And the skim. These PLC systems are more expensive. They seem sexy. And did I say they are expensive? More skim. Our jails are privatized. More prisoners equal more "customers". Get hard on crime (Looks good, Right?) More customers. More prisons. More skim. In the last twenty years the prison population has jumped from two hundred thousand to two million. One order of magnitude. When were the prisons privatized? (About twenty years ago it got into full swing as I recall.) It's a growth industry.
Prison lobby: "We need harsher laws and sentence guidelines." Pols: "We'll look good and be tough on crime." Three strikes. More prisoners. More prisons. More... skim.
You don't put in a five dollar valve when you can put in a ________ dollar PLC. (How much does a PLC cost I wonder?) More skim. So don't concern yourself with the logic of how to make a prison more secure. Concern yourself with the logic of how to make it more expensive and you will be thinking like a real leader of men.
Now, during the recession, we have a game changer with tight state budgets. Let's relax those cannabis laws. Uh oh. Less skim. w00t.
Was it Chris Anderson who recently suggested that Google simply purchase the whole shebang? Anyway, the entire recording industry is valued at something less than Google's cash reserves.
I would like to be a gecko on the wall to see the look on the Sony Music legal team's faces when they find out that the company they have been suing now owns them. w00t!
Thirty thousand people dead each year in US car accidents. That's over half a million dead each generation. Robots could not do worse. And I think they could do a lot better. Especially if the cars talk to each other.
In fifty years people may well look back upon our manual driving culture as next to insane. That said. I love to drive. But really. It's hell out there
This is a good point. You deserve an upmod. No signal interference is a good thing. And being able to limit the signal to one enclosed area instead of broadcasting to god knows where is also good. Security through obscurity.plus no interference... I like it.. An attacker would have to be in the room to have a go... provided your blinds were closed and the signal was, as has been pointed out, encrypted
The plug in lets you import PDFs, which you can of course read. So you could read flash-free PFDs that way. What is very nice about this plug in is that you can also modify the PDFs and re-export them as PDF or ODF. And of course you can save in native OO Draw format.
The PDF modification process is a tad kludgey, but you can do quite a lot once you get the hang of it. Sure it is not Acrobat Pro, but it is free and in a pinch can let you make a final crucial edit to a PDF. I like to take the color images out of my AAA directions. The TripTik engine creates a PDF, which always has an ink wasting graphic easily deleted in OO Draw with this plug in.
I have argued that NGOs should change to Linux to avoid this very vulnerability. Some have even done so at my suggestion. I suspect at root that with this move Microsoft is parrying this very trend. And looking good while doing so. Of course NGOs should still use Linux for many reasons. Especially since much of the pirate software on their boxes is not MS and this still leaves them vulnerable. Most work done by NGOs can be accomplished by FOSS. Linux and NGOs are a natural fit.
Of course a bully needs only the weakest excuse so the official harassment will continue despite whatever OS or resources are used.
Ahhh... But we must continue to wonder if aliens are secretly behind the sci fi scenes, molding us and educating us. But for what? Perhaps preparing us for the day when they will cook us and eat us. Perhaps our intelligence is just something their bio engineers built in as a way to insure that most of the biomass of Sol 3 is concentrated into six billion bite sized nuggets when they swing by three billion years later. "Hey Vorb! These are great. Just pull off the head and suck out the juice. Bitchin', dude."
And it is not even my joke. I have seen it before. But perhaps "main argument against" was too strong. However, in humor that is known as hyperbole.
And I certainly agree with you. There are many better arguments against intelligent design than the one I jokingly put forward.
But your point is well taken. Evolution probably so universally associates the organs of sex and elimination because sex pheromones and territorial markers are often spread by the latter process (for efficiency's sake?). It therefore makes sense for the sex organ to be at ground zero for the chemical marker.
If the incompetent wanker who tried to blow up Times Square had read this thread and learned how to handle his keys in an efficient way he would be in Waziristan by now taking crap from UBL for forgetting to open the valves on the propane canisters.
A. He would not have had to take the train home.
B. He would not have had to call his landlord to let him in his own house.
C. He might well have then made his flight
I for one am glad he did not read this useful thread.
Not losing your keys is sometimes, well, key.
As for me I have the various sets on different rings hanging in a mango wood key house that is on the wall next to the front door. I take the rings I need on a given outing and distribute them about my person.
Cool. Thanks for that, AC. It is popular to deride Slashdot, but the truth is I often learn stuff around here. Perhaps because I don't know much to begin with.
You'll have to deal with the auto body repair lobby first, but then again you'll have the car insurance lobby in your court. Let the name calling begin.
I am very surprised to see how many posts went by before somebody noticed that the name of this firm was an alternative spelling to 'taint'. Kudos.
Now. That is not a name I would ever want on my business card. So even though these guys are dorks we can all be comforted that none of them are getting any dates. Oh wait! This is Slashdot. Never mind.
Yes. After I made my comment I noticed that later comments were saying that this was a long-standing system. I also saw that people were pretty cool with it in general. I realized my comment was a non-starter.
I agree with you. This will backfire. People want status in their chosen group. We are social beings and this is wired in. In an openly competitive system this is not a problem. Some win, some lose. We all know the rules when we start.
But in a socialized context like a FOSS project the motivations for contribution are far more complex -- sort of fragile. People sacrifice for an idea and a common goal. And as long as all feel the equality of sacrifice and perceive that common goals are being met then there is a good chance of overall harmony. And, like it or not, Ubuntu has been the star of the show for a while now. ALL contributors, both large and small, can take satisfaction in that. But once some animals become more equal than others (even just a little bit) well, life will surely get rocky down on the FOSS farm.
Hmmm. I wonder how the Debian crew are feeling about this? Do they get a tee shirt, too?
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Why shouldn't a car driven by one crash as well? w00t!
Also worth noting: Thirty thousand people a year die in auto crashes. Could Google's robots do much worse?
And the skim. These PLC systems are more expensive. They seem sexy. And did I say they are expensive? More skim. Our jails are privatized. More prisoners equal more "customers". Get hard on crime (Looks good, Right?) More customers. More prisons. More skim. In the last twenty years the prison population has jumped from two hundred thousand to two million. One order of magnitude. When were the prisons privatized? (About twenty years ago it got into full swing as I recall.) It's a growth industry.
Prison lobby: "We need harsher laws and sentence guidelines." Pols: "We'll look good and be tough on crime." Three strikes. More prisoners. More prisons. More... skim.
You don't put in a five dollar valve when you can put in a ________ dollar PLC. (How much does a PLC cost I wonder?) More skim. So don't concern yourself with the logic of how to make a prison more secure. Concern yourself with the logic of how to make it more expensive and you will be thinking like a real leader of men.
Now, during the recession, we have a game changer with tight state budgets. Let's relax those cannabis laws. Uh oh. Less skim. w00t.
Was it Chris Anderson who recently suggested that Google simply purchase the whole shebang? Anyway, the entire recording industry is valued at something less than Google's cash reserves.
I would like to be a gecko on the wall to see the look on the Sony Music legal team's faces when they find out that the company they have been suing now owns them. w00t!
Well said. I wonder if camping on the Afghan border in Tajikistan's High Pamir qualifies? It sure was fun.
https://picasaweb.google.com/bdwoolman/Pamir09?feat=directlink
Took a gander at your site and enjoyed your thoughts.
Thirty thousand people dead each year in US car accidents. That's over half a million dead each generation. Robots could not do worse. And I think they could do a lot better. Especially if the cars talk to each other.
In fifty years people may well look back upon our manual driving culture as next to insane. That said. I love to drive. But really. It's hell out there
This is a good point. You deserve an upmod. No signal interference is a good thing. And being able to limit the signal to one enclosed area instead of broadcasting to god knows where is also good. Security through obscurity.plus no interference... I like it.. An attacker would have to be in the room to have a go... provided your blinds were closed and the signal was, as has been pointed out, encrypted
The plug in lets you import PDFs, which you can of course read. So you could read flash-free PFDs that way. What is very nice about this plug in is that you can also modify the PDFs and re-export them as PDF or ODF. And of course you can save in native OO Draw format.
The PDF modification process is a tad kludgey, but you can do quite a lot once you get the hang of it. Sure it is not Acrobat Pro, but it is free and in a pinch can let you make a final crucial edit to a PDF. I like to take the color images out of my AAA directions. The TripTik engine creates a PDF, which always has an ink wasting graphic easily deleted in OO Draw with this plug in.
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport
I have argued that NGOs should change to Linux to avoid this very vulnerability. Some have even done so at my suggestion. I suspect at root that with this move Microsoft is parrying this very trend. And looking good while doing so. Of course NGOs should still use Linux for many reasons. Especially since much of the pirate software on their boxes is not MS and this still leaves them vulnerable. Most work done by NGOs can be accomplished by FOSS. Linux and NGOs are a natural fit.
Of course a bully needs only the weakest excuse so the official harassment will continue despite whatever OS or resources are used.
Ahhh... But we must continue to wonder if aliens are secretly behind the sci fi scenes, molding us and educating us. But for what? Perhaps preparing us for the day when they will cook us and eat us. Perhaps our intelligence is just something their bio engineers built in as a way to insure that most of the biomass of Sol 3 is concentrated into six billion bite sized nuggets when they swing by three billion years later. "Hey Vorb! These are great. Just pull off the head and suck out the juice. Bitchin', dude."
And it is not even my joke. I have seen it before. But perhaps "main argument against" was too strong. However, in humor that is known as hyperbole.
And I certainly agree with you. There are many better arguments against intelligent design than the one I jokingly put forward.
But your point is well taken. Evolution probably so universally associates the organs of sex and elimination because sex pheromones and territorial markers are often spread by the latter process (for efficiency's sake?). It therefore makes sense for the sex organ to be at ground zero for the chemical marker.
It has been proposed as the main argument against intelligent design.
Would a truly intelligent designer route the main waste disposal channel right through the recreational area?
And every phone box to be a TARDIS.
See you in the future Borya.
Sorry, gotta run. My data is ripe.
If the incompetent wanker who tried to blow up Times Square had read this thread and learned how to handle his keys in an efficient way he would be in Waziristan by now taking crap from UBL for forgetting to open the valves on the propane canisters.
A. He would not have had to take the train home.
B. He would not have had to call his landlord to let him in his own house.
C. He might well have then made his flight
I for one am glad he did not read this useful thread.
Not losing your keys is sometimes, well, key. As for me I have the various sets on different rings hanging in a mango wood key house that is on the wall next to the front door. I take the rings I need on a given outing and distribute them about my person.
As an unapologetic Liberal I believe that government can do good things.
But this kind of Nanny State meddling makes me as sick as I would get from eating six Happy Meals
AKA
Doctor Shock
Cool. Thanks for that, AC. It is popular to deride Slashdot, but the truth is I often learn stuff around here. Perhaps because I don't know much to begin with.
You'll have to deal with the auto body repair lobby first, but then again you'll have the car insurance lobby in your court. Let the name calling begin.
Vehicle armor especially.
Body armor maybe -- perhaps too heavy.
Could work in a weave though.
And correct.
Too bad I have no points to give today.
Molodets.
I am very surprised to see how many posts went by before somebody noticed that the name of this firm was an alternative spelling to 'taint'. Kudos.
Now. That is not a name I would ever want on my business card. So even though these guys are dorks we can all be comforted that none of them are getting any dates. Oh wait! This is Slashdot. Never mind.
Then we will call it Spiderman Rebooty.
Damn it Mary Jane! we're all out of toilet paper!
Memorandum
From: Pathology Laboratory
To: Sixth Floor Nurses' Station
Re: Stool Samples in the Pneumatic Delivery System
Please remember to pack all stool samples in the specially designed containers. Improvised solutions are not acceptable.
Thanks in advance.
The Laboratory Guys
PS: Next time we are sending it back.
Yes. After I made my comment I noticed that later comments were saying that this was a long-standing system. I also saw that people were pretty cool with it in general. I realized my comment was a non-starter.
Sooooo. Never mind. I was wrong. Again...Dear.
I agree with you. This will backfire. People want status in their chosen group. We are social beings and this is wired in. In an openly competitive system this is not a problem. Some win, some lose. We all know the rules when we start.
But in a socialized context like a FOSS project the motivations for contribution are far more complex -- sort of fragile. People sacrifice for an idea and a common goal. And as long as all feel the equality of sacrifice and perceive that common goals are being met then there is a good chance of overall harmony. And, like it or not, Ubuntu has been the star of the show for a while now. ALL contributors, both large and small, can take satisfaction in that. But once some animals become more equal than others (even just a little bit) well, life will surely get rocky down on the FOSS farm.
Hmmm. I wonder how the Debian crew are feeling about this? Do they get a tee shirt, too?