... he'd probably be in jail for that prank today.
Jail? You mean like being away from his family for extended period of time and having letters being exchanged between him and his wife inspected by an agent?
If you're used to modern school science texts, the thing that immediately jumps out at you about this book is that for most subjects, practical, real world examples are used to introduce the concept to the students
Chemistry: no acids nor poisons. No Bunsen burner. No dropping of zinc into hydrochloric acid to generate hydrogen and then make a small explosion. It is a health risk and giving it to children is dangerous. Banned. Biology: no glass sheets in microscopes nor lens. They could break and hurt little Johnny with the sharp edge. No dissecting of cow eye. It is a bio hazard and disposing the material at the lesson end would require a hazmat team. Banned. Physics: no Wimshurst generator to generate static electricity. No heating of bimetallic strip with fire. I don't know how you could get hurt with a pendulum but it is probably banned too.
We are raising a generation of bored, uneducated, pussies.
Rather than a knob, the volume control was buttons! Unlike earlier and modern car radios, you couldn't change the volume without taking your eyes off the road!
I have a Phillips radio from '99 that has buttons for volume. One of the buttons is concave, the other is opposite - like a round bolt head. Easy to distinguish by fingers. No need to take your eyes off the road.
At first I was wondering what does PGP (mentioned in TFS/TFA) have to do with certificates? Nothing. The file included was a.pem (PKCS private key). Another question is - wasn't the private key file protected with a passphrase?
Hello. here [microsoft.com] is a direct link to the XP Virtual CD Control Panel, which has been there at Microsoft downloads since the dawn of time, allowing XP users to mount ISO and other suppported virtual filesystems.
And that does not work in Vista nor Windows 7 and for which there is no replacement from MS.
As an immigrant *to* the US, I feel insulted. My family worked quite hard to *get* US citizenship, and I know exactly why, and why it was worth it.
So how do you feel about all the crap that goes on in US during last decade? US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Prisoners in Guntanamo. Suspected election fraud in Florida. TSA on the airports and extending to harbors, rail and highways. Constitution free zone. Free speech zones. Warantless wiretapping. Secret court orders. Getting the same shit regardless of whether Dems and Reps are in power. All industry moving overseas except lawyers. Monsanto suing for cross-pollination, Oracle suing for copyrighting language interface and MPAA suing teenager mothers for copyright infringement. Employers snooping on social networks. And mirriad of other things that we read here on yro.slashodot.org...
I could earn 10x more by moving to different country, but USA is out of question.
I choose to ignore their contribution to Linux kernel and keep waiting for their contribution to Skype on Linux. They are in the best position to provide it.
In fact I welcome this step. It was just done in half-assed way. They should create a new site (with distinct name) for each crap topic that creeped in here during last years. And then they should see the readership on those sites to plummet. And slashdot.org should return to being a site about computers, technology, electronics, SW licenses and vi vs emacs.
"Let's face it: a lot of so-called "Linux administrators" these days are little more than clicky-clicky Windows drones, people who almost never use a command-line and prefer staying with dumb GUI tools.
I'm a Slackware user. Since at about 1995. Just recently I was googling for solution for some problem. And I've found a solution that basically said "run the tool that Ubuntu uses to reinstall everything and that should fix it". And everybody in the discussion thread hailed how great advice that is. For me that does not answer the question at all. It does not help other distro users at all and it also does not answer the question what is actually wrong. It reminds me of the Feynman's Wakalixes makes it go. It does not explain anything. The set of people that understand how stuff works is shrinking and shrinking...
Did anybody claim that Christianity is a peaceful religion? Anybody who read Old Testament know how bloodthirsty it is. You can find parts in New Testament that look peaceful. And you can find claims of modern Church that look like being peaceful. But that's about it.
Um, how does a coal plant that I live 100 miles away from have any potential death to me when it explodes? None, zero.
Explosion is not the only possibility how a power plant may impact the environment. A coal plant is spewing tons of emissions to the air. If in Central Europe I can get dust from Sahara, then for sure the coal plant emissions may travel a mere 100 miles. I live also in a town on a river with over 20 hydro-electrict plants. There is a dam on the river over 100km upstream from me. At about 10 of the hydro-plants are between me and the dam. Should the dam burst, then those 10 plants will be destroyed and I'm going to get over 1 meter high flood here. Next day you could paddle a canoe at best.
I'm a bit late to this thread, but anyway: multiple replies to your post, talk about electro-magnetic field frequencies. Multiple replies also talk about "I didn't hear anything while standing right next to the turbine". As far as I know, the concern is very loud, low-frequency sound, that can travel many kilometers in the ground and can' be heard by human ears. As such all those replies are completely off-topic.
Then there are replies that correctly identify the concern, but dismiss it as bogus. Well, I don't know. We are talking about exposing humans to almost constant loud low-frequency sounds (I don't think that anybody is trying to refute the existence of that) for years. In my opinion the topic hasn't been researched very well and so NIMBY steps in.
Finally there is one concern that I didn't see discussed: namely that the wind turbines are a threat to birds and bats
it's not hard to mandate a reasonable minimum distance from existing residences just to be on the safe side.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound
Elephants, in particular, produce infrasound waves that travel through solid ground and are sensed by other herds using their feet, although they may be separated by hundreds of kilometres.
Right. Last time I tried riding a bicycle, I fell. So I'm not going to try again. Ever.
Doesn't it sound stupid to you? When was actually this "last time" you speak off? I read/. since 1998 at least. And I don't remember this "disaster" (though, I've read that reasoning a few times). Even if you are right, why isn't just a few tens of most useful characters added to the whitelist - such as currency signs, typographic quotes, math/greek symbols, etc
In that case something is wrong. The notification window in Firefox 11.0 has no checkbox. The Add-Ons->Plugins does not have one either. (Note: the links will expire in one month.)
You get a warning with the option to ignore it and continuing like nothing happened.
Are you talking from experience or only based on the article? Because over here I just got a window saying that the plugin is going to be disabled. The only options that I have is 'Restart now' or 'Restart later'. If I choose 'Restart later' the plugin is not disabled, however as I close FF an start it again it is already disabled and cannot be enabled anymore. So the only option is never to close FF, or move to another version of java plugin.
If you allowed anyone to go into prison without careful screening...
Where does the article talk about prison?
... someone who, remember, has already been convicted of a crime...
Where does the article talk about 'convicted'? It does however say anyone arrested for any offense, however innocuous, can be strip-searched... well, I hope I can't be arrested for jaywalking, speeding. (Can I be arrested for civil offense?) If I'm arrested for suspected shoplifting, then I guess it is correct to empty my pockets and search my backpack. But a strip-search? Even if it turns out that I was arrested by mistake? Well, if that's ok by you, it certainly isn't ok by me.
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Jail? You mean like being away from his family for extended period of time and having letters being exchanged between him and his wife inspected by an agent?
Chemistry: no acids nor poisons. No Bunsen burner. No dropping of zinc into hydrochloric acid to generate hydrogen and then make a small explosion. It is a health risk and giving it to children is dangerous. Banned. Biology: no glass sheets in microscopes nor lens. They could break and hurt little Johnny with the sharp edge. No dissecting of cow eye. It is a bio hazard and disposing the material at the lesson end would require a hazmat team. Banned. Physics: no Wimshurst generator to generate static electricity. No heating of bimetallic strip with fire. I don't know how you could get hurt with a pendulum but it is probably banned too.
We are raising a generation of bored, uneducated, pussies.
I have a Phillips radio from '99 that has buttons for volume. One of the buttons is concave, the other is opposite - like a round bolt head. Easy to distinguish by fingers. No need to take your eyes off the road.
At first I was wondering what does PGP (mentioned in TFS/TFA) have to do with certificates? Nothing. The file included was a .pem (PKCS private key). Another question is - wasn't the private key file protected with a passphrase?
I guess that your request will be accepted right after "support more than a tiny subset of ASCII characters on slashdot."
When you get bored have a look, how stupid the average public is.
And that does not work in Vista nor Windows 7 and for which there is no replacement from MS.
So how do you feel about all the crap that goes on in US during last decade? US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Prisoners in Guntanamo. Suspected election fraud in Florida. TSA on the airports and extending to harbors, rail and highways. Constitution free zone. Free speech zones. Warantless wiretapping. Secret court orders. Getting the same shit regardless of whether Dems and Reps are in power. All industry moving overseas except lawyers. Monsanto suing for cross-pollination, Oracle suing for copyrighting language interface and MPAA suing teenager mothers for copyright infringement. Employers snooping on social networks. And mirriad of other things that we read here on yro.slashodot.org ...
I could earn 10x more by moving to different country, but USA is out of question.
Your repeated violation of the Verbal Morality Statute has caused me to notify the San Angeles Police.
I choose to ignore their contribution to Linux kernel and keep waiting for their contribution to Skype on Linux. They are in the best position to provide it.
But all that pales in comparison to volume of my Trash desktop icon.
In fact I welcome this step. It was just done in half-assed way. They should create a new site (with distinct name) for each crap topic that creeped in here during last years. And then they should see the readership on those sites to plummet. And slashdot.org should return to being a site about computers, technology, electronics, SW licenses and vi vs emacs.
I'm a Slackware user. Since at about 1995. Just recently I was googling for solution for some problem. And I've found a solution that basically said "run the tool that Ubuntu uses to reinstall everything and that should fix it". And everybody in the discussion thread hailed how great advice that is. For me that does not answer the question at all. It does not help other distro users at all and it also does not answer the question what is actually wrong. It reminds me of the Feynman's Wakalixes makes it go. It does not explain anything. The set of people that understand how stuff works is shrinking and shrinking ...
Slackware does not come with PAM in fact. Though you can install PAM (and update dozens of dependent packages in the process) from 3rd party.
I see. Let me get off your lawn right away, sir.
Memory of those with UID less than mine.
Did anybody claim that Christianity is a peaceful religion? Anybody who read Old Testament know how bloodthirsty it is. You can find parts in New Testament that look peaceful. And you can find claims of modern Church that look like being peaceful. But that's about it.
Actually you can't - if you succeed at step 2.
Explosion is not the only possibility how a power plant may impact the environment. A coal plant is spewing tons of emissions to the air. If in Central Europe I can get dust from Sahara, then for sure the coal plant emissions may travel a mere 100 miles. I live also in a town on a river with over 20 hydro-electrict plants. There is a dam on the river over 100km upstream from me. At about 10 of the hydro-plants are between me and the dam. Should the dam burst, then those 10 plants will be destroyed and I'm going to get over 1 meter high flood here. Next day you could paddle a canoe at best.
I'm a bit late to this thread, but anyway: multiple replies to your post, talk about electro-magnetic field frequencies. Multiple replies also talk about "I didn't hear anything while standing right next to the turbine". As far as I know, the concern is very loud, low-frequency sound, that can travel many kilometers in the ground and can' be heard by human ears. As such all those replies are completely off-topic.
Then there are replies that correctly identify the concern, but dismiss it as bogus. Well, I don't know. We are talking about exposing humans to almost constant loud low-frequency sounds (I don't think that anybody is trying to refute the existence of that) for years. In my opinion the topic hasn't been researched very well and so NIMBY steps in.
Finally there is one concern that I didn't see discussed: namely that the wind turbines are a threat to birds and bats
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound Elephants, in particular, produce infrasound waves that travel through solid ground and are sensed by other herds using their feet, although they may be separated by hundreds of kilometres.
Emphasis mine.
Right. Last time I tried riding a bicycle, I fell. So I'm not going to try again. Ever.
Doesn't it sound stupid to you? When was actually this "last time" you speak off? I read /. since 1998 at least. And I don't remember this "disaster" (though, I've read that reasoning a few times). Even if you are right, why isn't just a few tens of most useful characters added to the whitelist - such as currency signs, typographic quotes, math/greek symbols, etc
In that case something is wrong. The notification window in Firefox 11.0 has no checkbox. The Add-Ons->Plugins does not have one either. (Note: the links will expire in one month.)
Are you talking from experience or only based on the article? Because over here I just got a window saying that the plugin is going to be disabled. The only options that I have is 'Restart now' or 'Restart later'. If I choose 'Restart later' the plugin is not disabled, however as I close FF an start it again it is already disabled and cannot be enabled anymore. So the only option is never to close FF, or move to another version of java plugin.
Indeed for corporate use this sucks.
Where does the article talk about prison?
Where does the article talk about 'convicted'? It does however say anyone arrested for any offense, however innocuous, can be strip-searched ... well, I hope I can't be arrested for jaywalking, speeding. (Can I be arrested for civil offense?) If I'm arrested for suspected shoplifting, then I guess it is correct to empty my pockets and search my backpack. But a strip-search? Even if it turns out that I was arrested by mistake? Well, if that's ok by you, it certainly isn't ok by me.