I'm sure we can deliver an inflatable woman with the beer.
The right robot could probably even inflate her for you.
And we'll throw in a free pizza while we're at it.
After all, we wouldn't want an idiot like you out on the streets.
(Shut up papa, mamma is coding)
The number of times my dates have completely stopped me from functioning or working or doing anything the least bit useful is close to 100%.
I'm even dangerous on the road under the influence of "hot". And I've had the same effect on other people. They're reduced to a gibbering mess, completely unable to participate in a meaningful conversation. And it's worse if I like them too, we both end up in that state.
Trust me, I think you've never been on a date. You've also never had anyone that you truly care about die either.
Define Mind: A cognitive system able to process unexpected situations.
By that definition, I don't have a mind. I can think of about 20 unexpected situations which I would not be able to process. I can think of a whole lot of actual situations that I am unable to process, understand or respond to rationally - starting with why the hell is Israel trying to solve its problems using "I've got a bigger stick than you" approach?
I guess that's probably not what you meant? How do I cope with new and unexpected situations, sometimes I don't. Sometimes people don't cope.
Will a logic based system ever be able to emulate an illogical and irrational, perhaps chemical, magnetic and electrical organic hybrid system?
The expert in this field David Chalmers seems to think it unlikely that a robot could ever think like a human.
I dunno why the big corporations are happy to outsource to India but they won't let their local coders work from home.
I figure, you set up at home with an indian sounding trading name and be an "indian outsourcing company". With the money and time you save avoiding the daily commute, you could just about break even.
Rogan Josh Coding Services.
Stencils. Use a stencil. Jay got started with the masking tape but needed to go a step further.
1. buy a box cutter or scalpel from an art shop
2. do your designs onto cardboard, eg the boxes around cereal are ideal thickness and water resistance, they don't disintegrate when paint is applied and they don't repel it in blobs onto your artwork like plastic can. You have an advantage if you can print designs directly from the computer onto card.
3. Cut the designs out carefully with the box cutters or scalpel.
4. Place a thick board covered in newspaper inside the part of the suit that you want to apply the paint. Arrange the suit over the board so it is not wrinkled but not stretched either.
5. Place the stencil on the area you want the design. Tape it down if necessary. Cover up any other areas at risk from stray paint.
5. Apply paint to the holes in the stencil either by airbrush (you need the paint to be runny like water for this), or by thick stiff paintbrush or by sponge. Airbrush is best for even coverage (once you get the hang of using it - practice on scrap paper).
You can also use spray cans instead of an airbrush but you need to make sure only the area you want painted is exposed, use lots of newspaper and masking tape to cover up the areas you want to stay unpainted.
And you can get interesting effects using a tooth brush to apply paint. load the tooth brush up and then drag your thumb or a paint brush handle over the bristles towards you. Paint splatters will flick over anything opposite you. (practice aim on the bathroom mirror - but only if you're the one that has to clean it up).
or worse, if he gets good with the airbrush he might dispense with the bodysuit altogeter. Warning: link includes photos of topless women with and without paint.
I think what helped me the most, putting social skills into practice was joining a toastmasters organisation, meetings include regular and positive feedback on your communication skills, with the self restraint imposed by people who know they're going to be next on the "evaluation" roster.
Most nerds are never going to be interested in doing what it takes to be popular all the time, there are just so many other things that are more important. But they can be taught what it takes to get a "normal" person's attention and help when they need it. Basic psychology would help. The other thing is they need to learn that there are a lot more lies out there than truth. What is in novels about heros is much more how the writer (usually another nerd) wishes the world would be, not how it actually is.
The most important thing a kid can learn is that humans aren't the least bit rational or reasonable. They're often emotionally or chemically driven. Example, you might be explaining perfectly rationally why it is important to have a van for work, but your boss may have just experienced a tradgedy involving vans and refuses to budge. You might present to a committee, that preventing accidents costs less than cleaning up after them. But all the committee will see is a cost now that might not be a cost later (they're wrong but they won't see it).
Nerds like everyone else, operate well on the whats-in-it-for-me. They know not to judge a book by its cover. They may not know that everybody does judge a book by its cover - at least at first. So to get a kid to take time over his appearance is as simple as getting him or her to understand that s/he will be teased if s/he doesn't make any effort get it right.
Only put your hand up in class to answer a question once per lesson.
Don't make it obvious that you know heaps more than other kids. They will be annoyed and then nasty.
Do help the slower kids, and do keep this quiet. Helping other kids helps you develop social skills and it also helps you learn, and it helps keep the whole class moving a bit quicker.
If your class is going too slowly (you're bored), do ask your teacher for extra reading/exercises, and do it in class - you will earn points with your peers for appearing to not be paying attention.
Remember the right university will be full of kids just like you, and all these stupid kids in school won't matter any more - except when you're trying to get a research grant.
http://fhqwhgadsasdf.net/
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etc etc ie Cannot find server. Fine by me. I admit it only works for the browser and not other internet applications.
Hmm it does work for ping too:
Pinging sitefinder.verisign.com [127.0.0.1] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time10ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time10ms TTL=128
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And I don't see much from doubleclick anymore either.
And yeah I make shit up without having a clue how it works all the time. Hence the sig (self defence). I especially like to make up stupid answers to stupid questions.
Yeah that's why monopolies are bad things. No independent reporting. And he wants to own our TV stations too. And him and the Goanna's kids are all best mates, I reckon those papers are all about dumbing us down. The Age used to have different news to the Herald. Now we just have heaps of unemployed journalists or employed but cynical ones that don't actually report anything that isn't on a press release.
Freedom? What's that? (and my age is showing again)
I've been carefully avoiding XP and now I find along with the evil spyware inbuilt, it is trying to emulate unix structures?
Que? (translation: WTF?)
Will SCO sue?
Can I do an LS instead of a DIR at the command prompt?
BTW I installed my windows into a dir not named windows so that the self-copying destructive code writers would have to be a bit more creative than rote. Ie know how to use %windir% or whatever it is.
For starters, sitefinder doesn't find the slashdot site!
It isn't nearly as helpful or reliable as google (even if google is censored a bit).
It causes me to download more stuff than I would if they didn't have the diversion abusing my bandwith and data allowances that I have to pay for.
I can turn the msn search in IE off. I turned the sitefinder.verisign.com off by modifying my hosts file but that isn't easy for most of the customers I support.
If you want an ending to beat all endings read David Brin's "Earth". You will need at least 6 book marks to keep track of the plot threads. I usually wasn't done with a thread when he switched so I'd stick a book mark in (those tiny postit notes were ideal) and skip ahead to where he resumed, put another bookmark in and commence reading. When I got to what I thought was a good place to stop (usually the middle of the chapter - I got wise to you Brin), I'd put another bookmark in and skip back to the first one...
Another good standalone Brin is "the practice effect". I haven't seen any concept like it anywhere else. That book didn't require so many postits. If any.
Hmm, thats a new word for me but I don't think it's going to get into my every day vocabulary.
proka-what? No less than five words I've never absorbed before (the words not the subjects).
Yeah, biology at my school was science for art students. So I stopped early. Sad, because I liked it but it clashed with Maths, Physics and Chem.
What I am vaguely concerned about is Mr/Ms Lemming's irrational fear of bacteria. Is s/he going to die attempting to do a personal purge? Has this been done before or would it be a new category for Darwin Awards?
how does the law tell the difference between spam about penis enlargers or debt solutions or stockmarket newsletters from our footy club newsletter (1500 members?).
If we can't produce 1500 bits of signed paper with a signature and an email and maybe a person's name and phone number, how are we going to prove consent. What about our juniors? Can they consent?
Do we just give up and not send out emails at all?
Can a subscription based system be legal where we force people to send an email and "subscribe" in the subject or whatever, and verify that the email subscribed is the email submitting. Does that count as consent?
Does it only apply to email or can the police arrest the bank of which I am not a customer, for sending me unsolicted credit card offers. Who would they arrest? The CEO?
The idea is good but they invariably screw the implementation. The bank gets away with it because they've got the piece of paper. The footy club is screwed because they got burgled and all those bits of paper were lost.
that offered web surfers the opportunity to kill off the spy ware While-U by visiting the U Haul website.
Ie you go to Uhaul, it discreetly checks for spy ware, if you're a gumbie user (ie vulnerable to the while-u crap), then you won't notice but U-Haul can then automatically offer to kill the while-U for you. Complete with exploding Tie fighter effects.
Most soft cheeses like Camenbert and Brie depend on bacteria for their production.
Bacteria is used in most sewerage treatment plants.
You're hatching them in your gut and every day you shit them. Multiply that by everyone in your city, the world etc and be very afraid. Ie you are mass producing them.
Did you know living in an environment artificially depleted of bacteria (eg too much bleach), can increase your chances of things like Asthma?
Bacteria are used every day by farmers to control other pests like mould and fungus and caterpillers (dipel). (Ironically penicillin is a fungus to control bacteria). Bacteria are also important to good quality soil and natural recycling of vegetation and animal manure.
It probably wouldn't be a good idea to eat your phone battery, but that's no reason to be afraid of it.
Bacteria only multiply out of control in very favourable conditions. That's why they say you should keep your food refrigerated or boiling ie keep your food at temperatures not conducive to growing toxic bacteria like some salmonella.
I suppose you still eat chicken or eggs? The salmonella is not completely eliminated, only minimised...
And bacteria doesn't generally "spread" really fast without help.
chain voting happens when the ballot papers recirculated. They could get round what you suggest by always using box number 1 or getting the willing participant to use a specific box and then using that box to "prepunch" the ballot paper for the next voter. Ie the voter goes in with a premarked vote that he doesn't show until he posts it infront of the vote supervisor and comes out with a blank vote form that he hands over to Mr Dodgy to mark (presumably in exchange for money or whatever.
This unfortunate system works whether you use the computers or not. You do need dodgy operators in the voting hall, which seems to be quite common in Florida and Chicago. I'm not sure it would be real easy to do if the computer will only issue punched votes so Mr Dodgy couldn't get a blank one or mark it himself. I guess he could still do "vote stuffing".
What happens if you want to change your mind after you've sighted the receipt/printed the ballot? What happens if the polling booth has more votes than people that showed up to vote (stuffing).
I guess you could be given a vote mill key, and that allows one ballot to be printed by the computer you use and if you stuff it up, you have to take back the key and the printed ballot paper, and get issued with new ones. And the keys cannot be used twice without being reset inbetween with a separate machine. Or maybe it would be possible to make once only keys. And you'd get to choose the key from many so that they couldn't link your name to the key to the vote. Like the key could be linked to the vote but not your name.
buying votes can happen when you get a vote confirmation/receipt and can show it to Vinnie outside, who gives you $20 for it. I'm not sure what happens if Vinnie is expecting you to show him your receipt and you put it in the bin inside the voting hall.
I dunno, why stop at port 135, aren't there hundreds, and they might be useful for something apart from getting attacked. A bit like closing all the roads into a town so we can't be attacked by cars. Damn inconvenient and too bad if we get attacked by a train or aeroplane instead.
But I do have my email go through a service that filters the virii and spam before it even gets to my PC. And it is a lot kinder than the AOL filters.
I tried that once, went on the "40 hour famine". Started Friday night and by the third hour of serious exercise (running, sprinting, 180' direction changes), I couldn't stand up properly. I needed the sugar and probably the minerals. I decided not to try that again.
I think 40 days with only water is a bit generous, You'd probably have to be sitting still, meditating in a cave at the perfect temperature (not too hot, not too cold) and fairly fat to start with. The water supply would have to be close so you didn't have to move much (use energy/food), to get it.
Three weeks (21 days) of keeping still with only water, is a more realistic survival time.
And yeah, even with the gatorade being hi-calorie, I did lose a lot of weight. Although if I'd sat still and meditated, I probably would have gained weight on that quantity of gatorade (3 x 600ml bottles a day plus water). It was still better than the food we were served at the venue and the motel.
I reckon Be should have applied for an ongoing pay out, eg $23 million per year, since Microsoft's actions effectively forced Be out of the market even though the Yahoo/Microsoft statement says that Be went belly up had nothing to do with Microsoft. Crap. That's why Be sued in the first place.
These things shouldn't be solved by civil law cases, they should be solved by criminal law cases. How often does a criminal case get settled "out of court". I guess plea bargaining counts but it usually doesn't allow you to buy your way out of jail if you were bad/provable-guilty enough.
The proposed bill would provide a legal umbrella for publishers of factual information, such as courtroom decisions and professional directories, similar to the copyright laws that protect music, novels and other creative works.
If they protect court room decisions and perhaps legislation text and parliamentary proceedings (hansards), then perhaps we could start claiming "ignorance" as an excuse.
Next thing you know the copyright people will be persecuting anyone who has an online copy of the material like they do for music so there will be no more news reporting of court stuff or laws passed and your political representives will be completely unaccountable for their actions.
Perhaps someone could post the links to the your political representatives, all you USA slashdotters could enrol to vote and then complain to your reps LOUDLY.
On the other hand when people copy or publish databases and don't keep the data up to date, or mark it with a use by date eg credit references, or spammer black lists, then they should be arrested by the database police.
I suppose the usa government makes anti-competitive anti-capitalist pro-monopolist decisions daily, why should now be any different.
Although I'm not sure that vote buying or selling should necessarily be wrong, ie people are still responsible for their vote, they just choose and accept to give it in exchange for money. They'd have to choose and accept the actions of the person whom they elect that way.
One major vote fraud technique was "chain voting," where a wily precinct captain would obtain a blank punch card, often by securing an absentee ballot, and punch in the "right" votes. He would then give the prepunched card to a voter -- sometimes solicited off the street with a few bucks or a bottle of cheap wine -- have him go in to vote, drop the prepunched card in the box on the way out and hand the precinct captain another unpunched card. The "chain" could go on all day, as long as cooperating voters could be found and friendly election judges didn't examine things too closely.
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Note that this method probably works with any paper voting system.
It would be interesting to have a system whereby a computer can be used to facilitate the vote (eg with photos of candidates etc) print the filled out ballot, and it also records the result. Then the paper vote count could be compared with the computer vote count. If they were different you'd know that some stuffing around had occured although you still couldn't rule out "chain voting". Hmm, maybe if the paper had a security tag that beeped if it left the room...and you could see people putting their ballots in, and they had no opportunity to hand blank ballots over to bodgy election officials without being seen by everyone else that is voting.
I think if we're game to use the internet or computers for banking we should be game to use it for voting. Also if we do stick with paper, a computer system that prints out the ballot would still help people who can't read or see paper or whom have dodgy handwriting. Ie it would still be better than paper alone.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm sure we can deliver an inflatable woman with the beer. The right robot could probably even inflate her for you. And we'll throw in a free pizza while we're at it. After all, we wouldn't want an idiot like you out on the streets. (Shut up papa, mamma is coding)
Wanna bet?
The number of times my dates have completely stopped me from functioning or working or doing anything the least bit useful is close to 100%.
I'm even dangerous on the road under the influence of "hot". And I've had the same effect on other people. They're reduced to a gibbering mess, completely unable to participate in a meaningful conversation. And it's worse if I like them too, we both end up in that state.
Trust me, I think you've never been on a date. You've also never had anyone that you truly care about die either.
Define Mind:
A cognitive system able to process unexpected situations.
By that definition, I don't have a mind. I can think of about 20 unexpected situations which I would not be able to process. I can think of a whole lot of actual situations that I am unable to process, understand or respond to rationally - starting with why the hell is Israel trying to solve its problems using "I've got a bigger stick than you" approach? I guess that's probably not what you meant? How do I cope with new and unexpected situations, sometimes I don't. Sometimes people don't cope. Will a logic based system ever be able to emulate an illogical and irrational, perhaps chemical, magnetic and electrical organic hybrid system?
The expert in this field David Chalmers seems to think it unlikely that a robot could ever think like a human.
I dunno why the big corporations are happy to outsource to India but they won't let their local coders work from home. I figure, you set up at home with an indian sounding trading name and be an "indian outsourcing company". With the money and time you save avoiding the daily commute, you could just about break even. Rogan Josh Coding Services.
Stencils. Use a stencil. Jay got started with the masking tape but needed to go a step further.
1. buy a box cutter or scalpel from an art shop
2. do your designs onto cardboard, eg the boxes around cereal are ideal thickness and water resistance, they don't disintegrate when paint is applied and they don't repel it in blobs onto your artwork like plastic can. You have an advantage if you can print designs directly from the computer onto card.
3. Cut the designs out carefully with the box cutters or scalpel.
4. Place a thick board covered in newspaper inside the part of the suit that you want to apply the paint. Arrange the suit over the board so it is not wrinkled but not stretched either.
5. Place the stencil on the area you want the design. Tape it down if necessary. Cover up any other areas at risk from stray paint.
5. Apply paint to the holes in the stencil either by airbrush (you need the paint to be runny like water for this), or by thick stiff paintbrush or by sponge. Airbrush is best for even coverage (once you get the hang of using it - practice on scrap paper).
You can also use spray cans instead of an airbrush but you need to make sure only the area you want painted is exposed, use lots of newspaper and masking tape to cover up the areas you want to stay unpainted.
And you can get interesting effects using a tooth brush to apply paint. load the tooth brush up and then drag your thumb or a paint brush handle over the bristles towards you. Paint splatters will flick over anything opposite you. (practice aim on the bathroom mirror - but only if you're the one that has to clean it up).
How to make an orc costume
or worse, if he gets good with the airbrush he might dispense with the bodysuit altogeter. Warning: link includes photos of topless women with and without paint.
European Body Paint Festival Gallery
Both of these came from Slashdot
why nerds are unpopular
Slashdot on Aspergers The word has a P in it not a B!
I think what helped me the most, putting social skills into practice was joining a toastmasters organisation, meetings include regular and positive feedback on your communication skills, with the self restraint imposed by people who know they're going to be next on the "evaluation" roster.
Most nerds are never going to be interested in doing what it takes to be popular all the time, there are just so many other things that are more important. But they can be taught what it takes to get a "normal" person's attention and help when they need it. Basic psychology would help. The other thing is they need to learn that there are a lot more lies out there than truth. What is in novels about heros is much more how the writer (usually another nerd) wishes the world would be, not how it actually is.
The most important thing a kid can learn is that humans aren't the least bit rational or reasonable. They're often emotionally or chemically driven. Example, you might be explaining perfectly rationally why it is important to have a van for work, but your boss may have just experienced a tradgedy involving vans and refuses to budge. You might present to a committee, that preventing accidents costs less than cleaning up after them. But all the committee will see is a cost now that might not be a cost later (they're wrong but they won't see it).
Nerds like everyone else, operate well on the whats-in-it-for-me. They know not to judge a book by its cover. They may not know that everybody does judge a book by its cover - at least at first. So to get a kid to take time over his appearance is as simple as getting him or her to understand that s/he will be teased if s/he doesn't make any effort get it right.
Only put your hand up in class to answer a question once per lesson.
Don't make it obvious that you know heaps more than other kids. They will be annoyed and then nasty.
Do help the slower kids, and do keep this quiet. Helping other kids helps you develop social skills and it also helps you learn, and it helps keep the whole class moving a bit quicker.
If your class is going too slowly (you're bored), do ask your teacher for extra reading/exercises, and do it in class - you will earn points with your peers for appearing to not be paying attention.
Remember the right university will be full of kids just like you, and all these stupid kids in school won't matter any more - except when you're trying to get a research grant.
http://fhqwhgadsasdf.net/ The page cannot be displayed The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your browser settings. Please try the following: Click the Refresh button, or try again later. If you typed the page address in the Address bar, make sure that it is spelled correctly. etc etc ie Cannot find server. Fine by me. I admit it only works for the browser and not other internet applications. Hmm it does work for ping too: Pinging sitefinder.verisign.com [127.0.0.1] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time10ms TTL=128 Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time10ms TTL=128 Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=128 Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=128 Ping statistics for 127.0.0.1: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 1ms, Average = 0ms And I don't see much from doubleclick anymore either. And yeah I make shit up without having a clue how it works all the time. Hence the sig (self defence). I especially like to make up stupid answers to stupid questions.
Yeah that's why monopolies are bad things. No independent reporting. And he wants to own our TV stations too. And him and the Goanna's kids are all best mates, I reckon those papers are all about dumbing us down. The Age used to have different news to the Herald. Now we just have heaps of unemployed journalists or employed but cynical ones that don't actually report anything that isn't on a press release.
Freedom? What's that? (and my age is showing again)
I've been carefully avoiding XP and now I find along with the evil spyware inbuilt, it is trying to emulate unix structures?
Que? (translation: WTF?)
Will SCO sue?
Can I do an LS instead of a DIR at the command prompt?
BTW I installed my windows into a dir not named windows so that the self-copying destructive code writers would have to be a bit more creative than rote. Ie know how to use %windir% or whatever it is.
For starters, sitefinder doesn't find the slashdot site!
It isn't nearly as helpful or reliable as google (even if google is censored a bit).
It causes me to download more stuff than I would if they didn't have the diversion abusing my bandwith and data allowances that I have to pay for.
I can turn the msn search in IE off. I turned the sitefinder.verisign.com off by modifying my hosts file but that isn't easy for most of the customers I support.
The sydney morning herald is not known for original reporting, everything is duplicated in the Melbourne Age for starters...
Loop:
Slashdot reports story, smh reports story, slashdot reports smh reporting (slashdot story), smh reports story again (cos Slashdot did).
Repeat until servers full.
into the hosts file in your windows dir or /etc somewhere
127.0.0.1 sitefinder.verisign.com
I think it doesn't block the whole of verisign just their pesky router thing, so now if I type
www,google.com
I get a page not found, which is more helpful to me than their dodgy site finder.
Having trouble figuring out why site finder is controversial, they don't outline that at their web site...
but I did try
amp
somewhere in the middle is the behemoth financial company
slashdot
nothing
sun biometrics
some stuff about sun as in java
and then the
sun biometrics international
the fraudulent company designed to part fools from their money.
Figures.
If you want an ending to beat all endings read David Brin's "Earth". You will need at least 6 book marks to keep track of the plot threads. I usually wasn't done with a thread when he switched so I'd stick a book mark in (those tiny postit notes were ideal) and skip ahead to where he resumed, put another bookmark in and commence reading. When I got to what I thought was a good place to stop (usually the middle of the chapter - I got wise to you Brin), I'd put another bookmark in and skip back to the first one...
Another good standalone Brin is "the practice effect". I haven't seen any concept like it anywhere else. That book didn't require so many postits. If any.
Hmm, thats a new word for me but I don't think it's going to get into my every day vocabulary. proka-what? No less than five words I've never absorbed before (the words not the subjects).
Yeah, biology at my school was science for art students. So I stopped early. Sad, because I liked it but it clashed with Maths, Physics and Chem.
What I am vaguely concerned about is Mr/Ms Lemming's irrational fear of bacteria. Is s/he going to die attempting to do a personal purge? Has this been done before or would it be a new category for Darwin Awards?
how does the law tell the difference between spam about penis enlargers or debt solutions or stockmarket newsletters from our footy club newsletter (1500 members?).
If we can't produce 1500 bits of signed paper with a signature and an email and maybe a person's name and phone number, how are we going to prove consent. What about our juniors? Can they consent?
Do we just give up and not send out emails at all?
Can a subscription based system be legal where we force people to send an email and "subscribe" in the subject or whatever, and verify that the email subscribed is the email submitting. Does that count as consent?
Does it only apply to email or can the police arrest the bank of which I am not a customer, for sending me unsolicted credit card offers. Who would they arrest? The CEO?
The idea is good but they invariably screw the implementation. The bank gets away with it because they've got the piece of paper. The footy club is screwed because they got burgled and all those bits of paper were lost.
that offered web surfers the opportunity to kill off the spy ware While-U by visiting the U Haul website. Ie you go to Uhaul, it discreetly checks for spy ware, if you're a gumbie user (ie vulnerable to the while-u crap), then you won't notice but U-Haul can then automatically offer to kill the while-U for you. Complete with exploding Tie fighter effects.
Yoghurt contains mass produced bacteria.
Most soft cheeses like Camenbert and Brie depend on bacteria for their production.
Bacteria is used in most sewerage treatment plants.
You're hatching them in your gut and every day you shit them. Multiply that by everyone in your city, the world etc and be very afraid. Ie you are mass producing them.
Did you know living in an environment artificially depleted of bacteria (eg too much bleach), can increase your chances of things like Asthma?
Bacteria are used every day by farmers to control other pests like mould and fungus and caterpillers (dipel). (Ironically penicillin is a fungus to control bacteria). Bacteria are also important to good quality soil and natural recycling of vegetation and animal manure.
It probably wouldn't be a good idea to eat your phone battery, but that's no reason to be afraid of it.
Bacteria only multiply out of control in very favourable conditions. That's why they say you should keep your food refrigerated or boiling ie keep your food at temperatures not conducive to growing toxic bacteria like some salmonella.
I suppose you still eat chicken or eggs? The salmonella is not completely eliminated, only minimised...
And bacteria doesn't generally "spread" really fast without help.
chain voting happens when the ballot papers recirculated. They could get round what you suggest by always using box number 1 or getting the willing participant to use a specific box and then using that box to "prepunch" the ballot paper for the next voter. Ie the voter goes in with a premarked vote that he doesn't show until he posts it infront of the vote supervisor and comes out with a blank vote form that he hands over to Mr Dodgy to mark (presumably in exchange for money or whatever.
This unfortunate system works whether you use the computers or not. You do need dodgy operators in the voting hall, which seems to be quite common in Florida and Chicago. I'm not sure it would be real easy to do if the computer will only issue punched votes so Mr Dodgy couldn't get a blank one or mark it himself. I guess he could still do "vote stuffing".
What happens if you want to change your mind after you've sighted the receipt/printed the ballot? What happens if the polling booth has more votes than people that showed up to vote (stuffing).
I guess you could be given a vote mill key, and that allows one ballot to be printed by the computer you use and if you stuff it up, you have to take back the key and the printed ballot paper, and get issued with new ones. And the keys cannot be used twice without being reset inbetween with a separate machine. Or maybe it would be possible to make once only keys. And you'd get to choose the key from many so that they couldn't link your name to the key to the vote. Like the key could be linked to the vote but not your name.
buying votes can happen when you get a vote confirmation/receipt and can show it to Vinnie outside, who gives you $20 for it. I'm not sure what happens if Vinnie is expecting you to show him your receipt and you put it in the bin inside the voting hall.
I dunno, why stop at port 135, aren't there hundreds, and they might be useful for something apart from getting attacked. A bit like closing all the roads into a town so we can't be attacked by cars. Damn inconvenient and too bad if we get attacked by a train or aeroplane instead.
But I do have my email go through a service that filters the virii and spam before it even gets to my PC. And it is a lot kinder than the AOL filters.
I tried that once, went on the "40 hour famine". Started Friday night and by the third hour of serious exercise (running, sprinting, 180' direction changes), I couldn't stand up properly. I needed the sugar and probably the minerals. I decided not to try that again.
I think 40 days with only water is a bit generous, You'd probably have to be sitting still, meditating in a cave at the perfect temperature (not too hot, not too cold) and fairly fat to start with. The water supply would have to be close so you didn't have to move much (use energy/food), to get it.
Three weeks (21 days) of keeping still with only water, is a more realistic survival time.
And yeah, even with the gatorade being hi-calorie, I did lose a lot of weight. Although if I'd sat still and meditated, I probably would have gained weight on that quantity of gatorade (3 x 600ml bottles a day plus water). It was still better than the food we were served at the venue and the motel.
link with why BE sued
I reckon Be should have applied for an ongoing pay out, eg $23 million per year, since Microsoft's actions effectively forced Be out of the market even though the Yahoo/Microsoft statement says that Be went belly up had nothing to do with Microsoft. Crap. That's why Be sued in the first place.
These things shouldn't be solved by civil law cases, they should be solved by criminal law cases. How often does a criminal case get settled "out of court". I guess plea bargaining counts but it usually doesn't allow you to buy your way out of jail if you were bad/provable-guilty enough.
The proposed bill would provide a legal umbrella for publishers of factual information, such as courtroom decisions and professional directories, similar to the copyright laws that protect music, novels and other creative works.
If they protect court room decisions and perhaps legislation text and parliamentary proceedings (hansards), then perhaps we could start claiming "ignorance" as an excuse.
Next thing you know the copyright people will be persecuting anyone who has an online copy of the material like they do for music so there will be no more news reporting of court stuff or laws passed and your political representives will be completely unaccountable for their actions.
Perhaps someone could post the links to the your political representatives, all you USA slashdotters could enrol to vote and then complain to your reps LOUDLY.
On the other hand when people copy or publish databases and don't keep the data up to date, or mark it with a use by date eg credit references, or spammer black lists, then they should be arrested by the database police.
I suppose the usa government makes anti-competitive anti-capitalist pro-monopolist decisions daily, why should now be any different.
Although I'm not sure that vote buying or selling should necessarily be wrong, ie people are still responsible for their vote, they just choose and accept to give it in exchange for money. They'd have to choose and accept the actions of the person whom they elect that way.
From here about half way down
38 / March 2000 Illinois Issues
One major vote fraud technique was "chain voting," where a wily precinct captain would obtain a blank punch card, often by securing an absentee ballot, and punch in the "right" votes. He would then give the prepunched card to a voter -- sometimes solicited off the street with a few bucks or a bottle of cheap wine -- have him go in to vote, drop the prepunched card in the box on the way out and hand the precinct captain another unpunched card. The "chain" could go on all day, as long as cooperating voters could be found and friendly election judges didn't examine things too closely.
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Note that this method probably works with any paper voting system.
It would be interesting to have a system whereby a computer can be used to facilitate the vote (eg with photos of candidates etc) print the filled out ballot, and it also records the result. Then the paper vote count could be compared with the computer vote count. If they were different you'd know that some stuffing around had occured although you still couldn't rule out "chain voting". Hmm, maybe if the paper had a security tag that beeped if it left the room...and you could see people putting their ballots in, and they had no opportunity to hand blank ballots over to bodgy election officials without being seen by everyone else that is voting.
I think if we're game to use the internet or computers for banking we should be game to use it for voting. Also if we do stick with paper, a computer system that prints out the ballot would still help people who can't read or see paper or whom have dodgy handwriting. Ie it would still be better than paper alone.
So if there is a gettyimages for photos, where is the database for stock copy (text)?