Seriously, the threat given from people like the grandparent is more significant to me than that of arab terrorists. Cults, KKK members, all that sort of thing are just as much a danger if not more (as advertised by parent). Even being white, I'd be much more worried that some nutcase supremacist is going to take me out in a crossfire while trying to cleanse some evil [insert non-caucasian race here] threat.
the US uses mechanical picking devices to remove the last meat from the spine, rather than (prion dissolving) solvents used in other countries.
Anyone know whether Canada uses solvent or mechanical (or both)?
Also, at what temperature does the disease die? Enough to make your steak into a charcoal briquette? Will risk increase depending on how "rare" the meat is?
My question - can you truely die in most circumstances from eating meat on an infected cow? I've heard arguements both ways... I would definately say you will stand a high chance of infection if you eat the brain matter - but what about well-cooked portions of the regular meat?
Is mad-cow a scare? The chances of eating a mad cow are extremely low. How about the chances of infection from eating various parts?
Microsoft hates spam clogging their servers
Yahoo hates it
Your ISP hates it
We hate it
Big business hates it
Who likes it? I think that spam is more detested than telemarketing... at least with telemarketing I can track down who called me easier or at least yell a bit at the pleb calling me.
So if everyone pretty much hates spam, why isn't they a jointed effort against it? It is true that businesses don't often co-operate, but it's not unheard of for large companies to join forces against something that both strongly support/oppose - nothing I could think of moreso than spam.
I subscribe to some of the debian debug/discussion lists. I've noticed 2 things:
A) They get spammed
b) The address I used there gets spammed a lot - not because they sold me out but because (I'm assuming) spambots picked me email off the HTML archives - and somebody on the list seems to be infected with a virus (windows virus, go figure).
Luckily I use an alias so I can be special extra filtering etc on that address, but this really has to stop. Spammers are perverting every useful form of email on the internet, and pushing into non-email formats too (popups/popunders/etc). I'm considering unsubscribing the group and killing that alias simply because the spamming is more than expected.
That might not actually be a bad project. How about a watch that acts similar to a mood ring. LED's on the outer surface could glow different colours depending on her mood (from horny to happy, angry, or you-came-home-at-2am-and-smell-like-perfume=death) . In the case of "that time of month" the watch could have a flashing red LED as warning. As an extra bonus, the Pro model could come with WiFi support, broadcasting to nearby watches of its kin when it's time to stay away. Not sure whether a nice dinner or death awaits you as you step into the house... check your watch for WiFi distress signals...
Why would we make up stories about corporate stupidity. Honestly, many of them are so contradictory and say such stupid things that they make themselves look far dumber than we ever could.
I particularly like the Microsoft=Choice part... which is only true to the extent that it is "Choose, but only from the selection we give you."
I don't think it is with my normal phone, but calling Australia (up to last year, I call landlines now) definate cost more to get a cell (as far is cost/minute deducted from the long-distance card balance)
It's really too bad that this article wasn't out a bit sooner. It seems from on their homepage that they did a public presentation in vegas from the 8th-11th. Anyone know their next presentation date... perhaps we could come and present some poignant questions about the now-dubious legitimacy of their product (nothing quite like: "isn't it true that XXX and YYY have found evidence that your code is stolen from project ZZZ" in a public place).
What is there available in Australia? My cousin's girlfriend is heading down that way for several months and they were wondering how to keep in touch. Any good cellphone/long-distance-cards for this (I know he can call her, but calling an international cellphone is much more expensive than a landline from this end).
The arguement of "who stole whose code" shouldn't be too hard to settle. There are archives of old versions, logs of when certain sections/features were added. Compare the allegedly stolen Mplayer code with the Kiss release date, and then tell Kiss to kiss our GNU/Asses.
As for the GPL being were and unverified in court, perhaps they'd like to be our guinea pig? Of course, without GPL they'd still be in violation of copyright and up for large monentary damages.
My present vehicle gets much better treatment. Previous was an '88 Toyota Camry. Body design is the pre-'92/93 which had a tendancy towards rust, especially in the fenders. Post 92/93 (one was for Honda, the other Toyota, can't remember which) was the more rust-resistant body... but the fenders on these older guys were a real nightmare.
Seeing as though the car had >300,000km it wasn't worth putting too much work into it (sold at 365,000 and the engine etc all fine. Only bad thing about the car was the fenders and other lighter body rust). For a nicer vehicle (or other hardware) I definately recommend going the professional way if you can afford it... but as a "chop, fix, paint" method for stopping the advance of rust this was rather nice
I suppose I should have put an IANAAM (I am not an automotive mechanic)... though I do prefer to do as much work on my own vehicle as I can with the tools at hand:-)
I probably spelled it wrong... but this stuff works great for fixing a lot of stuff. It hardens nicely, and comes out of a silicon tube so it's easy to get in place. No mixing like epoxy (which would be my other recommendation) and bonds to most substances.
I've used it for such far-out things as molding a fender an old car. The originally fender succombed to rust and had about 1" removed. Putting some of this stuff in, molding it into shape as it hardened a bit, and then painting when dry made it actually somewhat hard to notice (it did crack a bit in cold weather, so for automotive/outdoor uses I now recommend going over it with fibreglass before painting, but still nice for large projects).
Seriously, this stuff works great and is quite moldable. You'd probably better use gloves otherwise you will end up with brown hands - people might assume you have a wiping problem - but it's fairly easy to use.
a) Put PolyEurethane cylinder in calking tube.
b) Apply to surface to be fixed, smooth with gloved (rubber gloves) hand and/or paint scaper.
c) Let dry for awhile, mold again as needed as it begins to harden.
d) Trim excess with an X-acto
e) Paint as appropriate (spray paint or model paints work well).
A lot of people balk at such "unorthodox" fixing methods. But if 95% can't tell how you did a job without looking right up close (assuming you did it well) it's better than nothing (or a $500 bill for a new LCD)
I'm just wondering when they can repressurize the station? After all, even with the leak fixed it wouldn't be a great idea to leave it with the lower pressure.
Yes, but Linux and ATI don't have a very good working relationship. Thereforce, it would suggest that NVidia cards should be able to run Doom3 decently... at least in linux.
Not allowed to use it without an installed copy of NT (or another OS with that file) - probably legal. Not allowed to use it at all even if you own a copy of NT... probably not.
Then again, it could be a grey area... it's like the "am I allowed to mod my XBox, am I allowed to help other people mod theirs to use it for what the want" issue.
If somebody sold you a boxed 9000 and called it a 9200, that would be illegal. If somebody sells me a desktop machine that states it has a 9200 when it in fact only has a 9000, that is also illegal. How is the fact that the machine is a laptop any different from the two above, other than the fact that it can't be corrected by replacing the card, as it is integrated?
Nothing is better than playing these in the pitch black at 2 AM when no one else is up.
Playing a deathmatch of the game at 2AM with a bunch of friends? Seriously, AVP was slightly creepy at first, deathmatch was seriously creepier when running through dark tunnels with an alien hiding ready to pounce on your ass. Doom3 will probably give a similar experience... but I'm worried because mention has been made that while single player is being buffed, multiplayer was said to be perhaps less of a focus (sadly, as it was part of what made Doom1/Doom2 extremely popular over say, Wolfenstein or others).
Anyone got an idea how this will be in multiplayer? Nothing like scaring the $#$%*(! out of a friend when jumping out from behind a darkened corner while using a freaky skin model
from the stereotype against big corps (particularly MS, everything they do must have alterior motive... sometimes it doesn't though), against jocks or sports types, against management. Part of the joke about the "stereotype" is that we're not really being serious, but rather making fun of the common image portrayed for various groups - including ourselves.
No, we don't all wear horn-rim glasses and pocket protectors, but it's funny to laugh at the fact the some people think so. Hell... I think that what being a good is really about is being up to new activities, concept, etc - that includes both physical and intellectual ones. That being said, a large portion of us are actively involved with mice/keyboard/joysticks, but that doesn't mean it's our whole lives.
They aren't basing it on the concept that you couldn't make an informed decision, they are basing it on MS's anticompetitive practices that basically destroy competition.
Lawyers were hired because MS was breaking anti-monopoly laws, not because you paid too much for windows. It's the concept that - were MS not so heavy-handed and dominating, there might be a lot more competing products. If there were competing products, you would have had more choice, and may have chosen something else.
Really, I think that the settlement should pay out those that belonged to companies destroyed by MS, they're the ones that by far took the brunt of anti-trust.
You may be happy with windows, I myself don't mind XP overly much. But if it weren't for MS, there might be something just as good, possibly better. We'll never know because very few were able to ever reach a workable status before being destroyed by MS, except for OS/Linux mainly due to availability, freedom, and wide distribution (not to mention dedication of many individuals who make OS possible).
Some of the busts of CD-copying have been of rather major rings. That guy on the street-corner might just be an independant, but where is he getting his CD's from. This is like the kazaa-kiddies at home, some of these guys are affiliated with dangerous gangs.
So what happens when those selling the CD's start losing revenue because of RIAA "police." What happens when they plant armed vendors or wait in a dark corner for the RIAA to show.
Do the RIAA cops have guns hidden somewhere on their person? Probably not, especially not legally. Could some of those involved in the underground CD market have guns? Almost certainly.
I had the same problem with a VCD I bought. Both discs were the "B" track so I was missing the latter half of the movie. Had to pay for shipping to send it back because I'd bought it from out-of-town, but at least they paid the shipping back.
I made a mass-mailing script which we used to email our customers with important info. Since they're all bulletins, the subject was hardcoded and the body dynamic. Unfortunately, I forgot the remove the "All is fine and well" subject in favor of "Company XXX - Bulletin" when I was done testing it, and the first few emails actually going out to customers detailing several bugs, problems etc were a bit contradictory between subject and body.
Other odd doings are like when creating emails for experts-exchange, I used an alias that forwarded to my main account. Of course, with an alias of expertSEXchange@mydomain.com (caps are just for emphasis), the next person to check my alias was slightly amused.
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Seriously, the threat given from people like the grandparent is more significant to me than that of arab terrorists. Cults, KKK members, all that sort of thing are just as much a danger if not more (as advertised by parent). Even being white, I'd be much more worried that some nutcase supremacist is going to take me out in a crossfire while trying to cleanse some evil [insert non-caucasian race here] threat.
the US uses mechanical picking devices to remove the last meat from the spine, rather than (prion dissolving) solvents used in other countries.
Anyone know whether Canada uses solvent or mechanical (or both)?
Also, at what temperature does the disease die? Enough to make your steak into a charcoal briquette? Will risk increase depending on how "rare" the meat is?
My question - can you truely die in most circumstances from eating meat on an infected cow? I've heard arguements both ways... I would definately say you will stand a high chance of infection if you eat the brain matter - but what about well-cooked portions of the regular meat?
Is mad-cow a scare? The chances of eating a mad cow are extremely low. How about the chances of infection from eating various parts?
Can anyone clarify this further?
Microsoft hates spam clogging their servers
Yahoo hates it
Your ISP hates it
We hate it
Big business hates it
Who likes it? I think that spam is more detested than telemarketing... at least with telemarketing I can track down who called me easier or at least yell a bit at the pleb calling me.
So if everyone pretty much hates spam, why isn't they a jointed effort against it? It is true that businesses don't often co-operate, but it's not unheard of for large companies to join forces against something that both strongly support/oppose - nothing I could think of moreso than spam.
I subscribe to some of the debian debug/discussion lists. I've noticed 2 things:
A) They get spammed
b) The address I used there gets spammed a lot - not because they sold me out but because (I'm assuming) spambots picked me email off the HTML archives - and somebody on the list seems to be infected with a virus (windows virus, go figure).
Luckily I use an alias so I can be special extra filtering etc on that address, but this really has to stop. Spammers are perverting every useful form of email on the internet, and pushing into non-email formats too (popups/popunders/etc). I'm considering unsubscribing the group and killing that alias simply because the spamming is more than expected.
That might not actually be a bad project. How about a watch that acts similar to a mood ring. LED's on the outer surface could glow different colours depending on her mood (from horny to happy, angry, or you-came-home-at-2am-and-smell-like-perfume=death) . In the case of "that time of month" the watch could have a flashing red LED as warning. As an extra bonus, the Pro model could come with WiFi support, broadcasting to nearby watches of its kin when it's time to stay away. Not sure whether a nice dinner or death awaits you as you step into the house... check your watch for WiFi distress signals...
Why would we make up stories about corporate stupidity. Honestly, many of them are so contradictory and say such stupid things that they make themselves look far dumber than we ever could.
I particularly like the Microsoft=Choice part... which is only true to the extent that it is "Choose, but only from the selection we give you."
I don't think it is with my normal phone, but calling Australia (up to last year, I call landlines now) definate cost more to get a cell (as far is cost/minute deducted from the long-distance card balance)
It's really too bad that this article wasn't out a bit sooner. It seems from on their homepage that they did a public presentation in vegas from the 8th-11th. Anyone know their next presentation date... perhaps we could come and present some poignant questions about the now-dubious legitimacy of their product (nothing quite like: "isn't it true that XXX and YYY have found evidence that your code is stolen from project ZZZ" in a public place).
What is there available in Australia? My cousin's girlfriend is heading down that way for several months and they were wondering how to keep in touch. Any good cellphone/long-distance-cards for this (I know he can call her, but calling an international cellphone is much more expensive than a landline from this end).
The arguement of "who stole whose code" shouldn't be too hard to settle. There are archives of old versions, logs of when certain sections/features were added. Compare the allegedly stolen Mplayer code with the Kiss release date, and then tell Kiss to kiss our GNU/Asses.
As for the GPL being were and unverified in court, perhaps they'd like to be our guinea pig? Of course, without GPL they'd still be in violation of copyright and up for large monentary damages.
My present vehicle gets much better treatment. Previous was an '88 Toyota Camry. Body design is the pre-'92/93 which had a tendancy towards rust, especially in the fenders. Post 92/93 (one was for Honda, the other Toyota, can't remember which) was the more rust-resistant body... but the fenders on these older guys were a real nightmare.
:-)
Seeing as though the car had >300,000km it wasn't worth putting too much work into it (sold at 365,000 and the engine etc all fine. Only bad thing about the car was the fenders and other lighter body rust). For a nicer vehicle (or other hardware) I definately recommend going the professional way if you can afford it... but as a "chop, fix, paint" method for stopping the advance of rust this was rather nice
I suppose I should have put an IANAAM (I am not an automotive mechanic)... though I do prefer to do as much work on my own vehicle as I can with the tools at hand
Also known as "liquid nails"
I probably spelled it wrong... but this stuff works great for fixing a lot of stuff. It hardens nicely, and comes out of a silicon tube so it's easy to get in place. No mixing like epoxy (which would be my other recommendation) and bonds to most substances.
I've used it for such far-out things as molding a fender an old car. The originally fender succombed to rust and had about 1" removed. Putting some of this stuff in, molding it into shape as it hardened a bit, and then painting when dry made it actually somewhat hard to notice (it did crack a bit in cold weather, so for automotive/outdoor uses I now recommend going over it with fibreglass before painting, but still nice for large projects).
Seriously, this stuff works great and is quite moldable. You'd probably better use gloves otherwise you will end up with brown hands - people might assume you have a wiping problem - but it's fairly easy to use.
a) Put PolyEurethane cylinder in calking tube.
b) Apply to surface to be fixed, smooth with gloved (rubber gloves) hand and/or paint scaper.
c) Let dry for awhile, mold again as needed as it begins to harden.
d) Trim excess with an X-acto
e) Paint as appropriate (spray paint or model paints work well).
A lot of people balk at such "unorthodox" fixing methods. But if 95% can't tell how you did a job without looking right up close (assuming you did it well) it's better than nothing (or a $500 bill for a new LCD)
I'm just wondering when they can repressurize the station? After all, even with the leak fixed it wouldn't be a great idea to leave it with the lower pressure.
Yes, but Linux and ATI don't have a very good working relationship. Thereforce, it would suggest that NVidia cards should be able to run Doom3 decently... at least in linux.
And anyone supplying internet services knows people could use them to pirate files...
All it takes is one person (or group) to stand up and make their arguents look stupid... and then we have precedent on our side.
Not allowed to use it without an installed copy of NT (or another OS with that file) - probably legal. Not allowed to use it at all even if you own a copy of NT... probably not.
Then again, it could be a grey area... it's like the "am I allowed to mod my XBox, am I allowed to help other people mod theirs to use it for what the want" issue.
If somebody sold you a boxed 9000 and called it a 9200, that would be illegal. If somebody sells me a desktop machine that states it has a 9200 when it in fact only has a 9000, that is also illegal. How is the fact that the machine is a laptop any different from the two above, other than the fact that it can't be corrected by replacing the card, as it is integrated?
Nothing is better than playing these in the pitch black at 2 AM when no one else is up.
Playing a deathmatch of the game at 2AM with a bunch of friends? Seriously, AVP was slightly creepy at first, deathmatch was seriously creepier when running through dark tunnels with an alien hiding ready to pounce on your ass. Doom3 will probably give a similar experience... but I'm worried because mention has been made that while single player is being buffed, multiplayer was said to be perhaps less of a focus (sadly, as it was part of what made Doom1/Doom2 extremely popular over say, Wolfenstein or others).
Anyone got an idea how this will be in multiplayer? Nothing like scaring the $#$%*(! out of a friend when jumping out from behind a darkened corner while using a freaky skin model
Agreed, and being that I'm Canadian, and I use metric... I'd say that the parent might want to back down off his pedestal a bit.
from the stereotype against big corps (particularly MS, everything they do must have alterior motive... sometimes it doesn't though), against jocks or sports types, against management. Part of the joke about the "stereotype" is that we're not really being serious, but rather making fun of the common image portrayed for various groups - including ourselves.
No, we don't all wear horn-rim glasses and pocket protectors, but it's funny to laugh at the fact the some people think so. Hell... I think that what being a good is really about is being up to new activities, concept, etc - that includes both physical and intellectual ones. That being said, a large portion of us are actively involved with mice/keyboard/joysticks, but that doesn't mean it's our whole lives.
They aren't basing it on the concept that you couldn't make an informed decision, they are basing it on MS's anticompetitive practices that basically destroy competition.
Lawyers were hired because MS was breaking anti-monopoly laws, not because you paid too much for windows. It's the concept that - were MS not so heavy-handed and dominating, there might be a lot more competing products. If there were competing products, you would have had more choice, and may have chosen something else.
Really, I think that the settlement should pay out those that belonged to companies destroyed by MS, they're the ones that by far took the brunt of anti-trust.
You may be happy with windows, I myself don't mind XP overly much. But if it weren't for MS, there might be something just as good, possibly better. We'll never know because very few were able to ever reach a workable status before being destroyed by MS, except for OS/Linux mainly due to availability, freedom, and wide distribution (not to mention dedication of many individuals who make OS possible).
Modded as funny but...
Some of the busts of CD-copying have been of rather major rings. That guy on the street-corner might just be an independant, but where is he getting his CD's from. This is like the kazaa-kiddies at home, some of these guys are affiliated with dangerous gangs.
So what happens when those selling the CD's start losing revenue because of RIAA "police." What happens when they plant armed vendors or wait in a dark corner for the RIAA to show.
Do the RIAA cops have guns hidden somewhere on their person? Probably not, especially not legally. Could some of those involved in the underground CD market have guns? Almost certainly.
I had the same problem with a VCD I bought. Both discs were the "B" track so I was missing the latter half of the movie. Had to pay for shipping to send it back because I'd bought it from out-of-town, but at least they paid the shipping back.
I made a mass-mailing script which we used to email our customers with important info. Since they're all bulletins, the subject was hardcoded and the body dynamic. Unfortunately, I forgot the remove the "All is fine and well" subject in favor of "Company XXX - Bulletin" when I was done testing it, and the first few emails actually going out to customers detailing several bugs, problems etc were a bit contradictory between subject and body.
Other odd doings are like when creating emails for experts-exchange, I used an alias that forwarded to my main account. Of course, with an alias of expertSEXchange@mydomain.com (caps are just for emphasis), the next person to check my alias was slightly amused.