Keep quiet about that. There are people who have a deep need for their political opponents to be saturated with evil without a single nugget of goodness. You're upsetting this. Remember, the Republicans needed Clinton to be completely without any good decisions. These new Anyone But Bush people are the same thing from the Democrats. The truth is that they both suck, and they both were good presidents for the times. Realistically, we don't get to choose between the best men for the job, we get to pick the best of the richest men (who have thirst for power and are willing to do whatever it takes to get it.) The presidency of the USA is the most powerful position in the world. It's naive of Americans to think that would interest a good and decent man. I'm decent and I have no interest in it- and everyone I've met who'se decent would not pursue public office either.
This is avoided with Verichip, as the 128 bit number changes with each transaction in a manner specific to that chip, and known to the transaction handling company (Verichip). It would take thousands of queries and a supercomputer to find out exactly how the unique transaction number is changing so that your transaction would fit. In addition, since your transaction would alter the linearity of the NEXT transaction, it would flag your transaction as fraudulent. The payment isn't handled by the reader device, it's handled by a bank computer. You might be able to get one drink at best.
These things are a bit more sophisticated than you think. Go to www.adsx.com.
Look, I am an avid net user, and I do enjoy ahem, adult pictures (not at work) and I have never run across anything remotely illegal. Maybe it's because I am not looking for it? Maybe it's because I don't surf for it? Maybe this guy's story is just the concoction of his defense attorney. After all, these days, the defense isn't just to highlight the facts which support a not-guilty verdict, it manufactures falsehoods intended to FOOL a jury. There is a significant difference between the two. I am in favor of prosecution of attorneys who willfully cause false testimony to be delivered by their witnesses. The "reasonable doubt" clause does not include fairy tales of "what if". It means that a reasonable person would say that the case against the defendant has been proven beyond the point where a reasonable person would assume otherwise. There really should not be defense attorneys making up stories for their clients. That is criminal.
This guy does appear to have the opportunity for a reasonable defense (I have not seen the evidence) so long as the timestamps on the files saved deliberately to the harddrives match a time before he acquired the machine. If the files on the drive are all they have, the prosecution runs the risk of convicting his computer but not him.
Isn't CrossOver LGPL and therefore kind of open to "rip-off" in the form of derivative works? Are you even familiar with FOSS? I think the word fraud as used here is overly harsh. I agree that project David seems to have no additional functionality this far and is probably a poor investment. But for those of us whose money is not tied in with their success, let's just wait and watch.
No degree in chemistry here either, but I thought an ISOMER is a variance in the shape of a molecule of identical consistency, while an ISOTOPE is a variance in the number of neutrons , and thus atomic weight. I could be wrong too. I think you're right there.
Okay here's a better question- Do you have any computers with 64 bit architecture ala x86-64? In particular do you have any computer which can accept 6 GB of onboard DDR RAM?
This is exactly the attitude more people need. Too many people are unforgiving or intolerant of my side-job, which I need to do in order to feed my family. I run a small brothel tourism service for people visiting southeast Asia. So many people hate this, but somebody has to, and I need the money. I NEVER take more than 40% for myself so I can keep the take cheap and attract new customers from the states. I get quite a bit of hell- but if my girls weren't prostitutes for 40 dollars US per week, they'd be making sneakers for 10 dollars a week. Most of my employees couldn't work for Nike anymore since they require all their employees to be at least 14. This created a huge local burst in unemployment and had lead to some malnutrition related problems. I wouldn't have to do it if Bush wasn't so damn foolish leading the economy to hell. But somebody has to be entrepreneurial in this day and age, and the local girls are good at what they do, but everything needs effective marketing.
These telemarketers got a bum rap. Not all people who recieve these calls refuse the products offered. It's a viable way of getting the word out about your products.
I agree with you there. We will stop needing weapons when they stop making idiots, power hungry mobsters, and bullies. Until then, the rest of the world needs tools to deal with thugs. The problem is that the existence of weapons upsets simplistic people who don't see that without any form of object which can hurt people in the hands of a physically weaker person, there's no way to stop the larger among us from using their own force to dominate others. Weapons are the natural escalation of an arms war that started with um, ARMS. Seriously- without weapons, there is a HUGE difference between the damage the average man can inflict and the amount a woman can inflict. Democracy is not sufficient when there are three men who want to rape a woman and only one woman to vote "no". There has to be some equalizer, some killing implement which can be effectively used by anyone. It's unfortunate, but hey, we live in a pretty hostile world- it's just that most people from the first world countries tend to forget the true nature of nature due to being separated from it for their entire lives.
Yes, but if you want to add hardware it's going to cost you. Yes, but if you want OS updates it's going to cost you. Yes, but if you want to upgrade your video card (what's the point of that without games) it will cost you. Yes, but it's still just eyecandy. Yes, but it's for those with more money than brains. Apple is super slick, but so is a Porsche. Neither is designed for the average user. The average user does not blow 3000 US to use a computer to surf the web, play games, and maintain web sites.
There are nice things about MAC but this is a linux distribution thread.
Your argument assumes that we will never be able to conquer the gravity issues related to moving a 150 lb human out of the well easily. You may be right, but I would caution you in your use of the word NEVER.
Cost is relative once you've got the ability to build things off-world. And who knows how much hydrogen we will have access to three centuries from now? In the last three we've gone from horse power to rocket power and nuclear power. Three more centuries of that and you could be mastering any number of potential energy sources.
It's actually not correct, but it was a rather egregious politicization of starving people. These same political activists are strangely silent when Democrats do not dedicate the same percent of GDP towards starvation issues that they're clamouring for the Bush Administration to do.
In my opinion, the real issue in the world is despotism. No quantity of grain can solve the ills of the world so long as tribal gangs can steal that grain for themselves. No amount of donated food can make up for the fact that most of Africa's resources are locked up in game preserves (note I did not call them wildlife preserves because of the original intent of these areas.) People starve because the plains areas of Africa are deserts, where rainfall cannot be a certainty. Farming there can be quite successful, but they need wells and equipment, technical know-how, and educated people. Starvation is a symptom of man's suffering in the third world, not just a cause. It's indicative of more serious and problematic social problems. One US administration is not enough to fix it. Why is France and Canada not required to give in one year what the USA gives in one month? If you've ever looked at where tax dollars really disappear to, in economic terms, you'll discover that foreign aid is actually quite a hunk of it.
You see, when you build a space station it costs (to your economy) only the amount that your raw material costs if you import it. That's because the money paid to your laborers does not leave the economy, but is circulating within it. Only that value which actually leaves circulation is "destroyed". A space probe costs money to this year's government budget, but to the nation, it costs relatively little. Foreign aid is actually quite expensive because the money that you send will be used outside your economy. That doesn't mean foreign aid should not happen, but it should happen in such a way as to decrease the continuation of need in the countries it benefits. Sending 400 thousand tons of wheat to Zanzibiway doesn't alleviate next year's recurrence of the same problems. Sending 300 thousand tons and some engineers to work on irrigation for when the rains fail is smarter. (for those who don't know, the US does both of these plans depending on State Dept. policy for that nation on an individual basis)
Blaming one US president for these types of ills is allowing them to continue. Whether you like President A or President Candidate B is irrelevant so long as despotism, corruption, theft and strongman politics continue in the world. Using the suffering of mankind under the rule of the strong but unjust for political ends simply adds to the problem.
Propose a solution which does not involve transferring all of US wealth and power into the third world and you might have a chance at a solution. Economically, all politicians enforce status quo, so you must find a solution which allows this to continue if you want your solution to actually happen.
Think about what you would say if I came to your door and said "Excuse me, sir, but you seem to have two cars with tilt steering and power windows, while your neighbor has a 1980 Chevy Citation with an oil leak. You will need to transfer one car to your neighbor so he can get by. " You'd tell me to go to hell, and that's exactly what your politicians will say about your country's financial reserves and budget. And rightfully so, I think. More reasonable would be for me to ask " why does this man have two nice cars while his unemployed and uneducated neighbor has only one shitheap chevy? How can I locate the obstacles to that second man's success and assist in removing them? Also is there a way of assessing that second man's relative ambition and work ethic compared to the first man's? Can I assist with education to alleviate this cultural roadblock? "
This is exactly why Troll, offtopic and redundant moderation is insufficient. We need a (-1, Retarded cunt) or maybe (-1, Doesn't Understand the Topic But Still Shared Their Asinine Opinion). Flamebait KIND of captures that, but we need a moderation style that is truly indicative of the quality of the post.
If people wouldn't treat elderly but still intelligent and rational people like babies to be parented, people wouldn't get bitter and manipulative in old age. My mom is always trying to make my grandma drink her whiskey diluted with water . When my mother goes to her mother's apartment she'll sneakily add a couple of cups of water to the whiskey bottles.
My grandmother drinks ONE glass of whiskey per night with ice cubes. She says she can't have beer or wine because they'll make her fat and the weight is tough on her legs.
She's still sharp as a tack at 85. Still beats people at bridge and poker ALL THE TIME.
Stalin killing 26 million people DIDN'T? MAO killing 15 million still failed to taint your view of communism? Castro's Amazing Island Paradise You Can't Leave Because Of The Machine Guns We've Placed On The North Beach For Your Protection didn't manage to sully your opinion of the great communist revolution? Geez- Freedom fighters is a caricature. I found it hilarious and corny.
Do you not notice the inherent irony of shooting a fascist with a rocket launcher? Or shooting a person becaust they disagree with your politics? Too much irony, IHBT IHL IHAND
Computers, like their human masters, have a right to determine who (or what) they will connect to, establish communications with, and direct packets for. The inundation to the internet and World Wide Web of infected and compromised machines forces machines to perform operations at odds with the equipment owners' will.
Therefore, it is proposed that subnets have the ability and the obligation to other community members to detect and destroy packets which match patterns corresponding to well-known characteristics of infected and compromised machines. No-one, not even a computer, should have to communicate with someone who's got a nasty virus.
I totally agree. I don't particularly relish spawncamping with a tank or similar overpowered weapon, but it's part of the games. BF1942 has a particular weakness to this tactic, but basically since the enemy controls the spawnpoint, you have to spawn somewhere else and regain control from there. It's tactic, not cheating. And sniping or camping is a legitimate military tactic which makes each soldier effective. Charging across Omaha Beach in the open with a Thompson submachine gun is simply a great way to die over and over. It 's better to use up your enemy's tickets with sniper shots until you've worn out the timer enough that you can rush a bunch of flags.
I get irritated as well when people call out accusations of camping diring team-play. It's idiotic bitchy whining.
Wait, so his views interfere with your lifestyle so he shouldn't be able to vote, and anyone whose beliefs and opinions are influenced by their reading habits is an idiot not worthy of democratic representation. In addition, people who think you should not commit murder, adultery and theft are the real evil people.
You alone are the arbiter of democracy! All hail Oliphaunt!
Look, I disagree with some of the more hypocritical assertions of Christianity (beginning with the fact that it's the religion of the legalistic pharisee repackaged and rebranded with Christ's name on it to make it palatable) But most Christian people are decent folks. The ones who make the news are always the asshole ones- Kind of like the Michael Newdows of the religious world.
Sure, Mike's got a point, but he's a dick, and people hate evangelical atheists just as much as they hate evangelical christians. It's the ACTIVISM that's intolerable.
Okay- you're skeptical of free energy. That's silly because energy saturates everything around you and it's all free. We don't need to create energy, we need a way to channel this energy. What we really need is a substance which only conducts infrared energy in one direction. Think of a directional heatsink. If it had one end outside connected to a gigantic chunk of aluminum, and was a sort of heat-diode, conducting heat towards the sheltered end, that end should get quite hot. The flow of heat energy could be funneled so that a large mass of low intensity energy becomes a small mass of high intensity energy. It would be like channeling a mild intensity but huge rainfall into a funnel and using the funnel output to drive a waterwheel. Free, simple. The only difficulty is the directional materials. But not so long ago turbofan engines were science fiction too.
I believe the word you should use here is "possible" and "likely". After all, the circumstances you describe are not analogous to the Pons-Fleishmann experiments.
But I agree that ultrasound induced cavitation could produce instantaneous pressures high enough to trigger fusion if conditions are right- the question is how do we extract energy from it?
I'm no scientist, but I wonder- if it's "cold" fusion, how do we get water to boil?
Just like when I do pushups I am depleting the energy in my floor by pushing alternately against it. Eventually my floor will wear out and I will need a new one.
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Keep quiet about that. There are people who have a deep need for their political opponents to be saturated with evil without a single nugget of goodness. You're upsetting this. Remember, the Republicans needed Clinton to be completely without any good decisions. These new Anyone But Bush people are the same thing from the Democrats. The truth is that they both suck, and they both were good presidents for the times. Realistically, we don't get to choose between the best men for the job, we get to pick the best of the richest men (who have thirst for power and are willing to do whatever it takes to get it.) The presidency of the USA is the most powerful position in the world. It's naive of Americans to think that would interest a good and decent man. I'm decent and I have no interest in it- and everyone I've met who'se decent would not pursue public office either.
This is avoided with Verichip, as the 128 bit number changes with each transaction in a manner specific to that chip, and known to the transaction handling company (Verichip). It would take thousands of queries and a supercomputer to find out exactly how the unique transaction number is changing so that your transaction would fit. In addition, since your transaction would alter the linearity of the NEXT transaction, it would flag your transaction as fraudulent. The payment isn't handled by the reader device, it's handled by a bank computer. You might be able to get one drink at best. These things are a bit more sophisticated than you think. Go to www.adsx.com.
Look, I am an avid net user, and I do enjoy ahem, adult pictures (not at work) and I have never run across anything remotely illegal. Maybe it's because I am not looking for it? Maybe it's because I don't surf for it? Maybe this guy's story is just the concoction of his defense attorney. After all, these days, the defense isn't just to highlight the facts which support a not-guilty verdict, it manufactures falsehoods intended to FOOL a jury. There is a significant difference between the two. I am in favor of prosecution of attorneys who willfully cause false testimony to be delivered by their witnesses. The "reasonable doubt" clause does not include fairy tales of "what if". It means that a reasonable person would say that the case against the defendant has been proven beyond the point where a reasonable person would assume otherwise. There really should not be defense attorneys making up stories for their clients. That is criminal.
This guy does appear to have the opportunity for a reasonable defense (I have not seen the evidence) so long as the timestamps on the files saved deliberately to the harddrives match a time before he acquired the machine. If the files on the drive are all they have, the prosecution runs the risk of convicting his computer but not him.
Isn't CrossOver LGPL and therefore kind of open to "rip-off" in the form of derivative works? Are you even familiar with FOSS? I think the word fraud as used here is overly harsh. I agree that project David seems to have no additional functionality this far and is probably a poor investment. But for those of us whose money is not tied in with their success, let's just wait and watch.
No degree in chemistry here either, but I thought an ISOMER is a variance in the shape of a molecule of identical consistency, while an ISOTOPE is a variance in the number of neutrons , and thus atomic weight. I could be wrong too. I think you're right there.
Okay here's a better question- Do you have any computers with 64 bit architecture ala x86-64? In particular do you have any computer which can accept 6 GB of onboard DDR RAM?
This is exactly the attitude more people need. Too many people are unforgiving or intolerant of my side-job, which I need to do in order to feed my family.
I run a small brothel tourism service for people visiting southeast Asia. So many people hate this, but somebody has to, and I need the money. I NEVER take more than 40% for myself so I can keep the take cheap and attract new customers from the states. I get quite a bit of hell- but if my girls weren't prostitutes for 40 dollars US per week, they'd be making sneakers for 10 dollars a week. Most of my employees couldn't work for Nike anymore since they require all their employees to be at least 14. This created a huge local burst in unemployment and had lead to some malnutrition related problems.
I wouldn't have to do it if Bush wasn't so damn foolish leading the economy to hell.
But somebody has to be entrepreneurial in this day and age, and the local girls are good at what they do, but everything needs effective marketing. These telemarketers got a bum rap. Not all people who recieve these calls refuse the products offered. It's a viable way of getting the word out about your products.
I agree with you there. We will stop needing weapons when they stop making idiots, power hungry mobsters, and bullies. Until then, the rest of the world needs tools to deal with thugs. The problem is that the existence of weapons upsets simplistic people who don't see that without any form of object which can hurt people in the hands of a physically weaker person, there's no way to stop the larger among us from using their own force to dominate others. Weapons are the natural escalation of an arms war that started with um, ARMS. Seriously- without weapons, there is a HUGE difference between the damage the average man can inflict and the amount a woman can inflict. Democracy is not sufficient when there are three men who want to rape a woman and only one woman to vote "no". There has to be some equalizer, some killing implement which can be effectively used by anyone. It's unfortunate, but hey, we live in a pretty hostile world- it's just that most people from the first world countries tend to forget the true nature of nature due to being separated from it for their entire lives.
There are nice things about MAC but this is a linux distribution thread.
You may be right, but I would caution you in your use of the word NEVER.
Cost is relative once you've got the ability to build things off-world. And who knows how much hydrogen we will have access to three centuries from now? In the last three we've gone from horse power to rocket power and nuclear power. Three more centuries of that and you could be mastering any number of potential energy sources.
In my opinion, the real issue in the world is despotism. No quantity of grain can solve the ills of the world so long as tribal gangs can steal that grain for themselves. No amount of donated food can make up for the fact that most of Africa's resources are locked up in game preserves (note I did not call them wildlife preserves because of the original intent of these areas.) People starve because the plains areas of Africa are deserts, where rainfall cannot be a certainty. Farming there can be quite successful, but they need wells and equipment, technical know-how, and educated people.
Starvation is a symptom of man's suffering in the third world, not just a cause. It's indicative of more serious and problematic social problems. One US administration is not enough to fix it. Why is France and Canada not required to give in one year what the USA gives in one month? If you've ever looked at where tax dollars really disappear to, in economic terms, you'll discover that foreign aid is actually quite a hunk of it.
You see, when you build a space station it costs (to your economy) only the amount that your raw material costs if you import it. That's because the money paid to your laborers does not leave the economy, but is circulating within it. Only that value which actually leaves circulation is "destroyed". A space probe costs money to this year's government budget, but to the nation, it costs relatively little. Foreign aid is actually quite expensive because the money that you send will be used outside your economy. That doesn't mean foreign aid should not happen, but it should happen in such a way as to decrease the continuation of need in the countries it benefits. Sending 400 thousand tons of wheat to Zanzibiway doesn't alleviate next year's recurrence of the same problems. Sending 300 thousand tons and some engineers to work on irrigation for when the rains fail is smarter. (for those who don't know, the US does both of these plans depending on State Dept. policy for that nation on an individual basis)
Blaming one US president for these types of ills is allowing them to continue. Whether you like President A or President Candidate B is irrelevant so long as despotism, corruption, theft and strongman politics continue in the world. Using the suffering of mankind under the rule of the strong but unjust for political ends simply adds to the problem.
Propose a solution which does not involve transferring all of US wealth and power into the third world and you might have a chance at a solution. Economically, all politicians enforce status quo, so you must find a solution which allows this to continue if you want your solution to actually happen.
Think about what you would say if I came to your door and said " Excuse me, sir, but you seem to have two cars with tilt steering and power windows, while your neighbor has a 1980 Chevy Citation with an oil leak. You will need to transfer one car to your neighbor so he can get by. " You'd tell me to go to hell, and that's exactly what your politicians will say about your country's financial reserves and budget. And rightfully so, I think. More reasonable would be for me to ask " why does this man have two nice cars while his unemployed and uneducated neighbor has only one shitheap chevy? How can I locate the obstacles to that second man's success and assist in removing them? Also is there a way of assessing that second man's relative ambition and work ethic compared to the first man's? Can I assist with education to alleviate this cultural roadblock? "
This is exactly why Troll, offtopic and redundant moderation is insufficient. We need a (-1, Retarded cunt) or maybe (-1, Doesn't Understand the Topic But Still Shared Their Asinine Opinion). Flamebait KIND of captures that, but we need a moderation style that is truly indicative of the quality of the post.
If people wouldn't treat elderly but still intelligent and rational people like babies to be parented, people wouldn't get bitter and manipulative in old age. My mom is always trying to make my grandma drink her whiskey diluted with water . When my mother goes to her mother's apartment she'll sneakily add a couple of cups of water to the whiskey bottles. My grandmother drinks ONE glass of whiskey per night with ice cubes. She says she can't have beer or wine because they'll make her fat and the weight is tough on her legs. She's still sharp as a tack at 85. Still beats people at bridge and poker ALL THE TIME.
How did this get modded insightful on slashdot? It's clearly (Score 5, Funny).
Stalin killing 26 million people DIDN'T? MAO killing 15 million still failed to taint your view of communism? Castro's Amazing Island Paradise You Can't Leave Because Of The Machine Guns We've Placed On The North Beach For Your Protection didn't manage to sully your opinion of the great communist revolution? Geez- Freedom fighters is a caricature. I found it hilarious and corny.
Do you not notice the inherent irony of shooting a fascist with a rocket launcher?
Or shooting a person becaust they disagree with your politics? Too much irony, IHBT IHL IHAND
Freedom of Association Act for Computing Devices
Computers, like their human masters, have a right to determine who (or what) they will connect to, establish communications with, and direct packets for.
The inundation to the internet and World Wide Web of infected and compromised machines forces machines to perform operations at odds with the equipment owners' will.
Therefore, it is proposed that subnets have the ability and the obligation to other community members to detect and destroy packets which match patterns corresponding to well-known characteristics of infected and compromised machines.
No-one, not even a computer, should have to communicate with someone who's got a nasty virus.
I totally agree. I don't particularly relish spawncamping with a tank or similar overpowered weapon, but it's part of the games. BF1942 has a particular weakness to this tactic, but basically since the enemy controls the spawnpoint, you have to spawn somewhere else and regain control from there. It's tactic, not cheating. And sniping or camping is a legitimate military tactic which makes each soldier effective. Charging across Omaha Beach in the open with a Thompson submachine gun is simply a great way to die over and over. It 's better to use up your enemy's tickets with sniper shots until you've worn out the timer enough that you can rush a bunch of flags. I get irritated as well when people call out accusations of camping diring team-play. It's idiotic bitchy whining.
Wait, so his views interfere with your lifestyle so he shouldn't be able to vote, and anyone whose beliefs and opinions are influenced by their reading habits is an idiot not worthy of democratic representation. In addition, people who think you should not commit murder, adultery and theft are the real evil people. You alone are the arbiter of democracy! All hail Oliphaunt! Look, I disagree with some of the more hypocritical assertions of Christianity (beginning with the fact that it's the religion of the legalistic pharisee repackaged and rebranded with Christ's name on it to make it palatable) But most Christian people are decent folks. The ones who make the news are always the asshole ones- Kind of like the Michael Newdows of the religious world. Sure, Mike's got a point, but he's a dick, and people hate evangelical atheists just as much as they hate evangelical christians. It's the ACTIVISM that's intolerable.
Okay- you're skeptical of free energy. That's silly because energy saturates everything around you and it's all free. We don't need to create energy, we need a way to channel this energy. What we really need is a substance which only conducts infrared energy in one direction. Think of a directional heatsink. If it had one end outside connected to a gigantic chunk of aluminum, and was a sort of heat-diode, conducting heat towards the sheltered end, that end should get quite hot. The flow of heat energy could be funneled so that a large mass of low intensity energy becomes a small mass of high intensity energy. It would be like channeling a mild intensity but huge rainfall into a funnel and using the funnel output to drive a waterwheel. Free, simple. The only difficulty is the directional materials. But not so long ago turbofan engines were science fiction too.
I believe the word you should use here is "possible" and "likely". After all, the circumstances you describe are not analogous to the Pons-Fleishmann experiments. But I agree that ultrasound induced cavitation could produce instantaneous pressures high enough to trigger fusion if conditions are right- the question is how do we extract energy from it? I'm no scientist, but I wonder- if it's "cold" fusion, how do we get water to boil?
It does look like he's spawning a child process.
You're a fucker. DO NOT READ!!!! KILL BILL 2 SPOILER!!!!
Wait, this is slashdot- what's a pushup?
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Just like when I do pushups I am depleting the energy in my floor by pushing alternately against it. Eventually my floor will wear out and I will need a new one.