Kinda makes you think about taking up smoking, eh?
You probably don't know how insightful your comment really is. There seems to be evidence of a link between alzheimers and acetylcholine in the brain and nicotine helping the overall situation. More study is obviously needed for us to find out if nicotine really does help treat or prevent alzheimers or if it is just some chance anomoly.
Food for thought, as I watch my relatives fall victim to severe mental deterioration.
Please, do a google search for "nicotine alzheimer's acetylcholine" and/or similar terms and see if you can dig up anything useful to your situation. I lost one of my grandfathers two decades ago to alzheimers and commercial tobaccco related diseases. Note the key point of commercial/poisonous tobacco here. He had to quit smoking many years before alzheimers kicked in, and now I have to wonder whether nicotine patches (or whatever) might have prevented the truly gut wrenching problems of alzheimers in his last few years of life.
The whole contraption operates at atmospheric pressure, so what you get is at best steam at 100 deg. C or 370K.
That's fine with me. If they can produce a very simple home unit, just the heat alone would be worth at least $500 to maybe as much as $1000 per year to me. If they sold the unit for say, $10,000 and it would produce an "unlimited" amount of 100C water for more than a decade, I would buy it this hour.
Google says they often identify these "link farms" and drop you from search results if you appear in one. I don't know if that's true or not, but it's a big risk to take.
So what I need to do is to put my competitor's links there, right?
When you lose the keys, the encryption is worthless.
Then, don't lose the keys. The people trusted with data recovery get the keys. Then print out a hardcopy of the PGP/GPG secret keyring and passphrase and store that in a physically safe location. As a last resort, you can scan in the keys from the hardcopy.
When the same keys are used every time, it is also almost worthless.
You do know that GPG (and PGP) generate encryption session keys automatically, right? So your backup system uses the company public key to encrypt, and only the few trusted data recovery people can decrypt. I do this every work day, backing up about four gigs and burning a DVD. Yes, the discs do pile up, but at least I don't need to be worried if one got lost or stolen.
Personally, I'm working to make enough to retire, then I'll leave and never come back.
Well, before you leave, you might check out Free State Project and Free State Wyoming. These are groups of people that have not given up all hope yet. You are probably right about _most_ of the people, though.
For many people "free" suggests poor quality as in "you get what you pay for".
On the other hand, if you say...
the software is very expensive, but this is a pirated copy...
it is a demo version, but you found a way to make it do everything the full version does...
the company lawyers found a legal loophole that lets you "screw the authors" out of royalties
or any other dishonest method...
Then the boss and execs will probably be saying, "what a great piece of software; let's start using it right away."
(The stolen fruit is the sweetest.)
The NSA's stated requirements...... Must be a college student majoring in Construction Management, Supply Line Management, or related Facilities/Logistics field...
That's interesting. I guess "Construction Management" is for getting the eavesdropping devices and communications lines into new buildings.
"Supply Line Management" is for sneaking the devices into existing buildings and offices by replacing ordinary appliances and electronics with "cooperative" ones.
And "Facilities/Logistics" must be for planning covert operations to place the devices when the first two don't work...
How many years has it been? I knew if I kept reading slashdot I'd see a quote from Contact.
Some things are timeless. For me, the line "want to take a ride?" is probably the most emotional part of any movie I have seen in my life. Anyone who could be unmoved at that line should just be thrown out the airlock:-)
1. You should have said: "Her problem is that she forgets to proofread." 2. It is "A lot", not "Alot". 3. "Disinterested" means one doesn't have a conflict of interest. You should have used "uninterested". 4. It is "justified", not "justificated". 5. It is "disenfranchised", not "disenfrenchfried", unless someone took away their French fries.
Then again, maybe these were intentional and slashdot just removed the <GWB> and </GWB> tags.
How come nobody decides to recycle the printouts?:P
Because recycled printouts might lead to Microsoft code...
(For those young 'uns, Bill Gates used to dumpster dive for old program listings to help his programming skills. Personally, I would prefer to learn from code the programmers thought worth keeping, and not what they threw away, but to each his own I guess...)
As they say in Germany "ich habe gemüse in das leiderhosen".
"I have vegetables into the sorrow-pants"?
As I remember, Hosen is plural, so it should take "die" if nominative (subject) or accusative (direct object), but your sentence is obviously using locative/dative, so a real German would use "den", right?
Ich glaube, dass Sie mich durch Schokolade tragen...
When I do watch TV, the new tv occasionally crashes. When it crashes, it simply switches off, and won't restart for long periods of time (even after unplugging for several minutes).
I had a TV set that did the same thing. Eventually, I found a loose screw holding the circuit board to the frame, and after tightening the screw, the problem went away. I believe that this screw was an important ground connection, and the heat caused the board to shift enough to break the connection.
Which brings me to the second observation: no litter.
Contrast this to the Reno Air Races. It's been a few years since I have gone, but the last time I was there I was behind the bleacher seats for a short while. There was an endless stream of trash falling from above, at least one piece every few seconds it seemed. The paper cups were especially easy to notice, as they make a distinctive sound as they bounce off the asphault.
I remember thinking at the time, "what a bunch of [expletive] pigs!"
Bill: Music & royalties... FREE Bandshell rental... FREE (compliments of the City! How nice) Conductor's fee... $2500 Musicians... $15000
I have seriously wondered about this. Are these costs reasonable or typical? I am 100% serious here.
If I ever get a really big payout from some stock (heh!), one of my fantasy wish items would be to use some portion of it (say, $50k to $100k) to pay an orchestra to perform as many Beethoven symphonies as I could afford and OWN 100% of every possible copyright to those performances. In other words, it would be "work for hire", with no bullshit royalties or residuals of any kind. Then I would put them into the public domain for everyone to enjoy, copy, or whatever at no cost...
Yeah, I know that is not the same as spending the money for cancer research, but I think it would be a cool way to spend the money.
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Kinda makes you think about taking up smoking, eh?
You probably don't know how insightful your comment really is. There seems to be evidence of a link between alzheimers and acetylcholine in the brain and nicotine helping the overall situation. More study is obviously needed for us to find out if nicotine really does help treat or prevent alzheimers or if it is just some chance anomoly.
Food for thought, as I watch my relatives fall victim to severe mental deterioration.
Please, do a google search for "nicotine alzheimer's acetylcholine" and/or similar terms and see if you can dig up anything useful to your situation. I lost one of my grandfathers two decades ago to alzheimers and commercial tobaccco related diseases. Note the key point of commercial/poisonous tobacco here. He had to quit smoking many years before alzheimers kicked in, and now I have to wonder whether nicotine patches (or whatever) might have prevented the truly gut wrenching problems of alzheimers in his last few years of life.
The whole contraption operates at atmospheric pressure, so what you get is at best steam at 100 deg. C or 370K.
That's fine with me. If they can produce a very simple home unit, just the heat alone would be worth at least $500 to maybe as much as $1000 per year to me. If they sold the unit for say, $10,000 and it would produce an "unlimited" amount of 100C water for more than a decade, I would buy it this hour.
That is insanely awsome! :-)
It would be great if that paper were published somewhere -- anywhere. It would be so cool to reference that in a bibliography.
What irritates me about Mensa is the fact that they consider intelligence to be purely a function of a few odd tests.
:-)
You mean like gauging someone's artistic talents by "Can you draw Spunky?"
Google says they often identify these "link farms" and drop you from search results if you appear in one. I don't know if that's true or not, but it's a big risk to take.
So what I need to do is to put my competitor's links there, right?
When you lose the keys, the encryption is worthless.
Then, don't lose the keys. The people trusted with data recovery get the keys. Then print out a hardcopy of the PGP/GPG secret keyring and passphrase and store that in a physically safe location. As a last resort, you can scan in the keys from the hardcopy.
When the same keys are used every time, it is also almost worthless.
You do know that GPG (and PGP) generate encryption session keys automatically, right? So your backup system uses the company public key to encrypt, and only the few trusted data recovery people can decrypt. I do this every work day, backing up about four gigs and burning a DVD. Yes, the discs do pile up, but at least I don't need to be worried if one got lost or stolen.
It is absolutely crucial to read "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie.
I second that. Just remember to get the book by DALE Carnegie, not Andrew...
This is the army bud. National Security and whatnot. The army can do a lot more then the government can.
If there is a form for it, anyway...
Personally, I'm working to make enough to retire, then I'll leave and never come back.
Well, before you leave, you might check out Free State Project and Free State Wyoming. These are groups of people that have not given up all hope yet. You are probably right about _most_ of the people, though.
He meant 'p' as in 'pence', the British Pound's equivalent of the American cent.
So at today's exchange rate, where 1 Pound Sterling is worth ~1.8 US Dollars, 5p is indeed worth around 3c.
I know a pound used to be 240 pence (12 shillings * 20 pence), and then 100 pence, but now it is only 33 pence to the pound?!
On the other hand, if you say...
- the software is very expensive, but this is a pirated copy...
- it is a demo version, but you found a way to make it do everything the full version does...
- the company lawyers found a legal loophole that lets you "screw the authors" out of royalties
- or any other dishonest method...
Then the boss and execs will probably be saying, "what a great piece of software; let's start using it right away." (The stolen fruit is the sweetest.)Would this be Friday the 13th?
That's right, Hot Fudge Sundae arrives on a Friday...
Would you beat up a patient for having cancer? ... The computer is sick and malfunctioning because some asshole installed Windows on it!
That's an interesting analogy. So to carry your analogy further, then MS Service Packs would be the equivalent of chemotherapy?
The NSA's stated requirements... ... ...
Must be a college student majoring in Construction Management, Supply Line Management, or related Facilities/Logistics field
That's interesting. I guess "Construction Management" is for getting the eavesdropping devices and communications lines into new buildings.
"Supply Line Management" is for sneaking the devices into existing buildings and offices by replacing ordinary appliances and electronics with "cooperative" ones.
And "Facilities/Logistics" must be for planning covert operations to place the devices when the first two don't work...
That sure sounds like fun!
How many years has it been? I knew if I kept reading slashdot I'd see a quote from Contact.
:-)
Some things are timeless. For me, the line "want to take a ride?" is probably the most emotional part of any movie I have seen in my life. Anyone who could be unmoved at that line should just be thrown out the airlock
1. You should have said: "Her problem is that she forgets to proofread."
2. It is "A lot", not "Alot".
3. "Disinterested" means one doesn't have a conflict of interest. You should have used "uninterested".
4. It is "justified", not "justificated".
5. It is "disenfranchised", not "disenfrenchfried", unless someone took away their French fries.
Then again, maybe these were intentional and slashdot just removed the <GWB> and </GWB> tags.
How come nobody decides to recycle the printouts? :P
Because recycled printouts might lead to Microsoft code...
(For those young 'uns, Bill Gates used to dumpster dive for old program listings to help his programming skills. Personally, I would prefer to learn from code the programmers thought worth keeping, and not what they threw away, but to each his own I guess...)
I thought it was, "Hey, this is lemonade! What happened to my amoebic dysentery culture?!"
As they say in Germany "ich habe gemüse in das leiderhosen".
"I have vegetables into the sorrow-pants"?
As I remember, Hosen is plural, so it should take "die" if nominative (subject) or accusative (direct object), but your sentence is obviously using locative/dative, so a real German would use "den", right?
Ich glaube, dass Sie mich durch Schokolade tragen...
When I do watch TV, the new tv occasionally crashes. When it crashes, it simply switches off, and won't restart for long periods of time (even after unplugging for several minutes).
I had a TV set that did the same thing. Eventually, I found a loose screw holding the circuit board to the frame, and after tightening the screw, the problem went away. I believe that this screw was an important ground connection, and the heat caused the board to shift enough to break the connection.
Which brings me to the second observation: no litter.
Contrast this to the Reno Air Races. It's been a few years since I have gone, but the last time I was there I was behind the bleacher seats for a short while. There was an endless stream of trash falling from above, at least one piece every few seconds it seemed. The paper cups were especially easy to notice, as they make a distinctive sound as they bounce off the asphault.
I remember thinking at the time, "what a bunch of [expletive] pigs!"
Bill: ... FREE ... FREE (compliments of the City! How nice) ... $2500 ... $15000
Music & royalties
Bandshell rental
Conductor's fee
Musicians
I have seriously wondered about this. Are these costs reasonable or typical? I am 100% serious here.
If I ever get a really big payout from some stock (heh!), one of my fantasy wish items would be to use some portion of it (say, $50k to $100k) to pay an orchestra to perform as many Beethoven symphonies as I could afford and OWN 100% of every possible copyright to those performances. In other words, it would be "work for hire", with no bullshit royalties or residuals of any kind. Then I would put them into the public domain for everyone to enjoy, copy, or whatever at no cost...
Yeah, I know that is not the same as spending the money for cancer research, but I think it would be a cool way to spend the money.
I only got the first one wrong - MS Hotmail e-mail was actually legitimate and I marked it as fraud.
:-)
How do you really know it was legit? Just because some web site said so? How do you know you can trust THEM, eh?
I like to call it "The Wrath of Roarke". He sure did look good in that (surprisingly affordable) rich Corinthian leather.
Star Wars Ep III: The Death of Jar-Jar
Someone else posted an even better one: "The Passion of Jar-Jar". It's just two hours of Jar-Jar getting beaten.