Bloody awful. It's not just ham, it's ham with added fat and other mechanically separated bits and pieces, colloquially known here as "lips and ar$£holes" sharing this graceful moniker with sausages (wieners to you). Now I think about it, that particular phrase could equally apply to Usenet, or even this hallowed site at times;o)
That would be a bit like admitting you are frightened of what they may say. Far better one should give them enough rope to hang themselves to vindicate your cause.
Don't you feel that the joke loses its appeal when you have to explain it? This is Slashdot. If anyone failed to get it, they probably shouldn't be here;o)
Freezing is the natural attraction of two molecules overcoming the energy in that molecule. This is chemical manipulation, pure and simple. That temperature is one of the variables no more makes the process freezing than it does break the established physics. We're confusing physical properties of matter with chemical.
The analogy was intended to be specific to the change in temperature of state transitions due to the combination of two compounds. OK, so the reaction may be new, but the reaction does not break any established rules pertaining to the behaviour of matter or the established priciple of bi-directional thermally driven reactions (of which an aqueous solution of NaCl is not one, but is the easiest way of showing two compounds do not necessarily have properties you would expect when mixed), which is what I was attempting to illustrate. Maybe I was not clear enough but, hey, I'm not doing my thesis here.
The rules of freezing, melting and vaporising (yes, I missed out sublimation) are not broken here. Chemists have known for some time that certain reactions can both only take place at a certain range of temperatures and reverse outside that range. This stuff does not freeze. It simply undergoes a reaction which bonds two types of molecule together to form a cohesive structure. The "normal" rules still apply to both compounds, but the new compound has a higher freezing point. That the reaction to form the new compound is reversible is also nothing new.
Analogy: Water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius, sodium chloride (salt) much higher at 804 Celsius. Add the two together to form an aqueous solution of sodium chloride and it lowers the freezing temperature, contrary to the properties of both substances. Heat it, and evaporate the water off and you end up with solid NaCl.
Sorry, but this has been hyped beyond recognition.
You have been paying for Software Protection, haven't you?
No? Oh, dear. I'm very disappointed in your "business practice". Perhaps we'd better send our consultant, Knuckles, over to give you a hand with your "decision process". After all, you wouldn't want anything "bad" to happen to your machines, would you?
Perhaps a more appropriate department would have been the "making-our-own-words-up-as-we-go-along department". Deed is a noun, which has no past tense. A deed is a deed in the past, the present or the future.
Mind you, I don't think slashdot have a monopoly on turning nouns into verbs and mangling the language. Take new-speak (AKA marketingspeak) as exhibit A and the prosecution rests.
I thought 98 was immune to blaster, sasser, et. al.
It is. This seems to be more of an "upgrade your systems now and improve Microsoft's Q4 figures" FUD exercise rather than a true representation of virus activity.
Love the logic. I hadn't actually thought about it like that. I've been using alternate root servers for a long time now. Whilst the.biz cock-up is a minor annoyance, the thought that if everyone did the same petty companies like Verisign and even ICANN would rapidly become insignificant amuses me;o)
Typical! It's a troll just because the OP swore. Get real, mods, Verisign very nearly removed one of our weapons against spam, the non-existent domain rule. Now, does that not seem to be a very good reason for making the OP's post our slogan of the day, or does the Verisign DNS hijack have some obscure benefit that I didn't see?
...or maybe we'd not be watching it because of King George Dubbya's long and happy reign, funded by large conglomerates. Count yourself lucky.
Oh, hang on, the olympics (no, I'm not going to justify the employment of sporting has-beens as correspondents for weeks with a capital letter)? You're not missing much, USA;o)
Although XPSE ships with XP Service Pack 2 installed, Microsoft has failed to address security issues, such as providing antivirus software and distributing patches and security fixes without reliance on slow, expensive connections, as well as materials educating users on security risks.
A whole continent full of sleeping zombie machines just waiting to slow us all down. Thanks, Gates. You're a star.
All this is is simple "web bug" HTML IMG link spying. Anyone with any kind of sense has configured their e-mail client to not automatically download remote images. Or even to not display HTML crap at all. And please don't tell me that they use Javashi^H^Hcript, because that means there's a brain-damaged popular e-mail program out there that allows it (or a webmail site that doesn't filter it). All we need is another way for e-mail to run wild code.
Yup. What's more, spamassassin spots it and tags it if you so desire, so even if you really *must* view HTML (I don't, nor do I wish to) then you can filter on this. Also, if you use ffproxy, it's a simple task to disallow traffic to the server in question.
All of which makes me deliriously happy. Idiots spying on our email and collecting IP addresses leaves me feeling a little cold for some reason, not to mention the possible question of "Is this bandwidth theft?" since the recipient has certainly not requested the URL of the tracking link, nor have they authorised it. Food for thought.
1) Get filesharers to admit they share files in return for a promise the RIAA won't sue them. 2) Get larger, parent bunch of litigious bastards (new legal entity-not bound by agreement) to accidentaly get hold of these confessions. 3) ????? 4) PROFIT!!!
Mod parent up as insightful. To those of you who don't understand why, I say this:
Oh, sure. Castrate a country of its national identity just because its leader lost its way for it for a few years. "Lest we forget" does not mean blaming a country for the rest of its existence.
To be perfectly honest, I just have to accept what is, like it or not, although my last words would probably be "Fire and live with the guilt, arsehole". Or did that go out the window with decency, too? If it wasn't the US it would just be another country with a large ego and resources to burn and to hell with the rest of the world. It just so happens that the US has the firepower. Lovely law to live under, don't you think? I think Dubbya may have had cowboy fantasies when he was younger... I'm just thankful that the president is still, to some measure, answerable to his people. Most Americans I know are sensible folk.
Now we are getting into the realms of flamebait, and this really isn't my view of the American *people* at all, not that my opinion makes any difference or carries any weight. We're also way off topic, so I'll just shut my face;o)
Simply a rare moment of lucidity in the screwed-up life of a technofreak;o)
Seriously, I'm not getting at the Merkins. I have friends over there. It just so happens that when those friends and I start chatting, we always end up at the same question: Where the hell is all this going to lead us? It doesn't matter whether the question is patents, Iraq, global politics or religion. The other one that crops up from time to time is how, if so many people feel the same way, do our respective governments manage to screw things up to the point where other countries *and our own people* start laughing at them? After all, these people are supposed to have their finger on the pulse of public opinion. Aren't they?
That's not the biggest issue. This has global repercussions since the US, although it has "lost the plot" is also the most influential country in the world at present and although we are wont to deny it, most western coutries follow the US's lead. It follows that the US has an obligation to us all.
So I say to you, yes, by all means be the world's police force. Yes, try to enforce peace with your heavy handed approach. OK, get involved with anything going on in the world as if you are some sort of predestined saviour, but for fuck's sake get some perspective or nobody will ever take you seriously enough to like you.
"Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. More precisely, it refers to four kinds of freedom, for the users of the software:
* The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
* The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
* The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
* The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
A program is free software if users have all of these freedoms."
Because he [in the guise of the FSF] already did. This was lifted straight from GNU.org. BSD, in all respects, is free software. It's just a little more free than the GPL in that BSD can be modified and released in/as part of proprietory software (and ceases to be free as a derivative, but with certain preconditions), whereas the GPL prohibits this. The only product of BSD that can be classified as "not free software" are these derivatives.
Kids buy it because their cool action figures. Everyone else seems to like ripping them apart for the useful pieces, and making some pretty wicked looking skeletons of whatever creature comes to mind.
Finally, someone gets it. My son has been buying Bionicle since they came out. To be honest, it's only done his education good, especially as he has researched the underlying mythology that goes along with the toys themselves, spurred on by the movie (which, IMO, for a kid's movie was excellent. Made a huge change from the usual gratuitous violence in cartoons).
He also uses the parts to construct other models from his own imagination. OK, you need a few kits to do this, but it seems to keep him quiet and amused.
To the nay-sayers, please allow our kids the luxury of being able to prove themselves. Just because you don't understand the ethos, doesn't mean they can't. After all, most of you get the kids to program the video...
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Bloody awful. It's not just ham, it's ham with added fat and other mechanically separated bits and pieces, colloquially known here as "lips and ar$£holes" sharing this graceful moniker with sausages (wieners to you). Now I think about it, that particular phrase could equally apply to Usenet, or even this hallowed site at times ;o)
BIKESHED? :-D
That would be a bit like admitting you are frightened of what they may say. Far better one should give them enough rope to hang themselves to vindicate your cause.
Don't you feel that the joke loses its appeal when you have to explain it? This is Slashdot. If anyone failed to get it, they probably shouldn't be here ;o)
"In other words it freezes."
Freezing is the natural attraction of two molecules overcoming the energy in that molecule. This is chemical manipulation, pure and simple. That temperature is one of the variables no more makes the process freezing than it does break the established physics. We're confusing physical properties of matter with chemical.
The analogy was intended to be specific to the change in temperature of state transitions due to the combination of two compounds. OK, so the reaction may be new, but the reaction does not break any established rules pertaining to the behaviour of matter or the established priciple of bi-directional thermally driven reactions (of which an aqueous solution of NaCl is not one, but is the easiest way of showing two compounds do not necessarily have properties you would expect when mixed), which is what I was attempting to illustrate. Maybe I was not clear enough but, hey, I'm not doing my thesis here.
The rules of freezing, melting and vaporising (yes, I missed out sublimation) are not broken here. Chemists have known for some time that certain reactions can both only take place at a certain range of temperatures and reverse outside that range. This stuff does not freeze. It simply undergoes a reaction which bonds two types of molecule together to form a cohesive structure. The "normal" rules still apply to both compounds, but the new compound has a higher freezing point. That the reaction to form the new compound is reversible is also nothing new.
Analogy: Water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius, sodium chloride (salt) much higher at 804 Celsius. Add the two together to form an aqueous solution of sodium chloride and it lowers the freezing temperature, contrary to the properties of both substances. Heat it, and evaporate the water off and you end up with solid NaCl.
Sorry, but this has been hyped beyond recognition.
You have been paying for Software Protection, haven't you?
No? Oh, dear. I'm very disappointed in your "business practice". Perhaps we'd better send our consultant, Knuckles, over to give you a hand with your "decision process". After all, you wouldn't want anything "bad" to happen to your machines, would you?
Perhaps a more appropriate department would have been the "making-our-own-words-up-as-we-go-along department". Deed is a noun, which has no past tense. A deed is a deed in the past, the present or the future.
Mind you, I don't think slashdot have a monopoly on turning nouns into verbs and mangling the language. Take new-speak (AKA marketingspeak) as exhibit A and the prosecution rests.
I thought 98 was immune to blaster, sasser, et. al.
It is. This seems to be more of an "upgrade your systems now and improve Microsoft's Q4 figures" FUD exercise rather than a true representation of virus activity.
IMHO, of course. ;o)
Love the logic. I hadn't actually thought about it like that. I've been using alternate root servers for a long time now. Whilst the .biz cock-up is a minor annoyance, the thought that if everyone did the same petty companies like Verisign and even ICANN would rapidly become insignificant amuses me ;o)
Typical! It's a troll just because the OP swore. Get real, mods, Verisign very nearly removed one of our weapons against spam, the non-existent domain rule. Now, does that not seem to be a very good reason for making the OP's post our slogan of the day, or does the Verisign DNS hijack have some obscure benefit that I didn't see?
...or maybe we'd not be watching it because of King George Dubbya's long and happy reign, funded by large conglomerates. Count yourself lucky.
Oh, hang on, the olympics (no, I'm not going to justify the employment of sporting has-beens as correspondents for weeks with a capital letter)? You're not missing much, USA ;o)
Although XPSE ships with XP Service Pack 2 installed, Microsoft has failed to address security issues, such as providing antivirus software and distributing patches and security fixes without reliance on slow, expensive connections, as well as materials educating users on security risks.
A whole continent full of sleeping zombie machines just waiting to slow us all down. Thanks, Gates. You're a star.
Yup. What's more, spamassassin spots it and tags it if you so desire, so even if you really *must* view HTML (I don't, nor do I wish to) then you can filter on this. Also, if you use ffproxy, it's a simple task to disallow traffic to the server in question.
All of which makes me deliriously happy. Idiots spying on our email and collecting IP addresses leaves me feeling a little cold for some reason, not to mention the possible question of "Is this bandwidth theft?" since the recipient has certainly not requested the URL of the tracking link, nor have they authorised it. Food for thought.
Sorry in advance...
1) Get filesharers to admit they share files in return for a promise the RIAA won't sue them.
2) Get larger, parent bunch of litigious bastards (new legal entity-not bound by agreement) to accidentaly get hold of these confessions.
3) ?????
4) PROFIT!!!
Yes, predictably the mods are marking this up as funny, but remember the old adage: Many a true word spoken in jest...
Mod parent up as insightful. To those of you who don't understand why, I say this:
Oh, sure. Castrate a country of its national identity just because its leader lost its way for it for a few years. "Lest we forget" does not mean blaming a country for the rest of its existence.
IANAG, BTW.
To be perfectly honest, I just have to accept what is, like it or not, although my last words would probably be "Fire and live with the guilt, arsehole". Or did that go out the window with decency, too? If it wasn't the US it would just be another country with a large ego and resources to burn and to hell with the rest of the world. It just so happens that the US has the firepower. Lovely law to live under, don't you think? I think Dubbya may have had cowboy fantasies when he was younger... I'm just thankful that the president is still, to some measure, answerable to his people. Most Americans I know are sensible folk.
Now we are getting into the realms of flamebait, and this really isn't my view of the American *people* at all, not that my opinion makes any difference or carries any weight. We're also way off topic, so I'll just shut my face ;o)
Simply a rare moment of lucidity in the screwed-up life of a technofreak ;o)
;o)
Seriously, I'm not getting at the Merkins. I have friends over there. It just so happens that when those friends and I start chatting, we always end up at the same question: Where the hell is all this going to lead us? It doesn't matter whether the question is patents, Iraq, global politics or religion. The other one that crops up from time to time is how, if so many people feel the same way, do our respective governments manage to screw things up to the point where other countries *and our own people* start laughing at them? After all, these people are supposed to have their finger on the pulse of public opinion. Aren't they?
OK, I'm back to the usual delusional state
That's not the biggest issue. This has global repercussions since the US, although it has "lost the plot" is also the most influential country in the world at present and although we are wont to deny it, most western coutries follow the US's lead. It follows that the US has an obligation to us all.
So I say to you, yes, by all means be the world's police force. Yes, try to enforce peace with your heavy handed approach. OK, get involved with anything going on in the world as if you are some sort of predestined saviour, but for fuck's sake get some perspective or nobody will ever take you seriously enough to like you.
Yes, I had to do a double take, too. Perhaps I need to get out more...
What's worse is these jokers have eaten half the bloody cake themselves, yet don't want to compliment the chef.
He'd probably say this:
"Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. More precisely, it refers to four kinds of freedom, for the users of the software:
* The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
* The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
* The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
* The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
A program is free software if users have all of these freedoms."
Because he [in the guise of the FSF] already did. This was lifted straight from GNU.org. BSD, in all respects, is free software. It's just a little more free than the GPL in that BSD can be modified and released in/as part of proprietory software (and ceases to be free as a derivative, but with certain preconditions), whereas the GPL prohibits this. The only product of BSD that can be classified as "not free software" are these derivatives.
Kids buy it because their cool action figures. Everyone else seems to like ripping them apart for the useful pieces, and making some pretty wicked looking skeletons of whatever creature comes to mind.
Finally, someone gets it. My son has been buying Bionicle since they came out. To be honest, it's only done his education good, especially as he has researched the underlying mythology that goes along with the toys themselves, spurred on by the movie (which, IMO, for a kid's movie was excellent. Made a huge change from the usual gratuitous violence in cartoons).
He also uses the parts to construct other models from his own imagination. OK, you need a few kits to do this, but it seems to keep him quiet and amused.
To the nay-sayers, please allow our kids the luxury of being able to prove themselves. Just because you don't understand the ethos, doesn't mean they can't. After all, most of you get the kids to program the video...