"You really wouldn't expect cell phones to cause cancer. They don't emit ionising radiation that damages DNA." Dr. Michael Thun, Epidemiologic Research, American Cancer Society
The waves that come out of [cell phones] are too fat, they're literally too big to hit an atom, break off an electron, [...] and rip apart DNA and cause cancer. David Ropeik, Risk Analysis, Harvard Center
The British Parliament has abandoned their new ID cards for the Houses of Parliament despite the recent security breaches, as some hundreds have 'gone missing'.
* Worsen harassment of ethnic minorities: They'll provide another pretext for stop-and-search, often directed at ethnic minorities
* Have little impact on counter-terrorism: Sophisticated terror networks would soon be able to produce counterfeit cards or papers enabling people to get legitimate cards
* Have little effect on illegal working: Employers who are already willing to break the law won't be put off by identity cards
* Lead to 'function creep': The functions of the card will grow over time as it stores more personal information. More people could demand to see it, effectively making it compulsory to carry one
* Lead to loss of privacy: There will be a massive database containing an unprecedented amount of personal information on people
* Be costly and impractical: There is scepticism about the cost and operability of the scheme, as well as the government's ability to manage the technology
My brother used to work testing hifi for AIWA. One year, a major magazine pundit criticised one of their tape units saying it played at the wrong speed. They checked the unit the pundit had tested, and it was perfect. What was going wrong?
Turns out the magazine pundit was checking against his own tape unit, which _was_ playing 5% fast or slow or whatever. What a jerk!
Bill Hicks: "By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. Thank you, thank you. Just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day they'll take root. I don't know. You try. You do what you can. Kill yourselves. Seriously though, if you are, do. No really, there's no rationalisation for what you do, and you are Satan's little helpers, OK? Kill yourselves, seriously. You're the ruiner of all things good. Seriously, no, this is not a joke. "There's gonna be a joke coming..." There's no fucking joke coming, you are Satan's spawn, filling the world with bile and garbage, you are fucked and you are fucking us, kill yourselves, it's the only way to save your fucking soul. Kill yourself, kill yourself, kill yourself now. Now, back to the show."You know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar, that's a big dollar, a lot of people are feeling that indignation, we've done research, huge market. He's doing a good thing." Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scumbags, quit putting a godamn dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet! "
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Terry was trying to make an alien that didn't look like a man in a rubber suit. The Daleks were a sack of protaplasm with an arm, who had to live in robot bodies after they'd devastated their home planet.
Unlike the alien from the film 'Alien', they actually _couldn't_ be played by a man in a rubber suit.
Incident 1. We had a 20,000 gallon water tank on the roof spring a leak one day. About 6 PCs in an office below were soaked through. We put them in a dry room for a week then switched them on using a 10 foot pole. The only casualty was one of the keyboards.
Incident 2. Another time a 30 year old steam pipe cracked in a tunnel and superheated steam flooded upwards into a corridor. The nearest PC was an ancient Pentium 1 running the payroll (aaugh!). The disaster recovery team hired industrial dehumidifiers to pull the moisture out of the air (and the carpets.)
This PC was so old the BIOS had no facility to set 'stay off after mains power loss', so when the hard hats finally let me into the building it was already on. Since it was running, I left it on to dry itself out. We didn't lose any computers that day, though the plaster fell off the wall all down that corridor.
There's a busy intersection near me, a bit north of Heathrow Airport (London, UK.) I have to cross it every day on the way to work. There's a one minute wait for the lights to change.
Occasionally the lights break down. Though the junction is very busy, the traffic flows much faster when this happens. So much so that you can tell if the lights are broken down when you're hundreds of yards away, because there are usually long queues. But when the lights break, there are no queues.
Slashdot Mirror
FWIW, here's some stuff from Series 2 episode 2.
"You really wouldn't expect cell phones to cause cancer. They don't emit ionising radiation that damages DNA."
Dr. Michael Thun, Epidemiologic Research, American Cancer Society
The waves that come out of [cell phones] are too fat, they're literally too big to hit an atom, break off an electron, [...] and rip apart DNA and cause cancer.
David Ropeik, Risk Analysis, Harvard Center
No-one's mentioned YKYBHTLW? We used to chat about it lots on Usenet. It stands for
"You know you've been hacking too long when"
and hacking could be changed to programming, gaming, etc.
For me, I knew I'd been playing Castle Wolfenstein too long when I found myself strafing around corners.
F.Y.I. :)
The egg came before the chicken.
JACK NICHOLSON:
My point of view, while extremely cogent,
is unpopular.
LOS ANGELES TIMES:
Which is?
JACK NICHOLSON:
That the repressive nature of the legalities
vis-a-vis drugs are destroying the legal
system and corrupting the police system.
LOS ANGELES TIMES:
Let's talk about acting for a minute.
Over the Hols, our Ironmail box was dropping 17 out of every 18 emails sent to our domain.
How about a suitable looking case with 'Biological Hazard' stickers all over it? That might cause some light fingered types to think twice.
News Article http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3492313.st m
Pictures http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/photo_gallery/ 3489533.stm
UK Parliamentary Committee Releases Report Damning ID System http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml? cmd%5B347%5D=x-347-63601
Spain has ID cards, but that didn't prevent the Madrid train bomb: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3500452.stm
The British Parliament has abandoned their new ID cards for the Houses of Parliament despite the recent security breaches, as some hundreds have 'gone missing'.
Reasons against ID cards: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/A2319176
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ID cards might well:
* Worsen harassment of ethnic minorities: They'll provide another pretext for stop-and-search, often directed at ethnic minorities
* Have little impact on counter-terrorism: Sophisticated terror networks would soon be able to produce counterfeit cards or papers enabling people to get legitimate cards
* Have little effect on illegal working: Employers who are already willing to break the law won't be put off by identity cards
* Lead to 'function creep': The functions of the card will grow over time as it stores more personal information. More people could demand to see it, effectively making it compulsory to carry one
* Lead to loss of privacy: There will be a massive database containing an unprecedented amount of personal information on people
* Be costly and impractical: There is scepticism about the cost and operability of the scheme, as well as the government's ability to manage the technology
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Doubts over ID card scheme http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2688697.stm
"i often find that i upload almost as much as i download"
For Bittorrent to work people *must* upload as much as they download. That's how Bittorrent works!
My brother used to work testing hifi for AIWA. One year, a major magazine pundit criticised one of their tape units saying it played at the wrong speed. They checked the unit the pundit had tested, and it was perfect. What was going wrong?
Turns out the magazine pundit was checking against his own tape unit, which _was_ playing 5% fast or slow or whatever. What a jerk!
Bill Hicks:
"By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. Thank you, thank you. Just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day they'll take root. I don't know. You try. You do what you can. Kill yourselves. Seriously though, if you are, do. No really, there's no rationalisation for what you do, and you are Satan's little helpers, OK? Kill yourselves, seriously. You're the ruiner of all things good. Seriously, no, this is not a joke. "There's gonna be a joke coming..." There's no fucking joke coming, you are Satan's spawn, filling the world with bile and garbage, you are fucked and you are fucking us, kill yourselves, it's the only way to save your fucking soul. Kill yourself, kill yourself, kill yourself now. Now, back to the show."You know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar, that's a big dollar, a lot of people are feeling that indignation, we've done research, huge market. He's doing a good thing." Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scumbags, quit putting a godamn dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet! "
Any plans to beef up Bluetooth security, to complement these changes?
I installed 1.0PR, it wouldn't appear when run, so I reverted to v0.9. Now It won't install adblock or any other extensions.
Anyone else got the same symptoms?
So it's not yet SpaceShipTwo.
SpaceShip1.2, perhaps?
When you look under the rocks and plants
And take a glance at the fancy ants
Then maybe try a few
The bare necessities of life will come to you
They'll come to you!
smoking and charred writes "A great combination of big pictures, slashdot, and bored geeks worldwide. Absolutely incredible server burnination. Enjoy!"
Homer: "Stand back, or I'll boot your Prime Minister! I'll do it, so help me God I'll boot him!"
I'll be folding my t-shirts like this from now on:
http://www.howtofoldashirt.net/
I'd like to try this.
Do you have a list of the bogus HTML tags you check for?
Terry was trying to make an alien that didn't look like a man in a rubber suit. The Daleks were a sack of protaplasm with an arm, who had to live in robot bodies after they'd devastated their home planet.
Unlike the alien from the film 'Alien', they actually _couldn't_ be played by a man in a rubber suit.
'nuff said.
Incident 1.
We had a 20,000 gallon water tank on the roof spring a leak one day. About 6 PCs in an office below were soaked through. We put them in a dry room for a week then switched them on using a 10 foot pole. The only casualty was one of the keyboards.
Incident 2.
Another time a 30 year old steam pipe cracked in a tunnel and superheated steam flooded upwards into a corridor. The nearest PC was an ancient Pentium 1 running the payroll (aaugh!). The disaster recovery team hired industrial dehumidifiers to pull the moisture out of the air (and the carpets.)
This PC was so old the BIOS had no facility to set 'stay off after mains power loss', so when the hard hats finally let me into the building it was already on. Since it was running, I left it on to dry itself out. We didn't lose any computers that day, though the plaster fell off the wall all down that corridor.
You'd feel bad too, if your job had been rendered nigh obsolete by new technology.
There's a busy intersection near me, a bit north of Heathrow Airport (London, UK.) I have to cross it every day on the way to work. There's a one minute wait for the lights to change.
Occasionally the lights break down. Though the junction is very busy, the traffic flows much faster when this happens. So much so that you can tell if the lights are broken down when you're hundreds of yards away, because there are usually long queues. But when the lights break, there are no queues.
... to bang the rocks together, guys.