I say that if you're going to encrypt, encrypt everything or at least as much as possible. If the authorities want to come after me with a five dollar wrench so be it, anything that important wouldn't be in my email anyway.
And email encryption is not easy? Install Thunderbird, GnuPG and Enigmail. You can even set rules to encrypt emails to specific people by default. I've gotten my family, close friends and coworkers using Enigmail and they love it. Even better, and my ulterior motive from the start, is that I now have a good-sized web of trust.
It's like watching a little ball of snow rolling down the hill towards you as it gets larger and larger, gaining speed as it goes, faster then you can run in the deep snow, packing together tighter and tighter until it is as hard as the coldest ice, dwarfing you as you run floundering through the snow, screaming until your out of breath...
Yeah, I have the same feeling when I try to tell my father-in-law how to minimize a window....
Warning: personal opinion. Yes, it is. Sharks with frickin' lasers have become such a cliché any possible use of it would have to be a parody to be entertaining.
Do you actually bring so much absolutely can't lose stuff that your carry-on doesn't fit in the sizer? If that's the case, I highly recommend you take a look at onebag.com's packing list.
Sex with insects... insectality? arthroality? arachnidality? what would be the proper terminology for this?
Assuming your penis is small enough to pleasure an insect the correct term would probably be entomonality. FYI, arachnids are not insects; arachnids have eight legs, insects have six.
We biked, camped, canoed, hacked, and played chess and D&D. Maybe not the most thrilling existence but I had fun. I have to be honest, it sounds like you hung out with the wrong group.
I'm of the opinion there needs to be fairly steep fines for trying to operate a cell phone while driving -- though, lots of people still insist they can do it effectively.
Oh, lots of people can do it effectively, but only under ideal circumstances. You know, assuming the vehicle in front of them doesn't suddenly slam on the brakes to avoid hitting a kid who ran into the street after their ball and that the person coming down the road actually saw that stop sign.
I think the problem is that people see it work often enough that they forget how easily things can go wrong.
Right. I'm 20, and I couldn't care less about being involved in my family. Why should I be obligated to care about an arbitrary group of people who I didn't choose to be my family. I'll do what I want to do, not what my grandpa thinks I should do.
See if you still feel that way when you're 30 or 40. That arbitrary group of people didn't choose you to be their family either but it doesn't change the fact that you're connected. Or if you want to look at it from a purely logical perspective, being involved with your family grants you access to a network that might be useful in the future.
Having to provide less office space, less resources, less money on utilities to keep up an office... yet IT people are expected to take the pay cut? We go into the office for them, not the other way around.
There's a flaw in your thinking: payroll is where people cost companies money, not presence. If employees switch to telecommuting the company's rent won't just magically shrink, nor will there be a substantial change in utility bills because there's one less computer on at the office; what employers really get from telecommuting is higher job satisfaction. On the employee's side, travel costs are reduced, they can actually sit in front of a window and have a beer while they work, breaks are potential family time, etc., so that pay cut confers a certain value. Personally, I love telecommuting; I can work in the buff and no one knows, except Slashdot I guess.
If you're using slides, you better be able to justify it.
Okay, I'll bite. Presenting your information in multiple formats (i.e. verbal and visual) reinforces the material for different types of learners. Charts and graphs are also handy for people who can't visualize numbers. Good slides won't save a bad presentation but they can improve upon a good one.
We actually pulled a pretty successful April Fool's stunt today. Some of us convinced a fellow worker in the shop to forge shackles and chains from scrap and we installed them at all the desks in the office. A few people were even good enough sports to wear them for photos.
Seriously, if they'd had a reliable backup diesel generator we wouldn't have these problems in the first place.
Fry: "Oh, the fools! If only they'd built it with six thousand and one hulls! When will they learn?"
It's pretty easy to sit back and do an armchair analysis of the situation after the shit has already hit the fan. The flooding caused by the tsunami knocked those generators offline. I live in an area that's prone to flooding and it's harder than you think to keep even a small generator out of harm's way when the water level starts rising.
One day I got so sick of changing all the clocks that didn't change themselves I just set them all to UTC left them alone. Quickly converting to local time took a bit of practice but I still think it was worth it.
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I say that if you're going to encrypt, encrypt everything or at least as much as possible. If the authorities want to come after me with a five dollar wrench so be it, anything that important wouldn't be in my email anyway.
And email encryption is not easy? Install Thunderbird, GnuPG and Enigmail. You can even set rules to encrypt emails to specific people by default. I've gotten my family, close friends and coworkers using Enigmail and they love it. Even better, and my ulterior motive from the start, is that I now have a good-sized web of trust.
It's like watching a little ball of snow rolling down the hill towards you as it gets larger and larger, gaining speed as it goes, faster then you can run in the deep snow, packing together tighter and tighter until it is as hard as the coldest ice, dwarfing you as you run floundering through the snow, screaming until your out of breath...
Yeah, I have the same feeling when I try to tell my father-in-law how to minimize a window....
Warning: personal opinion. Yes, it is. Sharks with frickin' lasers have become such a cliché any possible use of it would have to be a parody to be entertaining.
So uhh, tell me where this "correct" answer comes from.
Probably the assumption that the probe is being propelled by today's technology rather than tomorrow's.
Do you actually bring so much absolutely can't lose stuff that your carry-on doesn't fit in the sizer? If that's the case, I highly recommend you take a look at onebag.com's packing list.
I recently did a similar study, using my girlfriend as my sample, to prove that 100% of humans have a vagina.
Fascinating. They also appear to be inflatable.
Wouldn't make make more sense for Mozilla to release Firefox 2011 then?
I always thought I was broadminded, but I draw the line at shagging tarantulas. That's just wrong.
Yeah, it leaves you pretty itchy. ;)
If this becomes a relatively cheap reality in the next 30 years
How rich are you? This sub weighs about 8,000lb, so it might just have room for -A- passenger. A reeaeeaaally rich passenger.
That's the great thing about technology: prices go down. For all we know, this could be the next big thing in 30 years time.
Sex with insects ... insectality? arthroality? arachnidality? what would be the proper terminology for this?
Assuming your penis is small enough to pleasure an insect the correct term would probably be entomonality. FYI, arachnids are not insects; arachnids have eight legs, insects have six.
Nah, they just study them.
We biked, camped, canoed, hacked, and played chess and D&D. Maybe not the most thrilling existence but I had fun. I have to be honest, it sounds like you hung out with the wrong group.
I'm of the opinion there needs to be fairly steep fines for trying to operate a cell phone while driving -- though, lots of people still insist they can do it effectively.
Oh, lots of people can do it effectively, but only under ideal circumstances. You know, assuming the vehicle in front of them doesn't suddenly slam on the brakes to avoid hitting a kid who ran into the street after their ball and that the person coming down the road actually saw that stop sign.
I think the problem is that people see it work often enough that they forget how easily things can go wrong.
Right. I'm 20, and I couldn't care less about being involved in my family. Why should I be obligated to care about an arbitrary group of people who I didn't choose to be my family. I'll do what I want to do, not what my grandpa thinks I should do.
See if you still feel that way when you're 30 or 40. That arbitrary group of people didn't choose you to be their family either but it doesn't change the fact that you're connected. Or if you want to look at it from a purely logical perspective, being involved with your family grants you access to a network that might be useful in the future.
"Be good to each other" takes one sentence. The rest is rubbish.
Personally, I think Bill and Ted said it best: "be excellent to each other".
Having to provide less office space, less resources, less money on utilities to keep up an office... yet IT people are expected to take the pay cut? We go into the office for them, not the other way around.
There's a flaw in your thinking: payroll is where people cost companies money, not presence. If employees switch to telecommuting the company's rent won't just magically shrink, nor will there be a substantial change in utility bills because there's one less computer on at the office; what employers really get from telecommuting is higher job satisfaction. On the employee's side, travel costs are reduced, they can actually sit in front of a window and have a beer while they work, breaks are potential family time, etc., so that pay cut confers a certain value. Personally, I love telecommuting; I can work in the buff and no one knows, except Slashdot I guess.
One out of every 13 Earthlings and three out of four Americans is on Facebook, and one out of 26 signs into Facebook on a daily basis."
Signs in on a daily basis? I don't even log out!
Me neither, but I never logged in either.
If you're using slides, you better be able to justify it.
Okay, I'll bite. Presenting your information in multiple formats (i.e. verbal and visual) reinforces the material for different types of learners. Charts and graphs are also handy for people who can't visualize numbers. Good slides won't save a bad presentation but they can improve upon a good one.
Here's a handy chart to aid in identification.
We actually pulled a pretty successful April Fool's stunt today. Some of us convinced a fellow worker in the shop to forge shackles and chains from scrap and we installed them at all the desks in the office. A few people were even good enough sports to wear them for photos.
Seriously, if they'd had a reliable backup diesel generator we wouldn't have these problems in the first place.
Fry: "Oh, the fools! If only they'd built it with six thousand and one hulls! When will they learn?"
It's pretty easy to sit back and do an armchair analysis of the situation after the shit has already hit the fan. The flooding caused by the tsunami knocked those generators offline. I live in an area that's prone to flooding and it's harder than you think to keep even a small generator out of harm's way when the water level starts rising.
That's because American robots watch too much TV and eat french fries instead of rice.
Sumo wrestlers eat rice too.
One day I got so sick of changing all the clocks that didn't change themselves I just set them all to UTC left them alone. Quickly converting to local time took a bit of practice but I still think it was worth it.
I'm betting that by 2012 we'll have videos of cats on here.
Or photos of CAT 5s, at least.
Don't forget script kitties.
I'd rather they didn't. Our server room smells bad enough with live bodies in there.