And good state record tracking of wealth didn't exist until the mid 1900s. It was perfectly possible then to turn all of your money into gold, disappear, and appear somewhere else with little or no paperwork and a new identity. It was also very easy to invent a 'nephew' who would inherit all of your wealth, leave it to them when you fake your death, and then have them (you) appear shortly afterwards.
Where was all the screaming when Adobe's PDF-making add-in for Office (Windows only, of course, since Apple did it right) turned out to force menus and a toolbar to appear in each Office app? There's no excuse for allowing an external app this kind of power. Under XP & Office2k/2003 (and maybe others, but I don't have a platform to check here), you can try deleting the toolbar&menus but they come right back next time you open Word/Excel/PPT.
Ya got these 12 people and theoretically they all have to agree on a verdict. But only one of them (in USA criminal cases) needs to vote against the crowd to cause a hung jury. Again, theoretically, nobody knows which juror it was, or what his reasoning was.
The difference between a court case and CraigsList, I guess, is that someone set up very specific ground rules about how a verdict was to be produced, and CraigsList just sort of said, "well, gosh, we never set up any clear rules about allowed posts, so maybe some random complainer has a point, but we're too busy to review the validity or the consequences."
You have to put the salt somewhere. Some plants currently in operation dump it back into the ocean, leading to local dead zones as few if any oceanic life forms can tolerate a sudden massive increase in salinity.
I bet if you invented a system that made incandescent bulbs 'ease on' so they don't blind you at night when you turn them on you would make a fortune. Some people are never happy.
Never heard of Lutron or other touch-panel dimmers? I've used them-- in fact you get tired of the slow on, slow off effect pretty quickly.
I have lots of ceiling fixtures of the "dome" style, and CFLs are too long to fit inside them. I have wall fixtures (e.g. over bathroom mirrors) and CFLs extend below the glass shade, leading to a very annoying glare. I'd like to switch to LEDs,but there are no products on the market which both have 360 illumination and the lumen output of a 60 or 75W incandescent.
Personally, I vote for a massive increase in the cost of electricity, and let both consumers and businesses decide what type and how much light they want.
Even so, storing loot in shoe-boxes is not the action one would expect of an innocent man. Humbly beg to differ, for two reasons. First, there are plenty of people who, for whatever reason are hoarders and/or don't trust banks. That doesn't make them criminals. Second, and more important: it's not (yet...) illegal to possess US currency. Period. Fuck the "it looks suspicious so it must be illegal" jackasses. Now, if a valid search warrant, including some phrase like "evidence of unearned wealth" is in place, then there's an excuse to impound the cash.
Not only has the internet changed the way some people speek, but just the common use of keyboards without the intervention of editing or editors (or thinking, sometimes) has contributed to the way we speak online, and occasionally in real life. A few examples that pop to mind are "borken," a simple transposition of the "r" and "o" in broken-- and of course thanks to the Swedish Chef. That transposition also gave us the incredibly useful word "bork" as well. IIRC "bork" when used as a verb derives from a certain jackass who managed not to get confirmed to the Supreme Court (of the USA).
One: always back up your entire library, DRMd or not, to some other media. For example, B&N has Nook interfaces for all platforms, and by logging on to their site you can download your library to your PC.
Two: Calibre. Ya gotta have it.
Three: pycrypto and your choice of python scripts to strip DRM. 'nuff said:-)
PS "four" : if you haven't tried it, open any epub file with a ZIP utility. Full of cool stuff!
The "boy is born on Tuesday" problem is really the same as an old card puzzler. Deal out13 cards (i.e. a Bridge hand). In some cases the player says "I have an ace." In other cases the player says "I have the ace of spades." In which case is the player more likely to have 2 or more Aces? The answer is of course, when he says he has the Ace of spades. You can brute-force it easily:-) by counting the number of hands w/ at least one ace, counting the number of hands with the ace of spades, and then seeing the percentage of each of those sets with more than one ace. And don't post that I'm wrong. I'm not, neither is Martin Gardner, and neither is Marylin vos Savant.
Submitting a response to this/. thread will cause your message to be sent around the world, costing hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Are you sure you really want to do this?
Being able to sense electromagnetic fields, using no devices or other assistance, in a double blind trial, would definitely be worthy of the $1,000,000 from JREF Well, aside from the rather obvious ability to sense EM fields in the 0.5 to 0.7 nm wavelength range, I seem to recall that some radar ops in Great Britain during WW2 could tell when the beam swept past them. It was some indirect stimulation of the otic or optic nerve IIRC.
How are those poor software jocks about to be hired by Highway Safety going to do their coding analogies now? "Ummm, the Toyota braking software is like a car that is braking with braking software that is like...."
I think what you guys are missing is that there is a fundamental difference between backing up to HD or DVD, and printing out the backup.
The printed copy is analog, NOT digital. As such, a wide variety of damage effects (aging, coffee stains, fading ink) can be overcome w/ careful reading, or IR viewing, etc. But the digital copies are pretty much lost once a certain percentage of the bits are degraded beyond recovery ('specially if you failed to use RS(2750,2200) FEC in the first place).
Slashdot Mirror
And good state record tracking of wealth didn't exist until the mid 1900s. It was perfectly possible then to turn all of your money into gold, disappear, and appear somewhere else with little or no paperwork and a new identity. It was also very easy to invent a 'nephew' who would inherit all of your wealth, leave it to them when you fake your death, and then have them (you) appear shortly afterwards.
The Boat of a Million Years, by Poul Anderson.
Where was all the screaming when Adobe's PDF-making add-in for Office (Windows only, of course, since Apple did it right) turned out to force menus and a toolbar to appear in each Office app? There's no excuse for allowing an external app this kind of power. Under XP & Office2k/2003 (and maybe others, but I don't have a platform to check here), you can try deleting the toolbar&menus but they come right back next time you open Word/Excel/PPT.
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Slashdot, where arm chair scientists get shouted down and arm chair theologians get modded up.
The English speaking world, where armchair is one word.
Support your right to arm chairs! --- or is it to arm "chair theologians." ?
Ya got these 12 people and theoretically they all have to agree on a verdict. But only one of them (in USA criminal cases) needs to vote against the crowd to cause a hung jury. Again, theoretically, nobody knows which juror it was, or what his reasoning was.
The difference between a court case and CraigsList, I guess, is that someone set up very specific ground rules about how a verdict was to be produced, and CraigsList just sort of said, "well, gosh, we never set up any clear rules about allowed posts, so maybe some random complainer has a point, but we're too busy to review the validity or the consequences."
I'm not sure which is worse.
And how, pray tell, do we learn more without screwing around in the first place?
Obligatory: this is /. and everyone here has learned a lot w/o any screwing at all 'cuz we don't have GFs
or {beta}ehemoth
sorry - I don't know how to html a greek letter. So go read the Peter Watts series, already!
1) Why do you people always post AC?
2)...
As a matter of fact, science says free will doesn't exist.
Citation?
http://www.unisi.it/eventi/practical_philosophy/paper/Mele.pdf
You have to put the salt somewhere. Some plants currently in operation dump it back into the ocean, leading to local dead zones as few if any oceanic life forms can tolerate a sudden massive increase in salinity.
A randomized promotion system would tend to push the real workers, the ones who make things happen, into positions where they can affect change.
Effect. You fail at management speak.
That rather depends on what the OP actually meant. A manager can certainly effect changes, but he/she can also affect changes.
Click on the link, and the proxy server helpfully says:
ATTENTION
[blah blah how awful and scary the Intarwebs are!!!!!]
Access to the requested website has failed.
Category: Hacking;Information Technology
Guess I'll never know the full badword list.
I bet if you invented a system that made incandescent bulbs 'ease on' so they don't blind you at night when you turn them on you would make a fortune. Some people are never happy.
Never heard of Lutron or other touch-panel dimmers? I've used them-- in fact you get tired of the slow on, slow off effect pretty quickly.
I have lots of ceiling fixtures of the "dome" style, and CFLs are too long to fit inside them. I have wall fixtures (e.g. over bathroom mirrors) and CFLs extend below the glass shade, leading to a very annoying glare. I'd like to switch to LEDs,but there are no products on the market which both have 360 illumination and the lumen output of a 60 or 75W incandescent.
Personally, I vote for a massive increase in the cost of electricity, and let both consumers and businesses decide what type and how much light they want.
The vertical axis represents frequency, which is inverse time, so it's not entirely incorrect.
(referring to side joke about sheet music)
Well, to be properly physics-nerdy, frequency is the Fourier transform of amplitude, both as a function of time.
Even so, storing loot in shoe-boxes is not the action one would expect of an innocent man.
Humbly beg to differ, for two reasons.
First, there are plenty of people who, for whatever reason are hoarders and/or don't trust banks. That doesn't make them criminals.
Second, and more important: it's not (yet...) illegal to possess US currency. Period. Fuck the "it looks suspicious so it must be illegal" jackasses.
Now, if a valid search warrant, including some phrase like "evidence of unearned wealth" is in place, then there's an excuse to impound the cash.
Not only has the internet changed the way some people speek, but just the common use of keyboards without the intervention of editing or editors (or thinking, sometimes) has contributed to the way we speak online, and occasionally in real life. A few examples that pop to mind are "borken," a simple transposition of the "r" and "o" in broken-- and of course thanks to the Swedish Chef. That transposition also gave us the incredibly useful word "bork" as well.
IIRC "bork" when used as a verb derives from a certain jackass who managed not to get confirmed to the Supreme Court (of the USA).
I hearby attach a rider to this bill, requiring all commercially sold FM radio receivers to include a cellphone.
That'll fix 'em!
Ummmm... In Soviet Russia the wildfires start solar flares?
Hasn't anyone besides me seen the 7-UP series?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_Series
One: always back up your entire library, DRMd or not, to some other media. For example, B&N has Nook interfaces for all platforms, and by logging on to their site you can download your library to your PC.
Two: Calibre. Ya gotta have it.
Three: pycrypto and your choice of python scripts to strip DRM. 'nuff said :-)
PS "four" : if you haven't tried it, open any epub file with a ZIP utility. Full of cool stuff!
The "boy is born on Tuesday" problem is really the same as an old card puzzler. Deal out13 cards (i.e. a Bridge hand). In some cases the player says "I have an ace." In other cases the player says "I have the ace of spades." In which case is the player more likely to have 2 or more Aces? :-) by counting the number of hands w/ at least one ace, counting the number of hands with the ace of spades, and then seeing the percentage of each of those sets with more than one ace.
The answer is of course, when he says he has the Ace of spades. You can brute-force it easily
And don't post that I'm wrong. I'm not, neither is Martin Gardner, and neither is Marylin vos Savant.
Submitting a response to this /. thread will cause your message to be sent around the world, costing hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Are you sure you really want to do this?
Oops, I forgot the anti-first-line-eater filler.
Being able to sense electromagnetic fields, using no devices or other assistance, in a double blind trial, would definitely be worthy of the $1,000,000 from JREF
Well, aside from the rather obvious ability to sense EM fields in the 0.5 to 0.7 nm wavelength range, I seem to recall that some radar ops in Great Britain during WW2 could tell when the beam swept past them. It was some indirect stimulation of the otic or optic nerve IIRC.
I know this is against /. 's unwritten rules, but here are actual results of previous tries:
http://www.cehd.umn.edu/research/highlights/Sleep/ and http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080609071202.htm and http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/133246.php
Ok, now back to fantasies about sex-crazed teens left unattended but apparently with the means to get to their FWB's house at 7 AM...
How are those poor software jocks about to be hired by Highway Safety going to do their coding analogies now?
"Ummm, the Toyota braking software is like a car that is braking with braking software that is like...."
I think what you guys are missing is that there is a fundamental difference between backing up to HD or DVD, and printing out the backup.
The printed copy is analog, NOT digital. As such, a wide variety of damage effects (aging, coffee stains, fading ink) can be overcome w/ careful reading, or IR viewing, etc. But the digital copies are pretty much lost once a certain percentage of the bits are degraded beyond recovery ('specially if you failed to use RS(2750,2200) FEC in the first place).