So, you're going to give your music files obfuscated names and locations? You'd better not import them into WMP or iTunes or any other media player with a database, otherwise the investigators will just look there to find out where the files are. Better clear your "recently played" lists from your media player, too, and take any shortcuts off your desktop.
...I mean, WTF? How much value do you put on your time and frustration? Just buy the bloody stuff already!
What part of "take the cars that don't meet the standards off the road" is unclear? Do you not have anything equivalent to a warrant of fitness in the US?
Milage standards haven't worked before and they will continue to fail. Forcing car companies to make vehicles that people don't want to buy isn't going to do anybody any good.
If they take cars that don't meet the standards off the road, and apply the standards to imports too, then either people drive more efficient cars or they stop driving. Either way emissions fall.
I read an essay by Martin Gardner in one of his books on cannibalism, asking whether it really happened. The essay was really a discussion of a book, which made the claims:
No anthropologist / explorer had ever witnessed cannabilism.
No tribe had ever admitted to it.
The book claimed that all evidence of customary [1] cannibalism effectively boiled down to a tribe / people / whatever saying: "Those guys who live over there, they are cannibals!" So anthropology students have been taught for ages that various primitive tribes engaged in cannibalism, but there is seemingly no proof of this statement. This was controversial and a few years ago (10, perhaps?) so I'm not sure what the current state of the art is.
[1] There are obvious one-off examples, like recently those rugby players down in South America, and in (pre)history perhaps eating mighty chiefs/warriors to try to absorb some of their strength or mana. This is, rather, looking at the idea of tribes that eat people on a regular basis.
F-Secure points out that.PIF files will have their extension hidden even if you change the display option.
Q: Will that make all file extensions visible?
A: Well, no. There are executable extensions that will STILL be hidden even if you turn the option off.
Q: What?
A: For example PIF. This file type was meant to be a shortcut to old MS-DOS programs. Problem is, you can rename any modern Windows Executable to.PIF and it will happily run when double-clicked.
Q: How do you I make PIF files visible then?
A: Via a registry key called "NeverShowExt". We'd link you to an article in the Microsoft Knowledgebase... except we couldn't find any. But here's a Web page on the topic, from GeoCities, made by some hobbyist a couple of years ago. Maybe it's the best source of information on the topic.
There's more detail on the hunt for gollum in Unfinished Tales. Still not a lot, to be honest.
The most interesting thing is the explanation of how Gollum escapes from Thranduil. Basically, Sauron had been unable to completely break Gollum - perhaps because of Gollum's hobbit heritage. So Sauron had let Gollum go, in the hope that Gollum would find his way to the Shire or Baggins - both names Sauron had got out of him, but both things Gollum didn't know the location of. So Sauron let Gollum go, but kept an eye on him.
Then Aragorn captured Gollum, just outside Mordor. Now, Sauron knew (from Gollum) that the One had been found, but he did not realise anyone else knew this. So he was now worried that Gollum's new captors would discover this information, and thus Sauron would lose an advantage. Hence he arranged for an orc-raid to capture or kill Gollum. However, Gollum escaped. There were also Nazgul in the area, searching for the Shire in the guise of black riders, so in terror of the orcs and the black riders, Gollum hid in Moria./p.
(3) [2 points] A friend on a social networking site comments: "O RLY?". (a) How should you reply? (b) What picture might you expect to see attached to the comment?
In 2005, half of Bhola Island in Bangladesh became permanently flooded, leaving 500,000 people homeless. The Bhola Islanders have been described as some of the world's first climate refugees. In 2007, a Bangladeshi scientist stated: "We're already seeing hundreds of thousands of climate refugees moving into slums in Dhaka." These refugees were fleeing flooded coastal areas.
The inhabitants of the Carteret Islands in Papua New Guinea are also among the first climate refugees due to sea level rise attributed to global warming and climate change. Other inhabitants of low lying islands and Island states, are also at risk. Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Maldives are especially susceptible to changes in sea level and storm surges.
Exactly! The problem here is not that a company can change the weather; it's that only one company can change the weather!
We need to encourage multiple companies to put up their own weather-controlling power-beaming doomsday satelites. Then customers will have the freedom to select the weather-provider of their choice. Informed consumers will make rational decisions about the weather they need, ensuring a correct balance of rain, wind, and sunshine. The free-market will thus ensure optimal weather for at minimum price!
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Radius 42,164 --> circumference 264,924..
So, you're going to give your music files obfuscated names and locations? You'd better not import them into WMP or iTunes or any other media player with a database, otherwise the investigators will just look there to find out where the files are. Better clear your "recently played" lists from your media player, too, and take any shortcuts off your desktop.
...I mean, WTF? How much value do you put on your time and frustration? Just buy the bloody stuff already!
What part of "take the cars that don't meet the standards off the road" is unclear? Do you not have anything equivalent to a warrant of fitness in the US?
If they take cars that don't meet the standards off the road, and apply the standards to imports too, then either people drive more efficient cars or they stop driving. Either way emissions fall.
I read an essay by Martin Gardner in one of his books on cannibalism, asking whether it really happened. The essay was really a discussion of a book, which made the claims:
The book claimed that all evidence of customary [1] cannibalism effectively boiled down to a tribe / people / whatever saying: "Those guys who live over there, they are cannibals!" So anthropology students have been taught for ages that various primitive tribes engaged in cannibalism, but there is seemingly no proof of this statement. This was controversial and a few years ago (10, perhaps?) so I'm not sure what the current state of the art is.
[1] There are obvious one-off examples, like recently those rugby players down in South America, and in (pre)history perhaps eating mighty chiefs/warriors to try to absorb some of their strength or mana. This is, rather, looking at the idea of tribes that eat people on a regular basis.
Hah. Easy-peasy in python!
Do they not have a sun where you live?
Heh. Naming a bunch of things that orbit the earth after Galileo. Irony :-)
Well, if you're female, you'll probably fold your arms under your breasts, sniff, and maybe tug your braid.
Don't they mean Planet IX?
At the risk of being pedantic, mushrooms aren't plants..
No, That starts with a T. Although it's still not a number (unless you're working in base 30).
F-Secure points out that .PIF files will have their extension hidden even if you change the display option.
Unless you're on a laptop (or otherwise missing a numeric keypad)..
There's more detail on the hunt for gollum in Unfinished Tales. Still not a lot, to be honest.
The most interesting thing is the explanation of how Gollum escapes from Thranduil. Basically, Sauron had been unable to completely break Gollum - perhaps because of Gollum's hobbit heritage. So Sauron had let Gollum go, in the hope that Gollum would find his way to the Shire or Baggins - both names Sauron had got out of him, but both things Gollum didn't know the location of. So Sauron let Gollum go, but kept an eye on him.
Then Aragorn captured Gollum, just outside Mordor. Now, Sauron knew (from Gollum) that the One had been found, but he did not realise anyone else knew this. So he was now worried that Gollum's new captors would discover this information, and thus Sauron would lose an advantage. Hence he arranged for an orc-raid to capture or kill Gollum. However, Gollum escaped. There were also Nazgul in the area, searching for the Shire in the guise of black riders, so in terror of the orcs and the black riders, Gollum hid in Moria./p.
The universal laws of driving skill:
Strange but true.
I think it's because the spammers are selling DRMed pills these days and if you opt-out, you lose access to the extended functionality of your penis.
"manager"
(3) [2 points] A friend on a social networking site comments: "O RLY?".
(a) How should you reply?
(b) What picture might you expect to see attached to the comment?
I should think windows systems with iTunes get shot at all the time in the more ornery parts of the country..
I'd be careful using the phrase "final solution" when talking about the Vatican ...
..and then hit it with our 200 megawatt orbital heat ray?
Exactly! The problem here is not that a company can change the weather; it's that only one company can change the weather!
We need to encourage multiple companies to put up their own weather-controlling power-beaming doomsday satelites. Then customers will have the freedom to select the weather-provider of their choice. Informed consumers will make rational decisions about the weather they need, ensuring a correct balance of rain, wind, and sunshine. The free-market will thus ensure optimal weather for at minimum price!
Hmm, both Stanislaw Lem and Robert Anton Wilson "died" recently. I'm not sure which worries me more :-/