From the article: "He also found that slum dwellers there collected their excrement in a plastic bag and disposed of it by flinging it He plans to sell it for about 2 or 3 cents — comparable to the cost of an ordinary plastic bag."
Bagged poo flinging?! Hey, when you're poor you have to get your entertainment any way you can.
If I was poor I'd carry my poo-bag on a stick like a hobo. Then I'd use the stick as a make-shift treb-poo-chet to launch it at some rich bastards house.
A traditional "helicopter toilet" is a problem; it's shit stored in a non-degradable bag.
Please don't give the airlines any ideas. If they had their way we'd be paying $12 for a Poopee and the cheap bastard beside me would be farting and sweating bullets the whole time trying to hold it in until we land.
If you're a poor peasant living in some place where they don't even have toilets, can you really afford bags to poo in? Chances are food and fuel are more important to you.
This still has applications in a semi-first world nation like the US, especially during a disaster scenario. Before you say food and water are more important, you might want to reflect back on the Superdome incident. Feces from thousands of people in 100 degree weather contained in the Superdome and it starts to become more important than food (but not water).
"During that lonely and frightening time, Norton starved himself in fear of having to use the restroom facilities. An unthinkable stench of feces permeated the Superdome. As disgusting as the restrooms were, Norton vowed to only drink water to keep from dehydrating. Fearing for his safety, he urinated only in the upper level of the dome."
I thought the point was to have a small sector size. With large sectors, say 4096K, a 1K file will actually take up the full 4096K. A 4097K file will take up 8194K. A thousand 1K files will end up taking up 4096000K. I understand that with larger HDD's that this becomes less of an issue, but unless you are dealing with a fewer number of large files, I don't see how this can be more efficient when the size of every file is rounded up to the next 4096K.
You had me worried for a while there so I did a quick check. Turns out NONE of my movies or MP3's are less than 4096 bytes so it looks like I dodged a bullet there. However, when Hollywood perfects it's movie industry down to 512 different possible re-hashes of the same plot they might be able to store a movie with better space efficiency on a 512 byte/sector drive again.
FWIW, the bikers did indeed barbecue and eat a cat.
Which is in direct contradiction with the article that says:
He was later forced to apologise. The animal was not a cat, the incident happened at another location and bikies weren't involved.
So...what am I supposed to make of this?
It was not a cat, it was a pig. Those weren't bikers, they were Hawaiians. It wasn't a biker gang rally, it was actually a Luau. He wasn't even in Australia at the time, he was on vacation in Hawaii.
OK, it all makes sense now.
Atkinson's got very vocal opposition among biker gangs and gamers.
The reason he feels gamers are more of a threat to his family is because a gamer left a threatening note under his door one night. No biker has done that.
You fools! Can't you see that a biker did leave that note to frame the gamers and take the heat of the biker gangs. You're playing right into their trap, fools!
Apparently a company called Data Recovery Services claim the ability to recover lost data in SSD format. Not sure how they do it exactly, but I imagine it involving some de-soldering of chips and replacement of new parts on the PCB.
Flash drives use write leveling and other algorithms to extend the life of the chips, which have a limited number of write cycles. As a result, even if you *overwrite* data it still logically exists on the chips, it just doesn't show up in the filesystem. They must have a technique to stitch the data of a working drive back together.
For a lot of bloggers, yes. Especially the average blogger who might know some HTML, some CSS and perhaps a bit of JavaScript but knows very, very little about servers, PHP, and networking.
WTF are you talking about? HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP no one said build a blog site from scratch? Just use wordpress, unzip files to folder... done.
How about something like this (feel free to democratically suggest improvements or point out issues): When a law finally makes it's way through all the courts and the Supreme Court finds it unconstitutional how about putting *every single last bastard* who voted for it on trial for treason?
OP has valid point. Why isn't their punishment for trying to pass treasonous laws. The system is broken if there is no punishment. I bet if laws like this were in place cowards would be less likely to push through quickie laws.
I had my own idea as well. I read that in Britain they pass on average a law a day. There should be some sort of time limit attached to laws, that way ridiculous things like "no eating chocolate ice cream while riding bareback" don't sit on the books adding clutter. You could even attach it to laws like murder, just be damned sure to re-instate it like clock-work or we all get a freebie day:).
I somehow went 3 whole minutes of conversation seeming completely fluid and comprehensible, only to see him turn and be like "Wow I haven't seen you since High School!"
You can imagine my baffled reaction.
You're the last candidate I'd approve for a Turing Test.
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They want to use their PS3 as a Media Center, something that's simply impossible with the current setup
Could you elaborate please? Do we have different takes on what a Media Center is? I do believe my PS3 is currently functioning as a Media Center, doing video, images and music etc. Did I miss something?
Wow, you sound like a real power-user gramps. Obviously you've never experienced a real media center system like XBMC. I want CIFS/NFS support, UPnP just blows. I want full codec support, using another machine to transcode is a complete waste of resources. I have a collection of videos organized with plots summaries and box covers I want to show up on the selection screen. I would like streaming content; video and internet radio. Then take all this and leave an open skinable system!
I guess the main reason for this will be so you can play pirated games. Homebrew is already possible on PS3 and lets not kid ourselves, piracy is always what these things are mostly used for.
This may be true but I have a hacked original XBOX and I pretty much just use it for XMBC. That old system is still hands down the best media player for the money. I'm already partially erect just thinking about the idea of XBMC for PS3... finally 1080p!
EFF's lawyers charged $400,000 for checking to confirm that the video was covered under fair use then writing one letter to that effect? That's not legal advice, that's extortion.
More precisely it's counter-extortion. I agree $400,000 is excessive... I hope they win $10,000 or whatever the minimum is to make it profitable for the EFF to defend the common person. Most people would just fold and take down a fair-use clip rather than risk bankruptcy so the EFF is necessary.
all I'm saying is that in the real world, your ideals and values mean NOTHING. when some gov official is raping your rights, you have NOTHING you can do about it.
nothing.
this is the powerless that we all feel as being part of the modern world.
nothing you can do about it, either. nothing.
sorry to break it to you but MANY things in this world are really really wrong and nothing you can do about it. your youthful ideals won't help you. just accept it. life has MANY things like this that you cannot fight or win.
do I like this? HELL NO. but I live in the real world.
You rephrased the fact that you feel there is NOTHING anyone can do 8 times over at least 2 posts. The irony is that you're commenting on an article where they are trying to do SOMETHING.
In fact, even you're doing something (it's just no positive). You're an enabler. You go around telling everyone there's nothing you can do so it's OK. At the very least just do society a favor and STFU.
" People also get mad at me when I point out that, by definition, nearly half of the population ranks below mean "
That's because you're wrong, nearly half ranks below the median, that doesn't mean nearly half ranks below the mean. If you rank intelligence from 1 to 10, and you have 10 people with a rank of 1 and 2 people with a rank of 10, you get an average of (30/11)=2.72. It actually doesn't matter what the number is, by definition half would not be below the mean.
Now, it may well be that half the population is below average intelligence, but that isn't the definition.
That's a great sample size of 3 you have there.
If you have a sufficiently large sample size it will start to more closely resemble the normal-distribution model.
Keep in mind the normal distribution still has variables to tweak the model, so no I doesn't have to a perfect and/or symmetric classic bell-curve.
"[This] will make the lay person unsure of the credibility of ALL sciences without fully seeing proof of it..."
Tada, that's how science is SUPPOSE to work. Don't blindly follow anyone including scientists without quantitative and reproducible proof. Science isn't a religion, it's a fact. YOU ARE ENCOURAGED, NAY REQUIRED TO QUESTION SCIENCE in order for it to prosper.
On a secondary note the same thing applies to government.. but that is a different rant.
There is a lot of damage you can do to a minor that does not involve sex
"There is a lot of damage you can do to a minor", like destroying their future rights as an adult.
This is another example of making sure anyone and everyone can be labeled a criminal at any time so they can just lock people up when they feel like it.
So now if I Tea-Bag some poor kid in Halo or Unreal Tournament I could face jail time!
They can have my tea-bag when they pry it from my cold dead crotch.
Am I the only one who doesn't understand the craze for electric vehilces?
I work on my own vehicles, which makes me long for EVs. No more fuel-soaked hands, for one thing. Just moving pollution controls from the car to the power plant is a huge win, too. If you wouldn't rather have an EV than an ICE given similar performance characteristics, you don't understand the problem. With that said, we are going to need battery technologies that are more useful if we're going to make the switch.
I live in Canada. I would rather have an ICE over an EV because I understand all too well the problems of electronics and batteries when mixed with cold weather. Nobody heats with electricity, it's too expensive. Even if this came with an electric heating wand I can shove up my a$$ I still wouldn't want it.
That's what I was thinking, WTF are they buying PS3's with all the associated gaming hardware when the QS22 blades offer better MIPS/watt and MIPS/dollar when you are buying at those kinds of quantity.
Sony subsidizes the console. Last I heard they had to sell 4-5 games before they broke even on a system.
So basically the Air Force to burdening the rest of the gamer pool by not buying the equivalent 9,900 games they should as well!
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From the article: "He also found that slum dwellers there collected their excrement in a plastic bag and disposed of it by flinging it He plans to sell it for about 2 or 3 cents — comparable to the cost of an ordinary plastic bag."
Bagged poo flinging?! Hey, when you're poor you have to get your entertainment any way you can.
If I was poor I'd carry my poo-bag on a stick like a hobo. Then I'd use the stick as a make-shift treb-poo-chet to launch it at some rich bastards house.
There's a business opportunity here.
A traditional "helicopter toilet" is a problem; it's shit stored in a non-degradable bag.
Please don't give the airlines any ideas. If they had their way we'd be paying $12 for a Poopee and the cheap bastard beside me would be farting and sweating bullets the whole time trying to hold it in until we land.
If you're a poor peasant living in some place where they don't even have toilets, can you really afford bags to poo in? Chances are food and fuel are more important to you.
This still has applications in a semi-first world nation like the US, especially during a disaster scenario. Before you say food and water are more important, you might want to reflect back on the Superdome incident. Feces from thousands of people in 100 degree weather contained in the Superdome and it starts to become more important than food (but not water).
"During that lonely and frightening time, Norton starved himself in fear of having to use the restroom facilities. An unthinkable stench of feces permeated the Superdome. As disgusting as the restrooms were, Norton vowed to only drink water to keep from dehydrating. Fearing for his safety, he urinated only in the upper level of the dome."
Former USM student is finally able to tell of Katrina nightmare:
http://www.usm.edu/afterkatrina/Bueto.html
They get double the tax.
Why? Because Mac and Linux are not Windows and therefore need special training for the cleaning crew.
What are they cleaning?
Child porn. Why would you use Mac or Linux unless you had something to hide?
I thought the point was to have a small sector size. With large sectors, say 4096K, a 1K file will actually take up the full 4096K. A 4097K file will take up 8194K. A thousand 1K files will end up taking up 4096000K. I understand that with larger HDD's that this becomes less of an issue, but unless you are dealing with a fewer number of large files, I don't see how this can be more efficient when the size of every file is rounded up to the next 4096K.
You had me worried for a while there so I did a quick check. Turns out NONE of my movies or MP3's are less than 4096 bytes so it looks like I dodged a bullet there. However, when Hollywood perfects it's movie industry down to 512 different possible re-hashes of the same plot they might be able to store a movie with better space efficiency on a 512 byte/sector drive again.
FWIW, the bikers did indeed barbecue and eat a cat.
Which is in direct contradiction with the article that says:
He was later forced to apologise. The animal was not a cat, the incident happened at another location and bikies weren't involved.
So...what am I supposed to make of this?
It was not a cat, it was a pig. Those weren't bikers, they were Hawaiians. It wasn't a biker gang rally, it was actually a Luau. He wasn't even in Australia at the time, he was on vacation in Hawaii. OK, it all makes sense now.
Atkinson's got very vocal opposition among biker gangs and gamers. The reason he feels gamers are more of a threat to his family is because a gamer left a threatening note under his door one night. No biker has done that.
You fools! Can't you see that a biker did leave that note to frame the gamers and take the heat of the biker gangs. You're playing right into their trap, fools!
Apparently a company called Data Recovery Services claim the ability to recover lost data in SSD format. Not sure how they do it exactly, but I imagine it involving some de-soldering of chips and replacement of new parts on the PCB.
They've managed to provide a writeup of their claims here. http://www.datarecovery.net/solid-state-drive-recovery.html
Flash drives use write leveling and other algorithms to extend the life of the chips, which have a limited number of write cycles. As a result, even if you *overwrite* data it still logically exists on the chips, it just doesn't show up in the filesystem. They must have a technique to stitch the data of a working drive back together.
For a lot of bloggers, yes. Especially the average blogger who might know some HTML, some CSS and perhaps a bit of JavaScript but knows very, very little about servers, PHP, and networking.
WTF are you talking about? HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP no one said build a blog site from scratch? Just use wordpress, unzip files to folder... done.
How about something like this (feel free to democratically suggest improvements or point out issues): When a law finally makes it's way through all the courts and the Supreme Court finds it unconstitutional how about putting *every single last bastard* who voted for it on trial for treason?
OP has valid point. Why isn't their punishment for trying to pass treasonous laws. The system is broken if there is no punishment. I bet if laws like this were in place cowards would be less likely to push through quickie laws. I had my own idea as well. I read that in Britain they pass on average a law a day. There should be some sort of time limit attached to laws, that way ridiculous things like "no eating chocolate ice cream while riding bareback" don't sit on the books adding clutter. You could even attach it to laws like murder, just be damned sure to re-instate it like clock-work or we all get a freebie day :).
I somehow went 3 whole minutes of conversation seeming completely fluid and comprehensible, only to see him turn and be like "Wow I haven't seen you since High School!"
You can imagine my baffled reaction.
You're the last candidate I'd approve for a Turing Test.
They want to use their PS3 as a Media Center, something that's simply impossible with the current setup
Could you elaborate please? Do we have different takes on what a Media Center is? I do believe my PS3 is currently functioning as a Media Center, doing video, images and music etc. Did I miss something?
Wow, you sound like a real power-user gramps. Obviously you've never experienced a real media center system like XBMC. I want CIFS/NFS support, UPnP just blows. I want full codec support, using another machine to transcode is a complete waste of resources. I have a collection of videos organized with plots summaries and box covers I want to show up on the selection screen. I would like streaming content; video and internet radio. Then take all this and leave an open skinable system!
I guess the main reason for this will be so you can play pirated games. Homebrew is already possible on PS3 and lets not kid ourselves, piracy is always what these things are mostly used for.
This may be true but I have a hacked original XBOX and I pretty much just use it for XMBC. That old system is still hands down the best media player for the money. I'm already partially erect just thinking about the idea of XBMC for PS3... finally 1080p!
Run this by me again.
EFF's lawyers charged $400,000 for checking to confirm that the video was covered under fair use then writing one letter to that effect? That's not legal advice, that's extortion.
More precisely it's counter-extortion. I agree $400,000 is excessive... I hope they win $10,000 or whatever the minimum is to make it profitable for the EFF to defend the common person. Most people would just fold and take down a fair-use clip rather than risk bankruptcy so the EFF is necessary.
(what's all that BS about?)
all I'm saying is that in the real world, your ideals and values mean NOTHING. when some gov official is raping your rights, you have NOTHING you can do about it.
nothing.
this is the powerless that we all feel as being part of the modern world.
nothing you can do about it, either. nothing.
sorry to break it to you but MANY things in this world are really really wrong and nothing you can do about it. your youthful ideals won't help you. just accept it. life has MANY things like this that you cannot fight or win.
do I like this? HELL NO. but I live in the real world.
You rephrased the fact that you feel there is NOTHING anyone can do 8 times over at least 2 posts. The irony is that you're commenting on an article where they are trying to do SOMETHING.
In fact, even you're doing something (it's just no positive). You're an enabler. You go around telling everyone there's nothing you can do so it's OK. At the very least just do society a favor and STFU.
" People also get mad at me when I point out that, by definition, nearly half of the population ranks below mean " That's because you're wrong, nearly half ranks below the median, that doesn't mean nearly half ranks below the mean. If you rank intelligence from 1 to 10, and you have 10 people with a rank of 1 and 2 people with a rank of 10, you get an average of (30/11)=2.72. It actually doesn't matter what the number is, by definition half would not be below the mean. Now, it may well be that half the population is below average intelligence, but that isn't the definition.
That's a great sample size of 3 you have there. If you have a sufficiently large sample size it will start to more closely resemble the normal-distribution model. Keep in mind the normal distribution still has variables to tweak the model, so no I doesn't have to a perfect and/or symmetric classic bell-curve.
I really can't be bothered to set up my own stuff.[1]
Plus I tend to procrastinate, and I'd probably end up with a squatter getting the domain several months after I print up a bunch of business cards.
Wow, I'd hire you in a minute.
"The studio is hoping that the four-week window will push consumers interested in watching movies at home to... pirate the movie instead."
That would be a truly welcome change.
"[This] will make the lay person unsure of the credibility of ALL sciences without fully seeing proof of it..."
Tada, that's how science is SUPPOSE to work. Don't blindly follow anyone including scientists without quantitative and reproducible proof. Science isn't a religion, it's a fact. YOU ARE ENCOURAGED, NAY REQUIRED TO QUESTION SCIENCE in order for it to prosper.
On a secondary note the same thing applies to government.. but that is a different rant.
There is a lot of damage you can do to a minor that does not involve sex
"There is a lot of damage you can do to a minor", like destroying their future rights as an adult.
This is another example of making sure anyone and everyone can be labeled a criminal at any time so they can just lock people up when they feel like it.
So now if I Tea-Bag some poor kid in Halo or Unreal Tournament I could face jail time! They can have my tea-bag when they pry it from my cold dead crotch.
Am I the only one who doesn't understand the craze for electric vehilces?
I work on my own vehicles, which makes me long for EVs. No more fuel-soaked hands, for one thing. Just moving pollution controls from the car to the power plant is a huge win, too. If you wouldn't rather have an EV than an ICE given similar performance characteristics, you don't understand the problem. With that said, we are going to need battery technologies that are more useful if we're going to make the switch.
I live in Canada. I would rather have an ICE over an EV because I understand all too well the problems of electronics and batteries when mixed with cold weather. Nobody heats with electricity, it's too expensive. Even if this came with an electric heating wand I can shove up my a$$ I still wouldn't want it.
Slaves aren't paid, last I checked. Did he file a 1099?
1. Force people to work for you
2. Pay them 1 cent a year as an annual salary
3. Hire as your lawyer
4. Profit
Something isn't right, isn't there suppose to be a '???"' somewhere. Oh well...
That's what I was thinking, WTF are they buying PS3's with all the associated gaming hardware when the QS22 blades offer better MIPS/watt and MIPS/dollar when you are buying at those kinds of quantity.
Sony subsidizes the console. Last I heard they had to sell 4-5 games before they broke even on a system. So basically the Air Force to burdening the rest of the gamer pool by not buying the equivalent 9,900 games they should as well!
rapid passage of oily yellow or orange droplets, to severe diarrheaM
:)
Huh, so that explains last week...