Interesting, but most of what you describe is not true for those homes I know, European homes that is. Most people I know don't use AC and open a window all the time unless it's freezing outside (or even then, though it's a terrible waste of energy). I hate sleeping with a closed window, in fact. And I don't know any city-dweller with a window screen...
I still haven't got many insects in the house, except for an occasional (fruit or other) fly. Certainly never had a moth or a cockroach (gross!) or even an ant...
Funny, another poster just called the current leadership of the Democratic Party "left". So left is apparently any political ideology from Stalinism and Maoism, over late-era Soviet Union politics, via Hugo Chavez to the various European "left-wing" parties and governments and, err, whatever the Democrats are supposed to represent these days. That's such a vast field that indeed every statement about it is correct; at a certain level of abstraction it's hard to make false statements. That said, I probably make sweeping statements about all conservatives like the Republicans, Franco and Pinochet all the time.
Since always. They only got a bit more blunt about it recently. Although way before that, they were even more blunt about it! Maybe there's a pattern there.
Riiiight... The OP wasn't making an analogy (A is like B) at all, not even a metaphor (A is B), he was making a fairly literal statement. Which you have done nothing to discredit. In fact you supported it: People do not freak out about 20k car accidents per year -- wait, actually it's 37,000 (and while we're at it, 9/11 had 2,975 casualties according to Wikipedia, not 5,000).
So anyway, people do not freak out about 37,000, but they would freak out if 5000 car accidents were caused by a coordinated effort instead of the usual combination of too big cars, negligence and DUI. They'd freak out even if the likelihood of being hit was the same. I guess because people have the mistaken impression they can control the risk in one case and not the other. Irrational, but I'd probably feel the same way.
The more severe damage that day was economic and mental.
I agree, there was severe mental damage.
The world's economy tettered on the brink of disaster for days.
You obviously don't need a terrorist attack for that!
And had we treated it as just a law enforcement issue how many more attacks would have been dealing with by now?
I don't know... none? Probably none of those dimensions, anyway. First time I heard anybody say the good guys got lucky on 9/11, I'd argue it's the terrorists who got lucky, unfortunately.
How many blow like that can our civilization endure without either collapsing or becoming a police state?
Well, none, apparently. But hey, around here we haven't even had any attacks and our government is still on its merry way reducing civil liberties and increasing surveillance of its citizens.
I'd rather not sit by and find out, better to accept the reality that War was upon us and get serious about winning it.
And such a great job you did about that, reducing world wide terrorism and stabilising the region and everything! I feel much safer.
Sorry for the dripping sarcasm, that was just too hard to resist.
Seems like a bad idea to have a single organisation providing a significant number of servers. Although placing them in several countries reduces the risk of bad guys (the gubment) to get hold of all of them.
Soooo... a) don't visit sites with accounts you care about (may break the account) and b) particularly not with accounts tied to your real identity (breaks anonymity, which is the point of tor).
Not every cookie can be considered personal information. I may leak a Google cookie during a Tor session, but since it's a "temporary" one which is generated for this one session and deleted at its end, I couldn't care less.
I've got some removeable storage attached pretty much all the time, and it's only the iPod that causing the hang. But yeah, hardware issue, not a serious one though seeing how everything works just fine after the POST.
I've already got the most recent BIOS available. I'll try to disable booting from USB devices, but it does not appear to be at the point where it's trying to boot off the iPod... But yeah, like I said, I blame my motherboard, even though it's not that crappy overall, it's just a Rev 1.0 (or close enough to that).
On-topic enought to tell here: My computer won't even boot with an iPod attached. Might be just the shuffle, but I think having my old mini connected is a no-no, too. Won't even go past the BIOS screen, it hangs before the pseudo memory check at POST.
Sometimes I don't even get an image on the screen, I think because it hangs too fast for the monitor too sync. I found this out the (very) hard way: Computer didn't boot, no image on screen, seemingly for no reason, so I did what I had to do, basic troubleshooting. Remove power cord and reconnect after a while, didn't do anything. So I started tearing out extension cards, disconnecting hard drives, removing RAM chips. Had pretty much the whole thing disassembled, short of removing the CPU (because removing the HSF is such a PITA). Erased the BIOS using a paperclip, nothing. Only then did I notice, by accident, that some USB devices, including the iPod, were still attached. Disconnected them, and the system booted fine. WTF.
The whole thing is so strange that I promptly forgot about it and repeated the whole procedure half a year later. Doh!
Note that everything works fine once the POST is done, I bet I could even boot of of it if I wanted to, and I can use them in Linux or Windows just fine. So really just a minor inconvenience, albeit a very odd one. (I blame my motherboard, BTW, not the iPod.)
Unfortunately, operators seem to give SMS a very low priority on an already overloaded network. During a recent event which saw about a million additional people in my city, the mobile network was essentially down. But you could get people on their phones occasionally, and you could regularly get "half a connection" where your own phone would obviously be communicating with the network. But a text message still took hours to get delivered, making it useless for trying to meet up etc. I'd much rather the network operator just took down all of the voice traffic (except for emergency use, of course) and had the less resource intensive text messaging service working for everyone.
On the off-topic note: Don't even bother thinking about the task manager, just download the Process Explorer and set it to replace the task manager. It's light weight and vastly superior to the task manager in every way. One of the utils I miss in Linux.
Right, since it's the environmental groups that are powerful, and not those whose interests are directly opposed to theirs. That small so-called liberal blog is fighting the big environmental establishment! Never mind that the BBC post they viciously attack contains essentially all the information about past voyages through the passage, which they so painstakenly researched using a Google search.
I just looked at the link - for Java developing, what does Source Insight offer that Eclipse doesn't? Or, put in another way, it looks like Source Insight offers features for C/C++ development that are fairly standard for Java development, which admittedly is pretty impressive, since it's MUCH harder to do for C++ than for Java. I'm talking about finding references, displaying call graphs etc. Can't say I'm a fan of the "marble" themed backgrounds or the garish syntax formatting with Comic Sans MS.;)
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So far, that's the neatest thing I learned from the whole discussion of the article. ;)
An IDE would have caught that typo.
Or maybe it's a giant flaming chainsaw that we have to keep going for months, in which case it's a lot of effort.
You have met some hard core clowns!
You mean the US government now steals laptops out of hotel rooms? That's insane!
the only game i can think of that really uses a camera attachment is The Eye of Judgment on the PS3.
Really? The EyeToy for PS2 had sold like 3 million units -- 4 years ago!
It's okay in trivial cases. can_drink = (age>18) ? True : False
But using it in anything complex should be a capital offence.
Eh? can_drink = age>18 No ternary operator necessary.
Interesting, but most of what you describe is not true for those homes I know, European homes that is. Most people I know don't use AC and open a window all the time unless it's freezing outside (or even then, though it's a terrible waste of energy). I hate sleeping with a closed window, in fact. And I don't know any city-dweller with a window screen...
I still haven't got many insects in the house, except for an occasional (fruit or other) fly. Certainly never had a moth or a cockroach (gross!) or even an ant...
Funny, another poster just called the current leadership of the Democratic Party "left". So left is apparently any political ideology from Stalinism and Maoism, over late-era Soviet Union politics, via Hugo Chavez to the various European "left-wing" parties and governments and, err, whatever the Democrats are supposed to represent these days. That's such a vast field that indeed every statement about it is correct; at a certain level of abstraction it's hard to make false statements. That said, I probably make sweeping statements about all conservatives like the Republicans, Franco and Pinochet all the time.
Since always. They only got a bit more blunt about it recently. Although way before that, they were even more blunt about it! Maybe there's a pattern there.
,,, and then a bunch of left-wing activists hijacked the Democratic Party
Wait, quick, which country were we talking about again?! Because I know a number of left wing activists and I don't see the resemblance at all .
Riiiight... The OP wasn't making an analogy (A is like B) at all, not even a metaphor (A is B), he was making a fairly literal statement. Which you have done nothing to discredit. In fact you supported it: People do not freak out about 20k car accidents per year -- wait, actually it's 37,000 (and while we're at it, 9/11 had 2,975 casualties according to Wikipedia, not 5,000).
So anyway, people do not freak out about 37,000, but they would freak out if 5000 car accidents were caused by a coordinated effort instead of the usual combination of too big cars, negligence and DUI. They'd freak out even if the likelihood of being hit was the same. I guess because people have the mistaken impression they can control the risk in one case and not the other. Irrational, but I'd probably feel the same way.
The more severe damage that day was economic and mental.
I agree, there was severe mental damage.
The world's economy tettered on the brink of disaster for days.
You obviously don't need a terrorist attack for that!
And had we treated it as just a law enforcement issue how many more attacks would have been dealing with by now?
I don't know... none? Probably none of those dimensions, anyway. First time I heard anybody say the good guys got lucky on 9/11, I'd argue it's the terrorists who got lucky, unfortunately.
How many blow like that can our civilization endure without either collapsing or becoming a police state?
Well, none, apparently. But hey, around here we haven't even had any attacks and our government is still on its merry way reducing civil liberties and increasing surveillance of its citizens.
I'd rather not sit by and find out, better to accept the reality that War was upon us and get serious about winning it.
And such a great job you did about that, reducing world wide terrorism and stabilising the region and everything! I feel much safer.
Sorry for the dripping sarcasm, that was just too hard to resist.
And historically... I wonder who has a higher body count, government goons or mere muggers.
Eh? There's no contest. Government goons win.
Seems like a bad idea to have a single organisation providing a significant number of servers. Although placing them in several countries reduces the risk of bad guys (the gubment) to get hold of all of them.
Soooo... a) don't visit sites with accounts you care about (may break the account) and b) particularly not with accounts tied to your real identity (breaks anonymity, which is the point of tor).
Not every cookie can be considered personal information. I may leak a Google cookie during a Tor session, but since it's a "temporary" one which is generated for this one session and deleted at its end, I couldn't care less.
I've got some removeable storage attached pretty much all the time, and it's only the iPod that causing the hang. But yeah, hardware issue, not a serious one though seeing how everything works just fine after the POST.
I've already got the most recent BIOS available. I'll try to disable booting from USB devices, but it does not appear to be at the point where it's trying to boot off the iPod... But yeah, like I said, I blame my motherboard, even though it's not that crappy overall, it's just a Rev 1.0 (or close enough to that).
On-topic enought to tell here: My computer won't even boot with an iPod attached. Might be just the shuffle, but I think having my old mini connected is a no-no, too. Won't even go past the BIOS screen, it hangs before the pseudo memory check at POST.
Sometimes I don't even get an image on the screen, I think because it hangs too fast for the monitor too sync. I found this out the (very) hard way: Computer didn't boot, no image on screen, seemingly for no reason, so I did what I had to do, basic troubleshooting. Remove power cord and reconnect after a while, didn't do anything. So I started tearing out extension cards, disconnecting hard drives, removing RAM chips. Had pretty much the whole thing disassembled, short of removing the CPU (because removing the HSF is such a PITA). Erased the BIOS using a paperclip, nothing. Only then did I notice, by accident, that some USB devices, including the iPod, were still attached. Disconnected them, and the system booted fine. WTF.
The whole thing is so strange that I promptly forgot about it and repeated the whole procedure half a year later. Doh!
Note that everything works fine once the POST is done, I bet I could even boot of of it if I wanted to, and I can use them in Linux or Windows just fine. So really just a minor inconvenience, albeit a very odd one. (I blame my motherboard, BTW, not the iPod.)
You might want to look up 'semantic' in a dictionary. It means the opposite of what you think it means.
Pff -- there's merely a minor semantic difference between the two.
Germany - China worked just fine, too. This whole story is just FUD.
Unfortunately, operators seem to give SMS a very low priority on an already overloaded network. During a recent event which saw about a million additional people in my city, the mobile network was essentially down. But you could get people on their phones occasionally, and you could regularly get "half a connection" where your own phone would obviously be communicating with the network. But a text message still took hours to get delivered, making it useless for trying to meet up etc. I'd much rather the network operator just took down all of the voice traffic (except for emergency use, of course) and had the less resource intensive text messaging service working for everyone.
On the off-topic note: Don't even bother thinking about the task manager, just download the Process Explorer and set it to replace the task manager. It's light weight and vastly superior to the task manager in every way. One of the utils I miss in Linux.
Right, since it's the environmental groups that are powerful, and not those whose interests are directly opposed to theirs. That small so-called liberal blog is fighting the big environmental establishment! Never mind that the BBC post they viciously attack contains essentially all the information about past voyages through the passage, which they so painstakenly researched using a Google search.
I looked it up. Stallman/the FSF says yes. It's a derived work, since it uses (links to) a GPL lib.
See http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/clisp/clisp/doc/Why-CLISP-is-under-GPL
I just looked at the link - for Java developing, what does Source Insight offer that Eclipse doesn't? Or, put in another way, it looks like Source Insight offers features for C/C++ development that are fairly standard for Java development, which admittedly is pretty impressive, since it's MUCH harder to do for C++ than for Java. I'm talking about finding references, displaying call graphs etc. Can't say I'm a fan of the "marble" themed backgrounds or the garish syntax formatting with Comic Sans MS. ;)