No, we just haven't heard of any white dolphin-on-dolphin crime. The coloured dolphin crime only gets reported in the news when we have to scare the white dolphins back into line.
Who would you rather operate on you: A young surgeon, or an older surgeon with years of experience? (I know, programming/administration != surgery, but I think most people will understand the point.)
Stuff like this makes me wonder... wouldn't it be fuckin' awesome to work for DARPA and be able to bring life to the crazy shit you dreamt up when you were 9?
Come on you bastards, stop slashdotting FEMA! Don't you realize they don't have the resources to handle a sudden influx of slashdotters peeking at their code? I mean, you're going to tie up their bandwidth, and they're not going to know how to manage this emergency! And really, how can we expect them to? It'll take them at least a day to recognize that they're getting slashdotted, and another 12 hours to arrange a conference call to examine the situation... after which they'll have to spend at least a day deciding whether or not to just turn on their spare T1 line. And by the time they get around to actually doing something, their won't be a need for more bandwidth, but rather a need for standards-compliant web forms. Unfortunately, they'll have used up their weekly conference call talking about the bandwidth issue, so we'll have to wait on that. Maybe in the meantime some enterprising middle manager will get some more firefighters to go door to door asking people to stop slashdotting the server, even though (a) it's too late and (b) there's no power, internet, or living people.
Hey, maybe I'll get credit for saving FEMA from his horrible/.ing, and get my very own Medal of Freedom(tm)! Yay!
Oh, wait, I fergot, they only hand those out to Citizens, and conquered subjects from "freedomized" sovereign countries. Oh well, there's billions of barrels of oil a few hours north of me, I'm sure we're on that list they were working on in the 90s.
Hey, maybe I'll get extra points for coming up with the new ad slogan to put on the leaflets dropped from the planes flying over NO...
"Sorry we couldn't use this plane to bring you food or water. We wanted to let you know that the people who can help you are still stuck in Iraq. Sorry about that. But we hope that you'll take this chance to evaluate our new national motto, and let us know your opinions on it. Just mail this leaflet back to us... you know, once the mailboxes are no longer submerged.
New National Motto: Freedom! Now double-plus good!"
The one thing that bugs me about the talk of the busses is the "need for experienced drivers". Fuck that noise. If I have a big-ass hurricane coming at me, I will bloody well LEARN how to drive a bus in record time... and that's assuming there aren't construction workers, drillers, miners, city employees, or "people who just plain know how to drive stick" in the group of people I'm taking.
Seriously, the busses have radios if you have real grief, and even at a slow pace, if they'd taken off 12 hours before the storm hit, they could have made it to a safer place.
Dude, I think you need to check your "3 glasses of wine" for the antifreeze that was slipped in there by the scheming Frenchmen.
Seriously dude, if Hulk hadn't been so boring that I almost fell asleep, or so horrid that I almost walked out of the theater 3 times, it still would have been such a piece of crap that I would have been physically ill.
I will agree, the/concept/ that Ang Lee had was nice, I liked the stylistic elements and the comic-book-pane look, but that was the only, ONLY redeeming feature of this otherwise waste of cellulose.
Hey, I wonder which side is going to win, the people who think the first line was racist and mod me down, or the Simpsons fanboys who get the reference and mod me up?
Seriously folks, we should be happy for the OSDN team. I mean, it takes serious guts to continually hire "special" people as editors. And perhaps, by being constantly exposed to ADD and ADHD sufferers, we can learn to understand and help these poor people. Because that has to be the only fudging explanation for this constant piss-poor stuff. Seriously, would it be so hard to set some ground rules in place?
- Thou shalt do a basic keyword search before posting an article to see if it has been done before. - Thou shalt use a spellechecker. - Thou shalt ensure that the writeup is not a copy/paste of the first paragraph of the article.
Would that be so fscking hard?
Heh, I just noticed the "Important Stuff" notes under the edit box here. Point #3:
"Read other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said."
Are they really expecting to find habitats of present day life? If so, what are the chances of such life actually surviving to this day?
IANA-NASAS (I am not a NASA Scientist), but I would expect that the odds of finding "present day life" today would be pretty damn good. Finding "life as we know it" or "our current expectation of life" may be less likely, but I wouldn't expect the "present day life" to have died out this morning.
Unless it had a bad breakfast burrito.
Or forgot it's emergency pants.
Do they have emergency pants on Mars?
Good call. I'm pleased to present you with your AWK (Arcane Windows Knowledge) certification. This cert is available for qualified persons who've managed to take one of my hurried generalizations and point out the obscure fact that I didn't think anyone would pick up on. Congratulations on making things AWKward!
Funny, I click the "Enable Digital Audio" checkbox, and I've never had to connect a CD Audio cable.
But that is damn funny:) Pop rivets, eh?
I just got done fixing someones box here that was similar... they got their "Highly Qualified" techie friend to help them out. I opened up the case, and there was the second hard drive... standing vertically, hanging by the cables, with the other end hot-glued to the bottom of the case.
I took the big plunge from XP to Fedora Core 3 a few months ago. I would consider myself a savvy user, having been doing this wintel schtick for the last 14 years or so.
I liked the quick install. I appreciated it, because I had to do it several times before I got it to work. I really like some of the features... but, frankly, when I want to play MP3s on Windows, I download WinAmp. When I want to do it on FC, I spend hours trying to learn how to makefile and all sorts of screwy shit I can't even recall. Installing plugins to play movies? More screwing around. Accessing windows file shares, installing a new program that I don't have an all-in-one install file for, finding a wysiwyg html editor, webcams on MSN... hours of screwing around, googling, finding forums... I know, once I've used it for a few years, that all of this will come easy to me, and I'll be a slick with it as anyone else.
Unfortunately for Linux market penetration... there are few people as stubborn as me, willing to take the time to put up with this shit.
This is all just a really big scam. The truth is, some researcher got PWN3D a few months ago at Q3, and set about to get the best ping times he possibly could.
This is what you get when you headshot GreyHats, people!!! Do not taunt happy fun ball!!!
It's a question of Just Cause. Here in Canada, at least, that's the dividing line between "We're firing you, but we have to pay you out, say nice things about you, and behave" and "Fuck you, get out now, you get no money"
I fully believe in the companys right to hire and fire anyone they want. However, the price for a company firing you for a non-job-related reason is severance. That's what they pay for saying "Sorry, you don't fit in here". Using off-work fraternization as an excuse for not paying you severance is bunk.
Yes, it is exceptionally sucky to get fired for being gay, black, or whatever, but I'd rather have the company have the right to fire (and pay severance), than the company forced to keep those people on. In my experience, when the company can fire, a relatively small minority use it for prejudiced purposes. When the company is forced to keep people on, more people use it as a crutch for bad performance.
I have to say, I fully, 100% agree with the right of an employer to terminate you, for any reason they see fit. Whether you're fraternizing with co-workers after work, shagging the bosses daughter, or running a porn business on the side, it doesn't matter... the right of employment should always sit with the//employer//. They should not be forced to employ anyone.
That said... none of the above should be JUST CAUSE to fire someone! If you want to let me go for something that happens off the clock, you have to pay me out my full severance! What happens off the clock is no business of the company, and if they don't like it, too bad. It's not Just Cause, and the minute it becomes Just Cause, you should move own, because your company pwns your ass.
Repeat after me kids... "My Work Is Not My Life. I Work To Live, I Don't Live To Work. The Company Does Not Own Me. I Am Not A Number."
I don't care if I have to scratch out a living in the mountains, growing my own food and hunting and fishing and living in animal skins. Once the company stops paying for my time, it's MY time, to do with as I wish, and what happens is NOT Just Cause to let me go. And if they start thinking it is, I will move on.
Their "right" to communicate over a private medium...
I think this is a fine example of how everyones priorities are fucked.
That said... I would disagree with the university if they blocked access to the website of the spammers. The site isn't hosted by the university, and blocking the communications medium would be wrong. However, the email server is a different matter. If it chooses to reject certain emails, too bad. It's a private server subject to the whims of the owner, and it should be beyond anyone to force someone to do something with their private server.
What's next, the spammers sue to make us all keep our relays open?
It's not like the visual inspection can possibly miss an 8" hole in the leading edge with a camera two meters away.
Generally, you'd think not, but after NASA takes that data and converts it to their standard units, it becomes a 1/20th Volkswagon sized hole from 3/50th a football field away. After that data is sent to a European contractor and converted to metric, analyzed, and sent back to NASA in Peugot/Rugby pitch measurements, and converted back to American Imperial... well, the margin of error says that a hole that size would fall below the minimum safe, and would be ignored.
Actually, they have. The lowest I recall being sold was a 4-digit though, IIRC. I don't know if Taco likes it or not, but occasionally an account will pop up somewhere to be sold or traded.
Why any geek would sell a badge of honour like a 10,000 UID, I have no idea. Kids these days, I tell you.
Before you trot out all your legal objections, just let me say that you now have a legitimate reason to talk with the cute girl three doors over you've never met.
Dude, if I have my own T1 line and a cute girl 3 doors down, I'm not going to talk to her, I'm going to use my T1 to stream hidden webcams from her house and charge $29.95/month for membership to the site.
Talking to a cute girl:= 1% chance of something that could be called success.
Selling pics of a cute girl to pervs and collecting $$$:= 100% chance of buying a russian bride.
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No, we just haven't heard of any white dolphin-on-dolphin crime. The coloured dolphin crime only gets reported in the news when we have to scare the white dolphins back into line.
I dunno, how would you qualify Dr Nick Riviera?
That's what you get for downloading your spyware scanner off WinMX.
:P
Stuff like this makes me wonder... wouldn't it be fuckin' awesome to work for DARPA and be able to bring life to the crazy shit you dreamt up when you were 9?
if nobody knows, then nothing's wrong...
Excuse me sir, it's bad form for Cisco employees to post in this story.
Come on you bastards, stop slashdotting FEMA! Don't you realize they don't have the resources to handle a sudden influx of slashdotters peeking at their code? I mean, you're going to tie up their bandwidth, and they're not going to know how to manage this emergency! And really, how can we expect them to? It'll take them at least a day to recognize that they're getting slashdotted, and another 12 hours to arrange a conference call to examine the situation... after which they'll have to spend at least a day deciding whether or not to just turn on their spare T1 line. And by the time they get around to actually doing something, their won't be a need for more bandwidth, but rather a need for standards-compliant web forms. Unfortunately, they'll have used up their weekly conference call talking about the bandwidth issue, so we'll have to wait on that. Maybe in the meantime some enterprising middle manager will get some more firefighters to go door to door asking people to stop slashdotting the server, even though (a) it's too late and (b) there's no power, internet, or living people.
/.ing, and get my very own Medal of Freedom(tm)! Yay!
Hey, maybe I'll get credit for saving FEMA from his horrible
Oh, wait, I fergot, they only hand those out to Citizens, and conquered subjects from "freedomized" sovereign countries. Oh well, there's billions of barrels of oil a few hours north of me, I'm sure we're on that list they were working on in the 90s.
Hey, maybe I'll get extra points for coming up with the new ad slogan to put on the leaflets dropped from the planes flying over NO...
"Sorry we couldn't use this plane to bring you food or water. We wanted to let you know that the people who can help you are still stuck in Iraq. Sorry about that. But we hope that you'll take this chance to evaluate our new national motto, and let us know your opinions on it. Just mail this leaflet back to us... you know, once the mailboxes are no longer submerged.
New National Motto: Freedom! Now double-plus good!"
Silly poster. The turtle at the bottom didn't get crushed. It slipped on the spagettii!!!
The one thing that bugs me about the talk of the busses is the "need for experienced drivers". Fuck that noise. If I have a big-ass hurricane coming at me, I will bloody well LEARN how to drive a bus in record time... and that's assuming there aren't construction workers, drillers, miners, city employees, or "people who just plain know how to drive stick" in the group of people I'm taking.
Seriously, the busses have radios if you have real grief, and even at a slow pace, if they'd taken off 12 hours before the storm hit, they could have made it to a safer place.
Dude, I think you need to check your "3 glasses of wine" for the antifreeze that was slipped in there by the scheming Frenchmen.
/concept/ that Ang Lee had was nice, I liked the stylistic elements and the comic-book-pane look, but that was the only, ONLY redeeming feature of this otherwise waste of cellulose.
Seriously dude, if Hulk hadn't been so boring that I almost fell asleep, or so horrid that I almost walked out of the theater 3 times, it still would have been such a piece of crap that I would have been physically ill.
I will agree, the
Hey, I wonder which side is going to win, the people who think the first line was racist and mod me down, or the Simpsons fanboys who get the reference and mod me up?
+6 Funny
+6 Insightful
Good show, old chap.
Seriously folks, we should be happy for the OSDN team. I mean, it takes serious guts to continually hire "special" people as editors. And perhaps, by being constantly exposed to ADD and ADHD sufferers, we can learn to understand and help these poor people. Because that has to be the only fudging explanation for this constant piss-poor stuff. Seriously, would it be so hard to set some ground rules in place?
- Thou shalt do a basic keyword search before posting an article to see if it has been done before.
- Thou shalt use a spellechecker.
- Thou shalt ensure that the writeup is not a copy/paste of the first paragraph of the article.
Would that be so fscking hard?
Heh, I just noticed the "Important Stuff" notes under the edit box here. Point #3:
"Read other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said."
Heh.
IANA-NASAS (I am not a NASA Scientist), but I would expect that the odds of finding "present day life" today would be pretty damn good. Finding "life as we know it" or "our current expectation of life" may be less likely, but I wouldn't expect the "present day life" to have died out this morning.
Unless it had a bad breakfast burrito. Or forgot it's emergency pants. Do they have emergency pants on Mars?
Any NASA scientists present have the answer?
Good call. I'm pleased to present you with your AWK (Arcane Windows Knowledge) certification. This cert is available for qualified persons who've managed to take one of my hurried generalizations and point out the obscure fact that I didn't think anyone would pick up on. Congratulations on making things AWKward!
Funny, I click the "Enable Digital Audio" checkbox, and I've never had to connect a CD Audio cable.
:) Pop rivets, eh?
...
But that is damn funny
I just got done fixing someones box here that was similar... they got their "Highly Qualified" techie friend to help them out. I opened up the case, and there was the second hard drive... standing vertically, hanging by the cables, with the other end hot-glued to the bottom of the case.
Not quite pop rivets, but still
I took the big plunge from XP to Fedora Core 3 a few months ago. I would consider myself a savvy user, having been doing this wintel schtick for the last 14 years or so.
I liked the quick install. I appreciated it, because I had to do it several times before I got it to work. I really like some of the features... but, frankly, when I want to play MP3s on Windows, I download WinAmp. When I want to do it on FC, I spend hours trying to learn how to makefile and all sorts of screwy shit I can't even recall. Installing plugins to play movies? More screwing around. Accessing windows file shares, installing a new program that I don't have an all-in-one install file for, finding a wysiwyg html editor, webcams on MSN... hours of screwing around, googling, finding forums...
I know, once I've used it for a few years, that all of this will come easy to me, and I'll be a slick with it as anyone else.
Unfortunately for Linux market penetration... there are few people as stubborn as me, willing to take the time to put up with this shit.
This is all just a really big scam. The truth is, some researcher got PWN3D a few months ago at Q3, and set about to get the best ping times he possibly could.
This is what you get when you headshot GreyHats, people!!! Do not taunt happy fun ball!!!
It's a question of Just Cause. Here in Canada, at least, that's the dividing line between "We're firing you, but we have to pay you out, say nice things about you, and behave" and "Fuck you, get out now, you get no money"
I fully believe in the companys right to hire and fire anyone they want. However, the price for a company firing you for a non-job-related reason is severance. That's what they pay for saying "Sorry, you don't fit in here". Using off-work fraternization as an excuse for not paying you severance is bunk.
Yes, it is exceptionally sucky to get fired for being gay, black, or whatever, but I'd rather have the company have the right to fire (and pay severance), than the company forced to keep those people on. In my experience, when the company can fire, a relatively small minority use it for prejudiced purposes. When the company is forced to keep people on, more people use it as a crutch for bad performance.
How should it be a limiting factor?
Simple. Tobacco lines the politicians pockets and coffers, allowing them to buy the votes they need to stay feeding at the trough.
And, as we all know, aliens from desolate planets don't vote.
I have to say, I fully, 100% agree with the right of an employer to terminate you, for any reason they see fit. Whether you're fraternizing with co-workers after work, shagging the bosses daughter, or running a porn business on the side, it doesn't matter... the right of employment should always sit with the //employer//. They should not be forced to employ anyone.
That said... none of the above should be JUST CAUSE to fire someone! If you want to let me go for something that happens off the clock, you have to pay me out my full severance! What happens off the clock is no business of the company, and if they don't like it, too bad. It's not Just Cause, and the minute it becomes Just Cause, you should move own, because your company pwns your ass.
Repeat after me kids... "My Work Is Not My Life. I Work To Live, I Don't Live To Work. The Company Does Not Own Me. I Am Not A Number."
I don't care if I have to scratch out a living in the mountains, growing my own food and hunting and fishing and living in animal skins. Once the company stops paying for my time, it's MY time, to do with as I wish, and what happens is NOT Just Cause to let me go. And if they start thinking it is, I will move on.
The "constitutional rights" of a corporation...
Their "right" to communicate over a private medium...
I think this is a fine example of how everyones priorities are fucked.
That said... I would disagree with the university if they blocked access to the website of the spammers. The site isn't hosted by the university, and blocking the communications medium would be wrong. However, the email server is a different matter. If it chooses to reject certain emails, too bad. It's a private server subject to the whims of the owner, and it should be beyond anyone to force someone to do something with their private server.
What's next, the spammers sue to make us all keep our relays open?
*sigh*
Electronic Identity tags for foreigners.
The USAPatriot Act.
Silently imprisoning citizens.
No accountability for invading other countries.
Yes, God Bless America... land of the free, home of the brave... and now, DoublePlus Good!
Yay! I was worried my troll had been hit by a bus!
Guess I should go apologize to that person I ran over then...
Generally, you'd think not, but after NASA takes that data and converts it to their standard units, it becomes a 1/20th Volkswagon sized hole from 3/50th a football field away. After that data is sent to a European contractor and converted to metric, analyzed, and sent back to NASA in Peugot/Rugby pitch measurements, and converted back to American Imperial... well, the margin of error says that a hole that size would fall below the minimum safe, and would be ignored.
So, yeah, they're doomed.
Actually, they have. The lowest I recall being sold was a 4-digit though, IIRC. I don't know if Taco likes it or not, but occasionally an account will pop up somewhere to be sold or traded.
Why any geek would sell a badge of honour like a 10,000 UID, I have no idea. Kids these days, I tell you.
Dude, if I have my own T1 line and a cute girl 3 doors down, I'm not going to talk to her, I'm going to use my T1 to stream hidden webcams from her house and charge $29.95/month for membership to the site.
Talking to a cute girl := 1% chance of something that could be called success. := 100% chance of buying a russian bride.
Selling pics of a cute girl to pervs and collecting $$$