Please, for your own sake, try and enjoy your lives before they are over, and before the best years of your lives fly past.
That's odd. I was a nerd, but I _did_ enjoy myself. I found that, after talking to the 'popular' people, and those from other cliques, being a nerd was what I was all about. I didn't want to worry about how recent and expensive my clothes were, or who won the football game this week. I had more fun talking to my friends about Fermat's Last Theorem, non-commutative fields, and the way to overcome our most recent Linux hurdle. Most people wouldn't want to talk about that, even if they knew what it was (that wasn't an attempt at elitism - most people _are_ disinterested.) So, by being a nerd, I was doing what I loved, and made the friends that do the same.
I guess my whole point is that popular isn't all it's cracked up to be for everyone. I have no interest in popularity, and if people wished to bug me about it, I'd rather they left me alone. I had the friends who were interested in the same things that I was, so I was as happy as I could get.
It's been a question for years whether bug finders should go public with bug finds or contact the company directly as to the flaws and the extent of their risk.
Interesting, from what I read on the BugTraq mailing list, a lot of people give the companies a window of opportunity to fix the bugs, or work with the bugfinder to locate and fix the bugs. I believe this is very reasonable. If the company shows obvious steps to fix the problem, then when you do inform others of the bug, the hole should already be patched. In this case, the bugfinder gave the company _three_ _months_ to fix the bug - during which the bugfinder was given the run around. When this happens the only decent thing to do is to warn the general community as to the issue, and force the company to do something - assuming the company will.
You may have already considered this, but most ISPs that I'm aware of have a line in the ToS that states that you may not share the connection with other people. And they do check; I remember a friend getting his house checked by Road Runner due to his daughter using P2P out the wazoo.
If you can't live without the latest game for Thanksgiving weekend, you should seek help.
Heh. My solution? Install the latest version of Windows on my parent's computer, so they feel like they need to upgrade. Their main computer (main, as in, they have more than one,) almost rivals mine now.. Oh yeah. >=)
Seeing as every other response to this question is satirical or doubtful, I'll try to go against the grain. =p While I've yet to own a drive with SPDIF, I can assure you that the CD-ROMs with only an eject button aren't the only thing on the market. My current ASUS 32x12x40x cd-burner has a play/next track button, and a stop/eject button on the face plate.. It also has a volume knob and a 1/8" jack. And, these features are the exact same on my parent's recently purchased cheapo CD-ROM. Also, they don't require anything but the power connector to work; I've checked them both.
Of course, both of these drives lack SPDIF, and neither have the LCD screen. But then again, I didn't even try looking for 'em. o.O
If Oregon was really interested in going after the real source of wear and tear on the highways, they'd be taxing the hell out of large trucks--but that wouldn't fly with any number of well-funded lobbyists, so this sort of ridiculous overly complicated scheme comes up instead.
It might also fail due to the fact that semis are a large back-bone of this country. Tax them, and transport costs go up. Then groceries, computer parts, gasoline prices, and lots of other things go up. Guess who'll pay for that? You.
"The headline of the article and/. story are maybe a bit misleading inasmuch as there are a large number of compounds in green tea besides caffeine..."
Actually, they were referring specifically to EGCG.. As stated in the article. =)
"...hairless mice exposed to brutal levels of ultraviolet radiation..."
Right. I've got the hairless thing almost down, but brutal levels of ultraviolet radiation?
Oh yeah. I guess the next time I'm in orbit around Mercury without my space suit, I'll make sure to spill coffee on myself.
This may very well be taken as Flamebait or Offtopic, but I can't resist sticking my nose in here.
Public Libraries are _public_ places, owned by the _government_. The government has a right to collect information from the library. It is not a private citizen's business or residence.
It's almost like your telling the government not to use sonar guns to catch people on the roads.
_However_, when it comes to the FBI demanding book histories from stores like Borders, they can bugger off until they get a warrant.
Markets are weird that way. You want to sell the fastest for the most money (duh). But.. Some people aren't going to pay that much, so you sell some at a lower speed, for a lower price. And because it's cheaper to make the same product repeatedly as opposed to two different products, the company will just make the best, and mark it down.
I'm not sure if it's still common, but CPU makers used to do this frequently. The older Celerons, for isntance.
Food, shelter and decent living conditions come far higher on my list of priorities than learning how to surf the Web.
How does that old saying go? "Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll eat for a lifetime," or something like that. Dumping money into a problematic society isn't the way to do things. Educating the members of that society, teaching them how to make money on their own, helps not only the members of that society, but everyone else too. Giving away money will make people dependent. Teaching people is a practice that will pay for itself quickly.
I just wanted to say thanks to all that provided helpful information. =) Through the gathered knowledge, I believe that I'll continue with math in mind, take a few CS classes, and keep with my study of particle physics for the heck of it (all subject to change.) =D Again, thanks for your input.
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Please, for your own sake, try and enjoy your lives before they are over, and before the best years of your lives fly past.
That's odd. I was a nerd, but I _did_ enjoy myself. I found that, after talking to the 'popular' people, and those from other cliques, being a nerd was what I was all about. I didn't want to worry about how recent and expensive my clothes were, or who won the football game this week. I had more fun talking to my friends about Fermat's Last Theorem, non-commutative fields, and the way to overcome our most recent Linux hurdle. Most people wouldn't want to talk about that, even if they knew what it was (that wasn't an attempt at elitism - most people _are_ disinterested.) So, by being a nerd, I was doing what I loved, and made the friends that do the same.
I guess my whole point is that popular isn't all it's cracked up to be for everyone. I have no interest in popularity, and if people wished to bug me about it, I'd rather they left me alone. I had the friends who were interested in the same things that I was, so I was as happy as I could get.
It's been a question for years whether bug finders should go public with bug finds or contact the company directly as to the flaws and the extent of their risk.
Interesting, from what I read on the BugTraq mailing list, a lot of people give the companies a window of opportunity to fix the bugs, or work with the bugfinder to locate and fix the bugs. I believe this is very reasonable. If the company shows obvious steps to fix the problem, then when you do inform others of the bug, the hole should already be patched. In this case, the bugfinder gave the company _three_ _months_ to fix the bug - during which the bugfinder was given the run around. When this happens the only decent thing to do is to warn the general community as to the issue, and force the company to do something - assuming the company will.
With that type of processing power, they should be able to calculate to infinity...and beyond.
Oh my.. It's times like this when I wish there was a moderation "+0 Bad Pun."
I got it!
"The current patient is said to be doing well.", says Professor Giuseppe Spriano.
When questioned for comments, the patient would not respond.
Are there any caveats or precautions?
You may have already considered this, but most ISPs that I'm aware of have a line in the ToS that states that you may not share the connection with other people. And they do check; I remember a friend getting his house checked by Road Runner due to his daughter using P2P out the wazoo.
If you can't live without the latest game for Thanksgiving weekend, you should seek help.
Heh. My solution? Install the latest version of Windows on my parent's computer, so they feel like they need to upgrade. Their main computer (main, as in, they have more than one,) almost rivals mine now.. Oh yeah. >=)
Any of the spammers tried to sue the manufacturers of spam-filter software yet?
Gah! What are you thinking? Don't give them any ideas!
Seeing as every other response to this question is satirical or doubtful, I'll try to go against the grain. =p While I've yet to own a drive with SPDIF, I can assure you that the CD-ROMs with only an eject button aren't the only thing on the market. My current ASUS 32x12x40x cd-burner has a play/next track button, and a stop/eject button on the face plate.. It also has a volume knob and a 1/8" jack. And, these features are the exact same on my parent's recently purchased cheapo CD-ROM. Also, they don't require anything but the power connector to work; I've checked them both.
Of course, both of these drives lack SPDIF, and neither have the LCD screen. But then again, I didn't even try looking for 'em. o.O
I'll let you guess what she downloads
I'll leave it up to everyone else with perverted minds to guess what _I_ thought of when I first read that.
I feel like a bad person now.
If Oregon was really interested in going after the real source of wear and tear on the highways, they'd be taxing the hell out of large trucks--but that wouldn't fly with any number of well-funded lobbyists, so this sort of ridiculous overly complicated scheme comes up instead.
It might also fail due to the fact that semis are a large back-bone of this country. Tax them, and transport costs go up. Then groceries, computer parts, gasoline prices, and lots of other things go up. Guess who'll pay for that? You.
I imagine that if one of these gets scratched you're gonna lose a whole lotta data unless it has some sweet error correction going for it.
See, that's where you're wrong. The actual disks are about the size of your bed, so if you scratch it, not much is lost at all. >=)
# man man
Wait - You did mean $ man man , right?
I wonder how much it will cost and how much control software companies will have over us then?
Jesus, I'd hate to see the EULA on those buggers..
Yea, trasmitting 10gbps is nice, but currently what use is it if you can't go within a few feet of the transmitter?
You must learn to crawl before you can run.
Combat medicine? Looks like the stereotype of the bad soldier peeling potatos is about to gain more merit.
Perhaps they should just skip the purchase of Napster, and just make a service called Nappy-Stare.
"The headline of the article and /. story are maybe a bit misleading inasmuch as there are a large number of compounds in green tea besides caffeine..."
Actually, they were referring specifically to EGCG.. As stated in the article. =)
"...hairless mice exposed to brutal levels of ultraviolet radiation..."
Right. I've got the hairless thing almost down, but brutal levels of ultraviolet radiation?
Oh yeah. I guess the next time I'm in orbit around Mercury without my space suit, I'll make sure to spill coffee on myself.
This may very well be taken as Flamebait or Offtopic, but I can't resist sticking my nose in here.
Public Libraries are _public_ places, owned by the _government_. The government has a right to collect information from the library. It is not a private citizen's business or residence. It's almost like your telling the government not to use sonar guns to catch people on the roads.
_However_, when it comes to the FBI demanding book histories from stores like Borders, they can bugger off until they get a warrant.
Markets are weird that way. You want to sell the fastest for the most money (duh). But.. Some people aren't going to pay that much, so you sell some at a lower speed, for a lower price. And because it's cheaper to make the same product repeatedly as opposed to two different products, the company will just make the best, and mark it down. I'm not sure if it's still common, but CPU makers used to do this frequently. The older Celerons, for isntance.
Food, shelter and decent living conditions come far higher on my list of priorities than learning how to surf the Web.
How does that old saying go? "Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll eat for a lifetime," or something like that. Dumping money into a problematic society isn't the way to do things. Educating the members of that society, teaching them how to make money on their own, helps not only the members of that society, but everyone else too. Giving away money will make people dependent. Teaching people is a practice that will pay for itself quickly.
I just wanted to say thanks to all that provided helpful information. =) Through the gathered knowledge, I believe that I'll continue with math in mind, take a few CS classes, and keep with my study of particle physics for the heck of it (all subject to change.) =D Again, thanks for your input.