"Should you find yourself approaching the state of being in an accident, please yourself to duck so as to avoid looking at your previously attached body before the shrapnel took off your head." (Safety tips, Appendix A, P.232)
CleverNickname's going to be pissed. He'll have to bypass the holodeck conduits and reverse the polarity by using the main deflector dish or something.
Some times, old folks would come in and plunk down giant multi-million dollar checks, or even cash, to walk out the door with one of them a few hours later (we hated that).
Why would you hate this? The only reason I could think would be if the checks bounced or if you're concerned about the cash being laundered money from some drug runner. In any other case, I'd think cash would be much preferable.
And for the record: I'm not catholic, I'm not even Christian, but I do recognize this death as an important turnpoint of modern history.
It is indeed a turning point in history. And when future generations ask us, "What were you doing when the Pope died?" we can respond with "Oh, writing some inane drivel on slashdot."
Your legal next of kin makes the decisions for you. That's the law, has always been the law, and despite "emergency sessions of congress" to change it, every court that there is upheld that that is, indeed, the law.
Of course it's the law. My question centered more around how you can get your wishes upheld when someone else is in the driver's seat, so to speak. If you want to die, but your legal guardian insists on keeping up the life support and you're unable to communicate, etc. I know there's legal ways of doing this, but it would have made for interesting discussion nonetheless. That's all.
Why is Slashdot not accepting my article (or that of several of my friends) on the death of the Pope?
I was surprised that I didn't see any articles on Terri Schiavo dying. The pope is a religious figure who doesn't really have any connection to geeky things. However, a Schiavo article would at least have a YRO (Your Rights Offline) aspect to it. What are you rights when you're no longer able to make your own decisions, etc.?
And when you look at the Hall of Fame entries, there's only a couple which are tech related. Most of them revolve around politics. In the end, as has been said time and time again, this site isn't run by the community, it's run by Taco and if he doesn't like it you won't see it. Try Kuro5hin for that kind of thing.
So the clever blackmailer would then send a ransom note to an attached printer, wait for confirmation of a successful print, and then initiate the lockdown. If it can't find a printer, it would just use that host to spread to other machines. Gotta be ethical, right?:)
"Need your data back? For only $1000, we'll send you the correct password. Send payment via Western Union to..."
Likewise, do we want our books to be used to promote products? It would make an unlevel playing field. If book "A" is sponsored by Pepsi because it talks about how good and refreshing a Pepsi is, and Pepsi helps promote it AND pays some fee to the author, how many of the good writiers will want that kind of security. John Girsham must have mentioned Coors beer in A Time to Kill at least 100 times. Whenever it got too stressful, he would have a refreshing Coors and he could solve problems with such clearity. It happened with movies too, when companies started paying money for their products to be used in films.
How much did they pay you for mentioning Pepsi and Coors?
And where can I sign up to get in on the payola too?
Developers: Idle Loop Optimized Posted by CmdrTaco in The Mysterious Future! from the more-efficient-use-of-clock-time dept. seebs writes "Every so often someone makes a joke about optimizing the idle loop, but this article actually does it. " It's about time too- that process has been eating up clock cycles for to long.
Science: Positive Proof of Water on Mars Posted by CmdrTaco in The Mysterious Future! from the now-we-can-put-that-one-to-rest dept. pauliecronopolis was one of many people that noted that the popular Astronomoy Picture of the Day page has photographic proof of water on mars. It will be a little difficult for those of you who don't have a degree on geology to spot the evidence, but with a little efort, I think you'll be able to make it out.
Apple: Monkeys Don't Like Macs Posted by CmdrTaco in The Mysterious Future! from the but-they-fling-a-helluva-poo dept. sebFlyte writes "silicon.com is reporting on a new twist on some oft-done probability research, into the suggestion that an infinite number of monkeys will eventually produce a perfect script for Hamlet , given typewriters (or indeed keyboards) and enough time. The researchers claims that the monkeys used in their test preferred using systems running Windows XP to those running Mac OSX. Which begs the question -- do only monkeys use windows, or can even monkeys tell macs aren't worth bothering with?"
ePlus Posted by CmdrTaco in The Mysterious Future! from the - - dept. anonymous writes "
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Magic Supersecret Anagram T-Shirt Posted by CmdrTaco in The Mysterious Future! from the black-is-the-new-pink dept. Jesus Christ Himself, No Really The One Who Died For Your Sins On a Big Wooden Cross a Couple Thousand Years Ago and is a Little Cranky that You've Only Gone To Church Twice so Far This Decade wrote in to say "Hey you guys should check out the Magic Supersecret Anagram T-Shirt. It'll really blow your mind. It's available from ThinkGeek. (TG is owned by OSTG, the parent company of Slashdot, so activate all conspiracy theories now). You can also look into the new iPod accessory iCopulate which allows intimacy between mp3 players never before fantasized. And for the suit that has everything, Executve Pong.
Think Geek Shafts O' Poo
Apple: Steve Jobs to Become Ikea CEO Posted by CmdrTaco in The Mysterious Future! from the third-times-the-charm dept. RLewis1241 writes "According to The Register, Steve Jobs seems to be broadening his horizons: "IKEA will employ Jobs as "acting CEO", from next month. The technology icon will maintain his twin CEO roles at Apple Computer Inc. and Pixar Inc. but will also take command with a wide-ranging brief at the retail giant""
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The sharks and slashdot are now playing leapfrog with one another. Who's going to jump whom next? This makes that Happy Days episode a definite Cannes festival winner.
First time I've seen two upcoming stories. Anyhoo, one of these is a dupe:
Mega Mags, Life Sized Magnetic Toys Posted by CmdrTaco in The Mysterious Future! from the to-large-for-dwarves dept. A random user noted MegaMags , a life size version of the popular MiniMag toys available at ThinkGeek (TG is owned by OSTG, the parent company of Slashdot, so activate all conspiracy theories now). You can also look into the new iPod accessory iCopulate which allows intimacy between mp3 players never before fantasized. And for the suit that has everything, Executve Pong.
See any serious problems with this story? Email our on-duty editor.
Heh, it's a dupe, but given that the on-duty editor seemed to have died three years ago, why bother with emailing?
Developers: Microsoft Porting SQL Server To New Platforms Posted by Zonk in The Mysterious Future! from the dept. FuzzyGuru writes "Hot on the heels of the 'Most Important Ever' MySQL reaching Beta status, Microsoft is finally taking the Linux plunge. Microsoft has decided to release a version of MSSQL2005 for Linux, Unix and XBox." From the article: "We thought it was important to address the Linux/Unix marketplace, providing a key database for their use on that platform as applications are developed and deployed...In addition, with the Xbox development opportunities, it's clear that SQL Server is the database platform that can now be used in the full customer lifecycle - from business-related applications support to consumer and gaming applications, the full line of SQL Server offerings will be available to support those needs."
See any serious problems with this story? Email our on-duty editor.
Okay, now this one isn't even remotely clever. Please stop the insanity already!
I'll probably get modded down for this, but... Please also consider donating to the RIAA to see their intellectual property protected.
Many p2p file sharers blatantly misuse copyrighted music repeatedly and then have the audacity to share those mp3 files with the world.
Remember, kids: it's copyright law which allows the enforcement of the GPL. It's copyright law which allows the RIAA to enforce its rights. You can't have one without the other.
New York helps pay for none of that, regardless of if I work for a company based there or not. Thus, I don't see any possible reason why they need the money. Arizona needs it because living here I use those services. I don't live in NY, they don't need it.
I can't find the reference, but this was exactly the argument that Bezos made in response to Amazon paying state sales taxes. Amazon doesn't receive the benefits of police protection from those states, nor use of its parks, etc. so why should it have to pay state sales tax?
Of course, the people in the state who order from Amazon get police protection, go to the park and read a book, etc. But an interesting argument nonetheless.
Really? Breathing requires spending money? Do you get taxed on breathing? A solar farm as I originally mentioned implies that the property isn't simply a residential property with solar cells tacked on (in which case your point would be valid), but one primarily used for generating solar energy. That property requires payments to be made to the government in the form of taxes, etc. Therefore, there is a direct monetary out-of-pocket cost.
Your initial point was that not earning money does not mean you're losing money, which is a claim I never made.
Slashdot Mirror
From the manual:
"Should you find yourself approaching the state of being in an accident, please yourself to duck so as to avoid looking at your previously attached body before the shrapnel took off your head." (Safety tips, Appendix A, P.232)
CleverNickname's going to be pissed. He'll have to bypass the holodeck conduits and reverse the polarity by using the main deflector dish or something.
Wife thinking: "He never has a second tank at home!"
Some times, old folks would come in and plunk down giant multi-million dollar checks, or even cash, to walk out the door with one of them a few hours later (we hated that).
Why would you hate this? The only reason I could think would be if the checks bounced or if you're concerned about the cash being laundered money from some drug runner. In any other case, I'd think cash would be much preferable.
And for the record: I'm not catholic, I'm not even Christian, but I do recognize this death as an important turnpoint of modern history.
It is indeed a turning point in history. And when future generations ask us, "What were you doing when the Pope died?" we can respond with "Oh, writing some inane drivel on slashdot."
Your legal next of kin makes the decisions for you. That's the law, has always been the law, and despite "emergency sessions of congress" to change it, every court that there is upheld that that is, indeed, the law.
Of course it's the law. My question centered more around how you can get your wishes upheld when someone else is in the driver's seat, so to speak. If you want to die, but your legal guardian insists on keeping up the life support and you're unable to communicate, etc. I know there's legal ways of doing this, but it would have made for interesting discussion nonetheless. That's all.
Why is Slashdot not accepting my article (or that of several of my friends) on the death of the Pope?
I was surprised that I didn't see any articles on Terri Schiavo dying. The pope is a religious figure who doesn't really have any connection to geeky things. However, a Schiavo article would at least have a YRO (Your Rights Offline) aspect to it. What are you rights when you're no longer able to make your own decisions, etc.?
And when you look at the Hall of Fame entries, there's only a couple which are tech related. Most of them revolve around politics. In the end, as has been said time and time again, this site isn't run by the community, it's run by Taco and if he doesn't like it you won't see it. Try Kuro5hin for that kind of thing.
So the clever blackmailer would then send a ransom note to an attached printer, wait for confirmation of a successful print, and then initiate the lockdown. If it can't find a printer, it would just use that host to spread to other machines. Gotta be ethical, right? :)
"Need your data back? For only $1000, we'll send you the correct password. Send payment via Western Union to..."
Likewise, do we want our books to be used to promote products? It would make an unlevel playing field. If book "A" is sponsored by Pepsi because it talks about how good and refreshing a Pepsi is, and Pepsi helps promote it AND pays some fee to the author, how many of the good writiers will want that kind of security. John Girsham must have mentioned Coors beer in A Time to Kill at least 100 times. Whenever it got too stressful, he would have a refreshing Coors and he could solve problems with such clearity. It happened with movies too, when companies started paying money for their products to be used in films.
How much did they pay you for mentioning Pepsi and Coors?
And where can I sign up to get in on the payola too?
/.-women=/.
/.*women=/.
/* women */
And, if you're optimistic
You could also express slashdot as code:
Apple announces that the front page of slashdot is now a dock for everything potty related.
Geek Shoplifts at... oh no!
Think Geek Shafts O' Poo
That about sums up today's Slashdot spam.
Developers: Idle Loop Optimized
Posted by CmdrTaco in The Mysterious Future!
from the more-efficient-use-of-clock-time dept.
seebs writes "Every so often someone makes a joke about optimizing the idle loop, but this article actually does it. " It's about time too- that process has been eating up clock cycles for to long.
Science: Positive Proof of Water on Mars
Posted by CmdrTaco in The Mysterious Future!
from the now-we-can-put-that-one-to-rest dept.
pauliecronopolis was one of many people that noted that the popular Astronomoy Picture of the Day page has photographic proof of water on mars. It will be a little difficult for those of you who don't have a degree on geology to spot the evidence, but with a little efort, I think you'll be able to make it out.
Apple: Monkeys Don't Like Macs
Posted by CmdrTaco in The Mysterious Future!
from the but-they-fling-a-helluva-poo dept.
sebFlyte writes "silicon.com is reporting on a new twist on some oft-done probability research, into the suggestion that an infinite number of monkeys will eventually produce a perfect script for Hamlet , given typewriters (or indeed keyboards) and enough time. The researchers claims that the monkeys used in their test preferred using systems running Windows XP to those running Mac OSX. Which begs the question -- do only monkeys use windows, or can even monkeys tell macs aren't worth bothering with?"
ePlus
Posted by CmdrTaco in The Mysterious Future!
from the - - dept.
anonymous writes "
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Magic Supersecret Anagram T-Shirt
Posted by CmdrTaco in The Mysterious Future!
from the black-is-the-new-pink dept.
Jesus Christ Himself, No Really The One Who Died For Your Sins On a Big Wooden Cross a Couple Thousand Years Ago and is a Little Cranky that You've Only Gone To Church Twice so Far This Decade wrote in to say "Hey you guys should check out the Magic Supersecret Anagram T-Shirt. It'll really blow your mind. It's available from ThinkGeek. (TG is owned by OSTG, the parent company of Slashdot, so activate all conspiracy theories now). You can also look into the new iPod accessory iCopulate which allows intimacy between mp3 players never before fantasized. And for the suit that has everything, Executve Pong.
Think Geek Shafts O' Poo
Apple: Steve Jobs to Become Ikea CEO
Posted by CmdrTaco in The Mysterious Future!
from the third-times-the-charm dept.
RLewis1241 writes "According to The Register, Steve Jobs seems to be broadening his horizons: "IKEA will employ Jobs as "acting CEO", from next month. The technology icon will maintain his twin CEO roles at Apple Computer Inc. and Pixar Inc. but will also take command with a wide-ranging brief at the retail giant""
The sharks and slashdot are now playing leapfrog with one another. Who's going to jump whom next? This makes that Happy Days episode a definite Cannes festival winner.
What if the room that you are in is only 19 feet by 19 feet?
Unless your room is a sphere 19 feet in diameter, I'm sure you can sit in the corner and stare along the hypotenuse.
It's official: the sharks are starting to jump Slashdot.
Won't someone please think of the children!
First time I've seen two upcoming stories. Anyhoo, one of these is a dupe:
Mega Mags, Life Sized Magnetic Toys
Posted by CmdrTaco in The Mysterious Future!
from the to-large-for-dwarves dept.
A random user noted MegaMags , a life size version of the popular MiniMag toys available at ThinkGeek (TG is owned by OSTG, the parent company of Slashdot, so activate all conspiracy theories now). You can also look into the new iPod accessory iCopulate which allows intimacy between mp3 players never before fantasized. And for the suit that has everything, Executve Pong.
See any serious problems with this story? Email our on-duty editor.
Heh, it's a dupe, but given that the on-duty editor seemed to have died three years ago, why bother with emailing?
Developers: Microsoft Porting SQL Server To New Platforms
Posted by Zonk in The Mysterious Future!
from the dept.
FuzzyGuru writes "Hot on the heels of the 'Most Important Ever' MySQL reaching Beta status, Microsoft is finally taking the Linux plunge. Microsoft has decided to release a version of MSSQL2005 for Linux, Unix and XBox." From the article: "We thought it was important to address the Linux/Unix marketplace, providing a key database for their use on that platform as applications are developed and deployed...In addition, with the Xbox development opportunities, it's clear that SQL Server is the database platform that can now be used in the full customer lifecycle - from business-related applications support to consumer and gaming applications, the full line of SQL Server offerings will be available to support those needs."
See any serious problems with this story? Email our on-duty editor.
Okay, now this one isn't even remotely clever. Please stop the insanity already!
I'll probably get modded down for this, but... Please also consider donating to the RIAA to see their intellectual property protected.
Many p2p file sharers blatantly misuse copyrighted music repeatedly and then have the audacity to share those mp3 files with the world.
Remember, kids: it's copyright law which allows the enforcement of the GPL. It's copyright law which allows the RIAA to enforce its rights. You can't have one without the other.
New York helps pay for none of that, regardless of if I work for a company based there or not. Thus, I don't see any possible reason why they need the money. Arizona needs it because living here I use those services. I don't live in NY, they don't need it.
I can't find the reference, but this was exactly the argument that Bezos made in response to Amazon paying state sales taxes. Amazon doesn't receive the benefits of police protection from those states, nor use of its parks, etc. so why should it have to pay state sales tax?
Of course, the people in the state who order from Amazon get police protection, go to the park and read a book, etc. But an interesting argument nonetheless.
I used to have 3 or 4 computers to be able to do everthing I needed, and now I have "The ONE"
Whoah...
Really? Breathing requires spending money? Do you get taxed on breathing? A solar farm as I originally mentioned implies that the property isn't simply a residential property with solar cells tacked on (in which case your point would be valid), but one primarily used for generating solar energy. That property requires payments to be made to the government in the form of taxes, etc. Therefore, there is a direct monetary out-of-pocket cost.
Your initial point was that not earning money does not mean you're losing money, which is a claim I never made.
I think it also promotes writing concise (and therefore) requirements and descriptions.
Indeed. "and therefore..." what?
A fixed cost is still a cost, yes? So, as I originally said, waiting does incur some costs.