You could always move somewhere that doesn't get covered in snow, ice, rain, mud, etc. every year. This would probably involve a southerly location. I live in the mountains in So. Cal. and I haven't had a power outage lasting more than a couple of hours in the past 6 years.
There is a bit of hypocrisy in this story. I've read many comments that say "I can do whatever I want online but you can't do anything to me". Would you hop into a car with a stranger? Would you give out personal information to someone you just met at a bar (no matter how charming the person is)?
The beauty of the internet is it's freedom but like in nature, the wild jungle is host to predators and prey. You can't have a "safe" internet and a "free" internet. You need to be careful in the virtual world too.
So he funds a survey of economists who are mostly registered Democrats and then subtly criticizes the validity of the study because (presumably) they favor the candidate who (in his opinion) will tax the bejeezus out of his wallet and who happens to be a democrat.
While the coup that Billy snagged back in the day was brilliant in hindsight, it was still a very very small financial score. What happened afterwards was a lot of luck and without a doubt a lot of good business sense. You don't have to love Microsoft to still be amazed is how far and fast they grew. Microsoft was so far behind Apple in the GUI business in the late 80s and yet they still own the market. That has to count for something, eh?
I always liked the opening scene in the movie Troy where each army puts up it's best fighter to decide the outcome. This would be far more civilized. Just extend this to two robot warriors, eh? Nobody gets killed and it's much cheaper.
When will people learn? You don't throw down an open challenge to the programming community this way. I'll bet a "fixed" version of this software is everywhere soon. Not that I would want to use it. A reminder to the developer is that the majority of the most successful software products started out with no copy protection (or a relatively liberal use system)
First rule of business, the customer is king (not a potential criminal).
Second rule: Don't piss off the Slashdot community.
You can buy a low cost wattmeter that you plug your equipment into and simply read out the power consumption. I've found that a lot of devices in standby take almost no power. Other devices aren't so frugal. I'd like to see some real statistics on this and something like the energystar ratings you see on refrigerators put on computers.
Have you watched congressional proceedings lately. You have a congressperson or senator giving an impaasioned plea for/against legislation, then the camera pulls back and you see there's virtually no one in the room. It's so discouraging to see this. It used to be that the congressional auditorium was always packed.
I read that the founding fathers actually had a prediction for how long our democracy would last before reverting to some sort of monarchy. They did their best to put checks in place to prevent this but as you can see by recent events, this is no guarantee. I believe some predicted a couple hundred years was hopeful.
and yes, I am worried.
Watch, listen, read and vote in November as if your life depends upon it.
I love that sort of thing too and fortunately my parents indulged me although I do seem to remember them complaining when I wasn't being a "normal" kid by building my own computer from scratch in the basement instead of kicking a ball outside with my friends. I find this funny cause at this point in my life I'm in way better physical shape than most of the guys my age.
You did hit on the key, what interests the child will motivate them to put down the mindless activity of TV or gameboy and they will play with the greatest "game" of all...their mind.
I think there's a difference between loving computers as science and loving computers as a way to relieve boredom or a distraction from the harshness of reality. Worse still are the parents that use TV or gameboys as a cheap babysitter. Why not just sedate the child and then they'll leave you alone.
We have three bigs dogs. Unlike a lock, they won't let anyone in who isn't authorized. Also, most burglars will move on to the next house if they think they'll have to deal with an unfriendly dog. I'm sure there are ways around dogs but it's a good deterent.
How about a button that alerts the IRS? or the SEC when someone on a stock chat room brags about something not quite legal? or the private investigator that's checking up on the housewife who seems to be having a bit too much fun online...
Oh the poor, poor CEOs of public companies...will the suffering never end?
The facts pretty much speak for themselves. Anytime a public company is allowed to fudge, manipulate, obfiscate, distort or just plain lie about publicly required financial disclosures with impunity, they will. It's a numbers game and if it pays to screw people while enriching the big shareholders, then it becomes "a business decision". Wall Street has very little integrity. This is why the SEC and public interest groups (including shareholder rights suits) are important. They make the greedy bastards have to work harder to screw us. At some point, hopefully, it will become financially more profitable to just run a clean company.
I don't see one reason why any public company cannot document options transactions including dates and how they were calculated. Five years ago is still pretty recent and well within the seven years that you're supposed to keep most business records.
What would be more satisfying is to see those who do abuse the public trading system actually do hard time for this.
It was intentionally designed so that rule by the majority (a.k.a. the "tyranny of the majority" in the words of one founding father) is blunted.
I've heard this before and it's one of those ideas that makes people feel good about the government. The real reason for the electoral college was to allow for the collection of votes in a time when it took weeks to move mail across the country. The founders were fearful that the population might not "get it right" or vote for someone who wasn't "mainstream". Current day political parties benefit from the electoral college. Remember, anything which moves power from the government to the people is vehemently resisted by the government. As a result, even though all the reasons given for the creation of the electoral college are no longer valid and even though we recently had a situation (2000) in which the popular vote was opposite to the electoral college vote, we still don't see any move to abolish the electoral college. This is pretty much what you'd expect from our current government.
Unfortunately, the Elise(I have one) is pretty much a bare minimum track car. There are no frills, sound insulation or comfy electric seats. In fact, it's pretty darn uncomfortable for the long haul. While it may compete with the high end exotics on the track, it gives up a lot of comfort to do this. One the other hand, I would love to drive an "electric" Elise. Bring able to plug it in at night is so cool. The Elise barely gets 250 miles on a tank anyway. $80k is a lot but 0 to 60 in 3 seconds? Holy cow batman!
The applications range anywhere from looney to quite competent and reasonable. The one thing they all have in common is that none of them have ever made it past the preliminary testing phase(a simpler test to show whether or not something unusual is happening and therefore warranting a full challenge test)
Most of the applicants can't even qualify for the preliminary test because they can't(or won't) follow the relatively straightforward and easy steps.
If I could demonstrate the slightest paranormal power, I'd be a million dollar richer.
However, I look at this kind of research as a way of satisfying our inate human curiosity. It would be wrong to dismiss this research for reasons like "it sounds stupid" or "if it were true, why haven't we seen these phenomena before"
Lots of people like to believe in magic, look at the overwhelming number of churches and mystical based groups.
Everquest is released. I was having fun. Making friends, finding out that playing with others online brought a whole new dimension to gaming. Sure the gameplay wasn't groundbreaking but there was a partylike atmosphere that just kind of sucked you in...
Fast forward to 2006: an entire generation of mindless clicking zombies are born. The infection rapidly spreads as lives are lost, families destroyed and new paradigm takes control. The overlords of the World of Warcraft smile contentedly as humanity is enslaved...
Sniping is the natural result of smart bidders not wanting to pay inflated prices due to emotional bidding wars.
I think the answer is obvious, if you're a seller you want lots of intense bidding wars. If you're a buyer, you want to be the only bidder.
There are lots of non-online auctions that have specific deadlines. I think the complainers are the sellers or those who don't put in their highest bid and then are pissed off that someone outbids them at the last second. If you read the Ebay guidelines, they advise you to enter the HIGHEST price you'll be willing to pay.
And what about shill bidders? Where's the massive outcry from sellers about this problem?
I think it's kind of funny. My wife isn't really in on my porn habits but she isn't stupid and knows that sometimes her hubby isn't just "defragging the hard drive" in the basement.
The funny part is when we get to see the "questionable" surfing habits of some famous self-righteous fundy preachers. I love it.
Of course, it wouldn't be so funny if the entire credit card info got released...
The common misconception is that a persons skin color, religion, or ethnic background make people more or less compatible. The more useful criteria are things like interests, hobbies, music, movies, etc. Sex could be considered an exception since a bathroom may be shared and it's ok to discriminate with public restrooms.
It never ceases to amaze me how so many organizations and their lawyers think they can stifle free speech on the internet. The internet just doesn't respond that way. They're only highlighting the obvious need for this information. I wonder how many people didn't know about this before their action who now do and will simply google their way to it...
I put together a system using the Zalman TN-500 case. This thing is expensive but it is incredibly well made and would probably survive a small nuke. I needed a quiet PC for my home recording studio but didn't want to sacrifice performance. I've got a 3.2 GHz P4 with an ATI XT800 Pro GPU. I can play the latest FPS games at full speed and I don't hear a thing from the PC except a faint disk drive access at times. I'll probably try to boot from flash and run the drives in another room with a gigabit network connection. The Zalman case sucks heat from all the critical motherboard components using these gold heat pipes to these massive fins on the outside of the case. The temp of the whole thing runs in the low 30s celsius all the time.
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You could always move somewhere that doesn't get covered in snow, ice, rain, mud, etc. every year. This would probably involve a southerly location. I live in the mountains in So. Cal. and I haven't had a power outage lasting more than a couple of hours in the past 6 years.
There is a bit of hypocrisy in this story. I've read many comments that say "I can do whatever I want online but you can't do anything to me". Would you hop into a car with a stranger? Would you give out personal information to someone you just met at a bar (no matter how charming the person is)?
The beauty of the internet is it's freedom but like in nature, the wild jungle is host to predators and prey. You can't have a "safe" internet and a "free" internet. You need to be careful in the virtual world too.
Cheers
So he funds a survey of economists who are mostly registered Democrats and then subtly criticizes the validity of the study because (presumably) they favor the candidate who (in his opinion) will tax the bejeezus out of his wallet and who happens to be a democrat.
Is this a joke or what?
While the coup that Billy snagged back in the day was brilliant in hindsight, it was still a very very small financial score. What happened afterwards was a lot of luck and without a doubt a lot of good business sense. You don't have to love Microsoft to still be amazed is how far and fast they grew. Microsoft was so far behind Apple in the GUI business in the late 80s and yet they still own the market. That has to count for something, eh?
I always liked the opening scene in the movie Troy where each army puts up it's best fighter to decide the outcome. This would be far more civilized. Just extend this to two robot warriors, eh? Nobody gets killed and it's much cheaper.
When will people learn? You don't throw down an open challenge to the programming community this way. I'll bet a "fixed" version of this software is everywhere soon. Not that I would want to use it. A reminder to the developer is that the majority of the most successful software products started out with no copy protection (or a relatively liberal use system)
First rule of business, the customer is king (not a potential criminal).
Second rule: Don't piss off the Slashdot community.
I always liked the line in Hi Fidelity by John Cusack:
"It's not what she's like, it's what she likes that's more important"
Peace
I can definitely say that I would be upset if my registrar simply shut down my site because "someone else" didn't like it.
There are proper ways of fixing these things.
You can buy a low cost wattmeter that you plug your equipment into and simply read out the power consumption. I've found that a lot of devices in standby take almost no power. Other devices aren't so frugal. I'd like to see some real statistics on this and something like the energystar ratings you see on refrigerators put on computers.
Have you watched congressional proceedings lately. You have a congressperson or senator giving an impaasioned plea for/against legislation, then the camera pulls back and you see there's virtually no one in the room. It's so discouraging to see this. It used to be that the congressional auditorium was always packed.
I read that the founding fathers actually had a prediction for how long our democracy would last before reverting to some sort of monarchy. They did their best to put checks in place to prevent this but as you can see by recent events, this is no guarantee. I believe some predicted a couple hundred years was hopeful.
and yes, I am worried.
Watch, listen, read and vote in November as if your life depends upon it.
Great story!
I love that sort of thing too and fortunately my parents indulged me although I do seem to remember them complaining when I wasn't being a "normal" kid by building my own computer from scratch in the basement instead of kicking a ball outside with my friends. I find this funny cause at this point in my life I'm in way better physical shape than most of the guys my age.
You did hit on the key, what interests the child will motivate them to put down the mindless activity of TV or gameboy and they will play with the greatest "game" of all...their mind.
I think there's a difference between loving computers as science and loving computers as a way to relieve boredom or a distraction from the harshness of reality. Worse still are the parents that use TV or gameboys as a cheap babysitter. Why not just sedate the child and then they'll leave you alone.
We have three bigs dogs. Unlike a lock, they won't let anyone in who isn't authorized. Also, most burglars will move on to the next house if they think they'll have to deal with an unfriendly dog. I'm sure there are ways around dogs but it's a good deterent.
How about a button that alerts the IRS? or the SEC when someone on a stock chat room brags about something not quite legal? or the private investigator that's checking up on the housewife who seems to be having a bit too much fun online...
Oh the poor, poor CEOs of public companies...will the suffering never end?
The facts pretty much speak for themselves. Anytime a public company is allowed to fudge, manipulate, obfiscate, distort or just plain lie about publicly required financial disclosures with impunity, they will. It's a numbers game and if it pays to screw people while enriching the big shareholders, then it becomes "a business decision". Wall Street has very little integrity. This is why the SEC and public interest groups (including shareholder rights suits) are important. They make the greedy bastards have to work harder to screw us. At some point, hopefully, it will become financially more profitable to just run a clean company.
I don't see one reason why any public company cannot document options transactions including dates and how they were calculated. Five years ago is still pretty recent and well within the seven years that you're supposed to keep most business records.
What would be more satisfying is to see those who do abuse the public trading system actually do hard time for this.
A committed vegan working for a meat packing company? Now that's funny!
Unfortunately, the Elise(I have one) is pretty much a bare minimum track car. There are no frills, sound insulation or comfy electric seats. In fact, it's pretty darn uncomfortable for the long haul. While it may compete with the high end exotics on the track, it gives up a lot of comfort to do this. One the other hand, I would love to drive an "electric" Elise. Bring able to plug it in at night is so cool. The Elise barely gets 250 miles on a tank anyway. $80k is a lot but 0 to 60 in 3 seconds? Holy cow batman!
The fascinating thing is go and read the message board at the Randi Foundation http://forums.randi.org/forumdisplay.php?f=43
The applications range anywhere from looney to quite competent and reasonable. The one thing they all have in common is that none of them have ever made it past the preliminary testing phase(a simpler test to show whether or not something unusual is happening and therefore warranting a full challenge test)
Most of the applicants can't even qualify for the preliminary test because they can't(or won't) follow the relatively straightforward and easy steps.
If I could demonstrate the slightest paranormal power, I'd be a million dollar richer.
However, I look at this kind of research as a way of satisfying our inate human curiosity. It would be wrong to dismiss this research for reasons like "it sounds stupid" or "if it were true, why haven't we seen these phenomena before"
Lots of people like to believe in magic, look at the overwhelming number of churches and mystical based groups.
Everquest is released. I was having fun. Making friends, finding out that playing with others online brought a whole new dimension to gaming.
Sure the gameplay wasn't groundbreaking but there was a partylike atmosphere that just kind of sucked you in...
Fast forward to 2006: an entire generation of mindless clicking zombies are born. The infection rapidly spreads as lives are lost, families destroyed and new paradigm takes control. The overlords of the World of Warcraft smile contentedly as humanity is enslaved...
"The problem is the sniping phenomenon."
Who says this is a problem?
Sniping is the natural result of smart bidders not wanting to pay inflated prices due to emotional bidding wars.
I think the answer is obvious, if you're a seller you want lots of intense bidding wars. If you're a buyer, you want to be the only bidder.
There are lots of non-online auctions that have specific deadlines. I think the complainers are the sellers or those who don't put in their highest bid and then are pissed off that someone outbids them at the last second. If you read the Ebay guidelines, they advise you to enter the HIGHEST price you'll be willing to pay.
And what about shill bidders? Where's the massive outcry from sellers about this problem?
"If he does exist he'll hide his hand so that you can't make him do stuff..."
Shouldn't it be "her" hand?
I think it's kind of funny. My wife isn't really in on my porn habits but she isn't stupid and knows that sometimes her hubby isn't just "defragging the hard drive" in the basement.
The funny part is when we get to see the "questionable" surfing habits of some famous self-righteous fundy preachers. I love it.
Of course, it wouldn't be so funny if the entire credit card info got released...
The common misconception is that a persons skin color, religion, or ethnic background make people more or less compatible. The more useful criteria are things like interests, hobbies, music, movies, etc. Sex could be considered an exception since a bathroom may be shared and it's ok to discriminate with public restrooms.
It never ceases to amaze me how so many organizations and their lawyers think they can stifle free speech on the internet. The internet just doesn't respond that way. They're only highlighting the obvious need for this information. I wonder how many people didn't know about this before their action who now do and will simply google their way to it...
I put together a system using the Zalman TN-500 case. This thing is expensive but it is incredibly well made and would probably survive a small nuke. I needed a quiet PC for my home recording studio but didn't want to sacrifice performance. I've got a 3.2 GHz P4 with an ATI XT800 Pro GPU. I can play the latest FPS games at full speed and I don't hear a thing from the PC except a faint disk drive access at times. I'll probably try to boot from flash and run the drives in another room with a gigabit network connection. The Zalman case sucks heat from all the critical motherboard components using these gold heat pipes to these massive fins on the outside of the case. The temp of the whole thing runs in the low 30s celsius all the time.