I tend to agree with the idea that anonymity is not a right. I also don't pick up private phone calls made to my home address.
This has always struck me to being similar to someone showing up at your house with a paper bag over their head and hole cut out for eyes. They won't reveal who they are until they see if you are home.
If they ever find a way to charge people for email on even handed basis I hope they do not make the same mistake the post office made and provide massive discounts to bulk mailers. The overwhelming suppurt seems to be for the reduction of spammers that tie up your time and resources. The pyramid needs to be turned up side down. The spammers need to pay a high penalty and the casual user that sends only a few (to a few hundred) emails a month needs to be nearly free. Of course then you would need to limit the rampant growth of throw away email ids that would be used a few hundred times and then regenerated.
Thermos : "How Does It Know?"
The Thermos problem which has stumped scientists, engineers, and housewives for years is really very simple.
The Thermos is manufactured on Venus.
Since the surface temperature of Venus is probably in the vicinity of 600-degrees plus (please some A.R. respond with the exact temperature) the relative temperature of the contents of a thermos whether its 32-degrees F or 212-degrees F is pretty cool to a Venusian. So the Thermoses are only programmed to keep things cold relative to a Venusian.
Further investigation has revealed that the latest Zogby poll has found the 0.063 percent of the population believes this to be a fact. Since this is the exact percent of the population (barring citizens of New York and members of the NSA) that wear tin foil beanies, we can now for a certainty that their minds are not being messed with.
I hope this puts an end to this problem.
Apparently not mixing linear with volume measurement is a tool of the devil too.
Of course with ten fingers and cloven hooves conversion between decimal(metric) and binary would be a snap. So binary is probably a tool of the devil.
not to mention HEXadecimal.
enough PUNishment for now.
Slashdot Mirror
Let's leave out Al Gore this time
I tend to agree with the idea that anonymity is not a right. I also don't pick up private phone calls made to my home address.
This has always struck me to being similar to someone showing up at your house with a paper bag over their head and hole cut out for eyes. They won't reveal who they are until they see if you are home.
If they ever find a way to charge people for email on even handed basis I hope they do not make the same mistake the post office made and provide massive discounts to bulk mailers. The overwhelming suppurt seems to be for the reduction of spammers that tie up your time and resources. The pyramid needs to be turned up side down. The spammers need to pay a high penalty and the casual user that sends only a few (to a few hundred) emails a month needs to be nearly free. Of course then you would need to limit the rampant growth of throw away email ids that would be used a few hundred times and then regenerated.
Thermos : "How Does It Know?" The Thermos problem which has stumped scientists, engineers, and housewives for years is really very simple. The Thermos is manufactured on Venus. Since the surface temperature of Venus is probably in the vicinity of 600-degrees plus (please some A.R. respond with the exact temperature) the relative temperature of the contents of a thermos whether its 32-degrees F or 212-degrees F is pretty cool to a Venusian. So the Thermoses are only programmed to keep things cold relative to a Venusian. Further investigation has revealed that the latest Zogby poll has found the 0.063 percent of the population believes this to be a fact. Since this is the exact percent of the population (barring citizens of New York and members of the NSA) that wear tin foil beanies, we can now for a certainty that their minds are not being messed with. I hope this puts an end to this problem.
And my favorite one-liner:
;)
"Engineers aren't boring people; we just get
excited over boring things."
-- Anon.
no no no
Engineers aren't boring people;
machinists are boring people.
Optimist: Half full
Pessimist: Half empty
Engineer: Twice as big as it needs to be
Programmer: !Empty && !Full
Network Analyst: 100% excess capacity
This joke is only really funny if you say, out loud, the first thing that (should) come to your mind.
How do you get a 300 pound woman
into a size 6 Dress?
A: You take the "C" out of Truck
and the "F" out of way
My World collapses/ Techie news would be good, but/ slashdot is missing
How many Software Engineers does it take change a light bulb? None, Its a hardware problem
Apparently not mixing linear with volume measurement is a tool of the devil too. Of course with ten fingers and cloven hooves conversion between decimal(metric) and binary would be a snap. So binary is probably a tool of the devil. not to mention HEXadecimal. enough PUNishment for now.
A Consultant will confirm that whichever answer you think is correct is the right answer, and will send you a bill.
... and who ever said that engineers or mathematicians had no sense of humor.
That joke is 1 in an F4240 a 3E8 thanks for the laugh.
Snowshit?