Are you going to claim that acid rain doesn't exist?
No.
That air pollution hasn't caused an epidemic of asthma and other breathing problems?
Maybe.
Certainly I'm unconvinced about the causes of the undeniable epidemic of asthma, hay fever, allergies, etc. The very distressing state of children is obviously down to something we've done since the 1970s, but I really don't know what. If it were purely down to the air pollution, I'd have expected more effects on adults, and I'd expect to see evidence based on geographical location - kids in the countryside suffering less than in the towns, for instance.
Maybe that evidence exists, but I haven't seen it. Obviously kids with asthma find the condition aggravated by being in a town, but I'm not talking about the frequency of the attacks - I'm talking about whether they have the condition or not.
My personal theories would put it more down to diet, or other chemicals in the environment, but no - I can't prove that any more than you can prove it's air pollution.
Meanwhile - to get back on topic - whilst I'm fully prepared to believe we're making global warming worse, I'm not sold on us being solely responsible. We HAVE global warming, and the more important question is what can we do to safeguard our way of life.
Maybe the best way to safeguard our way of life is to attempt to mitigate the warming by reducing our contribution to it. I'm totally prepared to believe that.
You could also accuse me of being cruel and heartless by saing that the important question is how to safeguard our way of life, and by totally ignoring the plight of the polar bear, but you have to ask yourself, if it was the other way around - what would the polar bear do?
So, if you're "sam@abc.com" with an extension, the address "sam+slashdot@abs.com" will still deliver to your base mailbox.
Then it is trivial to figure out which site leaked your address for spam
Surely that only holds for as long as it takes address harvesters to figure out the need to delete the portion of the address from the + to just before the @?
It might work for you now, but it's doomed I tell you - doomed.
These studies have shown that stratospheric ozone loss is caused by chlorine and bromine catalytic reaction. The source of stratospheric chlorine ultimately comes from photochemical breakdown of manmade chlorofluorocarbons released in the troposphere from human activities.
It was another accidental discovery of a mouse that spontaneously developed special abilities.
I really want to see a cancer-resistant regenerating super-mouse, especially if an injection of mouse serum confers these powers on ordinary people, er, mice.
The big problem with Risk is every few years the rules change slightly.
I first met the game in 1986, and I've seen several incarnations of the rules since.
Indeed - they just suddenly noticed mice were regenerating. For all we know the mice evolved entirely on their own to overcome their environment of scientists poking holes in them all the time!
Of course, now all future regenerating mice, and possibly all future regenerating people are going to have the genes of perhaps one single originator mouse....
<chant>We believe in one mouse, the rejuvenator all mighty - progenitor of mankind on earth...</chant>
Praise be to squeaky.
Are they going to trigger accidentally whenever they come near a car with this new collision-detecting radar? Some of them are already triggered by automatic doors in nearby shops.
Will this make such radar-detecting devices useless, by giving too many false positives?
The important difference to my mind is that at present people have to go looking for casinos, become a member, etc. whereas the proposed changes will make it far easier and more obvious.
What's annoying is that there's really no public demand - only the corporate interests and the politicians seem to want it.
Has anyone else noticed the sudden increase in advertising for products like card/roulette sets, poker chips, foldout blackjack tables, etc? I know it's Christmas, but it looks to me like perhaps someone is trying to wake up public desire for such gambling paraphernalia? I've been keeping half an eye out for some affordable poker chips for ages, and suddenly they're everywhere.
Pierre Danon, chief executive of BT retail, said the company was blocking access to hundreds of sites which had been identified by the Internet Watch Foundation.
The article does not explain under what circumstances the bank requires this, perhaps to open an account.
A friend of mine was a Lloyds customer for many years. He says this:
Lloyds asked me to provide two pieces of personal identification. They gave me two lists, and I had to provide one item from each list. They said that they had to confirm my identity, to meet requirements of the FSA.
I rang the FSA.
They said that they only require this if I am suspected of being a
Criminal pursuing either fraud or money laundering.
I contacted Lloyds, who denied this. They said that they were checking all their customers. I said thatI didn't know of any other customers that were being checked, and made a bit of a scene in the Bank Branch.
I refused to show the ID requested and challenged them as to what they would do next. They said "Nothing". They didn't want any bad publicity.
So I told them to cancel my mortgage and all my accounts.
Don't go automatically editing the photos too enthusiastically. One mother detected cancer in her kid's eye when only one of them came out with
red-eye in a photo.
Not all optical media is vulnerable. The rewritable variants (RW) use metallic materials that change the phase of the light, rather than light-sensitive dyes.
And from this article, we have
Rewriteable CDs and DVDs, as opposed to write-once discs, should not be used for long-term storage because they contain a heat-sensitive layer that decays much faster than the metal layers of other discs.
Ratajik says he's trying to sell music from StationRipper via Amazon): "if users click the 'Buy' button they can buy the music being ripped.
So it's not just a case of taping stuff off the radio for yourself - there's morons doing the online equivalent of setting up a stall on the high street selling mix-tapes made off the radio.
This is where the problems lie. Stop trying to go public with services/sharing/selling. You are stealing from somebody.
Kids copy a few tracks off the radio, or from their friend's CD, and no-one cares that much. It's what we've had for decades, and we can all live quite happilly thank-you.
As soon as someone starts distributing en masse to the world at large - to people they don't really know - the balance tips.
We have a balance between how much hassle/loss of quality we'll endure for free music. The record industry has a balance between how much hassle it is to track/sue people against how well organised they are, and how widely they're distributing their stuff.
I think it's an experiment to see what environmental factors influence motility. Anyone thinking of starting a family might be interested to learn what methods exist to improve their chances.
in that case, it would be the clerk who always sees the customer buying beer
Good point.
Once upon a time, you had no privacy, because you bought your goods at the local store, and the storekeeper knew you, and knew everyone. If you bought something for the weekend you never knew if gossip would spread.
Then along came supermarkets and anonymised everything. Suddenly you were just a face in the crowd. Now we like that, and we're used to it now, but let's not let nostalgia put blinkers on us. We haven't always had this "privacy" in public, and shopkeepers/human beings have always tried to manipulate us for their own ends.
Yes, there's an enormous upside to online information gathering, but I am just a little scared of the ease with which online, or automatically-updated and downloaded information sources can change facts while you're not looking.
I'm not just suggesting we're more susceptible to manipulation by malevolent conspiracies, in a tinfoil-hat sort of way, but also wondering if we're in danger of losing the archive trail our civilisation has had up to now.
Might be the last chance they get to cash in and walk away with the money. Can't blame them for wanting to get it done now, while they're at the top of their game.
Yesterday's story of new methods for grouping search results shows that new things are coming. Best of luck, I say (but no, I won't be buying any stock).
Slashdot Mirror
No.
Maybe.
Certainly I'm unconvinced about the causes of the undeniable epidemic of asthma, hay fever, allergies, etc. The very distressing state of children is obviously down to something we've done since the 1970s, but I really don't know what. If it were purely down to the air pollution, I'd have expected more effects on adults, and I'd expect to see evidence based on geographical location - kids in the countryside suffering less than in the towns, for instance.
Maybe that evidence exists, but I haven't seen it. Obviously kids with asthma find the condition aggravated by being in a town, but I'm not talking about the frequency of the attacks - I'm talking about whether they have the condition or not.
My personal theories would put it more down to diet, or other chemicals in the environment, but no - I can't prove that any more than you can prove it's air pollution.
Meanwhile - to get back on topic - whilst I'm fully prepared to believe we're making global warming worse, I'm not sold on us being solely responsible. We HAVE global warming, and the more important question is what can we do to safeguard our way of life.
Maybe the best way to safeguard our way of life is to attempt to mitigate the warming by reducing our contribution to it. I'm totally prepared to believe that.
You could also accuse me of being cruel and heartless by saing that the important question is how to safeguard our way of life, and by totally ignoring the plight of the polar bear, but you have to ask yourself, if it was the other way around - what would the polar bear do?
It might work for you now, but it's doomed I tell you - doomed.
We now have mice that are guaranteed not to get fat, asthmatic, or a variety of other health problems, as well as cancer resistant and regenerating.
We've got to get these mice together.
It was another accidental discovery of a mouse that spontaneously developed special abilities.
I really want to see a cancer-resistant regenerating super-mouse, especially if an injection of mouse serum confers these powers on ordinary people, er, mice.
The big problem with Risk is every few years the rules change slightly. I first met the game in 1986, and I've seen several incarnations of the rules since.
Of course, now all future regenerating mice, and possibly all future regenerating people are going to have the genes of perhaps one single originator mouse....
<chant>We believe in one mouse, the rejuvenator all mighty - progenitor of mankind on earth...</chant> Praise be to squeaky.
Will this make such radar-detecting devices useless, by giving too many false positives?
PS. No, I don't own one, I'm just curious.
All alien planets really do look like a disused quarry.
What's annoying is that there's really no public demand - only the corporate interests and the politicians seem to want it.
Has anyone else noticed the sudden increase in advertising for products like card/roulette sets, poker chips, foldout blackjack tables, etc? I know it's Christmas, but it looks to me like perhaps someone is trying to wake up public desire for such gambling paraphernalia? I've been keeping half an eye out for some affordable poker chips for ages, and suddenly they're everywhere.
I've got an IBM mainframe over here running MVS that insists on 80 columns.... Not all these old computers are dead.
A friend of mine was a Lloyds customer for many years. He says this:
Lloyds asked me to provide two pieces of personal identification. They gave me two lists, and I had to provide one item from each list. They said that they had to confirm my identity, to meet requirements of the FSA.
I rang the FSA.
They said that they only require this if I am suspected of being a Criminal pursuing either fraud or money laundering.
I contacted Lloyds, who denied this. They said that they were checking all their customers. I said thatI didn't know of any other customers that were being checked, and made a bit of a scene in the Bank Branch.
I refused to show the ID requested and challenged them as to what they would do next. They said "Nothing". They didn't want any bad publicity.
So I told them to cancel my mortgage and all my accounts.
Don't go automatically editing the photos too enthusiastically. One mother detected cancer in her kid's eye when only one of them came out with red-eye in a photo.
This is where the problems lie. Stop trying to go public with services/sharing/selling. You are stealing from somebody.
Kids copy a few tracks off the radio, or from their friend's CD, and no-one cares that much. It's what we've had for decades, and we can all live quite happilly thank-you.
As soon as someone starts distributing en masse to the world at large - to people they don't really know - the balance tips.
We have a balance between how much hassle/loss of quality we'll endure for free music. The record industry has a balance between how much hassle it is to track/sue people against how well organised they are, and how widely they're distributing their stuff.
Once upon a time, you had no privacy, because you bought your goods at the local store, and the storekeeper knew you, and knew everyone. If you bought something for the weekend you never knew if gossip would spread.
Then along came supermarkets and anonymised everything. Suddenly you were just a face in the crowd. Now we like that, and we're used to it now, but let's not let nostalgia put blinkers on us. We haven't always had this "privacy" in public, and shopkeepers/human beings have always tried to manipulate us for their own ends.
c'mon guys - free samples are everywhere.
I'm not just suggesting we're more susceptible to manipulation by malevolent conspiracies, in a tinfoil-hat sort of way, but also wondering if we're in danger of losing the archive trail our civilisation has had up to now.