Viet Dinh? What, named after the country? What I really need is someone from Vietnam telling me how great the Patriot Act is.. They seem to have it down in 'Nam.
Yes, furry little friends o' mine. The name of the game is communism. And we're edging ever-so-closer to it's methods in the good ol' US of A. Shame, shame, shame!
> A team of Astronomers have found a natural lens capable of resolving details as fine as 10 microarcseconds across...
here's the definition for arcsecond if you still want to read it.
After following one link from above page (to this page), we get: In astronomy, one can measure the angular separation of two stars by imagining two lines through the Earth, each one intersecting one of the stars. Then the angle between those lines can be measured; this is the angular separation between the two stars.
Great, more Earth-centric stuff. Galileo is turning in his grave!
I'm not an astronomer (far from it), and it just seems silly and cocky to me, an outsider to the field, that we use the Earth to measure stuff. I can quickly come up with better (IMHO) points of reference: the Sun, the center of our galaxy, the center of the universe (do we know where it is?). Of course, there may be a perfectly valid reason to do this, in which case ignore this;)
The 2.4GHz band? Yes, not a low-level magnetic field, but I run one 24/7 and it basically runs thru me while I sleep. Has _any_ research been done on this?
As far as cell phones, I use a hands-free as I'm a heavy user and I feel the side of my head that I hold the phone on heat up after 10-15 minutes.
>> "what a great way to make sure a great invention never makes it big. I predict that in 10 years it will still have less than 5% market share. kind of like linux."
> As opposed to, say, commercial stuff like Irix, which are...
Lesson being that unless there's some lying and deceit going on, it ain't gonna cut the mustard in the lovely world we built for ourselves.
Micro$oft patents slashdot! In an ongoing battle with the gov't, M$FT is gaining ground by patenting left and right. The gov't has recently made headlines in the race by announcing fingerprinting systems and taking away Americans' rights by the dozen. Upon hearing about M$'s latest move, a spokesman for the Chimpanzee Administration said on Friday that in response the gov't is gonna roll out the project dubbed "Stage III" 6 months earlier than originally planned. Under this project, the gov't will own everything you do, in effect owning you. Any patent you will file will automatically be the gov't's, as will be everything you will say, think and do.
This is, indeed (as opposed to the corny TeacherReviews.com post), a breath of fresh air in a geek-infested/. atmosphere (sorry guys). What I don't get (although I fully support) is how this can be in this BushCo world that we live in. I mean, these bastards want to know everything, even when we fart from Mexican salsa (and potentially tax us for emanating the end-product of "alien" labor). So, it kinda boggles my mind (k, keep the jokes at bay - I'm not the smartest person on the planet - but guess what - neither are you! phucker..). It also makes me think of all the illegal opportunities this opens up. Don't get me wrong (and I hope you don't hate me for this run-on paragraph) - I'm all for true freedom which, unfortunately, does not exist in the US of A as of now (one could argue, rather successfully, that it never existed - but what's going on these days is not only pathetic, but an insult).
In any case, this just "seems right." Which means that it will prolly get shot down by one of BushCo's cronies. Watch my words.
"Vladimir Levin ...
Unusual tools: Along with a computer, computer games and disks, Russian police confiscated a camcorder, music speakers and a TV set from Levin's apartment."
Wow, a TV is indeed an unusual tool. Especially in communist Russia! (wait, it's no longer communist - someone tell Washington!) Was it a color TV? And "music speakers," you say? God damn, that's unusual! More unusual than the author's strange vocabulary.. Almost makes one think if he's a RUSSIAN SPY!
"Current status: ...
Citibank has since begun using the Dynamic Encryption Card, a security system so tight that no other financial institution in the world has it."
Why does this feel like I'm reading the New York Post? Or is it a comic book that I'm thinking of? Or is it Da Source? That shit's tight, cuz!
Another gem: "Richard Stallman
Handle: None (nothing to hide!)"
Is this article written by the gov't? Jeez. A shame that this passes for journalism in this country.
I just stopped reading this junk after the first page and randomly-clicked Vladimir.
So now we're _openly_ disregarding human life. Sacrifice some poor bastards who're too ignorant to realize what's going on to save some $$$. A waste of life, and an open admission of how degenerate we've become. A shame.
We invented money, and it has become bigger than us! Never mind the "machines taking over" - $$$ has taken over a long time ago and has enslaved us, including our minds! Wake up!
On one of his pages , he abbreviates the word "see" as s. I believe this is the first time I have seen this - it could be indicative of an ancient civilization corrupting the English dictionary via a computer-to-human transmissible virus broadcast back to earth by Mars rover Spirit once it fell pray to the Demon of Mars (which, incidentally, is also red)!
I now pay an additional $1.75 on my land line bill from Verizon.
I called them up and asked them if it was optional. They said no. I asked them if I can move my 212 number to my cell phone. They said no. I asked them if this means that when I move to Florida early next year I can take my NYC number with me. They said no. I asked what it's for. They said I can move to another place that is covered by the same central office. So I asked them if this means moving to my neighbor's apartment, and they basically agreed - this is all it's good for (read: bs to extort more profit profit profit - I was already paying over 50% in all sorts of surcharges & taxes). So I cancelled my land line.
What, did you think that corporations run the show only in the good ol' US? It's global, man, for goodness sake! And people become more and more tolerant of this way of life every day (path of least resistance). Unless something is done, our kids won't even know what freedom means.
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Viet Dinh? What, named after the country? What I really need is someone from Vietnam telling me how great the Patriot Act is.. They seem to have it down in 'Nam.
Yes, furry little friends o' mine. The name of the game is communism. And we're edging ever-so-closer to it's methods in the good ol' US of A. Shame, shame, shame!
> A team of Astronomers have found a natural lens capable of resolving details as fine as 10 microarcseconds across ...
;)
here's the definition for arcsecond if you still want to read it.
After following one link from above page (to this page), we get:
In astronomy, one can measure the angular separation of two stars by imagining two lines through the Earth, each one intersecting one of the stars. Then the angle between those lines can be measured; this is the angular separation between the two stars.
Great, more Earth-centric stuff. Galileo is turning in his grave!
I'm not an astronomer (far from it), and it just seems silly and cocky to me, an outsider to the field, that we use the Earth to measure stuff. I can quickly come up with better (IMHO) points of reference: the Sun, the center of our galaxy, the center of the universe (do we know where it is?). Of course, there may be a perfectly valid reason to do this, in which case ignore this
> "We recognized early in the planning process that the flash file system had a limited capacity for files."
;)
Wow, geniuses. As opposed to the regular file systems we use here on Earth, which have unlimited "capacity" for files?
> "But there were also directories of files already placed into the file system in the launch load,"
More advanced high-tech speak.. NOT!
All joking aside, when they try to make it easy-to-understand for laymen (or politicians?), they make it sound retarded to us.
I think the problem was actually with the imperial-to-metric conversion functions, they're just covering it up to avoid further embarrassment
The 2.4GHz band? Yes, not a low-level magnetic field, but I run one 24/7 and it basically runs thru me while I sleep. Has _any_ research been done on this?
As far as cell phones, I use a hands-free as I'm a heavy user and I feel the side of my head that I hold the phone on heat up after 10-15 minutes.
>> "what a great way to make sure a great invention never makes it big. I predict that in 10 years it will still have less than 5% market share. kind of like linux."
...
> As opposed to, say, commercial stuff like Irix, which are
Lesson being that unless there's some lying and deceit going on, it ain't gonna cut the mustard in the lovely world we built for ourselves.
Where's the torrent for it???
The use of the word "impacted" here is classic corpo-Pentagon-speak.
The correct word is "affected." For a person to be "impacted" has an entirely different meaning.
You'd think Microsoft would care about the distinction, since they are so full of shit.
Are you saying that if they themselves were impacted, it would lead to something very ugly (i.e. splatter on the wall?). How Men at Work -ishy.
> The French has already had to still examine the relative copy.
Yep, that sounds like the French.
And the answer is... article doesn't say.......
We are the US. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
> What I want to know is, where are the 128bit CPUs?
Which will be able to address..... [zoom in on Dr. Evil's face] 1 MILLION MEGABYTES!!!
> It also spells cat-fuck, bat-fuck, and bat-duck.
Uh, no. cut-fuck (hmm), cut-duck (could work for a chinese food store), and so on. add an extra digit and you have cute-talk (970-CUTE-TALK).
while(landed) { roam_about(); }
There. Happy now?
Micro$oft patents slashdot! In an ongoing battle with the gov't, M$FT is gaining ground by patenting left and right. The gov't has recently made headlines in the race by announcing fingerprinting systems and taking away Americans' rights by the dozen. Upon hearing about M$'s latest move, a spokesman for the Chimpanzee Administration said on Friday that in response the gov't is gonna roll out the project dubbed "Stage III" 6 months earlier than originally planned. Under this project, the gov't will own everything you do, in effect owning you. Any patent you will file will automatically be the gov't's, as will be everything you will say, think and do.
Where's the Torrent? Huh? The first post should _always_ be the Torrent of the post.
This is, indeed (as opposed to the corny TeacherReviews.com post), a breath of fresh air in a geek-infested /. atmosphere (sorry guys). What I don't get (although I fully support) is how this can be in this BushCo world that we live in. I mean, these bastards want to know everything, even when we fart from Mexican salsa (and potentially tax us for emanating the end-product of "alien" labor). So, it kinda boggles my mind (k, keep the jokes at bay - I'm not the smartest person on the planet - but guess what - neither are you! phucker..). It also makes me think of all the illegal opportunities this opens up. Don't get me wrong (and I hope you don't hate me for this run-on paragraph) - I'm all for true freedom which, unfortunately, does not exist in the US of A as of now (one could argue, rather successfully, that it never existed - but what's going on these days is not only pathetic, but an insult).
In any case, this just "seems right." Which means that it will prolly get shot down by one of BushCo's cronies. Watch my words.
... I do not care.. GFYS
From the article (enjoy):
...
...
"Vladimir Levin
Unusual tools: Along with a computer, computer games and disks, Russian police confiscated a camcorder, music speakers and a TV set from Levin's apartment."
Wow, a TV is indeed an unusual tool. Especially in communist Russia! (wait, it's no longer communist - someone tell Washington!) Was it a color TV? And "music speakers," you say? God damn, that's unusual! More unusual than the author's strange vocabulary.. Almost makes one think if he's a RUSSIAN SPY!
"Current status:
Citibank has since begun using the Dynamic Encryption Card, a security system so tight that no other financial institution in the world has it."
Why does this feel like I'm reading the New York Post? Or is it a comic book that I'm thinking of? Or is it Da Source? That shit's tight, cuz!
Another gem:
"Richard Stallman
Handle: None (nothing to hide!)"
Is this article written by the gov't? Jeez. A shame that this passes for journalism in this country.
I just stopped reading this junk after the first page and randomly-clicked Vladimir.
I guess I will just not play games anymore. There are, actually, other things I'd rather do. Like read.
So now we're _openly_ disregarding human life. Sacrifice some poor bastards who're too ignorant to realize what's going on to save some $$$. A waste of life, and an open admission of how degenerate we've become. A shame. We invented money, and it has become bigger than us! Never mind the "machines taking over" - $$$ has taken over a long time ago and has enslaved us, including our minds! Wake up!
On one of his pages , he abbreviates the word "see" as s. I believe this is the first time I have seen this - it could be indicative of an ancient civilization corrupting the English dictionary via a computer-to-human transmissible virus broadcast back to earth by Mars rover Spirit once it fell pray to the Demon of Mars (which, incidentally, is also red)!
Great, just what I needed - AOL to regulate my sunscreen!
This only seems like a good idea until you realize how dumb it is (i.e. spammer sends a test message).
I now pay an additional $1.75 on my land line bill from Verizon.
I called them up and asked them if it was optional. They said no. I asked them if I can move my 212 number to my cell phone. They said no. I asked them if this means that when I move to Florida early next year I can take my NYC number with me. They said no. I asked what it's for. They said I can move to another place that is covered by the same central office. So I asked them if this means moving to my neighbor's apartment, and they basically agreed - this is all it's good for (read: bs to extort more profit profit profit - I was already paying over 50% in all sorts of surcharges & taxes). So I cancelled my land line.
What, did you think that corporations run the show only in the good ol' US? It's global, man, for goodness sake! And people become more and more tolerant of this way of life every day (path of least resistance). Unless something is done, our kids won't even know what freedom means.