Did you just argue that the reason Government doesn't just do whatever the fuck it wants is because it's scared of people with guns? And that guns shouldn't be banned, because the Government wouldn't be scared anymore, and so would just go nuts?
Seriously, put down the crack pipe, climb out of your bunker, and try living in the Real World for a while..
costumers? This discussion is about electric cars, what does that have to do with people who assist in dressing up? This comment is obviously offtopic, yet it gets modded insightful! Bah, I'll never understand slashdot moderation..:p
I had the same problems. What I found was the energy-saving bulbs took a while to 'warm up', in that when you first flick the switch it's quite dim and very yellow, but after an hour or so it's as bright as the label says and closer to white.
So IMHO the energy-saving bulbs work, but only for lights you're likely to leave on for a decent amount of time. My parents have one in their pantry, which comes on when you open the door. Doesn't work at all well there.
Yeah, although generally the smoker's end has a FILTER on it.. What's that about anyway? If you're going to inhale smoke for fun, at least be hard enough to inhale ALL of it. Jeez.
Do you know how long it's taken me to convince management that public floggings are a good idea? I'm going to have to brown-nose for *ages* before I get to shoot people..
Really? So you're saying the steering wheel in a ~1990 Jeep Cherokee is not physically connected to the wheels?
I find it hard to believe that a car manufacturer would design a car that would not steer under loss of power. Over here in New Zealand, we call that illegal.
My guess is you lost power assistance to the steering, and "being young", you panicked. That's ok. It happens.
This is why I think driver education should be more like flight training, armed forces training, etc. You should (in a controlled environment, of course) be forced into situations where things fail, and you have to react.
perhaps you could double-clutch it into reverse
When it's moving forwards? Good luck!
that's why cars are equipped with emergency brakes
Huh? Oh, you mean the handbrake (I guess "emergency brake" is an Americanism, as it doesn't make sense). It only brakes the back wheels. I'd like to see a guy doing 120mph pull up the handbrake to try to stop.
Also, I think you'll find that you can still use the (foot) brake with the engine off. All you lose is the booster (usually provided by engine intake vacuum, hence only works with engine running), and although the brakes will be a lot harder to apply, and a lot softer, they will still work. Formula one cars don't have brake boosters, and they stop like a motherfucker:)
As someone else pointed out, turning the ignition off usually has the side effect of locking the steering column. That won't help much. Coupled with your 'pull the handbrake' idea, you've taken your mostly controllable (albeit speeding) vehicle and turned it into sliding, spinning, death-on-a-stick.
My naive linux (also RedHat6) experience: Some years ago when I was working in web design/coding, we moved from a cable modem to new premises with a 10Mb link (that was shared by half the city, I found out later).. We needed a router, so we set up a vanilla RH6.0 (I think) box with a couple of network cards and told it to act like a router. I mentioned to my boss that seeing as it was being a router, maybe we should spend some time stripping out all the extra stuff, but it took us long enough to get the thing up and running (I was still learning about the whole routing thing back then), that I was put back to 'more important' web work as soon as possible. As you can imagine, it wasn't long before we got r00ted.. I was on my way in to work one day when my boss called and said the ISP had blocked our MAC address cos it'd been flooding the network and had all but taken out another ISP. Needless to say I was allowed to spend some time securing that box. I don't think having telnet running was the problem, more likely either the only non-root user account having the same username/password as the machine name; or possibly the easily exploitable version of BIND we had (found this one out when our webserver got hacked by a friendler h4xx0r - he actually pointed out what was wrong, and what we should do to fix it!)
Why is there no link to the craigslist website? Neither in the cnn article, nor the slashdot summary. I had to guess that it was probably something like craigslist.com, which redirected me to craigslist.org.. Really fucking bad reporting, guys!
I think you're oversimplifying slightly. Your analogy would fit better as "if I was a radio technician who designed radios"
Haven't read the entire article, but from what I understand this guy was involved in converting low-level code to high-level code for his employer. He then wrote a program to do this, at home.
If a builder builds a shed for a friend on the weekend, does his employer own the shed? Of course not. What if the builder used material - wood, nails, etc - owned by his employer? In that case his employer would no doubt have a valid claim on the shed.
While Brown may have been thinking about his idea at work, if he actually built it outside of work time, the only reason I can see for the employer to claim they own it is if he used a significant amount of specific code, algorithms, or other "Intellectual Property" that was developed at work.
Generally, if you're writing code for a company, and they're paying you for your time, they own the rights to the code you wrote.
Well, if you're working on code that you haven't sold yet, the money must come from somewhere.
My point is the customers don't pay until the product has been made. Imagine a Ford representative coming to you saying "Hey, we're going to make a new sports car. We haven't designed it yet. Give us $20,000 now and we'll give you a car in a year or two"
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"Michael Moorcock" - sounds like a pr0n star. Didn't he do Farenheit 9: 11 inches?
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Dude, what the fuck are you on?
Did you just argue that the reason Government doesn't just do whatever the fuck it wants is because it's scared of people with guns? And that guns shouldn't be banned, because the Government wouldn't be scared anymore, and so would just go nuts?
Seriously, put down the crack pipe, climb out of your bunker, and try living in the Real World for a while..
It's a legitimate strategy! :)
(Red Vs Blue reference)
costumers? This discussion is about electric cars, what does that have to do with people who assist in dressing up? :p
This comment is obviously offtopic, yet it gets modded insightful!
Bah, I'll never understand slashdot moderation..
I had the same problems. What I found was the energy-saving bulbs took a while to 'warm up', in that when you first flick the switch it's quite dim and very yellow, but after an hour or so it's as bright as the label says and closer to white.
So IMHO the energy-saving bulbs work, but only for lights you're likely to leave on for a decent amount of time. My parents have one in their pantry, which comes on when you open the door. Doesn't work at all well there.
That is, without a doubt, both the funniest and the most correct summary of every CSI:Miami show I've ever seen (both of 'em!)
Give that man a chocolate fish. Hell, a whole box.
(yeah, I know, other people have made similar comments - think of it not as '-1, Redundant', more '+1, giving the dude his props')
MSN comes in at #11! They're obviously biasing the results in their favour! ;)
Because windoze is teh suck! And Linux r0xx0rz!
:)
(actually, I have no idea. I just wanted to be the first to say it
> One of the greatest pleasures of being a smoker is blowing it into the face of smokers.
You blow smoke in my face, I'll spit in your mouth. That's if I'm feeling nice.
Yeah, although generally the smoker's end has a FILTER on it..
What's that about anyway? If you're going to inhale smoke for fun, at least be hard enough to inhale ALL of it. Jeez.
Death penalty? I wish!
Do you know how long it's taken me to convince management that public floggings are a good idea?
I'm going to have to brown-nose for *ages* before I get to shoot people..
British pornographic society?
Phew, for a minute there I was worried! Suing people for sharing music is one thing, but pr0n? Oh the humanity!
Really? So you're saying the steering wheel in a ~1990 Jeep Cherokee is not physically connected to the wheels?
I find it hard to believe that a car manufacturer would design a car that would not steer under loss of power. Over here in New Zealand, we call that illegal.
My guess is you lost power assistance to the steering, and "being young", you panicked. That's ok. It happens.
This is why I think driver education should be more like flight training, armed forces training, etc. You should (in a controlled environment, of course) be forced into situations where things fail, and you have to react.
perhaps you could double-clutch it into reverse
:)
When it's moving forwards? Good luck!
that's why cars are equipped with emergency brakes
Huh? Oh, you mean the handbrake (I guess "emergency brake" is an Americanism, as it doesn't make sense). It only brakes the back wheels. I'd like to see a guy doing 120mph pull up the handbrake to try to stop.
Also, I think you'll find that you can still use the (foot) brake with the engine off. All you lose is the booster (usually provided by engine intake vacuum, hence only works with engine running), and although the brakes will be a lot harder to apply, and a lot softer, they will still work. Formula one cars don't have brake boosters, and they stop like a motherfucker
As someone else pointed out, turning the ignition off usually has the side effect of locking the steering column. That won't help much. Coupled with your 'pull the handbrake' idea, you've taken your mostly controllable (albeit speeding) vehicle and turned it into sliding, spinning, death-on-a-stick.
That's what all rocketry boils down to doing; throwing something (usually burning fuel) out the back in order move foward/upward.
:)
Yeah, it's not exactly rocket science..
So it was you that broke my car. Bastard! ;p
Hey! That happens to my head too - I always thought maybe I needed a chiropractor, or just better posture.
Turns out I just needed to read my FAQ!
This is a new one for slashdot - a plant nerd! :)
Or '1337h4xx0r' :)
for *enclosing* paragraphs, not ending them (there is a difference).
It'll make thing much easier when you wake up to 1999 and start using CSS..
My naive linux (also RedHat6) experience:
Some years ago when I was working in web design/coding, we moved from a cable modem to new premises with a 10Mb link (that was shared by half the city, I found out later)..
We needed a router, so we set up a vanilla RH6.0 (I think) box with a couple of network cards and told it to act like a router.
I mentioned to my boss that seeing as it was being a router, maybe we should spend some time stripping out all the extra stuff, but it took us long enough to get the thing up and running (I was still learning about the whole routing thing back then), that I was put back to 'more important' web work as soon as possible.
As you can imagine, it wasn't long before we got r00ted.. I was on my way in to work one day when my boss called and said the ISP had blocked our MAC address cos it'd been flooding the network and had all but taken out another ISP.
Needless to say I was allowed to spend some time securing that box. I don't think having telnet running was the problem, more likely either the only non-root user account having the same username/password as the machine name; or possibly the easily exploitable version of BIND we had (found this one out when our webserver got hacked by a friendler h4xx0r - he actually pointed out what was wrong, and what we should do to fix it!)
Why is there no link to the craigslist website? Neither in the cnn article, nor the slashdot summary. I had to guess that it was probably something like craigslist.com, which redirected me to craigslist.org..
Really fucking bad reporting, guys!
I think you're oversimplifying slightly. Your analogy would fit better as "if I was a radio technician who designed radios"
Haven't read the entire article, but from what I understand this guy was involved in converting low-level code to high-level code for his employer. He then wrote a program to do this, at home.
If a builder builds a shed for a friend on the weekend, does his employer own the shed? Of course not.
What if the builder used material - wood, nails, etc - owned by his employer? In that case his employer would no doubt have a valid claim on the shed.
While Brown may have been thinking about his idea at work, if he actually built it outside of work time, the only reason I can see for the employer to claim they own it is if he used a significant amount of specific code, algorithms, or other "Intellectual Property" that was developed at work.
Generally, if you're writing code for a company, and they're paying you for your time, they own the rights to the code you wrote.
Well, if you're working on code that you haven't sold yet, the money must come from somewhere.
My point is the customers don't pay until the product has been made. Imagine a Ford representative coming to you saying "Hey, we're going to make a new sports car. We haven't designed it yet. Give us $20,000 now and we'll give you a car in a year or two"
"Michael Moorcock" - sounds like a pr0n star. Didn't he do Farenheit 9: 11 inches?
I always use 'postmaster@real.com'