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
"Persons." "Houses." "Papers." "Effects." Whereabouts of vehicles, wherein the vehicles are registered to the government, the privilege of driving said vehicles is granted by government, and in a country in which the vehicles are driven on roads built by the government and maintained by the government.
One of these things is not like the other. One of these things does not belong.
Privacy is dead. Get over it. But if you don't like it, don't look to the constitution for a right to it, because it ain't there.
> Well.. sort of, but that doesn't go well with human motivations and desires, something the robot may not have taken into consideration because it lacks the knowledge of human history that's shaped us to this point and caused us to come to the conclusion that it's best to HELP them, not rid the world of them.
"Best? For whom?" - Your Robot
Ethical questions about what's "best" between two species only get answered by the fitter of the species.
There's increasing evidence that we're the dominant lifeform on this planet because we exterminated the Neanderthals 30,000 years ago. We were smarter than they were, and that enabled us to put the furs of dead animals around our bodies so we could gather resources from areas that were under ice and snow - areas inaccessible to the Neanderthal. If that was indeed the case, then my (and if you're reading this and are a human being, your) ancestors were directly responsible for the extinction of another sentient species. Not merely attempted genocide -- successful genocide: we rendered them extinct. We exterminated them. I'm not losing any sleep over it.
If homo sapiens is replaced by silicon sapiens, is it really such a bad thing? It's merely a better-adapted lifeform taking advantage of a larger ecological niche, and displacing whatever species previously inhabited it.
30,000 years from now, will a dialogue something like this appear in a silipology (or would that be paleoviscerology) textbook?
> his is a good and, I think, fair article on radiation from cell phones:
>You can find this article at:
>http://www.alternativemedicine.com/ and search
for cell phone.
> Why, then, can't we make these technological marvels safe?
"Pseudoscience begins with a hypothesis -- usually one which is appealing emotionally,
and spectacularly implausible -- and then looks only for items which appear to support it."
> Of course, according to the cell phone industry, cell phones are perfectly harmless:
"2. The discoverer says that a powerful establishment is trying to suppress his or her work."
> "I have a list of about 600 research papers from the past ten years alone, 70 percent of which show definite effects from exposure to this kind of radiation," says Lai, "but the industry continues to say that there is nothing to worry about."
"2. The discoverer says that a powerful establishment is trying to suppress his or her work."
> What about cell phones and cancer, the most publicized concern? "Studies have been conducted to determine whether there is an association between cellular telephone use and an increased risk of certain types of cancer," according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI). "Although the majority of these studies have not supported any such association, scientists caution that more research needs to be done before conclusions can be drawn about the risk of cancer from cellular telephones."
OK, the only factual information here is that most studies do not support the alleged link.
> "Already there are at least 15,000 scientific reports on the subject. I am afraid the truth is that we don't want to know."
"2. The discoverer says that a powerful establishment is trying to suppress his or her work."
and a little bit of
"Pseudoscience attempts to persuade with rhetoric, propaganda, and
misrepresentation rather than valid evidence (which presumably does not exist)."
> What has been shown in numerous studies, however, is that the radiation coming from cell phones does have measurable effects on brain cells that can lead to cancer, as well as neurological diseases.
3. The scientific effect involved is always at the very limit of detection.
> Says Lai, "Cumulative damages in DNA may in turn affect cell functions. DNA damage that accumulates in cells over a period of time may be the cause of slow onset diseases, such as cancer."
3. The scientific effect involved is always at the very limit of detection.
> However, the researcher explains, because nerve cells do not divide, they are less likely than other cells to become cancerous, which is typified by uncontrolled replication. Instead, if a brain cell accumulates too much DNA damage, it would more likely die. "Cumulative damage in DNA in cells also has been shown during aging," notes Lai. "Particularly, cumulative DNA damage in nerve cells of the brain has been associated with neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Huntington's, and Parkinson's diseases."
Pseudoscience makes extraordinary claims and advances fantastic theories that contradict what is known about nature.
Pseudoscientific "explanations" tend to be by scenario.
(If he can't prove cancer, he'll make up a scenario and a completely new hypothesis for the causes of these other diseases that existed before cell phones!)
> [... ] This study is especially significant because Hardell is a key witness in an $800 million lawsuit brought by Peter Angelos against the mobile phone industry. (Angelos is the la
> God help me. I recently figured out what was wrong with our DNS server while under the effects of anesthesia for an upper endoscopy. Yikes. > > Now all you have to do is convince your boss that you're just as effective asleep as you are awake. Then you can take those well-deserved naps at work after lunch.
We have reviewed the grandparent poster's performance and concur with your assessment.
Someone once complained that nobody with any guts gets anywhere in this company, and that management was full of shit.
As to the second problem - yes, we're full of shit. And in order to put the first problem to rest, effective immediately, all employees below my level of management shall receive at least one endoscopy per day while being quizzed on the minutae of DNS configuration.
> A new study by the Entertainment Software Association reveals that, amazingly, gamers are regular human beings.
I mean, really.
> The study shows that avid game players are just as religious, artistic, and social as anyone else.
I'm a tolerant dude, and all, but...
> From the article: "Gamers are everywhere and they're everyone. They are your friends, neighbors, co-workers, relatives, and kids, they lead responsible and caring lives, balancing their enjoyment of interactive entertainment with many other activities important to a well-rounded lifestyle...
...but this is pretty much over the line. I mean really...
> Indeed, those who continue to portray the game population as single-minded loafers are living in their own fantasy world."
...I have no reason to stand around here and be insulted like this! ENOUGH!
Where's my crowbar?
Bad policy: Accept all, but let people turn things off.
Worse policy: Accept all, but let people turn fewer things off depending on four arbitrary "zones" something falls into.
Worst policy: Make sure the "zones" in question have nothing to do with TCP/IP, netmasks, DNS, or any other networking concept, but make sure they're supported by a proprietary application you've embedded deeply into the OS to facilitate an embrace/extend/extinguish business model.
Then act all surprised when everyone ends up running at least one of these "zones" (namely the "local" one, which ought to be the most trustworthy) with their proverbial pants down, thereby creating a guaranteed 100% available target for Worm/Spyware/Virus authors.
Can someone please find the creature responsible for "Internet Zones" and beat him to death with a large wooden mallet?
Re:Laura Croft wasn't about gender clash
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Getting the Girl
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· Score: 1
> Lara Croft wasn't about gender clash. Lara Croft was about giving pubescent boys something to fantasize about.
Right.
And now that we've hit puberty, we've outgrown Lara. Alyx is so much more teh hawt.
> Technically it's lost the grilling-functionality, but with a bit of tin foil on top of the heatsink and a fork-bomb, I reckon I could probably still fry an egg with it.
> >
And yes, this webserver is hosted on the grill. > >
January 11th 2005 17:28:29 >
Up 6 day(s), 8 hour(s) 14 min(s)
Two points come to mind:
1: Optimistic, isn't he?
2: At least he'll get his chance to fry that egg.
> From the article:
>> >>
"I've been using the computer for so long, and command-Z works for undo in all the software programs," Hoffman said. "So whenever I find something in my life that I want to undo, I reach for the command-Z keys and I find it weird that it doesn't work."
> >
You need a fucking vacation. NOW.
So you spend three weeks and 50,000 Simoleons setting up a vacation that would end with a menage-a-trois with you, your boss' wife and just one lousy goat.
And then you find that there's no quicksave and that command-Z doesn't work. Man, this new The Sims Offline MMORPG is teh suck.
Slashdot Mirror
You say that like it's a bad thing.
C'mon, fellow geeks. If the goggles, they do nothing, do your part. And bring down those fucking mirrors too, in the name of humanity!
(There's a Lynndie England joke in here somewhere, and I'm going to hell for even thinking it.)
>
> So though Global Crossing, MediaOne, RSN blah blah blah. I highly doubt Google has the hubris to think it can succeed where so many before (with access to so much venture/stock cash) have failed.
An proverb about being first-to-market:
The early bird gets the worm.
The second mouse gets the cheese.
>
> perhaps they may have some ideas for your FBI
Where the fuck do you think we're running the live beta and the scalability tests? Soviet Russia? :)
I'm only half in jest. Soviet Russia was the alpha test for both the surveillance system and the sociopolitical system. It failed - two coups, and economic collapse.
China was the beta. It succeeded. One attempted coup - crushed instantly, because the Chinese learned how to deal with dissidents. Political stability is rock-solid, and economic growth is stellar.
The full system goes live, planet-wide, within 10 years. You're free to choose whether or not to buy in now, but it's a limited time offer.
I bought in because steak tastes better than dog food, a plasma-screen TV made by slave labor beats making plasma-screen TVs for $0.01/h, and because winning is just plain more fun than losing.
I kinda like your slogan. "Try China". I did. And I liked it.
I'd be stressed out too, if I were spending $5.7B a year trying to do more or better work.
Thank God there's Slashdot.
(I only cut the cheese. Don't ask me why CmdrTaco wanted to move it.)
You were expecting President Schwarzenegger? (Support the 61st Amendment!)
Hey, Baltar, I've got your Cylon detector right here. (pause to make out with Cylon chick) It's called a blacklight. (hang on, gotta fap again) If your pants are glowing with stains from busting one out every five minutes (damn, that feels great!) and everyone else on the ship is grossed out by it, odds are you're under Cylon influence.
Now if you'll pardon me, I've gotta go boink this hot imaginary chick in the red dress again. See you after the commercial.
Of course not! That's not XML!
<file=xmlbinary> <baseencoding=64> <byte bits=8> <bit1>0 </bit><bit2>1 </bit><bit3>1 </bit><bit4>0 </bit><bit5>1 </bit><bit6>0 </bit><bit7>0 </bit><bit8>1 </bit> </byte>
<boredcomment>(Umm, I'm gonna skip a bit if y'all don't mind)</boredcomment>
</baseencoding> </file>
Now it's XML!
>
> will be low-end by the time [Longhorn] actually gets released.
Yeah, but the Open Source and Free Software drivers for video cards will still be stuck at the level of the Radeon 7500 when it comes to 3D acceleration, due to the (unfortunately, for valid competitive-analysis-type business reasons) concerns of video hardware manufacturers (namely ATI vs. nVIDIA) when it comes to disclosing specifications.
And then Gates and Jobs will both be able to point at a Linux box and say "See, its user interface has just barely gotten to the point of XP".
That's fine if you're a server administrator, but if your goal is Linux World [Desktop] Domination, it's gonna hurt.
Yeah. I mean, if we can't gloat, how are we supposed to talk about Firefox/Thunderbird's UI versus that of Bloatus notes. Unless Mitch Kapor's around.
There's a joke in there somewhere, and if I could only get goddamn window focus back from this rogue application, I'd type it up and send it to someone. And if they were using the same email client as I was, they could see my witty one-liner buried between several dozen kilobytes of "stationery" attachments in .BMP format.
Not that I'd want to gloat or anything, Mitch.
Crazy? Don't fuck with the Hawkman. All his shootin's be drive-bys.
Then up ahead cold chilling in the street,
six motherfuckers from MIT.
I flick off the safety, check my grip,
and load a dum-dum clip.
I glance at the Doom to make sure he's packed,
his fingers on the trigger of his baby Mac.
Time to give a Newtonian demonstration,
of a bullet its mass and its acceleration.
MC Hawking, busting more shit than an incontinent man at a chili cook-off.
Goddamn battlecrabs.
> What do you think the first guy to get that picture said when he looked, and then looked again, and realized that this wasn't going to be just another day on Mars?
Probably something like "Yeah yeah. Thousands of years ago... Look, Delenn, I know you have to say this for the benefit folks just tuning in, but the rest of us know already!"
Only to be smacked down with the fact that only one producer has survived a confrontation with Time-Warner and lived to tell about it.
Precisely my point (which, evidently, the other mods also missed). If you're misrepresenting statistics in order to advance your agenda, you use whatever units produce the biggest (or smallest) percentage increase (degC or degF), even though it's mathematically incorrect to do so in either case.
If you're using Kelvins, you're doing so because you're worried about in scientific accuracy, not about generating headlines for either side of the agenda. The irony is that the instant you're allowed to use percentages (because you're measuring heat, not temperature), you become "right" -- and your percentages immediately become so small that you'll never get to use 'em in a headline, regardless of which "side" of the issue your paper comes down on. (Guess the irony was lost on the mods too :)
>
>Excellent, it's nice to know that a negative number of people won't die.
Well, if you'd been paying attention, the Tsunami was caused by global warming.
Since 1900, temperatures have risen by 1 degree.
That means it's either less than 1% hotter, or more than 4% hotter, depending on whether you use Fahrenheit or Celsius. (Those of us who use Kelvins aren't worried.)
I, for one, welcome our seBLAM!
> "We're in a world where more and more of our activities can be viewed in public and...be correlated and linked together."
Well, of course. But if we had 100,000,000 cops on duty, they could follow you and trade notes, and no warrant would be required.
GPS is merely a force multiplier. If the EFF guy has a problem with this, I'd encourage him to Read The Fucking Fourth Amendment, and actually pay attention to what it says about what you can poke at without a warrant:
"Persons." "Houses." "Papers." "Effects." Whereabouts of vehicles, wherein the vehicles are registered to the government, the privilege of driving said vehicles is granted by government, and in a country in which the vehicles are driven on roads built by the government and maintained by the government.
One of these things is not like the other. One of these things does not belong.
Privacy is dead. Get over it. But if you don't like it, don't look to the constitution for a right to it, because it ain't there.
"Hey, who turned out the lights? WTF is this CueCat doing here? Oh no! GET ME OUT OF HERE YOU BASTARD!"
"Best? For whom?"
- Your Robot
Ethical questions about what's "best" between two species only get answered by the fitter of the species.
There's increasing evidence that we're the dominant lifeform on this planet because we exterminated the Neanderthals 30,000 years ago. We were smarter than they were, and that enabled us to put the furs of dead animals around our bodies so we could gather resources from areas that were under ice and snow - areas inaccessible to the Neanderthal. If that was indeed the case, then my (and if you're reading this and are a human being, your) ancestors were directly responsible for the extinction of another sentient species. Not merely attempted genocide -- successful genocide: we rendered them extinct. We exterminated them. I'm not losing any sleep over it.
If homo sapiens is replaced by silicon sapiens, is it really such a bad thing? It's merely a better-adapted lifeform taking advantage of a larger ecological niche, and displacing whatever species previously inhabited it.
30,000 years from now, will a dialogue something like this appear in a silipology (or would that be paleoviscerology) textbook?
>You can find this article at:
>http://www.alternativemedicine.com/ and search for cell phone.
Here's my "alternative" article:
Seven warning signs of bogus science and Distinguishing science and pseudoscience".
> Why, then, can't we make these technological marvels safe?
"Pseudoscience begins with a hypothesis -- usually one which is appealing emotionally, and spectacularly implausible -- and then looks only for items which appear to support it."
> Of course, according to the cell phone industry, cell phones are perfectly harmless:
"2. The discoverer says that a powerful establishment is trying to suppress his or her work."
> "I have a list of about 600 research papers from the past ten years alone, 70 percent of which show definite effects from exposure to this kind of radiation," says Lai, "but the industry continues to say that there is nothing to worry about."
"2. The discoverer says that a powerful establishment is trying to suppress his or her work."
> What about cell phones and cancer, the most publicized concern? "Studies have been conducted to determine whether there is an association between cellular telephone use and an increased risk of certain types of cancer," according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI). "Although the majority of these studies have not supported any such association, scientists caution that more research needs to be done before conclusions can be drawn about the risk of cancer from cellular telephones."
OK, the only factual information here is that most studies do not support the alleged link.
> "Already there are at least 15,000 scientific reports on the subject. I am afraid the truth is that we don't want to know."
"2. The discoverer says that a powerful establishment is trying to suppress his or her work."
and a little bit of
"Pseudoscience attempts to persuade with rhetoric, propaganda, and misrepresentation rather than valid evidence (which presumably does not exist)."
> What has been shown in numerous studies, however, is that the radiation coming from cell phones does have measurable effects on brain cells that can lead to cancer, as well as neurological diseases.
3. The scientific effect involved is always at the very limit of detection.
> Says Lai, "Cumulative damages in DNA may in turn affect cell functions. DNA damage that accumulates in cells over a period of time may be the cause of slow onset diseases, such as cancer."
3. The scientific effect involved is always at the very limit of detection.
> However, the researcher explains, because nerve cells do not divide, they are less likely than other cells to become cancerous, which is typified by uncontrolled replication. Instead, if a brain cell accumulates too much DNA damage, it would more likely die. "Cumulative damage in DNA in cells also has been shown during aging," notes Lai. "Particularly, cumulative DNA damage in nerve cells of the brain has been associated with neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Huntington's, and Parkinson's diseases."
Pseudoscience makes extraordinary claims and advances fantastic theories that contradict what is known about nature.
Pseudoscientific "explanations" tend to be by scenario.
(If he can't prove cancer, he'll make up a scenario and a completely new hypothesis for the causes of these other diseases that existed before cell phones!)
> [ ... ] This study is especially significant because Hardell is a key witness in an $800 million lawsuit brought by Peter Angelos against the mobile phone industry. (Angelos is the la
>
> Now all you have to do is convince your boss that you're just as effective asleep as you are awake. Then you can take those well-deserved naps at work after lunch.
We have reviewed the grandparent poster's performance and concur with your assessment.
Someone once complained that nobody with any guts gets anywhere in this company, and that management was full of shit.
As to the second problem - yes, we're full of shit. And in order to put the first problem to rest, effective immediately, all employees below my level of management shall receive at least one endoscopy per day while being quizzed on the minutae of DNS configuration.
I mean, really.
> The study shows that avid game players are just as religious, artistic, and social as anyone else.
I'm a tolerant dude, and all, but...
> From the article: "Gamers are everywhere and they're everyone. They are your friends, neighbors, co-workers, relatives, and kids, they lead responsible and caring lives, balancing their enjoyment of interactive entertainment with many other activities important to a well-rounded lifestyle...
> Indeed, those who continue to portray the game population as single-minded loafers are living in their own fantasy world."
Bad policy: Accept all, but let people turn things off.
Worse policy: Accept all, but let people turn fewer things off depending on four arbitrary "zones" something falls into.
Worst policy: Make sure the "zones" in question have nothing to do with TCP/IP, netmasks, DNS, or any other networking concept, but make sure they're supported by a proprietary application you've embedded deeply into the OS to facilitate an embrace/extend/extinguish business model.
Then act all surprised when everyone ends up running at least one of these "zones" (namely the "local" one, which ought to be the most trustworthy) with their proverbial pants down, thereby creating a guaranteed 100% available target for Worm/Spyware/Virus authors.
Can someone please find the creature responsible for "Internet Zones" and beat him to death with a large wooden mallet?
Right.
And now that we've hit puberty, we've outgrown Lara. Alyx is so much more teh hawt.
In the meantime, anyone got pics of Zoe?
> Technically it's lost the grilling-functionality, but with a bit of tin foil on top of the heatsink and a fork-bomb, I reckon I could probably still fry an egg with it.
>
> And yes, this webserver is hosted on the grill.
>
> January 11th 2005 17:28:29
> Up 6 day(s), 8 hour(s) 14 min(s)
Two points come to mind:
1: Optimistic, isn't he?
2: At least he'll get his chance to fry that egg.
>>
>> "I've been using the computer for so long, and command-Z works for undo in all the software programs," Hoffman said. "So whenever I find something in my life that I want to undo, I reach for the command-Z keys and I find it weird that it doesn't work."
>
> You need a fucking vacation. NOW.
So you spend three weeks and 50,000 Simoleons setting up a vacation that would end with a menage-a-trois with you, your boss' wife and just one lousy goat.
And then you find that there's no quicksave and that command-Z doesn't work. Man, this new The Sims Offline MMORPG is teh suck.