They're censoring "Fuck", "Shit" and "Blow job". Are they saying that they had to remove these words because of he evil Bush government? Those words haven't been "allowed" for many years now.
I heard the word "fuck" on PBS programming several years ago. I don't recall the name of the show, it was some sort of documentary about homelessness or poverty. IIRC, they were interviewing a homeless guy about something when "fuck" slipped through.
A couple of months ago, definitely post-Janet-Nipple, an episode of NYPD Blue used the word "bullshit." This was the hyped up episode which was supposedly going to feature a steamy love scene at the end, where they toned down the love scene, but didn't bother to edit out "bullshit."
Bullshit is right. One quote from the article that gave me a hearty laugh:
"As for the word 'f --,' " he said, "I stand with Vice President Cheney, who recently used the word on the Senate floor and who said sometimes you have to use it unapologetically because you feel better afterward."
There's some guy who has that link in his sig, it links to his own geo-location thingo. Where is he when you need him?
I believe you're speaking of Space cowboy. His service is located at http://hostip.info. Unfortunately it's too recent to qualify as prior art for this patent.
Hasn't anyone been paying attention to the motions being filed in the Kobe Bryant trial? The defense specifically subpoenaed the accuser's cellphone provider, requesting that they hand over copies of all text messages that she sent on the night of "the incident." The defense apparently believes that the accuser texted her other boyfriend(s) that night, with messages that could be pertinent to the case.
That this information was able to be requested in the first place was quite a shock to me. The request presumes and assumes that the cellphone company keeps copies of all text messages sent across its network; and as far as I've heard, there's been no denial of this capability! I had previously assumed that text messages existed in the moment, but that apparently isn't true. Every text message you send or receive is potentially being logged by your wireless provider.
Careful what you say, it may come back to haunt you, even if it isn't Big Brother doing the watching.
making use of the free postage when contacting your representative
FYI the franking privilege applies when your Congressperson writes to you, not when you write to them. Your letter to Congress won't be delivered without postage.
Aren't we supposed to wait for someone to be found guilty before punishing them?
My guess, and this is only a guess, is that Mr. Smathers was almost certainly confronted by HR or security (do they still call it OpsSec?). My second guess is that he probably admitted what he did.
In any case, AOL doesn't have an opportunity to wait around and find out whether or not this guy is guilty in a court of law. This is a huge privacy breach affecting millions of people. According to CNN's version of the story, not only did the list contain screen names, it also had each user's telephone number, ZIP code, etc. AOL has no choice but to take immediate and harsh action, i.e. terminating the employee and alerting the authorities. If they hadn't fired the employee they'd be sued faster than you can say "1099 Hours Free."
There may be lawsuits anyway. Millions of people entrusted their information to AOL, and now it's floating around in the hands of who knows how many spammers.
88/100 of a second? as in.0088 seconds? I'm sure the typical driver will keep his foot on the brake on the same turn with a variance of more than plus/minus.0088 seconds each lap. Assuming a 500 lap race, the car would finish 4.4 seconds faster. One bad pitstop erases that advantage.
I'll give previous respondents credit for clarifying that 88/100 of a second is.88 seconds, or statistically slightly better than three quarters of one second.
All that aside, do you watch NASCAR much? I'm not what you'd call a NASCAR junkie, but I do watch at least every other race. Tenths of a second in lap times are frequently the determining factor between pole and, say, 10th qualifier. Races are often decided on margins approaching less than one second.
All that said, yes, one bad pit stop can and does ruin a race. So does one unseen oil slick. Kasey Kahne should have won Dover, period. The officials were loathe to call a caution so late in the race, after so many cautions had already been called, and cost Kasey his first win.
I mean, come on people, mIRC, Outlook, AIM, Comet Curson... they're not all that great to begin with.
I'll give you Outlook and Comet Cursor - who wouldn't! - but mIRC and AIM are pretty decent applications.
mIRC is one of the few bulwarks of Win32 shareware to still be going strong, and it's not by accident. As best I can tell, it's the most versatile and certainly the most popular and well-rooted IRC client in the Windows world, with ever improving features, scripting capabilities, etc. AIM, while proprietary, is free as in both beer and speech for the time being... And hasn't been treating tagalongs like gAIM or Trillian with too much hostility in recent times. Would gAIM or Trillian be as popular as they are if they didn't operate with the network that AOL has established for AIM?
Criticize malware and poor mail clients all you like, but there are some Windows apps that are shining examples of what software should be and do. IMO, both mIRC and AIM fall into this category. I do wish that Trepia was more popular and its network more stable, though:)
Pity you can't get modded +1 Pedantic but in space, you need a oxygen supply to light your farts.
In space, you need an oxygen supply to breathe. If you're alive to fart, I'd say you've met the requirements for combustion. +1 Semantics, headed your way:)
The NASA Transhab design uses "multiple layers, which consist of Mylar, Kevlar,
Nextel and foam rubber, provide better protection from micrometeorites than a metal shell."
Not to mention, all space hotels built of this material would have built in galaxy-to-galaxy walkie talkie coverage!
I don't have the photo gallery to prove it, but just about 2 weeks ago, I lost a 30GB HD to lightning. It was the first drive I've lost in, oh, 10 years of serious computing (to any problem), and the first serious loss I've ever suffered to lightning.
Worse, I lost an outlet on the APC surge protector into which my month-old computer is plugged. After the storm had passed (we suffered a brief brownout) I went to power the computers back on, only to find that one wouldn't finish booting and the new one wouldn't do squat when the power button was hit. Thankfully, the latter turned out to be part of the surge protector, the PC is fine.
I've had plenty of NICs fry over the years, but never a drive or a computer. Losing a drive, and thinking I'd lost an entire machine, that was a wake-up call. Not that it'll stop me from using the computers during thunderstorms...
A PLETHORA OF SFC AND UPPER LEVEL FEATURES BEGINNING TO SPAWN
DEEP MOIST CONVECTION IN NRN IA, WILL EVOLVE INTO A MCS LATER TONIGHT AND LIKELY MOVE INTO THE NRN PORTIONS OF THE CWA. CONCURRENTLY... wtf is MCS? CWA?
Translation (as I can't find this text in Google, I'm assuming IA is Iowa, and that this was a recent advance bulletin regarding weather moving towards Illinois):
A lot of surface and upper level features beginning to spawn deep moist heat transfer in northern Iowa will evolve into a group of thunderstorms later tonight, and likely move into the northern portions of the area concerned by this bulletin.
See "A Comprehensive Glossary of Weather Terms for Storm Spotters," by Michael Branick, located here. Further resources are here and here though this list - and the terms they cover - are by no means comprehensive.
Take pretty much everything with a grain of salt, and try to cross-reference, as all terms aren't defined at all of the references, and some of them aren't what you're looking for. For example, Branick doesn't list "CWA," and AVWX lists it as "Central Weather Authority." In context of the bulletin you posted, "CWA" means "County Warning Area," something none of these references mention. A County Warning Area encompasses multiple counties, often across several states. Go here and find the color-coded region on the map that represents your closest big city; that's your approximate CWA.
Chicago would be LOT (Lockport, airport code) in Central Region HQ, or http://www.CRH.noaa.gov/LOT. Bookmark that, if you haven't already, and watch the county map the next time there's severe weather in the area. Reload every couple of minutes, and you'll know about any watches, warnings, or statements affecting local counties. Fascinate your friends and family - and who knows, possibly save their lives - by IM'ing "Tornado Warning!" 2 minutes before the sirens go off and 3 minutes before the TV jockey passes the warning along. Fuck the TV weather, noaa.gov is the shit.
I will admit to sharing your perplexity as to why NOAA doesn't issue more "English" warnings. The only thing I can come up with is that in some cases, time is of the essence, and keeping the transmission as small as possible makes it faster to type and transmit. I'm not sure that quite explains it, though; as when EAS activation is requested for a tornado warning here, all of the cooperating radio stations broadcast a robotic text-to-speech voice reading a quite English version of the warning.
The bulletins are translated into understandable English at some point before they're broadcast to the public, so why they can't be written that way to begin with, I'm not sure. Maybe it's because NOAA/NWS has outsourced to India? >:)
It does look like a clever installation, and certainly would be fun to visit during a storm. As far as supporting the arts goes, I was with you until I came across this:
The Lightning Field is protected by copyright. Photography of the sculpture and the cabin is not permitted. Commissioned, copyrighted slides are available for $30.00 per set of 8, plus $2.00 shipping and handling.
So I've got to pay $135 to spend the night during storm season (and they not-so-subtly request that I pay more than double this amount as a donation), but I'm not allowed to take a picture while I'm there? If I want a memento, I have to fork over more cash for slides which are conveniently pre-prepared but have nothing to do with my own experience there?
Sorry, that isn't supporting the arts, that's extortion. Wonder if I can find a good sat photo from TerraServer...
The link in the story points to a page at Time Warner's local (Memphis) site, twarner.com, which really only applies to RoadRunner refunds.
If you use or have used BellSouth internet access (dialup or DSL), they have set up a site specifically to handle claims under this settlement. Go to http://blstntaxrefund.com to apply for the reimbursement.
Does anyone know whether or not AOL is responsible for refunds, and/or how to request one?
Sun and Fujitsu just announced a 20-year partnership..
I'm sorry, but a 20-year partnership is not only aggressively optimistic, it's just downright insane. Look at what's changed in the computing world over the past 20 years. Microsoft appeared, Apple came and went and came again, Linux emerged and gained ground. Things change fast in the world of Moore's law.
Will Sun be here 20 years from now? Will Fujitsu? If I were a betting man, I'd gamble on the latter more than the former.
This is an interesting deal, and stands to bring much progress in the short term, assuming both parties stick to their commitments. 20 years is a long time, though.
It's not hard. It's costly. Some 20$ of parts plus some more manufacturing for it, plus a new supplier, plus new storage of these parts, plus more engineering to design and program it and so forth... in the end, way too expensive for most cars.
You're joking, right? My Monte Carlo has an LCD message panel that alerts me when the freaking windshield washer fluid is low! Of all the things I couldn't care less about, it tells me, and the damn thing stays lit up until I dump some blue stuff into the reservoir.
Not to mention low tire pressure (or bad alignment [shame it doesn't say which tire is the problem, though]), change engine oil, etc. I dunno, the Monte Carlo isn't what I'd consider a high-end car, but it comes with sensors and the LCD to tell me all sorts of shit. And it's 4 years old, certainly newer cars are doing even better.
I want to give a sincere thanks for that tip. As a guy who loves his car but has never even managed to change his own oil, I'm a big fan of AutoZone, for four reasons:
c) Every time I've gone to AutoZone, the people have been polite and I don't feel like I'm getting screwed;
d) They've been sued by SCO;)
I own a 2000 Monte Carlo. It has an on-dash LCD style display which pops up any messages in black on an orange background. It was an AutoZone employee who solved my mysterious ongoing "Low Tire Pressure" message problem. I'd bought a digital tire pressure gauge and repeatedly ensured that all the tires were fine. I couldn't figure out what was going on, but the car's out of warranty now, and I was loathe to go to the dealer. So when I went by AutoZone to buy some Rain-X, I asked the guy working the register if he knew anything about this issue.
Not only did he know, he said "let's take a look at it." He came out with his own pressure gauge to inspect my tires, and spent at least 15 minutes talking with me like he was my best friend, no charge. Apparently the newer Chevy models have sensors which determine the "tire pressure" by judging the alignment of the wheels against each other. Assuming that all four tires are properly aligned, if one is rotating out of sync with the others, low tire pressure is a proper diagnosis... But if the alignment is off, the "Low Tire Pressure" warning displays incessantly. The AutoZone guy explained this in detail, I got a rotate/balance the next time I had an oil change, and lo and behold, no more "Low Tire Pressure" light.
Fucking amazing. If I'd gone to one of the local garages, they'd have probably charged me $30+ just to take a look, not to mention a proper diagnosis. The AutoZone guy did it free, and quite happily, after I'd made a whopping $4 purchase of a bottle of Rain-X.
I was once told that AutoZone has a 4 terabyte database hanging around somewhere. Any idea if this is true?
totally. It is too fucking bad that every darn fucknut has to fucking swear up a fucking storm. What can't they use another fucking expletive to spice up this fucking post. FUCK!
Hey, watch the language. Some of us are sensitive, and prefer not to encounter profanity!
I pay $95 per year (yes, year!) for 150 minutes. [snip] Minutes roll over to the next year if you don't use them.
1980 called, and they want their cellular plan back. Am I misreading, or are you paying $95 for 150 minutes to use over a year's time? 2.9 minutes a month for $7.91 a month, and you call that a great cell phone service?
Please tell me that you meant to say you're paying $95/year for 150 minutes/month. Even at that, you can get twenty times the minutes for about four times as much. And if you don't need the minutes, you can buy a prepaid "emergencies only" phone to carry in your car's glove compartment for far less than $95!
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A couple of months ago, definitely post-Janet-Nipple, an episode of NYPD Blue used the word "bullshit." This was the hyped up episode which was supposedly going to feature a steamy love scene at the end, where they toned down the love scene, but didn't bother to edit out "bullshit."
Bullshit is right. One quote from the article that gave me a hearty laugh:
Hasn't anyone been paying attention to the motions being filed in the Kobe Bryant trial? The defense specifically subpoenaed the accuser's cellphone provider, requesting that they hand over copies of all text messages that she sent on the night of "the incident." The defense apparently believes that the accuser texted her other boyfriend(s) that night, with messages that could be pertinent to the case.
That this information was able to be requested in the first place was quite a shock to me. The request presumes and assumes that the cellphone company keeps copies of all text messages sent across its network; and as far as I've heard, there's been no denial of this capability! I had previously assumed that text messages existed in the moment, but that apparently isn't true. Every text message you send or receive is potentially being logged by your wireless provider.
Careful what you say, it may come back to haunt you, even if it isn't Big Brother doing the watching.
Here, here, here, and here. Washington Mutual owns all of them.
..first it was a sparrow, then it was a dodo, now it's a phoenix?
In any case, AOL doesn't have an opportunity to wait around and find out whether or not this guy is guilty in a court of law. This is a huge privacy breach affecting millions of people. According to CNN's version of the story, not only did the list contain screen names, it also had each user's telephone number, ZIP code, etc. AOL has no choice but to take immediate and harsh action, i.e. terminating the employee and alerting the authorities. If they hadn't fired the employee they'd be sued faster than you can say "1099 Hours Free."
There may be lawsuits anyway. Millions of people entrusted their information to AOL, and now it's floating around in the hands of who knows how many spammers.
You've Got Jail!
All that aside, do you watch NASCAR much? I'm not what you'd call a NASCAR junkie, but I do watch at least every other race. Tenths of a second in lap times are frequently the determining factor between pole and, say, 10th qualifier. Races are often decided on margins approaching less than one second.
All that said, yes, one bad pit stop can and does ruin a race. So does one unseen oil slick. Kasey Kahne should have won Dover, period. The officials were loathe to call a caution so late in the race, after so many cautions had already been called, and cost Kasey his first win.
Sucks.
And tenths of a second did it.
Why is it that the Beeb has the scoop on a pending US bill, before I can find this story in any of the major US media outlets?
mIRC is one of the few bulwarks of Win32 shareware to still be going strong, and it's not by accident. As best I can tell, it's the most versatile and certainly the most popular and well-rooted IRC client in the Windows world, with ever improving features, scripting capabilities, etc. AIM, while proprietary, is free as in both beer and speech for the time being... And hasn't been treating tagalongs like gAIM or Trillian with too much hostility in recent times. Would gAIM or Trillian be as popular as they are if they didn't operate with the network that AOL has established for AIM?
Criticize malware and poor mail clients all you like, but there are some Windows apps that are shining examples of what software should be and do. IMO, both mIRC and AIM fall into this category. I do wish that Trepia was more popular and its network more stable, though
I'm sorry to hear about the loss.
I don't have the photo gallery to prove it, but just about 2 weeks ago, I lost a 30GB HD to lightning. It was the first drive I've lost in, oh, 10 years of serious computing (to any problem), and the first serious loss I've ever suffered to lightning.
Worse, I lost an outlet on the APC surge protector into which my month-old computer is plugged. After the storm had passed (we suffered a brief brownout) I went to power the computers back on, only to find that one wouldn't finish booting and the new one wouldn't do squat when the power button was hit. Thankfully, the latter turned out to be part of the surge protector, the PC is fine.
I've had plenty of NICs fry over the years, but never a drive or a computer. Losing a drive, and thinking I'd lost an entire machine, that was a wake-up call. Not that it'll stop me from using the computers during thunderstorms...
Take pretty much everything with a grain of salt, and try to cross-reference, as all terms aren't defined at all of the references, and some of them aren't what you're looking for. For example, Branick doesn't list "CWA," and AVWX lists it as "Central Weather Authority." In context of the bulletin you posted, "CWA" means "County Warning Area," something none of these references mention. A County Warning Area encompasses multiple counties, often across several states. Go here and find the color-coded region on the map that represents your closest big city; that's your approximate CWA.
Chicago would be LOT (Lockport, airport code) in Central Region HQ, or http://www.CRH.noaa.gov/LOT . Bookmark that, if you haven't already, and watch the county map the next time there's severe weather in the area. Reload every couple of minutes, and you'll know about any watches, warnings, or statements affecting local counties. Fascinate your friends and family - and who knows, possibly save their lives - by IM'ing "Tornado Warning!" 2 minutes before the sirens go off and 3 minutes before the TV jockey passes the warning along. Fuck the TV weather, noaa.gov is the shit.
I will admit to sharing your perplexity as to why NOAA doesn't issue more "English" warnings. The only thing I can come up with is that in some cases, time is of the essence, and keeping the transmission as small as possible makes it faster to type and transmit. I'm not sure that quite explains it, though; as when EAS activation is requested for a tornado warning here, all of the cooperating radio stations broadcast a robotic text-to-speech voice reading a quite English version of the warning.
The bulletins are translated into understandable English at some point before they're broadcast to the public, so why they can't be written that way to begin with, I'm not sure. Maybe it's because NOAA/NWS has outsourced to India? >:)
Sorry, that isn't supporting the arts, that's extortion. Wonder if I can find a good sat photo from TerraServer...
The link in the story points to a page at Time Warner's local (Memphis) site, twarner.com, which really only applies to RoadRunner refunds.
If you use or have used BellSouth internet access (dialup or DSL), they have set up a site specifically to handle claims under this settlement. Go to http://blstntaxrefund.com to apply for the reimbursement.
Does anyone know whether or not AOL is responsible for refunds, and/or how to request one?
Will Sun be here 20 years from now? Will Fujitsu? If I were a betting man, I'd gamble on the latter more than the former.
This is an interesting deal, and stands to bring much progress in the short term, assuming both parties stick to their commitments. 20 years is a long time, though.
Not to mention low tire pressure (or bad alignment [shame it doesn't say which tire is the problem, though]), change engine oil, etc. I dunno, the Monte Carlo isn't what I'd consider a high-end car, but it comes with sensors and the LCD to tell me all sorts of shit. And it's 4 years old, certainly newer cars are doing even better.
I want to give a sincere thanks for that tip. As a guy who loves his car but has never even managed to change his own oil, I'm a big fan of AutoZone, for four reasons:
;)
a) I live in Memphis, their HQ city;
b) AutoZone graciously provides space for many of the Memphis Linux user group meetings;
c) Every time I've gone to AutoZone, the people have been polite and I don't feel like I'm getting screwed;
d) They've been sued by SCO
I own a 2000 Monte Carlo. It has an on-dash LCD style display which pops up any messages in black on an orange background. It was an AutoZone employee who solved my mysterious ongoing "Low Tire Pressure" message problem. I'd bought a digital tire pressure gauge and repeatedly ensured that all the tires were fine. I couldn't figure out what was going on, but the car's out of warranty now, and I was loathe to go to the dealer. So when I went by AutoZone to buy some Rain-X, I asked the guy working the register if he knew anything about this issue.
Not only did he know, he said "let's take a look at it." He came out with his own pressure gauge to inspect my tires, and spent at least 15 minutes talking with me like he was my best friend, no charge. Apparently the newer Chevy models have sensors which determine the "tire pressure" by judging the alignment of the wheels against each other. Assuming that all four tires are properly aligned, if one is rotating out of sync with the others, low tire pressure is a proper diagnosis... But if the alignment is off, the "Low Tire Pressure" warning displays incessantly. The AutoZone guy explained this in detail, I got a rotate/balance the next time I had an oil change, and lo and behold, no more "Low Tire Pressure" light.
Fucking amazing. If I'd gone to one of the local garages, they'd have probably charged me $30+ just to take a look, not to mention a proper diagnosis. The AutoZone guy did it free, and quite happily, after I'd made a whopping $4 purchase of a bottle of Rain-X.
I was once told that AutoZone has a 4 terabyte database hanging around somewhere. Any idea if this is true?
Please tell me that you meant to say you're paying $95/year for 150 minutes/month. Even at that, you can get twenty times the minutes for about four times as much. And if you don't need the minutes, you can buy a prepaid "emergencies only" phone to carry in your car's glove compartment for far less than $95!