Hate to burst your bubble, but the good drugs are only for the big scary sigmoid thing.
Ol' Doc RubberGloves (the "manual digital inspection" for your prostate) is, as another poster phrased it, Grin and Bear it.
Of course, you could always BYODrugs, I suppose. Personally, I'd hate to go into that physical while drunk. Pavlov teaches me that I'd associate the sensation of being drunk with the resulting... uh... discomfort. I'd have to quit drinking from there on out.
Otis Elevator Company is the other classic story -- Mr Otis invented the safty brake (which automatically catches an elevator if the cable breaks) and patented the idea. He then gave free license to use the invention to any and all competitors, since it would save lives.
Yeah yeah yeah, cursive is dying, kids can't print. Whatever.
I'm still looking for the Ask Slashdot "How old should my child be before I teach her Grafitti(tm)?"
I've got Zork II running in the vacant desk at my office, though it's not my original computer. (This is an Enhanced//e from the neighbors moving-day trash)
I was one of those Franklin scum, since my folks didn't know the shame it would bring on my head.
Some people believe that taking things out of other people's garbage is stealing.
Some people think of it as recycling, but AFAIK nobody considers it piracy.
Some guy got stuff from the trash. That guy chose to sell the stuff on the web, so he took pictures of it. (e-commerce 101: a picture is worth 1k words)
Somehow, this gets twisted into a DMCA violation? Give it a rest!
Now let's make the analogy more precise. You sell me your CD collection. I've paid for it. But then I say, "instead of shipping it to me, email me the MP3s you ripped, but as far as the physical media, just set fire to it and piss on the ashes -- I've got the MP3s, I don't need the physical media, I just need to ensure that nobody else but me, anywhere, ever, uses that physical media, which can easily be ensured by just destroying the media entirely".
And so you throw your CDs in a recycle bin, trusting that they'll be destroyed. But then some college students dig through your recycle bin and salvage the CDs, the CDs that someone else already paid for, the CDs that you have made a comittment to destroy.
That is piracy, at that point.
Ok, but who is the crook here? The dumpster-divers are just taking what they believe to be trash. You (the CD-thrower-outer) didn't follow through on your committment. Where do you get the right to call the dumpster-divers crooks?
You talk as if College is nothing more than the act of completing coursework. The submitter specifically talked about how his/her fundamental outlook on life was formed and refined during the experience of College, and wonders how that process differs because of the near-ubiquitous communication that the network has provided.
...a book I read long ago, that was supposedly a novelized true story about how a network administrator "catched" a hacker. Might you be thinking of
Cuckoo's Egg by chance?
The story of how an admin caught an intruder.
Specifically designing your product to work better in a test than in real life should be considered cheating.
Bollocks. It's merely exposing a weakness in the benchmark. I place 100% blame on the 3DMark team here. If the benchmark measures real life performance, then specifically designing your product to work better in a test is just optimizing for real life.
If the benchmark DOESN'T measure real life performance, then fix the damn benchmark.
I think that people who drive heavy, inefficient vehicles, which are most detrimental to roads, should pay a higher tax.
Honest question -- what about those of us who drive light, inefficient vehicles? My Jeep is only a tad over 3,000lbs, but still falls in the "less-than-20MPG" crowd. If curb weight is the most significant factor, I do just about the same damage as a Honda Civic Hybrid (at 2,800lb curb weight) yet I would pay more than twice the tax per mile.
I'm just curious how I fit into your idea of social justice.
FWIW, I support higher fuel taxes because I think selfish bastards like me should suffer for the ecological damage that we do. The fact that it means more money for roads is just icing on the cake.
It can backfire. I got a call once from a magazine salesman and when he asked me what magazines I liked to read, I said "I don't read too much...since the accident. I just can't get used to using Braille." He said, "Oh, I'm sorry to hear that" and ended the call.
I now receive solicitations from blindness organizations.
In Braile? That actually sounds kinda cool. If not, then that's just funny.
Or make a spoon that doesn't get all sparky when I leave it my coffee mug for the microwave re-warming? Oh, wait, that'd just be the "plastic" spoon then, wouldn't it?
Mark this day! Cliff's trademark comma actually landed in an appropriate place! Assuming,
of course, that he was trying to sound like Fat Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons.
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When I read the headline, I thought "non-critical appointees" was a buzzword for "the folks we're about to lay off."
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i like to code when i am high,
Hey, I think I'm maintaining your code now, you smeghead
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Hate to burst your bubble, but the good drugs are only for the big scary sigmoid thing. ... uh... discomfort. I'd have to quit drinking from there on out.
Ol' Doc RubberGloves (the "manual digital inspection" for your prostate) is, as another poster phrased it, Grin and Bear it.
Of course, you could always BYODrugs, I suppose. Personally, I'd hate to go into that physical while drunk. Pavlov teaches me that I'd associate the sensation of being drunk with the resulting
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Otis Elevator Company is the other classic story -- Mr Otis invented the safty brake (which automatically catches an elevator if the cable breaks) and patented the idea. He then gave free license to use the invention to any and all competitors, since it would save lives.
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Next up: Man from Atlantis
Airwolf
Knight Rider
oh what the heck, go back another 10 years and pick up S.W.A.T. while you're at it
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You see signs in gas stations requesting that mobile phones be switched off.
Is there any research to prove that this is a real danger?
Nope, but there sure is a lot of speculation
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Yeah yeah yeah, cursive is dying, kids can't print.
Whatever.
I'm still looking for the Ask Slashdot "How old should my child be before I teach her Grafitti(tm)?"
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Sell it all to ClearChannel.
Too late. WAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYY too late.
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... There was still a slot for the coin-op vibrating bed.
Some things never change
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I've got Zork II running in the vacant desk at my office, though it's not my original computer. (This is an Enhanced //e from the neighbors moving-day trash)
I was one of those Franklin scum, since my folks didn't know the shame it would bring on my head.
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Some people believe that taking things out of other people's garbage is stealing.
Some people think of it as recycling, but AFAIK nobody considers it piracy.
Some guy got stuff from the trash. That guy chose to sell the stuff on the web, so he took pictures of it. (e-commerce 101: a picture is worth 1k words)
Somehow, this gets twisted into a DMCA violation? Give it a rest!
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Oh come on, who would do that?
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You're welcome, although that's a frightening thought.
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Now let's make the analogy more precise. You sell me your CD collection. I've paid for it. But then I say, "instead of shipping it to me, email me the MP3s you ripped, but as far as the physical media, just set fire to it and piss on the ashes -- I've got the MP3s, I don't need the physical media, I just need to ensure that nobody else but me, anywhere, ever, uses that physical media, which can easily be ensured by just destroying the media entirely".
And so you throw your CDs in a recycle bin, trusting that they'll be destroyed. But then some college students dig through your recycle bin and salvage the CDs, the CDs that someone else already paid for, the CDs that you have made a comittment to destroy.
That is piracy, at that point.
Ok, but who is the crook here? The dumpster-divers are just taking what they believe to be trash. You (the CD-thrower-outer) didn't follow through on your committment. Where do you get the right to call the dumpster-divers crooks?
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You talk as if College is nothing more than the act of completing coursework.
The submitter specifically talked about how his/her fundamental outlook on life was formed and refined during the experience of College, and wonders how that process differs because of the near-ubiquitous communication that the network has provided.
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Might you be thinking of Cuckoo's Egg by chance?
The story of how an admin caught an intruder.
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What else, other than a percentage of sales, can Apple offer to a music company
Free iPods for the decision-makers?
Makes me wish I was in the area, I'd print up some "JUSTONEMORELATTE Records" T-shirts and head on over.
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http://www.google.com/search?sa=X&oi=fwp&pb=f&q=3
(which was the "More phonebook listings" link at the top of your Google link)
Can I mod this -1 Just Bragging?
But if you're ever anywhere near Boulder CO, can I get a ride? Anywhere?
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Specifically designing your product to work better in a test than in real life should be considered cheating.
Bollocks. It's merely exposing a weakness in the benchmark. I place 100% blame on the 3DMark team here.
If the benchmark measures real life performance, then specifically designing your product to work better in a test is just optimizing for real life.
If the benchmark DOESN'T measure real life performance, then fix the damn benchmark.
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I think that people who drive heavy, inefficient vehicles, which are most detrimental to roads, should pay a higher tax.
Honest question -- what about those of us who drive light, inefficient vehicles? My Jeep is only a tad over 3,000lbs, but still falls in the "less-than-20MPG" crowd. If curb weight is the most significant factor, I do just about the same damage as a Honda Civic Hybrid (at 2,800lb curb weight) yet I would pay more than twice the tax per mile.
I'm just curious how I fit into your idea of social justice.
FWIW, I support higher fuel taxes because I think selfish bastards like me should suffer for the ecological damage that we do. The fact that it means more money for roads is just icing on the cake.
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It can backfire. I got a call once from a magazine salesman and when he asked me what magazines I liked to read, I said "I don't read too much...since the accident. I just can't get used to using Braille." He said, "Oh, I'm sorry to hear that" and ended the call.
I now receive solicitations from blindness organizations.
In Braile? That actually sounds kinda cool. If not, then that's just funny.
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What's your number? Post it here, we'll slashdot your phone for you.
303-499-7111. Call now for a REALLY good time
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Or make a spoon that doesn't get all sparky when I leave it my coffee mug for the microwave re-warming?
Oh, wait, that'd just be the "plastic" spoon then, wouldn't it?
Mark this day! Cliff's trademark comma actually landed in an appropriate place!
Assuming, of course, that he was trying to sound like Fat Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons.
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